It was more amusing watching you feel the need to move the Christmas tree 3 inches, than watching the reaction video its self...Worth every second. Don't change.
Thanksgiving means nothing to anyone apart from Americans. July 4th : Same Halloween: No one else really gets it. Except for the Irish,because it is theirs.
Halloween aka All Hallows' Eve is a christian celebration not a Celtic one and thus an ancient celebration throughout christian dominated territory. Samhain however is a gaelic celebration with many resemblances with Halloween and the two have intertwined a lot.
The Church didn't castrate boys. Young boys were recruited by the secular conservatoires - usually parents 'sold' them to these Italian music schools. The Church actually condemned the practice - although the Vatican employed a small number of adult castration in its choirs.
I like how in the intro Conner says it’s not interesting that he likes to watch stuff but we are all less interesting because we’re here to watch some one watch stuff 😂
Yes, Victorian times were hard, just read Dickens! 🤣 The British King and German Kaiser were cousins. I agree about adult presents. It just ends up swapping money in reality. Love giving my grand kids presents though and seeing the joy on their faces.
Mc J you're definitely not boring. When you pose a question but don't ask it - that's great because I don't have to fret, searching my brain for an answer. And you are very funny in a good way, pretending to be confused when you aren't. Also I have a theory that you fancy Philomena because she is a time traveller but you don't know what time she departs.
5:00 Chris Packham - Presenter of nature programmes, particularly involved with programmes called Springwatch and Autumnwatch, which I think is what she means by saying his calendar revolves around two big annual events.
East Enders is a soap opera (a continuous drama with several episodes per week on television) which has been on our screens for decades. It is set in a fictional poorer part of London. Traditionally, tge plotline over the Christmas period dramatises some sort of awful trauma or disaster: fights, romantic breakups, Christmas festivities gone wrong, cliffhangers, tragic accidents, mental breakdowns, deaths - just what everyone wants to see over Christmas. Danny Dyer is (or was?) one of the actors playing a major role.
You are not at all weird, I find receiving gifts incredibly awkward and stressful too; I especially loathe 'secret santa' in the workplace, and all forms of enforced jollity which cause my anxiety to go through the roof - that is the opposite of what Christmas is about! I am actually loving the Christmas ads from Marks & Spencer this year (retailer of clothes, homeware and food & drink); the message of the ads is to ditch all the things about Christmas that you hate and do Christmas YOUR way - a way that makes you happy, rather than bowing to social pressure and convention! Many people are furious about the ads, but I love them!
It's interesting that you associate Christmas just with gift giving and receiving. I'm in the UK and because we don't do Thanksgiving, Christmas remains for me the sole occasion of the year when all the family gets together for a big meal and a celebration - and that's why I love Christmas, not because of gifts.
Agreed, and Conor should read the original novella, too, if he hasn't already. I've read it every Christmas Eve since I was a kid, and it's a tradition I always look forward to.
@@robertpetre9378 Celebrating Hallowe'en as we know it was largely a 20th Century American invention, albeit occurring at the same time of year as various traditions, including Irish Samhain, English All-Saints' Day and the Welsh _Calan Gaeaf._
Yes he really should have included Guy Fawkes night, St Georges day and all those other holidays he's never heard of. Why an American would choose 4th of July is anyones guess.
Interesting fact about those snowy Christmasses in England. It hardly ever snows at Christmas in England. However there was a short period when it snowed every Christmas year after year. It just so happened that period was when Dicken's was a little boy. And that is how he wrote about it. We are nostalgic for Dickens's childhood Christmases.
Actually, historically, it wasn't a short period. It lasted several centuries and is known as the "Little Ice Age" when it was so cold in winter in England that "frost fairs" were held on the thick ice which covered the River Thames in central London (described by Pepys in the late 1600s). You are right that this period came to an abrupt end during Dickens' childhood (c1815?) but the idea of habitual snow at Christmas had imprinted on his brain.
@@MrBulky992 You are right that it was generally much colder in winter from the 1500's to about 1880, but that didn't mean there was always snow on Christmas day, though it was more common. The specifics about Dickens was that 6 of his first 9 Christmasses were white.
