Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Fascinating Horror" channel.

  1. Yup. "Bully Beef" is still not uncommon as a term in the UK to this day 🙂 .
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  2. A bit like the Challenger disaster; a small amount of Aluminium slag was all that kept the Shuttle's launch vehicle from exploding on the launch pad, instead of a couple of miles up. Given how many spectators there were that day and that the entire launch pad could have been destroyed (several Soviet launch accidents illustrate this quite well), NASA got off easy via sheer luck for the size of their blunder 🤔 . (though the unlucky Shuttle crew didn't, all paying with their lives)
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  3. Always got quite an admiration for Firemen; those who rush toward danger as a career. The dark side to it though is while such a job can be exciting... it also has some really horrific moments, such as the Firemen who had to attend that Tube fire in London, or the Grenfell debacle. (why anyone ever thought a Tower Block with only one stairwell & substandard fire safety measures [even for the time] was a good idea, I will never know [1970's town planners have much to answer for])
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  4. ^ Nah. That's just a strawman argument used by cheapskates in the Industry; people like them were to blame for Ronan Point.
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  5. ^ Be quiet. The reality is the cans should have been stored In a cool dry place (like is says on the ruddy packaging), and it wasn't, which only made the level of contamination in the cans even worse. Same thing with the severely lacking cleanliness measures on the store and its food preparation procedures... or lack thereof. Most tragedies have a chain of f'ups from source to result l, not just one.
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  6. Technicality; the Corned Beef didn't need to be refrigerated, but it should have been stored in a cool dry place ... which is the opposite of a shop window in any country 😂
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  7. @SkunkApe407  Refrigerating may be re' bottled and canned goods, but stowing the goods out of hot & wet situations certainly is relevant, and is still a problem in retail today.
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  8. Yup. This was BR's screwup, first and foremost. They neglected trackside mantainance, and were complacent about cattle on the line.
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  9. This was one of the reasons TU-144 lost out to Concord' (an ostensibly smaller aircraft); TU-144 couldn't truly Supercruise . Other points of inferiority were: • Less advanced Wheel Brakes; the reason she needed braking parachutes. • A less well devised Ogival Delta wing. • Far noisier Air Conditioning; one of the reasons the cabin was so loud. • Much more vibration during supersonic flight, due to the placement of the engines; they reduced the issue post-prototype but never fully fixed it. ...and so much more. The TU-144 was an impressive effort for a country as technically backward as the USSR, and did lead to technical advancements on their side... but at the same time showed in stark relief how behind the west they really were, in almost everything that could be measured 🤔 .
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  10. ^ The US put boots on the Moon repeatedly; the Soviets failed to even do so once... and failed to develop any rockets comparable to the Saturn V. Indeed; the Kremlin themselves considered the Space Race lost after Korolev suddenly died, and Apollo 11 demonstrated thst NASA could always outspend, out-develop & outreach anything the Soviets produced. It's now a US based company that's the main pioneer in space flight, doing what both NASA & the Soviets have long claimed impossible 😂 .
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  11. Nah. It was the ""customers"" fault. The shop should have refused to open at all after the pushing started, called the Police sooner, and had the mob prosecuted as a whole for murder (it's not accidental when showing no tangible effort to stop snd help a person your own actions saw trampled) and willful destruction of property. Retailers are too soft on scum, and as such encourage more such behaviour.
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  12. Not to be the level headed one on the interweb or anything: It's easy to criticise a minister in hindsight, without the context of what amount of information he had at that time, and what advice he was receiving from the civil service and industry experts. Thatcher after all took a soft approach to PRC demands over Hong Kong (despite recent victory over Argentina), only because she was given bad advice by the military, whom believed [incorrectly] that HK Island couldn't be defended militarily, and that there weren't solutions to the PRC wanting the mainland bit back.
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  13. Having worked in retail, I would say never to buy chocolate from stores that are tabgibly hot in the summer, as the expiry date is thus worthless, and the likelihood of getting ill very high.
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  14. @rebeccajeane8287  Yeah~ knew there was a reason I've never touched the stuff 😆
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  15.  @marhawkman303  Yup. The passenger 'plane derivative of the TU-95 Bear; probably one of the B-29's oddest but most impressive relations 😆 .
