Why Don't People Duel Anymore (Short Animated Documentary)

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    Why did people stop duelling? Because shooting people for being rude to you became to be seen as impolite.
    Sources:
    The Code of Honour and Its Critics: The Opposition to Duelling in England, 1700-1850 by Donna T. Andrew
    Courts of Honour in the Late Imperial Russian Army by Paul Robinson
    The Double Guilt of Dueling: The Stain of Suicide in Anti-Dueling Rhetoric in the Early Republic by Richard Bell

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  • @MK-je7kz
    @MK-je7kz 4 роки тому +11359

    - The choice is yours, sir: Sword or pistol?
    - Sword. The weapon of a gentleman
    - As you wish. That leaves the pistol for the other gentleman

  • @hiyukelavie2396
    @hiyukelavie2396 4 роки тому +5326

    Challenger: "Pick your weapon! Swords or pistols"
    Challengee: "Lawyers"

    • @bobmcbob49
      @bobmcbob49 4 роки тому +374

      _lawyers proceed to duel eachother_
      "much more civilized"

    • @geoplane3799
      @geoplane3799 4 роки тому +77

      @DeathcoldanImagine if lawyers actually did that

    • @mr.awesome7361
      @mr.awesome7361 4 роки тому +15

      Nani?! Sutando?!

    • @sulthanstfn
      @sulthanstfn 4 роки тому +56

      And I thought Ace Attorney couldn't become more realistic

    • @geoplane3799
      @geoplane3799 4 роки тому +40

      @@sulthanstfn Imagine Wright dueling Edgeworth

  • @aarondaines6067
    @aarondaines6067 2 роки тому +3620

    The last duel in Canada took place between two gentlemen fighting over a lady, where one man fainted, the other apologized, and it was later discovered neither gun had been loaded.
    Canada.

    • @mtfnoelle
      @mtfnoelle Рік тому +426

      average Canadian duel:

    • @MTcfua
      @MTcfua Рік тому +571

      Most violent duel to happen in Canada:

    • @randallmokjialung3592
      @randallmokjialung3592 Рік тому +324

      the most savage Canadian barbarians

    • @cooperthehunter3781
      @cooperthehunter3781 Рік тому +82

      Sorry incorrect duels are still happen it's to see who can drink the most maple syrup most duelers die of diabetes eh? I'm real sorry bud

    • @challacustica9049
      @challacustica9049 Рік тому +51

      This is extremely Canadian

  • @CaptainSweatpants90
    @CaptainSweatpants90 Рік тому +889

    Watching this with subtitles is a whole other experience. I didn't learn a whole lot about duelling, but I am now an expert on jeweling, jailing and Zhu Ling.

    • @lalolanda3996
      @lalolanda3996 Рік тому +161

      "the jews slowly became out of fashion" i laughted my ass off

    • @manunavoni7666
      @manunavoni7666 Рік тому +12

      I couldn't focus on the video at all because I kept laughing 😂

    • @HK-pq7pe
      @HK-pq7pe Рік тому +13

      And julian

    • @rayvega3163
      @rayvega3163 Рік тому +56

      "Jewing"
      "there was concerns in the church that many people using Jews as a means to legally commit suicide"
      "drooling etiquettes were written in the 1830s"
      "Julian had always been subject to some mockery"
      "jeweling in the military died out in Britain when widows pensions were withheld from men killed in Jews"
      I'm wheezing

    • @Palimbacchius
      @Palimbacchius Рік тому +6

      @@rayvega3163 drooling etiquette is very delicate

  • @CommunistFBI
    @CommunistFBI 3 роки тому +13095

    "People are so over dramatic these days, I wish we could go back to simpler times"
    The simpler times:

    • @accountname9506
      @accountname9506 3 роки тому +462

      Eh. A lot of duels just ending with both parties firing into the air.

    • @nyanrapier7838
      @nyanrapier7838 3 роки тому +621

      Can't be dramatic if you're dead.

    • @KrolKaz
      @KrolKaz 3 роки тому +455

      It was simpler as men followed codes of honor. Not like today where you could be walking down the street and your enemy shoots you from a car, or run up in your home and kill you there.

    • @billisultan6224
      @billisultan6224 3 роки тому +209

      @@KrolKaz Or we have to tolerate shit-talk in name of 'civilization'.

    • @GeneralRG
      @GeneralRG 3 роки тому +54

      @@billisultan6224
      That kind of Culture that killing you in your Car or Home, is very immoral.

  • @wotntarnation3012
    @wotntarnation3012 4 роки тому +19929

    I feel like the fact that pistols actually became accurate vs missing 90% of the time also became a factor

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 4 роки тому +3219

      The point of a duel was to prove that you were willing to risk your life to back up your words.
      It was not about winning. It wasn't even about being right. It was to prove one's honour and integrity.

    • @langhamp8912
      @langhamp8912 4 роки тому +1896

      @@davidwuhrer6704 Dueling with smoothbore pistols at 20 paces is brave, but with rifled pistols it's extremely dangerous for both men. Something like 50 Missouri State representatives were killed after 1800 to about 1840, just from duels, mostly from rifled pistols, with both parties getting shot.

    • @zollen123
      @zollen123 4 роки тому +534

      @@davidwuhrer6704 honour and integrity are more important than reasoning and right?

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 4 роки тому +726

      @@zollen123 It can certainly be interpreted that way. During the culture clash, many otherwise honourable young men refused to have honour for this reason.
      But it actually just meant that your integrity was far more important than your life.
      Though it does not necessarily mean that you couldn't admit when you're wrong. As I said: It was not about winning. It was to prove that you are a man of his word.
      The idea was that no gentleman would say anything lightly or carelessly; insulting someone by word or action carried the risk to lose one's life or - worse - one's honour (and with it one's rights and privileges, which also affected one's family).
      The biggest insult was to be refused satisfaction, because that meant you were seen as not worth standing up to; as beneath the challenged one's honour and standing.
      So even if you were wrong, and ready to admit it, you still had to be willing to put your life on the line first, or your admission would have been meaningless.

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 4 роки тому +283

      @@langhamp8912 There seems to be a huge overlap between bravery and being suicidal.

  • @JoseFlores-xh5cj
    @JoseFlores-xh5cj 2 роки тому +716

    "Why people don't duel anymore?"
    Because the game became a pay-to-win where everyone used the same tier 1 decks.

    • @nonamelegend_vapor
      @nonamelegend_vapor 2 роки тому +1

      I took up Yugioh around the time Pharaoh’s Servant came out and I feel like it’s always been that way for the most part

    • @paulanderson8814
      @paulanderson8814 2 роки тому +21

      But what does pot of greed do

  • @SilverAssassin210
    @SilverAssassin210 Рік тому +1264

    1:23 This is a really cool easter egg. The guy in royal clothes is the German Chancellor Bismark. The other guy is a scientist called Rudolf Virchow.
    Virchow was very critical of Bismark and one day the chancellor had enough and challenged him to a duel. Since the rule is that the challenged party chooses the weapons, Virchow chose two sausages, one of which was infected with a deadly bacteria and the other was perfectly fine. He told the chancellor to eat one and he would have the other. Bismark immediately withdrew the challenge.
    Don't mess with a scientist, yo.

    • @abraxasee8946
      @abraxasee8946 Рік тому +71

      Wow, thats very cool.

    • @M1551NGN0
      @M1551NGN0 Рік тому +41

      Amazing! Kudos to you for noticing it!

