The building of the Icelandic parliament isn’t that old, it’s the institution of the Althing that has existed for a thousand years. It has met in many places before its current home.
Yes, you need to make a difference between parliament and building. The oldest building is in the Netherlands as I heard. The English is not that old, because it burned down in 1834.
@@lkruijsw Is the parliament building in Den Haag really that old? I'd have put it mid 19th century at earliest. It's certainly 'Gothic' but rather nondescript compared to Westminster.
So basically, the parliament building in Kutaisi was the initiative of President Mikheil Saakashvili. Kutaisi was chosen because of both historic reasons as Kutaisi was the capital of the Kingdom of Abkhazia (which makes up most of modern Georgia), the Kingdom of Georgia, and the Kingdom of Imereti, and to boost the regional economy there as well as a way to knit the country closer together. It's unique and modern to symbolize Georgia's future and moving forward. The building was inaugurated in 2012, but after Saakashvili's term in office expired, the Georgian Dream coalition decided to move all parliamentary activities back to Tbilisi. The constitutional amendment passed in 2017 entered into force in December 2018. The background for Nauru's airport is when the Japanese occupied Nauru, they wanted to turn it into a military stronghold to launch aerial attacks against the Gilbert Islands and to threaten the sea route between Australia and North America. So using the locals as well as Koreans and Chinese, they built the airport using forced labor. And now they're heavily reliant on the airport to get canned goods as so much phosphate mining took away good land for agriculture. And while the parliament is located in Yaren District, Yaren is just the de facto capital as Nauru officially doesn't have a capital.
The bird on the St. Lucia's coat of arms is called the St. Lucia amazon, which is endemic to the island. Illegal trade and natural disasters forced the species to the brink of extinction. The species had declined from around 1000 birds in the 1950s to 150 birds in the late 1970s. It became the national bird in 1979. At that point a conservation program began to save the species, which galvanized popular support to save the species, and by 1990 the species had increased to 300 birds. Although the population in Saint Lucia is small it is still expanding. My favorite parliament building is Ottawa's Centre Block because it's just so extravagant with all its details. The present Centre Block is the building's second iteration. The first was destroyed by fire in 1916, and all that remains of the original building is the Library of Parliament. The Senate chamber features eight murals depicting scenes from the First World War on its east and west walls, and it has a gilt ceiling with maple leaves and fleur-de-lis to represent Canada, and lions (rampant for Scotland; passant for England), Celtic harp, and a Welsh dragon to represent the UK. Within Confederation Hall, tympanums are adorned with the coats of arms of Canada and the provinces, each surrounded by their floral symbols.
There used to be a huge correlation between Domino's and the government. In the 1990s, pizza orders to the Pentagon in the United States doubled prior to any invasion or covert mission. The press picked up on this. Now they order pizzas from multiple different pizza chains.
Just some fun facts about the history of the parliament of Iceland: Þingvellir (Thingvellir) was the site of the Alþing, the annual parliament of Iceland from the year 930 until the last session held at Þingvellir in 1798. In 1845 Alþingi, the general assembly formed in 930 AD, was re-established in Reykjavík; it had been suspended a few decades earlier when it was located at Þingvellir. Since 1881, the parliament has been located within Alþingishúsið in Reykjavík. This was the parliament building you showed tin the video.
@@romainsavioz5466 No because Yaren is not a city, it is just a district so it is not a capital. However, it is considered to be the main district of Nauru
At least on the outside, that parliament building in St. Lucia reminds me of school buildings I have worked in in New York City as a substitute teacher.
5:26 to answer your question, this is because this isnt official streetview coverage from google and is unofficial coverage where typically a person who lives there puts a camera on their car and films their city to upload it onto maps. you can see in the top right corner its some guy calling himself The Hive. awesome
The Faroese parliament (Løgting) is older than the Icelandic parliament. It’s from sometime in the 800’s. The government is still located on the original Tinganes, where the Vikings met to discuss legal matters. The governmental buildings have grass on their roofs. :) The parliament is located close by, and is a more modern building. Maybe 150 years old or so.