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  16. ^ Not true actually. Grenfell was found to have numerous avenues for fire to spread between internal compartments (rending the entire concept of the tower somehow being safer than usual housing moot), due to inadequate measures to prevent cable & pipe penetrations being fire conduits. Alongwith this, the safety measures re' electrical cutouts were substandard (the fire was caused by a defective appliance catching fire because the circuit didn't trip), many of the firedoors were missing, open or not actual firedoors, resulting in toxic smoke entering & rending the stairway unusable. A tower having two stairwells doubles the evacuation rate, and halves the risk of an issue in the tower taking out the route of escape. The only motive Grenfell's designers had for not fitting two, was penny pinching over safety; plain and simple. The place was always a death trap, long before the refit. The latter just made a high profile incident more likely.
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  17. A few details about the Doodlebug, or Buzz Bomb : • It was the V1, not V2. • It was a Luftwaffe project, and one of the first standoff weapons (yes, they sometimes launched them from HE-111 bombers) • They were loud; emitting a constant droning sound, until the motor cut out and you knew to take cover. • The first one to reach Britain missed its intended target completely, and ended up blowing up a few mildly annoyed Spuds in a farmers field. • They were fairly fast, as it took late model Spitfires, Mosquitoes and the few Gloster Meteor's available at the time to catch upto them. • If hit by AAA or a fighter's guns, the V1 would violently explode, so RAF pilots preferred to either tip them, or shoot at angles were they weren't in the V1's wake at the time.
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  18. 1,200+ views in 15 minutes: now that's YouTubering 😌👌
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  19.  @marhawkman303  Some of the configurations they set the 'plane's up with certainly were for the time 🤔
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  20. On Trains, most Buses & Coaches, they are generally impractical. In Cars and commercial vehicles it's possible to fit proper seat belts, which is why they're mandated in cars built after 1983 or so (in the UK anyway).
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  21. "3 min's ago" "152 views" A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one 🤔
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  22. "4min's ago" An unexpected occurance to be sure, but a welcome one
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  23. @euanmorse  It's also notable that while the engines used on Concord and TU-144 both had origins in Jet Bombers, BSEL's Olympus (which first saw use with the 2nd AVRO Vulcan prototype in September 1953) had been through three stages of development before it'd even reached Concord, in an industry that already had aircraft capable of supercruising with smaller engines. Given how backward Soviet aviation was in many areas (and had been since the Russian Civil War had completely destroyed what they'd had in WWI), their decision to go all in with making a commercial SST was equal parts ambition and insanity 🤔😅 .
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  24. Having worked for Amazon at their Ridgmont depot in the UK (one of their largest in the world), I'd disagree. O-Shopping has its uses, but physical shops treat their staff far more like human beings 😅 (proportionally at least; there's much I could say of having work in retail too; albeit none of it as bad)
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  25. 07:00 Imagine being the Mexican Military in the few minutes before the type of explosion was fully clarified 😅
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  26. @helenamcginty4920  Oh I don't disagree about the weather up north being grimmer / wetter & rougher; other factors though behind Vitamin D deficiency though are availability of appropriate fruits and that sunshine abating pollution used to be far worse 🤔 . (there's quite a few cities and towns down south where rickets and other Vitamin deficiencies were issues during the industrial revolution... though diet was applicable there too)
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  27. Amen. Holidays should be for relaxation and a relief from the rat race, not an extension of it.
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  28. Bit of a big brush you're tarring with there 👾 .
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  29. ^ How much more that's used though... that's down to the quality of engineering at hand.
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  30. @twistedyogert  In short: it's a turbojet or turbofan engine advanced enough that it only requires the afterburner during Takeoff, and doesn't require it to mantain supersonic or hypersonic speeds.
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  31. 70ft tall, in the common definition. A Storey is usually defined at 10ft per storey (not always though).
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  32. ​@bemusedbandersnatch2069 Yup. Hindsight is a cruel mistress we all are subject to 🤔
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  33. Given the many steps BAC had to overcome with regard to developing engines, computer controlled intakes, developing a viable Droop Nose, and more... for an all new aircraft in the late-'50's & '60's... revolutionary doesn't really describe it well enough 😅 . Without the R&D work on the BSEL Olympus & on supersonic intakes that BAC had undertaken with TSR-2, it's unlikely that Concord wouldn't have needed several years more work.
