Okay, so allow me to explain the Steamed Hams lore: It is from the Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield". Principal Skinner invites Superintendent Chalmers to his home for a luncheon. However, he accidentally burnt his roast and knows Chalmers is on his way, so he sneakily goes to Krusty Burger and pass it off as his own. But Chalmers walks in as he climbs through the window to escape, so Skinner says he's getting rid of the smoke from the steamed "clams". Chalmers corrects him that it's steam, but he buys the lie anyway and leaves the kitchen, allowing Skinner to escape. Skinner returns with a plate of hamburgers, with Chalmers confused as he thought it was clams. Skinner says that he said steamed HAMS and that it's a regional dialect. Chalmers asks where, and Skinner says Upstate New York. Chalmers reveals he's from Utica and that he's never heard of hamburgers being called that. Skinner corrects him that it's an Albany expression. Chalmers notices that the burgers are the exact way Krusty Burger makes them and that they aren't steamed, they're grilled. Skinner, cornered, goes to the kitchen and noticed he forgot to turn off the oven...causing the whole kitchen to go on fire. When Skinner tries to rush Chalmers because of it, Skinner says that it's "Aurora borealis" in his kitchen. He is convinced.
Bit more on the sparrow war in China. Basically as George said they started it because of sparrows eating some crops but after the massive cull they realised that sparrow ate more locusts than crops and by killing so any sparrows there wasn't any predators for the locusts so instead of killing a few thousand sparrows they had to kill billions of locusts those sparrows would have killed anyway.
love how bewildered people get when they learn just how many saunas there are in Finland fun fact most apartment complexes have a public sauna for it's residents on the top floor (sometimes in the basement in old buildings) where you can have a certain time on a certain day reserved for you. This is if your apartment itself doesn't already have a smaller private sauna, which a lot do
To explain the italy one; theres an insane amount of dialects in italy, like literally almost every little town, each of which would have a different word for it. I call it mussa at time, which you can find in liguria in the top left
Adding more to that, Italy has so many languages and dialects because of the country itself is relatively new, even newer than the USA, uniting in 1861-71. In 1861, they also standardised the Tuscan language off of the dialect spoken in Florentine, and dubbbed it 'Standard Italian' after the newly united country. Before then, there were numerous city-states in the region, all of which had their own common language(s).
And no, the actual country of Chad doesn't have buff people walking around all over the place. Chad is ranked at the very BOTTOM of the Human Development Index, there's intercommunal clashes, terrorism, and it's one of the most corrupt countries around. And regarding Italy, it's not just regional dialects of Italian itself. Italian is a part of the Italo-Dalmation languages, and it's not the only language within it! Italian may be the only official language of the country, but it's not the only language spoken there! There's also Tuscan, Central Italian, Emilian, Sardinian, Venetian, Sicilian, and others. Though the general population likes to refer to these languages as dialects.
@@gamesandglory1648 I… have no idea honestly? Maybe they’ll revise those laws bc some people are legally male but can still have kids, so there would have to be a lot of fine print 😭
Thanks to the editor for constantly cutting away from the maps so that we can see a hat, a bandana and some glasses in all of their full screen glory. I had to watch at 50% speed to even vaguely take in anything that George was reacting to... and I had to listen to him talking like it's a crap scene from a lazy movie that wants to show you that 'someone is tripping'.
The screwdrivers one is complete crap. In Australia you turn things clockwise to tighten/screw in things. no idea where that map came from but has never been true.
My guess as to why the US uses MM/DD/YYYY is that that’s the order you say it when you spell it out (October 12th, 2022). But DD/MM/YYYY still makes more sense when just using numbers.
1:37 idk why we use the month-day-year format either, but my personal theory is because it aligns more with how you usually say a date out loud. Like when telling someone the date you usually say "January 1st" instead of "the first of January" (at least in the US). I don't actually know that's just my theory.
Might be how YOU say a date out loud mate! 😠 ... I'm joking, I'm chill! But yeah, in the UK we would usually say "the first of January" (but I don't think anyone would really notice if someone said it the American way either). I only disovered recently that British ppl also read long numbers (like phone or credit card numbers) different to people in the usa!
