Mr. & Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular, inspired by the expeditions of Thor Heyerdahl, explores the mysteries of suburban London. From Monty Python's Flying Circus
@@markschildberg1667 That’s AMAZING! Laying back and guttering is hard enough; but to do it while making sandwiches! Absolutely stunning! Especially on Uxbridge! Now that’s a climb!
Dunno, but the Italian hairdressers are attempting the push to the summit of Uxbridge Road via the South Col, something that's never been attempted before.
A perfect example of how I could kind of get Monty Python without actually getting it. Never been to Surbiton or Hounslow, not familiar with them at all, but from the context I could figure out why it was supposed to be funny.
We owe a massive debt of gratitude to these intrepid explorers - their pioneering courage and spirit of adventure lead to such publications as the Collins road maps and the A to Z - prior to that it wasn’t uncommon to plot a route from Watford to Walthamstow and end up in Edinburgh
I share your lived in pain. Took many a bike ride to Richmond and weekends were spent in the West end and I really was a stranger to my bedsit domicile. There were nice croissants to be had at the local small Tesco's until it shut down, so there's one golden memory to take with me at least. And gosh there was oodles of yummy cycling away to be had also. Get fit and socialize, when you sleep back in Hounslow.
@@sandydennylives1392 To be fair, I did enjoy the folk club at the’White Bear’, and listening from my bedsit window to hear the Strawbs practicing.. Not sure whether this constitutes civilisation, though……
@@rustydobro The folk club and the WB had long since gone when I lived there. Or perhaps I didn't notice. I wasn't one to go out on the tahn in dear old H, preferring to do concert work most evenings. Or basically spend 'em elsewhere. I have a lot of West London countryside now which is perfect for covid times,only they call it Middlesex. Ealing wasn't bad, lived there n' all. And a little sojourn in Chiswick to boot; many a bedsit was mine, then a studio flat, and finally a mortgage. I don't miss that ' dark deserted shore'.
'Mr Norris Changes Trains' was a Christopher Isherwood novel set in 1930s Berlin. His 'changing trains' was shorthand for his 'discovery' of his sexuality in the seedy night clubs of that era. Just a footnote of interest for our younger 'listeners'.
Such footnotes are useful. I do that from time to time to put things into perspective for younger generations. So I am just an old geezer, from YT stats 90% of their audience is younger than me. I try to keep that in mind in responding to some rather naive comments I see on YT.
I wouldn't put yourself down so much. The 'younger generation' have been 'brain-washed' which can only be the result of 30 years of 'woke' (re) education.
Don't waste your time, don't go. Just Don't. If Sur Bitonists find out you can spell, your remains will never be found again. Dulwich is nice (I played cricket there once). Stay there and be safe.
As a former Kingston resident I can fully confirm the plausibility of the scholarly travel report, for I too, at one occasion, survived the Kingston Bypass. Twas not by any means an easy or highly probable feat, yet certainly a possible one to achieve.
@@gdn101 While historians have long held that comment sections did not reach Surbiton until 2023, new evidence suggests that this was simply a resurgence, and the pass-time activity was occasionally practiced as early as 2018.
I grew up in Surbiton, and once took the bus to Hounslow. Anthropologically, this migration is as insignificant as knowing somebody at the other end of your street. Incidentally, I was part of the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race radio network, based at Teddington Lock, used as the location for the Fish Slapping Dance. Not as good as Bicycle Repair Man, The Milkman Sketch or The Argument Sketch. 🙂
I used to live in Hounslow and can state categorically that I did NOT come from Surbiton (pronounced in ancient texts as `Sir Biton". I may have originated from Ealing, but it is all in Middlesex. The thought that we had something to do with Surrey is horrific.
@@frankhooper7871 So doth mine. Hangar Lane Ealing. The postulation that we have something to do with Suribitonists is beyond the imagination. This is akin to comparing the UK with Mali.
That Mrs. Norriss was a true woman who supported her man’s dreams and endeavours and set a standard by which generations of men would esteem women: by making sandwiches. 🇬🇧
It's presently a mystery I believe but the secret contents of the sandwiches are being investigated. I suppose you could say it is suspect and an On Going Mystery until resolved but come one day it will all be revealed !!
