I live in New South Wales too, and I've never seen any chalk cliffs anywhere in the state either!

QueenKatz8 Comon you guys...you know those cliffs, the chalk ones...you know what im talking about...you know...those cliffs...

same. must be in wollongong or something.

Matty Arden wollongong is not that pretty

Exactly! See guys, this guy gets it!

Only missing a bell to summon servants of course

@@kevinngoya5 his grandparents gave him a bell to ring if he was peckish

The exceptions to his philosophy, which is not too grand of a term, of not being too noticeable.

or in stargate every planet looks like the british columbia countryside

Or when ever they are actually outside (not a set) in every Star Trek series, it looks so much like Southern California.

I mtb through that quarry weekly

@@Kefka. Im beginning to feel like some of these shows were actually filmed on earth which is a tremendous disappointment.

@@ThatPianoNoob I did recently learn that Picard & friends at least got to visit the Power Ranger HQ (also in Southern Cali) in the episode Decent part 1 & 2.

I know right. Look up the Europeans descriptions of the Quokkas that inhabit Rottnest Island. 'Oversized Rats'

Kangaroos remain weird to this day. Don't diminish them.

@@andrewdevine3920 they have actually gotten weirder, the laser eyes and boxing gloves are recent developments

When zoologist George Shaw received the first remains of a Platypus ever seen in Europe, he wrote that at first he thought it was fake. And that only with "the most minute and rigid examination" he and his colleges could persuade themselves it was a real animal.

"Explorers" is a stretch.....

alijohnny sic semper tyrannis

best line

Could be worse, could. Be West Virginia

The last one got me. “Number one’s like, “f*ck it, who cares?”.

My fav, too

Whereas it bugs me that Webb's in a junior rate's rig - not a first lieutenant.

@@nemo6686 NERD!

Well he did used to dress up as an 18th century nobleman

@@nemo6686haha! Me too!

It was named that as a scam.

Exactly. Trolls. They pulled the same crap with Iceland.

Existed*. And there is a rather interesting story behind that has nothing to do with trolling.

it was named Greenland by Eirik the Red to make it sound attractive to migrants/settlers. Also, Europe was a lot warmer back in the 11th century, due to the "middle warm period"

Wikings where the trolls of Europe back in the day.

It has become the new Partridge "Jurassic Park" comment

"Meet Virgina. I'd like to..."

What is a badass ?

but didn't you see the slight sepia tinge, surely that was Australia

Was thinking the same thing :))))))

ohmydinosare that's not Dover though

so you're saying it should be called New South Dover then?

ohmydinosare They didnt have the budget to go to NSW

The same here... Brilliant build up.

wahteva

Apparently Viking Erik The Red called Greenland 'Greenland' in order to try and attract people there. Kind of like an estate agent calling a tiny property 'cosy'

@@AA-hg5fk Actually Greenland is mostly covered in green moss in summer. So it's no wonder they'd call it Greenland. What the first vikings saw when they first arrived was probably just green as far as the eye can see.

Greenland is basically green (and really nice green) some part of year. And they landed there at that time. ;)

I thought he said Brill.

Brill is in England

marmentad aye my home town

I thought he said 'brill' and imagined brillo pads being made out of some rough plant, like sponges.

Oh yeah. Makes it even more hilarious

what does this mean

@@magganon Right, you know that scene in X-men origins wolverine where it's revealed that Wolverine and Sabertooth have fought in every American war from the civil war to the Vietnam war? It's like that but with exploring.

@@darkfool2000 bloody brilliant. I don't know the movie but your telling of the mythology compliments the sketch nice, like. Ta.

Greenland is basically green (and really nice green) some part of year. And they landed there at that time. ;)

I remember seeing their live stage show years ago and they did that sketch about the two TV writers who can’t be bothered to do their research and it was a Star Trek parody.

Watch Daydream Believers, it’s basically their own mini-version of Star Trek

Ay girl whats ur Nome

C.

Even if someone did write "? Name" (and I'm not sure anyone would confuse "?" and "C.") near Cape Nome, I suspect the real reason is that Nome (the city) was founded by a Norwegian, and there are several places in Norway called Nome.