    • @ronin3381
      @ronin3381 Рік тому +121

      The most German way to duel imaginable

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist Рік тому +13

      Mega mind.

    • @matthiasmoser6096
      @matthiasmoser6096 Рік тому +65

      Fun fact: Bismarck was famous for duelling. He claimed that he never lost a sword fight except for this one time where is saber broke into two pieces.

  • @aaronsmith6632
    @aaronsmith6632 4 роки тому +16964

    Nowadays, people bravely fight for their honor on Twitter.

    • @casperg7700
      @casperg7700 3 роки тому +827

      Aaron Smith and bravely reveal all of your personal information if you made a joke in 2011

    • @nunyabusiness4904
      @nunyabusiness4904 3 роки тому +283

      As of July 2020 in the U.S. that may be even more dangerous.

    • @MMFan2004
      @MMFan2004 3 роки тому +69

      @The Pinkerton National Detective Agency 2009 is better year than this current year though.

    • @brakogar
      @brakogar 3 роки тому +163

      We probably need dueling back. Imagine all the morons that would just kill each other reducing the population of them (which would be A LOT). We would be enter a golden age.

    • @NateTheOhioan
      @NateTheOhioan 3 роки тому +21

      Or on UA-cam
      Trump 2020!

  • @maximilienrobespierre7927
    @maximilienrobespierre7927 3 роки тому +4051

    Imagine being insulted by someone, retaliate by challenging them to a duel, only to lose the duel.

    • @unevilGenius
      @unevilGenius 3 роки тому +305

      Imagine being so bad at handling insults that you challenge to a duel...
      Btw has Günsche found you yet?

    • @sipos0
      @sipos0 3 роки тому +152

      It would suck, but not for long, assuming your wound was fatal.

    • @magpineapple
      @magpineapple 3 роки тому +53

      @@sipos0 unless you chose swords

    • @dbk8245
      @dbk8245 3 роки тому +7

      OOF

    • @doctordeath2551
      @doctordeath2551 3 роки тому +48

      Unless you choose fists

  • @gujwdhufjijjpo9740
    @gujwdhufjijjpo9740 2 роки тому +260

    I’m my moms hometown in Kansas, there was a duel back in the 80s. One guy died and the other was never arrested. Sheriff didn’t want to deal with it, perhaps due to laziness, safety reasons, and lack of evidence. Probably a combination of all 3.
    Basically 2 men, who had been fighting for decades, finally agreed to meet in the desert, alone. Each was to bring a firearm of their choice, I assume handguns but I’m blurry on the details.
    One man came back, the other wasn’t seen again. There were no witnesses of the actual fight, but many people witnessed the challenge.
    It’s actually an urban legend there now and all the parents say it’s true. My mother would’ve been in Highschool when it happened.

    • @Delightfully_Bitchy
      @Delightfully_Bitchy Рік тому +11

      It sounds like a pretty plausible story, frankly. You'd be surprised how often cops don't investigate a death/murder, especially as recent as the 90's. (When the internet wasn't much of a thing.)

  • @isaac_aren
    @isaac_aren 2 роки тому +153

    An important note is that with sword duels, it was often to first blood rather than to the death, making it my far the safest option of weapon

    • @louisliu5638
      @louisliu5638 Рік тому +15

      except in Japan, where (not commonly known) a samurai sword fight often ended up with BOTH very very dead.

    • @goranpersson7726
      @goranpersson7726 Рік тому +2

      up until guns became hella accurate even over longer distances those were quite safe (well not safe cuz dangerous shit but surprisingly safe) because ye, they happened quite often at distances where both parties just ended up missing each other

    • @TigerofRobare
      @TigerofRobare 10 місяців тому +10

      Actually, pistols were generally seen as safer, because people would often fire to deliberately miss (Alexander Hamilton did so in his dfuel with Burr, expecting Burr to do the same) whereas dueling with swords to first blood carried the risk of infection. There was allegedly a duel in Austria between two aristocratic women where they fought topless to prevent a sword thrust from drving a piece of cloth into any wounds, which was considered more likely to lead to infection.

    • @Rutherford_Inchworm_III
      @Rutherford_Inchworm_III 6 місяців тому +1

      Depends on how much the other guy hates you. He could easily run the sword through your guts instead of swinging it to cut.

    • @isaac_aren
      @isaac_aren 6 місяців тому +7

      @@Rutherford_Inchworm_III He would then bring even more shame upon himself and would likely be arrested. Duels weren't matterd of rage, they were matters of pride and reputation

  • @slimmestjim7517
    @slimmestjim7517 2 роки тому +5146

    Wonder if this ever happened
    A: "Screw you!"
    B: "How dare you! I challenge you to a duel"
    A: "I refuse"
    C: "Coward!!"
    A: "How dare you! I challenge you to a duel!"

    • @ydgames4291
      @ydgames4291 2 роки тому +558

      C: "I refuse"

    • @voodoodolll
      @voodoodolll 2 роки тому +408

      @@ydgames4291 Coward!

    • @jionmionskwisgaar1476
      @jionmionskwisgaar1476 2 роки тому +368

      @@voodoodolll how dare you! I challenge YOU to a duel.

    • @UN_Banished
      @UN_Banished 2 роки тому +267

      @@jionmionskwisgaar1476 I refuse

    • @florianz8922
      @florianz8922 2 роки тому +233

      @@UN_Banished How dare you! I challenge you to a duell

  • @jacobcurran5543
    @jacobcurran5543 3 роки тому +3225

    Lawsuits: "why kill someone when you could just take all of their money"

    • @Eric1-373
      @Eric1-373 3 роки тому +39

      Does not work if they are money poor.

    • @arkadisevyan
      @arkadisevyan 3 роки тому +104

      @@Eric1-373 we need to bring dueling back

    • @ianhigson719
      @ianhigson719 3 роки тому +15

      Much more satisfying beating them to a pulp. Up side it won't take as long as a law suite.

    • @mustard4762
      @mustard4762 3 роки тому +53

      @@arkadisevyan with swords, not with guns cuz they are loud af and would disturb the public. With sword however would be much cooler

    • @arkadisevyan
      @arkadisevyan 3 роки тому +7

      @@mustard4762 that works

  • @RazeaKrait
    @RazeaKrait Рік тому +54

    In Germany and Austria, there are still many duels between students of different fraternities with razor-sharp swords. These are not officially 100% legal, but have a long tradition that is still lived every day. I have seen many of these duels and the injuries can be really bad.

    • @baguettegott3409
      @baguettegott3409 Рік тому

      Which, to be clear, is seen as insane by all other people in Germany and Austria. Fraternities in general are the biggest imaginable red flag and avoided like the plague by most normal people. Some are apparently fine, just a bunch of dudes living in a mansion and drinking ungodly amount of alcohol, but when they look for new members they have to explicitly state everywhere that no, they're not nazis, they're not rapists, they're not racist etc, because otherwise people will rightfully assume that they are all those things.
      And that they stab each other with swords.

    • @jonny_sm884
      @jonny_sm884 Рік тому +7

      They do follow strict rules and do not result in death or lasting injury, leaving scars (Schmiss) at most. Sometimes nobody gets injured as long as the "duel" is fought until the end or one side calls it off for a number of reasons.

    • @SteveSingsThings
      @SteveSingsThings 10 місяців тому

      Because now we have Twitter.

