Martiansfromthemoon literally isn’t the truth. As a recently graduated student (the biggest target for tv license spam letters) I had to research this as to not get fined the majority of my student loan. You do not have to pay your licence if you don’t watch or stream BBC content. The other channels are independently funded and don’t require a licence.
@@IfISpeakBigTrouble that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is the BBC's logic is if you own a TV and can access the other channels. You can also access BBC meaning you have to pay for a license. I'm not saying you need it to watch ITV or Channel 5. But if you are watching those channels, then you can for sure watch BBC which is all the care about
Martiansfromthemoon As long as you aren’t watching bbc content you don’t need a license. You said ‘you have to have a license no matter what’, which just isn’t true.
yeah, when i was a wee lad, i wa' nearly run down by me own ooncle, but luckly i had mah lucky horse shoe, so i throo it and i survived, i did, but, i mean, the horse died so, that was bad for the family bank account
She was wrong about "English Muffins" though. We do have those here. Possible they originated in the US but that seems unlikely given that we just call them muffins. If we need to distinguish them from the baked kind we call them toaster muffins
TJMaxx is called TKMaxx in the UK because the company wanted to avoid confusion with the British shop T J Hughes. I'm guessing they choose 'k' as it is the next letter in the alphabet.
I've heard some Americans do good accents, but most I've heard sound like someone is strangling an Australian teenager. I also hate it when Americans try to use the word "Bloody" like we do. It just sounds wrong
I also think Siobhan killed Pat. But I also kind of think that Trapp saw her do it and he was like... "please! PLEASE Let me take credit...!" And Siobhan was like *looks around, trying to make sure like he's really this stupid* and then is like "Yeah... *shrugs* sure..."
isnt Canadian bacon just bacon like we have in England, i know american bacon is like little rectangular strips so it strikes me that america is the odd one out and thus we should be saying american bacon and normal bacon.
my favorite is the roundheads vs the cavaliers. they actually lopped off king Charles' head at the end and then stitched it back on together so that his family could mourn his corpse. that's what i call British brutality, savage but civilized.
@@bezretmet basic history that his head was cut off, i dont understand how it is brutality to sew the head back on for his family to bury him, the heads of traitors were usually put on spikes on london bridge, but it was actually an act of kindness as technically he was a traitor.
Em "Top of the morning" is an Irish stereotype, not British. Also not something anyone says in Ireland either but still. No association with Britain at all.
+ThePixelPanzer It's typically done _as_ a joke because of the responses it gets. Perpetuating stereotypes, as a joke. Me, as a US citizen, don't really think about it. I see myself as a human. Nothing more. The US is merely an arbitrarily-defined line that encompasses the landmass I live on.
+Minor Elite I like your world view, I think sometimes people get so wrapped up in where they come from, what language they speak and what culture they have, that they forget that we are all human
Dat Yognaught But england, scotland and wales are part of Great BRITAIN and are recognized as British. Therefore, the English are British so stop complaining. Besides who cares. Ya'll have four countries inside one country. It makes no sense! Either be one country and be cool with people calling you brits or be independent countries and people will generally refer to you as w/e you want.
i love how all of these questions are pretty much about england. also i feel like most americans asociate britain with just england, like the united kingdom is made up of 4 countries...
Ehm.. not really. Thats like saying northern ireland and the republic pretty much 1 country whick they are not. Careful hahah dont say that to a scottish person
Its not that they hate the english i think it juat annoys them when people think scotland is a part of england haha like my family is half scottish and half english
Yeah, half of the time i was wondering what Siobhan was thinking when there was terrible British accents being attempted. I feel like it's the same way an Australian like myself feels when they hear someone make an atrocious attempt at an Australian accent, mild annoyance with a bit of internal facepalming.
Butter Fly just saying I kind of agree with siobhan and it’s a bit racist isn’t it, I know it’s comedy but still if an American did a fake Indian accent in front of an Indian person they might be pissed and there would be controversy. I’m just saying I was kind of pissed off
+cornishphilosopher It was renamed to TKMaxx here so not to be confused with TJ Hughes (idk if you've ever been to a TJ Hughes, there aren't very many) which is another department store but not affiliated with TJX. The company is called TJ Maxx
+cornishphilosopher There are lots of brands named differently in Britain compared to the rest of the world, I have no idea why. Walkers crisps = Lays chips in the rest of the world, Lynx body spray = Axe body spray; and loads of other brands you can get anywhere else but in Britain. Maybe something to do with trademark law or something...
just a question, apparently you Americans have something called biscuits and gravy, what is that? not in a weird way but in England gravy is something you put on your Sunday dinner and with bangers and mash, and biscuits are the equivalent of cookies?
Alex Peterson Wait... do American schools teach mostly American history? Because there's only 200 years of it and I'm not sure how you could dag that over five years.
We do romans greeks and egyptions over three years and the Britain for nine years (if you don't do gcse history you only get do 7 years and end at the first world war). I love Chinese history! I wish I could learn about that in school and not just the internet.
Oh she's from England? Even as a fellow English person I didn't realise that. She has one of those half American, half British accents that make her sound like a drunk Australian.
I feel very unBritish watching this as I don't have an RP accent, I have a southern accent despite being from Yorkshire. I do say bollocks however and I don't know anyone else who does.
Amber Shoffren technically an RP advent isn't particularly British since it only appeared after language reform, before which no-one could understand anyone else and we all sounded pretty weird tbf, search for a video about Shakespeare in op (original pronunciation), it's actually pretty eye-opening :)
Amber Shoffren I very often wonder whether I would fit in more in America, because I naturally have an RP accent, despite living on the border of South Yorkshire, and 18 years of watching mostly American TV shows and following American celebrities has Americanised my accent.
+Guy Potts Roundheads are the parliamentarians. Royalists/cavaliers vs roundheads/parliamentarians/rebels. In England we have a ton of civil wars though
+Ryan Pugh You would be thinking of the Wars of the Roses, a quite different era. Also, while GRR Martin took some parallels from this conflict (e.g. the names of Stark and Lannister: York and Lancaster), he says he was most inspired by the series of novels Le Rois maudits, which cover the 14th Century in France, the end of the Capetian dynasty and the rise of Valois; a period with a very similar feel of dynastic rivalry.
I’m surprised that Siobhan didn’t point out that the way CollegeHumor was spelt was wrong because it was one display in the room. (Although she did say that the Oxford American dictionary’s spellings were wrong.)
lol no you guys, they said "the three contestants" and to not confuse Siobhan, the one saying the answers and questions, as a contestant, closed in on the three contestants.
+FrankyBabes I really don't understand this, I've heard they ARE British, and that they ARE NOT British, vehemently, by both sides. Someone, clear this shit up for me!
+The Evil Toaster I think maybe the idea is that they didn't originate here or something. They seem to have been a central-European development on bread. The Wikipedia article on English Muffins is quite enlightening.
