Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Future Proof" channel.

  1. IM A BESPOKE TAILOR of men's historical suits 1890 - 1940. I dont have a website or do any advertising - I have to HIDE - because I would be instantly flooded with enquiries People are ABSOLUTELY SICK of things being just utter crap, even if they pay pretty good money. Not everyone can afford my work, but SO many people would inquire and if you are in that situation - find a local seamstress or local tailor. My work is specialist. But these people will make you great well-made clothes that will last DECADES...!!!
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  2. 76,674,289 of them in the US alone
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  3. I BOUGHT A MECHANICAL TYPEWRITER It was made in 1958, it arrived unrestored and worked perfectly. Its no lie to say it has changed my life. I get my creative work done in peace and tranquillity with no distractions and my stress goes DOWN whilst I am working, since when was that a thing? Working and being less stressed? Im not less stressed when I work on the computer...!!! Tech in everything is now starting to DEGRADE the experience of everything
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  4.  @LeviHildebrandYT  Most bespoke tailors I know their order books are full. What people forget - and you could mention this if you do a related video - your local seamstress can make almost anything you want from just a picture and at a very reasonable cost. People look down on seamstresses as only doing alterations NO, they are very skilled people.
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  5. THE REASON IS SIMPLE in order to maximise profits companies are only willing to do things they KNOW are commercially successful They wont pay creative people to do NEW things - cos thats expensive and it might not work
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  6.  @Hanstra  Maybe true in Am3ric4 cos you make a lot of s h ! t cars. But almost ANY European or Japanese car from 1995 to 2005 is capable of 400k miles with basic servicing. My mother and sister had my old Audi 100's - both did 450k miles.
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  7. My 1994 S Class Mercedes was the best car ever made by humans. Every model after that got worse, less quiltiy more electronics - I gave away my last one, a 2012 5.0L V8 S Class Coupe it had so many electrical problems it was unsellable
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  8.  @wakeupordie  We all think we are pretty average because we keep the company of about the same level of intelligence and we watch media targeted at our intelligence level. The fact you are watching this video pre-selects you for say IQ 98 to 118 so it leaves out 50% of the US population, meaning we get a radically distorted idea of the average.
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  9. My story is very long and complicated but I left a very full 2,800sq foot apartment and a large retail unit full of stuff with my dog and what I could fit in my car. I was very sick at the time and I decided for my health not to worry about getting my probably €75k of possessions back. It was actually one of my BETTER life choices. Ive lived a very happy life for the last 8 years without ANY of it.
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  10. Just give it away. You dont need it.
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  11. I BOUGHT A MECHANICAL TYPEWRITER It was made in 1958, it arrived unrestored and worked perfectly. Its no lie to say it has changed my life. I get my creative work done in peace and tranquillity with no distractions and my stress goes DOWN whilst I am working, since when was that a thing? Working and being less stressed? Im not less stressed when I work on the computer...!!! Tech in everything is now starting to DEGRADE the experience of everything
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  12. I BOUGHT A £260 PAIR OF FABRIC SCISSORS I had to save up for them. At the time it seemed like an extravagant luxury for my tailoring hobby. Now I have them - £260 seems dirt cheap, they are simply astonishing, they cut where I look. The balance is perfection, the cut effortless. STOP BUYING CRAP Honestly save up and buy quality stuff, its so worth it.
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  13.  @TimmmTim  And I don't want to be rude - but 100 USD wont get you a custom-made paperboy cap unless someone is working for below minimum wage. $175 for labour and $25 for materials would be a good estimate. I'm not having a go at you - I'm pointing out the galactic gap between people's expectations - set by hyper cheap clothing - and the reality of making things. Quality fabric for a suit will cost me about $100 a meter MINIMUM and there is 5 m in a 3 piece suit, plus lining, plus horsehair canvas, plus linen canvas, plus pocket lining, plus silk thread, plus buttons. MY cost for materials for a suit is about $750 MINIMUM, before I lift a finger. But people think a suit is $500
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  14.  @Dubiousness  Dude thats no cope. He is just making a valid point. You are the one with the issues in this debate. The guy can like stuff from the past.
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  15.  @adityamwagh  cheap things are why people are broke. Its WAY more expensive over a 10 year period to buy cheap than it is to buy quality.
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  16. I'm a semi-professional tailor of men's historical suites, I don't have a website and I do have a small number of loyal customers. But most people, I mean the vast vast majority are NOT prepared to pay even minimum wage which would be £2,860 for a 3 piece suit + the cost of materials. So at MINIMUM wage it would be over £3,500 Its not an issue for me as this is not my income - but I REFUSE to work for less than £17 an hour = £5k because I am taking the food out of the mouths of people who do this for a living. Id rather work for free for friends and family than contribute to the idea that handmade is cheap.
