How traffic lights help footballers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2024
- Rowan Ellis, Alec Steele and Simon Clark face a question about a signalling solution.
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I'm less fussed with the British pronunciation of "jaguar" than I am on how you say "urinal".
"Is it alligators?!" has "PaNtHeRs?" energy.
😂
Thank God there's a bunch of people who understand this joke.
For those who don't: th-cam.com/video/RC2qosa3Wjo/w-d-xo.html
AHH YES BRING ME ANOTHER PLATE OF WRENS - Gary Brennan
@@dylanpritchard4981 - I had to look up who Bill Oddie was, but yes.
"Simon just got an idea" continued with "Is it alligators?" was brilliant.
"That's a normal amount of alligator." Even the British know that's a weirdly likely phrase in Florida.
In fact, if a player does need hydration, it would probably be accomplished by drinking Gatorade, which was invented in the 1960s about 80 miles down the road at the University of Florida by Dr. Robert Cade, a nephrologist at their medical school, based on testing of the Gator athletic teams.
The patent, which was owned by the school and thus by the state, was later sold to Stokely, who has produced it commercially ever since.
And somehow, it kinda makes sense for a single (probably juvenile) alligator to not really be the biggest problem for a burly young football player who needs to hit the can. "Gotta pee, gotta pee... oh, for the love of... outta the way, Snappy! * grabs mid-sized gator by snout, drags out the door, slams closed, leaving confused reptile to wander the rest of the locker room *"
As a Floridian, I can confirm that 1 toilet alligator is, in fact, a standard amount of toilet alligators 😂
Also, as a non-sportsman, my only familiarity with the Jaguars is from The Good Place. BORTLES! *Throws Molotov cocktail*
Isn't the Molotov scene the one in which he shouts "JORTLES!" because his pseudonym is Jake Jortles?
@@cannot-handle-handles He does it several times throughout the series, usually just going for Bortles 😅
"I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work! Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, BOOM!, right away I had a different problem."
One alligator would be a green light. Zero would be a red light (something has gone *very* wrong). More than one would be yellow (a bit weird, but probably fine).
Right, red means the drain is clogged, no alligators can come in 😂
I'd recommend changing the title to "football players", because "footballers" immediately makes me think of soccer players. Nobody in the United States has ever called NFL players "footballers."
"Instead of donning mod garb in the latest styles, footballers are decked out for protection." Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 7 September 25 1967
@@pattheplanter Okay, "nobody ever" was an exaggeration, but it's definitely not common. Especially if the article you cited comes from 1967. Although I was born and raised in Tucson, so that's a pretty big coincidence!
Wait, what? You USA people did name football soccer, but do call them footballers??
You are a confusing bunch.
@@edopronk1303 First of all, the British were the ones who named association football "soccer," the US just stuck with that nickname. Secondly, we don't call soccer players "footballers," but we recognize that "footballer" is the British term for someone who plays association football, so that's what first comes to mind.
wow, Alec in Lateral! Awesome! I love how his background is so different from everyone else in this and all other episodes :o)
i don't know who they are, but they seemed nice!
and previously mentioned in the episode where Karen Cavett submitted her own question as a guest about anvils :D
Captain Disillusion?
@@nisc2001 he's a blacksmith with a TH-cam channel
@@hobby30plus no CD's name is Alan
I thought it was an indicator on the toilet cubicle doors - red for occupied, green for vacant, amber for "I'd give it five minutes if I were you".
I thought it might be used for when journalists or fans or someone wanted to visit the locker room after the game, to avoid them walking in on a dozen naked men.
I have competed in south Florida ( never again thank you) in the Spring and heat and humidity means dehydration is a real thing. I learned a lot that weekend about how my body deals with electrolytes. This system is wicked smart
As a Floridian, I can tell you that "in the spring" is an irrelevant clause here. It'd be the same in the winter 😂
I wonder if it can detect whether you are hydrated, but don't have the electrolytes. So, the pee is a tinge yellow (normally well hydrated), but actually you are on the edge of water intoxication
@@IceMetalPunk But "in the summer" would be rather more extreme, no?
@@woodfur00 Only sightly. In winter, we can get down to about 60 degrees Fahrenheit (maybe lower, but only a few days a year at most). The rest of the year, it's basically 80-100 degrees or more every day.
Dr Simon on Lateral?? Amazing
So glad to see Simon Clark on this!
