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author: don.r
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 02:58:03 am
content: Oh dear... the poor kid. Not too surprised about the divorce. I'm not sure how anyone can stay within 100 yards of that nutter for more than a few days never mind a year.

author: Corporate666
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 10:05:51 am
content: Quote from: don.r on December 21, 2013, 02:58:03 amThat's a pretty heartless and rude comment, based merely on someone's Youtube persona alone. Especially people who have lots of subscribers and make $$ from their Youtube content. It pays to be goofy, weird, bizarre when you're trying to stand out from the crowd.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 10:30:47 am
content: YT persona = acting ability. as to the real Photon, that is there behind the acting, and he is a very nice person, who really cares about those who he is friends with. Marriage is hard for anybody, and the reasons for it not working are hard for all to fathom.

author: Fraser
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 11:09:25 am
content: I had stopped watching this chaps videos as they were a bit too crazy for my tastes BUT I am very grateful that this particular video has been highlighted for viewing.As has been said....we get to see the more normal side of this chaps character. Yes he is somewhat extreme with his 'experiments' but he is obviously a decent person as well.The story of his friend and the awful motorcycle accident was heart-breaking. A young guy in the prime of his life who almost dies and is left with truly life changing injuries....not something to be taken lightly and Photonicinduction did a very professional job of telling the story. I am genuinely sorry that his friend has been so badly injured but sadly such injuries are not that uncommon where motorcycles, human bodies and immovable hard objects are involvedI was amazed at his friends apparent attitude to his disability. He is a fighter...much like the amazing attitude and inner strength of our soldiers seriously injured in foreign lands.Very sorry to hear that another marriage has failed. I will never poke fun at anyone in that situation and I am sad when I hear of another marriage failure. I have been married 10 years and I cannot imagine being on my own again......photonicinduction will likely have a pretty tough time over the coming months, I just hope he doesn't start taking greater risks with unfortunate consequences.

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 11:16:27 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on December 21, 2013, 10:30:47 amI've chatted with photon before, and it caused me to unsub from his channel.Sorry to hear about what happened to themanlab7 though.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 11:18:26 am
content: About a year ago there was a film crew in his house doing a doco which included a bit about him and his wife. Does anyone know if that aired or what it was called?Be interesting to watch.

author: rollatorwieltje
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 07:12:02 pm
content: Quote from: Psi on December 21, 2013, 11:18:26 amI think the show is called "You have been warned" on Discovery Channel. Not sure if it was ever aired though.

author: Jon86
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 08:01:12 pm
content: Quote from: justanothercanuck on December 21, 2013, 11:16:27 amWhy did it cause you to unsub?

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 08:09:47 pm
content: Quote from: Jon86 on December 21, 2013, 08:01:12 pmI know I shouldn't judge him from a couple videos, but the way he talks in the few videos where he's complaining about real things (like people flagging his videos), I've always gotten the feeling that he is rather abrasive under his acting persona, at least, when he gets annoyed.I don't think he's a bad person, but I have seen enough to make me think his "people skills" might not be what they ought to be.

author: smashedProton
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 09:06:14 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on December 21, 2013, 08:09:47 pmThat just means that he is smart

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 09:46:36 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on December 21, 2013, 08:09:47 pmYou trying producing youtube content that is seen by hundreds of thousands, and trynotto get abrasive at the haters. It's very difficult I can assure you. You have no idea until you've been in that position of getting hate mail and negative comments every single day.

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2013, 10:02:10 pm
content: Without going into it too much, I left a comment that I felt was benign, and he flew off the handle in subsequent PMs. So I told him to get bent.I work a tech support type job... I deal with negative comments all day. Unfortunately I can't change what management decides to do, so I just shrug it off. I know that doesn't exactly correlate to being a "content producer" (god I hate that term), but you can't let the vocal minority get to you that easily.

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2013, 12:15:04 am
content: I don't have a dog in this fight but my only wish is for there to be a ban on the use of the word "init".

