Somerset is known for it's agriculture and distinctive accent. There are 92 counties or 'shires' in the UK and are "the oldest extant national divisions in the world" (google ai). The main town or city is usually the name of the county with the word shire taken out.
Rich Hall to Stephen Fry's left is an incredibly intelligent and insightful comedian and is one of my favourite American Comedians along with Reginald D Hunter to have ventured across the pond. He had a series on BBC about his insight into America, well worth watching.
@@WilliamSmith-mx6zeI was about to comment about the one in Maine, but I didn't know other states had one too! Maine is where this native American Somerset (Samoset) was originally from, but the county was named after the one in England lol
So yes Somerset is indeed an English county in the South West and in general is fairly rural. It’s well known for, among other things, Cider. But we’re talking the alcoholic beverage not what Americans generally call Apple Juice. The Accent is one of the oldest accents in England and is often associated or mistaken for a pirate accent. This (as far as I believe, correct me if I’m wrong) is due to two factors, firstly the south west was highly embroiled and connected to piracy and smuggling, especially during the golden age of pirates in the late 1600’s, but predominantly due to an Actor called Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver in the 1950 film Treasure Island and had a thick west county accent. The actor in the Darth Vader suit, David Prowse also had such an accent, and actually recorded lines for A New Hope, until George Lucas asked James Earl Jones to try for the voice. But Prowse remained in the suit. So you could have had a Pirate Darth Vader.
The whole point of QI is it's obscure facts which the panellists almost certainly don't know, or facts people think they know but are wrong (that's where the klaxon comes in). So you're not stupid for not knowing this stuff, that's kind of the point of the show.
But in the intro. to Star Trek they break a basic rule of English grammar by splitting an infinitive when placing the adverb boldly between the infinitive "to go".
@@SpeccyMan A split infinitive in English is not grammatically wrong. People have been splitting infinitives for centuries. Then in the 19th century some prescriptivist snobs got it into their heads that it shouldn't be split. This is not a "basic rule of English grammar" but a highly controversial fringe rule that most people rightly ignore.
Bill Bryson has written some fascinating books - as an anglophile Yank - and has one that covers the founding and early history of the USA, and all the myths built up around it. Love his work.
what y'all think is a "pirate" accent, is a Sommerset / West country accent as that was where Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver came from, he hammed it up a bit for the film.
Well done - yes, Hot Fuzz was set in Somerset - and Bill Bailey was in it! "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" is another comedy quiz panel show, based around popular music. The whole point of QI is that 99% of people won't know the correct answers, so if you feel dumb watching it, so do the rest of us!
@@Kub44682False 🤓, There are very few non natives who can perform a convincing Norfolk accent. So many extra vowels squeezed into sounds of words like “high” and “boy”, the long O of “over”…
Yes Somerset is part of an area we commonly call the 'West Country' which includes several counties in SW England, the county at the SW tip is called Cornwall and is actually Celtic in origin even having it's own Celtic language, it shares a common Celtic ancestry with the Bretons in Brittany, France and Wales, so as a Welshman I consider the Cornish and Bretons close relatives and our languages are very similar too, unlike the Gaelic Irish, Scots and Manx who are from a slightly different Celtic lineage and their languages are very different.
@@barrymitchell6444 What a sad twat you are mate! Add something or shut the feck up!!! Trolls are such a waste of space!!! All talk but nothing to say! 🤣
When Stephen said the Pilgrims weren't the first to cross the Atlantic, I half-expected someone on the panel to say "Columbus, 1492". But it's a common misconception that he was trying to prove the Earth was round, as that had been known for thousands of years. He tried, and failed, to prove that Europeans could get to Asia easily by sailing west instead of going around Africa. He didn't realise there was another continent in the way and misjudged the actual size of the Earth.
Also most shellfish was considered “peasants food” up until the 20th century, when overfishing had made it rarer. Oysters in particular were seen as poor food.
Initially not really about the rarity, more to do with toffs discovering a fashionable new "toy" that they wanted and claiming it for themselves as they always have. After it was classed as a luxury product (by the wealthy themselves) then the over fishing started, often the traditional poorer fishermen of these products were pushed aside by the wealthy who invested in the trade when they saw that big profits could be made. So as well as taking many livelihoods away from some people, the poor also lost access to a fresh healthy source of nutrition. Win/Win for the wealthy. But remember their blood and DNA is of a better quality than ours so they deserve it 🤦 Good old Blighty!
