Eternal respect JJ for following the prompt at 18:30 I wasn't sure if you would. When you did, I honestly cheered "Yaaay!" and threw my hands up in glee. I've got to wonder if Jay put that in just for you specifically.
JJ you made my day cry laughing 🤣 I'm sure Jay is going to up the challenge, are you up for it 😂👍 (ps earlier in vid I wondered if Jay & co deliberately made some of the text so small you couldn't read it as he was feeling the pressure to write lots of jokes for you 🤣📝) 👏 👏 👏 to Jay & JJ oh & that would make a great company name & To Jay please do a colab vid with JJ could be on all sorts inc Beatles as both massive fans!
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 I didn't claim he wrote it in 1812, funnily enough this isn't the first example of someone referencing an event that occurred before they were born.
@@nicksykes4575 I was just adding to your comment. That's why I wrote 'also'. I was clarifying something that was in the fake paper from 1812 in the video. Something like "Tchaikovsky writes new banger". No need to be passive-aggressive or sarcastic, or what you call it in English.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Apologies, I'm just too used to fielding aggressive replies, it's becoming my standard method of reply, one of the disadvantages of using typed speech, you can't really tell the other persons exact meaning, if you're not a native English speaker congratulations, you write far clearer than many native speakers.
@@nicksykes4575 Thank you. That's a very gracious response. I thought I saw some bad prior experiences in the defence of your own comment and just wanted to demonstrate that the benefit of the doubt is not always just something that grifters take advantage of but also something that allows people to speak truth to each other without fear of being construed as an attacker. I hope you follow. There's most likely a much easier way of saying this.
Gerrymandering was popular in Northern Ireland for decades. The city of Derry had over 60% Catholic but carefully drawn boundaries ensured that five of the seven seats in local government were always filled by Protestants. This was a significant factor in the following decades of the 'Troubles' which led to over three and a half thousand violent deaths. So, not much fun afterall.
And when the catholic, Irish peacefully marched to protest the gerrymandering, Ian Paisley sent in pogroms to burn down their houses. THIS is how ‘the troubles’ started.
Watched this Map Men episode and immediately wanted to watch your reaction to discover the bits I missed! Such a good example of recycling and upcycling!
20:32 That thing is Timmy Mallets mallet. "It's the word association game mustn’t pause hesitate repeat a word or say a word I don’t like else you get a bash on the head like this 🔨🤯 or like this 🔨🤯 it’s the one with the most bruises who loses. now look at each other and go blah 😜look at them and go blah 😝 your first word is...." Yes I still remember every word 😂😂😂
02:35 Santos was the first REPUBLICAN to be openly gay before being elected to congress. The first person to be openly gay before being elected to congress was Jared Polis
Are you referring to George Santos hero of 9/11 who cured Polio and then saved a baby from a tornado by stopping said tornado with another, considerably larger, baby? That George Santos?
Everyone else has covered the serious topics, so to answer your question about the pink mallet thing. That's "Pinky Punky" an anthropomorphic mallet character from a 1980s UK children's TV show called "Wackaday" presented by Timmy Mallet, who's 'Thing' was hitting things and people with a giant pink foam mallet.
Meeting Timmy Mallet when he was in panto in my town is probably in the top 3 greatest days of my life. You should know I’m married and have 3 children.
@canisrufusuk I never knew that was the name 🤣🤣 (or just likely forgot) I have days where I feel like I could do with having a pinky punky of my own. Having a stressful day and people won't leave you alone?? *none hurty bam* "It wasn't me, it was the mallet. Look at its *runs away*
@@emcr1 I had absolutely no idea but, fortunately the theatre has a record of every panto it’s ever done on its website so I can tell it was Aladdin in 1995! 🤣
I really wasn't sure you would, but you did....Absolutely priceless! I was sitting in a pub watching this and burst out laughing and sniggering uncontrollably. Thanks! 😅
The pink and yellow thing is Pinky Punky (Mallet's mallet, without the face and bigger) who/what was owned by Timmy Mallet, he was on many TV programmes in the '80s and '90s.
