Reminds me of a news report where in Wigan, police were called to a house due to a bomb threat. Instead of backing off or panicking, locals crowded around with beer to watch. They quite literally turned a *terror threat into a mid-morning piss up.*
Honestly, I've always found the battle tactics of the UK and allies far more interesting and way more insane. This first example that comes to mind is the time a magician used mirrors to make it look like an entire river had moved just so the bombers would miss. They also made a cardboard armies to through off enemy scouts, attempted to train dogs to bomb tanks (it didn't go well), and the British POW's delighted in annoying the f*ck out of their captors just because they could. The British army tactics during WW2 can be summed up as: Will it work? ... probably. Then why not? We were going to win by any means possible.
There was also a man who accidentally tapped into a German spy's radio signal and instead of - I don't know - telling the government used it to troll the sh*t out of Germany for as long as he could.
There was that time we dropped a dead homeless guy in an officer's uniform in the sea off the coast of Spain. With a briefcase full of falsified invasion plans. It made Gerry move entire divisions away from the intended Allied landing beaches.
My step-dad didn't taste a banana until he was 13yrs old, because they were so hard to come by during rationing. As a special treat, his mum once boiled a parsnip in some banana food flavouring that she'd managed to get hold of, then left it on a windowsill to cool down, before giving it to him. So, the most exotic dessert of his first 12 years was a boiled parsnip that they'd grown in the back yard. No wonder he was such a tight bugger.
We had turnips thinly sliced and sprinkled with sugar as a sweet , that was after rationing, . when it stopped it didn't mean things where in the shops, in the 50s chicken was still rare thats 5 years after the war . I rember going to school typical meal that was served twice a week was cheese pipe ( cheese and potatoe) and cabbage .the cabbage had pink bits in it still dont know what they where.
My mum used to tell me how happy she was when sugar became easier to get so she could have a sugar sandwich lol. She also kept a pig in the yard which they would slaughter for meat for xmas. She done this until the 70s when meat became more affordable. After all this she said it was the best days of her life because everyone helped each other and came together.
Ah yes, Getty Images, somehow owning the rights to photographs taken 50 years before the formation of their company. Hells, I think they've managed to procure the rights to photos from the 19th century...
UK copyright duration is life of the photographer plus seventy years. If you do the math on that, then yes, many 19th century photos would still be under copyright. The photographer only has to live for another fifty years after taking the photo, quite achievable for a young photographer at the end of the 19th century.
I mean. It's true X'D Like. In middle school (which occured during the 2008 recession), I was like; "Why aren't people revolting again? The government is demanding high taxes from everyone?" And the teacher legit got this glazed look for a good half second. Lol
@@colleennewholy9026 Must have had a bad history teacher the taxes themselves were just one of the issues it was taxation without representation, the British making laws against religions that fled to America to get away from the church of England, the British soldiers literally walking into peoples homes taking their food and sleeping in their beds, and many many more attacks on personal liberties that are essential to America today and in general individual freedom.
@@micahbell3075 Every country paid less in taxes back then than they do today so it's not fair to compare past American taxes to modern taxes. However it is fair to compare modern American and European taxes and it is fair to say America in some way had kept to it's low tax roots compared to the very high taxes of most European countries. Only a few countries can you earn a similar amount to what you make in America and pay less taxes most of those being in Asia like Hong Kong or Singapore. I personally think American taxes are to high but they are not bad enough to start a revolutionary war over especially when we are still democratic and can still lower are taxes through legislation. The biggest problems with Britain's taxes wasn't that they taxed the colonies for the most part America was fine with tariffs and import taxes the problem came when Britain started directly taxing Americans with out representation.
The English King and Queen stayed at Buckingham Palace. The Dutch Queen fled with her young children to Canada for their safety. I loved King George VI for staying, even after a bomb hit Buckingham and almost killed them. Afterwards he came out and checked the damage...
Well, that's because the Netherlands didn't have the geographical advantage of damn sea. It would have been incredibly dangerous for the royal family to stay in Holland like a bunch of sitting ducks. Having them captured or killed would certainly bring moral down not to mention give the Nazis leverage. The English could afford to not giving a fuck because they weren't the literal next door neighbours of Hitler's 1939/1945-war-extravaganza-fuckfest. Not to mention the Dutch tried to stay out of Germany's business because the army literally got around on bicycles (there are photographs of this) and they didn't feel the need to engage in a dick-measuringcontest.
I remember my grandpa telling me a story about his childhood. So, the farm his family owned was occupied by the SS and they almost sent his mum to a KZ. What did my grandpa do as a kid? He kept stealing chocolate from the SS and he was so proud of it.
My maternal grandpa was born in 1904 and was one of the calmest glass half-full guys I've ever met. I guess that is just a attitude you get when you survive two World Wars in your life time. My paternal grandma was born in 1932 so she was just a child during WW2 but her stories about how she lived in our city during the war are always very interesting and she is also very relaxed in the most awful situations that can possibly happen. She shattered her collar bone and left shoulder and still joked with the ambulance driver while being in a lot of pain. She calmly told them that her pain was probably a 8-9 out of 10 while still joking she is a badass.
Grey Flag my maternal grandma was 20 years younger than my grandpa and I'm the youngest child of my parents who were born in 1951 and 1952 and I was born in 1992 as the happy little accident after my two a lot older siblings. Yes my grandpa was already really old when he met my grandma and had my mother and her four siblings but he was married before and had 4 children with that women as well. Shit like this happens sometimes you know?
Dan Green they met when he was 40 and my grandma was 20 so he was 48 when my mom was born and over 60 when her youngest sister was born. He was a total badass I can tell you that! Also he had 5 children with my grandma and only four with his first wife but I don't know that much about my half-aunts and uncles as they would be about 80+ now and my mother hasn't met them since the 70ies or so.
Yeah. Me and my mom took care of my Grandma for the last few years of her life, and she was, no exaggeration, the most cheerful, polite and generally nice person I knew. But here’s the thing: she had some health problems with her old age, especially her leg, and we often asked her to rate her pain on a scale of 1-10, and on a very good day, she would be a 2 or 3. Usually she’d be a 4 or 5. Basically, I just realized she was in pretty much constant pain for years, and yet she still managed to be the most cheerful person I knew. Despite being the quintessential sweet old English cat lady, she was still one of the strongest people I knew.