I would say the toffs taking over things is pretty universal, wherever you are. Just look at Lederhosen, they were simple work wear, then the Bavarian aristocracy began indulging in them as “folk outfits”. Making the designs and decoration, over the top and ridiculous, to the point that even the Kitsch nature was treated as ironically fashionable.
I must confess that I didn't really "get" Sean Lock until I saw this episode of QI and his line that left Bill Bailey just shaking his head. I won't spoil it for thise who have yet to witness the moment. Others may remember it as fondly as I do.
So many iconic things mentioned the amazing Native Americans, Nevermind the Buzzcocks, Jonathan Creek, Bill Bailey the musician, Bill and Sean's friendship, Somerset etc 👋
Somerset is a county in SW England, it's where Bill's from - basically imagine where the Hobbit's actually come from in LOTR (Hot Fuzz was set in Glouchestershire - North East of Somerset on the other side of Bristol).
Shellfish in the past was considered peasant food for the poorest of the poor, because it doesn't last long without refrigeration, but it was more abundant back then too, plus shellfish tends to be ugly looking and unimpressive unlike a swan or whole roasted pig or something which the upper class people would eat
Somerset is where the Glastobury Festival is. Also the mystical Glastonbury Torr, Abbey and Holy Wells. Also places such as the medieval village and castle of Dunster and packhorse bridge at Allerford. The legends of Lorna Doone, King Arthur and more. The magnificent cathedral at Wells. Historic cities of Bath and nearby Bristol. And of course where wonderful cider and cheddar cheese is made.
I stayed at a friends home in Somerset, no street lights yet stars lit up the streets. It was beautiful. No Sunday shops to buy a newspaper you'd have to go to a different county. Only 2 buses a day and so peaceful. Imo.
Well done King Boomer you know alot more about British geography than alot of British people, on a side point can people show a bit of love for Spencer Joyce and watch his uploads ✌️
Hi! One of the “Facts”. That I found quite interesting was the fact that Edison actually only invented one thing, his forte was that he patented a hell of a lot of things before anyone else including the actual inventors. The QI investigators found that His one invention was the word “Hello”! Strange eh? The word used before hello was Helloo this being the identifying shout of the post coach just arriving at a staging post. Edison shortened it a bit and used it to say hello as a general greeting he even wrote it in reports and letters, and that is where the actual proof of the words origin was found to be! The word Hello! Wasn’t that clever of him! QI is my go to place for all things facts and trivia!! Cheers Aah Kid!
The fun of QI. is the ' elves' ( researchers ) come up with contrary facts to the usual answers . If someone gives the obvious answer a klaxon goes off and they are deducted points . Everyone has to be careful , if things are stalling Alan usually takes the hit - he's on every show and usually comes last . No one needs to feel ignorant because the facts are all so obscure . This one was unexpected , funny and you'd never have guessed it .
The accent is very close to that used by Robert Newton as Long John Silver, since he was from the same area. Since then it is the usual "ooh aahh me hearties!" accent recognised as comedy pirate
The Archers is a long running radio soap opera that's affectionately referred to as a bit dull... ! Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural setting". Having aired over 20,000 episodes, it is the world's longest-running present-day drama by number of episodes.
I worked for a while in Midsomer Norton. One of my workmates had the strangest accent I've ever heard. It turned out that when he was about 10 his parents, together with several other mining families were transferred from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to work in the Somerset coalfield. He went to school with the local kids, but played with his Geordie friends evenings and weekends. His blended Gordie/Zumerzet was the result.
I'm guessing that a show that was designed to make both the participants and the audience feel dumb about stuff they always thought they knew would not land well in the US. It fits very well with the British sense of humour, but a US panel show would be looking for a 'winner'.
Somerset is a county known for Glastonbury and cider. The Westcountry accent is always exaggerated. I've never heard anyone talk like that in Somerset, or in Devon where I live.
@stephenlawless4156 Garbage. I know the difference between true South West accents, and Bill Bailey's exaggeration. Particularly as I'm often told I sound too posh here.
Yes it is, KB. I live in Somerset so don't take the piss, mate! I don't drink moonshine, cut my sleeves off my shirts and I'm not married to my brother's mum's daughter! She wasn't good looking enough to marry!
