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Thats alot to take in, bro. I'm just imagining an untalented, unremarkable 23rd son of an emperor just reading The Art of War and forcing his servants to do push ups.
To be even more fair to Sun Tzu. Sometimes, you need to state to obvious. Like how someone had to say in 1914 that marching in line formation towards machinegun nests is a bad idea.
A piece of comedy I think is often overlooked with Bluejay's videos is that, normally his Bluejay avatar is easy enough to play on your peripheral vision since there's so much animation to be focusing on, but when there's a moment of silence and nothing is happening on screen, and you just have the avatar to look at... your eyes slowly travel across the screen to where the bird is patiently sitting. Waiting. On your reaction. Your eyes meet its eyes. Its eyes meet yours. It stares. Dead. Black. Nothing. Silent. ...And moments later we're back to the action!
I̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶e̶s̶.̶ ̶D̶e̶a̶d̶.̶ ̶B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶.̶ ̶N̶o̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶.̶ ̶S̶i̶l̶e̶n̶t̶.̶ ❌ you slowly caress his soft feathers, bluejay is visibly embarrassed and blush. sloppy french kiss. ...And we're back to action! ✅
Ngl, the art of war is even more genius than people give it credit for. Sun Tzu managed to write an extensive guide on for the time fairly advanced war tactics in a way that snobby kings and emperors would understand. Sure, we know we need to bring food when going into battle but someone who had private chefs all their life can easily forget about this stuff. Truly genius.
When talking about war, most enthusiasts think about where to place their troops, overrunning their enemies with their own elite forces and how cool its gonna look when the archers rain arrows on them. But hardly anyone thinks about "Hey, how do you get 1000 men through this difficult terrain, make sure that they always have enough to eat, find sources of fresh water and organize perimeter patrols and scouts so you don't stumble into the enemy."
Sun Tzu was probably not a person, instead it was a group of scholars that wrote The Art of War collaboratively, and signed it as Sun Tzu, which was a common practice for collaborative works in ancient China.
Love your videos so much, an island of humor and history in a sea of copy-and-paste Wikipedia hacks. Particularly liked the one recently where the confused time traveler was slowly murdered by Victorian England. On a personal note I think just having one source is fine if you’re working with something super niche. It depends, I think. If they’re an eye witness, for example, then that’s definitely worth something. I don’t know, there is no “burden of proof” for history. I’ve tried to find one. Part of the reason I moved onto the Modern Era from Rome was because ancient sources are so scant it means you really have to just say, “Plutarch said this, so whatever.” I was also very pleased to see you refrained from using slurs this time (I’m sorry I can’t help myself).
Another thing they did at Gallipoli is in the lead up to the evacuations they would order *absolute silence* in different parts of the line. When the ottomans would send out scouting raids they would be met with a hail of gunfire. This taught the ottomans that silence was a trap, meaning that when trenches began to fall silent because they were empty the ottomans were slow to realize what was going on.
4:32 China literally wrote the book on feeding your troops only to go up against one of the largest and most powerful military coalitions on Earth, in the winter, without feeding its troops.
"china" didn't literally write a book on feeding your troops. a Chinese general wrote a book about war tactics that happened to mention feeding your army
@@zack-lk8if saying that a man from China literally wrote a book which outlined the importance of food as a logistical need in warfare was a much clunkier set up for my joke though.
@@danielwoods3896 Yep, the Battle of Chosin. China got out-logisticsed so hard by NATO, they're still making propaganda films to cope about it to this day.
a friend of mine is a volunteer fire-fighter and he has his toast with frankly daft quantities of vegemite like the kind of thickness normally associated with layer cake icing
"It looks like an island sir." "But what if it wasn't?" I straight up immediately asked 'what' at the same time the soldier did lmao. I was so shook by that statement.
Honestly an elegant way to address being wrong about something in a previous video, I've seen way too many people just dig a bigger hole for themselves. Great job on the video!!!
Sun Tsu's advice was revolutionary for its time. Anyone who wants to know the state of battle tactics and strategy at that time should just read the advice given in The Art Of War, and think about why that direct instruction was necessary. These generals had to be explicitly told DO NOT got to war unless it's actually necessary. You need to survey the land and use terrain to your advantage. You need to think objectively and control your emotions. You need to plan ahead for how to feed your soldiers. You need to have a clear goal in mind for war. The mindset of many warriors and princes at the time was "They insult our honor by existing! The gods are with us we cannot lose! GO GET EM". A ruinous war for honor is still ruinous.