Pie man you should go to the Emerald Isle "Ireland" and call any Irish person you find British and see how far you get. In one under educated comment you just ignored hundreds of years of oppression, religious bias, acts of incredible violence all because the British did not think the Irish were British. Education on simple facts can stop dumbass comments
Fun fact about the British (myself included). We have November the 5th, where we celebrate the failure to overthrow the government. Why is that interesting? - well, most cultures celebrate a great revolution (independance day, Bastile day, etc etc etc). But the uk celebrates quite the opposite. It explains a lot about the British Psyche.... Another way to look at it is that we celebrate the failure of the plot that would have resulted in a great deal of death and a far-from-democratic change of government.
+Rapscallion2009 To be honest, we celebrate it more as a folk tale rather than some political statement. Just an excuse to use the newly imported chinese fireworks we discovered from colonisation back in the day. And now it's just became tradition.
+Rapscallion2009 Whenever I celebrate Guy Fawkes, I've always celebrated the idea of a man standing up to an oppressive government. Though I'm pretty sure my dad celebrates the failure of the gunpowder plot. Either way it's great fun and a wonderful excuse to set off fireworks and have a laugh :D
+Nathan Worrall It was intentional. There are sometimes Americans who seriously try to do an English accent, then there are those who intentionally do it horribly just to elicit offended responses, such as yours.
Darkness7508 See, that's the thing. The person _giving_ the joke, does not _feel_ what the other side feels. Many people _GIVING_ jokes don't realize the line between joke and insult. It's not as simple as "I didn't mean it"...
Alexander The grape ah yes, the glorious revolution, such a glorious glorious revolution, where us the dutch sent an army over to you lot so our prince can take the throne of britain, the result of the british losing wars to the dutch even though they had massive advantages, where the coldstream guard had to stand down to the (incredibly glorious and righteous)dutch blue guard. The time when us, the amazing dutch people, as a result of kicking britains bum in previous wars effectively occupied britain for a while. Ah yes, it was truly a glorious affair... ALL HAIL ORANGE-NASSAU, THE NETHERLANDS SHALL PREVAIL, ORANGE ABOVE! Ahem... sorry, the patriotism got to me there ;)
As a Scottish person I must say. TRAPP YA BETTER SHUT IT M8 OR WE'LL PAN YER WINDAES WITH HAGGIS AND KILTS AND THEN WE'LL GO HUNT FOR NESSIE AND PLAY BAGPIPES! FREEEEDOOOOOOMMMM*I'm adding in stereotypes sue me*
Lm Golden lol no. First of all, you can be born somewhere and immediately leave, being born somewhere does not indicate how long you stay. Also, accents don’t develop at birth...
+Sun Wukong to be honest it's very hard to think of an american food that is completely their own. Hamburgers are german (clue's in the name), hot dogs are german, doughnuts are dutch. the list goes on.
+Kaiser collegehumor's always been a clickbait site, and their CHTV was actually a very small part of their site until the last few years. with some of the leading CHTV creative writers(ie sarah, dan, jake+amir, vinny, etc) gone, they're going back to the clickbait route. sucks, but what're you going to do?
+Sean Kelly It is part of neither, there is Great Britain made of England, Wales and Scotland and there is the United Kingdom which includes Northen Ireland. And also, thank GOD for not saying Ireland is part of the UK. We, uh, kinda fucked them up a bit. Sorry, lads.
+goofy goober Fun fact: That is because Irish still holds more to the old Gaelic than English does... and the Gaelic was formed by the Romans giving the entire UK area (called Britannia, Hibernia, etc) an alphabet, and the Britons (as the Romans called them, at least in the first century AD/CE) making up their own language, probably without allowing the Romans to help them. So, the fact that a great deal of Gaelic does not sound as it looks, is not surprising at all.
+adrianloveslucius There's no Gaelic in English except for a handful of loan words. English is a West Germanic language, Irish is a Celtic language. They're totally separate branches of Indo-European. English developed from the languages of the Anglo-Frisian (think: Aenglish) tribes from what is now The Netherlands who came to Britain starting in the 5th century or so. And was later influenced by Scandinavian (Vikings - also Germanic) and Norman (French - Romance family speakers) invaders. The various native tribes on the islands of Britain, Ireland, Man, Guernsey, etc. had their own languages (the Celtic family) before the Romans got there. The Irish had their own runic-descended writing system (Ogham) before later picking up the Roman alphabet.
ChocolateFishBrains Thank for not stereotyping us or mocking us then. Too many people think you guys are rude, ignorant, sterotipical and really just idiots. I wish both of are people would just stop.
I'm all for these cartoonishly fun racist British jokes, but I feel like if they did the same thing with say, jamaica, china, mexico, etc, people would be losing their shit.
+Richard Cano I think one of the main reasons this is okay is that a lot of British humour tends to be aimed at Britain anyway, at least in my experience
Wrong. Or, should I say, bollocks? The English civil war 1642-57, had nothing to do with the War of the Roses (late-1300s, to 1487) which was what inspired A Song of Ice and Fire. Fun fact: the bloodiest day in world history occured in the war of the roses, 28,000 people dying in a single battle
Fly Beep That’s not it, the British isles are Ireland and Great Britain, on the British Isles there are two countries, Ireland (part of the island or Ireland) and the UK (all of the island of Great Britain and the northern part of the island of Ireland).
I tried to explain to an American that David Tennant was British because he’s Scottish. They just kept saying he was Scottish not English and I just gave up. so no I don’t think some Americans know the difference.
no, the two fingered salute was first recorded in miners strikes in the early 20th century, using it to tell the news crews to go away, while the myth about captured archers is bollocks, simply because the French would just execute captured archers as they had no ransom value, unlike captured nobles
+Field Marshal Fry Actually the two finger salute dates back to Roman times. There are accounts of it being used as a vulgar gesture, the V-sign representing a roman word beginning with V which was offensive - though in all honesty I can't remember the exact latin word.
Aaron Brudenell I think that is the single finger that you're thinking of, which originated in ancient Greece and meant "you like it up the arse", though I am certain the miners trike was when it was first recorded in Britain
Field Marshal Fry By the seventies that was forgotten then (or this is revisionism), because back then it was remarked that he used the same sign as mediterranean cultures but with a different meaning.
+tehufn The long bow was upwards of 400 lbs. Seriously, they would train boys from a very young age to work up to that force, and they could fire off several arrows in 30 seconds. The strength and training required often resulted in skilled longbow men having disproportional muscle mass on their right arm. It sometimes even caused the shoulders to be uneven. Kind of like those joke drawings you might see about a guy who masturbates all the time, except it actually happened.
Unfortunately, that's almost certainly a myth about the origins of sticking two fingers up ('flicking the Vs'). The first ever record of the V-sign comes from a 1901 film (that's 500 years after Agincourt) -- it can be seen being used by a worker outside Parkgate ironworks in Rotherham, Yorkshire.
They used it to taunt the French knights into charging...then they would massacre them for about the 78th time in that long, long war. The French threatened to cut those fingers off...they also hated them because the knights were nobility and the archers were peasants, it is probably true.