I so agree with you regarding the giving and receiving of gifts on society’s demanded timeframe. I got rid of Xmas in my life years ago. Went up to Rovaniemi in Finland. A town on the arctic circle where Santa has his residence and business…. Went out and had photo taken and sent back to my children. Then I went into town and ate his reindeer for lunch. Next postcard to the kids explained that Santa now had a transportation problem and that was the end of giving presents of products that weren’t needed or even wanted. Doesn’t mean we don’t do a whole lot of gifting between ourselves BUT it is on OUR schedule. When I see something that i know the girls would love or something that I know they need, then I happily buy it…any day of the year. And they do the same. No pressure on anyone to buy anything. And think of the tons of rubbish turned into landfill we have avoided over the years. I think the world needs to shake of the consumerism that seems to have drugged the world to the point of us becoming servants to the capitalists’ whims. Thank for sharing Philomena Cunk. She is a brilliant performer isn’t she! I appreciate that you don’t get every bit of her humour. There are a lot of references to British tv shows and cultural norms. Cheers from Oz 😎
New term: Equinoxface. When you try to say something insightfull, but catch yourself, realizing that you are stupid. But your mind, McJibbin, is as sharp as they get. Own the Equinoxface and carry on.
15:38 "Isn't it true they would [castrate] boys in the Middle Ages to sing falsetto?" - Yes, and it continued long after the Middle Ages; the last castrato, Alessandro Moreschi, was born in 1858 and lived till 1922. You can hear a recording of him singing Ave Maria here: ua-cam.com/video/KLjvfqnD0ws/v-deo.html
Chris Packham was a nature cameraman who went on to present nature programmes on the BBC, most notably Springwatch and Autumnwatch (hence he comes out twice year). He is a pro-nature ecological campaigner.
No you aren’t weird. I hate having the pressure to get just the right thing and it’s not about the money but people have shown so much thought and effort in the past to get me amazing presents, I have no imagination and feel I’m letting them down with what I get them.
That is true that some boys were 'snipped' routinely, mainly in Italy. They were known as castrati, and many were famous opera singers. The practice carried on (just) long enough for some to make early gramophone records as adults.
The practice of giving and receiving is an ancient tradition. It is the foundation of reciprocity and cohesion within a family, group or clan. Those who do not participate were seen as outsiders and a possible threat to societal cohesion. It is fair to say that objections to gift giving can be seen as a symptom of a hidden sociopathic tenancy with possible malignant traits with regards to the individuals relationship to the world around them.
Dates back to St Nicholas in what is Turkey today who would leave gifts of gold (money) for poor people that they generally found when they awoke and found he had secretly left it for them.
The snip snip you were referring to were the castrati. Boys castrated before pubity to keep their high voices. In Italy I think. Obviously not legal today.
Solo castrato singers were the superstars of the 1700s, with singers like Farinelli, Senesini and Caffarelli earning thousands of pounds a year; we're talking millions in today's money.
Christmas is a great and meaningful holiday, not because of Jesus Christ, but that it was transplanted on to the Northern European festival of Yule (derived from Old English geohol) and the Scandinavian jol. Yuletide was a 12-day celebration (the 12 days of Christmas?) which took place over the Winter Solstice, a time of feasting, animal sacrifice and merrymaking, probably celebrating the rebirth of the sun from its lowest point in the sky (A Thanksgiving celebration if you like). As it was an old tradition, opportunistic Christians adopted it as Christmas, a celebration of Christ's birth (as they did the feast of 'Eostre' later in the year). It was also a time when it was believed that Wodin's (Odin's) Wild Hunt took place, his sleigh being pulled through the sky accompanied by elves (sound familiar?), sweeping up the dead.
The singers who were castrated to maintain a high voice were called castratos. It may sound weird but they were actually very popular with women, one of the odd side effects of castration is that the penis actually grows quite large. They were also very tall, so there voice wasn't like a child soprano, because of the bigger frame it came from. The last of the castrati was Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1924 and made gramophone recordings that provide the only direct evidence of a castrato's singing voice.
I'm not a Brit, but I know Danny Dyer from the 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown compilations. He's been in some of these shows, and he's kinda hot (reminds me of a school bully I used to have). Didn't know he's an actor and that he was on Eastenders, but I never watched that soap. That's all I know about him without googling. xD
Some of us are already seen as being part if history. Imagine being alive last century, before they had all those modern inventions. Fitbits were only seen in sci-fi like Battle Of The Planets. G-Force!
Christmas does suck. I buy my kids everything they want all year, now I have to do an extreme version of that for one day? And I gotta wrap the shit? It was great when they were still in the Santa Clause years, now it's just a hassle.
