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- tomscott.com - @tomscott - A few years ago, there were a lot of news reports about Paris Syndrome, an affliction that hit people whose ideas of Parisian delight were a long way from reality.
A correction to this video: tachycardia is accelerated heartbeat, not irregular. The video's also a very early one that, in hindsight, I'm not particularly proud of, but that's not technically a correction. All corrections can be found at www.tomscott.c...
A correction to this video: tachycardia is accelerated heartbeat, not irregular. The video's also a very early one that, in hindsight, I'm not particularly proud of, but that's not technically a correction. All corrections can be found at www.tomscott.com/corrections/
Hi I am your big fan
Ah so this comment is the reason this video showed up in my recommended...
Nice of you to still make corrections to videos from 5 years ago :)
oh tom why must you correct a 5 year old video and make it show up in my recommended, none of us would have known!
Are you just randomly watching your previous vids in search of mistakes?
I was there in the spring. I believe that is the bridge they cut all the locks off. There are new ones there but they are trying to stop it from happening.
Last 5 secs are amazing. Plus take that bridge to your local scrapyard and with your check they give you Paris syndrome won't seem so bad. Good work Tom
Damn, I had to dig through some comments to suddenly find Mr. Colin Furze.
OfficialMexicanNinja tru dat
just scrolling through the comments when suddenly a wild Colin Furze appears!
also I love all your builds.
wow 3 years ago
Help Me Get Up you let it sound like you love Pokemon and collinfurze is a super rare Pokemon
This is the Lock Picking Lawyer and today I have for you a bridge.
xD
I read that in his voice.
And we see here, a little shortcut that saves us a bit of time. *Unlocks every lock on the bridge*
@Boco Corwin A shaving off a Red Bull can
don't bink that has to be the best TH-cam comment ever! Keep up the good work.
Fun fact: The railing of one of those bridges fell into the water because of the weight of those locks. This happened just a few weeks ago.
The padlock industry must have been devastated.
Jim Groth did they fish it out? i'd imagine that it was very heavy.
TheRinzl2r I have no clue actually. Good question though.
Whoa!!!!!
that railing couldn't have been secured well.
kab hes Whether it was or wasn’t, putting locks on historical monuments (especially bridges) is dangerous and disrespectful in some cases. If you want to have a love lock, the house of the late Serge Gainsbourg on Rue de Vernouille in Paris is a permitted place with railings on which to secure a lock.
I can imagine Japanese tourists in particular being affected by this because 1) French culture is somewhat romanticized in Japan and 2) Japanese cities are impeccably clean.
Imagine being told your entire life that there's a spectacular place in the world where many of the fancy elements of your culture originated, only to then visit that same place and find it far filthier and less organized than your own city. It would be hope-crushing to experience this for people already dissatisfied with their own standard of life in their own society.
Happened to me when I went to Spain. In my country there's a perception that it's an exotic country, but reality was that it's more like an endless desert with occasional civilization.
I've heard so many stories of Paris being filthy, that I was pleasantly surprised when I visited and it was better than I imagined, similarly I've been told so many times that the Mona Lisa is a small painting, that I almost expected it to be the size of a Polaroid photo, but instead I was pleasantly surprised that it is about life sized.
With this in mind, I'm most likely getting parris syndrome when I visit Japan
So basically weeaboos when they get to Japan.
That's true, but as a French guy, I can tell you that we are totally aware of that, and we are working hard to figure out why there is so much vandalism in our cities. We are making progress, and soon, I'm sure Paris will be even cleaner than Tokyo, and Japanese tourists will be enchanted to visit our capital city.
Actually, I'm joking, we aren't doing anything at all.
@@brinckau just behead the vandalists!
There was this Finn who went to Japan and the Japanese were like "OOO You're from Finland, you have Nightless Nights, that's so cool!" and the Finn made them supersad when he said that having nightless nights also means having dayless days.
Wait so... what happens, is there some stable equilibrium? Is it dark during day and light during night? What happens?
Nightles night is for a one day a year the sun does not go down so its light 24h. And a day less day is the opposite.
In the summer in the northern parts of finland the sun doesnt set for 1-100 days, depending on how north you live. Same in the winter with sun not coming up.
