Comments by "Zetectic" (@zetectic7968) on "IWrocker" channel.

  1. Who the hell travels without a credit card! Didn't they have a debit card either? To travel with only cash is idiotic.
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  2. couldn't see the subtitles as they were below screen
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  3. The base price for a Duster in UK is $26k not €12k due to car tax + VAT. US drives stupidly large vehicles because petrol is cheap if you paid European petrol prices you'd start buying more economical vehicles.
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  4. If it is such a big problem, use a glass or a cup to drink from not the bottle or use a straw!
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  5.  @josefsad1502  They were saying that they were from Germany like the OP not that Lindt was German.
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  6.  @wessexdruid7598  Rowntree's was founded in 1862 at Castlegate, in York, by Henry Isaac Rowntree, a Quaker, and was bought out by Nestle in 1991. Obvious short-term thinking. It wasn't a failing business, it just couldn't resist the take over.
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  7. Or an ordinary glass panel in the front door "break glass to open"
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  8.  @grantodaniel7053 Named after the original sponsor newspaper The World but people don't know so they think it applies to the planet.
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  9.  @davidmalarkey1302  It was a joke that went over your head
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  10. Ian is so young 😆 Missed out on having to start a car with the starting handle because the battery was flat. Having to regularly check the distilled water level in all the 6 cells. Dynamos not alternators, manual chokes. In winter you could tell if the battery was dying as the headlights would dim when you turned on the indicators &/or the wipers. Oh and tyres with inner tubes.
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  11. “shitting Peugeot” is a saying from the guy who runs the channel London Dash Cam.
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  12. Not in a brick house.
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  13. Spots are red, pimples have yellow heads, large pimple = boil, large boil is a carbuncle. Chunder is Aus. slang popularised by Monty Python. Brits say puke or throw-up. Sleeveless vest/under shirt is a singlet. Suspenders hold up stockings, Braces hold up trousers.
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  14.  @DrRenee1  You are not a doctor & you don't know that different cancers grow/spread at very different rates.
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  15. BP used to stand for British Petroleum but as they are more international now they changed their name to just BP.
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  16.  @bobbymaccrash3635  Pilot of the Command Module called Columbia. He had to prepare for the fact the if the LEM failed to launch from the Moon to travel back to Earth alone.
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  17. This may be apocryphal but I they introduced the rabbits as food for the introduced European fox because the gentry wanted to go fox hunting on horses. Many big problems due to foreign animals brought to Oz & NZ (cane toads, cats, rats & possums)
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  18.  @fredklein9005  And his brother Miles was the manager.
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  19. British English was invented by Microsoft.
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  20. Not military time exclusively as the 24 hour clock was introduced for railway timetables. From Wikipedia: The Canadian Pacific Railway was among the first organisations to adopt the 24-hour clock, at midsummer 1886.A report by a government committee in the United Kingdom noted Italy as the first country among those mentioned to adopt 24-hour time nationally, in 1893. Other European countries followed: France adopted it in 1912 (the French army in 1909), followed by Denmark (1916), and Greece (1917). By 1920, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Switzerland had switched, followed by Turkey (1925), and Germany (1927). By the early 1920s, many countries in Latin America had also adopted the 24-hour clock.
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  21. I was taught French badly for 3 years with a 2 year gap after the first. Back in UK fluency didn't seem to be the main goal, so I can read French better than I can speak it. The Dutch have to to learn 3 languages compulsory with an optional 4. Dutch has similarities with German so it is a good fit. Likewise Swedish has Germanic roots so not that difficult to learn: Finnish is an official language in Sweden but it is not as common as it used to be. I have been told that for Spaniards it is easier to learn Italian than Portuguese. Ian, you are correct, it is better & easier for children to be learning a second language from a young age ideally starting at 6 or 7. 11 or 12 is too late.
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  22. You forgot Somalia but they did succeed with the small Caribbean island of Grenada without telling the British as it is part of the Commonwealth.
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  23. Humber was not on your list
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  24. Realising that US food is not that good.
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  25. Video maker has an axe to grind. The NHS is not nefarious as he simply doesn't know the meaning of the word. The reason the NHS is not as efficient as it once was is 14 years of Tory government underfunding it & undermining it to allow private healthcare to skim off the profit. If private healthcare botch a procedure they don't fix it, they send you back to the NHS for treatment & have to pay. Meanwhile private healthcare keeps all the money they were paid to do a bad job.
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  26. This video is so misleading! Sicily is the poorest part of Italy. Jobs are farming, fishing & retail. 3,905 EUR per year is average salary or $4225.05 for the city of Catania. So of course everything is cheap compared to the average US salary. I worked with an Italian from up North 7 years ago, & He told me about the cheap houses or you could get a free one to renovated/rebuild/remodel. Unless you have an inheritance or can work remotely you have to live the frugal lifestyle of the Sicilians. Do NOT forget that the mafia still exists & if you are a permanent resident sooner or later you will meet them.
