Fun fact: the word that got adopted into french and became the basis for buccaneer was a Taino word and was later adopted into Spanish as Barbacoa and would eventually enter into English as Barbecue
They literally opened last season saying they'd bring back the Thatcher jokes if they ran out of material, so I dunno why that bit made me so happy, but it did
Tom is actually paying a professional service to do them (you see their "credit" at 17:22). I don't expect them to read the comments, their contract is probably completed when Tom accepts the subtitles. But maybe Tom himself can modify them now.
I cheered at this. I was just thinking about this show the other day and how it's been ages since I've heard anyone mention it. Glad it's not forgotten
As a fluent English speaker born in Brazil, I understood about 10% of the references and questions in this video when I understood all of what this channel had before. Superb, sublime even.
14:50 with that pause after “enjoy…” I imagined for a moment that what was going to follow would be “…getting shafted”, surprising that none of them pounced on the opportunity…
With Matt saying he thinks the recording stopped working half way, and based on that bright line of sunlight moving, it must have been noticed right after the comma card but before bokeh.
2:10-20: I am disappointed that no one said it came from France. 12:20: Historic moments in English history: Finally, someone is happy to see Margaret Thatcher
Merry (if all belated) Christmas gentlemen and gentlethem (from one enby to another Matt :D) , Thank you for this round. It's been a pleasure, once again.
As a Lancastrian, I refused to laugh after the first question! I'll show you! Oh... after the Thatcher gags you're all forgiven. Also, please hurry back (even if it's with a different game.)
it never occured to me how echoy that room could've been. It's like we're experiencing the struggle right alongside you lot. Can't wait for whatever's next!
I became a fan of the Technical Difficulties various ideas a couple of years ago, I think around the time "two of these people are lying" wrapped up... So it's been lovely not only to catch "we all been on adventures", but yet another game show with all of you! Thank you for the entertainment you put out for all of us, Matt, Tom, Gary and Chris! Hope to see more of y'all together in the future!
Hyacinth Bokeh would've been born later so she could get into anime and admire japanese culture. It would still be Bucket, but pronounced Bokeh, of course!
I'm always so excited when I see there's a new tech diff video because I know I'm going to laugh so hard and learn random trivia that will stick in the back of my mind forever 🧡🧡 Thank you guys for another season!!
I thought the other episodes of this season were missing a little something, but this one really felt like it hit the mark perfectly. Loved how Matt literally couldn't stop laughing on the Mmmhops one
The whole 6:14 - 7:26 part about punctuation and poo sent me into hysterics, I laughed like a damn hyena and was gasping for air for like five minutes 🤣🤣🤣 I'm going to have a six pack tomorrow from laughing so hard 😆
For whoever else doesn't know what an octothorpe is, it's this #, also known as a sharp if you're into music, a pound sign (not to be confused with £), and if you're born after 2000, a hashtag.
On the J.J. Abrams tank gag, the US has been tinkering with an “Abrams X” tank. Bolting all their fanciest tech to a crewless turret alongside a new cannon and replacing the gas turbine with a more traditional piston engine.
I'm gonna watch this tonight because I'm still in the middle of christmas celebrations but I just wanted to thank you all: I just got ornitologist right in a trivia game!
Actually the Japanese word "Bokeh" means "someone who is not paying attention", which got adapted to the lens "not paying attention to the surroundings"!
Decades ago I read in a children's book that barbeque comes from cooking wild goats whole on these bucans, just gutted and cooked beard-and-tail or berbe-et-queue. I don't know how valid that is, but it sounds likely. The authors, Sam and Beryl Epstein were into writing small educational books for primary school children and might've parrotted some common misconceptions so I'm not married to that factoid.
I know "ducking" is an audio term, so I would've guessed that they had to do with music production, which could be called a leisure that isn't a sport.
I rememembered that the etymology for "Buccaneer" was food-related but had it in my head that it was related to "Bacon", which a quick google suggests isn't the case, despite the remarkable coincidence that what one prepares with a buccan is salted, dried strips of meat (often pork) - basically bacon.
As the token French person, firstly, ow. Secondly, Shakespeare deserved biscuits as much as anyone else on this round. Committed to the biscuit are we.
Hey to the two camera boys and question writer Dan! Potentially a small correction on the bokeh answer, because from my photography circle bokeh just means subject separation in relation to a shallow depth of field, which includes background blur. _Bokeh balls_ are a subset from the category of bokeh. That’s from my knowledge, at least.
And that's our season! If the audio's too rough on this one, full subtitles are, as ever, available! Thanks for watching, everyone.
Caption error at 4:43 !
No wonder y'all don't have a Lamborghini ; )
It's a little echoey, but still plenty listenable. A few minutes in and you don't notice anymore
As always, you're an absolute legend for putting full, good subtitles on all your videos!