How absolutely delightful!!😂 When will the happy couple be doing the journey from Worthing to Reading? This is a journey I did once with my widowed Aunt who made it most of the way in second gear, pausing only momentarily at a roundabout where she thought that reverse might be a handy option, after which the sun which was shining that day through the leaves on overhanging trees got in her eyes and she mounted the kerb of the road which she thought should not have been there. Happy motoring times in England!!🥰
Has this claimed journey been confirmed by the Royal Geographical Society? I, for one, would not have the temerity to make such a claim without having first attained the necessary credentials.
"And yet, it was only seven short years before a group of determined cyclists upended the whole ball of wax, throwing the entire migratory documentary community into a scandal it would not emerge from until the Danzig Reorganization was agreed to over bangers and mash."
Daring hypotheses and theories, dreams, but also most dangerous practical experiments that bring the explorer to the very limits of what a man can achieve, this is the spirit of anthropology! True science and true practical adventure in one!
No mention in the bio, of Mrs. Norris' (a confidant of Dawn Pathorpe, a lady show jumper) absconding with Dawn's pet clam Stafford and sequestering Stafford in the family Popular and Stafford being served up mistakenly as a Luton raised geoduck..ghastly, really..Stafford all supine on the half shell..
Absolutely fabulous. As someone that was ... a) too young and ... b) Python didn't fit into the culture of my parents house. Comedy / observation that can still be fresh and exciting fifty years on is very clever indeed. Wonderful!
Of course this is just as valid now as it was 50 years ago. Aren't the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, and Captain Nemo as valid now as when they were done?? Science and discovery are timeless.
I have just visited the Thor Heyerdahl Museum in Oslo. When I walked out after 5 minutes, I noticed a distinct cultural similarity between me and others who had likewise thought the whole thing was utter bollocks.
Got to love that the subtitles included a reference to Everest and Kon-Tiki when the original English narration just mentions Sir Edward Hillary and Thor Heyerdahl. Got rid of those pesky famous names 😛
0:58 Voice-over: "Mr. Norris's 'A Short History of Motor Traffic between Purley and Esher' " - picture 'A Short History of Motor Traffic between Esher and Purley' (remaindered)... 4:16 Is "Hounslow" somewhere on the Uckfield line with that 'Thumper'? ;)
Rubbish. My wife is from Brentford and freely admits to sinking boats who tried to immigrate. The family then sold the bodies for medical experiments. Sadly it didn't make much money as no one wanted Surbitonists.
@@MrRunner I am sorry for the financial losses of your family due to such stupid prejudice. In fact, the body of a dead Surbitonist is not that different from the body of a dead Brentforder or even body of a dead Londoner and the price of such a body should only depend on the weight and quality of meat.
This is actually so funny but also raises new issues in 2023. Southall in Hounslow in a sense is a very different area "Southall’s main ethnic sub-group is Punjabi, and Sikhism is the principal religion. Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabina is one of the largest Sikh temples outside India. In fact, Southall has been a South Asian hub since 1950, often referred to as “little India”. It even featured in the 2002 hit blockbuster ‘Bend it like Beckham’. Southall’s streets bustle with activity from the thriving local economy. Southall Market on High Street sells produce spices, jewellery and antiques while eateries along The Broadway offer samosas, dosas and sweets such as jalebis." My son's friend from there when at school thought the UK was 50% white only (in fact is it 82% white) because the boy had hardly ever left Southall In the UK we have moved without moving and been placed without choice in a different culture without moving a single inch. Interesting times.
Don't let the facts get in the way of your racist agenda, will you? If you really knew Southall at all, you'd know that it's not even in Hounslow, and that less than half the population is Asian.
As an archaeologist, this is exactly what reading old anthropological papers of Europeans traveling to study “primitive cultures” in your undergrad feels like, except instead of funny it’s just hair-pullingly frustrating. 😂
Wrong way Norris was ALMOST right. The real journey was between the beaches bordering Dover and the Shanrgi-la offered by the benefits doled out from the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group.
By me those style of houses with the curved glass side bay windows have beeb replaced with 2 double glazed flat windows why was this allowed to happen.
