The $100 Hamburger and Tach Time: Citation Needed 6x02
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2017
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If Google Trends shows a large bump for "Wimpy" in the next few days, you'll know why.
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
Particularly good answers with historical relevance should get History Biscuits: somewhat unusual looking, but not quite edible.
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
The one time Tom says "price is right rules" and actually enforces them instead of just going with an undefined or the closest answer.
Gary straight up says “ice cream” like “I scream”.
(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
"What's the chronometer called?"
"Jeff"
best part
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.
You win a german automobile, painted in flashy colors by a famous catalonian architect.
*Antoni Gaudi's gaudy Audi*
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?
"What is a Hobbes hour?"
"A nasty, brutish, and short one."
Not to mention authoritarian, possibly fascist
One bootlicking pilot
You've legitimately boosted Wimpy's sales. There used to be one where I grew up. It's no longer there, but there is one in the the place I'm staying this weekend. I checked to see if they do vegetarian burgers and they do a 'Lemon and Pepper Quorn Burger'! There's my Saturday dinner plans.
Catherine Knight I'm not a veggie but a 'lemon and pepper quorn burger' sounds really good
Shower: Vertical bathing apparatus
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"
"Hmmm, it's 37 inches this afternoon..."
PHRASING!
"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
Most piston engine aircraft still use magnetos to generate the spark. Hence, you can fly them with all electrical systems off. Moreover, many instruments are pressure-driven, so you still get nearly all of the instruments, save for navigation. It's actually not as unsafe as it sounds. The plane's designed to be safe to land in case of total electrical failure.
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.
I love how gentle Gary was when telling Gary about what a burger is
(i assume one of those names are incorrect?)
A magic dog
A labracadabrador
Boo! :D
Nice
The Calvin and Hobbes reference made my day. I loved those comic strips as a kid and still do.
- Human sprinkler
- Artificial localized rain maker
- Human car wash
I think I've succeeded.
Huntracony stand up bath
Cleansing water stream
Overhead water spout
DOMESTICATED RAIN
Artificial Concentrated Rain Production Device. ACRPD for short.
@@theneekofficial8829 ...acrepid?
"Citation needed" is what you say when you're chartering a Cessna and you want to upgrade to a jet.
Tach time is when you decide to have an irregular heartbeat
ya know, Tom always says "I've been Tom Scott", does he have alternate names?
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)
shower: a water pipe leaking controllably
Every time I've seen this comment, for the past two years, it's always given me a chuckle
2:50 coming back to this after Gary's train-cooked bacon sandwich makes it all the funnier that he's the one explaining this.
Little would Tom know, that 5 years later he would be making a video of himself landing a 737. Just a shame it didn't make York local news.
What is a ferrous pet rock held dear by a North Pole dweller for use in religious ceremonies?
Santa's metal sentimental sacramental sediment.
I hate you
Wow
Why is Tom always the moderator? I want to see him play, too!
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
Anyone else notice how Matt, despite not having any monitoring equipment moved the mic away from Gary during his intro.
I did indeed
"i'm the driver" kinda reminds me of Sterling Archer: "I WANNA FLY THE TRAIN!"
11:02 Christ this one hits close to home for me. My dad is a pilot and gets accused of the £100 hamburger flights fairly often BUT also most GA crafts have cigarette lighters for charging as well.
My dad flew A-4s in the Navy. One of the guys in his squadron got in ENORMOUS trouble for flying under a bridge on his last day in the Navy. he just wanted to do something he'd always wanted to do. They nearly threw him out on his last day :-)
That guy used to fly his plane for as many made-up reasons as possible. He once used up over three hours of fuel in 45 minutes just screwing around, chasing thunderstorm clouds, buzzing fishermen over the ocean, etc.. All at full throttle of course.
sounds like a fun guy
Uh... Is anyone else really surprised it's been a week since the last episode already? Because I honestly thought "Wait, the last one was like three days ago, wasn't it?"
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.
Most of the planes I fly are quite old (1950s-1970s) so the Hobbs is still electrically driven. We use that to measure flight time, and air time is determines by checking the watch just before takeoff and just after landing. If you forget, +10 mins after start and -5 mins before shutdown for most small municipal airports. Tach is really nice though, since you log the actual flight time in your book and only pay for the tach, usually about 80% flight. That reduces a 130/hr Cessna 150 tach to a real time 108/hr
Also, flight time means engine on to engine off (the one we log in Canada and pay for) and Air time is wheels up to wheels down (usually only matters to maintenance).
I don't normally watch Citation Needed (I watch all your other videos!) but with the mention of the $100 hamburger and tach time, I had to click it! Hello to fellow pilots. The British equivalent is the £100 bacon sandwich. By the way there's a Wimpy in Farnborough, not far from the airport.
Paul Sengupta You seem to be on every CZcams video I watch!! Met you at at the Halfpenny Green student fly in a few years back - fly safe!
Anyone else getting an optical illusion with the window behind Tom?
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!
woahhh rewatching this and making a ground braking discovery... Gary's world buffet experience is like Wing's in Hull
I'm fairly confident that's where he's talking about!
I can't believe how surprised about Gary Brannon's buffet story, hasn't everyone been in that mental space before
I know this is years later but: No. This just means that, congratulations, you're the same type of person as Gary.
When is Steven Fry going to guest star on this show?
Excellent episode. Now I'm off to take a spraybath.
4:33, Gary says "It's not a children's treat now, is it, that's the good news!"
This episode is priceless, unlike the $100 hamburger
Wimpy is still going strong here in South Africa : )
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)
Fool's Gold Loaf: still a better novelty food than Rocky Mountain Oysters.
