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I love Danny’s alliterations. When Simon nails them he always scoffs and mocks them. When he messed them up he always says something like why do you do this to me, Danny?

Oh, good, Danny recovered from eating the bad radiator mushrooms.

Simon: Mocks Americans for their lack of geographical knowledge outside America.

Also Simon: Doesn't know the location of anything north of Watford Gap sevices.

Never change, Fact Boy, never change.

When I was a kid my parents bought us a karaoke machine with a built-in dual cassette deck so you could record your own singing with backing tracks. My sister and I used it to make a tape of us making monster sounds over a tape of a local radio station. Then we told our 5 year old younger sister the monsters were coming through the radio to get her. She was terrified, but in retrospect she would've believed anything and what we did was really mean. I'm sure glad our stupid prank didn't become a town-wide hoax or an urban legend I'd find YouTube videos about decades later 😂

Simon: curious and patient enough to look up antedeluvian.

Also Simon: too impatient to scroll down to the second definition, which would fit the context perfectly. Learns nothing.


Heh

Just ribbing you. Love the humor and modesty you regularly bring to the very well written content.

This reminds me so much about something a school mate and I used to do, which was penpal books. We made up fictional characters, who would get in contact with each other through a trans-dimensional penpal agency and wrote each other letters about their lives. Each book had a different set of characters. It was a lot of fun. 😅

The most astonishing aspect of the Dodleston Messages mystery is that it's been around for forty years, and has not yet featured in an episode of Doctor Who. Thomas Hawarden's "leems boyste" might very well refer to the TARDIS...

Danny, I missed you

FYI, Back in the early 80's there was no task manager. If you did the three-fingered salute (Control+Alt+Delete) the computer would reboot. There was no dialog asking if you really mean it, it just rebooted.

I felt this was really fun and creative, even if it was a mundane prank. That’s a lot of really speculative thinking at a time when home computers barely existed.

I like how Simon doesn't discourage kids from viewing his content. For the most part anyway. He's well aware a kid could be out doing a lot worse things than watching an explicit but informative video.

I have to wonder how many brain cells poor Danny lost while researching this garbage.  Thanks for taking one for the team, mate!  👍

I’ve got a friend who swears that she’s time travelled, albeit against her will and at random. It’s incredibly annoying because  she 100% believes that she has and tries to tell me about it sometimes. I try to ignore it the best I can and tell her it’s all in her head in the nicest way possible, people don’t like it when you insist that it’s just their mental illness

Man, I'd hate to see Simon team up with Shane on a ghost hunt, poor Ryan would be annihilated by their incessant mockery, dripping sarcasm, and general contempt for the irrational ridiculous belief in ghosts and all things supernatural 😭👻🧟‍♂️🧛

Considering how long Simon has been on the internet the amount of things he has never heard of is astounding.

Simon you big brain! It’s the Society for PSYCHICAL (sai-ki-kl) Research, not to be confused with physical research. Expanded pronunciation guide for more English words Danny. Didn’t you Brits invent the language? Love your work Simon, don’t ever quit.

What a fun journey this was, once the UFOlogist got involved I knew things were going to get very stupid. (Also audio levels are so much better now, I can understand Simon super clearly over the background music.)

Hello peeps, i just wanted to say that i had a similar paint problem when i moved to an old house where the bedroom was painted with old 50+ years old oil paint patterns on the walls and the paint had some zinc and other particles in it to make it more vibrant, i painted over the pattern like 7 times and it still showed trough, eventually i had to scrape off the walls till i removed the old paint and then some basically almost to the bricks to get rid of the damn paint patterns showing trough.

6:42 we lived with close friends for a few years, it was super fun! We had big meals together most nights, and it was fun just hanging out with the tv together or chilling in a bedroom together, without having to arrange it all.

The “family unit” of two adults and kids is pretty weird in terms of human history, and having friends, grandparents, and other people live with you was very common in most of human history (and still is in some cultures).

We found it reduced our stress because we had a bit more (voluntary!) support with the kids, and everyone had people to vent to when worried/grumpy, and it obviously makes the bills cheaper too!

But I couldn’t do it with random strangers, only family or friends who are close enough to be like family.