@@r.b.4611 The nightless night happens in the middle of summer.
The dayless day happens in the middle of winter.
That's the law of Equivalent Exchange.
The way he puts it, he makes it sound like it's the most extreme form of disappointment.
I'm more disappointed in my EX GF than I am in Paris.
Paris is much grubbier than London. After a week there and having become used to it, I arrived back at Waterloo and the contrast made the whole station look as if it had been cleaned and sterilised like an operating theatre.
Yeah, I went to Paris a couple of years ago. Been to France a few times, but only to Disneyland Paris. When I got there though.. Wow. I had been watching the news quite a bit at the time and the news being the news, it kept talking about how wealthy France is and how they all have much longer holidays etc so I was convinced it would be a really nice place.. But no. I honestly started to wonder if I had boarded a plane to Birmingham or something because, for the whole,it was a bit of a shit hole. I mean, the Metro compared to ours.. Have they even touched it since they put it in like 130 years ago? I seriously don't think so.. Quite a lot of beggars as well and quite a few places made you pay to get in (no where near as bad as Barcelona but Barcelona is a better place overall I feel). But it was really strange because over here in the UK we're CONSTANTLY told of how we're not as great as we used to be and how every other country is beating us and is so much more wealthier etc etc but I was amazed at how much better London is! It's like going to Dubai in comparison haha, love the fact that basically every tourist attraction is free! (One of the few good things the government does haha)
ThaGamer
Britain really is _Great_. Including Birmingham. :)
Jack Sainthill Yeah it is, and suurree whatever you say man ;D /s
Jack Sainthill I disagree, my family and I visited last summer and we both agreed Paris was cleaner than London. Perhaps, they've cleaned up their act, or maybe we just got lucky with our hotel.
+Rita Simonian
OK, fair enough.
As an Asian guy who just came back from traveling alone through Europe and America, I have an anecdotal testimony that this Paris Syndrome did in fact happened to me.
When I was in Paris, I was hit by the reality of it and felt extremely lonely especially since there are couples everywhere. I felt so compelled to talk to strangers to ease the loneliness that I visited the Eiffel Tower every evening on the way back to my hotel to talk to other East Asian tourists, who all expressed similar disappointments.
But this experience made me a much more out going and bolder person as I continued my journey across the world and talked to hundreds of strangers. Of course my TARDIS hat helped in the UK and the USA where more people approached me instead of me approaching them, I guess an Asian Whovian is quite a curious sight.
An Asian nerd in America isn't a curious site. They are everywhere. A black whovian might be a little bit more out of the norm.
Ah, you've given me an excellent strategy to spark conversations more easily, since I'm generally extremely bad at that.
in paris we just don t care if your asian ... it s a cosmopolitic city, with withe, black, arabes, asians and to much tourist so ....
KS Ng - you have a TARDIS hat?! Cool! 🤣👍
@@arthurfinidori609 Paris is a multi-culti dump of a city, you mean?
Anyone here after Tom’s announcement of stepping back from TH-cam? This video feels weirdly fitting
great as always
You're everywhere
Hello!
All those padlocks have been removed at once recently, it was too much weight for that old bridge.
The market calls out for a bolt-cutter shop for separated lovers.
I dunno. I spent a week in Paris a couple of years ago. I expected pollution, smelly streets, pickpockets, and snooty French people who would refuse to talk to me because my French isn’t perfect. That’s what I experienced when I was there 25 years earlier. This time, however, it was a lovely experience. The people were genuinely nice, the streets were clean, the sights were spectacular. My "Paris syndrome" was that I enjoyed it so much that I want to go back soon, despite having gone there with a negative attitude.
It depends entirely which part of the city you visit. Also, there are good and bad streets right next door to each other. You could walk down one of them and miss the other one entirely, and that's replicated throughout the city.
Ouch that intro hit me deep into a personal thing I'm still processing
Paris is one of the dirtiest capitals in Europe I have seen so far. Berlin, compared to Paris, seems like a city where you can eat right away from the streets.
Berlin is wonderful, one of the cleanest cities i have been to
Wikiramblings I don't know why they doing this. At least the campingside and any more civilised place in Paris had a proper toilet. But to be perfectly honest, the Japanese and Koreans laugh at us. ;) I don't like this high tech toilets.