No it's real. English archers were some of the best and killed many French troops. So if any were caught, they're index and middle fingers were removed so they couldn't draw a bow
Ionlymadethistoleavecoments I heard that was just one of those historical fallacies, like Columbus proving the earth was round. I could be mistaken, though.
As a Brit this was well funny and I feel for siobahn because whenever I go on holiday to America to see cousins there’s more of a language barrier than you’d think like he was so confused when I asked where the bin was
I think it's one of those 'nobody really knows' things, but it kinda makes sense - with the invading English army on foreign soil, it made sense for the French to cut off the captured archer's fingers and send him back rather than kill him. Pretty smart tactics actually - the English would have to feed an extra mouth that was effectively useless to them, just a drain on resources.
Thomas Longrigg my orchestra teacher actually told us that's what they did but I could never completely verify. she was a brit so I kinda took her word for it
I'm impressed by how little Americans knows of the outside world. I mean, I'm not british or anything. But I know about the danish civil wars back in the viking era. The war of roses (althorugh tbh, first time I heard of it was because of the PS2 game "Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelist Of The Roses"), amercian history, Persian, Greek, Roman, arabic etc...
+aahelo It's sad that this is the kind of representation "Americans" get, because it's just a stereotype. Not all of us are like hat, and I take offense when people from other countries continually slam "Americans" based on stupid comedy videos like this....
whomee2 Don't misunderstand me. I in no way meant to put all americans in the same box, saying they are all ignorant/stupid. I just think it may be because of the education system. I mean, it's not your fault for not knowing something no one told you about. I like americans as a people (maybe not so much as a nation, since I consider the political system very flawed. But that's an enterily different subject).
whomee2 I get it. The media is very manipulative. The choose what to feed us, what is good for us, and how we should follow their idea of what is a waste of time or what is considered stupid or smart etc..
+aahelo It's absolutely not a stereotype. I'm American, and I never cease to be amazed by people's ignorance of other cultures and history. Whenever I talk to a European I always, always, always get the impression that they know a fair deal of history, and know more about our country than the average American would know about theirs. Of course, there's smart, cultured people here, but they're few in far by comparison.
The Evil Toaster It absolutely is a stereotype. You pretty much just gave the definition.... a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
+Lee Farmer personally, I don't really care. What bothers me is when the rest of the world takes it seriously. For example - most of us don't wear shoes in our homes.
+Ben Ridsdale To be honest I don't get pissed off I just laugh internally at the misconceptions and correct them or hope someone does. I don't blame them for being interested in us. England, and the United Kingdom as a whole, are really interesting.
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"Not true about England and also not how communism works" - legitimately my favourite quote of any TH-cam video.
05:00
Americans normally have quite a weird view of communism lmao
That's what propaganda will do to ya.
I feel like them chanting USA and mocking Britain is her entire life at that office
Sam Womack every American on TH-cam talking about Britain ever.
I mean Britain did own the US at one point
So I think they should calm down with there chanting
ItzCrazyStuff and look how that turned out
J wow chill
Siobhan looked legitimately pissed while doing this.
You would be if you were British
Obi-wan Kenobi I am
i was
I was
Probably why it was never done again
“A license to watch television?! That’s a birthright!”
Most American thing said in this video.
Actually you only need a license to watch the BBC. Other channels are fair game
Incorrect. By owning a TV and having access to other channels you inherently have access to the BBC. You have to have a license no matter what.
Martiansfromthemoon literally isn’t the truth. As a recently graduated student (the biggest target for tv license spam letters) I had to research this as to not get fined the majority of my student loan. You do not have to pay your licence if you don’t watch or stream BBC content. The other channels are independently funded and don’t require a licence.
@@IfISpeakBigTrouble that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is the BBC's logic is if you own a TV and can access the other channels. You can also access BBC meaning you have to pay for a license. I'm not saying you need it to watch ITV or Channel 5. But if you are watching those channels, then you can for sure watch BBC which is all the care about
Martiansfromthemoon As long as you aren’t watching bbc content you don’t need a license. You said ‘you have to have a license no matter what’, which just isn’t true.
"The Scottish would be very pissed at you"
*THE SCOTTISH ARE VERY PISSED AT YOU*
I almost tried to write an email saying how wrong he is until I saw that the video is quite old
That's a fact. A'm gonnae bring uilleam wallace back tae lee 'n' gang tae war against america.
I'm Scottish and I don't even like irn bru
the bed is cuz they changed the recipe?
@@notabed800 The disappointment in you and my respect for you are one in the same.
It took me 2 min to realise that it was not a sketch.
Shishira K Herle ik i was watching it to see when someone’s head would explode or something
Yep. GREAT BRITAIN GREAT BRITAIN. What? The A Americans can do it but the British cant?!?
I still don't know if it's a sketch or not
*realize
Christopher Celeste no realise is the english spelling not american english
In London, we actually don't use cars that often. Instead, we actually ride horses of which occasionally carry carriages along dimly lit streets.
Grammer Police I'm late, but I know! London is just cars and people getting ran over by them.
yeah, when i was a wee lad, i wa' nearly run down by me own ooncle, but luckly i had mah lucky horse shoe, so i throo it and i survived, i did, but, i mean, the horse died so, that was bad for the family bank account
Archbishop Edmund of Abingdon cobblestone roads of course
No.
mango man2004 is this english or is it something else
I love how Siobahn was just constantly correcting everyone 😂
I would too
She was kinda upset.
Siobhán*
No hard feelings against the guys, but She deserves an award for putting up with all of that sh*t!
She was wrong about "English Muffins" though. We do have those here. Possible they originated in the US but that seems unlikely given that we just call them muffins. If we need to distinguish them from the baked kind we call them toaster muffins
TJMaxx is called TKMaxx in the UK because the company wanted to avoid confusion with the British shop T J Hughes. I'm guessing they choose 'k' as it is the next letter in the alphabet.
huh didn't know that
It's only one x in America
the more you know
Jeff Goldbroom no there’s not lol
In germany it is also called tkmaxx though
Ok, I know that Siobhan said she didn't want this happening again...
But please can we have it again?
SpazSpy she clearly hates it though
Cameron Trivett Not HATES as such, more... Dislikes.
I know exactly how she feels. It pisses me off when Americans try to attempt my accent.
Seamus Aindriu O'Coran Well I find it hilarious.
I've heard some Americans do good accents, but most I've heard sound like someone is strangling an Australian teenager. I also hate it when Americans try to use the word "Bloody" like we do. It just sounds wrong
I also think Siobhan killed Pat. But I also kind of think that Trapp saw her do it and he was like... "please! PLEASE Let me take credit...!" And Siobhan was like *looks around, trying to make sure like he's really this stupid* and then is like "Yeah... *shrugs* sure..."
You what
Ok, fine, this is my new head cannon now!
The most american thing was when they called britain communist.