I made a very much extended version of this journey to Hounslow from my home at the time in Skegness.. may I.. perleeez.. join the ranks of the exalted few pioneers mentioned here?? 🤔🙏
@@jaycee330 That ya best - pretty needless anyway - put down? (That took you a day to come up with).. Er, nice one (well, except not).. clearly your toenails growing is not something your brain ever did, so watch away, lol!! 🦶🥸🤣🤣🤣
It's AI - there is no person to be bothered at all, except the guy who thinks some schmoe spends his day listening and subtitling to a few million new YT videos every day.😂
@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb I think maybe, just maybe, the commenter was talking about the fairly obvious French hardsubs present throughout the entire video and not TH-cam's auto-subtitles, which for some reason aren't even available for this video.
A very nice parody on the method of argumentation used by many historians to explain migrations still today, seeing an similarity and concluding that one population is descendant of an other, how improbable this may be.
Oh nevermind. I was going to go on at great uninteresting length about Such work contributing to human knowledge. But lets just forget it drink beer and watch reality tv instead.
@@VineFynn Wrong. It's directly parodying the Kon-Tiki expedition (even mentioned by name at the start of the video), where Norwegian author Thor Heyerdal attempted to prove his absolutely bollocks (and deeply racist) theory that Polynesia was intially settled by a "race" of white bearded men from South America who moved there after being chased by native american peoples. These supposed white bearded men would have orginally come from the Middle East. Thor believed they were first to settle Polynesia, before being killed by a second wave of Austronesian settlers (in his eyes inferior in every way, of course). These Austronesian are the current inhabitants of Polynesia. He had no proof for any of this, of course. Unless travelling from South America to Polynesia in a raft proves anything other than the possibility of pre-columbian contact between Polynesians and South Americans. I could go on, it gets worse the more you read about it. EDIT: Also, the original comment seems overly dismissive of the work of actual historians and anthropologists on tracing back migrations. It's not the 1700s anymore, you need more than a couple of similarities to establish actual connections. Any scholar attempting to establish a connection using such weak evidence would much like Thor Heyerdal have a hard time being taken seriously by their peers. Most established migrations can be quite conclusively reconstructed from linguistic, archeological and genetic evidence. When two groups of people share similar genetic makeup, use similar languages and have similar religions, you're not looking at something "improbable", you're almost certainly looking at the result of a past migration.
Glorius! It really feels like these stories are told within a shell, and outside this shell there is a pompous world. It feels like now the shell is broken and now the pompous world has got a grip on us. One simple example: Police wont let the moviemakers use their cars, if they are being made fun of in a movie. Because we live in the best of worlds and no police can be described as stupid, clumsy and incompetent. Imagine Inspecteur Closeau never beeing depicted. Merry new 2023!!!
The French subtitles refuse to acknowledge the imperial measures (it's kilometres, not miles!!), but has no idea who Edmund Hillary and Thor Heyerdahl are.
Despite his epic effort, his (somewhat racist) theory has been disproven by recent genetic research. It was the islanders who reached the coast of South America, not the other way around - though it seems to have been an isolated event rather than a regular trade route. So like the guy in this informative documentary, he was "Wrong Way" Heyerdahl...
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His wife later became a mountaineer and climbed the Uxbridge Road.
Later Mrs Norris acquired international acclaim through an innovative technique of laying back, guttering and making sandwiches.
@@markschildberg1667
That’s AMAZING! Laying back and guttering is hard enough; but to do it while making sandwiches! Absolutely stunning! Especially on Uxbridge! Now that’s a climb!
North or west face?
In heels?
Dunno, but the Italian hairdressers are attempting the push to the summit of Uxbridge Road via the South Col, something that's never been attempted before.
I love this sketch. The idea is so inherently boring in its mundanity but so funny because that's the kind of thing the Pythons did so brilliantly.
Well put.
And they did it fully clothed too
Yes, we're from Esher
A perfect example of how I could kind of get Monty Python without actually getting it. Never been to Surbiton or Hounslow, not familiar with them at all, but from the context I could figure out why it was supposed to be funny.
Another gem from the annals of the heroic age of British explorers.
Maybe not as daring as Twin Everest Peaks expedition, but very interesting.
Oh don’t be so crude!
