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Old myth was that the British Empire would fall if the ravens ever left the Tower of London. The London Blitz scared the ravens away and "soon" after the Empire is dissolved and reformed as the Commonwealth.
@@gumnaamaadmi007 reformed as in remade, not a reformed prisoner.... although that isn't entirely off-point either. Just waiting for the crime-spree to start up again
The Brits held the baton of the Western Greco Roman Empire for 3 centuries. Took the baton from another western society, and passed it on. Now we are all facing the chalenging China.
I always wondered why whenever i have a slow bicycle in front of me i have to fight against the urge to just plow into them haha! It dont help that British roads are narrow, so bicycles grind the traffic flow to a halt. We have far too many cars on our roads too, so sharing them with anything slow moving (mopeds, tractors, bikes etc) is annoying as everyone is in a rush (particularly in cities)
@@davekennedy6315 Bikes in cities usually drive 20-30 kph with racing bikes often reaching 50. If streets are narrow anyway, you shouldn't drive much faster esp. if there's parking cars. IMHO speed limits in cities need to be stricter depending on the road. For example where I live the roads are narrow and full of parking vehicles. Yet the limit is 30. I don't think anyone could react in time if a child dashes out between two parking cars. But by law you are required to be able to break in time in such a situation. So the @allowed@ 30 isn't what you can/should drive. But guess how fast many people go.
@@davekennedy6315 I love when people say stuff like this. When you are in a car and stuck in traffic you are vulnerable. Ask any messenger about how delicate windshields are.
I remember a book written in the 1930s that attributed the poverty and weakness of Indochina to their inability to ride bicycles, and argued that the fact that the Japanese could ride bicycles proved their higher intelligence and put them on par with western nations. The Book also said that the fact that the Japanese could ride bicycles proved that they were capable of ruling Asia as coloniser, and thus Britains days were numbered there. Clearly, the idea that Bicycles brought about the collapse of the British Empire has been around for a long time.
But..... if the Japanese planned to steal the bikes of the locals, how could one support the idea of the locals being unable to ride bicycles? That doesn't make sense.
@@roxiepoe9586 The army doesn't steal. They "requisition". You might even get reimbursed or get your property back. Maybe. It's possible that they got them from the Japanese living there. Also this is probably a bit later that the article was written and I'm pretty sure the author wouldn't let something trivial like facts ruin his brilliant and compelling article. \*cough\*
@@kaltaron1284 in what way? It was implied that the locals didn’t have bikes to steal or requisition.... also reality is that the Japanese bike riders were repurposed cavalry troops and the Japanese are know to have produced many thousands of these bikes just for this purpose....
I think you may be trying to imagine how "That crazy little man who lives in a filthy room behind the stables" would fit on his nametags and business cards.
My great uncle was the last RAF pilot out of Singapore. He said everybody was scrambling like mad to get out, the Japanese were advancing so quickly. He made it through WW2 and during the Korean war, earned a DFC
@@better.better - I worked in a record store when that album came out and when one of my colleagues saw the poster of the fat-bottomed girls on the bicycles within the album, he declared his ambition to become a bicycle seat.
We have a photo of my grandmother, born in 1894, at age 5, riding a tricycle, made by a company long out of business. A museum payed my Mom (aged 90) to make copies from the tin type photo of my grandmother for their museum. We treasure it.
_Ding ding~! 🛎 "OH SHIT! TANKS or somethin....RUN, LADDIES! RETREAT!" (Little Japanese girl comes around the corner on a pink trike with tassles coming from the handles (✿( ´◡`))
He's busy. Business Blaze Simon let Danny escape. Thankfully he had enough old Scripts so only one was written by Matthew but I guess TIFO clone Simon has to try to catch him.
The bicycle was used to great effect by the Vietnamese in the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu - they carried weapons over rugged mountain trails. Quite amazing
To fully elaborate for others reading, Some Dandy is talking about the mountains of "dockless ride share bikes" that get dumped in landfills by city workers angry that thousands of people just rent a bike but just leave them in random locations all the time and the companies don't put enough effort into recollecting their waylaid bikes and redepositing them into more centrally locations. (For anyone wondering why homeless and/or desperate people don't just "take" these bikes for themselves, it's because these bikes come installed with special mechanisms that make them lock up unless someone has currently "rented" one using an app on their phone.)