That's what those tapered sound foam boards are for. Some seem to think it's about sound proofing, but it's not. They're audio dampeners to reduce reverb. A towel hanging up will do the exact same. And other items that redirect audio. The reverb isn't that bad so a shelf of stuff would fix it.
Can't wait for the Boomers to vlog a UK visit - you guys should check out ItsJPS videos of his travels here, he's dared to venture off the beaten path in t't North and loved it.
Ships in those days weren't that big and they were sailing the oceans in them. Once I went out to a Scottish island (Canna) in a 30 foot boat and it was bad going out but coming back it was terrifying. Giant waves were hitting the boat probably every 3 or 4 seconds for hours and every time I was convinced the boat was going to disintegrate! Fair play to the boat builders cos it took a beating and stayed intact.
Somerset is a county were cider is popular he was doing a Somerset accent , and farmers always say get of my land , hot fuzz was filmed in wells in Somerset , 👍🏼
Cider in the UK is alcoholic US cider is just apple juice. What is cider called in America? Apple cider - Wikipedia apple cider Although the term "cider" is used for the fermented alcoholic drink in much of the world, it often refers to fresh "apple cider" in North America; hard cider is used there instead when referring to the alcoholic drink. Is American cider different to UK cider? In the American state of New Hampshire, the state beverage of apple cider is like unfiltered apple juice.
Bill Bailey is also in Hot Fuzz, he plays twin coppers ;-) Good guess, that be they =]8¬_D Somerset is known for farming and country folk, as is Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, we all say _Arrrrr!_ like farmers 😀
The fictional village of Sandford, from Hot Fuzz, was supposed to be in Gloucestershire (that’s “Gloss-ter-sheer” for your American tongue), but it was actually filmed in Wells, Somerset. Geographically speaking, Somerset is part of what’s called “the West Country”. You can probably recognise the shape of the U.K. by now, well the West Country is the bit that juts out in the south west, it kinda looks like tail 😂. The West Country consists of Cornwell at the tip, then Devon, then Somerset, with Dorset to the south of that. Somerset is also home to the Quantocks, which is where Mark & Jeremy got lost in Peep Show. The body of water between the West Country and Wales is the Bristol Channel (which leads to the River Severn), with the city of Bristol lying between Somerset and Gloucestershire. And so ends your geography lesson for today.
Watch the episode of QI with Corey Taylor (the lead singer from Slipknot). It was honestly not something I ever would have thought to ask for but is absolutely amazing!
The sticky out 'foot' at the bottom of the UK is 'The West Country' which is 'The South West'.. You've got Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and perhaps Dorset. Characterised by farm brewed cider 'pirate accents', pasties, and as you go down to the tip, plenty of official and unofficial nautical activity as there's sea on both sides, so Royal Navy bases from the official side, and mostly in Cornwall, pirates and wreckers (wreckers used fake land based navigation beacons to trick ships into smashing into the rocks then stealing all the goods, using the many caves and coves on the rocky coastline to hide illicit goods usually drink, from the 'Revenue') Bill Bailey is from Bristol, above Somerset, so still West Country, hence he's very familiar with the accents and type of people down there. Jon, Born and bred Devon boy .. 'Yur, wassamadder wid 'un'...
8:00 People actually used to secretly bury lobster shells in their gardens, so that the neighbors wouldn't know that they are so poor they have to eat lobster
Any exceptionally cheap Shellfish, is frequently made from a blend of reclaimed fish m, from the offcuts and bones. Which has then been mixed with shrimp paste, and reformed roughly into the shape of the peeled shellfish it is trying to mimic. It may even have lines painted with red dye to create an allusion of it being shell marks. “Style” is frequently added to the name, to avoid accusations of miss-selling it as the genuine article. Even on menus be very suspicious, if it say “…..style Scampi” for example
That was incredible. A native crossing the ocean six times. Starting in 1605? Going from Spain to London. 9 years in England. Getting from Newfoundland to Maine. Imagine the Frequent Sailor points he accumulated? How did he find all the Timetables? How did he even find home? (without Google!)
