That is a Mars Bar and... a deep-fried Mars Bar. It's a bit of a national stereotype that Scots will deep-fry anything, and the deep fried Mars Bar is a bit of a joke on that - but a joke we the Scots have made terrifyingly real.
@jgraaay1810 ай бұрын
Deliciously real, you mean; deep-fried Mars Bars are amazing! I have a friend who originally comes from a little town near Aberdeen whose main claim to fame is that it was apparently the place where the deep-fried Mars Bar was invented.
@neuralwarp10 ай бұрын
English people can't afford food.
@ziggythedrummer10 ай бұрын
The stereotype is so prevalent that in Avengers: Infinity War, while in Scotland, Wanda and Vision pass a takeaway with a sign in the window that says "we will deep fry your kebab" 🤣
@raulduke101010 ай бұрын
I went to a chippy in Malaig where they managed to batter and deep fry the mushy peas. Playing up to stereotypes? Yes! A little bit of culinary genius? Also yes!
@darraghtalorgan190510 ай бұрын
They didn't mind taking our fried chicken to the America's so it's not all bad, I guess.
@carolineskipper697610 ай бұрын
Berwick- pronounced Berrick. You really do add even more value to the already brilliant Map Men videos with your on-the-spot research and commets.
@nolajoy775910 ай бұрын
Fun fact: When a town has "on..(something)" in the title, it means it is on the (something) River. So Berwick-on-Tweed is situated on the Tweed River.
@AnnabelSmyth10 ай бұрын
Fun fact 2: in Britain, we normally say River X, not X River, with (of course) one or two exceptions. So it is the River Tweed, or possibly just the Tweed.
@MrBulky9929 ай бұрын
@@AnnabelSmythWhat were the exceptions you were thinking of or were you just covering yourself?😊 I can't think of any. Some smaller rivers use the words "water", "beck" or "burn" after the name e.g. Teviot Water, Blackadder Water, Pandon Burn.
@MrBulky9929 ай бұрын
The form "upon" is used in the formal names of some towns and cities e.g. Newcastle-upon-Tyne" (the same with Berwick too).
@AnnabelSmyth9 ай бұрын
@@MrBulky992 I was thinking of London River.
@MrBulky9929 ай бұрын
@@AnnabelSmythI have never heard of "London River". I googled it and it came up with the name of a female performer in films of an erotic nature!😂 The river which flows through London, UK, is the River Thames, if that is what you had in mind. Is there a river of this name elsewhere in the UK?
@richardh376110 ай бұрын
Just subbed after watching a few of your vids. I like that you look up something mentioned in videos - so many reactors don’t do that, and it bugs me … it even bugs the bugs that bug me, which bugs me even more. You don’t bug me, so I thought I’d bug you with this explanation 😊
@davetherave619210 ай бұрын
Lol.. Come visit sometime, especially Salisbury! Check Russia/Salisbury poisoning! 😂
@mojojojo1181110 ай бұрын
Scotland wouldn't become independent from England, they would become independent from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
@ffotograffydd8 ай бұрын
Indeed! And anyway, people seem to forget that it was the Scottish King James VI who took the English throne and not the other way around. He was also the architect of Great Britain, although it was his great-granddaughter who finally completed his planned union.
@Swivel3603 ай бұрын
@ffotograffydd James VI didn't take the English throne he was asked to become the king as Elizabeth I died childless and had no heir and it was done to prevent a civil war from breaking out over the throne. It did become the UK for another 104 years
@michaelisles475610 ай бұрын
ENGLAND was conected to France many many years ago
@jackdubz424710 ай бұрын
Don't tell Reform UK! They'll go apeshit.
@vernon52310 ай бұрын
Hey Jay, loving the google tangents. Wrong Station Cafe though....
@vernon52310 ай бұрын
... 23 Staplehurst Rd, London SE13 5ND
@neuralwarp10 ай бұрын
The Queen was, and Royal Family are, more closely of Scottish descent than English. There's never been an English family on the throne of England.
@jackdubz424710 ай бұрын
Yes, there has. Plenty of them.
@cymro653710 ай бұрын
Yes there has - the Anglo Saxons.
