That Time the British Rioted for Three Months Over a 15% Increase in the Cost of Theater Tickets

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@TodayIFoundOut Ай бұрын

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@ronsimpsonll9739 Ай бұрын

And then, they threatened to shut down the pubs. Shit came to an end a short time later...

@matthewgoodsell480 Ай бұрын

I just want to point out that the traditional British pantomime still incorporates elements of the audience participation found in ancient theatre. "He's behind you!" etc

@dsxa918 Ай бұрын

Circa 10:08 did you tell "Mendoza!!" at the heavens, a la Rainier Wolfcastle

@samwoods8333 Ай бұрын

You're leaving out the best form of modern day audience participation; Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow casts.

@2MuchPurple Ай бұрын

This sounds like fun! Im glad I wasn't there. 🔥

@XwX1001 Ай бұрын

You just described the attitude of most history nerds.

@johnnagustafson9996 Ай бұрын

Oh, I did enjoy the clip of Betty Hutton in The Perils of Pauline (1947)!

@minuteman4199 Ай бұрын

Pantomime, which is a peculiarly British form of theater still encourages audience participation.

@gravitypoo8765 Ай бұрын

Omg this is the earliest I’ve ever been. I’m excited

@amicaaranearum Ай бұрын

0:53 Why did the law limit full-length spoken plays to two specific theaters?

@minecat1839 29 күн бұрын

It was probably a last remnant of the idea that plays and theatre went against religious values

@aaronring4704 Ай бұрын

Holy Breath Control, Batman! Simon could give John Muschitta a run for has money!

@macdietz Ай бұрын

What an inspiration

@ReelBigC Ай бұрын

lol and now all anyone does when taxes, rent, groceries all go up arbitrarily is cry "NNNN̈OOOOOOOOOO~" 😢

@duncancurtis5108 Ай бұрын

No.

@SkyHawk2137 Ай бұрын

Being fair, part of that is due to how the movement to fiat unbacked currency from precious metal backed currency (or other, typically less successful methods) meant that the concept of 'inflation' became normalised. Before that, having any inflation at all was typically regarded as a great concern. These days people tend to panic when deflation is mentioned or, far worse, hyperinflation. So another change caused by an evolution of culture caused by a change in technical capability. And you wouldn't want to have the economy go back to that old method, unless it had already absolutely collapsed, because it would be an utter nightmare. At least with our existing options. If in the future we develop nanofabrication and high output commercial fusion reactors, then you could see a move 'backwards' to a currency backed by fabrication time, fabricator output or units of energy. But such a thing would most likely be less far less restrictive than backing with a limited, extremely hard to increase, good. So finally allowing the combination of the good aspects of fiat unbacked and resource-backed currencies, with far less risk of the negatives. Or you know, maybe some other technological revolution grants options.

@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 Ай бұрын

You talketh my language eth.

@Amos_Quito Ай бұрын

You maketh me laugh eth😂

@jamienorris007 Ай бұрын

I want to know what the beef was between the duke and the actor😂

@jjbuckle Ай бұрын

Today I found out, events organizers deal with the same human behaviour as hundreds of years ago, a few years ago (1995-2007) at every school "play" kids threw stuff and tried to participate so nothing ever really changes

@lajoyalobos2009 Ай бұрын

Today I found out... where "that's what she said" originated from 😂

@duncancurtis5108 Ай бұрын

Shades of the Great Springfield Riot when Barney lost his beer at the football match. The Cartridge Family.

@Hillbilly001 Ай бұрын

Well, I'll be a dirty name. I haven't been this early since George was king. Excellent script Karl.

@dsxa918 Ай бұрын

I remember Karl! If his last name occurs to me before the credits (plotspoiler: it did not) I will drink 4 beer in brief succession

@Hillbilly001 Ай бұрын

@dsxa918 Karl Smallwood writes quite a few scripts for Simon and others. He's also a host for Top10z, which he occasionally writes for too. His association with Simon and Daven goes back a few years. You probably don't have to drink those beers, but you should in honor of Karl's work ethic. Cheers

@GarethMeasday Ай бұрын

Quick question, is there anywhere else to get Simons videos as the constant stops and adverts on KZbin have become ridiculous (30-45 seconds in every 5 minutes)???

@Dread-i2b Ай бұрын

Add block or get premium i guess

@brandongaines1731 Ай бұрын

Just find a suitable video downloader in your OS's application store, if you're on desktop. Copy-and-paste, hit "go", wait for a few moments, then open in your media player of choice. You can always delete once you're done watching if you're concerned about legality, etcetera. I'm not to that point, yet, myself, but honestly, if YT's ad practices get to be too unbearable, then I'll possibly do that rather than pay for a subscription tier. I'm only making minimum wage, here, after all :-/

@CtrlOptDel Ай бұрын

We used to be a proper country…

@J.A.Smith2397 Ай бұрын

We used to stock together more I think

@brs690 Ай бұрын

I work security for a college football team and 100% the crowd is more entertaining than the game. The number of inflatable beach balls bouncing around the stadium is insane when the home team is winning.

@geodkyt Ай бұрын

With regard to streakers running on to an athletic field during a game, they really ought to play the Benny Hill theme music until the cops grab him.

@bartolhrg6482 Ай бұрын

Funny thing is: in my language, there is a dish pronounced as richeth (spelled ričet)

@lazytommy0 Ай бұрын

Well this has gone from a relatively obscure and unknown moment in time, to one of my favorite moments in history. At least as far as simon has described it 🤣

@StarTexaspets Ай бұрын

Take this energy to 2025

@scarpfish Ай бұрын

Worldwide no less.

