Keeping years of receipts wasn't a bad guess. Jack Monroe (a British food blogger) did exactly that for many years, and a few years ago, she was able to use her collection of receipts to show that the U.K.'s cost-of-living crisis was worse than the government was willing to admit.
I hate being tracked of my purchases. There was a coffee shop I used to go to buy beans, and one specific employee attended to me like 90% of the time. At one point he kindly let me know that it would be cheaper to buy through the company. "Through the company?" I asked. "Yes", he replied "you are buying the coffee for an office, are you not?". "No... just for me..." I answered.
Similar experience, including the "No... just for me..." though I think that I was more confused... My hands were frequently paralyzed by cataplexy, but I noticed that my inner limbs lost tone/dexterity last, so I naturally started using my (less floppy) feet to do chores and found that regular (hand-shaped) gloves shredded really easily when I needed to scrub something. I adjusted accordingly; But I was then the only one making regular a purchase of a pack of disposable latex socks at the ethnic-food/low-key-fetish-shop (not [redact, Toronto]) - it was presumed that I was involved in a production of a [special interest] video series, and the shop introduced me a few times to people who were interested in [that business], and _very excited_ at an opportunity to [network] with someone new ... ... I hadn't known there was that much overlap with real estate before. (edit: I should actually browse the [redact, Toronto area] side-markets, I haven't really found a good replacement source for those socks, and waiting for my feet-to-heel is more annoying than the accidental puns.)
@@LynxSnowCat That is a wild story, thank you so much for sharing it. I'm not sure I understand the real estate line though, like, there were surprisingly many people into that stuff and also in the real estate business?
@@grmpf (at the time) I was just a confused college kid who was only interested in an extremely convenient item to get with curry and chocolate ingredients; And wasn't curious enough to have [a better answer]. Sorry, but I hoped it was interesting. Seemed to be, but (because of the location) there may have been a selection bias towards ethnic and exotic foods, which could have caused realestate agents to be over represented in that store's customer base; And/or needing to be professionally risk-accepting and extroverted disproportionately exposed them to/into habitually making themselves 'visible'; Or the realestate 'business' could have been part of a common cover-story (ref: "tracks of land"?) to explain why many adults converge at seemingly random locations in [professional attire] in the middle of the day - with lighting/camera equipment... ...I was not in that business _either way; _either way_ .
It was weird how many tries they needed in order to finally get the right method he was using (keeping it as spoiler free as possible). That would have been my first guess!
So, how did you lose your leg? Oh, I was wanting to use every parking space in at the grocery store, and seeing as they all had to be legally used, I just had to get the last 10 spaces....
The last spots to get would've been the ones nearest to the store entrance because they're the most convenient and so would be occupied the most frequently.
But they're also difficult to pick up so he'll grab them whenever he has the opportunity; I expect he got the really in-demand ones during the first half of the project, just by prioritizing them.
@@WyvernYTI suspect staff members use the same car park. Google maps does not show a staff car park. You had to wait until that member was not at work, as well as another shopper not using that space
@@PianoKwanMan Good point, but that's probably not too much of a problem in the long run. The patron will be coming at a wide variety of hours and on all days, so no one worker will always be on site.
@@WyvernYT Not sure about that. In the UK I think it's pretty common for the weekly shop to be done certainly on the same day every week, but probably within a small window of a couple of hours each day too. It's certainly the case in Northern Ireland with 'the big shop'. All through school for me, mum would pick me up after she finished work then we'd head to the town for general shopping as a family and finish with Tescos every Wednesday at almost the same time every week, arriving within the same hour window most of the time. Cars being something that caught my attention all my life, I learned what cars belonged to which employee. We had our preferred cashiers who we got to know, etc, and a preferred line of parking spaces. Doing it over 6 years though, I suspect employees could see shift changes or time off, or some staff will change jobs or they might arrive when their space was taken and park beside it, etc, so it won't have been too problematic for them.
Or a car without license plates, like Steve Jobs. He used that as a loophole to park in disabled parking spaces and show the world what a complete tosser he was.
Did he keep photographic proof of his "feat"? I haven't been back to Bromley in years (now live in Hong Kong) so can't remember if what he does is automatically logged by the supermarket in some way
I used to work there in a holiday job! Freezer warehouseman in a heatwave until I went down with flu from a 100F temperature difference every five minutes.