I want to go to that museum, in my regular shirt and waistcoat getup, except all Union Jack'd up. A British flag waistcoat and shirt, just to see how America reacts when they get a taste of their own medicine. The only thing stopping me is the fact that they'll shoot me at the sound of my voice, nevermind what I'm wearing! My posh accent is a blessing and a curse.
The image that you see of the crown over "Keep Calm and Carry On" was designed at the time as a morale-boosting poster, but it was never actually used because they came to the conclusion t hat it wasn't necessary because the people had already internalised the concept.
Went to the Sea World in Orlando a few years ago and for some reason they wanted the crowd to sing the national anthem. I got a lot of dirty looks for proudly belting "God Save The Queen." 😂😂
Nathan-DTS It's not indoctrination it's national pride, something we can have because as little a fuck the government actually cares about us they still care about us more than the governments of other countries care about their citizens, we aren't about to lose access to half of the internet like all of Europe and we aren't slowly and willingly being taken over like the UK.
Snow Pegasi do us all a favour and shut the fuck up, congrats you're patriotic, but do you really have to insult Britain in the process. You're immature
NotAVelociraptor So I'm immature but the guy who was also insulting my country's sense of pride isn't, stfu hypocrite and shove your double standards up your own ass, also I'm sorry if the truth offends you because it is a factual statement that the UK is slowly being taken over, it's so bad that police officers go missing if they even go in the wrong neighborhood without permission.
Snow Pegasi really? Sources please. Saying as I'm literally from the country I think I'd know a bit more than a random American dude trying to prove me wrong on the TH-cam comment section
For April Fool's, I really want them to make a video called "Garfield Doesn't Give A Crap" and talk about Garfield's lazy antics as if it's the most absurd and amusing thing ever
British people during the blitz and how the country handled being bombed 24/7 is just amazing. Everyone just got on with their lives giving zero f#$@s. That is a strong group of people.
It probably helped that people were not too worried about their children. We needed the cities operating to keep the machinery of war going, but no need to keep children there - three million of them were rehoused out in the countryside where they would be safe. Germany did exactly the same thing to keep their children safe from allied bombs.
@William Wright The British last-ditch defenders, were also composed largely of old men. It was war. We never had to resort to sending sixty-year-olds on suicide missions to slow down an invasion - but we were prepared to do that, if we must.
This reminds me of Cologne after the war. The city was much, much worse hit than London (over 70% destroyed) and a famous image shows a road construction worker next to a road, completely covered in rubble, with a sign showing that the road's closed to cars. "Yeah, the town went from hundreds of thousands of inhabitants to thousands within months, but you still gotta manage traffic, you know?"
Not really no. The blitz took place from September 1940 to May 1941. This is directly after the battle of Britain and quite long after the evacuation at Dunkirk. The vast majority of the British expeditionary force were now stuck at home. I'm unsure but some troops were probably sent to Africa, but as afar as I know British forces in North Africa were A) a fair mix of 'British' and 'Colonial' troops, and B) Didn't come close to the 300,000 rescued from Dunkirk until after the blitz. Basically what I'm saying is that whilst those bombs were coming down there were hundreds of thousands of troops fresh out of Dunkirk back at home. So to say the decrease in anti-social behaviour is due to a lack of young lads seems improbable. This is only my own knowledge however, and I might be completely wrong on some of those numbers!
happy tueaday Same, I love how much history respects itself and the growth of different societies (especially during the 20th century). You can learn a lot more about history than people think you can. It was always my favorite subject in school.
the Germans did it too - office workers attached to factories went to their office job even the factory attached has been precision bombed out - being bombed puts the little things into perspective
I remember being in Disney land Florida on ‘Colony Treachery day’ or as Americans like to call it ‘Independence day’ and there was a muppets re-enactment of the revolution war, and they did a ‘democratic vote’ to see if they wanted independence, but only asked in favour of that and did not ask if they wanted king George to stay in power. I cheered for Queen George (played by miss Piggy) and basically anything involving pro-British ideals.
boomgoesblitzhound might have something to do with anytime someone says something good about British history, some gung ho loud mouth yank that knows nothing but Hollywood history starts ranting "USA USA, we kicked your ass, or, you'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for us,, as America won the wars"
Looking at the state the US is in, Its time we put the revolution down. And make them pay the back taxes from 177 that will wipe the arrogant smile off their faces6
Joe Molloy *House gets blown up* Oh splendid, now the chore of painting the wall can be avoided, with the resources being few, this is of the outmost convenience 🤵🏻🎩☕️🇬🇧
My great grandmother told me that one time she was with her friends, the bomb raid alarm went off and a nice looking boy offered her a lift back on her motorbike 😂😂 she didn’t seemed to think that WW2 was a big problem she is 95 now 😂
Quotation of my grandmother born 1880,s “Those young foreign gentleman came over here without an invitation and made such a noise, it’s a wonder that the government ever allowed it”
My great aunt went back into a theatre to get her hat during a bombing raid and the theatre had just lost part of its roof from a hit. Why? Because she would need it for church on Sunday.
Ondřej Dujka not really, but it is the only reason we have any money in the first place and I'm not saying it's a good thing and it most definitely couldn't happen now a days but at the time it was almsot needed
*Neighbors house gets a hole bombed through* me: having an open house are we? neighbor: selling it myself, the realtor wanted to take 25% so I turned him down me: too bad, looks like someone already took 25% neighbor: well at least it's got some ventilation now, bloody old building, they didn't have AC back then, I was burning up before the incineration bomb cooled things off
I accidentally left a bag of tea in my jean pocket so when I washed them I made diluted soapy blackberry tea. I couldn’t tell you why their was a bag of tea in my pocket because I don’t even know why.
totally tea bags in our jackets and coats , scone jam and cornish cream in your handbag, and fish and chips in our pockets. to be fair I do keep spare team bags in my rucsac and once in my wallet
Can we keep the virtual mug? Can it be a new mascot? Can Karl purchase a green morph suit so that just the mug is on the screen? Will these questions be answered? ...........
I love how there are similar accounts of romans saying the "britunculi" didn't give a single fuck, showing up to battles not wearing helmets or hardly any armour... seems to be a theme with them somehow :D
Many also fought naked. There was the belief that if the Gods decided you were to die that day, no armour or clothing would protect you from that fate, so what's the point in wearing any and potentially slowing you down.
