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[ithuriel]

The Darwin awards have been around on the internet since the turn of the century at least but now there's a gun related Youtube channel and boy, it is full of candidates.

 

Edited 12 October 2024 by ithuriel

[Wymsey]

BlueVanMan, from Leicester, isn't too bad.

[ithuriel]

Another channel that can give you a bit of LoTR  stories.

 

[ithuriel]

Finally found The Wolfen novel on Youtube in audiobook strangely in the voice of Roddy McDowall 

The first part has a slight break in it but otherwise, really well done.

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

I've been receiving notifications on YouTube recently for some short videos called Now and Then.

They are usually a series of photographs from the second world war, compared with the same scene today.

Unsurprisingly, the war pictures often show bomb damaged buildings and, sometimes, bodies.

One scene couldn't have been more worlds apart. The original showed a cobbled street with a dead soldier lying across a pavement. The 'Now' picture showed the exact same buildings and cobbled road, which is now a busy shopping street with dozens of folk going about their daily and peaceful everyday lives, walking over the exact same spot where that particular  warrior had died.

That soldier was somebodies son, brother, perhaps a father himself. No memorial of course marking the place he died, there were far too many for that to be possible.

I found it quite powerful.

 

[ithuriel]

There's a ton of really poor drivers around these days and that's not including the uber eats cyclists mostly on electric bikes so this video should surprise no one but the commentary at times is funny.

 

[Sampson]

17 hours ago, ithuriel said:

There's a ton of really poor drivers around these days and that's not including the uber eats cyclists mostly on electric bikes so this video should surprise no one but the commentary at times is funny.

 

At 4:14, that’s clearly the trucks fault for pulling out on a roundabout without looking right, the Golf has clear right of way. Dunno why the commentator has a go at someone for going on a roundabout as intended and the car can’t just emergency stop on a roundabout, could cause a cascade of accidents, swerving round the truck is the safest thing to do in that situation. 

Edited 27 October 2024 by Sampson

[ithuriel]

Jurrasic park novel animated scenes, quite a few on Youtube.

 

 

[ithuriel]

This must have been fun to be at..

 

[The Bear]

I watch this guy who does Stealth Camping, which is in and around urban areas where the public might be. He's from Sunderland but he's quite funny and has lots of little silly phrases and sayings. Very working class bloke but quite entertaining, especially when he has his little friend Mick out with him. 

 

 

 

[ithuriel]

One thing I've always loved about WoW, the music, interesting seeing what an opera singer thinks of it.

 

[ithuriel]

Still think this story would make an epic movie or three, maybe one day.

 

[ithuriel]

Making it work, hmm anyway, the tank museum putting out another good video.

 

[Torquay Gunner]

Anyone old enough to remember ‘In bed with my dinner’ and a famous tv documentary of the early 90’s might find this interesting.  Its a long podcast, but the first 20 mins in particular are quite powerful.

 

 

 

[Izzy]

I love this guy. His geography knowledge is insane. Great channel.

 

 

[The Bear]

I like his GeoWizard stuff more where he finds where user submitted photos have been taken from. 

 

He's not even that good a GeoGuessr player either. Not compared to people like Rainbolt, Zi8gZag etc who do it professionally. 

Edited 23 November 2024 by The Bear

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, The Bear said:

I like his GeoWizard stuff more where he finds where user submitted photos have been taken from. 

 

He's not even that good a GeoGuessr player either. Not compared to people like Rainbolt, Zi8gZag etc who do it professionally. 

I only discovered him a few days ago but spent the last two evenings hooked on his vids.

 

Yeah, I saw this one where some blokes Dad was on a motorbike 50 years ago and he found the exact same spot. Clever stuff.

 

 

 

[Zear0]

9 minutes ago, Izzy said:

I only discovered him a few days ago but spent the last two evenings hooked on his vids.

 

Yeah, I saw this one where some blokes Dad was on a motorbike 50 years ago and he found the exact same spot. Clever stuff.

 

 

 

His straight line videos are well worth a watch too.

[The Bear]

He did a recent walking the coast with just £10 video too recently which was really good. 

[Izzy]

22 hours ago, The Bear said:

I like his GeoWizard stuff more where he finds where user submitted photos have been taken from. 

 

He's not even that good a GeoGuessr player either. Not compared to people like Rainbolt, Zi8gZag etc who do it professionally. 

Just watched him get his arse kicked by Zi8zag 

 

That kid is off the charts clever!

 

 

[foxfanazer]

Geowizard is the man. Watch every video he puts out. Has a really good sense of humour and some great content 

[ithuriel]

Well, the video was entertaining even if the woman was irritating...

 

[ithuriel]

Well, one place to avoid in London  

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

I don't always read other folks comments to videos on YouTube itself but when I do, there seems to be liberal sprinkling of comments such as, 'Whose here in Dec 2024?'

Nothing else, just that.

Whats the purpose? I guess it's people just desperate for some 'Thumbs up' and comments?

Edited 5 December 2024 by Free Falling Foxes

[Izzy]

20 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I don't always read other folks comments to videos on YouTube itself but when I do, there seems to be liberal sprinkling of comments such as, 'Whose here in Dec 2024?'

Nothing else, just that.

Whats the purpose? I guess it's people just desperate for some 'Thumbs up' and comments?

I don't think it's any different to people on here making pointless one line posts in threads.

 

Lots of folk who comment on YT video's are subscribers/fans of that channel and it's becomes its own small 'community' just like FoxesTalk

 

Maybe they are desperate for 'Thumbs' up but that's also no different to here, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. I suppose.

 

The interweb is a strange place.