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  • @johnbacon4997
    @johnbacon4997 2 роки тому +735

    It's absolutely hilarious how they just slapped a lot of black Americans on your mural and called it kosher.

    • @bobcharlie7982
      @bobcharlie7982 2 роки тому +7

      its been there for aslong as i remember
      im 30yo

    • @CW0123
      @CW0123 2 роки тому +57

      Oy vey

    • @BoozyBeggar
      @BoozyBeggar Рік тому

      Every single conservative jewtuber has a fanbase more right wing than they are (which certainly isn't a difficult task). There's a reason for this: they're not ignorant of the (((truth))) of the world, they're just gatekeepers, and therefore collaborators.

    • @yolando1774
      @yolando1774 Рік тому +8

      It's just simply Ironic and ignorant really. I wonder how many Egyptians would love to look at that mural and feel absolutely brimming with pride for being so accurately represented.

    • @BlackMasterRoshi
      @BlackMasterRoshi Рік тому +33

      Kosher is a very apt word

  • @rilke3266
    @rilke3266 2 роки тому +493

    I like that on the Pub there's a sign that says "occupation is violence." The levels of hypocrisy are staggering.

    • @anon2752
      @anon2752 Рік тому

      I wonder what their opinion on the islamic and africa occupation of western towns and communities is. I actually dont have to wonder, im sure those hypocrites would be okay with it because they think white people/countries/cultures need to be diversified in all ways.

    • @EmperorSigismund
      @EmperorSigismund Рік тому +103

      "Say no to NATO. Say no to War.
      *Ukraine happens*
      "Have I told how I'm big fan of war and NATO in particular?"

    • @BlackMasterRoshi
      @BlackMasterRoshi Рік тому +41

      The moment you realize that nothing these people say is in good faith you gain power over them

    • @cantmossadtheassad9952
      @cantmossadtheassad9952 Рік тому

      ​@@EmperorSigismundI was always kinda pro 🇷🇺 because they oppose satanic liberal totalitarian globalism but when the war started I was kinda mad at 🇷🇺 and felt sorry for the 🇺🇦, but the reaction that the west had, all the worst people supporting the 🇺🇦, and the actions of the government in kiev have convinced me that the 🇺🇦 is an entirely fake and 🏳️‍🌈 country and that 🇷🇺 is entirely in the right

    • @jonahblock
      @jonahblock Рік тому

      Life isn’t black and white.

  • @ResoundGuy5
    @ResoundGuy5 2 роки тому +311

    As a native Reading man who still lives in Reading, you are 100% correct...which is depressing

    • @RS99FILMS
      @RS99FILMS Рік тому +10

      Hey, at least you’ve got Wendy’s…

    • @jennygarcia9128
      @jennygarcia9128 Рік тому +8

      vote UKIP and end the mess!

    • @ANobodyatall
      @ANobodyatall Рік тому +4

      Reading is depressing. Not to be confused with reading!

  • @aziirax3400
    @aziirax3400 2 роки тому +136

    12:18 "IN SOLIDARITY TO THE KURDISH MOVEMENT.." Litteraly has anti-western posters everywhere,while alot of kurds are decisevely western alligned

    • @easy8690
      @easy8690 2 роки тому +15

      Everyone who is weak is good to them I guess.

    • @MhmdRdam
      @MhmdRdam 2 роки тому

      What anti-western posters?

    • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
      @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Рік тому +10

      @@MhmdRdam 12:11
      "No to Trump
      No to NATO"
      but what anti-western posters

    • @wewenang5167
      @wewenang5167 Рік тому

      @@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING does Trump and NATO represent everything and everyone in the west? lol. I thought the west is a democracy and there is 2 sides of west not just pro NATO and pro Trump? The only reason why Kurdish people support the west is because they don't have any choice, an enemy of my enemy is my friend kinda situation, and the only reason why NATO and the west support the Kurdish movement is because their homeland is FULL OF OILS, look at the map. When the Kurds get what they want which is their own government, they will automatically switch to anti west again and took back all their oils. They definitely won't tolerate this lgbtqaatc agendas nonsense cuz majority of them are stount Sunnis Muslim. BTW Trump is kinda anti NATO tbh so that poster doesn't make any sense.

  • @tomorrow6
    @tomorrow6 2 роки тому +93

    Australian councils are doing similar stuff - basically charging rates to deliver their residents expensive propaganda and remove books from their public libraries

    • @Uqwefsdjxsa
      @Uqwefsdjxsa Рік тому

      Yea australia is going down the Shitter

    • @goddepersonno3782
      @goddepersonno3782 Рік тому

      we are?
      rip me

    • @tomorrow6
      @tomorrow6 Рік тому +1

      @@goddepersonno3782 yeah and not necessarily after voting for it - just take a walk through the library and ask yourself whether top selling books from other sides in the USA than Barak Obama are present.

