Fungus rock - the great placebo treasure (and the Mujahideen)

[@sesshyro]

"We love British" "Wh-what? For lunch?" *Driver shows plate* LMAO

[@Gunnarr123abc]

Katy Lee I don't get it! can it be explained

[@RolfHartmann]

Anonymous The license plate is a reference to the British Special Air Service, or SAS who were originally founded in 1941.

[@fnordiumendures138]

Anonymous In Russia, licence plate and diner plate are same.

[@Pilbsu]

Mads Jakobsen It's called a play on words. I'm not surprised a Russian would make such a smart joke in their non-native tongue, especially since Russians are the most educated people of the Earth.

[@lindybeige]

Pilbsu I think the extras were locals.

[@CruelDwarf]

They film Afganistan in Malta for a very simple reason. So filming crew and actors can have a payed vacation in a Mediterranean.

[@PieterBreda]

And not being killed by the Taliban is also a bonus

[@TheDCman99]

***** If there is any film being shot in the middle east, they always come to Malta for scenery.

[@TheDCman99]

Its cheap scenery I guess..? It has always baffeld me.

[@andreikravchenko312]

*****

[@LucasKellis]

***** There also may be reasons related to the tense military and political unrest in the Middle East just an assumption though.

[@jackalackb17]

Its good to see you point out the inaccuracies in a film before its even made. I would expect nothing less.

[@reikyfoxxe1847]

You should wear a pith helmet and a monocle as you go on your adventures lindy

[@j0nnyism]

A pith helmet in the Mediterranean? Absurd

[@bluesnail5042]

It's sad that the Azure Window has collapsed.

[@mr.svenson3406]

Mujahideen: We love British! Lloyd: What, for lunch? I don't know when I'll ever stop laughing

[@nordicnostalgia8106]

Here I thought he was talking about that little rock next to the actual island he was talking about.

[@Bulldog12189]

NordicNostalgia same

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Mismo

[@mookrage]

Same

[@goblinrat6119]

What was the historical significance of the lizard? Also, would you say that it was better or worse in a fight than a longsword? Could the lizard be dual-wielded? Please don't leave us hanging like that!

[@AnotherDuck]

***** But how well do normal lizards compare to the ones that can detach their tail?

[@lindybeige]

Goblin Rat The video is historical evidence that the lizard was there. This one had lost the tip of its tail, perhaps (no evidence for this) when it parried a katana.

[@iatebambismom]

Lindybeige It is possible to parry a katana? Even for a lizard, I find that difficult to believe.

[@TheBasjenator]

Goblin Rat Unscrew the tail and throw it.

[@DevilsAdvocateofnazareth]

TheBasjenator to end thy lizardless enemy rightly.

[@Elwood288]

There was a movie made which took place in my home town in west Texas. It's very flat here yet in the movie there were enormous mountains around the city. Directors truly do not care about accuracy.

[@VintageLJ]

Indiana Beige

[@MisterDusterix]

xD

[@The_Gallowglass]

VintageLJ No, trust me, he doesn't ever want to come to Indiana.

[@reypatey]

Indy Beige?

[@kagiusme]

“You will be rewarded with quite a nice site, the azure window” Post March 2017: bollocks..

[@goblinrat6119]

On a more serious note, it should be mentioned that many medieval cures and curative plants have been abandoned by modern science, despite actual effectiveness. For example, there is medieval antibiotic recipe that was discovered in old writings and was then tested a few months ago in a laboratory (in England, actually), and found to be very effective. Sometimes we just forget these things, or find other methods we prefer for the availability, ease of use or some other reason. So it's entirely possible that the plant actually does have some merit. Then again, it might not have. It's just that it's not all that impossible.

[@Theduckwebcomics]

Goblin Rat A lot of things are very effective in a lab though... but killing things in a pettri dish is different from real situations.

[@BitofEverythingRS]

Drunkduck For example bleech kills aids completely!!!...in a pettri dish.