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  17.  @Onomatopoeia4u  Are you sure about your maths there...???
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  18. I had 1,800 albums on CD. I transferred them to Apples wonderful cloud service - only $50 a year - what could go wrong, no need to store them physically - 24 Bit sound quality higher than the CD's. Until I hit a bad patch in life and didnt renew the subscription and my media was... GONE. 1,800 albums on CD - all purchased by me and in as new condition - gone cos i missed a $50 subscription payment...
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  19. ON the other hand, I used to own a medium-large European cosmetics and perfume company and the whole industry is a massive scam. There is no such thing as a "sophisticated" or "expensive" scent - in blind tests on people who don't know it the original "Old Spice" nearly always wins as the most desirable. Only 3 things matter 1) You like the smell 2) the % volatile oils 3) How quickly you use it to avoid oxidisation You could add 4 - natural oils are left-handed isomers in the molecules whereas synthetics are [usually] 50/50 in the right / left isomer and this does affect the smell but its irrelevant if yo LIKE the smell In short - spend $10 on a perfume you like that lasts, keep it by the door, use it every time you go out and use it up in a month.
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  20. COLD THERAPY does have health benefits - Just FYI for the thumbnail:- Health Benefits of Cold Immersion Therapy Reduces Inflammation: Cold exposure can help decrease inflammation and swelling in muscles and joints, which may be beneficial for recovery after intense exercise. Pain Relief: Cold therapy may provide temporary relief from pain by numbing the affected area and reducing nerve activity. Improved Recovery: Athletes often use cold immersion to aid recovery after workouts, potentially reducing muscle soreness and fatigue. Boosts Mood: Some studies suggest that cold exposure can stimulate the production of endorphins and improve mood, which can help alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression. Enhanced Circulation: After exposure to cold, when the body warms up, blood vessels dilate, which may improve circulation and help deliver nutrients to muscles. Increased Metabolism: Cold exposure may help increase metabolic rate as the body works to maintain its core temperature, potentially aiding in weight management.
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  21. Bespoke tailor here - BUY SECONDHAND....!!! it is self-selecting for quality. IF a garment is good enough to be sold after being worn and washed several times - its quality. literally, everyone I know, every client I have buys second-hand.
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  22. JUST GIVE IT AWAY...!!! you dont need it - you are paying to store stuff you will honestly NEVER use again 99% of the time. Give it to people who need it and STOP buying crap.
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  23. My rent on a beachfront 68m2 apartment in Burgas, Bulgaria is $228 Canadian a month.
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  24. yeah - i bought my first house at 24 for 2.5X my salary , had a toyota supra twin turbo not on finance and I was out clubbing 3 nights a week - im nostalgic for it cos life was GREAT. I feel so sorry for kids today
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  25.  @sprockkets  Bro computers caused lots of hand injuries due to repetitive stress syndrome.
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  26.  @JohnDoe-mq4sq  YES...!!!
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  27.  @Kacpa2  - We had an automatic MX5 - Miata in the US - In Bulgaria in winter with 1m of snow, and quality snow tyres and I never got stuck ONCE. AND I lived at the top of a very steep hill. On paper, it should have been the worst car imaginable in snow RWD, front-engined, automatic. why did it do so well - snow tyres. They REALLY work. Later on that same car towed my Land Rover Discovery V8 up a hill to the mechanic to get fixes. And in 2005 I drove a 1.3L Opal Kadete across the Sahara. YOU DIONT NEED A GIANT TRUCK unless a) you have a work application that demands it b) you have a tiny pen!s
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  28.  @kosmique  I literally spent the afternoon darning my socks whilst watching TV LOL
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  29. QUICK CORRECTION Rayon / viscose are NOT synthetic fibres as people think of them - they are more like an engineered natural fibre - they are made from wood [celuloce] they are biodegradable, breathable and they are perfectly acceptable for use in bespoke suits etc.
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  30. IT IS SO FUNNY seeing Ai etc trying to guess what the F I am interested in cos I buy NEXT TO NOTHING and what I do buy online is second-hand from Bulgarian language websites that is paid cash on delivery to the courier. All other purchases are made cash at the local tiny high street store At the moment it is advertising me bike frames and window awnings
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  31. Bespoke tailor here - BUY SECONDHAND....!!! it is self-selecting for quality. IF a garment is good enough to be sold after being worn and washed several times - its quality. literally, everyone I know, every client I have buys second-hand.