  • @1q1q1q981
    @1q1q1q981 2 роки тому +137

    I’m sick of this American narrative being thrown in our face.

    • @bustinnutsinslutsbutts
      @bustinnutsinslutsbutts Рік тому +2

      Reality sucks

    • @qounqer
      @qounqer Рік тому

      I’m sick of this extremely niche Ivy League East cost narrative being pushed down my throat.
      My ancestors arrived in some windswept shithole in the northern Great Plains from Germany likely without seeing a single black person, and then spent their lives farming out in the middle of nowhere. Our interactions with African Americans really only started in the 1980’s when we started marrying them, unless you count the cousins who died of dysentery trying to free their asses from those psycho scots Irish fuckers down south.

    • @johnyewtube2286
      @johnyewtube2286 Рік тому +24

      It is your government and people doing it to you not America.

    • @moonman2022
      @moonman2022 Рік тому +34

      We Americans are sick of it, too.

    • @Trinity42034
      @Trinity42034 Рік тому

      As an American I can safely say we’re sick of it too.
      I’d also somewhat like to point out that it’s not an American push, it’s a push by corrupt officials. America is just so happening to have the bulk of the issue rn since so little people here actually know what their talking about.

  • @jimmycakes7158
    @jimmycakes7158 Рік тому +25

    What is the obsession with sub Saharan Africans trying to be Egyptian

    • @le13579
      @le13579 Рік тому

      It's an insidious form of raci2m and patronizing towards Sub-Saharan Africans.

    • @yaseensharawi8034
      @yaseensharawi8034 6 місяців тому +3

      They were kingiz and shhhhhhhhhh. Iiiiiiii. Tttttt

    • @googleisevil8958
      @googleisevil8958 Місяць тому +1

      Historically speaking, it was and probably still is one the richest and most stable countries in Africa. It could rival the Greek and Roman Empires in fame.
      Only other African empire I could think that most people have heard of would be Zulu but even then, they're probably no where as widely known as the Ancient Egyptians.

  • @oliverstianhugaas7493
    @oliverstianhugaas7493 Рік тому +41

    Can't believe this is the place where reading was invented, look at it now.

  • @greysson2933
    @greysson2933 Рік тому +203

    Wait, the "I'm sorry" pictures were from the UK? All this time I assumed it was some American cringefest...good god.

    • @koffing2073
      @koffing2073 Рік тому +30

      its just kinky BDSM raceplay

    • @dariusfetescu2124
      @dariusfetescu2124 Рік тому +21

      ​@@koffing2073 family bonding time.

    • @cantmossadtheassad9952
      @cantmossadtheassad9952 Рік тому

      Both 🇺🇲 and 🇬🇧 have alot to be sorry for, they promote this trash in they're own countries and terrorize and oppress they're own people with it then they try to export it to the rest of the world through military force, there's a reason the Taliban threw all the yankee educational material into the trash and why 🇷🇺 has banned 🏳️‍⚧️ surgery

  • @Longshanks1690
    @Longshanks1690 2 роки тому +156

    There’s a similar sort of display near my town hall… except it actually has pictures of the town from the 1800s onwards and is a general celebration of its actual history. I always thought it was kinda cringe, but seeing the alternatives, it seems refreshingly and charmingly normal in comparison, to say nothing of our stickerless traffic lights and grafittiless buildings - unless you count Ulster murals lol.
    Anyway, this was a great little mini-doc, Callum and I eagerly await “Callum whines about the decline of English towns” as a standing companion series to “Callum whines about textbook.” : D

  • @SwampGreen14
    @SwampGreen14 2 роки тому +213

    Its a crime you haven‘t promoted your channel on the podcast Callum! Your content is great.

    • @Britannica1
      @Britannica1  2 роки тому +65

      Thanks but I try to keep these things separate.

    • @SwampGreen14
      @SwampGreen14 2 роки тому +40

      @@Britannica1 Fair enough. I think its just dissapointing seeing such well researched videos like the russian space race and the freedom of speech ones having like 600 views. The Yugoslav war music did great though (even at the price of angry slavs debating who deserved genocide the most in the comments lmao).

    • @Britannica1
      @Britannica1  2 роки тому +40

      @@SwampGreen14 They have some very compelling points on both sides of that debate.

    • @SwampGreen14
      @SwampGreen14 2 роки тому +14

      @@Britannica1 It is indeed very… entertaining. My favourite argument must‘ve been: „Britain also commited warcrimes in her history, so you can‘t criticise us.“

    • @IWATPITW
      @IWATPITW 2 роки тому +6

      I got the recommendation for the serbian war music video, since im from Balkans, i guess. After i saw serbs comments my balkan blood boiled and i had to join the comment war 😂. After that i checked the channel further. What i find amazing is that you have really good channel with so few views. But your serbian war music video exploaded haha. You should farm Balkan hate for content to grow your channel for sure haha. Maybe make a comparison video on how left and right wing politics work in western and easter europe. SJW, religion minorities, communism and similar subjects are handled much rougher in eastern europe than in the west. I find the western need for self hate interesting, like many people from eastern europe do.