Yes, but at what COST!
the brand of lawnmower 'Betta Cutta' ....awesome
We owe a massive debt of gratitude to these intrepid explorers - their pioneering courage and spirit of adventure lead to such publications as the Collins road maps and the A to Z - prior to that it wasn’t uncommon to plot a route from Watford to Walthamstow and end up in Edinburgh
Where would we be without road map or these days.. A sat nav.. Yes we owe these intrepid travellers at least two pounds 7 shillings and sixpence
As a former Hounslow resident, I can attest that civilisation has not reached it yet……..
I share your lived in pain. Took many a bike ride to Richmond and weekends were spent in the West end and I really was a stranger to my bedsit domicile. There were nice croissants to be had at the local small Tesco's until it shut down, so there's one golden memory to take with me at least. And gosh there was oodles of yummy cycling away to be had also. Get fit and socialize, when you sleep back in Hounslow.
@@sandydennylives1392 To be fair,
I did enjoy the folk club at the’White Bear’, and listening from my bedsit window to hear the Strawbs practicing.. Not sure whether this constitutes civilisation, though……
@@rustydobro The folk club and the WB had long since gone when I lived there. Or perhaps I didn't notice. I wasn't one to go out on the tahn in dear old H, preferring to do concert work most evenings. Or basically spend 'em elsewhere. I have a lot of West London countryside now which is perfect for covid times,only they call it Middlesex. Ealing wasn't bad, lived there n' all. And a little sojourn in Chiswick to boot; many a bedsit was mine, then a studio flat, and finally a mortgage. I don't miss that ' dark deserted shore'.
@@rustydobro Oh shit, so did I. I actually sang there with a Folk Group once.
Try Neasden
A car daytrip from Hounslow to the "coast" was still a major logistics exercise in the early 1950s, must have been a bloody miracle before then.
Love the sign "Welcome to Surbiton, gateway to Esher".
A bit like 'Balham - Gateway to the South'.
NOW IT WOULD READ REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE FROM HOUNSLOW LOL
EVEN THOUGH THERES NO WAR IN HOUNSLOW
@@ThomasPrior-wv6znomg this is Comedy. Why is EVERYTHING about your personal issues with non whites?
@@OlafProt where did i mention non whites tell me i grew up with monty looks like you havnt
This is more credible than Ancient Aliens docs cluttering the Ether.
Bravo! I couldn’t agree more.
Look harder
@@davepowell7168 At what?
Don't you mean Esher?
Thank you for this devastating critique of utter stupidity.
I live in Hounslow and can attest that the trek here from Kingston in the south is no joke and probably keeps us cut off from civilisation.
😂😂😂😂
'Mr Norris Changes Trains' was a Christopher Isherwood novel set in 1930s Berlin. His 'changing trains' was shorthand for his 'discovery' of his sexuality in the seedy night clubs of that era. Just a footnote of interest for our younger 'listeners'.
Wow. Now that's an Easter Egg.
Such footnotes are useful. I do that from time to time to put things into perspective for younger generations. So I am just an old geezer, from YT stats 90% of their audience is younger than me. I try to keep that in mind in responding to some rather naive comments I see on YT.
I wouldn't put yourself down so much. The 'younger generation' have been 'brain-washed' which can only be the result of 30 years of 'woke' (re) education.
That little flag-waving kid is the real heroes here.
"Are you still running the G.D.V.D.M.D.B.?"
"Uh, yes, but I've had the excess nipples woppled to remove tamping."
"Jolly good!"
Contrary to popular understanding, woppeling to remove tamping is quite a feat.
And if you’ve ever had your nipples woppled you know how painful that can be
@@markschildberg1667 Best practice is to anesthetize your G.D.V.D.M.D.B. for the procedure.
I never had my excess nipples woppled, but I had my nipples woppled excessively to remove a tampon. Does that count?
What a gem. I’d have to carefully consult Google maps a few times to negotiate the lengthy journey from Dulwich to Surbiton
Don't waste your time, don't go. Just Don't. If Sur Bitonists find out you can spell, your remains will never be found again.
Dulwich is nice (I played cricket there once). Stay there and be safe.
To this day I still say “Wrong Way Norris” to myself whenever I lose my way……
As a former Kingston resident I can fully confirm the plausibility of the scholarly travel report, for I too, at one occasion, survived the Kingston Bypass. Twas not by any means an easy or highly probable feat, yet certainly a possible one to achieve.