What? There's a place that isn't the USA? Get outta here with this commie bs
Ik why do so many of them think even the most mild socialism is full on communism lol
@@flamingarbre1284 because Red Spook
@@flamingarbre1284 By american logic, every welfare country is communist.
I think Siobhan killed Pat
Alpha Lizalfos true that
😂😂 true
Yes lol
Curiosity kills the Pat
so Trapp is actually innocent, you mean?
I love how pissed off Siobhan seems throughout the entire video ahahahaha
I would be too if they were mocking my country, which they are.
I'm pretty sure that was the joke, she looked like she had some genuine fun lol
Yeah I've lost a bit of respect for her now. How does she cope with hecklers. Can't stand the heat (I'm British by the way, I loved the accents. )
we do have english muffins in england they just aren't called english muffins, like how canadian bacon isn't called canadian bacon in canada
Tom Berry wait, there's a thing called 'Canadian bacon'?!?!?
isnt Canadian bacon just bacon like we have in England, i know american bacon is like little rectangular strips so it strikes me that america is the odd one out and thus we should be saying american bacon and normal bacon.
canadian bacon is back bacon like we have here in england but americans think of streaky bacon as normal bacon and back bacon as canadian bacon
Tom Berry but if their bacon is the minority how can it be the "normal bacon".......oh i think i was accidentally bacon racist
to americans its the normal stuff not to us or canadians but were talking about americans here you bacon racist
Why didn't this became a series. Is like "um, actually", but xenophobic
Because no British person ever wants it to happen ever again
Archie Maclean-Bristol that’s a lie please let it happen
And they could have branched off to other countries
I think Siobhan left College Humor.
She said "this is never happening again" at the end of the video.
We had several Civil Wars in reality if you count the Wars of the Roses and that business with Matilda
Depends on the definition of civil war you use but yeah I could see that
my favorite is the roundheads vs the cavaliers. they actually lopped off king Charles' head at the end and then stitched it back on together so that his family could mourn his corpse. that's what i call British brutality, savage but civilized.
Dont talk about my 22nd Grate grandmother like that
@@bezretmet basic history that his head was cut off, i dont understand how it is brutality to sew the head back on for his family to bury him, the heads of traitors were usually put on spikes on london bridge, but it was actually an act of kindness as technically he was a traitor.
Technically there were thousands of miniature civil wars around the country.
I watched this and said "what the fuck is a T J max"
same 😂
Yeah same
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FLIPPING EXACTLY
Imperator Houlihan yeah sameh
Em "Top of the morning" is an Irish stereotype, not British. Also not something anyone says in Ireland either but still. No association with Britain at all.
What about Northern Ireland.
Jayda C
I knew someone would say that! Top o' the morning is an Irish stereotype. Not British, regardless of NI.
+Jayda C When he said Ireland that means both North and South of the border as we both have it in the name.
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The guv'na and all that is British cockney. Not the "top o' tha marnin tih ya"
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The sterotype is just mornin' guv'na. Without the top of.
Mike: “I mean she wasn’t THAT great”
British people: so you’ve chosen death?
Well I mean she couldn't drive
I legitimately said 'death to trapp' when he said that, so...
Well.... After what happened to Harry, I wouldn't say he's wrong.
@@gailstepo69 she wasn't driving
@@ren.67 which specific thing cause a lot of things have happened
As a British person, i am offended by everything.
+Voltaire but you would never admit and politely nod along not wanting to cause a fuss but later on writing a strongly worded review on trip advisor.
All Internet Girls Are Fake Voltaire (the picture) is a French person
+Shannon-Marie Clerkin That is amazingly accurate.
Legitimate British person
Wait a minute! You're Voltaire! You're not English!
IMPOSTER. GUARDS, GUARDS, A FRENCH SPY HAS INFILTRATED THE CAMP.
1:05 perfectly shows the face Europeans make whenever Americans start the "USA USA" chant!
+ThePixelPanzer It's typically done _as_ a joke because of the responses it gets.
Perpetuating stereotypes, as a joke.
Me, as a US citizen, don't really think about it. I see myself as a human. Nothing more. The US is merely an arbitrarily-defined line that encompasses the landmass I live on.
+Minor Elite I like your world view, I think sometimes people get so wrapped up in where they come from, what language they speak and what culture they have, that they forget that we are all human
+Philip Zeplin "Vive France!" Oh no, I guess that's high art.
That's the face anyone makes
Minor elite does not believe in his rights as a citizen. He is merely a denizen of an arbitrarily defined land mass.
Do Americans know the difference between Britain and England?
+Dat Yognaught Do Brits know the difference between USA and New York or Texas?
Jstoney127 yes but Americans always say British and then stereotypically English things
Dat Yognaught
And Brits always say Americans and then say some stereotypical New Yorker(Northern) or Texas(southern) things.
Jstoney127 yeah but America is a country, England, Scotland and Wales are different countries and Britain is not correct for England
Dat Yognaught
But england, scotland and wales are part of Great BRITAIN and are recognized as British. Therefore, the English are British so stop complaining. Besides who cares. Ya'll have four countries inside one country. It makes no sense! Either be one country and be cool with people calling you brits or be independent countries and people will generally refer to you as w/e you want.
I am highly offended about people not knowing what Irn bru is because I’m Scottish
Irn Bru is good
If i could irn bru would be my diet goddamit diabetes 😣😣
Ah Scotland, accomplished 4 things ever, penicillin, television, irn bru and tea cakes
Iran bra is great but they changed the recipe
@@aaronmclean1831 they have achieved a lot more ... to get a full list watch the grand tour s1 forgot which episode but it's somewhere
i love how all of these questions are pretty much about england. also i feel like most americans asociate britain with just england, like the united kingdom is made up of 4 countries...
john bobson were pretty much just one big country through same laws don't need passport to travel between etc
Ehm.. not really. Thats like saying northern ireland and the republic pretty much 1 country whick they are not. Careful hahah dont say that to a scottish person
john bobson yeah I know Scottish people hate the English so do Irish and some Welsh people as well
Its not that they hate the english i think it juat annoys them when people think scotland is a part of england haha like my family is half scottish and half english
Yeah I'm half English and half Irish
I AM SCOTTISH AND WHAT HE SAID ABOUT IRN-BRU IS A LIE IT IS THE BEST DRINK EVER
I'm English and I like Irn - Bru I don't get why people hate on it.
+koala man Irn-Bru is great once you get used to it. At first it's a bit of a shock.
+koala man
Couldn't agree more! I'm drinking one as I type!
Irn Bru is the best drink!
+koala man irn bru is the dog's danglies
She looked legitimately pissed the whole time
William Snow was*
Yeah, half of the time i was wondering what Siobhan was thinking when there was terrible British accents being attempted. I feel like it's the same way an Australian like myself feels when they hear someone make an atrocious attempt at an Australian accent, mild annoyance with a bit of internal facepalming.
William Snow I’m British and this did kind of piss me off
Fintan Mead what exactly is there to be pissed off about???
