HORRIBLE HISTORIES - Scott of the Antarctic
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- GREAT NEWS! A brand new series of HORRIBLE HISTORIES starts on CBBC on 31st May 2010!! In the meantime... Another sketch from the brilliant CBBC sketch show Horrible Histories, based on the best selling books: Captain Scott checks his equipment before setting off to the South Pole... just to make sure it's completely useless.
Oh gods I love the voices.
They didn't wear leather boots like they showed in the clip, but Finesko--reindeer hide boots that needed drying out every time they made camp. And they did have sled dogs, but Scott was alarmed at how poorly they coped and generally mistrusted their usefulness from the start (not to mention that the seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere, the Siberian dogs began to shed their wintercoats in may/june/july, which is the height of antarctic winter!) so they weren't used to get to the pole
What about the thin woollen jumper and the scratchy woollen trousers?
Amazing how even a children's educational sketch can bring out such immaturity on UA-cam. Nice going guys.
"THE BIG GIRLS" LOL XD
Scott was 'poorly prepared' by the standards we set today where people living in antarctic weather sometimes need to eat up to 6000 claories worth of food a day, eventually having to pull 250lbs on the sleds each when the horses died meant that they didn't have enough to meet this, Scott would have survived if a blizzard hadn't trapped him 16 miles from a supply depot
@Strategos300
Can I just say, I'm British and I agree with that statement.
Indeed, it was not our finest hour and Captain Roald Amundsen was a great explorer. He rightly deserved the achievement.
unbelievably funny. these guys are fantastic! wonderful.
That better not have been my half of the apple! hahahahahahah
@gunande
P.S.
"typical English"
Scott was Scott. From Scotland that is.
Actually, both expeditions were mostly scottish/international, and not goverment funded.
Dude, I'm British myself. I was only kidding around.
You must wonder why they thought all that gear was suitable though.
Seeing previous pioneers makes me appreciate the invention of plastics which produces far better clothing, food packaging and equipment for Antarctic exploration
Sorry, gortex had not been invented yet. What is astounding and impressive is that they went with the gear they did, the technology they did and achieved as much as they did. A testament to the men more than the technology. Amundsen the same. Shackleton also. When you look at the technology compared to the task it was very impressive. The glory is in the human spirit (as it says on the cross dedicated to Scott and his men) "to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."
I GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!
Ahh...this sketch is rather greeeeat.
I love this show!
“The USA didn't join WW2 until the end.” Of the six years of the war, we were in it for almost four!
I just LOVE the newsboy!!!!! so cute!!!!!!!!!
@UsagiDreams Athens, Rome, Venice, Novgorod, Poland-Lithuania and the United Provinces of the Netherlands were all Western democracies long before the USA was even thought of.
- six ponies, sir.
- we'll make that five.
:P
Nice work.
Wow, we British were so thick back then.
Still are...
In fairness, Oates did moan about the quality of the ponies - and one of the sledges *did* have runners that stuck to the ice, it's there in the Journals (at first Scott thought the loads were unequal, as one sledge was making far better progress than the other!) As for the insufficient food supplies, well yes. Not a good idea to take five men on a trip designed for four.
Get your point about the boots, though I'd forgive it purely for the hilarious line delivery - these guys are terrific!
Why is everyone fighting on a video from a children's programme?
And he didn't have a fight a giant electric penguin!
It's true that "Scott of the Antarctic" is not a very accurate film. Scott's memoir of the journey was censored when it was first published. I think that for most of the 20th century, the humiliation and mourning surrounding the events of Terra Nova were still smarting. Now that some time has passed, very close to a century, the events will be approached more objectively and comprehensively.
Pure Hilarity
You mean a ten foot electric penguin with tentacles!
Yes they did in 600 AD. Proof was that When the Spanish arrived they found several viking helmets near the shore. But the Vikings never landed on America.
I take more stuff than them when Im walking to the shops in winter :P
Actually the Solutreans (stone age Europeans) did, this is accepted by academia in general now and was reported in the mainstream press recently.
And he stabs in the wings and the blood can go spurting out PSSSSSH in slow motion!
@gunande
well, one have to remember, that Scott went there twice, and the first, not funded by him expedition was a huge succes. The Discovery's one.
Because of those "arch-English arrogance and racisme" of the british scientist who went on Discovery humanity knew so much more about bot Antarctic and Earth in total, not because of professianal arctic traveller Amundsen ^^
See Lt. Oates lose her clothes while chased by giant teeth and running into Antarctic cactus!
awesome tell it like it is
@SimuRei thats what makes britton so Grate
I never knew this scetch exsisted
...and for an apt tribute to Scott, you could maybe have a look at
"kcazyt birdie, the doctor and me '
'you chaff and sneer and taunt them for not doing the things you daren't do yourself. And all the time you laugh! laugh! laugh! eternal derision, eternal envy, eternal folly, eternal fouling and staining and degrading,until, when you come at last to another country where men take a question seriously and give a serious answer to it, you deride them for having no sense of humour, and plume yourself on your own worthlessness as if it made you better than them.' GB Shaw
I everything else yes, but not in this one thing, you are right
That is quite true, America won the Pacific Theatre and the Russians won the European front, but All 3 contributed to each theatre.
@UsagiDreams Actually, the USA is a republic.
@DeathSlayer2 It's a pretty hard concept after all, isn't it? You have to differentiate between TWO completely different words that really aren't all that complicated to keep apart...
Do not feed the troll. Your breaking the rules people!
Reminds me of Benny hill. Great show.
Nonsense. One thing the Eskimos dare not do while wearing their furs/skins clothing is ...sweat. You CANNOT avoid sweating while you are trying to pull a 200 pound sledge ...even when it's 40 degrees below.