[@goblinrat6119]

Drunkduck Well, this particular antibiotic was effective in killing even modern strains of bacteria that have already become resistant to the modern standard antibiotics. So there's obviously something there. The scientists who tested the recipe were very astonished. But yes. My point was mainly that simply because it's not used today doesn't mean it can't actually have merit. There are many other reasons than ineffectiveness that something might be forgotten or abandoned.

[@goblinrat6119]

***** Oh, sure sure. I'm not at all trying to say that we should start pouring all our time and effort into ancient medicine or trying to be a proponent of it. I just brought this up as a counterpoint to Lloyd saying that since we're not using a plant today, that probably means it didn't have actual medicinal value. I just mean that there's a lot of ancient knowledge we don't have today, and just looking at any historical debate quickly shows you that we really don't have all the facts, and have probably forgotten or abandoned actually useful things, as well. It's easy to think that science advances as a single, straightforward line, developing past discoveries and abandoning obsolete things, but sometimes we also simply forget. Especially when it comes to knowledge from times when information storing simply wasn't very good. There are plenty of mentions about historical inventions and techniques we don't have concrete knowledge of. Of course, there's also the fact that back in medieval times, even if a plant was fairly ineffective by the standards of modern medicine, it could still have been of tremendous value, simply because there weren't better alternatives. Even if you had a plant whose effectiveness was only, say, a quarter of modern medicine or less, that's still literally infinite times more than no medicine at all. So even if a plant is fairly worthless by modern standards due to weak effects, the need and utility for it back then might have been very real.

[@michaelhenman4887]

BitofEverything RS You can't kill AIDS, it is a condition, not an organism. Indeed it is not even correct to say it "kills" HIV, since a virus isn't recognised as a form of life.

[@raizin4908]

The Dutch mountain thing made me remember years back watching a scene in the anime D.Gray-Man, supposedly in the Netherlands. It had tulips as far as the eye could see (tulips don't grow in the wild, so tulip fields are not usually that large), _Spanish_ windmills, and mountains in in the background. (The Netherlands are as flat as a European pancake.)

[@braalkmath]

Sure, let's stay up and watch it at 4:45 AM. You are killing me with my thirst for knowledge

[@locust25VI]

Excellent video, Lindy. Your videos seem to be getting better and better. Very interesting topics.

[@annne023]

***** Seriously, such good stuff.

[@WhatIsSanity]

Even when I found out His name I still called Him Lindy.

[@dixonj41]

***** Lindy? Lloyd you mean?

[@WhatIsSanity]

Tiberivs Fortistvtivs Proelivs People still call Lloyd by the name of His channel all the time.

[@dixonj41]

Luke DS Ok fair enough

[@LaviniaDeMortalium]

"A...lizzard," should not have been as knee-slapping-ly funny as I've found it, but I've had a stressful day and these video's never fail to delight me. Apparently as do lizards.

[@L3monsta]

Vlad Masters I've never in my life felt like I related to another person as much as when I read your comment just now.

[@martinvranovsky7085]

Vlad Masters I laughed for a completely different reason. Maybe some of you will get it. "The... Larch." :D

[@HistoricaHungarica]

Martin Vranovsky And now... the horse chestnut!

[@samwilliams6820]

This channel is very much like a well-edited small key to times gone by. The short, almost documentary style works tremendously. Perhaps you could submit a CV to the BBC to perhaps host a new documentary?

[@PawelTheShrubber]

Sam Williams I think he already did, he was doing a pilot for documentary considering evolution. It was called "built for the stone age" you can check it out on his channel its one of the first videos he put up on YT.

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

his scepticism regarding climate change was probably a significant factor in him not getting anything other than an interesting youtube channel.

[@amitabhakusari2304]

They don't deserve this guy.

[@TheSquidPro]

How will the Irish fare at 300meters above sea level? FIND OUT ON THE NEXT EPISODE.

