"5 Geography facts You’re WRONG About" | Not you but, people. | reaction

[@cuszco]

Simon "fact boy" Whistler might seem familiar because the dude figuratively runs half the channels on this platform 😂

[@Mathertron]

Hes got his game on lock tbf, I cant hate the guy :D

[@oxonomy2372]

The Mercator projection is based off the poles and the equator, it makes straight lines in the map correspond to constant compass bearings

[@johanvangijsegem9620]

correct, so you could use straight lines on your map to correspond to a straight course. Nothing to do with any political reason

[@dennydowling2169]

In an old geography book i had they had picture of how to imagine how the mercaror projwctiin can be imagined they showed it as a glibe wih ia lught bulb at the center surround the gobe with a huge sheet of paper turn in the light and trace the outlines of all the features on the outside of the paper. Lay it flat and you have the mercator projection.

[@MeFreeBee]

I get a little miffed at the constant maligning of the Mercator projection as some sort of nefarious Euro-centric plot. To be clear, the area distortion was no a goal but a compromise. True, it may not have become so popular if Europe and North America were the areas which came out as teeny-tiny, but is not the fault of the projection which was revolutionary in it's utility for navigation.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Mercator was designed so a straight line between any two points was a Rhumb Lines and could be used for navigation.

[@pheobebuffet3719]

Then maybe don't take history personally? You said it yourself, it probably wouldn't have been so popular if Europe & North America were as tiny. No one says its the "fault" of the projection, a map is just a thing. IT was distorted for navigation. No need to get miffed mate

[@DenUitvreter]

@@pheobebuffet3719 That's probably more a factor in North-America and the USA specifically. Only France and Germany could take sense of self importance from land mass and only relative to other European nations and those two weren't much of navigators. Western-Europeans only have to take a look East to know their lands are tiny, they don't need Africa for that.

[@MoodyMarco-vj3oe]

I agree, it's this fashionable these days to constantly criticise anything European.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@MoodyMarco-vj3oe It wasn't also very relevant to them. Distances had very little to do with the effort, they couldn't go inland Africa without shortening their life expectancy to less than a year anyway and even on the ocean currents and winds were much more important for the journey than the distance.

[@L30L005]

You definitely have seen Simon before. He has a lot of different channels but his biggest is probably Biographics.

[@NoProtocol]

I don’t recognize that one either, I’ll have a look

[@sopcannon]

i think he has about 8 channels

[@MrChaes]

@@sopcannon I wonder if he is a voice actor because he is on many sites and I believe I've heard him doing voice over in commercials

[@andrewhutchinson36]

He also does quite a few adverts, both in vision and as a voice over artist.

[@colormedubious4747]

@@NoProtocol He hosts videos on approximately 32,768 KZbin channels.

[@robertcampomizzi7988]

1:10 "Three Amigos" but i recommend "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

[@Tijuanabill]

Steve Martin in the sombrero is from "Three Amigos" with co-stars Chevy Chase and Martin Short. Its the trope of stars of Western films mistaken for actual heroes, while unwittingly participating in a real situation, that they think the film studio staged to entertain fans, all the while not speaking Spanish while in Mexico.

[@DerpMuse]

The original Tropic Thunder.

[@Lawrence-k4d]

The topic variety keeps me on my toes but I always leave your posts learning something I didn't know before. Thanks.

[@JustinB-123]

This is less of a misconception and more of a fun fact that I thought was surprising when I first heard it. The eastern most point of Brazil is significantly closer to Africa than it is to western most point of Brazil.

[@NoProtocol]

This was a good one. Hadn’t considered it

[@mattsmith5421]

That's pretty obvious the Pacific is huge compared to the Atlantic.

[@EdwardVonKhil]

​@@mattsmith5421 Read it again...

[@martinthompson7160]

I'm a limey and with you on the pronunciation of Mercator, this guy seems to pronounce several words like someone who has read stuff and imagined how to say it without reference to other views. He's not properly posh just uses some home-grown affectation.

[@thewhat6219]

Accurate title, I was in fact wrong about all of those 😂 I was taught 7 continents, one thing that I used to think as a kid was that to be a continent it had to start and end with the same letter. I don't why I thought that, but I was sure it was a rule. The movie clip was from "The Three Amigos" I believe. Pretty good comedy from what I remember, but it's been a while. I'm definitely a book person, but I don't mind reading from a Kindle if I have to, but you're spot on about highlighting not being as satisfying, it adds... Something to the book, but I'm not sure what. Personality, let's go with that.

