Comebacks to bathroom wall graffiti are fun. I saw one where someone had written "I did your mom last night" and below it someone had written "go home dad you're drunk".
As a person who used to collect bathroom stall phone numbers: It's a mixed bag. Some match the name, some are just random people because I assume they guessed the number, some are the person who wrote the number, some are just numbers slapped together and don't work.
I mean awesome you’ve done the research. With my personal sample size of one friend who admitted to scrawling their number into bathroom stall, they can corroborate there are a lot of made up numbers out there, as well as people who say the number is not theirs. The quote they gave me is” Its like LinkedIn for certain enthusiasts, and like LinkedIn it’s almost comically out of date, and mostly still used by people over 40”, and shall we say some of the names attached to those numbers can act as a sort of caller ID. In the spirit of not being needlessly explicit, that’s the low down I’ve been given.
Make it an app, have a decent window of time (like, a bigger ball, or something), and, for evidence, make it take a picture (a selfie or something). The app, when not taking a picture, is displaying the current location of the ball, and dots for the x most recent selfies on each coast. Any of the X most recent selfies count for hitting the ball. I'd suggest that 8 hour traversal (one coast to the other) would be decent, and that it should be delineated with a small-ish no play zone in the middle of the country. There could also be various regional "servers" for inclusiveness: a north-south one, a mexico-canada one, trans-atlantic... etc. I think it's viable, but not as a website.
Having it start pretty slow is a good idea, and then have it speed up gradually over time. When one side misses the ball, it resets. Then tweak the initial velocity and acceleration of the ball as you gather data. This is such a cool idea, but I know just enough about app development to know I don't know enough about app development to build it.
I think the protest clock is a clock with counts down to the next protest anywhere in the world. The reason it could be used for bad is that it could make large groups easier to find for mass shooters.
@@duncanbyrne1134 But he did say it's not like the Doomsday Clock, so it's probably not just a countdown, and I'm not sure I can see Matt laughing so hysterically about mass shootings.
The 'get through December without hearing Fairytale of New York' idea sort of exists. The difference is that the song is Last Christmas by Wham. The game is called Whamageddon.
Depending on how far it goes the "compromise your morals for discounts" idea is either a cards against humanity Black Friday prank or a Black Mirror episode.
@@sethrothz i am a heron. i haev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak. if you dont repost this comment on 10 other pull requests i will fly into your kitchen tonight and make a mess of your pots and pans
Re: mobility scooter office chair conga. I actually did something very similar to this as a kid. One of my best friends growing up was a paraplegic who got around in an electric-powered wheelchair. He had these little bars on the back of his wheelchair that were basically there to keep it from tipping backwards. And we'd stand on those and get rides. Then we upped the ante a bit. One time he wanted to have his birthday party at a skating rink and at one point he was pulling maybe a half dozen of us around the skating rink -- one person holding on to the handles of his wheelchair, and everyone else holding on to the person in front of them.
Bank vaults are also pretty boring IRL, but Ocean's 11 is fun because of the elaborate lengths the thieves go to just to steal from the vault. However, if it was a spoof movie and at the very end they find out they could've just bribed a worker to walk into the Amazon warehouse, that could be very funny though. :)
For the "we might call you" idea... Have people send you a text to enter their phone number into the pool. Much harder to send a text from someone else's phone than to enter it into an online form.
i kinda want to see what would happen if we had an "almost a good idea contest" where you have to submit ideas that would almost work, but would have some sort of key flaw.
"Matt and Tom Fix Your Flawed Ideas" "Matt and Tom Make Terrible Variations on Your Ideas" So many possibilities, so many of them would turn out to not make it past edit.
Rory McCrossan I had the idea Instaglam. Every photo gets some kind of filter with digital glitter, sequins, rhinestones, etc. Not even optional, the photo just won't post without something gaudy / blingy / glamorous added.
if you were just gonna cut out the good part of the protest clock idea why would you even keep it in my mind? just cut the whole part out so i wont be thinking about what your idea was and how it could possibly be used for evil
lowish gravelly voice that keeps going high // highish but distinct voice that keeps going low perpetually young-going-on-old // perpetually early-middle-age longtakes in-the-field // jumpcuts in an endless void British, doesn't like tea // American, lives in London regular short-ish uploads // infrequent longer videos Some of these may be reaches, but also I think they may have been split from one singular person, who was presumably too somewhat interesting to be acceptable.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 There's also the point that Vsauce (Michael) has been making exclusively RUclips Red videos for quite some time now, while Tom's videos are free for everyone and he finances them through other means.
I think it would basically be a countdown clock to a protest? But people could use it to pinpoint when a large group of people are going to amass? or create fake ones?