That's Pinky Punky, the smaller mallet who would pop up on screen and ask Timmy Malley for permission to go to the toilet. Mallet's Mallet was bigger and had no face.
@@gavingiant6900 I am clever. It was a throwaway. But language can hint at so much about a person. Your use of “were” instead of “was” and “proper” instead of “very” indicates more northern than southern England and most likely around Yorkshire. The attention to excellence of grammar, spelling, punctuation, speaks of good education and probably older, like me, with good knowledge of Timmy Mallet. The “kinda” and other contextual nuance tells of a sense of humour which allowed me to feel comfortable about a succinct dig. Although I know nothing, I can guess a few things about you. 😉
Dont know if anyone else has this particular kind of thing too, but welllll it's 3 days later, and I've had that section of the sesame street song stuck in my head all day at work. Was mad about it until I remembered where it came from LOL Beats the Calgon jingle randomly popping in 🤣
Mannekinpis is really not worth the visit. I mean if you're in Brussels anyway, try to find it. It's in a small side street. But don't make the trip just to see it.
The electoral map of my Canadian city looks fairly normal. Aside from some natural geographic divisions, it's all rectangular, just like the city street layout.
There's no sense having a chamber over 420 ish members. No one gets a chance to speak. 1 MP per 100,000 voters (UK) and if no one turns out to vote, there's less MPs.
Parlamentary republics work the best. Parlamentary monarchy is pretty much the same thing. The system in USA overall is just so odd, never understood why people willingly give 1 man, the president so much power.
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture celebrated Russia’s defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, not the War of 1812. Sorry to disappoint you JJ. You might also enjoy P D Q Bach’s 1712 Overture 🎹
A fun solution would be to do what ancient athenians (and romans) did to ensure some kind of fair representation, which was to pretty randomly and evenly divide the population into a number of artifical and made up "tribes". 10 in athens and 12 in Rome. But my modern suggestion is that instead of tribes we do like hogwart houses instead: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff e.t.c. And also of course with all the artifical "generations" talk maybe those to Boomers, zoomers, millenials e.t.c. Every state simply invents as many "houses" as they need to fill. But on a more serious note simply calculating it on age-groups that can be diveded into however many groups is needed for a state, instead of this nonsensical and antiquated district thing might be a solution. Maybe...
So glad you appreciate Jay and Mark. And I appreciate that you know their style so well that you will pause the video, just because you suspect they will have sneaked a joke in that you don't want to miss. So a video of the Map Men combined with your personality is always going to be a winner! The fan service for Jay and Mark trod close to you prostituting yourself to their whims. But it was funny as heck, so you get a pass. I just hope they see it and respond. I know you would love that! Oh, and History Buffs is a channel I sub to. A brilliant channel. Thanks again for an interesting, and entertaining bit of content.
That little song reminded me of another Map Men video, "The mystery of the squarest country" ua-cam.com/video/8mrNEVUuZdk/v-deo.html If you haven't watched it yet you should. I think you will love it.
the pink hammer was from a kids show in the 90s cant remember what the show was but the guy was timmy mallet and he used to kit people on the head think if they got a question wrong what i remember lol
@@nicolafenner6260 Yes, and it wasn't about the war of 1812, USA, it was to celebrate Napoleon's defeat after the retreat from Moscow. Americans always think it's about them!
I now LOVE you As soon as you read about the towel etc I KNEW you’d do it! Well done, thanks for the Great laugh and super content With Love from London 🎉❤😂😂😂
Jay will be proud... even if you feel used.
"Do it, do it, do it!" And you did - towel on head, chicken arms, Sesame Street song! You didn't let us down. Map Men would be proud. 🤣🤣
Yes, I was shouting that at my screen too! 😂
I was shouting the exact opposite but with the same conclusion.
Eternal respect JJ for following the prompt at 18:30
I wasn't sure if you would. When you did, I honestly cheered "Yaaay!" and threw my hands up in glee.
I've got to wonder if Jay put that in just for you specifically.