Sun Tsu is pretty hilarious since his work implies that all the commanders at the time where stupid noblemen who knew fuck all about leading armies on campaign or tactics and he basically had to teach them "No, you can't just send your 1000 men over there and have them whack the enemy with a sword, they NEED TO FUCKING EAT AND DRINK. No, you can't just have them all take lunch boxes, it falls on YOU to provide them with food. Oh, and for the love of god, make a fucking battle plan before you start battle, will ya? Mindlessly charging into the enemy and just winging it from there rarely works."
The Gallipoli retreat wasn’t unnoticed, the Ottoman forces figured it out much faster than anticipated. Commanders in the field were overly cautious probing the line, and then overall command was overly cautious about ordering the all-out assault. Orders travelled slowly back then, and the Ottomans forces only managed to engage a small number of rearguard while most of the British forces withdrew.
But given that the Ottoman command was so hesitant, meaning there was still doubt in their mind about the retreat, could it not be said that it was unnoticed?
@OutbackCatgirl Anzac were still part of the British empire in WW1. They had home rule but in foreign policy took orders from Britain. So they were British force, they were also evacuated by the British navy.
"No animals were harmed in the making of this video, unless you count 49ers fans." Joke's on you, nothing can hurt us more than watching the team injure itself to pieces and exist in a purgatory of excessive mediocrity.
"A purgatory of excessive mediocrity?" Oh, come on. They've been to the Super Bowl three times in thirteen seasons. Most of the league would be thrilled with that level of success.
4:30 to be completely fair, this was written during a time when generals and other high ranking military guys were just nobles with little to no actual battle experience, so this book is basically just war 101 for nobles and scholars so they can be somewhat competent when war breaks out
"Give your men food" was not obeyed by ...... Ghenghis Khan. His men were mobile bacuse they did not have to carry food wagons. They simply carried dried meat on person, and hunted game for food (possible, since when on the move, a group of 10 could be upto 1 km away from the other).
10:10 After saying "what" in the exact same tone several times watching this video before getting to this part, I am firmly convinced BlueJay just MIGHT have a few microphones in my house. again.
4:40 fun fact: the art of war has so much obvious advice because it’s intended for nobles who had literally never even seen a poor person before. That’s also why it’s so helpful for business majors 😂
There is an old joke among classic historians where the professor said to his student "Work a bit harder and accomplish something! You are already twenty. At the age of twenty, Alexander had conquered half the known world." To which the student replies "Alexander had Aritotle as teacher, though."
Actually the drip rifles were far less effective than commonly assumed. In some cases they failed to fire at all, or were discovered to be fake after a few minutes. The success of the retreat was actually more due to it being done at night, happening very quickly and honestly the Ottomans just being happy to see their enemy retreating and not actually being that eager to pursue them. But it makes for a good story.
In the days leading up to the evacuation the Anzacs kept feigning a withdrawal, just to slaughter the Ottoman scouts that were sent to check what was happening. Which is probably what lead them not to be that eager to see why there was only sporadic fire coming from the trenches. When the British later evacuated their positions, the Ottomans were in a better position to judge what was happening and did attack. But the Royal Navy blasted the chokepoints to cover the withdrawal there. The Ottomans were well aware that the allied forces were going to leave, there was a small armada of transports for it, they just didn't know when that was going to happen.
I can’t seem to find any sources for your claim. I’m genuinely curious as my great grandfather was a Gallipoli veteran with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment. The Australian War Memorial claims it was effective, as well as countless other sources I’ve come across, but as I say I can’t find one source that says they were far less effective. I fail to see how they would’ve been discovered after a few minutes. Did the Turks cross no man’s land and subsequently discover empty trenches whilst the evacuation was in full swing? How else would they have known they were fake? Are you suggesting the Turks were fully aware of the evacuation and watched it all unfold and did nothing, despite the fact they were still at war and the Cannakale peninsula was not the only active theatre? Btw, The drip mechanism wasn’t the only method used. They also used a candle and string.
In my research I heard this claim, but was never able to find any actual sources supporting it. In my best analysis, it seemed this idea of the drip rifles not being effective sorta came down to vibes from people on the internet going, “nah, no way bro.” However, there also isn’t any strong evidence that they WERE effective, because how could there be? The idea was they would run away while the drip rifles were firing, so it’s not like they could stay and report their effectiveness. Nevertheless, ANZACS report them as having helped, so that’s the story I went with.
Don't worry, the 1st Division got redeployed to the Somme. They lost 23,000 men in just a little more than the first week in one battle (Pozières), compared to "only" 8,700 for the year at Gallipoli.
