The wild, wacky world of YouTube

[cromwell]

MrsC and I have taken to roaming the wilds of YouTube. Initially to find and watch old music videos, but then to watch vids of places we know in the UK. MrsC has a fixatio with Scarborough (I don't!).
We have watched vids by Adventureme, who compares how places were and how they are now.
Also I have just started watching a Scottish vlogger (?) called Steve Marsh, who films trips to remote Scottish Islands. I have really enjoyed these and it's expanded my knowledge of Scotland.
At the other end of the scale is the person with a GoPro camera who fancies themselves as a BBC presenter or something.
I watched one guy - tall, hunched over, dentally challenged, looking like he needed a good wash - going around Whitby striking odd poses. This is a man who will never be mistaken for Brad Pitt, he could eat a tomato through a tennis racket.
So it's a bit of a wild west, but there is some enjoyable stuff on it.

[Kaz]

Mick and my friend Emma's husband Dave found an old game of Gloucester rugby on YouTube, the John Player cup final at Twickenham from the early '90s. Both Mick and Dave knew some of the players, and really enjoyed it

A few weeks later, coincidentally, we bumped into one of said players in Portivo Lounge - Steve Baker, who was an England under-21. Mick went to school with him and also played (much later) for Old Richians veterans when Mick was playing for them.

[Workingman]

I usually go in for old music - 50s, 60s, 70s. There has always been a side panel and when it started that was nearly all music. In the past few years it now has other things that might interest me. Mostly they don't, but there are one or two.

If I do click on one I end up clicking another and another and... I might start off with the Green Bay Packers and hours later I am in Antarctica watching scientists going about their work. It is disturbingly addictive yet informative.

[Kaz]

[JoM]

Crommers

YouTube is the bane of my life.
It’s the first thing John watches when he sits down after dinner, watching videos of people doing up cars.
Another he’s found recently is a man who drives around Glasgow, narrating where he’s going. John spent a lot of time in Glasgow when he was growing up, visiting his grandmother and various aunts, uncles and cousins every holiday, so he’s finding this all very interesting as it covers a lot of the East End which is where his Dad’s family all lived and some still do. Apparently people who’ve moved away put in requests for this fella to drive along roads where they used to live.

[Kaz]

Oh blimey Jo Mick likes programmes and YouTube videos about mending things, or how they're made

[JoM]

I just made the mistake of asking what it was he was watching….just to be polite, and it could now be my specialist subject on Mastermind (or would have been if I’d been listening).
He even stopped it and skipped back a few minutes to show me something REALLY interesting

[Kaz]