Bunny Chow is better.
Whenever I try to watch this show, it reminds me of when I went to London and tried to watch the game shows on TV: It's so British that I can barely understand anything that's going on.
I had forgotten how wonderful this show was, you guys should bring it back. It could even work as a zoom group call!
My grandparents and father used to go to Wimpy bars on regular occasion a couple years back. The local one in Long Eaton is now gone, resorting to the one in Nottingham. - which is still really good!
Tom: "How many calories does it have?"
Me: Yes.
OMG, Gary's indiscriminate selecting of food just made me laugh until I cried, got dizzy and my chest hurts a bit...
Shower : A rain box
I've been Tom Scott, see you next time!
well.. this makes it seem like you aren't Tom Scott in real life..
JUST WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!!?!?
MINIMAN of iron has been. Still is, but has been too
Mad cap'n tom
So, then Mat turns up to the airport wearing a flying helmet, are there any wet celery or egg whisks around?
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?
At least in the US, air planes technically have the right of way on all roads. You might have to be a bit more careful landing due to buildings, and the government might be upset with you breaking from your flight plan, but it would work.
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.
I just tried watching this at work discretely, I got 1:25 in and had to stop.
A tach in a lorry also measures engine speed.
3:10 a 10,000 pence hamburger, that’s a lot of Vice Presidents
11:20 the tachometer measures RPM not distance the odometer measures distance
I laughed too hard at "It's 37 inches this afternoon"
Idea for the next series: in Matt's kitchen with 6-7 episodes, 3 of them with either Chris, Garry or Matt behind the laptop and Tom in the playing field.
Or if that really won't work, try to get some articles from other sources like you said in the Citation Needed park bench video. Urban Dictionary, or like the previous live show, reverse trivia cards. Or mix it up in one season to try things out, throw stuff at the wall, see what sticks.
You win what Chris thinks is a replacement for custard, mixed with a house for underground mammals.
A pepto-bismol hole
Gotta love the guy in the front row who looks like a younger, alternate-universe Tom Scott.
If you land a plane in a bowling alley is it a Boeing alley?
Shower without "Shower": indoor rain machine
York Meggabowl, at Clifton Moor is built on the site of an old RAF Aerodrome.
That's why the Pub was called the Flying Legends originally....
My Thursday just got 10x better!
I love these. I wish they came around more often, or at least that I knew more shows with similarly fantastic hosts.
Where can I donate and how much would it cost to get the TechDif crew to play Cards Against Humanity (or whatever offbrand equivalent of your choice)?
Amazing as always!
A production of Hamlet put on in an ice cream shop with a late-90's popstar playing Ophelia, the entry to which is guarded by a jittery pikeman...Shakespeare with shakes and Spears behind a shaking spear.
Who else got the grey spot optical illusion from the window next to Tom?
Mario Hendriks me
YES!
Dad was flying a Cessna, we kids were in the back. We were over the sea. Turn the engine off, put the nose down rather steeply and then bump start. Never told mother.
CZcams detects Chris saying “This seems like a waste!” at 0:54 as a like button smashage encouragement.
The window in the back is doing that grey spots illusion thing for me.
It is weird that Wimpy only exists next to bowling alleys, it's weird they exist
I love it when you guys talk about York. Living there makes the jokes even more funnier 😆
It’s kind of funny watching you four (or really them three because you seem to take this serious route more often than not) improv and out and just say random stuff, i’ll definitely be watching more of these.
I know that exact all you can eat place. That's Wings in Hull City Centre , not far from York.
These episodes could be 10 times longer (200 inches in Gary time) and I'd still watch all of it.
every now and then I re-watch these. I think I laugh just as much
I hecking love this series.
Here in Vancouver Canada we have several $100 hamburger destinations: Chilliwack, Victoria, Qualicum Beach. I always go for a flight to one to celebrate my birthday.
Do you now Michael Peare?
Got an ad for a hamburger on this. Satisfied with that.
Feels like it's been a month since the last episode!
hydraulic personal hygiene device
yay! more citation needed! this is a good day!
So, a tachometer in a plane works almost identically to those in road vehicles, measuring the revolutions per minute in parts of the mechanism. Neither of them measure distance like Gary said. Why did Tom agree with that? Distance in cars and the like is measured by an odometer.
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.
Shower: Pressured water dispensary found inside a bathroom dedicated to cleaning the entire body
They should have made the joke of landing at a Whimpy's
also. Shower=clean controlled rain
Having just watched the episode with no intro (bat bombs) and never watching one before, this one makes a lot more sense with the intro. xD
I swear you are going to ruin me keyboard with water I spew all over it every time any of you make a gag.
Hmm turning of the electronics off, I would think that it would get you an F18 escort rather quickly as you would be a non responding aircraft with no transponder at that point
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.
Awesome once again!
HA HA HA!
SKYBURGERS!
I wonder what town Gary's talking about, in terms of landing the plane on the ring road. Because I can imagine doing it in Tamworth, where there's a dualled ring road that encompasses a bowling alley that used to have a Wimpy next to it...
York
1:29 I had the exact same reaction as Tom 😂
awh man i remember going to wimpy when i was still in south africa, god bless
I like how the entire audience look like they could be doing their own 'Citation Needed' tribute shows.
I keep liking this show more and more.
I've just discovered that the German captions aren't censored.
Well I'll be where water sprays out of the wall...
Shower: sideways bath
The window in the back does the black dot optical illusion
yay more citation needed
Anyone else pause and try to guess the prize before Tom says it?
I looked up "another level members" and came up with Dane Browers Power shower
Was actually happy with myself being so close to the actual one.
woho, so many uploads!