Holy Sh*t it’s Been a Whole Decade

On this day in 1453, England lost its final possessions in southern France.

This was in the aftermath of the Battle of Castillon.

673 years.

I don't think we have psychologically recovered as a nation from that, and I'm not sure...

I'm just not sure we ever will.

On the 21st of October, 1983, the meter was defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one 299,792,458th of a second, which, I mean, that's an impressive level of accuracy for me.

Previous definitions of the meter were just over three feet unless you were in clown shoes.

or like a yard, but if you've got longer legs or a striding purposefully for a bus, half a Peter the Great, or about from the end of my fingers to, I don't know, my shoulder on the other side, or the approximate distance Jesse Owens used to run in about 0.1 seconds.

So eventually the scientific community came together to define it more accurately.

Some would say they went a little bit too far.

The meter itself had, of course, replaced older traditional units of length measurement, some based on human stride length, such as the yard, and the prance, some based on the human body, the foot based on the foot, the cubit based on the forearm, the fathom based on arm span, and the...

I'm sorry, I can't read that one out on a family show.

Other lengths of measurement include the wazool, which was the average distance of an average-heighted human male urinating on a flat surface in windless conditions.

LAUGHTER The average distance of the parabola.

That was from Isaac Newton's Stag Weekend.

Inaccurate bullshit alert.

Inaccurate bullshit alert.

Sorry, of course.

Newton never married.

I retract the last lie.

As always, on the Bugler section is going in the bin.

This week, the last ten years of history.

And, well...

We are all 10 years older, 10 years wiser, 10 years closer to a global utopia where the bugle no longer needs to exist because all news has ended.

And, I mean, looking back on the last 10 years, the first episode, Harry, that you did was just before Donald Trump was elected president for the first time.