[@RobinDando2308]

***** I am deeply saddened that Dragonball Beige is not a real show. I would watch the hell out of it if it were.

[@nextlifeonearth]

TheSquidPro 322.7m is pretty high..... right? No, wait... the high part where I used to climb was in Belgium :|

[@amperzand9162]

+TheSquidPro Being 2/3 Irish and having climbed some reasonably tall mountains, I can confirm I remain functioning perfectly well at altitude. :V

[@nextlifeonearth]

Amperzand How can you be 2/3 Irish? Do you have 3 grandparents with one procreating asexually?

[@amperzand9162]

CapnTates One parent Irish, the other roughly half-Irish. :V

[@ShakesHalfBaked]

The title has everything - Fungus, Rock, Placebo, (and the Mujahideen). 10/10

[@milesbeler3974]

"He looks like British. REAL British" Best line ever!

[@blazednlovinit]

+Miles Beler We should all make efforts to live a little in the past like Lloyd.

[@alpharage1090]

That was easily the funniest ending message I have seen. Also the 'Location manageress' part was hilarious. This time you could rant about a film that wasn't even made yet.

[@mythousandfaces]

It's odd that I'm learning so much history about my own country from an Englishman on KZbin.

[@Dante_Eydel]

For those who don't know, a dutch mountain is never higher then 200 metres. It's funny because almost everywhere else they would call that a hill.

[@anamewillcomelater]

Rik Jongman For comparison, Ben Cleuch is a hill in Scotland. It is 721m.

[@Dante_Eydel]

***** True, there is some varying hight. For example the north-west part and the south-east of the Netherlands, north-west is around 5 metres below sealevel, south-east is 10 to 30 metres above it.

[@deepsouthredneck1]

Rik Jongman The hills outside my house are taller than that. I think a mountain is anything over 1,500 feet(457 meters) in the United States.

[@Dante_Eydel]

dreyrugr I thought a mountain was clasified at 1 km. (could be wrong though)

[@anamewillcomelater]

Rik Jongman Varies from country to country.

[@carlys8439]

one of the very best channels on youtube

[@MarkWarbington]

That was probably your most entertaining video yet! Too bad you had to steal the soul of that poor Mujahideen guy, but please assure him that it was worth it.

[@Maynard0504]

I'm still trying to figure out if it is possible to watch just one of your videos. You know, not get stuck watching a dozen of which I've already seen but just can't stop. Also the quality of your videos keeps getting better and better. You're awesome.

[@tomatkinson3989]

I've only just discovered you. You make me grin every day 😉 Thanks for the awesome knowledge.

[@PieterBreda]

We Dutch are indeed wel known for oud gimongous Mountains. The tallest one tops at an awe inspiring 300 meters. It is called the StPietersberg. The mountain of Saint Pieter. And have a look at my first name

[@hjorturerlend]

Pieter Batenburg In Denmark the highest "mountain" is around 200 meters high and is called "Himmelbjerget" - heaven´s or sky mountan... I´m pretty sure the name was meant as a joke, people weren´t THAT ignorant x)

[@PieterBreda]

so even lower than in my country. I have been to Denmark three times but in my memory there were a lot of flowing hills. Not high, but not that flat either

[@hjorturerlend]

Hills? Yes, but no mountains... Even "Sky Mountain" is just a gentle slope x)

[@rjfaber1991]

hjorturerlend The thing with the St. Pietersberg is that it is the highest point in the Netherlands, but after that, it drops down fast. The second highest point, the Torenberg (literally "tower mountain", and therefore also probably a joke) is only 110m high.

[@jake_russ]

hjorturerlend For some reason I'd always thought Denmark would have large mountains... guess I was mistaken. Maybe me living in the Rockies of Canada all my life has skewed my perspective.

[@JuanPyro]

Interesting videos Sir! I'm Maltese. I enjoyed seeing your three videos about Malta.

[@call_sign_Nomad]

My favourite KZbin channel! Thanks!

