Toilet rolls: as used by sky divers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2023
- From 'Jet Lag: The Game', Sam Denby, Adam Chase and Ben Doyle face a question about a toilet tissue issue.
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Ben saying "I don't know how dogs work" while having what looks to be a painting of a dog behind him is just sending me xD
Wow I hadn’t even noticed that. So good. But I was already worried if there went enough air into myself because of how hard I laughed :p
Well, I know they play poker.
I love the dynamic of having a group that works together on this show, because they will absolutely ROAST each other, whereas everyone else tends to be civil and supportive when someone says something a bit silly.
Yes! Yes, absolutely! I need people to say "Ben, what you said was stupid" instead of "well, that's a fair idea, I guess..."
I don't understand this episode. They never really explained. The dog walker wants to be downwind from the dog. Why? Like, yes, we understand they use those tools to tell the direction of the wind. Why do they care about the direction of the wind wasn't explained.
@@pikekekeAs i understood it, the dog has to be downwind of the general direction it is searching in, like trying to locate someone lost etc. The dog handler, however, is beside the dog.
@@pikekekeMark Rober recently made a video that goes into more detail about this. It can help you track where the scent originally came from even if it’s been moved by the wind
@@pikekeke they did gloss over that like it should be obvious, but I was assuming it was to keep them away from distracting things while being walked rather than them performing a job more efficiently.
Only Ben could get away with, "I DON'T KNOW HOW DOGS WORK," and have us believe him.
Saying "I don't know how dogs work" with a portrait of a dog in the background is a lot funnier than it probably should be.
Soap bubbles are how you see where air is leaking from a pneumatic system, so it might work for a dog.
The jet lag team with its great dynamics easily belongs to the funniest crews of this show!
Title aside, a brilliant (albeit v brief) episode ... yes Ben, if a dog is suffocating you should pour soap in its mouth :)
I am dying at this comment in the video. And my family is looking at me like I have lost my mind. 😂
Adam's last line absolutely creased me 😂
Woah I laughed really hard at this one. This was great, thank you Adam & Ben !
I am still laughing tears 😂. The last two minutes are brilliant!
Adam was SAVAGE. He really wanted to make sure Ben was obliterated!!!
3:00 I quite like the way the laughter moves across everyone like a wave.
I somehow feel that the title of the video will change
it's a bit of a bad bed isint it
And it's already changed.
what was it
What was it, how I can’t sleep without that information
Wayback Machine to the rescue! Archived timestamp 20230817 18:15:58 (GMT).
The title was incorrectly unchanged from an earlier video: " What colour should a cheap mattress be?"
But the description was correct: "From 'Jet Lag: The Game', Sam Denby, Adam Chase and Ben Doyle face a question about a toilet tissue issue."
My favorite event at the old air races was the toilet roll cutting competition. Each pilot would unspool an entire roll out the window and then chase it down seeing how many times they could cut it with their propellor before they had to pull up.
Richard Bach wrote of a similar flying stunt involving toilet paper strung horizontally above a runway, and it was basically airplane limboing. How low can you fly without touching the runway?
I assume there are videos of it somewhere on TH-cam
@@cheetahman79 I don't know what it's called, and I haven't seen it in person since 1984.
@@FozzyBBear I can just search plane toilet paper competition and it would show up
the jetlag crew is probably my favourite cast on lateral their sense of humour and problem solving style hits just right with me. i love how they goof around a bit while working through the answers
"I don't think they deflate like a tire Ben" OMG as a doggo person I nearly pulled a muscle laughing at that.
Tom should definitely be a guest on Jet Lag!
He kinda was on the Tom Scott Plus channel.
this on release was titled wrong
This has to be one of the funniest episodes yet. I’m literally crying from laughing so hard!😂
Did a few sky dives many years ago. The dropped item is called a WDI - Wind Direction Indicator, I think - and is used to determine strength and direction of wind. They do it where the WDI lands in relation to the target and then use that to tell people when to jump out of the plane. As someone else said, I was doing static line jumps as a total beginner.
At 10,000 feet it takes a brick about 30 seconds to land... a toilet paper roll would take much longer. (Due to air resistance)
Assuming you are travelling at 90 miles per hours, you would be about a mile past the point you through the toilet roll.
This means you will have already overshot the target... you also wouldn't be able to see the toilet roll impact the ground.
