We had The Bumps on birthdays where people would hold you by the arms and legs and 'bump' you up and down on the ground for the number of times appropriate to which birthday it was !
At least you didn’t have the yellow car rule, where seeing a yellow car means that you could punch the nearest person in the arm and you weren’t allowed to punch back if the other person got you first.
The war is a rich scource of material for Henning as is the World cup . He gets our bantering sense of humour , as does Sandy who now runs the show . WW1 was called the war to end all wars , and alternately the great war - sadly not for long .Nice to hear Jodi excited about a return to our shores .
It was hilarious when Rhod Gilbert talked about Denmark (where Sandi is from) having no daylight in winter, which is untrue. She gave him heck for it! She even ribbed him about it two years later when he was next on the show again.
It was World War 2 because of the rise of the Nazi party between the wars. His point about people of a certain age and the "we won the war" attitude is on the money. In 2001 I was working in the Dominican Republic on an IT contract. One evening in a bar restaurant an American called GIL abused a waitress who accedentally spilled la small amount of beer on his table insisting she bring a fresh glass of beer. It upset her and several other customers seeing him being nasty to her. I said to him "was that necessary? Did it make you feel better?" His comeback "We saved your limey asses in the war!" I pointed out well both you and I did not fight in WW2 I was not born and if you were you'd have been in diapers so what do you mean by "we" and how does that justify your behaviour to the waitress? He tried to enlist the support of a couple of Americans at a nearby table who said "Gil you are an a$$hole you've had too much to drink go to your apartment get some sleep come back tomorrow apologise and give the waitress a tip. I just wish AL MURRAY was in the bar😅😅!
They used to use bamboo canes to thrash us at school in the eighties. Every teacher had their own, usually kept in a tube soaked in oil to keep it flexible so they could give maximum power without it breaking.
My art teacher called his Brenda. One end had spilt from hitting too many hands, so he wrapped it in blue insulation tape. He said the tape was Brenda's skirt
I went to secondary school in the 1960s we were given the cane until I left in 1965.The headmaster had 7 canes on the wall and he let you pick which one.The first time I picked the smallest about 3ft long but I soon learnt that one hurt the most.😲👍🇬🇧
Bram Stoker was inspired by Whitby Abbey and wrote the novel in the town. No castle was involved. You could try and visit on one of the Dracula themed Goth weekends. The house he rented at the time is now an airbnb I think.
It was built by the Prince Regent, who became George IV. Hadn't heard of any Vicky connection - her favourite gaff was Osborne House on the Isle of White.
Indeed. The ruins of Whitby Abbey are haunting and very much worth a visit. I visited the UK back in 2006 for 2 weeks and that was one of the most memorable parts of it.
We used to get birthday bumps - one friend would hold the feet, the other hands and throw you up in the air. Up and down for the number of years of your birthday!
Birthday bumps used to happen when I was in school in the UK, but that basically equated to being punched in the arm an equal amount of times to how old you were that day.
I love the way he can look at things, a drain on resources 😂 The cane in school. Where I went they caned your none writing hand. 6 hits of the cane on your palm and fingers... 😢 that tickled ❤ from Northeast England ❤️
In my all-boys school, we had a 'birthday bash' where the birthday boy basically got bashed. The severity of which largely depended on how liked/disliked said boy was. I always lucked out because my birthday fell on the school's Founder's Day which was a holiday. In the army we had 'blanket parties' where your bunk mates would throw their blankets on one guy as he slept, totally covering him and raining down blows before quickly dispersing and pretending to be asleep before the guy could free himself from the blankets, never knowing who threw him the blanket party or partook in the festivities. 😂 This was done both for birthdays and for people who had done something to piss other people off.
In PE in my day we used to get "The Bessy" a studded football boot, if you were really bad you were sent to the headmaster for the cane, that was often in the open hand. In most classes they just threw things at you, usually chalk, or you got a clup around the ear.
WW1-the Great War,the War to end all Wars,the forgotten War and the Chemists War. They didn't realise at the time there was going to be a sequal of course and for years(20) it was referred to as simply 'the world War'.