@@ozwolf01 Nope , your mother's brother actually. How can you do Danny like that punk? He's written more scripts and you've listened to Simon read more of his writing than your own mothers and you do him dirty like that. That's low bro.
I would argue the opposite. The invention of the bicycle saved England from certain doom by ending the practice of inter-parish marriage. Congenital birth defects were rampant in England before the bicycle . People only dated within their parish and it was at best a third cousin. The bicycle freed people up to date in the neighboring towns and villages and has prevented a genetic disaster.
I wonder sometimes if people who don't watch Brain Blaze (formerly Business Blaze) ever look at the the red solo cups in the background, the Enron-esque "B" coffee mug, or the red "BLAZE ON" t-shirt and wonder what the heck that's all about. They're really missing out on Simon's unhinged side.
Great work man, I consider myself way above the average person on the street in ww1 and ww2 history but I hadn’t heard of this Japanese bicycle brigade. I had no idea it had been put to such successful use by the Japanese army in 42
Another feature: the main road had recently been straightened, but the old cut off sections were not yet overgrown and still perfectly usable and allowed the tank regiment to repeatedly outflank the British.
Military bicycle troops may have been fast but their movements were often betrayed by the handle streamers, bedazzled handlebar baskets, bells, and the sound of the baseball cards on the spokes. The erection of small plywood jumps also made tracking easy,
Thank you for bringing this up. Personally, i want to throw some appreciation to General Percival. This man was a commanding officer who's record up to that point was not just admirable, or exemplary -it was stellar. I cannot look at the disaster at Singapore and place it all on his shoulders -i think that he lived the remainder of his life with unimaginable guilt as it was. But the failure at Singapore reached into departments that he, realistically had no control over. It was a situation that the British government simply could not stop sitting on their hands fast enough to acknowledge its gravity. That is so much bigger than any one man who ends up taking the blame.
The Indian Anti-British Freedom Fighter Bhagat Singh once stated: "The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit"
Sadly, this is true of so many situations, not just abroad; people get used to a status quo and put up with it. Getting "the people" to act is an uphill battle.
This may be the first time my respect for a content creator has actually increased *during* an ad -- much less an ad for something I don't care about. However, Burn Notice is an amazing show, and Simon is clearly a man of taste and class.
and how much smaller cities would be. More then half the space of cities is eaten up by parking lots. The whole "its too far away on a bike" wouldn't be an issue anymore.
Yeah, no. Even here in the Netherlands, we have plenty of pollution and noise caused by traffic. And that is with there being more bikes than people here. Bikes are much better than cars for short distance trips, but they aren't going to fix the problems caused by traffic.
@@stephjovi being completely honest, I totally underestimated Simon. I assumed a drop-off in quality due to him being involved in 17 different channels. Now I see the truth. We are on Simontube. Or Youwhistler. Whatever he wants to call his little playground here
The British Empire fell because of Bicycles? Now that is definitely potential Quality roasting material for Sashi Tharoor right there. "The Sun never sets on the British Empire because even God didn't trust the British in the Dark."
Hey psst psst, look at me, I know about his sister channel, wanna make our own thread where we can reference it. Maybe afterwards we talk about how it feels to watch somebody else watch a game of football on the television through the window across the street with binoculars.
There were other forces at work to cause the end of British empire. It is also interesting that the humble bicycle also was instrumental in the creation of the airplane. The Wright brothers understood the dynamics of bicycling and the engineering of them. On this foundation they created the first heavier than air flying craft.
Just no. They repaired bikes to fund their inventions, but the theory was already pretty well understood, from well established formulas (as well as practical tests in e.g. windtunnels) to matured engineering from over 100 years of airship advancements.
Simon, Simon, Simon: To say that " . . . bicycles caused the downfall of the British empire" is a gross simplification. There were many other causes that were, frankly, larger than the loss of Singapore. While that declaration might fool students at Oxford, I studied at Cambridge and did not fall for it. :)
Fascinating! Not glorifying war and killing: Merely admiring the insightful strategy whether it is another nation's military or that jerk across the the office that messes with you (HaHa).The alternate cleverness - the bikes - worked quite well.
