Anything to escape Great Britain
He went to Thailand to go BACK to Britain.
“On two wheels” implies it’s a sightseeing trip. Basically seeing the sights between Thailand and home. Probably only to leave again because… y’know.
Rather than a motorcycle, it’s funnier to imagine he made the whole trip on a hoverboard.
Not necessarily escape. More, experimenting out in the world, then run home and decide that the planet is entirely backwards.
Yes, experience, and bring something back to the museum
Is that a common take away? Mine is “holy shit if only Americans realized how much better <place> is at <thing> despite spending so much less”.
The only thing I’ve been disappointed by is how poorly the rest of the world treats nature, from trash just dumped in the woods in rural Japan to hiking trails in China that are entirely paved, with gamer RGB lighting, and food vendors every like quarter mile to hiking in jungle in vietnam and hearing no wildlife all night, except the occasional breathing of a water buffalo.
The guy on the right is Ben Innes from Aberdeen. He posed for a picture to post on social media next to Seif Eldin shortly after he hijacked a plane in Cyprus whilst wearing what turned out to be a fake suicide belt. Ben didn’t know it was fake at the time of course.
Cool, if morbid, photo to have afterwards, though!
That’s a big smile for not knowing
I mean if you think it’s your last photo, wouldn’t you wanna look good
“Welp!”
He also said later that it was to try and get a better look at the bomb.
Terry Pratchett nailed it in The Color of Magic.
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant ‘idiot’.
Twoflower is the first place my mind went, too.
Same
Love the reference and the image. Do you know the author?
Book reference is “The Colour Of Magic” by the Kate Sir Terry Pratchett.
Asking: “ where can I find a pub”
Wherever you are in the world, there is usually an Irish pub serving Guinness.
Also according to Hemingway, you can find at least 2 Estonians in every port in the world.
I can’t confirm that, but I can confirm that there are Irish pubs here in Estonia too.
As a Finn, even when we have five times your population, I still believe that to be true of Estonians but not of Finns.
Also when you find those two Estonians, you can purchase cartons of cigarettes and bottles of Viru Valge off of them.
You know, to have after the visiting the Irish pub.
Viru Valge? God damnit they’re letting out reputation down. Everyone knows you take crates of Vana Tallinn with you on trips so you can use it to bribe people. Or maybe that’s just in former soviet republics
Vana Tallin is for the bougie folk who can’t handle 80% Viru Valge. I was but a youngster when I first encountered a bottle. Friend said you can take a sip if you don’t look at the bottle. I took a few massive gulps, almost half the bottle.
Then I swallowed.
Man I was surprised. And it didn’t spend that long in me, tbh.
But yeah Vana Tallin is a much more sociable liquor. I’m just Finnish and want my money’s wörth, lol.
Ah that one is called Viru Valge Vägev, where Vägev means Mighty.
Of course when I was a student, I bought alcohol by euros per millilitre of alcohol content to get my money’s worth too. Nowadays I buy what I like the taste of, which sometimes ends up being expensive peaty Islay single malt scotch, and sometimes the cheapest gin I can find, to pair with a mediocre tonic. I don’t remember the last time I drank vodka neat lol
Juu väkeväähän se oli.
It’s almost the same word in Finnish, “väkevä” which does mean “mighty”, “strong”, but literally it’s basically “full of (little) folk”, although idk if Estonian also uses “väki” in the same way but it’s the etymology of vägev anyhow. As in “the little folk” or “fairy folk” sort of, as anything magical or powerful would’ve been said to be so. Not that anyone’s really believed in any sort of fairyfolk for a long time, but just thought it might be interesting, perhaps especially so for a fellow finnic person (and/or I’m just somewhat interested if this all works in Estonian as well or if you’ve read about it idk)
In Finnish folklore, Väki is the life force that flows in every single living creature and being. It is similar to the concept of mana in Hinduism, life force chi in Chinese culture or the Force in Star Wars. Väki literally means a group. It describes the power / group or spirits that reside in a certain idea/concept/element or being.
https://littlewomen.medium.com/väki-the-power-in-finnish-folklore-abeb0a9d3c04
Oh yeah I don’t buy the cheapest stuff anymore either. Actually bought fairly expensive rums last winter, tried some out to see whether it was worth it. It definitely is worth it to go at least mid-shelf in most things, and sometimes the top shelf doesn’t feel like a waste either.