5:40 pagans not only celebrated solstices, it was the two equinoxes. It helped in farming. You plant in spring equinox and harvest at autumnal equinox (harvest festival) Christianity hijacked the pagan religion as it was a natural way of living. This is why Christmas is a feast as nothing (food wise) grows and the original Yuletide was from November to February ( Michaelmas to candlemas) basically eating the harvest until spring. Halloween ( All Hallows' eve) is a pagan celebration of the lives, normally family members, churches now call it all saints day. In 2004, I went to church to celebrate my dad's life after he died in the April. During the solstices, the sun ( son) rests for three days before moving. I could go on, but I'll get the religious nuts freaking out 🤣🤣
Also at the winter solstice the sun remains stationary for 3 days but it also either rises/or sets on the southern cross on the 1st day. It sets to its lowest point on the 21st Dec and then on 25th it rises by 1 degree, so is born/reborn on 25th Dec. So the 'son' dies on the cross and after 3 days rises from its death. Basically the story of Jesus. You should look uo the documentary movie called 'Zeitgeist' and give it a wee watch. Its in 3 parts for the 1st documentary. Part 1 is about the greatest lie ever told to man 'religion' and points out all the similarities between Christianity and the ancient Egyptian religion amongst other ancient religions where many Christian stories seem to derive from. It's an amazing documentary actually and well worth a watch. For a long time it was my absolute favorite documentary film. You should defo look it up n have a watch. 😉 Zeitgeist
No... 4th centaury - Yes 4TH centaury - not 14th. Yes European history does go back much further than you think! FFS there is a plaque on the wall of my local church with every vicar is listed from 988 (only three missing during the middle ages when records were lost) - and the reason why the parish records don't list any earlier? - The first part of the church (still standing) was built between 968 and 988 - Oh and the church in the next village has a font boult on an old pagan sacrificial stone believed to be about 3000 years old - just the Christians "muscling in" - 14th centaury is recent in Europe! 🤣😂
The last castrati died in 1924. There's actually gramophone recordings of him singing, Ave Maria, I think it is. They're the only evidence we have recorded of what they'd have sounded like. I think the recording is available here on UA-cam. I can't quite remember his name but it's easily googled to find out if you're interested. 😉
The virgin birth story actually originated in Egypt in regard to Isis. Many other Christian stories can be traced back to the Egyptian faith too actually.
You wouldn't want to watch The Easterners or Emmerdale Farm, Coronation Street or any of that to be honest with you, Conner - they're tv soaps with bad writing and bad acting.
Trash soap operas have almost disappeared from US television but are still made in the UK and still attract millions of viewers, yet we smugly assume that British TV is somehow of a higher quality than US TV. It's laughable.
Coronation Street is actually OK. Eastenders is just always totally grim and depressing. Coronation street has some hard hitting story lines etc and has moments of being grim too but it also has the odd lighthearted moment and joke woven into it too and is more relatable in many ways to Eastenders. Seems every year someone dies or is killed on Christmas day episode of Eastenders. And don't get ne started on Hollyoaks, ffs, every time I have the misfortune of turning that soap on someone is being killed and there's a murderer on the loose. I think at this point aboit 100 ppl have been killed in Hollyoaks in the last 10/15yrs lmao
Actually the last of the castrati sang in the Sistine Chapel until 1903... Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1924 and made gramophone recordings that provide the only direct evidence of a castrato's singing voice.
The birth of Christ is in the bible but there's bo reference to Christmas as a celebration that was ever held. That didn't happen until a long time after Jesus supposedly died. And there's no mention of when he was supposedly born. The fact there were sheppards watching flocks of sheep and lambs would suggest it wasn't on 25th Dec. That fate was chosen by the church hundreds of years later amd was chosen bcos paegams celebrated on that date
The pagans celebrated 25th Dec as om 21st Dec (solstice) the sun stopped moving south in the sky/horizon and on the 25th Dec it rose by 1 degree in the sky, so was reborn and foreshadowed the longer days ahead. Christians then chose that day as Jesus birthday as the 'aun'son of god' was born. And incorporating oregano festivals and celebrations would make it easier to convert them as many things would remain familiar, making them more accepting of the new religion.
Lol i hate Christmas as well. I never cared what I got as a kid, my parents were poor so i had no expectations. When I hear all the women in my office get all excited about it from October onwards I want to scream STFU!. They all spend an obscene amount of money on flashy presents for their brat kids, but will complain about the price of a tin of sweets. Ugh!
Your love for Victorian England is probably on par with my love for 1950s America. Scratch beneath the surface and there's a horrible underbelly that we're best off away from but there's a certain romance on a superficial level.