As brazilian I have no idea where Survington or Houston are, but I loved this episode
They are 13km (8 miles) apart.
Far safer than the 281 bus. At the Teddington Cromwell Road stop, pensioners are known to kill for priority seats.
I say..rather ghastly..that pensioner bludgeoning business..a trifle nasty, no?
@@millicentsquirrelhole582 Stand back you blighters! I have an 88 mm Zimmer frame and I'm not afraid to use it!
@@Johnny-sj9sjI’m only getting off at Teddington Lock!
No replies in 5 years, then three within space of 2 days?
Lord algorithm is a strange and mysterious beast.
@@gdn101 While historians have long held that comment sections did not reach Surbiton until 2023, new evidence suggests that this was simply a resurgence, and the pass-time activity was occasionally practiced as early as 2018.
When lion taming doesn't work out.
Or jumping the channel. Or his trek in post revolutionary russia.
That’s what happens when you don’t have your own hat.
"the Thames, lying like a silver turd between Richmond and Isleworth" - some things never change. Fausse-Route Norris was right!
Wouldn't say silver anymore, though.
This sketch is a tine capsule that will live forever
And if only the Norris's had known about the 281 bus!
20 years after leaving Twickenham and the shores of the silver turd, I can still feel bone-rattling shudders of the 281 bus to Kingston
77Neville said:
And if only the Norris's had known about the 281 bus! LOL!
I'm an American who recently drove on lots of tiny country roads in the UK. I can confirm, the struggle is real.
Especially on the A3 (Kingston Bypass)
As Basil Fawlty once said to an American "I'm sorry but I'm afraid the cars over here have steering wheels"
@@AmyWinehouse.914 And apparently, pain-sensitive bonnets, judging by the thrashing Basil gave to his own car's front end.
@@deanronson6331 Well fair's fair - he did warn it would get a "damn good thrashing." if it didn't start.
Did you use a SUV?
I grew up in Surbiton, and once took the bus to Hounslow. Anthropologically, this migration is as insignificant as knowing somebody at the other end of your street. Incidentally, I was part of the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race radio network, based at Teddington Lock, used as the location for the Fish Slapping Dance. Not as good as Bicycle Repair Man, The Milkman Sketch or The Argument Sketch. 🙂
As a resident of Surbiton I can say there is no way the riff-raff of Hounslow are related to us in any way. Perish the thought.
I think this aptly illustrated the scientific importance of the Kon-Tiki and both Ra expeditions, especialy the lawnmower argument.
I used to live in Hounslow and can state categorically that I did NOT come from Surbiton (pronounced in ancient texts as `Sir Biton". I may have originated from Ealing, but it is all in Middlesex. The thought that we had something to do with Surrey is horrific.
I'm proud to say that my birth certificate clearly states: County of Middlesex.
Surrey is a big place. Some places are very pleasant - Surbiton is not.
@@frankhooper7871 So doth mine. Hangar Lane Ealing. The postulation that we have something to do with Suribitonists is beyond the imagination. This is akin to comparing the UK with Mali.
AS A HACKNEY MAN BORN AND BREAD I AM NOT FROM HOMMERTON . NOTHING AGAINST HOMMERTON HES A NICE MAN BUT I AM A ACKNEY MAN FROM E 9
As a foreigner, I always used to wonder what a middlesex is. Lately I have found out that it is a surprisingly commonplace gender. 🙂
They use roads in so much of their humor. It's somewhat lost on us in the U.S.
Until I went to Ireland. Ah! Now I get it!
That Mrs. Norriss was a true woman who supported her man’s dreams and endeavours and set a standard by which generations of men would esteem women: by making sandwiches. 🇬🇧
mrs Brian Norris, thank heavens the woke movement has brougt us so far from these times
My wife makes awesome sandwiches! 👍
It's presently a mystery I believe but the secret contents of the sandwiches are being investigated. I suppose you could say it is suspect and an On Going Mystery until resolved but come one day it will all be revealed !!
@@gimmieliberty6514 mrs Brian Norris can identify as whatever she wishes, whether you like it or not.
@@-0rbital-And...
JAM!