[@Whatever4690]

You might like rhodes, very attractive island with lots of historical sites. Though when i was there i was more focused on the nightlife of the more wild side of it. Shame the colossus is gone.

[@lindybeige]

Whatever4690 I've not been to Rhodes. It's on my list.

[@modestMouseism]

Lindybeige What is your opinion on Sicily and Southern Italy? An archeological heaven, it seemed to me.

[@Leonard89008]

Your best video until now!

[@ifonlyicouldstop]

Lindy, Lindy, Lindy. I would remind you of the 8th (King's royal irish) Hussars (Egypt & Afghanistan), Connaught Rangers (middle east), The Royal Dublin fusiliers (Egypt), The royal Irish regiment recently serving in Afghanistan, the Irish Rangers serving in South Sudan & regulars serving on UN peacekeeping duty in Lebanon. Now a Dutch mountain, I guess any of the mountains on the Caribbean Islands of Aruba, Curacao, Sint Martin, Bonaire, Saba or Sint Eustatius. It'd take one hell of a script writer to Marry those together though. Best of luck finding one.

[@asArsenic]

I distinctly remember battling my way across a rail bridge over a chasm that was ostensibly just outside Rotterdam in one of the earlier Call of Duty games, that got a good chuckle out of me.

[@alessioyautja612]

A very interesting video, that land locked reference made me chuckle a bit ^^

[@absolutelyheretical7132]

What an awesome view behind you! :)

[@lcma2643]

I think the film crew is using this place as a stand-in for Band-e Amir, which has a pretty similar looking coastline. They may drop in another cliff as cgi to make it look as a lake. Or not film that angle altogether.

[@PsycoRevolution]

Lindy is an awesome travel host. :D

[@trebacca9]

Lloyd, have you ever considered voice-over work? Your voice is quite good for it, your accent is pleasant to listen to, and you're certainly articulate enough. That, and I would watch any movie with your narration in a heartbeat, so long as they let you throw in a few unscripted bits.

[@elenap15227]

I was just thinking about how soon the azure window would collapse and if it would be in my lifetime... Then I read the description

[@admiralgoodboy]

Very nice ending lindybeige as always

[@debries1553]

a dutch mountain-top, now that's a true fantasy setting.

[@shinminmetroskyline]

Just to be a fun hating pedant, but the highest Dutch mountain was 4,884m high. Puncak Jaya in what is is now the Papua Province, Indonesia

[@debries1553]

Jessi Ellen's No. 1 Fan That's like saying you can walk from Britain to France because they once had adjacent colonies. Above sea level. Just so we're clear.

[@shinminmetroskyline]

No, I said Dutch. As in owned by the Netherlands, not in the Netherlands. You could walk from British Territory to French Territory. And yes. Above Sea level.

[@shinminmetroskyline]

Unless of course you were referring to the fact that my scenario occurred in the past. But who says the movie can't be historical :P

[@mythousandfaces]

You were in the area where they filmed the Dothraki wedding for Game of Thrones.

[@lajospapp258]

mythousandfaces Nice catch!

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

mythousandfaces pretty good wedding, but none can make them as good as Lord Frey's (by dothraki standards)

[@mythousandfaces]

***** True, but that one (thankfully) wasn't shot in my country.

[@truongtin3911]

mythousandfaces yea, he forgot the historical wedding of khal drogo and daenerys.

[@The_Gallowglass]

Trường Tín I preferred the after-wedding. ;)

[@TheFish711]

3:20 the Minecraft water noise

[@anthonybrown2497]

I've been there, and even scuba dived through it :D It's kinda sad to see no divers in your video, it just shows that the film crew are stopping popular dive sites from being used just for their footage. When I went last October it was the opposite side of the island that they weren't allowing divers into what means I missed out a a couple great shipwreaks, yet I still got the Karwela and Cominoland done. If you are still on that island lindy there are some old school mortar holes that were just dug into the ground and used to send rocks flying at ships all around the coast, hunting down the Karwela and Cominoland dive site defiantly has one there before you enter the water, and you can see the dark silhouette of the boats from shore.