I guess it is a testament to how the St. Lucians love their Domino's pizza and the Kiribatians adore their Chinese food. Nothing like pizza and takeout in general to solve vexing legislative issues!
'Tis a silly place. Bulding it made the country go into debt, the buildings are apparently unsuited to the local climate and were plagued with mold infestation. Looks cool though.
Exactly, my good man. Who would want to converse with the French, when (1) they will remind you to speak in the French language, and then (2) they will correct you in the haughtiest manner for incorrectly interpreting their insanely complex orthography system, where half of the letters are basically silent?
You know, you should really cover what’s going on in Myanmar. It’s very scary but also very interesting. There are a bunch of ethnic de facto states such as Wa State and the land controlled by the Arakan Army and the Kachin and Karen armies. But it’s also very brutal and horrific and it basically amounts to a civil war which must be horrible for everyone in Myanmar
2:03 It still existed under Norway and under Denmark. The king just had executive power and could veto laws as well as propose laws that Alþingi had to consent to. Although I have a feeling that they probably didn't do so often given the power difference between Iceland and countries like Norway or Denmark back then... Of course as the kings power grew in Denmark their power was eroded till under the absolute monarchy their consent was no longer needed for new laws. Still they existed till 1800 and again from 1845 and onwards.
there actually is a strong correlation btw dominos and governments! it’s kind of a thing (at least in DC) that you can tell when a political bombshell drops because campaigns and staffers will order in an amount of pies only consumable by American bureaucracy.
You don't have to drag that yellow silhouette all the way from the bottom right corner to the point you want to street view on the map... Just click on some place on the blue line indicating availability of the Street View! 5:15
I do exactly the same thing in my free time, and i happened to have a lot of free time in the past. I see you stopped yourself from zooming in on palau... i think we both know what you can find there lol
I never thought I'd hear the words Kiribati and Chinese Restaurant in the same sentence... Those wily old chinese, exporting there cuisine to even the smallest of islands
Today I learned that my university's student assembly is slightly smaller than St. Lucia's parliament. The student assembly has 27 representatives, while St. Lucia's parliament has 29 legislators in total from both houses in its bicameral legislature. Then you consider that my university's student population is about 11,000 while St. Lucia has a population 10x larger than 11,000...
Makes you wonder about dictatorships where the government is just the dictator and whoever they need to keep the people in line. Like what does that building look like?
Well, one good example is the gigantic government building in Bucharest, Romania, which now houses the parliament but was once the palace of the dictator Ceaucescu (apologies for the spelling) - it's so absurdly large it is hard to really appreciate its scale from the ground.
Iceland's parliamentary building: pretty. Reykjavik's city hall: Ugly, gross dirty unclean mucky looking grey concrete, who ever thought grey concrete was pretty looking? You gotta build the core of tall building like skyscrapers out of concrete with steel rebar embedded in it but the outside is meant to be an actually pretty, appealing attractive, interesting looking façade. Malta's parliamentary building: pretty. Georgia's old, abandoned parliament building, well not that old but obsolete: butt ugly, who on Earth thought that was a nice looking design? They need to be fired from their job promptly. St Lucia's and Kiribati parliamentary buildings: mid-tier, they didn't even try. Even the Nauri and Tibetan parliaments are much better looking than these. Russia's parliament, The Kremlin, is rather pretty, nice to look at, and pleasing to the eye. A lot of Soviet architecture is brutalist, grey concrete but The Kremlin is actually rather pretty to look at.
The Kremlin is not the parliament building, the parliament building is called the White House. The Kremlin was built 400 years before the Soviets came to power, so no wonder it is very different from Soviet brutalist architecture :)
I think there is some confusion about the building of the parliament and the parliament itself. For example in germany the Reichstag is a building in Berlin, but the parliament is called the Bundestag. It existed since the allies decided that Germany could self govern again in a building called the Bundeshaus. Bund means federation and Tag literally means day, but the verb is about having meetings. The word Reich means realm and doesn't describe political entities anymore because it it implies imperialism and monarchies. The Reichtag is just a building and the parliament uses it.
