The Channel Tunnel - Life on the Inside. Episode 3 - The Initial Idea.

[@Shinzon23]

Anyone else get the feeling that the team that made this had a LOT of fun doing it? It bleeds through with the humour.

[@jsmithepa]

I can't imagine working anywhere with a supervisor literally over my shoulder for 8 hours and correcting my grammar.

[@UnitSe7en]

That's because you lack discipline.

[@MeppyMan]

Everyone has their quirks and I’m sure they get along just fine. :)

[@fluffigverbimmelt]

Seeing the mutual jokes, mini-competition and mockery across the language barrier is just fantastic. Great team spirit

[@Ackerton]

Yes french do have a habit of misunderstanding quite often

[@bobm2331]

Coming from an American, this series of videos on the Tunnel is flat out amazing. Cooperation, engineering and professionalism is wonderful to see. Need to see more of this. It looks like humor gets them through the day :)

[@AlexanderGee]

Yes! We make shows which highlight these qualities because we want to celebrate them and show people they work :D.

[@bryanpassifiume1185]

Americans seem more interested in keeping people out

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

@@bryanpassifiume1185 The French don't seem to mind people leaving their country...

[@rztrzt]

The BBC generally make very good documentaries, TV shows are also good, just stay away from their news (which is still better than US outlets)

[@MyFictitiousLife]

Not being able to just say "my bad" seems overkill.

[@UnitSe7en]

Not being able to murder even just _one_ hooker seems like overkill.

[@MeppyMan]

Ahh the old false equivalence argument.

[@strangelic4234]

Right? And supervisors who joke about sending you home are often not as funny as they think they are.

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

That's middle management for you!

[@JMarieCAlove]

@@UnitSe7en I know you’re being sarcastic but too many prostitutes have been brutally murdered, some never found. I’m sure their families would love to meet you after they read your comment. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@sdesmtl]

24:35 They need to call the van 'Tunnel Vision'

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

It's full of innundo. To quote the narrator "Sarah is BBW", "Tash is popping the hole" and "get your leg over". Must be a BBC production.

[@stevemcmosh4271]

The recordings of people in their cars are really surplus to requirement on this series lol.

[@joebennett6815]

Those two woman really get on my nerves

[@umm_rm]

Right? Some real breathtaking displays of intelligence.

[@UnitSe7en]

I sure am glad one of them figured out why the sign in the first episode said 'France' on it.

[@MeppyMan]

Well the tunnels are there to allow people (and freight) to cross. So it’s just a way to keep that in mind. They are brief and easy to ignore :)

[@UnitSe7en]

@@MeppyMan You're one of these people that just _has_ to let everyone know he has an opinion, aren't you?

[@ProfSimonHolland]

a load of fun...well done film team

[@mitchl4456]

love this show greetings from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@mjpm2409]

BBW. Very good ;-)

[@Coxswain]

Yes

[@joeyhouben3270]

Omg the grammer grandma has woken up from her napping time..

[@stevepashley795]

This series is brilliant, thank you from Australia

[@manuellangius2896]

Went through the tunnel yesterday, it amazing how smooth and relax the whole operation runs on both sides. Nice way to travel with your car on the trains..35mins and..pop out:)

[@serisak]

I suppose she is correct, it's like saying "I fault", or "am mistake". But solecisms exist and language evolves over time.

[@s125ish]

It’s an American thing that has come over. Same with I don’t care for

[@wayneandrews9298]

What riles me is .. " thinking outside the box , gobsmacked , can i get , literally , awesome , like , kinda like , sorta kinda like & the most moronic thing people still insist on saying that only shows them to be pathetic twats is .. OH MY GOD " ..

[@MeppyMan]

Haha. Language is fluid. Unless it impacts the communication negatively, or is a safety issue, then I don’t see any reason to get kickers all twisted over it. :)

[@6058jeremysmith]

Major team work … 😊

[@MrJoelDavies]

10:52 Narrator spitting mad Bars

[@MeppyMan]

The writers are very good. This could be a very dry doco series but the editing and writing is awesome.

[@torgeirbrandsnes1916]

I love the series! Greetings from Norway!

[@marcel_max]

The submarine-driven boat... very very Julesvernesque!

[@njcurmudgeon]

Just an observation, but I never realized that English and Americans pronounce "catenary" differently. I'm in the U.S. and always heard it pronounced by railroad workers as "cat-in-airy," while it's pronounced in the video as "ca-teen-ary."

