Would anyone be able to rehome my pet. I recently adopted this pet and named him Henry. But I need to find him a new home as he is a pain to live with, as he keeps me awake at night with his high pitch buzzing. Apart from that he is very low maintenance. You don't even need to buy him any food as you can feed him yourself. If anyone could provide a loving home for him please let me know.
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Its the annoying lift music competition time! Everyone is welcome to participate. You need to have around £20 to take part (to buy a speaker). This is a competition of who's annoying music speaker will last the longest. Each participant will place a speaker on top of a lift, and the speaker that lasts the longest before getting removed wins the competition.
For a fair competition all of the speakers will be playing the same music. These will be the most annoying irritating songs possible. Everyone is welcome to suggest songs to include, but they need to be out of copyright. Also everyone is welcome to submit music they have made to be used in the competition. This can be anything that people will find irritating to listen to, it can even be just making weird sounds into your microphone with a backing beat.
For a fair competition, everyone must agree follow the same set rules. Here is an example of what rules there should be....
1. Each person must have a plug in speaker (not battery powered) that is capable of playing music from an SD card or internal storage.
2. The speaker must have the ability to keep playing the same audio file on repeat continually 24 hours a day.
3. Every participants speaker must be playing the same audio file of annoying music (created from content submitted to us). The music chosen must be something that people will find clingy and irritating to hear.
4. The speaker must be placed on top of a lift and be loud enough to clearly be heard inside the lift.
5. The lift chosen must have plenty of people using it (it can't be a lift that is rarely used).
6. You accept that you most likely will loose the speaker once it is removed (it will probably get removed by security or an engineer).
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London needs an amphibious duck bus. And I do NOT mean a tourist traction like "Duck tours". I am talking about a proper TFL regular bus route, using the same bus fare as all of the other routes. A good route would be Abbey Wood station to Barking station. This will make the superloop actually become a loop.
The route would have 6 stops... Abbey Wood station, Thamesmead flyover, Thamesmead riverside, Barking industrial estate, Barking high street and Barking station.
The thing where TFL has screwed up is the new Barking riverside station, which is supposed to be extended in the future to Abbey Wood, but the station has been built on a too low viaduct, so if this was extended across the river the bridge would be too low, limiting the height of shipping, which would probably complain and make a legal challenge, making the Abbey Wood extension less and less likely to happen.
But for the meantime it would not cost much to build 2 slipways and buy 9 duck buses, which would allow access across this part of the river, which is currently a huge barrier to travelling across the city. This route would take 25 mins to travel the entire length, and have around 6 to 8 buses serving it, and a couple of spares. So the total cost of 2 slipways and 10 duck buses would be around £10 million which is actually very cheap for a new river crossing.
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Here is a challenge for my long time viewers. Here are 5 AI illustrations of my all time favorite moments from my videos. Can you work out what these 5 moments are?
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Collectable mini figures for surfers of all types (except surfing in the sea, as that's boring).
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As I have been on airplanes a lot, I have thinking of ways that cheap flights could be made better, and I have come up with an idea. My idea is permanently reclined seats. The issue of reclined in economy class and budget airlines is that there is not enough space. Not much recline is possible without getting in the way of the passenger behind. Usually the way to resolve that would be to make the seats further apart. but this defeats the object of the issue, as this would make the price of the fare increase. So the aim of the exercise is to design a better seat that is easier to sleep on, but WITHOUT reducing the capacity of the airplane.
The problem with a seat that can recline is that space is needed for both the reclined and upright positions, which wastes space, however if the seat was to be permanently reclined this would no longer be an issue. So working with the space available (30 inch on RyanAir and 28 inch on WizzAir) how could a seat be designed to be as reclined as possible? As it would not be possible to lie flat, then having knees and hips at a sitting position, but reclined, would be the best option. Think of a toddlers car sat. Then maximize the recline for the space available.
Now there are a few issues with this, which means that this seat idea would not be suitable for all passengers. The following issues are...
1. The seat is fixed. You would be sitting reclined for the entire flight, from the moment you board the plane until you disembark the plane. Some people will not like this. It would not be easy to eat, drink or chat to friends while using this seat.
2. The other issue is that you can not stand straight while entering or exiting the seat. You would have to lean backwards and climb into the seat. This means that only abled bodied people can use these seats, to not impede the speed of an evacuation.
3. The other issue is crash protection and the G force of extreme braking. Usually seats can not be reclined for take off and landing. However on these seats the recline is permanent. But there is a way to resolve this. The seats would have to face backwards so that the braking G force would not push people off the seat. And the usual 2 point seatbelt would not be effective in the recline position, so instead a full harness 4 point seat belt would have to be used. You would be tightly held in place in the seat, like a toddler in a car seat. Some people would not like this.