My ex and I had planned on visiting there and putting a lock up one day... so I completely agree with your intro and I'm glad we never did xD
Putting those locks up is gross and ruins the site the fact you even thought of it is disgusting
@@solarsatan9000 calm down
@@archdukefranzferdinand567 stfu before i go princip your arse
@@solarsatan9000 lmao
Las Vegas Syndrome, signs go from Mild Alcohol poison to major case of bankruptcy and infidelity.
I'd never heard of Paris Syndrome, but I do remember being surprised at how naff and grubby it was and how many highly unfashionable young people I saw walking around.
Lock Picking Lawyer you should go to that place and see if you can pick all the locks. The city removes them every now and then so you could plan to do it with permission if you look into it
LockPickingLawyer spelled together to make sure you were tagged
For every one of those locks there's probably a key in the water.
Well.
In Brazil, the situation is worse. So seeing how clean everything is there compared to us really obliterates the possibility of this being a thing here.
Anyone else hate those padlocks? I probably sound like a grump but I equate it to graffiti and littering.
+SeaJayBelfast Bad news is it's become dangerous and some grids have fallen into the river under the heavy weight. Good news is the council has come with a more radical solution than bolt cutters. They remove the grids and put sturdy plastic panels instead so you can still look through but can't attach locks anymore.
+Christian Barnay But what will that do to the lock making industry? and the sellers.
Wouldn't it be most effective to just send in a lock picker? that much variety of locks, and permission I imagine you could get many lock pickers to come in for free or just pay them in locks. Then resell the locks to new tourists.
+GhostInTheShell29 Those were mainly shitty low grade locks with absolutely no interest for lockpickers. You can open them faster with a hammer than with skillful lockpicking.
Christian Barnay So people who want a symbol of their love to last forever are buying the cheapest ones they can find....
Well that kinda ruins my plan then.
Though +Christian Barnay points out that they have posed a safety issue, aside from that I'm somewhat of two minds about it. Part of me feels exactly the same as you - "graffiti and littering" - and another part of me feels like it's cute and beautiful. Most of them were probably just teenagers in puppy love or following a trend, but presumably they cared deeply about each other when they did it, and were excited to do it. And there's _history_ there. There's an ice cream and hot dog place near where I grew up, that has graffiti - mostly names or little messages - written in pen or marker, or scratched in, on the wood panel walls next to the booths. And they've left them there, on purpose. I think it adds so much character to the place, and it's fun to read the messages and think about those people who were there before you and had fun writing it. You can wonder about what kind of people they were, and what their lives are like now. I sort of feel the same way about those padlocks.
If anyone was wonderimg, there is also an opposite case:
the Stendhal Syndrome, or Florence Syndrome, due to the which you're overwhelmed by the beauty of Italian works of arts and cities, to the point of almost fainting (quite the opposite of Paris...)
Unlike Stockholm Syndrome, which is the crux of the story to Beauty and the Beast.
That was a succinct definition of a relationship.
This sounds like something from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Hey Tom, a cool video idea: talk about the Jeruzalem syndrome. In my opinion it is way more intriguing then the Paris syndrome.
[fastens combination lock to bridge]
"I don't think you are really grasping the 'lock it up and throw away the key' concept here..."
I found France to be as lovely as it was rumored to be. The thing I keep in mind is that the city of love is perched atop a city of death.
Woah, Tom, is everything alright?
the subway near the bridge really sucks. extremely rude workers.
To put Paris into perspective: a map is typically 10km by 5. This is the true city of Paris, the bit inside the city limits which is the orbital motorway ( a mini M25 called La Peripherique ) on the site of the old city walls which lasted till as late as the 1930's. Inside this boundary there are crammed a bit under 3 million people in a very small space. Outside in les banlieues, that's the suburbs, there is about a fifth the population of France. It's big, its busy, its impatient. Its fast.
A map of say Edinburgh, another touristy place of beauty is 10km by 15 or something much bigger but with a population of about 700,000. You'll find the same on most major British cities as only Birmingham and London have more than a million people ( 2 million and 8 million ) Glasgow can't be far off a million either way.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma City metro area is 40km by 40km with only 1 million people
"My issues aside" is strong Chris Joel saying "Wrong meeting" vibes.