[@rztrzt]

There are many words Americans pronounce differently to the English (& Aus, NZ, SA), some words even the meaning is different even though the spelling is identical.

[@Zombiechef91]

Who hadn’t heard of ‘my bad’ in 2019.

[@depoorterjhonny6463]

UK has never been in the passport free shengen zone, so you can not leave that if you are not in.

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

What they need is to have those inspection cameras built into the train and a machine learning algorithm to flag any anomalies for further investigation.

[@garrymca8336]

Using 3 OLED TVs as a Monitor is such a waste of money. 6 months and they'll have burn in. There's time and a place for OLED but control rooms/static content is absolutely not one of them!

[@mattsandilands6380]

25 years and we still haven’t learnt anymore than the very basic of french.

[@rztrzt]

oui oui

[@AgentOrange9595]

If that lady gave me a hard time saying "my bad" that is all I would say out of spite

[@ajm2212]

Fuck me Buzz is actually at work & not on the golf course

[@feynthefallen]

Love it how she comes down on him for his ghetto slang. (I try to resist that sort of thing, but it kinda creeps in, doesn't it)

[@mattvezz]

8:30 BBW… 💀

[@twstf8905]

I gotta say, (for some reason lol) I'm a little #smitten by that really pretty train driver girl "Tash Speed." 😍

[@MeppyMan]

Shock horror. Liking someone attractive doing a skilled job.

[@rustynuts4426]

Just going to correct Miss Speed. There are not many women drivers. Infact at my depot just 5 out of 50 amd on the freight side just 4 in the country

[@lachee3055]

1:58 well not UK, but Norway is.

[@MoreofMac]

My bad is unprofessional. God get a life.

[@MeppyMan]

Repeat after me “it’s TV.”

[@myjrbs]

Why does the train driver look somewhat like Leon from airline?

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

19:02 Is that Chris Finch?

[@aragnee1]

Vani mcvan face, really!

[@natehill8069]

5:00 Herbie! Or more like his son, anyway...

[@YukariAkiyamaTanks]

Anyone know what the intro/outro music is called?

[@rztrzt]

It was probably written for the series, shazam/soundhound finds nothing.

[@GP30277]

That thumbnail is cursed

[@ChrisGWGreen]

Im very glad I dont work for supervisor Sara. I find her attitude towards her colleagues highly unprofessional.

[@rztrzt]

Nah, what's unprofessional is people & their mixit/slang speak.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

They don't have electronic detection penetrating truck aluminum and auto chassis for custom diplomacy needs?

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Do they have wi-fi in the tunnels?

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Or put all that surveillance and maintenance monitoring IN A WIRE so that trouble makers don't get in.

[@deanooo2531]

@@andrenewcomb3708 yes they have WiFi..well in the freight carriage they do

[@nick123nak6]

@@deanooo2531 there's also wifi in the sealed carriages but it isn't very good

[@alextaxi2593]

They got a normal phone services in the tunnel

[@hughvane]

Help my understanding please - the narrator refers continually to "Folkstone", yet when I look for that place on a map, just NNE of it is Dover, where the Eurotunnel actually begins. So, is it Dover to Calais rather than Folkstone to Calais, and how are the two UK places connected in respect of the tunnel?

[@condliffe5831]

The train terminal is in the town of Folkstone. The Ferry port is in Dover

[@chloe8554]

i live in folkestone and that’s where the tunnel actuality begins :)

[@davidgriffiths7639]

Embarrassing s a Brit, but not surprised, to see the French able to converse in English, yet the Brits make zero effort to reciprocate.

[@who-gives-a-toss_Bear]

6:17 100% Sara you keep the wanta be in line, "My bad" My bad what “toe, finger or just a bad thought. Stupid meaningless pair of words. How to confuse the world with stupid word attachments. It don’t work, don’t send him home, sack him.

[@username20131]

Sarah definitely voted leave 🤣

[@KingTrump2024]

Forgot how many puff's were in the UK

[@ghost307]

Most likely there are 2 reasons for the pre-Brexit delays. 1. Practice for the coming days when all passports need to be checked. 2. Punishment for the citizens who DARE to think about leaving the EU. Never underestimate the tendency of petty people to have temper tantrums.

[@chrisross1703]

They are doing what happens at any international border (outside Schengen). If you voted for Brexit, that's what you voted for. But made everyone suffer.

[@Zombiechef91]

9:18 glad to see Voldemort has turned his life around and found an honest career