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  34. I'd counterpoint that one of the circus staff risked his own life to run ahead of Tike, trying to keep bystanders away from her and calm the situation somewhat. That, and the quantity of people that work in wildlife conservation, including for Elephants.
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  35. Stuff like this is why I don't bother with outdoor concerts at all: it always brings out the worst in people, often with minimal effort.
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  36. ​ @shadowflash705  Sounds about right. Oldschool Volvo's were designed for what was called The Elk Test , where hitting a large deer at 40mph had to be surrvivable, with the car able to get the occupants home.
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  37. Very wise. Here in the UK the imposition of this "holiday" some years back was deeply unpopular, and I'm happy to say remains the subject of scathing derision. Fortunately nobody's ever been so daft as to be aggressive to me while going about my business in a shop (I avoid BF though for all but milk or the regular bare essentials run), as they'd soon find the nearest hand manipulatable object being introduced to them at high speed 😂 .
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  38. A better approach would be to abolish ""Black Friday"" altogether. A move that would be immediately popular here in the UK, as we hate the bloody thing and never wanted it.
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  39. As CGP Grey once put it: "If it's on a farm, it's domesticated. If it's in a Circus, it's tamed." Elephants have never been domesticated, not because it's impossible (as with Zebra), but because unlike Horses they have surprisingly complex breeding practices, and vastly larger food, drink & fodder requirements 😅 . (an adult female African Elephant for instance, can consume more than three Bathfulls of water... every day) This's to say that Tike was definitely treated poorly when young, as generally an Elephant that's raised and cared for well, will reciprocate positively 🙂 .
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  40. @Gidi66  Fair enough 😌👍
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  41. @jefferoni1984  No disagreement there. Canned and Bottled goods these days even state as much on the label.
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  42. @kingcockroach.  No disagreement there. Bottled & canned food is supposed to be fridged once opened.
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  43. @lorrainewolfe9430  That's called being lucky lad 😆 . I've surrvived eating out of date food on various occasions; doesn't make it a good idea though.
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  44. Amen. I'm British though so am thus conditioned to loathe American holidays - especially ones imposed on us by our own hateful government- as a matter of principle 😂
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  45. Nah. A couple of Glaswegians have also noted they hadn't heard of it. (I'm of Glaswegian stock too, yet was also unfamiliar with it) By contrast; every Brit' with a passing interest in disasters has heard of Piper Alpha, which happened far further north than this.
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  46. ^ Not on your chinny chin chin, spambot :P
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  47. Aye; it's as if some people think Bacteria don't exist XD
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  48.  @davidjones332  Well said. Can't quite understand why a handful of people go out of their way to defend BR; oneof the worst Rail Corporations in history 🤔😅
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  49. @davidjones332  I see where you're coming from, but in a situation where screw-ups / willful negligence costs lives, I take the view that I'm not being "harsh" enough, and that BR was allowed to get away with negligent homicide. That; and BR as forced mega-mergers is concerned was a fundamentally bad idea from the start, a bit like BAC in 1957 and BLMC of 1967; the very concept of nationalising the entire rail network was fundamentally bad from the start, and unpopular at the time (a detail often overlooked). It's no coincidence that government interference in the Railways post-WWI tallies with when the railways started to lose money overall... and that post-WWII all they ever did was lose money, despite being an essential part of the nation's infrastructure. It's also no coincidence that BR did more to denude the country of railways, than the Germans' efforts across 10 combined years of total war. I agree that APT was scuppered purely by underfunding (especially relative to Concord) and incompetent press management, and have always personally liked the InterCity 125 & 225, but can also say with certainty that the railways wouldn't have ended up in their overall postwar state as heavy loss makers, had the government kept its hands off, and simply supported the companies whom had built and knew how to run the railways... instead of the civil service beaucratic empire builders being delusional enough to think they knew better.
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  50. ​ @warailawildrunner5300 Amen. To us Brit's queuing is a national pass time, that we take very seriously. So much so that queue jumping gets menacing tutting at least, and a clenched fist to the bonce at worst.
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