Well, it wouldn't be the "Technical Difficulties" without some of them sometimes.
"people will notice bad audio before they notice bad video" - Matt grey
especially if they're blind and reading it in a book.
True, true
@@RAFMnBgaming he wouldn't call us readers otherwise
Poop joke to Shakespeare reference is exactly what he would have wanted!
That's what I thought!
Glad I'm not alone in having that very same thought!
If it's not occasionally crude then it's not Shakespeare
To be honest, this is exactly what real culture is!
But that is what Shakespeare did.
Maths-adjacent leisure, isn't that what Matt Parker does
Only when his sitting down. When he's standing up it's professional!
Given the Parker Square and the Parker Santa Protocol, it's definitely adjacent 😂
His is surely leisure that's firmly embedded in math and you can't get it out.
The guy in charge of Kitten Space Agency (KSP killer) is the spitting image of Parker.
Nah It's not Maths ajacent. It's fully within the subject of maths.
That cheer for margaret thatcher would be a good out of context clip.
Ahahahha, you want to get them killed?
12:21 for anyone looking for the clip
@@wierdalien1As Matt said, "Don't worry, she's still dead."
Eh, respect where it's due, she's spotted Vladimir Putin back in 2000.
@@elkudos6262 Broken clock can be right twice a day.
It wouldn't be a Tech Dif series without a bad audio recording! But usually it happens the other way around. Things happen, we still love you guys!
15:35 Matt says “gymnastics?” in the exact same tone of voice as Will Seaward saying “panthers?”
the only explanation is that the intonation is tied to the seat rather than the person. or that Matt and Will secretly are the same person
@@mnieh9869 Will did say that he had eaten Matt and stolen his powers, so presumably that is the cause behind this phenomenon.
@@rafaelmarkos4489 but we are looking at Matt. does that mean Will is a shapeshifter?
@@rafaelmarkos4489Will is a kirby, noted.
Matt has indeed eaten Will
Some guy named Tom Scott did a video on the etymology of buccaneer.
was just about to comment this! read the card and thought "oh, barbecue, like language files. but no way theyd cover that again" lo and behold
Oh, that guy. Probably totally wrong, then.
Yup story checks out indeed, it is that guy
the race from One Piece Manga?
Ooooh, that explains how they were so knowledgeable!
Matt's hereby awarded honorary Mystery Biscuits for his guess on mmm-hops
When the joke attempt was the answer it is always so satisfying.
Here here
Fun fact: the word that got adopted into french and became the basis for buccaneer was a Taino word and was later adopted into Spanish as Barbacoa and would eventually enter into English as Barbecue
7:22 Tom Scott swearing on camera, that's rare
They literally opened last season saying they'd bring back the Thatcher jokes if they ran out of material, so I dunno why that bit made me so happy, but it did
For whoever is doing subs : thank you so much for all the work you do, I've noticed a small mistake, at 4:42, the sub forgot the card's answer.
Tom is actually paying a professional service to do them (you see their "credit" at 17:22). I don't expect them to read the comments, their contract is probably completed when Tom accepts the subtitles. But maybe Tom himself can modify them now.
thanks, that's fixed --Matt
@@techdif I thought it was intentional
"Is Margeret Thatcher Banksy?" - Gary Brannan 2024
THE WHEEL SPINS AND LANDS ON FRANCE!!!!!
IT'S NOT A WHEEL!! IT'S JUST A CARDBOARD WITH THE WORD "FRANCE" ON IT!!!
Again. The wheel is 50% France.
I'm glad the Audience won an episode. They've really been putting in the work so I'm glad to hear it paid off
The Technical Difficulties experiences technical difficulties! It's come full circle.
Eyyyyyyy 😂😂😂
Honestly about time😂
Took em long enough!
Never would have expected a "Keeping Up Appearances" reference & jokes in this day and age.
And yet, it was very funny
I cheered at this. I was just thinking about this show the other day and how it's been ages since I've heard anyone mention it. Glad it's not forgotten
Sightings of Thatcher dropped drastically since everyone started carrying around smartphone cameras.
Conclusion: Thatcher is Bigfoot.
As a fluent English speaker born in Brazil, I understood about 10% of the references and questions in this video when I understood all of what this channel had before. Superb, sublime even.
Genuinely shocked we didn't get some sort of "what's another name for a fancy photographer? A bokehneer" in this episode
I absolutely love Chris Joel.
Sails are just really big flags... Thank you Matt, that just made my day!
And since sails are white, that means that ships are always signaling their surrender.