How absolutely delightful!!😂 When will the happy couple be doing the journey from Worthing to Reading? This is a journey I did once with my widowed Aunt who made it most of the way in second gear, pausing only momentarily at a roundabout where she thought that reverse might be a handy option, after which the sun which was shining that day through the leaves on overhanging trees got in her eyes and she mounted the kerb of the road which she thought should not have been there. Happy motoring times in England!!🥰
Ha ha! This is actually funnier than the sketch. 😂
Has this claimed journey been confirmed by the Royal Geographical Society? I, for one, would not have the temerity to make such a claim without having first attained the necessary credentials.
@@davidwilde4933
Wikipedia: *Be Brave*
Also Wikipedia: [citation needed]
A 1970s lawn mower actually does look it's a product of an ancient civilisation
Do not operate while not under the influence of intoxicating substances
Certainly makes more sense to go from Hounslow to Surbiton
"And yet, it was only seven short years before a group of determined cyclists upended the whole ball of wax, throwing the entire migratory documentary community into a scandal it would not emerge from until the Danzig Reorganization was agreed to over bangers and mash."
sums up anthropology for me
Daring hypotheses and theories, dreams, but also most dangerous practical experiments that bring the explorer to the very limits of what a man can achieve, this is the spirit of anthropology! True science and true practical adventure in one!
"The Thames, lying like a silver turd...." lol!
Always a commuter train in the class-hopping belt.
Thanks! Its my favourite python sketch together with Mr Moore.
Dennis Moore? With Concorde?
@@22Phantasm yes! His horse Concorde
@@fredrikmoller629 You excellent taste.
No mention in the bio, of Mrs. Norris' (a confidant of Dawn Pathorpe, a lady show jumper) absconding with Dawn's pet clam Stafford and sequestering Stafford in the family Popular and Stafford being served up mistakenly as a Luton raised geoduck..ghastly, really..Stafford all supine on the half shell..
Absolutely fabulous. As someone that was ... a) too young and ... b) Python didn't fit into the culture of my parents house.
Comedy / observation that can still be fresh and exciting fifty years on is very clever indeed. Wonderful!
Of course this is just as valid now as it was 50 years ago.
Aren't the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, and Captain Nemo as valid now as when they were done??
Science and discovery are timeless.
Houslow in the 60s and 70s wasn't a bad town at all. NOW what an awful sh-hole.
I haven't been there for 20 years or more and never will.
I have just visited the Thor Heyerdahl Museum in Oslo. When I walked out after 5 minutes, I noticed a distinct cultural similarity between me and others who had likewise thought the whole thing was utter bollocks.
It was taken very serious in the early '50-ties. but it actually had the same significance as this emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow .
@@kamion53 Thor was quite succesful in marketing his insane theories to the public, but thankfully he was never in fact taken seriously by academics.
Got to love that the subtitles included a reference to Everest and Kon-Tiki when the original English narration just mentions Sir Edward Hillary and Thor Heyerdahl. Got rid of those pesky famous names 😛
Well, I am glad that's been cleared up... finally!
Betty deserves her own documentary. Now that the women who wholeheartedly support their husbands, etc endeavors are finally appreciated.
Yes this making of sandwiches really needs to be researched further.
Also the yes (successfully) before they set off
Absolutely brilliant ! Never seen this before.
And Londonistan Corporation ULEZ will now make any further migrations from Hounslow to Surbiton quite impossible. A moden day tragedy.
I like happy endings
"I was convinced!"
But HOW?
I'm from Hounslow as well! I left in1965
How far did you get?
@@tompiper9276 Right round the world - New Zealand!
@@Digmen1 good effort!! 👏👏
'.... via Clapham, Fulham, Chiswick and Brentford to Hounslow Central'. Blimey, I don't think that train line still exists!
Spectacular!
I love that the French subtitles have their own translations of the technobabble.
Python always took the rise out of Accountants!
Much love God bless
Midnight ride
They don't make adventurers of his breed these days. smh 😢
3:48 This subtitle in French for the win...and that voiceover! ISLEWORTH: they're taking the Hobbits there, you know.
0:58 Voice-over: "Mr. Norris's 'A Short History of Motor Traffic between Purley and Esher' " - picture 'A Short History of Motor Traffic between Esher and Purley' (remaindered)...