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
@@jackdubz4247 No, there hasn't. The Saxons and then the Normans were not from England. Henry VIII was a descendant of Celt Normans. The "English" monarchy died out in 1603. The English Crown and Royal Jewels were melted down and destroyed by Cromwell.
@MrBulky9929 ай бұрын
"England" takes its name from the Angles. There was no "England" before the Angles, even as an idea. The Venerable Bede wrote "An Ecclesiastical History of the *English* Church and People" in the early 8th century so, by that time, the concept of English, referring to Angles, Saxons and Jutes, as evidenced by the contebts of Bede's book had become established. If we accept the view of history which says the indigenois Brythonic people of the area were slaughtered or chased out toWales, Cornwall, Brittany etc., the invaders/settlers of Germanic invaders remaining were the English. If you believe the Celtic people were absorbed by the Anglo-Saxons through intermarriage and peaceful coexistence, they too became English by adopting the customs of the English. The Kingdom of England came into existence in 927 and was ruled by English kings from the dynasty of the former rulers of Wessex until 1015 when there was a Danish invasion. Every king after the restoration of the English line in 1042, with the exception of except William the Conqueror, had English blood. Henry II's ancestors included Edmund II Ironside, Aethelred II the Unready, Edgar the Peaceful (crowned in 973) and Edmund, brother of the first King of England, Aethelstan. Henry VIII's grandmother, Elizabeth Woodville, was English as was the mother of Mary II and Queen Anne.
@cymro65379 ай бұрын
@@MrBulky992 Agreed 💯
@susanbearchell64369 ай бұрын
I love the way you research things, that's why you're so intelligent x
@daveffs193510 ай бұрын
The tap water in the part of Scotland I was brought up in was brown, but also better for you. And the battered turd looking thing was a battered mars bar, you can get battered haggis as well though.
@jmillar7111010 ай бұрын
Jeezo what part Scotland were you brought up in?
@daveffs193510 ай бұрын
@@jmillar71110 Not far from Aberfeldy. In central Scotland near Loch Tay.
@Thurgosh_OG10 ай бұрын
@@irene3196 Whisky gets its colour from the Oak barrels it is matured in. Distilled whisky is actually clear before going into the barrels. (Highlander here.)
@jmillar711109 ай бұрын
@@daveffs1935 I'm in Fife right on the coast and only ever had brown water if there was a burst pipe lol
@daveffs19359 ай бұрын
I say brown, but it was pretty clear,, just had a light sort of tan colour to it. Loch Tay has the same colour water so it might have been from there, I have no clue TBH@@jmillar71110
@Leslie-Risse10 ай бұрын
You should react to Jay's old songs as well. But maybe do a whole bunch at once, they're rather short.
@ffotograffydd8 ай бұрын
Hadrian’s Wall is entirely within England and has never formed the Anglo-Scottish border. There’s also the Antonine Wall which is in Scotland, so Hadrian’s Wall wasn’t even considered the border of the Roman occupation, there were Romans based further north in present day Scotland.
@jeffree901510 ай бұрын
They deep fry battered Mars bars in Scotland.
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
They deep fry them in England too, mostly because that is where it started.
@UwesGrandad9 ай бұрын
Niel Armstrong the first man on the moon. His ancestors were border reavers and occupied the site of the Roman fort of Vindolanda. The first man on the moon was a Geordie ✌🏼 have that
@butnooneshome10 ай бұрын
I found he background music from 'Lemmings' very nostalgic ...
@Walesbornandbred10 ай бұрын
Berwick is pronounced Berrick.
@DaveBartlett10 ай бұрын
As the soundtrack of the video you're reacting to illustrates numerous times: Berwick is pronounced "Berrick", though you choose to ignore that and repeatedly pronounce it as "Bear-wick".
@neuralwarp10 ай бұрын
He was saying BЯЯЯ-wick.
@timmcara278210 ай бұрын
Especially Salisbury 🤣
@PBUCKY19699 ай бұрын
Hey have you looked into the Antonine wall? Even more brutal footage for you - further North!
@lomion7910 ай бұрын
08:05 *and Wales.
@fitzroymundle95610 ай бұрын
Correction! The wall was 15 feet tall!