[@EMWUZX]

Loved the vibe of this video.

[@MatikaSkirata]

Went to Malta im August this year, sadly the window colapsed in march so I didnt get a chance to look at it... but under water it is interesting now with all the huge rocks lying around

[@Zthreve]

You do a really good travel narration,

[@Mike.Howard]

Alas, the Azure Window collapsed in stormy weather on 8 March 2017. I once spent time around there (while waiting for the last bus as well!)

[@theearlofsandwich5390]

These look very similar to Banksia Trees in Australia. The corn cob shaped section looks to be surrounded by seed pods - just like the Banksia.

[@prechabahnglai103]

Let just say its one of those sand illusion

[@MrMortonScience]

Reminds me of my exploring the Kyklades last year, great stuff

[@4TheWinQuinn]

Great video as always!

[@GorbonM]

I hope you're having/you had a good time in Malta. If you know where to go (and you seem well informed), you'll find quite a lot of interesting things here.

[@TheAyeAye1]

That was fun. Thanks for the upload. I'd suggest a hat with a tighter weave for better sun protection.

[@JackJonesYom]

Good thing he got it on film; the azure window collapsed a few days ago

[@AnimalStomper]

your videos are well crafted

[@IsaacBTTF]

I've been looking forward to see another video on Malta. BDW Lindybeige The Fungus Rock is still know to the Maltese and Gozitans as The General's Rock ( Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral in Maltese).

[@TF8ase]

Very interesting. Also that does seem like a beautiful view

[@matthewcurmi8016]

I am sorry to tell you this but the Azure Window collapsed in a storm.

[@HzHzder]

Loved it, you are great man!

[@marcodatreviso9619]

"Veneral disease ... Not that any knights would have that, you understand?!" that's finesse, thumbs up for sir Lindybeige

[@KawauMusic]

Beautiful pictures!

[@isaacfullerton]

3:19 minecraft sound effect, they're royalty free though.

[@calska140]

"A lizard" Absolutely fascinating

[@garyreynolds5733]

The Azure window sadly collapsed the late Spring of 2017 during stormy weather. There's a mighty nothingness there now. Sad news. I crept the self same route on jaggardy rocks, as did Lloyd. Some were walking on the top, but that seemed sacrilegious or something. There's was quite a swell over those rocks when I was there; not a swimming day, but dazzlingly beautiful in the evening light.

[@CaptWesStarwind]

It's official, I can literally listen to you talk about anything. This video could have been three hours long and I wouldn't have batted an eye.

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

The SAS actually have the letters "SAS" as a prefix on the registration plates of all their operational vehicles. Because it is cool and clearly does not draw any unwanted attention to them :)

[@DoctorKandosii]

At the time of me leaving this comment, I'm sad to say that the Azure Window has collapsed in a storm. It had been on the cards for a while now. That's geology for you.

[@wakaka2waka]

Lloyd does look like a real british. This is how I pictured brits to be when I was young. Needless to say, I was awfully disappointed when I met real ones. One of the most disappointing moments of my life. Not fancy at all. No sense of decorum either.

[@80ki68]

wakaka2waka If you went around the Southwest (not quite down into the West Country, though, that's totally different) or the East Midlands, or East Anglia, I imagine there'd be some fancy fucks about.

[@TheSuzberry]

Is it the elbow patches?

[@professorwoland3181]

So, basically a US citizen

[@HammockerSam]

I learned something new today

[@gloriahoulihan8717]

Beautiful sunset.Good luck finding a Dutch mountain.

[@Gafanhoto555]

The best thing about this video is that its starts losing its point and go into internet randoness, nice one

[@baarni]

Lloyd you are a funny and interesting guy. It would be good to have a beer with you and listen to your thoughts.....