@@ianhomerpura8937 It means Federation Council. It's a body that meet in a couple different buildings - mainly in the Preußisches Herrenhaus (Prussian House of Lords) in Berlin but also in the Bundeshaus (Federal House) in Bonn.
1. Place your tongue between your teeth. 2. Now gently blow air out of your mouth. 3. Practice this for the rest of your life. Now you can properly pronounce the word ‘thousand’. If ‘fousand’ was a word, we would have spelled it that way.
i love this, you should do more parliment building video's, im from trinidad i would love if you could inculde ours, its called the red house which im sure some people might fine interesting as a contrast with the white house.
Every now and then Soy Cat will say something really insensitive or disrespectful and it's f'ing hilarious. Like some comments will just be light hearted fun, but some comments he just casually crosses a red line like it doesnt even exist. Thats what makes it so funny. I cant actually remember any specific examples, but i remember him doing it. And am i spelling that right? Soy Cat? Pretty sure Ibx cats arent a thing. And i see no toy cats in these videos. It's Soy Cat, surely? And if im not mistaken, Soy Cat is Chinese is origin?
How dare people who speak a different language pronounce letters differently than you do. EDIT: You're Czech, and you think the pronunciation of letters in Gilbertese (the language of Kiribati) is "wrong." Pot, meet kettle.
A few island nations in the Pacific started driving on the right-hand side at the end of WW2, thinking that most trade would be done with the USA. However, they all very much fell within Australia's sphere of influence and most of their trade was done with Oz, including cars. They switched over to left-hand driving - I think Fiji switched over only a few years ago and gave everyone two days off work to try and minimise the amount of cars on the road. There was another island that actually switched dates to be on a time zone closer to Australia - I think it may have also been Fiji.
Kiribati and St. Lucia each seem to have 17 chairs around their main U-shaped desk. (Someone said at 10:20 that the numbers were not so close.) At 11:49 he gives a coat of arms "10 out of 10" without mentioning it has an arm sticking out of the top. I say these things for the future, when ToyCat is 99 years old and spending his days looking over his old videos on the don't care channel.
One thing I like about your presentation is that you absolutely butcher the pronunciation of any word that isn't English and aren't the least bit sorry about it.
The Philippines as well. The President works and lives in Manila. The House of Representatives is in neighboring Quezon City, the former capital from 1948 to 1976. The Senate is renting a building in Pasay City, but is currently building a new complex in Taguig City.
![กี่หมื่นฟ้า | Your Sky Series EP.1 [1/4]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vLGjxFL6U_I/mqdefault.jpg)
My favorite minecraft geopolitcker
Fr
I didn't know he is Minecraft youtuber
@@JmMateo933 Pretty sure he's not French
@@Spacemongerrfunny one
@@Spacemongerr You sure?
The building of the Icelandic parliament isn’t that old, it’s the institution of the Althing that has existed for a thousand years. It has met in many places before its current home.
Correct, it was built in 1881
^
Yes, you need to make a difference between parliament and building. The oldest building is in the Netherlands as I heard. The English is not that old, because it burned down in 1834.
Most famously at Thingvellir National Park
@@lkruijsw Is the parliament building in Den Haag really that old? I'd have put it mid 19th century at earliest. It's certainly 'Gothic' but rather nondescript compared to Westminster.
So basically, the parliament building in Kutaisi was the initiative of President Mikheil Saakashvili. Kutaisi was chosen because of both historic reasons as Kutaisi was the capital of the Kingdom of Abkhazia (which makes up most of modern Georgia), the Kingdom of Georgia, and the Kingdom of Imereti, and to boost the regional economy there as well as a way to knit the country closer together. It's unique and modern to symbolize Georgia's future and moving forward. The building was inaugurated in 2012, but after Saakashvili's term in office expired, the Georgian Dream coalition decided to move all parliamentary activities back to Tbilisi. The constitutional amendment passed in 2017 entered into force in December 2018.
