On a related note, New Caledonia does look astonishingly like Scotland. The palm trees, the turtles, the giant insects...
@stevenwebb36343 жыл бұрын
@@HenryJasonVarga and legs like tree trunks
@Ctofer933 жыл бұрын
Y'all are trying to entice me with those things? ;)
@Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma3 жыл бұрын
@@stevenwebb3634 Don't threaten us with a good time. 😋
@iananderson37992 жыл бұрын
Yep those midges are a bastard.
@iananderson37992 жыл бұрын
@JZ's Best Friend never ever heard that one before.....
@_Mentat2 жыл бұрын
The explorer John Cabot called the place he discovered "New Found Land" just so future generations couldn't make comedy sketches about his choice of name.
@Roronoa2zoro2 жыл бұрын
Someone must surely have mentioned that "it won't be forever".
@baerlauchstal2 жыл бұрын
John Donne used the line "O my America, my new-found-land" to describe his mistress's lady bits, of which he seems to have been, you know, quite a fan. Possibly some comic mileage there.
@_lime.2 жыл бұрын
Oh, but they have. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m86KmLN_tcXbZH0.html
@stephenpower87232 жыл бұрын
@@baerlauchstal so does that make Newfoundland a c#%$ of a place?
@menopillion98532 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@muttleycrew2 жыл бұрын
One of the strange facts about New South Wales is that it contains a region called New England which was largely settled by homesick Scots. It's possibly the most Irish thing ever.
@UteChewb2 жыл бұрын
They even have their own version of Stonehenge or standing stones. Just outside Glenn Innes from memory.
@greyeviltwin54362 жыл бұрын
@@UteChewb Yes. Their "stonehenge" is still there. Glen Innes in NSW is very fond of tartan signs, mystic crystal shops, and a rather good bakery that do a decent neenish tart.
@muttleycrew2 жыл бұрын
@@UteChewb yep! It’s so weird, that region is crammed with Scottish town names like Glen Innes and Inverell, there’s a tall hill named Ben Lomond too if I remember correctly and then there’s a fake Stonehenge for no clear reason.
@UteChewb2 жыл бұрын
@@muttleycrew , I had an ex-girlfriend who came from there. So, on a holiday I decided to take a detour on my drive from Bris to Sydney. Ended up at the standing stones outside Glenn Innes and I thought, "WTF is this?" I liked it but it was so out of left field. It is an interesting area a lot of weird things, including Captain Thunderbolt being a real person.
@kriscarnicero2 жыл бұрын
@@UteChewb Uralla
@andrewhaines86033 жыл бұрын
Greenland? Whatever! Brilliant.
@tomgilesmarvoloryley2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the Viking sagas specifically state that Eric the Red called Greenland green to trick people into going there
@apexaviour2 жыл бұрын
Was he even RED?
@sejuanisupportonly73852 жыл бұрын
@@apexaviour He was not. Maaaaaybe he had a red beard or he got red with anger? Like Zelico Obradovic? (google him, he IS red most of the times hahaha)
@MartinDolan2 жыл бұрын
He was called Eric the Red because he was colourblind... Little known fact... 🤣
@rogueuniversities68662 жыл бұрын
Although you provide no proof, I can certainly imagine the Vikings doing that - there's a place in the Orkney Islands where the Vikings put some amusing graffiti and claimed, most likely falsely, that there was some treasure around. I've met the odd person with Viking ancestry - they have weird senses of humour. Sometimes very perverted too
@silverkitty25032 жыл бұрын
lol
@Liesmith4242 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed all three pixels in this video.
@thomasdalton15082 жыл бұрын
It was uploaded 8 years ago. Pixels were a scarce commodity back then.
