Tom Scott where do u conduct these discussions at ??

Ah, right on my birthday then. I'll accept it as a surprise unintentional gift, thank you.

have you lost the game of don't hear the pogues song yet? im still in the race

+Tom Scott Why is there weird static/lower resolution on the back of your laptop every shot you are in? Is it just me? (eg 1:02, 1:23 ect)

Probably blurring the brand to avoid making it look like product placement?

1:25 look at his face

Of course! He's everybody's favourite Gary Brannan! If he's not your favourite Gary Brannan, you're not an anybody.

Smar

Same

I'd be willing to go as far as to say he's my favourite Gary. But certainly my favourite Brannan at least

Scarlet Tranter and even to this day all voting takes place in person so MPs can still literally be taken through on stretchers (although they log the votes on an iPad these days)

Almost literally the case in a recent rush vote where there were a lot of rebelling government MPs that were threatening to swing it for the opposition stance and so everyone who was conscious and vaguely lucid was private ambulanced to the scene... there was a whole kerfuffle about one MP in a wheelchair (broken leg, but it would have been just as problematic if they were in it for any other reason) being held up from going through the voting chamber because the only chair that would fit was one of those hospital style ones which requires someone else to push you... and so that means there's two people going through... even though one of them isn't an MP... and, oh, panic! (I don't know how that story resolved but I assume they were eventually able to knock heads sufficiently to realise they just needed another MP who was voting that way anyway to push the chair through...)

@@gwenynorisu6883 Couldn't the pusher have been another MP, who wasgoing to vote that way anyway?

I believe a better word would've been 'extradited'.

I am watching 4 years later and my Mind is blown!

Reverse Transportation.

The application is 20 pages long, front and back. Only 10 questions, but you know... you've got to be really specific when answering them.

Tomatofries LAN need to be more specific...

ill take the postmaster vague middle ground

Okay, which one?

I just now got that specific terrible joke. Thanks!

They really did privatize him.

David Glendinning it’s like George of the Jungle. It’s a dude in a 3x3x6 crate.

I thought that was part of the Medieval "knight identification test".

He's _not_ the Stig, but he _is_ the Stig's Czech cousin.

God level patter

Today I learned that KZfaq has added a ‘translate to English’ button.

OH MY DAYS YOU’RE RIGHT!

Well darn, now I have to rewatch all the episodes again!

An Australian rock band fronted by an English comedian. _King_ Izzard and the Lizard Wizard.

@@Haights An Australian rock band fronted by an royal English comedian's magic reptilian mascot. It's King Izzard's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's Wizard Lizard

@@rivaldealer__ an Australian rock band fronted by a royal English comedian's magic reptile during a snowstorm. King Izzard's Lizard Wizard Blizzard

Erik W. S. An Australian rock band fronted by a royal English comedian’s magic reptilian mascot during a blizzard, which just so happens to be a brand of chicken offal. *deep breath* It’s King Izzard’s King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Blizzard Gizzards.

He lives in his stomach it's eddie izzards gizzard wizard lizard

Colin Jones thrrrreeeeeeeeee

You're not from Brighton!

A sound engineer or a sound engineer.

@@teipeu9033 both

Chris Joel: Ornithologist

@@InnesTahtinen "Ornith"

OLOGIST!

@@krakenpots5693 "Ornith"

@@Tibsbb OLOGIST!

*seven cameras (wide shot, one per table, and one per single-head closeup) but I think we can let that slide... Also, must be a nightmare to edit. I've had to do three-fixed-camera (plus powerpoint slides as the fourth "angle", and two additional audio feeds) cutting before and that was a pain in the bum.

and one wacky wikipedia article

You can see his face shift into gear a few seconds before as well

Was he?

No they cannot

@@Jkirek_ too soon

No, apparently they still cannot.

Bad Request You have a very appropriate username for that question... Also, it'd probably be banned under at least 3 international treaties.

Nah, that's what would happen if we had an episode of Tech Dif that's just Tom Scott singing.

Jeremiah Fieldhaven U WOT M8?

*Musical Biscuits*

Singing about a Wikipedia article.

Legend Of Welder: Ocarina fae the Tyne

Timothy McLean I'd imagine the right wing is the same everywhere. Any differences that exist are merely down to the cultural attributes of each individual country. Come to think of it, commies aren't any different . Fascism and Communism are just different masks on the same face. Different aspects of the same mentality. Che Guevara is the only socialist I'll always respect. With a few possible exceptions, the rest are just champagne socialists. I'd rather live in a capitalist country though. Such countries thrive and prosper and the people tend to be more civilised.

We've had some good English socialists over the years but the establishment wants to widen the gap between the haves and the have nots. Something will have to give eventually.

It's not that common, the French right was in favour of a strong government for decades, and was strongly involved with industry (they own a part of most big French companies, including private banks, car manufacturers, train builders, etc). It's only very recently France starts to be introduced to politics that are more into privatisation and liberalisation.

