Japanese Train Tracks Bending in the Insane Summer Heat | @AbroadinJapan #98
Where can a hungry man in Japan get the Cheesy Chips his body craves?
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Without free plastic bags where do you put your cat poop Chris?
"There's been a record this year…"
Every year that record will be broken thanks to global warming
Hey guys! Chris, have you heard anything from your sources about the new Japan digital nomad visa? Do you know anyone who has successfully done it or any advice? My wife and I are considering doing it, but it looks a fair bit daunting. Cheers, Pawel from Poland #faxmachine
And yet, even with the tracks being bent out of shape, JR is still more punctual than BR on a good day
Speaking of Cheesy Chips, Did Chris try the Canadian version of cheesy chips, known as "poutine"? It is french fries with cheese curds and gravy on top. Apparently you can get them in Tokyo: "poutine is served at The Maple Leaf bar in Tokyo under the name of "Putchin."" – Take Sharla out for Canadian cheesy chips.
Speaking about Germany's idea. I noticed they've been painitng the trains tracks around Glasgow white for years
Pete needs to film a review of all the Izakaya's in london
Just how many pre opening parties are you and Sharla having also more importantly can your liver handle it😳😳🎉🎉🥃🥃🥃😂😂😂😘😘
Regarding the train thing… Yeah. Metal expands in the heat. Everything does, but metal does a bit more. So when they build rail tracks, they build them with relief cuts, these diagonal cuts in the track that let them sort of slide together to expand along the line. Trouble is, they're made to a certain rating along the lines, and beyond a certain temperature, they can't expand any further into those relief ruts and it gets to be a problem elsewhere on the line.
Same issue with overhead wires. Here in Portland, the relief lines are made to a certain specification for the overhead power lines on the tracks. They were made that way in a time when it never got over like 85 here. Trouble is…. it gets over 85 here now. So during hotter days over 90, the trains have to run at lower speeds or risk damaging the overhead line and the pantograph(the thing that connects the train to the power line as it moves). The system is rigged with weights that stretch the lines out to keep them taut, but when it gets hot enough, the weights go all the way to the ground and can't stretch any further because of that.
Whether you call them chips or fries it does not matter they are fantastic with cheese.
me blaming my dog for eating pepers and contributing to global warmning. and my mom for using hair spray 😾
they are called cheese fries
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare published data in 2020 that showed that only 4% of nursery school/daycare teachers were male.
14:50 – Merino wool is excellent. A bit on the expensive side compared to your regular cotton, but well worth it if you consider the properties of the material.
I work with metals on a daily basis and heat is an important factor when it comes to deformation.
Maybe they can solve the rail problem by installing pipes and sprinklers along the tracks as well as sensors to measure the temperature remotely. Then they could determine which parts of the track need a bit of water and then turn the sprinklers on from the office – or have a computer set up to run it automatically.
It would probably cheaper and safer compared to experimenting with different composites in the track material.
Wrap around a kebab? What? What would be the point in that.
Man, and for shame, civilization… making people feel like they're doing wrong when they're just looking for something like an incredible statue.
happens in the US too, train tracks buckle due to high heat
If you're drinking so much you regret it the next day I recommend switching to something that's harder to drink fast like sochu with soda.
Rail tracks in Queensland, Australia regularly buckle in our horrendous Queensland summer heat..
Chris: how about ビニール袋 Not sure if actually correct, but everybody seems to use it to indicate a plastic bag.
TNT and nitro glycerin were not invented yet, he would have used Black Gunpowder
I'm ruthful about being so sheveled, quite whelming it is.
The temperature of a rail can go to 46 C (114.8 F) when the air temperature is 30 C (86 F). In the UK rails with a temperature of 56 C (136.8 F) have been recorded. Steel rails expand and curve as they are heated. As the rail cools, the rail contracts but the curve may sometimes remain.
You must watch this. Tequila! | Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
Rail systems like JR would be regularly checking the rails for issues such as buckling, fracturing and excessive wear. The rail engineer would also be expected to report any sections of track that need maintenance.
Our choo-choos in the UK are such a joke compared to Japan. Could you imagine LNER apologising in the paper for delays? It would take up half the sports section!😂
😂😂😂
When I lived there the conbini almost always called plastic bags "bini-bukuro" (short for vinyl (biniiru) bag. I know they probably aren't made of vinyl but Korea also calls plastic bags "vinyl" so I assume it's just a translation quirk with "biniiru" referring more broadly to various types of plastic)
August? I’ll be there next Saturday!
Next Video Series on Cheesy Chips?
Cheese chips and gravy
Chris, how about you look for a kei car in tokyo first, and if you find one that's on par or better with the old one, sell the old one then? Even if it costs a few hundred dollars more, it can easily be written off as a business expense since you are interested in using it for videos.
i recently went to watch spirited away the live play in london – it was sick, theres lots of japanese things in london which is always surprising
Male in Kinderkarten reminded me of movie Kindergarten Cop (Actor: Arnold) and especially those fire alarm trainings 🙂
People: "Climate change is a lie"
Climate: "Bet"
Does he know anyone called Bromhead?
well July 2024 was just confirmed as the Earth's second warmest month on record (1st being 2023😐)… 🥵
Do you know what Japan is doing to help prevent (decarbonization, reducing fossil fuels, forest protection, etc) and adapt to it (house isolation, rising sea level problem, agriculture, etc) ? we don't hear much about it here in Europe
I love japanese overwrapping, it's great
Paying for plastic bags isn't "Saving the Planet". It's the dumbest f**king thing ever and isn't a "Major Contributor" to anything. It's a PLANET. Your plastic bag, even 10 billion of them, has less impact on the world then the population of brown squirrels. It's a stupid nuisance, and I can't be the only person on the planet to save and recycle my plastic bags. My family has used old shopping bags for all kinds of things. We never just "threw them away" to start with! I've LITERALLY had to charge 35 cents on a debit card just to buy a stupid bag. I'm punished for idiots? No. Sort yourselves out and leave my minor conveniences alone. For god sakes, isn't the world terrible enough without punishing everyone for a few people's stupidity??
Australia gets this, a core memory I have is when my train line bent, and I was the only one on the train. They sent a bendy bus to substitute the train, and since it was just me the driver just asked where I lived and drove me home. Quite surreal, getting dropped off at my house in suburbia by the metro bus.
A few Japanese places in London I can recommend is Forbidden Planet near Holborn station, From Holborn to Forbidden Planet there is an Asian shop called YOHOME Oriental Lifestyle. Near Leicester Square, you have 2 Asian shops on the Charing Cross road. In Covent market, a tea shop called Whittard of Chelsea sells green tea varieties.
What's really telling is how they noticed so fast. I don't see british rail being bothered enough to check often enough to notice such a danger so early. I see them do indeed do regular checks but its by segment by segment every week or so.
Ta ta indeed🎉
I came back from Tokyo only a couple of days ago and while I was there, there were a lot of delays due to track inspections. I'm talking about the big middle of Tokyo train lines like Chuo-Sobu or Yamanote. I wonder if that was also because of the heat. It was happening for several days in late July and early August.
ohayo goodmorningmasu