The store rearrangement does not really work on me though. I often just give up finding what I needed or just find one of the things I was going to buy and decide that that is enough searching for today.
I think Tesco clubcard does do something of a Spotify wrapped, I can't remember exactly what it was but I remember getting some yearly stats on the kinds of things I was buying
If I had a pound for the number of times the Green brothers have talked about Bromley on the Internet in the last month, I’d have two pounds. Not much, but it’s weird it’s happened twice
I'm actually a bit embarassed about how quickly I got this idea after they said it wasn't inside the store that mattered. This should not be as intriguing an idea as it is to me.
I think it's less "take up his time" and more "This time is already allotted for the act of Parking, why not make it interesting" why not make it interesting?
Bromley-by-Bow (aka Bromley) is in East London. But this is the London borough of Greater London called Bromley, which contains a town called Bromley. -- David (producer)
According to Gareth, "I was getting requests from America, Australia, New Zealand and everywhere in-between for media spots" facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1542650283058174/ -- David
Around that time I still thought it was… … …potential spoilers ahead… … …having used all of the shopping carts at least once, which seems much harder to track than the correct answer.
@@daerdevvyl4314 Ok, I'm guessing there is something wrong with my wording but my English is such I don't know what it is so you'll have to be less cryptic.
To Daniel's point about taking the shop's word for it on the weight and Tom's mention of the rabbit hole he went down, my dad was a weights and measures inspector. He had to go around and test and certify measuring devices. Everything from small scales for your local greengrocer to weigh bridges at quarries that weigh entire trucks laden with stones. It also included other commercial measures - e.g. pub/bar optics to make sure they weren't swindling customers with short measures of spirits. Tom could have made a whole series of videos with what he could have found down that rabbit hole. The UK's a particularly convoluted place to do this since we use a mix of metric and imperial units. We also have a convoluted labyrinth of laws.
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Gareth and I have different ideas of "fun".... but has he met Matt Parker? 😂
Well... your idea of fun changes when you're doing a task you find boring and monotonous.
They met in a square.
Matt Parker would have totally mapped out and enumerated each possible route through the supermarket and walked them one by one.
Matt would have run some terrible python code that finds the optimal strategy for parking in all the spaces by trial and error.
"Wegmans in Upstate New York" I HAVE BECOME THE DICAPRIO POINTING MEME
As a college student at Binghamton, I felt the same.
Keeping years of receipts wasn't a bad guess. Jack Monroe (a British food blogger) did exactly that for many years, and a few years ago, she was able to use her collection of receipts to show that the U.K.'s cost-of-living crisis was worse than the government was willing to admit.
the subtitles at 1:13 said "Tom and Hank laugh"... for a second i read that as "Tom Hanks" and had to go watch that again
I hate being tracked of my purchases. There was a coffee shop I used to go to buy beans, and one specific employee attended to me like 90% of the time. At one point he kindly let me know that it would be cheaper to buy through the company. "Through the company?" I asked. "Yes", he replied "you are buying the coffee for an office, are you not?". "No... just for me..." I answered.
Similar experience, including the "No... just for me..." though I think that I was more confused...
My hands were frequently paralyzed by cataplexy, but I noticed that my inner limbs lost tone/dexterity last, so I naturally started using my (less floppy) feet to do chores and found that regular (hand-shaped) gloves shredded really easily when I needed to scrub something. I adjusted accordingly; But I was then the only one making regular a purchase of a pack of disposable latex socks at the ethnic-food/low-key-fetish-shop (not [redact, Toronto]) - it was presumed that I was involved in a production of a [special interest] video series, and the shop introduced me a few times to people who were interested in [that business], and _very excited_ at an opportunity to [network] with someone new ...
... I hadn't known there was that much overlap with real estate before.
(edit: I should actually browse the [redact, Toronto area] side-markets, I haven't really found a good replacement source for those socks, and waiting for my feet-to-heel is more annoying than the accidental puns.)
@@LynxSnowCat That is a wild story, thank you so much for sharing it. I'm not sure I understand the real estate line though, like, there were surprisingly many people into that stuff and also in the real estate business?