My grandad is another example of old British people being tough, he broke his neck last year and when the ambulance came the only thing he wanted was a cup of tea and a biscuit.
Honestly my granda was one of the kindest men I’d ever met and there’s one story that just proves how much of a badass he was. He got his leg ran over, was taken to hospital in an ambulance but once he was there, he got bored and walked it home.
As someone who works in the NHS taking calls from the public, "I don't mean to be a bother" may aswell be a codephrase for "I'm about to go into cardiac arrest or a stroke" It's bloody uncanny how many of them are actually in legit need of proper medical attention.
Kekero It doesn't matter. If that's your logic, The don't say 500 dollars anymore because if you're going to completely disregard the English writing system, then say 500 cifrão instead. Just because that's how you say it, doesn't mean you type it that way. You pronounce Choir as "kwy-ar" but you don't spell it like that do you.
My faith in humanity just went up for some mysterious reason, thank you for giving me something to think about! When I was homeless I had the same sort of reaction, I think humans were meant to be directly involved in their daily lives, rather than getting food from convenient packages and news from screens. It's often fun to struggle against the odds, it makes me feel alive.
One of my favorite Blitz photos was of a lady sitting on a pile of rubble of what was probably her flat and drinking her morning tea, more than likely taking a break from cleaning up and acting not bothered at all
My great grandpa was from Scotland and he worked in a shale mine since he was young and he had a shit time during then. When WW2 rolled around he became a sapper and he had an absolute ball. He was there at Normandy beach getting shot at, running around tanks and he was having the time of his life.
This video ruined my day, it was just simply the best video I could possibly have watched & now I can't find anything that could even begin to follow after it. Great work guys, keep it up.
Love your grasp of the war time mentality. My dad was a commando in WW2 and my mum (who had yet to meet dad) was in the civil service working in Admiralty Arch in London. I grew up with war stories from all my large extended family but dad would never tell me how many Germans he killed. Must have been a few as he served in Italy and North Africa, often behind enemy lines. Love your patriotism. Wish a few more of the snowflake generation felt like this. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic video guys. This should be mandatory viewing in every university, college and secondary school in the country. With the appropriate use of the bleep machine of course. Bless you both, well done.
I really admire that quality of the British! At the end of the day, life goes on and we have to make the best of any situation. Screaming and crying isn't going to feed the family!
WW2 was a defining part of my families history. My parents were born in 1927. My mother passed away last year aged 90. Among her photos I found a postcard she sent back to her parents from being “evacuated “. Children were sent away from London for their safety. Imagine sending a 12 year old girl to live with strangers. My father stayed in London with his father, who was an air raid warden, enforcing blackouts and effectively being a first responder. What many people forget is that all the anti aircraft fire falls to the ground. “Flak” was basically fragmentation shells so tons of twisted metal was falling from the sky. My maternal grandfather and 2 uncles were train drivers. Apart from trains being a war target my grandfather told tales of driving ammunition trains. Driving a steam engine with an open fire past signs saying “no smoking “ and “no open flames” ! My mother was not a great fan of the V weapons. When the pulse jet stopped in a V1, conversation would stop until they heard the explosion, then life would go on. The V2s being supersonic gave no such warning. In the 60s when I was a child rebuilding wasn’t finished and there was evidence of wartime structures. In her last days my mother had times when she was back in WW2 mentally. She was hoping a bomb didn’t drop so she did not miss out on going to the movies with her friends.
I don't know where I heard it but my favourite part of that is an old woman talking about her time in the blitz and they would huddle loads of people into underground train stations and she said "we could barely get any sleep because of the noise" and someone asked her "oh what because of all the bombs?" Her response. "oh no it was because everyone was having sex"
A) I want to live my life with the wherewithal of a British person in the blitz. B) Please do a video on the British view point of the American Revolution, I think it would be a fun perspective.
My grandad worked at a railway works during WW2, he was too young to sign up, but not too young to work on heavy industry with steam hammers and help build trains and gun barrels and aircraft. Not only did they continue with their work through bombing runs, they also crewed the Bofors AA guns scattered about the town and shot back.
During the blitz my great grandmother had her office blown up (this was in Coventry in some of the worst bombing in WW2) and the worst part about it for her was her favourite pen got obliterated.
Fun fact: The entire blitz could of been avoided. When a German bomber thought it was over a military target it dropped it's bombs but the bomber was unaware it was off-course and it dropped bombs on a British town. Churchill then responded by bombing civilians in Germany. Hitler, thinking it was for no reason responded with a speech in which he said for every one bomb dropped on Germany a 1000 would be dropped on Britain. Then the Blitz began.
This also happened after the 7/7 attacks. People went on with their days recognising something bad has happened but the show must go on. It's why terrorism will never really work on English people as a whole. Because we just get back on with what we were doing because it needs to be done.
You mean the British because look at what happened at Glasgow airport terrorist tried attacking it instead of running away some people attack the guy after they crashed the jeep into the building
Speaking of tough old people... One time my Grandma fell and broke her hip and instead of calling for help, just pulled herself up on a chair because my uncle, who is so untrustworthy that his own mom wouldn't leave him alone in the house, was coming to visit. She sat in that chair for hours with a broken hip visiting with my uncle until he left and she could call my dad. Same woman at one point was given 6 months to live because of cervical cancer, beat it, and then lived over 30 more years.
My favourite thing in this topic is the famous photo of a sing just outside of a shop, whose front wall was completely destroyed, saying 'Still open for business, now more than ever'.
In individual combat and the like (e.g., knights jousting in a tournament), the "palm up" salute was given by the vanquished (the surrendering party) as a sign of respect to the victor, and the latter then returned the salute "palm down" in acknowledgement and mutual respect.
A note about what Karl says about the mortality rates is that the Americans didn't use bayonets. I remember seeing somewhere that the British Generals were horrified when they learnt of this, certainly for the civil war, as the two sides would stand and shoot each other till only one side was left standing. You compare this to Europe where almost every battle would end with some form of bayonet charge. It's a lot scarier to be faced with a mass of angry men with big pointy things on their guns running at you than just being shot at, hence why people were more likely to rout when faced with the bayonet. Plus, at that time anyway, I believe that a bayonet wound was much harder to fix and much more painful too. A note about bayonet charges as a whole, is that in recent years there are, of course, less bayonet charges but the British a way above any other armed forces for the number of bayonet charges. There was an incident in Iraq, I think, where the opposing forces were told that the British wouldn't dismount or attack back when they ambushed. So in the ambush the British got out their vehicles and after a short fire fight fixed bayonets and went after the guys shooting at them. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10776062/Al-Sweady-revealing-the-battlefield-lies-that-scar-for-ever.html thats a link for the bayonet attack I was talking about, it mentions it about half way through.