Butter Fly just saying I kind of agree with siobhan and it’s a bit racist isn’t it, I know it’s comedy but still if an American did a fake Indian accent in front of an Indian person they might be pissed and there would be controversy. I’m just saying I was kind of pissed off
* Video about Britain *
Americans: USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Wait, it's called T.J Max in America?
+cornishphilosopher Tom and Jerrys (to the) Max
+cornishphilosopher TJ Maxx is from the company called TJX. TK Maxx is just the British version for some reason. ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯
+Countdown Bleck (Mr12603) ikr me too
+cornishphilosopher It was renamed to TKMaxx here so not to be confused with TJ Hughes (idk if you've ever been to a TJ Hughes, there aren't very many) which is another department store but not affiliated with TJX. The company is called TJ Maxx
+cornishphilosopher There are lots of brands named differently in Britain compared to the rest of the world, I have no idea why. Walkers crisps = Lays chips in the rest of the world, Lynx body spray = Axe body spray; and loads of other brands you can get anywhere else but in Britain. Maybe something to do with trademark law or something...
Siobhan sounds like a well spoken Australian. And I'm australian.
yeh, i thought she was aussie at first
i always thought she was South African for some reason
Erin Fiorillo I can see how you'd get that too. I'm thinking she's just spent a lot of time in a lot of countries.
I guess. I could tell she was british but she does sound Aussie (I'm also Australian
She is definately British as she was born in South West England.
haha I love their impressions of us, it's so shit it's funny
Then you got the joke. Congrats.
oo watch out for this guy
+Jordy Stewart banter
Top-notch banter!
just a question, apparently you Americans have something called biscuits and gravy, what is that? not in a weird way but in England gravy is something you put on your Sunday dinner and with bangers and mash, and biscuits are the equivalent of cookies?
“The spellings are wrong” SO TRUE
We have actually had a few civil wars
Alex Peterson yeah but the only ones people ever talk about are the wars of the roses and the English civil war
Alex Peterson Wait... do American schools teach mostly American history? Because there's only 200 years of it and I'm not sure how you could dag that over five years.
Well, not English, more Greek Egyptian chinese/Mongolian and a bunch of shit from WW2
+Christine Chang You learn chinese and mongolian? which periods?
We do romans greeks and egyptions over three years and the Britain for nine years (if you don't do gcse history you only get do 7 years and end at the first world war). I love Chinese history! I wish I could learn about that in school and not just the internet.
I'm offensive and I find this British
Aha are you actually British?
+Kali Rowan No, they're offensive.
+Kali Rowan you just britished me ._.
Oh not you ffs
Nnnnnnnnczcnn
Brit here, cringing so damn hard throughout all of this... I wanted to hug Siobhan and tell her it’s okay 😭
USA! USA! USA!
USA! USA! USA!
YA WANKA Oooo American ooOoo I'm British mate
roight wuts oll dis den
Vadim now this is a true Brit Idk where they get all that ‘governor’ shit from this is the language of a true Brit.
"Not true about England and not how Communism works." That got me good
Oh she's from England? Even as a fellow English person I didn't realise that. She has one of those half American, half British accents that make her sound like a drunk Australian.
+SyndexAwesome YES, I thought she was from New Zealand or something until this
PREACH!!!
+SyndexAwesome Don't all Australians sound drunk..?
Sorry, I had to.
+SyndexAwesome as a drunk Australian I find this offensive
+seznova +CUB3M4ST3R Hahahahaha
They wouldn't make fun of us if they weren't jealous :)
nice profile pic dude
You know bro, they don't even have custard creams ! XD
Then I guess Europeans are jealous as fuck of the U.S.A.
+shagtastic pork chop yes we do
No you don't
*America, talking to other countries* : "We had a Civil War"
*Britain* : "Cute"
Honestly though pretty much most countries have had one of those at some point
@@merren2306 Pretty sure everyone has
@@merren2306 yea but weve had like 15
Are people really bragging about how many times they’ve had to murder their fellow countrymen?
@@RyanN777 Da
Wikipedia time! TK Maxx has that name in the UK to avoid confusion with another British store, TJ Hughes.
I feel very unBritish watching this as I don't have an RP accent, I have a southern accent despite being from Yorkshire. I do say bollocks however and I don't know anyone else who does.
Amber Shoffren technically an RP advent isn't particularly British since it only appeared after language reform, before which no-one could understand anyone else and we all sounded pretty weird tbf, search for a video about Shakespeare in op (original pronunciation), it's actually pretty eye-opening :)
Amber Shoffren I say bollocks. Don't worry, you're not alone! :-)
Amber Shoffren I very often wonder whether I would fit in more in America, because I naturally have an RP accent, despite living on the border of South Yorkshire, and 18 years of watching mostly American TV shows and following American celebrities has Americanised my accent.
Amber Shoffren I want to say OMG ME TO I WAS BORN IN YORKSHIRE AND NOW LIVE WESSEX
Amber Shoffren Manchester here I say bollocks
For this British episode, shoudn't the word Collegehumor at the top of the screen have two u's in it?
+NotNathan college huumor? that can't be right :)
+Kaan Atakan Humour
+NotNathan wtf we spell humor like that don't we......?
In Britain.....?
Or I just cant spell.........
Adam Scholes its humour in Britain and humor in us. It's ok though I get confused by it to
+Adam Scholes It's 'humour' in British English.
The British civil war (War of the Roses) is what George R.R Martin based 'Game of Thrones' on, thought you yanks would have known that.
I'm pretty sure she's referring to the war between the parliamentarians and roundheads
+Guy Potts Roundheads are the parliamentarians. Royalists/cavaliers vs roundheads/parliamentarians/rebels. In England we have a ton of civil wars though
+Ryan Pugh You mean the English civil war?? And the English civil war and War of the Roses are hundreds of years apart.
Bassmint They are both civil wars though. Before that we had the peasant's revolt and the baron's wars
+Ryan Pugh You would be thinking of the Wars of the Roses, a quite different era. Also, while GRR Martin took some parallels from this conflict (e.g. the names of Stark and Lannister: York and Lancaster), he says he was most inspired by the series of novels Le Rois maudits, which cover the 14th Century in France, the end of the Capetian dynasty and the rise of Valois; a period with a very similar feel of dynastic rivalry.
I’m surprised that Siobhan didn’t point out that the way CollegeHumor was spelt was wrong because it was one display in the room. (Although she did say that the Oxford American dictionary’s spellings were wrong.)
color, armor, humor
About the english civil wars: way to flippin many.
+GetShrektAnator Runescape Three
War of the Roses
Cousin's War
Civil War
No we only have had one official civil war
+jonathan hart I like the big clock what goes *dong*
jonathan hart
I can tell you that the War of the Roses and the Cousin's War were by any definition Civil Wars
Molotov Fire-breath
That is Big Ben, which resides in the Queen Elizabeth Tower
0:23 Siobhan suddenly disappeared
Good catch. What the hell happened there, I wonder?
they probably just used a cutaway from before they introduced her
Z. Z
lol no you guys, they said "the three contestants" and to not confuse Siobhan, the one saying the answers and questions, as a contestant, closed in on the three contestants.
you can see the end of the couch though (where she sits when she enters)
What the fucking fuck - I have muffins for breakfast on a regular basis
+FrankyBabes I know right muffins ftw oh and crumpets
+Michael Castle why do I feel like the only British person that fucking hates crumpets
+Ryan Gifford-May you are not alone, but it also depends on what type of crumpet you get.