Vodka neat is kinda horrible, tbh. A good vodka martini with a really smooth vodka, yea. Just vodka, neat? No thanks, can’t do it since that one time I drank a little hand sanitizer (non-denatured) in the army. 'Twas like >73% abv. I was fuuuuuccckeeed, uuupp. Luckily I was an NCO and had independence a bit so I went to the neighbouring barracks (just a firedoor in between them, same building) to use their showers for an hour or so (as the barracks was empty 1/3 of the year).
I once went on a perilous hiking trip with my dad. We jumped crevices, scaled bare rock with nothing but ropes and wits, and spent the nights alone up in that wilderness, shivering next to insufficient fire pits. Once we got to the peak and took in the majesty of creation, we turned around saw that there was an Irish pub there at the top
Man, I just watched this video last night and it’s a crazy watch. The guy was surprisingly calm given the situation (though I’m sure he was freaking the fuck out on the inside.) and it just kept escalating.
Seeing the humanity among the Nepal community was heartwarming as well.
I haven’t watched the update videos yet, but I know he’s released several more videos recapping the events, the proceeding fallout, and interviewing some of the people he had encountered.
This video of his was very entertaining.
Thank you, great share. Also he has the perfect eyebrows for this, very expressive
on two wheels
why tho
he’s on a global motorcycle tour. generally speaking if you want to see the whole world and not just tourist traps, you’re gonna do it by bicycle, motorcycle, or by hiking and taking the bus. the theme of his channel is to show things in the world most people miss because they’re taking curated/manicured forays into the world catered to their pre-existing outlooks on other people and places
A random political overthrow fits in there quite nicely, actually.
on some level, with the era he was doing this world tour in, and the specifics of what he was seeking to show the world about how we’re all just people and the states that rule us are arbitrary, it was bound to happen eventually
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I really like your outlook. “Things fall apart” but less Achebe and more Doctorow
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Just one wheel is vastly more difficult
Three wheels it is then
Edd Pratt actually did that!
Why not.
Go out, do things.
“Bloody hell it’s hot down here. And no hotels either! Sauna’a are quite warm though.”
One of my life long dreams is to document events around the world. It is dangerous to be caught up in the middle of a social unrest, but it would be a mad story to tell in the future if you survived!
Careful, he might accidentally appropriate your cultural items and place them in his museum
It’s a great video
To British people, the third world is their playground, where they can visit and act like they own the place
That sounds like you think “the third world” is some group that collectively decides on the same thing. But at the same time you haven’t given them any agency otherwise they would ban tourists from entering.
I mean, generally speaking, the people who face the consequences of policy the most are not the people who decide on the policy.
Oh you’re right I’ll just forget about the centuries of genocide and racism against my people 🤷♂️
What the fuck does this have to do with a guy riding a bike through a few countries for a YouTube channel my guy
It doesn’t, the dude is just racist and too much of a coward to even own up to it. So he tries to hide it behind made-up ‘justifications’ like wars that never happened, or colonization of places that famously couldn’t be colonized.
By tourists?
Nepal is one of the few countries they tried to conquer but couldn’t. Instead, they hired them as mercenaries.
There is a Nepalese regiment in the British army; just in case you were unaware that Nepal is well known and respected in (much of) the UK population.
There is a Nepalese regiment in the British army
Why do you think that is? You colonized them
You need to reread your history book because that literally never happened.
Interesting. So every single account of the Anglo-Nepalese war is incorrect. I shall get on to every credible historian and point out this error. Thank you for your help.
How did that lodge itself in there?
Guy here is acting like tourism is the same as conquering a place
Never heard of a neo colony and how many subjugated financially and quietly, not guns and boots on the ground. But if you’re English you love colonialism so I can’t change your views of that
I’m not but you go right on assuming things about other people if it supports your worldview I guess
Maybe to some, I’d be super anxious
That’s how tourism works yes
