The Island That Switches Countries Every Six Months
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2018
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"Switch between being unemployed and on strike every 6 months" oof
I'm French, and I approve that joke.
😅
Ouch
shots fired :D
I'm Spanish, and I also approve that joke. It just reflects reality, sadly. :c
"There's no population that has to switch between being unemployed and on strike every 6 months" LOL!
LMAO this joke just made the video
That was genuinely funny
Never underestimate the power of the French to complain
Best Half as Interesting joke so far!
I dont get it someone explain plz
One of the shames about this is how Google Maps doesn't update when the sovereignty transfers - instead the island permanently belongs to Spain there :(
Hi
Hi
Don't care, goodbye.
ibx2cat hey
ibx2cat This is an impeachment on French sovereignty. France should invade Google immediately.
‘On strike or unemployed’
G O L D E N
But the flags that corresponded with "on strike or unemployed" was the real gold
@@citroends7308 thats the joke...
Woosh...
Me don’t gets it 🤔
@@Shinning_Sky The French are always on strike, the Spanish unemployed.
It's funny how quickly international politics breaks down into senselessness once you start digging.
FutureNow do i know you from somewhere ? :)
I honestly have no clue how you don't have 100,000 subs
Perhaps if he was as witty in his videos as he is in his comments, he would have.
yeet kirrans Thanks but I only have 7 videos and I post roughly once per month or less at the moment. Kinda hard to grow quickly with that pace.
@@FutureNow you'll find a way haha! Even if TH-cam algorithms don't agree with me, I think your videos are fantastic c:
"Violence is always the answer." - HAI 2k18
Words to live by.
"Love is never the answer." - Star Butterfly, 2015
France*
You save absolutely no time or effort typing 2k18 vs 2018, just sayin'
Spartan7117 You save absolutely no time or effort typing saying vs. sayin', just fyi.
That unemployed and on strike diss was savage.
I don't get it?
Spain has a very high youth unemployment rate and French workers go on strike pretty often.
Not just youth. High unemployment rate in general, highest after Greece and 3x as much as Poland. As for France they have the most working hours and GDP lost from striking in the world. (OECD)
Yes, I know Spain's general unemployment rate is sky high but it's specially high among people younger than 25 years. I haven't read recent statistics but some years ago it was something like only 2 in 5 had a job. I reckon most have jobs, but paid under the counter.
Vay Kek unemployment is at 14%
Hey, Spaniard here who formerly lived in the Basque Country. Great video (I especially liked the joke about being unemployed vs on strike). However, it is wrong that Basque street signs are in Basque and English and not Spanish. They are by law always bilingual in Basque and Spanish. I could see some minor signs being only in Basque, but not in English over Spanish.
I guess he just got a little mistake
He even has a video where mentions many of the mistakes like that one
……I mean… i guess he couldn't be serious😁, or maybe I'm wrong "p
Yep, just an honest mistake, could happen to any of us (if we had YT channels)
TheLastCasul Sebastian is the name of the city it doesn't change with languages
David Ramirez It does it's San Sebastián in Spanish and Donostia in Basque.
Es como en Cataluña y la Comunidad Valenciana, que hay carteles en catalán (o valenciano)
"Hi where are you came from?"
"Im spanish, oh wait is this monday already? Well I'm french"
**Proceed to leave his guitar, and pick up his baguette*
Aldo Zulfikar haha
I get this is a joke but there is no population on Pheasant island therefore this joke doesn't make sense.
@@mtw227 could be just tresspassers
@Max Wilson
It’s a joke so don’t go into detail
Actually is more like: we are all basques who cares about how the states which rule in our country trace their borders? In both side of the borders we are all basques, not spanish and not french
1:00 "If you're already fighting one war, might as well start another one on a completely different front." - Germany 1941
Laughs in English Empire
What war did Germany start in 1940? The invasion of Poland and with it the start of WW2 was 1939
@@jasoncw455 I can assure you I didn't 😂
@@jasoncw455 I think you get me wrong. I was joking about that your comment can be interpreted as I invaded the Soviet Union.
@@jasoncw455 😂😂😂
It was clearly to prevent the French from invading by train, duh
everyone saying soemthing else is just uneducated...
William Fall no
get wooooshed everyone lol
@@daredevil3744 woooooooosh
i just ate a @@user-uj2mp3ee9v ,but now it's talking to me
Will the pheasants drown when it erodes
Nvm remembered pheasants can fly
I'm French and I approve of this joke !
No the seas will rise before that happens
holnrew no u
holnrew wait can they
oh hey something i can relate to for once!
I live in Irun, but I often take the bus to go shopping in Hendaye, which requires me to pass by the island on either side. Whenever I see it, it always makes me glad to have such a wonderful symbol of fraternity between two countries in our own backyard - even if it's, for the most part, just a "useless rock" that you're not allowed to visit.