Yes, so openly in fact that we have virtually no historical evidence to support anything of the sort.😂 His supposed fling with Hephaestion is practically all guesswork by later historians. It's not certain in the slightest that's what their relationship was like. There is a very good probability that he was sexualy involved with a eunuch but it's unclear if eunuchs were seen as male in Macedonian society, since there wasn't a practice of castrating children there. Terms like "openly bisexual" are modern concepts and do not accurately apply to ancient people.
@@blackgem12not that the behavior was cultivated more from outside, but that their society was slightly rare among the greats for not punishing as much what many men tend to do. Example: republican politician gatherings often coincide with high Grindr activity
Fun fact: Alexander The Great’s nickname before being called “the great” was “Alexander the pretty good.” It is rumored that he led his massive conquest just to stop being called that by everyone because he hated the name.
I loved the video critiquing you. It was straight up: "Hey, this is a super honest mistake, and its only because I have a hyperfixation that I even noticed or cared... so lets explore that hyperfixation" but with all of the "OMG HE WRONG" bait. 10/10 would see you criticized wholesomely again
It took me 33 seconds to click in hopes I could be traumatized by a blue, feathery, piss-drinking demon after my last final. You didn't disappoint. edit: I see no evidence to suggest he isn't drinking the piss
Feel honored. Yours is one of the ONLY channels during which I actively watch sponsorship spots. Granted, this one was sponsoring yourself, but still. Every moment of your videos is gold. I love it.
When i heard about the mines my mind immediately went to Project Pidgeon ( a pigeon-controlled guided bomb). Seems like birds and explosives are a natural pairing.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same guy suggesting it twice. "Damnit, the first project got scrapped, but it's just SUCH A GOOD IDEA. I'm going to find SOME WAY to get the government to recognize my genius damnit!
US Army combat vet here. Tactics is a continuing study. I was easily a subject matter expert of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) a mere decade ago. Today, the game has changed. My knowledge could be useful on a general level, but potentially useless at the tactical level.
BlueJay, please don't suddenly disappear. Most of the "One god-tier edu-tainment video every few months" channels do and I can live with that, but not this one. If you ever do, please think of the fact that I will be immeasureably sad and my year or two will be ruined. You don't want to have that on your conscience, do you?
I Love the fact you owned up to it realized the video was a joke and was just having a bit of fun with you. Because I watched it and thought it was really good. So good on you man for be cool and not a internet weirdo... Well I mean you are an internet weirdo like the rest of us, but you're not on of THOSE internet weirdos... You know what I am gonna stop talking now....
did you know that ? : Thrilled to meet the famous thinker, Alexander asked if there was any favor he might do for him. To that, Diogenes replied: “Move a little to the right; you are blocking my sun.”
Story also goes that Diogenes renounced any and all possesions he did not deem absolutely necessary for survival. All he had was a bowl to drink water. When he went to the fountain one day to drink, he saw a child scooping water with the palm of its hands. Diogenes exclaimed "Yo, how embarassing, a fucking child outdid me in terms of simplicity" and threw away his bowl.
The delayed rifle fire to withdraw from gallipoli saved a ton of lives. That withdraw would jave been a massacre if the Turks had realized what was happening.
YARRGHHEEEE IT BE HERE, MATEY!! → youtooz.com/products/bluejay
Rápido, rápido! Once they sell out they'll be gone FOREVER! We worked really hard to get this pirate BlueJay right and I can honestly say it came out AMAZING! I hope you all enjoy :)
@BlueJayYT was waiting for the video man. Make the bird flap it's wings. Animate the birds wings and move it's legs, and re-upload quickly.
33 minutes after the upload time nice
I love how both you and jack rackham can turn any part of history into a comedy sketch.
My fav history-ish channel. keep it up I luv it
Tiz a good day to die, but the Bluejay video is _not_ yet over...
To be fair to Sun Tzu, he was writing for ancient nepo babies in charge of armies
Thats alot to take in, bro. I'm just imagining an untalented, unremarkable 23rd son of an emperor just reading The Art of War and forcing his servants to do push ups.
Was Sun Tzu the original sigma grindset grifter?
Sun Tzu was basically describing the bare basics to dumb rich kids who didn't yet have a convenient book explaining the bare basics to them
Exactly. You would be amazed at the stupidity of the nobility sometimes.
To be even more fair to Sun Tzu. Sometimes, you need to state to obvious. Like how someone had to say in 1914 that marching in line formation towards machinegun nests is a bad idea.