The idea of this is not to replace all seats on the airplane (plus it is not suitable for disabled people in the event of an evacuation). Nor is the idea to make the perfect plane seat (go to business class if you want that). What the purpose of this is, is to give passengers in economy class a choice. They can either have a regular not so comfortable seat that is hard to sleep in, but gives the freedoms of a seat. Or they can choose a comfortable reclined seat to sleep in, but it is a very restrictive and they can't sit up in it. I would personally chose the reclined seat if the choice was there.
The question is, as there should be no difference in cost for the reclined seat (as it takes up the same space), would you chose this seat, or a regular seat? And what percentage of the airplane seats should be the reclined type? The number of reclined seats should match the percentage of the people who would want this seat type, otherwise people would end up sitting in a seat that is not their preference.
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YouTube has notified me that I have been on YouTube for 16 years. What am I even supposed to say. I have been on YouTube a very long time. I am not sure what I thought when I started my YouTube channel. Didn't even think about what it would be like after having done it for 16 years. My biggest regret was not starting sooner. There was so much interesting stuff in 2007, but I only thought of making a YouTube channel in 2009. If I had started in 2007 I could have filmed slam door trains, loads of old lifts that have now been replaced, especially things that have completely disappeared without being documented, such as the train station Aldous and Campbell lifts. So much history I could have preserved on camera if I had started 2 years earlier.
It is honestly weird to think that I have been doing YouTube for 16 years. About half of my friends are younger than this. It just seems so strange when to be talking to someone and suddenly realizing that when I uploaded my first video, this person was not even alive. I do feel sad for the younger lift enthusiasts that they never got to see that amazing lifts that I got to see, such as the advanced relay lifts, intelligent levelling relay lifts, and multiple relay lifts in a set (which are all things that are now almost extinct).
Ultimately I do not know where to go with this channel. I have now pretty much seen everything there is to see with lifts. The last big thing I needed to see was lifts in America, where there are models that we don't get in Europe. And now I have finally done this, that pretty much concludes everything there is for me to do with lifts. So I am now stuck for ideas. I know that if I ask for suggestions on what to film I will have loads of people asking me to come to their small scale town center to visit low rise lifts that I just can't get excited about anymore. I have kept this hobby going for much longer than most people, and I have now reached the stage where I have reached the limit of what I can do with lifts. I have completed the hobby.
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The comments from people who think I am a noob and don't know UK law do make me laugh.
Anyway does anyone want a free crane driving lesson?
I can teach you to drive a tower crane without permission at a building site!
Minimum requirements....
You are able to climb ladders and don't mind heights.
You have a genuine interest in engineering and cranes, and are not doing it just for thrill seeking.
You are not younger than 12 years old.
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Now this is what you call having an amazing childhood. See my video of how the children ride the trams in Egypt on rumble....
rumble.com/v5y4rxh-tram-surfing-with-the-locals-wi…
Egyptian children have a childhood that children in the UK couldn't even dream of. Egyptian children have the joy of freedom. Something that English children simply do not have. I believe that all children should have this level of freedom and this should never be taken away. To deprive a child of their freedom to fully enjoy the world is abuse, as far as I am concerned.
In the UK just think of the toxic negative reactive reaction if a child this young was to ride a train like this. Just think how shocked the BTP would be, and how the media would make a huge sensational news story out of it. It is disgusting. What is happening in the UK is repression. Children are forced, pressured by society, to give up their freedom and give up their happiness, and to give up their natural pure joy of being alive, and they get turned into adults who are dead inside. And by this I am not just talking about riding trains in unconventional way, but this is a symbol of a far bigger societal problem, which is that people have turned away from living life purely for the reason of enjoying their life.
British society does not value freedom or importance of enjoying being alive. In fact it values the opposite. And one of the biggest forms of repression in the UK is school. The entire school system is about bullying and control. Young children enter the school system full of happiness and potential, and if "successful" they leave the school system like a zombie, with everything good about life taken away from them. Teachers are bullies who's job is to take away children's creativity and to make them conform to being ready to enter the faceless world of crappy minimum wage jobs. The thing they often say is "think about your future", a statement made to make children think being happy and excited is wrong and not something they should be. Plus it also makes children falsely believe that job status matters and is what defines them. They make them believe a lie.
Lusting over status, and thinking status makes you worthwhile is falsehood. it is repression. It is used to make people turn away fro happiness, and become slaves to the system. The truth is that status means nothing. I am talking about both the status you feel of what job you have, plus the status of buying expensive status symbol items, which is usually an expensive car. There is nothing desirable about having an expensive car, it doesn't make you a better person, and it does not make your life better, and it does not bring you joy beyond the first month of owning it. If you believe a Lamborghini is a desirable car to own then you are brainwashed. You are believing a lie, a very expensive lie that makes you waste away your life working long hours to afford a meaningless item that you don't need. Plus more than that, it makes you put your energy into pursuing the effort into the long process of getting a high paying job, and the years of effort working towards this. Also, it is worth noting that I have been to university and got a 3 year degree in computer science. I also (to some extend) believed in this lie. But I woke up to realizing it was a lie when all the jobs that I was offered or expected to have as the point of getting the degree, were all full time long hours jobs, which were to earn money to buy crap that I didn't need, to trick me into thinking it was worthwhile to waste hours in a job a didn't want.