My grandpa knew a guy that worked in some sort of automobile line disassembling cars, and had his hand crushed by some heavy machine. My grandpa said this dude freed himself, picked up the little pieces of bone from his crushed finger from the ground, put them in his shirt pocket, and drove himself to the hospital
My granddad remembers when a German plane came down, the whole town came to get a piece of the action, including an old woman with her washing tub, they all surrounded the plane, one pilot climbed out the wreckage, saw the mob outside and rushed back into the plane and slammed the door.
My great grandmother who sadly passed away this year at the age of 100 had a story a bit like these where when she got married she moved from wales to london and once she got there the place she was going to stay in had been bombed so a local police officer led them towards the nearest standing building they could stay in.
I volunteer in a museum in the centre of the City of London which was looked after by an 80 year old woman, her 55 year old daughter and 17 year old grandaughter. During the raid known as the Second Great Fire of London, the 55 year old climbed onto the roof of the museum and knocked incendiary bombs off it with a broom.
You’d be more credible if you didn’t swear all the time !
Fuck off.
@@FactFiend i guess that makes you incredible then :)
@@FactFiend ibcould of guessed that would be your reply to being told you swear to much
@@noisyash4234 it's a British reply.
@@Rick_Sanchez_G420 as if they didnt know that...
Reminds me of a news report where in Wigan, police were called to a house due to a bomb threat.
Instead of backing off or panicking, locals crowded around with beer to watch.
They quite literally turned a *terror threat into a mid-morning piss up.*
Even though this was a year ago I was in the exact pub this was going on 😂
That’s Wiganers for ya 😂
Honestly, I've always found the battle tactics of the UK and allies far more interesting and way more insane. This first example that comes to mind is the time a magician used mirrors to make it look like an entire river had moved just so the bombers would miss. They also made a cardboard armies to through off enemy scouts, attempted to train dogs to bomb tanks (it didn't go well), and the British POW's delighted in annoying the f*ck out of their captors just because they could. The British army tactics during WW2 can be summed up as: Will it work? ... probably. Then why not?
We were going to win by any means possible.
There was also a man who accidentally tapped into a German spy's radio signal and instead of - I don't know - telling the government used it to troll the sh*t out of Germany for as long as he could.
There was that time we dropped a dead homeless guy in an officer's uniform in the sea off the coast of Spain. With a briefcase full of falsified invasion plans. It made Gerry move entire divisions away from the intended Allied landing beaches.
Omnom asarus I mean the bomb dogs were soviet
welshy 46 Yeah that's the one that let us successfully take Italy. Did you watch Tom Scott's video too?
@@welshy4638 We also used inflatable armies to trick scout planes into thinking we were invading France from a different beach
Nobody:
Britain during ww2: WITH EVERY BOMB YOU DROP I GROW STRONGER
My step-dad didn't taste a banana until he was 13yrs old, because they were so hard to come by during rationing.
As a special treat, his mum once boiled a parsnip in some banana food flavouring that she'd managed to get hold of, then left it on a windowsill to cool down, before giving it to him.
So, the most exotic dessert of his first 12 years was a boiled parsnip that they'd grown in the back yard.
No wonder he was such a tight bugger.
And now the parsnip is the expensive one
We had turnips thinly sliced and sprinkled with sugar as a sweet
, that was after rationing, . when it stopped it didn't mean things where in the shops, in the 50s chicken was still rare thats 5 years after the war . I rember going to school typical meal that was served twice a week was cheese pipe ( cheese and potatoe) and cabbage .the cabbage had pink bits in it still dont know what they where.
@@geoffpriestley7001 "bacon"
Bananas were not reintroduced until december 1945. I remember in the early 1960s seeing tv adverts for bananas "unzip a banana"
My mum used to tell me how happy she was when sugar became easier to get so she could have a sugar sandwich lol. She also kept a pig in the yard which they would slaughter for meat for xmas. She done this until the 70s when meat became more affordable. After all this she said it was the best days of her life because everyone helped each other and came together.
Ah yes, Getty Images, somehow owning the rights to photographs taken 50 years before the formation of their company. Hells, I think they've managed to procure the rights to photos from the 19th century...
E. A. Deasar they even try to charge licensing fees for public domain photos. Look up Carol Highsmith if you’re not familiar.
I was gonna read your comment, but it's owned by Getty Images
UK copyright duration is life of the photographer plus seventy years. If you do the math on that, then yes, many 19th century photos would still be under copyright. The photographer only has to live for another fifty years after taking the photo, quite achievable for a young photographer at the end of the 19th century.
@@The_Real_Tom_Ball no, they were referring to the 1800s
Word has it they’re trying to licence the Mona Lisa, soon it will have watermarks all over it
“All this bloodshed could have been avoided if you’d have just payed your taxes!”
😂
I mean. It's true X'D
Like. In middle school (which occured during the 2008 recession), I was like; "Why aren't people revolting again? The government is demanding high taxes from everyone?"
And the teacher legit got this glazed look for a good half second. Lol
@@colleennewholy9026 Must have had a bad history teacher the taxes themselves were just one of the issues it was taxation without representation, the British making laws against religions that fled to America to get away from the church of England, the British soldiers literally walking into peoples homes taking their food and sleeping in their beds, and many many more attacks on personal liberties that are essential to America today and in general individual freedom.
@@austinblackburn8095 Just excuses for tax avoidance. When are you going to pull your weight?
@@austinblackburn8095 well you guys are being taxed more nowadays then back then, you have revolted for less why not now.
@@micahbell3075 Every country paid less in taxes back then than they do today so it's not fair to compare past American taxes to modern taxes. However it is fair to compare modern American and European taxes and it is fair to say America in some way had kept to it's low tax roots compared to the very high taxes of most European countries. Only a few countries can you earn a similar amount to what you make in America and pay less taxes most of those being in Asia like Hong Kong or Singapore. I personally think American taxes are to high but they are not bad enough to start a revolutionary war over especially when we are still democratic and can still lower are taxes through legislation. The biggest problems with Britain's taxes wasn't that they taxed the colonies for the most part America was fine with tariffs and import taxes the problem came when Britain started directly taxing Americans with out representation.