    • @Rutherford_Inchworm_III
      @Rutherford_Inchworm_III 6 місяців тому +1

      Mensur is not real duels, just the children of the 1% ritually scarring each other for social points at ultra-exclusive military schools.
      I personally wouldn't hire anybody with mensur scars, but in the circles of the elite in Germany it's apparently a sign you're a Count or a Duke or something.

    • @jackpanozzo6004
      @jackpanozzo6004 5 місяців тому

      There’s frats in Europe?

  • @famine92
    @famine92 2 роки тому +23

    In Germany there still is a tradition that evolved from dueling. The rules have been changed so the risk of dying is basically zero but you can still get seriously hurt (mostly just loss of blood, scars, seldomly part of the air or a patch of skin can get lost). It is a fencing match with a special set of rules. It is not considered a duel because it is not actually about honor but in practice, there are many ocassions where an insult leads to a fencing "match" (avoiding to call it a duel here) and the insult is "forgotten" after the fencing match is concluded.

  • @insulam821
    @insulam821 4 роки тому +2529

    0:35
    It’s all gangsta until someone brings a cannon to a pistol duel.

    • @karansjet3823
      @karansjet3823 4 роки тому +124

      yeah, imma bring a drone if you dont mind.. edit; and i mean the shooty ones, not the retail ones

    • @OlaftheFlashy
      @OlaftheFlashy 4 роки тому +51

      Black adder flash backs.

    • @thebaronlouis8619
      @thebaronlouis8619 4 роки тому +88

      The weapons have to be identical. I did hear a story where a French aristocrat challenged a blacksmith, so the blacksmith set the conditions of the fight to be with sledgehammers in 5 and a half feet of water, the idea being that the shorter aristocrat would have an impossible time doing anything with the heavy weapon while his arms are fully submerged in water. The blacksmith was taller and stronger, meaning he could wield the weapon above water without raising his arms too much.

    • @thebaronlouis8619
      @thebaronlouis8619 4 роки тому +15

      I might have the details wrong, but that's basically how it happened.

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 4 роки тому +17

      I have an idea 💡! Lets do 18th century cannon duel 🤺!!! Ramrod and all!

  • @dukevandygames4856
    @dukevandygames4856 4 роки тому +1820

    Bully: ur mom fat
    Me during the duel: *so anyway I started blasting*

  • @apogena
    @apogena 2 роки тому +91

    *What I love about the videos of this channel more than the history lessons is the signature rectangular shape of the characters, the occasional bored or uninterested facial expressions, and, best of all, the characters communicating via signs and placards. Funny as f_ck!*

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 Рік тому +10

      The suspicious looks kill me everytime they occur.

    • @houjisaifeddine5524
      @houjisaifeddine5524 Рік тому +7

      also the characters getting shot. that's an even more iconic element

  • @amg863
    @amg863 2 роки тому +31

    I would've liked to hear more about the duel in 1967 in France

    • @dabbasw31
      @dabbasw31 2 роки тому +12

      Gaston Deffere vs Rene Ribiere. You can look it up, there is even video footage on UA-cam.

  • @titansjojo1445
    @titansjojo1445 4 роки тому +3303

    "Lawsuits"
    Can we have duels back?

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 4 роки тому +343

      You right, its boring and all. Imagine the news « Here we are ladies and gentlemen, the duellers have picked their pistols, BANG! OMG! The opponent was killed, its a perfect shot ladies and gentlement, a clear shot! »
      -Sir, have you had satisfaction now? Not yet, i have to teebag his corpse now

    • @pickeljarsforhillary102
      @pickeljarsforhillary102 4 роки тому +108

      We should challenge all lawyers and rid the world of them.

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 4 роки тому +53

      @@pickeljarsforhillary102 or force them to duel or to "juul to death!"

    • @DM-nw6km
      @DM-nw6km 4 роки тому +39

      Yeah, it’s called 1v1 cod snipers no scopes only

    • @Texan.Insomniac
      @Texan.Insomniac 4 роки тому +50

      We need to make this a movement to bring back Duels

  • @jacques4703
    @jacques4703 4 роки тому +13469

    I liked how everytime the United States is mentioned their territory gets bigger

    • @jasonirwin4631
      @jasonirwin4631 4 роки тому +1192

      If this video went on any longer the Philippines would be us territory.

    • @sussurus
      @sussurus 4 роки тому +574

      Almost as if the USA grew in size over the timeframe of the video.

    • @denrari
      @denrari 4 роки тому +610

      Sussurus you must be fun at parties

    • @garabic8688
      @garabic8688 4 роки тому +583

      *Manifest destiny intensifies*

    • @sussurus
      @sussurus 4 роки тому +145

      @@denrari You're right, I'm not.

  • @letsgobrandon416
    @letsgobrandon416 Рік тому +17

    The fact that lawsuits replaced dueling is the best argument I've heard to bringing back dueling. However, to avoid unnecessary death, I propose modern dueling be held in hand to hand unarmed combat in cage fights. First to tap out is a nerd.

    • @edwardbirdsall6580
      @edwardbirdsall6580 Місяць тому +1

      Last I knew Texas had something similar. Might help to clean up our recent politics some.

  • @AdeleiTeillana
    @AdeleiTeillana 2 роки тому +46

    I can confirm - learned in my first semester of law school that the ability to bring lawsuits relatively easily is in part, at least, to prevent people from resorting to "self help" (i.e. duels.)

    • @MangaGamify
      @MangaGamify Рік тому +2

      Did they also teach you that that isn't a feasible option outside america if you're poor?

  • @VinTheDirector
    @VinTheDirector 2 роки тому +5205

    Yu-Gi-Oh! players: “Allow us to introduce ourselves”

    • @lewistran1
      @lewistran1 2 роки тому +134

      Honestly before I seen the thumbnail I thought this was a Yu-Gi-Oh video

    • @Adam-082
      @Adam-082 2 роки тому +26

      Go away weeb

    • @sunlesssirris
      @sunlesssirris 2 роки тому +222

      @@Adam-082 Someone has never won a duel...

    • @daltonmiller5163
      @daltonmiller5163 2 роки тому +174

      @@Adam-082 looks like you're going to the shadow realm

    • @tanaz_7177
      @tanaz_7177 2 роки тому +25

      zombie world go brrrrr

  • @apoc0110
    @apoc0110 4 роки тому +1931

    "Why dont people duel anymore"
    Yugioh: "Am i a joke to you?"

  • @ForrestSentinel
    @ForrestSentinel 2 роки тому +22

    First was dueling.
    Second was lawsuits.
    Now, it’s 1v1 snipers only on Rust

  • @joju5849
    @joju5849 Рік тому +6

    Actually, resolving disagreements with a Sabre duel to the death kinda sounds like a badass way to go

  • @chaosgyro
    @chaosgyro 2 роки тому +6198

    Ah yes, the lawsuit. A form of advanced dueling where the Second does all of the work for you, and victory allows you to destroy not just your opponent, but also their immediate family and potential descendants.

    • @Insanity-se3lv
      @Insanity-se3lv 2 роки тому +65

      Kinda like NKs 3 generation law

    • @Bluebird-tj6kb
      @Bluebird-tj6kb 2 роки тому +225

      So...lawyers are like stands?

    • @rouge-ish324
      @rouge-ish324 2 роки тому +392

      @@Bluebird-tj6kb More like Summons because you'll need to sacrifice your money and possibly your soul to get a good one

    • @Bluebird-tj6kb
      @Bluebird-tj6kb 2 роки тому +33

      @@rouge-ish324 Makes sense

    • @jacobwarren4490
      @jacobwarren4490 2 роки тому +47

      Now thats what i call collateral damage

  • @JamesTrifolium
    @JamesTrifolium 3 роки тому +1243

    “Either an apology or a Jew”
    Thanks auto-captions.