I really don’t understand why you stop yourself reacting during a reaction video. I’m sure you should be pausing and talking. Like, you know, reacting?
Yeah dude but the first two holidays you listed you can only really celebrate as an American. There is a whole world out there that needs to have something to look forward to too! Also, I do have to wonder what possibly possessed you to pause it to speak to us to say you're talking too much and need to stop! 🤣
Christmas is for everyone. Except miserable people. And non-Christians... My neighbours are jewish on one side and hindu on the other...they all get a Christmas card from me to remind them that the world doesn't revolve around them lol
Mate, you aint boring, other people are boring, it's funny you should say that minutes before going off on that past future present thought, & it is fucking utterly insane, especially if humanity doesn't drop the ball in the next decade or 2 & we make it to space faring, my good god, what a profound time they'll be living in, & it'll still just be as normal & mundane to them. Except for 1, key detail. They'll know the answer, or at least the next layer to the question of where Great Filters may lye, but they'll know a species can indeed make it to colonise a solar system. Don't you ever stop thinking these thoughts man, you do you. How crazy will it be when we've made it to our neighboring stars, those people, will have a completely different perspective on Galaxys & lifes place in them
It was more amusing watching you feel the need to move the Christmas tree 3 inches, than watching the reaction video its self...Worth every second. Don't change.
He's got a serious case of ADHD
Thanksgiving means nothing to anyone apart from Americans.
July 4th : Same
Halloween: No one else really gets it. Except for the Irish,because it is theirs.
Halloween aka All Hallows' Eve is a christian celebration not a Celtic one and thus an ancient celebration throughout christian dominated territory. Samhain however is a gaelic celebration with many resemblances with Halloween and the two have intertwined a lot.
Yes castrating boys was a thing , they were called castrato and it meant they could keep their voice as a soprano
Nowadays counter tenors have similar voices .❤
That wasn't what I was suggesting , language is tricky.
Least evil Catholic practice
The Church didn't castrate boys.
Young boys were recruited by the secular conservatoires - usually parents 'sold' them to these Italian music schools.
The Church actually condemned the practice - although the Vatican employed a small number of adult castration in its choirs.
Solstice = Sun stationary
Equinox = Equal night
Whilst these programmes are a comedy the wisdom in them is wonderful. The best writing Charlie Brooker has done, including Black Mirror
Weekly Wipe was funny af too 😂
"Jolly little kids sweeping chimneys" 😆
Tiny Tim both does and does not die, depending on which version of history you are in. He is Schroedinger's cripple.
.... "quantum of solstice"?
He died in the future vision, but is saved due to Scrooge’s change of heart and opening his wallet.
Connor the best version of A Christmas Carol is the 1951 film starring Alister Sim; I highly recommend it mate 👍
Not even gonna lie, watching this has become a Christmas tradition for me 😂
I like how in the intro Conner says it’s not interesting that he likes to watch stuff but we are all less interesting because we’re here to watch some one watch stuff 😂
Yes, Victorian times were hard, just read Dickens! 🤣
The British King and German Kaiser were cousins.
I agree about adult presents. It just ends up swapping money in reality. Love giving my grand kids presents though and seeing the joy on their faces.
And Czar Nicolas II. Quite a group of cousins.
@@matthewjamison yes, George and Nicky seemed to gang up on Willy.
@@tonybaker55 🤣🤣
The George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol was filmed in my hometown, Shrewsbury!
Mc J you're definitely not boring. When you pose a question but don't ask it - that's great because I don't have to fret, searching my brain for an answer. And you are very funny in a good way, pretending to be confused when you aren't. Also I have a theory that you fancy Philomena because she is a time traveller but you don't know what time she departs.
Love your 'interuptions', that's the point of reactors, loved the santa helmet! it really made me laugh, love you Connor.
5:00 Chris Packham - Presenter of nature programmes, particularly involved with programmes called Springwatch and Autumnwatch, which I think is what she means by saying his calendar revolves around two big annual events.
...on the BBC...
Vegetarian communist.
East Enders is a soap opera (a continuous drama with several episodes per week on television) which has been on our screens for decades. It is set in a fictional poorer part of London. Traditionally, tge plotline over the Christmas period dramatises some sort of awful trauma or disaster: fights, romantic breakups, Christmas festivities gone wrong, cliffhangers, tragic accidents, mental breakdowns, deaths - just what everyone wants to see over Christmas. Danny Dyer is (or was?) one of the actors playing a major role.
