WW2 Era Britain Didn't Give a Crap

[@martinmowbray4304]

You’d be more credible if you didn’t swear all the time !

[@FactFiend]

Fuck off.

[@davieh6]

@@FactFiend i guess that makes you incredible then :)

[@noisyash4234]

@@FactFiend ibcould of guessed that would be your reply to being told you swear to much

[@Rick_Sanchez_G420]

@@noisyash4234 it's a British reply.

[@mrcroob8563]

@@Rick_Sanchez_G420 as if they didnt know that...

[@eruantien9932]

Ah yes, Getty Images, somehow owning the rights to photographs taken 50 years before the formation of their company. Hells, I think they've managed to procure the rights to photos from the 19th century...

[@LocalAitch]

E. A. Deasar they even try to charge licensing fees for public domain photos. Look up Carol Highsmith if you’re not familiar.

[@antonyevans9772]

I was gonna read your comment, but it's owned by Getty Images

[@vylbird8014]

UK copyright duration is life of the photographer plus seventy years. If you do the math on that, then yes, many 19th century photos would still be under copyright. The photographer only has to live for another fifty years after taking the photo, quite achievable for a young photographer at the end of the 19th century.

[@MartelAndQueen]

@@The_Real_Tom_Ball no, they were referring to the 1800s

[@bruhlewis9508]

Word has it they’re trying to licence the Mona Lisa, soon it will have watermarks all over it

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

“All this bloodshed could have been avoided if you’d have just payed your taxes!” 😂

[@colleennewholy9026]

I mean. It's true X'D Like. In middle school (which occured during the 2008 recession), I was like; "Why aren't people revolting again? The government is demanding high taxes from everyone?" And the teacher legit got this glazed look for a good half second. Lol

[@austinblackburn8095]

@@colleennewholy9026 Must have had a bad history teacher the taxes themselves were just one of the issues it was taxation without representation, the British making laws against religions that fled to America to get away from the church of England, the British soldiers literally walking into peoples homes taking their food and sleeping in their beds, and many many more attacks on personal liberties that are essential to America today and in general individual freedom.

[@jwadaow]

​@@austinblackburn8095 Just excuses for tax avoidance. When are you going to pull your weight?

[@micahbell3075]

@@austinblackburn8095 well you guys are being taxed more nowadays then back then, you have revolted for less why not now.

[@austinblackburn8095]

@@micahbell3075 Every country paid less in taxes back then than they do today so it's not fair to compare past American taxes to modern taxes. However it is fair to compare modern American and European taxes and it is fair to say America in some way had kept to it's low tax roots compared to the very high taxes of most European countries. Only a few countries can you earn a similar amount to what you make in America and pay less taxes most of those being in Asia like Hong Kong or Singapore. I personally think American taxes are to high but they are not bad enough to start a revolutionary war over especially when we are still democratic and can still lower are taxes through legislation. The biggest problems with Britain's taxes wasn't that they taxed the colonies for the most part America was fine with tariffs and import taxes the problem came when Britain started directly taxing Americans with out representation.

[@icantthinkofaclevername9109]

Honestly, I've always found the battle tactics of the UK and allies far more interesting and way more insane. This first example that comes to mind is the time a magician used mirrors to make it look like an entire river had moved just so the bombers would miss. They also made a cardboard armies to through off enemy scouts, attempted to train dogs to bomb tanks (it didn't go well), and the British POW's delighted in annoying the f*ck out of their captors just because they could. The British army tactics during WW2 can be summed up as: Will it work? ... probably. Then why not? We were going to win by any means possible.

[@icantthinkofaclevername9109]

There was also a man who accidentally tapped into a German spy's radio signal and instead of - I don't know - telling the government used it to troll the sh*t out of Germany for as long as he could.

[@welshy4638]

There was that time we dropped a dead homeless guy in an officer's uniform in the sea off the coast of Spain. With a briefcase full of falsified invasion plans. It made Gerry move entire divisions away from the intended Allied landing beaches.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

Omnom asarus I mean the bomb dogs were soviet

[@Relyx]

welshy 46 Yeah that's the one that let us successfully take Italy. Did you watch Tom Scott's video too?

[@TheSwagDonutTSD624]

@@welshy4638 We also used inflatable armies to trick scout planes into thinking we were invading France from a different beach

[@Друг-р4з]

Nobody: Britain during ww2: WITH EVERY BOMB YOU DROP I GROW STRONGER

[@Paddy.C]

My step-dad didn't taste a banana until he was 13yrs old, because they were so hard to come by during rationing. As a special treat, his mum once boiled a parsnip in some banana food flavouring that she'd managed to get hold of, then left it on a windowsill to cool down, before giving it to him. So, the most exotic dessert of his first 12 years was a boiled parsnip that they'd grown in the back yard. No wonder he was such a tight bugger.