[@NoProtocol]

I’ve not heard the start to end continent theory! I feel like that’s something I’d try to remember lol and yess on the book thing. “Personality” is a good way to put it. Something about the tangibility as well

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

I you go by tectonic plates, Iceland is also a cross-continental country. You can even walk in the rift valley between North America and Eurasia. That's also the place (Þingvellir) where their old (like 1000 AD old) parliament was located.

[@NoahFroio]

Biggest misconception about geography I think of relates to the first one here; that many think the largest desert on Earth is the Sahara, when it is actually, Antarctica - deserts don't necessarily have to be sandy, they just need be a land area which receives less than 10-inches of water preciptiation /year. Antarctica's cold freezes that water vapor from the air and also makes it the driest continent in the World.

[@bwanamatata]

Speaking of desert misconceptions: Drove from Arizona deep into New Mexico. Stopped at what we assumed was a gas station. Afterwards I asked the people I was with if they noticed anything different about the gas station. They didn't. The gas station was an oasis in a "food desert". It made me slightly sad to see that in America, but also it was kinda cool to actually enter a modern oasis.

[@Blackdog06019]

My little known geography fact is the Farmington river in CT/MA is one of 3 or 4 rivers that flow north, south, east and west and uphill.

[@TiroX517]

A few years ago I did a 6 day track through the sahara, and yes, we did in fact spend like 2 days walking over rocks, not sand. ( Fun fact, sahara is sort of a broken form of the word for desert in arabic)

[@fusionbyj.alexander9252]

Thanks for the music recommendation! I’m actually in Sicily now headed to the airport ( going back to the U.S.) If you haven’t been to Italy I highly recommend Venice and Sicily

[@BlunderMunchkin]

The Mercator projection has nothing to do with making space for labels. It's suitable for navigation because it preserves bearings (strictly speaking, rhumb lines appear as straight lines on the projection), which are crucial for ships.

[@scottfreckle237]

The most fun about this video was watching you constantly becoming transfixed on what the guy was explaining 😁

[@Tasmanilieva]

I like how you styled your hair in this vid👌🏾

[@module79l28]

0:35 - 1- One thing that most tourists get wrong when they visit Porto, Portugal: the south bank of the Douro River is not Porto, it's a completely different city called Vila Nova de Gaia, which is its own municipality and county capital. 2- All the Port wine cellars are located there, not in Porto. 3- The Christ The Redeemer statue is not in Lisbon, it's in a city called Almada, which is the capital of a county located on the south bank of the Tagus River, that belongs to a different district: Setúbal. 4- Cabo Verde and S. Tomé e Príncipe are not former portuguese colonies. They were inhabited islands and we were the ones who populated them, so there was no colonisation.

[@youtubevoice1050]

From a scientific point of view (rather than a political one) Europe and Asia are considered as one continent, because they are on a single continental plate.

[@abbygaby9210]

Geography fact: Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil share the biggest wetland in the world and it's burning more and more every year 🙃, my recommendation is Amazonas by Kalamarka, and Amazonia by Gojira. Two very different songs in very different genres but the message is similar

[@btraven7536]

After a lifetime with books I'm on Kobo now and love it. Much less eye strain and light weight. Even use it outdoors in the sun. Downside is pictures and charts aren't good, so it's best with novels.

[@JustSomeApparition]

In the first clip Simon made the distinction of the Sahara being the "largest hot desert", but what is the largest of them all? The South Pacific Gyre With an area covering around 37 million square kilometers it dwarfs the Antarctic Deserts 14 million square kilometers (which is the desert that most people tend to guess) by a significant margin.

[@hesketh1965]

I like the eclectic nature of the videos you post, often gives me food for thought. In this case it’s measuring the coastline of a country. There has to be a better way than yard sticks or matchsticks. The best I’ve come up with so far is spaghetti (cooked) or string.

[@Niccolo97]

5:13 This isn't exactly true, Jay Foremen has a great map men episode on his channel that explains "Why every map is wrong" which among other things mentions this...