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  32.  @sprockkets  I did not know this when I replied to you but being an author I researched it and RSI was almost entirely unheard of when people used mechanical typewriters. It is almost entirely an electronic word processor and computer keyboard phenomenon. The much larger range of motion required with the fingers to operate typewriter keys, the steeply raked keyboard and the necessity to move your anm to advance to the next line meant that people were doing a vastly greater range of more natural movements than just wiggling the fingers over a tiny keyboard. Also back problems and posture problems were also incredibly rare. So "Bro mechanical typewriters caused ALMOST NO hand injuries due to repetitive stress syndrome, it was virtually unknown until electronic word processors" of the correct phrasing of the comment. OH and BTW - "If you really want to connect and engage your brain, use your hand and a pen or pencil." I cant, I could not read or write at 13, my handwriting is utterly illegible.
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  33. LET ME GIVE YOU A REALITY CHECK Im a bespoke tailor of men's historical suits - its costs ME about $15 to make a buttonhole 1 button hole The materials cost for 1 quality pair of trousers is about $350, just for the fabric, buttons, thread, canvas etc. The prices these companies are charging mean they are using essentially slave labour and environment-destroying practices. There is more than $10 of ELECTRICITY used in me making a pair of trousers...!!!
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  34. HOW CAN YOU SELL MORE STUFF TO PEOPLE WITH NO MONEY...??? Every year more people are broke and AI promises to make MORE people broke - so how can it sell them stuff...???
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  35. I DONT BUY ANYTHING ONLINE thankfully I live in a country where we still have busy high streets and if you buy private online you pay ON DELIVERY after checking the goods are what you expected.
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  36.  @russbooger6211  No dude - it really IS that simple. I work [tangentially] in the fashion industry and thats the reason here. I have listened to people in the movie and TV industry and its the same story there. Its hyper financialisation and the renteer extraction economy. NO ONE wants to make anything new; they want to EXTRACT profit from existing IP. I am guessing you are Am3ric4n...???
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  37.  @CJColvin  Absolutely "Theres some American cars that last up to 400,000 miles mate". But a $12,200 Dacia Sandero will do 400k miles Here in Bulgaria, almost all taxies are Dacia Sandero cos they are cheap and they are reliable. do you guys even get to buy new cars for $12k ??? Genuine question - cos I know there is a lot of talk about cars in the US getting very expensive.
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  38.  @1873Winchester  When I was a kid my family had a Volvo 144 and a 244. I bet there is a good chance they are still running today.
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  39.  @casualcadaver  Na the 1996 Mercedes W140 S Class 5.0L is the best car ever made by humanity - But the Lexus LS 400 is probably a good contender for 2nd place.
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  40. Tiny pen!ses thats the problem.
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  41.  @whatsthebigfndeal  - thats cos we dont smell as much as you do, its the ultra-processed food you eat that makes you smell a lot worse than Europeans. This is not me being flippant - this is true. The bacteria that make you smell when you sweat live on the sugar that you excrete when you sweat. The higher the sugars in your diet the more you smell and no one has more sugar then Am3ric4ns.
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  42.  @drooooop  - It can but no, in that £5k you have cost of materials. You are looking at about 120 to 150 hours for a 2-piece suit. 150 to 170 hours for a 3-piece suit. Ive just finished a full length overcoat that has taken nearly 200 hours over a period of three months. I make everything in the historical method, the shoulder pads, the waistbands, everything except the buttons I make myself - nothing is bought in.
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  43. THE PROBLEM WITH 2022 it that almost literally everything is a lie to get you to buy something... "FAT SHAMING IS BAD" Do you know who came up with that and promoted it??? The processed food and carbonated drinks industry. The whole "BODY POSITIVITY" thing has zero to do with being nice to fat people and is 100% about stopping you from STOPPING buying their products that are making you fat and unhealthy... On the other side, you have people telling you are fat and you need to be perfect. And BOTH sides are doing it for $$$$
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  44. BESPOKE TAILOR HERE this is what you do - BUY SECOND HAND - it is self-selecting for quality. IF a garment is good enough to be sold after being worn and washed several times - its quality. literally everyone I know, every client I have buys second hand. 2nd thing - get ALL your clothes altered to fit you perfectly be a local seamstress, they exist you just have to find them. Rich people don't look rich cos their clothes are expensive - they look rich cos their clothes FIT. BTW - its way easier to make a too large fit than a too small fit so buy oversised 3rd thing - NATURAL FIBERS - wool, linen, silk, cotton, and I would include viscose / rayon. Two reasons - synthetic fibres are PLASTIC you are wrapping your body in PLASTIC and it leaches hormone-mimicking chemicals into your body which is BAD. But it is not as durable, it does not breathe with your body, its just bad. 4th thing - buys style not fashion - fashion changes, style is eternal. I have 50 year old jackets that get compliments every time I wear them. 5th thing - REPAIR YOUR CLOTHES - or get your seamstress to repair them - if they are altering your clothes to fit there will be a little extra fabric in the seams they have taken in - this can be used for repairs...!!! 6th thing - You. want to get to a point where your annual spending on clothes is NILL - you have everything, its well maintained, its quality so when you come to buy a new pair of trousers you CAN spend $800 having them made by a tailor cos that's the only thing you are buying this year. Or $500 on a nad knitted sweater, or $1,100 on a Rick Owens peace you love. Hope this was helpful PLEASE STOP buying fast fashion. PLEASE.
