Wimpy's are brilliant, Tom.

Tom Scott I am 27 years old and I still laugh like a drain everytime I hear "MYSTERY BISCUITS"! Don't judge me! 😂

There is actually a Wimpy in Broadmarsh in Nottingham. Which to be fair is exactly where it belongs.

I live near 2 Wimpy and have never seen another Wimpy in the the wild

I understand English really well, usually, but for this, I often have to use subtitles just to get all the obscure British references for googling them later. :D

(insert Hyouka reference here)

@@rin_etoware_2989 what happened in that anime?

@@NoNameAtAll2 the pun figures *really prominently* in the anime-it appears every episode

Yeeeeessss - that's how everyone in Britain used to pronounce it until the American form with the stress on "ice" took over about thirty years ago

@@Nastyswimmer But he doesn't aspirate the c either

Hard tack comes to mind.

HaydenX glad to see people are still watching these in 2020

altboi Of course!

Imported from Stuart Ashen's channel

Gary would get all of those. Except for the random bits of history that Chris knows

Not to mention authoritarian, possibly fascist

One bootlicking pilot

Ohh, well done!

A gaudy Gaudi Audi? Too easy!

Automobile? Whats wrong with saying car?

Not German enough.

But only if you pronounce it Ow-toe. Didn't the term "gaudy" come about as a corruption of Gaudi's name, btw?

Daan Vink ok Daan

Daan Vink my nama jef

Brickertown in the captions it was Geoff

Not for my keyboard

Just... without missing a beat. I loved that.

If I remember how it went in the old Microsoft Flight Simulator (v2.0, on our Atari...), the mags were mainly used for starting the engine (where all battery power would go to the starter, not the spark plugs - with mags being feature I've wished for with automotive engines before when the battery has only been strong enough to turn the engine over but not make a spark off its own back) and as backups in case of the otherwise ordinary alternator (and/or battery) failing. The program, having only the one fixed dashboard to save on memory, allowed you to set magnetos as "on" for left, right, or both (as well as off completely) engines even on a single engine plane, but most of the time you could turn them off and see no difference in performance, as it defaulted to starting you with a running engine and no faults unless you specifically set it to be different. Presumably over-using them risks them wearing out, or wastes fuel / doesn't make as good a spark or something, so you wouldn't want to turn them on unless absolutely necessary. Because I don't know why you wouldn't just leave both turned on permanently otherwise. Like with the carb heater feature which didn't seem to do much in-game in normal conditions, but I expect might reduce engine power IRL in high ambient temperatures, as well as draining the battery or loading up the alternator, despite being fairly vital to prevent it icing up at high altitudes or in winter. I mean, I'm not an aeronautical expert, that's just something I remember from an old game. But I don't get why you'd be able to turn them off if they weren't essentially an optional backup and meant the engine(s) didn't run as well (or at least as efficiently) as when using the alternator... but of course running poorly is better than not running at all, if the main system has failed. Incidentally, I wasn't aware that there were any electrically driven instruments in a traditional aircraft panel, other than maybe the VOR beacon indicators, and the radio of course. They'd have been electrically lit (again with switchable lights, to avoid burning out bulbs unnecessarily) so reading them at night with failed electrics could be a problem if you didn't have a backup torch to point at the dash, and a lot have now been replaced with "glass cockpit" LCD (or even CRT) displays, but a trad altimeter works off air pressure, engine tachometer works off a cable driving a magneto-esque thing (as per old car speedometers) driving the needle progressively harder against a coil spring the faster the cable turns, airspeed indicator in much the same way connected to a turbine device in the pitot tube, the compass is, well, a compass (with a low-friction mechanism converting the horizontal readout to a vertical display), and the false-horizon pitch/bank indicator is a simple (but maybe gyro stablised?) thing with a heavy weight attached to the bottom of the painted ball. All nice and mechanical :) (though I can't quite figure out the descent/ascent rate indicator, not that I recall the game showing such a thing, so perhaps it's not something you get on low end planes... still, I imagine an analogue version could work similar to the tach and speedo, just with the drive being somewhat geared up, and/or a rather weaker pair of springs driving it to the centre position, so it would give a useful indication without the altimeter needle having to spin rapidly) Of course, it's rather harder to provide a readout for the fuel tank, oil pressure, oil/coolant temperature, and naturally voltage, but I have a feeling if your electrics quit on you those wouldn't be considered so important any more as you concentrated more on finding somewhere to land as soon as possible rather than working out how much longer you could cruise for on the remaining fuel, or if running at full throttle was about to overheat the engine...

mspenrice 1 Aircraft engines have 2 magnetos each for redundancy 2 the ability to shut off the magnetos is needed to crank the engine without starting 3 if you turn that switch of irl, your engine stops

I had a problem with the voltage regulator on my aeroplane a while back, so I'd fly around with the master switch off to save the battery, so I could start it again to get home. The only real problem was that I nearly gave myself a heart attack every time I looked at the fuel gauges and they both read empty before realising I'd got the power turned off.

I mean, it _is_ kinda unsafe to fly with your systems off, when you forget that a crossing Dreamliner can't see you and has right of way.

Rain locker.

The rain room.

