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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😎
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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
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.
15:52.. eunuchs have existed for a long time. The first "explanation" for this was slavery (so they didn't reproduce... how far back, we don't know but at least 2000 years... the male servants in the forbiden city of the chinese emperor for some date way back to etc etc). You are refering to the "castrato" voice. Yes, young boys sometimes when singing really good where castrated so theyr voice would not change during puberty. And it isn't as an old practice as you wight think.
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.
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.
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
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!
27:46... 🤣😂 getting all tingly with the jolly kids on the cobblestones are you 😂 ? ... "but not in a sexual way", ok, I think we got it, needed you to clarify this deosn't help you but ok. The cosy victorian times with the scruge and the snow (oliver twist is not happy)
02:27. Ok, Sheldon, you just brought up "thanksgiving" (so who did share what whim whom ?), the pilgrims where the good guys by providing turkey to the native or whas it the other way around (turkey didn't exist in europe) ? And do you celebrate Columbus day for Columbus never discovering America (islands yes, not america but strangely maybe someone called Americo) ? Fourths of jully, ok, of course, normal, every country has its own national celebration day. Halloween... I hate it. It tried to pop up like 15-20 years ago or so in the region I live in europe (Luxembourg) but almost completely died now (you have the occasinal parties but not much more than that). Christmas (Xmass hehe) is still quite popular with the crhistmas markets etc but of course not as big when you are an adult of course
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.
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 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.
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.
One thing I don't like about american hollidays/"culture" is that those hollidays ruin all the good american show (no actually all of them). Being South Park, Friends, The Simpsons, Big bang theory (I could go on forerer)... when they have a "holliday special", it is most of the time horrible and sometimes "not as bad as expected but still not on par with evry 5364 regular episodes". The wort ones being the Simpsons halloween specials and all of those having some "musical comedy" special.
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
"Jolly little kids sweeping chimneys" 😆
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.
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.
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.
Connor the best version of A Christmas Carol is the 1951 film starring Alister Sim; I highly recommend it mate 👍
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 😂
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.
Not even gonna lie, watching this has become a Christmas tradition for me 😂
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.
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 🤣🤣
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!
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.
The George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol was filmed in my hometown, Shrewsbury!
Sorry! Meant to explain that... USA has "The Holidays" not Christmas. "Thanksgiving" is USA only as is the third one.
Love your 'interuptions', that's the point of reactors, loved the santa helmet! it really made me laugh, love you Connor.
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.
Solstice = Sun stationary
Equinox = Equal night
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.
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.
The Spring and autumn ones are the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox - when day and night are equally long. When the sun crosses the equator.
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 😎
I love the "Knight" before Christmas
you, surreptitiously putting your helmet on, was comedy gold.
Can someone explain the bread sauce thing I can’t hear what she said
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
Conner you are the only American doing these type of videos gets it and understands the UK humour.
Football is just that, a game with a ball played mostly with feet, not catch, throw, pass ball like the American game.
You need to watch the Blackadder Christmas carol.
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
Merry Christmas and a happy new Easter to you as well. Thank you.😂❤
You should react to the classic 1951 Alistair Sims Scrooge movie which is used in this video.
Prawn cocktail with salmon is my favourite Xmas dinner starter lol
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.
Well, I watched a man drinking from a flower vase today. That was... Something.
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
Love the Buster the Boxer John Lewis Christmas ad. Happy thanksgiving 😂
Scrooged! My favorite version of Christmas Carol
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.
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 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.
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.
I don't think you get all the irony and piss take she's doing 😊😂
You rearranging your room was hilarious to me. You are just the cutest❤😂😂😂😂
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.
Great choice 😊
If you haven't already, watch 'Scrooge, A Christmas Carol' 1951 with Alister Sim. the original story with superb acting
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!!
I don't celebrate Christmas, Easter, or Midsummer.
I do like the premieres of Crawfish and Fermented Herring though
Philomena thinks that Danny Dyer's acting is a bit wooden hence her 'part of the furniture' quip. She wouldn't be far wrong.
So sweet
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.
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.
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
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.
Don't like it ? don't do it !
Yeah, do read the Vendic texts. They work as fiction, Hanuman the monkey is always entertaining 😊
If you love the presenter, please watch Motherland!!!! It’s comedy gold
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?
Connor you crack me up! 'I get tingly all over, not in a sexual way' 😅
15:52.. eunuchs have existed for a long time. The first "explanation" for this was slavery (so they didn't reproduce... how far back, we don't know but at least 2000 years... the male servants in the forbiden city of the chinese emperor for some date way back to etc etc).
You are refering to the "castrato" voice. Yes, young boys sometimes when singing really good where castrated so theyr voice would not change during puberty. And it isn't as an old practice as you wight think.
We have tell people from the States that around the world we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving
Given that the punishment for adultery back then was being stoned to death (the bad kind of getting stoned), Mary DEFINITELY lied lol.
You're thinking of Castrati
Diane Morgan is in Motherland and Mandy.
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.
Connor loves Diane
Try the BBC'S Grumpy guide to Christmas
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.
Tiny Tim had it easy compared to The little Match Girl. They missed the chance to call male chickens " Dickens".
You can already get VR porn... so I've heard xD
Have to watch Australian atheist Tim Minchin's Christmas song -White wine in the sun". 👍👍
We dont have Thanksgiving
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.
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
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!
27:46... 🤣😂 getting all tingly with the jolly kids on the cobblestones are you 😂 ? ... "but not in a sexual way", ok, I think we got it, needed you to clarify this deosn't help you but ok.
The cosy victorian times with the scruge and the snow (oliver twist is not happy)
02:27. Ok, Sheldon, you just brought up "thanksgiving" (so who did share what whim whom ?), the pilgrims where the good guys by providing turkey to the native or whas it the other way around (turkey didn't exist in europe) ?
And do you celebrate Columbus day for Columbus never discovering America (islands yes, not america but strangely maybe someone called Americo) ?
Fourths of jully, ok, of course, normal, every country has its own national celebration day.
Halloween... I hate it. It tried to pop up like 15-20 years ago or so in the region I live in europe (Luxembourg) but almost completely died now (you have the occasinal parties but not much more than that).
Christmas (Xmass hehe) is still quite popular with the crhistmas markets etc but of course not as big when you are an adult of course
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.
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).
Shhhh!!! It was me bro.
But don't tell anyone,
2000 tears worth of child support will send me broke.
You know who bought us the fat, jolly, laughing man look in the late 1800s? Coca-Cola!
Watch blackadders Christmas carol!!
Yeah, Thanksgiving is so much better
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. 😉
"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.
The thing about Jesus is you hear about his birth and then nothing untill he is about 30 strange.
Thanksgiving,,,,for what exactly
I just love Christmas so please don’t spoil it for me Philomena 🇬🇧
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.
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.
Yes Bhagavad Gita, although the Avdhoot Gira is a much better read.
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.
One thing I don't like about american hollidays/"culture" is that those hollidays ruin all the good american show (no actually all of them). Being South Park, Friends, The Simpsons, Big bang theory (I could go on forerer)... when they have a "holliday special", it is most of the time horrible and sometimes "not as bad as expected but still not on par with evry 5364 regular episodes". The wort ones being the Simpsons halloween specials and all of those having some "musical comedy" special.