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2013, 12:31:58 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on December 21, 2013, 09:46:36 pmOh, I'm sure it's very difficult. I certainly don't envy you, that's for sure, having to deal with the bullshit. But he seems to handle it a good bit worse than many.Quote from: GK on December 22, 2013, 12:15:04 amThe computer people might have a word to say about that...

author: don.r
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2013, 12:37:36 am
content: Quote from: Corporate666 on December 21, 2013, 10:05:51 amNot really. I didn't say I was happy about, just not surprised. UK divorces are not like in the US. They tend to be mostly amicable, which he did say it was. Not the end of the world, just another chapter. I have no idea what he is like in person, all I have to go by is the videos and what he did to his wife with the AC in one.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2013, 01:27:33 am
content: Quote from: GK on December 22, 2013, 12:15:04 amThere is a ban. I'm pretty sure the correct spelling is "innit"

author: Corporate666
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 22, 2013, 01:40:08 am
content: Quote from: don.r on December 22, 2013, 12:37:36 amOn the other hand, he has videos where he has a jolly time popping balloons with his wife... or the one where they joke around and both surf the intarwebs. It's probably just a bit unfair to kick the man while he's down by labeling him a 'nutter', when he's a guy who does a pretty good job of playing a role for a YouTube audience. Even if you think that about him - to air it in response to the video where he tells us his wife is leaving him and his friend was almost killed in a car accident, and he is reaching out to the audience for help in helping his friend... not the time or place.I would think he is a member here, or friends of his are.

author: don.r
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2013, 02:33:34 am
content: Nutter doesn't have the same conotations in the US as it does in the UK. Its more akin to "reckless" or "wild".

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 12:06:37 am
content: Quote from: IanB on December 22, 2013, 01:27:33 amDon't tell me its been added to the dictionary.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 12:14:37 am
content: Why not? It's a perfectly cromulent word, innit?

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 12:19:06 am
content: At first I thought photoinduction was a clueless idiot but my opinion of him has changed. He's really an intelligent, sensitive and caring person. His online persona is wacky but that's just for entertainment value. He has done some crazy dangerous stuff, the video which I thought was really reckless was the one with the lasers - I really don't think he thought that one through.

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 01:37:08 am
content: I never viewed Photoinduction as someone being dumb. It's very easy to make false judgements about someone's character, simply by looking at a bunch of crazy videos... which doesn't reveal much about the person in a day-to-day situation, particularly in a professional setting.Anyway, this was a rather depressing video.Felt sorry Photoinduction, particularly for his friend. Hope they both pull through OK into the next year. Sympathies to both of them.

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 01:59:37 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on December 23, 2013, 12:14:37 amWhat?

author: rolycat
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 02:17:52 am
content: Quote from: GK on December 23, 2013, 01:59:37 amLooks like your vocabulary needs to be embiggened.

author: lewis
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 03:04:42 am
content: Quote from: rolycat on December 23, 2013, 02:17:52 amBugger, you beat me!

author: Noize
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 03:39:55 am
content: Nutter can be a term of endearment in South London. With his idiosyncratic personality it was charming seeing his wife with her own youtube channel, I did think they were chalk and cheese, but he's a bit of a diamond, but alas it was'nt meant to be. Least she just come out with it rather than saying I just need some space etc... Photon will live on. I think he will still have good memories of that relationship. He's a right character that knows himself very well in someways, that's what I think anyway.

author: mrflibble
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 07:52:13 am
content: Quote from: GK on December 22, 2013, 12:15:04 amOh My God! They Killed init! You Bastards!