Alistair Sim as Scrooge, that's the classic!
You are not at all weird, I find receiving gifts incredibly awkward and stressful too; I especially loathe 'secret santa' in the workplace, and all forms of enforced jollity which cause my anxiety to go through the roof - that is the opposite of what Christmas is about! I am actually loving the Christmas ads from Marks & Spencer this year (retailer of clothes, homeware and food & drink); the message of the ads is to ditch all the things about Christmas that you hate and do Christmas YOUR way - a way that makes you happy, rather than bowing to social pressure and convention! Many people are furious about the ads, but I love them!
Football is just that, a game with a ball played mostly with feet, not catch, throw, pass ball like the American game.
It's interesting that you associate Christmas just with gift giving and receiving. I'm in the UK and because we don't do Thanksgiving, Christmas remains for me the sole occasion of the year when all the family gets together for a big meal and a celebration - and that's why I love Christmas, not because of gifts.
Connor, you need to watch the Alistair Sim Christmas Carol. That's the best one of all.
Agreed, and Conor should read the original novella, too, if he hasn't already. I've read it every Christmas Eve since I was a kid, and it's a tradition I always look forward to.
You named three celebrations that are USA only or close enough...
Isn't he allowed to?
I believe Halloween originally came from Ireland 🇮🇪 and was called Samhain so only two of those festivals are American 🇺🇸
@@robertpetre9378 Celebrating Hallowe'en as we know it was largely a 20th Century American invention, albeit occurring at the same time of year as various traditions, including Irish Samhain, English All-Saints' Day and the Welsh _Calan Gaeaf._
Yes he really should have included Guy Fawkes night, St Georges day and all those other holidays he's never heard of. Why an American would choose 4th of July is anyones guess.
Sorry! Meant to explain that... USA has "The Holidays" not Christmas. "Thanksgiving" is USA only as is the third one.
how do you come up with so many good ideas? I feel like you're one of the rare people that has a lot of fun with all your videos
You should react to the classic 1951 Alistair Sims Scrooge movie which is used in this video.
Scrooged! My favorite version of Christmas Carol
You need to watch the Blackadder Christmas carol.
Snip Snip as you put it was called Castrato and was done in Italy. It was considered an honour to be selected. Some early records on 78s still exist.
Interesting fact about those snowy Christmasses in England. It hardly ever snows at Christmas in England. However there was a short period when it snowed every Christmas year after year. It just so happened that period was when Dicken's was a little boy. And that is how he wrote about it. We are nostalgic for Dickens's childhood Christmases.
Actually, historically, it wasn't a short period. It lasted several centuries and is known as the "Little Ice Age" when it was so cold in winter in England that "frost fairs" were held on the thick ice which covered the River Thames in central London (described by Pepys in the late 1600s). You are right that this period came to an abrupt end during Dickens' childhood (c1815?) but the idea of habitual snow at Christmas had imprinted on his brain.
@@MrBulky992 You are right that it was generally much colder in winter from the 1500's to about 1880, but that didn't mean there was always snow on Christmas day, though it was more common. The specifics about Dickens was that 6 of his first 9 Christmasses were white.
Merry Christmas and a happy new Easter to you as well. Thank you.😂❤
I love the "Knight" before Christmas
I so agree with you regarding the giving and receiving of gifts on society’s demanded timeframe. I got rid of Xmas in my life years ago. Went up to Rovaniemi in Finland. A town on the arctic circle where Santa has his residence and business…. Went out and had photo taken and sent back to my children. Then I went into town and ate his reindeer for lunch. Next postcard to the kids explained that Santa now had a transportation problem and that was the end of giving presents of products that weren’t needed or even wanted. Doesn’t mean we don’t do a whole lot of gifting between ourselves BUT it is on OUR schedule. When I see something that i know the girls would love or something that I know they need, then I happily buy it…any day of the year. And they do the same. No pressure on anyone to buy anything. And think of the tons of rubbish turned into landfill we have avoided over the years.
I think the world needs to shake of the consumerism that seems to have drugged the world to the point of us becoming servants to the capitalists’ whims.
Thank for sharing Philomena Cunk. She is a brilliant performer isn’t she! I appreciate that you don’t get every bit of her humour. There are a lot of references to British tv shows and cultural norms.
Cheers from Oz 😎
New term: Equinoxface. When you try to say something insightfull, but catch yourself, realizing that you are stupid. But your mind, McJibbin, is as sharp as they get. Own the Equinoxface and carry on.
