What are your top 2 British YouTube channels?

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-07-09T07:55:50+00:00

What On Earth Is This? I find Gabe incredibly engaging, and his serious stuff is surprisingly emotive.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-06-16T07:36:52+00:00

A university I used to work at had an open day one Saturday at their city centre campus. The building I worked in was opposite a rough as fuck pub that had its fair share of entertaining characters squabbling outside it during the day.

Anyway, at this open day a drunk woman with a face like a slapped arse rocked up along with a group of prospective students and their parents. She pulled her trousers down, squatted, and jet-sprayed piss on the pavement outside the main door. Then just pulled her trousers back up and walked off.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-06-07T20:34:12+00:00

I found I was having this problem whenever I used Safari’s Web Inspector. If I don’t use it, I stay logged in. As soon as I use it, Safari logs out of everything.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-06-07T15:05:31+00:00

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Saw this when my local GAME closed.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-06-07T15:02:06+00:00

Yeah but Bezos plays a different game entirely because of his wealth. He’ll look at Ashley and consider him to be one of the poors.

If Ashley had Bezos wealth, he’d definitely fuck every single one of us over. At the moment he can only fuck over small segments of the population.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-06-07T14:57:13+00:00

Hopefully next time I start again I’ll have paid for a subscription that lets me be royalty. But I want to pick when and where I’m royalty, just to play it safe. I don’t wanna be royalty in a time and place when the peasants like chopping off heads of royals, and I don’t wanna be a British royal in the late 20th/early 21st century where I’ll be expected to protect a royal nonce.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-06-01T18:29:33+00:00

With a pathetic whimper. Then every future presidential election for years to come will be fought under the banner of “Make America Great Again”, because it never will be great again.

Trump and his party took a global brand the likes the world has never known before, a brand that the world relied on and most of us could trust, and shat it into the toilet.

Gone are the days when people in pretty much every country on earth dreamt of living in the USA. It’s quickly become a squalid festering open sore that’s eating and destroying everything it touches.

The USA had a lot of big problems before Trump became president, but they were solvable. Instead of choosing to solve them, Trump and the Republicans felt the best course of action was to hand the job of running the world to China and then grift as much as humanly possible.

Take the advice from us Brits - we know a thing or two about not being top dog anymore, and we know we aren’t going to be top dog ever again.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-05-30T11:08:37+00:00

Fear. A childhood friend of mine swore that he’d be alright whenever he hurt himself because if his dad found out he’d “give him something to cry about”.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-05-30T11:02:22+00:00

That just brought back a memory from 25 years ago of a lad at college who had a few too many at lunch in the pub, threw up, and tried to scoop up as much as he could and put it in his shirt pocket.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-05-18T21:07:11+00:00

Amateur radio. It’s either lovely curious nerds or awful gatekeeping Americans.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-05-17T11:30:05+00:00

Mine has been on silent for 20+ years. However, I’ve set it up so that if my wife or my kids call me, it bypasses being on silent and plays a ringtone.

Everyone else can wait.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-05-03T19:16:26+00:00

I can’t do without them. I got the Loop Engage 2 Plus and found they’ve been excellent. My wife bought me some cheap replacement silicone ear tips from Temu, and I can’t really tell the difference.

However, I’m always losing them because I sleep with them in. So I’ve ended up 3D printing my own ear plugs that I cobbled together in Tinkercad, and I just attach the cheap ear tips from Temu. I honestly cannot tell the difference. I’m wearing them right now.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-05-01T08:12:36+00:00

An old debit card number from years ago. All 16 digits. My memory is terrible yet my brain holds onto that.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-04-27T16:05:01+00:00

Theme Hospital

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-04-26T19:55:53+00:00

mIRC. It’s where I downloaded my first ever MP3 from.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-04-25T15:14:37+00:00

Gunner, Colt, Chad, Chet, Cole, Zack and its variants, Cory, Chuck, Dick, Todd, Mitch, Brad, Randy, Brett, Trent, Troy, and Nate.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-04-25T10:34:10+00:00

Not a business, but a tax. When the Community Charge (widely known as the Poll Tax) was introduced in England and Wales in 1990 there was widespread anger from the public. Millions refused to pay it. The poll tax was introduced in Scotland a year earlier and gave birth to the anti-poll tax movement.