@KAF1282 жыл бұрын
@@thomasdalton1508 But with the discovery of new lands and pretty things to plunder, er bring home, they should now be plentiful
@AmberAmber2 жыл бұрын
You and your fancy "good eyesight"
@mabul5132 жыл бұрын
:) funny
@Mothman19922 жыл бұрын
I liked the first and third. Could have done without the second one
@SirLuquent2 жыл бұрын
This whole bit feels like it's from Horrible Histories -- And that's a huge compliment.
@JR-rv3xr2 жыл бұрын
This came before the horrible histories TV show. But after the books.
@StamfordBridge2 жыл бұрын
And perhaps a complement.
@nobodyuknow49113 жыл бұрын
Isn't it lovely how New South Wales looks nothing like the Cliffs of Dover whatsoever?
@tahiragibson64073 жыл бұрын
I’m sure their budget allowed for them to travel halfway around the world for the sake of a single joke. Or to please pedantic you.
@nobodyuknow49113 жыл бұрын
@@tahiragibson6407 ⌐_⌐ It was a joke that THEY MADE THEMSELVES in that very same episode...
@justincronkright50253 жыл бұрын
The one time something was washed to look 'not-White', perhaps? It's a joke-reference to white-washing things like films & television.
@davidtucker94982 жыл бұрын
@@justincronkright5025 What, you mean like Nick Fury, Mary Jane, Wally West, Starfire, Ariel, Jonny Storm, Little Orphan Annie, Electro, Hawkgirl, Heimdall, Perry White, and Kingpin?
@AlexMoreno-zj7po2 жыл бұрын
it does share lots of estuaries though I thought
@reasonablyserious2 жыл бұрын
I like to think they're all different generations from the same families, every so often meeting again just in time to discover some new land.
@marrs10132 жыл бұрын
You should watch Black Adder.
@reasonablyserious2 жыл бұрын
@@marrs1013 although this implies I haven't, I still appreciate the recommendation
@zapkvr3 жыл бұрын
For Vectron
@iamrocketray2 жыл бұрын
This series of sketches makes me laugh so much that when i am feeling miserable or lonely or down in any way I replay this to cheer me up. I also replay this series of sketches when I am happy, joyfull etc just because I like a good laugh. I never watched Mitchell and Webb when they were on the telly, its definitely more suited to KZfaq! p.s. I also like the caveman sketches.
@ENigma-um8zw2 жыл бұрын
That payoff slam dunk joke at the end is so good
@samiam6193 жыл бұрын
And here I thought that Capt. Cook was in Hawaii eating a sandwich on the beach. “We will call it the Sandwich Isles”!
@ImpudentInfidel2 жыл бұрын
Or the time in Alaska he had to turn around twice, thus naming Turnagain Arm.
@robinharwood50442 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, he did that too. Except that he was in the sandwich rather than eating it.
@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics2 жыл бұрын
Well that's how they named Sandy Eggo, California. They were having the traditional explorers' brunch of waffles on the beach.
@dayglograham623 жыл бұрын
Capt Cook is clearly at Birling Gap by the seven sisters in East Sussex, nowhere near Australia (or Wales for that matter). Navigation ain't what it used to be.
@johnnyboy39493 жыл бұрын
Seven sisters in London?
@theSPUDereHD3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but he has the captain’s hat...
@stevehendon40763 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyboy3949 An area known for it's high gleaming white cliffs. I used to live in Turnpike Lane and on a clear day we could see those mighty cliffs....made us all so jealous 😊😎
@Aethgeir2 жыл бұрын
Yes, yes and Sir Walter Raleigh never actually set foot in North America. Come now, don't spoil the joke, jack ass!
@mittelwelle_531_khz2 жыл бұрын
Besides Australia is well known to not exist ... much like Bielefeld.
@Christobanistan2 жыл бұрын
One of the first real estate marketing campaigns! 🤣
@Trusteft2 жыл бұрын
Hilarious. My favorite is Welcome to Virginia.
@pacificostudios2 жыл бұрын
You may not believe this, but "California" was actually named on the basis of a legendary mythical queen named Califia. Apparently, the Spaniards were all amazed by how lush everything was.