@talesind10 ай бұрын
It's pronounced berick the w is silent, it just one of the weird things about place names over here
@klaxoncow9 ай бұрын
You've already forgotten the rules from the "how to pronounce British place names" video, haven't you? It's a silent "w" in any "-wick". So it's said "ber-ick", even if spelt "ber-wick".
@rossshepherd98369 ай бұрын
100% definite friction between Scotland and England.
@sharronnorman57410 ай бұрын
Whilst Northern Ireland doesn’t have a flag, England does not have a national anthem. They use the British national anthem “ God save the King/Queen” The others all have their own anthems.
@Thurgosh_OG10 ай бұрын
Officially we all have 'God save the King/Queen' as our UK anthem but at certain events, mainly in sports, each country uses its 'local' anthem to differentiate between countries in the same nation.
@MrBulky99210 ай бұрын
I read that the UK has no official national anthem. Are any of the others official? I think there has to be a law passed to make things official e.g. the union jack is the official flag of the UK because there is a law to say so. "Flower of Scotland" is fairly recent. When I was young, it was either "Scotland the Brave" (used at the Commonwealth Games) or "Scots wha' hae wi' Wallace bled". Does Northern Ireland have an official national anthem? Surely not "Danny Boy"?
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
Scotland doesn't have a national anthem. It has a variation of tunes that Scots support being used in place of an official one. Flower Of Scotland being the most popular.
@georgebarnes81639 ай бұрын
no, NI does not have a national anthem but they do use the English song Danny Boy at sporting events@@MrBulky992
@georgebarnes81639 ай бұрын
Northern Ireland does have a flag but it can not be flown from public buildings to keep the Irish happy, it can be and is flown from private buildings in its tens of thousands all year round.
@PBUCKY19699 ай бұрын
PS berwick is pronounced Berrick
@johnveerkamp150110 ай бұрын
NOZINS.
@mikdavies50273 ай бұрын
The tap water reference was a joke, try and understand British humour!
@spursgog83510 ай бұрын
What are you doing?
@fortunebill77409 ай бұрын
Symptomatic of inherent English arrogance that they show the 'English' Queen and groundskeeper Willie representing Scotland. In fact, the Queen was Monarch of England and Scotland and her stronger claim to the throne was through her Scottish ancestry, not English.
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
The English have never gotten over losing all the wars to the much smaller Scotland, and having to give up their sovereignty to prevent Scotland finishing them off with a French alliance.
@ffotograffydd8 ай бұрын
There hasn’t been a monarch of England or Scotland since the Act of Union, cooked up by James VI & I, and carried out by his great-granddaughter.
@ffotograffydd8 ай бұрын
@@Mark-HaddowSo James VI fought a war to take the English throne? They’d better rewrite the history books then… oh wait, that’s not what happened at all! 😂
@Mark-Haddow8 ай бұрын
@@ffotograffydd Yeah, which is why I never made such a gibberish claim, and you did. England lost every war (3) with Scotland. James VI inherited England, and was the last monarch crowned King of England, as he created the Union of Crowns and no longer recognised England as a seperate Kingdom. Likewise with his son, who was the last monarch to wear the crown of England before the English destroyed it. 😆
@ffotograffydd8 ай бұрын
@@Mark-Haddow Someone is only using the history that suits their argument! 😂😂😂
@fiddyb10 ай бұрын
Pronounce Berrick
@providence839810 ай бұрын
kinda ironic that england used to be attached to nova scotia and its now attached to scotland
@jonntischnabel10 ай бұрын
You literally heard how to say Berwick, and within 2 seconds reverted to the American version.😂 Its "berrick" ❤
@dyent9 ай бұрын
I actually had to go back and check Jay didnt mispronounce it.
@alwynemcintyre21842 ай бұрын
Yeah yanks are a bit slow when it comes to non US pronouciation
@juvauniegayle901810 ай бұрын
You miss the Sailsbury reference. A former Russian spy that was poisoned there by the Russians
@MsClaudz10 ай бұрын
JJ would definitely enjoy some research into this story. Horrible and also bizarre.
@robertberry247710 ай бұрын
@@MsClaudz even back before the war with Ukraine russia was threatening us with nukes for dare trying to accuse russia of using a nerve agent novichok when its was actually proven in the test results
@dyent9 ай бұрын
Totally accidental, they just travelled thousands of miles to visit the cathedral.