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  45.  @sprockkets  OH right. Got you - NO its absolutely exhausting using the typewriter LOL I am not used to the physical work involved. I have taken an old style touch typing course to learn how to use it correctly. I dont want ignorance to cause me an injury. If I work for 2 or 3 hours on the typewriter in the evening - I sleep BETTER, a lot better. But I have to make sure I am off the computer by 7pm to be able to sleep at all. Im not for one second suggesting that it is better than a computer. But we have crammed every item with so much tech that using them has become a stressful an unfulfilling task. I also do tailoring. My modern digital sewing machine does a hundred things badly, my old 1950's all-metal singer does ONE thing perfectly.
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  46. ALL synthetic clothing has this problem - you are wearing PLASTIC. It leaches hormone-mimicking chemicals into your body. My friend works as a chemist in the textile industry in the Netherlands - they are trying to solve this problem. But the point is - its PLASTIC, you are cling wrapping your body in plastic
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  47.  @astererratum6546  No its an Olympia SG1 - it is restored now, but it does not work any better than when I bought it as it worked perfectly any way. OH to live in a world where things were still made to last.
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  48.  @markseehawer3762  I saw a 1984 E Class Mercedes Diesel in unrestored factory showroom condition last week - I spent 10 minutes converting it, it was beautiful. I dont have an issue with electric cars. I have an issue with cheaply built electric cars and electric cars filled with electronics that have a life of 5 to 8 years before they cost you €8,000 to replace an obsolete touch screen and if you dont you cant turn the wipers on or the lights. I dont have a car now, and I dont need one as I live in a city with amazing public transport and bike roads everywhere. But I think its inevitable I eventually buy an old Mercedes
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  49.  @Annou7la  If you are talking about Gobeki Tepe - there are buttons, 12,000 year old carved jade buttons for clothing that look like they were made 100 years ago. And 8000 years later some guys in Britain put a rock ontop of a rock and called it a hence and my people have been bragging about it ever since.
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  50.  @TheRoland444  Could not agree more
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  51. This is both true and not true. Wages have NOT gone up - for sure. But in 1940 the average Am3ric4n spent 12% of their income on clothing each year.
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  52. ALSO - the $5 T Shirt is WHY your wages are so low, the cheap everything has allowed companies to not pay you. Housing has not got any more expensive IF you extrapolate wages in 1970 to today cos the average salary in the USA would be $118k a year.
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  53. This was my comment - I think you will approve: BESPOKE TAILOR HERE this is what you do - BUY SECOND HAND - it is self-selecting for quality. IF a garment is good enough to be sold after being worn and washed several times - its quality. literally everyone I know, every client I have buys second hand. 2nd thing - get ALL your clothes altered to fit you perfectly be a local seamstress they exist you just have to find them. Rich people don't look rich cos their clothes are expensive - they look rich cos their clothes FIT. BTW - its way easier to make a too large fit than a too small fit so buy oversised 3rd thing - NATURAL FIBERS - wool, linen, silk, cotton, and I would include viscose / rayon. Two reasons - synthetic fibres are PLASTIC you are wrapping your body in PLASTIC and it leaches hormone-mimicking chemicals into your body which is BAD. But it is not as durable, it does not breathe with your body, its just bad. 4th thing - buys style not fashion - fashion changes, style is eternal. I have 50 year old jackets that get compliments every time I wear them. 5th thing - REPAIR YOUR CLOTHES - or get your seamstress to repair them - if they are altering your clothes to fit there will be a little extra fabric in the seams they have taken in - this can be used for repairs...!!! 6th thing - You. want to get to a point where your annual spending on clothes is NILL - you have everything, its well maintained, its quality so when you come to buy a new pair of trousers you CAN spend $800 having them made by a tailor cos that's the only thing you are buying this year. Or $500 on a nad knitted sweater, or $1,100 on a Rick Owens peace you love. Hope this was helpful PLEASE STOP buying fast fashion. PLEASE.
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