    • @kekeke8988
      @kekeke8988 3 роки тому +53

      Well, the auto-captioning algorithm wasn't aware of the existence of an English word pronounced "jool".

    • @rosiefay7283
      @rosiefay7283 3 роки тому +37

      @@kekeke8988 Jewel is pretty close. But that doesn't explain Julian instead of duelling.

    • @pannobhasa
      @pannobhasa 3 роки тому +13

      That's the way it is now when one gets an apology or hires a slick lawyer and sues

    • @amargabela7018
      @amargabela7018 3 роки тому +23

      Thats all fine and good, but who is Zhu Ling?

    • @dinoxman8584
      @dinoxman8584 3 роки тому +47

      “Using Jews as a means to legally commit suicide”
      (It said that in the video I’m not trying to be anti-semitic)

  • @elliothellyer933
    @elliothellyer933 Рік тому +6

    My favorite duel story will always be when someone challenge Abe Lincoln in his younger years, and Lincoln's weapon of choice was "broadsword in a pit" the challenger then called it off.

  • @christianwurtzbacherakabub5498
    @christianwurtzbacherakabub5498 Рік тому +33

    I think we should bring back duels. Lawsuits have gotten boring and the money spent on such things would be much better spent on helping others.

    • @IceWolfLoki
      @IceWolfLoki 10 місяців тому +4

      Won't somebody think of the poor lawyers!

    • @adamlam9600
      @adamlam9600 5 місяців тому +1

      Ah yes, peace is boring

  • @cisium1184
    @cisium1184 3 роки тому +3182

    Speaking as an attorney, I would like to see dueling restored.

    • @salazam
      @salazam 2 роки тому +176

      Much more honorable.

    • @ML-sc3pt
      @ML-sc3pt 2 роки тому +148

      Much more civilized. Honestly tho sniper duels would be the new style. 200 yards apart, first one to land a killing blow wins

    • @piotrdygas5345
      @piotrdygas5345 2 роки тому +42

      You would be unemployed though

    • @mistermann569
      @mistermann569 2 роки тому +71

      As a regular law abiding citizen, I would not! I challange you to a due...
      ...shit.

    • @tomislavobrovac3257
      @tomislavobrovac3257 2 роки тому +39

      @@piotrdygas5345 not necessarily. In modern times, we would probably need moderators and lawyers seem like a logical choice

  • @SauceChef
    @SauceChef 2 роки тому +1978

    “Why don’t people duel anymore?”
    Idk maybe all the people who duel died off?

    • @jedders3192
      @jedders3192 2 роки тому +95

      Okay but wouldn’t there have to be one that survived among the rest
      The winner of the dueling era

    • @frostfrost8907
      @frostfrost8907 2 роки тому +45

      Only 50% of them

    • @za6604
      @za6604 2 роки тому +56

      @@frostfrost8907 but then those 50% fight and reduce it to 25%, repeat

    • @kristian7316
      @kristian7316 2 роки тому

      Yep.

    • @CharismaAt-1
      @CharismaAt-1 2 роки тому +2

      Ngl I can’t I hear him saying Juul

  • @JervisGermane
    @JervisGermane 7 місяців тому +4

    I fully support restoring dueling, especially non-fatal versions, including one-on-one fist fights. I've long considered it a good way to settle personal animosities without the costs of getting other people involved. As long as all participants are adults and the duel is registered with the local court ahead of time, have on.

  • @kevincarter4902
    @kevincarter4902 2 роки тому +5

    The character at the beginning with the "your mother" sign had me laughing. Stars, Yo to you as well

  • @stolaslikestea6169
    @stolaslikestea6169 4 роки тому +1835

    “Dueling slowly becomes less popular”
    *Meanwhile John Marston is dueling with everyone in 1911*

    • @justnoob8141
      @justnoob8141 4 роки тому +24

      Pretty sure only Jack left by that year

    • @candycorn6268
      @candycorn6268 4 роки тому +68

      @@justnoob8141 Welĺ no, Jack was around 1914-1915 when the Great War began, I remember reading about it in the newspaper

    • @mase8189
      @mase8189 4 роки тому +37

      Just Noob No, the main portion of the game takes place in 1911, Jack portion is in 1914.

    • @callmefox630
      @callmefox630 4 роки тому +3

      Jack Churchill of Britain sends his regards.
      I know that man didn't duel anyone, but you know the man.

    • @trashcantacos
      @trashcantacos 4 роки тому +6

      @@deann4465 Nah I think he meant Rip Van Winkle

  • @ImmaLittlePip
    @ImmaLittlePip 3 роки тому +2653

    "People don't duel any more"
    Yu-Gi-Oh fans: That's where you're wrong buster

    • @jo_gy
      @jo_gy 3 роки тому +81

      It's time for a Due.. Due... DUELL

    • @StinkHatch5318
      @StinkHatch5318 3 роки тому +63

      "It's time to du du du duuuee-" *has a stroke*

    • @archenemy6334
      @archenemy6334 3 роки тому +32

      But wheres you dddddd dddd dd ddd deck?

    • @cmartin8093
      @cmartin8093 3 роки тому +5

      MTG players: really?

    • @jspring9588
      @jspring9588 3 роки тому +25

      Send your ass to the Shadow Realm

  • @PutitinDaramen
    @PutitinDaramen Рік тому +5

    I think dueling should still be a thing. But duels are to be held in soft rings in which two individuals are allowed to beat each other to submission.

  • @hippolyteandrieu9159
    @hippolyteandrieu9159 Рік тому +4

    Fun fact : the last known duel to take place in France was in 1967 between two MPs

  • @Evzone1821
    @Evzone1821 4 роки тому +2198

    What British hear: “Dueling.”
    What Americans hear: *”JUULING”*

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 4 роки тому +106

      I'm a Brit', yet kept hearing "jewelling" XD.

    • @Bayern2232
      @Bayern2232 4 роки тому +22

      Juuling

    • @Evzone1821
      @Evzone1821 4 роки тому +9

      carlos berry that’s what I meant!! Thanks!

    • @arthurheidt6373
      @arthurheidt6373 4 роки тому +14

      what germans read in youtube translation -> jewling jews (duels)

    • @ajrdude1234
      @ajrdude1234 4 роки тому +2

      All I here is Juuling when he says dulling

  • @saxboi1144
    @saxboi1144 3 роки тому +847

    Fun fact: dueling is still legal in the city of Boston. The duel must occur on the Commons on a Sunday, and the Governor of Massachusetts must be present.

    • @gunter6377
      @gunter6377 3 роки тому +401

      Yo mama fat.
      Meet me in 2 weeks in Boston

    • @casper6405
      @casper6405 3 роки тому +181

      @@gunter6377 you're stinky poopie head
      Meet in a few months or a year in Boston
      I'm Dutch and with covid its difficult to travel but still wait for me in boston

    • @highhonor9443
      @highhonor9443 3 роки тому +19

      Deadass

    • @nathancamara6285
      @nathancamara6285 3 роки тому +57

      Bruh why does Boston still think the revolutionary war is still happening?

    • @thedwightguy
      @thedwightguy 3 роки тому +13

      @@casper6405 Can I be a second??

