Completely irrelevant to the video, but when I started at the university of york in 2011, I heard about someone who was elected student union president as a pirate. I only just found out that this was Tom.
+LeoMRogers He and Matt have a video in which Tom recounts how it became his duty as student union president to replace the ducks on the university duck pond (don't remember why this had become necessary). Anyway, in the course of the video he explains how he was accidentally elected president.
If you attached a Jet engine to the top of a pig, the torque caused by having the thrust out of line with the centre of mass would cause the pig to spiral out of control. for optimum control, you'd have to either attach the engine in front of the pig/ behind it, or have multiple engines. Of course, there are other issues; how to attach the engines (some sort of belt that wraps around the pig), how to produce lift (I recommend attaching wings), how to control it in the air (control surfaces, thrust vectoring), how to reduce the amount of drag caused by the pig (legs etc) and, of course, where to store the fuel. However, if you did everything right, it would probably be possible to make a pig fly. Citation: I play a lot of Kerbal Space Program.
@@rin_etoware_2989if you're getting your milk from bulls, it's gonna be very strange milk! That said, bull-running is being chased by cattle, cheese-rolling is chasing a cheese. Different order, same panic and likelihood of injuries!
Here's what WolframAlpha is saying about when pigs will fly: "[...] [T]he specific power output of a wild boar should be enough for a well-trained pig to make short flights in a properly constructed carbon-fiber wide-wing ultralight."
Since you asked for more suggestions, what do you call a quick, strange talk show about fish history that's been insulted by a deity? An odd, fast, god-sassed cod past podcast
@@05Matz bacon just means pig meat cut into thin strips and fried. american bacon comes from the belly of the pig because your diet is controlled by corporations. british bacon comes from the loins of the pig because the rest of the pig has been used for porkchops and canadian bacon comes from the back of the pig because... well i dont know why canadian bacon comes from the back of a pig but its still bacon. so dont go accusing other nations of not having authentic bacon when the only reason you eat the stuff is because your corporations take advantage of you
@@strawberryskittle have you seen the episode with the tecnical difficulties trying to get Chris a date? They took out adverts and everything. No takers
There's a second cheese rolling festival in Britain, where the cheese is rolled along a village street. Far more sedate than the more famous one in Gloucester.
In the next episode, the winner shall received a gift certificate card for the florist that specialises in retro flowers that is own by Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Back to the Fuchsias.
As of 2022, the date has been further postponed to 9th July 2022 and they are now selling tickets for 2022 trials so it would probably happen this year.
When I saw the title I recognised what this must be about. The advantage of having grown up in a home where the local BBC radio station is for some reason always on in the background.
I looked up the cheese rolling. Apparently the hard cheese they use picks up enough speed that it knocked out a spectator at the bottom of the hill at one point so they now use a foam stunt cheese.
That cheese rolling was originally conceived as a way of measuring the quality of cheese and optimal circumference, they were measured before the roll, the ones that survived when stopped at the bottom were then re-weighed to compensate for loss as the ideal density and size to survive the most transport damage common in the day from horse & carts, and the average turned into the cheese "still ton" and became the cheese wheel standard size, giving name to the iconic Stilton cheese. Lies, all lies.
I've begun to wonder... when someone on Citation Needed wins the Mystery Biscuits, are there any real biscuits for them? Or is it all just a gag and you're teasing them with the empty promise of yummy biscuits?
SkyewardWolf Yay for real biscuits! (This Yank doesn't know if Brits make a distinction between cookies and biscuits, but I have a tin of Christmas cookies in my fridge that I now have the urge to devour...be right back...)
Gary Brannan White chocolate raspberry? They sound delicious, and I now demand a Citation Needed Online Store which sells them (and ships to the US for me).
Just started. Is it the Terry Pratchett referenced thing whereby a married couple who could honestly say they had not argued for a year got some bacon?
I checked the website and there's no Gary Brannan in the list of people who got the flitch of bacon in 2016. That's kinda sad. I would've hoped you guys would've given it a try.
If it's only awarded for a year of marriage, and the trials were in 2016, and this was posted in January 2015, common sense says it was recorded in 2014 and thus Gary missed the window for qualifying on the technicality the trials only take place every four years.
A lovely Mystery Biscuit to win: A dead computer scientist's compartment on the ISS full of true-crime novels; otherwise known as: Ada Lovelaces space base's cases.
7 years on I'm just appreciating the poetry of
"a ding from table wood,
and biscuits of mystery, for food"
I think about the way Tom says "foode!" on a regular basis.
@@beek.4860 Didn't he say "pud" ?
@@michaelocyoungfud
Completely irrelevant to the video, but when I started at the university of york in 2011, I heard about someone who was elected student union president as a pirate. I only just found out that this was Tom.