[@Albinojackrussel]

And now the parsnip is the expensive one

[@geoffpriestley7001]

We had turnips thinly sliced and sprinkled with sugar as a sweet , that was after rationing, . when it stopped it didn't mean things where in the shops, in the 50s chicken was still rare thats 5 years after the war . I rember going to school typical meal that was served twice a week was cheese pipe ( cheese and potatoe) and cabbage .the cabbage had pink bits in it still dont know what they where.

[@CodeeXD]

@@geoffpriestley7001 "bacon"

[@glen1555]

Bananas were not reintroduced until december 1945. I remember in the early 1960s seeing tv adverts for bananas "unzip a banana"

[@jay71512]

My mum used to tell me how happy she was when sugar became easier to get so she could have a sugar sandwich lol. She also kept a pig in the yard which they would slaughter for meat for xmas. She done this until the 70s when meat became more affordable. After all this she said it was the best days of her life because everyone helped each other and came together.

[@eternalconcern3932]

Reminds me of a news report where in Wigan, police were called to a house due to a bomb threat. Instead of backing off or panicking, locals crowded around with beer to watch. They quite literally turned a *terror threat into a mid-morning piss up.*

[@benjaminmarsh1467]

Even though this was a year ago I was in the exact pub this was going on 😂

[@twintrash5263]

That’s Wiganers for ya 😂

[@Ainiewainy]

The English King and Queen stayed at Buckingham Palace. The Dutch Queen fled with her young children to Canada for their safety. I loved King George VI for staying, even after a bomb hit Buckingham and almost killed them. Afterwards he came out and checked the damage...

[@BalianofTheTube]

Ainiewainy in the case of a real invasion they had plans to flee to Canada too

[@teipeu9033]

And died early because of it.

[@franboos]

Well, that's because the Netherlands didn't have the geographical advantage of damn sea. It would have been incredibly dangerous for the royal family to stay in Holland like a bunch of sitting ducks. Having them captured or killed would certainly bring moral down not to mention give the Nazis leverage. The English could afford to not giving a fuck because they weren't the literal next door neighbours of Hitler's 1939/1945-war-extravaganza-fuckfest. Not to mention the Dutch tried to stay out of Germany's business because the army literally got around on bicycles (there are photographs of this) and they didn't feel the need to engage in a dick-measuringcontest.

[@duckwhistle]

@@JoshSweetvale tulips are poisonous

[@johnbarton7543]

@@JoshSweetvale George 6th died because he was a very heavy smoker.

[@Lea-ep1bi]

I remember my grandpa telling me a story about his childhood. So, the farm his family owned was occupied by the SS and they almost sent his mum to a KZ. What did my grandpa do as a kid? He kept stealing chocolate from the SS and he was so proud of it.

[@liamc.h.2691]

Was it Panzerschokolade or Just normal chocolate because i know that a lot of the Wehrmacht chocolate was laced with Amphetamine. Just wanna know.

[@Lea-ep1bi]

@@liamc.h.2691 It was chocolate taken from "enemy troops", so there was nothing in there as far as I know.

[@nicknock3948]

In my town in ww2 Fraserburgh in Scotland the only thing they cared about being destroyed was the pub

[@CallumCarmicheal]

Trash Man why even live if the monument of our soul is destroyed

[@snkybrki]

@Matthew Smith You'd be surprised, mate.

[@PowerSpirit50]

In my town in in Sweden... I guess there wasn't anything to be afraid of.

[@bmsvg7356]

Nick Nock I live near Fraserburgh, moved up recently. It’s actually quite nice here, way better than London

[@d1moabz28]

Long live the broch

[@bookmarkr7694]

"And the Americans were pissed off at my saluting" ...which is really ironic because that's what we Americans do to everybody, including ourselves.

[@oH_._]

Americans love saluting over any possible thing that is considered American. Anything foreign, and they look at you with disgust at times.

[@mdassassin0078]

Amerincans are just British but their ansestors are traitors

[@elise205]

I want to go to that museum, in my regular shirt and waistcoat getup, except all Union Jack'd up. A British flag waistcoat and shirt, just to see how America reacts when they get a taste of their own medicine. The only thing stopping me is the fact that they'll shoot me at the sound of my voice, nevermind what I'm wearing! My posh accent is a blessing and a curse.

[@Pokerface-jpg]

@@elise205 They'd probably laugh and say "Look, the Queen wants her land back!"

[@saggitariuspotato2043]

Personally, I prefer a patriotic Brit over a self hating American. If you don't love your Homeland, something is wrong.

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

My maternal grandpa was born in 1904 and was one of the calmest glass half-full guys I've ever met. I guess that is just a attitude you get when you survive two World Wars in your life time. My paternal grandma was born in 1932 so she was just a child during WW2 but her stories about how she lived in our city during the war are always very interesting and she is also very relaxed in the most awful situations that can possibly happen. She shattered her collar bone and left shoulder and still joked with the ambulance driver while being in a lot of pain. She calmly told them that her pain was probably a 8-9 out of 10 while still joking she is a badass.