4:16 Is "Hounslow" somewhere on the Uckfield line with that 'Thumper'? ;)
I think this is wrong, the early travellers went from Surbiton to Kingston and then took the river to Brentford, going overland to.Hounslow
Are you sure? What about the cows and hounds grazing on the land around Hounslow?
That theory has been bounded about, but firm evidence has yet to be found. Maybe they can get Lottery Funding to explore the river bottom etc.
The archaeological record says otherwise.
Rubbish. My wife is from Brentford and freely admits to sinking boats who tried to immigrate. The family then sold the bodies for medical experiments. Sadly it didn't make much money as no one wanted Surbitonists.
@@MrRunner I am sorry for the financial losses of your family due to such stupid prejudice. In fact, the body of a dead Surbitonist is not that different from the body of a dead Brentforder or even body of a dead Londoner and the price of such a body should only depend on the weight and quality of meat.
Extra extra Brit in this bit... and I love it all the more.
That sketch isn't too bad !
Vlad you liked it. We'll be Putin up another one next week. They'll all be Russian to see it first.
@@darthkek1953 ...not arf poppickers!!
Second only to the epic adventures of Njorl.
Third in my estimation, also behind the Blancmanges from the planet Skyron in the galaxy of Andromeda. "THEY MEAN TO WIN WIMBLEDON"!
... maybe fourth, have to consider The Spanish Inquisition. Nobody expects them.
I think he meant as in epic type explorations/ journeys. The sketch with Michael Palen bicycling across Russia is a good candidate for 3 place.
M.A.L.D.E.N.
Woohoo hounslow resident here :(
And not a bicycle repair man in sight.
Oh my. That sounds terrifying.
My first car ! !
Mrs. Norris was a real catch!
" They had lunch in tooting . . . their last contact with civilization." Got to be a poke at some place in london
It's a Southwest London district.
I think England is the leader in funny sounding place names. And I'm from a country with a town called Dildo.
Thus scientific progress happens. Bravo!
fanstastic!
I believe I read about this in my anthropology book.
Long gone are the days when comedians were intelligent. Absolutely brilliant.
Yeah, clever people are extremely unfunny nowadays.
Priceless.
3:46 ‘The Thames, lying like a silver...’
From the long-lost days before Prêt à Manger when people actually 'made' sandwiches!
This is actually so funny but also raises new issues in 2023. Southall in Hounslow in a sense is a very different area "Southall’s main ethnic sub-group is Punjabi, and Sikhism is the principal religion. Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabina is one of the largest Sikh temples outside India. In fact, Southall has been a South Asian hub since 1950, often referred to as “little India”. It even featured in the 2002 hit blockbuster ‘Bend it like Beckham’.
Southall’s streets bustle with activity from the thriving local economy. Southall Market on High Street sells produce spices, jewellery and antiques while eateries along The Broadway offer samosas, dosas and sweets such as jalebis."
My son's friend from there when at school thought the UK was 50% white only (in fact is it 82% white) because the boy had hardly ever left Southall
In the UK we have moved without moving and been placed without choice in a different culture without moving a single inch. Interesting times.
Interesting?
Explain exactly what you mean by "interesting times"
"Dr. Livingstone I presume?" ... "Jolly good".
Don't let the facts get in the way of your racist agenda, will you? If you really knew Southall at all, you'd know that it's not even in Hounslow, and that less than half the population is Asian.
Regional culture is never a choice.
I find it hard t believe that such a journey could have been possible in the dark day s before GPS and Google Earth.
Ha ha, good one!😂
They were hardier and harder than we. I would have folded at the first rest stop.
@@vangroover1903 In those days men were real men and women made sandwiches!
As an archaeologist, this is exactly what reading old anthropological papers of Europeans traveling to study “primitive cultures” in your undergrad feels like, except instead of funny it’s just hair-pullingly frustrating. 😂
Wrong way Norris was ALMOST right. The real journey was between the beaches bordering Dover and the Shanrgi-la offered by the benefits doled out from the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group.
By me those style of houses with the curved glass side bay windows have beeb replaced with 2 double glazed flat windows why was this allowed to happen.
Very clever
Funny
😊🏴☠️🎈
Genius
I think that's the same house as the one in the world's funniest joke sketch
Hounslow Central Station is an Underground Station.
