Nostalgia

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@@Chineseisntalanguageapparently wdym

@@RoTerra217 I mean before he personified himself with drawings, he used to be just a KZfaqr

@@Chineseisntalanguageapparently Makes sense

Wolfeson28 Yep. In particular the monarchy drove the union formation through the bribing of Scottish nobility. Wanted to unify its parliaments.

Wolfeson28 Yeah massive hole in that video. As well as the flags were united during and the instruction of James VI/I

+Matthew Frank PLUS the fact that under Cromwell Scotland was invaded and forcibly unified!

Alexander Marshall Both *Ireland* and *Scotland* were annexed to the English Commonwealth during Cromwell's rule.

Yeah, but this video is only about Scotland

worse would be greeks in Greenland.

Yup, plus civilization gone mad.

I had the mughal empire and the iroquis trade regions once, it lead to an indian province the middle of America and a native american province in the middle of india

dragonkingofthestars I

In one of my games, Russia held Cuba for the whole second half of the 18th century.

Two podcasts even! Cortex is pretty good too.

Perfectly natural phase of life. Worry not my dear.

Is that a Ric Flair Whooa

Jay Plejaren more like a Keanu Reeves "whoa"

sorry to disapoint but the union stands but a mire 5% strong

Brady Ward Correction 10% Strong. 55.3% No, 44.7%. 2 million wanted to stay in the UK and 1.6 million wanted to leave the UK. 400K is a big difference when the country is so small.

Nope.

+Saifthebest01 Eddie Izzard - an English Comic from the 90's - has a big sketch about how England took over the world through the use of Flag and being awfully polite.

I love that Eddie Izard sketch

@Posh C*** If you want to be technical, it is English and correct. Anyway, nice *reference*

I mean it’s CGP Grey, I’d be more surprised if that wasn’t the case

he forgot a portuguese flag in Brazil

I think that comes from Scrooge McDuck

Athiestforlife777 I think it's the other way round: Scrooge is like that because of the cliché of the Scotsmen. The stereotype is way older than Carl Barks invention of Scrooge McDuck.

Sir Harry Lauder usually takes the blame for envoking that stereotype.

PokeEmblem 692 Yeah he was born in Glasgow I think

PokeEmblem 692 all I know is Mr Krabs is an Irish

Mitjitsu That's right, not such a democratic procedure.... It also went against English Law, and the Scottish Constitution, which is why attempts to unify the two kingdoms were denied previously, (there was previous attempts to unite the two countries into one). The Act of Union of 1707 is an illegal creation that which was created by Elites for their own purpse. How this occured was the corruption of the English Parliament to ratify the Act.

Right, because free and fair votes were happening all over the world in the 17th century.

+Rex .Utimatum But if it hadn't have happened Scotland would have been invaded by England without choice. And for 1707 I think it was a democratic procedure when the normal thing to do would have been to annex Scottish territory.

+Robloxian BBC News Not many countries actually opt to be invaded by choice! There was no certainty it would have gone that way. Nor any certainty if force was used it would have worked.England had tried on and off for 600 years to subsume Scotland.Who know what would have happened if force was actually deployed Truth was neither side wanted war particularly from an economic standpoint.

Alan McEwing Scotland had no economy in 1707 they blew it by heavily investing in a failed colonisation project.

bro portugal itself is effectively a british colony with local laws and representation.

@@mahmoodali5043 what?

yup.

summer now. algarve is packed with lagostas (means lobsters) we called english tourists lobsters because they try to get a tan like the more darker skin colour and used to the climate Mediterranean people. obviously they are way too white for that and get easily sunburn and turn orange and look like lobsters.

Haha, I'm a British person on holiday in the Algarve right now

Met a Portuguese girl recently and was excited to tell her all about my holidays in Portugal! She took one look at me and said "Algarve?" RIP my dreams of appearing cultured...

Just like Benidorm in Spain

The Irish wear kilts too.

ikeknights they don't look manly though.

***** lol

ikeknights and welsh

ikeknights no we don't :)

"No flag! No Country! That's the rules ...that I've just made up" I know what ya mean

Well basically: We (germans) Had a king. That king was elected by lords (we had like 6-7 of them I think) who ruled over places roughly the size of saxony or bavaria. To get elected, he had to promise these lords or power or straight up bribe them which is why they got more and more power over time until we completely fell apart and were only one country by name. Oh and the king used to be crowned Kaiser by the pope, didn't change his direct power, but was huge for prestige. A few unification wars and a whole lot of bismarck later, we had the second Reich, the Kaiser-Reich up until Willhelm the Second and World War 1. BtW which is why the nazi germany was called the Third Reich. (Reich meaning kinda "Realm" and " Kingdom" at the same time) .

