Of course we are, I thought everybody knew that. DOH

In the middle,at the top..

Surely you are aware theres a show called little Britain 😆

Britain by longitude & latitude is coincidentally located at the centre of the world.

WE WERE GODS! 🤣

Harrison I .. IV chronometer.

You needed the clock to tell you the time in London, you would then compare noon in your location to noon in Greenwich, knowing this difference tells you the position east or West.

One of which made them rich on only fools and horses😊

​@@davehoward22😅😅😅

​@@neuralwarpAnd he got shafted for his efforts, just like Tommy Flowers for building the first computer. They never take the boot off the working class' head.

I promise you it really doesn't matter that much 😂

Royal Navy is the military, British navy would be more the commercial fleet, British registered ships engaged in commerce and trade

@@keefbeef2002Yes, known as the Merhcant Marine some years ago.

Greenwich is in Outer London.

It was when it was built, now it's just part of Greater London. Me I live on the other side of London, in the North West. ❤

Also known as God's Wonderful railway

"was" - it's been in Dartmouth for 25 years.

@@Ibis117 Sorry, I should have written was, twere a slip of the keystroke!

"And WE tell the Germans what time they sit down ,for their lunch"

"we invented work"!

The last sentence is possibly too subtle for many, to the west of us?

Yeah, its views are interesting indeed. Personaly i would not mind its cinical remarks since i believe that they are deserved. The problem is that he always aim his negativity at the same group. He never mentions the other groups that have a past as "human" (?) as the one victim that jonnhy boy likes so much to pound on.

Some Americans still believe that they invented most of the innovations that were actually British e.g. television ;-)

It is a bit of a pain on a 188 Bus or the DLR ,I wouldnt like to walk it. Would have been Kent orginally but the Elizabeth Line makes it about 10min from Liverpool street if you count Woolwich as being in the borough

Greenwich was outside London. That's why the Royal Observatory was built there. London has expanded since.

@@qwertyTRiG That's sort of irrelevant now, unless the original video was made centuries ago!

​@@bobbybigboyyes Greenwich is in outer London, not inner/Central London.

The British Empire ruled 1/4 of the world's land mass, not 3/4. And Greenwich is in South East outer London, not central London.

Harrison invented a watch accurate enough to use when calculating a ship's longitude (East-West position). This invention was the subject of a Royal competition, and also allowed map-makers to accurately say stuff like 'X town is p degrees East (or West) of Y city.

Plus at this time the British Empire was at its peak across the globe.

don't be petty

@@THEoneYETI Not petty, factual.

It's a navy, it's British, and it's the main or only entity that fits that description. Therefore it's the British navy.

@@barneylaurance1865 The ignorance is strong with this one.

@@AndyLeMaitre Where's the ignorance? I said it *is* the British navy, I didn't say it's officially *called* the British navy.

It was far enough from London for the Tudors to have an out of town palace there.

​@@highpath4776Yeah, London was a lot smaller then.

Greenwich is in Outer London. It takes 47 minutes to drive to Trafalgar Square, and 28 minutes to drive to the M25.

@@trytellingthetruth.2068 drive time isnt wholly indicative, sometimes it takes me 20mins to get OFF the M25 at the nearest slip road

@@highpath4776 Been there, done that.

It's really not though. Even the overseas territories are entirely self governing apart from defence & foreign relations. The empire has been dead for decades now.

@@generaladvance5812 that's just how it's wanted to be seen. It still rules over 14 countries... that's the definition of an empire

Only three remaining colonies these days.

​​​​​@@stetrainer578The Commonwealth rules over none of its constituent countries. It is a club which a country can join or leave at will. Empires are something completely different. There are 15 realms which share the same constitutional monarch as their ceremonial head of state: those countries happen all to be members of the Commonwealth which is why they are referred to as "Commonwealth Realms". The many other Commonwealth countries have their own heads of state, be they ceremonial or weilding sovereign executive power. The King of the UK plays no role in any of those. The most recently admitted countries to the Commonwealth were never part of the British Empire (e.g. Gabon, Togo, Rwanda). The current head of the Commonwealth is the King of the UK but (a) the position is *not* hereditary and (b) the Commonwealth can choose anyone from any Commonwealth nation as its head and (c) the position is purely ceremonial. The chief executive of the Commonwealth of Nations is the Secretary-General who is on charge of the Commonwealth Secretariat which runs the organisation. Until the current Secretary-General, Baroness Scotland, who has dual citizenship (Dominica and UK), there had never been a Secretary-General from the UK. A Commonwealth which was the British Empire Mark II could not exist: India would have left when it became a republic in 1950, many or most countries would have declined to join on gaining independence and the nations which have joined in recent decades with no previous connection to Britain would not have done so. The Kingdoms of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, and the 10 other Commonwealth realms do not consider themselves part of a British Empire, in just the same way as Hanover before 1837 did not consider itself part of the British Empire and Scotland before 1707 did not consider itself part of an English Empire.