@@RFC-3514 You're wrong.

@@JohnyG29 You're wrong.

Yeah, during Ancient Greece Erathosthenes proved it's round and even calculated a fairly accurate approximation of it's size

No... he was sent on a suicide mission by a Queen whom he raped prior to her becoming a Queen... with the mission her "showing compassion and not being vindictive" They knew the world was round and the size of it. However Naval Technology was not yet advanced enough to have a mission crossing the ocean being a feasible idea. It was about as feasible as sending a crew of people to Mars and back--and have them prove they landed on the surface of Mars as part of the matter. The mission was, "prove our technology can do this (LOL, We know it cannot... fuck all of you, you get to die, and I get to look good)"

You guys do know the earth is flat, right?

Not really, it was pretty much them spending a couple ten thousand dollars on something thats probably wrong but they had the money and if he was right they get fuck tons of cash.

no he was trying to prove it was a globe. people thought he would sail right off the edge into hell.

Whatever!

Greenland is green! ...at least some parts of it... ...minor parts...

Greenland=ice Iceland=green af Brain=outside the head running away

Oh, that is an enlisted man, the officer was off-screen parking the ship somewhere. Captain Cook is just having a private conversation with this guy he met in uni in Darmouth and who since then seemed to just follow him everywhere.

Actually you misheard - he's not the ship's no. 1, he is Able Seaman Numberwang, whose name would eventually be borrowed for a game based on his exploits.

Greenland was named by vikings and was basically to make it look better so people would settle there

Floki I guess.

I think that with "Whatever" he basicly is saying; "This is what you get when to don't let the captain give the land it's name."

But only the south coast, right?

Wales does at least have some sandy beaches. But as someone who is also from NSW I'm convinced one of the reasons our state identity seems not to be as strong as the other states (except when playing Queensland in rugby league State of Origin) is the 'South' in NSW. If it was just 'New Wales' we could be 'New Walers' (like 'New Yorkers'). But instead of the pithy 'New Wales' it's the gallumphing 'New South Wales.' If we have an identity, it comes from our city - Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong etc - not our state.

​@@Elitist20new Welsh surely?

Agreed, even though November is technically the last month of spring.

90 degrees farenheit , is spoken as 90 degrees, why would you think he meant celcius ?

I assumed he meant fahrenheit. If it were centigrade it would be 194 F

@@stewartlancaster6155 they didn't...they're saying the fact that he gave a temperature in Fahrenheit was a good attention to detail.

"No of course not! Not north Wales, that's ridiculous! It's nothing like north Wales. No south Wales"

*Rhyl.

Also, New York was named for the future James II (then the Duke of York) and Louisiana named for Louis XIV of France.

They also fought a WAR to get out of the Empire, but they're almost the only country still using Imperial units. Weird.

The simple answer is we're stubborn in the states. We also don't come up with good names on our own.

@randomguy9777 Yes. Virtually everything that already had a name kept it. States, towns, counties, rivers, roads, whatever. Basic every town on the East Coast kept their "King St." Hell, the Georgetown neighborhood of DC is named after George III. Places are really hard to rename once they have a name. There's places all over that have names related to long gone features. Like Parole, Maryland. It was just a military camp where Union and Confederate prisoners of war were exchanged, or paroled. Now it is an Annapolis suburb with an odd name.

Notice how its a lot of the racist places who liked to own people the most.

Yeah, me too!

One of their first sketches I saw, still come back after all these years. :)

You were just crap as an XO.

"Does Lyndon, recalling when he was VP, Say "I'll do unto you like they did unto me"? Do you dream about staging a coup? Hubert what happened to you?" -- from Whatever Became of Hubbert by Tom Lehrer

It's like the Sith.

@@markg.1159 When I will be a master I will be a kind and understanding lord, I will not pull this shit on my student 12 years later This new breed of sith students are just terrible, so overly critical and always forgetting their place, I was never like them, time to bring some pain on them.

_"Slutany"_

Your best 'discovery' you say? What did you name them? ;-)

We see what you did there. 👏🏻

England not Britain for fecks sake... yes there is a difference...

