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@realityvanguard2052

4 жыл бұрын

gotta change the thumbnail, it's covered up on the bottom right corner by the time thingo. AMATEUR!

@geetarwanabe

4 жыл бұрын

You get shafted with the VAT added on but not included in the 75% off rate.

@QuimBeelivingstone

4 жыл бұрын

I hope NordVPN sponsors another video and offers discount again. Its month end, rent is due so I cant afford NordVPN right now but it shows offer is only good for 9 more hours. 😕

@real_Pinoy

4 жыл бұрын

You Should make video who G Raymond is the person who is on all Credit card Ads

@inomad1313

4 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out Is there any evidence of ornamental garden hermit napping? You know. Kidnap an ornamental garden hermit. Hire an artist. Take the hermit and artist to different locations and have the artist draw/paint the hermit at these locations. Then take the hermit back. If not, some rich person back then missed out on a great opportunity to be ahead of their time and play a great practical joke on their friends. It will make me a little sad to find out that this never happened.

Paid to stay inside and read books all day and you don't have to talk to people. Man talk about being born in the wrong generation

@WeShareTheSameAir

4 жыл бұрын

Word to muvuh. You actin like you ain't a fan of pirate decorum and joint. Man get the flax seed outta hurr.

@heatherturner2366

4 жыл бұрын

Not a Fan give me music and I'm good

@WeShareTheSameAir

4 жыл бұрын

@@heatherturner2366 We beat the odds, you and I. Love ya.

@alienonion4636

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect for an introvert like me.

@Tiberon098

4 жыл бұрын

IKR, this is what time travel needs to be developed for.

What stood out to me more than anything here was the name "Lancelot Capability Brown".

@geoffreypiltz271

3 жыл бұрын

He was nicknamed Capability from his habit of saying after inspecting a site that "it has capabilities", that is potential for development.

So Simon is basically a modern day hermit, sitting in his man cave dispensing daily bits of knowledge?

@syd.a.m

4 жыл бұрын

He's got the beard, but we'll need to see his fingernails to be sure.

@1973Washu

3 жыл бұрын

But he doesn't have to dress up like a druid unless he wants to.

Is anyone else thinking this sounds like a dream job? Just me? Ok.

@Stoppskylten

4 жыл бұрын

Beats the Mars 4 year projects at least.

@awakeningtovacuity8372

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, me too.

@mariaelmeier3927

4 жыл бұрын

I would negotiate on the not cutting nails

@johntaylor9381

4 жыл бұрын

Maria&Tim Elmeier Same

@johntaylor9381

4 жыл бұрын

Cristian Pop The not cutting my nails would be the worst part to be sure.

I've been cultivating myself for this job, for most of my life. Glad to see you cover it.

Aww man, why can't this still be a thing? I totally wanna get paid to live in a hobbit hole and read books!

@lesliegratton7539

Жыл бұрын

it is a real thing.

It's like a performance art project. Some artist should actually do a project like this today, if they haven't already.

If it's manipulated by a servant it's not an automaton. It's a puppet.

@pplfthftr7526

4 жыл бұрын

Mr Son why must every comment be about politics! Srcsm.

@joshyoung1440

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad they didn't make them with steam actuators and primitive automatic sensors. You know they could have. Probably would've just been too loud.

Who wants to bring back ornamental hermits

@garethbaus5471

4 жыл бұрын

If the pay is good enough I would volunteer as a hermit.

@timkarlsson1750

4 жыл бұрын

Would be interesting, but I don't think I could afford it.

Replace the books with a game console and Internet connection; chats with random other players online, occasionally receiving visitors bringing food they might impart knowledge about a particular game or genre in their darkened rooms.. That's what a modern day hermit looks like. I have one in the house, I call him "son."

@Poodleinacan

4 жыл бұрын

Except no one is showing those off.

AHA!!!! Now I know what the homeless crisis in San Francisco, and California in general is all about! It's a form of tourist attraction. 21st century eccentric hermits.