The English King and Queen stayed at Buckingham Palace. The Dutch Queen fled with her young children to Canada for their safety. I loved King George VI for staying, even after a bomb hit Buckingham and almost killed them. Afterwards he came out and checked the damage...
Ainiewainy in the case of a real invasion they had plans to flee to Canada too
And died early because of it.
Well, that's because the Netherlands didn't have the geographical advantage of damn sea. It would have been incredibly dangerous for the royal family to stay in Holland like a bunch of sitting ducks. Having them captured or killed would certainly bring moral down not to mention give the Nazis leverage. The English could afford to not giving a fuck because they weren't the literal next door neighbours of Hitler's 1939/1945-war-extravaganza-fuckfest. Not to mention the Dutch tried to stay out of Germany's business because the army literally got around on bicycles (there are photographs of this) and they didn't feel the need to engage in a dick-measuringcontest.
@@JoshSweetvale tulips are poisonous
@@JoshSweetvale George 6th died because he was a very heavy smoker.
I remember my grandpa telling me a story about his childhood.
So, the farm his family owned was occupied by the SS and they almost sent his mum to a KZ.
What did my grandpa do as a kid?
He kept stealing chocolate from the SS and he was so proud of it.
Was it Panzerschokolade or Just normal chocolate because i know that a lot of the Wehrmacht chocolate was laced with Amphetamine. Just wanna know.
@@liamc.h.2691 It was chocolate taken from "enemy troops", so there was nothing in there as far as I know.
In my town in ww2 Fraserburgh in Scotland the only thing they cared about being destroyed was the pub
Trash Man why even live if the monument of our soul is destroyed
@Matthew Smith You'd be surprised, mate.
In my town in in Sweden... I guess there wasn't anything to be afraid of.
Nick Nock I live near Fraserburgh, moved up recently. It’s actually quite nice here, way better than London
Long live the broch
My maternal grandpa was born in 1904 and was one of the calmest glass half-full guys I've ever met. I guess that is just a attitude you get when you survive two World Wars in your life time. My paternal grandma was born in 1932 so she was just a child during WW2 but her stories about how she lived in our city during the war are always very interesting and she is also very relaxed in the most awful situations that can possibly happen. She shattered her collar bone and left shoulder and still joked with the ambulance driver while being in a lot of pain. She calmly told them that her pain was probably a 8-9 out of 10 while still joking she is a badass.
Grey Flag my maternal grandma was 20 years younger than my grandpa and I'm the youngest child of my parents who were born in 1951 and 1952 and I was born in 1992 as the happy little accident after my two a lot older siblings. Yes my grandpa was already really old when he met my grandma and had my mother and her four siblings but he was married before and had 4 children with that women as well. Shit like this happens sometimes you know?
Dan Green they met when he was 40 and my grandma was 20 so he was 48 when my mom was born and over 60 when her youngest sister was born. He was a total badass I can tell you that! Also he had 5 children with my grandma and only four with his first wife but I don't know that much about my half-aunts and uncles as they would be about 80+ now and my mother hasn't met them since the 70ies or so.
DieAlteistwiederda daaayuuuum. This is like the reverse of the 25 year old dude driving his 7 year old uncle to school
Yeah. Me and my mom took care of my Grandma for the last few years of her life, and she was, no exaggeration, the most cheerful, polite and generally nice person I knew. But here’s the thing: she had some health problems with her old age, especially her leg, and we often asked her to rate her pain on a scale of 1-10, and on a very good day, she would be a 2 or 3. Usually she’d be a 4 or 5. Basically, I just realized she was in pretty much constant pain for years, and yet she still managed to be the most cheerful person I knew. Despite being the quintessential sweet old English cat lady, she was still one of the strongest people I knew.
DieAlteistwiederda I
"And the Americans were pissed off at my saluting"
...which is really ironic because that's what we Americans do to everybody, including ourselves.
Americans love saluting over any possible thing that is considered American. Anything foreign, and they look at you with disgust at times.
Amerincans are just British but their ansestors are traitors
I want to go to that museum, in my regular shirt and waistcoat getup, except all Union Jack'd up. A British flag waistcoat and shirt, just to see how America reacts when they get a taste of their own medicine.
The only thing stopping me is the fact that they'll shoot me at the sound of my voice, nevermind what I'm wearing! My posh accent is a blessing and a curse.
@@elise205 They'd probably laugh and say "Look, the Queen wants her land back!"
Personally, I prefer a patriotic Brit over a self hating American. If you don't love your Homeland, something is wrong.
The image that you see of the crown over "Keep Calm and Carry On" was designed at the time as a morale-boosting poster, but it was never actually used because they came to the conclusion t hat it wasn't necessary because the people had already internalised the concept.
3:29 "I'm gonna go to the shower, the fire can't get me there."
Eyyyyy
that logic is sound. if only there wasnt smoke xD
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
I don't think I've ever seen anything as British as this.
Went to the Sea World in Orlando a few years ago and for some reason they wanted the crowd to sing the national anthem.
I got a lot of dirty looks for proudly belting "God Save The Queen." 😂😂
Nathan-DTS It's not indoctrination it's national pride, something we can have because as little a fuck the government actually cares about us they still care about us more than the governments of other countries care about their citizens, we aren't about to lose access to half of the internet like all of Europe and we aren't slowly and willingly being taken over like the UK.
Snow Pegasi do us all a favour and shut the fuck up, congrats you're patriotic, but do you really have to insult Britain in the process. You're immature
NotAVelociraptor So I'm immature but the guy who was also insulting my country's sense of pride isn't, stfu hypocrite and shove your double standards up your own ass, also I'm sorry if the truth offends you because it is a factual statement that the UK is slowly being taken over, it's so bad that police officers go missing if they even go in the wrong neighborhood without permission.
Because the US is full of crazies, whether they're normies or robots.
Snow Pegasi really? Sources please. Saying as I'm literally from the country I think I'd know a bit more than a random American dude trying to prove me wrong on the TH-cam comment section
This video made me feel proud to be British until I realized that I've never even left North America.