I made a very much extended version of this journey to Hounslow from my home at the time in Skegness.. may I.. perleeez.. join the ranks of the exalted few pioneers mentioned here?? 🤔🙏
hail and welcome
Skeggy? I'd rather watch my toenails grow than go there. :D
@@jaycee330 That ya best - pretty needless anyway - put down? (That took you a day to come up with).. Er, nice one (well, except not).. clearly your toenails growing is not something your brain ever did, so watch away, lol!! 🦶🥸🤣🤣🤣
Love the way the subtitler didn't know what "bypass" meant and couldn't be bothered to look it up 😁
It's AI - there is no person to be bothered at all, except the guy who thinks some schmoe spends his day listening and subtitling to a few million new YT videos every day.😂
@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb I think maybe, just maybe, the commenter was talking about the fairly obvious French hardsubs present throughout the entire video and not TH-cam's auto-subtitles, which for some reason aren't even available for this video.
I got to wonder how the casting calls for the extras in went for the weirder sketches in Monty Python.
Relatives of BBC staff.
@@MichaelKingsfordGray Or the casting couch.
@@raffriff42 Ouch!
I'm off to do more research.
A very nice parody on the method of argumentation used by many historians to explain migrations still today, seeing an similarity and concluding that one population is descendant of an other, how improbable this may be.
This isn't a criticism of anything, it's just one of their absurdist sketches.
Well, i certainly did not expect a sort of spanish inquisition.
Oh nevermind. I was going to go on at great uninteresting length about Such work contributing to human knowledge. But lets just forget it drink beer and watch reality tv instead.
@@VineFynn Wrong. It's directly parodying the Kon-Tiki expedition (even mentioned by name at the start of the video), where Norwegian author Thor Heyerdal attempted to prove his absolutely bollocks (and deeply racist) theory that Polynesia was intially settled by a "race" of white bearded men from South America who moved there after being chased by native american peoples. These supposed white bearded men would have orginally come from the Middle East. Thor believed they were first to settle Polynesia, before being killed by a second wave of Austronesian settlers (in his eyes inferior in every way, of course). These Austronesian are the current inhabitants of Polynesia. He had no proof for any of this, of course. Unless travelling from South America to Polynesia in a raft proves anything other than the possibility of pre-columbian contact between Polynesians and South Americans. I could go on, it gets worse the more you read about it.
EDIT: Also, the original comment seems overly dismissive of the work of actual historians and anthropologists on tracing back migrations. It's not the 1700s anymore, you need more than a couple of similarities to establish actual connections. Any scholar attempting to establish a connection using such weak evidence would much like Thor Heyerdal have a hard time being taken seriously by their peers. Most established migrations can be quite conclusively reconstructed from linguistic, archeological and genetic evidence. When two groups of people share similar genetic makeup, use similar languages and have similar religions, you're not looking at something "improbable", you're almost certainly looking at the result of a past migration.
Glorius! It really feels like these stories are told within a shell, and outside this shell there is a pompous world. It feels like now the shell is broken and now the pompous world has got a grip on us. One simple example: Police wont let the moviemakers use their cars, if they are being made fun of in a movie. Because we live in the best of worlds and no police can be described as stupid, clumsy and incompetent. Imagine Inspecteur Closeau never beeing depicted. Merry new 2023!!!
The French subtitles refuse to acknowledge the imperial measures (it's kilometres, not miles!!), but has no idea who Edmund Hillary and Thor Heyerdahl are.
Clearance.
.......and made sandwiches.
Yes (successfully)
Wrong hole, wrong way. Felt right, however.
Thor Heyerdahl's 100th birthday today!
Despite his epic effort, his (somewhat racist) theory has been disproven by recent genetic research. It was the islanders who reached the coast of South America, not the other way around - though it seems to have been an isolated event rather than a regular trade route. So like the guy in this informative documentary, he was "Wrong Way" Heyerdahl...
Who cares? He only crossed the Pacific. He didn’t climb Uxbridge or make the trek to Houslow. 😁
@@keirfarnum6811 True - that was a mere Sunday outing compared to the fearsome trek across London - and I'm only half joking...
Legen has it Norris is still somewhere on the south circular
I love my videos triple letterboxed
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222 SMS trip from Uxbridge to ounslow