  • @garethbattersby
    @garethbattersby 2 роки тому +81

    I love how they were like we'll make a mural to celebrate black British people from history...
    Ok we've got one... and err... err Bob Marley? OK fuck it, just put anyone brown on there... and if you run out of those people just change historical people to be black.

    • @lillywhite2346
      @lillywhite2346 2 роки тому +3

      What the BBC d0.

    • @thehypest6118
      @thehypest6118 2 роки тому +1

      Black Centurion
      Black Centurion
      Black Centurion
      Black Centurion

  • @chunkymonkey55555
    @chunkymonkey55555 Рік тому +21

    I had breakfast in a Cafe in Reading years ago with a hangover. A homeless guy stuck me with a fork while I was trying to order some food, I was concerned it was a syringe for a moment, but no, it was his fork. Then I accidentally parked in the long stay car park at the train station, and it then demanded I pay £15 for me to get my car out, even though I had only parked there like 1 hour. Nice,

  • @RealDivaBoy
    @RealDivaBoy 2 роки тому +23

    That mural looks like something an extremely amateur artist would make... or someone making a caricature of random black historical figures to potentially mock them.
    It has literally the exact opposite effect of what the people that advocated for it likely wanted lol.

  • @NumberedBySeven
    @NumberedBySeven 2 роки тому +37

    I do disagree with the statement that conservative do not create identity collectives. Within the US, being evangelical is often linked to a conservative political leaning, and can be pushed in religion ('can' because while some churches do, many others most certainly do not push politics). I would say that the left simply has more of a stage/voice for identity collectives that they believe belong to them at this time.

    • @goddepersonno3782
      @goddepersonno3782 Рік тому +5

      I suspect it's moreso that progressives believe in collectivist theory, while conservatives in America are fundamentally individualist, so when conservatives collectivise, it's a different context

    • @tau-5794
      @tau-5794 Рік тому

      The left completely lacks any pretext about dignity, honor, or principles, their goal is to win, and don't care if they lack logic and honesty, they want to put you on the back foot so you're always ceding ground instead of actually gaining anything. "Libs owned with facts and logic" literally doesn't matter when you're only reacting to what they say and do, instead of doing and saying things that actually progress your own goals.

    • @asscheeks3212
      @asscheeks3212 Рік тому +1

      In general, conservative still look like normal people. Leftists on the other hand...

    • @namibiaxx1016
      @namibiaxx1016 11 місяців тому

      @@asscheeks3212
      Hey 😂
      I would consider myself as a left wing leaning liberal but I can confirm I’m a decent person and not a woke propagandist + I do get along with conservative folks. It’s just not black or white I guess

  • @societyoflearning5571
    @societyoflearning5571 2 роки тому +37

    I only recently moved to England for University from North Wales. Im now in Manchester and I'll just say that my current experience of England is Blade Runner LA. I miss Wales, it is actually like still being in Britain

    • @satan5537
      @satan5537 2 роки тому +8

      I agree completely. So dystopian. But there are many places in England that is still English, like peak district, lake district, cotswolds etc...

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore Рік тому +4

      You moved from a mostly rural place to a large city; you shouldn't be surprised that there are some differences. Manchester is a small and unpolluted city by world standards. If you think England is Bladerunner-esque, you should probably stick clear of LA and Beijing. 😅

    • @stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733
      @stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Рік тому +1

      ​@@ElcoreI live in Manchester and it is a dump. It is not the same place as 20 years ago.

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore Рік тому +1

      @@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 I agree, some bits of Manchester are a dump. Others are looking pretty good. Britain in general is looking rough now compared to the rest of Europe - the problem is some people seem to think that looking rough is 'not English', when they've not experienced much of the world and have only lived through a very short period in a few towns/villages when Britain was doing well. It's jarring when people from places like North Wales complain about things not looking British - as if they have no idea how hard and unfair life in a Welsh mining town was up until very recently. Looking rough is our default state, not the norm - and a good first step out of it is to stop blaming 'the Left' or 'the Right' or 'the immigrants', or indeed anybody but yourself.

    • @stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733
      @stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Рік тому

      @@Elcore 30% of babies in Manchester are born to the English. Manchester by definition now is not English.

  • @possiblepilotdeviation5791
    @possiblepilotdeviation5791 2 роки тому +24

    I'm sorry to let you all know, but it is pronounced Reading not Reading.