I figured it would be the protest version of a workplace safety calendar. "[5] days since the last protest; the subject was _____" or something like that. It doesn't sound nearly as interesting as what Tom seemed to have in mind, though.
Should someone tell Tom about those video game campaigns? Like "name your baby Turok" or "Speed to the gamestore and we'll pay your ticket" as examples of morals sold for discounts?
A website named golden palace paid A whole bunch of people to tattoo their website url all over their bodies. Several did it right smack in the middle of their foreheads.
Realistic Heron Simulator has a sibling in Cat-lateral Damage, where you are a cat whose goal it is to knock everything you can onto the floor. Same idea, but the joke is much more accessible.
Brittain Pong in a Northy Southy way? Mobility Scooter + Office Chair snake (in that after a certain amount of time a new chair is added, in a confined area)?
You can still do the "We might call you" idea if you add SMS (2 Auth) verification so the number only gets approved after you enter the 6 digit SMS you receive on your phone back on to the website. Takes a little more work, but not impossible.
@Tom Scott, I thought the "morals for discounts" would be a company who would sell you a product made in your country by workers treated well with proper wages and benefits vs. the same product made by children in asia for 50% of the price.
Tom, you do realise that the only thing we can think of now is the protest clock. There are probably going to be 100 attempts at trying to make one based solely off the name. Or did you get a discount for that?
It's great that I stumbled upon this video where you mention "Realistic Heron Simulator" today when "Untitled Goose Game" has cemented itself as a smash hit, but even better that one of the previous videos of yours I saw recently is the one where you talk about good ideas that don't take off because the world isn't ready for them yet!
Nono, you should, as an extra elephant in the room, put a small toy elephant somewhere behind you (on the fence, on one of the car-blocking thingys or somewhere)!
Once upon a time, I worked at a LAN center on the weekends, and a furniture store on the weekdays. While driving around delivering furniture, we occasionally had to stop at portable toilets. I carried a sharpie with me, and I'd write "For a good time call X" where X is whatever the phone number to the LAN center was back then. I told my boss about this and he was initially angry, but as I explained my reasoning he began to like the idea of some trucker finding this number, calling it, and then coming in to play video games or tell someone about the video games. If I recall correctly, we had a few calls. Now, you may be questioning whether we wanted a customer who is the type to call those numbers, and sure, why not? If they pay and don't cause trouble, we'd welcome anyone. PS - I got the idea from a Family Guy episode where Peter calls that number and ends up going skydiving
The board game idea reminded me of a game night plan that never came to fruition: have all attendees assigned to a team, each member of the team is playing a different game, but must switch at intervals and take over where a teammate left off. For example: four teams (red, blue, green and yellow) with one member from each playing Chutes and Ladders, Clue, Chinese Checkers, and Monopoly (switch out the traditional pieces for plain colored ones). Each time a player in Chutes and Ladders lands on a chute, players on that team must rotate.
I can write the skit for the Heron simulator. Have someone dressed up in a cheap (cheep!) Bird costume walking through a nieghbourhood with pictures of herons either on the door, in the window, or a sign in the yard. Smash cut to a house without the sign. Cue dramatic music as the heron runs up and throws the door open. Crashing noises are heard from the house. Heron leaves and shuts the door behind them. Cue the next morning, someone comes down to find their pots and pans in a disarray in the kitchen, with a single feather on the counter. I mentally picture Chris or Tim doing this for some reason.
Isn't "Amazon Fulfillment Heist" essentially just the opening to one of The Stainless Steel Rat books? Also the whole part where they hide out in a fully automated fast food restaurant and avoid getting caught by paying for the food they eat while they are in there is remarkably close to being actually possible.
"Great Idea On Paper" is pretty much the premise of Brady Haran's other podcast, Unmade Podcast, where he and vice-host Tim discuss podcast ideas they'd never do (save for Tommyball).
I'm rewatching Park Bench videos, and I can't believe that there was a time where Unmade and Park Bench coexisted (aka, I can't believe Unmade is 5 years old)
"Trade your morals for discounts" doesn't sound like a good real-world idea, but sounds like an AMAZING idea for a RUclips skit or something. Not in a prank channel sort of way as those people don't have any morals TO trade off, but as a scripted thing where all the parts are being played by a group of friends. Could even be taken in a horror/dark humor direction where the last challenge is "kill your best friend for 100% off" and creepy string music plays as we see the main character texting their friend. Right before the happy music resumes and it cuts to them gleefully skipping down the street with a brand new . Actually, the more I describe it, the more I could totally see it being a Cyanide & Happiness short.
that office chair+ mobility scooter Congo-line gave me a idea make it in to a snake game. the scooters are the head of the snakes and the office chairs link in the longer they go. but to make it more difficult there are a few snakes going at once.