A piece of comedy I think is often overlooked with Bluejay's videos is that, normally his Bluejay avatar is easy enough to play on your peripheral vision since there's so much animation to be focusing on, but when there's a moment of silence and nothing is happening on screen, and you just have the avatar to look at...
your eyes slowly travel across the screen to where the bird is patiently sitting. Waiting. On your reaction.
Your eyes meet its eyes.
Its eyes meet yours.
It stares. Dead. Black. Nothing. Silent.
...And moments later we're back to the action!
So romantic
Like a doll's eyes ...
I̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶e̶s̶.̶ ̶D̶e̶a̶d̶.̶ ̶B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶.̶ ̶N̶o̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶.̶ ̶S̶i̶l̶e̶n̶t̶.̶ ❌
you slowly caress his soft feathers, bluejay is visibly embarrassed and blush.
sloppy french kiss.
...And we're back to action! ✅
bro is modern Shakespeare
I bet that bird fks like a minx
If you fail it's wacky. If you succeed it's legendary
Not true, Alexander the Great did succeed but still ended up in this video.
I find you commenting on 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑦 miilky's channel and now here, we share the same interests, stranger
If you die you die
I see you in literally ever VTuber comment section, and now here. How based can one be?
if it works, it aint stupid.
Ngl, the art of war is even more genius than people give it credit for. Sun Tzu managed to write an extensive guide on for the time fairly advanced war tactics in a way that snobby kings and emperors would understand. Sure, we know we need to bring food when going into battle but someone who had private chefs all their life can easily forget about this stuff. Truly genius.
When talking about war, most enthusiasts think about where to place their troops, overrunning their enemies with their own elite forces and how cool its gonna look when the archers rain arrows on them. But hardly anyone thinks about "Hey, how do you get 1000 men through this difficult terrain, make sure that they always have enough to eat, find sources of fresh water and organize perimeter patrols and scouts so you don't stumble into the enemy."
@@wjzav1971 Logistics wins wars.
Sun Tzu was probably not a person, instead it was a group of scholars that wrote The Art of War collaboratively, and signed it as Sun Tzu, which was a common practice for collaborative works in ancient China.
Yup
@@wjzav1971 Commanders studiy tactics. Generals study strategies. Winners study logistics.
“Triremes can’t melt wooden beams after all” I never thought I’d see a 9/11 reference go hand in hand with the siege of Tyre
It took me a while to understand the "Bush wanted to destroy the Two Towers" joke
There were a lot of great rhymes and puns in this video but that line made me choke on my water from laughter. That was inspired writing.
that was an excellent kek
It's technically true
@@OtakuUnitedStudio 'The best kind of correct." (Yes, I know you said true but the joke doesn't land otherwise.)
Love your videos so much, an island of humor and history in a sea of copy-and-paste Wikipedia hacks. Particularly liked the one recently where the confused time traveler was slowly murdered by Victorian England.
On a personal note I think just having one source is fine if you’re working with something super niche. It depends, I think. If they’re an eye witness, for example, then that’s definitely worth something. I don’t know, there is no “burden of proof” for history. I’ve tried to find one.
Part of the reason I moved onto the Modern Era from Rome was because ancient sources are so scant it means you really have to just say, “Plutarch said this, so whatever.”
I was also very pleased to see you refrained from using slurs this time (I’m sorry I can’t help myself).
Thank you señor Cobbler, your videos are a treat and tickle my brain as well, keep up the unhinged antics, king
Maybe you should make a collaboratory video discussing your "healthy" obsessions with different eras of history
Slurs? lmao
Maybe you two should get a room.(For studying history together of course)
@@BlueJayYTThis is such a wholesome friendship, I love it. You guys should make out
8:18 just got rickrolled by a freaking bird
Yue rolled
Thank you for telling in advance
That’s twice now I’ve got Rickrolled by one Edit: the first time was oversimplified
You spoiled it for me
@@shinigami1357 saved you*
my bad my man
Another thing they did at Gallipoli is in the lead up to the evacuations they would order *absolute silence* in different parts of the line. When the ottomans would send out scouting raids they would be met with a hail of gunfire. This taught the ottomans that silence was a trap, meaning that when trenches began to fall silent because they were empty the ottomans were slow to realize what was going on.
someone watched lindybeige
bluejay just shamelessly copied lindys years oold vid lol
4:32 China literally wrote the book on feeding your troops only to go up against one of the largest and most powerful military coalitions on Earth, in the winter, without feeding its troops.
"china" didn't literally write a book on feeding your troops. a Chinese general wrote a book about war tactics that happened to mention feeding your army
@@zack-lk8if saying that a man from China literally wrote a book which outlined the importance of food as a logistical need in warfare was a much clunkier set up for my joke though.