+FrankyBabes I really don't understand this, I've heard they ARE British, and that they ARE NOT British, vehemently, by both sides. Someone, clear this shit up for me!
+The Evil Toaster I think maybe the idea is that they didn't originate here or something. They seem to have been a central-European development on bread. The Wikipedia article on English Muffins is quite enlightening.
Here's something thats not british....
ireland !
Yep and neither is Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is only part of the UK.
Correct its part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ireland is part of the British isles, so therefore the Irish are British.
Point?
Pie man you should go to the Emerald Isle "Ireland" and call any Irish person you find British and see how far you get. In one under educated comment you just ignored hundreds of years of oppression, religious bias, acts of incredible violence all because the British did not think the Irish were British. Education on simple facts can stop dumbass comments
Fun fact about the British (myself included). We have November the 5th, where we celebrate the failure to overthrow the government. Why is that interesting? - well, most cultures celebrate a great revolution (independance day, Bastile day, etc etc etc). But the uk celebrates quite the opposite. It explains a lot about the British Psyche....
Another way to look at it is that we celebrate the failure of the plot that would have resulted in a great deal of death and a far-from-democratic change of government.
+Rapscallion2009 really the only difference would have been the religion, from protestant to catholic.
+Rapscallion2009 To be honest, we celebrate it more as a folk tale rather than some political statement.
Just an excuse to use the newly imported chinese fireworks we discovered from colonisation back in the day.
And now it's just became tradition.
Isn't there some ancient British holiday to celebrate Celtic independence from the Holy Roman Empire?
+Rapscallion2009 Whenever I celebrate Guy Fawkes, I've always celebrated the idea of a man standing up to an oppressive government. Though I'm pretty sure my dad celebrates the failure of the gunpowder plot. Either way it's great fun and a wonderful excuse to set off fireworks and have a laugh :D
+Rapscallion2009 Penny for the guy
siobhan
and English girl with an Irish name who sounds Australian
Okay lol but she doesn't sound Australian in the slightest
Dylan porter dude I always thought she was Aussie cause literally depending on where you live in Australia most of us sound like that ahahhaha
Is that an Irish name? Huh. Neat.
Saoirse Someone people like you piss me off
*an
I've heard some bad impressions of an English accent by americans before but bloody hell that was shite.
+Nathan Worrall It was intentional. There are sometimes Americans who seriously try to do an English accent, then there are those who intentionally do it horribly just to elicit offended responses, such as yours.
Minor Elite Sometimes it's hard to tell.
Nathan Worrall
Indeed.
+Minor Elite No, not indeed. People are so quick to get offended that they can't take a joke which meant no harm.
Darkness7508
See, that's the thing. The person _giving_ the joke, does not _feel_ what the other side feels.
Many people _GIVING_ jokes don't realize the line between joke and insult.
It's not as simple as "I didn't mean it"...
Zac might have lost the game, but Siobhan was the real loser here
Wondercraft if you are from the UK you would understand
"You had a civil war?!" Yeah we actually had three and a glorious revolution (we're counting Stephen and Matilda and the wars of the roses)
The war of the roses doesn't count. It was between nobility.
Alexander The grape ah yes, the glorious revolution, such a glorious glorious revolution, where us the dutch sent an army over to you lot so our prince can take the throne of britain, the result of the british losing wars to the dutch even though they had massive advantages, where the coldstream guard had to stand down to the (incredibly glorious and righteous)dutch blue guard. The time when us, the amazing dutch people, as a result of kicking britains bum in previous wars effectively occupied britain for a while. Ah yes, it was truly a glorious affair... ALL HAIL ORANGE-NASSAU, THE NETHERLANDS SHALL PREVAIL, ORANGE ABOVE! Ahem... sorry, the patriotism got to me there ;)
What about the jacobite revolution
Alexander The grape Britain wars don't count come on u guys are the French with out the USA backing u up you wouldn't even. Be a country
braxton b. Back when those wars happened France and the US weren't helping
Irn bru is bad?... EX-FUCKING-SCUSE ME!?!?!?
I thought you wrote Scouse not scuse
Irn-Bru tastes like liquid bubblegum marinated in expired Lucozade.
The taste of Scottish Pride is Whiskey, not some bloody mouthwash ;)
alostguy25 Fuck you too buddy.
Oho! What have we here? A feisty Canadian? :)
As a Scottish person I must say. TRAPP YA BETTER SHUT IT M8 OR WE'LL PAN YER WINDAES WITH HAGGIS AND KILTS AND THEN WE'LL GO HUNT FOR NESSIE AND PLAY BAGPIPES! FREEEEDOOOOOOMMMM*I'm adding in stereotypes sue me*
+BuzzsawMoviesLtd *aggressively drinks Irn Bru*
+BuzzsawMoviesLtd Didn't know it was possible to drink the drink of the gods angrily
It's just drinking it whilst angrily looking at someone XD
**tips bonnet**
Ruby-Lou Thank you very much :P
I feel like Pat was there solely to piss off Siobahn. Because otherwise he didn't really do anything at all
400 lbs? are you shooting Odysseus' bow? damn
80 to 150, 400, really that difference is so small it's basicly fair to be ignored
Omg I lived in England as a child and still have the accent because I’m always visiting, but this was the funniest American fake British accents ever.
B P Same way Arnold still does.
You don’t have to keep visiting to keep your accent
Jack Harkness Most kids who move to different countries slowly lose their accents especially if they're under 9
Kitty Olives s
Lm Golden lol no.
First of all, you can be born somewhere and immediately leave, being born somewhere does not indicate how long you stay. Also, accents don’t develop at birth...
why have the yanks claimed bagels? they predate America ffs, they come from Poland.
+Sun Wukong USA USA USA!!
Jstoney127 I hear you have to chant it to remember what country you live in.
***** lol
+Sun Wukong they come from European Jews which the rest of ya all killed, and the remnants all came here.
+Sun Wukong to be honest it's very hard to think of an american food that is completely their own. Hamburgers are german (clue's in the name), hot dogs are german, doughnuts are dutch. the list goes on.
3:45
My entire family: EXCUSE ME WHAT.
WOW. I seriously was thinking I was watching Buzzfeed untill the CH logo appeared at the end.
+Kaiser collegehumor's always been a clickbait site, and their CHTV was actually a very small part of their site until the last few years.
with some of the leading CHTV creative writers(ie sarah, dan, jake+amir, vinny, etc) gone, they're going back to the clickbait route. sucks, but what're you going to do?