Great choice 😊
15:38 "Isn't it true they would [castrate] boys in the Middle Ages to sing falsetto?" - Yes, and it continued long after the Middle Ages; the last castrato, Alessandro Moreschi, was born in 1858 and lived till 1922. You can hear a recording of him singing Ave Maria here: ua-cam.com/video/KLjvfqnD0ws/v-deo.html
The voice was kept soprano, not falsetto - non-castrated men can do falsetto.
Can someone explain the bread sauce thing I can’t hear what she said
Chris Packham was a nature cameraman who went on to present nature programmes on the BBC, most notably Springwatch and Autumnwatch (hence he comes out twice year). He is a pro-nature ecological campaigner.
If you haven't already, watch 'Scrooge, A Christmas Carol' 1951 with Alister Sim. the original story with superb acting
Love the Buster the Boxer John Lewis Christmas ad. Happy thanksgiving 😂
Prawn cocktail with salmon is my favourite Xmas dinner starter lol
Diane Morgan is in Motherland and Mandy.
No you aren’t weird. I hate having the pressure to get just the right thing and it’s not about the money but people have shown so much thought and effort in the past to get me amazing presents, I have no imagination and feel I’m letting them down with what I get them.
Don't like it ? don't do it !
That is true that some boys were 'snipped' routinely, mainly in Italy. They were known as castrati, and many were famous opera singers. The practice carried on (just) long enough for some to make early gramophone records as adults.
Given that the punishment for adultery back then was being stoned to death (the bad kind of getting stoned), Mary DEFINITELY lied lol.
The practice of giving and receiving is an ancient tradition. It is the foundation of reciprocity and cohesion within a family, group or clan. Those who do not participate were seen as outsiders and a possible threat to societal cohesion. It is fair to say that objections to gift giving can be seen as a symptom of a hidden sociopathic tenancy with possible malignant traits with regards to the individuals relationship to the world around them.
Dates back to St Nicholas in what is Turkey today who would leave gifts of gold (money) for poor people that they generally found when they awoke and found he had secretly left it for them.
Connor loves Diane
Philomena thinks that Danny Dyer's acting is a bit wooden hence her 'part of the furniture' quip. She wouldn't be far wrong.
The story of the UK VS German troops playing football in WW1 always reminds me that there is hope for humanity
They did go back to killing each other afterward, though.
@@140cabins now my hope for humanity has gone, thanks haha
The snip snip you were referring to were the castrati. Boys castrated before pubity to keep their high voices. In Italy I think. Obviously not legal today.
You rearranging your room was hilarious to me. You are just the cutest❤😂😂😂😂
I don't celebrate Christmas, Easter, or Midsummer.
I do like the premieres of Crawfish and Fermented Herring though
We dont have Thanksgiving
You're thinking of Castrati
Try the BBC'S Grumpy guide to Christmas
I don't think you get all the irony and piss take she's doing 😊😂
Solo castrato singers were the superstars of the 1700s, with singers like Farinelli, Senesini and Caffarelli earning thousands of pounds a year; we're talking millions in today's money.
We have tell people from the States that around the world we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving
Yeah, do read the Vendic texts. They work as fiction, Hanuman the monkey is always entertaining 😊
Christmas is a great and meaningful holiday, not because of Jesus Christ, but that it was transplanted on to the Northern European festival of Yule (derived from Old English geohol) and the Scandinavian jol. Yuletide was a 12-day celebration (the 12 days of Christmas?) which took place over the Winter Solstice, a time of feasting, animal sacrifice and merrymaking, probably celebrating the rebirth of the sun from its lowest point in the sky (A Thanksgiving celebration if you like). As it was an old tradition, opportunistic Christians adopted it as Christmas, a celebration of Christ's birth (as they did the feast of 'Eostre' later in the year). It was also a time when it was believed that Wodin's (Odin's) Wild Hunt took place, his sleigh being pulled through the sky accompanied by elves (sound familiar?), sweeping up the dead.
The singers who were castrated to maintain a high voice were called castratos. It may sound weird but they were actually very popular with women, one of the odd side effects of castration is that the penis actually grows quite large. They were also very tall, so there voice wasn't like a child soprano, because of the bigger frame it came from.
The last of the castrati was Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1924 and made gramophone recordings that provide the only direct evidence of a castrato's singing voice.
