American Reacts to Why Russia Has The Best Maps of Britain
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Russia seemingly has the best maps of Britain. Why? How? In this video, we'll delve into the quirks, humor, and historical reasons behind this phenomenon through the brilliance of Map Men.
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Malenkov being known as 'Two Jags' is a very British joke. I think it's because he has a passing resemblance to one of our Labour Politicians called John Prescott, who was given this nickname because he had....two jags (jaguar cars).
The Brezhnev joke is (I think) he was often seen in public with his hands clasped together in the way he is shown in this picturre. I seem to remember him raising them up in a sort of celebratory "whahey!" during public appearances.
If you know how far apart trees are, you canplan for what type of vehicles could potentially be moved across the terrain, or how easy it would be for ground troops to sneak through the wood unseen.
yeah i picked that up. a non-Briton or a Gen z wouldn't get it.. lol
They are NOT saying the US Map, but are saying the OS Map (or Ordnance Survey Map) - Maps for all of Great Britain produced by the UK Government - The Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose, which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Two Jags and hands stuck together are just typical English humour. We had a left wing politician here whose nickname was 'two Jags' because he had two Jaguars (Jag-u-ars), cars. The 'within 10,000 miles of a Russian spy' is another joke. More likely within 10 to 100 miles of one at the time. It's often tough to understand British humour unless you grow up here but I'm finding Ukrainian humour very similar though when following how they they are getting on, and the humorous videos they manage to put out, while still heroically fighting for the future of their country.
My wife had her jugs glued together for much of our honeymoon…
@@PerryCJamesUK OK. 😩
@@PerryCJamesUK Maybe John Prescott should get his two jags glued together, for efficiency reasons
@@PerryCJamesUKif you smash something it's only right you glue it back together ✌🏻
*Jag -you-ars. Just because you can't pronounce R's doesn't mean the rest of us can't.
You've started to notice that their map men chant intro is inconsistent quite often.
2:28 the fact that you took it literally is… amazing.
Fun fact: they said that because every photo ever taken of him was with his hands together
Because they were made for use in an invasion, the rivers on these russian maps show depths for crossing points for vehicles, bridge heights and as you guessed, the tree spacing is for vehicles. Widths and types of road surfaces were also included. Everything you need for a successful invasion.
presumably they didnt bother with Ukraine or think about their own defence ?
@@highpath4776 In Ukraine, during the initial invasion, they used old outdated Soviet maps. That's one of the reasons why they failed in the battle of Kyiv.
The "map men" song is different in every episode, I think.
Different permutations and numbers of 'map' and 'men' each time.
Not always different, but they do throw in weird ones quite often
Hommes Cartes, Homme Cartes, Hommes, Hommes, Hommes, Cartes, Cartes.
Caught me out, too. I actually sang the last ‘men’…….. They didn’t.
You can also extrapolate other distances from aerial / satellite photos if you know the average distance between trees
the picture of Malenkov looks like a picture of John (2 jags) Prescott, the picture of Chernenko looks like roy walker (host of catchphrase) - superglue is almost certainly just a reference to the strange pose in the picture - not sure about the boiled eggs chap
Khrushchev was bald as an egg.
I didnt even know of Malenkov (and I watched the orig vid)
Your react vids are great. To the point, not too many interruptions, and real curiosity.
The attention to detail and research effort that must take JJLA ages to film and edit an episode. Much appreciated, as is the humour and calmness that allows me to wind down from a stressful job. Thanks JJ!
JJLA or JayF/Mapmen ?
I meant JJLA, but Both now you mention it.@@highpath4776
Being "nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize" doesnt mean anything, as there are literally hundreds of thousands of people in the world eligible to nominate someone for the Peace Prize, including every professor at every university in the world, every member of a government or parliament in the world, including the head of state, and so on. So it's not difficult to see how someone like Stalin could get nominated. I mean he could have literally nominated himself, or someone in his government could have done it.
Also, as I understand it, the Nobel Peace Prize is not actually affiliated with the Nobel Prize for various forms of science. It's basically meaningless.
@@ReddwarfIV it's true that it's not affiliated with the other Nobel prizes, but that doesnt make it meaningless. If anything it's the other way around.
In the 1930's, The Nazi State Airline 'LUFTHANSA' had regular flights to and over Britain. After the War, we discovered that these Planes had carried high quality visual Cameras, that took thousands of Photographs of British Airfields , and in fact, every square mile of Britain. This would, of course, been used for the invasion to come. WE were so impressed by there Clarity and quality, that the ORDNANCE SURVEY People, were still using them , at least till the 1990's. maybe till Satelites were used.
So credulous. So adorable.🤗
Russia didn’t win WW2. They won their bit of it with massive help from the Allies, and in fact Russia helped kickstart it when in 1939 they allied with Russia to partition Poland. People tend to forget that.
Yep. And if it weren't for American lend-lease, the USSR would have fallen to Germany. Logistics is key, and the yanks provided a lot of deuce and a halves. Not to mention food. Without Ukraine, the USSR would have starved.
@@ReddwarfIV We 🇬🇧 provided an awful lot too and also through the Artic convoys. Over 3000 Allied sailors and 100 Royal and Merchant navy ships were lost. Russia would have been lost to the Germans without it.
@@kristinajendesen7111 Yep. With hindsight, you almost wonder why we bothered, when they'd be pointing nukes at us a decade later.
Brother if Stalin being nominated twice for the Nober Peace Prize remember, Kissinger *_WON IT_*
To be fair to JJLA, he normally looks up the random facts the Mapmen put in and they're normally true. I can see why he misses some jokes, especially when they're geared towards a UK audience.