  • @Hallows4
    @Hallows4 8 місяців тому +4

    One thing I’d like to know is how often duels like this actually happened. Obviously, the answer would vary by time, place, and context, but modern depictions - or at least parodies - often show duels being fought over fairly trivial reasons. Again, “trivial” is highly subjective, but if every perceived slight or misunderstanding resulted in two men pulling weapons on each other, it would be a constant bloodbath.

    • @dustpanman2998
      @dustpanman2998 7 місяців тому

      Did they fight duels over yo-mama jokes?

  • @heisenstein6392
    @heisenstein6392 Рік тому

    LOL @1:04 Both men with a big mean moustache ready to go off in a moustache battle made me crack up 😂 The “Let’s do this” poster just added the sprinkle on top and I snorted good. Love the humor on this channel!

  • @raydavison4288
    @raydavison4288 3 роки тому +2132

    I would rather die in a duel than to lose everything in a lawsuit.

    • @firstcooommment3675
      @firstcooommment3675 3 роки тому +82

      Your still Losing everything.
      Your dead. Only difference is your just dying earlier with more money to your name. In this context.

    • @greatkentuckian9032
      @greatkentuckian9032 3 роки тому +196

      @@firstcooommment3675 well no eeally. The money would go to who ever was on your will. Dying would be better because the death would be quicker, while losing everything would just make you suicidal. Therefore, you would die at your own hands, while not taking a chance of killing the other.

    • @avshockey6633
      @avshockey6633 3 роки тому +18

      @@greatkentuckian9032 Dying doesn't make your debts magically disappear. If someone has a judgement against you and you die, your money goes to the person with the judgement before the people in your will.

    • @zjzr08
      @zjzr08 3 роки тому +40

      @@avshockey6633 I thought the payment for debt is settled by the duel?

    • @whitescar2
      @whitescar2 3 роки тому +14

      So if someone held you at gunpoint and said "Your money or your life!" you'd choose to die, then? Interesting choice.

  • @porch8370
    @porch8370 2 роки тому +2235

    "Why dont people duel anymore"
    * pulls out deck *
    _Get ready to duel_

    • @Dikkaaawas
      @Dikkaaawas 2 роки тому +191

      Time to dudu-du-duduDUELL

    • @slimshadyince2412
      @slimshadyince2412 2 роки тому +79

      I only clicked this video to look for the Yu-Gi-Oh reference comment

    • @CrashHeelin
      @CrashHeelin 2 роки тому +5

      Once we are there, we can have duels everywhere again

    • @ninonggaming911
      @ninonggaming911 2 роки тому +9

      I read it as "pulls out dick" 🙄🤦‍♂️🤣

    • @willdiaz4116
      @willdiaz4116 2 роки тому +8

      @@ninonggaming911 the only true legendary duel

  • @michaelblum4968
    @michaelblum4968 11 місяців тому +2

    I highly recommend the book, "Dueling; The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany" by Kevin McAleer. Lots of interesting information about the laws, culture, and practices surrounding dueling in late-19th Century Germany (and some stuff about France and other European nations).

  • @monifgada
    @monifgada 10 місяців тому

    I enjoy every episode I watch on this guy’s channel

  • @pepsimanbooster
    @pepsimanbooster 4 роки тому +1792

    Of cause they still duel
    its just called "Yugioh" nowadays
    though its still as deadly as weapons

    • @janmantsch6675
      @janmantsch6675 4 роки тому +77

      Especialy if your friend brings a Meta deck into a friendly duel

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 4 роки тому +91

      no its worse cause instead of death you just get sent into the shadow realm

    • @jasonhaveten5608
      @jasonhaveten5608 3 роки тому +21

      Luckely you can always recover of screen... Or by injecting 200 cc's of friendship

    • @bartunthegreat2999
      @bartunthegreat2999 3 роки тому +4

      That made my day!

    • @jimmyandtimmy8514
      @jimmyandtimmy8514 3 роки тому +8

      It may not look like much on the outside, but it steals your soul.

  • @allanjbucknol4414
    @allanjbucknol4414 4 роки тому +1446

    Reason:It is pretty annoying to keep saying,Its time to D D D D Duel

    • @TheCheck999
      @TheCheck999 4 роки тому +11

      +

    • @landonweist
      @landonweist 4 роки тому +12

      +

    • @daveshn
      @daveshn 4 роки тому +33

      That wasn't the annoying part. The annoying part was that you had to wait three weeks for someone to take their turn.

    • @TheGAVstudio
      @TheGAVstudio 4 роки тому +22

      @BlackDeathViral03 You think you can challenge me? Pathetic, I'll see you and your pathetic little deck ask for mercy when I summon my...
      *Intense anime flashing*
      FIVE HEADED DRAGON

    • @thathair6288
      @thathair6288 4 роки тому +1

      +

  • @bn5911
    @bn5911 Рік тому +1

    Love this channel

  • @billt8504
    @billt8504 Рік тому +14

    While the trial (dueling lawsuits) was great, I would have loved to watch Johnny Depp and Amber Heard duel each other with single shot pistols at 10 paces. That would have been epic.

    • @louisliu5638
      @louisliu5638 Рік тому

      It probably would have been "cheap shots" at five paces. My money would be on the hot twat.

  • @jerrymartin7019
    @jerrymartin7019 2 роки тому +5529

    I'm so glad the fine people of Detroit have kept this once ubiquitous tradition alive for all to experience. True stewards of history!

    • @joshg4562
      @joshg4562 2 роки тому +49

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @markgomez8157
      @markgomez8157 2 роки тому +141

      @@SludgeManCometh Double yikes

    • @0owmjapo0
      @0owmjapo0 2 роки тому +41

      @@SludgeManCometh 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @thedeadonefr
      @thedeadonefr 2 роки тому +31

      @@SludgeManCometh racist

    • @luco1338
      @luco1338 2 роки тому +261

      @@thedeadonefr nobody specified a race, friend

  • @iwanttwoscoops
    @iwanttwoscoops 4 роки тому +2482

    captions are funny: "jews fell out of fashion," "either by offering an apology or a jew," "jeweling in the military was an issue"

    • @nobodyuknow2490
      @nobodyuknow2490 4 роки тому +80

      The general was supposed to command the offensive, but was tied up affixing the clasp on the bracelet for his second in command's wife...

    • @rachelpurity1
      @rachelpurity1 4 роки тому +177

      "I'm sorry I insulted you, have a Jew!"

    • @luftwaffle4327
      @luftwaffle4327 4 роки тому +92

      Lol either by offering an apology or a Jew
      Say sorry or give me a Jew lol

    • @Zorro9129
      @Zorro9129 4 роки тому +28

      Oy gevalt

    • @parakeetiscool7647
      @parakeetiscool7647 4 роки тому +11

      2 Scoops can I offer you a *jew* in this trying time?

  • @Chris-es3wf
    @Chris-es3wf Рік тому +3

    Somehow dueling seems preferable to lawsuits..

  • @ianmetcalfe7389
    @ianmetcalfe7389 Рік тому +3

    You would die of old age or forget what your angry about if dueling was about today with the amount of paperwork you'd have to file with health and safety 😂

  • @BerylLx
    @BerylLx 3 роки тому +605

    "Instead, duelling saw a slow death as upper and middle-class culture changed to a more moderate means of settling scores: Lawsuits"
    I felt that.

    • @user-rt2zq4jv8x
      @user-rt2zq4jv8x 2 роки тому +14

      The slow death....unforeseen, unforgiving.