Trade off your morals for discounts: Burger King (I think) did a thing like that a few years back. Unfriend ten people for a free Whopper or something to that effect. And you had to send the people a message saying "I unfriended you for 10% of a free Whooper".
Every time I watch one of these it feels like I’m out with friends of my dad’s and then then start chatting about random stuff. Take it as a compliment x
My guess, an app that gives points for time spent in protests. But this would mean the creator of the app could validate certain protests by having them count. While invalidating other protests by having them not count. Or even get people to protest for subjects they are actually not in favor of, just to get the points.
When Matt said "I like planes", I was worried a plane was gonna come out of nowhere and hit him. Also an idea for your idea bucket. Well, two ideas really. Tom talks about the local S/m scene in London. You could call it Dom Scott. Also Tom Scott trades places with TomSka for a day. Have him write an insightful documentary about a place, have you try to create an ASDFMovie vignette idea or three. And then switch back and have to actually make it happen.
My idea of a protest clock is a clock that keeps track of when there is an ongoing protest in the national news, and resets each time. But that could hardly be used for evil. I have to guess it's a clock actually used in protests. Maybe it goes off at random times at protests to interrupt everyone? That's sorta evil, right?
10:00 I had that exact idea, with that big game being a Mario Party board built in real life and all the mini games being replaced with board games. My main problem was finding board games that could be played fairly 3v1. The only ones I found like that involved a secret traitor that couldn’t be predetermined, and I didn’t even have many of those. The other problem was finding three other people with the patience to actually do all that.
There's a few cards in Munchkin that affect other games of Munchkin being played in the same room. MtG as well, though those are strictly in the Unglued & Unstable non tourney/fun expansions.
Board game that affects other board games kind of exists in some Magic the Gathering cards that instruct players to play a subgame of magic under the table for some kind of benefit in game
In High School my friend started sending out daily 'cat facts' to people as a joke. I found a few phone numbers in the loos and sent them to my friend to receive cat facts.
My guess, an app that gives points for time spent in protests. But this would mean the creator of the app could validate certain protests by having them count. While invalidating other protests by having them not count. Or even get people to protest for subjects they are actually not in favor of, just to get the points.
Ow. Do you just use the outer ring, or is there some complicated systems of on and off ramps? More houses/hotels, or do you just run out? So many logistical questions :-)
Board game that effects other board games: Ticket to Monopoly. (Ticket to Ride and Monopoly, simultaneously.) Each player starts Monopoly with a Transport. You need to hold it unencumbered to claim Routes or draw Destination Tickets in TTR. You can buy/sell completed Routes to/from other players. Owning property in Monopoly allows you to draw face-up Train Cards of matching colours (utilities == locomotives). Get some free Train Cards when passing Go. TODO: something in TTR that effects Monopoly gameplay. Maybe a cash bonus on Route completion? Winner by highest combined normalised score, a turn after someone goes Bankrupt or runs out of train markers, or immediately if all Destination Tickets are completed.
Please do the phone in thing!!!!!! Whatever the logistics, do it it would be amazing. I think the "radio approach" is the best way. Tell viewers to answer the phone with "Hi, I'm Pete, and this is The Park Bench."
I feel like "Board Game that Affects Other Board Games" is the sort of thing that university students would do. It'd be set up forever in the corner of the student lounge/shared living room.
I feel painfully young anytime someone starts talking about the Gameboy or not having to take your belt off at the airport, or getting to meet celebrities who died before I was aware of their existence. I have this experience much more often than I am made to feel old (though that usually involves floppy discs, flip phones, or Disney movies), and I usually retaliate (against being made to feel young) by making the person who has made me feel young feel old.
People play Risktego, which is a game of risk where you do everything the same but settle the results of every battle with a game of stratego. A game of stratego takes about an hour to play, and you would be playing like a dozen games on each player's turn. You basically have to devote a room of your house to the game and play over the course of a couple months
9:00 - Tom suggests a morality discount and then suggests that nobody should do it because its a bad idea. I give you: Burger King... "unfriend someone on Facebook and we'll give you a whopper"
Trading your morals for discounts: Take your pants 50% off to get 100% off any particularly shady purchase. I'ma say this idea PROBABLY already been done.
Trade off your morals for discounts exists. 100% discount if you steal it.
five finger discount
i litterally was thinking that!
if only i had something that i could make "steal this coupon for discount" for
At the time of this comment, you have 690 likes, and I think I just lost my morality
but stealing from corporations isn't immoral?
But what if my morals already allowed stealing? I wouldn't be trading off my morals by stealing then.
Tom: "have I ever told you about Realistic Heron Simulator?"
me: "did... did he just predict Untitled Goose Game?"