You have regular bus transport between border towns of different countries? Are they provided by a private company or the public transport of one of the cities?
@@user-njyzcip in the European Union you can basically go from one country to another without even realising, so yeah i supposed there's no problem of it being public transport or just a little ship or something :)
@@user-njyzcip it is Spanish public transport, but it doesn't go very deep into france. Since Schegen exists you can cross the border without anyone stopping you
@@user-njyzcip As a European, it does strike me as odd that people find that surprising. I live relatively close to the Dutch-German border, and public transport from both countries regularly travels a limited distance into the other country.
That CK2 reference is gold!
Ikr
Yashi lol
Reminds me of the time I had a 90 year old character and had so many kids I just married them off to whoever I could
+20 opinion over Sam
Lol, I was about to comment how I love how he included this CK2 reference as well xD
*people are destroying the island *
Spain: Your problem not mine
France: Hey wanna share it?
Spain: Ok that sounds great
France: Here, you can have it right now
Spain: Wait no
France: Your problem not mine
France:
Illusion 100
nah mate, thats Speechcraft 100
HAHAHAHAHAHA
VenomIsSoCute - I'm not sure why, but your comment reminded me of Stitch and Jumba passing the gun to each other and using any holiday as an excuse.
You should've used a Uno card in your comment
Imagine if people lived there: "Oh, I think we just turned French today."
Also, that unemployed/on strike comment was the best.
There needs to be a chess board on the island, and on the first day of each country having it, they make their move
Being from nearby Pamplona, I need to say that the signs like the one in 3:51 aren't in Basque and English, but in Basque and Spanish (as Pamplona and San Sebastián are the spanish names of those cities). In fact, most public signs have to be in both languages by law. Besides, you will not see pretty much any signs in English in that area. It's still a fantastic video though, keep it up :)
Time for "all the things we've done wrong" part 2.
airport is written only in basque
Nugzar Mikeladze pretty sure the law allows airport signs to have no text, therefore having the text in only one language is ok
@@nugzarmikeladze And the words are very similar, o don't think any Spaniard will have trouble reading that
@@eukarya_ Basque is not like Catalan, it has nothing to do with Spanish.
Boy do I love me some War School
Pheasant Island:
The island that seems to have a severe identity crisis
Lol
so true haha
Laugh in spratly islands
"Sings in Basque and English"
*shows signs in Basque and Spanish*
Do you even know how to recognise your own language?
Apparently not, just as you apparently can't spell 'signs'.
@@jennyjohn704 read
The second line buddy, you’ll see he spelled it fine. I wouldn’t be too worried about Inigo.
@@jonfquebec The quote is wrong he typed sings instead of signs
SPAIN SEASON
FRANCE SEASON
Under-ratted comment
Duck season.
This comment genuinely made me laugh- thanks for that!
@@mirzaahmed6589 Wabbit season.
lmao
So basically shared custody minus the divorce. Awesome
That thing about being unemployed or on strike was mean and funny at the same time XD
It was a fucking scorcher. You never hear top deadpan eurobanter like that in a north american accent
17th century france: "Violence is always the answer"
Technoblade: so france was real after all
HELP I NEVER EXPECTED TO SEE A COMMENT ABOUT TECHNO HERE
3:07 that's the best bit of observational comedy Wendover has ever produced imho,
4:05 I’ve watched enough videos to know when exactly the advertisements are coming in, and promptly stop the video when I know it’s coming.
Skillshare classes will too disappear one day.
That's why he said "...the Skill Share classes you download, offline..."
@@SueBobChicVid also "..in the app", so yeah, they will too disappear, unless you can move classes between phones and access them without the app, e.g. in 30 years when Skillshare and their app is no longer exists on modern Xordroid OS or uOS or whatever.
The signs are not in Basque and English. They're mostly in Basque, and normally the names of the cities are in both languages, but not English.
Amazing video as always tho, I live just very close to Irun and the border is one of my favourite places because most signs in the border don't say Spain and France they say Gipuzkoa (spanish side) and Lapurdi (french side) which are the Basque provinces so it feels more like switching provinces but with people that speak a weirder-french-sounding Basque and French.
Yep this is true, egun ona izan :D
He probably meant it as a joke. Obviously the signs are in Basque and Spanish but the Spanish and English names are the same in this case.
I haven't seen a single traffic sign in English in the 10+ years I've been living here, with most signs being in Basque and Spanish. What I have seen, however, is a sign for truckers that was in both Portuguese and Arabic, just outside of San Sebastián.
Vasconium I've seen that sign as well. I think it’s somewhere between Eibar and Elgoibar.
Yes, it's after Eibar I think. Its because that is the point where the Highway goes to the south of Spain, where most of the portuguese and arabic people are driving.
