She was also technically Elizabeth II of England and Wales and First of Scotland (cf James VI/I and James VII/II)

And he has an awesome voice. Very calm and soothing. After the strike is over with (hopefully) the people on strike getting what they deserve, I want to hear his calm smooth tones in more media. Movies, TV, Video Games, etc.

Tyler Rumple (British reactions) / Tyler Bucket (Canadian reactions) also looks stuff up if he hears things that he doesn't understand though he poauses far too frequently, and seldom seems to really listen. He hears how things are pronounced and repeats them correctly but then goes ahead and mispronounces them anyway, which is annoying. He also asks for comments but does not seem to read any and has only ever once responded to any. Unlike Tyler, JJ is one of the, (if not _The_) best reactors, imo. 🖖

Agreed! His reactions are a pleasure to watch. An intelligent and charming guy, for sure.

Steve (Reacting To My Roots) from Indiana, also requests help, links, advice etc, in the comments - and, like JJ here, he actually reads and responds to them. (Steve also "hearts" in response to his "favourite' comments Steve learns from them and the videos he watches). It's as pleasing to watch and follow Steve, as it is to JJ. ☺️☺️ ... It is a tad 'less' enjoyable responding to Tyler Rumple - UK (aka Tyler Bucket - Canada) and to Ryan Wuzer - Australia (also both from Indiana) as they both request our comments, yet both seem not to read the comments, to interact with, or learn from the comments...though Tyler does often Google stuff he doesn't understand and both seem to learn from the videos they watch, at least. (...though it surprises me at times, how little they all seem to know about, or have heard of, regarding the countries they're reacting to, but then,that's the whole point of these videos of course. 🤔☺️ Sometimes, we learn too, so that's always a bonus, imo. ☺️❤️☺️❤️☺️❤️🖖

He's an actor, I believe. With a voice like his, he should get a lot of voiceover work.

Yes! I want him to do a mindfulness or sleep podcast....

Yep, me too. 😕🇬🇧

Its also the oldest and first flag created.

Yep. That’s what I was taught up here in Edinburgh too.

Ulster flag has a yellow background.

@justlikebuttah there is one with a yellow background but I have never seen it flown here

I have. The white background is thyNi banner.

What about the Saint Patrick's Saltire diagonal cross?

In heraldry you can only have one lion at a time. If there's more than one they're leopards. Yeah, I know, pretty obvious innit.

But many don't know

I saw this fact mentioned on qi, a rerun, quite recently

Usual England based nonsense, which cannot differentiate between England and Britain. Probably because the guy making the video knows almost nothing about Scotland, Wales and N Ireland. The product of an English education.

There's a lot more, and serious things, wrong with it than that.

​@sunnyjim1355 I know, but let's have fun at least for a little bit.

Only some of the people in the London area say 'ri-vuh', most of the rest of us Brits actually say River correctly. I'll let you off with 'temz' though.

The first swans shown had black bills and so were trumpeter swans, an American species definitely not occurring in the UK. The second was a single orange-billed mute swan which is the British species.

​@Thurgosh_OG, it's just easy to show how to pronounce it. Yes river is pronounced correctly. But if your trying to teach someone how to say something by text how can you.

You are a bit out of touch there - The Admiralty used both names (Flag and Jack) interchangeably from the seventeenth century onwards, irrespective of use. An Admiralty Circular of 1902 pronounced that either name was officially valid. And in 1908 Parliament approved this verdict, confirming that 'The Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag'. Also Wales was not included as it was a Principality of England at the time and Wales only got officially recognised as a country again in 2011.

Only about 120 + years out of date... But hey! whose counting. The Union Jack, or Union Flag, is the de facto national flag of the United Kingdom. According to the Flag Institute (the vexillological charity), "the national flag of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories is the Union Flag, which may also be called the Union Jack."

​​@@stewedfishproductions7959 never heard the word "vexillological" before but I know what it means now.. Thanks for getting my daily "learning moment" out of the way before lunch 👍..... Just can't wait to use the phrase "Big Vexillology" next time I'm winding up the symbology crowd 😉..

@@Rachel_M_ Nice to learn new things... I too learnt several today - the hardest part is remembering it all... 😎

@@stewedfishproductions7959 i recently started exploring Welsh.. Some lessons are harder than others 😂

No it's not. You can call it the Union Jack OR Union Flag, whenever. They are both correct.

Northern Ireland doesn't have an official flag. The Act of Union was in 1707. Just because the Monarch was the same doesn't mean that England and Scotland weren't two separate countries. Scots is an officially recognised language. The Monarch has a lot more powers than you imagine. The Monarch can veto laws, dismiss the government on a whim and also choose who the Prime Minister is. The Monarch can pick anyone to be PM. Doesn't have to be an MP. The last Queen of England died in 1603 btw.

After de Gaulle died. Just think how much better things would be if we'd stayed out back then and not got conned by yet another Government with an agenda.

Remember to say we were taken in to the 'common market' as it was called at the time by Ted Heaths government without a vote. The referendum (to remain in) came along in 1975.

and that was of course before it morphed into the over reaching and unrepresentative political force that it is now that dictates laws to it's members from an unelected elitist council. @@petergordon4525

Yeah, and the UK didn't join the EU in 1979, firstly because it didn't exist until 1993, and secondly we joined its forerunner the EEC in 1973.