I turned down jobs that paid £50,000 in order to pursue my dreams of travelling, exploring and surfing.
The problem of British society is that the pursuit of happiness and freedom is not valued. Society pressures people to do the opposite. Every singe form of the pursuit of happiness is met with pressure not to, and instead become normal and unhappy. Our entire society works on the basis that happiness is bad, and we should instead "think about our future" and "act like a normal person". The only form of happiness that is socially acceptable is the type that involves spending money, giving money away to corporations that want as much money from us as they can get. Things like drinking alcohol, attending expensive sporting events, paying for service that we most often wont use much, and of course spending money of objects we don't need. Anything that makes people spend money, to make people work longer hours to afford it, so that the country has more economic growth. One thing I have learnt from my travels in Africa is that the poorest people are often the happiest. While the pain of poverty takes away happiness, at the same time the fact that poor people have very little means they can still pursue pure enjoyment in a way that people who are chasing status have lost. The child in the photo come from a very impoverished area, but him and all the other people I met when riding the outside of the trams had a sense of joy that you would never see in the UK.
How we treat our children is WRONG. Our children deserve better than this. The most amazing thing that makes children special is that they have pure enjoyment. They can become interested in an activity of their own free will, and pursue that activity for no reason other than that they enjoy doing it. This pure enjoyment should be considered golden, the most important thing about life, something that should be treasured and never taken away. It should be criminal for any adult to socially pressure a child to not pursue their pure enjoyment. Yet this is what happens on a daily basis. Just walk down your local street and watch how most adults interact with children, and count how many times the child is told to stop doing the thing they are interested in, usually because they are told they "have to behave", or they are told they should be doing a different, for boring, activity that society proscribes.
Our morals in British society are WRONG. The way we view children is WRONG, the way we interact with children is WRONG. I feel that all adults should have the moral obligation to always go out of their way to help a child pursue the thing they are interested in. A child's interests are pure. A pure interest is not confined and should be considered sacred. Every adult should want to help children achieve their dream. Especially so if there are things that they have to learn to do an activity safely (e.g. surfing) as you wouldn't want a child to to do such things alone without the knowledge to be safe. It should be considered a positive thing when an adult teaches a child a skill.
What is wrong with UK society is that adults increasingly do not want anything to do with children. Society now pressures people to not be involved with children. This has to be one of the most toxic vile things to happen to society in the modern era. Nowadays a hate filled term often used is "you hang around with kids", which implies that people that enjoy the company of children have dark motives. It is utterly disgusting that society has turned into this. Interactions with children are some of the most wholesome interactions you can have.
I am fundamentally against the idea of "stranger danger". Firstly all societies on the planet will have people who do bad things. This is a fact of life. And the idea that separating children from adults stops bad people is false. If someone has bad intentions they will just go to greater lengths to carry them out. Meanwhile you are depriving adults and children of having wholesome interactions. You are depriving children from experiencing the world and the people in it who they can learn and gain experience from, and you are depriving adults of having interactions that are pure and untainted, which you can't have with another adult.
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I am honestly finding it depressing how so many adults have the attitude that if a young teenager wants to do an activity that has certain risks to it (lets say lift surfing) then the thing to do is telling them that it is bad and they are not to do it. But they know full well that the young teenager is still going to do the said activity, but will now do it in secret. I feel that adults do this to cover themselves and to attempt to make themselves look morally superior when they are not. If the young teenager had an accident doing the said activity, the adult would probably say something like "Well I told them not to do it and they didn't listen to me". I find this statement compactly unacceptable, as the adult knew full well that the young teenager was likely to do the activity. The adult is not morally covered just because they said not to do it. They knew full well that their actions made the teenager feel they couldn't reach out and ask advice for what they were planning on doing. In this situation the adult is in the wrong, the adult should not be seen as being morally correct. What the teenager needed is someone who knows the activity they felt they could trust to advice them on what is and isn't safe, and ideally someone experienced who could go with them, so they are not going alone.
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Hi, I'm Ben. Welcome to my channel.
Subscribe to my channel to see me going to places that people usually don't go, such as secret floors in buildings and abandoned places.
The things I enjoy the most are Old lifts, fast lifts, rare lifts, lifts with relay logic, automated metro systems (especially the VAL system), trams, buses with fast drivers, Voith gearboxes, Electric buses, hacking computers, secret floors in buildings, abandoned buildings, going places I am not allowed to go, traveling to different countries, DC PWM drives, and old style VF drives (AC PWM) which use a set pulsing pattern which drops pulses at certain stages creating interesting changes to the sound.
I am very interested in lifts. I love original old relay logic lifts, especially the very advanced relay systems which can contain hundreds of relays.
All of the activity in my videos is completely legal, I have checked this with my lawyers. I know the law and I do not break laws with my videos.