Realistic Heroin Simulator???
@@sssnowman5794 Also known as Heroin Hero.
@@korganrocks3995 chase the dragon
I think that's just Hatoful Boyfriend, which was released in 2011, so it wasn't a predictions, it was a reference. XD
Rewatching now having only recently discovered UGG, and it absolutely feels like a spiritual predecessor :D
I saw a phone number on a toilet wall that said "For fun call 07etc etcetc"
Underneath someone had written "Why? Do you have a bouncy castle?"
Patrick Lovell k
alright
HAHAHAHA XD That made me giggle
The someone who wrote that response: 50% chance it's James Veitch
Comebacks to bathroom wall graffiti are fun. I saw one where someone had written "I did your mom last night" and below it someone had written "go home dad you're drunk".
As a person who used to collect bathroom stall phone numbers:
It's a mixed bag. Some match the name, some are just random people because I assume they guessed the number, some are the person who wrote the number, some are just numbers slapped together and don't work.
Interesting. Also 69th like
It was my favorite waste of time to call random numbers writen anywhere
I mean awesome you’ve done the research. With my personal sample size of one friend who admitted to scrawling their number into bathroom stall, they can corroborate there are a lot of made up numbers out there, as well as people who say the number is not theirs. The quote they gave me is” Its like LinkedIn for certain enthusiasts, and like LinkedIn it’s almost comically out of date, and mostly still used by people over 40”, and shall we say some of the names attached to those numbers can act as a sort of caller ID. In the spirit of not being needlessly explicit, that’s the low down I’ve been given.
@@AlKohaiMusic I like the idea that it’s only used by people over 40”. Like 40 inches tall
My dad's number (apparently) was once written down on a bus seat. At least that what the guy who texted him said
Heron simulator 2019: Untitled Goose Game
Exactly what I was thinking watching this XD
The "exchange your morals for discounts" idea sounds like something Cards against humanity would come up with
Sounds like a reverse Social Credit Score to me...
Or you know: stealing
@@oz_jones why are you replying to half a decade old comments?
@@HunterRodrigezwhy not
Trans-American Pong sounds like one of those ideas that's really cool in theory, but practically, it's a logistical nightmare xD
Maybe if the ball moved much slower, it could work. A bit more like playing chess by mail.
Make it an app, have a decent window of time (like, a bigger ball, or something), and, for evidence, make it take a picture (a selfie or something). The app, when not taking a picture, is displaying the current location of the ball, and dots for the x most recent selfies on each coast. Any of the X most recent selfies count for hitting the ball. I'd suggest that 8 hour traversal (one coast to the other) would be decent, and that it should be delineated with a small-ish no play zone in the middle of the country. There could also be various regional "servers" for inclusiveness: a north-south one, a mexico-canada one, trans-atlantic... etc. I think it's viable, but not as a website.
Having it start pretty slow is a good idea, and then have it speed up gradually over time. When one side misses the ball, it resets. Then tweak the initial velocity and acceleration of the ball as you gather data.
This is such a cool idea, but I know just enough about app development to know I don't know enough about app development to build it.
Sorry IceMetalPunk, Completely unrelated but is your profile picture a Minecraft structure block?
Reminds me of Ingress Shards
Can you do another "Guess where we are by the latitude and longitude" so that a lucky winner may know what in the hell protest clock is?
I think the protest clock is a clock with counts down to the next protest anywhere in the world. The reason it could be used for bad is that it could make large groups easier to find for mass shooters.
@@duncanbyrne1134 But he did say it's not like the Doomsday Clock, so it's probably not just a countdown, and I'm not sure I can see Matt laughing so hysterically about mass shootings.
@@oak1739 My, you seem like a lovely person to be around... Have you got a better idea or are you just going to be a twat? My guess is the latter.
@@oak1739 hey man no need to be so hostile and ablist, maybe just chill for a sec.
@@neolexiousneolexian6079 the doomsday clock _isnt_ a countdown it's a metaphorical representation of how close we are to doomsday
Great idea on paper: The ballpoint pen
Great idea on paper: Compacted cellulose fibers
Great idea in theory: Causal engram subset
@@neolexiousneolexian6079 I know *just enough* about the theory behind theory that I think I sort of get that.
How dare all of you.
Great idea in theory: the scientific theory
The 'get through December without hearing Fairytale of New York' idea sort of exists. The difference is that the song is Last Christmas by Wham. The game is called Whamageddon.
Depending on how far it goes the "compromise your morals for discounts" idea is either a cards against humanity Black Friday prank or a Black Mirror episode.
Or undergrad in bitcoin.
I'm starting a petition for Tom to release the protest clock joke
I'm starting a protest against your petition and we'll see who comes out on top! ò_ó
Volbla I'm going to start a petition against your petition against the petition.