Which war are you talking about? Korea?
@@danielwoods3896 Yep, the Battle of Chosin. China got out-logisticsed so hard by NATO, they're still making propaganda films to cope about it to this day.
@@danielwoods3896I think so, but honestly it doesn’t hit that well because China managed to push us roughly back to the 38th parallel
I was wondering when you were going to respond the DJ Peach Cobbler there… just glad you did so in such a subtle and non-snarky manner 😂
"Only the dead has seen the end of war, and the end to this series"
-Plato, probably
HOID!!! (5:45)
Strength before weakness, you blue chicken!
There’s always another secret
That guy gets around...
1:00 as an Aussie, that's pretty accurate. We must pray to the vegemite and worships its yeast
Nice to see our heroes "taking the piss" to a new level.
*Meet the sniper intensifies
@@madkoala2130 I mean being sniped by piss definitely fits with him
@@madkoala2130 Jarate!
a friend of mine is a volunteer fire-fighter and he has his toast with frankly daft quantities of vegemite
like the kind of thickness normally associated with layer cake icing
“Until Isaac Newton took the wheel and pulled the trigger with the nerd magic of gravity” 1:27 🤣🤣🤣
War is hell… and also just kinda hilarious sometimes
War is Hell-arious
@@Combes_ 😂 That made me laugh!
"It looks like an island sir."
"But what if it wasn't?"
I straight up immediately asked 'what' at the same time the soldier did lmao. I was so shook by that statement.
It's why the siege of tyre is so memorable
"Suppose we were islanders"
Lol, same.
I did the same but for the "can o' piss" line.😂🎉
5:40 I just want to point out that BlueJay is a Stormlight Archive fan which makes me incredibly happy
Stormlight reference! LETS GOOO.
Don't know how I missed that, I must've been looking away when that popped up
Honestly an elegant way to address being wrong about something in a previous video, I've seen way too many people just dig a bigger hole for themselves.
Great job on the video!!!
I love the fake beef between you and DJ peach cobbler😂
Nah, its real beef. Their gonna fight to the death at some point
I’m here for it
DJ Peach Cobbler is peak TH-cam. LAUGH. WOMAN ANGRY. LAUGH.
Doesn't seem very fake to me
@@WatcherontheWeb Did you watch the videos? There is no beef, it was constructive criticism.
Sun Tsu's advice was revolutionary for its time. Anyone who wants to know the state of battle tactics and strategy at that time should just read the advice given in The Art Of War, and think about why that direct instruction was necessary. These generals had to be explicitly told DO NOT got to war unless it's actually necessary. You need to survey the land and use terrain to your advantage. You need to think objectively and control your emotions. You need to plan ahead for how to feed your soldiers. You need to have a clear goal in mind for war. The mindset of many warriors and princes at the time was "They insult our honor by existing! The gods are with us we cannot lose! GO GET EM". A ruinous war for honor is still ruinous.
Sun Tsu is pretty hilarious since his work implies that all the commanders at the time where stupid noblemen who knew fuck all about leading armies on campaign or tactics and he basically had to teach them "No, you can't just send your 1000 men over there and have them whack the enemy with a sword, they NEED TO FUCKING EAT AND DRINK. No, you can't just have them all take lunch boxes, it falls on YOU to provide them with food. Oh, and for the love of god, make a fucking battle plan before you start battle, will ya? Mindlessly charging into the enemy and just winging it from there rarely works."
Sun Tzu: have a clear goal and don't get into a ruinous war for honor.
US President George Bush: hold my beer...
@@RoeRogerslol yeah. and the fucker didn't just do it once, but twice.
@@RoeRogersPutin: Hold my vodka still
5:43 Holy shit a Stormlight reference in the wild
Glad to know I'm not the only one who caught that.
I was like, Wit?!
Bro and a week after stormligh 5 knew that I was only probably not going insane
Me taking a break from wind and truth on yt and wit comes to deliver his burns here as well 😭😭
@hrishikeshmandaliya I need to wait for my wife to finish reading it before I can. It is Thick.
The Gallipoli retreat wasn’t unnoticed, the Ottoman forces figured it out much faster than anticipated. Commanders in the field were overly cautious probing the line, and then overall command was overly cautious about ordering the all-out assault. Orders travelled slowly back then, and the Ottomans forces only managed to engage a small number of rearguard while most of the British forces withdrew.
But given that the Ottoman command was so hesitant, meaning there was still doubt in their mind about the retreat, could it not be said that it was unnoticed?
@@wjzav1971 It was a successful deception, but it is not true that the Ottomans did not notice.