@WeShareTheSameAir

4 жыл бұрын

Yeee I could picture dem walkin through electric avenue. Smell me, dawg?

@karlwhalls2915

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not California’s problem- it the entire country. People without a place to live migrate to the West Coast due to the Weather. They end up in CA, which is liveable outdoors year round with only a little travel. Southern States have more severe Weather, less migrants even though the temps are warmer.

@Stoppskylten

4 жыл бұрын

I thought there were regulations for keeping your lawn trimmed in California. So.. where would that leave your garden hermit?

@personalRCH

4 жыл бұрын

With the downside they aren't paid enough

@megnemo6403

4 жыл бұрын

I doubt the used hypodermic needles drug dealers or sewage everywhere was part of garden hermits. In places in California it is illegal to sleep in your car but legal to sleep on the sidewalk. In san fransico it's ok to shoot up, dedicate urinate and sleep on the sidewalk in rows but getting a permit to bust or peddle is somthing you have to appeal to the local government for.

You know what? I want a hobbit hermit hole in the backyard. Sounds like a great literal mancave. Though I'd totally fill it with gaming consoles. Might even be nicely cool during the summer.

@TeaBurn

4 жыл бұрын

Colin Furze did something similar with his underground backyard bunker.

So it's like... I'm so rich I pay poor people to walk around my huge garden!

@Loralanthalas

Жыл бұрын

May we be blessed to be so wealthy

This is the 2nd time you’ve mentioned the sport of pedestrianism I would love a full video on the subject

@oakstrong1

4 жыл бұрын

Pedestrianism = old word for people watching. Many people still do it, it's not an extinct entertainment.

What people did for fun before internet? Answer: walking Thanks!

@micahphilson

4 жыл бұрын

It really is a fun story, my favorite of that time period! I hope they do a video on it!

@TodayIFoundOut

4 жыл бұрын

@@micahphilson I'm pretty sure we did :).

@micahphilson

4 жыл бұрын

@@TodayIFoundOut ah, I wasn't sure (and clearly too lazy to use Google), I just remember the first place I learned about it was the Mental Floss magazine.

I've never even heard of this job from that era; very strange yet interesting, Simon warps my brain yet again.

Now I understand 'Stone Temple Pilots' song(wanna live in your) *_HERMIT GARDEN._*

The Professional Walking fad is one of my favorite stories of that time, you should make a video on it! The huge tournament that ended it was so fun to read!

@alaapsarkar

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXeb2KOrqJTMis4.html

The Pope and others made themselves a retreat and everyone was fine with it. When Marie Antoinette did the same.....😳

@zotaninoron3548

4 жыл бұрын

It was more the lavish parties of the noble class while the rest of the people starved that riled everything up. But it is probably just as true that the neighboring countries fearing a peasant revolt of their own began to wage war on France to restore the monarchy that consigned the late Antoinette and her husband to revolution's razor. The idea being you cannot restore the head of a monarchy when the head has no head.

@AV57

2 жыл бұрын

Versailles?

I would take up a position like this, as long as I could bath every few days, read, and write. A decent bed, shelter, and food would also be necessary. Would anyone else be an ornamental hermit?

@laurenbee6340

4 жыл бұрын

AM B yea if it fit that criteria

Theft of a gnome probably carries a stiffer penalty here in Wroclaw (look up in Wikipedia "Wroclaw's Dwarfs")

I would love living in a hobbit hole, but I wouldn't decorate with skulls. 😆

So you're telling me Mayweather has millions just laying about...

@puyearprod.929

4 жыл бұрын

Yeh

@anydaynow

4 жыл бұрын

He’s got a huge entourage too though. I doubt anybody’s getting away with that money.

@UmVtCg

4 жыл бұрын

@@anydaynow Must be easier than robbing a bank

Mechanical Hermit. Now I want one.