You said in the skillshare ad that you could be on a train in Tasmania, but this is not true. We have no passenger trains, and very few cargo trains, most of which carry cement, the carriages of which are curved and difficult to sit on.
Ben Stankovich come and eat pancakes on the Margate Train. Or enjoy the skillshare app on the Don River Railway.
Lets remember Hans Island. The Danish put up a flag and a sign "Welcome to the Danish Island." "when Danish military go there, they leave a bottle of schnapps. And when Canadian military forces come there, they leave a bottle of Canadian Club and a sign saying, 'Welcome to Canada.'"
Could you cover how despite its location. Jordan has continued to be one of the most stable nation's in the Middle East.
+
Because it made very good friends with the UK. Thats why.
@@NotAJollyPotato you are oversimplifying it. No country can be stable by only having good relations with 1 country.
Thats the point gustav... Ya know there is a whole channel based on over simplified history...
That's because Jordan has no oil.
The joke at 3:07 made me like this vid instantly
Credit to Half as Interesting for managing to have a cheaky intellectual joke in all of his vids w/o them being overplayed.
Love how you can make such an educational video 5 minutes long only. Some youtubers would unnecessarily make it 15-20 minutes long. Crash course style.
That feeling when Tasmania doesn't actually have any public trains 😔
But they do have a few tourist train services, so it is possible to listen on a train in TasMania.
"Switch between being unemployed and on strike every 6 months"
*dies of laughter and then the corpse turns into tears as I remember I'm Portuguese which is not Spanish but still*
Germany was like taking a completed puzzle and smashing it on the floor
„Not having to switch between being unemployed and being on strike“ I am in tears from laughter. 😂
Savage 👌
“If you’re already fighting one war, might as well start another on a completely different front”- that’s the kind of no-brainer knowledge adolf hitler will teach you in his new Skillshare course called “the genius guide to making a war more complicated”.
If you look up most European wars, they are often fought on two or more fronts because every country is allied or feuding with some other they don't border. In WWI, Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia but Serbia was allied with France so Germany tried to invade France through Belgium but the UK was allied with Belgium so they declared war on Germany and Russia was allied with the UK so they declared war on Germany as well but the Ottoman Empire were enemies with Russia so they allied with Germany and killed all the Armenians(?) so the UK tried invading Turkey but failed so they used itheir Arab colonies to fight them instead but ultimately the arabs wanted independence so the UK used the Indians. Meanwhile Italy was allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary but betrayed them because they sought to seize Trentino from Austria-Hungary but they got their ass kicked, and Romania tried to grab a bite of Serbia but got destroyed as well.
It's a great example of how acting on fear can result in disaster (fortunately, in this case). If he didn't fear Russia launching an attack and just relied on the peace treaty he had with Russia that Stalin was happy with (Stalin didn't like the west and Hitler was doing the dirty work on his own accord, how much better could it be?), he might've won the war.
@@_Vengeance_
Hitler couldn't have won the war. Stalin planned to attack the Nazis sooner or later
Dude your videos are both educating and savage. Loving it
0:50 No!!! Violence is never the answer!!! ...Violence is question and the answer is yes.
You and your best friend have a big fight...
“Ahww man now your kids have to marry mine!”
I already knew all about this topic but found myself watching simply because I love the way this channel presents the facts, I know I’m going to get an amusing yet factual video with a fun segue into an advert. You know a channel is doing it right when it doesn’t matter that you already know about the topic it covers, you are always going to watch regardless!
3:10, best joke you've ever written my man.
Mate, so happy you made this video! Just because i live in front of that island!
Fun fact: the yurt in "Uruguay" is actually a yurt in The Ethnographic Museum of Buryatia, Russia
Yeah, I live in Uruguay and I don't think we have yurts here...
Do you know that Uruguay was part of Brazil before being independent?
@@joseabad9416 did you know that Uruguay was part of Argentina before being independent?
@@SantiagoGeffen wasn't it a part of Brazil, with Spanish majority? I know Uruguay got independence from one of both neighbor countries. I don't have clear if Argentina got it because it had Spanish majority and then got independence or got it straight from Brazil. I know the Spanish speaking factor was one of the reasons.
Imagine driving on a free way and just suddenly going "Merde I accidentally drove into Espagne!"
The segway into the advert was truly amazing
6 months later, the island has switched hands again
1:59 is this EU4 I'm more of an HOI4 A R T I L L E R Y O N L Y guy
Hello, Half as Interesting, I am a huge fan of your channel. I'd like to point out, that the road signs are not in Basque and English, they are first in Basque and then in Spanish, just like it is done in other countries like Ireland (First in Gaelic and then in English). Thank you
Learned bout it at rll,and been waiting for it to be here till now
Take a shot every time he says
*BOLTH*
0:43 Mark Zuckerberg is that you?