@@sethrothz i am a heron. i haev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak. if you dont repost this comment on 10 other pull requests i will fly into your kitchen tonight and make a mess of your pots and pans
@@sethrothz I'm going to start a petition against your petition against a petition against a petition
I'm going to start a petition against your petition against a petition against a petition against a petition
Tom still did The World Cup Of Everything, but he called it What Is The Best Thing.
Re: mobility scooter office chair conga.
I actually did something very similar to this as a kid. One of my best friends growing up was a paraplegic who got around in an electric-powered wheelchair. He had these little bars on the back of his wheelchair that were basically there to keep it from tipping backwards. And we'd stand on those and get rides.
Then we upped the ante a bit. One time he wanted to have his birthday party at a skating rink and at one point he was pulling maybe a half dozen of us around the skating rink -- one person holding on to the handles of his wheelchair, and everyone else holding on to the person in front of them.
Wholesome story
If you're a Snapchat user and you haven't already Snape Chatted your friends, you should do this now! --Matt
I have Snapchat but no friends soooooooo
Snape chat!
Am I the only one imagining Severus Snape using Snap Chat?
Snape chat is a rebrand of yo
PONG ...it should be Australia, and we are mad enough to play it.
As somebody who worked at an Amazon warehouse for bout a year, a heist would be very boring. Just bribe an overnight worker for their badge.
Bank vaults are also pretty boring IRL, but Ocean's 11 is fun because of the elaborate lengths the thieves go to just to steal from the vault. However, if it was a spoof movie and at the very end they find out they could've just bribed a worker to walk into the Amazon warehouse, that could be very funny though. :)
For the "we might call you" idea...
Have people send you a text to enter their phone number into the pool. Much harder to send a text from someone else's phone than to enter it into an online form.
i kinda want to see what would happen if we had an "almost a good idea contest" where you have to submit ideas that would almost work, but would have some sort of key flaw.
"Matt and Tom Fix Your Flawed Ideas"
"Matt and Tom Make Terrible Variations on Your Ideas"
So many possibilities, so many of them would turn out to not make it past edit.
Similar to 'Snapechat', I had the idea for 'Instaham'. It's like Instagram, but pictures of pigs, pork, bacon etc and related paraphernalia.
David Cameron would love it.
Rory McCrossan I had the idea Instaglam. Every photo gets some kind of filter with digital glitter, sequins, rhinestones, etc. Not even optional, the photo just won't post without something gaudy / blingy / glamorous added.
I’m afraid that’s already a thing in angry birds 2 the movie... I regret having this knowledge
InstaClam, instagram but only pictures of clams are allowed
Instagraham - pictures of people with Graham in their names.
I mean, board games effecting other board games is basically just Mario Party.
if you were just gonna cut out the good part of the protest clock idea why would you even keep it in my mind? just cut the whole part out so i wont be thinking about what your idea was and how it could possibly be used for evil
“I heard an echo from somewhere behind me”: an audio engineer horror movie
Nega-Tom is just Vsauce... No hair on the head, all hair on the face.
lowish gravelly voice that keeps going high // highish but distinct voice that keeps going low
perpetually young-going-on-old // perpetually early-middle-age
longtakes in-the-field // jumpcuts in an endless void
British, doesn't like tea // American, lives in London
regular short-ish uploads // infrequent longer videos
Some of these may be reaches, but also I think they may have been split from one singular person, who was presumably too somewhat interesting to be acceptable.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 There's also the point that Vsauce (Michael) has been making exclusively RUclips Red videos for quite some time now, while Tom's videos are free for everyone and he finances them through other means.
@@rolfs2165 Also, Michael goes by his name, Michael (and not Mike), however, Tom goes by his nickname, Tom (instead of Thomas)
Now I really want to know what the protest clock is
Same.
I think it would basically be a countdown clock to a protest? But people could use it to pinpoint when a large group of people are going to amass? or create fake ones?
BDSM? He said dirty..... I think most can see what I mean from there
I figured it would be the protest version of a workplace safety calendar. "[5] days since the last protest; the subject was _____" or something like that. It doesn't sound nearly as interesting as what Tom seemed to have in mind, though.
Anything that can be used for evil purposes IS interesting in itself
Should someone tell Tom about those video game campaigns? Like "name your baby Turok" or "Speed to the gamestore and we'll pay your ticket" as examples of morals sold for discounts?
A website named golden palace paid A whole bunch of people to tattoo their website url all over their bodies.
Several did it right smack in the middle of their foreheads.