I (English) lived on mainland Europe for a while, including Germany. I know we don't like to admit it, but the Germans have basically the same sense of humour as us and I don't know if it was just our weird friendship group but there was a lot of mockery going in both directions regarding WW2. I can remember one friend playfully complaining to some Germans about how they didn't have enough road signs and he kept getting lost because the exit signs on the autobahn didn't give enough information. He went on to tell these Germans they'd clearly only invaded Poland because they'd got lost on the way back from Austria. I was MORTIFIED until I realised the Germans found it funny (though of course... choose your audience wisely when making comments like that!). I also had a friend out there who worked as a mechanic, and one of his German co-workers was using a metal part that looked like a grenade. Apparently this guy spent the whole shift throwing it at any English co-workers he could find, saying it was a gift for them. They ended up having like a "cowboys and Indians"-style kids battle in the workshop lol.
I'm from South Africa and we never had birthday punches or any other forms of physical "celebrations". But we did have canings at school and parents who would hand out punishment if we got out of line, and we were all the better for it. A lot of modern problems with today's youth would be nipped in the bud with discipline enforced at school or a clip about their ear from parents. Repercussions are something that young people are never taught.
Probably bc the first is referred to as ‘the great war’ whereas the second is usially referred to as the second. The context of the German-British rivalry that crossed into sports is what allows us to know it’s the most recent one, which they’d be less aware of
WWII was the last declared war, everything else has been technically illegal.. they call them police actions and peacekeeping forces to avoid the contentions that come with them.
Yeah of course it is now but a lot of people really believed it then. World War I changed the world more than any other war before or since (including WW2), you have to understand the enormous psychological impact that had on the people of the time. Three empires ended and 15-20 million people died (about 115 000 of these American but hey, they won the war on their own as usual right?), it was unlike anything anyone could ever have imagined up to that point. Hindsight's 20/20
My mother would tug our hair for the number of years then say 'duck, hen or goose?' If the reply was duck it would be 'one more for luck!' Hen was 'start again!' and would proceed to give you another round of tugging. Goose was 'please let loose' and she would let go, but only after tugging your hair in tandem.
Thanks guys, we’ve all learned something new here. Her friends used to ‘spank’ her but they weren’t ’hard ones’! Can’t wait for you to come to the UK were going to love your innocence 😊
I was given the cane in primary school, my principal did NOT like me at all, I got it I'd say 3 times, this was late 80's here in AU, middle of the playground and I felt a burning sensation on the back of my legs, I'm not saying it didn't hurt, it did like all buggery, but I learned my lesson, some of the kids I see today could have used some corporal punishment, some people say it doesn't work, I can say it does. We used to give birthday punches, nothing hard, except maybe when you got to the teen years, boys will be boys I guess, you try to hurt them, all the while knowing you'd get the same or worse on your birthday. It was never done in anger or anything, just something we did.
I would like to suggest to you that you both watch the Thames TV series "World at War " i am not the depressive type but the series is considered the best series ever made on this subject with the golden voice of Lawrence Oliver as narrator . I can see chilling cross overs to today but it does not have to happen. Many have never seen or heard of the series but as teachers i believe will be a useful tool to watch in your own private time.
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life." - Emo Philips.
Us for birthdays we used to pour water n drinks and powder and whoop the celebrant. Proper whooping. Then take him out for drinks and a party If it's a lady we just pour drinks n flour/powder on them. Then party
The 1st WW was called the Great war or the last great war. Of they chose they changed it. Still. Some historians say. That Napoleon wars the 1st WW. it was mostly a imperialism war around the world. Not just in Europe. Two Historian made a list of of 8 world wars. Both agreed generally on the list. Look it up. Been on most of the day. I'll name one. Mr H. Herwig.not joking😅.