Imagine taking the superglued hands thing seriously 🤣
I quite liked the thought through, esp as Putin seems to have a form of Parkinsons and grips the chair arm etc to stop his hand shaking
@@highpath4776you left out Putin's 26 cancers and 37 heart attacks
You are so incredibly soft spoken dude, do an audiobook or asmr or anything of that field, it's incredible
Man, you should do the limbo. It’s amazing how much of humour goes over your head 😂😂 Great video; love your reactions and I’m sure you’ll pick up the nuance in British humour.
Ordenance Survey maps contain intentional false landmarks, so they can sue anybody who breaches copyright. So they will put in fictional landmarks, etc
That's not true. The OS denied it when suing the AA for copyright breaches in 2001.
Of course copyright only enforceable in places where a copyright law/agreement between two jurisdictions is in place.
Fun fact, I know a
someone who lives on a farm where an OS map had always mistakenly mislabeled a stiles location. Upon discovering their error they forced the land owner to move the stile to match the map that was in error. When even nature is expected to change to preserve their accuracy, I can believe they do in fact avoid intentional errors
and Google introduced us to Argleton. They're called copyright traps
5:00 well it WAS a runway, not any more
Presumably too small for modern aircraft or the Russians didnt have the detail to distinguish roadway from runway - though I guess military airfields ALL tarmac/concrete areas built to take the weight( and wing width) of craft taking off or landing to maximise versatility in war scramble situation
10:53 - pronouncing Frome. It's easy really - it's pronounced 'Portsmouth'
A particular type of engine does not stop a plane being a plane. 😉
No one would have their hands superglued together for a decade
The Queen lived in a lot of places. At least one of which i know to be rather unassuming.
Why has Russia got the best maps of Britain?Simple, they want to know where all their money is.
His hands being super glued together is a metaphor meaning his hands were tied and he couldn't get much done.
ooh, deep
The glued hands was british humor after the other oddly true facts. Standard british joke in everyday life.
"They left out the last 'men' in that one" - Yeah, they change it every time to annoy people who are annoyed by that kind of thing. I find it mildly amusing.
Bless your American literal-thinking mind. Hands glued together, lol..
1:50 I mean, Obama got a Nobel peace prize for getting elected, and then started a war. That award's about as meaningful as Oscars.
We had our own '2 jags'..John Prescott, deputy prime minister under Tony Blair..so called because..wait for it..he had jaguar motors 🎉
Then he was caught having an affair, so was dubbed "Two Shags"
This is awesome
10,000 miles is about 16,000km, the world is about 40,000 km in circumference (the original definition of the metre was based on earth going through Paris) 10,000 miles is about the farthest from Russia you can come while being on land and ignoring the south pole.
JJ did you know British people call the capital of Italy Room?
Buckingham (and anywhere else that ends in ham , Birmingham, Tottenham etc) is pronounced bucking-um. It's a common mistake Americans make. Lose the ham! 😂❤
It's weird to me, it's as if they aren't speaking the same language. And there are places, mostly in New England of course, named after these places. And actually, the locals get it right. It's just the Americans outside of New England who just get confused by it.
And me in Nottingham 😊 hi
@@jackie6343 Notnum
@@marflitts lol nice one 😆😆😆
His hands weren’t glued together. It’s a joke.
I really enjoy your show I’d like you to have a look at finest band to come out of Manchester and although short lived they were very influential
They are Joy Division
Less than two minutes into a video about something Russian and I see nuclear weapons. 😂
Its pronounced Froom. I live there 😊
You might have caught my train (if it was an SWT or later SWR one), I used to drive them from Salisbury.
Salisbury is gorgeous. I might well have done@@kristinajendesen7111
Yes, google maps is THE TRUE MAP. :)
Hello (Fictional 'Abe's Oddysee' Accent) Frome (American Accent) Frome (British Accent)
I'm shocked, to hear that about Stalin, he must have used nuke threats to get that Peace prize.
nominated, once for bringing about the end / with negiotiations of WW2 and presumably something else in 1948 - prob nominated by the friendly countries (cuba + eastern bloc)
I think maybe if there are no fun facts they make something up lol
Are you telling me Brezhnev's hands were not, in fact, superglued together throughout the 1970s
@@nathanmcgill7249 It was Velcro.
I didn't see superglue until 76, and then it was only available in industry.@@nathanmcgill7249
@@nathanmcgill7249 Superglue was invented in 1983 ?
Nobel peace prize nominations are frequently bizarre; Michael Jackson was nominated twice, and let us not forget, the 'Kumquat Klansman' himself, Donald Trump was nominated in the same year as Greta Thunberg, no less!
Not that the peace prize means anything, but the reason Trump would have been nominated was his negotiations in the Middle East. Note that things went to hell when he was replaced by Joe Biden, with Ukraine and now a resumption of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Trump also managed to avoid dragging the US into any wars, such as Bush with Afghanistan, or Obama with Libya, and I already covered Biden.
From the insult you used, I don't imagine you have a very high opinion of the man, but you should acknowledge that his nomination is not all that strange.
@@ReddwarfIV I am perfectly aware of why Mango Mussolini was nominated, and that Stalin was nominated due to his efforts to end WWII.
@@ReddwarfIV yeah , I was actually impressed how Trump managed not to start a fight with anyone (bit close with N Korea but I think Kim was a bit in admiration of Trump). Not sure If I agreed with him backing Israel moving its capital back to Jerusalem. Argueably Russia into Ukraine was perhaps as a result of UK leaving the EU (which Russia saw as a weakened , politically, Europe).
Oh, for heaven's sake, it's MAP MEN, they are COMEDIANS, they say nonsensical things as JOKES, don't take everything so literally.
This is project fear from russian propaganda they haven’t got up to date maps if anyw
You kind of look like Annakin Skywalker.
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