@@dashiellgillingham4579 I have read that the Ottomans feared it to be a trap. As it was a tactic being used elsewhere at the time.
british forces, you say? was it british or anzac, or a mix of both?
@OutbackCatgirl Anzac were still part of the British empire in WW1. They had home rule but in foreign policy took orders from Britain. So they were British force, they were also evacuated by the British navy.
1:41 BLUE JAY FACE REVEAL!!
Lol, honestly jealous. Irwin seems like such a genuine and down to earth guy.🫡
He's not a sentient blue bird?!
Steve Ervin's Son? 🤯
Yea we know. I thought we all already knew he was a stuffed toy blue Jay.
@@suspence5832 Nah, he's related to Erwin Smith of Attack on Titan fame
"No animals were harmed in the making of this video, unless you count 49ers fans."
Joke's on you, nothing can hurt us more than watching the team injure itself to pieces and exist in a purgatory of excessive mediocrity.
As a Saints fan all I can say is: Welcome to my world.
"A purgatory of excessive mediocrity?" Oh, come on. They've been to the Super Bowl three times in thirteen seasons. Most of the league would be thrilled with that level of success.
@@effusivefugitive and what happened in those superbowls? getting to a superbowl doesnt mean anything if this team keeps being the losing team
Dj peach cobbler is my favorite skitzo historian
The best kind of historian
the only kind of historian I listen to
Agreed. Bring on the schizo musical dessert man
Mine too although I'm about to get baptized as a Chatolic soon... And he is constantly against Christianity...
@picklerick.n.666 As is any sane man. Christianity sucks.
Regards, a christian.
Thanks!
3:27 Dj pee gobbler mentioned!
4:30 to be completely fair, this was written during a time when generals and other high ranking military guys were just nobles with little to no actual battle experience, so this book is basically just war 101 for nobles and scholars so they can be somewhat competent when war breaks out
"Give your men food" was not obeyed by ...... Ghenghis Khan. His men were mobile bacuse they did not have to carry food wagons.
They simply carried dried meat on person, and hunted game for food (possible, since when on the move, a group of 10 could be upto 1 km away from the other).
Thats exactly the case. Its stuff like "a horse can only carry food so far before it cant carry enough food" and ya know make sure you pay the guys
@ I'm convinced that If I was sent to the past, I could easily become a legendary conqueror just by knowing basic shit like this lmao
11:02 nah, not getting a red lobster ad here 💀
I got served Hims. 😂
Alexander deflate is still getting trolled in the afterlife- i can't
We are a loyal Long John Silver's family!
8:10 that's rough buddy
Didn't expect to get Rick Rolled by ancient Chinese history today but here we are I guess
10:10 After saying "what" in the exact same tone several times watching this video before getting to this part, I am firmly convinced BlueJay just MIGHT have a few microphones in my house. again.
15:10 thank god you converted that into gumballs. I was lost for a minute
3:18 ayo DJ Peach Cobbler reference!!! Huge!
Hello fellow Cobbler enthusiast
I can't belive he showed the thumbnail but i am glad he can take a joke.
He stopped eating chalk goddammit!
4:40 fun fact: the art of war has so much obvious advice because it’s intended for nobles who had literally never even seen a poor person before.
That’s also why it’s so helpful for business majors 😂
0:18 Sniping is a good job mate. It's challenging work, outdoors. Guarantee you'll not go hungry.
Cause at the end of the day, long as there’s two people left on the planet: Someone is gonna want someone dead.
... Boom...
@@homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl4971I think his mate saw me... YES, YES HE DID
Jarate!
Dad...da... No I'm not a crazed gunman, I'm an assassin.
Omg I can totally see Alexander bragging about Aristotle being his teacher after hacking the knot.
There is an old joke among classic historians where the professor said to his student "Work a bit harder and accomplish something! You are already twenty. At the age of twenty, Alexander had conquered half the known world." To which the student replies "Alexander had Aritotle as teacher, though."
5:43 seeing fucking Wit in a BlueJay video was the last thing I expected but I guess showing up where he isn't expected is very in character.
HONEY HONEY, GET THE KIDS!! A NEW BLUEJAY VIDEO IS OUT!!
Is he going to hunt you down orrrrr are you excited
Bab wake up blue Jay uploaded
Are you telling wife to get kids to you watch alone...
Or are you telling her to bring kids to watch bluejay with you?
I BROUGHT THEM BABY
Something tells me you don’t have a family…
13:51
To quote the Major for Hellsing Abridged,
"Blue balled for 40 years..."
With these callbacks, we need a sequel to the Lobster War with the Cod Wars. That's right, WARS plural!!!!