Who hurt you?!
Wondered the same after that intro.
good point.. my type of travelling is to visit smaller cities and do a day trips from there to big touristy centers..
Surprisedly the Paris France that the Japanese and other Asian countries fantasize so much fits more the description of Monaco 🇲🇨
It matches all the luxurious high expectations that they assume with Paris France. 🤔
Imagine if the Japanese man that began the whole Paris syndrome decided to save up all his life savings and took a trip to Monaco 🇲🇨
to wash down the disappointment of Paris France, only to realize “Oh my freaking gosh!? It was France’s neighbor all along!” 🤯😵😭
Sometimes the country of your traveling dreams is where you least expect.
You referred to tachycardia in the video as an "irregular heartbeat," though it is not. Tachycardia concerns only cardiac rate, and in no way involves an arrhythmia. Some arrhythmias involve increased rate, such at supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), but not all do.
Considering the current date, I figured, "No way, this has to be a joke." Apparently, it's a real thing.
people need to learn movie is not reality.
I watched "Killing Zoe" and there was enough of the underbelly shown in the movie to know it was a city with the same problems that other cities face. We got along fine only speaking English, but a better understanding of French would have made everything easier. I tried an online course, but I found that I couldn't make a distinction between some of the vowel sounds.
tachycardia means a fast hearbeat (>100 bpm) it could also be irregular (with constantly changing intervals in between beats)
This bridge doesn't exist anymore
The end is so absolutely hilarious to me for some reason.
The Japanese are anally-fixated (have a fetish about 'clean'). In both visits to France, I found Paris to be a city of light, and romance, wonderful architecture and art. Maybe you too are anally-fixated Tom? I also found Parisians to be the most relaxed -- the women not scared to dress sexily, and the men very relaxed and confident in their maleness. (I was there in 2011, and in 2015.) I found London to be almost as good, Prague just as good, and the only city with some angst I found was Oslo. But the best thing about Paris is that a large number have the balls to really take on the authorities and not be good little "keep-off-the-grass revolutionaries" as Bertolt Brecht called the East Berlin rebels of 1953. I enjoyed all the dozen or so cities I visited in North West Europe in 2011-12 and 2015. I feel sorry for people who travel with a negative mindset. We have a stereotype term for the English here in Australia: "whinging Poms".
The opening is just great
I would bet that a similar condition probably happens when Weaboos travel to Japan expecting it to be just like an anime.
That rarely happens
I was in Paris a week ago and it was not that warm. Put a jumper on Tom! Sheeeshh
that explains the padlocks on a bridge here in Chester
You have a terrific voice. You should be doing BBC documentaries!
The way I've understood Paris Syndrome, is that it's the preceding hype, built up by the Japanese media, contrasted with the enormous differences in cultural behaviorisms, language, infrastructure, and all the little things like, how much noise people make when walking and talking, who gives way to whom when passing by each other, queuing, crossing the street in Parisian traffic (which by the way is difficult for the Japanese who are used to orderly driving and people driving on the left.) and the list goes on. It's like people expect to be transported to a fairy tale and instead find themselves in Paris, surrounded by French people and hordes of tourists.
I saw the thumbnail and thought of a bridge like that in cologne, Germany. I didn't know there were more of them
There is a padlocked bridge like this in Rome.
Rome, Georgia that is.
No joke.
I died laughing when he said "I think I've found the Evian bottling plant" at the end.
if i went to paris i would get upset about the lack of ladybugs and cats flying around the rooftops
Well, I guess it beats having the Eiffel Tower turned into a giant tesla coil that destroys the city... "Two-zouzend voltz koming hup!"
(Any C&C fans here?)
Not a c&c fan but that's gives me an idea
Tom Scott - Relationship Coroner
Tachycardia is increased heart rate not irregular heart beat.
40 years ago Paris was still dreamy. Thank the socialist mayors and politicians for its current state.
I was once in Paris, I liked it, although I was a bit dissapointed by how polutted it was.
blame the 83 million tourists that visit it yearly
This can be an excellent setting for a lock picking contest.
Well... Tom that introduction was kinda of dark... Yeah
...
Tom who hurt you?