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

Grey Flag my maternal grandma was 20 years younger than my grandpa and I'm the youngest child of my parents who were born in 1951 and 1952 and I was born in 1992 as the happy little accident after my two a lot older siblings. Yes my grandpa was already really old when he met my grandma and had my mother and her four siblings but he was married before and had 4 children with that women as well. Shit like this happens sometimes you know?

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

Dan Green they met when he was 40 and my grandma was 20 so he was 48 when my mom was born and over 60 when her youngest sister was born. He was a total badass I can tell you that! Also he had 5 children with my grandma and only four with his first wife but I don't know that much about my half-aunts and uncles as they would be about 80+ now and my mother hasn't met them since the 70ies or so.

[@skeetus]

DieAlteistwiederda daaayuuuum. This is like the reverse of the 25 year old dude driving his 7 year old uncle to school

[@datfisheboi6519]

Yeah. Me and my mom took care of my Grandma for the last few years of her life, and she was, no exaggeration, the most cheerful, polite and generally nice person I knew. But here’s the thing: she had some health problems with her old age, especially her leg, and we often asked her to rate her pain on a scale of 1-10, and on a very good day, she would be a 2 or 3. Usually she’d be a 4 or 5. Basically, I just realized she was in pretty much constant pain for years, and yet she still managed to be the most cheerful person I knew. Despite being the quintessential sweet old English cat lady, she was still one of the strongest people I knew.

[@somebody8318]

DieAlteistwiederda I

[@bryonymason3104]

Could the decrease in public drunkenness be due to loads of the young men being on the front line?

[@daredemontriple6]

Not really no. The blitz took place from September 1940 to May 1941. This is directly after the battle of Britain and quite long after the evacuation at Dunkirk. The vast majority of the British expeditionary force were now stuck at home. I'm unsure but some troops were probably sent to Africa, but as afar as I know British forces in North Africa were A) a fair mix of 'British' and 'Colonial' troops, and B) Didn't come close to the 300,000 rescued from Dunkirk until after the blitz. Basically what I'm saying is that whilst those bombs were coming down there were hundreds of thousands of troops fresh out of Dunkirk back at home. So to say the decrease in anti-social behaviour is due to a lack of young lads seems improbable. This is only my own knowledge however, and I might be completely wrong on some of those numbers!

[@renz3748]

bryony mason or possibly because you would hate to be drunk when there is a bombing happening?

[@richardsorgo8600]

That and the beer was watered down

[@korbytheorby6151]

3:29 "I'm gonna go to the shower, the fire can't get me there."

[@petermellor8794]

Eyyyyy

[@FoxCoffeeGaming]

that logic is sound. if only there wasnt smoke xD

[@ChickenMccZoe]

Went to the Sea World in Orlando a few years ago and for some reason they wanted the crowd to sing the national anthem. I got a lot of dirty looks for proudly belting "God Save The Queen." 😂😂

[@snowpegasi2340]

Nathan-DTS It's not indoctrination it's national pride, something we can have because as little a fuck the government actually cares about us they still care about us more than the governments of other countries care about their citizens, we aren't about to lose access to half of the internet like all of Europe and we aren't slowly and willingly being taken over like the UK.

[@notavelociraptor7732]

Snow Pegasi do us all a favour and shut the fuck up, congrats you're patriotic, but do you really have to insult Britain in the process. You're immature

[@snowpegasi2340]

NotAVelociraptor So I'm immature but the guy who was also insulting my country's sense of pride isn't, stfu hypocrite and shove your double standards up your own ass, also I'm sorry if the truth offends you because it is a factual statement that the UK is slowly being taken over, it's so bad that police officers go missing if they even go in the wrong neighborhood without permission.

[@Brakvash]

Because the US is full of crazies, whether they're normies or robots.

[@notavelociraptor7732]

Snow Pegasi really? Sources please. Saying as I'm literally from the country I think I'd know a bit more than a random American dude trying to prove me wrong on the KZbin comment section

[@WisdomCritFail]

This video made me feel proud to be British until I realized that I've never even left North America.

[@tomo366]

@@nickrustyson8124 Britian isn't just England you know

[@careytaylor-forbes2505]

The image that you see of the crown over "Keep Calm and Carry On" was designed at the time as a morale-boosting poster, but it was never actually used because they came to the conclusion t hat it wasn't necessary because the people had already internalised the concept.

[@funnymandoafunny1810]

For April Fool's, I really want them to make a video called "Garfield Doesn't Give A Crap" and talk about Garfield's lazy antics as if it's the most absurd and amusing thing ever

[@finnersmcspeed5646]

It's called "Rule Britannia" not "Hail Britannia"

[@pixelplayground]

It's almost like he's a normal human

[@harry793]

pixelplayground your weird

[@tristman8413]

That's the queens job

[@Allstar-yl1ek]

I'd go to more museums if Karl was there.

[@ThriftStoreHacker]

British people during the blitz and how the country handled being bombed 24/7 is just amazing. Everyone just got on with their lives giving zero f#$@s. That is a strong group of people.

[@vylbird8014]

It probably helped that people were not too worried about their children. We needed the cities operating to keep the machinery of war going, but no need to keep children there - three million of them were rehoused out in the countryside where they would be safe. Germany did exactly the same thing to keep their children safe from allied bombs.

[@theant9821]

@@vylbird8014 unless you can influence the outcome, its not worth worrying about.

[@vylbird8014]

@William Wright The British last-ditch defenders, were also composed largely of old men. It was war. We never had to resort to sending sixty-year-olds on suicide missions to slow down an invasion - but we were prepared to do that, if we must.

[@溫度計水銀飲料]

if you ever went through school and don't know what the blitz is, fella you gotta go to back school

[@Lucy-Hall]

I remember Back School like it was yesterday, in Evenshire it was, with beautiful summers too. Pray tell, which Back School did you go to?

[@溫度計水銀飲料]

+QuirkyTom9876 I'm still in high school, a public high school in america, near philadelphia

[@溫度計水銀飲料]

+The1AndOnlyGoldenboy I've studied the subject of both world wars extensively, I love the subject and wish more of it was taught about in schools

[@jaysonsk]

i learned about it from hellsing ultimate abridge. was curious so i looked it up

[@davidfellingham3710]

happy tueaday Same, I love how much history respects itself and the growth of different societies (especially during the 20th century). You can learn a lot more about history than people think you can. It was always my favorite subject in school.

[@ashtonvickers928]

That mug is more real than my boyfriend

[@iread7]

My girlfriend, too. The mug's probably a lot more attentive and comforting, as well...

[@sergeantarchdornan6244]

*So sad.*

[@ashtonvickers928]

Mete Tural Alexa play despacito

[@bosh5501]

Palestinian Rambo yeah bro good luck haha

[@constant3273]

Palestinian Rambo shut up lol

[@harveydavis2066]

Sometimes being British is pretty cool

[@Blue-qd2lu]

Harvey Davis all the time you wankstain

[@harveydavis2066]

Blue hey, I wasn't saying that it's a shit country but it's not quite as powerful as it used to be

[@tarnvedra9952]

So you miss the killing, stealing and slavery done by the British Empire?

[@harveydavis2066]

Ondřej Dujka not really, but it is the only reason we have any money in the first place and I'm not saying it's a good thing and it most definitely couldn't happen now a days but at the time it was almsot needed

[@phillipschofeildthegreatdi2918]

Ondřej Dujka yes

[@AReallyTinyPony]

*House gets blown up* Oh goodness gracious I was going to paint the walls tomorrow Really? Nah just wanna be more pissed off about this

[@artemiswolf4508]

Joe Molloy *House gets blown up* Oh splendid, now the chore of painting the wall can be avoided, with the resources being few, this is of the outmost convenience 🤵🏻🎩☕️🇬🇧

[@evettsingh1395]

I accidentally left a bag of tea in my jean pocket so when I washed them I made diluted soapy blackberry tea. I couldn’t tell you why their was a bag of tea in my pocket because I don’t even know why.

[@Konsolenrocker88]

Evett Singh you should always be prepared to enjoy a good cup of tea mate

[@Magmaxyz]

Its a British thing

[@stugod5000]

totally tea bags in our jackets and coats , scone jam and cornish cream in your handbag, and fish and chips in our pockets. to be fair I do keep spare team bags in my rucsac and once in my wallet

[@Konsolenrocker88]

d prince i'm swiss and carry teabags in my jackets, jeans and backpack pockets...maybe i was british in an earlier life!?

[@chloe-qf5fn]

a bag of tea? you mean a tea bag?

[@crypticwestwind876]

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" I don't think I've ever seen anything as British as this.

[@popatron]

My great grandmother told me that one time she was with her friends, the bomb raid alarm went off and a nice looking boy offered her a lift back on her motorbike 😂😂 she didn’t seemed to think that WW2 was a big problem she is 95 now 😂

[@antonyevans9772]

Bless her, true British spirit right there

[@monkeymox2544]

"All this bloodshed could've been avoided if you'd just paid your taxes" :'D

[@adawb9520]

I remember being in Disney land Florida on ‘Colony Treachery day’ or as Americans like to call it ‘Independence day’ and there was a muppets re-enactment of the revolution war, and they did a ‘democratic vote’ to see if they wanted independence, but only asked in favour of that and did not ask if they wanted king George to stay in power. I cheered for Queen George (played by miss Piggy) and basically anything involving pro-British ideals.

[@lordax9871]

boomgoesblitzhound might have something to do with anytime someone says something good about British history, some gung ho loud mouth yank that knows nothing but Hollywood history starts ranting "USA USA, we kicked your ass, or, you'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for us,, as America won the wars"

[@kian_5733]

boomgoesblitzhound that bandwagon was started by the British lmao

[@paulroberts7561]

Looking at the state the US is in, Its time we put the revolution down. And make them pay the back taxes from 177 that will wipe the arrogant smile off their faces6

[@seabreeze4559]

ah, Treason Day had to explain to a Yank in England why nobody was excited once ONCE

[@duckydae]

Yeah, my Granda got his leg ran over and got sick of waiting at the hospital and just walked home.

[@klobiforpresident2254]

This reminds me of Cologne after the war. The city was much, much worse hit than London (over 70% destroyed) and a famous image shows a road construction worker next to a road, completely covered in rubble, with a sign showing that the road's closed to cars. "Yeah, the town went from hundreds of thousands of inhabitants to thousands within months, but you still gotta manage traffic, you know?"

[@greenwxy344]

@Matthew Smith fr haha

[@quentint8742]

My great aunt went back into a theatre to get her hat during a bombing raid and the theatre had just lost part of its roof from a hit. Why? Because she would need it for church on Sunday.

[@lujbel6043]

We cant even see the cup on the table cos of the logo smh

[@VisionSubject]

Just Lewis I believe that was the point

[@JulianFischerJulesBarner]

I love how there are similar accounts of romans saying the "britunculi" didn't give a single fuck, showing up to battles not wearing helmets or hardly any armour... seems to be a theme with them somehow :D

[@matthewmac5787]

britannia the land of no fucks to give

[@simonwest9450]

Many also fought naked. There was the belief that if the Gods decided you were to die that day, no armour or clothing would protect you from that fate, so what's the point in wearing any and potentially slowing you down.

[@alundavies8402]

@@simonwest9450 I was brought up to believe that because it’s true if God wants you to live you will if not you won’t

[@natemmerson6849]

Bloody colonials. You should have asked for a free cup of tea, since they do still owe us a LITERAL boat load of it

[@Dr.Gunsmith]

Yes my grandad was hard as nails, he got his head cut off and never complained or said anything. 😂

[@tristman8413]

Did he not apologise?

[@scoutdy6547]

*wakes up Brit: Honey half the house is gone.

[@alundavies8402]

Scoutdy I will knock round Micks he has some camping stuff we will be okay

[@natureinspires5770]

All we need is a kettle to make tea

[@cait812]

@@michaelralphs5593 I really don't think they had those yet?

[@annahilation]

*Neighbors house gets a hole bombed through* me: having an open house are we? neighbor: selling it myself, the realtor wanted to take 25% so I turned him down me: too bad, looks like someone already took 25% neighbor: well at least it's got some ventilation now, bloody old building, they didn't have AC back then, I was burning up before the incineration bomb cooled things off

[@plasmasloth8201]

Can we keep the virtual mug? Can it be a new mascot? Can Karl purchase a green morph suit so that just the mug is on the screen? Will these questions be answered? ...........

[@BeckyRoseDungeonGirl]

Your salutes would be a lot better if you weren’t doing them like a bloody colonial! Palm out man!

[@Albinojackrussel]

Palm down if you're in the navy

[@geoffpriestley7001]

Palm down navy palm out army handshake air force

[@tyrantrex734]

In individual combat and the like (e.g., knights jousting in a tournament), the "palm up" salute was given by the vanquished (the surrendering party) as a sign of respect to the victor, and the latter then returned the salute "palm down" in acknowledgement and mutual respect.

[@dantecruz9463]

@@tyrantrex734 the navy's palm down was because when the queen was visiting all of the sailors hands were dirty so she wanted their palms down

[@dantecruz9463]

@@tyrantrex734 their palms were up before

[@kvjqxzz5905]

the Germans did it too - office workers attached to factories went to their office job even the factory attached has been precision bombed out - being bombed puts the little things into perspective

[@karlordorff3522]

K Vjqxzz what?.....

[@HEMPoneDTS]

Holy shit that was edited but I think it's still missing a few commas or sense or something...

[@DC-mf5ex]

No one gives a fuck about the Germans.

[@K1llerTunes]

They were also controlled by a brutal dictator, they didn't have a choice.

[@DC-mf5ex]

Liam-Ron of Zena what a pathetic excuse. They all had a choice. Fucking Nazi apologist

[@johnwilletts3984]

Quotation of my grandmother born 1880,s “Those young foreign gentleman came over here without an invitation and made such a noise, it’s a wonder that the government ever allowed it”

[@Kore_YT]

Hey dad

[@Ayden_B]

Soft Kore hi son

[@WJames-nq2df]

Father

[@Ayden_B]

W. James son

[@colespradlin6994]

Soft Kore I just finished watching your insane people Facebook video 2 minutes ago

[@Corosar]

Shepard

[@kekero540]

500$ for a goddamn photograph??? That’s just abuse at that point.