    • @rantmilk2545
      @rantmilk2545 2 роки тому +3

      I was looking through the comment section and right when I got to this he read that sentance and it felt so coincidentally weird.

    • @nicolascoton6116
      @nicolascoton6116 2 роки тому +3

      @@user-rt2zq4jv8x I see darkest dungeon, i upvote

    • @neezduts69420
      @neezduts69420 2 роки тому +1

      Slightly moderate

  • @mikeidc7690
    @mikeidc7690 2 роки тому +1022

    "Why people don't duel anymore"
    Me, with a revolver: *People stopped dueling?!*

    • @nameable6567
      @nameable6567 2 роки тому +17

      so true yo it’s crazy i’m on the fbis top 100 now like wtf 😂😂

    • @davidarvingumazon5024
      @davidarvingumazon5024 2 роки тому

      Dream vs Technoblade
      Duel in 2020

    • @generalmikalie2739
      @generalmikalie2739 2 роки тому

      This comment would be better if ”well we can start it right now”

    • @GetBlitzedFSND
      @GetBlitzedFSND 2 роки тому +1

      Alex baldwin never got the memo lol

    • @boom5935
      @boom5935 2 роки тому

      dude, i cant like your comment

  • @pearlzie9118
    @pearlzie9118 2 роки тому +1

    I love this video and I am inspired to bring duals back. I have so much honor that I need to defend.

  • @Rhinoboy-jp6kx
    @Rhinoboy-jp6kx Рік тому +2

    I feel like this should replace wars just one person dying

  • @ianpatrickwijaya2657
    @ianpatrickwijaya2657 4 роки тому +1172

    2019: _someone brought a knife to gunfight_
    1700: _someone brought a gun to cannon fight_

    • @yrvjutrtubxsyi
      @yrvjutrtubxsyi 4 роки тому +47

      1941: Someone brought planes to a bomb fight

    • @jhonywalker002
      @jhonywalker002 4 роки тому +9

      Women fight with swords men fight with cannon

    • @auxencefromont1989
      @auxencefromont1989 4 роки тому +3

      Isn t the gun better then a cannon in this situation ?

    • @AgentTasmania
      @AgentTasmania 4 роки тому +4

      @@auxencefromont1989 Take one step to the side, cap the other guy while he tries to trverse his cannon.

    • @thewheelchairhistorian3424
      @thewheelchairhistorian3424 4 роки тому +1

      Idiot, it's the 1800s in Aleksander III's time.

  • @nexgenm.i.a.9379
    @nexgenm.i.a.9379 2 роки тому +830

    “Mutual combat” laws in certain states in the U.S. are a modern remnant of these duels. It’s when you ask someone to “take it outside” that you’re legally allowed to have a fight (no weapons) and the cops aren’t allowed to intervene unless to prevent death.

    • @supernova00500
      @supernova00500 2 роки тому +76

      I was just about to mention this, but in some places they do allow weapons, or at least that's the excuse used by law enforcement when they don't want to waste anymore time on a murder case 🤣🤣🤣

    • @thememe986
      @thememe986 2 роки тому +99

      That's fair tho I think, as long as the risk of actually getting seriously hurt isn't there, who's to say that 2 consenting adults can't fight it out

    • @innocentbystander3317
      @innocentbystander3317 2 роки тому +60

      Basically same laws that boxers and mma fighters use can be used by anyone. If two consenting persons agrees to sign away all liability, then they can beat, stab, and shoot each other to ity bity pieces provided nobody else is put at risk by their duelling.

    • @camlewis5462
      @camlewis5462 2 роки тому +113

      I feel like this can only be legal if a guy screams MUTUAL KOMBAT! While techno music plays in the background.

    • @3Demon100
      @3Demon100 2 роки тому +9

      Yeah I think Washington state had mutual combat laws due to traffic arguments

  • @alexandrameas4436
    @alexandrameas4436 Рік тому +5

    Social norms can be a very powerful factor. Many people were forced to participate in duels exactly for that reason. Just imagine you're an officer and one of the other officers comments on your ... (clothes, girlfriend, mustache... whatever). Now you are obliged to challenge him, otherwise, you lose respect of all your fellow officers. And the arguments like "but guys, it's barbaric" won't work, you'll be proclaimed a coward if you say that. Great that we don't have it anymore. We have other stupid things though

  • @hoodlum4511
    @hoodlum4511 2 роки тому +7

    "Why don't people duel anymore?"
    Me: Because they're cowards hiding behind lawyers

  • @Zeithri
    @Zeithri 4 роки тому +530

    Me, " _Yeah, we should bring Duels back although in a non-lethal wa-_ "
    Video: " _LAWSUITS._ "
    " _BRING BACK DUELING QUICKLY_ "

    • @gideonmele1556
      @gideonmele1556 4 роки тому +11

      The sound of muzzleloaders in the distance

    • @laistvan2
      @laistvan2 4 роки тому +12

      Money-hungry lawyers dislike this!

    • @Apophis40K
      @Apophis40K 4 роки тому +5

      Well The old freternitys in Germany still duel mandatory. The sword fight has just a bunch of rules so nobody dies (most of the time one person in my city died around 50 ish years ago and the freternitys does not duel anymore to honor him) but you can only lose them by showing emotions.
      TL;DR Germany freternitys still duel with sharp swords but with a lot of rules and protection for your eyes and neck

    • @jhonywalker002
      @jhonywalker002 4 роки тому

      @@Apophis40K Isnt that called fencing

    • @Apophis40K
      @Apophis40K 4 роки тому

      @@jhonywalker002 it's called Mensur. But every duel with swords is fancing

  • @jamescusack6511
    @jamescusack6511 4 роки тому +900

    _MY GOOD SIR, YOU HAVE INSULTED MY HONOR. I CHALLENGE YOU TO A LAWSUIT_

    • @courier6402
      @courier6402 3 роки тому +27

      I accept but only if in able to represent myself

    • @nac-1
      @nac-1 3 роки тому +17

      I accept, but only if I can hold my M134 Minigun during the trial. Oh, the minigun? Oh posh just ignore it for now.

    • @bluesap7318
      @bluesap7318 3 роки тому +4

      @@nac-1 so you gonna shoot the judge or the defendant?

    • @nac-1
      @nac-1 3 роки тому +5

      @@bluesap7318 Why choose ;)

    • @bluesap7318
      @bluesap7318 3 роки тому +6

      @@nac-1 your right why limit your self by choosing.

  • @DarthJabba504
    @DarthJabba504 Рік тому +5

    We need to bring back real life duels to the death for Twitter and social media keyboard tough guys.

  • @cactusfishy1596
    @cactusfishy1596 Рік тому +4

    1:18 I'd like to see statistics on that, I would naturally figure that swords are actually much more deadly, given pistol duels rarely resulted in death

  • @tjb_6203
    @tjb_6203 4 роки тому +2043

    Why we don’t duel anymore?
    Good joke, you would be surprised by how many 12 year olds want to 1v1 you on xBox live.

    • @magnuspeacock5857
      @magnuspeacock5857 4 роки тому +99

      C'mon, be fair...
      Some of them are 11

    • @awormnamedscoobis3419
      @awormnamedscoobis3419 4 роки тому +35

      Magnus Peacock some of them are retarded 50 year olds too!

    • @chudtroonslayer
      @chudtroonslayer 4 роки тому +3

      The real TJB UA-cam comments also seem to have this custom.

