American Reacts Cunk on Britain - Episode 1
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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Hi everyone! I'm an American from the Northeast (New England). I want to create a watering hole for people who want to discuss, learn and teach about history through UA-cam videos which you guys recommend to me through the comment section or over on Discord. Let's be respectful but, just as importantly, not be afraid to question any and everything about historical records in order to give us the most accurate representation of the history of our species and of our planet!
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Nemesis is a ride at a rollercoaster park
'The unelected bureaucrats of Rome' left. I love it. Also, 'they took the last pens with them'.
33:04 We all have or have known a 'my mate Paul' type character who makes all manner of shit up.
Another great video! I live near the Antonine Wall, which is pretty much the furthest the romans ever got in Scotland. Just north of Glasgow, there's amazing things, such as a hill where a roman fort once stood, and a very well preserved roman bath house that you can walk around!
30:10 'Whittling' is carving sticks or bits of wood with a knife.
Or when you're worried about nothing and won't shut up about it 😁
Irrelevant i know 🤷🏼♂️
@@pem... That's 'wittering'.
@@chrisperyagh oh yeah, lol
Yayy so excited you're doing the full episodes, can't wait for you to do Cunk on Earth too :)
All built by one man- Norman Architecture. Still the best line of episode 1
"The only evidence I have in that regard is that he is said to have had one child"
is almost as good as
"The Baywatch Tapestry"
Alton Towers is a Theme Park in the UK nearish to where I live, Nemesis is a ride at the park.
On Scotland - “…were they just frickin’ clinically insane psychopaths?!”
Were…?
The Iron Age ended aroudn 550 BC. So no, we're not still in the iron age.
But we still use iron... 😅
@@mindtraveller100we still use stone too
We are moving into lithium age.
@@mindtraveller100 We still use stone and bronze, too...
Hi Connor, I live on the site of the battle in 1403, where the future Henry V, taking part in his first battle, as the fifteen year old Prince of Wales, was struck in the face by an arrow, which penetrated to the back of his skull. His fathers doctor had a local blacksmith make him a tool, he'd designed, to remove the arrowhead.
I love these Cunk reactions 😂
On the "the plague being a good thing" - it kind of was, though not in a disturbing eugenics "kill the weak" way because it didn't really pick on the weak more than anyone else. It was more in a "if half the working population of a country die, there's an incentive to improve farming practices and wages in the ensuing massive labour shortage" way.
They recently found a dinosaur almost completely with skin intact in Canada.
Yes! I've requested you do this series too a few times :D
34:00 - Timestamp of where eugenics start to be considered as reasonable… 😂
Wallace got angry and painted his face blue with woad.
He invented, "woad rage".
6:30 she should've called it Stonehedge!
Diane Morgan is a genius.
On another note, I think you’d enjoy this one as well - one of Rhod Gilbert’s funniest rants…
ua-cam.com/video/KET476dpF1Y/v-deo.htmlsi=6DInjGoxcVA_9vhH
7:24 Boffins are what you'd call brainiacs.
The technological age Connor. Very funny 😅
Dinosaurs did not die out, they are still with us. BIRDS!!
They did die, and now we have a specie that some of them evolved into. Not the same thing.
@@asmodean7239 I GUESS YOU MEAN POLITICIANS?😀
well Connor how do we know? Because the Roman told us, the Celts didn't have it written but Julius Cesar actually wrote a lot about the local Celtic Britain people after he invaded it. Roman also wrote a lot about other Celtic people in Gaul and Frisian or France and Netherlands now, and these Celtic people on the mainland are related to the Celts in Britain so they had the same culture. That is how we know much about the Celts. Not to mention after the roman conquered Gaul and Britain they took a lot of the local Celts as slave and educated them in Latin so they can read and write.
34:50 - the Americas as an entire continent hasn't yet had a large outbreak of Black Death/bubonic plague (there may have been some isolated cases), but it's only a matter of time.
lol, the second crudest hill in British history after Benny (Benny Hill, a British comedian)
Good to see Neil Oliver: check him out.