@@datgrrl5698 England is in Britain. Scotland is in Britain. Wales is in Britain. How do you know where she stayed? 🧐

@@datgrrl5698 Oh you silly cow.

It'd be like if we landed on Mars and decided to name it New Earth...

It's not Dover. It's Eastbourne.

Easy mistake to make, both places are filled with criminals.

+D. Lyrium I think it was Erik the Red who was exiled to the island and needed colonization to get back to wherever. But, I'm probably wrong so don't listen to me.

It's called Kalaallit Nunaat by the people who arrived a thousand years ago, kept themselves alive against all odds, and still lives there. It means the Land of Humans. Those who named it Grönland perished some 400 years after they came there when the contact with the rest of the world ended. Not a word about cultural imperialism.

+ganlesse The Inuit Thule culture didn't arrive from Alaska until around 1300. Before that Greenland was inhabited by various Paleo-Eskimo cultures. It is not known what exactly happened to most of those peoples but the genetic evidence suggests that they bred with the Inuit invaders, whether this was a result of peaceful coexistence or conquest is unknown. There are legends among many Inuit cultures about the people they drove away on their conquest who are said to have been gigantic and very strong but that's probably just poetic license. The area the Norse settled was largely uninhabited when they arrived but they had some contact with the remaining Dorset culture natives who lived to the north of them and later the Thule culture Inuits.

I do think 1300 is a little late. The Encyclopedia Britannica mentions the 12th century as the arrival to Greenland. One Danish book, the title of which I can't remember at the moment, mentions several waves of immigration not related to each other, the earliest around 800. But it seems a fact that the first settlers were in the northwest, the second a couple of hundred years later inthe area from Nuuk and down south. The last influx seem to be those who settled in the east. This is to some extend supported by the differences in language - and culture - between north, west, and east, which is known even to this day. The fact remains that no other race had what it took to survive there for centuries. Endurance, stamina and ingenuity. And that commands some respect.

grotbags and croc, thats all i can say.

Someone is either very silly, having a laugh. Or the wattage is very low.

Someone is either very silly, having a laugh. Or the wattage is very low.

Fun fact: it's only spelled with an "s" in Italian, and only because Mussolini banned the letter "X" (along with J, K, W and Y). It's written with an X in every other romance language, and was written with an X in Latin as well. Even in English, the normal spelling was "expresso" until about 50 years ago, when Americans started adopting the Italian spelling (and the British inevitably end up following whatever Americans do). So if you ever say "expresso" and someone corrects you, remember: they're not being _grammar nazis,_ they're being *spelling fascists.*

@@RFC-3514 XD it's an italien coffe and has always been called "espresso" (it comes from the word "pressed" in italian) but it looks like "express" and I don't know why that coffee has been linked to that idea of "quickness", so in french and in english it's often (and wrongly) called like that.....but the Mussolini story made me laugh ^^

@@misterf2923 - "Espresso" means "squeezed out" (or "pressed out"), as does "expressed" in English. It's the same word. It's not "an Italian [or italien] coffee". It's a _method_ of preparing coffee (i.e., _forced out_ through a filter, rather than just allowed to drip through it due to gravity ), but also has the other meanings that "expressed" has in English. Basically, in any situation where you'd use "espresso" in Italian, you'd use "expressed" in English (ex., "Lui ha espresso il desiderio di bere un caffè." = "He expressed the desire to have a coffee."). And it's written with an "s" in Italian because the letter "x" was abolished from the Italian alphabet, as mentioned above. The Latin root of the word ("expressum", with the same meaning) used an "x". Naturally, the Romans didn't have coffee machines, but they were aware of (and used that word for) things that were "squeezed out". Just like Italians used (and still use) the word for other things, unrelated to coffee, namely expressing yourself (ex., verbally).

@@RFC-3514 when I say it's "an italian coffee" I'm incorrect I know, it's an italian word , it's what I meant, but what about the abolition of the "x" under Mussolini ?

@@misterf2923 - It wasn't just the "x". He also abolished "j", "k", "w" and "y" in 1929. The idea was to ban the use of foreign languages and regional dialects, and force everyone to write in "pure" Italian (at the time most people in Italy spoke local dialects, there wasn't a unified language).