*selfie
once saw a PC game shop offer, preorder your game here and we will call in sick for you on arrival :D
Realistic Heron Simulator has a sibling in Cat-lateral Damage, where you are a cat whose goal it is to knock everything you can onto the floor. Same idea, but the joke is much more accessible.
Brittain Pong in a Northy Southy way?
Mobility Scooter + Office Chair snake (in that after a certain amount of time a new chair is added, in a confined area)?
You can still do the "We might call you" idea if you add SMS (2 Auth) verification so the number only gets approved after you enter the 6 digit SMS you receive on your phone back on to the website. Takes a little more work, but not impossible.
@Tom Scott, I thought the "morals for discounts" would be a company who would sell you a product made in your country by workers treated well with proper wages and benefits vs. the same product made by children in asia for 50% of the price.
Heh.
"Say nothing while we beat these workers and we'll pass 50% of the savings on to you."
Oof. Can't argue with that :|
Tom, you do realise that the only thing we can think of now is the protest clock. There are probably going to be 100 attempts at trying to make one based solely off the name.
Or did you get a discount for that?
SpySappingMyKeyboard We will one day know the true evil of a protest clock
I though he said “protist clock”, like a clock covered in algae or slime moulds.
Sounds like a Prog Punk band tbh.
I think he just misread it. It's just about filming himself turning up to protests dressed as a chicken!
It's great that I stumbled upon this video where you mention "Realistic Heron Simulator" today when "Untitled Goose Game" has cemented itself as a smash hit, but even better that one of the previous videos of yours I saw recently is the one where you talk about good ideas that don't take off because the world isn't ready for them yet!
The discount for going against general morals... Where I'm from we just call that shoplifting...
I write maths equations on bathroom walls but I always use a whiteboard maker so it will be easy to clean up for the cleaner hahaj
You radical
Keeping it real
Keeping it complex
Surely "Morals for Discounts" is basically buying cheap stuff from sweatshops?
Nono, you should, as an extra elephant in the room, put a small toy elephant somewhere behind you (on the fence, on one of the car-blocking thingys or somewhere)!
Bollards
Still going to wonder what that "Protest Clock" idea was...
"Overclock the mobility scooter" is a glorious line.
"augmented crazy golf" kind of exist in cologne. It's called GlowingRooms and you play minigolf in the dark under blacklight and with 3d effects
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Once upon a time, I worked at a LAN center on the weekends, and a furniture store on the weekdays. While driving around delivering furniture, we occasionally had to stop at portable toilets. I carried a sharpie with me, and I'd write "For a good time call X" where X is whatever the phone number to the LAN center was back then. I told my boss about this and he was initially angry, but as I explained my reasoning he began to like the idea of some trucker finding this number, calling it, and then coming in to play video games or tell someone about the video games. If I recall correctly, we had a few calls. Now, you may be questioning whether we wanted a customer who is the type to call those numbers, and sure, why not? If they pay and don't cause trouble, we'd welcome anyone.
PS - I got the idea from a Family Guy episode where Peter calls that number and ends up going skydiving
Andy this kind of makes me want to call them now... it could be a good thing?!
The board game idea reminded me of a game night plan that never came to fruition: have all attendees assigned to a team, each member of the team is playing a different game, but must switch at intervals and take over where a teammate left off. For example: four teams (red, blue, green and yellow) with one member from each playing Chutes and Ladders, Clue, Chinese Checkers, and Monopoly (switch out the traditional pieces for plain colored ones). Each time a player in Chutes and Ladders lands on a chute, players on that team must rotate.
"Trade off your morals for discounts" sounds like it could be an episode of "Black Mirror".
I really want to know what the protest clock is
Jackson DeStefano same
My guess: some timer device that lets you stay in legal gray areas
I run a small Bakery..... Trading Morals for Discounts is going to happen.
Why not just edit the whole discussion about the protest clock out instead of just the explanation? Now we're all just curious.
I think that was on purpose
because that's not evil.
A Hettinger True
Finally, something on RUclips that remains unchanged and hasn't yet been ruined. Please keep it this way!
My pots and pans are already a mess. Can I get the heron to wash them up and maybe even put them away afterwards?
We did the "Office-Chair-Mobility-Scooter-Conga" once... but instead of a mobility-scooter, we used a forklift...
I can write the skit for the Heron simulator.
Have someone dressed up in a cheap (cheep!) Bird costume walking through a nieghbourhood with pictures of herons either on the door, in the window, or a sign in the yard.
Smash cut to a house without the sign. Cue dramatic music as the heron runs up and throws the door open. Crashing noises are heard from the house. Heron leaves and shuts the door behind them.
Cue the next morning, someone comes down to find their pots and pans in a disarray in the kitchen, with a single feather on the counter.
I mentally picture Chris or Tim doing this for some reason.
