American Reacts The Secrets of Oxford’s Streets | And What Lies Beneath the University
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2023
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Sorry about the Audio guys! I chose the wrong microphone and so the sound is off! I hope it's still watchable
Yo man, there is a New trailer of Napoléon,Go react, thanks 👍
Very profound comment Connor, about neglected gravestones and being forgotten ❤️
Oxford is lovely. I'm a little sad that she didn't visit that fantastic cake shop. I got a donut there that was the size of my head (it was nearly 20 years ago, so still counts as history).
You still on the donuts 🍩?
@@retrowatches1655 not so much any more, but I think my son inherited those genes. We were in York yesterday and he talked me into buying him a £4 donut. Half of it was gone before we left the shop.
Before motorised transport and Amazon prime, buildings were made with stone from the nearest quarry. Whatever coloured stone the quarry had was what the colour of all your buildings would be. Places like Oxford just happened to have nice looking stone nearby. The Cotswolds further over to the West of England lucked out with honey coloured limestone-hence most of the areas towns and villages are stunning.
What you say about things fitting together is interesting. The first time I visited Venice the thing that struck me - apart from its incredible beauty - was that it looked like a work of art, as if it had been conceived by a single mind. Amazingly harmonious.
Stinking and sinking still is it ?
I do love my hometown. Glad to have learned a couple of things from this video. Hope you’re doing well Connor
Hey Connor, you admire people who know stuff aboutpost boxes. We Brits have people who fascinate over manhole covers. We have a pencil museum, a lawnmower museum, in fact if you can associate it as a piece of social history we'll study it. You name it
Turn it the other way round. When you die all those that knew and loved you carry the memory of you and all that you were with them until they die too. If, like me, you tell the next generation those stories about loved ones, the memory of their lives carry on. We have started checking out our ancestry. We have found amazing stories about people from our family who lived long ago. Now they live again, because we tell their stories too ... and so it goes on. You never know Connor. You could live for ever - and not need any funny positions!!!
Nice One Connor, but she missed one of my favourite "Blue Plaque"s which is to Jane Burden (later Mrs William Morris and also lover of Dante Gabriel Rossetti) who can be seen in many of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings. I was woefully ignorant of many things when I went to Oxford and only found out about the Pre-Raphaelite's because I noticed the plaque on teh wall of St Helen's Passage on my way down to The Turf (a rather fine Public House).
Funny you know, I think of a certain thing when I hear the year 1879 mentioned, always comes to mind. Battle of Rorke's drift.
Connor, you should do a video on the history of lawns - it seems to be a bit of an obsession with you!
As soon as I see I nicely trimmed and lush lawn, I immediately think "Connor would be wetting himself with excitement at this lawn"
Nice video, audio seemed fine to me.
I hope you're doing fine, keep up the work. Stairway to heaven 🙂
There is a story that went the rounds some years ago. It concerns a group of tourists being taken around a stately home.
(This was a reaction to the imposition of death duties in the 19th century or thereabouts. Many ancient families had to sell their homes to pay these duties. Others had the bright idea of opening them up to paying visitors.)
Anyway, this one lord was the tour guide on this occasion. At some point of their exploration of the property, an american chap asked the lord:
"How do you get your lawns so green and smooth?"
The lord replied:
"O, that is easy. You just prepare the ground, sow the seed and mow it for 400 years."
Possibly apocryphal.
Hi Connor, nice to see my home city has grabbed your attention. Your reaction to some of the things pointed out is priceless. Never stop enjoying the informative videos you bring us. Hope you enjoyed this potted overview. The drainpipes on those historic buildings would have emptied onto dirt roads. What is often regarded as Oxford's cathedral is actually the chapel of Christchurch college. Strangely enough when he finally decided that the shark had served the purpose he intended and wanted to remove it the council said no as it was such a landmark.
Oxford is a beautiful city. I worked there for years and never got tired of it.
The guttering is there to stit dripping water down on to people as well
Ya know Connor is going to have the nicest lawn in the neighborhood
Hey Connor I have watched a few of your videos before and I just subbed. So the bit about the shark in Oxford, when I was a student there a few years ago I lived in the street next to the shark. So my brother is married to an Australian and her parents came over to the UK, they wanted to visit Oxford and I was a student there and lived in a shared student house in a street called Lime Walk. Anyway they come to pick me up to show them around Oxford and they say to me "We read in the paper in Australia about this guy who put a shark in the roof of his house, do you know where that is. I turn round and point at the shark which is in the roof of a house in the next street about 100 yards away. The crazy thing was that that house at the time was also a shared student house and I knew a couple of the guys that lived there. A fact I failed to mention to my visitors.