[@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot]

You're fortunate to have seen it. :)

[@RagnarokiaNG]

I guess it does need to have some effect on the bleeding, since even though the placebo works for the rest that can't be seen, stopping a rush of blood would probably have been easy to notice if it didn't work. Then again, it may have just been wrapped around it like a cloth and low and behold the bleeding stopped!....naturally, because it clotted.

[@KaiCalimatinus]

Was the filming of Achilles' dipping there from the Orlando Bloom version of Troy?

[@livedandletdie]

Irish Desert Troops on a Dutch Mountain Top... So Ginger people clad in 50 layers of cloth on a small hill approximately 2meters high but still below the surface of the ocean, I so look forward to that.

[@MrRostit]

Did you visit any of the locations used for the 2004 film Troy? The Azzio (Is this how you spell it?) looks a lot like the place Achilles' mum picks seashells.

[@lindybeige]

MrRostit Some of Troy was shot in Malta, so not impossible.

[@AverageAlien]

3:20 minecraft water sound lol

[@spinnirack3645]

"a lizard" that was hilarious

[@MalteseKat]

The Knights of Malta did have access to the plant on fungus Rock. They used it as a topical antibiotic. And that's documented.

[@yruijnaosd6645]

Indeed, the Netherlands are very famous for their enormously high mountains. (Sarcasm intended)

[@yruijnaosd6645]

I have to say that here in the south of the Netherlands we do have some "hills" - if you could call them even that - that we actually call mountains

[@yruijnaosd6645]

Like the "Sint Pietersberg" (Saint Peters Mountain) near Maastricht

[@lem12000]

haha the mountains in holland really beautiful i like climbing there haha

[@johnrutledge8181]

My father was thinking of a job for me. It was either working on a shrimp boat or at the golf course or at the butchery or the newspaper or since union carbide went out of business mabe the old hickory . My unkle used to work for Davey tree. My Gramp tried calling me little lord font Leroy once. We were on the other side of the Berlin Wall when it was up.

[@billread664]

I hear that the Extreme Sailing Series is thinking of adding them for next year.

[@atomicskull6405]

It's actually a parasitic plant, not a fungus, it lacks chlorophyll and consists of an underground rhizome that attaches itself to a host plant. The part that appears above ground is the flower spike, other than that it has no stems or leaves.

[@DaveMoustache]

Does that mean that we'll get to see Lindy swimming in the beautiful Afghan oceans in the upcoming blockbuster? :D

[@lindybeige]

DaveMoustache Afraid not.

[@longstryde7524]

malta is a lovely place with a very interesting history.

[@johnrutledge8181]

I have a collection of pith helmets that I found out here in the desert. Ehen I moved here in the 70s my best friend in grade school asked me where I come from. I I told him that our ancestors were enemies because I am sort of English and he is sort of Spanish. I must have read some books written by the dead people in school.

[@Taurevanime]

Well the Netherlands does have a mountain now. It's Mount Scenery in the Caribbean.

[@SpaceLaunchLabs]

Haha is that water sound at 3:19 from Minecraft? It sounds exactly like it.

[@RadioJonophone]

Alas and alack! The Azure Window is no more. It toppled into the sea a few years back.

[@keesdegroot6844]

just for the record Lloyd there are hardly any mountains in all of Netherlands and they are in limburg and if you are willing to face LIMBURG for it you get two rather large hills

[@Moridorable]

Holy fuck. Don't get decapitated, Lloyd.

[@MrShakey78]

Lindy, you probably know, but our Assure window is no more. It gave up the ghost a couple of months ago :'(

[@Havermeyer7908]

The Minecraft water sound affect got me

[@NevetsTSmith]

this'd make a great adventure hook in an rpg.

[@virgilxavier1]

Fun fact, there are actually venecian style gondolas on a lake/river east of Kabul.

[@nialltomy15]

What is the tune you use for your outro music? It is so catchy!

[@lindybeige]

BOT Greg It's the Stoke Mandeville march. It is my own, made for the series on my channel.