Basically Germany

@MrMarmalad nothing of the sorts. Asia is made up of many different cultures whilst the area inhabited by the hre was all german besides the few italian states. Today its a bit different as Germany and Austria have lost lots of land since then but the core of the hre is still where germans live today.

The HRE in a nutshell A mess

any idea what its called?

@@XDflamesoffury dwarf fortress

No flag, no country! Those are the rules that... I just made up! And I'm backing it up with this gun!

That I've borrowed from the National Rifle Associations!

My mind was blown.

+cultureshock72 Mate is your middle name Colombo?

Arctik39 I can't tell if you're making fun of me or not lol.

+cultureshock72 Actually, that is not completly true. The Union Jack is a combination between Scotland's flag, England's flag and the flag of the former Kingdom of Ireland.

See now I thought it was England, Scotland, and Wales from one of his more recent videos.

That moment I was five Also I'm swedish Also it's the kingdom of Ireland's flag too It makes the red cross that makes no sense except for matching with the scottish white cross

There is a third component which becomes part of it later on; the Irish Cross, representing Northern Ireland.

The beauty is that the Australian Flag is blue because of Scotland.

It's blue because of the ocean. Unless you mean the blue part of their Jack.

Sam Wolfenstein The blue around the flag is for continuity with thew colour of Scotland. Similar to the flag of Azad-Kashmir using the shade of Green present on the Pakistan Flag. Maybe it is not blue for Scotland, bu the colour which dominates the flag is what it is because of Scotland. :)

Makes me proud to be British when I see all those flags that marked out our territory.Many Irish catholics in the 19th century joined the famous Irish regiments that fought as Britons but were lost after 1922 and partition does that not make your chest swell with pride Paul (lol mate)

LEGGIE 65 LEGGIE65 chest swell if your Scottish independence but not british, now your just grown adults who never left the british orphanage that you were left in 1707 by your Scottish ancestors.

As I said to you in earlier posts there's many Catholic No's and theres many Protestant yes's the country is divided you may end up with many James Connelly types or Wolfe tones as many Protestant yessers said after the vote they were going to Ireland to stay.

I stumbled across this comment exactly 10 years after you wrote it.

+Dirk Bogan it was 2011 chill man

IntensePeppers: They must have been good sailors.....according to the animation they sailed right across Ireland !!

@@paganphil100 lol

i agree, alot of people are misunderstood about the relationship between scotland and england

a couple where one of the partners, The Woman, England, Takes way more than her fair share :P

Fukhead McPot racist AND sexist... well done

***** However the majority voted to stay and so our kingdoms stay as one. However, Scotland (along with Wales and Northern Ireland) were given more power to rule over their separate countries.

Hey...

Churchill said that? neat.

Scotland wouldn't be honoured if a murderer psychopath said good things about it

apple's lover wtf?

Churchill was a murderous psychopath who committed several war crimes, numerous crimes against humanity, and denied the native american genocide.

Duatia That is absolutely untrue I don’t know where you heard it but that’s BS. If it wasn’t for him you would be living under a Nazi regime

Or more likely like Norway or Denmark, considering the population, geography and natural resources available.Certainly would have been very different but who knows

DMPepe Hi - I think if you look at the development of Law and Commerce in England, Scots made major contributions to modernize a legal system that had been adopted unchanged from essentially-Norman Law. Law in Scotland, on the other hand,, while it introduced elements of Feudalism,, was continuously developed to incorporate many European elements including some Roman Law

Very much doubt it mate considering to this very day Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is still the 14th richest country in the world As part of uk no.6 richest

Or 'How Scotland united with England'. The UK didn't exist until 1801. The kingdom of Great Britain was actually a country rather than a union, that is until Ireland joined.

Anglo-Saxons land in England. They conquer Cornwall. They try to conquer Scotland but fail. They try to conquer Wales but fail. They try again and win. Henry VIII unites England and Wales.

The Anglo-Saxons didn’t try to conquer Wales because they were too busy dealing with the vikings .