@jackgadoury522 жыл бұрын
IIRC California was the land that queen Califia ruled in Las Sergas de Esplandian, not a derivation of her name. But yeah, wierd way to name your colony, although more creative than all the variations on Colombia/Columbia.
@fariesz67862 жыл бұрын
and wasn't that from like a novel or something? as in, the people who named it were aware that the name was made up
@Muck0062 жыл бұрын
Renaming it to Commiefornia should be appropriate then ... all the people who dont work but get money anyways, poverty, homelessness and "ruling PARTY which MUST BE OBEYED".
@davidmaka67422 жыл бұрын
Such an incredibly insightful comment. I‘m very grateful that you take the time to share your wit with the rest of us online, since you must be so busy succeeding at everything in your real life.
@ronaldburns78772 жыл бұрын
@@Muck006 How long have YOU been a total moron
@PhonciblePBonehimself2 жыл бұрын
Be happy that it wasn't German explorers doing all the heavy exploring. We might have ended up in "Neu Süd Weißwurstland"
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
Or in Bismarck, North Dakota. Oh, wait...
@archangle29882 жыл бұрын
Funny, if i google my hometown which name tanslated to "Spring of the river Pader", Google asks me if i mean the german town or the one in Illinois and their river is called "Prairie du long creek" ... there wehere a lot of German settlers and a lot is named German in the USofA.
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
@@archangle2988 A lot of immigrants were of German (meaning German speaking rather than just the modern nation) origin. I believe there are more Americans of German Ancestory than English (I would say British but that kind of gets complicated too, for instance, technically many Irish immigrants at the time would have been British).
@applemauzel2 жыл бұрын
I prefer the more classical name of Long Frankfurter, or New Hamburger.
@dragjamon2 жыл бұрын
That buildup was worth it
@docastrov90132 жыл бұрын
Nope
@prunabluepepper2 жыл бұрын
@@docastrov9013 yes
@AndrewOxenburgh2 жыл бұрын
And anyone who's been to South Wales and New South Wales will be astounded by the similarities.
@saintniccage28182 жыл бұрын
Hip deep in sheep in one Hip deep in crocodiles in the other
@Whisper5552 жыл бұрын
@@saintniccage2818 Crocodiles not so much. A tad further north
@pSynrg3032 жыл бұрын
@@Whisper555 Yeah, There was this one time I was nearly eaten by a Croc when rambling the Snowdonia wilds!
@muttleycrew2 жыл бұрын
@@pSynrg303 Here in Tamworth the croc season is late summer, about once every ten millennia.
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
Yet both are nothing like new beached whales. I guess that's another thing they have in common.
@williamchamberlain22632 жыл бұрын
2:35 Australia is, after all, just Dover with some pot-plants stuck in it.
@amandabumgardner27512 жыл бұрын
One if my favs
@serendpity34782 жыл бұрын
Cook actually called it "Terra Nullius" Latin for land belonging to no one.
@mrcoiganable29883 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@TimO-xq8fz2 жыл бұрын
bloody brilliant
@paryanindoeur2 жыл бұрын
American here. I know I'm not the captain, but I know these guys as the "Are we the baddies? guys".
@sentientnatalie2 жыл бұрын
Definitely. :)
@MBIRTIRoma2 жыл бұрын
their whole series is good
@the-chillian2 жыл бұрын
"That Mitchell and Webb Look" was the name of their series, and it's hilarious. You can find more clips from it around here somewhere. If you've ever seen the alternative medicine emergency room sketch, that's them too.
@paryanindoeur2 жыл бұрын
@@the-chillian On it. The complete episodes are on YT... Heh, first sketch of s1e1 is the 'Are we the baddies?' sketch. Sure, I'll watch it for the 10th time!
@UberAlphaSirus2 жыл бұрын
welp, if they won New York would be New Berlin.