I believe Jamestown is the first proper English colony on the north American continent, but Virginia has it's origins from Queen Elizabeth 1st's reign. The Pilgrims left Europe because everyone had enough of Puritans telling them what to do, so the Puritan Pilgrims left for somewhere nobody knew what a Puritan was 😂
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+10 points for identifying Somerset as a county :)
I was so proud
I read that in Stephens voice😂😂😂
+10 more for identifying them as rednecks :P
But was he correct in identifying Somerset as a rednecks, lol?
Somerset is in the south west of England. The place Hot Fuzz is based/filmed in is a small city called Wells. Which is in Somerset
Bill was in Hot Fuzz. He played the twin police desk officers.
@@Clive-js8ej "Nobody tells me nothin."
Somerset is known for it's agriculture and distinctive accent. There are 92 counties or 'shires' in the UK and are "the oldest extant national divisions in the world" (google ai). The main town or city is usually the name of the county with the word shire taken out.
@@iwanttocomplain Don't forget cider, the Wurzels and Glastonbury festival.
Bill Bailey is from a neighbouring county to Somerset, that's why his accent is so good
Sean was one of the funniest comedians/blokes to have ever graced this earth 👌👍❤️
Identifies Somerset and the location of Hot Fuzz but DOESN'T realise that Bill Bailey was IN IT
as two brothers.
@@barriehull7076 Nobody told him Nuffin
Twice.
@@gallifrey6494exactly what I was going to say 😂
Oh sh@t...😮 I wasn't watching properly then! 😂
Rich Hall to Stephen Fry's left is an incredibly intelligent and insightful comedian and is one of my favourite American Comedians along with Reginald D Hunter to have ventured across the pond. He had a series on BBC about his insight into America, well worth watching.
He’d be cross he’s Canadian 😂
@@ComeAndAveAGo Why does he sound like he is from below the Mason-Dixon line, then?
@@ComeAndAveAGo Different Rich Hall
@@ComeAndAveAGo Alexandria, Virginia, is in....checks notes....the US.
He’s also the real life inspiration for the character of Mo the barman from the Simpsons.
You sir, are probably the only American to know Somerset is a county. Well done old chap.
lol I try
Yes, but is that Somerset County in Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania? :)
@@WilliamSmith-mx6zeI was about to comment about the one in Maine, but I didn't know other states had one too! Maine is where this native American Somerset (Samoset) was originally from, but the county was named after the one in England lol
Lol Bill Bailey (doing the Somerset accent) played Sergeant Turner in Hot Fuzz 😅
He also played Sergeant Turner :)
So yes Somerset is indeed an English county in the South West and in general is fairly rural.
It’s well known for, among other things, Cider. But we’re talking the alcoholic beverage not what Americans generally call Apple Juice.
The Accent is one of the oldest accents in England and is often associated or mistaken for a pirate accent. This (as far as I believe, correct me if I’m wrong) is due to two factors, firstly the south west was highly embroiled and connected to piracy and smuggling, especially during the golden age of pirates in the late 1600’s, but predominantly due to an Actor called Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver in the 1950 film Treasure Island and had a thick west county accent.
The actor in the Darth Vader suit, David Prowse also had such an accent, and actually recorded lines for A New Hope, until George Lucas asked James Earl Jones to try for the voice. But Prowse remained in the suit.
So you could have had a Pirate Darth Vader.
The whole point of QI is it's obscure facts which the panellists almost certainly don't know, or facts people think they know but are wrong (that's where the klaxon comes in). So you're not stupid for not knowing this stuff, that's kind of the point of the show.
Al Murray, Pub Landlord :- "Everyone speaks English, even in space, as any fan of Star Trek can tell you !"
But in the intro. to Star Trek they break a basic rule of English grammar by splitting an infinitive when placing the adverb boldly between the infinitive "to go".
@@SpeccyMan A split infinitive in English is not grammatically wrong. People have been splitting infinitives for centuries. Then in the 19th century some prescriptivist snobs got it into their heads that it shouldn't be split. This is not a "basic rule of English grammar" but a highly controversial fringe rule that most people rightly ignore.
@@BR-jt6nyBravo, sir. 👏
Bill Bryson has written some fascinating books - as an anglophile Yank - and has one that covers the founding and early history of the USA, and all the myths built up around it. Love his work.
Loving these QI reactions brother
what y'all think is a "pirate" accent, is a Sommerset / West country accent as that was where Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver came from, he hammed it up a bit for the film.