Wind Direction Indicators are used to determine where a static line (chute opens immediately after exiting the plane) jumper will land. It is lightly weighted crepe paper that falls at the same speed as a open parachute. Throw it out on the first pass directly over the desire landing point and on the deployment pass make adjustments according to where the paper landed. Toilet tissue; we never used because it falls much slower than the open parachute so it is worthless for this purpose. It must be calibrated with weight to fall at the same speed as the person under canopy. This was used mainly with round parachutes which stopped being used recreationally in the early 80's. Round are really only used by the military now days for mass deployments.
I wanna see the TLDR guys on this show someday.
Would be cool.
TLDR is still around? Are you talking the podcast? I stopped listening after the original host left to Gimlet’s Reply All…which died a slow, tragic death laced with irony.
@@jasonbailey9139 let me qualify that; 'TLDR News' guys 😉
Or the lovely people of “answer in progress” all together in one episode.
@missitheachievementhuntres560 the crew of answer in progress have actually been on the lateral podcast a bunch! Theyve been guests on lateral on 4 or so episodes
Something tells me that someone (Ben....) is going to have to go skydiving on the next season of Jet Lag.
Real skydiver here:
They are called Wind Direction Indicators (WDI), looks like toilet paper but it isn't, it's lightly weighted crepe paper, or from more sophisticated materials. Mainly used for round parachutes, to see where can they jump the students and also for ram air parachutes in accuracy/speed accuracy discipline competitions where the upper winds are very important to know.
Is it because the dog shouldn't be allowed to sleep on an expensive mattress and the parachutists practice landing on cheap mattresses?
Close, but no bolster pillow : )
Avoid the ded bes.
Ben: "I don't know how dogs work." And yet has a very sad doggo print over his shoulder.
I think you mixed up the title. This is the one from 2 videos ago.
they love bad beds
I feel dumb, but what do they mean by "soap bubbles"? Like bubble mix for kids? To me a soap bubble is something famously difficult to carry around and I was sure someone would ask in the video
I think they mean bubble mix
Something is incomplete about this video: I still don't know which "they're", a dog handler or a dog, should be downwind, or in what situation and for what purpose.
That's what I was still wondering too!
But I think they specifically mean professional dog handlers, like with a Search & Rescue Tracking dog, or bomb/drug/... dog, and that the point is to keep the handler out of the scent path, and so the handler should try and stay downwind of the dog.
Search and Rescue dog handlers need to know which way the wind is blowing because it can move the scent trail around. The scent SAR dogs typically follow is in the air, and has a similar consistency to smoke.
Source: my brother is certified in search and rescue, and has helped with training exercises for the dogs on his team.
@@myladycasagrande863 :
Thank you!
@@myladycasagrande863 Nice, thanks for the insight!
The end, that was so funny. A much appreciated laugh xD
Toilet rolls? - skydivers use lightly weighted 'crepe' paper in 22ft. rolls, not 'crap' paper : )
Even then... skydivers typically don't use that unless they're doing intentional cutaways for a tandem master rating or if they're doing static line drops which is far more military than recreational skydiving these days. And at that point you're talking about paratroopers, not skydivers. What a mess.
Also, everyone occasionally has nearly-empty toilet paper rolls.
@@WyvernYT switch to a bidet
why did it just cut abruptly at the end after he drop that bomb of the statement, 😭😭😭 I'm dying🤣😂 like the dog
The ending quote by Adam hahaha. Bubbles the puppy is coughing bubbles!
If you put soap bubbles all over a dog... you've just given it a bath...
So, best case scenario, you're successfully detecting that your dog is (not) leaking air, and worst case scenario, you've given them a bath.
Win-win!
@@JanTuts O if a dog is leaking air. you will know it very fast. Like they can clear a entire room with a air leak in seconds.
Alternative title suggestion (after it has now been corrected):
*Toilet rolls: the connection between Sky Divers and Dog Handlers* (or "... Dog Handlers and Sky Divers")
"connection" could also be "link"
Missed opportunity to call this episode "throwing caution to the wind!"
This one was Tech Diffs level of humour. Absolutely amazing.
I nearly didn't watch this when it came up as a notification, due to the wrong title making me think I was being notified for a video I had already watched, but I coincidentally had the channel's videos page open in a tab and saw that there was in fact a new upload, so clicked it to see why they did a reupload and lo and behold the video itself has a different title (and content) to the notification and the videos page.
"I don't know how dogs work" he says with a painting of a dog right behind him. lol
The chemistry of this group is amazing!
I'm obsessed with jet lag the game now
I laughed my ass off at this one. Now I have no ass. No air can come out of there. :(
Hilarious answer, Ben. For some reason (maybe sleep deprivation?) I haven't laughed that hard... ever?
Why won't someone answer my questions!?