+LeoMRogers He and Matt have a video in which Tom recounts how it became his duty as student union president to replace the ducks on the university duck pond (don't remember why this had become necessary). Anyway, in the course of the video he explains how he was accidentally elected president.
BigBen Hebdomadarius I know, that was quite a recent video. This comment is over a year old.
but i´m replying to it anyway!
wahoo
I also started at York in 2011 ❤️
Chuck a load of cheese down a hill, hits a landmine-Boom! De brie everywhere.
s6th oh for goodness sakes
Grace T "for goudaness sakes"
The best cheesy puns are the litteral cheesy puns.
Edam it!
* golf clap *
"I guess I'm due a bit of bacon!" awwww, gary!
It’s possibly the most romantic thing Gary ever said and it’s just blown over
I'm kinda relieved they didn't give one to Prince Andrew...
@@ragnkja Gonna dedicate my life to engineering other situations where this is a romantic thing to say, but it won't be easy
If you attached a Jet engine to the top of a pig, the torque caused by having the thrust out of line with the centre of mass would cause the pig to spiral out of control. for optimum control, you'd have to either attach the engine in front of the pig/ behind it, or have multiple engines. Of course, there are other issues; how to attach the engines (some sort of belt that wraps around the pig), how to produce lift (I recommend attaching wings), how to control it in the air (control surfaces, thrust vectoring), how to reduce the amount of drag caused by the pig (legs etc) and, of course, where to store the fuel. However, if you did everything right, it would probably be possible to make a pig fly.
Citation: I play a lot of Kerbal Space Program.
fill the pigs stomach with the fuel xDDD
Carol Vitez My thoughts precisely. :)
Use a pulse-jet a-la Colin Furze. The heat of the thing will bake the pig, and it'd be easy to attach to the body cavity of a butchered pig.
In short,
ADD MOAR BOOSTERS!
Александр Бантьев If your only tool is a booster, your problems will start to look a lot like gravity
"There's a list going back to 1445".
"Good work".
Gary, your archivist mode is showing.
Why yes I am rewatching the entire Citation needed series in fairly regular order.
I listen to it as I fall asleep.
So do I
Glad I'm not the only one 😊
I must say, chasing a cheese down a hill makes a whole lot more sense to me than running from bovines down narrow streets.
@Flicks The running of the bulls in spain.
There is the Knaresborough bed race....😉
same concept innit, just in different stages of production
@@rin_etoware_2989if you're getting your milk from bulls, it's gonna be very strange milk!
That said, bull-running is being chased by cattle, cheese-rolling is chasing a cheese. Different order, same panic and likelihood of injuries!
@@rin_etoware_2989 I don't think it's bulls who are involved in the production. Unless you count the production of more cows.
Here's what WolframAlpha is saying about when pigs will fly:
"[...] [T]he specific power output of a wild boar should be enough for a well-trained pig to make short flights in a properly constructed carbon-fiber wide-wing ultralight."
All this time and Gary is still thinking about engine bacon
Since you asked for more suggestions, what do you call a quick, strange talk show about fish history that's been insulted by a deity?
An odd, fast, god-sassed cod past podcast
Omg this is great
Watching this with english subtitles
Gary: [Oinks more realistically]
I just got home from work. I've got a beer, leftover pizza, and Citation Needed.
Today is a good day.
+JustOneAsbesto I feel like somehow leftover pizza tastes better than ordinary pizza ://
KK426LH
It definitely is sometimes.
Your username is great
As I used to say to the kids in my cookery lessons; "Don't throw the cheddar cheese around the room, it's not mature".
Dammit I was hoping for:
"Pig!" *squeal*
"Goose!" *honk*
"Train!" "Hey, soul sister.."
Your goose blood stains / on the front side of my full speed trains…
Jet engine on a pig... Somebody get Colin Furze on the line!
Bust out the furze-phone!!!!
He took a turkey and did things with that. Close enough?
I'm sure tom could call him and ask for a favour.
SniperSpy10
do you mean ask for a *flavour*? eh? eh?
for everyone and me who seaching for the goose on train gag, its 7:48
Thanks!
thank you so much
Thank you
thank you
Something you might not know: American bacon is different from Australian bacon, which differs from UK bacon.
Programming With Aiden And they all differ from Kevin Bacon....
And what Americans call "Canadian Bacon" isn't bacon at all! (Canadians call it 'back bacon' to distinguish it from the American Bacon we call bacon.)
american bacon is streaky bacon
@@05Matz bacon just means pig meat cut into thin strips and fried. american bacon comes from the belly of the pig because your diet is controlled by corporations. british bacon comes from the loins of the pig because the rest of the pig has been used for porkchops and canadian bacon comes from the back of the pig because... well i dont know why canadian bacon comes from the back of a pig but its still bacon. so dont go accusing other nations of not having authentic bacon when the only reason you eat the stuff is because your corporations take advantage of you
@@sethbennett617 ...I'm Canadian.