[@Niccolo97]

Also love your reactions & book recommendations

[@pheobebuffet3719]

Jay Foreman was also giving theories. They don't really know either

[@JF-us4sn]

You're probably not confusing him. Simon has like 5+ channels. You most likely recognize him from Today I Found Out or Top Tenz videos. Thanks for the entertainment :) Edit: @NoProtocol I found a list of most if not all of them in case you want to go down the rabbit hole :) Decoding the unknown, into the shadows, Science unbound, casual criminalist, Megaprojects, Side projects, Brainblaze, Today I found out, Warographics, geographics, biographics, TopTenz (since two months he's not a host on these 3 channels anymore)

[@NoProtocol]

Top Tenz, that’s it!! I knew he looks familiar

[@mintefresh6608]

2:20 “Snowfall on the Sahara” by Natalie Cole is one of my favorite songs. I wish I could unlearn this fact 😭 😂

[@TardiniEnnio]

About length, you should really watch How long is a stick, BBC doc. Absolutely amazing!

[@DenUitvreter]

I believe Gerardus Mercator was the latinized name of the Flemish born Gerard de Kremer. So the Dutch pronunciation of Latin makes it into "Mair-Káh-tor".

[@josemorales5117]

Simon appears in a whole lot of KZbin channels, he's pretty good at saying things with clarity and certain withy

[@jamesdixon8072]

He's talking with an RP accent (Received Pronunciation) which is the only non-regional accent Interesting point on UK vs US accents is that where the pronunciation differs it is often that the UK stresses the second syllable whereas US stresses the first, or none of the syllables. So UK is ba-NAH-na and USA is Ba-na-na and UK is miss-ILE and the USA is MISS-le. Another one is capillary which is ca-PILL-ary in the UK and CAP-ilary in the USA.

[@georgezee5173]

Never heard any American saying BAH-na-na

[@freudsigmund72]

The channel CGP Grey has a great video explainer on "How many continents are there?" Continuing the difficulty already mentioned in this video.

[@Myndir]

12:50 France also has territory in North America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

[@muninraven3327]

Not exactly geography (or even topography), but I always loved the dialogue of Mauna Kea vs Everest. It just scratched that itch, as a kid, when a "teacher" you didn't get along with tried to make fun of you in front of the whole class. That "tallest" vs "highest". If the teacher started with "tallest" then it was game on. I knew all the data on mass and weight, and on how such a weight would obviously compress the ocean floor. I was also ready for the "sea level" argument, and the understanding of geological formations considered singular at their rocky roots; when talking mountain ranges etc... I was just having fun getting one up on a "teacher" that was trying to show me up in front of the class, but maybe it is more that that. I could overtly generalize my oldschool and say boys liked dinosaurs, volcanos and shipwrecks. Some girls liked maybe one or two of them too. And those were the girls I tried to kiss, haha!

[@MagsonDare]

Don't forget the argument that due to the Earth's "oblate spheroid" shape that there are several mountains near the equator in the Andes that have peaks that are farther from the center of the Earth, so some argue thet they're technically taller tii ;-)

[@muninraven3327]

​@@MagsonDare Haa, yes. I forgot about that element. Very nostalgic. Thinking back I dare say I was invested in Chile and the amazing line of volcanos, but then "driest" may have come in and I was suddenly introduced to the notion of Atacama vs Antarctica. I think I bowed out, because the stipulations became intellectual notation. Atacama wins. :)

[@MagsonDare]

My favorite "geography fact" is that the easternmost parts of Russia and about the northern 1/3 of Japan lie on the North American tectonic plate, so they are "technically" in North America... not that anyone would actually label them as such. For me, I was taught 7 continents, with the caveat that it could arguably be 5. North and South America were taught as 2, but arguably 1. Europe and Asia were also taught as 2, though arguably 1. Then there was Africa, Australia, and Antarctica to round it out.

[@alvonfinster2915]

I prefer books! & I am a geographer, albeit most of my career & life was spent in NW Canada. Have a particular interest in big things - glaciers, mountains, slopes etc - falling down & the insidious effects of water, both above & below the ground. No suggestions for videos - you are doing great, plse carry on!

[@Tom-ed-w]

your soul shows through your eyes

[@Kelvin-c9h]

What does a soul look like😂🥴🤪

[@dquanissavage6287]

No Protocol Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎

[@matsv201]

Mercada projection was made to be anguarly core, this was more impotant when navigating than size. Also distance north and west is the same on a smal scale, making ot way more usefull.

[@srottfaen]

Kraan is a German band and a good song is Far West. Shook is producer from Holland who made a cool song called Milestones.

[@deadlyradiation7977]

Are you and artist? Thanks for the videos! I enjoy learning!