@BeastlyVoldemort - I’m not sure that’s needed given that the reason Wales joined the U.K. was because at the time it was considered a part of the Kingdom of England .

@@Valencetheshireman927 this comment came out 6 years ago and your still trying to correct it

@@womanrespector7373 actually I was responding more to the comment from five months ago again I was trying to correct it for other people to see rather than the person who write who most likely won’t see this

Brutus Dogwurth I think so

Sure is

Yes Crazy.Or was it? The canal showed what was possible.Patterson was just ahead of his time, but combined with lack of logistical planning it was at same time inept and over ambitious for a country our size and resources Same guy who helped found the Bank Of England so not a dolt. I rather admire the fact they had a bash against the big European powers despite their own king basically doing all he could to thwart it. If not for that lots of foreign investors would have shared the losses and so Scots nobles and merchants and burghs would not have been over invested.

No.That was the union of the crowns.James VI tried for political union too but was opposed mainly by English parliament.

in what language?

@@ashaydwivedi420 Latin I think

@@ashaydwivedi420 or probably scottish

He is talking about when England and Scotland united *Politically*. It is not the same thing when a monarchy unites. Although they had the same king, they still governed themselves.

Spudfud And Ewanwii Thanks for explanation. CGP should've clarified that in the video, makes the whole thing a bit misleading.

No problem :)

James Stuart had two different sets of heraldry after 1603, one for each country. There was a union act in 1603 which allowed commissioners from both countries to investigate the matter but actual union of the two countries didn't take place until the Acts of Union (1706 and 1707).

Quite so Bryon. And when union did come about Scotland was pressurised into it economically after the Scottish Parliament suggested they would choose a different monarch from England on the death of Queen Anne unless guarantees of non interference in domestic Scottish matters were given

but we will never understood the new changed flag of UK after Scotland break up from rest of the UK!

David Black oof

@David Black - IF

Actually that played no part in the union; James VI and I was the first king of the two countries in 1603, the Act of Union that made the Kingdom of Great Britain didn't happen until 1707. From 1603 to 1707 the two countries were independent of each other and just shared a monarch.

Well we were a kingdom up until 1707

It's sort of true, Great Britain is merely the geographical term for the both nations united together, I think CGP meant that Scotland joined the union of England (Wales) and Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Simon Cooke Great Britain was a nation before the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the 1800s.

I blame the BBC. The BBC is the most bias organisation in this country and have a lot to answer for. Not only that but they HATE England. It is evident now with the Scottish referendum. Now that there is call for "English devolution", the BBC are egging on the idea of "regional assemblies". Now if the BBC weren't bias, they would be looking at all of the proposals on the table to answer England's devolution crisis. They'd be proposing the same as what has been granted to Scotland i.e. an English Parliament. But no, you won't hear that get a mention by the BBC, not ever. They're disgusting.

Christopher Reeves Totally true, but I don't know why they hate England, it's so strange?

Flame thrower The shite we get taught at school is amazing, pure and utter propaganda. Really, the history lessons boil up hate and make the English look evil and concentrates to no extent on how Scotland was an utter shithole until it united with England. And minimum wage Scottish people blame that on England; they have to find something to blame their misfortunes on, and usually it's England. Jeez, Westminster isn't exactly perfect, what what the hell makes these people think that Alex Salmond will make everything better? Will a big fuckin' rainbow appear and Salmond, in a tutu, will fly to their house and sprinkle magical dust at them and suddenly they'll become rich and happy? Plus, the entire population of Scotland is actually lower than that of London, of course we're not being fucking prioritized!

Because whisky.

Because modern roads, the television, popularising the telephone, phone lines begets a telecommunication network which begets the internet which begets wireless communication which begets your smartphone...the very thing you read this on is made by the science built on scottish foundations about 100 years ago. Plus all Scotlands work in philosophy and the arts, our beginnings of abolishing slavery in British parliament and our outlook towards human rights.

...and IRN BRU

Krontok aye but whiskey mainly

Aye whiskey mainly

Yes, a lot of the Yes voters are uninformed and just wanted to give a middle finger to England "HA! LOOK AT US! HAHAHA! WHAT'RE YA GONNA DO NOW!?". They don't really think about the actual consequences of independence.

@@RobitskiStudios A bit like Brexit then

@@kevingeoghegan294 gottem