    • @Longshanks1690
      @Longshanks1690 2 роки тому +6

      Just like people who keep pronouncing it like “Caesar,” smh.

    • @matthewhegarty2873
      @matthewhegarty2873 8 місяців тому +1

      Thanks for clearing that up

  • @TitusConstantine
    @TitusConstantine Рік тому +46

    "Unashamed to push politics down your throat"
    Finally someone said it!

    • @JohnnyMaverik
      @JohnnyMaverik Рік тому +5

      Pretty sure a lot of people have been saying it, repeatedly, for many, many decades.

    • @TitusConstantine
      @TitusConstantine Рік тому +3

      @@JohnnyMaverik Hadn't heard it that way before

  • @WastelandClips
    @WastelandClips Рік тому +24

    Why don’t they realise what they do is oppressive closing business’s forcing people to accept something they don’t agree with 🤯 that is what they think they are fighting against 😂

  • @theratman1848
    @theratman1848 2 роки тому +19

    2:51 I, an ordinary Pole, seeing the symbol of Poland fighting on the walls of some random city in England: ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ) POLSKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! CZOŁGI! HUSARIA! BIJ BOLSZEWIKA!!!!!!

  • @dunk8157
    @dunk8157 Рік тому +16

    The thing that disturbs me every time is the cast bronze life size carrier/shopping bags, sitting just outside the little shopping centre on the city end of the Oxford road. There was a time where unattended bags were something really suspicious and I'm not sure what this piece of "art" is trying to say.

  • @Thrazkar
    @Thrazkar 2 роки тому +11

    THAT'S not Cleopatra on the black people mural, it Nefertiti.

    • @khanusmagnus577
      @khanusmagnus577 Рік тому +14

      Even worse , Nefertiti wasnt a sand ape either.

    • @medicinemanboxing3222
      @medicinemanboxing3222 Місяць тому +1

      Yeah.. there’s a surviving bust/sculpture of Nefertiti as well…they even inlaid her eye color..not “black” either lol. It’s amusing either way

  • @retiredbroker
    @retiredbroker Рік тому +15

    Why anyone would live in Britain is beyond me

    • @GlizzyGoblin757
      @GlizzyGoblin757 Рік тому +6

      Its our homeland, thats why. Birthplace of the English, Welsh and Scottish.
      do you have no loyalty to your homeland?

    • @GlizzyGoblin757
      @GlizzyGoblin757 Рік тому +3

      also LMAO at a yank saying this.

    • @JoshMC2000
      @JoshMC2000 6 місяців тому

      I lack the funds to move. I live in Wolverhampton. its a run down shit whole that's full of dilapidated buildings and empty shops. I feel like I've stepped into a ghost town in my home city center. all the money in the west Midlands is spent on Birmingham and the rest of us are just left to fall to bits. when I have the money I'm leaving and not looking back. seeing the state of the city I grew up in makes me feel nothing but misery

  • @valtiel8383
    @valtiel8383 2 роки тому +15

    That fucking mural. I dont think i have laughed that loud for a long time

  • @lawrencedye6514
    @lawrencedye6514 Рік тому +7

    God bring back the British Union Of Fascists long live Mosley Toalist.

    • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
      @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Рік тому +3

      Nah fashies are just as cringe as the commies. We just need a traditionalist government

    • @Juan-qu4oj
      @Juan-qu4oj Рік тому +2

      @@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJINGat this point fascism is all we have. Western “conservatives” have failed and there won’t be a Western Civilization to conserve at this rate.

  • @leemcpherson1039
    @leemcpherson1039 Рік тому +15

    Seriously, thank you from the bottom of my heart for this. I have boomer parents to deal with, and we live in a part of America where this stuff isn't yet obvious, so they just don't see the problem yet. It's good to have an example of what such places are like.
    Please, for the love of god, do more of these.

  • @evoasus2286
    @evoasus2286 2 роки тому +8

    No! I can't believe England lost its only Chick-Fil-A. What a terrible outcome. In all honesty, I apprexiate you documenting the decline of a once great English town as is slowly dies from one thousand cuts of cringe intersectionality, immigration, and libralism. I would love to see a compotent Conversative English government tske back their country. I love England, I spent many years there. I want the culture to live on and thrive.

    • @JohnnyMaverik
      @JohnnyMaverik Рік тому

      I visit Reading often and whilst it's not my favorite place in the world I'd hardly say it's dying. Also I'd be interested to know what you actually mean by, "take back their country".