"Piss." The Sniper, TF2
11:45 Best Joke of the fucking year! XD
“I watch you while you sleep” that explains the night terrors and schizophrenic episodes
5:46 Cosmere reference right after Wind and Truth releases? Hats off mate!
Brooo, i literally clapped my hands
Screenshotted right off lol
Ah yes, my favorite pokemon: Baergu. I just love that its cry is "please God end the suffering". So unique!
Actually the drip rifles were far less effective than commonly assumed. In some cases they failed to fire at all, or were discovered to be fake after a few minutes.
The success of the retreat was actually more due to it being done at night, happening very quickly and honestly the Ottomans just being happy to see their enemy retreating and not actually being that eager to pursue them.
But it makes for a good story.
In the days leading up to the evacuation the Anzacs kept feigning a withdrawal, just to slaughter the Ottoman scouts that were sent to check what was happening. Which is probably what lead them not to be that eager to see why there was only sporadic fire coming from the trenches.
When the British later evacuated their positions, the Ottomans were in a better position to judge what was happening and did attack. But the Royal Navy blasted the chokepoints to cover the withdrawal there.
The Ottomans were well aware that the allied forces were going to leave, there was a small armada of transports for it, they just didn't know when that was going to happen.
I can’t seem to find any sources for your claim. I’m genuinely curious as my great grandfather was a Gallipoli veteran with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment. The Australian War Memorial claims it was effective, as well as countless other sources I’ve come across, but as I say I can’t find one source that says they were far less effective.
I fail to see how they would’ve been discovered after a few minutes. Did the Turks cross no man’s land and subsequently discover empty trenches whilst the evacuation was in full swing? How else would they have known they were fake? Are you suggesting the Turks were fully aware of the evacuation and watched it all unfold and did nothing, despite the fact they were still at war and the Cannakale peninsula was not the only active theatre?
Btw, The drip mechanism wasn’t the only method used. They also used a candle and string.
In my research I heard this claim, but was never able to find any actual sources supporting it. In my best analysis, it seemed this idea of the drip rifles not being effective sorta came down to vibes from people on the internet going, “nah, no way bro.”
However, there also isn’t any strong evidence that they WERE effective, because how could there be? The idea was they would run away while the drip rifles were firing, so it’s not like they could stay and report their effectiveness. Nevertheless, ANZACS report them as having helped, so that’s the story I went with.
@@BlueJayYT You are going against the ANZAC myth there.
Unfortunately it ignores the actual stuff the ANZACs did in the Somme.
"The ANZAC isn't feeling the Great part of the War" bruh,that's an excellent resume of the whole war
Don't worry, the 1st Division got redeployed to the Somme. They lost 23,000 men in just a little more than the first week in one battle (Pozières), compared to "only" 8,700 for the year at Gallipoli.
What a glorious day when bluejay post
10:33 golden opportunity missed: “Impregnable wasn’t a word Alexander *knew… because he only spoke Greek”
aCtUaLlY hE sPoKe MaCeDoNiAn 🐒
8:54 Fun fact: Alexander the Great was openly bisexual. So one point to you!
Scince he is Greek. Yeah I believe it.
Yes, so openly in fact that we have virtually no historical evidence to support anything of the sort.😂 His supposed fling with Hephaestion is practically all guesswork by later historians. It's not certain in the slightest that's what their relationship was like.
There is a very good probability that he was sexualy involved with a eunuch but it's unclear if eunuchs were seen as male in Macedonian society, since there wasn't a practice of castrating children there.
Terms like "openly bisexual" are modern concepts and do not accurately apply to ancient people.
Alexander the gay
@@blackgem12not that the behavior was cultivated more from outside, but that their society was slightly rare among the greats for not punishing as much what many men tend to do. Example: republican politician gatherings often coincide with high Grindr activity
@@blackgem12Racist and incorrect
I didn’t expect war to be portrayed in such a humorous way. The creator of this video really has a great sense of humor.
He’s great, check the dumbest naval voyage ever. It’s hilarious
Bleujay, i still need my how to become a dictator video, lets just say i have big plans.
It’s fun to imagine Sun Tzu writing with that in mind-strategies for the ruling class, not necessarily for the soldiers on the ground!
Fun fact: Alexander The Great’s nickname before being called “the great” was “Alexander the pretty good.” It is rumored that he led his massive conquest just to stop being called that by everyone because he hated the name.
I loved the video critiquing you. It was straight up: "Hey, this is a super honest mistake, and its only because I have a hyperfixation that I even noticed or cared... so lets explore that hyperfixation" but with all of the "OMG HE WRONG" bait.