[@c.l.h.bokhorst6687]

It's €475.- or €425.- (there are 2 prices for 1 photo) for me, but still way too fu***ng high for a historical photo that should be public and free!

Thats a general license. Can be got for a lot less for a specific use

[@xkinsey3831]

Since when did the currency symbol start going after the number? It's $500 not 500$

[@kekero540]

British Tiger that’s because you don’t fucking say apostrophes. You say 500 dollars you don’t say don apostrophe t

[@xkinsey3831]

Kekero It doesn't matter. If that's your logic, The don't say 500 dollars anymore because if you're going to completely disregard the English writing system, then say 500 cifrão instead. Just because that's how you say it, doesn't mean you type it that way. You pronounce Choir as "kwy-ar" but you don't spell it like that do you.

[@Konsolenrocker88]

I'm swiss and even i have my usual cup of builder's tea while watching this video

[@cambs0181]

British in 1940 Oh my house has been bombed, ah well carry on! British in2019 My phone has ran out of battery, my life s over!!!!!

[@luvee659]

ok boomer

[@simon4781]

Ok boomer

[@itzimperiumxvi2620]

ok boomer

[@twoscarabsintheswarm9055]

Ok boomer

[@gigachadsigmamale380]

ok boomer

[@oliviamccormack855]

My grandad is another example of old British people being tough, he broke his neck last year and when the ambulance came the only thing he wanted was a cup of tea and a biscuit.

[@Miru_Man]

Bloody Getty Images

[@CraftAero]

Stiff upper lip and all.

[@David_Bower]

Stiff in the lip, limp in the.....

[@marcusmyburgh3766]

British weather be like: Clear skies with a chance of heavy raid.(heavy rainfall joke).

[@elexceer6226]

Make Britain Great Again

[@tsmith0187]

ELEXCEER calm down, Nigel

[@tomo366]

@@tsmith0187 Nah fam we gotta for real

[@outback1660]

Make Great Britain again

[@glizzybeard7366]

We've always been great bcs we don't care and are normally the oposit of our stereotype which is funny

[@shootgunman1460]

*mediocre

[@martynbush]

Love your grasp of the war time mentality. My dad was a commando in WW2 and my mum (who had yet to meet dad) was in the civil service working in Admiralty Arch in London. I grew up with war stories from all my large extended family but dad would never tell me how many Germans he killed. Must have been a few as he served in Italy and North Africa, often behind enemy lines. Love your patriotism. Wish a few more of the snowflake generation felt like this. Keep up the good work.

[@chef_loudencer6040]

My Great Grandmother apparently left her shelter during a raid simply to get her turkey out of the oven, the lengths that people would go was amazing

[@piercemorgan9711]

is no one gonna talk about how the RAF targeted the civilian population in Berlin which caused the Germans to start the blitz in retaliation.

[@maxjones503]

Hail Brittania? Are you joking?

[@thedooter6342]

Max Jones plus the salute its palm out.

[@theant9821]

@@thedooter6342 its palm down in the royal navy though.

[@catrinacorbett1579]

Actually the British regulation of colonial American goods made them cheaper, the driving force behind the American revolution was the smuggling trade and unrest about Britain refusing to let us invade more Native territories to expand our borders. So blame manifest destiny rather than tea

[@catrinacorbett1579]

Political Crusader to be clear I wasn't commenting in favor of manifest destiny, not that it matters now. It would be interesting how history would have turned out if the American Revolution never happened and we remained under British control for another hundred + years

[@gopher3572]

Political Crusader So in my district you begin to learn about American history in 8th grade, we didn't learn anything about George but there was a song that depicted him as crazy.

[@robertharris6092]

@@catrinacorbett1579 the americans went mad they were taxed. They were mad they didnt habe any voice or vote on how they were taxed. The vast majority of americans were loyal to the crown. They just wanted a voice in parliament. But england was stubborn as were the american. i recomend watch extra credits series on the articles of confederation.

[@corncrackerkid5092]

One of my favorite Blitz photos was of a lady sitting on a pile of rubble of what was probably her flat and drinking her morning tea, more than likely taking a break from cleaning up and acting not bothered at all

[@shortbus1990]

A) I want to live my life with the wherewithal of a British person in the blitz. B) Please do a video on the British view point of the American Revolution, I think it would be a fun perspective.

[@seabreeze4559]

treason to the crown and cheating with special wood for ships

[@russbramley1270]

You were doing really well until you saluted like an american

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

5:12 people often act the sanest whe nthey are in insane situations: "The city is burning and being blown up? what do I care I have to earn a living"

[@IdoMuffin]

As someone who works in the NHS taking calls from the public, "I don't mean to be a bother" may aswell be a codephrase for "I'm about to go into cardiac arrest or a stroke" It's bloody uncanny how many of them are actually in legit need of proper medical attention.