    • @evoasus2286
      @evoasus2286 Рік тому +2

      @JohnnyMaverik I don't mean dying in the classical sense of becoming less and less active, losing population, or losing business but becoming more and more like the capital. As in the original culture of the English is slowly getting replaced within the town. The town is dying to multiculturalism. "Take back their country" means pretty much exactly what it sounds like. England is for the native population of England and not the hundreds of thousands of migrants coming yearly and Bing housed in villages and towns where they have no right to be. It will eventually destroy the culture, safety, and English way of life. Now, to an outsider, the Tory conservatives seem to be ineffective and not really conservative as they did nothing to stop the mass immigration of people into England. A genuine conservative government would be turning all the boats around and deporting people back to their home countries instead of housing them in hotels, giving them money, and ignoring their crimes.

  • @rama7267
    @rama7267 2 роки тому +22

    Malcom X changed his views after going to Mecca and seeing the pilgrimage contain all colors of people

  • @digitalintent
    @digitalintent Рік тому +5

    That blk mural is cringe. They could have at least hired a competent artist to paint it.

  • @WilliamCooper2005
    @WilliamCooper2005 2 роки тому +127

    Good job Callum.

  • @rohamm_9238
    @rohamm_9238 2 роки тому +45

    I have no idea how this isn’t a more popular channel. Keep up the good work! Also can’t believe they wanted to kick out Chick-fil-A for donating to Salvation Army (for context it’s a large US charity group organized around a church.)

    • @vorlon010
      @vorlon010 2 роки тому +7

      We have the Salvation Army in UK too - there's literally 2 salvation army buildings within 20 minutes walk of where Chick-fil-A was. It was very frustrating.
      Won't lie, though, the Wingstop which replaced it is pretty good too.

    • @turnip5359
      @turnip5359 Рік тому

      Salvation Army is a British institution.

  • @taserrr
    @taserrr 2 роки тому +6

    What in the world are those crosswalks?
    Britain actually was leading in some regards with accessability for crosswalks, you have markings for blind people and those with poor eyesights/guiding dogs.
    How in the world am I supposed to recognize its a crosswalk as a foreigner?

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore Рік тому +1

      This is modern Britain we're talking about: the country has been redesigned from the top down to be inaccessible for the disadvantaged, foreigners, and horses.

  • @canis_machina7280
    @canis_machina7280 Рік тому +8

    I never understood the guilt behind slavery. I'm half German and half Korean, but I don't walk around apologizing for the holocaust to every Jew I meet.

    • @PvtFlowers
      @PvtFlowers Рік тому +2

      So do you prefer kimchi or sauerkraut? This is important.

  • @turnip5359
    @turnip5359 Рік тому +6

    Reading being a university town probably has something to do with it

  • @akvaenkeli5469
    @akvaenkeli5469 2 роки тому +9

    A microcosm of the idiocracy we live in.

  • @beneficent2557
    @beneficent2557 2 роки тому +8

    Strange, Chick-Fil-A is the only fast food that doesnt make me want to kill myself after eating it.

    • @animal0mother
      @animal0mother Рік тому

      Because they use peanut oil instead of soybean, "vegetable", or "CanOLA" oil.

  • @SlawomirBudziak
    @SlawomirBudziak 2 роки тому +27

    Disturbing and yet hilarious. Thanks.

  • @herrgodfrey9563
    @herrgodfrey9563 10 місяців тому +3

    I can't believe I'm just now finding this channel. This channel is a rare British W. Few such instances!

  • @Krombop.M
    @Krombop.M 2 роки тому +5

    Lol. I'd rather see gang graffiti, then socialist graffiti.

  • @reltso2236
    @reltso2236 Рік тому +4

    2:51 as a pole myself I don’t think this is the fault of the ‘right’
    This symbol was used for as the polish fighting symbol during the occupation of Poland during the times of ww2 and Nazi germany
    It shows that Poland is fighting back

  • @thoughtcriminal2815
    @thoughtcriminal2815 2 роки тому +23

    How did I not recognize Callum's voice from Lotus Lads? As I listened, I thought, "oh he seems intelligent and based." Somehow it didn't translate to remembering his voice.
    If I had known that you made good content on your own I would have checked it sooner. Glad that I found it. Don't ask which video in my feed first brought me to this channel.

    • @johnseppethe2nd2
      @johnseppethe2nd2 2 роки тому +3

      I watched his video on Serbian war music and i only noticed it was callum at the end

  • @caseywhite3150
    @caseywhite3150 Рік тому +4

    My GOD the black mural.... Uggggh

  • @kellyelly2686
    @kellyelly2686 2 роки тому +7

    I believe that’s Nefertiti, not Cleopatra

    • @medicinemanboxing3222
      @medicinemanboxing3222 Місяць тому

      You’re correct, but the point still remains. We have sculptures/busts of Nefertiti that have survived the ages, and she also wasn’t “black”.

  • @os-walker
    @os-walker 2 роки тому +4

    There is a Spanish Civil War memorial in Glasgow also, my friend from Spain was astonished to find a memorial to the U.K citizens who gave thier lives for republican Spain. As you are unlikely to find any in Spain itself.

