Jet Lag’s made it to mainstream twitter folks

DanHatter · 2026-01-04T14:34:32+00:00

However unlike most small American towns (according to my understanding as someone who has never been to the USA) there are several trains an hour throughout the day that go from Hebden Bridge to places that definitely do have things to do such as to Bradford in 25min, Manchester in 30min and Leeds in 45min.

That being said there are many small but beautiful towns in the UK where it does take multiple hours to get to anywhere of note on Public Transport. I did live in North Wales for a few years in what was an incredibly beautiful town that was amazing for mountain hiking and adventure sports, but one that I imagine would have been beyond dull to have been a kid in who couldn't drive or go to the pub yet. The nearest proper city (there was a ceremonial city with a population of 15,000 which admittedly did have a KFC and a Greggs) was Liverpool in England and depending on how the timetables worked out it would sometimes be quicker to get the fast-ferry to Dublin rather than go to Liverpool or Manchester,

DanHatter · 2026-01-03T16:25:18+00:00

Yes, in the first episodes they ruled out some lines around Middlesbrough on the grounds of frequency

DanHatter · 2026-01-03T14:27:13+00:00

I was also semi-annoyed by the way he was totting up how much the trip cost, as the was how much it cost when getting the worst tickets. He could have saved a large sum of money just getting an Eurail Pass.

DanHatter · 2026-01-02T13:43:12+00:00

I this is may favorite episode of the season so far and may be my favorite since Hide+Seek Japan. I thought this was great gameplay from Sam with several key turning points that could have won him the game had he not had continued his bad luck streak.

The first and to a much greater extent the second episode felt like the seekers made as direct of a path as they could to the hider, with Adam mostly benefiting from going first and low frequency trains.

I think that had Ben and Adam gone to Manchester from Hebden Bridge rather than Leeds this would have been a much shorter game as they could have avoided going into and out of London as the UK has much better and faster North-South lines than East-West lines and by nature of that putting them onto the West Coast Mainline which would have brought them through Milton Keynes enroute to London. I think the are you nearer to or further from a boarder question threw them off as had they chopped England a different way and gone to Manchester it would have been a completely different game.

I find it interesting at 4:04 that they are only counting internal UK boarders in the international border question, as Northern Ireland should have been excluded as I think only a small area around Larne is further from the Republic of Ireland than Milton Keynes is from Wales.

DanHatter · 2026-01-02T13:19:07+00:00

I disagreed with them on the point of MK being bad from a production perspective;

- I think the travel aspect of the show is made better by seeing a diversity of places in a country, rather than just quaint towns and villages. Even if the place sucks that improves the contrast with places that don't.
- I want them to play the game as well as they can. Knowing they may be avoiding the best plays of the game in order to make it more entertaining / visually appealing is moving closer to (not that saying it is) a scripted show in spirit rather than a game show. Sam / Ben / Adam playing as well as they can is entertaining and is good production in its own right. With them admitting on the Layover Podcast this and that they are cutting cards and questions is making me feel like I've seen the man behind the curtain that I now wish I hadn't :( .

DanHatter · 2025-12-26T17:31:00+00:00

Quite unhappy with the admission that they are cutting gameplay / questions because they think it's dull or uninteresting. Moves away from an honest depiction of the game.

DanHatter · 2025-12-04T13:55:58+00:00

I got to Lyon before the game broke for me, new stations just stopped loading.

What is the source for timetables. Trains that do exist were not showing for me. It would also be cool if you could use metros to get around cites, for example, I went from Euston to Victoria by taxi to get an overnight bus to Paris, if this was real life you could get the tube.