@orangekayak782 жыл бұрын
I don't know why you needed a New South Wales but since we have one put it as far away as possible.
@twoflyinghats2 жыл бұрын
And banish its premier to an Australian Antarctic base.
@muttleycrew2 жыл бұрын
@@twoflyinghats If only.
@brianbagnall30293 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Virginia!
@kdmc403 жыл бұрын
New South Dover!!😂
@livealittlepedro63792 жыл бұрын
“New South Wakes” 😂😆😂
@LTPottenger3 жыл бұрын
Not North Wales, obviously!
@RtB682 жыл бұрын
I loved the White Cliffs of Bondi
@cooperm47442 жыл бұрын
As a New South Welshman, I cant think of a betteer name.
@mainstream22262 жыл бұрын
New South Plagueland?
@muttleycrew2 жыл бұрын
North Victoria.
@guitarboogieboogie2 жыл бұрын
The best! Of course, there are a fee more countries that could be added to this list!
@josh83ification2 жыл бұрын
@2:20 looks like the beach at seven sisters, i was on that beach today!
@yixnorb59713 жыл бұрын
I prefer the East Undies
@BobBob-cy9cu3 жыл бұрын
Algorithm has picked this up
@grmpf2 жыл бұрын
2:40 Can we please have the alternative universe in which David Mitchell played Lord Cutler Beckett?
@leroyholm90752 жыл бұрын
Brilliant and well spotted whatever were they thinking?
@archive60942 жыл бұрын
I wish I owned a captains hat
@renejean25232 жыл бұрын
You will. One day. Never give up on your dreams.
@hmq90522 жыл бұрын
He's obviously never been to The Gower.
@XDRONIN3 жыл бұрын
My only hope is that there is no such thing as Intelligent Alien life outside this planet that would ever learn this.
@Muck0062 жыл бұрын
Maybe there is ... and that is one of the reasons why this planet got shunted into the MIRROR UNIVERSE about 25-30 years ago.
@ankavoskuilen17252 жыл бұрын
But is there intelligent life on this planet? That's the question.
@iamrocketray2 жыл бұрын
@@Muck006 NO NO NO it was about 18 months ago, we moved into the COVID dimension.Bad move that, and I can't wait till we return to the OLD normal.
@orlock202 жыл бұрын
This should be updated. There is a meme song where the singer claims that England is his city. However, the singer could be from Arkansas where there is a city named England.
@susie98932 жыл бұрын
This 1 was particularly good! Or whatever
@thomasbradford1912 Жыл бұрын
According to Wikipedia those two broke up...rather West Virginia and the "Captain"
@NoahSpurrier3 жыл бұрын
New York, New England, whatever...
@nobodyuknow49113 жыл бұрын
New Amsterdam! ^_^
@roberthoward95002 жыл бұрын
New York wishes they were as good as York.
@forbeshutton54872 жыл бұрын
@@roberthoward9500 The new one isn't worthy of plundering by the Scots.
@mrkitcatt21192 жыл бұрын
@@forbeshutton5487 that's only in the film
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
I once lived near a place called New Clear Fallout Shelter
@bobzilla2112 жыл бұрын
trying to watch 240p videos in 2021 causes me mental anguish, anyone else?
@Fionwe2 жыл бұрын
Me too, friend, me too...
@Muck0062 жыл бұрын
How about YOU upload this in better quality then?
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
Fewer pixels reduce emisions and help save the planet. Although I've just cancelled that out by posting this. Doh!
@VengefulPolititron3 жыл бұрын
"what news numba weng?"
@justincronkright50253 жыл бұрын
Weng is the Chinese, Wang is the European mis-literation of the Chinese. We must use the incorrect word here, eh! Just like people using much & many interchangebly in examples like 'how much balloons you got' & 'how many temperature is it out today.
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
@@justincronkright5025 So, should we be asking how much numba wang?
@justincronkright50252 жыл бұрын
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 'What Much Numba Wang' perhaps?