    • @vorynrosethorn903
      @vorynrosethorn903 2 роки тому +7

      Especially to foreign volunteers given how many atrocities they committed and their treatment of (especially female) civilians. The feelings were such that they were often just shot on capture during the civil war.

  • @Valencetheshireman927
    @Valencetheshireman927 2 роки тому +7

    1:20
    Monarchy is based 👑

  • @darcyotranto3617
    @darcyotranto3617 2 місяці тому +1

    The mural was insane! What an embarrassment

  • @Nauru_Man
    @Nauru_Man 8 місяців тому +2

    So sorry that I as an American have indirectly caused this madness throughout the western world.

    • @sh22real
      @sh22real 8 місяців тому +3

      Bro as an American you don't have to apologise for everything you never did, even if you culturally have an urge to do so

  • @jamesg8099
    @jamesg8099 Рік тому +5

    I knew I have seen you somewhere before!! I also live in Reading. Such a coincidence I found your Afghanistan video pop up randomly, I watched it, learnt loads about the Taliban and now realise that I'm pretty sure I've seen you about in Reading!

    • @Britannica1
      @Britannica1  Рік тому +1

      Still pop there a bit meeting old friends for dinner.

  • @tambarskelfir
    @tambarskelfir Рік тому +5

    Your understanding of the Spanish Civil War is very facile and the reason why the UK didn't pick a side had nothing to do with both sides being "bad". Now I'm being hard on you, but besides WWI there is no conflict as important as the Spanish Civil War for 20th century Europe and being flippant and ignorant about it isn't really very droll.

    • @jeanaronnax4901
      @jeanaronnax4901 Рік тому

      The Republicans in Spain by the end of the war were Soviet puppets. There was no good side to choose.

    • @JamesFTW1
      @JamesFTW1 Рік тому

      It was revealed that the British Navy around Gibraltar helpt the Spanish nationalist to cross the strait from Africa to the peninsula

    • @le13579
      @le13579 Рік тому +1

      I thought he was succinct.

  • @valtiel8383
    @valtiel8383 2 роки тому +56

    I didnt realize that reading was that bad. Its just north from me and it chills me that something so woke is so close to home

    • @jamesg8099
      @jamesg8099 Рік тому +3

      lived just outside Reading all my life and it's an absolute shite hole!! The hospital RBH is in THE most inconvenient place impossible to get to in bad traffic which is any other time than 3 in the morning, there's always bad traffic on all of the river bridges and you are safer walking around the streets in Afghanistan than you are in the Reading Town centre!

    • @anon2752
      @anon2752 Рік тому +1

      Woke degenerate thought is a cancer that spreads throughout a country and destroys it unless it is squashed.

    • @sampletexthere
      @sampletexthere Рік тому +1

      and what exactly is so woke about it?

    • @Constantineopulos
      @Constantineopulos Рік тому +3

      @@sampletexthereDid you even watch the video? Keep your head in the sand, I guess.

  • @Thraex64
    @Thraex64 Рік тому +4

    8:47 Cleopatra was Greek with some Persian and Sogdian Iranian ancestry or similar but here is obviously depicted Nefertiti and not Cleopatra.

    • @RaffieFaffie
      @RaffieFaffie Рік тому +1

      Not obvious as Nefertiti wasn't Nubian either

  • @TheBcoolGuy
    @TheBcoolGuy Рік тому +3

    11:40 "I'M SORRY I'M WHITE! I'M SORRY I'M MALE!"

  • @alexanderx33
    @alexanderx33 2 роки тому +4

    3:32 "We Happy Few" IRL

  • @yvonetubla7682
    @yvonetubla7682 Рік тому +3

    7:38 WRONG franco's team were the good guys

  • @Baldricksturnip
    @Baldricksturnip 2 роки тому +4

    8:48 That's a botched depiction of Nefertiti. Not Cleopatra. African yes, Egyptian yes, black as all the rest in the depiction of the mural, not.

  • @gravedigger1454
    @gravedigger1454 Рік тому +14

    As a bisexual male, I feel ashamed. I believe in equality of sex, race or orientation, but this forced ideology as in the case of chick-filet is ridiculous.

  • @doris.from.pinner
    @doris.from.pinner 2 роки тому +7

    In many ways, this is even more entertaining than Lotus Eaters (even if it is a bit depressing). New sub here; Keep up the good work

  • @DR3ADER1
    @DR3ADER1 2 роки тому +2

    One thing to note is Equiano never lived in or visited Reading. He mainly lived in the Province of Georgia, and later, London.

  • @calumdeighton
    @calumdeighton 2 роки тому +10

    Cards and meat Callum. Bread, meat & alcohol founded empires!