10/10 would see you criticized wholesomely again
It was a great video haha
2:15 you scared the shit out of me
building a peninsula is such a badass move
@BlueJayYT
@BlueJayYT you honestly are the only guy on TH-cam that can get me in tears laughing... And you consistently repeat that feat.
The bit at 6:11 deserves an award of some kind omfg
Robert being a BlueJay viewer has made my day!
10:37 I’m sure Alexander the Great loves MPreg.
You want a Birdzilla? Putting chickens in a nuclear tube is how you get Birdzilla.
Not, it will get you chickens dying from radiation sickness
Please make a video about Greek gods, I love the way you talk in the video 😭
Babe wake up, BlueJay just kidnapped another innocent bystander for his whacky antics again
Yeah he does that but we love him for it.
15:45 this made me laugh way more than it should
It took me 33 seconds to click in hopes I could be traumatized by a blue, feathery, piss-drinking demon after my last final. You didn't disappoint.
edit: I see no evidence to suggest he isn't drinking the piss
Totally love the Stormlight reference here 😁 5:43
Feel honored. Yours is one of the ONLY channels during which I actively watch sponsorship spots. Granted, this one was sponsoring yourself, but still. Every moment of your videos is gold. I love it.
When i heard about the mines my mind immediately went to Project Pidgeon ( a pigeon-controlled guided bomb). Seems like birds and explosives are a natural pairing.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same guy suggesting it twice. "Damnit, the first project got scrapped, but it's just SUCH A GOOD IDEA. I'm going to find SOME WAY to get the government to recognize my genius damnit!
US Army combat vet here. Tactics is a continuing study. I was easily a subject matter expert of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) a mere decade ago. Today, the game has changed. My knowledge could be useful on a general level, but potentially useless at the tactical level.
10:55 BRO-
“THAT WAS A JOKE BY THE WAY” bro I CANT 😭
BlueJay, please don't suddenly disappear. Most of the "One god-tier edu-tainment video every few months" channels do and I can live with that, but not this one. If you ever do, please think of the fact that I will be immeasureably sad and my year or two will be ruined. You don't want to have that on your conscience, do you?
Imagine being the guy who found out in the afterlife that the "person" that killed him during a war was a can of piss.
11:53 this actually made me laugh out loud on the bus
Your finally back I thought you were gone forever
12:49 aka alexander's diplomats(which they executed in plain view of the macedonians)
I Love the fact you owned up to it realized the video was a joke and was just having a bit of fun with you. Because I watched it and thought it was really good. So good on you man for be cool and not a internet weirdo... Well I mean you are an internet weirdo like the rest of us, but you're not on of THOSE internet weirdos... You know what I am gonna stop talking now....
2:20 why would I pay for something you already do for free?
The god bird has graced us again!!!!
Gotta love god bird
5:42 elite reference with Wit
4:50 a proper sacrifice to the TH-cam algorithm was given, now my ears are bleeding
did you know that ? : Thrilled to meet the famous thinker, Alexander asked if there was any favor he might do for him. To that, Diogenes replied: “Move a little to the right; you are blocking my sun.”
Story also goes that Diogenes renounced any and all possesions he did not deem absolutely necessary for survival. All he had was a bowl to drink water. When he went to the fountain one day to drink, he saw a child scooping water with the palm of its hands. Diogenes exclaimed "Yo, how embarassing, a fucking child outdid me in terms of simplicity" and threw away his bowl.
To this day there's a german proverb that literally translates to "get out of my sun" because of this incident. It means "don't annoy me".
1:41 bro is MAJESTIC 😮❤
9:01 as a gay, I approve of this joke
5:21 I thought the joke was going to be he needed “that which I desire”
1:15 how did they get the birds to fire the rifle? Did they tie them to it with the string?
"I watch you while you sleep"
Me watching this trying to go to bed
the land down six feet under 💀😭
5:43 Had to pause in disbelief. It’s not often I see a Stormlight reference on YT. Respect
10:28 they will never see it coming
13:47 *sigh* something about anger, disappointment and the actions of an illegal state
5:19 you and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals
Exactly what came to my mind ! Fire water burn!
The delayed rifle fire to withdraw from gallipoli saved a ton of lives. That withdraw would jave been a massacre if the Turks had realized what was happening.
Need blue jay peach cobbler collaboration!!!!
Australians using a Jar of Piss for Combat. Where have I seen that before?
Bro got traumatised by a TH-cam thumbnail
8:17 I HATE YOU! Rickrolling in 2024
(It took a while to process)