The city of dreaming spires...
There has been 3 drama murder stories set in Oxford all of them the same length as a movie. Many episodes to each. The series are called Morse, Lewis endeavour. Worth looking out if you like drama
She did not make it clear that the Radcliffe Camera has become part of the nearby Bodleian Library, and the bookshelves underground actually belong to the whole Library.
Beaumont is part of my ancestry. Where my last name originated from
Excellent. " ..... and what lies beneath the university ". Bloody great English accent on that part. You sounded like a male version of me. 👍✌
You should read Grey's 'Elegy' which says it all 'the paths of glory lead but to the grave' etc.
You need to start reacting to Time Team episodes
The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important for their immortality the people still knew their name. This is why you see Pharaohs names carved into everything and disliked ones were chiseled out, statues destroyed and tombs robbed (it wasn't all grave robbers).
After the death of the author of The Discworld Books, Sir Terry Pratchett a modern version of this occured a hashtag saying "Speak His Name" was created and is still in use.
The Alfred Jewel is an ornate gold, enamel, and quartz item made in the 9th century AD for King Alfred. It's thought to have been mounted on the end of a sceptre of similar rod, but no-one's 100% sure what it was for. And yes, John Locke was a major philosopher whose political theories were an influence on the US Declaration of Independence.
turn the TV off before you start
The buildings are made of stone, not concrete.
The Cambridge / Oxford faux-pas was funny. John Locke’s work is his ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’.
Hey where do you live bro?
Just park opposite the shark mate
I heard there are three deaths. Your physical actual death, the last person who knew you and then the last time your name or memory is mentioned.
Conner, we have drains in Britain. Even for very old buildings.
Oh dear. For a video set in Oxford, it is unfortunate in relation to the post box that she used the phrase ‘quite unique’ - something is either unique or it is not.
My friend I've been to heaven twice,22yrs and 28yrs old,never worry about where you are buried or ashes spread
Graham …I Agree …I had a NDE in my 20s and realised I would not care less what happens to this body of mine once I leave it ..
The Alfred Jewel is the top of a pointer used for pointing yo parts of a Bible. Alfred the Great had them made and distributed to churches. I believe that is the only one that survives. It's beautiful.
Officially rated as the world's top university. Harvard is doing well at number two.
I've always thought that you only live for ever is only whilst someone remembers you.
Death masks were made from wax or plaster.
Do *ANY* Americans know what the English flag looks like? Hint: it's not that blood soaked monstrosity.
'Utilitarianism'
Hey, new Napoleon Trailler Connor !
Look at a video of Cambridge, please. You'd LOVE it. I mean that Oxford is pretty but Cambridge defines beauty.
(At which point your correspondent puts on his tin hat and crouches down...).
He'd love the Backs and all the sprawling lawn. Plus the Cam > Cherwell/Thames. Cambridge is a mini British Venice. I am biased but I don't understand how people find Oxford prettier. Sure, it has the Radcliffe Camera, Christ Church and (in my opinion the prettiest Oxford college) All Souls, but Cambridge definitely takes the cake. The funny thing is, my college is modern, in the suburbs and pretty ugly - but central Cambridge > central Oxford.
@@francisedward8713 It has been said that Cambridge is a city with a university in it and Oxford is a university with a city around it. Take your pick. As an Oxford graduate, I can definitely see that Oxford is very pretty indeed. As to which is 'best' I don't really know enough about Cambridge to comment. But I do think it's not a like-for-like comparison.
. . . and the third time you die is years later when Facebook closes your account lollllllll
"He's that guy. Who wrote that thing."
What would the world do without your insights?
You cover a whole load of very interesting subjects, which is why I subscribe.
But sometimes your brain to mouth circuitry just annoys me so much.
(I read mathematics at Oxford BTW. Walking past dinosaur skeletons to get to the lecture hall just becomes normal after a while. It's just that kind of place. I didn't know some things in this video; but I do know that so much is left out.)
There is no such thing as a university campus in Oxford.
Please react to Cambridge! I am biased as a Cambridge student, but it is even prettier than Oxford. You can't beat the Backs.
Cambridge is terrible. Its centre sprawls all over the place, and the railway station, in consequence, is one hell of a walk away. Christ Church Meadow knocks the Backs into a cocked hat.
I would now change your videos to American reacts to England
You die 3 times, death, funeral, when the person is not being talked about anymore ...
I live in Oxford and it is a s**t hole!