Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Real Engineering" channel.

I used to go to northern France approximately every month, and sometimes absolutely giant shells were dug up by the ploughs and stuff. The amazing thing is they've not dug them up before, these are not small things. These are like a metre tall. Many farms have a cage at the side of the field to put the shells in until they come and collect them - stop the kids messing with them. But you do become very blasé to them, taking pictures standing next to them and holding them and stuff. You forget that they are unexploded...
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I AM INCREDIBLY LUKCY that I lived 100m away from Bainton airfield when Taffy Smith had the pink photo recognisance Spitfire... Very few living people have heard a Spitfire at maximum power - they are just tootling along, Taffy used to thrash it to bits. In 2000 it used to use £400 of fuel for the 15 minutes a time he flew it.
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"UNSAFE AT ANY ALTITUDE"
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They just announced net energy gain fusion - Your comment aged very badly - 8 minutes it lasted before it was completely wrong.
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I make historical men's clothing - in the drafting process, i have to use imperial cos I am working from 150 year old instruction. Its TOTAL INSANITY. Take 1/3 of the breast [whish is half the chest] and add 1 5/8" 1/3 of [45/2] + 1 5/8 = WHAT>??? NO IDEA And every single line is like this - it takes 3 hours to draft trousers in imperial and 30 minutes in metric.
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@eurobrowarriormonk7182 - Your comment reflects badly on you. You are an arrogant self-opinionated ass who has missed the point of the comment, I assume you are American??? What have you got against workers in the foodservice industry?? Are they BENEATH YOU??? Maybe I would love a job in the foodservice industry. It's a valid and essential job. Most people, even most ignorant people had worked that out in the pandemic - but not you?? My JOB is author on clinical psychologist specialising in narcissism, my hobby is making historical clothing. I can do the maths BTS, its just much longer and cumbersome to use a system from a time and country that I dont occupy. But back to my day job. You, mocking others for lack of maths skills, disparaging service workers, deciding what does and does not reflect well - setting themselves up as the arbiter of such. Significant evidence in your 20 odd words of cerebral narcissism. you define yourself by your intelligence and take any opportunity to counterpoint it by putting others down... In short, you're a bad person. Which was it, bullied at schools and retreated into books whilst mummy and daddy were super protective or were you forced to grow up way too early...? Cos we both know its one of them.
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@eurobrowarriormonk7182 - the collapse of society, which is 100% definitely going to happen in America, will not require me in Eastern Europe to use fractions. BTW, when the unpleasantries arrive. People will kill the narcissists. You should think about that... Just 200 years ago the murder rate was 16 X what it is today, and when you look into why people were murdered a lot of it was they had either sh!t on other people for their own gain, or they were just arrogant big heads who got on people's nerves. In a lawless society, being a d!ck is a good way to get yourself killed. And as you are ranking intelligence again, and you are counterpointing your own great intelligence by putting down the intelligence of the creator of the video - you are very strongly reinforcing the idea that you are a cerebral narcissist, so I would not be looking forward to the collapse if I were you.
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@eurobrowarriormonk7182 - Credit where its due, that is a different take than I have ever heard before. The 240 pence to a £1 was actually a good system. In 1762 £1 was worth what £100 is today - so a penny was a valid amount and 240 is a very highly divisible number. £1 between 3 people 80 pence. Between 4 - 60 pence etc etc In the days before calculators and cash registers it massively simplified day to day life for people. But measurements etc in fractions of inches - that does NOT speed up day to day life. You see I have grown up in a decimal world, a metric world. I did not/do not possess the neurological pathways to do maths in fractions. Its a different WAY of thinking about the world. Its a system of ratios of divisions and a metric brain has not been programmed like that. In the same way, you can not tell me the taste of the colour blue, cos you do not possess the neural architecture to do so but my sister has colour synesthesia and she can. Its not that you are more intelligent than me, you may be IDK, it's that you have developed the neural architecture to inhabit a factional imperial world. In the same way, a narcissist failed to develop the neural architecture to feel empathy...
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@eurobrowarriormonk7182 - everyone has. Its how you navigate daily life, even your gargantuan brain could not get through a single day if you had to actually process everything from first principles as it were. The closest people to that are the autistic, which is why new situations are so difficult for them. So Im no more or less programmed than you are...