Hey it’s odd why I’m so amused by reaction to British stuff. I’ve watched lots of your reactions but not sure if you’ve found Alan Partridge. Classic
3:12 We have fossilised skin as well as skin imprints. Mostly fragmentary and also rare but they do exist. That said, we do have to infer a lot of that from related species. Dinosaur fossils are quite rare as far as fossils go.
Diane Morgan is wonderful, but I feel you should also mention writer Charlie Brooker (of _Black Mirror_ fame).
At the Big Bang there was no sound because sound is the vibration of air and there was no air to vibrate. 🤗😁
Hi Connor, the guy on this from Bristol University is actually quite quirky and entertaining in real life, and he made a fascinating documentary that I think you might find interesting; it's all about how only one significant world religion is truly British, born and bred - that is Wicca, which drew upon Pagan witchcraft. I think you will be quite surprised at how this huge religion came into existence (I know I was!), and also how relatively recently - just watch the opening introduction, and I guarantee you will want to watch further! It's called 'A Very British Witchcraft' and I'll pop the link below.
ua-cam.com/video/WwMtzit_Vm4/v-deo.html
Druidry is also British.
I also want to marry Diane Morgan, but funnily enough her partner is actually one of the Cunk writers!
This is funny but I worry that some people may mistake it for real history.
Boudica didn't rebel just because she hated the Romans. They agreed to respect the autonomy of the Iceni, then when her husband died, refused to accept a female successor. When Boudica went to swear fealty to the regional Roman commander as new head of the Iceni, they stole the tribe's land, stripped and scourged her and gang raped her two daughters as punishment for trying to continue the line of succession. The Britons took note, then when the Roman army was in Wales defeating the druids, they rose up with Boudica as leader to attack poorly defended settlements. When the army returned from Wales and they met somewhere north west on London, the Britons were slaughtered. Boudica is believed to have escaped an committed suicide at an unknown location.
3:10 We don't know how it's skin looked like - the colours and amount of feathers vary based on the recreation. You can however speculate a lot from the bones - what type of skin there was, if they had lips or not and sometimes even if they had feathers. Everything else is an approximation of how similar and related animals look right now. I mean we originally thought T-Rex looked like Godzilla, now we often imagine it with it's head low and feathers.
We only have like few samples of properly preserved dinosaurs - in fact we just found extremely rare specimen of one of those boney ones with club tails, that showed us what pigments they had.
12:00 In year 250 BC, people knew how to write. That's why Romans were also so successful, knowledge and politics elevated their country. There were historians back there who wrote about those things. Then you have art, paintings and word-tradition to go off. We may be more sure about the past if the information is confirmed in multiple sources.
This specific detail strictly comes from Polybius' Histories (he lived between 200-118 BC). One of the most important works we have from the beginning of Rome.
16:00 Love the cut, where you went out, got yourself a table spoon and checked it off-screen. Definitely great content idea for future OF account.
17:20 Reptiles are scary - it's easy to think that there would be bigger ones, especially when you find dinosaur bones when building castles.
17:40 Commonly there have been some old myths and stories - like Ancient Greek mythos and even a Bible has dragons (used to depict Devil). Everyone else likely has been just copying the idea.
17:45 It has been speculated that cyclops mythos come from people founding mammoth and elephant skulls (check those). As they have giant hole for their noses - they look like cyclops skulls.
Then you also have a real disability where childen are born with only one eye (cyclopia is a thing, it's very deadly prenatal development disability). Mix two things - you get cyclops.
27:20 Diets like veganism originate thousands from years ago. People also had allergies and intolerances. In fact many people died from allergic reactions and years of just bad stomach. It is notable that industrialism and modern world things made certain allergies more common. People in the past had their teeth rot and fell off, because of lead poisoning and shiet, people died from lung diseases and asthma during industrial revolution. And now we all are infested with microplastics. There was a reason people only lived like 30-50 years instead of 70-90.
35:10 The only good things that came out of it, was rise in hygiene and medical knowledge (quarantines became a thing). Deaths of those people saved people in the future. But it was still an extreme tragedy and a brutal end to millions of people.
Did it made us stronger? Not really.
The Iron Age began in 1000 BC and yes we are still in it now as nothing has replaced it!
Robert Peston gets on my wick.