Read up about bristol and things like blackbeard the pirate,his pub thats still here and still a pub you can go to,many many many other things in and around bristol too! Its also where i live and its embarrassing the number of times ive watched your videos,mainly because of their value and how you both are,but jodie is also part to blame aswell!😳🙊🤣
I get the distinct impression you don't know the basics of the two most catastrophic events of the twentieth century. 1) WW1 aka "the Great War" 2) WW2 You seem confused between the two, particularly the comments at the end, where you seem to confuse the place in history of the two. And how you can think Henning might have been referring to WW1 is extraordinary, obviously the last war is going to be higher in consciousness than WW1, particularly as popular culture has a greater moral outrage at the behaviour of Germany in WW2, even though the atrocities committed by Germany in WW1 against the Belgians etc, and by the use of gas, were horrendous.
Not sure why but you guys seemed very underwhelmed or unimpressed by Henning knowing about spanking of birthday kids in the US. That is a (cultural) detail that doesn't have 'obvious mentioned somewhere at some point' written all over it at all. You seem to think it's perfectly logical foreigners would know that.
My military history's not good enough to know how true that is, but one thing I do know is that they suffered more military casualties than most of the rest of the world put together. Both the UK and US figures are under half a million, while in the Soviet Union it is estimated at 8 - 11 million, almost twice as many as in Germany. Second to the Soviets in terms of military casualties is China. A similar imbalance occurs with regard to civilian casualties - bearing in mind that deaths from war-related famine are included in the figures. In terms of civilian casualties, China is roughly on a par with the Soviets. In both cases, deaths resulted from a mixture of military activity and starvation.
We had The Bumps on birthdays where people would hold you by the arms and legs and 'bump' you up and down on the ground for the number of times appropriate to which birthday it was !
You’ve jogged my memory. Bumps 😊
We took that a step further, as you came on the down bit everyone would boot you lol
@@daverutherford6401 That’s ‘Proper’ or ‘Old Skool’bumps. Thuglets 😎
@@Zippy66 yes, you're right ...... tho' obviously you would usually end up on the floor !
At least you didn’t have the yellow car rule, where seeing a yellow car means that you could punch the nearest person in the arm and you weren’t allowed to punch back if the other person got you first.
There's an episode of Fawlty Towers called The Germans, where Basil is specifically told NOT to mention the war, meaning WWII.
The war is a rich scource of material for Henning as is the World cup . He gets our bantering sense of humour , as does Sandy who now runs the show . WW1 was called the war to end all wars , and alternately the great war - sadly not for long .Nice to hear Jodi excited about a return to our shores .
It was hilarious when Rhod Gilbert talked about Denmark (where Sandi is from) having no daylight in winter, which is untrue. She gave him heck for it!
She even ribbed him about it two years later when he was next on the show again.
It was World War 2 because of the rise of the Nazi party between the wars.
His point about people of a certain age and the "we won the war" attitude is on the money.
In 2001 I was working in the Dominican Republic on an IT contract. One evening in a bar restaurant an American called GIL abused a waitress who accedentally spilled la small amount of beer on his table insisting she bring a fresh glass of beer.
It upset her and several other customers seeing him being nasty to her.
I said to him "was that necessary? Did it make you feel better?"
His comeback
"We saved your limey asses in the war!"
I pointed out well both you and I did not fight in WW2 I was not born and if you were you'd have been in diapers so what do you mean by "we" and how does that justify your behaviour to the waitress?
He tried to enlist the support of a couple of Americans at a nearby table who said "Gil you are an a$$hole you've had too much to drink go to your apartment get some sleep come back tomorrow apologise and give the waitress a tip.
I just wish AL MURRAY was in the bar😅😅!
Hes not getting worked up, he's a comedian, it's his job.
He was a little emotional in this one though.
@@lovelybitofbugle219????
@@lynnelang3184 what do you want chick?
@@lynnelang3184 what do you want?
@lovelybitofbugle219 there was no emotion it was for comedic effect, comedians often make good actors.
They used to use bamboo canes to thrash us at school in the eighties. Every teacher had their own, usually kept in a tube soaked in oil to keep it flexible so they could give maximum power without it breaking.