+superanimeniac Wait a sec. I thought Jake & Amir still work in LA office of CH. No?
potugadu I'm not entirely sure. I don't think they're involved in writing for collegehumor anymore though.
+Demon1Robe "Simpsons did it"
Or when the CH logo appeared at the very beginning
I'm Irish and the magority of things apply to all of Ireland too. Its hilarious to see them react to the tv licence fact.
Depression . com
Majority*
License*
👻Dia duit
Japan has the same thing
Poland has a TV licence. No one pays it :D
Hasn't England had two civil wars? Does the war of the roses not count?
Technically, I suppose - although the War of the Roses was more of a war between the nobility.
Possibly... Although a civil war is supposed to be a war between a divided country and as Ian said the roses was just between nobility :)
is northern Ireland part of Britain or England?
+Sean Kelly It is part of neither, there is Great Britain made of England, Wales and Scotland and there is the United Kingdom which includes Northen Ireland. And also, thank GOD for not saying Ireland is part of the UK. We, uh, kinda fucked them up a bit. Sorry, lads.
Well there was a big war between the Catholics and Protestants effectively.
“What’s Not Actually British?”
The British Museum
jacksepticeye would be proud of the into 😂
i thought i was the only one that noticed
you mean intro -_-
Freeze IKR XD
Awoken Arsenal wow people make mistakes
Ok so?
It's not true that the queen owns all the swans there is one small part of England where a Viking law says they belong to everyone!
*ummm actually
best part about this is that it took you three months to correct your reply lmao
2* your math skills suck
Actually 9-6=3
it was a joke idiot
Shevan (not sure i spelled that right) is so done with their shit.
For the record, it's Siobhan. One of the Irish names with an absurd mismatch between spelling and pronunciation.
Simen Moen Thanks.
+Simen Moen It's pronounced fine if you read it in Irish. It just looks weird when reading it through an English filter
+goofy goober Fun fact: That is because Irish still holds more to the old Gaelic than English does... and the Gaelic was formed by the Romans giving the entire UK area (called Britannia, Hibernia, etc) an alphabet, and the Britons (as the Romans called them, at least in the first century AD/CE) making up their own language, probably without allowing the Romans to help them. So, the fact that a great deal of Gaelic does not sound as it looks, is not surprising at all.
+adrianloveslucius There's no Gaelic in English except for a handful of loan words. English is a West Germanic language, Irish is a Celtic language. They're totally separate branches of Indo-European.
English developed from the languages of the Anglo-Frisian (think: Aenglish) tribes from what is now The Netherlands who came to Britain starting in the 5th century or so. And was later influenced by Scandinavian (Vikings - also Germanic) and Norman (French - Romance family speakers) invaders.
The various native tribes on the islands of Britain, Ireland, Man, Guernsey, etc. had their own languages (the Celtic family) before the Romans got there. The Irish had their own runic-descended writing system (Ogham) before later picking up the Roman alphabet.
I'm here for Siobhan, truly missed British role model
Ahmed Alnajar you saying it like she’s dead
That poor woman. She had to sit through those idiots mocking her culture. Things like this make us look so bad.
Are you American?
+Saffron Mischief Yes.
+Saffron Mischief no, i think he/she is from tumblr
ChocolateFishBrains Thank for not stereotyping us or mocking us then. Too many people think you guys are rude, ignorant, sterotipical and really just idiots. I wish both of are people would just stop.
They're joking. It's a joke. If people are really this anal about it then they need to ease up. (No pun intended)
I'm all for these cartoonishly fun racist British jokes, but I feel like if they did the same thing with say, jamaica, china, mexico, etc, people would be losing their shit.
Yeah but they're both of pretty similar heritage so it's not really the same thing
+Richard Cano But CH wouldn't do that. They would have to hire someone of Jamaican, Chinese or Mexican ancestry first - like that's gonna happen!
+Richard Cano I think one of the main reasons this is okay is that a lot of British humour tends to be aimed at Britain anyway, at least in my experience
Eh just goes to show that you British have a sense of humor.
+Richard Cano It's because we really don't give two shits.
the british civil war inspired game of thrones.
that proves it was way cooler
Thats not true. The wars of the roses inspired Game of Thrones. Which was quite similar to a civil war, but not quite
As manphelan said, it was the War of the Roses.
Wrong. Or, should I say, bollocks?
The English civil war 1642-57, had nothing to do with the War of the Roses (late-1300s, to 1487) which was what inspired A Song of Ice and Fire. Fun fact: the bloodiest day in world history occured in the war of the roses, 28,000 people dying in a single battle
Which part? The story part or titties part?
***** I can't remember where, but it was the bloodiest something
I like that the image for ‘bollocks’ is Mr Bean
How to start an Internet fight:
1) Comment
2) wait...
I am a comment and i find a offensive
+LuxDeG *an
How dare you
+Billy Wintergreen i`m so triggered
i am so offended omg how dare you fuck off
I'm Scottish, and I'm very pissed
IRN BRU NO.1
You sir have made my day 😂
I'm english, and irn bru is fantastic
It used to be easy enough to get in Ireland. Now its not so common 😢
+Mystical Rahz ALL HAIL IRN BRU
they have no fucking idea what is going to unfold... This is the only excuse we got to light the candles on trident
I am Scottish, trapp and grant I'm coming for you about the irn bru
Superstar shield ahahahaha I read you comment then they said it and I got salty
We Scots are coming for you watch out
Legit shocked this didn’t get a whole show on Dropout
Dude, I love IRN BRU!
Floris Bordewijk, I've lived in Scotland my whole life, an I have never tried it. :)
i can't have irn-bru ;-;
Floris Bordewijk I know right it’s the best drink ever
Alex Clarke why not
Floris Bordewijk Irn Bru is my life
Real question is do Americans know the difference between the United Kingdom and the British Isles...?
Sketchy half of the GenY Brits don't know the difference.
Putting it very simply: British Isles are near Europe while United Kingdom also includes overseas stuff.
Fly Beep That’s not it, the British isles are Ireland and Great Britain, on the British Isles there are two countries, Ireland (part of the island or Ireland) and the UK (all of the island of Great Britain and the northern part of the island of Ireland).
I tried to explain to an American that David Tennant was British because he’s Scottish. They just kept saying he was Scottish not English and I just gave up. so no I don’t think some Americans know the difference.
Sketchy I'm British and don't know
no, the two fingered salute was first recorded in miners strikes in the early 20th century, using it to tell the news crews to go away, while the myth about captured archers is bollocks, simply because the French would just execute captured archers as they had no ransom value, unlike captured nobles
+Field Marshal Fry Actually the two finger salute dates back to Roman times. There are accounts of it being used as a vulgar gesture, the V-sign representing a roman word beginning with V which was offensive - though in all honesty I can't remember the exact latin word.
Aaron Brudenell
I think that is the single finger that you're thinking of, which originated in ancient Greece and meant "you like it up the arse", though I am certain the miners trike was when it was first recorded in Britain
+Field Marshal Fry Alas, Churchill never saw the miner strike _early 20th_ and imagined something different with the same two fingers.