@@grmpf (at the time) I was just a confused college kid who was only interested in an extremely convenient item to get with curry and chocolate ingredients; And wasn't curious enough to have [a better answer]. Sorry, but I hoped it was interesting.
Seemed to be, but (because of the location) there may have been a selection bias towards ethnic and exotic foods, which could have caused realestate agents to be over represented in that store's customer base;
And/or needing to be professionally risk-accepting and extroverted disproportionately exposed them to/into habitually making themselves 'visible';
Or the realestate 'business' could have been part of a common cover-story (ref: "tracks of land"?) to explain why many adults converge at seemingly random locations in [professional attire] in the middle of the day - with lighting/camera equipment...
...I was not in that business _either way; _either way_ .
Imagine if they changed the car park layout after 5 years!
These are a good team of guests. Got to have them back in this arrangement, please!
I think this is the best group of guests.
The extreme couponers have ruined it for everyone. Now stores have strict rules and requirements for coupons.
It was weird how many tries they needed in order to finally get the right method he was using (keeping it as spoiler free as possible). That would have been my first guess!
I think they assumed it would have been an _unusual_ form of transportation.
I for one was imagining a shop too small for this to have worked with
So, how did you lose your leg?
Oh, I was wanting to use every parking space in at the grocery store, and seeing as they all had to be legally used, I just had to get the last 10 spaces....
The cash machine outside Bromley Sainsbury's is useful as it seems to be the only one for miles that gives out fivers.
The last spots to get would've been the ones nearest to the store entrance because they're the most convenient and so would be occupied the most frequently.
But they're also difficult to pick up so he'll grab them whenever he has the opportunity; I expect he got the really in-demand ones during the first half of the project, just by prioritizing them.
@@WyvernYTI suspect staff members use the same car park. Google maps does not show a staff car park. You had to wait until that member was not at work, as well as another shopper not using that space
@@PianoKwanMan Good point, but that's probably not too much of a problem in the long run. The patron will be coming at a wide variety of hours and on all days, so no one worker will always be on site.
@@WyvernYT Not sure about that. In the UK I think it's pretty common for the weekly shop to be done certainly on the same day every week, but probably within a small window of a couple of hours each day too. It's certainly the case in Northern Ireland with 'the big shop'. All through school for me, mum would pick me up after she finished work then we'd head to the town for general shopping as a family and finish with Tescos every Wednesday at almost the same time every week, arriving within the same hour window most of the time. Cars being something that caught my attention all my life, I learned what cars belonged to which employee. We had our preferred cashiers who we got to know, etc, and a preferred line of parking spaces.
Doing it over 6 years though, I suspect employees could see shift changes or time off, or some staff will change jobs or they might arrive when their space was taken and park beside it, etc, so it won't have been too problematic for them.
He can very well park in the handicap spaces: he just needs a friend who needs a ride.
Or a car without license plates, like Steve Jobs.
He used that as a loophole to park in disabled parking spaces and show the world what a complete tosser he was.
Did he keep photographic proof of his "feat"? I haven't been back to Bromley in years (now live in Hong Kong) so can't remember if what he does is automatically logged by the supermarket in some way
Not sure if this is enough, but further details of his travails can be found here: facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1542650283058174/
I used to work there in a holiday job! Freezer warehouseman in a heatwave until I went down with flu from a 100F temperature difference every five minutes.
Knew this straight away!! I remember reading about it with fascination.. and being tempted to try it my local store.. 😂😂🤦🏻♀️
My spouse has a tag, and I have the other item. I'm seeing possibilities here...
The store rearrangement does not really work on me though. I often just give up finding what I needed or just find one of the things I was going to buy and decide that that is enough searching for today.
I think Tesco clubcard does do something of a Spotify wrapped, I can't remember exactly what it was but I remember getting some yearly stats on the kinds of things I was buying
you would have no idea, the shock on my face as a bromley local when the video loaded and i heard this question 😁
Potential spoilers:
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So basically some kind of bingo or scorigami? 😀
pretty close answer
I'm trying to remember if there was anything in the NewsShopper. I can't remember anything from 1995 - 2012
What a completely insane thing to do.
I wish I'd thought of it first.
i think we strayed from fastidious to kooky, this funny man
My first thought was that he was using a shopping list and only picking products alphabetically.
This is totally the kind of thing I would do.