My art teacher called his Brenda. One end had spilt from hitting too many hands, so he wrapped it in blue insulation tape. He said the tape was Brenda's skirt
I went to secondary school in the 1960s we were given the cane until I left in 1965.The headmaster had 7 canes on the wall and he let you pick which one.The first time I picked the smallest about 3ft long but I soon learnt that one hurt the most.😲👍🇬🇧
Just love Henning.🇬🇧
Henning is fantastic on Would I Lie To You and The Unbelievable Truth.
Bram Stoker was inspired by Whitby Abbey and wrote the novel in the town. No castle was involved. You could try and visit on one of the Dracula themed Goth weekends. The house he rented at the time is now an airbnb I think.
It was built by the Prince Regent, who became George IV.
Hadn't heard of any Vicky connection - her favourite gaff was Osborne House on the Isle of White.
Indeed. The ruins of Whitby Abbey are haunting and very much worth a visit. I visited the UK back in 2006 for 2 weeks and that was one of the most memorable parts of it.
We used to get birthday bumps - one friend would hold the feet, the other hands and throw you up in the air. Up and down for the number of years of your birthday!
Really? I've never heard of that, sounds more fun than our "bumps" in Scotland. More like full blown punches to the back lol.
@Karl_B61ex omg yes we did. I’m nearly 70 & forgot about that. You loved it but at the same time dreaded it in case you got dropped 🙂
I had that, they got to 5 and then someone said " He's 50 " they never got to 6 and just walked away leaving me on the floor ...charming !
@@raythomas4812 😆🤣
@@rossross3689 same, we did the bumps, it could get painful depending on how hard you hit the floor, if it was grass/ concrete.
And Jodi is gonna come back "quess what honey, I bought us a very own Castle, just a teeny tiny one..."
or a fantastic Scottish castle snowglobe from the gift shop!
He always makes me laugh, great personality 😂
We uses always give birthday beats to someone
WW I was indeed called :
👉 ... " The Great War " ... 👈
Birthday bumps used to happen when I was in school in the UK, but that basically equated to being punched in the arm an equal amount of times to how old you were that day.
I love the way he can look at things, a drain on resources 😂
The cane in school. Where I went they caned your none writing hand.
6 hits of the cane on your palm and fingers... 😢 that tickled
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
Iv been to slains castle . It's about a 20 min walk along the coast but it's impressive to see
❤❤
In my school in England we had the birch, slipper, cane, riding crop up till 1980...😂
You didn't have the birch or crop. you had the cane for boys and slipper for girls.
At my school, our teacher had a shark tank below the classroom. If you got a question wrong.... 🦈
In my all-boys school, we had a 'birthday bash' where the birthday boy basically got bashed. The severity of which largely depended on how liked/disliked said boy was. I always lucked out because my birthday fell on the school's Founder's Day which was a holiday. In the army we had 'blanket parties' where your bunk mates would throw their blankets on one guy as he slept, totally covering him and raining down blows before quickly dispersing and pretending to be asleep before the guy could free himself from the blankets, never knowing who threw him the blanket party or partook in the festivities. 😂 This was done both for birthdays and for people who had done something to piss other people off.
WW1 was the great war, the war to end all wars (that turned out well!)
In PE in my day we used to get "The Bessy" a studded football boot, if you were really bad you were sent to the headmaster for the cane, that was often in the open hand. In most classes they just threw things at you, usually chalk, or you got a clup around the ear.
WW1-the Great War,the War to end all Wars,the forgotten War and the Chemists War. They didn't realise at the time there was going to be a sequal of course and for years(20) it was referred to as simply 'the world War'.
I (English) lived on mainland Europe for a while, including Germany. I know we don't like to admit it, but the Germans have basically the same sense of humour as us and I don't know if it was just our weird friendship group but there was a lot of mockery going in both directions regarding WW2. I can remember one friend playfully complaining to some Germans about how they didn't have enough road signs and he kept getting lost because the exit signs on the autobahn didn't give enough information. He went on to tell these Germans they'd clearly only invaded Poland because they'd got lost on the way back from Austria. I was MORTIFIED until I realised the Germans found it funny (though of course... choose your audience wisely when making comments like that!).