[@brandurell]

Santiago de. Chile is east of New York. Surprising fact😊

[@martin-hall-northern-soul]

Simon definitely is native British but he doesn't half sound like a cannily foreigner who's putting-on an OTT RP accent for satirical effect. It's a skill for sure :)

[@SmD-ff5xd]

if you were brought up relatively upper working class &/or middle class, it's not hard to force a received pronunciation accent or "the queen's English"

[@martin-hall-northern-soul]

@@SmD-ff5xd it is if you're a northerner 😆

[@martin-hall-northern-soul]

@@SmD-ff5xd it is if you're a northerner :)

[@bellantwain21]

Love the video protocol stay motivated dream big 1 mill on the way

[@linkinblack371]

I love to watch your videos when i eat alone! Thanks

[@NoProtocol]

That’s cool to read! I also watch videos while I eat, I’m glad to be that for you (:

[@Blynat]

I think that movie was the Three Amigo's or something like that.

[@ROBOTRIX_eu]

..about maps, many people haven't looked into a globe..the "google globe" is great ! .. I know you know, because you speak spanish, "Mercador" in portuguese and, means "merchant"..

[@sanslik5141]

Simon has about 9 different KZbin channels… once you’ve watched him once you’ll start to see him all the time!

[@markcity10]

Love this… you might have the best smile in the world if you don’t mind me saying 😝 but love the channel 🤗

[@tonypate9174]

The Head of Pudding Simon the man that put the "E" in Gob Shite Bless him

[@gritter2112]

International music for you. Shpongle specifically the album "nothing lasts but nothing is lost"

[@alexandrorocca7142]

I went on a tour in the Sahara riding a dromedary and it was an incredible experience.

[@eddisstreet]

Panama is also transcontinental - north and (just) south america

[@charlesf2804]

Books. No Kindle. I don't use my cell phone for reading, either; to me, it's a phone. I always like seeing people on the subway with a book rather than having their noses buried in a cell phone. I smile on the inside. While in Mexico as a student I climbed a pyramid; don't remember which, but Quetzalcoatl comes to mind as I recognized the name. I remember the stairs were pretty steep, close to vertical in spots, but I was adventurous then.

[@allanheslop4493]

I don’t think Simon whistler has a posh voice. But his diction is very good

[@georgezee5173]

He sounds pretentions, regardless

[@Austin.Kilgore]

Hey you think you could check out some of “The Fat Electrician” content? If I had to recommend 1 videos in particular, then I guess it’d be “Americans War Horse Marine: Sergeant Reckless”. But if military sort of videos aren’t your cup of tea, then ig I’d suggested “Americas Underground Cheese Bunkers”. (Also his two part series on The Berlin Airlift and The Berlin Wall are _very_ entertaining/interesting too!)

[@matchu.j]

Measuring coastlines is impossible, due to ftactals (chaos theory) and constantly charging. It's a rough estimation.

[@jaalsburg]

Love Simon Whistler endless channels. Love your insights. You check out more of his content.

[@Lightkie]

15:10 Ayo, I don't know what you were trying to convey but that hand gesture means something entirely different in most cultures.

[@Lexy-O]

I am a physical book person. Also vintage comics from the Bronze Age, Silver Age and Golden Age are much more accessible in book form. Music: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Mas que nada

[@abraxolotl]

Well, Simon Whistler has about a dozen of different channels or so that he hosts, so I wouldn't be surprised if you've seen him somewhere. I think I know the guy from "Today I Found Out". As for the book vs kindle: I love myself some books, and I like to own or collect them (especially the pretty cover ones). But as for actually reading them? I'll take digital reading (kindle, tablet, phone, whatever) any day. But then again, I'm the type of person that wants (but often fails) to keep the book as pristine as possible. So no cracking the spine, adding notes, or folding pages. I just hate intentionally damaging any objects, even the ones arguably 'intended' to be damaged during use. We're talking printing out clue cards just to avoid having to rip out the ones provided from the included notepad levels of aversion.

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

A book person - I'm old. As a child I live two buildings down from my city library. I spent many summers on the floor in the stacks reading books hours-by-hour (back when it wasn't necessary to be protected by a parent). I'd ask to go to the library and mom said go, be back by dinner - I stayed until dinner prep time and headed home with plenty of time. When I was an adult, I bought several non-fiction books (many of which I still have). I also went to a lot of used book stores to trade books for other books. However, I do have lots of Kindle books - somehow they're just not as satisfying. More convenient (up to a point - Why can't I create "bookshelves" of related books like I can playlists for songs? ). The one thing I can do with a Kindle is carry a thousand books along with other things.