[@XbotcrusherX]

"I'd have survived that" I fucking lost it, that was hilarious.

[@bbmikej]

I would have loved to ave gone through the American Revolution museum with you. As an American I would have found it hilarious.

[@Englishman_and_mountains]

Why?

[@bbmikej]

@@Englishman_and_mountains this was 3 years ago, you think I remember?

[@Englishman_and_mountains]

@@bbmikej lol

[@duckydae]

Honestly my granda was one of the kindest men I’d ever met and there’s one story that just proves how much of a badass he was. He got his leg ran over, was taken to hospital in an ambulance but once he was there, he got bored and walked it home.

[@random3x70]

This also happened after the 7/7 attacks. People went on with their days recognising something bad has happened but the show must go on. It's why terrorism will never really work on English people as a whole. Because we just get back on with what we were doing because it needs to be done.

[@itsbehindu2022]

You mean the British because look at what happened at Glasgow airport terrorist tried attacking it instead of running away some people attack the guy after they crashed the jeep into the building

[@willp975]

🇬🇧🇬🇧 RULE BRITTANIA INTENSIFIES 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@wallymcguire2033]

These stories make today’s micro aggressions seem a little ridiculous. How far we have fallen.

[@markjscottfilms]

I think what makes Britain not give a f*ck is because we have beaten each other up for so long it takes a lot to impress us.

[@merrikfenn5690]

Hell yeah, proud to be british 😏

[@hamish8150]

I don't know where I heard it but my favourite part of that is an old woman talking about her time in the blitz and they would huddle loads of people into underground train stations and she said "we could barely get any sleep because of the noise" and someone asked her "oh what because of all the bombs?" Her response. "oh no it was because everyone was having sex"

[@jesse85]

That just sums up the British attitude as a whole.

[@RoleReverse]

The UK is literally the dog sitting in a house, on fire sipping tea saying “this is fine” meme.

[@babalon7778]

My faith in humanity just went up for some mysterious reason, thank you for giving me something to think about! When I was homeless I had the same sort of reaction, I think humans were meant to be directly involved in their daily lives, rather than getting food from convenient packages and news from screens. It's often fun to struggle against the odds, it makes me feel alive.

[@Anidem9]

Now I wanna play the Sims with a British attitude setting xD

[@anthonymtz1890]

Off topic but 11:32 makes me wonder what the British are taught about the war. Here the U.S. we're taught that we won and we were the underdogs and such but is it the same over there or do we both use propaganda?

[@cardellkenith]

Mediocre Editz having just recently finished A-level history over here. we did British warfare starting just after the American Revolution. and i don't really remember being taught it in depth before hand as my GCSE was filled with medicine through history. But generally we understand that we had an inexperienced king and we were still struggling with recovering from the 7 years war with France beforehand (which was why we started taxing the shit out of you, we were broke as fuck) We had a strong navy, but so did the French and I believe many of our advancements in the navy of the time which gave us the edge came after the revolutionary war. that said, we were powerful and probably still should have won, but it should be known that we were basically fighting two wars, America on land with the rebellion spirit of "never give up" and our long time rivals at sea with the French, who were keen to get revenge for the British victory in the 7 years war. to stress though, I haven't been directly taught anything about the revolutionary war, but if the wars afterwards (Napoleon, Crimea, 2nd Boer) were to give me any idea, than our main cause of loss would have been that we were overconfident after the recent victory in the 7 years war, and went into the fight thinking "they're only rebels, no match for the Glorious British Empire that defeated the French" That problem came came with us into the other wars i mentioned, only then we recovered from it quickly and could fight full again. In the revolutionary war, we didn't, and we lost America to the underdog rebels because of it.

[@cardellkenith]

one thing we are definitely taught though is how we came back and kicked your ass in 1812, as a side piece to the Napoleonic wars (we fought the French A LOT)

[@anthonymtz1890]

That One Panda Okay cool thanks. I was very interested in this because I've always kept the famous notion that history is written by the victors and I wanted to be more informed about the other side.

[@England91]

That One Panda Also America had help from the French government

[@stevenpuckitt212]

History may not be solely written by the victors, but corporate and state sponsored propaganda is typically all a lot of people bother learning nonetheless. There are Americans to this very day that believe we were super nice and tight with the natives because of what we're taught in elementary school about Thanksgiving. Yes, the real truth is easily obtainable, but most people don't care enough to correct the propaganda of the victors that we're bombarded with in k-12 history classes. Even in this very video they downplayed the bad stuff, as mentioned in the popup text, which gives a false impression of the time. People have a habit of romanticizing the past and tend to prefer that version of it over the truth, or rather the whole truth.

[@chanceparrish4407]

The cup is iconic. Love the fact that he actually did it. Fucking love these videos.