  • @kazak8926
    @kazak8926 Рік тому +3

    You're grossly misrepresenting the Spanish Civil War though. The Communists weren't a monolith of "Stalinists", there were Anarchists and more moderate sodalists, and the Fascists were only slightly less fractured too. Catholic Nationlists, Fascists, weird National Syndclists etc..

    • @le13579
      @le13579 Рік тому

      And you didn't mention the Communists turning on the anarchists and the International Brigade.
      Maybe the memorial is ironic, in memory of all the foreign volunteers killed by the communists.

  • @davey1602
    @davey1602 2 роки тому +6

    This felt like a labour of love for you Callum. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the changes made to wherever you grew up, old stomping grounds - that sort of thing. Also, try to memorise your script before recording :D

  • @Cavaleiro_Dissidente
    @Cavaleiro_Dissidente Рік тому +1

    If the International Financial System still exist, we can't destroy progressivism. *NATIONALIZE CENTRAL BANK NOW!*

  • @johndiddilyjoe6258
    @johndiddilyjoe6258 Рік тому +3

    Its a shame America's main export is terrible culture.

  • @vivecthepoet36
    @vivecthepoet36 2 роки тому +6

    Josh wearing human clothes instead of a suit is weird tbh

  • @AbyssWatcher745
    @AbyssWatcher745 2 роки тому +4

    Extremely underrated video. Shame it didn't perform as well as the slav warcrime song video

  • @sctpc
    @sctpc Рік тому +4

    Same thing is happening in Australia.

  • @its_jawsh6145
    @its_jawsh6145 2 роки тому +21

    Please keep up the awesome work, I just found this channel and love every video. Please keep grinding and you’ll be rewarded. Your content is informative and interesting and I can’t wait for the next video!

    • @Britannica1
      @Britannica1  2 роки тому +3

      Thank you so much!

    • @bt4670
      @bt4670 Рік тому

      A fellow Kiwifarms enjoyer I see

  • @davidhoffmann6771
    @davidhoffmann6771 11 місяців тому +2

    You reinforce my view that most politics history and the present is basically depressing. I like you’re videos but they tend to point out negatives . That is positive and helpful for awareness and especially if one is planning travel. I’m gay but don’t like the way lgbt shove there agenda down people’s throats. I identify as gay not lgbt. I glad I found and subscribed to your Channel! Dave in Tampa Florida …not a Trump or DeSantis fan!!

    • @davidhoffmann6771
      @davidhoffmann6771 11 місяців тому

      . Historic gay landmarks should be recognized though.

  • @DarkestMarlin74
    @DarkestMarlin74 Рік тому +2

    02:32 No.

  • @enderguardian7443
    @enderguardian7443 Рік тому +2

    “is it the worst place on earth?, no, is it the most extremist place in the uk? no”
    0:08
    he says as he zooms into a fucking mosque

  • @platypipope328
    @platypipope328 2 роки тому +5

    Unexpected josh cameo wtf

  • @jamesryan4325
    @jamesryan4325 Рік тому +1

    Respect from New Zealand. Thanks for shining a light on this ridiculousness. This kind of thing has started to pop up all around Auckland in the last couple of years. Not my culture.

    • @squid12825
      @squid12825 5 місяців тому

      Are there any based places left in New Zealand?

  • @zapre2284
    @zapre2284 Рік тому +6

    I don't feel as bad about Liverpool now after watching this !

    • @brad5426
      @brad5426 Рік тому +2

      I would say Liverpool is not even half as bad as this

  • @hexoslaya3696
    @hexoslaya3696 Рік тому +1

    My city used to have a mural about the English civil war. It was painted over when the building it was on was renovated to put a nail salon in it, which shut down within 6 months.

  • @Minnoh503
    @Minnoh503 2 роки тому +18

    Just found your channel, I've been truly enjoying your work on the lotus eaters for a while now. Great content here! You have earned an instant subscriber from "across the pond". Keep it up good buddy!!!

  • @thehypest6118
    @thehypest6118 2 роки тому +1

    WOOAHHH I did not expect you, the man who travelled to Afghanistan as a tourist, to be this rationally grounded, your frustrated sanity is a refreshing surprise to come across on this nightmare platform, well done for speaking your mind dude

  • @papatango2453
    @papatango2453 9 місяців тому +1

    Lotus Eaters Team, Alex Jones, Mike Yon, Bad Man Tommy, Douglas Murray, Sir Nigel Farage , Leo Kearse, Count Dakula - WE SALUTE YOU ALL!!!

  • @Flawless839
    @Flawless839 Рік тому +1

    As a America this feels worse than seeing it in my own country. Such a proud ild nation that should be celebrated for its many aichvments thay bettered the world. Reduced to what it is now. May God have mercy on a once proud country

  • @ThumbKnuckle
    @ThumbKnuckle Рік тому +1

    Let's return to byzantine monarchy, the longest lasting stable empire in the history of the world.