Of course, the way you'd traditionally measure this is by the color of the fluid involved, with clear meaning good and yellow meaning... well, the same thing yellow does here. Red is obviously an indicator of something much more severe, it doesn't go much past maybe a bit orange from dehydration alone.
if your pee is completely clear that's a sign you are drinking too much water pee should be a mild yellow colour
Yeah, if it's red, then you've taken a wicked hit to your kidneys (or bladder), mate.😅
incidentally it _can_ turn a nice bright neon green. In my anecdote it was from taking lots of Vitamin B complex over a week or two (trying everything to deal with some nerve damage)
@@sourcererseven3858 Asparagus will do that. Beets for red urine.
@@sourcererseven3858 Yup. One-a-day Pro Edge has a vast amount of (apparently blood-soluble) green dye that has... that effect.
Great to see Simon on here!
Yo, it's Dr. Simon Clark! Really cool to see him on here
My thoughts were that it detects whether players are naked (below the waist) and turns the light outside the door yellow or red to stop journalists from just bursting in. Like, green is "nobody's naked", yellow is someone at the far end of the room, red is someone close to the door.
There is a low tech version.
You just put a colour chart comparing the colour of your stream above each urinal.
Each you-RYE-nul
Just chiming in from Jacksonville to say: Duuu-Valllll!!!
I love how Tom didn't even get the American pronunciation correct. He said it was /dʒæɡwar/, but its actually /dʒæɡwajɚ/
Definitely /dʒæɡwar/ for me! I believe /dʒæɡwajɚ/ is more of a regional (Midwestern?) pronunciation.
@@michaels4340 you doxxed me lmao
Forget about the pronunciation of "jaguar" - just what is a "you-RYE-nul"?!
@@michaels4340 /-wɑjɚ/ is not the common Midwestern pronunciation I know
OMG you got alec on!!!
To be fair, I'm not much on spectator sports (except for gymnastics at the Olympic level), but I've worked in an environment in which discussing the NFL, NBA and MLB is a regular part of the day. The Jaguars have been around for 30 years and I hadn't even heard of them until a friend mentioned them on Facebook. My response was "The Jacksonville Jaguars??? Is this a real NFL team???"
Oh cool! Alec Steele!!
There are colour charts on the toilet walls on building sites in the UK for the same reason.
And steelworks (if you still remember those!).
The US military put color charts above urinals as well--or at least they had charts above a large percentage of urinals roughly 2 decades ago. The chart also included a recommended amount of water to drink depending on shade of the urine, as well as the recommendation to see a doc in some cases.
And the punchline is still accurate, Tom.
Initial thoughts: monitor the state of their equipment, or their facial/body expressions to detect the players' physical and psychological state for possible problems? Perhaps, it's simply to make sure they did all the pre-game checklist like limbering up exercises, and that they are ready to play?
This wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card.
Duuuuuuuvallll!
my first thought was something to do with hydration seemed like the most important thing to track for any sports team
Dehydration colour charts are/were available for forest fire workers here in Australia to asses dehydration in the field. Unfortunately comparing urine colour to the chart is somewhat problematic for women.
Love to se Simon
i love sports lateralls
Not only was the all-British panel pronouncing "Jaguars" incorrectly for an American team, the British copywriter wrote "footballers" which are soccer players; American football players are "football players."
Also urinal lol
It's illegal (punishable by humiliation) to say jaguar the american way in the uk that's why they didn't 😉
They tried. Bless them. Though if this had been an American majority group I think the question would have been answered in a quarter of the time. Not because Americans are any smarter but because they would have been far more familiar. After all, we got Gatorade from a different Florida football team who were trying to prevent severe dehydration. Florida can become hot as sin. It would make sense for another team to check their players for dehydration in another way.
It's football to the majority of the world, very few call it soccer. Also, football has a real world cup which includes hundreds of countries from around the world. The same cannot be said of "American football".
@@aetch77I don't think the point is arguing about the claim on the word "football", it's that people who play American football aren't called footballers, they're called football players.
It something that you will be finding in restroom because it will be helpful for player how much urine that comes out of their own body. the sensor tells you how much fuel that needs to stay healthy of their own body.
Alec has a point. Green and red would be much more concerning.
Red is common with a lot of beetroot and quite disturbing if you forgot about the beetroot.
1:10 meanwhile jojos bizarre adventure:
JAGGERZ
Yoooo alec steele!
Temperature of the toilet seat would definitely make sense. I hate warm seats. And, fun fact, japanese have heated seats...
Instant guesses: is a shower/toilet stall occupied, or (if more traditional use of the signal) "is it safe to bring tourists through the locker room right now", or "can you walk across this corridor without getting run down by someone bringing a zillion pounds of training gear out to the field"
Alec Steele looks like Simon Mayo
1 alligator under your lawn sprinklers normal!