I don't think that's always the case. For example, the U is often silent in Japanese words, if I'm not mistaken. Like, if you were to say the name Disuke, you wouldn't pronounce the U. Also, the E at the end of that name would be said with the long A sound, rather than the standard E sound that English speakers are used to. You can correct me if I'm wrong of course, I don't claim to understand the language perfectly, but that's my understanding.
@@aurthurpendragon1015 I guess a better way to describe it is Mostly Phonetic. Daisuke's correct pronunciation is 'Die-ss-kay' but you could pronounce it 'Die-su-kay' and I think a Japanese person would understand. The trick with Japanese is to understand that they have no consonants. Or, more accurately, their phonemes consist of a compound of our consonants followed by our vowels. Katakana is their phonetic syllabary. You can figure a lot out about their language and how they learn and speak English from it. Such as, 'colourful': カラフル Karafuru Ka Ra Fu Ru So, they have no L. And they can't finish a word with a consonant. Except n Lexicon レキシコン Rekishikon
There are a few traps though. And modern Katakana have some new combinations that are used to mimic foreign words better. How much a Japanese speaker can do with them differs of course. What makes things a bit tricky is that there are several different transcription systems and variants thereof and they all have some advantages and disadvantages. The only variant that's useless IMHO is the one that ditches the long vowels. Unfortunately that one has been used for traffic signs in some places/times. And then the Japanese wonder why they don't get where you want to go. But the Wiki article is a very good start and would help a lot. Unfortunately written Japanese doesn't transcribe tonal height so that one is always a problem but rarely important.
Chinese is pretty similar. If you know how certain common letter combos are pronounce, you can pronounce them easily. It has a lot of sharp sounds, harsh dips and peaks that jut between each other, just like English. Compare that to something like French, where pronunciation is exceptionally hard for English speakers.
Simon, I know I just got to this video, but THIS IS THE WAY TO DO COMEDIC CUTAWAYS!! Yes!! By letting the tape just continue not only is an highly effective way to add comedy while maintaining perceived credibility, it feels like you're more real. PLEASE, keep this style!
I got this in my recommended when it only had 535 views. I've never watched a video in this this channel through before nor am I subscribed to it yet I got it early. Guess I have to watch it.
At the 11 minute mark Simon mentions that the invasion force would just steal bikes from the locals "like hoodlums" ... he said it so matter of fact-ly it cracked me up lol ... Simon is my spirit animal :-D
I read somewhere that the causeway connecting Singapore Island to the mainland also carried pipes for drinking water; blowing the causeway also destroyed their water supply.
The bicycle may have officially been invented in the 1800s, but there are ancient relief sculptures of bicycles in India which would indicate a much earlier invention
Winning with bicycles is so wonderfully Japanese. Is there any other culture who can be so technically superior but not afraid to use something as humble as a bicycle? Before someone yells racist please remember that it’s the differences that we each bring that can make us stronger as a group. Recognizing differences does not mean racism.
Many years ago popular science did an article on transportation. The determination was that the most efficient use of energy required was a man on a bicycle.
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Idea: where did the nerd stereotype come from?
Fubo.... Get skysports on board and im in....
So listening to Simon talk about a sport service is like listening to a toddler talk about Algebra.
Old myth was that the British Empire would fall if the ravens ever left the Tower of London. The London Blitz scared the ravens away and "soon" after the Empire is dissolved and reformed as the Commonwealth.
Reformed? Lol. The commonwealth is the biggest scam ever devised.
@@gumnaamaadmi007 reformed as in remade, not a reformed prisoner.... although that isn't entirely off-point either. Just waiting for the crime-spree to start up again
@@ozwolf01 It never stopped.
:'(
a bit of a myth actually, Some have their wings clipped, and there is a 'rookery?' in Cornwall where they keep backup supplies
The Brits held the baton of the Western Greco Roman Empire for 3 centuries. Took the baton from another western society, and passed it on. Now we are all facing the chalenging China.
So that's why british motorists are murderously vindictive against cyclists. 🙊
I always wondered why whenever i have a slow bicycle in front of me i have to fight against the urge to just plow into them haha! It dont help that British roads are narrow, so bicycles grind the traffic flow to a halt. We have far too many cars on our roads too, so sharing them with anything slow moving (mopeds, tractors, bikes etc) is annoying as everyone is in a rush (particularly in cities)
@@davekennedy6315 learn to have some patience then
@@christycullen2355 if you hit um above 40mph you barely feel it.