The background for Nauru's airport is when the Japanese occupied Nauru, they wanted to turn it into a military stronghold to launch aerial attacks against the Gilbert Islands and to threaten the sea route between Australia and North America. So using the locals as well as Koreans and Chinese, they built the airport using forced labor. And now they're heavily reliant on the airport to get canned goods as so much phosphate mining took away good land for agriculture. And while the parliament is located in Yaren District, Yaren is just the de facto capital as Nauru officially doesn't have a capital.
I love the jabs toycat takes at the Fr*nch, they always crack me up😂
I'm a French viewer and launch every of his videos knowing we will get roasted at some point😂
6:57 Thank you for pronouncing Kiribati correctly Toycat ❤️ I can sleep soundly tonight
10:36 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Why is spelt that way then
💀
Idk mate pretty schewpid innit@@liammeech3702
@@liammeech3702are you serious? 😂 Let me guess.. You're American.
@nobewayo no I'm not, nice try
I'm not doubting it's actual pronunciation, just questioning why it's not spelt 'Kiribass" or whatever
The bird on the St. Lucia's coat of arms is called the St. Lucia amazon, which is endemic to the island. Illegal trade and natural disasters forced the species to the brink of extinction. The species had declined from around 1000 birds in the 1950s to 150 birds in the late 1970s. It became the national bird in 1979. At that point a conservation program began to save the species, which galvanized popular support to save the species, and by 1990 the species had increased to 300 birds. Although the population in Saint Lucia is small it is still expanding.
My favorite parliament building is Ottawa's Centre Block because it's just so extravagant with all its details. The present Centre Block is the building's second iteration. The first was destroyed by fire in 1916, and all that remains of the original building is the Library of Parliament. The Senate chamber features eight murals depicting scenes from the First World War on its east and west walls, and it has a gilt ceiling with maple leaves and fleur-de-lis to represent Canada, and lions (rampant for Scotland; passant for England), Celtic harp, and a Welsh dragon to represent the UK. Within Confederation Hall, tympanums are adorned with the coats of arms of Canada and the provinces, each surrounded by their floral symbols.
There used to be a huge correlation between Domino's and the government. In the 1990s, pizza orders to the Pentagon in the United States doubled prior to any invasion or covert mission. The press picked up on this.
Now they order pizzas from multiple different pizza chains.
I, Large Larry, can indeed confirm that the clock in London is called Large Larry.
1:20 Large Larry? I thought that clock's real name was Giant George 🤷♂️
It's Huge Harry
It’s Tall Thomas
Nah big Barry
you’re all wrong, it’s sizeable sam.
The Principality of Liechtenstein has a Prince, not a king.
Funny how that works.
thank you.......the Prince may think he is a king........but he is not....👍👍
Shout out to Large Larry
Just some fun facts about the history of the parliament of Iceland: Þingvellir (Thingvellir) was the site of the Alþing, the annual parliament of Iceland from the year 930 until the last session held at Þingvellir in 1798. In 1845 Alþingi, the general assembly formed in 930 AD, was re-established in Reykjavík; it had been suspended a few decades earlier when it was located at Þingvellir. Since 1881, the parliament has been located within Alþingishúsið in Reykjavík. This was the parliament building you showed tin the video.
@estraume
Where it still technically still in use/legally valid in 1800 even if they hadn't technically had any sessions?
Roses are red,
My rage is infernal
Democracy is temporary
But Dominoes is ETERNAL!
14:09 The wood paneling and drop ceiling of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile makes it look like the inside of an american VFW hall
Ibx2cat: Says every country needs a capital city
Nauru: Am I a joke to you?
Yaren which is the de facto capital like Bern is Switzerland's
@@romainsavioz5466 No because Yaren is not a city, it is just a district so it is not a capital. However, it is considered to be the main district of Nauru
Ibx2cat? His name is Soy Cat!