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 07:54:51 am
content: Well I for one am very grateful for this video right now.My son graduated university recently with 2 honors degrees, has a beautiful girlfriend, great very high pay job, brilliant future... and just bought a big bike. For thrills.I don't seem to be getting through to him regarding why doctors call bikers 'mobile organ donors'.He's going to watch this whether he likes it or not.

author: mrflibble
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 08:03:36 am
content: Quote from: GK on December 23, 2013, 12:06:37 am

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 07:00:19 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on December 23, 2013, 07:54:51 amI was cured of that want at 16. Had a guy in class come to school the Thursday of his birthday on his new 50cc bike. Came to school Friday, Monday no show. 2 weeks later back at school, on crutches, wearing half a pair of shorts, and with a 20kg collection of surgical stainless on his leg from crotch to toes, in plaster with steel spikes out of the flesh, and 2 spanners. He had to adjust the length 1/6 turn every 2 hours on the 4 supports as he had to grow the bones about 5cm to get the leg back to the same length as the other. Took him 15 minutes to go from class to class, and he was the only pupil allowed to use the school lift while we carried his bags for him.Saw one biker that did not leave enough to even donate anything, seeing as he went most of the way lengthwise through a car. They picked up his helmet 500m down the road, still had the head inside.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 09:12:53 pm
content: They should require motorcycles to have safety enclosures or cages and subject them to the same crash tests as cars. One company (Aptera?) did that but never got anywhere. I guess most motorcycle riders think "this will never happen to me"...On second thought, they should require drunk/distracted drivers to be restricted to only driving motorcycles (in addition to existing penalties) for 10 years or so. Then they'll be less likely to harm others (and more likely to harm themselves) if they choose to continue driving drunk or distracted.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 09:32:57 pm
content: I disagree. Allow people to do what they want. If someone wants to ride a motorcycle and they injure/kill themselves, it's their problem. Should we also ban skydiving, and deep sea swimming, because they're dangerous, too...

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 10:04:13 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on December 23, 2013, 09:32:57 pmcompletely agree, so long as they understand and accept the risk they undertake there should be no meddling by laws and legislation, the more we bubble-wrap society the more things get blamed on someone or something else rather than their own judgement

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 10:07:20 pm
content: Then my second suggestion would probably be a better idea. It directly deals with a common safety problem (drunk and distracted drivers) and indirectly might discourage motorcycle riding by associating it with bad driving.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 10:08:19 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on December 23, 2013, 09:32:57 pmNo, they become the society's problem. At least when there is public health insurance, disability support, etc. Everyone pays for them.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 11:15:09 pm
content: I've had a motorcycle for 10 years and never had a serious accident. I can drive a car but choose not to. In fact because I'm more used to the bike I feel safer. When I drive a car I find myself having more near misses and I've had a few scrapes too.Of course it's true, you have less protection on a bike so there's a greater risk of death and injury, if you do have an accident but if you're sensible you'll be fine.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 11:46:11 pm
content: Quote from: Bored@Work on December 23, 2013, 10:08:19 pmIn the UK your insurance company is required to pay the NHS for some of your car as the result of any motor vehicle accident, around £350 for the accident plus £450/day up to £10,000. Logic would suggest that motorcycle insurers would pay out more in such cases compared to car insurance.I hate this idea that everyone should somehow be the same and avoid risk. The point of public health insurance is to avoid discriminating against those who need care. It's like an insurance policy but everyone pays and "payout" is certain. I don't mind taxing people for their choices (increase the cost of tax for motorcycles, cigarettes, for example), but banning it altogether, or neutering it with a cage? No thanks.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2013, 01:05:28 am
content: I don't think taxing motorcycles more than cars will go down very well. They don't wear out the roads like cars do and use less fuel than cars when things such as performance are taken into account (a 125cc bike can do over 100mpg and even a sports bike can get over 50mpg if ridden sensibly) and less time is spent in queues so there's less congestion.

author: icon
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 28, 2013, 10:24:59 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on December 23, 2013, 07:54:51 amDoctors call bikers 'mobile organ donors' for the same reason that you fear your son riding a motorbike - availability bias. Neither group considers the countless thousands of miles travelled in perfect safety by thousands of motorcyclists. Motorcycling is undoubtedly more dangerous per passenger mile than driving in a car, but then it fulfils a different need, mostly.If I could respectfully suggest that you would be better off persuading your son to undertake training, develop his observational skills, and above all; ride at a speed that will allow him to stop in the distance he can see to be clear, on his side of the road.Not sure how we drifted here?John

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 28, 2013, 10:32:23 pm
content: Quote from: Hero999 on December 23, 2013, 11:15:09 pmYou're on the road with people who are not sensible and no matter the magic of self deception your reaction speed won't get short enough to outsmart their stupidity.PS. I have no intent to dictate what acceptable risks are to others though, it's just that I think turning the illusion of control into a faith is a bit dangerous ... as people who drive fast are want to do (and consequently motorcyclists).