@WeShareTheSameAir

4 жыл бұрын

I ain't believe you, shawty.

I’m guessing that there is no record of ornamental garden hermit napping? You know. Kidnap an ornamental garden hermit. Hire an artist. Take the hermit and artist to different locations and have the artist draw/paint the hermit at these locations. Then take the hermit back. Man. Some rich person back then missed out on a great opportunity to be ahead if their time. I’m a little sad that this never happened.

Interesting article 👍

A related subject, zoos who displayed Homo Sapiens as they would any other animal species.

@WeShareTheSameAir

4 жыл бұрын

Y you gotta b all homoflavic? You actin' like owl heads don't spin around when they lovestruck.

@laurenbee6340

4 жыл бұрын

Francois Lacombe it’s a twilight zone episode one of my favorites

@TodayIFoundOut

4 жыл бұрын

I think this actually happened. Not sure if I did a video on it yet. Like maybe in Belgium back in the colonial days...

Learned about these in a Tony Robinson documentary.

@WeShareTheSameAir

4 жыл бұрын

I ain't belive you shawt stackz. You actin' like you don't enjoy pirate-themed mini golf.

@scottrobbins1714

4 жыл бұрын

And Baldrick and his turnip would know...

Stephen Duck was in the running for poet laureate, the Grub Street Journal became so irritated with waterfowl puns they banned any mention of him in their paper.

Walking and ornamental garden hermits was the best entertainment available. Thank god we have the internet now.

This has inspired me to make an island of robot gnomes to show off to my elite friends

Took a gnome on holiday across the US back in '08. Some of the looks I got off people :P

So someone got paid for doing what I do for free? I knew I was born in the wrong century.

Oh my. If I ever find myself being a time traveler, I will be sure to be a hermit witch.

2 Million subs so close *Great channel keep up the awesome content* ☺

Can you please do a story behind the head gear of the judges in a court of law.

This might be the most English thing Ive ever heard of.

Terry Pratchett included this as a feature of Ramkin Hall in the Discworld novel "Snuff".

Hi Simon, have you done a Today I Found Out vid on how the Christmas tree became the well loved staple of Christmas loungerooms? It's an interesting bit of history.

Oh, honey....he's peeking through the window! 😆 I just can't imagine!

Anyone else that would like to be Simon's hermit? He could bring fellow KZread superstars to your hovel and poke fun at you whilst you read the next script of TIFO...

I wish this was still a thing I would jump on this on the spot

This is the coolest thing I've ever heard of.

You know what would have been an interesting spin on this concept? Go all in on the "Merlin" conceit that one example of garden hermits was going for, and have the hired person live in a two storey building in the garden made to look like a wizard's tower. Instead of being made to look like a grubby vagrant, the hermit would be given fine wizard costume, and be made to act suitably eccentric and mysterious. Bonus points if the person was a trained party magician, that would entertain guests with magic tricks.

Life goals

Dang. I'd take that job in a heartbeat. 😂

I did volunteer work at Painshill Park! xD

0.005 seconds: what? 15:38 minutes: WHAAAT?!

Honestly, next time I need to give my occupation I might just be tempted to put down "ornamental hermit".

I was never informed of this career option by my guidance counselor, where do I sign up?

TV was really the best invention ever.

Oh shit everybody!!! THAT GUYS WALKING

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Career goals

*Yay! Live Garden Gnomes!!!* I was raised by a bunch of crazy Norwegian-Americans that collects hand carved Wooden Trolls, so I can see the similarities across Europe as a whole...

I would take that opportunity in a heartbeat.

About 10 years ago,I heard non the radio that employing hermits was on the comeback by wealthy landowners from England. The reason given ,in part, was to help keep trespassers off the property.

#goals 😍 Talk about a dream job! Paid to read and chill out while rich people feed you - yassss 😂👌💜

Why does this concept appeal to me? Well, aside from the bathing and nail clipping ban of some, it sounds wonderful.