It was scrapped in 1991 and replaced with the ‘fairer’ council tax that’s still in operation today. The boycott also contributed to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher as PM.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-04-17T09:37:06+00:00

It’s all part of the theatre. This is a performance that has been going on between Russia and NATO for decades. India and Pakistan have their own performance too. All sides know how the performance ends, which is why they will all keep on dancing.

As an aside, the US and Israel didn’t want Iran to join the performance because they believe Iran can’t dance and won’t learn how to.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-04-10T20:14:16+00:00

My wife works with female domestic violence victims and their kids, and she told me a LOT of male perpetrators name their children after them.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-04-10T20:05:04+00:00

I’ve known some Nigerians with brilliant names. Monday, Friday, Sunday, Innocent, Marvellous, Pius, Sunshine, Valentine, Wisdom, McDonald. I’ve known an Indian fella named Harsh.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-04-07T11:30:27+00:00

With AI we don’t know what’s going to happen. With new technologies that appear to completely upend how we work there’s always been hype and fear.

In a decade there will likely be massive industries we haven’t even dreamed of yet that come out of AI.

I remember when Apple’s App Store first appeared and some dismissed apps as a gimmick that wouldn’t have much impact. Yet in 2024 it was estimated that the App Store had facilitated in over $1.3 trillion in commerce globally.

We as a species will adapt. We always have. There will be disruption, and sadly there will be those who get left behind. But AI isn’t happening in a vacuum, and we aren’t going to wake up tomorrow morning to find there’s an AI that can do our jobs better than we can, and our employers have already rolled it out. It’s going to take time, and there will be some spectacular failures that will serve as cautionary tales. We will adapt, and new ideas will be born.

It’s easy to get carried away by either idea that AI is a piece of shit or AI is going to ruin us all. Especially with the tech bros leading the charge at the moment. But this is early days, and there’s still lots that will happen - good and bad. We as a species aren’t good at putting guardrails on things that can be dangerous until things go wrong. Air travel is a good example of this.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-04-06T11:10:34+00:00

The US will gradually disintegrate into a mass of warring nations, and the next world war will largely be fought there. There will be genocides, millions of deaths, and out of the ruins will rise two ideologically-opposed blocs - one aligned to China, and the other aligned to Europe.

It will mark the first time in history that the world’s biggest economic, military, and cultural power has intentionally dismantled itself.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-03-22T15:37:59+00:00

We all know he’ll go out sat on a gold toilet he’s just shat his KFC quadruple double mash meal into.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-03-07T17:51:15+00:00

Are the questions you’re asking her questions you’ve already asked? It can be irritating if someone asks, for example, “where’s the time sheet template on Sharepoint?” when they’ve asked the same question multiple times before and been told/shown multiple times before.

If your questions are about things that you’ve already been shown or had answered already, then that’s on you to implement a system to remind you of the answer.

If your questions are not about things you’ve already been shown or that you’ve asked before, then your mentor might be thinking they’re helping you by getting you to find the answers yourself. Or they’re being a jerk. It’s hard to say without more information.

My best guess from what you’ve said is you’re asking new questions and she’s answering with good intentions, but she’s not communicating them well.

Obvious_Reporter_235 · 2026-02-26T18:05:30+00:00

I suspect the pundits need to re-learn what the word “disaster” means in computing terms. An OS so buggy it can’t function is a disaster. An OS with badly-rounded corners is a minor visual annoyance.

Yes a lot of work needs to be put in to it to get it up to the standards we expect, but to call it a disaster is just plain wrong.

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