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 04:48:42 am
content: Quote from: icon on December 28, 2013, 10:24:59 pmI'm quite aware of the large number of cognitive biases.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biasesHowever I am pretty sure that the statistics of degree of injury per accident will be higher for bikers. Oh, and there's the detail that in my 20s when I was riding a bike I had two close calls that would have killed me if I'd been just slightly less lucky. One was my fault, the other 'random unforeseen event'.I rode a bike because I couldn't afford any other means of transport. My son bought a bike for purely 'thrills' related reasons, since he could afford to buy pretty much any kind of sensible vehicle he wanted. That's what makes it stupid.Also I've seen plenty of severe car accidents (including one of mine) where everyone involved just stood around looking sheepish after. As opposed to the several bike accidents I've seen, in which the biker was dead or close to it.Oh, and both of the people I know who used to do dirt/trail bike riding, have permanent disability due to major joint injury.Human body and getting stopped by immovable objects - do not mix well.Oh, and then there's the inherent risks associated with any hospital stay. One guy I worked with had a minor bike accident, broke his leg, then in hospital got a golden staph infection in the break. Result: over a year of pain and horror. Don't know if he ever fully recovered.QuoteOf course I have been trying this too. In NSW there's a good motorcycle safety/survival courses run by the police. He's supposedly looking into that, and will probably do it. But still.The 'clear stopping distance ahead' is a very basic safety rule. But there are plenty of situations where unexpected events and/or stupidity of other drivers makes that irrelevant. It's humanly impossible to predict all eventualities, so survivability when an accident does occur is still a factor. And for bikes, survivability is poor.He's at that young age, when everything is going brilliantly, and he's maybe getting a feeling that he's invincible.For instance while on a canyoning trip with him recently, he wanted to jump off a waterfall into a deep but narrow rock pool. Without having much idea of what the walls did out of sight under the water. Probably would have been OK. But a bad idea, that I managed to talk him out of.Worrying though - that attitude is NOT good, in a motorcyclist.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 04:12:47 pm
content: Motor bikes should be banned on the road or at least big ones. I saw a bike hit a car on the drivers door, the bike pushed the door as far as the passengers side seat, the bike rider went over the car and into the top deck of a bus that was stopped at a bus stop. This took place in a 30 mph zone in town at a T junction the bike just came down the road did not stop or brake just went into the side of the car killed the driver seriously injured the front seat passenger and then the rider went through the bus lengthwise and injured a number of passengers. This all happened opposite where I worked at the time in the mid 80's I did not see the bike hit but heard the bang and went out to see straight away so arrived just seconds after the impact. The bike rider was taken away in a black van other than that which would have to hosed out of the bus. Motor bikes are bad news and now they are made so quite they are a menace to any one on foot as well coming around corners as they do at high speed and not being heard until only a few meters away.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 11:10:03 am
content: Quote from: G7PSK on December 29, 2013, 04:12:47 pmridiculous statement. accidents happen, people die, thats life... people can trip, fall and die while walking... ban that too?

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 01:32:58 pm
content: Indeed.Generally if a motorcyclist has an accident with a car, the biker comes off much worse than the driver. The larger the vehicle the greater the kinetic energy thus there's more of a risk to other road users.The statement about quiet motorcycles is also nonsense, what about electric cars? Perhaps we should ban them? They don't make any noise at all so are more of a hazard to other road users than a motorbike or a car with a noisy combustion engine.

author: JoannaK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2014, 04:39:45 am
content: Hi, there's an update video for this out now.