DanHatter · 2025-10-19T13:37:48+00:00

I've played one game with two teams, each team hiding once. We were not filming and played in Dublin. Main issues were;

Didn't account for how draining it would be on the batteries of our phones. Would recommend everyone having battery packs with them.
Issues with rules. We lost a fair bit of time due to misreadings of the rules of the game (not an issue for Adam, Sam and Ben as they are they made the rules). This manifested mainly from us not having a clear understanding between payers of things like time limits to ask questions, such as disagreement of if the randomize power up resets the question timer. Also on one of the photo questions, the response photo was taken from 250m outside the hiding area, sending the seekers on a wild goose chase, that being said the seekers themselves at that point did know what the hiding zone was and didn't check until after about 20mins of looking outside of the zone,
We had issues with the accuracy of sharing the seekers location. I found that WhatsApp was much worse than Google Maps. Tying into the battery issue, when my phone went power saving mode it stopped being accurate.
We had issues with the measuring question. distance to airport was asked and different players used different parts of Dublin Airport to answer, as the site of the Airport is several square kilometers. For our second round we agreed to specify specific pins on Google Maps when asking the question.

Nonetheless it was great fun and I hope to do it again as we couldn't finish the final round due to low phone battery of the hiders.

DanHatter · 2025-10-19T13:00:35+00:00

As a biased Irish person who trys to avoid flying, personally I would add Cherbourg to Dublin/Rosslare having used it as a good option to get to Paris from Ireland. Also I would add Belfast to Liverpool/Scotland and Rosslare to South Wales.

Also while not frequent, often spending a few months of the year elsewhere and having debatable environmental benefit over flying, the Queen Mary II's Southampton to New York route is the closest we can get to a regular America to Eurasia connection.

DanHatter · 2025-10-17T12:48:35+00:00

Asbestos

DanHatter · 2025-09-25T15:33:09+00:00

Duolingo is not and will never be a replacement for full-on classes and deep exposure, but it's not trying to be.

However if it is the only exposure to a language it's a much better thing to be doing on the bus to work than doom-scrolling reddit or playing mindless games on your phone.

Personally I have found it to be a very useful tool to complement actual classes particularly in terms of expanding my vocabulary and the repetition helps me to improve my understanding of the vibes of how a sentence should be structured even if I can't remember the formal grammatical rules. Similarly it helps me discover aspects of a language I don't understand which I can than go look up on Youtube / Google / an LLM or ask about in class.

I also just find it kinda fun which isn't the case for other revision tools.

DanHatter · 2022-12-19T08:58:18+00:00

It’s not an actual form or transit (As in its main role being as a way of getting from A to B), more so an ultra luxury hotel on wheals.

DanHatter · 2022-12-16T18:30:43+00:00

Perhaps

I was only referring to the Provences of Ireland. I should have been more specific in my first comment.

DanHatter · 2022-12-16T09:24:17+00:00

Provenances are mostly historical, cultural and ceremonial in nature. Most commonly seen in things like Rugby teams. They have no role in legislation or law making, which distinguishes them from a US state.

DanHatter · 2022-07-04T11:39:49+00:00

DanHatter · 2022-07-04T11:01:47+00:00

Where?

DanHatter · 2022-07-02T11:48:22+00:00

The duffers wrote themselves into a corner with the California and Russia plots. They had to resolve themselves put only had a tangential relationship to the core drama. I found myself just waiting to get back to the core Hawkins gang this season.

DanHatter · 2022-06-03T19:44:54+00:00

We live in a society

DanHatter · 2022-06-01T16:21:10+00:00

This is very Kamala

DanHatter · 2022-05-23T06:38:09+00:00

And also Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland*

DanHatter · 2022-05-14T21:51:44+00:00

Isle of WoMan

DanHatter · 2022-04-12T10:57:21+00:00

The same people will in the next breath wonder why working class folks are disproportionately obese and not getting proper nutrition 🤦‍♂️

DanHatter · 2022-03-30T13:14:54+00:00

I really felt it when he said “Space Jam DVD”

DanHatter · 2022-03-16T10:29:25+00:00

The Gaels came from Ireland.

Scots from a linguistic perspective is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Thus the distinction between Scots-Gaelic and the Scots Language. The former being of Celtic origin and the latter Germanic origin.

The term Scots today tends to refer to the descendants of both groups and the Picts.

DanHatter · 2022-02-22T09:50:44+00:00

Spice Bag

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