@@RishnotfishandnochipsA distinction without a difference.
@@RishnotfishandnochipsNew Delhi much? New Delhi is just a district of the greater city of Delhi.
I'm learning more about countries etc in this video. Good thing I subscribed.
At least on the outside, that parliament building in St. Lucia reminds me of school buildings I have worked in in New York City as a substitute teacher.
Dominos next to government buildings. Not sure for what, but they are definitely prepared for some kind of domino effect
5:26 to answer your question, this is because this isnt official streetview coverage from google and is unofficial coverage where typically a person who lives there puts a camera on their car and films their city to upload it onto maps. you can see in the top right corner its some guy calling himself The Hive. awesome
The Faroese parliament (Løgting) is older than the Icelandic parliament. It’s from sometime in the 800’s. The government is still located on the original Tinganes, where the Vikings met to discuss legal matters.
The governmental buildings have grass on their roofs. :)
The parliament is located close by, and is a more modern building. Maybe 150 years old or so.
Iceland has a lot if history but Malta doesnt!? What the hell are you smoking?
Can you do a video on some of the largest and best parliaments in the world?
I guess it is a testament to how the St. Lucians love their Domino's pizza and the Kiribatians adore their Chinese food. Nothing like pizza and takeout in general to solve vexing legislative issues!
Palau’s capital of Ngerulmud is the least populated national capital in the world with a total population of just 318 people
'Tis a silly place.
Bulding it made the country go into debt, the buildings are apparently unsuited to the local climate and were plagued with mold infestation.
Looks cool though.
The irish Senate (seanad) partially elected by only people with degree in certain universities
Oldest Parliament in the world is Tynwald in the Isle of Man
the beehive in new zealand is well, a beehive! was expecting to see it on here lol
Exactly, my good man. Who would want to converse with the French, when (1) they will remind you to speak in the French language, and then (2) they will correct you in the haughtiest manner for incorrectly interpreting their insanely complex orthography system, where half of the letters are basically silent?
Pretty sure that is why the french are rioting so much as well. They just can`t talk with eachother.
0:21 true i would never talk to a french
Id love to visit large larry
You know, you should really cover what’s going on in Myanmar. It’s very scary but also very interesting. There are a bunch of ethnic de facto states such as Wa State and the land controlled by the Arakan Army and the Kachin and Karen armies. But it’s also very brutal and horrific and it basically amounts to a civil war which must be horrible for everyone in Myanmar
Does the Karen army invade your country and then demand to speak to the manager?
Wa is interesting as a de facto independent state that doesnt want to be de jure independent ( at least rn)
2:03
It still existed under Norway and under Denmark.
The king just had executive power and could veto laws as well as propose laws that Alþingi had to consent to.
Although I have a feeling that they probably didn't do so often given the power difference between Iceland and countries like Norway or Denmark back then...
Of course as the kings power grew in Denmark their power was eroded till under the absolute monarchy their consent was no longer needed for new laws.
Still they existed till 1800 and again from 1845 and onwards.
there actually is a strong correlation btw dominos and governments! it’s kind of a thing (at least in DC) that you can tell when a political bombshell drops because campaigns and staffers will order in an amount of pies only consumable by American bureaucracy.
St lucia doesnt have official google coverage; that one was unofficial
Definitely one of your best videos in a while :)
Who needs drugs when you have ibx2cat energy
You don't have to drag that yellow silhouette all the way from the bottom right corner to the point you want to street view on the map... Just click on some place on the blue line indicating availability of the Street View!
5:15
I do exactly the same thing in my free time, and i happened to have a lot of free time in the past. I see you stopped yourself from zooming in on palau... i think we both know what you can find there lol
I'm surprised there was no mention of Palau's legislature being in a former motel.
The old one? Or the complex at Melekeok?
I never thought I'd hear the words Kiribati and Chinese Restaurant in the same sentence...
Those wily old chinese, exporting there cuisine to even the smallest of islands
He definitely does a line before every video, I don't knock it though.