@@nickrustyson8124 Britian isn't just England you know
For April Fool's, I really want them to make a video called "Garfield Doesn't Give A Crap" and talk about Garfield's lazy antics as if it's the most absurd and amusing thing ever
British people during the blitz and how the country handled being bombed 24/7 is just amazing. Everyone just got on with their lives giving zero f#$@s. That is a strong group of people.
It probably helped that people were not too worried about their children. We needed the cities operating to keep the machinery of war going, but no need to keep children there - three million of them were rehoused out in the countryside where they would be safe. Germany did exactly the same thing to keep their children safe from allied bombs.
@@vylbird8014 unless you can influence the outcome, its not worth worrying about.
@William Wright The British last-ditch defenders, were also composed largely of old men. It was war. We never had to resort to sending sixty-year-olds on suicide missions to slow down an invasion - but we were prepared to do that, if we must.
This reminds me of Cologne after the war. The city was much, much worse hit than London (over 70% destroyed) and a famous image shows a road construction worker next to a road, completely covered in rubble, with a sign showing that the road's closed to cars. "Yeah, the town went from hundreds of thousands of inhabitants to thousands within months, but you still gotta manage traffic, you know?"
@Matthew Smith fr haha
Yeah, my Granda got his leg ran over and got sick of waiting at the hospital and just walked home.
I'd go to more museums if Karl was there.
Could the decrease in public drunkenness be due to loads of the young men being on the front line?
Not really no. The blitz took place from September 1940 to May 1941. This is directly after the battle of Britain and quite long after the evacuation at Dunkirk. The vast majority of the British expeditionary force were now stuck at home. I'm unsure but some troops were probably sent to Africa, but as afar as I know British forces in North Africa were A) a fair mix of 'British' and 'Colonial' troops, and B) Didn't come close to the 300,000 rescued from Dunkirk until after the blitz.
Basically what I'm saying is that whilst those bombs were coming down there were hundreds of thousands of troops fresh out of Dunkirk back at home. So to say the decrease in anti-social behaviour is due to a lack of young lads seems improbable.
This is only my own knowledge however, and I might be completely wrong on some of those numbers!
bryony mason or possibly because you would hate to be drunk when there is a bombing happening?
That and the beer was watered down
if you ever went through school and don't know what the blitz is, fella you gotta go to back school
I remember Back School like it was yesterday, in Evenshire it was, with beautiful summers too. Pray tell, which Back School did you go to?
+QuirkyTom9876 I'm still in high school, a public high school in america, near philadelphia
+The1AndOnlyGoldenboy I've studied the subject of both world wars extensively, I love the subject and wish more of it was taught about in schools
i learned about it from hellsing ultimate abridge. was curious so i looked it up
happy tueaday Same, I love how much history respects itself and the growth of different societies (especially during the 20th century). You can learn a lot more about history than people think you can. It was always my favorite subject in school.
It's called "Rule Britannia" not "Hail Britannia"
It's almost like he's a normal human
pixelplayground your weird
That's the queens job
the Germans did it too - office workers attached to factories went to their office job even the factory attached has been precision bombed out - being bombed puts the little things into perspective
K Vjqxzz what?.....
Holy shit that was edited but I think it's still missing a few commas or sense or something...
No one gives a fuck about the Germans.
They were also controlled by a brutal dictator, they didn't have a choice.
Liam-Ron of Zena what a pathetic excuse. They all had a choice. Fucking Nazi apologist
I remember being in Disney land Florida on ‘Colony Treachery day’ or as Americans like to call it ‘Independence day’ and there was a muppets re-enactment of the revolution war, and they did a ‘democratic vote’ to see if they wanted independence, but only asked in favour of that and did not ask if they wanted king George to stay in power. I cheered for Queen George (played by miss Piggy) and basically anything involving pro-British ideals.
boomgoesblitzhound might have something to do with anytime someone says something good about British history, some gung ho loud mouth yank that knows nothing but Hollywood history starts ranting "USA USA, we kicked your ass, or, you'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for us,, as America won the wars"
boomgoesblitzhound that bandwagon was started by the British lmao
Looking at the state the US is in, Its time we put the revolution down. And make them pay the back taxes from 177 that will wipe the arrogant smile off their faces6
ah, Treason Day
had to explain to a Yank in England why nobody was excited once
ONCE
We cant even see the cup on the table cos of the logo smh
Just Lewis I believe that was the point
*House gets blown up*
Oh goodness gracious I was going to paint the walls tomorrow
Really?
Nah just wanna be more pissed off about this
Joe Molloy
*House gets blown up*
Oh splendid, now the chore of painting the wall can be avoided, with the resources being few, this is of the outmost convenience 🤵🏻🎩☕️🇬🇧
My great grandmother told me that one time she was with her friends, the bomb raid alarm went off and a nice looking boy offered her a lift back on her motorbike 😂😂 she didn’t seemed to think that WW2 was a big problem she is 95 now 😂
Bless her, true British spirit right there
Quotation of my grandmother born 1880,s “Those young foreign gentleman came over here without an invitation and made such a noise, it’s a wonder that the government ever allowed it”
My great aunt went back into a theatre to get her hat during a bombing raid and the theatre had just lost part of its roof from a hit. Why? Because she would need it for church on Sunday.
"All this bloodshed could've been avoided if you'd just paid your taxes" :'D
Sometimes being British is pretty cool
Harvey Davis all the time you wankstain
Blue hey, I wasn't saying that it's a shit country but it's not quite as powerful as it used to be
So you miss the killing, stealing and slavery done by the British Empire?
Ondřej Dujka not really, but it is the only reason we have any money in the first place and I'm not saying it's a good thing and it most definitely couldn't happen now a days but at the time it was almsot needed
Ondřej Dujka yes
*Neighbors house gets a hole bombed through*
me: having an open house are we?
neighbor: selling it myself, the realtor wanted to take 25% so I turned him down
me: too bad, looks like someone already took 25%
neighbor: well at least it's got some ventilation now, bloody old building, they didn't have AC back then, I was burning up before the incineration bomb cooled things off
*wakes up
Brit: Honey half the house is gone.
Scoutdy I will knock round Micks he has some camping stuff we will be okay
All we need is a kettle to make tea
@@michaelralphs5593 I really don't think they had those yet?
Yes my grandad was hard as nails, he got his head cut off and never complained or said anything. 😂
Did he not apologise?
I accidentally left a bag of tea in my jean pocket so when I washed them I made diluted soapy blackberry tea. I couldn’t tell you why their was a bag of tea in my pocket because I don’t even know why.