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
@@justincronkright5025 I think you've gone super wang. I'm still newbie, i.e. not muchly numba wang.
@othoapproto96033 жыл бұрын
I wonder if M&W know that Virginia's state motto is "Virginia is for Lovers"?
@pacificostudios2 жыл бұрын
Ironic, that, yes.
@emmastrange55572 жыл бұрын
Thats the state slogan, the motto is "sic semper tyrannis"
@ThreadBomb2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a bad tourism slogan from the 70s.
@othoapproto96032 жыл бұрын
@@ThreadBomb Yes, Yes it is
@Alucard-gt1zf2 жыл бұрын
I am the captain now
@steveclem78732 жыл бұрын
4x4!!
@vincent_hall2 жыл бұрын
I didn't realise this contained a paid promotion: the First Mate paid for a future promotion* by using a stupid name the captain liked. *: Assuming the captain became an admiral before the First Mate died.
@thomasbradford1912 Жыл бұрын
It's B.S. that we don't have a state named Bingo
@lichenlich2 жыл бұрын
Turtle Island
@vanomaden3 жыл бұрын
well Greenland was Greenland before was it? Them vikings named it ...
@philmedeiros24972 жыл бұрын
Is this like the Key and Peele of the UK? I'm digging these skits aha
@robinarmitage13762 жыл бұрын
We're in the UK, we don't know what Key and Peele is.
@philmedeiros24972 жыл бұрын
@@robinarmitage1376 right, well you should check it out. Their sketches are all good
@muttleycrew2 жыл бұрын
@@philmedeiros2497 I think Key and Peele is the Fry and Laurie of the US.
@TallSilentGuy2 жыл бұрын
Logical fallacy: Appeal to accomplishment.
@marvinkmooney77442 жыл бұрын
I think New Zealand was aptly named
@kills262 жыл бұрын
We called our planet Earth, we live on a Planet which we intentionally named another word for soil, or mud.
@_Mentat2 жыл бұрын
According to Arthur C Clarke the world should be called "Ocean" because that is what it mainly is.
@kills262 жыл бұрын
@@_Mentat That is an even worse name tbh, although he does have a point.
@robinharwood50442 жыл бұрын
So now, throughout the Galaxy, our planet's name is mud.
@iamrocketray2 жыл бұрын
@@robinharwood5044 Nope! its Dirt.
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
@@_Mentat I can sea that. Although with lakes, rivers, glaciers, seas, clouds and the Antarctic maybe "Damp" would be even more accurate.
@markissboi35832 жыл бұрын
GreenLand what ever
@zanesmith6662 жыл бұрын
england won when they got to australia
@amandabumgardner27512 жыл бұрын
Who has the Captains hat?
@EvilSean622 жыл бұрын
fucking hilarious ... show me that level of thought and planning and being able to do that specific kind of awesome these days ...i beseech thee say yes again ..
@huss12052 жыл бұрын
Greenland, how, why?
@patrickpaganini2 жыл бұрын
People knew the world was round in 2000BC.
@peterembranch57972 жыл бұрын
People? All of them?? Some did, others didn't. Nuance.
@patrickpaganini2 жыл бұрын
@@peterembranch5797 ouch. Nuance would normally save you in most situations, but not this one. Try Google my friend.
@peterembranch57972 жыл бұрын
@@patrickpaganini And if I do, this will demonstrate that EVERYONE knew that the world was round, will it?
@bobbylockes2 жыл бұрын
@@peterembranch5797 Partick Harris didn't say state that EVERYONE in 2000BC knew that the world was round, he said "people" , which implies 2 or more persons knew the world was round and not necessarily everyone. Why do some people propose the hypothesis that the earth is flat?