@@misssarahashplant31 Fair play to you you didn't just call all left wingers commies if you're right wing or vice versa, you just went fascist or communist, pick a side

@@tomkenning5482 Eeny meeny miny mo. Which side should I pick?

Panthers?

Gray*

everyone here has a terrible disease!

-CFW. Magic- You have committed a terrible crime!

-CFW. Magic- you mean a replacmatt?

You can see his eyes widen.

forget the shirt, i just want the real mystery biscuits

You can't just buy such an esteemed prize. If you work hard you might earn enough mystery biscuits to make a T-shirt.

Do you need a crafting bench for that? Like armour?

+A. Tee - Are you sure you aren't thinking of "Raw Bits"? Because those you have to qualify for, they don't give them out to just anybody.

I was summoned...

None of yer cheap artificial death here, I'll have you know.

Amen

Ori Stauber Me when a new episode comes out: ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod

Another boring Thursday saved by Tom Scott & the gang 2 years later!

Danny Pacione make sure you watch all the old episodes aswell

This is by far one of the best panel shows you'll find on the internet. Every season is just a complete set of raucous laughing from start to finish. Trust me, you owe yourself to watch it from start to finish.

We don't have good panel shows in the U.S., so this was my introduction to them. It so happens that it also got me into watching other ones that I can find on utube, like Have I Got News For You. But Citation Needed is still my favorite (or should I say "favourite").

And then there are the audio-only episodes too! Enjoy the back catalog :)

Well, you did at least have Whose Line. And some things like Celebrity Squares and whatever Blankety Blank started life as... (Match Game?) ... I mean, the latter two are more like game shows, and the former is even more surreal than CN gets, but, hey, it's a start.

Thanks

Wait, there are people who don't?!?

Mirza Ahmed oh, that is good!

I thought he was William the Conqueror's armor supplier.

Mail-order maille?

that's a 6 well done

You mean bandypants cucumberpatch? No... sorry... badonkadonk-cum-bandersnatch... er... no, still not right... benadryl candycorn?

"...you're nicked"?

Adam Bottomley Gary spooling up is always a delight.

I laughed way too hard at that

Takes a few moments for the flywheel to get up to speed, but once that's happened he's unstoppable.

That "Erm" though.

Truly, internet radio is a wonderful thing. I keep forgetting it exists and that I can just call it up off my PVR, and every time I remember or are reminded, it's a fresh revelation.

I was about to ask if that was the case, so I am glad someone else made the connection. We will probably never know, but presumably it could have been an inspiration?

Well, Vetinari is essentially Machiavelli by way of Xanatos and/or Batman, and a number of other characters have either admitted or strongly suspected direct literary or real life inspirations (or are similar amalgams), including Dibbler being based on an IRL market trader and would-be spiv Pterry regularly ran across in his hometown... so, why not?

@@gwenynorisu6883 Vetinari is also a reference to Medici, of course.

@@qwertyTRiG i thought the Lavish family were based of Medici, but it still fits

@@odyseya In characterisation, probably, yes, but the name Vetinari is probably a reference. A vet, as opposed to a doctor. They did call him Dog botherer in school.

Shush, Nero

literally one of my favorite CN moments, across the whole series

Same. I can't stop rewatching it. It's 2 times as good as the "erm' afterwards

If you guys made a movie of it, there'd be no way to tell that there was anything amiss.

Well, that's me finding some AAs to shove in the old bathroom radio that hasn't seen regular service for a few months and seeing if the MW band still works... NB, did you mean MW, or LW? I wasn't aware the World Service was _on_ MW, just LW and FM. And they were intending to phase out the LW transmission when the last of the mercury rectifier tubes (yes, seriously) used for the transmitter burned out because the listenership wasn't sufficient to be worth modernising the system, which would leave a nice gap around 198khz for someone else to slip into. (which sounds like bollocks to me - you could just create a suitable signal using a SDR these days, and use any reasonably wideband RF amplifier to juice it up to transmission strength... I reckon they just didn't want to be fussed with the electric bill for running two separate transmissions. Even though it's not something that's supposed to make money, and is meant to be a *service* that can travel long distances and be easily picked up halfway around the world for at least a couple hours a day. Apparently a lot of their foreign listeners use the internet now...? That's not exactly going to work well in China or North Korea, or anywhere else that either filters or essentially flat out bans the net, now, is it? But you can hack together a simple LW receiver from a handful of transistors and a coil of wire...) And now I need to stop before I start getting misty eyed over picking up a forever noisy and drifting Atlantic 252 (on the old Luxembourg frequency) back in the day and thinking it was the coolest thing ever, even though they played much the same stuff as any other station.

seems to be just poor low light performance by the cameras capturing the footage

I think it was due to the room being dark and not very well lit.

Looks to me like they had 3 wide shots set up: the whole panel, Tom & Chris, and Gary & Matt. For the "close ups" they just cropped and zoomed these wide shots.