Wow, that's one way to end the video 😅
Think the title might be a bit wrong
I'm sure baby powder has a quite potent smell right? Wouldn't that distract what the dog is smelling?
Here before the title change
Brings a new meaning to 'air of the dog
Can we please get the whole dang episode all at once?
Golly again with the mattresses 👀
I laughed so hard my side hurt!
That was a good one 😂😂
also useful so you can be upwind of the dogs when they poop and you pick it up
I think someone needs to swiftly revoke Ben's Dog Operator's License, before someone gets hurt.
Adam is a savage
I was hoping you would upload the question about the director who showed only the back of a character. I had a very funny first guess for that one. I was thinking that the actor was sleeping with the director's wive hence that the director wouldn't want to look the actor in the eye.
And I was kind of right actually.
I love how harsh it sounds the way Ben is treated if you don’t factor in friendly jest. 😂
I love the ... trying to figure out ... where air is coming OUT of a dog. Like.. uhh.. okay.. I don't know how you get to the exact opposite of the solution like that, but congratulations!
0:57 simple: In case they need to wash their dog… or themselves if they’re lost on the trail
So dog handlers use that stuff so they can go up wind of a distracting smell. What do the skydivers use the loo roll for?
boy that was some sentence to send the video on XD
Surely skydivers dropping toilet roll would be in trouble for littering!
It's easily biodegradable, moreso than many other things.
Clearly, you do not want Ben to walk your dog.
It's light blue btw
I could be stupid but I feel like if you hold a roll of toilet paper out of a plane the movement of the plane would make it impossible to see which way the wind was going. I mean if you’re going 100 mph in one direction how would you be able to tell if the wind was 10 mph the other way
by watching where it lands
@@nulious If you let go, yes, but I think they're running with the thought one of the contestants had, which was specifically hold it to use as a sort of plumb line for your landing area, which obviously won't work from a plane, like they said.
I'd seen streamers tossed down by sky divers, though were orange plastic, not toilet rolls. Took me longer to figure out why a dog handler cared about wind direction.
I have never heard of dog handlers carrying baby powder or soap bubbles. Or seen a dog handler ever remotely interested where wind is coming from.
Search and rescue team dog handlers care about wind direction
do you like the color of the mattress?
I used to be a dogwalker. Nobody ever told me about using soap and baby powder.
You probably never had to worry about where air was coming out of the dog.
A dog handler (i.e. a police officer in charge of a trained dog), not a dog walker.
@@lateralcast Ohhh, I thought you meant anyone who has ever handled dogs.
I thought it might be about staying upwind of dog farts.
Ok, very much LOL
Wrong video title. (Currently named "What colour should a cheap mattress be?", which was the name of the previous video.)
My question is why they don't use something practical. Surely there's more dedicated tools than toilet paper and expensive baby powder
It is practical, cheap, commonly available, and does not hurt the environment if left out. The toilet paper can be collected if it lands on flat ground but if it lands in for example a tree it is very hard to get down, It will quickly break down when exposed to water.
Everyone already has nearly-empty toilet paper rolls anyway, at least occasionally; it's easy enough to set them aside when they get down to the last ten yards.
WAIT SAM IS WENDOVER??
Did you forget the camera was on?
Can we get Sam again? With other sidekicks maybe
Pretty sure you want the dogs to be UPwind of the thing that you you do not want them to be distracted by the scent of, you'd only want to be DOWNwind if the dogs themselves are the distracting scent
you want the dog downwind so the dog can find the source of the scent
@@nulious that would only apply during training (since you wouldn't know the source of the scent otherwise)
Ngl my first thought was in case the crap themselves
Wind
inb4 vid title change #CheapMattress
I was so confused for a sec as i clicked on this
update the title tom.
I ❤BD
I call for clickbaity title!😉
Ps: was a joke in the wrong title at the beginning, now has been fixed
🤣😂🤣
"What color should a cheap matress be?"
Deja vu anyone?
Wrong title
Why do sky divers carry toilet rolls?
Boo I read the title, thought it was an old video, went to the end and heard the answer and noticed the title is wrong and spoiled the round for mee
@@bungaIowbill Because I forgot the answer to the other question and wanted to remind myself, then was like wait a minute why are they talking about dogs and smell when it should be about hex colours. Then realised it wasn't a reupload but just a complete wrong title.
Wrong title?
I am sure Ben is actually quite smart, but so many of the things he says and does just give the opposite impression.
you're giving away a bit too much in the thumbnails. Keep it cryptic
These young guys made me realise I want Dream, George and Sapnap in this.
How does Adam have such a huge microphone but awful recording quality
Please do NOT pour soap in a dogs mouth.