[@robertseverin1773]

Simon has 4-5 channels the history ones are my favorites

[@jokuz9133]

Great video

[@BenMJay]

Ms. No Protocol has some wild hair today!

[@Eugene-u8f]

This is a good bar bet. NBA Basketball fan here, The Toronto Raptors like to say "We the north" If Toronto was on the west coast would it be north of Vancouver? North of Seattle? North of Portland? No. At latitude 43 N. it would be Coos Bay Oregon or 111 miles north of the California Oregon boarder.

[@nigelpluck3342]

I was in secondary school in Ireland in the 1980s, and had the same geography teacher each year I was there. This teacher told us there were 5 continents: Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and South America, I don’t know the logic but maybe the Panama Canal was their dividing line, and possibly classed Oceania as being Asia

[@PjRjHj]

Well tectonicly North and South America are very much 2 separate continents. You can't call them 1 continent while at the same time call.Europe and Asian 2 different continents. There socio-civilizational contexts for continents but they are generally subservient to geological facts these days. If we favoured the latter, then the "Sub-Continent" (which is its own tectonic entity) would be considered as much a separate continent from Asia as Europe. While Australia would probably be considered as relevant as Greenland or Antarctica

[@kroo07]

Simon has a classic RP (received pronunciation) accent, traditionally associated with the British middle class, and normally learned through attending public (ie private) schools.

[@nwsimon]

My favourite geographical fact is that the northernmost part of Brazil is closer to parts of every other country in the Americas then it is to the southernmost part of Brazil

[@jeanackle]

Simon Whistler is the presenter of a few different YT channels, a very popular one being Today I Found Out.

[@jeremys7882]

I don't think I've ever heard someone pronounce Mercator like Simon does here. I've always pronounced it the way you did, and so has everyone I've ever heard pronounce it.

[@jeremys7882]

@@fvefve12 It's not so much the change in vowel sound that I find odd, it's the change in stressed syllables.

[@kringsja9913]

People who say the Nile is longer is just in the-nile

[@cmoshpit9171]

Earth has eight continents, including the seven that are commonly recognized and the eighth, Zealandia, which is mostly submerged in the South Pacific Ocean. but i was only taught about 7

[@Pterodactylus548]

Things he forgot: the Antaranchtica is also the biggest desert. the biggest fiver is on the sky, the longest river on ground level is in fact Hamza. (btw the longest wall is not in China - Find info beginning about Benin) Greetings from Finland m'lady.

[@odiegilemompati2034]

Wonderful reaction as usual, oh! Speaking of books and music, I don't know how much tolerance you have for hip hop, but there's this outstanding freestyle by Black Thought on HOT97...it has tons of information and crazy references and I really think it will blow your mind, it's very good...would love your reaction and thoughts on it.

[@paulbo9033]

Ive been to the edge of the Sahara and looking into and seeing just flat, baron, dry, rock-like land with gravel as far as the eye can see instead of rolling dunes of sand, is disconcerting. It's like being on Mars. Never seen anything like it. Mercator is a colonial map, hence why it makes non colonial lands look small. As a Britihs person i can confirm Simon Whistler's accent is neither posh nor common. Generic middle class South East British TV accent.

[@smalls1286]

Definetly a book person it took me just until about a month ago to get onto audiobooks.

[@Perktube1]

Kazakhstan, Dai Di Dau by Dimash Qudaibergen.😊

[@locoloboxiii]

Simon Whistler is host for many a channel. If you are interested in informative channels, he has hosted one on just about everything. If he hasn't hit your favorite subject yet, wait. He looks familiar because you have no doubt see him in thumbnails or any number of videos he hosts.

[@NoProtocol]

Yes I just realized he’s the same host for Top Tenz!

[@thehoogard]

Hancock is a cook.

[@mackenziear]

I'm choosing to believe that Simon Whistler speaks that way off camera.

[@RealAmericanNightmare]

That the statue of Liberty is in New York, it's actually in New Jersey waters and closer to New Jersey's mainland than New York's

[@stuarthumphrey1787]

I'm told I speak the same way. It's not posh, but well spoken. To be posh you would normally have money as they say

[@mikefufuffalo8487]

The film was "The Three Amigos". Classic.

[@rcm-3679]

Infamous is......More than famous. This El Guapo isn't just famous.....he's infamous.