JJ you made my day cry laughing 🤣 I'm sure Jay is going to up the challenge, are you up for it 😂👍 (ps earlier in vid I wondered if Jay & co deliberately made some of the text so small you couldn't read it as he was feeling the pressure to write lots of jokes for you 🤣📝) 👏 👏 👏 to Jay & JJ oh & that would make a great company name & To Jay please do a colab vid with JJ could be on all sorts inc Beatles as both massive fans!
maybe Jay didn't put that in for him specifically, but now he knows that JJ would do literally everything
I do love Map Men but your reaction takes it to another level, your checking of all the facts is entertaining in it's self.
Amen!!!
That's it, I'm ordering a JJLA mug for that chicken towel Sesame Street performance. I have watched it five times already 😄
Hi JJ, the 1812 overture has no connection to the U.S. war of 1812, Tchaikovsky composed it about the Russians kicking Napoleon out of Russia.
He also composed it in 1880, and not in 1812 when he was -38 years old.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 I didn't claim he wrote it in 1812, funnily enough this isn't the first example of someone referencing an event that occurred before they were born.
@@nicksykes4575 I was just adding to your comment. That's why I wrote 'also'.
I was clarifying something that was in the fake paper from 1812 in the video. Something like "Tchaikovsky writes new banger".
No need to be passive-aggressive or sarcastic, or what you call it in English.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Apologies, I'm just too used to fielding aggressive replies, it's becoming my standard method of reply, one of the disadvantages of using typed speech, you can't really tell the other persons exact meaning, if you're not a native English speaker congratulations, you write far clearer than many native speakers.
@@nicksykes4575 Thank you. That's a very gracious response.
I thought I saw some bad prior experiences in the defence of your own comment and just wanted to demonstrate that the benefit of the doubt is not always just something that grifters take advantage of but also something that allows people to speak truth to each other without fear of being construed as an attacker.
I hope you follow. There's most likely a much easier way of saying this.
Gerrymandering was popular in Northern Ireland for decades. The city of Derry had over 60% Catholic but carefully drawn boundaries ensured that five of the seven seats in local government were always filled by Protestants. This was a significant factor in the following decades of the 'Troubles' which led to over three and a half thousand violent deaths. So, not much fun afterall.
So it was not so popular after all. 🤔😳
And when the catholic, Irish peacefully marched to protest the gerrymandering, Ian Paisley sent in pogroms to burn down their houses. THIS is how ‘the troubles’ started.
Someone who lives in Northern Ireland here.
I remember learning about that in school and that's how I originally heard of Gerrymandering.
Watched this Map Men episode and immediately wanted to watch your reaction to discover the bits I missed! Such a good example of recycling and upcycling!
Omg thank you! 🙏 and thank The Men, Jay and Mark!
20:32 That thing is Timmy Mallets mallet.
"It's the word association game mustn’t pause hesitate repeat a word or say a word I don’t like else you get a bash on the head like this 🔨🤯 or like this 🔨🤯 it’s the one with the most bruises who loses. now look at each other and go blah 😜look at them and go blah 😝 your first word is...."
Yes I still remember every word 😂😂😂
Yessss 🤣🤣🤣 you've never looked better JJ. You know they only wrote that in for you 😂
Lmao that’s exactly what I was thinking as I read it, but saying it out loud would have felt arrogant 😂
@JJLAReacts I thought you might feel that way 🤣 but we allll knew who that was for, can't wait to see what they demand of you next 🤭
@@reysgotplans5005🎯
02:35 Santos was the first REPUBLICAN to be openly gay before being elected to congress. The first person to be openly gay before being elected to congress was Jared Polis
Are you referring to George Santos hero of 9/11 who cured Polio and then saved a baby from a tornado by stopping said tornado with another, considerably larger, baby? That George Santos?
Everyone else has covered the serious topics, so to answer your question about the pink mallet thing. That's "Pinky Punky" an anthropomorphic mallet character from a 1980s UK children's TV show called "Wackaday" presented by Timmy Mallet, who's 'Thing' was hitting things and people with a giant pink foam mallet.
Thank you for answering that. I'm British and had no idea! Generation thing.