Well done - yes, Hot Fuzz was set in Somerset - and Bill Bailey was in it! "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" is another comedy quiz panel show, based around popular music. The whole point of QI is that 99% of people won't know the correct answers, so if you feel dumb watching it, so do the rest of us!
You're definitely right about Somerset.
Somerset is where a lot of the Cider apples grow. Somerset is a county in the South West of England... with a very unique accent.
And buxom barmaids that lean over the bar and say "another beer. zir?", like in hammer house of horror films.
Its not that unique its exactly the same in places like East Anglia and Norfolk
@@Kub44682 No thats a different regional accent on the East coast.
@@Kub44682False 🤓, There are very few non natives who can perform a convincing Norfolk accent. So many extra vowels squeezed into sounds of words like “high” and “boy”, the long O of “over”…
Hot Fuzz was filmed around the small city of Wells - population about 12,000 - which is indeed in the county of Somerset.
QI: Quite interesting.
I didn't know that.
Yes Somerset is part of an area we commonly call the 'West Country' which includes several counties in SW England, the county at the SW tip is called Cornwall and is actually Celtic in origin even having it's own Celtic language, it shares a common Celtic ancestry with the Bretons in Brittany, France and Wales, so as a Welshman I consider the Cornish and Bretons close relatives and our languages are very similar too, unlike the Gaelic Irish, Scots and Manx who are from a slightly different Celtic lineage and their languages are very different.
... its own Celtic language ... (The possessive pronoun has no apostrophe!)
@@SpeccyMan 🤣 I know mate, it's a typo, live with it ffs! Typical Saesneg!
*Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz* 😴
Someone wonders about Somerset. So, Welsh Boyo takes it upon himself to attempt giving the entire history of South West England. Typical 😂
@@barrymitchell6444 What a sad twat you are mate! Add something or shut the feck up!!! Trolls are such a waste of space!!! All talk but nothing to say! 🤣
When Stephen said the Pilgrims weren't the first to cross the Atlantic, I half-expected someone on the panel to say "Columbus, 1492". But it's a common misconception that he was trying to prove the Earth was round, as that had been known for thousands of years. He tried, and failed, to prove that Europeans could get to Asia easily by sailing west instead of going around Africa. He didn't realise there was another continent in the way and misjudged the actual size of the Earth.
Also most shellfish was considered “peasants food” up until the 20th century, when overfishing had made it rarer. Oysters in particular were seen as poor food.
Because it is. Who in his right mind wants to eat that things? You have to be starving. Gross.
Initially not really about the rarity, more to do with toffs discovering a fashionable new "toy" that they wanted and claiming it for themselves as they always have. After it was classed as a luxury product (by the wealthy themselves) then the over fishing started, often the traditional poorer fishermen of these products were pushed aside by the wealthy who invested in the trade when they saw that big profits could be made. So as well as taking many livelihoods away from some people, the poor also lost access to a fresh healthy source of nutrition.
Win/Win for the wealthy. But remember their blood and DNA is of a better quality than ours so they deserve it 🤦 Good old Blighty!
I would say the toffs taking over things is pretty universal, wherever you are. Just look at Lederhosen, they were simple work wear, then the Bavarian aristocracy began indulging in them as “folk outfits”. Making the designs and decoration, over the top and ridiculous, to the point that even the Kitsch nature was treated as ironically fashionable.
Aye, fair to say they always all have been cnuts in some way or another. Human nature I'm afraid, we're awful animals.
Empty egg cartons work wonders as a temporary solution until you can some proper sound dampening foam.
You're really on to something with the ethic of QI. No-one knows everything, so we can all dip in and learn something without being talked down to.
Here is today's lesson. The word to is a preposition so we do not place it at the end of a sentence.
It is something up with which I not put. @@SpeccyMan
Damn! I will not put.
@@SpeccyMan I think we're about to have a set to.
I was in the audience for this one!
Lobster is a triumph of marketing. It tastes great with butter, but everything tastes great with butter.
I must confess that I didn't really "get" Sean Lock until I saw this episode of QI and his line that left Bill Bailey just shaking his head. I won't spoil it for thise who have yet to witness the moment.
Others may remember it as fondly as I do.
Brave and confident people that started QI ( John Lloyd) ...The first series were all subjects beginning with A, now on series V.