Isn't "Amazon Fulfillment Heist" essentially just the opening to one of The Stainless Steel Rat books? Also the whole part where they hide out in a fully automated fast food restaurant and avoid getting caught by paying for the food they eat while they are in there is remarkably close to being actually possible.
Probably the best audio quality in an airport I have ever listened to.
"Or we steal other people's..."
Tom Scott and Matt Grey in the ultimate heist, Brain Drain. Coming to a movie theatre never
"Great Idea On Paper" is pretty much the premise of Brady Haran's other podcast, Unmade Podcast, where he and vice-host Tim discuss podcast ideas they'd never do (save for Tommyball).
I'm rewatching Park Bench videos, and I can't believe that there was a time where Unmade and Park Bench coexisted (aka, I can't believe Unmade is 5 years old)
Trade off your morals for discounts? Tom, that's just capitalism!
Still better than communism
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"Trade your morals for discounts" doesn't sound like a good real-world idea, but sounds like an AMAZING idea for a RUclips skit or something. Not in a prank channel sort of way as those people don't have any morals TO trade off, but as a scripted thing where all the parts are being played by a group of friends.
Could even be taken in a horror/dark humor direction where the last challenge is "kill your best friend for 100% off" and creepy string music plays as we see the main character texting their friend. Right before the happy music resumes and it cuts to them gleefully skipping down the street with a brand new .
Actually, the more I describe it, the more I could totally see it being a Cyanide & Happiness short.
Aren't we due a 'things you bought on Amazon' video soon?
that office chair+ mobility scooter Congo-line gave me a idea make it in to a snake game.
the scooters are the head of the snakes and the office chairs link in the longer they go.
but to make it more difficult there are a few snakes going at once.
Trade off your morals for discounts: Burger King (I think) did a thing like that a few years back. Unfriend ten people for a free Whopper or something to that effect. And you had to send the people a message saying "I unfriended you for 10% of a free Whooper".
More Idea Board videos please! I really love the sporadic nature of the discussions and how weird things can get.
Please explain the protest clock just to me I’m totally not evil
Alot of people go out to protest the manufacturing of clocks
Every time I watch one of these it feels like I’m out with friends of my dad’s and then then start chatting about random stuff. Take it as a compliment x
Now I want to know about the protest clock...
Tom Scott Scrolling Noise are very similar to The Stanley Parable follow the line music.
IDEA-SPLOSION! Use the phone in thing as the intro to each Park Bench video! Ring someone who will answer the phone with "Hi, I'm
Good Mythical Morning did/does something like that
Peter Clarkson I would be very pleased to have my voice immortalised on the Park Bench.
Indie Mogul had that kind of thing going for a while too
for the "we will call you": set up a number that can be texted, post the number. if we want to be called, we can send a text to it.
I really want to know the protest clock now and how I could un evil it
My guess, an app that gives points for time spent in protests. But this would mean the creator of the app could validate certain protests by having them count. While invalidating other protests by having them not count. Or even get people to protest for subjects they are actually not in favor of, just to get the points.
samramdebest "sounds like a great idea " China and or Russia
This sound like it could actually be it :D
My Sunday has just become ten times as great. Love it when you guys upload.
When Matt said "I like planes", I was worried a plane was gonna come out of nowhere and hit him.
Also an idea for your idea bucket. Well, two ideas really.
Tom talks about the local S/m scene in London. You could call it Dom Scott.
Also Tom Scott trades places with TomSka for a day. Have him write an insightful documentary about a place, have you try to create an ASDFMovie vignette idea or three. And then switch back and have to actually make it happen.
Board games that effect other board games: Riskopoly exists. What madman decided to combine risk and monopoly, I don't know.
My idea of a protest clock is a clock that keeps track of when there is an ongoing protest in the national news, and resets each time. But that could hardly be used for evil.
I have to guess it's a clock actually used in protests. Maybe it goes off at random times at protests to interrupt everyone? That's sorta evil, right?
10:00 I had that exact idea, with that big game being a Mario Party board built in real life and all the mini games being replaced with board games. My main problem was finding board games that could be played fairly 3v1. The only ones I found like that involved a secret traitor that couldn’t be predetermined, and I didn’t even have many of those. The other problem was finding three other people with the patience to actually do all that.
There's a few cards in Munchkin that affect other games of Munchkin being played in the same room. MtG as well, though those are strictly in the Unglued & Unstable non tourney/fun expansions.
Board game that affects other board games kind of exists in some Magic the Gathering cards that instruct players to play a subgame of magic under the table for some kind of benefit in game
Ringing up those bathroom toilet numbers could result in some very interesting amazing places videos...
Or, "Things you might not know... and really didn't want to!"