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@eurobrowarriormonk7182 I thought you were clever? this is what you have been taking great pains to let me know. Fractions are not intuitive and natural by default. They are intuitive and natural to people like you that have been programmed to use them, come on start thinking in the abstract. Your brain as a child is a box of neurons with very few connections, they connect as you learn into networks that allow certain things to happen. I'm English but I live in Eastern Europe - I speak 4 languages with difficulty - it's hard for me cos I grew up speaking one. My friends and neighbours here speak 4, 5, 6, 7 even 9 languages fluently. The kids speak three languages at 5 years old. Its incredibly easy for them cos their brains develop multiple language skills very early on. Fractions are intuitive and natural to YOU cos YOU learned than as a kid. Its not a mark or intelligence - thick kids here still speak 3 languages at 5 years old.
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@eurobrowarriormonk7182 - Very probably... Its strange cos I make historical clothing from 1900 to 1930 and I wear it every day, but I live and work in 2022. So I do kinda straddle two periods in history. Im sat here in a brand new iMac 27 "INCH" wearing victorian fish back trousers and a waistcoat with a shirt and tie replying to you on the internet and looking at a 5K screen... Its quite surreal when you think about it.
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NO CHILD IS EVERY GOING TO BUILD an Airfix model of an SLS...
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NO CHILD IS EVERY GOING TO BUILD an Airfix model of an SLS...
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@Darisiabgal7573 - Thank you but I know what net energy gain means in this context.
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@Darisiabgal7573 "Proof of the pudding is in the eating, after 50 years of cooking there is still no pudding." Well china must have something - cos they are building reactor sites for grid production. they believe they are close enough to get the preparation work done and the technology will be ready by the time the sites are ready. I suspect this is why the US made this announcement
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@Darisiabgal7573 WOW you have a backward stereotypical view of China - I'm guessing you are American "tofu dreg projects" CONGRATULATION - you know a word, admittedly you had to shoehorn it into a completely different conversation, but you were going to use your word one way or another weren't you??? Dude - the Chinese were issuing printed books of building regulations 1000 years before America was even founded.
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@Darisiabgal7573 "umpstart his failing economy" AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH there are two economies in the world that are in unstoppable collapse - the USA and the UK. I am an author on the collapse of civilisations - this is my speciality. China is not collapsing, but what it is doing will hasten the collapse of the USA. China, having built its economy is transitioning from supplying the globe to suppling it own vast new middle class. It is looking inward - as it always has. THAT means the end of cheap things to the USA to keep its economy on life support - it really is the end for the USA. Once again a land war in Europe [every suspiciously][ has helped the US economy, but its a little war this time and it wont save it like the last two did. If you live in the USA, as I assume you do [its the unearned arrogance] its down hill from here - GOOD.
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@Darisiabgal7573 - As a specialist in the collapse of civilisations why would I invest in stocks. IM SORRY I know you are American and therefore a bit dim, but I know whats happening in the world, my money is in physical gold bars in a physical safe. "then I guess that new fangeled laser fusion power unvieled today is going to save it." hahahahhahahahahhahahahh Why do you think it was announced today? Why do you think the USA is suddenly scrambling to the moon? I know you dont have the answer - it is utterly desperate to save its position [that it stumbled into ar5e backwards] as global No1. It desperately needs to get that Deuterium to stop China getting it cos China is further along the fusion path than the USA and China is heading to the moon for the Deuterium as well... Its over dude, you live in a collapsing civilisation - look around you, you think NORMAL civilisations doing well have mass shootings every day and school shootings? You think civilisations doing well have a massive opiate crisis. Its over. China's biggest export for the last 30 years has been LOW INFLATION and thats over. Every country will suffer, but only 2 will collapse and that is the USA and my home country the UK. the country I live in has 5% GDP growth and energy independence, a very stable climate, a highly socialised system of government and a low population density on very fertile soil - I chose very carefully...
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@Darisiabgal7573 - Im not a reporter - I write books. Anyway, I've hit my quota of arrogant delusional Americans today - you can try me tomorrow, see if I have time for you then.
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@eurobrowarriormonk7182 - thank you.
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this was my comment: Why The US is Struggling to Return to the Moon ? cos its an ex-empire that is totally given over to making billionaires richer - not achieving things China will likely get there before the US
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WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY...? Because it funnelled money to home states of every senator that voted for it... Its a sack of sh!t designed by politicians to reward their donors.
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Why The US is Struggling to Return to the Moon ? cos its an ex-empire that is totally given over to making billionaires richer - not achieving things China will likely get there before the US
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