@@davekennedy6315 Bikes in cities usually drive 20-30 kph with racing bikes often reaching 50. If streets are narrow anyway, you shouldn't drive much faster esp. if there's parking cars.
IMHO speed limits in cities need to be stricter depending on the road. For example where I live the roads are narrow and full of parking vehicles. Yet the limit is 30. I don't think anyone could react in time if a child dashes out between two parking cars. But by law you are required to be able to break in time in such a situation. So the @allowed@ 30 isn't what you can/should drive. But guess how fast many people go.
@@davekennedy6315 I love when people say stuff like this. When you are in a car and stuck in traffic you are vulnerable. Ask any messenger about how delicate windshields are.
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Thank you. Fuck "fubo".
As a Malaysian, we made a lot of jokes about the British pointing their guns at the wrong direction and the Japanese cycling through Thailand
Lol
better than losing a plane
Yeah, reeeeal funny.... :'(
I'll bet the laughter stopped when the Japanese took over.
@@davesy6969 the laughter stopped when they started killing any chinese they see
Germany: Invading the world with O.P Panzers, supersoldiers, and fighter planes.
Japan: *Bicycle Samurai.*
The Germans also discovered the power of bikes.
They stole them from the Dutch
We have a lot of film footage of German motorized warfare, but actually they were so short on resources that they reverted to horses to save on fuel.
@@jm-um1tx Something to remember when (as it will be) some day fuel is not available.
The main vehicles throughout the second world war were Horses, even in the later stages they were irreplaceable for short distance transporting :)
@J F Right! Like hay and oats.
I remember a book written in the 1930s that attributed the poverty and weakness of Indochina to their inability to ride bicycles, and argued that the fact that the Japanese could ride bicycles proved their higher intelligence and put them on par with western nations. The Book also said that the fact that the Japanese could ride bicycles proved that they were capable of ruling Asia as coloniser, and thus Britains days were numbered there. Clearly, the idea that Bicycles brought about the collapse of the British Empire has been around for a long time.
But..... if the Japanese planned to steal the bikes of the locals, how could one support the idea of the locals being unable to ride bicycles? That doesn't make sense.
@@roxiepoe9586 The army doesn't steal. They "requisition". You might even get reimbursed or get your property back. Maybe.
It's possible that they got them from the Japanese living there. Also this is probably a bit later that the article was written and I'm pretty sure the author wouldn't let something trivial like facts ruin his brilliant and compelling article. \*cough\*
@@kaltaron1284 I think you missed the point, why would the locals have bikes they couldn’t ride
@@MrDkgio I hope you're joking.
@@kaltaron1284 in what way? It was implied that the locals didn’t have bikes to steal or requisition.... also reality is that the Japanese bike riders were repurposed cavalry troops and the Japanese are know to have produced many thousands of these bikes just for this purpose....
Which would win, a colonial empire or...
one wheely boi
Two wheels, actually
@@PeterJohnson1289 “wheelys” are done with two wheels, one of them lifted off the ground while rolling on the other like a boss
*dat boi rolls in*
I’ve watched so much business blaze that professional Simon is weird to me.
@Eddie Hitler The more he sniffs the closer he gets to Business Blaze levels of liveliness.
Business Blaze is superior. Still waiting on that Raid livestream!
I wish buisness blaze videos werent so long. I have always said simon is at his best when he breaks his act.
@Eddie Hitler he is losing his grip on the professional Simon
@@snugglecity3500 what? why short? the longer the Blaaaaze the better xD
I think you may be trying to imagine how "That crazy little man who lives in a filthy room behind the stables" would fit on his nametags and business cards.
- Just call me "crazy", okay? Jesus...you guys know I hate it when you do that in front a girl...
No I think he's trying to imagine how it will look on the stuff in his merch store, purchthemerch.co. The ".co" is for cocaine.
It probably rolls off the tongue quite a bit better in Japanese
ScuzzLord is snappier...
This video sounds like it should be on Business Blaze with all the cuts due to laughter...
On business blaze this would have been "Fuck sports and fuck anyone who watches sports.. oh yeah pay money to watch sports and fuck you."