@dsxa918 Ай бұрын

People are so domesticated!

@TeamSoraPresents Ай бұрын

My fellow Americans: remember this for next year, when the new regime's policies inevitably lead to higher prices on everything from food to electronics to medicine. Oh, and also, WE TOLD YOU SO.

@Styphon Ай бұрын

"Inflation is bad! Let's vote for the guy who thinks the other country pays the tariffs! That'll keep prices down!" 😮‍💨

@garbuz3324 5 күн бұрын

14:00 Streakers are actually quite unpopular these days

@jm-et3uk Ай бұрын

You need to do a bourbon and body cam on Noah the T-Rex from code blue. 🙏🙏

@jphilb Ай бұрын

A Karl Smallwood script. Excellent!

@gingerlilyjena7078 Ай бұрын

UT spectators steal the goal posts after certain games and throw them in the river. So yeah

@kameronjones7139 Ай бұрын

Back when the British had a back bone

@ronsimpsonll9739 Ай бұрын

Back when? At one time. That tiny island ruled nearly all the known world. Had kicked the crap out of most of the world's military powers. All in time for tea. I for one am glad they settled a bit...

@kameronjones7139 Ай бұрын

@ronsimpsonll9739 key phrase "at one time" you guys aren't even the most powerful in Europe, let alone the world anymore

@GreyOne13 Ай бұрын

@@kameronjones7139 are they even, and I mean this in genuine honest curiosity here No Hate, the most powerful in England anymore when you put nuclear weapons to the side?

@Gohka Ай бұрын

@@GreyOne13 I'm not sure you meant to put "England" there? Do you mean are the English the most powerful in the UK? Which yeah we still are, mainly just because like 85% of the population of the UK lives in England.

@Gohka Ай бұрын

@@kameronjones7139 I do find it funny that people feel the need to point out to the British that the British Empire has been dead for a very long time. We're quite aware, we live here. Do you think the US will always be the most powerful country in the world? It won't be, hell I don't think it will be that long until China/India take the top spot from you guys. Then you know us Brits are going to take the piss that we managed to be the most powerful country in the world for what 100-300 years? While you yanks look unlikely to even make 100 years of being at the top. (assuming you are American, my apologies if I'm wrong)

@Jameywells777 Ай бұрын

Oh bloody ell' mate !

@andrewoplinger4759 Ай бұрын

This is what we need today, with the cost of groceries, rent, and medicines going up so much now. Remember people, poor immigrants are NOT the cause of all your problems like Donald Trump says. Greedy rich people are.

@brs690 Ай бұрын

"That's what she said" was repopularized by Michael Scott in the 2000s.

@budgiefriend Ай бұрын

I lowkey kept it smoldering, all along.

@Loralanthalas Ай бұрын

Honestly I never knew it was unpopular... or repopularized.

@travisinthetrunk Ай бұрын

7:28 “… the greatest tragedy end of the era.” What does that even mean?

@Darlenegedge Ай бұрын

People in that era (generation or two generations or more) liked how the tragedy ended - imagine - (was considered to be the greatest tragedy ending, . . . Of the era(decade)or group of decades or a (millennium). . )

@michaelb1761 Ай бұрын

Why would he reduce prices? He was presumably selling out the theater every night to people protesting the higher prices. I'm surprised he only did it for 1 1/2 months.

@melindoranightsilver9298 Ай бұрын

He was probably afraid: the place would get shut down, that the rich may stop coming or that the place would get damaged. People's behavior was getting worse, and the wealthy were only going to take so much of it. So he had to step in eventually.

@sameebah Ай бұрын

I think you'll find it was Theat*RE* tickets.

@CtrlOptDel Ай бұрын

They have to accommodate Americans who have such a sheltered & parochial narrow view of the world that they can’t even figure-out what almost identically-spelled words mean (& would sincerely think “What? There’s no thirteenth month!” upon seeing today’s date written as 13/11/2024, rather than using a bit of common sense to infer it’s just written in a different order than they’re used to).

@carpeinferi Ай бұрын

How can you mention modern audience participation and NOT talk about Rocky Horror Picture Show?

@Luziferne Ай бұрын

Eat the Rich…

@brandongaines1731 Ай бұрын

Sports, of course, are sometimes even further from immune from interence from the croud than Simon lets on: Baseball has been hit with an unfortunate rash of fans sitting immediately adjacent to the field leaning over the railing and reaching into the play area to catch balls that would've otherwise been easily caught by the outfielder, even going so far as to physically wrest the ball from the outfielder's hand - this always results in the offending attendee being immediately bounced, sometimes even prohibited from attending future games should the offense be deemed agregious enough; and let's not forget that it was, unfortunately, a fan of the Nashville Predators who singlehandedly prompted the NHL to ban coolers after throwing a completely intact, albeit dead, catfish onto the ice in the middle of play at a hockey game.

@geoffreypiltz271 Ай бұрын

Theatre.

@keithwalmsley1830 Ай бұрын

My God, a time when we Brits actually stood up and did something, these days we just grumble a lot but do sweet FA!!!!

@zepherreload Ай бұрын

At the sane tine the government was ripping them off and didn't care about that lol

@katherinecollins4685 27 күн бұрын

Interesting

@joshautree8698 Ай бұрын

Looks more like a suspicions burning of old world white pillar building's the same Greek Roman architecture that seems to just pop up out of the blue on most continents.today's building are a mockery to what was done in the past supposedly by horse and carriage.