Shoutout to Intercourse PA: a town everyone in a NJ public school has been to on a school trip to Hershey park / Gettysburg and had one kid buy the “i ❤ Intercourse” shirt at the gift shop
For anyone wondering about the China sparrow thing, the long and short of it was that the chinese government declared war on mosquitos because of malaria, rats and pigeons because of plague, and sparrows because they ate seeds out of sown crop fields. It was a very widespread campaign that utterly decimated the chinese sparrow populations, however the chinese government failed to realize that while the sparrow ate crop seeds, it mainly ate insects like locusts. With little to no sparrows left to perform population control, the locust population boomed to massive levels and caused more devastation to the crops than the sparrows ever could, which led to the great chinese famine of 1960-61, the most devastating famine in human history. So in an effort to prevent famine, Mao Zedong caused the biggest famine.
Hey George, Australian here. The reason we call football soccer here is because we have another sport called Aussie Rules Football (or AFL) a lot of people still call it football.
The whole MMDDYY format was actually due to the British. They started it first and obviously the colonies also used it. The biritish later on changed but America kept it.
Yes many many people died from China killing so many sparrows, as they were already struggling before but the sparrows were keeping the insects under control.
How did he not get the steamed hams reference it’s extremely iconic and the best Albany expression any I gotta go there’s aurora borealis in my kitchen
The U.S. is designed so poorly because of the car industry. They played a huge part in city planning while the interstate system was being introduced in the 50's, and they wanted to make it as inconvenient as possible for people to live without cars in America.
They also literally invented the term "jaywalking" and ran huge newspaper campaigns promoting it to shift the blame about the massive amounts of pedestrian deaths by reckless drivers from the drivers to the pedestrians. And it somehow worked.
Finland actually has even more sauna's not just public ones.. almost every house has a sauna. If a house does not have a sauna i doubt it will sell very well
I'm not the only one under 30 in this country that knows what Oman is without being from there only cause I liked my Geography teacher and studied google maps even though we mainly learned about south america, biomes and rock formations on Victoria falls BY WATCHING UP 😎
so for non australians: it is not an urban myth. our former prime minister, scott morrison, did indeed shit himself in an engadine maccas. he denies it, but the people know the truth
us aussies call your football soccer cause we have football AND soccer. soccer is the round ball with hexagons and footy is the weird shaped one thats kinda like an oval.
Sweet potatoes here during thanksgiving have marshmallows in them. Idk why people would do that but it's an abomination. Also, green bean casserole is so good. Idk why people would hate it.
mao ordered the chinese to kill all the sparrows but then all the bugs that the sparrows normally would have eaten started overpopulating and totally destroyed the crop.
In New Jersey and Rhode Island incest is legal, but you can't marry them. So its weird how you can marry your first cousin but not your immediate family. At that point you met as well go all the way.
George not getting the steamed ham reference physically hurt me
So that was Albany that was highlighted
Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?
As a Simpsons fan, highlight of my day
Seymour, the house is on fire!
@@shaved_wombatNo, mother. It's just the Northern Lights.
Okay, so allow me to explain the Steamed Hams lore: It is from the Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield". Principal Skinner invites Superintendent Chalmers to his home for a luncheon. However, he accidentally burnt his roast and knows Chalmers is on his way, so he sneakily goes to Krusty Burger and pass it off as his own. But Chalmers walks in as he climbs through the window to escape, so Skinner says he's getting rid of the smoke from the steamed "clams". Chalmers corrects him that it's steam, but he buys the lie anyway and leaves the kitchen, allowing Skinner to escape. Skinner returns with a plate of hamburgers, with Chalmers confused as he thought it was clams. Skinner says that he said steamed HAMS and that it's a regional dialect.
Chalmers asks where, and Skinner says Upstate New York. Chalmers reveals he's from Utica and that he's never heard of hamburgers being called that. Skinner corrects him that it's an Albany expression. Chalmers notices that the burgers are the exact way Krusty Burger makes them and that they aren't steamed, they're grilled. Skinner, cornered, goes to the kitchen and noticed he forgot to turn off the oven...causing the whole kitchen to go on fire. When Skinner tries to rush Chalmers because of it, Skinner says that it's "Aurora borealis" in his kitchen. He is convinced.