Evett Singh you should always be prepared to enjoy a good cup of tea mate
Its a British thing
totally tea bags in our jackets and coats , scone jam and cornish cream in your handbag, and fish and chips in our pockets. to be fair I do keep spare team bags in my rucsac and once in my wallet
d prince i'm swiss and carry teabags in my jackets, jeans and backpack pockets...maybe i was british in an earlier life!?
a bag of tea? you mean a tea bag?
Can we keep the virtual mug? Can it be a new mascot? Can Karl purchase a green morph suit so that just the mug is on the screen? Will these questions be answered? ...........
I love how there are similar accounts of romans saying the "britunculi" didn't give a single fuck, showing up to battles not wearing helmets or hardly any armour... seems to be a theme with them somehow :D
britannia the land of no fucks to give
Many also fought naked. There was the belief that if the Gods decided you were to die that day, no armour or clothing would protect you from that fate, so what's the point in wearing any and potentially slowing you down.
@@simonwest9450 I was brought up to believe that because it’s true if God wants you to live you will if not you won’t
My grandad is another example of old British people being tough, he broke his neck last year and when the ambulance came the only thing he wanted was a cup of tea and a biscuit.
Honestly my granda was one of the kindest men I’d ever met and there’s one story that just proves how much of a badass he was. He got his leg ran over, was taken to hospital in an ambulance but once he was there, he got bored and walked it home.
As someone who works in the NHS taking calls from the public, "I don't mean to be a bother" may aswell be a codephrase for "I'm about to go into cardiac arrest or a stroke"
It's bloody uncanny how many of them are actually in legit need of proper medical attention.
That mug is more real than my boyfriend
My girlfriend, too. The mug's probably a lot more attentive and comforting, as well...
*So sad.*
Mete Tural Alexa play despacito
Palestinian Rambo yeah bro good luck haha
Palestinian Rambo shut up lol
My Great Grandmother apparently left her shelter during a raid simply to get her turkey out of the oven, the lengths that people would go was amazing
Bloody colonials.
You should have asked for a free cup of tea, since they do still owe us a LITERAL boat load of it
500$ for a goddamn photograph???
That’s just abuse at that point.
It's €475.- or €425.- (there are 2 prices for 1 photo) for me, but still way too fu***ng high for a historical photo that should be public and free!
Thats a general license. Can be got for a lot less for a specific use
Since when did the currency symbol start going after the number? It's $500 not 500$
British Tiger
that’s because you don’t fucking say apostrophes.
You say 500 dollars you don’t say don apostrophe t
Kekero It doesn't matter. If that's your logic, The don't say 500 dollars anymore because if you're going to completely disregard the English writing system, then say 500 cifrão instead. Just because that's how you say it, doesn't mean you type it that way. You pronounce Choir as "kwy-ar" but you don't spell it like that do you.
I'm swiss and even i have my usual cup of builder's tea while watching this video
"I'd have survived that"
I fucking lost it, that was hilarious.
My faith in humanity just went up for some mysterious reason, thank you for giving me something to think about!
When I was homeless I had the same sort of reaction, I think humans were meant to be directly involved in their daily lives, rather than getting food from convenient packages and news from screens. It's often fun to struggle against the odds, it makes me feel alive.
One of my favorite Blitz photos was of a lady sitting on a pile of rubble of what was probably her flat and drinking her morning tea, more than likely taking a break from cleaning up and acting not bothered at all
Bloody Getty Images
My great grandpa was from Scotland and he worked in a shale mine since he was young and he had a shit time during then. When WW2 rolled around he became a sapper and he had an absolute ball. He was there at Normandy beach getting shot at, running around tanks and he was having the time of his life.
The cup is iconic. Love the fact that he actually did it. Fucking love these videos.
I listen to your guy's videos on my lunch break, really helps get me through the day!
5:12 people often act the sanest whe nthey are in insane situations: "The city is burning and being blown up? what do I care I have to earn a living"
I found this absolutely hilarious and I love the fact you were being as british as possible at the revolutionary museum. Thumbs up.
I know this is over a year old, but goddamn that was some good keyframing on the tea.
This video ruined my day, it was just simply the best video I could possibly have watched & now I can't find anything that could even begin to follow after it. Great work guys, keep it up.
Love your grasp of the war time mentality. My dad was a commando in WW2 and my mum (who had yet to meet dad) was in the civil service working in Admiralty Arch in London. I grew up with war stories from all my large extended family but dad would never tell me how many Germans he killed. Must have been a few as he served in Italy and North Africa, often behind enemy lines. Love your patriotism. Wish a few more of the snowflake generation felt like this. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic video guys. This should be mandatory viewing in every university, college and secondary school in the country. With the appropriate use of the bleep machine of course. Bless you both, well done.
I really admire that quality of the British! At the end of the day, life goes on and we have to make the best of any situation. Screaming and crying isn't going to feed the family!
British weather be like: Clear skies with a chance of heavy raid.(heavy rainfall joke).
That just sums up the British attitude as a whole.
"I would of survived then!" savage LOL brilliant!
Make Britain Great Again
ELEXCEER calm down, Nigel
@@tsmith0187 Nah fam we gotta for real
Make Great Britain again
We've always been great bcs we don't care and are normally the oposit of our stereotype which is funny
*mediocre
WW2 was a defining part of my families history. My parents were born in 1927. My mother passed away last year aged 90. Among her photos I found a postcard she sent back to her parents from being “evacuated “. Children were sent away from London for their safety. Imagine sending a 12 year old girl to live with strangers. My father stayed in London with his father, who was an air raid warden, enforcing blackouts and effectively being a first responder. What many people forget is that all the anti aircraft fire falls to the ground. “Flak” was basically fragmentation shells so tons of twisted metal was falling from the sky. My maternal grandfather and 2 uncles were train drivers. Apart from trains being a war target my grandfather told tales of driving ammunition trains. Driving a steam engine with an open fire past signs saying “no smoking “ and “no open flames” ! My mother was not a great fan of the V weapons. When the pulse jet stopped in a V1, conversation would stop until they heard the explosion, then life would go on. The V2s being supersonic gave no such warning. In the 60s when I was a child rebuilding wasn’t finished and there was evidence of wartime structures. In her last days my mother had times when she was back in WW2 mentally. She was hoping a bomb didn’t drop so she did not miss out on going to the movies with her friends.