[@mikefufuffalo8487]

@@rcm-3679 Infamous is being famous for negative reasons. Like El Chapo is infamous for selling drugs.

[@JimmyRJump]

Mercator was a Belgian cartographer who started drawing maps in the perspective later named after him. He started using this perspective after having spent a few years in Egypt, where he studied several old maps on the suggestion of Piri Reis, a well-known admiral in the Turkish-Ottoman Empire. Reis is also known for the Piri Reis Map, a map copied from several older maps and which has Antarctica on it, 400 years before it was discovered.

[@brihtl]

Hi fom Slovenia. 7 continent but we were taught that Asia and Europe lie on the same lithospheric plate

[@rikleblond1698]

Nice shirt :)

[@Lightkie]

I definitely prefer physical books for a different reason: thicker means easier to hold. For convenience, I still read most on an e-reader (just bought the Boox Go Color 7) when on the go. No Kindle app installed, Amazon is evil.

[@tanuxu]

Well, by logic the "correct" pronunciation is Mer-càh-tor like in Italian or Spanish because it is the Latin version of his actual name (Kramer), which means merchant.

[@josemorales5117]

i was a kid they teach us they were 5 continents Asia,Africa,America, Europe and Oceanía. (Missing Antarctica completely 😅

[@ThePunisher014]

2:18 Yes. In fact where i come from, the Republic of Tunisia, the south west which is the extreme northeast of the Sahara snows from time to time such as in Tozeur or Gafsa. It's out of this world to see snow in such areas but it gives them another layer of beauty. Palm trees and oasis covered in snow :D

[@Kelvin-c9h]

Yeah... Tunisia is beautiful apart from the nuthouse Islamists,rode the camel,took the bus trip around the country..atlas mountains, towns, villages and cities, private trips in 4x4s...figs, donkeys, disgusting toilets etc... Bodrem, then 2weeks exploring countless tourist hot spots and learning Islam is disgusting and brutal... beautiful landscape, horrible religious ideology ... stone age mindsets ,because Islam is disgusting !!!

[@andrewgrant6516]

The big argument I've come across is what is Austrialia called? We were taught in the UK that the country of Australia is located on the continent of Australasia. Australia itself though calls the continent Australia too, which seems a bit dismissive of all the New Zealanders who don't live in Australia but wind up living there anyway. In parts of America pupils have even been taught that there is no such country as Australia, and gone home in tears for being smarter than the teacher.

[@selkie76]

Simon freely owns that he doesn't know how to pronounce various words in some of his videos (his mispronunciation of Chorizo as "Kor-eye-zoh" once took me ages to realize what he was talking about). Sometimes he cares enough to look it up right there in the video, sometimes he'll just brazenly announce that he doesn't care and enjoy the extra algorithm boost all the comments give him. It generally depends if it's one of his more serious channels or not. His "Brain Blaze" channel is by far the most informal and videos are littered with him commenting on the script (each video is a cold reading of a script he's commissioned from a writer - there's a running joke that he keeps these writers chained up in his basement) or going off on rambling tangents of his own. ^_~

[@ripafromanjj5041]

I’m from the uk, preferring a jordie accent over this is interesting. Most people I’ve met can’t stand it’s though I’m from the midlands and he’s not posh but he’s definetly well spoken🤣

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

That film is "The Three Amigos"

[@mangelwurzel]

Whether it's a book or a magazine, I do prefer the dead tree version. Have you ever tried to read something on a tablet while eating a bowl of cereal? Okay, so I'm a slob who kills trees ...

[@SimonJM]

He (Simon Wheeler) is pretty ubiquitous, being the face/voice of many a channel and does have an English accent, though I find it a bit annoying (particularly when he over-stresses things). My geographical fact would be that Winnipeg, Canada is slightly south (49.89N) of where I live on the south coast of England (50.81N) I worked over 25 years on computers, so far, far prefer a physical book over reading mass text off a screen. Book: (I think I have mentioned it before) Longitude by Dava Sobel. Music: Middle Kingdom, by Rush (I think that is the title)

[@samil5601]

With Piero Umiliani I was expecting "Mah Na Mah Na", not jazz.

[@andrewhutchinson36]

I don't think Simon's accent is particular posh or unusual. I think it places him from the South of England outside of London. I live in Salisbury Wiltshire, & quite a lot of the locals have a similar accent.

[@reineh3477]

One thing I haven't thought of earlier, do you have birds?