I also had a friend out there who worked as a mechanic, and one of his German co-workers was using a metal part that looked like a grenade. Apparently this guy spent the whole shift throwing it at any English co-workers he could find, saying it was a gift for them. They ended up having like a "cowboys and Indians"-style kids battle in the workshop lol.
Why World War One Nick ?
I live in Pendal, the home of the Pendal witches, I'd gladly show you around where it all took place.
I like it when Jodi puts the other voices on. She's good at roleplay.
You should see me in the classroom.
@@Jodi_BoringReviews I'll just have to use my imagination! 😉
In the 90's, I knew somebody, who knew somebody who had the birch, he never did anything wrong again.
One of my dad's friends was the same. He was a bit of a tearaway, always up to something, but after being birched he was a reformed character.
His stand up is brilliant
We had bumps (being held up and dropped to the floor) or hair pulls for birthdays.
I'm from South Africa and we never had birthday punches or any other forms of physical "celebrations". But we did have canings at school and parents who would hand out punishment if we got out of line, and we were all the better for it. A lot of modern problems with today's youth would be nipped in the bud with discipline enforced at school or a clip about their ear from parents. Repercussions are something that young people are never taught.
Why would you assume it's WWI and not WWII?
Probably bc the first is referred to as ‘the great war’ whereas the second is usially referred to as the second. The context of the German-British rivalry that crossed into sports is what allows us to know it’s the most recent one, which they’d be less aware of
WW1 was also called 'the war to end all wars'. Least accurate name ever.
What about the Titantic being called the unsinkable
@@jameshumphreys9715 It never was
WWII was the last declared war, everything else has been technically illegal.. they call them police actions and peacekeeping forces to avoid the contentions that come with them.
Yeah of course it is now but a lot of people really believed it then. World War I changed the world more than any other war before or since (including WW2), you have to understand the enormous psychological impact that had on the people of the time. Three empires ended and 15-20 million people died (about 115 000 of these American but hey, they won the war on their own as usual right?), it was unlike anything anyone could ever have imagined up to that point. Hindsight's 20/20
The ruined abbey in Whitby, North Yorkshire inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula.
My mother would tug our hair for the number of years then say 'duck, hen or goose?'
If the reply was duck it would be 'one more for luck!'
Hen was 'start again!' and would proceed to give you another round of tugging.
Goose was 'please let loose' and she would let go, but only after tugging your hair in tandem.
WW1 was called the 'Great war' but then again so was the Napoleonic war at the time.
"I don't get why WW1 is called the 'Great War' when WW2 with it's use of nuclear weapons and higher death toll, was so much better" - G Delaney, VIZ
@@cerisambrook7692 🤣
I'd love to see your reactions to "The Fast Show - Middle Aged Guys 5". It's a fairly short sketch, maybe too short, but it made me LOL earlier today.
My Grandad Billy gypsy boy Turner was one of the last two boys to be birched in the United Kingdom😮
Lmao, so sorry Gabe!!! I will be your friend Gabe❤❤😂
Henning is brilliant
The birthday bash as I know it
That’s why I lie about my age.
Well then you need to also visit Whitby in North Yorkshire which is where Dracula first lands on English soil 😀
We call it getting your birthday bumps here in Scotland. Other pupils would give u a whack for each year. Crazy that’s international
World War 1 was know at the time as, The Great War. Or, the war to end all wars, part 1.
WW1 was called The Great War until WW2
It was given the moniker the "Great War" as early as August 1914!
Thanks guys, we’ve all learned something new here. Her friends used to ‘spank’ her but they weren’t ’hard ones’! Can’t wait for you to come to the UK were going to love your innocence 😊
Gabe keeps up the tradition by being a huge pain in the ass!
I was given the cane in primary school, my principal did NOT like me at all, I got it I'd say 3 times, this was late 80's here in AU, middle of the playground and I felt a burning sensation on the back of my legs, I'm not saying it didn't hurt, it did like all buggery, but I learned my lesson, some of the kids I see today could have used some corporal punishment, some people say it doesn't work, I can say it does.
We used to give birthday punches, nothing hard, except maybe when you got to the teen years, boys will be boys I guess, you try to hurt them, all the while knowing you'd get the same or worse on your birthday. It was never done in anger or anything, just something we did.