Agreed. I dig it
the full minute starting at 4:00 was almost pure BB
@@simonfleming6109 If this is a real quote, I really really plead with you for the link.
Well how the hell else could anyone react differently to that quote. That's WP on refugees level savage.
My great uncle was the last RAF pilot out of Singapore. He said everybody was scrambling like mad to get out, the Japanese were advancing so quickly. He made it through WW2 and during the Korean war, earned a DFC
*_"GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE!!!"_*
*Freddie Mercury*
I mean that is the best song about anal ever
@@better.better - I worked in a record store when that album came out and when one of my colleagues saw the poster of the fat-bottomed girls on the bicycles within the album, he declared his ambition to become a bicycle seat.
Today I Found Out Simon: "This brings you all the sports you love"
Business Blaze Simon: "i fucking hate sports"
I thought i was the only one who thought about this.
true, but he loves money more
true but at least he knows his audience probably doesn't hate sports lmao
Allies: "oh crap, hear that?" "TANK!!!!"
Japanese: "I swear they were just here?!" *creaks by on stolen bike*
WW1 Germans: ... What the hell is that noise?
WW1 British: *ringing their bicycle bells aggressively as they ride into battle*
WW2 Churchill riding a bike with stabilizer: "We will fight on the hills, and in the streets, and apparently at the traffic lights"
We have a photo of my grandmother, born in 1894, at age 5, riding a tricycle, made by a company long out of business. A museum payed my Mom (aged 90) to make copies from the tin type photo of my grandmother for their museum. We treasure it.
Image creating a empire that has the strongest navel power in the world and then bike
_Ding ding~! 🛎
"OH SHIT! TANKS or somethin....RUN, LADDIES! RETREAT!"
(Little Japanese girl comes around the corner on a pink trike with tassles coming from the handles (✿( ´◡`))
*naval
@@Shinzon23 Behold the strength of my bellybutton.
@@craigcurtis9781 lol beat me to it
everyone caught naval, no one's talkin about "aN empire", smh english language didn't survive either
The Simon TIFO clone was either being replaced or updated, so, today is brought to you by the Boi With the Blaze model.
the quote at 5:55 looks like something a white university student would write
He's busy. Business Blaze Simon let Danny escape. Thankfully he had enough old Scripts so only one was written by Matthew but I guess TIFO clone Simon has to try to catch him.
Burn Notice was a brilliant show!!! Bruce Campbell was the best ever in that as Chuck Findlay
Hell yeah! And love that the show had an ending. A sad sad one but still
@@TheBasher-_- I love how it ended. Just like it began. My name is Michael Westen and I used to be a spy......
@@TheBasher-_- When he started narrating how to fight a Navy SEAL underwater while he was tuffling Axe, I felt that shit in my chest.
Can comfirm as a Dutch person who has cycled in England, the brits hate cyclists. Have been yelled at, have been hit by a car.
I have a feeling the motorists in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. are even worse. Miamians are too busy with their cellular phones to bother watching the road.
@@Sci-Fi-Mike whataboutism
The bicycle was used to great effect by the Vietnamese in the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu - they carried weapons over rugged mountain trails. Quite amazing
And today in China, one can find MOUNTAINS of abandoned bicycles. Poor bicycle...we have not forgotten you.
Better to own a bike.
To fully elaborate for others reading, Some Dandy is talking about the mountains of "dockless ride share bikes" that get dumped in landfills by city workers angry that thousands of people just rent a bike but just leave them in random locations all the time and the companies don't put enough effort into recollecting their waylaid bikes and redepositing them into more centrally locations. (For anyone wondering why homeless and/or desperate people don't just "take" these bikes for themselves, it's because these bikes come installed with special mechanisms that make them lock up unless someone has currently "rented" one using an app on their phone.)
Dammit, Simon. Your giggle fit nearly made me burn my pancakes.
/Why, yes, I'm Dutch. It's a video about bikes.
The glimpses of Business Blaze Simon here and there cracked me up XD
Step 1. Shave beard, keep 'stache
Step 2. Wear suspenders
Step 3. Simon calls himself 42
Step 4. Toupee
Step 5. Debut video April 1
4:13 the way Simon's lip curls just as he starts losing it.... so Business Blaze. I love it.
Allegedly
That crazy man who lives in the filthy little room behind the Stables.