Artificial rain maker

powered water sprayer garden implement based bath replacement cleansing cubical

Or a direct translation from an Algonkan language (i forget which one) "Starts to move without apparent cause"

Catherine Knight I'm not a veggie but a 'lemon and pepper quorn burger' sounds really good

Boo! :D

Nice

"at wimpy's they come on a plate"

Idk if this is a archer refrence

that's a very high pressure lmao, 29.92in is normal at sea level

is it though? because of the word "inch" alone? it's not even remotely in a range, like c'mon

(i assume one of those names are incorrect?)

Huntracony stand up bath

Cleansing water stream Overhead water spout

DOMESTICATED RAIN

Artificial Concentrated Rain Production Device. ACRPD for short.

@@theneekofficial8829 ...acrepid?

Mad Cap’n Tom?

Thomas Scott

Valerie

Som Tcott

Mott cost or Mott cots (are the only even remotely meaningful anagrams I could find for Tom Scott)

I did indeed

Every time I've seen this comment, for the past two years, it's always given me a chuckle

I hate you

Wow

I'm not nearly funny enough.

I don't believe you

Hadinos Sanosam There was that one experimental episode of the podcast version of Tech Diff.

They did that for an episode of the reverse trivia show.

Tom Scott Neither is the cast. This was one of the least funny ones I have seen in ages. Poor audience

Paul Sengupta You seem to be on every KZfaq video I watch!! Met you at at the Halfpenny Green student fly in a few years back - fly safe!

Hendlton Meanwhile over in my life, time has slowed to a crawl with fresh creative new crises almost every day, so I'm quite ready for it to be Thursday again finally.

Hendlton that's about when I last saw it, I think for the third time.

sounds like a fun guy

I know this is years later but: No. This just means that, congratulations, you're the same type of person as Gary.

I'm fairly confident that's where he's talking about!

Benjamin Harvey Yep

Benjamin Harvey no

Benjamin Harvey omg yess! just wanted to post it but you beat me to it :P

Benjamin Harvey It's not an actual window. It only looks like a window because of the illusion. Actually, it's a cat.

yes!

Bunny Chow is better.

ziran123 *Ridiculously thick French accent:* "Colonel? Do you have the wet celery?" Ah, how I dreamed of Yvette as a kid.

I was _not_ expecting to see a reference to this here. Do you have ze chairrrrr?

There are at least two branches left in the UK, I've driven past each in the last year or two and gone "oh!" both times... not been in a position to go in and sample their wares though. edit: are their main customers all the robots? (...sorry)

Do you have a cite for that? It sounds a bit like the myth that the interstates were all designed to have straightaways every x number of miles so they could be used for improvised military runways during wartime. (They were designed partially to make military transport easier, but that wasn't part of it).

I'm not sure on exactly where, but I remember learning it in ground school, and it more stems from crop-dusting and residential airparks. The caveat that I am seeing with most of the source I'm now finding is that most aircraft would also cause a significant disruption and hazard to normal traffic, so other legal issues come into play.

BandanaDrummer95 I mean, if a 747 lands on the motorway in front of you you're obviously going to give way

Yeah, but it's worded such that an ultra-light would also have right of way.

...Regolith, you missed a perfect chance to name-drop the show. WHYYY? Also, good screenname.

MINIMAN of iron has been. Still is, but has been too

Mad cap'n tom

Mario Hendriks me

YES!

It's an engine hours meter. Aircraft engines generally keep a steady-ish rpm when in level cruising flight, much like travelling on a motorway with cruise control turned on. You throttle up somewhat to climb, and particularly take off, but this is usually compensated for by throttling back to descend and land. So by measuring how many total rotations the engine has turned through (which, yes, is more like an odometer, but it's considered "tach time" rather than distance because the counter is attached to the propshaft rather than the wheels/speedometer) and dividing that by the recommended cruising revs, you get a rough but good-enough idea of how long the plane's been aloft for. Similar systems are used on marine and stationary engines (and probably diesel-electric locomotives?) to determine how long they've been in use, when they need servicing, how much usage to charge for if they're rented out, etc, and for the same reasons that you can't easily measure distance (or there's no distance to measure), and as the only thing that really matters is how many revolutions the engine's done and/or the load placed on it (which in an ungeared system such as running a generator, or turning a propeller), you may as well just assume it's in top gear all the time and work directly off the revs. And you do after all perform a limited version of this with road vehicles, by shortening the service intervals if they're generally used for low speed stop-start work (where you're often in low gear and so the engine turns more per mile travelled) or otherwise put under unusual strain... Indeed I think the automatic service reminder lights/messages in modern cars have at least an element of (unstated, unreadable) tach time to them, which is why they can end up coming on rather earlier (and seemingly randomly so) than the stated ideal service intervals in the handbook.

Do you now Michael Peare?

This was probably back when a mode C was a luxury

@@zacharytaylor190 good poiny and sorry about the typos

@@bjarnenilsson80 no issue at all. Still seems kinda reckless that someone would turn off avionics in flight barring emergencies though. They must have done things different back then.

York

Sigma476 we know of them, just don't make them!

Not really, we tend to stick to one or the other. I've tried them together and it didn't live up to the hype it gets in the USA, you probably make things differently and that makes them better together

Then again, I've heard that the USA doesn't really do savoury pies, and that's mind-boggling to the average Brit

Sigma476 Just imagining eating a peanut butter and grape jam sandwich makes me feel more American.

Oh, that's a point, we don't do grape flavoured stuff either, that might be the issue

Alternatively, you can just cheat and Google "define shower," which gives you "a brief and usually light fall of rain, sleet or snow."