'he turned the Britons into Spartans' sums up this entire video
I haven't laughed this hard in a while
Has to be one of my favorite videos from this channel.
Stiff upper lip and all.
Stiff in the lip, limp in the.....
I don't know where I heard it but my favourite part of that is an old woman talking about her time in the blitz and they would huddle loads of people into underground train stations and she said "we could barely get any sleep because of the noise" and someone asked her "oh what because of all the bombs?"
Her response. "oh no it was because everyone was having sex"
A) I want to live my life with the wherewithal of a British person in the blitz. B) Please do a video on the British view point of the American Revolution, I think it would be a fun perspective.
treason to the crown and cheating with special wood for ships
My grandad worked at a railway works during WW2, he was too young to sign up, but not too young to work on heavy industry with steam hammers and help build trains and gun barrels and aircraft. Not only did they continue with their work through bombing runs, they also crewed the Bofors AA guns scattered about the town and shot back.
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During the blitz my great grandmother had her office blown up (this was in Coventry in some of the worst bombing in WW2) and the worst part about it for her was her favourite pen got obliterated.
There's a running joke in my family that my grandad is eternally young. Everytime people ask his age he says he's 25.
When a train in the tube is stopped and delayed due to a terroristic threat the passengers just sigh in annoyance and go back to reading.
Fun fact: The entire blitz could of been avoided. When a German bomber thought it was over a military target it dropped it's bombs but the bomber was unaware it was off-course and it dropped bombs on a British town. Churchill then responded by bombing civilians in Germany. Hitler, thinking it was for no reason responded with a speech in which he said for every one bomb dropped on Germany a 1000 would be dropped on Britain. Then the Blitz began.
wouldn't call that a "Fun fact" so much as an appalling confluence of events that cost the lives of innocent people.
Best channel I have come across, been watching your videos like an addict for a week.
This also happened after the 7/7 attacks. People went on with their days recognising something bad has happened but the show must go on. It's why terrorism will never really work on English people as a whole. Because we just get back on with what we were doing because it needs to be done.
You mean the British because look at what happened at Glasgow airport terrorist tried attacking it instead of running away some people attack the guy after they crashed the jeep into the building
Speaking of tough old people... One time my Grandma fell and broke her hip and instead of calling for help, just pulled herself up on a chair because my uncle, who is so untrustworthy that his own mom wouldn't leave him alone in the house, was coming to visit. She sat in that chair for hours with a broken hip visiting with my uncle until he left and she could call my dad. Same woman at one point was given 6 months to live because of cervical cancer, beat it, and then lived over 30 more years.
I would have loved to ave gone through the American Revolution museum with you. As an American I would have found it hilarious.
Why?
@@Englishman_and_mountains this was 3 years ago, you think I remember?
@@bbmikej lol
My favourite thing in this topic is the famous photo of a sing just outside of a shop, whose front wall was completely destroyed, saying 'Still open for business, now more than ever'.
you can’t break the morale of people who never had any to begin with!
The UK is literally the dog sitting in a house, on fire sipping tea saying “this is fine” meme.
Your salutes would be a lot better if you weren’t doing them like a bloody colonial! Palm out man!
Palm down if you're in the navy
Palm down navy palm out army handshake air force
In individual combat and the like (e.g., knights jousting in a tournament), the "palm up" salute was given by the vanquished (the surrendering party) as a sign of respect to the victor, and the latter then returned the salute "palm down" in acknowledgement and mutual respect.
@@tyrantrex734 the navy's palm down was because when the queen was visiting all of the sailors hands were dirty so she wanted their palms down
@@tyrantrex734 their palms were up before
A note about what Karl says about the mortality rates is that the Americans didn't use bayonets. I remember seeing somewhere that the British Generals were horrified when they learnt of this, certainly for the civil war, as the two sides would stand and shoot each other till only one side was left standing. You compare this to Europe where almost every battle would end with some form of bayonet charge. It's a lot scarier to be faced with a mass of angry men with big pointy things on their guns running at you than just being shot at, hence why people were more likely to rout when faced with the bayonet. Plus, at that time anyway, I believe that a bayonet wound was much harder to fix and much more painful too.
A note about bayonet charges as a whole, is that in recent years there are, of course, less bayonet charges but the British a way above any other armed forces for the number of bayonet charges. There was an incident in Iraq, I think, where the opposing forces were told that the British wouldn't dismount or attack back when they ambushed. So in the ambush the British got out their vehicles and after a short fire fight fixed bayonets and went after the guys shooting at them. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10776062/Al-Sweady-revealing-the-battlefield-lies-that-scar-for-ever.html thats a link for the bayonet attack I was talking about, it mentions it about half way through.
*Nuke Drops on Britain*
“Oh it was quite the nuclear weather wasn’t it Margaret?”
My grandpa knew a guy that worked in some sort of automobile line disassembling cars, and had his hand crushed by some heavy machine. My grandpa said this dude freed himself, picked up the little pieces of bone from his crushed finger from the ground, put them in his shirt pocket, and drove himself to the hospital
“Wow, all this bloodshed could’ve been avoided if you’d paid your taxes” XD
Very few people know the fact that the secret behind the Blitz Spirit's success was always having not one but two sandwiches.
Now I wanna play the Sims with a British attitude setting xD
My granddad remembers when a German plane came down, the whole town came to get a piece of the action, including an old woman with her washing tub, they all surrounded the plane, one pilot climbed out the wreckage, saw the mob outside and rushed back into the plane and slammed the door.
Do you have a podcast? This stuff is hilarious 😂😂
My great grandmother who sadly passed away this year at the age of 100 had a story a bit like these where when she got married she moved from wales to london and once she got there the place she was going to stay in had been bombed so a local police officer led them towards the nearest standing building they could stay in.
Damn Getty Images.
Karl and Brad, please don't stop! This channel is great. If you are in London, I will make sure you don't buy a pint all night!
British in 1940 Oh my house has been bombed, ah well carry on!
British in2019 My phone has ran out of battery, my life s over!!!!!
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I volunteer in a museum in the centre of the City of London which was looked after by an 80 year old woman, her 55 year old daughter and 17 year old grandaughter. During the raid known as the Second Great Fire of London, the 55 year old climbed onto the roof of the museum and knocked incendiary bombs off it with a broom.
Yet, when a "snow storm" hits london, it's full on chaos XD