@colintroy38317 ай бұрын
@@dyent I hear the steeple is 123 meters high 🧐
@robbiestephenson84975 ай бұрын
Also Portadown is down the road😂
@Waterford199210 ай бұрын
3:42 Buddy that is not a Roman Aquaduct, its a Victorian era railway viaduct.
@MrBulky99210 ай бұрын
It's also a bridge as it crosses the River Tweed. It's the Royal Border Bridge, though it is not actually on the border! The Anglo-Scottish border was the river there until 1482.
@MsSpiralmonkey10 ай бұрын
I remember school geography lessons where the teacher rather poetically described the Caledonian Orogeny (the bit that made the mountains) as resulting in mountains older than starlight. It made me look with different eyes when walking in the highlands.
@tomarmstrong524410 ай бұрын
Hadrian's Wall never ever formed the border between England and Scotland, neither of which existed when it was built. It was also built to be defended from both sides and was a choke point not a border.
@Thurgosh_OG10 ай бұрын
True. It was used to control foot traffic in the north of england and the south of Scotland.
@MrBulky99210 ай бұрын
Except that it wasn't Scotland because the Scots did not invade Caledonia and the Angles, Saxons and Jutes settle in what became England until after the Romans had left. It was just a geographical convenience to put the wall there, making use of the Great Whin Sill, the River Tyne and the Solway Firth.
@union3109 ай бұрын
It was formed as a cut off point to what is now known as England and Scotland.
@MrBulky9929 ай бұрын
@@union310It's when we start using names like "England" and "Scotland" in this context that people get the wrong idea. Angle invaders/settlers from across the North Sea and Scoti from Ireland did not arrive for another 3 or more centuries and, when they did, this was not their border at any time in history. I wish we could simply say that Hadrian's Wall was there to divide the northern and south parts of the island of Great Britain rather than bringing in anachronous elements from later ages.
@union3109 ай бұрын
@@MrBulky992 But you would still be wrong as the centre of Britain is Haltwhistle and that is away from the border wall.
@thewildones485810 ай бұрын
You missed the Salisbury joke 🤣
@gwaptiva10 ай бұрын
It has a very tall spire
@LordRogerPovey10 ай бұрын
Love your reactions JJ, and your UK knowledge in increasing at a pace!
@danielgardecki104610 ай бұрын
I think it's about time that Americans stopped calling towns cities, and cities towns.
@speleokeir10 ай бұрын
Berwick is pronounced: bear-ick 9:31 Not haggis, that's another Scottish delicacy, the deep fried mars bar!😀
@BZ2YYZ10 ай бұрын
More like Berrick, for pronunciation
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
Deep fried Mars Bar is English, not Scottish. If you want a few English stereotypes I would pick their enjoyment of stabbing kids while snacking on jellied eels. Also, Haggis was found in England before Scotland. It's a variation of a middle Eastern dish, brought back from England's colonisations and trade endeavours.
@georgebarnes81639 ай бұрын
haggis originated in England not Scotland
@cenedra214310 ай бұрын
The Scottish Mars Bar was deep fried 😂 oh and battered..
@Weho.10 ай бұрын
Seeing as it’s nearly Christmas .. can you pls react to probably the best Christmas song ever…. The Pogues ( Fairytale of New York).
@annamae85910 ай бұрын
The w in Berwick is silent so it's pronounced Berrick, the Scottish food next to the Mars bar is a deep fried Mars Bar.
@1AOR110 ай бұрын
Geordie is the oldest english accent in the world. Spoken by people in Newcastle. 'There is a video called where does newcastles geordie dialect come from?' Definitely worth a watch
@user-ky6vw5up9m8 ай бұрын
Wick on the end of a name was originally ViK - which was a clue to Viking settlement or renaming of an existing settlement
@davidtrenholm5 ай бұрын
Vik means bay in old Norse.
@philb354910 ай бұрын
BEH-RICK-upon-Tweed 😊
@jeanbicknell788710 ай бұрын
I hate correcting people but I guess you would want to know so, Berwick is pronounced Berrick.