  • @Longshanks1690
    @Longshanks1690 2 роки тому +4

    6:50
    7:15
    Is this an editing mistake or are there two memorials to the Spanish Civil War?

  • @christiankalinkina239
    @christiankalinkina239 2 роки тому +5

    Based guide dogs and horses?

  • @kubakornijenko1927
    @kubakornijenko1927 2 роки тому +5

    2:44 Oh that's so nice, thank you. That's definitly what I need becayse yesterday I saw an invitation to " antifashistic Street party" and below that they claimed that they are planing to stop the Polish independence march. Which I meen good luck I gues.

    • @thehypest6118
      @thehypest6118 2 роки тому

      Good fucking luck ahaha, how did it go? Did they have the Poles quaking in their boots?

  • @frdsg8350
    @frdsg8350 2 роки тому +2

    They forgot 2pac... I mean, why not?

    • @villiamo3861
      @villiamo3861 2 роки тому +1

      And Idi Amin. Get 'em all in. Very jolly.

  • @thinkwithurdipstick
    @thinkwithurdipstick 2 роки тому +14

    They boycotted chick fil a because they donated to the salvation army, a charity that does outreach to the poor community and helps get children toys for christmas, as well as providing them a rec center they can walk to. Yeah, if you’re boycotting them for that, you might be evil.

    • @Snoop_Dugg
      @Snoop_Dugg 2 роки тому +5

      It's not like they are going to not help the poor just because someone is gay or whatnot. Absolute madness.

  • @sponge540
    @sponge540 Рік тому +1

    I didn't expect the Kotwica in a British town.

  • @loner5574
    @loner5574 2 роки тому +2

    Malcolm x left nation of islam and he said they were racists after his trip to Mecca and he became a traditionalist Muslim

  • @anomonyous
    @anomonyous Рік тому +3

    As a Belgian Anglophile, I must say, I disagree that the importing of non-British people, automatically means non-British opinions, mannerisms, actions, and so on.
    I know you said "English", but I feel this goes for the entirety of Britain, really. Or any country when it comes to migration, for that matter.
    There are degrees of difference between peoples, we all instinctively know and realise this.

  • @kitharoidos1089
    @kitharoidos1089 2 роки тому +1

    8:48 That’s not Cleopatra. That is Queen Nefertiti with a modified nose to make her look more African than Levantine. They should’ve drawn the previous queen and the mother of Nefertiti’s husband, she looks considerably more sub-Saharan.

    • @GORO911
      @GORO911 Рік тому

      You mean queen Tiyi ?
      That's just her wooden bust darkening over time.
      Her drawings and her mummy show a completely none black woman.
      Middle Eastern just like the rest of the ancient Egyptians.

  • @popNdawg
    @popNdawg 2 роки тому +5

    Did the Wendy's have the 4 for 4 deal? It is nice if you are strapped for cash.

  • @bilbp41
    @bilbp41 2 роки тому +2

    This country is gone fucking mad what is the matter with people Jesus Christ

  • @Oziji
    @Oziji Місяць тому

    7:12 I think Englishness is one example of a conservative identity collective

  • @silentsneek
    @silentsneek 2 роки тому +9

    Callum and the lads have a jolly romp about the town

  • @GeoffreyBronson
    @GeoffreyBronson Рік тому

    My family were from Reading before we all moved up North. It's all just housing for Londoners. Hate the place.

  • @cd5433
    @cd5433 2 роки тому +3

    Wow that city is already done for. I thought my city was bad. What happened to Britain. The people you used to conquer are now conquering you . You completely flipped from one extreme to the other. I'd rather be the ruler than ruled to be honest.

  • @beneficent2557
    @beneficent2557 2 роки тому +1

    What a cold dystopian cesspit.
    The Quintessential Example of Overly-Civilized Chaos.

  • @NIKOLASAV1
    @NIKOLASAV1 Рік тому +1

    Man(sigh), well after watching this the Kabul trip doesn't look so bad, at least the Taliban were willing to standup to the Islamic extremists.

  • @johnyewtube2286
    @johnyewtube2286 Рік тому

    If an "asian man" poops on the street, as is his culture, but it happens to be on lgdt "street art" what happens then?

  • @thetechguychannel
    @thetechguychannel 2 роки тому +2

    Underrated channel. Have a subscription. You really need more. Absolutely love your work on Soviet space program and Serbian music.

  • @xelthiavice4276
    @xelthiavice4276 2 роки тому +2

    rofl the "black history" wall is one giant cope XD

  • @harvindersinghkalra9489
    @harvindersinghkalra9489 Місяць тому

    Malcom X changed his views later in his life and left “ Nation of Islam”