[@weiyin8046]

you can’t break the morale of people who never had any to begin with!

[@koukouland]

I really admire that quality of the British! At the end of the day, life goes on and we have to make the best of any situation. Screaming and crying isn't going to feed the family!

[@RedeyeGaming]

Fun fact: The entire blitz could of been avoided. When a German bomber thought it was over a military target it dropped it's bombs but the bomber was unaware it was off-course and it dropped bombs on a British town. Churchill then responded by bombing civilians in Germany. Hitler, thinking it was for no reason responded with a speech in which he said for every one bomb dropped on Germany a 1000 would be dropped on Britain. Then the Blitz began.

[@aussieginger1960]

wouldn't call that a "Fun fact" so much as an appalling confluence of events that cost the lives of innocent people.

[@crazydocphoenix9436]

I'm not paying those taxes! Shit... I'm still am paying taxes to the USA Instead of the UK. FLICK!

[@Achillesiskillable]

Check out the Australian Emu Wars! It would be great subject matter for a video!

[@zbotlive2710]

Yesssss

[@LaughVader]

Do you have a podcast? This stuff is hilarious 😂😂

[@deg2272]

“Wow, all this bloodshed could’ve been avoided if you’d paid your taxes” XD

[@alk3mystix]

'he turned the Britons into Spartans' sums up this entire video I haven't laughed this hard in a while

[@activouslegionis5910]

Yet, when a "snow storm" hits london, it's full on chaos XD

[@selfpro5596]

"I would of survived then!" savage LOL brilliant!

[@PhoenixPalmer88]

I know this is over a year old, but goddamn that was some good keyframing on the tea.

[@kozlowskinator6056]

There's a running joke in my family that my grandad is eternally young. Everytime people ask his age he says he's 25.

[@DancaniaX]

We need Britain to grab those prideful times again.

[@hikaru9624]

Daft things is that attitude more than likely helped us win the war with our allies, if they didn't go to work in the factories we could have lost the battle of Britain. People then were made of sterner stuff (British steel probably) and we're made of soft shit.

[@antonyevans9772]

As Jonesy said in Dad's Army, the only thing the Americans ever charged was 10% on the money they lent us! (Disclaimer: This isn't my opinion, it's just a joke from a tv show)

[@Luke-th1xe]

6-1 BRITAIN!!!

[@leosteventon7732]

nerodanger 87 Um no England

[@Luke-th1xe]

Hearing Python dude we won

[@leosteventon7732]

nerodanger 87 Yea we did. England did, not Britain.

[@Luke-th1xe]

Hearing Python fair point 👌

[@niekpauwels9569]

Gonna get kicked by Belgium though.

[@DaAtheniatron]

A note about what Karl says about the mortality rates is that the Americans didn't use bayonets. I remember seeing somewhere that the British Generals were horrified when they learnt of this, certainly for the civil war, as the two sides would stand and shoot each other till only one side was left standing. You compare this to Europe where almost every battle would end with some form of bayonet charge. It's a lot scarier to be faced with a mass of angry men with big pointy things on their guns running at you than just being shot at, hence why people were more likely to rout when faced with the bayonet. Plus, at that time anyway, I believe that a bayonet wound was much harder to fix and much more painful too. A note about bayonet charges as a whole, is that in recent years there are, of course, less bayonet charges but the British a way above any other armed forces for the number of bayonet charges. There was an incident in Iraq, I think, where the opposing forces were told that the British wouldn't dismount or attack back when they ambushed. So in the ambush the British got out their vehicles and after a short fire fight fixed bayonets and went after the guys shooting at them. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10776062/Al-Sweady-revealing-the-battlefield-lies-that-scar-for-ever.html thats a link for the bayonet attack I was talking about, it mentions it about half way through.

[@kennethchayee2196]

*Nuke Drops on Britain* “Oh it was quite the nuclear weather wasn’t it Margaret?”

[@markletts2000]

The blitz is a little more obscure..is this actually well documented ...😳..Really,...now things make sense...

[@spacemarines1371]

Imagine aliens invading earth watched this.

[@Gamerguy826]

Britian would be a psychological nightmare for them.

[@DarrensHighlights]

This video is a video version of traditional historiography, that is not to say that this video is completely untruthful as much of what you said regarding the British stoicism were true however there were major regional exceptions to this, revisionist work by Summers and Field are definitely worth a good read. Enjoyable video nonetheless

[@maxjones503]

Damn Getty Images.

[@fen7662]

Speaking of tough old people... One time my Grandma fell and broke her hip and instead of calling for help, just pulled herself up on a chair because my uncle, who is so untrustworthy that his own mom wouldn't leave him alone in the house, was coming to visit. She sat in that chair for hours with a broken hip visiting with my uncle until he left and she could call my dad. Same woman at one point was given 6 months to live because of cervical cancer, beat it, and then lived over 30 more years.