Adamast
he only did that once or twice before he was corrected and starting doing what we now consider the "peace" sigh
Field Marshal Fry By the seventies that was forgotten then (or this is revisionism), because back then it was remarked that he used the same sign as mediterranean cultures but with a different meaning.
I'd love to see a Aussie version of this.
I'm Scottish so when they said the iron bru thing I was a bit annoyed
Mewtwo We don't have that shit over here. I thought the same thing...sounds like a strong coffee lol
I’m Scottish but I was not annoyed about it they don’t have it over there
Same deppresticsls
It's only 100-160lbs on a war bow. Not 400...
Just saying.
+tehufn Still 160lbs on one finger? USA USA USA!!
+Jstoney127 Americans never used bows
Legionare Lets Plays
Yeh, because guns are better.
+Jstoney127 no, because by the time that the americans had come along, he english no longer used bows as gunpowder firearms had been invented
+tehufn The long bow was upwards of 400 lbs. Seriously, they would train boys from a very young age to work up to that force, and they could fire off several arrows in 30 seconds. The strength and training required often resulted in skilled longbow men having disproportional muscle mass on their right arm. It sometimes even caused the shoulders to be uneven. Kind of like those joke drawings you might see about a guy who masturbates all the time, except it actually happened.
Unfortunately, that's almost certainly a myth about the origins of sticking two fingers up ('flicking the Vs'). The first ever record of the V-sign comes from a 1901 film (that's 500 years after Agincourt) -- it can be seen being used by a worker outside Parkgate ironworks in Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Jez Quayle Wouldn't that imply that it was in common usage at the time. I mean it's not something you would photograph or talk about
They used it to taunt the French knights into charging...then they would massacre them for about the 78th time in that long, long war. The French threatened to cut those fingers off...they also hated them because the knights were nobility and the archers were peasants, it is probably true.
Thought this was going a sketch, but so glad it was legit! Want to see an Um Actually themed episode that's just this
Iron Bru Coffee and beer HOW IS THAT NOT A THING!
YEEEE
Irn bru already has a lot of caffeine in it so there's no point to make it a coffee and caffeine and alcohol isn't healthy if mixed so no beer
Actually in Scotland we use irn bru as mixer for jagger bombs and call ots haggis bombs also vodka and irn bru is lovely
Actually, the story about the long-bowmen starting the finger gesture is probably bollox.
No it's real. English archers were some of the best and killed many French troops. So if any were caught, they're index and middle fingers were removed so they couldn't draw a bow
Ionlymadethistoleavecoments I heard that was just one of those historical fallacies, like Columbus proving the earth was round. I could be mistaken, though.
+Shawn Ravenfire I too could be mistaken...
+Ionlymadethistoleavecoments
Wouldn't they just kill them? i mean just because you lost two fingers doesn't mean your'e completely useless
+Mr .Fixit again, I may be wrong, but my understanding that it was like POW's
'We'll catch you on the flip-flop governor'
As a Brit this was well funny and I feel for siobahn because whenever I go on holiday to America to see cousins there’s more of a language barrier than you’d think like he was so confused when I asked where the bin was
that thing about the archers fingers, I believe, was shown to be a myth in an episode of QI. It's a good story though
Thomas Longrigg indeed I believe the first record of the sign was a young British lad going of to the front lines in the Great War
I think it's one of those 'nobody really knows' things, but it kinda makes sense - with the invading English army on foreign soil, it made sense for the French to cut off the captured archer's fingers and send him back rather than kill him. Pretty smart tactics actually - the English would have to feed an extra mouth that was effectively useless to them, just a drain on resources.
Thomas Longrigg cool story bro
Thomas Longrigg my orchestra teacher actually told us that's what they did but I could never completely verify. she was a brit so I kinda took her word for it
The biggest problem is that the English archers drew their bows with three fingers, not two.
4:48 that was the perfect time to make a joke about how the american revolution cost the entire french tresuery.
I love how the britain thing was Sherlock Holmes played by Benedict Cumberbatch
this is every single discord server with a high US to low UK ratio
I love how Siobahn just becomes increasingly more infuriated as it goes on.
Irn Bru is Scottish and before ppl go crazy it is in Britain and makes me wanna live
so you're dead?
Charlie59876 yes
Ira bru is the shit man! I am from Aberdeen and it is probably the best drink I have had in my life.
I'm impressed by how little Americans knows of the outside world. I mean, I'm not british or anything. But I know about the danish civil wars back in the viking era. The war of roses (althorugh tbh, first time I heard of it was because of the PS2 game "Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelist Of The Roses"), amercian history, Persian, Greek, Roman, arabic etc...
+aahelo It's sad that this is the kind of representation "Americans" get, because it's just a stereotype. Not all of us are like hat, and I take offense when people from other countries continually slam "Americans" based on stupid comedy videos like this....
whomee2 Don't misunderstand me. I in no way meant to put all americans in the same box, saying they are all ignorant/stupid. I just think it may be because of the education system. I mean, it's not your fault for not knowing something no one told you about. I like americans as a people (maybe not so much as a nation, since I consider the political system very flawed. But that's an enterily different subject).
whomee2 I get it. The media is very manipulative. The choose what to feed us, what is good for us, and how we should follow their idea of what is a waste of time or what is considered stupid or smart etc..
+aahelo It's absolutely not a stereotype. I'm American, and I never cease to be amazed by people's ignorance of other cultures and history. Whenever I talk to a European I always, always, always get the impression that they know a fair deal of history, and know more about our country than the average American would know about theirs. Of course, there's smart, cultured people here, but they're few in far by comparison.
The Evil Toaster It absolutely is a stereotype. You pretty much just gave the definition....
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Anyone else see trapp have the idea of um actually during this episode? Lol
GO BRITISH PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!
Go where?
To Britainland
Keglanek But we're already there...
C Barnard British British woooooo go England we are power full BOOM
Knackgirl 2008 Please don't just mention England. Britain has other parts too, like Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
A question to Americans: Do you like being mocked/made fun of by media (i.e GTA)?
And even gta is scottish
We have so much to be made fun of...America
+Lee Farmer Lol who would enjoy being made fun of?
It's kinda true but kinda of funny at the same time
+Lee Farmer personally, I don't really care. What bothers me is when the rest of the world takes it seriously. For example - most of us don't wear shoes in our homes.
Am I the only one who gets really pissed off when Americans talk about England?
+Ben Ridsdale As a US citizen, no. I also get mad about it. But I also get mad when English individuals talk about the US.
No, it seems like every one of you does
Yes
+Ben Ridsdale Fuck England they slagged Irn Bru........ Bastards.
+Ben Ridsdale To be honest I don't get pissed off I just laugh internally at the misconceptions and correct them or hope someone does. I don't blame them for being interested in us. England, and the United Kingdom as a whole, are really interesting.
She’s mad that Oxford dictionary is not British, I’m mad that he called it pocket sized when it’s clearly not