I'm not a Brit, but I know Danny Dyer from the 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown compilations. He's been in some of these shows, and he's kinda hot (reminds me of a school bully I used to have). Didn't know he's an actor and that he was on Eastenders, but I never watched that soap. That's all I know about him without googling. xD
Well, I watched a man drinking from a flower vase today. That was... Something.
Some of us are already seen as being part if history. Imagine being alive last century, before they had all those modern inventions. Fitbits were only seen in sci-fi like Battle Of The Planets. G-Force!
They had what are essentially Bluetooth headsets in Star Trek in the 1960s.
Christmas does suck. I buy my kids everything they want all year, now I have to do an extreme version of that for one day? And I gotta wrap the shit? It was great when they were still in the Santa Clause years, now it's just a hassle.
You should watch the 'John Lewis' Christmas adverts, 'Buster the Boxer' is one of them and they are a highlight of the season and brilliant!!
Lol kids in the chimneys, that took a twist bro 😅
I used to love those stories.
I have no beliefs,'no brains?
Koran?!!!!!😮😮
I hate to be rude but is this man for real?
Have to watch Australian atheist Tim Minchin's Christmas song -White wine in the sun". 👍👍
5:40 pagans not only celebrated solstices, it was the two equinoxes. It helped in farming. You plant in spring equinox and harvest at autumnal equinox (harvest festival) Christianity hijacked the pagan religion as it was a natural way of living.
This is why Christmas is a feast as nothing (food wise) grows and the original Yuletide was from November to February ( Michaelmas to candlemas) basically eating the harvest until spring.
Halloween ( All Hallows' eve) is a pagan celebration of the lives, normally family members, churches now call it all saints day. In 2004, I went to church to celebrate my dad's life after he died in the April.
During the solstices, the sun ( son) rests for three days before moving.
I could go on, but I'll get the religious nuts freaking out 🤣🤣
Also at the winter solstice the sun remains stationary for 3 days but it also either rises/or sets on the southern cross on the 1st day. It sets to its lowest point on the 21st Dec and then on 25th it rises by 1 degree, so is born/reborn on 25th Dec. So the 'son' dies on the cross and after 3 days rises from its death. Basically the story of Jesus.
You should look uo the documentary movie called 'Zeitgeist' and give it a wee watch. Its in 3 parts for the 1st documentary. Part 1 is about the greatest lie ever told to man 'religion' and points out all the similarities between Christianity and the ancient Egyptian religion amongst other ancient religions where many Christian stories seem to derive from. It's an amazing documentary actually and well worth a watch. For a long time it was my absolute favorite documentary film. You should defo look it up n have a watch. 😉
Zeitgeist
Shhhh!!! It was me bro.
But don't tell anyone,
2000 tears worth of child support will send me broke.
You don't like Christmas but you have a nicely dressed tree and a christmas hat. You brought these knowing you don't like christmas....just saying.
Watch blackadders Christmas carol!!
Connor you crack me up! 'I get tingly all over, not in a sexual way' 😅
No... 4th centaury - Yes 4TH centaury - not 14th. Yes European history does go back much further than you think!
FFS there is a plaque on the wall of my local church with every vicar is listed from 988 (only three missing during the middle ages when records were lost) - and the reason why the parish records don't list any earlier? - The first part of the church (still standing) was built between 968 and 988 - Oh and the church in the next village has a font boult on an old pagan sacrificial stone believed to be about 3000 years old - just the Christians "muscling in" - 14th centaury is recent in Europe! 🤣😂
Technically, St Nicholas is part of Asian history. He was Bishop of Myra in Asia Minor (now part of Turkey).
Yeah, Thanksgiving is so much better
You can already get VR porn... so I've heard xD
Yes, it is true that there were "castrati", who were castrated so they could continue to sing like a schoolboy, in the mediæval era.
The last castrati died in 1924. There's actually gramophone recordings of him singing, Ave Maria, I think it is. They're the only evidence we have recorded of what they'd have sounded like. I think the recording is available here on UA-cam. I can't quite remember his name but it's easily googled to find out if you're interested. 😉
The whole Virgin Mary story, basicly a lie to save face, that got out of hand, big time😂
The virgin birth story actually originated in Egypt in regard to Isis. Many other Christian stories can be traced back to the Egyptian faith too actually.
Thanksgiving,,,,for what exactly
You know who bought us the fat, jolly, laughing man look in the late 1800s? Coca-Cola!
Tiny Tim had it easy compared to The little Match Girl. They missed the chance to call male chickens " Dickens".
You wouldn't want to watch The Easterners or Emmerdale Farm, Coronation Street or any of that to be honest with you, Conner - they're tv soaps with bad writing and bad acting.