Second cousin to Danny?
@@ozwolf01 Nope , your mother's brother actually. How can you do Danny like that punk? He's written more scripts and you've listened to Simon read more of his writing than your own mothers and you do him dirty like that. That's low bro.
@@stevenutter3614 Low brow is the order of the day, dear dawg.
Oooh, stables. I understood staples.
What's he building in there?
I would argue the opposite. The invention of the bicycle saved England from certain doom by ending the practice of inter-parish marriage. Congenital birth defects were rampant in England before the bicycle . People only dated within their parish and it was at best a third cousin. The bicycle freed people up to date in the neighboring towns and villages and has prevented a genetic disaster.
I love how Business Blaze Simon is slowly working its way into his other channels :-) it makes the videos so much more entertaining
I wonder sometimes if people who don't watch Brain Blaze (formerly Business Blaze) ever look at the the red solo cups in the background, the Enron-esque "B" coffee mug, or the red "BLAZE ON" t-shirt and wonder what the heck that's all about. They're really missing out on Simon's unhinged side.
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I love your pfp
@@veenoir1991 : That avatar is indeed a miracle of science.
That is an exceptionally British sentence.
Great work man, I consider myself way above the average person on the street in ww1 and ww2 history but I hadn’t heard of this Japanese bicycle brigade. I had no idea it had been put to such successful use by the Japanese army in 42
You got some Business Blaze in my Today I Found Out!
Almost all of Simon’s channels are becoming like Business Blaze in humor.
Well this kinda thing is what lead to Business Blaze 😂.
Another feature: the main road had recently been straightened, but the old cut off sections were not yet overgrown and still perfectly usable and allowed the tank regiment to repeatedly outflank the British.
I just came over here form a binge of Business blaze And seeing Simon so calm just doesn’t feel right any more
Military bicycle troops may have been fast but their movements were often betrayed by the handle streamers, bedazzled handlebar baskets, bells, and the sound of the baseball cards on the spokes. The erection of small plywood jumps also made tracking easy,
You need to start including outtakes in every video.
Thank you for bringing this up. Personally, i want to throw some appreciation to General Percival. This man was a commanding officer who's record up to that point was not just admirable, or exemplary -it was stellar. I cannot look at the disaster at Singapore and place it all on his shoulders -i think that he lived the remainder of his life with unimaginable guilt as it was. But the failure at Singapore reached into departments that he, realistically had no control over. It was a situation that the British government simply could not stop sitting on their hands fast enough to acknowledge its gravity. That is so much bigger than any one man who ends up taking the blame.
Lmao Simon advertising a sports centered streaming service made my morning
LOVE you including the outcuts!!! You rule SIMON. Hope the baby is well and sleeping good
The Indian Anti-British Freedom Fighter Bhagat Singh once stated:
"The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit"
A nation unfree, shall never be at peace.
Sadly, this is true of so many situations, not just abroad; people get used to a status quo and put up with it. Getting "the people" to act is an uphill battle.
The thunderous steed of the invasion force went squeek...squeek...squeek over the landscape
Hee hee
Simon must have just recorded an episode of business blaze just before this.
Simon is slowing beginning to Blaze on all his channels. I love it!
No wonder Simon rarely advertises for Business Blaze. Legendary legends fill every comment section with in jokes 🤣
4:20 Get it together already, Factboi!
We need so many more conversations about this! Starting lighter conversations about how our cities function is where I'm trying to start.
Japanese soldier: Ah, shit, here we go again.
Objective: *get on the bike to reach Malaya*
This may be the first time my respect for a content creator has actually increased *during* an ad -- much less an ad for something I don't care about. However, Burn Notice is an amazing show, and Simon is clearly a man of taste and class.
I feel the blaze is nicely creeping it’s way into this channel 😂😂😂
There’s a way to be remembered for all history. Not an assessment by your enemy’s but a glowing recommendation from your superiors.
OMG we finally got Simon to break down in laughter like this is Business Blaze! DOES THIS MEAN WE'LL GET A BIOGRAPHICS VIDEO ABOUT DANNY SOON
Cringe
I hope. I can't wait for the Raid livestream that he promised!