Meeting Timmy Mallet when he was in panto in my town is probably in the top 3 greatest days of my life. You should know I’m married and have 3 children.
@canisrufusuk I never knew that was the name 🤣🤣 (or just likely forgot)
I have days where I feel like I could do with having a pinky punky of my own.
Having a stressful day and people won't leave you alone??
*none hurty bam*
"It wasn't me, it was the mallet.
Look at its
*runs away*
@@liamcorrigan3158 which panto was he in?
I've not been to one since I was about 13. Feel like I need to go to one this year, even if it's on my own 🤣
@@emcr1 I had absolutely no idea but, fortunately the theatre has a record of every panto it’s ever done on its website so I can tell it was Aladdin in 1995! 🤣
Did anyone else notice they swapped voices in the Surfshark ad? Genius.
I love the fact that you did the Sesame Street thing! Good show, sir!
That was flamin' GREAT, loved the Map Men, loved you reacting and the Sesame street singing made me howl with laughter. Go JJ.
Thanks! The Map Men are the best! ❤️
I saw the Map Men Men notification and instantly wanted a JJLA reaction. You haven't disappointed :-)
I love how far you go! Thank you for the entertainment!
I thought the mug was Mrs. Slocombe from ‘Are You Being Served’?
I really wasn't sure you would, but you did....Absolutely priceless! I was sitting in a pub watching this and burst out laughing and sniggering uncontrollably. Thanks! 😅
If only it were possible to mathe-magically conjure up Smartie Parties. Loved this one, and great reaction as always.
I just love your reactions. Keep up the good work ❤
Yes! I haven't heard the sesame street song in years. I did not think you were going to do it!
I never noticed that Jay and Mark switched voices in their ad. Thank god your here to point it out.
You should react to why politicians don’t answer questions by jay foreman
Timmy mallet a children’s TV. Host, in the uk, had a game called Mallets Mallet. Hence the mallet.
"New song by Tchaikovsky" (on the 1812 newspaper)
Aaah, gotta love the anachronism joke; he was born in 1840
The 1812 Overture (not The War of 1812) by Tchaikovsky celebrated the battle of Borodino, when the Russians defeated Napoleon in 1812.
I'm sure you definitely won't be put on a list for that Belgian boy search, also I saw your comment on the map men video
The pink and yellow thing is Pinky Punky (Mallet's mallet, without the face and bigger) who/what was owned by Timmy Mallet, he was on many TV programmes in the '80s and '90s.
That's Pinky Punky, the smaller mallet who would pop up on screen and ask Timmy Malley for permission to go to the toilet. Mallet's Mallet was bigger and had no face.
@@canisrufusuk Cheers, I'll edit it.👍 The toilet thing I kinda remember, but haven't seen it since I were proper young.
@@gavingiant6900 come on! You were never proper.
@@AlBarzUK Clever, but no biscuit in the context. Also not really knowing me to make such a comment. But...👍
@@gavingiant6900 I am clever. It was a throwaway.
But language can hint at so much about a person. Your use of “were” instead of “was” and “proper” instead of “very” indicates more northern than southern England and most likely around Yorkshire. The attention to excellence of grammar, spelling, punctuation, speaks of good education and probably older, like me, with good knowledge of Timmy Mallet. The “kinda” and other contextual nuance tells of a sense of humour which allowed me to feel comfortable about a succinct dig.
Although I know nothing, I can guess a few things about you. 😉
Tchaikovsky 1812 overture
Dont know if anyone else has this particular kind of thing too, but welllll it's 3 days later, and I've had that section of the sesame street song stuck in my head all day at work.
Was mad about it until I remembered where it came from LOL
Beats the Calgon jingle randomly popping in 🤣
lol 😂
@@JJLAReacts I can almost hear the 'sorrynotsorry😛' 😂
Did you leave ty hat link in the comments for Jay? 😁
Yes 🙌
@@JJLAReacts Beautiful! 😁
Mannekinpis is really not worth the visit. I mean if you're in Brussels anyway, try to find it. It's in a small side street.
