Transcript (thank you to @witchstone for sending me the missed and/or unknown words/places)
Hello! I’m back to show you how to make one fashion blunder after another starting with these pyjama pants. Which are so big each can be used as a sleeping bag. And then, from the children’s department, I got this tiny little vest. Please have a look at my pecs, I went to the gym today. Look how tight that one is.
Okay, too tight around my big pecs. I then went and got this vest that came from Dolly magazine 1970’s Christmas Edition. Fix my hair, clap clap for that.
Nope, I’m not going out in pyjamas anymore. I decided I would just put on these plain ordinary jeans. Doodgewone jeans for any occasion and just have a look at that. That’s not too bad. And then bring out the slippers, because I’m still quite keen on the nightwear thing.
And then check if I can dance, yes I can as long as I don’t move my feet. And back to 1970s where I got this jacket from the old man down the road. He said I could use it, but I said no not today, I don’t wanna wear it out too soon. Found a little bag from the girl down the road again and now look at me!
I look like the gay plumber from Pofadder.
[Video description: A tiktok by eiitanbroude, captioned, “my mum does my voice over lol.” A fairly skinny man, shirtless with black pants on, is reflected in a floor-length mirror. He holds up a large pair of shiny, pale pink pants and puts them on. They’re pretty oversized, the bottoms pooling at his feel and seeming to barely stay on his hips. He then holds up and puts on a white undershirt, which is a bit too small. He feels his pecs and then takes the undershirt off, replacing it with a cream sweater vest.
He runs his hands through his hair, claps them together twice thoughtfully, and then takes off pink pants and replaces them with a pair of jeans. He holds up a pair of slipper-like shoes and slides them on, then does a little standing-in-place dance.
he then puts on a dark brown jacket (that looks like it has some lighter splotches on it, as if tie-dyed), smiles at the mirror, and takes it back off. he holds up a small, teal bag with a long strap and puts it on cross body. he poses for a moment and then turns and walks away. /end ID]
This style of bridge dates from the days when barges were towed by horses. When the towpath switched to the opposite side of the canal, the horse would, obviously, clippy-clop over a bridge and happily plod off again. Now, the automatic way to do this would be like this:
However, note that rope (black line) between the horse (brown blob) and the barge (red blob). If you cross the bridge the automatic way, it all goes a bit….
However, if you cross the bridge like THIS
it all works out fine!
Now, sure, you could trust people to remember how to cross a bridge. But there are a lot of numpties out there, and people were working extremely long days and were extremely tired. Also, the canals were BUSY. One boat getting snarled up was the equivalent of the Ever Given.
So, instead, the canal companies built Numpty-Proof Bridges.
They also had the benefit that the horse could be left to plod along on its own, rather than needing human guidance. (I have no idea how this worked. My horse would have her nose buried in the grass and wouldn’t go anywhere, if I left her to it.)