I have just found my calling! A million big ones to not wash and stay indoors reading, hell for that cash I would happily add some capering and gibbering for guests if required!! Where do I sign up??

Where can I get this gig?

I burst out laughing so many times listening to this. I'm going to talk to my husband about having a permanent hermit hut on our property!

My old neighborhood was FULL of ornamental hermits.

"Bewegen Sie nicht!"

Having an ornamental hermit on youtube is both fashionable and inexpensive, he will learn all that can be learned and edit out the boring parts when he presents his offerings to you and your guests, Today I Found Out that Simon is my Ornamental Hermit, I'll put some moss on my computer and we're all set! That beard though needs another foot or so.

That walking was once a sport, makes much more sense of that famous whisky brand's name...

I wouldn't think twice if someone made this kind of offering to me

I would love to see a video on Freddie Oversteegen. A Dutch resistance fighter who seduced Nazis, then killed them.

@rgerber

4 жыл бұрын

Syndi Griner-Owens what? That sounds interesting upvote that

Dear Sirs, Any future attempt shame or embarrass me or my station will be met with a letter from my attorneys. I come from a long line of hermits and consider it an honorable profession, one handed down to me from my father, who inherited the position from HIS father, who's position had been bequeathed to him by his. We are a scabby lot, but proud. Sincerely, Alfred W. Pox Dorcester

@danacampbell8331

4 жыл бұрын

How did you reproduce?

I don't think there'd be any problems finding applicants for that job today.

@danacampbell8331

4 жыл бұрын

There'd be a line around the block with occasional fist fights breaking out.

Interesting. I would do it. Are there any of the caves still in existence? Possibly closed up but still there?

I'm studying for this career right now

Spot on, I always go to my local hacker, to share in his wisdom and to get life advice from him

:( you didn't say thankyou for watching... I like that bit because you're the only youtuber who sounds sincere every time you say it

Whistley boi!

Great video but again the music loop keeps sounding like it’s about to go into chop seuy at times

10:25 Wait, what's he called when he's asleep?

If I could do this nowadays I’d have a hidden laptop so I could live how I normally do.

So basically, My Little Hobo?

This was before even radio was a thing

Please, if anyone could give me information on the place shown at 2:30 I would love to see and learn more of it

TN has the Hermitage. I wonder is that where the name came from?

fuck now i want one.

i swear you have covered this already

oh man...wheres a hermit job when u need one?😒

I would love to be a hermit

Now I'm gonna have to go check my HOA rules and see if I'm allowed to have an ornamental hermit...

Do you guys donate portions of your videos to wikipedia?

So that's where wizards come from!

@WeShareTheSameAir

4 жыл бұрын

Nah dem shawtiez come from Jacksonville

i could do that lol hell ill even tend the gardens at night

1.2 mil for 7 years of reading and great food! I'd do it!

Keemstar is the real life version of gnome so

And talk about being a few hundred years too late to hang out on a garden smoking and read philosophy, great way to practice doing a Diogenes the cynic impersonation.

Question. How did people wipe before toilet paper? Does it vary between cultures and time period?

So, from retreat shack to hire your own weirdo, i would stay with the first one.

@danacampbell8331

4 жыл бұрын

I'm actually laughing out loud.

Some were paid £50 a year for life after they did their 7 years. Please note that a domestic servant (Butler) in 1850 got paid around £50 per year so this gives you an idea of how much they got in 1750. It wasn't an easy life, no central heating, no candles usually and most weren't allowed to speak or drink alcohol. Some less fortunate weren't even allowed any books. Most couldn't read back then so it wasn't a loss for them. however, if they did complete their time they would have been set up for life.

Can we bring this back? Seems like a good line of employment

Highly improbable but: if anyone needs an ornamental hermit, let me know. I'd love this.

How is the brainstorming procedure leading to these topics... and how am i actually enjoying them. I dont even want to know.