These padlocks are so hideous
0:08
That got real dark real fast...
tachycardia ia a heartbeat which is too fast. you're thinking of arrhythmia.
I live in czech republic in Brno. I've been to paris and it's a wonderland. They have really great food, by that i mean i bought same sandwitch i buy every day for lunch, and it was milion times better than the ones i can get here. People are nice they respect each other. They have huge parks that are just awesome. Well i guess it's just a matter of perspective.
Very well made video.
There is a similar thing called 'Jerusalem syndrome'. It's a bit weirder and the other way around. Similarly unproven as well.
You could make so much money out of these locks.
Cologne has this too
Shame on you Tom you have to blur the faces of the people in the back or you’ll be sued
Personally I thought Paris was even better than everyone says it is. Loved every moment being there and genuinely didn't want to leave.
Who hurt you Tom? :(
by the way , not just paris
That intro was rather dark.
Disappointment is part of living. Too many people in our brave new world live in fantasy, so of course they'll be disappointed when the face reality. Then they'll run for home and continue in fantasy. Very sad.
I tHiNk I fOuNd ThE eViAn BoTtLiNg PlAnT
they took down the raiking last time i was there because the railing started to collapse under the weight.
0:26 foreshadowing
may i please ask for your consent to use some of the audio from this video in my next youtube video?
MY ISSUES ASIDE
Me at the end: So what's Paris syndrome? Only thing I got was that Paris is polluted, and people like padlocks.
hey mate I think my heart is beating wrong, yeah Paris was just not what I expected
I went to Paris in feb 2020, there where padlocks on the lampposts but non on the bridge, they'd been removed and a glass/plastic cover was placed on the outside so u cldnt attach one onto
Paris syndrome doesn't happen with NYC. People expect what's actually there, and they don't expect it to be perfect. The thing that makes NYC special and amazing is not the city/infrastructure, but the community and the people living inside it. Although the statue of liberty is super famous, it's not famous for its looks (by now, it has rusted quite a bit. coincidentally, it was given to the US by France). The thing that makes millions of people want to see the statue of liberty (and the rest of new york, for that matter), is what is stands for (symbolism), and the thrill of it. Thank you for reading this super long comment xd
Imagine being so underwhelmed you hallucinate
I've seen some movies people recommended that did that to me
@@ManiacalForeigner tell us more!
@@ArthurKnight1899 no!
Whenever I travel I just assume all city I visit will be as depressing as the burned down crumbling South Bronx I grew up in in the 70s this way I'm always amazed
Whenever I ask someone out
That went really dark really quickly.
Bet that's what the tourists said.
I know right
Zero to One Hundred in record time
That’s life bucko
And then went 10x darker in the last 6 seconds.
Is there a syndrome for cities that actually confound one's negative expectations?
Maybe Detroit Syndrome.
Manchester syndrome. Manchester plays second banana to London in nearly every way but it's arguably a better, nicer city than London.
Sarusource In the Netherlands it's the same case with Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Rotterdam is much uglier than Amsterdam, but still it's a nicer city to visit than Amsterdam.
LMAO
hotelmario510, I disagree, I've been to both, and I much prefer London, that said I still really like Manchester.
Koninkrijk der Nederlanden Yeah, I agree. Amsterdam was full of high people harassing others in the streets. In other cities, everyone was calm and nice to me.
"My issues aside..." perhaps the most perfect segue ever
That's Tom. A rant and interesting info!
1:58
Remember Evian backwards is naive
Never noticed that.
"There's no way people will just buy bottled water. They'd have to be incredibly naïve."
"Why are you grinning like this?"
"I've just had an idea."
I've read this before and gone "haha, I'm not falling for that one" only to realise that actually it's not a joke.
I thought you were making a joke but then I realised you were actually right lmao
All those people watching romanticized versions of France in anime would be pretty disappointed.
Some cities in France still look a bit like that... But definitely not Paris
@@cdemr PARIS SMELLS LIKE PISS
I think people who watch anime know it's fantasy.
@@ThreadBomb know that weebs would disappoint you, always
Just to be pedantic, tachycardia is a fast heart rate; an irregular heart beat is arrhythmia.
+Scarlett Phoenix tachycardia sucks.
+Scarlett Phoenix Is a fast heart rate not also irregular?