“Bee-det” that’s a new pronunciation I haven’t heard before
Huh, that's how I've heard people pronouncing it my whole life. How do you do it? Like Biden but with a t?
@@wafaatqiya “bih (as in big)-day”
It’s originally a French word
What if you're severely dehydrated, but your hydration levels are obscured by the fact you are pissing blood?
Isn't the actual colour enough info about that stat I wonder?
Yeah, I do wonder, too. Maybe the stereotype about the average American Football Player's IQ is not exaggerated after all? Might also be trying to overcome machoism (not drinking enough to show how tough you are); when other people see your light go red it shames you into taking action?
Or the guy selling those systems is simply someone's cousin 🤣
Late in the game the concussion might make it hard to focus on a small amount of urine.
Color is a nice rule of thumb, but not everyone’s going to check, especially if they’re tired and wearing a ton of padding. Plus people’s assessment of what the correct color is will vary, as will the color itself depending on diet.
The system was probably implemented for a more consistent, automatic, and clear reading.
It’s also Florida, so the traffic light thing was probably because someone was feeling extra weird that day.
6:11 Personally, I pronounce them urinals :)
When you are severely dehydrated, you do not pee anymore, so you don't use the loo.
That's true in extreme cases, but the player would feel unwell if he were that dehydrated. The body needs to get rid of waste products regardless of fluid levels, so a person will still urinate when dangerously dehydrated, just much smaller volume.
Wait... people say "Jaguar" differently in the US??
Yes, they say "Jaguar"
jay-gyu-R right?
In the U.S. it’s pronounced more like “Jagwor”
The US has two different pronunciations for jaguar, neither of them "jaguar". They say jagwar or jagwire.
Americans like missing out syllables. "Jaguar" is two syllables in US English.
But what if you are so dehydrated that you can't even urinate? You will never know that something is wrong with you...
I did not guess the correct answer. Makes sense though, sure. Even when they got close I thought it was going to be checking for traces of some protein or such as an indicator of concussion.
I want to circle back to Alec's pronunciation of urinal is "ur-eyn-als" If that the English pronunciation? of them? Because I'd always assume they'd have a very clever and descriptive name for them like "piss foyers"
Not Ken Aston having the inspiration for red and yellow cards at a set of traffic lights then?
Do some Americans say “Jag-wire”, or was that just Steve Jobs?
Many Americans actually say “jaguires” instead of “jagwar”
Ö simonnnnnnn
"you-rye-nulls" ????
Reminds me of a black and white copy of "if your urine is this color do this" chart
If you'r peeing *grey* , that arguably is indeed a cause for concern. Or at least _intense_ confusion.
Boooorltes! Soooo.... any The Good Place fans here?
One or two, probably. But I think we've forgotten about that relatively short lived joke. In fact, do you notice that your memory of and feelings about those few years just before the pandemic has changed?
I think I'm more bothered by calling them footballers. I was ready for a soccer thing. I'm double confused.
Doesn’t your pee color already show how hydrated you are? The more water you drink, the more pale the pee is. This feels like an over engineered solution to a problem we’ve already solved
Sometimes, depending on what you've eaten, your pee might be a different color. Got example, excessive b vitamins will make your pee a florescent yellow and throw off the color scale for judging hydration.
after they started talking about it affect the toilets. my only thought was automatic drug testing toilets. green you passed. yellow you need to pee out more of the drugs. red your getting fined!! lol
To those tuning in...
urine for a surprise.
Really? In UK It's your-EYE-nal? Rather than YOUR-in-all? But it's still YOUR-in? Why change it? I mean, at least JAG-you-are makes sense with the spelling. Not sure how US got JAG-whar... :~)
Jag-uwar
The word came into English from Portuguese, and the Portuguese pronunciation is closer to "jah-gwar" (which is also similar to the original pronunciation in Guarani, the native south-american language that the word comes from).
I teach English to students as their second language. I've lost count of the number of times I have to tell them that often English spelling and pronunciation just doesn't make sense. Use it and just remember it, sometimes there is no "why?", or the why is only useful if you study etymology. 🤣
How adorable it is that people still think English words are spelled phonetically.
I'm a Brit and I know a lot people who say YOUR-EYE-n rather than YOUR-in, so I think both pronunciations are common here.
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hehe... green pee
Jaggers!
"jagyuwar"
TH-cam added a button to your message to "translate to English". When I click it, it says "fallen". I have no idea what language it thinks your post its in.
@@RFC3514 Hausa, a common West African language. I checked on Google Translate.
wait, but what about females?
Not a huge number of ladies playing left tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars.