The point of a duel was to prove that you were willing to risk your life to back up your words. It was not about winning. It wasn't even about being right. It was to prove one's honour and integrity.
@@davidwuhrer6704 Dueling with smoothbore pistols at 20 paces is brave, but with rifled pistols it's extremely dangerous for both men. Something like 50 Missouri State representatives were killed after 1800 to about 1840, just from duels, mostly from rifled pistols, with both parties getting shot.
@@zollen123 It can certainly be interpreted that way. During the culture clash, many otherwise honourable young men refused to have honour for this reason. But it actually just meant that your integrity was far more important than your life. Though it does not necessarily mean that you couldn't admit when you're wrong. As I said: It was not about winning. It was to prove that you are a man of his word. The idea was that no gentleman would say anything lightly or carelessly; insulting someone by word or action carried the risk to lose one's life or - worse - one's honour (and with it one's rights and privileges, which also affected one's family). The biggest insult was to be refused satisfaction, because that meant you were seen as not worth standing up to; as beneath the challenged one's honour and standing. So even if you were wrong, and ready to admit it, you still had to be willing to put your life on the line first, or your admission would have been meaningless.
The last duel in Canada took place between two gentlemen fighting over a lady, where one man fainted, the other apologized, and it was later discovered neither gun had been loaded. Canada.
Watching this with subtitles is a whole other experience. I didn't learn a whole lot about duelling, but I am now an expert on jeweling, jailing and Zhu Ling.
"Jewing" "there was concerns in the church that many people using Jews as a means to legally commit suicide" "drooling etiquettes were written in the 1830s" "Julian had always been subject to some mockery" "jeweling in the military died out in Britain when widows pensions were withheld from men killed in Jews" I'm wheezing
We probably need dueling back. Imagine all the morons that would just kill each other reducing the population of them (which would be A LOT). We would be enter a golden age.
I’m my moms hometown in Kansas, there was a duel back in the 80s. One guy died and the other was never arrested. Sheriff didn’t want to deal with it, perhaps due to laziness, safety reasons, and lack of evidence. Probably a combination of all 3. Basically 2 men, who had been fighting for decades, finally agreed to meet in the desert, alone. Each was to bring a firearm of their choice, I assume handguns but I’m blurry on the details. One man came back, the other wasn’t seen again. There were no witnesses of the actual fight, but many people witnessed the challenge. It’s actually an urban legend there now and all the parents say it’s true. My mother would’ve been in Highschool when it happened.
It sounds like a pretty plausible story, frankly. You'd be surprised how often cops don't investigate a death/murder, especially as recent as the 90's. (When the internet wasn't much of a thing.)
@@mikearmstrong8483 - SouthWest Kansas. I know it’s technically not a desert but there’s cactuses with sparse grasses there. It’s an arid environment for sure.
It was simpler as men followed codes of honor. Not like today where you could be walking down the street and your enemy shoots you from a car, or run up in your home and kill you there.
The weapons have to be identical. I did hear a story where a French aristocrat challenged a blacksmith, so the blacksmith set the conditions of the fight to be with sledgehammers in 5 and a half feet of water, the idea being that the shorter aristocrat would have an impossible time doing anything with the heavy weapon while his arms are fully submerged in water. The blacksmith was taller and stronger, meaning he could wield the weapon above water without raising his arms too much.
1:23 This is a really cool easter egg. The guy in royal clothes is the German Chancellor Bismark. The other guy is a scientist called Rudolf Virchow. Virchow was very critical of Bismark and one day the chancellor had enough and challenged him to a duel. Since the rule is that the challenged party chooses the weapons, Virchow chose two sausages, one of which was infected with a deadly bacteria and the other was perfectly fine. He told the chancellor to eat one and he would have the other. Bismark immediately withdrew the challenge. Don't mess with a scientist, yo.
Wonder if this ever happened A: "Screw you!" B: "How dare you! I challenge you to a duel" A: "I refuse" C: "Coward!!" A: "How dare you! I challenge you to a duel!"
up until guns became hella accurate even over longer distances those were quite safe (well not safe cuz dangerous shit but surprisingly safe) because ye, they happened quite often at distances where both parties just ended up missing each other
Actually, pistols were generally seen as safer, because people would often fire to deliberately miss (Alexander Hamilton did so in his dfuel with Burr, expecting Burr to do the same) whereas dueling with swords to first blood carried the risk of infection. There was allegedly a duel in Austria between two aristocratic women where they fought topless to prevent a sword thrust from drving a piece of cloth into any wounds, which was considered more likely to lead to infection.
@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III He would then bring even more shame upon himself and would likely be arrested. Duels weren't matterd of rage, they were matters of pride and reputation
Ah yes, the lawsuit. A form of advanced dueling where the Second does all of the work for you, and victory allows you to destroy not just your opponent, but also their immediate family and potential descendants.
“Mutual combat” laws in certain states in the U.S. are a modern remnant of these duels. It’s when you ask someone to “take it outside” that you’re legally allowed to have a fight (no weapons) and the cops aren’t allowed to intervene unless to prevent death.
I was just about to mention this, but in some places they do allow weapons, or at least that's the excuse used by law enforcement when they don't want to waste anymore time on a murder case 🤣🤣🤣
Basically same laws that boxers and mma fighters use can be used by anyone. If two consenting persons agrees to sign away all liability, then they can beat, stab, and shoot each other to ity bity pieces provided nobody else is put at risk by their duelling.
Fun fact: dueling is still legal in the city of Boston. The duel must occur on the Commons on a Sunday, and the Governor of Massachusetts must be present.
@@gunter6377 you're stinky poopie head Meet in a few months or a year in Boston I'm Dutch and with covid its difficult to travel but still wait for me in boston
In Germany there still is a tradition that evolved from dueling. The rules have been changed so the risk of dying is basically zero but you can still get seriously hurt (mostly just loss of blood, scars, seldomly part of the air or a patch of skin can get lost). It is a fencing match with a special set of rules. It is not considered a duel because it is not actually about honor but in practice, there are many ocassions where an insult leads to a fencing "match" (avoiding to call it a duel here) and the insult is "forgotten" after the fencing match is concluded.
@BlackDeathViral03 You think you can challenge me? Pathetic, I'll see you and your pathetic little deck ask for mercy when I summon my... *Intense anime flashing* FIVE HEADED DRAGON
You right, its boring and all. Imagine the news « Here we are ladies and gentlemen, the duellers have picked their pistols, BANG! OMG! The opponent was killed, its a perfect shot ladies and gentlement, a clear shot! » -Sir, have you had satisfaction now? Not yet, i have to teebag his corpse now
a professor pointed out that often, dueling was just an act of courage, not always a fight to death. if two people fire one shot from a 19-century pistol at each other over a distance of 30 meters, it's pretty likely they both missed. that allowed for settling disputes without either party losing their face.
@@luigiplayer14 relax guys i'm not saying it was a good idea i'm just saying more duels ended without people getting hurt than we might think of nowadays.
In Germany and Austria, there are still many duels between students of different fraternities with razor-sharp swords. These are not officially 100% legal, but have a long tradition that is still lived every day. I have seen many of these duels and the injuries can be really bad.
Which, to be clear, is seen as insane by all other people in Germany and Austria. Fraternities in general are the biggest imaginable red flag and avoided like the plague by most normal people. Some are apparently fine, just a bunch of dudes living in a mansion and drinking ungodly amount of alcohol, but when they look for new members they have to explicitly state everywhere that no, they're not nazis, they're not rapists, they're not racist etc, because otherwise people will rightfully assume that they are all those things. And that they stab each other with swords.
They do follow strict rules and do not result in death or lasting injury, leaving scars (Schmiss) at most. Sometimes nobody gets injured as long as the "duel" is fought until the end or one side calls it off for a number of reasons.
Mensur is not real duels, just the children of the 1% ritually scarring each other for social points at ultra-exclusive military schools. I personally wouldn't hire anybody with mensur scars, but in the circles of the elite in Germany it's apparently a sign you're a Count or a Duke or something.
1:23 I love that you included a nod to this historical account of a scientist being challenged to a duel, and who choose a pair of sausages as the weapons: one was perfectly fine and presumably delicious, while the other had been infected with a deadly pathogen. The challenger did not pick either and withdrew his demand for reparation instead.
I can confirm - learned in my first semester of law school that the ability to bring lawsuits relatively easily is in part, at least, to prevent people from resorting to "self help" (i.e. duels.)
Nah, be a legend, have most duels cast against you and most duels refused. People will know your obnoxious, and so obnoxious that there would be no point to duel you because you'd just refuse.
The fact that lawsuits replaced dueling is the best argument I've heard to bringing back dueling. However, to avoid unnecessary death, I propose modern dueling be held in hand to hand unarmed combat in cage fights. First to tap out is a nerd.
Well The old freternitys in Germany still duel mandatory. The sword fight has just a bunch of rules so nobody dies (most of the time one person in my city died around 50 ish years ago and the freternitys does not duel anymore to honor him) but you can only lose them by showing emotions. TL;DR Germany freternitys still duel with sharp swords but with a lot of rules and protection for your eyes and neck
I fully support restoring dueling, especially non-fatal versions, including one-on-one fist fights. I've long considered it a good way to settle personal animosities without the costs of getting other people involved. As long as all participants are adults and the duel is registered with the local court ahead of time, have on.
The dude stood 6'4" and his opponent was about 5 foot tall. When he rolled up to the ground he walked aside and tested his sword on a high tree branch, proving to everyone watching that he was a fucking beast. Only President in the wrestling hall of fame.
@@matthewlawton9721 -- Yep, true story. He was also very strong at that time in his life. He could hold, with outstretched arm (and ax horizontal to the ground), an axe at the very end of the handle with just his thumb and index finger gripping the handle. I tried it myself without luck, and I split a lot of wood.
1:23 That man you see holding the sausage is Rudolf Virchow. He opposed Otto Von Bismarck's excessive military budget, which led to Von Bismarck challenging him to a duel. He chose two pork sausages as weapons : one regular sausage and another one infected with Trichinella larvae. They would both pick and eat one and see which one of them would die a painful death. Bismarck called the duel off after hearing this proposition.
My favorite duel story will always be when someone challenge Abe Lincoln in his younger years, and Lincoln's weapon of choice was "broadsword in a pit" the challenger then called it off.
"Eventually, in the early 2000s, while lawsuits still remained an often used option to settle disputes of higher significance and importance, their cost and time-consuming nature brought forth another evolution, namely causing most disagreements and personal attacks to be retaliated via insulting the offender's mother, and/ or talking sh*t on the internet."
Right! Lawsuits might've been a good idea 100 years ago, but over time because SOOO expensive, slow and stressful - that's it's almost better if disagreeing people, men at least, could go back to giving each other a good punching and then chill out - WITHOUT having cops and the whole legal system involved. I mean, seriously, if two men fight - no matter who's right, and no matter who "wins" - getting cops involved, pretty much always make life more miserable for BOTH sides of the fight.
@@firstcooommment3675 well no eeally. The money would go to who ever was on your will. Dying would be better because the death would be quicker, while losing everything would just make you suicidal. Therefore, you would die at your own hands, while not taking a chance of killing the other.
@@greatkentuckian9032 Dying doesn't make your debts magically disappear. If someone has a judgement against you and you die, your money goes to the person with the judgement before the people in your will.
meh, just googled it. two imbeciles MPs arguing over stuff, the offended guy (who demanded the duel) never held a sword in his life while his opponent had prior training, unsurprisingly the latter won after inflicting two minor wounds. stupid shit.
It was quite funny, actually. In the National Assembly (lower house of Parliament), French socialist MP and mayor of Marseille, as well as former Resistance member, Gaston Deferre, shouted to a young Gaullist MP, René Ribière, who was interrupting him during his speech, "Will you shut up, you moron?" When Deferre later refused to retract his insult, Ribière challenged him to a sword duel. Only problem was Ribière had never touched a sword in his life, while Deferre was quite familiar with duels and had already fought in one. It lasted with three attacks, Ribière got two harmless cuts on his forearm, and the referee stopped the duel. De Gaulle, who was president at the time, wasn't pleased with this, and had tried to have the duel called off, to no avail. Police ignored it, but journalists watched and caught the duel on film. Later, Deferre kept joking that he'd tried to aim for Ribière's crotch, because he was getting married the next day. And that was the last duel in France.
@@orbitingsentientsatellite4361 it makes sense, it would lessen tension nowadays. All the dumbass ego driven people would kill themselves off and leave America with more passionate people
Fun fact: Any person taking a political office in Kentucky is required to recite an oath, which includes swearing that the person has not participated in duel.
Hamilton said that the honorable thing to do in a duel was to fire your pistol into the sky, rather than at your opponent. That line of thinking has its merits, but, given a sample size of two duels, it was 0% successful.
What if instead of declaring wars with mass death, we just had the two leaders duel each other with flintlocks instead to settle their lack of communication skills
However, people are also dying from this practice as well! In the US since February, nearly 3,000 people have died from vaping related injury or illness. Others have even undergone lung transplants...it's getting worse because a lot of this shit is coming from China and they don't giveAfuq and cut it with nasty chemicals
@THE JOKER 1v1s on Rust were a thing in Modern Warfare 2. It was snipers with only quick scopes or no scopes and the last killcam had to be amazing(aka jumping off the structure in the middle and performing a quick/no scope. They were generally used when a sniper player got really mad at another sniper player so they messaged them saying what Leszas’s comment says. Fox 1v1s on Final Destination were a thing back in Smash Bros Melee. Fox was the character all the pros used, Final Destination was a very ceremonial map, and no items means that you can only use your melee, pistol, smashes, airs and grabs.
Imagine getting into a duel with Blizzard entertainment except they didn't win by just having a bunch of lawyers, they hired 100 dudes for you to fight before you got to challenge the CEO
Quick sidenote. Deuling didnt actually die out as early in America as many people think. Duels were still very common in the wild west, untill the Los Angeles police force was first established in 1870. Even then, that only made deuling illegal in the US from coast to coast. That didnt mean people stopped doing it, however. There are reports of old fashioned illegal duels going back to the 1930s.
Replying to an old comment. But Otto was actually challenged by a said man with a sausage. The story goes that the chemist whos name i forgot had two sausages laid out. One of which was poisoned. So otto backed out
I get that dueling was barbaric, but there are some historic events that I can't help but respect. Andrew Jackson had just won the presidential election and Charles Dickinson, one of his political rivals, just couldn't resist publically insulting Jackson's late wife, who had passed away during the campaign. Despite Dickinson being a talented marksman and having so much to lose, President-elect Jackson still challenged him to a duel and won with a headshot. Still, say what you want about Jackson, what does it say about Dickinson that he'd rather risk death than take back insults cast at a dead woman?
Jackson was also in a duel with John Sevier. Accounts differ, but I prefer the one where Sevier won. Neither died, at any rate, and peace was restored. The event occurred while Sevier was Governor of Tennessee and Jackson a Judge.
Dueling is brain dead. Like Schopenhauer says: if you really think that someone totally inferior to you has insulted you and must be punished for it, why would you give him a "fair" chance to wound you physically or kill you, depending on how good a shot he is? If you think he's morally inferior, just kill him or let it be, but the charade of dueling is totally stupid.
Yeah but if Jackson lost it would be known as one of the biggest embarassments in history. The dude gave up life and the presidency because some guy was a dick to him.
Your wording of the story is simply wrong. Do your research. Dueling was illegal in Tennessee. However, under the criminal law of the period around 1800, it was difficult to be extradited across state lines. As a result, the two men met near Adairville, Kentucky, adjacent to the Tennessee border, on May 30, 1806. Dickinson left Nashville the day before the duel with his second and a group of friends, confident, even demonstrating his shooting skills at various stops along the way. Since Dickinson was considered an expert shot, Jackson and his friend, Thomas Overton, determined it would be best to let Dickinson fire first, hoping that his aim might be spoiled in his quickness. The obvious weakness of this tactic was, of course, that Jackson might not be alive to take aim.[3]: 140-141 Jackson and Overton also devised a strategy that, if Overton should win the coin toss to give the word to fire, he would ask Dickinson the question "Gentleman, are you ready?" purposefully after asking Jackson, and then immediately say "Fire" in an attempt to cause Dickinson to fire impulsively. Overton did indeed win the coin toss, and subsequently used this strategy. Dickinson fired first, hitting Jackson in the chest; incredibly, Jackson was not killed, but merely wounded, and was capable of returning fire. Under the rules of dueling, Dickinson had to remain still as Jackson took his shot. Jackson's pistol stopped at half cock, so he drew back the hammer and aimed again, this time hitting Dickinson in the chest. Dickinson bled to death.[3]: 142 The expert Dickinson had aimed at Jackson's heart, though the bullet had been slightly deflected by Jackson's brass button on his coat, which some claim was due to him deliberately wearing loose clothing over his lean frame. It has also been suggested that Jackson adopted a careful sideways stance to ensure that his heart was obstructed. The bullet broke some of Jackson's ribs, and had ended up lodged inches from his heart. While Jackson could easily have been incapacitated by such a wound, an unconfirmed account later claimed that while conversing with a friend on his deathbed he stated, "If he had shot me through the brain, sir, I should still have killed him."[citation needed] Doctors determined that the bullet lodged in Jackson's chest was too close to his heart to operate, so Jackson carried it for the rest of his life, and suffered much pain from the wound. Locals were outraged that Dickinson had to stand defenseless while Jackson re-cocked and shot him. This was a confusing application of the rules of dueling, as snaps were considered as good as a shot. A snap implies that the hammer fell completely and failed to cause a shot, but a half cock is not a snap. Dickinson's second nervously permitted Jackson to re-cock his pistol. Some might claim that Jackson could have shot into the air or shot only to injure Dickinson; this would have been considered sufficient satisfaction under dueling rules. Jackson replied that Dickinson had meant to "kill the gent," so Jackson had also shot to kill. Jackson's reputation suffered greatly from the duel.
One thing I’d like to know is how often duels like this actually happened. Obviously, the answer would vary by time, place, and context, but modern depictions - or at least parodies - often show duels being fought over fairly trivial reasons. Again, “trivial” is highly subjective, but if every perceived slight or misunderstanding resulted in two men pulling weapons on each other, it would be a constant bloodbath.
Reminds me of a great Dave Allen sketch where a toff finds himself insulted by a man with the reputation of being the greatest duellist in England. He spends months training himself to use a pistol with deadly accuracy before issuing his challenge. Then the opponent chooses swords.
"Let's be reasonable if a person insults you you have every right to fight that person to the death to restore your honor", say no more fam 10/10 perfect vid
@@darrionj707 Man, too much of a hassle only because someone said "yo mama is x", Months of legal fees, auditions, entire schedules changed... Some day you wake up and realize it isn't even worth it. Hell, even criminal cases in the US are not worth it sometimes.
Lawsuits: From now on, duels are banned! Peasants and lower-class nobles: But dueling is by far cheaper and faster than hiring lawsuits. Lawsuits: *IDC*
Tbf, we should have more civil and less lethal duels these days, like cloth covered sticks for swords or BB guns with heavy-duty glasses. Something like that would make things like false rape accusations and the rich screwing over the poor, become almost non-existent, as they would have to face their actions, rather then sit in their house smirking that they just ruined someone's life.
@@20tigerpaw20 well see the problem with that is duels put a much larger emphasis on fighting skill which is a silly way to settle legal disputes. Sure it sounds nice and simple on paper but then you realize some really good duelists could provoke anyone they want and get away with it since "might makes right". And in a world where dueling arts are something that would require extensive training to reach a proficient level at, can you guess who has the money to pay for those swordplay tutors and gun-training lessons?
@Luís Filipe Andrade so me and other teachers who have some of the most difficult jobs in the world and get paid less then the average American are worth less then money? How do you put a price tag on a humans life? Such a thing comes off as extremely cruel. By giving in to a bully you are only showing the world that you are no better then they are as you have stooped down to their level. A rich person is no more valuable then a poor person we are all imperfect human beings. Thank you
@Luís Filipe Andrade please don’t assume my gender not all teachers are men and if it was just sarcasm then ok I apologize for attacking you I just really admire and appreciate all human life. Take care and be safe
"George Washington, for example, had issues with stopping officers from killing each other during the War of Independence" UK: not what i expected, but ok
In Denmark, there's still laws applying for duelling. However they haven't been used in well over a hundred years, so they're not really useable anymore. But still a part of the law
I recommend playing this video with the sound off and auto-generated English subtitles for a good time. "drooling" was my favourite of TH-cams attempt to transcribe "dueling"
I feel like the fact that pistols actually became accurate vs missing 90% of the time also became a factor
The point of a duel was to prove that you were willing to risk your life to back up your words.
It was not about winning. It wasn't even about being right. It was to prove one's honour and integrity.
@@davidwuhrer6704 Dueling with smoothbore pistols at 20 paces is brave, but with rifled pistols it's extremely dangerous for both men. Something like 50 Missouri State representatives were killed after 1800 to about 1840, just from duels, mostly from rifled pistols, with both parties getting shot.
@@davidwuhrer6704 honour and integrity are more important than reasoning and right?
@@zollen123 It can certainly be interpreted that way. During the culture clash, many otherwise honourable young men refused to have honour for this reason.
But it actually just meant that your integrity was far more important than your life.
Though it does not necessarily mean that you couldn't admit when you're wrong. As I said: It was not about winning. It was to prove that you are a man of his word.
The idea was that no gentleman would say anything lightly or carelessly; insulting someone by word or action carried the risk to lose one's life or - worse - one's honour (and with it one's rights and privileges, which also affected one's family).
The biggest insult was to be refused satisfaction, because that meant you were seen as not worth standing up to; as beneath the challenged one's honour and standing.
So even if you were wrong, and ready to admit it, you still had to be willing to put your life on the line first, or your admission would have been meaningless.
@@langhamp8912 There seems to be a huge overlap between bravery and being suicidal.
The last duel in Canada took place between two gentlemen fighting over a lady, where one man fainted, the other apologized, and it was later discovered neither gun had been loaded.
Canada.
average Canadian duel:
Most violent duel to happen in Canada:
the most savage Canadian barbarians
Sorry incorrect duels are still happen it's to see who can drink the most maple syrup most duelers die of diabetes eh? I'm real sorry bud
This is extremely Canadian
- The choice is yours, sir: Sword or pistol?
- Sword. The weapon of a gentleman
- As you wish. That leaves the pistol for the other gentleman
LOL
Oh shit
Immediate regret
I understood that reference!
Hand grenades at one meter.
Watching this with subtitles is a whole other experience. I didn't learn a whole lot about duelling, but I am now an expert on jeweling, jailing and Zhu Ling.
"the jews slowly became out of fashion" i laughted my ass off
I couldn't focus on the video at all because I kept laughing 😂
And julian
"Jewing"
"there was concerns in the church that many people using Jews as a means to legally commit suicide"
"drooling etiquettes were written in the 1830s"
"Julian had always been subject to some mockery"
"jeweling in the military died out in Britain when widows pensions were withheld from men killed in Jews"
I'm wheezing
@@rayvega3163 drooling etiquette is very delicate
Nowadays, people bravely fight for their honor on Twitter.
Aaron Smith and bravely reveal all of your personal information if you made a joke in 2011
As of July 2020 in the U.S. that may be even more dangerous.
@The Pinkerton National Detective Agency 2009 is better year than this current year though.
We probably need dueling back. Imagine all the morons that would just kill each other reducing the population of them (which would be A LOT). We would be enter a golden age.
Or on TH-cam
Trump 2020!
Challenger: "Pick your weapon! Swords or pistols"
Challengee: "Lawyers"
_lawyers proceed to duel eachother_
"much more civilized"
@DeathcoldanImagine if lawyers actually did that
Nani?! Sutando?!
And I thought Ace Attorney couldn't become more realistic
@@sulthanstfn Imagine Wright dueling Edgeworth
"Instead, duelling saw a slow death as upper and middle-class culture changed to a more moderate means of settling scores: Lawsuits"
I felt that.
The slow death....unforeseen, unforgiving.
I was looking through the comment section and right when I got to this he read that sentance and it felt so coincidentally weird.
@@АнтонМан-ч9к I see darkest dungeon, i upvote
Slightly moderate
And much like traditional duels, they usually end up in a settlement.
I’m my moms hometown in Kansas, there was a duel back in the 80s. One guy died and the other was never arrested. Sheriff didn’t want to deal with it, perhaps due to laziness, safety reasons, and lack of evidence. Probably a combination of all 3.
Basically 2 men, who had been fighting for decades, finally agreed to meet in the desert, alone. Each was to bring a firearm of their choice, I assume handguns but I’m blurry on the details.
One man came back, the other wasn’t seen again. There were no witnesses of the actual fight, but many people witnessed the challenge.
It’s actually an urban legend there now and all the parents say it’s true. My mother would’ve been in Highschool when it happened.
It sounds like a pretty plausible story, frankly. You'd be surprised how often cops don't investigate a death/murder, especially as recent as the 90's. (When the internet wasn't much of a thing.)
Point out exactly where there is desert in Kansas.
@@mikearmstrong8483 - SouthWest Kansas. I know it’s technically not a desert but there’s cactuses with sparse grasses there. It’s an arid environment for sure.
"People are so over dramatic these days, I wish we could go back to simpler times"
The simpler times:
Eh. A lot of duels just ending with both parties firing into the air.
Can't be dramatic if you're dead.
It was simpler as men followed codes of honor. Not like today where you could be walking down the street and your enemy shoots you from a car, or run up in your home and kill you there.
@@BoleDaPole Or we have to tolerate shit-talk in name of 'civilization'.
@@billisultan6224
That kind of Culture that killing you in your Car or Home, is very immoral.
0:35
It’s all gangsta until someone brings a cannon to a pistol duel.
yeah, imma bring a drone if you dont mind.. edit; and i mean the shooty ones, not the retail ones
Black adder flash backs.
The weapons have to be identical. I did hear a story where a French aristocrat challenged a blacksmith, so the blacksmith set the conditions of the fight to be with sledgehammers in 5 and a half feet of water, the idea being that the shorter aristocrat would have an impossible time doing anything with the heavy weapon while his arms are fully submerged in water. The blacksmith was taller and stronger, meaning he could wield the weapon above water without raising his arms too much.
I might have the details wrong, but that's basically how it happened.
I have an idea 💡! Lets do 18th century cannon duel 🤺!!! Ramrod and all!
I liked how everytime the United States is mentioned their territory gets bigger
If this video went on any longer the Philippines would be us territory.
Almost as if the USA grew in size over the timeframe of the video.
Sussurus you must be fun at parties
*Manifest destiny intensifies*
@@denrari You're right, I'm not.
1:23 This is a really cool easter egg. The guy in royal clothes is the German Chancellor Bismark. The other guy is a scientist called Rudolf Virchow.
Virchow was very critical of Bismark and one day the chancellor had enough and challenged him to a duel. Since the rule is that the challenged party chooses the weapons, Virchow chose two sausages, one of which was infected with a deadly bacteria and the other was perfectly fine. He told the chancellor to eat one and he would have the other. Bismark immediately withdrew the challenge.
Don't mess with a scientist, yo.
Wow, thats very cool.
Amazing! Kudos to you for noticing it!
The most German way to duel imaginable
Mega mind.
Fun fact: Bismarck was famous for duelling. He claimed that he never lost a sword fight except for this one time where is saber broke into two pieces.
Imagine being insulted by someone, retaliate by challenging them to a duel, only to lose the duel.
Imagine being so bad at handling insults that you challenge to a duel...
Btw has Günsche found you yet?
It would suck, but not for long, assuming your wound was fatal.
@@sipos0 unless you chose swords
OOF
Unless you choose fists
Wonder if this ever happened
A: "Screw you!"
B: "How dare you! I challenge you to a duel"
A: "I refuse"
C: "Coward!!"
A: "How dare you! I challenge you to a duel!"
C: "I refuse"
@@Froge4291 Coward!
@@voodoodolll how dare you! I challenge YOU to a duel.
@@jionmionskwisgaar1476 I refuse
@@UN_Banished How dare you! I challenge you to a duell
Of cause they still duel
its just called "Yugioh" nowadays
though its still as deadly as weapons
Especialy if your friend brings a Meta deck into a friendly duel
no its worse cause instead of death you just get sent into the shadow realm
Luckely you can always recover of screen... Or by injecting 200 cc's of friendship
That made my day!
It may not look like much on the outside, but it steals your soul.
An important note is that with sword duels, it was often to first blood rather than to the death, making it my far the safest option of weapon
except in Japan, where (not commonly known) a samurai sword fight often ended up with BOTH very very dead.
up until guns became hella accurate even over longer distances those were quite safe (well not safe cuz dangerous shit but surprisingly safe) because ye, they happened quite often at distances where both parties just ended up missing each other
Actually, pistols were generally seen as safer, because people would often fire to deliberately miss (Alexander Hamilton did so in his dfuel with Burr, expecting Burr to do the same) whereas dueling with swords to first blood carried the risk of infection. There was allegedly a duel in Austria between two aristocratic women where they fought topless to prevent a sword thrust from drving a piece of cloth into any wounds, which was considered more likely to lead to infection.
Depends on how much the other guy hates you. He could easily run the sword through your guts instead of swinging it to cut.
@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III He would then bring even more shame upon himself and would likely be arrested. Duels weren't matterd of rage, they were matters of pride and reputation
Ah yes, the lawsuit. A form of advanced dueling where the Second does all of the work for you, and victory allows you to destroy not just your opponent, but also their immediate family and potential descendants.
Kinda like NKs 3 generation law
So...lawyers are like stands?
@@Bluebird-tj6kb More like Summons because you'll need to sacrifice your money and possibly your soul to get a good one
@@rouge-ish324 Makes sense
Now thats what i call collateral damage
I'm so glad the fine people of Detroit have kept this once ubiquitous tradition alive for all to experience. True stewards of history!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@SludgeManCometh Double yikes
@@SludgeManCometh 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@SludgeManCometh racist
@@thedeadonefr nobody specified a race, friend
Lawsuits: "why kill someone when you could just take all of their money"
Does not work if they are money poor.
@@Eric1-373 we need to bring dueling back
Much more satisfying beating them to a pulp. Up side it won't take as long as a law suite.
@@arkadisevyan with swords, not with guns cuz they are loud af and would disturb the public. With sword however would be much cooler
@@mustard4762 that works
"Why people don't duel anymore?"
Because the game became a pay-to-win where everyone used the same tier 1 decks.
I took up Yugioh around the time Pharaoh’s Servant came out and I feel like it’s always been that way for the most part
But what does pot of greed do
“Mutual combat” laws in certain states in the U.S. are a modern remnant of these duels. It’s when you ask someone to “take it outside” that you’re legally allowed to have a fight (no weapons) and the cops aren’t allowed to intervene unless to prevent death.
I was just about to mention this, but in some places they do allow weapons, or at least that's the excuse used by law enforcement when they don't want to waste anymore time on a murder case 🤣🤣🤣
That's fair tho I think, as long as the risk of actually getting seriously hurt isn't there, who's to say that 2 consenting adults can't fight it out
Basically same laws that boxers and mma fighters use can be used by anyone. If two consenting persons agrees to sign away all liability, then they can beat, stab, and shoot each other to ity bity pieces provided nobody else is put at risk by their duelling.
I feel like this can only be legal if a guy screams MUTUAL KOMBAT! While techno music plays in the background.
Yeah I think Washington state had mutual combat laws due to traffic arguments
Fun fact: dueling is still legal in the city of Boston. The duel must occur on the Commons on a Sunday, and the Governor of Massachusetts must be present.
Yo mama fat.
Meet me in 2 weeks in Boston
@@gunter6377 you're stinky poopie head
Meet in a few months or a year in Boston
I'm Dutch and with covid its difficult to travel but still wait for me in boston
Deadass
Bruh why does Boston still think the revolutionary war is still happening?
@@casper6405 Can I be a second??
Speaking as an attorney, I would like to see dueling restored.
Much more honorable.
Much more civilized. Honestly tho sniper duels would be the new style. 200 yards apart, first one to land a killing blow wins
You would be unemployed though
As a regular law abiding citizen, I would not! I challange you to a due...
...shit.
@@piotrdygas5345 not necessarily. In modern times, we would probably need moderators and lawyers seem like a logical choice
In Germany there still is a tradition that evolved from dueling. The rules have been changed so the risk of dying is basically zero but you can still get seriously hurt (mostly just loss of blood, scars, seldomly part of the air or a patch of skin can get lost). It is a fencing match with a special set of rules. It is not considered a duel because it is not actually about honor but in practice, there are many ocassions where an insult leads to a fencing "match" (avoiding to call it a duel here) and the insult is "forgotten" after the fencing match is concluded.
Reason:It is pretty annoying to keep saying,Its time to D D D D Duel
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That wasn't the annoying part. The annoying part was that you had to wait three weeks for someone to take their turn.
@BlackDeathViral03 You think you can challenge me? Pathetic, I'll see you and your pathetic little deck ask for mercy when I summon my...
*Intense anime flashing*
FIVE HEADED DRAGON
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"Lawsuits"
Can we have duels back?
You right, its boring and all. Imagine the news « Here we are ladies and gentlemen, the duellers have picked their pistols, BANG! OMG! The opponent was killed, its a perfect shot ladies and gentlement, a clear shot! »
-Sir, have you had satisfaction now? Not yet, i have to teebag his corpse now
We should challenge all lawyers and rid the world of them.
@@pickeljarsforhillary102 or force them to duel or to "juul to death!"
Yeah, it’s called 1v1 cod snipers no scopes only
We need to make this a movement to bring back Duels
a professor pointed out that often, dueling was just an act of courage, not always a fight to death. if two people fire one shot from a 19-century pistol at each other over a distance of 30 meters, it's pretty likely they both missed. that allowed for settling disputes without either party losing their face.
I don’t see what’s courageous about getting shot for the benefit of no one.
@@luigiplayer14 relax guys i'm not saying it was a good idea i'm just saying more duels ended without people getting hurt than we might think of nowadays.
Hmmm Aaron Burr you stand over there ---->. And Mr Hamilton, you stand over there
So…Calebcity got it right
@@luigiplayer14 typical mommy boy words
In Germany and Austria, there are still many duels between students of different fraternities with razor-sharp swords. These are not officially 100% legal, but have a long tradition that is still lived every day. I have seen many of these duels and the injuries can be really bad.
Which, to be clear, is seen as insane by all other people in Germany and Austria. Fraternities in general are the biggest imaginable red flag and avoided like the plague by most normal people. Some are apparently fine, just a bunch of dudes living in a mansion and drinking ungodly amount of alcohol, but when they look for new members they have to explicitly state everywhere that no, they're not nazis, they're not rapists, they're not racist etc, because otherwise people will rightfully assume that they are all those things.
And that they stab each other with swords.
They do follow strict rules and do not result in death or lasting injury, leaving scars (Schmiss) at most. Sometimes nobody gets injured as long as the "duel" is fought until the end or one side calls it off for a number of reasons.
Because now we have Twitter.
Mensur is not real duels, just the children of the 1% ritually scarring each other for social points at ultra-exclusive military schools.
I personally wouldn't hire anybody with mensur scars, but in the circles of the elite in Germany it's apparently a sign you're a Count or a Duke or something.
There’s frats in Europe?
1:23 I love that you included a nod to this historical account of a scientist being challenged to a duel, and who choose a pair of sausages as the weapons: one was perfectly fine and presumably delicious, while the other had been infected with a deadly pathogen. The challenger did not pick either and withdrew his demand for reparation instead.
I believe the "combatants" were Bismarck and Rudolf Virchow, right?
It appears to be an urban legend, but let's face it, it wouldn't have been the wurst duel ever.
@@silenthunteruk ha! I see what you did there..lol
“Either an apology or a Jew”
Thanks auto-captions.
Well, the auto-captioning algorithm wasn't aware of the existence of an English word pronounced "jool".
@@kekeke8988 Jewel is pretty close. But that doesn't explain Julian instead of duelling.
That's the way it is now when one gets an apology or hires a slick lawyer and sues
Thats all fine and good, but who is Zhu Ling?
“Using Jews as a means to legally commit suicide”
(It said that in the video I’m not trying to be anti-semitic)
“Dueling slowly becomes less popular”
*Meanwhile John Marston is dueling with everyone in 1911*
Pretty sure only Jack left by that year
@@justnoob8141 Welĺ no, Jack was around 1914-1915 when the Great War began, I remember reading about it in the newspaper
Just Noob No, the main portion of the game takes place in 1911, Jack portion is in 1914.
Jack Churchill of Britain sends his regards.
I know that man didn't duel anyone, but you know the man.
@@deann4465 Nah I think he meant Rip Van Winkle
I can confirm - learned in my first semester of law school that the ability to bring lawsuits relatively easily is in part, at least, to prevent people from resorting to "self help" (i.e. duels.)
Did they also teach you that that isn't a feasible option outside america if you're poor?
captions are funny: "jews fell out of fashion," "either by offering an apology or a jew," "jeweling in the military was an issue"
The general was supposed to command the offensive, but was tied up affixing the clasp on the bracelet for his second in command's wife...
"I'm sorry I insulted you, have a Jew!"
Lol either by offering an apology or a Jew
Say sorry or give me a Jew lol
Oy gevalt
2 Scoops can I offer you a *jew* in this trying time?
“Why don’t people duel anymore?”
Idk maybe all the people who duel died off?
Okay but wouldn’t there have to be one that survived among the rest
The winner of the dueling era
Only 50% of them
@@frostfrost8907 but then those 50% fight and reduce it to 25%, repeat
Yep.
Ngl I can’t I hear him saying Juul
I totally would've died by now if dueling was still a thing.
Smokes, let's go.
Nah, be a legend, have most duels cast against you and most duels refused. People will know your obnoxious, and so obnoxious that there would be no point to duel you because you'd just refuse.
@@gateofdite LMAOOOO
I would smack people up in a duel🥱😈
@@gateofdite you don’t even smoke Bubbles
I would've liked to hear more about the duel in 1967 in France
Gaston Deffere vs Rene Ribiere. You can look it up, there is even video footage on TH-cam.
"Where you going? This is a perfectly good moment to throw your life away!"
Wait, I'm White!
Wait a minute... I'm white!
Certified n word moment
@@horsenuggets1018 negus
@@horsenuggets1018
The biggest killer behind pork chops and fema
"Why dont people duel anymore"
* pulls out deck *
_Get ready to duel_
Time to dudu-du-duduDUELL
I only clicked this video to look for the Yu-Gi-Oh reference comment
Once we are there, we can have duels everywhere again
I read it as "pulls out dick" 🙄🤦♂️🤣
@@ninonggaming911 the only true legendary duel
"People don't duel any more"
Yu-Gi-Oh fans: That's where you're wrong buster
It's time for a Due.. Due... DUELL
"It's time to du du du duuuee-" *has a stroke*
But wheres you dddddd dddd dd ddd deck?
MTG players: really?
Send your ass to the Shadow Realm
The fact that lawsuits replaced dueling is the best argument I've heard to bringing back dueling. However, to avoid unnecessary death, I propose modern dueling be held in hand to hand unarmed combat in cage fights. First to tap out is a nerd.
Last I knew Texas had something similar. Might help to clean up our recent politics some.
That's not a duel, that's a brawl.
Me, " _Yeah, we should bring Duels back although in a non-lethal wa-_ "
Video: " _LAWSUITS._ "
" _BRING BACK DUELING QUICKLY_ "
The sound of muzzleloaders in the distance
Money-hungry lawyers dislike this!
Well The old freternitys in Germany still duel mandatory. The sword fight has just a bunch of rules so nobody dies (most of the time one person in my city died around 50 ish years ago and the freternitys does not duel anymore to honor him) but you can only lose them by showing emotions.
TL;DR Germany freternitys still duel with sharp swords but with a lot of rules and protection for your eyes and neck
@@Apophis40K Isnt that called fencing
@@jhonywalker002 it's called Mensur. But every duel with swords is fancing
2019: _someone brought a knife to gunfight_
1700: _someone brought a gun to cannon fight_
1941: Someone brought planes to a bomb fight
Women fight with swords men fight with cannon
Isn t the gun better then a cannon in this situation ?
@@AuxenceF Take one step to the side, cap the other guy while he tries to trverse his cannon.
Idiot, it's the 1800s in Aleksander III's time.
Why we don’t duel anymore?
Good joke, you would be surprised by how many 12 year olds want to 1v1 you on xBox live.
C'mon, be fair...
Some of them are 11
Magnus Peacock some of them are retarded 50 year olds too!
The real TJB TH-cam comments also seem to have this custom.
@@sondreus24 uh
Yeah... This really is the modern way of settling scores and preserving honor.
I fully support restoring dueling, especially non-fatal versions, including one-on-one fist fights. I've long considered it a good way to settle personal animosities without the costs of getting other people involved. As long as all participants are adults and the duel is registered with the local court ahead of time, have on.
I've always loved the story that Abraham Lincoln stopped a duel before it even started because he showed up with a broadsword slung over his shoulder
Yeah, similarly I like when he killed all those Vampires and Zombies.
@@drjonesey5 my favorite lesson I learned in American history class
The dude stood 6'4" and his opponent was about 5 foot tall. When he rolled up to the ground he walked aside and tested his sword on a high tree branch, proving to everyone watching that he was a fucking beast.
Only President in the wrestling hall of fame.
@@matthewlawton9721 -- Yep, true story. He was also very strong at that time in his life. He could hold, with outstretched arm (and ax horizontal to the ground), an axe at the very end of the handle with just his thumb and index finger gripping the handle. I tried it myself without luck, and I split a lot of wood.
@@drjonesey5 research an issue before commenting. Otherwise you look really foolish.
1:23
That man you see holding the sausage is Rudolf Virchow.
He opposed Otto Von Bismarck's excessive military budget, which led to Von Bismarck challenging him to a duel. He chose two pork sausages as weapons : one regular sausage and another one infected with Trichinella larvae.
They would both pick and eat one and see which one of them would die a painful death.
Bismarck called the duel off after hearing this proposition.
Nowadays that would be a top-rated video had they gone through with it.
"ONE SAFE, ONE DEADLY-Sausage-Eating Duel!"
IDONTGETTHEPOINT that’s literally that one scene in princess bride
That is one of the most German ways to duel...
Sounds funny but isn't true.
I was hoping someone else caught that Bismarck reference as well. In reality, Virchow simply declined the challenge.
_MY GOOD SIR, YOU HAVE INSULTED MY HONOR. I CHALLENGE YOU TO A LAWSUIT_
I accept but only if in able to represent myself
I accept, but only if I can hold my M134 Minigun during the trial. Oh, the minigun? Oh posh just ignore it for now.
@@nac-1 so you gonna shoot the judge or the defendant?
@@bluesap7318 Why choose ;)
@@nac-1 your right why limit your self by choosing.
Actually, resolving disagreements with a Sabre duel to the death kinda sounds like a badass way to go
it sounds like you’re saying juuling and it makes this way better
Wanna see my juuls?
The practice of _juuling_ is barbaric
@@nicolataino2003 indeed if you don't want tp be seen as a primitive got a mod and a rda
@@Venomsplatter juul not cool
‘you didn’t have to accept and put your life on the line but i could lead to you being called a coward’
Bully: ur mom fat
Me during the duel: *so anyway I started blasting*
Ur dad like skat
@@Venomsplatter ur my dad
üŵü your name is uwu. stop talking
@üŵü uwu? Bruh more like uwu bitch
Nice school shooting
Teacher : *slightly critiques me*
Me: We shall resolve this issue in a duel
PE suddenly takes on greater importance, gonna need some strength to wield a broadsword properly
@@Boiling_Seas imagine a teacher beating someone to death with a set square for the blackboard
Teacher: I accept. I choose the weapon of... XIXth century Russian philosophy.
Teacher: can you solve this problem on the whiteboard?
Student: oh we have a problem?
However you cannot challange a teacher unless you are an officer cuz he has higher standing rank thank you
My favorite duel story will always be when someone challenge Abe Lincoln in his younger years, and Lincoln's weapon of choice was "broadsword in a pit" the challenger then called it off.
We don't duel anymore?
*sends you to the Shadow Realm*
The reason we don't duel anymore is because they all shot and killed each other.
He did fell in my trap
super gt
You had the right to choose your weapon? I choose rubber chickens
Why not be a rebel and choose real chickens.
"Choke them with the rubber cock"
Hey Billy I seem to have lost my sex, do you know where it is?
They should just duel with cards nobody gets hurt that way only their pride
Then you will end up 6 feet below the ground
"Eventually, in the early 2000s, while lawsuits still remained an often used option to settle disputes of higher significance and importance, their cost and time-consuming nature brought forth another evolution, namely causing most disagreements and personal attacks to be retaliated via insulting the offender's mother, and/ or talking sh*t on the internet."
Right! Lawsuits might've been a good idea 100 years ago, but over time because SOOO expensive, slow and stressful - that's it's almost better if disagreeing people, men at least, could go back to giving each other a good punching and then chill out - WITHOUT having cops and the whole legal system involved.
I mean, seriously, if two men fight - no matter who's right, and no matter who "wins" - getting cops involved, pretty much always make life more miserable for BOTH sides of the fight.
In my area if you insult someone's mother there won't be a duel but you taking a ride to the hospital or morgue.
@@donotneed2250 But does the person who punched go to jail afterwards, or not really?
@@donotneed2250 That's taking 'yo mama' jokes far too seriously.
Insulting the offender's mother has been a thing for much longer, at least since the middle ages.
First was dueling.
Second was lawsuits.
Now, it’s 1v1 snipers only on Rust
Basically: “Could you guys not kill each other for FIVE SECONDS???”
No. We need it back.
"Widow's pensions were withheld from men killed in duels."
Brilliant move.
Unless the officer in question hates his wife and wants to die...then it is encouragement :D
perfect outcome for duel over cheating wife.
Win-win in any outcome
Indeed, the dead men needed the pension desperately...
@@dreamingflurry2729 it's still brilliant, if widow want pension, she has to treat better her husband.
Modern day move would be to double down and declare the pension go to an Ex-wife
"Why people don't duel anymore"
Me, with a revolver: *People stopped dueling?!*
so true yo it’s crazy i’m on the fbis top 100 now like wtf 😂😂
Dream vs Technoblade
Duel in 2020
This comment would be better if ”well we can start it right now”
Alex baldwin never got the memo lol
dude, i cant like your comment
I think we should bring back duels. Lawsuits have gotten boring and the money spent on such things would be much better spent on helping others.
Won't somebody think of the poor lawyers!
Ah yes, peace is boring
I would rather die in a duel than to lose everything in a lawsuit.
Your still Losing everything.
Your dead. Only difference is your just dying earlier with more money to your name. In this context.
@@firstcooommment3675 well no eeally. The money would go to who ever was on your will. Dying would be better because the death would be quicker, while losing everything would just make you suicidal. Therefore, you would die at your own hands, while not taking a chance of killing the other.
@@greatkentuckian9032 Dying doesn't make your debts magically disappear. If someone has a judgement against you and you die, your money goes to the person with the judgement before the people in your will.
@@avshockey6633 I thought the payment for debt is settled by the duel?
So if someone held you at gunpoint and said "Your money or your life!" you'd choose to die, then? Interesting choice.
Can we get a video on the "last duel in France"? That might be interesting.
meh, just googled it. two imbeciles MPs arguing over stuff, the offended guy (who demanded the duel) never held a sword in his life while his opponent had prior training, unsurprisingly the latter won after inflicting two minor wounds. stupid shit.
It was quite funny, actually. In the National Assembly (lower house of Parliament), French socialist MP and mayor of Marseille, as well as former Resistance member, Gaston Deferre, shouted to a young Gaullist MP, René Ribière, who was interrupting him during his speech, "Will you shut up, you moron?" When Deferre later refused to retract his insult, Ribière challenged him to a sword duel.
Only problem was Ribière had never touched a sword in his life, while Deferre was quite familiar with duels and had already fought in one. It lasted with three attacks, Ribière got two harmless cuts on his forearm, and the referee stopped the duel.
De Gaulle, who was president at the time, wasn't pleased with this, and had tried to have the duel called off, to no avail. Police ignored it, but journalists watched and caught the duel on film. Later, Deferre kept joking that he'd tried to aim for Ribière's crotch, because he was getting married the next day.
And that was the last duel in France.
@@samrevlej9331 the “will you shut up, moron?” Reminds me of that one Trump vs Biden debate and now I really want to see them duel
@@samrevlej9331 to be honest i would rather reading a book then completing your comment.
@@jupiter1789 Or perhaps you could do both... Instead of that however, you will endeavour in being an asshole.
I've literally been saying this for years, I want dueling back... and I would also be dead like 5 years ago, but still.
Thats *why* you want it back
@@orbitingsentientsatellite4361 it makes sense, it would lessen tension nowadays. All the dumbass ego driven people would kill themselves off and leave America with more passionate people
Life with Covid is way too boring, that's a selling point for me, I'd literally do anything as long as I can get outta this hellhole.
It is in Seattle Washington If I recall
@@ahmedibnsanun3504 not what i meant
Fun fact: Any person taking a political office in Kentucky is required to recite an oath, which includes swearing that the person has not participated in duel.
3:00 in the end across Britain and America the Jews fell out of fashion
Me: Oh no
Especially in Poland
>~>
And Germany
_They sold them to germany_
We all know how that ends up 😔
@Raizen Jaegar
The Romans.
3:15
"Sir, you have offended my honor. I challenge you to litigation."
Underrated comment....
I thought you said 'ligation'.
Hamilton said that the honorable thing to do in a duel was to fire your pistol into the sky, rather than at your opponent.
That line of thinking has its merits, but, given a sample size of two duels, it was 0% successful.
It wasn't though. It was the suicidal thing to do
@@ML-sc3pt Wow that one really went over your head, didn't it?
@@Andreas77677 you mean the bullet?
Sadly yes it's true, GUNS ARE NOT HONORABLE AND NEITHER ARE THE MEN WITH THEM.... -JACK
That was just an excuse to cover for the fact he illegally modified his pistol with a hair trigger and accidentally discharged it early.
What if instead of declaring wars with mass death, we just had the two leaders duel each other with flintlocks instead to settle their lack of communication skills
People don’t duel anymore they Juul instead.
A fate worse than death
No they eat ass
Almost Professional Sports eh-wheres my juul bro
However, people are also dying from this practice as well!
In the US since February, nearly 3,000 people have died from vaping related injury or illness. Others have even undergone lung transplants...it's getting worse because a lot of this shit is coming from China and they don't giveAfuq and cut it with nasty chemicals
Thats what he said...
People back then: "Saber duel. You and I. Let's go."
People now: "1v1 me in Rust bro."
@THE JOKER stfu lol
@THE JOKER 1v1s on Rust were a thing in Modern Warfare 2. It was snipers with only quick scopes or no scopes and the last killcam had to be amazing(aka jumping off the structure in the middle and performing a quick/no scope. They were generally used when a sniper player got really mad at another sniper player so they messaged them saying what Leszas’s comment says. Fox 1v1s on Final Destination were a thing back in Smash Bros Melee. Fox was the character all the pros used, Final Destination was a very ceremonial map, and no items means that you can only use your melee, pistol, smashes, airs and grabs.
And now we got a generation of soy boiz
you mean nuketown
@THE JOKER Boomer
Imagine getting into a duel with Blizzard entertainment except they didn't win by just having a bunch of lawyers, they hired 100 dudes for you to fight before you got to challenge the CEO
LOL
I like that idea. I imagine there would be fianly someone that would got CEO.
Best game ever
This just makes me think of Yakuza games
That's a good movie plot
The character at the beginning with the "your mother" sign had me laughing. Stars, Yo to you as well
"What weapon are you gonna use in our duel?"
I play Pot of Greed!
This lets me shoot two times with my finger gun!
Joke is on you, i placed a trap card the turn before.
Jokes on all of you
4kids doesn't believe in death and murder
What does Pot of Greed even do?!
@@ZhclTl it let’s you draw to cards- so I grabbed a piece of paper of drew two cards because instructions aren’t specific enough.
@@ZhclTl Allows you to draw two cards from Deck.
"Why dont people duel anymore"
Yugioh: "Am i a joke to you?"
A hot air balloon race around the world!
Thank God someone said it.
I read this in Yami's voice
UNDERRATED YUGHIOH MEME
Most people: yes
_”The last duel in France took place in 1967... anyways, years later...”_
Me: *Ay hol up!*
Its recorded on film
Why are French so aggressive?
@@ringyring Because there french
"No one kills the French quite like the French" - Kid in my highschool history class
@@dpk6639 an amazing comment
Quick sidenote. Deuling didnt actually die out as early in America as many people think. Duels were still very common in the wild west, untill the Los Angeles police force was first established in 1870.
Even then, that only made deuling illegal in the US from coast to coast. That didnt mean people stopped doing it, however.
There are reports of old fashioned illegal duels going back to the 1930s.
1:23 the fear in his eyes... he knows the power of this weapon, truly.
Otto Von Bismarck was a duelist himself, he would know how strong such a fierce sausage is!
The sausage was the weopon of choice of a New York coroner who knew they were bags of death. The other fellow actualy backed out.
Replying to an old comment. But Otto was actually challenged by a said man with a sausage. The story goes that the chemist whos name i forgot had two sausages laid out. One of which was poisoned. So otto backed out
That is actually pretty interesting.
HE SHOOTS HIS PISTOL AT THE SKY
WAIT- BANG
Alexander Hamilton
@@jkai7466 America sings for you!
Why would you do this to me. I was having a good day.
STH 1234567-- bang!
That Hamilton firing in the sky thing is a myth. Witness accounts say he fired and missed.
I get that dueling was barbaric, but there are some historic events that I can't help but respect.
Andrew Jackson had just won the presidential election and Charles Dickinson, one of his political rivals, just couldn't resist publically insulting Jackson's late wife, who had passed away during the campaign. Despite Dickinson being a talented marksman and having so much to lose, President-elect Jackson still challenged him to a duel and won with a headshot.
Still, say what you want about Jackson, what does it say about Dickinson that he'd rather risk death than take back insults cast at a dead woman?
I wonder what's the whole story behind his words.
Jackson was also in a duel with John Sevier. Accounts differ, but I prefer the one where Sevier won.
Neither died, at any rate, and peace was restored.
The event occurred while Sevier was Governor of Tennessee and Jackson a Judge.
Dueling is brain dead. Like Schopenhauer says: if you really think that someone totally inferior to you has insulted you and must be punished for it, why would you give him a "fair" chance to wound you physically or kill you, depending on how good a shot he is? If you think he's morally inferior, just kill him or let it be, but the charade of dueling is totally stupid.
Yeah but if Jackson lost it would be known as one of the biggest embarassments in history. The dude gave up life and the presidency because some guy was a dick to him.
Your wording of the story is simply wrong. Do your research.
Dueling was illegal in Tennessee. However, under the criminal law of the period around 1800, it was difficult to be extradited across state lines. As a result, the two men met near Adairville, Kentucky, adjacent to the Tennessee border, on May 30, 1806. Dickinson left Nashville the day before the duel with his second and a group of friends, confident, even demonstrating his shooting skills at various stops along the way. Since Dickinson was considered an expert shot, Jackson and his friend, Thomas Overton, determined it would be best to let Dickinson fire first, hoping that his aim might be spoiled in his quickness. The obvious weakness of this tactic was, of course, that Jackson might not be alive to take aim.[3]: 140-141
Jackson and Overton also devised a strategy that, if Overton should win the coin toss to give the word to fire, he would ask Dickinson the question "Gentleman, are you ready?" purposefully after asking Jackson, and then immediately say "Fire" in an attempt to cause Dickinson to fire impulsively. Overton did indeed win the coin toss, and subsequently used this strategy.
Dickinson fired first, hitting Jackson in the chest; incredibly, Jackson was not killed, but merely wounded, and was capable of returning fire. Under the rules of dueling, Dickinson had to remain still as Jackson took his shot. Jackson's pistol stopped at half cock, so he drew back the hammer and aimed again, this time hitting Dickinson in the chest. Dickinson bled to death.[3]: 142
The expert Dickinson had aimed at Jackson's heart, though the bullet had been slightly deflected by Jackson's brass button on his coat, which some claim was due to him deliberately wearing loose clothing over his lean frame. It has also been suggested that Jackson adopted a careful sideways stance to ensure that his heart was obstructed. The bullet broke some of Jackson's ribs, and had ended up lodged inches from his heart. While Jackson could easily have been incapacitated by such a wound, an unconfirmed account later claimed that while conversing with a friend on his deathbed he stated, "If he had shot me through the brain, sir, I should still have killed him."[citation needed]
Doctors determined that the bullet lodged in Jackson's chest was too close to his heart to operate, so Jackson carried it for the rest of his life, and suffered much pain from the wound. Locals were outraged that Dickinson had to stand defenseless while Jackson re-cocked and shot him. This was a confusing application of the rules of dueling, as snaps were considered as good as a shot. A snap implies that the hammer fell completely and failed to cause a shot, but a half cock is not a snap. Dickinson's second nervously permitted Jackson to re-cock his pistol. Some might claim that Jackson could have shot into the air or shot only to injure Dickinson; this would have been considered sufficient satisfaction under dueling rules. Jackson replied that Dickinson had meant to "kill the gent," so Jackson had also shot to kill. Jackson's reputation suffered greatly from the duel.
One thing I’d like to know is how often duels like this actually happened. Obviously, the answer would vary by time, place, and context, but modern depictions - or at least parodies - often show duels being fought over fairly trivial reasons. Again, “trivial” is highly subjective, but if every perceived slight or misunderstanding resulted in two men pulling weapons on each other, it would be a constant bloodbath.
Did they fight duels over yo-mama jokes?
“I challenge you to a duel, what is the weapon of choice?”
Me: “it’s nerf of nothing”
We end on first blood
I have my Exodia!
"I choose feather dusters!"
I have my Mewtwo.
The field of honour is Paintball!
Or, was it Laser Tag?
Either one really hits the pocketbook! 💸 Lol
Yu-Gi-Oh! players: “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
Honestly before I seen the thumbnail I thought this was a Yu-Gi-Oh video
Go away weeb
@@Adam-082 Someone has never won a duel...
@@Adam-082 looks like you're going to the shadow realm
zombie world go brrrrr
Reminds me of a great Dave Allen sketch where a toff finds himself insulted by a man with the reputation of being the greatest duellist in England. He spends months training himself to use a pistol with deadly accuracy before issuing his challenge. Then the opponent chooses swords.
I remember that one! Dave Allen was brilliant.
@@christopherdean1326 Wasn't he just. Thx.
I think dueling should still be a thing. But duels are to be held in soft rings in which two individuals are allowed to beat each other to submission.
"Let's be reasonable if a person insults you you have every right to fight that person to the death to restore your honor", say no more fam 10/10 perfect vid
Some people would be way more respectful if they didn't think modern law gave them a free pass to viciously harass other people.
@@silverblade357 Plus, only rich folks can afford a lawsuit, and it takes so long it isn't even worth it.
@@Palatinus-Z *wins lawsuit for 50,000
*is now in debt 200,000 for legal fees
*FUCK
@@darrionj707 Man, too much of a hassle only because someone said "yo mama is x", Months of legal fees, auditions, entire schedules changed...
Some day you wake up and realize it isn't even worth it.
Hell, even criminal cases in the US are not worth it sometimes.
We do duel, it’s just that instead of guns and swords we use a children’s card game to satisfy our honor .
ITS TIME TO DUDU DU DUEL...
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You need to believe in the spleen of the cards
Or that wierd magnet ball figurines what they called again
Bakagoon
"1804, and Alexander Hamilton...was dead."
It really was his fault.
**Thud**
*Aaron Burr squinting at Hamilton and holding a Soon sign*
Fun fact : the last known duel to take place in France was in 1967 between two MPs
Lawsuits: From now on, duels are banned!
Peasants and lower-class nobles: But dueling is by far cheaper and faster than hiring lawsuits.
Lawsuits: *IDC*
Tbf, we should have more civil and less lethal duels these days, like cloth covered sticks for swords or BB guns with heavy-duty glasses.
Something like that would make things like false rape accusations and the rich screwing over the poor, become almost non-existent, as they would have to face their actions, rather then sit in their house smirking that they just ruined someone's life.
@@20tigerpaw20 well see the problem with that is duels put a much larger emphasis on fighting skill which is a silly way to settle legal disputes. Sure it sounds nice and simple on paper but then you realize some really good duelists could provoke anyone they want and get away with it since "might makes right". And in a world where dueling arts are something that would require extensive training to reach a proficient level at, can you guess who has the money to pay for those swordplay tutors and gun-training lessons?
... and dueling was replaced with...
Oh, damn! I'd rather be in a duel!
Agreed, far less ruinous
@@meowistforlife i mean, potentialy dying because of an arguement is better than losing cash/property?
@@johnpijano4786 if both parties agree to it, then its worth it
@Luís Filipe Andrade so me and other teachers who have some of the most difficult jobs in the world and get paid less then the average American are worth less then money? How do you put a price tag on a humans life? Such a thing comes off as extremely cruel. By giving in to a bully you are only showing the world that you are no better then they are as you have stooped down to their level. A rich person is no more valuable then a poor person we are all imperfect human beings. Thank you
@Luís Filipe Andrade please don’t assume my gender not all teachers are men and if it was just sarcasm then ok I apologize for attacking you I just really admire and appreciate all human life. Take care and be safe
People don’t duel anymore to prevent playing card games on motorcycles.
r/iamveryrandom
@@edgybatfurry5996 It's a Yugioh reference.
@@SergeantExtreme ha
fuckin nerd /s
@EdgyBatFurry How dare you, i demand a duel.
@@Zax-dq5sr It's time to- D D D D D DDDDD DDDDDUUUUUUUEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL!!!!!
I feel like this should replace wars just one person dying
"George Washington, for example, had issues with stopping officers from killing each other during the War of Independence"
UK: not what i expected, but ok
*Gets Hamilton’s Flashback*
Title: about *"duel"*
Captions: *"Jewel"*
What I hear: *"juul"*
REPROGRAM Captions: “Zhu Ling”
I mean, you dan duel by juuling till you drop
You smoke to much
I heard "jew"
I thought I was the only one who uses caption on youtube and it sucks
What British hear: “Dueling.”
What Americans hear: *”JUULING”*
I'm a Brit', yet kept hearing "jewelling" XD.
Juuling
carlos berry that’s what I meant!! Thanks!
what germans read in youtube translation -> jewling jews (duels)
All I here is Juuling when he says dulling
As a fencer, sometimes I wish that dueling with swords was still legal.
In Denmark, there's still laws applying for duelling. However they haven't been used in well over a hundred years, so they're not really useable anymore. But still a part of the law
it is waiting for that time danish need to brawl with german and swedish again. fistfight.
There’s still laws in some states in America that allow two consenting parties to beat the piss out of each other as long as an officer is present
@@kingt0295 does parties mean it can be group fight?
@@effexon lol I meant two dudes fighting but maybe
I'm going to Denmark and I'm going to challenge my Danish friend to a duel
Imagine an actual American flag that says "Stars, yo"
Best flag ever
Mmm...
I'm just going to say that I find your comments on a lot of the videos that I watch. Next time I'm going to say hello
TheFlagandAnthemGuy Do It!
Or 50 stars 😛
Karen: I would like to Challenge your Manager for this insult you call a meal!
We would have less Karens then.
I am okay with this.
The manager is a seven foot tall hulk and he chooses unarmed combat as the weapon.
the Manager, who has seen and duelled a dozen Karens before this:
i hate this using a name as an insult thing, but i must admit this is one way for both of our problems to be solved.
I recommend playing this video with the sound off and auto-generated English subtitles for a good time. "drooling" was my favourite of TH-cams attempt to transcribe "dueling"