+Crossark1 "irregular" implicitly refers specifically to the rhythm.
Crossark1 irregular doesn't refer to it being different from your "regular" heartbeat. It literally means irregular in rhythm, meaning the pattern itself is irregular/unpredictable/or offset by staccato beats in an otherwise regular pattern. Generally people with arrhythmia, that is their normal heartbeat, the one they go through life with, although certain arrhythmias can be treated. Tachycardia generally refers to a quickening pace due to environmental or physical factors. For instance, some people go into tachycardia when they run too long, if they stop running, they will come out of tachycardia.
...and that's something you might not have known
Japanese people expecting Paris to be way better than it really is is like American people expecting Japan to be way better than it really is. (When they start living there, that is. Japan is very cool if you're just visiting.)
Pretty much. Also, your icon is perfect for this.
Awesome Person I went to Japan, and it was really cool
Went to Japan last year...was extremely impressed on how delicious and neat/clean everything was.
what u on about toyko was the coolest city ive ever been too
Their judicial system is crap tho
I've been to Japan, and I can see how that could happen.
yeah, same here I get what your saying
Hell on earth of a country, isn't it? You know what they say, the difference tween Japan and North Korea is that in North Korea there's one person who lives happily.
@@Tycini1
...Who says that?
@@Tycini1 North Korea!? That's literally impossible. The people aren't even PEOPLE there. Mere misery would be a luxury. Even if it's just a saying, there's no way that could be true.
@@princessthyemis It's a reference to Kim Jong Un...
I 1000% experienced Paris syndrome. I got there and was like, this is it? I knew that London and New York has grimy bits, but Paris was always portrayed in media as being nothing but beauty. No, it’s just as grimy as any other city.
If you think that any city can be nothing but beauty you're probably dumb to begin with
@Jay Saenz You must be from a very small town.
"As grimy as any other city" what other cities do you know where people freely urinate in the streets and let stray dogs run? Is New York as filthy as Paris?
@@StumpfForFreedom urinating i get that its a real societal problem, but ive always lived in paris and i dint recall ever seeing a stray dog. I even thing nyc has the same filth problem, it just doesn’t have the same reputation as paris so its not as much of a shock. It definitely smells like piss tho, and that coming from someone who is used to the smell of piss
@@StumpfForFreedom lviv, kiev, moscow, stalingrad, leningrad, kharkiv.
“A dirty and polluted European city.”
*Subway*
😂😂😂😂😂😂
God Bless the USA and her massive sphere of influence
This is amazing. I once did a few weeks of French language summer school in Paris. They taught us that Paris syndrome was when foreign tourists would get overwhelmed with the Shere beauty of the city and all its amazing culture. I'm not joking. They taught us (all foreign students) this as fact. This was like 15 years ago and I'm only now finding out that, actually, it's basically the opposite of what I was told. Thank you, Tom Scott. That was a thing I did not know
That’s Stendhal syndrome, being overwhelmed
The term is actually meant to encompass both situations. It applies to anyone so overwhelmed by Paris, in a good or bad way.
The locks on that bridge were removed today. This is likely the best quality video of those people's locks of "everlasting love".
Everlasting recycled brass
I imagine its like how you toss a coin into a fountain and make a wish, and then the city collects them and spends them on something hopefully good for the disadvantaged members of the community. You know it won't litterally stay there forever, but its the act of putting it there that matters.
as a lock picker, it pains me to not be able to remove all these
They were removed a few years ago due to safety concerns
Firstpo jkh the locks might cause the metal fence to snap off and potentially fall on a boat down below and even kill some unfortunate boater.
Firstpo jkh There either wasn't enough room, wasn't aesthetically pleasing, or wouldn't support the weight of several tonnes. Either way, this happened a long time ago and I doubt the Parisian government cares about the locks anymore.
Firstpo jkh What the hell are you even going on about? This happened over a year ago and the city council doesn't plan on doing anything. If you care so much then take your argument with them, not some random youtuber on the internet who lives several thousand miles away.
Actually I thinkit was the whole brige that threatened to collapse. All the lockers weighted approximatively 45 tons. And they didn't plan that two hundreds years ago.
You received a like simply for that Evian joke at the end :)