@peterembranch57972 жыл бұрын
@@bobbylockes Yes, I know he didn't say "EVERYONE" in 2000BC knew that the world was round. People does indeed imply 2 or more, and in this way is vastly vague, don't you think. To suggest that 2 people knew that the world was round is, well, meaningless. Isn't it? I mean, so what? Surely a number substantially higher than two must be implied to make the sentence meaningful. As you imply yourself, there are people even today - with the benefit of a modern education - who affect to believe the world is flat. Don't you think there must have been more 4,000 years ago? A lot more?
@richardbell76783 жыл бұрын
In fairness to the people that named Greenland, when they arrived, at the height of the Medieval Warm Period, the land was green with trees to supply lumber and grass to pasture their livestock. The land WAS green. Sadly, after the Medieval Warm Period ended, their crops died, their livestock died, and then they died, but at a slow enough pace that they could enter it into the records that they left behind.
@stefanandritoiu3 жыл бұрын
Actually Greenland was a Viking PR stunt...
@stevehendon40763 жыл бұрын
In fairness to the people who named Greenland they did so because they new years later Mitchell and Webb would make a joke about it.
@marcdc68092 жыл бұрын
I read the book Collapse by Jared Diamond. He explains that Greenland could get a good income from walrus-ivory. But with the crusades the traderoutes to Africa and China were re-opened for Europe and Elephant-ivory was again available.
@TheSocialistSceptic2 жыл бұрын
@@marcdc6809 More colonialism than the crusades. Arabs controlled the trade routes to India until Portugal set up naval bases around Arabia and India.
@heilmodrhinnheimski2 жыл бұрын
@@stefanandritoiu According to an embellished Icelandic saga written down a century after Eiríkr rauði died. The theory OC mentioned is a highly likely one.
@benrobertson19192 жыл бұрын
Where's the one about pineapples?
@LukeTPZ2 жыл бұрын
240p???
@bmclaughlin012 жыл бұрын
Who’s Virginia? 😊
@zapkvr3 жыл бұрын
America was named for Richard Americke
@JohnZ1173 жыл бұрын
An attempt at a joke?
@smoothie99313 жыл бұрын
@@JohnZ117 no he is right, it was named after him... just a man from Bristol who scribbled his name across that particular area, and that area became "Amerike", which changed to America. Many things about it online
@@JohnZ117 yeah I know, there is no definitive answer to who named it, or who it was named after. The two theories are either Richard Amerike, or Amerigo. Also given that the USA flag is based on Richard Amerike's coat of arms, I would be more inclined to believe it is named after Amerike, not Amerigo www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/americaname_01.shtml
@melkhiordarkfell43543 жыл бұрын
@@JohnZ117 The problem with Amerigo Vespucci is you don't use the first name, if it was named after Amerigo, the land would be called Vespuccia, like why it's called Columbia, not Chrisophia.
@peterstangl82952 жыл бұрын
do they do poison though?
@emne2552 жыл бұрын
And do they still shoot tourists in Florida?
@daniel.u.thibault2 жыл бұрын
Bet you can't find New North Wales, though. (It did exist!)
@tobybartels84262 жыл бұрын
There's half a dozen new places here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Britain_(Canada)
@daniel.u.thibault2 жыл бұрын
@@tobybartels8426 Only five in fact (New Denmark, New [North/South] Wales, New Yorkshire). I also know of New Albion, New Andalusia, New Connecticut, New Cornwall, New Hanover, New Navarre, New Netherland, New Norfolk, New Pomerania, New Shetland, and New Swabia.
@tobybartels84262 жыл бұрын
@@daniel.u.thibault : The sixth, encompassing all the others, is in the article's title and lede: New Britain (not the one near Australia). But your list is impressive; are those also names for parts of Canada's historical New Britain?
@daniel.u.thibault2 жыл бұрын
@@tobybartels8426 Some but not all.
@muttleycrew2 жыл бұрын
@@daniel.u.thibault There's also New Zealand of course and there's New England which is actually a region of New South Wales.