Localised entirely in his kitchen, lol
@@andrewnorth170 at this time of year, in this part of the country
Thank you. Also, why are you fucking everywhere?
Oh Hey Avery, I've seen you over at the Urban Rescue Ranch 👋
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As an Australian, he definitely shat himself
As an Australian, I am an Australian
He did. What a way to top off the sharks loss in 97, in Engerdine.
@@bibsp3556ewww nrl
100000%
Don’t think George knows we can legally marry our first cousin in the UK too
I wish I never knew that
My state doesn't have that problem.
Wha!? I thought we were better than that u_u
Its actually legal in most european countrys as these laws are rarely touched upon, even though it should probably be banned.
Yep, my mums aunt and uncle are first cousins, they married in the 50s or 60s idk
Love that the conclusion of what a public sauna is, is that it’s a public sauna. Great content yet again, George!
Bit more on the sparrow war in China. Basically as George said they started it because of sparrows eating some crops but after the massive cull they realised that sparrow ate more locusts than crops and by killing so any sparrows there wasn't any predators for the locusts so instead of killing a few thousand sparrows they had to kill billions of locusts those sparrows would have killed anyway.
then millions starved Chinese history always has the end result of millions die. like that war with the guy who said he was Jesus' brother
Chinese history is always "millions perished".
george i am so obsessed with your map videos
George didn’t get the steamed ham reference… he’s not even human confirmed
Why do you think he wears the mask?
He's a synth
please do a load of map videos again, they're elite asf
love how bewildered people get when they learn just how many saunas there are in Finland
fun fact most apartment complexes have a public sauna for it's residents on the top floor (sometimes in the basement in old buildings) where you can have a certain time on a certain day reserved for you. This is if your apartment itself doesn't already have a smaller private sauna, which a lot do
we go on holiday every year and I'd say 55% of our time is in a sauna
Haha we got a LOT of saunas over here in Sweden too (Probably so our eastern homies feel at home)
SUOMI EDUSTUSTA 💯💯🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🙏🙏🙏
I love myself a Sauna. Love visiting the family back there, everyone's got one at least.
To explain the italy one; theres an insane amount of dialects in italy, like literally almost every little town, each of which would have a different word for it. I call it mussa at time, which you can find in liguria in the top left
Adding more to that, Italy has so many languages and dialects because of the country itself is relatively new, even newer than the USA, uniting in 1861-71. In 1861, they also standardised the Tuscan language off of the dialect spoken in Florentine, and dubbbed it 'Standard Italian' after the newly united country. Before then, there were numerous city-states in the region, all of which had their own common language(s).
Does George not know what sweet potatoes are??
And no, the actual country of Chad doesn't have buff people walking around all over the place. Chad is ranked at the very BOTTOM of the Human Development Index, there's intercommunal clashes, terrorism, and it's one of the most corrupt countries around. And regarding Italy, it's not just regional dialects of Italian itself. Italian is a part of the Italo-Dalmation languages, and it's not the only language within it! Italian may be the only official language of the country, but it's not the only language spoken there! There's also Tuscan, Central Italian, Emilian, Sardinian, Venetian, Sicilian, and others. Though the general population likes to refer to these languages as dialects.
You can’t say anything
The reason why we call it Soccer is because Australia already has its own Football, most people call it "Footy"
The requirements for cousin marriage are often that you’re either too old to have kids or one of the couple is sterile 💀
So it allows people to marry their cousin as long as they don’t have any inbr*d kids?
does being gay work? I mean, that also doesn't result in children.
@@gamesandglory1648 I… have no idea honestly? Maybe they’ll revise those laws bc some people are legally male but can still have kids, so there would have to be a lot of fine print 😭
Oh shit! George is catching on to out Steamed Hams. Quickly! We must hide the Aurora Borealis in the kitchen!
Distract him by stretching your calves!
Don’t forget the steamed clams
Thanks to the editor for constantly cutting away from the maps so that we can see a hat, a bandana and some glasses in all of their full screen glory.
I had to watch at 50% speed to even vaguely take in anything that George was reacting to... and I had to listen to him talking like it's a crap scene from a lazy movie that wants to show you that 'someone is tripping'.