World War 1 was known as The Great War you are correct. But after World War 2 it became World War 1. I think anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm right.
I would like to suggest to you that you both watch the Thames TV series "World at War " i am not the depressive type but the series is considered the best series ever made on this subject with the golden voice of Lawrence Oliver as narrator . I can see chilling cross overs to today but it does not have to happen. Many have never seen or heard of the series but as teachers i believe will be a useful tool to watch in your own private time.
You should come to Ireland, lots of castles n witches ;)
I want to!! I have a list of places in Ireland for Nick and I to go visit. A lot of my ancestry is from Ireland. ❤
They are talking about WW2.
Watch Fawlty Towers, episode 6, series 1 called The Germans. John Cleese is hilarious!
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life." - Emo Philips.
World war 1 was only called that after world war 2 broke out.
Spooky how well behaved kids used to be :P
More Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse reactions if you wish…
Us for birthdays we used to pour water n drinks and powder and whoop the celebrant. Proper whooping. Then take him out for drinks and a party
If it's a lady we just pour drinks n flour/powder on them. Then party
I don't think that Henning is much cop at maths. The war ended in 1945 and I was born in 1950 which makes me 74.
Don't understand why Nick would assume it was about WW1??? Henning is not that old
Why would you assume it would be World War 1? Odd!
It was thanks to the Yanks that we won both!
Yeah, birthday beats was a thing at my school back in the 90s.
The 1st WW was called the Great war or the last great war. Of they chose they changed it. Still. Some historians say. That Napoleon wars the 1st WW. it was mostly a imperialism war around the world. Not just in Europe. Two Historian made a list of of 8 world wars. Both agreed generally on the list. Look it up. Been on most of the day. I'll name one. Mr H. Herwig.not joking😅.
You assumed WWI?? Since he’s German, I think most people would assume WWII.
I find it very strange that you assumed the title meant World War I. Why didn't you think it was World War II? You know, the most recent World War???
Read up about bristol and things like blackbeard the pirate,his pub thats still here and still a pub you can go to,many many many other things in and around bristol too!
Its also where i live and its embarrassing the number of times ive watched your videos,mainly because of their value and how you both are,but jodie is also part to blame aswell!😳🙊🤣
In the UK we had the bumps but I'm sure smacked you bum and punched your arm as well
I get the distinct impression you don't know the basics of the two most catastrophic events of the twentieth century.
1) WW1 aka "the Great War"
2) WW2
You seem confused between the two, particularly the comments at the end, where you seem to confuse the place in history of the two.
And how you can think Henning might have been referring to WW1 is extraordinary, obviously the last war is going to be higher in consciousness than WW1, particularly as popular culture has a greater moral outrage at the behaviour of Germany in WW2, even though the atrocities committed by Germany in WW1 against the Belgians etc, and by the use of gas, were horrendous.
Not sure why but you guys seemed very underwhelmed or unimpressed by Henning knowing about spanking of birthday kids in the US.
That is a (cultural) detail that doesn't have 'obvious mentioned somewhere at some point' written all over it at all.
You seem to think it's perfectly logical foreigners would know that.
World war 2
A joke is a joke is a joke, leave it alone.
Why do you feel the need to ruin every joke by dissecting and analysing every joke.
Fun fact, the Soviets won the war
My military history's not good enough to know how true that is, but one thing I do know is that they suffered more military casualties than most of the rest of the world put together. Both the UK and US figures are under half a million, while in the Soviet Union it is estimated at 8 - 11 million, almost twice as many as in Germany. Second to the Soviets in terms of military casualties is China. A similar imbalance occurs with regard to civilian casualties - bearing in mind that deaths from war-related famine are included in the figures. In terms of civilian casualties, China is roughly on a par with the Soviets. In both cases, deaths resulted from a mixture of military activity and starvation.
@bilbobaggins706 The Soviets killed 8 out of 10 Axis soldiers. The Germans knew the war was lost when Paulus' 8th army was obliterated at Stalingrad