In High School my friend started sending out daily 'cat facts' to people as a joke. I found a few phone numbers in the loos and sent them to my friend to receive cat facts.
tom, at 200 mph it would take like 16 hours to cross the us.
That sounds like a good amount of time, actually.
I will never stop wondering what the Protest Clock was, and I don't think I'll ever find out what it was.
done the mobility chair thing, just with an electric wheelchair and 5 office chairs. freakin awesome :D
I NEED to know what the protest clock is now.
My guess, an app that gives points for time spent in protests. But this would mean the creator of the app could validate certain protests by having them count. While invalidating other protests by having them not count. Or even get people to protest for subjects they are actually not in favor of, just to get the points.
samramdebest true, also it would create a centralised database of who was at what protest when and THAT is something that could easily be abused.
well those databases kinda already exist; I mean there are many different ways to track your location.
make me feel old, there is a generation of people who have never had a phone with buttons.
This one time someone asked to borrow my (buttoned) phone and they didn't know how to dial a number.
Buttons? Rotary dial!
shoutout to whoever at 3:57 was jogging (i’m assuming) behind matt and tom, great outfit choice
On the "board games affecting other board games" you do realise that a scabble board fits perfectly inside a monoply board? Scrablopoly anyone?
Jan 2018- "No one would play realistic heron simulator."
Sept 2019- Everyone is playing untitled goose game.
for that morals thing, burger king did do a thing "unfriend 10 people for a free whopper"
The thing about boardgames that effect each other did remind me of playing four monopoly boards chained together when I was younger
Ow. Do you just use the outer ring, or is there some complicated systems of on and off ramps? More houses/hotels, or do you just run out? So many logistical questions :-)
Shows Embraer 195 climbing out of london heathrow, audio of a Dash 8 Q400?
Board game that effects other board games: Ticket to Monopoly. (Ticket to Ride and Monopoly, simultaneously.)
Each player starts Monopoly with a Transport. You need to hold it unencumbered to claim Routes or draw Destination Tickets in TTR. You can buy/sell completed Routes to/from other players. Owning property in Monopoly allows you to draw face-up Train Cards of matching colours (utilities == locomotives). Get some free Train Cards when passing Go.
TODO: something in TTR that effects Monopoly gameplay. Maybe a cash bonus on Route completion?
Winner by highest combined normalised score, a turn after someone goes Bankrupt or runs out of train markers, or immediately if all Destination Tickets are completed.
now i want to know what the Protest Clock(TM) is
I love how the most replayed part of this video is Matt going "Hooh!!"
Please do the phone in thing!!!!!! Whatever the logistics, do it it would be amazing. I think the "radio approach" is the best way. Tell viewers to answer the phone with "Hi, I'm Pete, and this is The Park Bench."
I feel like "Board Game that Affects Other Board Games" is the sort of thing that university students would do. It'd be set up forever in the corner of the student lounge/shared living room.
Well, this was weird that I watched the 1st video of this about an hour ago... and that "We Might Call You" thing sounds really good by the way.
didn't he kind of do the world cup of everything with the "finding the best thing" video?
I feel painfully young anytime someone starts talking about the Gameboy or not having to take your belt off at the airport, or getting to meet celebrities who died before I was aware of their existence. I have this experience much more often than I am made to feel old (though that usually involves floppy discs, flip phones, or Disney movies), and I usually retaliate (against being made to feel young) by making the person who has made me feel young feel old.
Mara K cool thumbnail
Mara K you remember floppy disks but not flying pre 9/11? You must be a very specific age… 26?
Wow. I'll be 26 in May.
Thanks! (Is that an "I like Homestuck too" or a "who did you commission it from"?)
Also "We might call you" sounds like a data protection nightmare.
People play Risktego, which is a game of risk where you do everything the same but settle the results of every battle with a game of stratego. A game of stratego takes about an hour to play, and you would be playing like a dozen games on each player's turn.
You basically have to devote a room of your house to the game and play over the course of a couple months
Just to make Risk a lot more drawn-out and therefore more like an actual war?
Strangely two years later with an on going quarantine that suddenly seems a great idea for filling in the time.
I need to know what the protest clock is
People Protesting The Manufacture Of Clocks!
Will Herondale you seem to be a realistic heron...
Johnny Jones Seize the means of projection of clocks
I would be very surprised if people didn't just give you bathroom numbers
9:00 - Tom suggests a morality discount and then suggests that nobody should do it because its a bad idea. I give you: Burger King... "unfriend someone on Facebook and we'll give you a whopper"
Make people call the number and leave their best rejected idea and phone back the good ones for elaboration
Trading your morals for discounts: Take your pants 50% off to get 100% off any particularly shady purchase. I'ma say this idea PROBABLY already been done.