It's not like the BBC had the budget to go all the way to Australia just to film 1 sketch

For Christ's sake... It's not Dover! It's not even Kent. Sussex has white cliffs too. And this particular one is quite famous (albeit for a sad reason)

Originally, Cook called it just New Wales. Nobody knows why he changed the name. Why Wales? Well, Australia was called New Holland at that time, maybe he wanted to piss the Dutch?

why not?

Because it reminded them of South Wales.

Because it didn't look anything at all like Rhyl.

I think I got this from QI: it was because at that time south Wales was in an economic boom due to the mining industry. Cook probably thought it was a good idea to call it New South Wales to attract people and economic interest.

Greenland is basically green (and really nice green) some part of year. And they landed there at that time. ;)

@@badmaniak When vikings settled in Greenland in the 10th century, the climate was relatively warm, making the name Greenland credible. The settlers became extinct in the 14th century partly because of the plague but also because of the climate getting a lot colder.

@@anderspedersen7488 Greenland is still nicely green during one or two month during a year. ;)

@@badmaniak I’ll take your word for it, never had the pleasure myself!

***** Too bad I can't edit this on a notification box.

***** I mean... There were other people from his era that argued with him about whether having actually reached India. Then, it's not like Europe hadn't contacted people from India before. I think it's kinda hard to confuse nude tribal people from a relatively advanced society with large buildings and such.

+DigGil3 They say that to his dying day, Columbus never admitted that he hadn't reached India. It's funny; the ancient Greeks had a more accurate estimate of the circumference of the earth (approximately 25,000 miles) than Columbus did. I say that we should keep on calling the native Americans "Indians" just to remind everyone that Columbus was an idiot.

+BigBen Hebdomadarius My history professor held that Columbus' stubbornness may have had a point--when you've taken a huge bunch of money from a monarch and mounted an expedition to beat out the Portugese in getting to India, it's really important to insist that these places are, sort of, the Indies, even if its evident that they're not.

+DigGil3 He was more than kind of a doofus. He was a full on idiot and monster. He doesn't deserve to be celebrated.

+Bart De Bock vinland was located in Newfoundland canada

+Bart De Bock The story, as I recall it from grammar school, is that Erik the Red named Greenland that despite the ice covering it, in order to lure settlers there; whereas he named Iceland that because he liked it so much he didn't want too many other people to move there. Vinland was the name the Vikings gave to what we now call Newfoundland and New Brunswick.

+BigBen Hebdomadarius Im from Denmark(we used to own Greenland and still support them financially) Im almost 100% sure its because there is almost no snow when its summertime in Greenland so when settlers came it was the first thing they saw; the grass

+Emilinho I also used to live in Greenland so I can assure you guys Greenland is very green when its summer

+Bart De Bock Whateva!

Striddernaut that is a Common myth. But with the years, our histotians and proffs think it is fare more likely they just came doing summer when its green.

plus that would really work would it. Surely upon getting there and discovering it wasn't green at all they'd just sail back home and tell everyone not to bother.

I read that they gave iceland and greenland their respective names to confuse enemies and not have them come to iceland? Never heard the settlement-thing.

Well, I just watched it. What's your point teach?

I re-view this regularly whenever I want a laugh - always has me ROFLMAO. Mitchell and Webb are two of the most brilliant comedians ever. Nobody does it better than the Brits.

Whatever.

darthdj31 Bravo. Be proud of your ignorance...

dIRECT0R dummy did you watch the video

darthdj31 Yes, I did, you troglodyte.

dIRECT0R You call me "Buddy", but you then proceed to mock me, for shame.

Always found that a beautiful irony...

Rl'yeh?

Syobon Feels like it sometimes.

Poor Rhyl. It just to be considered an upmarket destination. Then it was ruined by a mass influx of Scousers and Mancs. Even the accent sounds Scouse.

.. which is in.. north wales

Surely all the Kangaroos make it better.

Greenland is basically green (and really nice green) some part of year. And they landed there at that time. ;)

Really I thought it was named by David Mitchell?

Same

sam p No shit sherlock. Joke obviously went over your head.

It was actually quite green during the medieval warm period when the Vikings settled there. It's a lot less green today.

Whatever...