29:55 "Face paint and extreme whittling"
To Whittle:
to pare or cut off chips from the surface of (wood) with a knife
to shape or form by so paring or cutting
to reduce, remove, or destroy gradually as if by cutting off bits with a knife
Rome has a written historical record... they could have written what Celts were wearing, and why they didn't bother going to Scotland.
Benny Hill - an old comedian
Has anyone watched ‘inside no.9’ ? If so I only just realised that Diane Morgan was in the episode on the boat I think the 2st episode of series 6 or 7 and I’ve watched that episode 4 times. 😂😂
i feel like dragons were peoples way of explaining dinosaur bones they found
I think that's probably not true. I think occasional fossil bones did inspire stories about giants. But people didn't know enought to put the bones together to make a complete animal until Victorian times, so dragons will not have been inspired by dinosaurs. If you look at older pictures of dragons you will find they are often like giant flying snakes, or snake-like monsters. (And Chinese dragons are still very snakey now).
@donaldb1 nah i bet they just found a head and in their head canon attached it to a snake
She said that the won the battle using a combination of face paint and extreme whitling (chopping off heads).
We guess what the skin of a dinosaur would have evolved to/been based on what the environment/climate was in the past
Whittling is chipping away at wood to create something
What's in a Scots genes? Their dole money. 😂😂
We don't know how their skin looked. It's just a theory from the 19th cenury that they were giant lizards. Recent finds and theories suggest they were more like giant birds, maybe even with colorful plumes of feathers to attract mates and signal aggression, just like modern birds.
Heard that too somewhere, the feather thing.
Apparently chickens are technically dinosours too
@@anetasotys9334 what's really cool is that velociraptors are often found to have died with their necks bent back just like chickens when they die.
3:30 Looks like the Natural History Museum in Londonomiumidiumidriumonious...onum.
Seriously, a beautiful building, I don't know if you already did, but you NEED to visit it... Go early!😁
I remember visiting one time and (thinking it was the queue) standing behind a group of European schoolchildren for 5 minutes before realising they were merely lining up for 'a head count'. You can imagine how fast I got outta there when I realised!
The actual queue doesn't disappoint though (depending on your perspective), trust me!
So many great 'things' to see in there, a lot of rocks! But a lot of biological specimens and facsimiles also. I enjoyed a great deal of that. But the architecture was also awe inspiring. I think Alfred Waterhouse is to thank mostly for its wonderful appearance.
He was renowned for 'Gothic Revival' during the Victorian period... Well done him, it's a spectacular looking building, both inside and out!
10:36 I can't tell y'all where my mind went but i felt things
You can see 90% of it going over your head.
with dinosaur skin, because of modern lizards, assumption is skin was the same.
I think dragons are associated with snakes. If you look at older pictures of dragons they are often like giant snakes, or giant flying snakes.
St Patrick, who never visited Ireland, was associated with snakes,I believe!
I am sounding like the American video maker here, in my ignorance.😅😅😅
@@pathopewell1814 St Patrick certainly did visit Ireland. He was taken there as a slave, and later evangelised in the country. Legend has it that he drove all the snakes out of Ireland.
Iron Age was 1200bc -600bc. Nemesis is a rollercoaster.
The Romans, if you actually listen to what is being said, instead of persistently interrupting, didn't bother going into Scotland, because IT WASN'T WORTH IT. At the time, there probably wasn't wasn't much in Scotland apart from the beautiful scenery and there wasn't many people to conquer. The population isn't huge even now.
St George killed the dragon on Dragon Hill in Uffington.
I think dragons came from people finding dinosaur fossils.
See at 18.15 is proof the Historian was wrong and dragons do exist, a dragon tried to eat McJibbin's internet but dragons like Philomena far more and restored the internet.
We do actually know some things about their skin, like texture, since we've found skin-prints from dinosaurs sitting down in mud.
Fossil skin sorry I did not explain myself enough
With regards to dragons people know what bones are and what lizard bones look like, so I reckon some older guys actually found some dinosaur bones and been so astonished that the legend of dragons was born.
Native Americans have the legend of the Thunderhawk. Sounds suspiciously like a pterodactyl doesnt it?
I'm sure a bit of that might be true, another aspect is just that the stories became more bigger and greater the longer they were told. Started out with someone fighting a snake then 400 years later it was a hydra.