So many iconic things mentioned the amazing Native Americans, Nevermind the Buzzcocks, Jonathan Creek, Bill Bailey the musician, Bill and Sean's friendship, Somerset etc 👋
Somerset is a county in SW England, it's where Bill's from - basically imagine where the Hobbit's actually come from in LOTR (Hot Fuzz was set in Glouchestershire - North East of Somerset on the other side of Bristol).
Other QI videos you should watch are 'poking fun at Stephen' and also 'best of Stephen's accents and imitations'.'.
Stephen’s Australian pilot is superb.
"Great learning lightly worn" is a principle you find across a lot of the BBC's output.
Lobsters are expensive here in the UK too. Like oysters too,they used to be poor mans food a long time ago,but not now.
Shellfish in the past was considered peasant food for the poorest of the poor, because it doesn't last long without refrigeration, but it was more abundant back then too, plus shellfish tends to be ugly looking and unimpressive unlike a swan or whole roasted pig or something which the upper class people would eat
somerset in england generally have very strong accents. its the one that got used for pirates in old movies and has stuck.
english rednecks would be a pretty good comparison i guess. with less trailer parks haha.
Somerset is where the Glastobury Festival is. Also the mystical Glastonbury Torr, Abbey and Holy Wells. Also places such as the medieval village and castle of Dunster and packhorse bridge at Allerford. The legends of Lorna Doone, King Arthur and more. The magnificent cathedral at Wells. Historic cities of Bath and nearby Bristol. And of course where wonderful cider and cheddar cheese is made.
Fair comment,. lots of plusses. On the minus side though, Somerset has also harboured some dodgy Tories, one in particular comes to mind.
You’re knowledge of the UK is outstanding mate
I've only recently started watching your channel and wondered if you have done a reaction to 'Father Ted'. The whole series was hilarious.
I stayed at a friends home in Somerset, no street lights yet stars lit up the streets. It was beautiful. No Sunday shops to buy a newspaper you'd have to go to a different county. Only 2 buses a day and so peaceful. Imo.
Well done King Boomer you know alot more about British geography than alot of British people, on a side point can people show a bit of love for Spencer Joyce and watch his uploads ✌️
I live in Somerset. It's snowing here today!
You're spot on to equate Somerset with Hot Fuzz KB.... test passed 👍🇬🇧
Congrats on the new digs. A rug on the floor should help with the echo.
I could watch you reacting to DO all day mate. Brilliant show, brilliant reaction.
Kudos on recognising the Somerset dialect 👏 it’s the exact area of hot fuzz, he gets sent there.
Bill Bailey himself is from Somerset. Born in Bath
I think that’s known as a “water birth” nowadays. 😊
Love your reactions to obscure visceral and often brutal British humour :)
Hi! One of the “Facts”. That I found quite interesting was the fact that Edison actually only invented one thing, his forte was that he patented a hell of a lot of things before anyone else including the actual inventors. The QI investigators found that His one invention was the word “Hello”! Strange eh? The word used before hello was Helloo this being the identifying shout of the post coach just arriving at a staging post. Edison shortened it a bit and used it to say hello as a general greeting he even wrote it in reports and letters, and that is where the actual proof of the words origin was found to be! The word Hello! Wasn’t that clever of him! QI is my go to place for all things facts and trivia!!
Cheers Aah Kid!
The fun of QI. is the ' elves' ( researchers ) come up with contrary facts to the usual answers . If someone gives the obvious answer a klaxon goes off and they are deducted points . Everyone has to be careful , if things are stalling Alan usually takes the hit - he's on every show and usually comes last . No one needs to feel ignorant because the facts are all so obscure . This one was unexpected , funny and you'd never have guessed it .
Somerset, Cheese rolling, Tractors
Cider!
Keep QI coming! I always show my American mates this when I visit the States.
It came out in a dvd as the game and you have to ansew questions, infact I still have it 😊
Cant wait to see yu and QB put crimbo dec's up. Bet it'd well nice an great vid as per 👌
Anyone else want to see King Boomer and Queen Boomer drink six pints of Somerset Cider each?
you pretty much hit the nail on the head with somerset. They are country folk lol a lot of farmers.