5:29 Looks like somebody didn't subscribe, SMH my head.
nice video Toycat!
6:06 those chars look like someone whent and got a fancy single seter char and then put it on the bottom have of a gaming char
Helloooo, I'm Toycat, and welcome back tsuqwyzja second channel geography video!
What's your opinion on Australia's parlement and old parliament buildings
16:07 Adolf's bike shop
Wtf, now I want to do a day trip to visit London, Paris, Poland and Banana.
“This building is nicer and more modern”
NO
Today I learned that my university's student assembly is slightly smaller than St. Lucia's parliament. The student assembly has 27 representatives, while St. Lucia's parliament has 29 legislators in total from both houses in its bicameral legislature. Then you consider that my university's student population is about 11,000 while St. Lucia has a population 10x larger than 11,000...
One thing I know that every government needs in order to function is a pizza man.
speaking of small countries, I was expecting to see the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Kiribati's parliament building looks like some Baptist church
Shout-out to the greek parliament , it's such a nice and historic building
iirc it was a former royal palace?
South Africa doesn't have a Parliament building as of now: a homeless person set it on fire.
This was all kinds of interesting! I hope you do more videos like this
Isn't it interesting that in the word parliament also contains the french word "ment" form "mentir" meaning "lying".. :)
Malta looking like a sandstone temple
This building looks like a greenhouse
The iceland building literally says 1881 at the top.
16:22 Not a king, a prince
"Fun fact" it's from the Norse word Þing/ting we get the English word thing.
Makes you wonder about dictatorships where the government is just the dictator and whoever they need to keep the people in line. Like what does that building look like?
Well, one good example is the gigantic government building in Bucharest, Romania, which now houses the parliament but was once the palace of the dictator Ceaucescu (apologies for the spelling) - it's so absurdly large it is hard to really appreciate its scale from the ground.
11:22 Caribbean Gaming??? o.o
Costa Rica's parliament building is so ugly, it's just a brutalist giant block of cement
It's quite tall though
Good morning, er afternoon as you're in England.
Iceland's parliamentary building: pretty.
Reykjavik's city hall: Ugly, gross dirty unclean mucky looking grey concrete, who ever thought grey concrete was pretty looking? You gotta build the core of tall building like skyscrapers out of concrete with steel rebar embedded in it but the outside is meant to be an actually pretty, appealing attractive, interesting looking façade.
Malta's parliamentary building: pretty.
Georgia's old, abandoned parliament building, well not that old but obsolete: butt ugly, who on Earth thought that was a nice looking design? They need to be fired from their job promptly.
St Lucia's and Kiribati parliamentary buildings: mid-tier, they didn't even try. Even the Nauri and Tibetan parliaments are much better looking than these.
Russia's parliament, The Kremlin, is rather pretty, nice to look at, and pleasing to the eye. A lot of Soviet architecture is brutalist, grey concrete but The Kremlin is actually rather pretty to look at.
The Kremlin is not the parliament building, the parliament building is called the White House.
The Kremlin was built 400 years before the Soviets came to power, so no wonder it is very different from Soviet brutalist architecture :)
I think there is some confusion about the building of the parliament and the parliament itself. For example in germany the Reichstag is a building in Berlin, but the parliament is called the Bundestag. It existed since the allies decided that Germany could self govern again in a building called the Bundeshaus.
Bund means federation and Tag literally means day, but the verb is about having meetings.
The word Reich means realm and doesn't describe political entities anymore because it it implies imperialism and monarchies.
The Reichtag is just a building and the parliament uses it.
Clarification: Reich is still used in German, just not for German institutions.
F.ex. Königreich Norwegen (Kingdom of Norway)
How about the Bundesrat?
@@ianhomerpura8937 It means Federation Council. It's a body that meet in a couple different buildings - mainly in the Preußisches Herrenhaus (Prussian House of Lords) in Berlin but also in the Bundeshaus (Federal House) in Bonn.
Oldest Parliament is Sicily's now regional Parliament.
Building or assembly??
you have country that are just one city, but Kiribati is basically one street.