But if the ancients had dino bones surely we should be able to find them somewhere. Don't know if there are bones found by like Roman or ancient Chinese but there should be since something like that would probably be something a lot of rich and educated people would value, at the mean time it's impossible that no one found some in ancient time.
@@volundrfrey896 remember, tectonic plates bring things up to the surface and its probably not an entire skeleton. Massive thigh bone.... the people woukd know what a thigh bone looked like and put two and two together, then assume it belonged to a giant.
The native Americans had the legend of the Thunderbird. A bird so huge that it became part of their culture... pterodactyl much?
@@j9lorna Well on in the grand scheme of things had pretty much the same opportunities that we have so I'm just saying that if they found a T-Rex thigh bone that should have been something that was saved somewhere.
And it's something that can be found just randomly. Many times people might not realise what it is, but at some point it must been interesting enough to give as a gift to the king/emperor.
With the thunderbird, I'm with you that it could have been found and extrapolated into that myth.
But also e.g. Scandinavia have dragons as well as some pretty unique stuff even though the ice age scraped away pretty much everything from the last hundred million years or so. I'm not refuting you, I'm just saying I don't think all myths are like that. Also if you already have a myth and find a nice bone all of a sudden you have support that it might be larger, fiercer and more epic than previously told.
A wonderful show. So funny 😁
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
dinos had feathers ...
We know the celts painted themselves because of roman writings from Caesar, Tacitus, Cicero amongst others!
Yeah, prudish North American censorship. Doesn't make sense at all. Topless sunbathing in public not allowed, but the vast majority of porn is N. American. As they say over in cloud cuckoo land, "go figure".
No, lol, we're not still in the iron age, there have been many, many "ages" between then and now (eg middle ages)
1:08-1:21 I thought you said you don’t thrust in your videos? 😂
Sorry, it was about if we had lost the Battle of Britain
about skins, i saw printed skin on fossilized mud or something.
there are Many pieces o t-rex skin impressions. so ... e know what their skin looked like. we know baby t-rex had fur. adults didn't.
Cave boffins!
silicon age ?
I think we’re in the silicon age
Don't think that the black death was a good thing, this time of the middle ages was actually developing fast and the development was cut brutally. But Europe found another way to deal with overpopulation centuries later: emigration. Settling whole continents with mostly people that weren't needed in their hone societies and brutally colonizing whole continents and massacring the indigenous population.
1. The Romans not going north of the border is a bit of a falicy as there are Roman forts as far north as Inverness. It's not clear why the Roman Empire didn't "conquer" Scotland (or Alba), some speculate that the Romans knew that the Scots were a strong foe, so chose to develop trading posts within Scotland as opposed to fighting them.
2. As for Dragons being prevalent in ancient folklore all over the world, this may be down to ancient peoples finding fossils of Dinosaurs and picturing them as being fallen beasts and calling them Dragons, as they wouldn't have had the knowledge yet to understand what they were. Although each civlisation would have a different name, but we generally call them dragons as a catch all.
google picts scottish
Tar pits
You’re a clever person I think you do know that they have T-Rex skin you just want people to make a comment lol
Braveheart was such a great movie!
Dude, you seriously don't know that the Romans had written records?
I’d say we’re nearer the Carbon Titanium Alloy age if anything
Stephen Speilberg had artistic licence in Jurassic Park. After that film everyone copied his imagination. Even after scientists said they would have had feathers lol
The dragon myth mostly came from the ancient discovery of Dinosaur bones.
Imagine iron age man finding a T Rex skull, and the stories that spawn from that.
"Isn't that amazing"
Yes, yes it is, a real tangible connection across literal eons.
Yes it is, it's part of us, it's in us, it's some small part who we are & have been for thousands of years, billions of lives & minds.
& some of the shit we've left behind, I guess "It's the simple things" is apt here.
You know they removed the dic in that pic for a while, & uncovered it some 20 odd years ago.
I wish we could just talk on this, trying to type these streams of thought is just impossible.
Time is wild, existance is wild, & they seem so far away & yet it's just a glimmer in the infinite eternal, & wuite a lot of it is dic pics hahahahaha, fantastic awesome simpleness