He does tend to give comically loose descriptions 😂
Once he defined Suriname's location as "top right of bottom america" 😅
Rats, the beer gag would’ve been a perfect Mystery Biscuits moment
Yes. The Mystery Biscuits should make a comeback!
the IPA in the subtitles was unexpected but very welcome
Was it made by Hanson?
are you new to Tom Scott content?
14:34 correction: there’s a warhammer 40k ork warboss loosely named after her- Ghazghkull *Mag Uruk Thraka*
Oh my god how has that one slipped by me all these years
14:50 with that pause after “enjoy…” I imagined for a moment that what was going to follow would be “…getting shafted”, surprising that none of them pounced on the opportunity…
With Matt saying he thinks the recording stopped working half way, and based on that bright line of sunlight moving, it must have been noticed right after the comma card but before bokeh.
Poo jokes, Shakespeare, and Keeping Up Appearances references... this ungodly combination is why I subscribe. Thank you for the fun!
To be fair, Shakespeare would _also_ be making poo jokes.
2:10-20: I am disappointed that no one said it came from France.
12:20: Historic moments in English history: Finally, someone is happy to see Margaret Thatcher
Merry (if all belated) Christmas gentlemen and gentlethem (from one enby to another Matt :D) , Thank you for this round. It's been a pleasure, once again.
Matt's enby? I didn't know that. Do you know when/where they said that?
@@axolirvin971 matt has social media pages listed in the description which say non-binary. I checked because of this comment
7:14 to be fair, Shakespeare would probably have appreciated the poo jokes lol
As a Lancastrian, I refused to laugh after the first question! I'll show you! Oh... after the Thatcher gags you're all forgiven.
Also, please hurry back (even if it's with a different game.)
3:31 Made me think about BOOOXES OF KNIIIIIIIVES
Pre-nuclear knives!
That’s exactly what I thought too 😂😂
“You raise me up so I can make accurate meters!!!” 😂😂😂
I love how Tom was the only one who caught Chris's joke, And they just shared an inside laugh on this side of the table.
it never occured to me how echoy that room could've been. It's like we're experiencing the struggle right alongside you lot.
Can't wait for whatever's next!
6:45 ∴ is one of my favourite symbols and I wish I had an excuse to use it more often
0:54 how much do pirates pay for piercings
A buck an ear
“Esports” meaning “sport in Yorkshire” didn’t get the credit it deserved 😂😂😂😂😂
I don't understand the accents well enough for this joke, please enlighten me
@@emdivine I have the same question
this is deffo one of my comfort programmes
I became a fan of the Technical Difficulties various ideas a couple of years ago, I think around the time "two of these people are lying" wrapped up... So it's been lovely not only to catch "we all been on adventures", but yet another game show with all of you!
Thank you for the entertainment you put out for all of us, Matt, Tom, Gary and Chris! Hope to see more of y'all together in the future!
"Bouquet"
"Lady of the house speaking!"
Btw, their name was always actually Bucket, Hyacinth just pronounced it a bit fancy.
Hyacinth Bokeh would've been born later so she could get into anime and admire japanese culture. It would still be Bucket, but pronounced Bokeh, of course!
An excellent run. You're absolutely right - the audience were certainly the winners here!
i feel like the chemistry of the old shows is coming back with each episode
6:36 the Bristol stool chart as punctuation.
"Gymnastics?"
wha- like "Panthers"?
France and Thatcher. Etymology, ornithology and archivist story, and recording technical difficulty. We are in for a treat for the last episode!
The butterfly is entomology, not ornithology, no? Unless I’m forgetting a bird-related aside in this episode.
@@dysr injured by a flock of magpies flying into you
I always thought magpies were a california exclusive bird but no apparently there's other species of magpies that are like cosmopolitan
I knew Matt was gonna accidentally get "mmmhops" right.
there was no particular reason to doubt it but it is great to have confirmation that the TechDiff have all seen House MD, hell yeah!
that’s a lot of sun travel for 11:26 of content
Great to see the wheel still spinning and still landing on France
I'm always so excited when I see there's a new tech diff video because I know I'm going to laugh so hard and learn random trivia that will stick in the back of my mind forever 🧡🧡 Thank you guys for another season!!
16:55 it landed right on the speaker!!
I thought that was a Pelican or suit case (for bringing all the kit, lights, microphones, etc).
When all the lads reacts “yeahhhh”
at the mention of
Maggie T
…if ever we needed Mystery Biscuits back…
I thought the other episodes of this season were missing a little something, but this one really felt like it hit the mark perfectly. Loved how Matt literally couldn't stop laughing on the Mmmhops one
always a joy to see these four just enjoying themselves. #### off the game, just having a time.
Cheers, mates.
12:49 Gary's joke about Margaret Thatcher escaping by submarine to South America made me cackle alone in my kitchen. Excellent work lads
thank you for more reverse trivia and technical difficulties with the four of you!