    • @tricksor6589
      @tricksor6589 4 роки тому

      @@sondreus24 uh

    • @JOEY-xj4ds
      @JOEY-xj4ds 4 роки тому +8

      Yeah... This really is the modern way of settling scores and preserving honor.

  • @coreytrevorson5628
    @coreytrevorson5628 2 роки тому +2548

    I totally would've died by now if dueling was still a thing.

    • @gateofdite
      @gateofdite 2 роки тому +82

      Smokes, let's go.

    • @jabbathehutt2774
      @jabbathehutt2774 2 роки тому +133

      Nah, be a legend, have most duels cast against you and most duels refused. People will know your obnoxious, and so obnoxious that there would be no point to duel you because you'd just refuse.

    • @xast3950
      @xast3950 2 роки тому +6

      @@gateofdite LMAOOOO

    • @second6028
      @second6028 2 роки тому +2

      I would smack people up in a duel🥱😈

    • @johnmarston2641
      @johnmarston2641 2 роки тому +4

      @@gateofdite you don’t even smoke Bubbles

  • @Xiaolaoshu621
    @Xiaolaoshu621 2 роки тому +2

    The final bit about lawsuits reminded me of an episode of "Sliders" where lawyers were literal hired guns in alternate universe.

  • @lionelhutz4186
    @lionelhutz4186 Рік тому +3

    There are still duels in Germany, but only in certain social circles. And not with guns (which weren't popular to begin with) but with fencing. Usually you loose when you bleed at 3 different places and you wear white to make it visible.

  • @Daniel-kq4bx
    @Daniel-kq4bx 4 роки тому +246

    Teacher : *slightly critiques me*
    Me: We shall resolve this issue in a duel

    • @Boiling_Seas
      @Boiling_Seas 4 роки тому +15

      PE suddenly takes on greater importance, gonna need some strength to wield a broadsword properly

    • @Daniel-kq4bx
      @Daniel-kq4bx 4 роки тому +10

      @@Boiling_Seas imagine a teacher beating someone to death with a set square for the blackboard

    • @VestinVestin
      @VestinVestin 4 роки тому +8

      Teacher: I accept. I choose the weapon of... XIXth century Russian philosophy.

    • @derrilazkia1002
      @derrilazkia1002 4 роки тому +6

      Teacher: can you solve this problem on the whiteboard?
      Student: oh we have a problem?

    • @PersonManManManMan
      @PersonManManManMan 4 роки тому

      However you cannot challange a teacher unless you are an officer cuz he has higher standing rank thank you

  • @punpun7402
    @punpun7402 3 роки тому +697

    "Where you going? This is a perfectly good moment to throw your life away!"

  • @blainke2149
    @blainke2149 Рік тому +27

    I think that if duels were still around, we'd see a lot of people be nicer to people they don't know just because they know a duel could always be called for

    • @MangaGamify
      @MangaGamify Рік тому +1

      Could be a really useful option nowadays especially if your parents doesn't own an emerald mine.

    • @Eric6761
      @Eric6761 9 місяців тому +1

      Or would be more deaths since your average adult would love throw hands with everyone with a bottle in hand

  • @calgon5689
    @calgon5689 10 місяців тому

    I love a nod to the sausage duel in this vid!
    Bravo!

  • @vilena5308
    @vilena5308 3 роки тому +732

    "Widow's pensions were withheld from men killed in duels."
    Brilliant move.

    • @dreamingflurry2729
      @dreamingflurry2729 3 роки тому +66

      Unless the officer in question hates his wife and wants to die...then it is encouragement :D

    • @kosiak10851
      @kosiak10851 3 роки тому +31

      perfect outcome for duel over cheating wife.
      Win-win in any outcome

    • @GRBtutorials
      @GRBtutorials 3 роки тому +5

      Indeed, the dead men needed the pension desperately...

    • @effexon
      @effexon 3 роки тому +4

      @@dreamingflurry2729 it's still brilliant, if widow want pension, she has to treat better her husband.

    • @bennyboy27or
      @bennyboy27or 3 роки тому +1

      Modern day move would be to double down and declare the pension go to an Ex-wife

  • @IDONTGETTHEPOINT
    @IDONTGETTHEPOINT 4 роки тому +183

    1:23
    That man you see holding the sausage is Rudolf Virchow.
    He opposed Otto Von Bismarck's excessive military budget, which led to Von Bismarck challenging him to a duel. He chose two pork sausages as weapons : one regular sausage and another one infected with Trichinella larvae.
    They would both pick and eat one and see which one of them would die a painful death.
    Bismarck called the duel off after hearing this proposition.

    • @Zorro9129
      @Zorro9129 4 роки тому +28

      Nowadays that would be a top-rated video had they gone through with it.
      "ONE SAFE, ONE DEADLY-Sausage-Eating Duel!"

    • @parakeetiscool7647
      @parakeetiscool7647 4 роки тому +4

      IDONTGETTHEPOINT that’s literally that one scene in princess bride

    • @AndrewPonti
      @AndrewPonti 4 роки тому +4

      That is one of the most German ways to duel...

    • @60437GANGSTER
      @60437GANGSTER 4 роки тому +1

      Sounds funny but isn't true.

    • @dlxmarks
      @dlxmarks 4 роки тому +2

      I was hoping someone else caught that Bismarck reference as well. In reality, Virchow simply declined the challenge.

  • @francisjones174
    @francisjones174 2 роки тому

    Another excellent window into a micro-interest historical topic; entertaining and humourous as well.

  • @SynchroScore
    @SynchroScore 8 місяців тому +4

    Fun fact: Any person taking a political office in Kentucky is required to recite an oath, which includes swearing that the person has not participated in duel.

  • @BillyCobbOfficial
    @BillyCobbOfficial 2 роки тому +2279

    You had the right to choose your weapon? I choose rubber chickens

    • @rayeittastay2458
      @rayeittastay2458 2 роки тому +131

      Why not be a rebel and choose real chickens.

    • @watchstuff5679
      @watchstuff5679 2 роки тому +110

      "Choke them with the rubber cock"

    • @Smack47
      @Smack47 2 роки тому +7

      Hey Billy I seem to have lost my sex, do you know where it is?

    • @NecroStingySLEEPS
      @NecroStingySLEEPS 2 роки тому +12

      They should just duel with cards nobody gets hurt that way only their pride

    • @daveaustria555
      @daveaustria555 2 роки тому +3

      Then you will end up 6 feet below the ground

  • @dimensiongoat871
    @dimensiongoat871 3 роки тому +543

    Basically: “Could you guys not kill each other for FIVE SECONDS???”

    • @ML-sc3pt
      @ML-sc3pt 2 роки тому +11

      No. We need it back.

  • @MexicanHatBoy
    @MexicanHatBoy 2 роки тому +1

    I recommend playing this video with the sound off and auto-generated English subtitles for a good time. "drooling" was my favourite of UA-cams attempt to transcribe "dueling"

  • @jamclone
    @jamclone Рік тому +2

    How to bring back duels: Weaker weapons, like wooden swords. First to concede loses. This would help settle many debates. Probably still assault but hey at least both people know the risks.

  • @FlowerBoyWorld
    @FlowerBoyWorld 2 роки тому +2300

    a professor pointed out that often, dueling was just an act of courage, not always a fight to death. if two people fire one shot from a 19-century pistol at each other over a distance of 30 meters, it's pretty likely they both missed. that allowed for settling disputes without either party losing their face.

    • @luigiplayer14
      @luigiplayer14 2 роки тому +89

      I don’t see what’s courageous about getting shot for the benefit of no one.