@marktubeie0710 ай бұрын
08:31 my god I love your humor and timing 😂😂 Possible the best reaction channel... for so many reasons.
@Spiklething4 ай бұрын
Loving the fact that the Map Men knew what was going on with the water in England back then. If only the water companies in England had watched this video
@Leenufc9 ай бұрын
A geordie is someone from Newcastle upon Tyne or on the Bank of the River Tyne
@fredericksaxton399110 ай бұрын
It's not Berwick, it is pronounced Berrick.
@Si-mc9bb10 ай бұрын
Hadrian's Wall is not the border
@racheltaylor657810 ай бұрын
There is another wall called The Antonine Wall in Scotland.There is another Berwick in Scotland.
@Thurgosh_OG10 ай бұрын
The Antonine wall was covered in JJLAs Hadrian's wall video.
@scottbradley249410 ай бұрын
The Salisbury reference is about a ex kgb double-agent being offed in hit
@highpath47769 ай бұрын
Is the cement mixer a reference to Roman Concrete ?
@dancinglucifer15266 ай бұрын
Bear-ick please
@da90sReAlvloc10 ай бұрын
I'm a Geordie and those Geordie accents are horrible
@leytonjay9 ай бұрын
You know what, I saw this video in the feed and decided to wait for you to react to it, as I've previously seen all the ones you've reacted to. I wanted us to both react to it. I enjoyed it, worth it, your analysis is fantastic.
@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq10 ай бұрын
Actually English (and indeed the UK in general) tap water is among the cleanest in the world.
@Thurgosh_OG10 ай бұрын
The reason Scottish tap water is better, is due to the lack of chalky mineral deposits in the majority of Scotland. Tap Water in the SE of England is particularly bad for this (but still safe to drink).
@garymcatear8229 ай бұрын
I've tried tap water in London and it was disgusting and warm, this was in 1990 though, maybe they got their act together idk.
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
England's tap water is amongst the worst and dirtiest in Europe. Stop lying! Also, England's tap water is not one combined entity. It is several, failing, private operations.
@ffotograffydd8 ай бұрын
For now, but the way things are going it’s not guaranteed.
@rainyfeathers91489 ай бұрын
It's a deep fried Mars bars... yeah, they deep fried them.
@JJLAReacts9 ай бұрын
Oooooooh! I see. I bet that’s tasty! I wouldn’t have expected fried Mars Bars to be a thing there. I know fried candy bars are a big thing in Texas.
@rainyfeathers91489 ай бұрын
@@JJLAReacts I've never tried them but my brother liked them.
@neuralwarp10 ай бұрын
In all English names, the suffix WICK is pronounced ICK. All? Well .. all but one. I leave this as an exercise for the reader.
@JamesLMason10 ай бұрын
I think the one you're thinking of is plane to see ...
@Ibis11710 ай бұрын
I can think of at least three.
@auldfouter866110 ай бұрын
Prestwick ,Lerwick, Wick ,Herdwick ( sheep).
@MrBulky99210 ай бұрын
@@auldfouter8661They're not all English, though, are they?
@auldfouter866110 ай бұрын
@@MrBulky992 They're English language place names.
@garymcatear8229 ай бұрын
The may know a lot about maps but the know sweet F all about history the racist English gits.
@TerenceDixon-l6b9 ай бұрын
Not just roads. Many buildings also used the stone from The Wall. Not Ber-Wick but Berrick, the W is not pronounced in most place names, e.g. Warwick - pronounced Worrick. There is also a North Berwick further North on the East coast of Scotland. When I visited Berwick-upon-Tweed I drove across that Roman viaduct, (an aqueduct carries water along the top, a viaduct carries a road). I'm English, but descended from two Border clans (both were Reiver clans i.e. 'bandit raiders') and have lived and worked in Scotland and can tell you that we all get on pretty well and the 'animosity' is just an example of that UK banter where you greet friends with an insult😛.
@Barlofontain9 ай бұрын
Come on J, you know we (mostly) don't pronounce the W if it's in the middle of town names, It's now Bur-wick, it's Beh-rick... Ber(w)ick, War(w)ick, South(w)ark, Green(w)ich etc etc
@gregoryclark82179 ай бұрын
Scottish independence is rather dead in the water at the moment, thanks to financial irregularities and dodgy goings on within the SNP, the political party that campaigns for independence. The problem is that the SNP forms a personality cult behind it's leader, but the last two leaders have left their post because they did dodgy/sleazy things. It will be 5-10 years before any movement gets going again, because the current leader isn't that remarkable.