The accent is very close to that used by Robert Newton as Long John Silver, since he was from the same area. Since then it is the usual "ooh aahh me hearties!" accent recognised as comedy pirate
The Archers is a long running radio soap opera that's affectionately referred to as a bit dull... !
Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural setting". Having aired over 20,000 episodes, it is the world's longest-running present-day drama by number of episodes.
Hope your new digs are good, and y'all are happy & healthy
I worked for a while in Midsomer Norton. One of my workmates had the strangest accent I've ever heard. It turned out that when he was about 10 his parents, together with several other mining families were transferred from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to work in the Somerset coalfield. He went to school with the local kids, but played with his Geordie friends evenings and weekends. His blended Gordie/Zumerzet was the result.
I'm guessing that a show that was designed to make both the participants and the audience feel dumb about stuff they always thought they knew would not land well in the US. It fits very well with the British sense of humour, but a US panel show would be looking for a 'winner'.
Somerset is a county known for Glastonbury and cider. The Westcountry accent is always exaggerated. I've never heard anyone talk like that in Somerset, or in Devon where I live.
You are too accustomed to it, so it won't register to you the same as it would to an outsider.
@stephenlawless4156 Garbage. I know the difference between true South West accents, and Bill Bailey's exaggeration. Particularly as I'm often told I sound too posh here.
Education through humour with no bias, you learn while you laugh and that's why you remember.
Speaking of Hot Fuzz, Bill Bailey would have been good in that with the accent he did 😋
He was in it as a desk sargent.
He would have been so good that they gave him a role in it!
@@jonnydarkfang2816 good enough to have two roles I reckon
@chrisnorman1902 which is a dumb job but I love it lol
Set in Gloucestershire, but filmed in Somerset 😊
Not only is Bailey from the area, but Edgar Wright, the director of Hot Fuzz, grew up in Wells, Somerset, where it was shot.
Yes it is, KB. I live in Somerset so don't take the piss, mate! I don't drink moonshine, cut my sleeves off my shirts and I'm not married to my brother's mum's daughter! She wasn't good looking enough to marry!
That's what those tapered sound foam boards are for. Some seem to think it's about sound proofing, but it's not. They're audio dampeners to reduce reverb.
A towel hanging up will do the exact same. And other items that redirect audio.
The reverb isn't that bad so a shelf of stuff would fix it.
Lobster is the sweetest most luxurious food on any menu, I usually have it on my birthday meal.
Correct, Somerset is an English county in old Wessex.
Rich hall is the actual guy moe from the Simpsons is based on
Wow...
Somerset is a UK county, famous for production of cider and cheddar cheese.
Simon Pegg is from Gloucester, Gloucestershire. The county north of Somerset.
Sure he’s not from Sandford, Gloucestershire?
@AutomaticDuck300 He's from Brockworth, and went to school there ...
@@StevanOvich61 it was a joke in reference to Hot Fuzz but thanks
@AutomaticDuck300 I know HaHa. But there is an area in Cheltenham, a few miles away called Sandford.
Maybe got that from there?
Can't wait for the Boomers to vlog a UK visit - you guys should check out ItsJPS videos of his travels here, he's dared to venture off the beaten path in t't North and loved it.
I love QI (I have the books too). Hope you get to watch Taskmaster too. 😅
Ships in those days weren't that big and they were sailing the oceans in them. Once I went out to a Scottish island (Canna) in a 30 foot boat and it was bad going out but coming back it was terrifying. Giant waves were hitting the boat probably every 3 or 4 seconds for hours and every time I was convinced the boat was going to disintegrate! Fair play to the boat builders cos it took a beating and stayed intact.
Somerset is a county in the Southwest of the UK. Sounding like Farmers or Pirates
Somerset is a county were cider is popular he was doing a Somerset accent , and farmers always say get of my land , hot fuzz was filmed in wells in Somerset , 👍🏼
Cider in the UK is alcoholic US cider is just apple juice.
What is cider called in America?
Apple cider - Wikipedia
apple cider
Although the term "cider" is used for the fermented alcoholic drink in much of the world, it often refers to fresh "apple cider" in North America; hard cider is used there instead when referring to the alcoholic drink.
Is American cider different to UK cider?
In the American state of New Hampshire, the state beverage of apple cider is like unfiltered apple juice.