Brazil's congress building is weird.
Many embassies around the world are really small, even in London
He should do a collab with jacksucksatgeography
Malta love always welcome🇲🇹
nice
1. Place your tongue between your teeth.
2. Now gently blow air out of your mouth.
3. Practice this for the rest of your life.
Now you can properly pronounce the word ‘thousand’.
If ‘fousand’ was a word, we would have spelled it that way.
Hi cat toy
days since toycat obliterated the french: 0
Within 3 hours!
i love this, you should do more parliment building video's, im from trinidad i would love if you could inculde ours, its called the red house which im sure some people might fine interesting as a contrast with the white house.
Switzerland does not agree with the intro.
Every now and then Soy Cat will say something really insensitive or disrespectful and it's f'ing hilarious.
Like some comments will just be light hearted fun, but some comments he just casually crosses a red line like it doesnt even exist. Thats what makes it so funny. I cant actually remember any specific examples, but i remember him doing it.
And am i spelling that right? Soy Cat? Pretty sure Ibx cats arent a thing. And i see no toy cats in these videos. It's Soy Cat, surely? And if im not mistaken, Soy Cat is Chinese is origin?
If Kiribati wanted to be pronounced as Kiribas, they can just change their name. Skill issue
How dare people who speak a different language pronounce letters differently than you do.
EDIT: You're Czech, and you think the pronunciation of letters in Gilbertese (the language of Kiribati) is "wrong." Pot, meet kettle.
Are you based in Lundun?
@@jack2453 No I'm Czech lol, English spelling is fucked as well.
@@sneezy3233You mean you're Check? 😁
How could you talk about parliaments and not mention the heaviest building in the world, Romania's palace of parliament?
Also Large Larry? I thought it was Big Ben or is that on a different building?
Yeah different building mate
Its toycat, what do you expect!😅
nah, it is the Big Ben. He just said it as a joke.
13:55 By that logic, We Indians deserve to be gifted entire "GREATER LONDON".
That seems reasonable yeah?
Large Larry
Stop saying you don't care about your second channel, it's better than your first channel.
“A building for talking.”
No, parler + ment or “parlement” does not mean a building for talking. It’s the assemblage of those talkative people itself.
This was really interesting. Do a video rating different country’s parliaments!
A few island nations in the Pacific started driving on the right-hand side at the end of WW2, thinking that most trade would be done with the USA. However, they all very much fell within Australia's sphere of influence and most of their trade was done with Oz, including cars. They switched over to left-hand driving - I think Fiji switched over only a few years ago and gave everyone two days off work to try and minimise the amount of cars on the road. There was another island that actually switched dates to be on a time zone closer to Australia - I think it may have also been Fiji.
Kiribati, Samoa and Tokelau moved across to the Australian side of the International Date Line.
They will move to the right side again when China becomes the dominant power
Kiribati and St. Lucia each seem to have 17 chairs around their main U-shaped desk. (Someone said at 10:20 that the numbers were not so close.)
At 11:49 he gives a coat of arms "10 out of 10" without mentioning it has an arm sticking out of the top.
I say these things for the future, when ToyCat is 99 years old and spending his days looking over his old videos on the don't care channel.
That is the crest. Nothing strange about it.
@@klausolekristiansen2960 I missed my expectation that when he says "coat of Arms" he would point out an actual Arm in the artwork.
But no 'arm done.
man... calm down
Slow down, my friend.
One thing I like about your presentation is that you absolutely butcher the pronunciation of any word that isn't English and aren't the least bit sorry about it.
Hello there
Went past the Cook Islands Parliament and I was taken aback by how small and unassuming it was
What happened on your neck?
The Netherlands have a capital city which is NOT the seat of parliament, how weird is that 😅
The Philippines as well.
The President works and lives in Manila.
The House of Representatives is in neighboring Quezon City, the former capital from 1948 to 1976.
The Senate is renting a building in Pasay City, but is currently building a new complex in Taguig City.
Hi