@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej7 ай бұрын
A huge number of English people would be very happy for Scotland to have independence if they want it. If Norway has independence, why not Scotland? Scotland is politically very different from England.
@jjohnston-c6i10 ай бұрын
JJ ... @10m 40s that Scottish thing is a Deep Fried Mars Bar.
@bugnazbinnyking119810 ай бұрын
9:32
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
It's an English thing, like stabbing English kids. Is there anything English people won't lie about.
@judymoore3438Ай бұрын
I live in an English Bailey, but the water has run away. Lumps of flint and chalk fall around us. By the way Berwick is at war with Russia.
@judymoore3438Ай бұрын
Also I live minutes away from the Greenwich Mean Line which cuts the globe in half, top to bottom and so am at home in the eastern hemosphere but need to embark on transport to the podiatrist in the western hemosphere7😅 , who is the other side of the road.
@Albanach-je1nk9 ай бұрын
I give up with the USA, the more I find out about the USA the less I understand
@Kakascrot6 ай бұрын
9:30 England (Mars Bar) Scotland (Deep Fried Mars Bar)
@mn41699 ай бұрын
nice video. some mistakes but it was fun to watch. i am from Sunderland and the North is not Manchester.
@PaulCoaley9 ай бұрын
Or Englands independence from Scotland 😂
@Alexander-vo4gv4 ай бұрын
1:37 it's because we scots are too strong and beat the romans
@rossshepherd98369 ай бұрын
You realise the comparisons are comical?
@dyent9 ай бұрын
Note: Berwick is pronounced Berrick
@philbaker415510 ай бұрын
Mountains ! Look up the Alps lol
@ethelmini9 ай бұрын
9:30 Both Mars Bars
@kennethmacalpin76559 ай бұрын
There is an unofficial flag of Northern Ireland, but not an official flag. That's because some people in Northern Ireland (the Irish/Catholic/Republican community) don't agree that Northern Ireland should even exist.
@georgebarnes81639 ай бұрын
more to do with the fact that the Northern Ireland flag contains the crown
@DavidDoyleOutdoors9 ай бұрын
Northern Ireland did have an official flag called the Ulster Banner which is still used today as an unofficial flag at sporting events. It’s official use ended when the parliament dissolved in 1973
@fuyocouch9 ай бұрын
Northern Ireland used to have the red hand of Ulster as a flag before the English took over.
@georgebarnes81639 ай бұрын
Still does
@georgebarnes81639 ай бұрын
Northern Ireland does have a flag, but it can not be flown from public buildings to keep the Irish happy as the flag contains the Crown.
@watchreadplayretro10 ай бұрын
For some strange reason I've found myself playing Lemmings (on Mayhem level!) so strangely odd! :D 7:10
@Ggeekz10 ай бұрын
Love the video! just remember if a place name has a 'W' in the middle 9/10 the 'W' is silent. so Ber-Rick. Weird i know
@neil476710 ай бұрын
LOL the Salisbury comment was a brilliant dig :-)
@LynxLord199110 ай бұрын
It has more to do with the stones and minerals than the visible formations
@laughforlife353910 ай бұрын
Do you do voice over on tik tok. Feel like ive heard your voice before
@chrisshelley302710 ай бұрын
If you lived "on" the wall and fell off where you now homeless? 🤔
@lesleycarney886810 ай бұрын
Thanks JJ , you do make me laugh
@Socrates...10 ай бұрын
love your channel
@garethm324210 ай бұрын
Regarding Berwick-Upon-Tweed, as these guys have pointed out before in their vids, when a British placename has "wick" at the end, following a consonant, you don't pronounce the "w". So "Berrick" is the pronunciation. Think actor "Warwick Davis", pronounced Warrick.
@stewedfishproductions795910 ай бұрын
Unfortunately _(and I appreciate what you are trying to explain),_ but mentioning Warwick Davis, _(a very British actor who probably means nothing to an American - even if he was in Star Wars)_ it doesn't actually mean anything _(especially if they don't know how it's really pronounced and get it wrong anyway!)_ - Just saying! 🤔
@Mark_Bickerton10 ай бұрын
Google "Berwick upon tweed declaration of peace with the USSR" :) There is a QI clip on here also where Stephen Fry talks about it!
@Stoggler10 ай бұрын
I can’t believe QI spouted that nonsense. It’s apocryphal about Berwick being officially at war with Russia until the 1960s.
@fredericksaxton399110 ай бұрын
Viaduct. for railway.
@Ggeekz10 ай бұрын
Also, scottish water is a delight to the senses. i have never felt so refreshed. My skin was clear and my hair as thick as a highland cow
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
A Highland what? I've never seen a cow anywhere in Scotland.
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
@@irene3196 Why would I be "kidding." Scotland's Highlands have coos, not cows. 😉 (Coo is not slang, or the result of an accent, it's the appropriate Scots word)
@jackdubz424710 ай бұрын
The Scotland/England border is the best border in the world. I just wish it was a hard border, just to stop the English from settling in Scotland. By the way, I am sure that there are plenty English people who would say a similar thing, but the other way around.
@Thurgosh_OG10 ай бұрын
There are plenty more of us Scots and English who are happy with the way things are with the Union, as shown in the vote a few years ago.
@darkwave93459 ай бұрын
as someone from Newcastle, i have to put up with the scots and the southern english...its a pain
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
@@Thurgosh_OG No, there isn't. There were more Scots happy with Scotland's EU situation.
@Mark-Haddow9 ай бұрын
@@darkwave9345 Is Newcastle a real place? Aren't you that Northern Town that ran every time Scots marched down to York, which Scotland owned for quite a while.
@dilligaf7310 ай бұрын
England and Scotland is still a problem now, not just in the past. We need to separate to stop the nastiness from both sides. Staying together just prolongs it all. Notsaying that i want to separate, just it will always be a thing while we are together
@curtiswatts434910 ай бұрын
I don't think separating will ever stop the nastiness between the English and Scots... the nastiness you speak off today though, is nothing compared to the nastiness before we became a union...
@jackdubz424710 ай бұрын
@@curtiswatts4349 True. The hatred from the English towards the Scots is getting beyond a joke these days.
@curtiswatts434910 ай бұрын
@@jackdubz4247 that’s not what I was trying to say… but I wouldn’t say it’s the English hating the Scot’s more either. Both have that love/hate relationship.
@dilligaf7310 ай бұрын
@curtiswatts4349 true. I know of Scottish who have visited England and I know of English who have visited Scotland. The news on both sides of the border is horrendous and so different. Both are as bad as each other
@Thurgosh_OG10 ай бұрын
@@OneTrueScotsman What you have to realise is that more of us Scots are happy in the Union and unhappy with the devolved government that the SNP gave us. Can you imagine how much worse things would be in Scotland, if we were trying to be independent. We'd be pushed into third world category in no time and the EU isn't interested in having us (thank god) because they don't want more members who can't even raise enough funds to run their own countries.
@perryedwards474610 ай бұрын
so annoying, Im gonna have to watch these without you
@quno517410 ай бұрын
No one’s forcing you too lol.
@Walesbornandbred10 ай бұрын
Map Men video's are very good and worth watching, in fact he picks some interesting ones but he googles every sentence, it can be distracting.
@MrBulky99210 ай бұрын
@@WalesbornandbredYes but he stops the video so we can study the fleeting jokes going on in the background that most of us would miss unless we did the same thing. You cannot get tbe full impact of the MapMen videos unless you do stop then and sometimes rewind.
@MrBulky99210 ай бұрын
You're clearly not a fan of the reaction videos genre!
@seanoreilly729310 ай бұрын
Norther Ireland is a Province not a country.
@Thurgosh_OG10 ай бұрын
Legally and officially Northern Ireland is a country. News media though, often calls it a province or a region of the UK, which is actually wrong but no one seems to correct any inaccuracies said by mainstream media.
@georgebarnes81639 ай бұрын
Northern Ireland is part of the old Province of Ulster and most certainly is a country, you are confusing Ulster with NI.