@gunande It is this kind of statement that sadly gives you Americans a bad name in Britain/England. English is so widely spoken throughout the world due to the vast British Empire, which at one point took up 1/3 of the Earth. There's a reason why it's called English and not American...you can't even spell anyway, for instance: color, favor, program. I believe the correct spelling would be the English: colour, favour and programme.
24 people used this equipment.
I a Norwegian too and we will always be first at the arctic points >:D Litterally (Evil Viking laugh)
Obviously humor from the Roland Huntford history school.
Lulusia 19 that is finish (I don't know what it is called in english.)
Technically, native Americans found it first.
Effectively, Spain found America for the Europeans since the Viking discovery wasn't known beyond a handful of explorers and had no long lasting effects.
I know you've probably forgotten about this post by now, but I want to point out that I don't think that guy is American. He said, "most of us has English as second language," and aside from the obvious bad grammar, he seems to be saying English is not his first language, whereas for most people in the U.S. it is. I wouldn't point it out except that you said he was giving "you Americans" a bad name, and he doesn't represent me.
@SimuRei i know! sometimes I think we still are...
Why did they pull the sled instead of the horses?
@gunande The First Democracy maby you want to look in a non American History book some time
However, "color, favor and program" are the correct spellings in American English, so who knows.
These guys came from the same country that had the largest empire in the world.
@TheMidgaardSerpent Acctualy they discovered. not found. There is a difference between discovery and foundation. The British/Spanish/French and Dutch founded the basis of the United States / rediscovered and Lief Erikson arrived in the year 1000 but their were not viking maps or cartography and they Viking were forced out of Newfoundland within months of arriving.
Needless to say, they all died.
@AcheronKeres Yes true, but if we didn't do that, then where would we be? And the English have been threatned against just as many times as the other countries have, or possibly more! The only difference is we won. America, Ireland, Canada, etc aren't the only countries in the world that have been tried to get taken over for more land.
@mage116 Scott of the Sahara, you mean?
Juusto limpooti seetsuu Suomi?
Did anyone else get the Monty Python reference.
@suedonum tell that to the families of the people who Captain Scott got killed because of his lack of competence! ;)
almost, it was in december 1941
@thetriumpharch in fairness, the were all equally incompetent
Wow this show is funny
Tom? Tom Crean? Cool XD Tom Crean is awsome
You can't beat the Norwegians, that is not gonna work
thats true but in america they speak english not norwegian or finnish or swedish
@gunande England Had an empire and are very influential even today and have a top notch government and we have invented more than any other country have the most professional armies and founded America and most of all invented the most brilliant and modern language English which by far has more vocabulary than any other fact and most the modernized world speak it at a 2nd language or learn it at schools.
As much as I love horrible histories, the shouting gets a bit annoying after a while in this sketch :s
@gunande eye sight blue green grey hazel light brown mixed colors and all other manner of eye colors would be perfect and look good let alone different natural hair coolers yellow, blond, white, orange light red, brown, ginger extr Are you jealous? Or are you just going to announce something your supposed feel.
@Strategos300 Right. And how's did that Norwegian empire go eh? bwahaha
i have an outfit like that haha xxxxx
Someone needs a history lesson!
@DeathSlayer2
it isnt always on purpose.
somethimes I do it wrong but thats just a misstake...
@lampgirl100 it was because Scott personality: Incredibly brave fool
@DeathSlayer2 in the same way people muck up there their and they're
WWII was mainly down to Russia NOT America
@Adamhistorybuff whoops! Got a bit carried away there :)
"Until the end"? If the end was in 1941, yeah..
Erm I thought insurgents already lived on this continent, Native Indians, sooo how, when already inhabited, does one then discover? Me me me me me!
that is estonian?
No, the natives did :p
@UsagiDreams The USA has never been a Democracy it's a Republic, when you think about it a true democracy would be an extremist form of goverment & probably completely unworkable.
@sarahthecatter If you knew the history of the English language, you would know that french played a key part in it after the Normans invaded (heard of 1066?) And I don't know why you got quite so annoyed with me...
@UsagiDreams america isnt really even a democracy :/ its a constitutional republic
@FienStudios you forget the British slaughtered many Natives for no reason becose of land , they also slaughtered many other people such as scots, irish and not to mention their own citizens,All for land. for example on the east coast of canada the British slaughtered an entire race of natives, the beothouks, and history has not much record of them because their history was an oral history.
@gunande we invented the engine the plane and weapons to keep the foreigners in check and are rich in trade.
common folk with funny accents who make Brittan Grate and when I say common I mean English common having the worlds greatest highest standards we dont accept poor quality only the finest.
It really IS a bit silly to be debating so seriously over a comedy program! If comedy gets the kid's, and adult's, attention, good on the show!
Don't think USA'ians will ever get it, unfortunately.....
@DeathSlayer2 American Education at it's best...
Shit come back, kid.
@TheWolfmaid yeah, sorry English, not British.
Scott accomplished unimaginable feats of endurance, its not surprising that Amundsen was first to reach the pole, its not a race if you're the only one racing. Scott's scientific legacy lives on. While Amundsen accomplished a first to the South Pole being pulled by dogs his journey added no scientific knowledge, had Nansen and the world known that his lie about going to the North Pole was to cover his true hidden intention its doubtful that he would ever have set sail.
Scott did not achieve is ultimate goal though. The British do not like to admit it, but he failed, and failed terribly. Amundsen left Scott for dust.
Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941
*finnish
Weren't the people that became native americans, aztecs and eskimos and mayans already there when the vikings arrived , so how did the vikings find it first , oh were the first European's , who the hell cares about the runners up , the number two's
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deffinantly not down to you