Thank you for the laughs, lads. I'm very sick with a cold & haven't had so much as a chuckle in about a week.
This is my favorite signoff since Jean Claude Van Damm's Damned Clone-Jawed Van.
"Buccaneer" is used to refer to both privateers and pirates in the Caribbean.
also, disappointed nobody guessed "the price of corn"
Petition for “Eee, Sports” to become the new Indoor League
I got excited bc the thumbnail is literally one of my favourite butterflies a chalk hill blue. Sadly they weren't talking about that species.
It’s so cool to see the tech dif crew be sponsored by whatever Matt did to the audio receiver
Cracking work, team! Another fantastic series with laughs aplenty.
Looking forward to the next one!
The whole 6:14 - 7:26 part about punctuation and poo sent me into hysterics, I laughed like a damn hyena and was gasping for air for like five minutes 🤣🤣🤣 I'm going to have a six pack tomorrow from laughing so hard 😆
Built for maths-adjacent leisure, not for maths-adjacent speed
Very much enjoy the stuff you guys create! Thanks!!
For whoever else doesn't know what an octothorpe is, it's this #, also known as a sharp if you're into music, a pound sign (not to be confused with £), and if you're born after 2000, a hashtag.
merry Christmas Guys I'm watching this on Boxing day Eating a Freddo Gary.
On the J.J. Abrams tank gag, the US has been tinkering with an “Abrams X” tank. Bolting all their fanciest tech to a crewless turret alongside a new cannon and replacing the gas turbine with a more traditional piston engine.
The Abrams X: the US military industrial complex taking one look at the T-14 Armata and saying “now this is how you do it *properly*”
E4
12:27 Tom, you're not even from Yorkshire, you're from Mansfield, all Yorkshire people know how to spot a fraud
I think, he was more worried, that they would be chased out of the county.
is mansfield part of the midland or the north?
Rough audio just means we need a bonus episode.
The accident would have been worse if it was a Flock of Seagulls, rather than a flock of magpies.
I'm gonna watch this tonight because I'm still in the middle of christmas celebrations but I just wanted to thank you all: I just got ornitologist right in a trivia game!
Actually the Japanese word "Bokeh" means "someone who is not paying attention", which got adapted to the lens "not paying attention to the surroundings"!
Is someone who takes photographs on a boat in the Caribbean with interestingly shaped lens flares in the far field a bokehneer?
Fun fact about the department store thing.
In Australia, the section with bedding is called "Manchester".
As it is here in NZ as well. Seems to be a peculiarity of our region.
time for the "tom scott swearing compilation" video to be updated
Barbecue is cooking with sticks over flames and originated in similar places to buccaneer so 2 are likely related, good for a pirate themed barbecue.
Decades ago I read in a children's book that barbeque comes from cooking wild goats whole on these bucans, just gutted and cooked beard-and-tail or berbe-et-queue. I don't know how valid that is, but it sounds likely.
The authors, Sam and Beryl Epstein were into writing small educational books for primary school children and might've parrotted some common misconceptions so I'm not married to that factoid.
Lovely stuff as always lads,
Thanks for it!
Incredible that this episode releases the day I finish watching House
Another fantastic season! Looking forward to the next one already!
Hyacinth Bokeh was a very funny joke
I know "ducking" is an audio term, so I would've guessed that they had to do with music production, which could be called a leisure that isn't a sport.
The wheel has spun! I repeat, the it's-all-France wheel has spun!
I rememembered that the etymology for "Buccaneer" was food-related but had it in my head that it was related to "Bacon", which a quick google suggests isn't the case, despite the remarkable coincidence that what one prepares with a buccan is salted, dried strips of meat (often pork) - basically bacon.
Buccaneer is a high price for sweet corn.
Tom looked so disturbed and ashamed when reading out the Thatcher card and that's so hilarious
"Margaret Thatcher"
"Yaaaaaay"
14:25 question writer man I love you
Matt and I, at the same moment, thought Dodgeball for the last clue
And that means one last time to ask for The Technical Difficulties Does Lateral!
7:25 - A rare Tom Scott Curse in the wild!
Fair few on Lateral.
God damn, those Thatcher jokes nearly did me in xD
As the token French person, firstly, ow. Secondly, Shakespeare deserved biscuits as much as anyone else on this round. Committed to the biscuit are we.
“That’s not a fun fact, that just ruins ice cream” spoken like a true Yorkshire man
Hey to the two camera boys and question writer Dan! Potentially a small correction on the bokeh answer, because from my photography circle bokeh just means subject separation in relation to a shallow depth of field, which includes background blur. _Bokeh balls_ are a subset from the category of bokeh. That’s from my knowledge, at least.
Exactly as Shakespeare would have wanted 7:21