I knew a guy who went around checking gasoline (petrol) pumps to make sure they are accurate. He worked for the State, he wasn't just doing this.
If I had a pound for the number of times the Green brothers have talked about Bromley on the Internet in the last month, I’d have two pounds. Not much, but it’s weird it’s happened twice
It's honestly not even weird.
I'm actually a bit embarassed about how quickly I got this idea after they said it wasn't inside the store that mattered. This should not be as intriguing an idea as it is to me.
Sorry to be that person but Bromley's in Kent, technically 😛
It's been part of Greater London since 1965. www.bromley.gov.uk/ -- David.
At first I thought it'd be to do with nectar points - maybe he saved enough nectar points to buy a kilo of nectar or something.
I thought Bromley was in Kent.
I recently saw a viral tweet of a guy who kept all his sheetz MTO (or wawa i dont remember im sorry) receipts until he got every number, from 0-999
"More fun" He says. Really he had nothing else to take up his time.
I think it's less "take up his time" and more "This time is already allotted for the act of Parking, why not make it interesting" why not make it interesting?
why do you feel the need to bring negativity into the world? were you a pained child? did your parents not love you enough?
It's scales all the way down.
Well, my local's easy, they only have 4 or 5, but I can't do what he did, heh.
My guess is about coin rounding.
I'm old enough to remember when Bromley was 'Bromley, Kent' not 'Bromley, London'.
There's two though. Bromley, London would be the one near Bethnal Green and Stratford wouldn't it?
Bromley-by-Bow (aka Bromley) is in East London. But this is the London borough of Greater London called Bromley, which contains a town called Bromley. -- David (producer)
Well at least its something to do that's basically free and fun.
Was the cake "Fudgey the Whale"?
Immidiate 1 sec guess: always paid in pennies.
From the 1st page of Duckduckgo, only the NY Times is not a UK news outlet, so "worldwide" is a bit outstretched :)
According to Gareth, "I was getting requests from America, Australia, New Zealand and everywhere in-between for media spots" facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1542650283058174/ -- David
I got it at 3:50.
Around that time I still thought it was…
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…potential spoilers ahead…
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…having used all of the shopping carts at least once, which seems much harder to track than the correct answer.
@@cannot-handle-handles I remembered the news repot.
I'm thinking he met some politician who was visiting the shop
As soon as he said the answer I remembered reading the story, before that was clueless.
Me too, at first I had no idea but when he said the answer I realised that I had read about this guy.
you wouldn't need to get in an accident, you just need a disabled friend.
My first quick guess is Gareth is a dog.
...then he adopted a baby so he could park in the pram spots.
Why does Tom always have lizard eyes in the close ups?
Gareth sounds like my kind of guy, to be honest. Spreadsheets and all. I love it 😂
Could you put a chapter mark just after the question as it's fun to skip that and thy and figure out the question based on the panel's banter.
Do you mean that the banter is beaten, it's tacked with loose stitches, or it has juices poured over it?
@@daerdevvyl4314 Ok, I'm guessing there is something wrong with my wording but my English is such I don't know what it is so you'll have to be less cryptic.
@@lucidmoses:
You want "based".
@@pvtbuddie Ok thanks.
Why is Tom's video so choppy and out of sync? Even if he has a dodgy internet connection, shouldn't the video be recorded locally?
there doesnt seem to be any clue as to the answer in the question, is this lateral question or 20 guesses game
Yes, there have been a few like that. "Just guess completely random things."
I wonder how old this man is. Or rather, how unemployed.
I doubt he's unemployed if he shops at Sainsbury's.
Did you completely misunderstand the video?
My big weekly shopping trip is … on the laptop. Who has time to walk the aisles? Load the car, drive the car, unload the car … eugh.
To Daniel's point about taking the shop's word for it on the weight and Tom's mention of the rabbit hole he went down, my dad was a weights and measures inspector.
He had to go around and test and certify measuring devices. Everything from small scales for your local greengrocer to weigh bridges at quarries that weigh entire trucks laden with stones.
It also included other commercial measures - e.g. pub/bar optics to make sure they weren't swindling customers with short measures of spirits.
Tom could have made a whole series of videos with what he could have found down that rabbit hole.
The UK's a particularly convoluted place to do this since we use a mix of metric and imperial units. We also have a convoluted labyrinth of laws.