I'm in Tasmania! Although we have very few trains (heritage tourist trains) we wouldn't need to download Skillshare courses offline as they are in internet coverage areas!
Charles Gregory What if you don’t have mobile data though?
there was also something between denmark and canada i think (something like that, i remember it was up north) where some land is switched over time
Habsburgs "an old version of the Kardashians"
i love the realism of "being unemployed or in a strike" hahahaha
(i'm from spain btw)
It's funny how they named something that's not going to be around much longer after a bird, something that's not usually in one place for but a moment :p
I've heard your voice many times before. Do you run more channels on TH-cam? Anyway, amazing video as always! 🙌🏽
sorry to say but you tasmania only has tourist trains pretty sure i wont be listening to skill share when on the train but on the plane home i definitely will ;)
What about the Nintendo Switch?
4:18 we don't have trains in Tasmania, like absolutely zero unless they are small recreational ones that go about 300 meters.
people on the 31. July at 00:00AM: "Hola Esteban, ¿cómo estuvieron tus vacaciones?
"
people on when the clock hits 00:01AM: "j'espère que tu nous a apporté quelque chose de sympa
"
Nothing makes sense in medieval Europe
in our modern world
"Uploaded 6 months ago"
Awesome advertisement transition, that was magical.
Ouch! Serious burn on the “switching between being on strike and unemployed every six months” comment at 3:00! Just savage!
I liked the video only because you used ck2 in the video
"Theres no population to switch from being unemployed to being on strike every 6 months"
This is genius, this quote needs to be immortalized
3:50 "The road signs are in Basque and English, with Spanish left out". *shows a road sign in Basque and Spanish*
Love it! Thank you.
“Switching between being unemployed and on strike” Savage
Man , europeans have the weirdest but most effcient solutions xD
With the basque and catalonia situations I am surprised Spain would still be a whole country in the next 20 years.
Well, the situation is overexagerated, and a lot,
Hello, I am from the area (and lived in Hendaye for many years) and really like this video. Just want to point out one small error you may want to fix. Road signs in the Basque country are not in English and Basque with Spanish left out. Officially they have to be in Basque and Spanish, and what the separatists do all the time is to cross out the Spanish part. Some private signs put up by people in their shops or houses may be in English and Basque only, to signal their loath for Spain, but it's not very common. Thanks.
I was just near there 2 months ago. I stayed in San Sebastian but took the train into Hendaye, France. I ate at a restaurant across from the train station and I had French Fries (Chips) in France.
He said Uruguay! #FeelingRepresented
Early, gotta make a joke
the Nike Boycott
thats cool, but here's a funnier joke
africa
@@memewarearchivechannel4858 I BLESSED THE RAINS DOWN IN AAAAAAFRICAAAAAAA
I got a better one
Colin Kaepernicks career
What's wrong with boycotts?
nothing, the boycot of nike is just stupid though.
I've heard about this. it's so weird and cool that this piece of land changes countries so often.
Closest I've heard of is Hans Island, which changes ownership between Greenland/Denmark and Canada, depending who last cruised by, put a boat ashore, and raised their flag.
Is the first I heard someone who said that the Habsburg are like kardashians .
Let me reflect my new vision of history now .........
Wonderful comparison though if you know anything about the Habsburgs.
Those rowdy Basque
Helicopters?
I guess it would be nice if HAI would do a video on territories administered by multiple countries.
2:22 this is a picture of the town longisch. 15-20 km from the Luxembourg
Haha Pheasant Island
For Peasants
_leaves_
it's a bird -_-
A very tasty bird as well. Can get dry if you roast it too long (let the innuendo befin :D )
Crusader Kings!
I fuckin laughed my ass off at that strike and unemployment joke
The shade in this is utterly monumental.
Literally every girl ever.
Underrated
Who else thinks all of these information kind of things all sound the same xD
I know this is Wendover’s other account but all the other channels sound the same lol
Who agrees with me?
“If your already fighting one war, might as well start one on a completely different front”
That sounds familiar
Hadn’t u already covered this topic on Wendover? 🤔
I find it funny when americans call out the french for fighting for their worker rights 🙈
I find it funnier that France has to build a wall around the Eiffel tower to stop the religion of peace from culturally enriching it.
Did I say funny?
I meant sad.
@@grangermontag1824 How is that in any way relevant.
Aloha snack bar
*explosion noise*
@@GustafMedF
I enjoyed it.
3:08 is probably your all-time best phrase of your entire existence, you should be proud. I lafd hard.
3:07 that was harsh but awesome xD
the sneak disses at 3:12 were brutal...
fantastic video :) u deserve more subs
1:55 always nice to see a CK2 reference
3:07 Hahaha That was a great one!
Dang" I've been to Hendaye at least a couple dozen times, but never heard of this. Thanks.