    • @FlowerBoyWorld
      @FlowerBoyWorld 2 роки тому +304

      @@luigiplayer14 relax guys i'm not saying it was a good idea i'm just saying more duels ended without people getting hurt than we might think of nowadays.

    • @toddgardner6355
      @toddgardner6355 2 роки тому +22

      Hmmm Aaron Burr you stand over there ---->. And Mr Hamilton, you stand over there

    • @preds43
      @preds43 2 роки тому +13

      So…Calebcity got it right

    • @mtganalytic9796
      @mtganalytic9796 2 роки тому +28

      @@luigiplayer14 typical mommy boy words

  • @princevesperal
    @princevesperal 4 роки тому +367

    1:23 I love that you included a nod to this historical account of a scientist being challenged to a duel, and who choose a pair of sausages as the weapons: one was perfectly fine and presumably delicious, while the other had been infected with a deadly pathogen. The challenger did not pick either and withdrew his demand for reparation instead.

    • @samrodrigues3199
      @samrodrigues3199 3 роки тому +27

      I believe the "combatants" were Bismarck and Rudolf Virchow, right?

    • @silenthunteruk
      @silenthunteruk 3 роки тому +145

      It appears to be an urban legend, but let's face it, it wouldn't have been the wurst duel ever.

    • @theemirofjaffa2266
      @theemirofjaffa2266 3 роки тому +9

      @@silenthunteruk ha! I see what you did there..lol

  • @Rondo2ooo
    @Rondo2ooo Рік тому +1

    Why don't people duel anymore?
    - Come to my block, at night, outside of bars.

  • @mediocremaiden8883
    @mediocremaiden8883 2 роки тому +1

    @1:23 Is he holding up a sausage on a fork as his Duel Weapon? LOLOL

  • @irradiated6126
    @irradiated6126 4 роки тому +419

    it sounds like you’re saying juuling and it makes this way better

    • @Venomsplatter
      @Venomsplatter 4 роки тому +5

      Wanna see my juuls?

    • @nicolataino2003
      @nicolataino2003 4 роки тому +34

      The practice of _juuling_ is barbaric

    • @richardlionerheart1945
      @richardlionerheart1945 4 роки тому +2

      @@nicolataino2003 indeed if you don't want tp be seen as a primitive got a mod and a rda

    • @aninggga
      @aninggga 4 роки тому

      @@Venomsplatter juul not cool

    • @nuclearluke6593
      @nuclearluke6593 4 роки тому +1

      ‘you didn’t have to accept and put your life on the line but i could lead to you being called a coward’

  • @apian7594
    @apian7594 3 роки тому +1642

    _”The last duel in France took place in 1967... anyways, years later...”_
    Me: *Ay hol up!*

    • @Bruh-hq1hx
      @Bruh-hq1hx 3 роки тому +92

      Its recorded on film

    • @ringyring
      @ringyring 3 роки тому +76

      Why are French so aggressive?

    • @user-cq8mz5fy2u
      @user-cq8mz5fy2u 3 роки тому +73

      @@ringyring Because there french

    • @dpk6639
      @dpk6639 3 роки тому +283

      "No one kills the French quite like the French" - Kid in my highschool history class

    • @daylenhigman8680
      @daylenhigman8680 3 роки тому +16

      @@dpk6639 an amazing comment

  • @andydufresnefromshawshank5866
    @andydufresnefromshawshank5866 Місяць тому

    The way the characters fall over when getting shot is friggin hilarious 😂

  • @borisgurevich5504
    @borisgurevich5504 Рік тому +2

    An important factor was the value of life. In the Middle Ages there were so many ways to die that death in duel was considered ok. As life became more precious duel was no longer attractive proposition - yet old habits die hard and many people were more afraid of dishonor than death. It then was a gradual process which sometimes was encouraged by government bans.

  • @NateTheGreat2399
    @NateTheGreat2399 4 роки тому +268

    We don't duel anymore?
    *sends you to the Shadow Realm*

    • @ginojones5857
      @ginojones5857 4 роки тому +2

      The reason we don't duel anymore is because they all shot and killed each other.

    • @jaspionccv9426
      @jaspionccv9426 4 роки тому +1

      He did fell in my trap

    • @AnyaKittyMeow
      @AnyaKittyMeow 4 роки тому

      super gt

  • @aldotorres1983
    @aldotorres1983 4 роки тому +157

    3:15
    "Sir, you have offended my honor. I challenge you to litigation."

    • @dmgill83
      @dmgill83 4 роки тому +4

      Underrated comment....

    • @ryanrazo
      @ryanrazo 4 роки тому +3

      I thought you said 'ligation'.

  • @a_c35
    @a_c35 Рік тому +5

    With how the US legal system handles defamation, we need to bring dueling back

  • @Payote88
    @Payote88 Рік тому +4

    This was phenomenal that pistol vs cannon duel is probably far more relevant in todays society and probably a great reason why duels should be illegal. Never know when someone’s gonna pull a D-eagle on your 9! Part of me still wishes duels were legal but def makes sense!

  • @Wet_Deer
    @Wet_Deer 3 роки тому +506

    “I challenge you to a duel, what is the weapon of choice?”
    Me: “it’s nerf of nothing”

    • @puppytracks8997
      @puppytracks8997 3 роки тому +15

      We end on first blood

    • @doflamingo1360
      @doflamingo1360 3 роки тому +7

      I have my Exodia!

    • @davesy6969
      @davesy6969 3 роки тому +4

      "I choose feather dusters!"

    • @jamiebarba5701
      @jamiebarba5701 3 роки тому

      I have my Mewtwo.

    • @CieJe.Alexander
      @CieJe.Alexander 3 роки тому +1

      The field of honour is Paintball!
      Or, was it Laser Tag?
      Either one really hits the pocketbook! 💸 Lol

  • @TheRollingLolLol
    @TheRollingLolLol 2 роки тому +945

    I've always loved the story that Abraham Lincoln stopped a duel before it even started because he showed up with a broadsword slung over his shoulder

    • @drjonesey5
      @drjonesey5 2 роки тому +265

      Yeah, similarly I like when he killed all those Vampires and Zombies.

    • @OgGuak420
      @OgGuak420 2 роки тому +64

      @@drjonesey5 my favorite lesson I learned in American history class

    • @matthewlawton9721
      @matthewlawton9721 2 роки тому +166

      The dude stood 6'4" and his opponent was about 5 foot tall. When he rolled up to the ground he walked aside and tested his sword on a high tree branch, proving to everyone watching that he was a fucking beast.
      Only President in the wrestling hall of fame.

    • @ironcladranchandforge7292
      @ironcladranchandforge7292 2 роки тому +44

      @@matthewlawton9721 -- Yep, true story. He was also very strong at that time in his life. He could hold, with outstretched arm (and ax horizontal to the ground), an axe at the very end of the handle with just his thumb and index finger gripping the handle. I tried it myself without luck, and I split a lot of wood.

    • @alienlife7754
      @alienlife7754 2 роки тому

      @@drjonesey5 research an issue before commenting. Otherwise you look really foolish.

  • @archer9338
    @archer9338 Рік тому +2

    Dueling should still exist. Being a mouthy punk is a lot less appealing when you can be legally killed for it, or have your reputation ruined by refusing the duel.

  • @victorm3054
    @victorm3054 Рік тому +2

    The main reason is that the concept of "honor" slowly disappeared as industrial age came