@@lordprefab5534 the empire isn't just the colonies

Strictly Trains were invented in Germany ( hand or horse hauled/propelled) , but used far more in british collieries and mining areas

@@highpath4776 The first British Act of Parliament for a waggon-way upon which carts of coal were pulled by horses was in 1758.

@@geoffas over land that the company didnt own, hence the parliamentary act. Previous rail/tramways/ (inc wooden railed ones) had been , certainly in england, effectively on the landowners land , or by some kind of mutual agreement ( thinking of the NE collieries short distance to the tyne

And got people more than a few miles from their birthplaces for the 1st time

@@highpath4776 Yep, You could build whatever on your own land, but to traverse other peoples' land you had to get a 'right of way' and pay rent to the landowner(s).

And everything else.

And the digital computer. And the modern world. (Without the British Empire we would still be living in a post-medieval/pre-industrial society.)

Such a silly mistake to make.

Kind of felt the whole "Countries didn't really trade or cooperate before the 1800s" was a bit silly, Silk Road has been around a tiny bit longer than that and most of the wars the pictures he used were exactly because of large alliances and control of trade.

Attention to detail. That's why we modern 'Brits' are still the centre of the world.😂

Hilarious; and the commentator sagely nodding his head, "Yeah, that makes sense."

The reason was because the fifth Royal Astronomer, Nevil Maskelyne, who in 1767 introduced the Nautical Almanac as part of the Great 18th Century quest to determine longitude. These were tables of "Lunar Distance", data based on observations at Greenwich and using GMT as the time standard. This data enabled navigators to find their position at sea.

I don't think he's anti-British, the Yanks aren't taught much British history in school.

I don't think he's anti-British, the Yanks aren't taught much British history in school.

@@geoffas I know that the Yanks are not taught much about the world, particularly history but I believe that this commentator IS anti British. Apart from the fact that I read it, you can tell by the way he talks not giving the British the credit for anything.

Paris REALLY REALLY wanted it. we let them make the official 1 metre length instead

@@highpath4776 The french are so nutty about trying to be in charge, and the metric system, they wanted to change clocks as well lol. 1793, the French smashed the old clock system in favor of French Revolutionary Time, which was a 10-hour day, with 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. .....goofs :)

​@@ukqwerty999that's really interesting going to have look that one up want to know about days week's etc etc etc

I wish that were still the worst Die Hard.

I have seen no Die Hard films, but I have known of Chester Alan Arthur since I received an encyclopaedia as a gift for Christmas 1956 when I was eight and over a year or two the names of each POTUS stuck in my mind forever, initially up to the current one, Eisenhower. It has been no strain to remember the subsequent ones. Being British this ability has been of zero use to me! I was amused that in an episode of ‘The Phil Silvers Show’ being shown over here in the late 1950s (I became then and remain an avid viewer) Ernie Bilko is selling tickets to for a ‘celebration’ dance in honour/honor of an act passed under the presidency of this man.

Well spotted!

nor the second e

It's not that easy learning the English silent letters ,especially if you weren't born here J.j. your doing good❤

Greenwich Town in south-east London, England

Also unbelievably high pressure too. 😁

1800s can also refer to: The century from 1800 to 1899, so any year beginning with 18+ or the '1800s', or 1600s, 1700s, etc., etc. I personally use 19th century, 18th century, etc., but it doesn't really matter.

@@gooner_duke2756​​⁠in 20th century UK I never heard anyone use it to refer to the whole century though. Is it a US thing? To n m e it is confusing.

It helps the Yanks in their total confusion! Also very confusing for many, even here, is that the centuries run from 01 to 00. Therefore, the nineteenth century runs from 1st January 1801 and ended on 31st December 1900. Unfortunately it's becoming standard practice to do it the wrong way here too!

It's a pity that (maybe) the Yanks hold all of the launch codes for the ICBMs 🤔

@@geoffas I doubt it.

I used to know 2 twins that were born either side of midnight on 31st Dec 1979 & 1st Jan 1980, so literally born in different decades. Theoretically this may well have happened somewhere around the world for the year 2000, and have twins born in different millenia.