"Two landmines and some cheese fall off a cliff"
*BLAM BLAM*
spludge
@@pinkertonbyweezer it depends what cheese
I get the feeling the cheese rolling started as an accident and they had fun chasing after it so they decided to do over again for kicks.
Cheese rolling showes up in “the wee free men” by Terry Prattchet. There is also (spoiler) a cheese that develops personality and free will
Every time the camera cuts to Chris' shirt, I go "Aaah-aah!!!"
Prince Andrew taking the bacon oath is ironic seeing as the queen just had to save his...
And even more hilarious when you zone out for a bit and come back to the rant about free roaming cheese.
How could it be that only one of these lads have committed to matrimony?
Especially when Chris is so handsome (in my opinion). They're all so sweet and intelligent. It must be their choice... not lack of interested women.
@@strawberryskittle have you seen the episode with the tecnical difficulties trying to get Chris a date? They took out adverts and everything. No takers
There's a second cheese rolling festival in Britain, where the cheese is rolled along a village street. Far more sedate than the more famous one in Gloucester.
In the next episode, the winner shall received a gift certificate card for the florist that specialises in retro flowers that is own by Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
Back to the Fuchsias.
Nice.
1:52 that's the inspiration for Gary cooking bacon on a steam engine's firebox!
*Yawn*. My, what a boring Thursd- NEW CITATION NEEDED! *Click*.
rip
Remind gary about the flitch trial this year ;)
almost here
three days left
I wonder if Gary went
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-36755855
I like to believe that the amount of times the flitch was claimed went up after this video
Tom switching to educational video mode for the sake of the flying pig joke was brilliant.
The Best Part Is That RUclips Puts This In The Category "Education"
I have learned a lot about the British so not wrong :)
well you'll say at the end "this taught me a lesson"
_tom_ puts it there.
As a creator myself (different channel), I know that you set the category for the video manually.
@@danielboyd9614 Ah, Good To Know. Still Great.
There was a Goose on the plane.
There was Goose on the plane.
2020 UPDATE: This year flitch trials have been postponed to September 2020 or even 2021 due to COVID-19 according to their website
As of 2022, the date has been further postponed to 9th July 2022 and they are now selling tickets for 2022 trials so it would probably happen this year.
A field on top of a gold mine owned by a pseudeoscience debunker.
It's Ben Goldacre's golden acres.
You don't break an ankle playing cheese rolling, you break your neck.
Just need Gary's animal noises in a single video
When I saw the title I recognised what this must be about. The advantage of having grown up in a home where the local BBC radio station is for some reason always on in the background.
Apparently the unofficial motto of the us airforce is “with enough energy a pig will fly”
And, presumably, the other variant is "with enough guns a pig will fly"
Well, the A-10 isn't the most fuel efficient plane, so...
The goose on a train is the best thing ever.
With that oath, they should have asked Charles and Di to refund the cost of the bacon
I looked up the cheese rolling. Apparently the hard cheese they use picks up enough speed that it knocked out a spectator at the bottom of the hill at one point so they now use a foam stunt cheese.
cream cheese that’s been out to thaw for a bit?
I love these. You learn stuff while laughing your ass off! Great video, Tom.
Points:
Chris: 2
Gary: 6, 1 MB
Matt: 1
Winner: Gary, far and away.
A whole megabyte of Brannan
You're doing the Lord's work, mate.
"If he weighs the same as a pig, he's made of bacon and therefore, a flitch!"
hahaha
I'm expect the 2022 Flitch trials to be more popular thanks to this video, let's see
The Bacon solution is probably colinfurze with a pulse jet. Come on ***** you can make jet bacon happen :D
It's a pity I can't find people as funny as you guys on my side of the Atlantic
College Humour is great
British Humo(u)r cant be beat eh?
That cheese rolling was originally conceived as a way of measuring the quality of cheese and optimal circumference, they were measured before the roll, the ones that survived when stopped at the bottom were then re-weighed to compensate for loss as the ideal density and size to survive the most transport damage common in the day from horse & carts, and the average turned into the cheese "still ton" and became the cheese wheel standard size, giving name to the iconic Stilton cheese.
Lies, all lies.
I've begun to wonder... when someone on Citation Needed wins the Mystery Biscuits, are there any real biscuits for them? Or is it all just a gag and you're teasing them with the empty promise of yummy biscuits?
SkyewardWolf
Yay for real biscuits! (This Yank doesn't know if Brits make a distinction between cookies and biscuits, but I have a tin of Christmas cookies in my fridge that I now have the urge to devour...be right back...)
SkyewardWolf There's an episode where Matt claims the biscuit just after he gave the answer.
Gary Brannan
White chocolate raspberry? They sound delicious, and I now demand a Citation Needed Online Store which sells them (and ships to the US for me).