But don't make the trip just to see it.
The electoral map of my Canadian city looks fairly normal. Aside from some natural geographic divisions, it's all rectangular, just like the city street layout.
as always lol i laughed out loud proper a tonne of times between yourself and them llol great reaction, thoroughly enjoyed that, cheers.
18:48 That was indeed aesthetically very pleasing.😍✨️😂
Awesome video.
You have far too few representatives. The UK has a far smaller population and divides into 650 constituencies. I would go with 435000.
There's no sense having a chamber over 420 ish members. No one gets a chance to speak. 1 MP per 100,000 voters (UK) and if no one turns out to vote, there's less MPs.
“I did it……… 😢 I feel like a whore” hahahaha
you're laughing when you should be crying my friend !!
Parlamentary republics work the best. Parlamentary monarchy is pretty much the same thing. The system in USA overall is just so odd, never understood why people willingly give 1 man, the president so much power.
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture celebrated Russia’s defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, not the War of 1812. Sorry to disappoint you JJ. You might also enjoy P D Q Bach’s 1712 Overture 🎹
Authentic British Nerd here - the face on the mug of steaming tea (not coffee) is Dame Edna Everage, possums
A fun solution would be to do what ancient athenians (and romans) did to ensure some kind of fair representation, which was to pretty randomly and evenly divide the population into a number of artifical and made up "tribes". 10 in athens and 12 in Rome. But my modern suggestion is that instead of tribes we do like hogwart houses instead: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff e.t.c. And also of course with all the artifical "generations" talk maybe those to Boomers, zoomers, millenials e.t.c. Every state simply invents as many "houses" as they need to fill. But on a more serious note simply calculating it on age-groups that can be diveded into however many groups is needed for a state, instead of this nonsensical and antiquated district thing might be a solution. Maybe...
hahahaahahaha @ pinky punky!
The community of Your Mum will be removed from the list because it is just too large!
I was wondering if you would react to this 😂
So glad you appreciate Jay and Mark. And I appreciate that you know their style so well that you will pause the video, just because you suspect they will have sneaked a joke in that you don't want to miss. So a video of the Map Men combined with your personality is always going to be a winner! The fan service for Jay and Mark trod close to you prostituting yourself to their whims. But it was funny as heck, so you get a pass. I just hope they see it and respond. I know you would love that! Oh, and History Buffs is a channel I sub to. A brilliant channel. Thanks again for an interesting, and entertaining bit of content.
That little song reminded me of another Map Men video, "The mystery of the squarest country" ua-cam.com/video/8mrNEVUuZdk/v-deo.html
If you haven't watched it yet you should. I think you will love it.
Jay move to the uk you will fit right in
Thanks, I'm flattered! I do love California too much though.
the pink hammer was from a kids show in the 90s cant remember what the show was but the guy was timmy mallet and he used to kit people on the head think if they got a question wrong what i remember lol
Mallett's mallet. Was the show called Wacaday? Memories unlocked...
@@LLMoran617 which was a spinoff of The Wide Awake Club
@LLMoran617 that's it God that brings back memories lol
Is your baby sleeping or what? :D
The tune was Beethoven, 1812 Overture
You mean, only Beethoven would've thought it was his, but being deaf as a post, missed that it was almost identical to the Tschaikovsky Overture
Tchaikovsky
It was Tchaikovsky lol.
@@nicolafenner6260 Yes, and it wasn't about the war of 1812, USA, it was to celebrate Napoleon's defeat after the retreat from Moscow. Americans always think it's about them!
@@johnallsopp6324 I prefer the Tchaikovsky remix feat. Snoop Dogg and Marlena Shaw
Have you ever watched Eddie Murphy's The Distinguished Gentleman (Its quite good ! And moderately serious ! At times !)
Sounds like you should use Proportional Representation, everybody votes and the representatives are allocated on the overall percentages !!
Lin
I now LOVE you
As soon as you read about the towel etc I KNEW you’d do it!
Well done, thanks for the Great laugh and super content
With Love from London 🎉❤😂😂😂