Considering he spent this much time in the south of Britain, perhaps Squanto would've had a bit of cider every now and again
The other guy in Hot Fuzz who's west country accent sounds like Bill Bailey, is actually... Bill Bailey
Everyone from Somerset was descended from pirates. Aaaaaaarrrrrrr !
Somerset is well remembered as a county in England ( and all over the US too) but the Indian's name was Samoset. :)
Somerset used to be known as "The Sudetenland" until Cornwall invaded it in 1938.
Good ear, bro! Bill was in Hot Fuzz as well.
Bill Bailey is also in Hot Fuzz, he plays twin coppers ;-)
Good guess, that be they =]8¬_D
Somerset is known for farming and country folk, as is Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, we all say _Arrrrr!_ like farmers 😀
Bill Bailey played the twin custody officers in Hot Fuzz.
The fictional village of Sandford, from Hot Fuzz, was supposed to be in Gloucestershire (that’s “Gloss-ter-sheer” for your American tongue), but it was actually filmed in Wells, Somerset.
Geographically speaking, Somerset is part of what’s called “the West Country”. You can probably recognise the shape of the U.K. by now, well the West Country is the bit that juts out in the south west, it kinda looks like tail 😂. The West Country consists of Cornwell at the tip, then Devon, then Somerset, with Dorset to the south of that. Somerset is also home to the Quantocks, which is where Mark & Jeremy got lost in Peep Show. The body of water between the West Country and Wales is the Bristol Channel (which leads to the River Severn), with the city of Bristol lying between Somerset and Gloucestershire. And so ends your geography lesson for today.
There is also lots of lobster in the uk and was seen as peasant food along with oysters
Watch the episode of QI with Corey Taylor (the lead singer from Slipknot). It was honestly not something I ever would have thought to ask for but is absolutely amazing!
The sticky out 'foot' at the bottom of the UK is 'The West Country' which is 'The South West'.. You've got Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and perhaps Dorset.
Characterised by farm brewed cider 'pirate accents', pasties, and as you go down to the tip, plenty of official and unofficial nautical activity as there's sea on both sides, so Royal Navy bases from the official side, and mostly in Cornwall, pirates and wreckers (wreckers used fake land based navigation beacons to trick ships into smashing into the rocks then stealing all the goods, using the many caves and coves on the rocky coastline to hide illicit goods usually drink, from the 'Revenue')
Bill Bailey is from Bristol, above Somerset, so still West Country, hence he's very familiar with the accents and type of people down there.
Jon, Born and bred Devon boy .. 'Yur, wassamadder wid 'un'...
8:00 People actually used to secretly bury lobster shells in their gardens, so that the neighbors wouldn't know that they are so poor they have to eat lobster
Somerset is a County in the South of England famous for its Cider.
If there isn’t already, there really should be a biopic movie on the story of Squanto.
Don’t you think that there’s a movie yet to be made… “ Somerset the commuter years” Somersets likely experiences in England, did he get lucky.
somerset is the county the glastonbury festival is held
in the victorian times in england, the rich bought the fish and the poor fishermen would live off scallops, lobster, crab,oysters etc..
I had lobster several times in Massacheusits, loved it.
Any exceptionally cheap Shellfish, is frequently made from a blend of reclaimed fish m, from the offcuts and bones. Which has then been mixed with shrimp paste, and reformed roughly into the shape of the peeled shellfish it is trying to mimic. It may even have lines painted with red dye to create an allusion of it being shell marks. “Style” is frequently added to the name, to avoid accusations of miss-selling it as the genuine article. Even on menus be very suspicious, if it say “…..style Scampi” for example
That was incredible. A native crossing the ocean six times. Starting in 1605?
Going from Spain to London. 9 years in England. Getting from Newfoundland to Maine.
Imagine the Frequent Sailor points he accumulated? How did he find all the Timetables?
How did he even find home? (without Google!)
How did his feathers remain erect and devoid of grime? Where on Earth did he store his Tom-Tom drums in transit?
Somerset was very much the county where Hot Fuzz was set
I believe Jamestown is the first proper English colony on the north American continent, but Virginia has it's origins from Queen Elizabeth 1st's reign.
The Pilgrims left Europe because everyone had enough of Puritans telling them what to do, so the Puritan Pilgrims left for somewhere nobody knew what a Puritan was 😂
And they all lived happily ever after 😇
Somerset was where the cider apples came from