Not true.
Although that might be true, millions of people in the UK watch them for many years now. At least they tell something about the UK.
Trash soap operas have almost disappeared from US television but are still made in the UK and still attract millions of viewers, yet we smugly assume that British TV is somehow of a higher quality than US TV. It's laughable.
Coronation Street is actually OK.
Eastenders is just always totally grim and depressing. Coronation street has some hard hitting story lines etc and has moments of being grim too but it also has the odd lighthearted moment and joke woven into it too and is more relatable in many ways to Eastenders. Seems every year someone dies or is killed on Christmas day episode of Eastenders. And don't get ne started on Hollyoaks, ffs, every time I have the misfortune of turning that soap on someone is being killed and there's a murderer on the loose. I think at this point aboit 100 ppl have been killed in Hollyoaks in the last 10/15yrs lmao
Motherland is well worth a look.
Castration I think the Bee Gees were the last ones to have it done😅
Joking apart it was made illegal in the 1860s.
Actually the last of the castrati sang in the Sistine Chapel until 1903... Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1924 and made gramophone recordings that provide the only direct evidence of a castrato's singing voice.
@@stewedfishproductions7959 interesting. I had a feeling it would still be going on, thats why I said legally.
I just love Christmas so please don’t spoil it for me Philomena 🇬🇧
"Christmas isn't in the Bible?!" Are you all right??? 😂😂😂
The birth of Christ is in the bible but there's bo reference to Christmas as a celebration that was ever held. That didn't happen until a long time after Jesus supposedly died. And there's no mention of when he was supposedly born. The fact there were sheppards watching flocks of sheep and lambs would suggest it wasn't on 25th Dec. That fate was chosen by the church hundreds of years later amd was chosen bcos paegams celebrated on that date
The pagans celebrated 25th Dec as om 21st Dec (solstice) the sun stopped moving south in the sky/horizon and on the 25th Dec it rose by 1 degree in the sky, so was reborn and foreshadowed the longer days ahead. Christians then chose that day as Jesus birthday as the 'aun'son of god' was born. And incorporating oregano festivals and celebrations would make it easier to convert them as many things would remain familiar, making them more accepting of the new religion.
Lol i hate Christmas as well. I never cared what I got as a kid, my parents were poor so i had no expectations. When I hear all the women in my office get all excited about it from October onwards I want to scream STFU!. They all spend an obscene amount of money on flashy presents for their brat kids, but will complain about the price of a tin of sweets. Ugh!
What's your spelling of choice out of Medieval, Mediaeval or Mediæval?
I like Mediæval best, then Mediaeval. I don't give Medieval a second thought.
Your love for Victorian England is probably on par with my love for 1950s America. Scratch beneath the surface and there's a horrible underbelly that we're best off away from but there's a certain romance on a superficial level.
I really don’t understand why you stop yourself reacting during a reaction video. I’m sure you should be pausing and talking. Like, you know, reacting?
The word "Christmas" itself can not be found in the Bible. Of course, the events why Christmas is celebrated, are very much in the Bible.
Yeah dude but the first two holidays you listed you can only really celebrate as an American. There is a whole world out there that needs to have something to look forward to too!
Also, I do have to wonder what possibly possessed you to pause it to speak to us to say you're talking too much and need to stop! 🤣
dude, you really ought to think before opening your mouth - you'd be able to articulate a question then
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but don’t shut up. If you aren’t going to comment, I might as well just watch the video myself.
only usa has thanks giving, rest of world doesnt ,so we have xmas
McGrinch.
Is this presenter alright?
Christmas is for everyone. Except miserable people. And non-Christians...
My neighbours are jewish on one side and hindu on the other...they all get a Christmas card from me to remind them that the world doesn't revolve around them lol
Mate, you aint boring, other people are boring, it's funny you should say that minutes before going off on that past future present thought, & it is fucking utterly insane, especially if humanity doesn't drop the ball in the next decade or 2 & we make it to space faring, my good god, what a profound time they'll be living in, & it'll still just be as normal & mundane to them.
Except for 1, key detail.
They'll know the answer, or at least the next layer to the question of where Great Filters may lye, but they'll know a species can indeed make it to colonise a solar system.
Don't you ever stop thinking these thoughts man, you do you.
How crazy will it be when we've made it to our neighboring stars, those people, will have a completely different perspective on Galaxys & lifes place in them
Danny Dyers is a terrible actor, thats it haha