Oh pardon him for showing that he genuinely reacts to what he's seeing. There's a clue in the name: "reaction video".
It's no myth. He really shat himself in engadine maccas.
“I did NOT shit my pants at an engadine maccas in 1997, I don’t know where this has come from but STOP” -Scomo from his Hawaii Airbnb feb 2020
There is just something i love about these map videos
The screwdrivers one is complete crap. In Australia you turn things clockwise to tighten/screw in things. no idea where that map came from but has never been true.
My guess as to why the US uses MM/DD/YYYY is that that’s the order you say it when you spell it out (October 12th, 2022). But DD/MM/YYYY still makes more sense when just using numbers.
What's the name of the holiday that celebrates US independence?
4th of july?
We love a good useless map, somehow they are useful
1:37 idk why we use the month-day-year format either, but my personal theory is because it aligns more with how you usually say a date out loud. Like when telling someone the date you usually say "January 1st" instead of "the first of January" (at least in the US). I don't actually know that's just my theory.
Might be how YOU say a date out loud mate! 😠
... I'm joking, I'm chill!
But yeah, in the UK we would usually say "the first of January" (but I don't think anyone would really notice if someone said it the American way either).
I only disovered recently that British ppl also read long numbers (like phone or credit card numbers) different to people in the usa!
when you tap 1 on your keyboard, George says one at the same time
Shoutout to Intercourse PA: a town everyone in a NJ public school has been to on a school trip to Hershey park / Gettysburg and had one kid buy the “i ❤ Intercourse” shirt at the gift shop
You can legally marry your first cousin in England, don’t recommend it though.
1:23 good old engadine maccas
00:47 mmm steamed hams
For anyone wondering about the China sparrow thing, the long and short of it was that the chinese government declared war on mosquitos because of malaria, rats and pigeons because of plague, and sparrows because they ate seeds out of sown crop fields. It was a very widespread campaign that utterly decimated the chinese sparrow populations, however the chinese government failed to realize that while the sparrow ate crop seeds, it mainly ate insects like locusts. With little to no sparrows left to perform population control, the locust population boomed to massive levels and caused more devastation to the crops than the sparrows ever could, which led to the great chinese famine of 1960-61, the most devastating famine in human history. So in an effort to prevent famine, Mao Zedong caused the biggest famine.
I live 10 minutes from Intercourse! Such a cute town. Nearby we also have towns named Blue Ball and Bird-in-Hand. Lancaster is an interesting place
George should tell us more about his recent American travels
map: they call burgers steamed hams
george: mmyess, and you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled
3:29 as a cumbrian I'm sad that Cockermouth has been forgotten 😭😭
me and you both george. I love looking at how earth MAP looked like millions years ago
I love staring at maps too ☺ this video was too fast for me though so i paused it quite a bit, there truly are some weird maps out there indeed
that's a mighty large forehead you've got there Mr Memeulous 1:16
4:32: Idaho, Michigan, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia.
Sweet potatoes are just a vegetable George we have them here in England too it's not a dish
I hope that he somehow got the Steamed Hams reference since he ended up saying they aren’t actually steamed.
03:11 right so you’re telling me CAT? Is more famous than McDonalds? 😂
ah nothing better than map man memeulous
In New Zealand we call it football, not soccer, but from the American influence on the internet alot of people call it soccer:(
I want more map videos, please, please do these more often
Hey George, Australian here. The reason we call football soccer here is because we have another sport called Aussie Rules Football (or AFL) a lot of people still call it football.
Look at Alabama on the map without the first letter of the state😂😂
Was looking for this comment, shame he didn't see that
The whole MMDDYY format was actually due to the British. They started it first and obviously the colonies also used it. The biritish later on changed but America kept it.
Yes many many people died from China killing so many sparrows, as they were already struggling before but the sparrows were keeping the insects under control.
The only actual terrible map is any one that features kent. Most notably thanet.
Yeah bro, Scott Morrison shit himself at my local McDonald’s. I’m very proud
how have you not heard of sweet potatoes
How did he not get the steamed hams reference it’s extremely iconic and the best Albany expression any I gotta go there’s aurora borealis in my kitchen
That Simpsons reference goes hard
“It’s three syllabus, there’s an A there!”