@@greysonstrachan8395 I keep getting ads for that stupid game because of Simon lol
You got the pronunciation of "Nagoya" down better at first blush than I did, and I live in the place.
imagine everyone had just a bicycle instead of a car. how quiet, clean and beautiful the world could be.
and how much smaller cities would be. More then half the space of cities is eaten up by parking lots. The whole "its too far away on a bike" wouldn't be an issue anymore.
Yeah, no. Even here in the Netherlands, we have plenty of pollution and noise caused by traffic. And that is with there being more bikes than people here. Bikes are much better than cars for short distance trips, but they aren't going to fix the problems caused by traffic.
@J F You have never cycled against a Dutch headwind, have you? Flatness has little to do with how viable a country is for cycling.
@@rendomstranger8698 that's because you still have a lot of cars :p
@@rendomstranger8698 Ah, I see you are someone who actually HAS cycled in Holland. Headwinds and hills are the enemies of bycycles!
Great to see you laughing and hope you're doing well stay safe. as usual this video was informative. Thank you
Why do people here act like they've never seen Simon laughing? Legends see Simon cracking up 4 days a week #BusinessBlaze
I want more of Simon's outtakes
For that, check out Business Blaze. It's in stark contrast to his academic channels(TIFO, Top Tenz, Biographics) but that is what makes it so great!
I hope you listened to the suggestion and are now binging the Blaze and have turned into a Blazing legend
@@stephjovi being completely honest, I totally underestimated Simon. I assumed a drop-off in quality due to him being involved in 17 different channels. Now I see the truth. We are on Simontube. Or Youwhistler. Whatever he wants to call his little playground here
Burn Notice is dope. Fun fact: In Iran Burn Notice was aired as "Burnt Bones"
Simon talking about Burn Notice is not something I knew I needed to see. 😂
Funny listening to the ad here knowing how Simon feels about sports. :)
The British Empire fell because of Bicycles? Now that is definitely potential Quality roasting material for Sashi Tharoor right there.
"The Sun never sets on the British Empire because even God didn't trust the British in the Dark."
I'm sure God trusts indian politicians
4:00 - 4:50 is my absolute favorite part and exactly those moments make me come back and stick to your videos every time :D
glad to see business blaze is leaking into the other channels.
Hey psst psst, look at me, I know about his sister channel, wanna make our own thread where we can reference it. Maybe afterwards we talk about how it feels to watch somebody else watch a game of football on the television through the window across the street with binoculars.
@@stevenutter3614 ?
There were other forces at work to cause the end of British empire.
It is also interesting that the humble bicycle also was instrumental in the creation of the airplane. The Wright brothers understood the dynamics of bicycling and the engineering of them. On this foundation they created the first heavier than air flying craft.
Just no. They repaired bikes to fund their inventions, but the theory was already pretty well understood, from well established formulas (as well as practical tests in e.g. windtunnels) to matured engineering from over 100 years of airship advancements.
Simon, Simon, Simon: To say that " . . . bicycles caused the downfall of the British empire" is a gross simplification. There were many other causes that were, frankly, larger than the loss of Singapore. While that declaration might fool students at Oxford, I studied at Cambridge and did not fall for it. :)
Why I'm addicted to TIFO: On an amusement scale of silent smirk to laugh out loud, this episode busts the chart at uncontrollable cackling with tears.
Fascinating! Not glorifying war and killing: Merely admiring the insightful strategy whether it is another nation's military or that jerk across the the office that messes with you (HaHa).The alternate cleverness - the bikes - worked quite well.
I just love listening to Simon talk about sports in the ad reads or content now , listening to the levels of disdain and loathing in his voice.
Japanese pronunciation is pretty easy, it's actually phonetic for one.
Just read what you see.
I don't think that's always the case. For example, the U is often silent in Japanese words, if I'm not mistaken. Like, if you were to say the name Disuke, you wouldn't pronounce the U. Also, the E at the end of that name would be said with the long A sound, rather than the standard E sound that English speakers are used to.
You can correct me if I'm wrong of course, I don't claim to understand the language perfectly, but that's my understanding.
Until you get to stuff like Tsu and your brain and tonuge catch on trying to get the full TS out...
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I guess a better way to describe it is Mostly Phonetic.
Daisuke's correct pronunciation is 'Die-ss-kay' but you could pronounce it 'Die-su-kay' and I think a Japanese person would understand.
The trick with Japanese is to understand that they have no consonants.