Yes and we got dragged into the later politically domineering version without being asked if that is what we wanted it to become. @@flashmcglash

And the monarch doesn’t own all the swans only most swans on one stretch of the Thames.

40.3c to be exact.

Taken from Heathrow Airport runway, doesn't count.

@@worldVHS Heathrow is not in Lincolnshire.

I love haggis and I'm English 🇬🇧

Windsor Castle is more weekend/country retreat for King and Queen, as when they are in London they live in Clarence House

That is the case for the current King and Queen, however for her late majesty and the duke of Edinburgh they preferred to stay in Windsor most of the time. @@isabellajones-hyde9194

Wow, you know what Stonehenge is for. I think there are lots of historical societies want to talk to you.

lots of people know what Stonehenge is for... it's essentially a big calendar.@@Cheezsoup

And the number is too low, theres about 3000 in various states of repair in Scotland alone, Wales has more than 600 and from what I can find England has at least 4000.

Wales has only 600, but that is more per square mile than anywhere else in the world

Beat me to it.

We haven't had an official flag since 1973. The flag we use is what we have chosen for ourselves, that's the Ulster Banner. The saltire is in the Union Jack. Both great flags.

The flag you have described is called the Ulster banner which was used from 1953-1973 but since then there has not been an official flag of Northern Ireland.

With a raised middle finger by any chance?

@@NordieJMany of us Scots prefer 'The Lion Rampant' for our flag. Takes away any religious connections, as we're not into that stuff as much as others are.

Yep, 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything.

And it's not even the longest in the world, as I think a place in New Zealand holds that title.

Cross between sounding like Michael Jackson and looking a bit like henry cavill😂

For Scotland, actually. England's lion is gold.

@@neuralwarp Welp, thanks for pointing that out, I did also just remember the lions were blue not red on English football t-shirts as well, oops.

Follow joolz guides for far better information about London and the uk

@@neuralwarp They are blue on the football logo (for some reason)

There's also a Scottish flag called the Lion Rampant. Bright yellow background with the Red Lion reared up on its back legs and its 2 front paws out and ready to punch somebody.

But what was the question?

So long, and thanks for all the fish. 🐬

True. Wales only regained it's official recognition as a separate country in 2011.

"Grave" does not the grave of someone, it actually means "land" hence "Lands end"

Pre-decimal was a doddle, then the wretches in Parliament changed it for the worse, and we all had to learn a new system to figure out how we were being ripped off.

Lots of pubs are also Spoonerism. Like Boar's Head, for example.

It's delicious

The Americans I know hate it.

We were told at school that the 'ball' in the game's early versions was a Frenchman's head!! 🙄🇬🇧

You are only about 120 + years out of date... But hey! whose counting. 😃 FYI: The Union Jack, or Union Flag, is the 'de facto' national flag of the United Kingdom. According to the Flag Institute (the vexillological charity), "the national flag of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories is the Union Flag, which may also be called the Union Jack." Additionally: The Admiralty used both names (Flag and Jack) interchangeably from the seventeenth century onwards, irrespective of use. An Admiralty Circular of 1902 pronounced that either name was officially valid. And in 1908 Parliament approved this verdict, confirming that 'The Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag'.

I believe horses are still sold in guineas.

I think it was a great pity that we lost our old coins. I was 25 when we were forced to (sort of!!) convert to metric. The 'shilling' had been in use since the seventh century AD, I believe, and the 'penny' (written as 'd' for denarius), since Roman times. We still have pennies (but now written as 'p', but what a shame that we lost the old name 'shilling'. 😕🇬🇧

Shillings were still legal tender until end of 1990. UK was very slow in upgrading to decimal currency. Russia being the first in 1704. France in 1795 . Mexico in 1860. USA have only ever had decimal dollars. (Since 1862) . Only 2 countries are still to go decimal.

​​​@@HamnaTabuuThat's right in the sense that the coins were still in circulation because they were identical in shape and size to the "5 New Pence" piece. They were never referred to as shillings after 1971 (gas excepted, see below), however. The same applied to the two shilling piece which equated to 10 new pence. The tanner (6d) was also in circulation for a time too, equivalent to 2 and a half new pence. For a limited period, you could even spend the old copper pennies and threepenny bits as long as you did so in batches to the exact value of 6d (2.5 p in new money). It didn't seem confusing at all to me as a 16 year old but everyone agreed that the whole exercise was a rip-off as every price in the shops was always rounded *up* to the nearest equivalent in new money, *never* down despite government promises. Shillings were what you put in your gas meter at the time of the changeover to new money. Quite possibly elderly people referred to the new 5p coins as shillings for that purpose. One of the delights of the old money was that it was not uncommon to be given pennies with 19th century dates and with Queen Victoria's head on them, most often where she is wearing widow's to mourn Albert and her small crown, but, occasionally, her younger portrait with her hair in a bun. Edward VII pennies were common, as were George V florins (2 shillings = 10p). Since 1971, every single coin has Elizabeth II and no one else.

There's a higher one at Universal Studios in California, but it's less scary because its outdoors and seeing the sky helps with the the trapped feeling.

It was horrible. Even the night time was bad. I was sat in my living room with two fans on me and it was still 36 degrees in there. I actually went to Lidl for some stuff and there was actually a breeze, it was so hot it was like a dragon breathing on me. My enduring memory of that day was getting to Lidl and it feeling like heaven walking around the cooler aisle with everyone moving suspiciously slow.