+IceMetalPunk might be able to get them from Tesco or something.
*****
I'm a Yank. There's no such thing as Tesco here :P
I can't stop thinking about how in Tom's camera it looks like he's on gunpoint, by someone off-screen with a gun with a silencer.
S2E5: 'Im, starting to run out of these jokes'.
S8: --we've confirmed nothing will ever stop him.
Last episode was a lot of Flash Gordon (or at least Ming the Merciless).
This episode Chris has a Flash T-Shirt
The Dunmow Flitch was the subject of a 1952 film starring David Tomlinson and Petula Clark.
7:04 Except for that time you answered "Chaucer" in the second episode of the first season, that is.
THIS NEEDS TO BE A PODCAST!
T'is.
Check out the technical difficulties podcast
CHRIS: [Oinks]
GARY: [Oinks more realistically]
Gotta give props to the subtitle writers at 7:45.
1:30 I never thought i'd hear tom scott exclaim "Science!"
Is your icon the flag of Mars?
@@ezekielmartin4323 Huh? No? its just RGB stripes
the flag of mars is white background and a red smybol on it
Although i was thinking about it when making it so this is really weird
Given that 2020 is a Flitch year is it gonna get cancelled like everything else so far or will it go ahead as usual do you think
Moved to 2021 I believe
And this is the last thing my phone screen ever displayed before I dropped it down the stairs (it has yet to be fixed)
Any updates a year on?
I love these videos, I've nearly died laughing multiple times every episode!
Oh gosh, I haven't laughed this hard in quite a while. Bravo!
Bacon wrapped jet engine might be the most American thing ever thought of. And it was thought of by a few blokes from yorkshire
if anyone is coming here for the "Goose on a train" moment, it's 7:50 (someone please make a video of that clip alone, because reasons, ta.)
hearing "the next one (leap year) is in 2016" made me feel weird
someone alert gary!
Prince Andrew being mentioned on RUclips without reference to recent illegal events is a little surprising!
end joke concept stays awesome :) lmao..tnx Tom.
We do cheese rolling in Somerset sometimes, lots of hills in the mendips.
Cheese gets more flavour hiding in hermitage than running free.
Matures much faster
They may have missed one here: an inert but heavy cheese is a 'still ton cheese'.
MYSTERY BISCUIIIIITS
Just thought Tom think you need to get Colin in on the idea of cooking Pig with a jet engine.
Oh wow. It's the 9th July 2016 today. When is the next one then?
Cheese rolling is a greater national sport than association football.
Bringing home the bacon 😂
I have those same headphones. They're the best. Right on.
i now know knowledge on how to get free bacon, i must thank you.
7:50 for goose impressions
I was looking for this timestamp; thanks!
Just started. Is it the Terry Pratchett referenced thing whereby a married couple who could honestly say they had not argued for a year got some bacon?
Yes it is.
Holy cow, I just watched it, and the trials is next week. Makes me wish I was married... and british... god I could really eat some bacon.
Wonder if the trials are being held this year, 2020?
I love Matt Gray's shirt. Mine mine mine mine.
So now we have to wait until next week to find out what Matt was saying in the brief snippet at 13:06 that had to be muted: spoiler or just naughty?
I’m organising my wedding to get a glitch of bacon now.
A romantic gesture to say I’ve never regretted it, my word on tradition and bacon.
New website idea... Batreon - like Patreon, but with bacon....
Imagine the express post costs!
I checked the website and there's no Gary Brannan in the list of people who got the flitch of bacon in 2016. That's kinda sad. I would've hoped you guys would've given it a try.
If it's only awarded for a year of marriage, and the trials were in 2016, and this was posted in January 2015, common sense says it was recorded in 2014 and thus Gary missed the window for qualifying on the technicality the trials only take place every four years.
I live in the town where the Flitch Trials happen!
wow, i was watching this on the 9th of July. that's one hell of a coincidence!
i can't stop being distracted by the galaxy cookies in the background... i really want some....
Wait, THAT prince Andrew? 🤣
A lovely Mystery Biscuit to win: A dead computer scientist's compartment on the ISS full of true-crime novels; otherwise known as: Ada Lovelaces space base's cases.
I don't know about reigonal stuff, but for me the north/south divide is at: 59 degrees, 29 minutes, 49 seconds latitude
They awarded it to Charles and Diane who did not have the best of marriages.
@ 2:44 I'd just like to say, I understood that cheese rolling reference XD
These are really quite good, keep up the good work :D
"If I was me."
Thank you, just thanks. :,)
7:57 Ah! I remember that from the live show you guys did later, and I don't know why it's funny, I just know it is. XD
there'll be no dunmow flitch trial this year due to the pandemic, it's been moved to june 2021
[Oinks more realistically]
I guess my parents are owed a whole truckload of bacon.