Or, more accurately, their phonemes consist of a compound of our consonants followed by our vowels.
Katakana is their phonetic syllabary.
You can figure a lot out about their language and how they learn and speak English from it.
Such as, 'colourful':
カラフル
Karafuru
Ka Ra Fu Ru
So, they have no L.
And they can't finish a word with a consonant.
Except n
Lexicon
レキシコン
Rekishikon
There are a few traps though. And modern Katakana have some new combinations that are used to mimic foreign words better. How much a Japanese speaker can do with them differs of course.
What makes things a bit tricky is that there are several different transcription systems and variants thereof and they all have some advantages and disadvantages. The only variant that's useless IMHO is the one that ditches the long vowels. Unfortunately that one has been used for traffic signs in some places/times. And then the Japanese wonder why they don't get where you want to go.
But the Wiki article is a very good start and would help a lot. Unfortunately written Japanese doesn't transcribe tonal height so that one is always a problem but rarely important.
Chinese is pretty similar. If you know how certain common letter combos are pronounce, you can pronounce them easily.
It has a lot of sharp sounds, harsh dips and peaks that jut between each other, just like English.
Compare that to something like French, where pronunciation is exceptionally hard for English speakers.
The title has the same energy as “how the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand lead to the creation of anime.”
the blaze is bleeding through more and more here i approve. Fact boy is lessening up
Simon, I know I just got to this video, but THIS IS THE WAY TO DO COMEDIC CUTAWAYS!! Yes!! By letting the tape just continue not only is an highly effective way to add comedy while maintaining perceived credibility, it feels like you're more real. PLEASE, keep this style!
The hardest working person on YT
I’d hardly call sniffing lines of coke while raving about beard butter while playing air drums “hard working”
The worst part about this unexpected downfall is that we STILL couldn't figure out how bikes work!
I can just tell by the title this is a smallwood article, lol
Def great to hear you drop character. Another great video
I got this in my recommended when it only had 535 views. I've never watched a video in this this channel through before nor am I subscribed to it yet I got it early. Guess I have to watch it.
Why do you have to?
At the 11 minute mark Simon mentions that the invasion force would just steal bikes from the locals "like hoodlums" ... he said it so matter of fact-ly it cracked me up lol ... Simon is my spirit animal :-D
I love all of you guys’ channels, all 100000 of them!
@4:10 I roared over that one, too Simon.
As we all know, Simon loves sports😂
Good to see the Blaze spreading out hahahaha
btw 90% of the vids should be on Business Blaze ---- best channel by far :))
Looking at the thumbnail and thought, 'Simon makes for a rather handsome lady...'. Clearly a 'no homo' moment.
I'm listening to this Fubotv ad going "why doesn't someone just make a customizable tv package?"
A man who dislikes and pays no attention to sport (allegedly) sponsored by a sport TV business... slightly ironic.
4:15 i can feel the blaze
Learning history is the source of a great future. Thank you for your efforts on this front.
I'm convinced that anime is a Japanese ploy to make the world forget about their savagery during that war.
I read somewhere that the causeway connecting Singapore Island to the mainland also carried pipes for drinking water; blowing the causeway also destroyed their water supply.
Yay bikes👍🏼
This event has the recipe for an awesome Sabaton song
The bicycle may have officially been invented in the 1800s, but there are ancient relief sculptures of bicycles in India which would indicate a much earlier invention
All your videos are entertaining and informative, but this might be one of my favourites to date.
I like how I’m so early that it still says no views 😂
As a non-driver, I truly appreciate the force of la bicicletta!!
But, the sports is the "bloat" making cable too expensive...
That advert pitch was really something else.
Winning with bicycles is so wonderfully Japanese. Is there any other culture who can be so technically superior but not afraid to use something as humble as a bicycle? Before someone yells racist please remember that it’s the differences that we each bring that can make us stronger as a group. Recognizing differences does not mean racism.
Tell that to a democrat. They need to hear it.
Many years ago popular science did an article on transportation. The determination was that the most efficient use of energy required was a man on a bicycle.
Thought Simon was gonna be in drag. I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.
You can only see him from the waste up, so you never know, maybe he has a skirt on.
Thumbnail for this is amazing, I petition the editor to make it the template for all subsequent thumbnails