Proceeds to completely not pronounce the R in “caaaahmel”
Italy has tons of languages, Italian is just the standard so most people assume that's only one.
The U.S. is designed so poorly because of the car industry. They played a huge part in city planning while the interstate system was being introduced in the 50's, and they wanted to make it as inconvenient as possible for people to live without cars in America.
They also literally invented the term "jaywalking" and ran huge newspaper campaigns promoting it to shift the blame about the massive amounts of pedestrian deaths by reckless drivers from the drivers to the pedestrians.
And it somehow worked.
i love you george
Nah Scott Morrison legit shit himself in the maccies which shaped him as a person and no one can say he/it didn’t
Mathew beam standing there
I guess george memeulous doesn't know that sauna is finnish culture
As an Australian I can't confirm our ex Prime Minister Scomo shat himself but wouldn't it be funny.
Finland actually has even more sauna's not just public ones.. almost every house has a sauna. If a house does not have a sauna i doubt it will sell very well
As someone who lives right next to Essex, I am proud
Glad the place I grew up, Besses O' Th' Barn, makes it in the map at 3:30 - only place in Manchester that has a peculiar name apparently 😂
Love being early to a cheeky George M video
pls do map of pangea i think pangea is very polite
4:32
Most Midwestern countries and states are squares because when dividing up the land to be settled the U.S. Govt just went for the grid route.
4:48 It’s in PA. Top Gear went there.
I'm not the only one under 30 in this country that knows what Oman is without being from there only cause I liked my Geography teacher and studied google maps even though we mainly learned about south america, biomes and rock formations on Victoria falls BY WATCHING UP 😎
drew durnil didnt upload so this is good enough
Have you never had a steamed ham George?
It's not only the US, the Philippines also uses the MMDDYY format for dates. That map is wrong.
so for non australians: it is not an urban myth. our former prime minister, scott morrison, did indeed shit himself in an engadine maccas. he denies it, but the people know the truth
You what? NO TURKEY???!
It's ok, guys, I'm Polish and would walk away from Poland as well if I had a choice.
Banging
extremely rare George L when he didn't understand steamed hams
These maps sure are terrible
Lmao
u were first
map man
First cousin marriage is legal in the UK. I know someone from school who’s parents are cousins
4:32 There is no way they chose Balltown over Bussey for Iowa
Please more map content I love it
us aussies call your football soccer cause we have football AND soccer. soccer is the round ball with hexagons and footy is the weird shaped one thats kinda like an oval.
3:05 I feel like they got Minnesota wrong, Target originated there.
2:53 For when you go swimming in the winter
The map of cousin marriage and it's colors line up pretty well with political maps of the US, I'm not surprised in the slightest
Sweet potatoes here during thanksgiving have marshmallows in them. Idk why people would do that but it's an abomination. Also, green bean casserole is so good. Idk why people would hate it.
mao ordered the chinese to kill all the sparrows but then all the bugs that the sparrows normally would have eaten started overpopulating and totally destroyed the crop.
1:44 ok so heres the logic
you would usually say month/day/year when speaking (you would say December 12 2023)
THAT IS WHY
ITS MM/DD/YYYY
No, you say it's the 12th of December then the year. It's just easier and makes sense.
@@infin8ee i barely hear someone say "12th of december" i always hear "december 12th" or just "the 12th"
I'm from South Africa and we tighten screw clockwise.
I'm from Australia - we remember which way to tighten things by saying "righty tighty, lefty loosey"
@@Harnacke76 exactly! that song reminds us
7:17 lefty losey righty tighty
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🎶Won't you take me to
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DONKEYTOWN🎶
Steamed hams George... STEAMED HAMS...
I love maps!
Donkey town is a weird thing because it’s really just an area of west end, near Woking
GEORGE MEMEULOUS
I live next to donkey town
I think the Australian Prime Minister did actually shit himself
In New Jersey and Rhode Island incest is legal, but you can't marry them. So its weird how you can marry your first cousin but not your immediate family. At that point you met as well go all the way.
the screwdriver isn't true, cause in Aus, we do it tighten it clockwise. it might have been a 'the southern hemisphere is upside down' joke.
3:29 no cockermouth 😢