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  27. "Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.". "Shell was formed in April 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom. " No longer known as Royal Dutch Shell, just Shell
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  28.  @v8falconute46  Gold coloured you mean not made of gold 😉
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  29.  @HeWhoLikesCars  So if you are in an accident that is your fault & you only have 3rd party insurance that means you have to buy a a replacement if it is written off or pay all the repair costs.
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  30. Mos-cow comes from the German Moskau. English is Mosco. Russian is Moskva or Moskveer
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  31. In my UK city they have the compact road-sweepers that can also do the sidewalks. They are powered by propane but are very noisy sucking up the debris.
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  32. Not a true bat, that is a flying fox.
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  33. The $1 bill makes up circa 60% of the cost of printing all circulating currency. Despite minting the Susan B Anthony & Sacagewa dollar coins there has been resistance to use them as the $1 bill is still available. There are over 700 tons of coins in storage: about $1 billion worth. In the UK Scotland has retained the right to issue paper currency. In addition the Channel Islands, Isle of Man (with the 3 leg triskelion design/symbol) & Northern Ireland all issue bank notes.
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  34. I only saw this a year or 2 ago. It was fun and one of the first film for the beautiful & talented Marion Cotiilard. You need to watch the original Italian Job, The Driver, Bullit, Ronin and the 3 Transporter movies.
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  35. Back in the day when BBC2 was a new channel a very popular programme was Pot Black (snooker) when most people still only had a black & white TV! He didn't mention use of bridges: the bridge, the spider and the long butt. Many players now prefer to use their own screw-in extension to their regular cue to using the unwieldy long butt
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  36. Sunbeam, Riley, Wolseley, Alvis, Rover, Caterham.
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  37. where is this place great brittan ? It is Great Britain
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  38. In UK the MOT (Ministry of Transport) test is at 3 years old then annually, includes an emissions test. Minimum tyre depth is 1.6mm across the central 2/3rds of tyre surface that includes the spare. Recommended 2mm for bad weather i.e. winter rain & snow.
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  39. Nursery, infants, primary, secondary
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  40. Some car that should not be on the lists. The PT Cruiser was sold in the UK: unreliable, expensive to maintain as all the parts had to come from the US, very bad rear view(tiny window & thick pillars) so very difficult to back into parking spaces. Protons were built in Malaysia - inexpensive & were popular for a while. The US car at the start (Pontiac Aztek) didn't sell well but one was driven by Walter White in Breaking Bad
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  41. Stock, Aitken & Waterman ran The Hit Factory that produced many 80's chart toppers. A lot of Euro-pop in this that never made it to the UK but some are familiar because of continental Summer holidays. Walking on sunshine by Katrina(American) & the Waves(British)
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  42. Check wikipedia. Airbus is not French: it is a multinational conglomerate part of EADS.
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  43. Down under you speak Strine 😉
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  44. KOTOR, knights of the old republic was an old Star Wars computer game :) Kiruna has a huge iron mine. Started as a mountain & now a giant hole in the ground. Has been going since before WW2 That is why Norway was invaded by Germany to secure the supply as the Baltic gulf of Bothnia freezes over in winter due to the low salinity. Ian, you missed that it said TESLA on the light bulb as Nicolai Tesla was from Czechoslovakia.
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  45. Hi Ian, Dacia is pronounce Da-cha. My car is 1 year or 10,000 miles for an oil change. Modern synthetic oils last longer that the old 30w-50 oils. my car takes 10w-30. The cost of oil in UK is high approximately $55 for a US gallon. Add to that the labour charge at a garage and an oil change + filter is $140+
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  46. Freud was Austrian!
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  47. That Florida video was poor. The actual door is more like an internal door than external as it has no security. Ian, you front door is weak! Just break glass reach inside & open the door. In UK for home insurance you have to have a British Standards lock fitted to exterior doors otherwise you insurance will be either more expensive or you will be refused coverage. Most door have 2 locks fitted: a Yale latch (key operated to open but locks automatically. Better with a deadbolt) plus a 5 Lever Mortice that locks and unlocks with a different key. No good having good locks and a weak door frame that will shattered after a couple of kicks, so you really need hinge bolts plus in a high crime area the door hinges should be stainless steel not brass. If you have a uPVC front door it will have a multi-point locking system incorporated.
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  48. Higher value coins are smaller because the alloy is different & the coins cost more to produce. In UK it was more common to pay overtime ( 1 1/2 and x2). Since shops started opening 7 days a week & public holidays businesses have switched to paying standard rate; I think the only difference is nightly rate if you work 10pm to 6 am. Arugula is Rocket, Cilantro is Coriander.
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  49. Football is popular because as a kid you just need a ball; no equipment, helmets, bats, gloves etc. He didn't mention injury time and extra time. Have a look at The most BRUTAL match in English Football History. If you can see if you can watch the movie The Damned United about Leeds FC. I checked, you can rent it from apple TV, Amazon, Google & YT. 98 minutes of drama
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  50. The dark blue train with the yellow nose is a Hitachi Javelin on HS1 (high speed 1). There is a simple explanation why the USA doesn't have high speed trains: very cheap gasoline prices, untaxed aviation fuel(kerosene) plus politicians bought & paid for by car lobbyists & Boeing ( "freedom" & domestic flights that are closed to international airline competition)
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