@silverkitty25032 жыл бұрын
travel journalists do the same shit
@arcyniminimagik2 жыл бұрын
My brain is a bit overwhelmed by the number of pixels on the screen. Can we blur it a bit more?
@tomonetruth2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I too want to pleasure myself to David Mitchel's face in all it's glorious detail.
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
Close one eye, poke yourself in the other eye, then re-open the first eye. It won't make it better. You'll just appreciate what you can see that much more.
@sarahkirk58432 жыл бұрын
Why has nobody ever noticed that they ripped this sketch off TOTALLY from the Mary Whitehouse experience? They even use the same 'Greenland' joke. (Clip for comparison) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrCSfNSYsszGhYk.html
@racheddar2 жыл бұрын
It's not that original of an idea. The Greenland joke is one every school kid has made after looking at a map.
@TheTarrMan2 жыл бұрын
Some of these videos filmed with a potato are really funny. writing > special effects
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
Looks perfectly crisp and clear to me. When was your last eye test?
@TheTarrMan2 жыл бұрын
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I think I need to ask you that question.
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
@@TheTarrMan Hang on, let me get my glasses... A meer jest TarrMan. Just messin' wid cha. I think in this case the video doesn't matter quite so much. The locations are, umm, not quite authentic. But it does give it that retro feel like it was filmed a few hundred years ago when cameras were just two pixels. One for light. One for no light. 😀
@annah87282 жыл бұрын
Lisbetj is not a virgin. Robert may be that but thats a question of awful laws. Back in the days its often were dont ya think. Love the end.
@tomonetruth2 жыл бұрын
With this statement I entirely and completely.
@annah87282 жыл бұрын
@@tomonetruth naaw so you get it, I dont at all 😏🤗
@ArnoldClarke2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: no one ever has proved the Earth is round.
@muttleycrew2 жыл бұрын
Are you one of those flat-earthers?
@ArnoldClarke2 жыл бұрын
No Muttley, nor am I a round earther
@kevg33202 жыл бұрын
True, but it has been proved to be an oblate spheroid.
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
I have. But shhhhhh
@ArnoldClarke2 жыл бұрын
@@kevg3320 please show
@cvoisineaddis2 жыл бұрын
One would think that Mitchell, as a history major, would know that Columbus did not set out to prove the world was a globe because that was already well established.
@gknipe2 жыл бұрын
One would think that Mitchell, a successful writer and comedy actor, would know not to allow onerous detail to get in the way of a good joke.
@cvoisineaddis2 жыл бұрын
@@gknipe Well it's an unneeded detail. The joke works without that line.
@peterembranch57972 жыл бұрын
@@cvoisineaddis But it wouldn't work as well. You don't understand this, you pedant.
@cvoisineaddis2 жыл бұрын
@@peterembranch5797 Webb argues that they are the East indies because it's in the "east" (orient to europe), but Mitchell argues they should be the west Indies because they sailed west to get there. Whether they proved the world was round or not is irrelevant. The crux of the joke as that disagreement between them. The "There is a western route to the Indies" is sufficient enough.
@tobybartels84262 жыл бұрын
@@cvoisineaddis : You've got a point, but I think they put that in there so he could do the hand gesture to remind people how the Earth is a globe and all that; otherwise, the audience might not understand why it would be the East Indies either.
@Gameguru6672 жыл бұрын
Virginia was named after Virginia Dare, the first British colonist child born in the New World colonies, not after a queen.... whoever made this was not historically accurate, or even tried.... but what do I know, i'm just Virginian...
@maddermax222 жыл бұрын
Well, the state library and every other reputable source I can find disagrees with you, and says the name Virginia was inspired by Elizabeth the first. So, either they, as Virginians, are wrong, or you are. Personally, I’d opt for the official sources.
@kills262 жыл бұрын
I am not American, but the Virginia government website and national state records of Virginia also back up the comedy skit. Why would we name a whole area after a child, it's more likely that the child was named after the state and then folklore build up around it. Especially if you consider the whole American revolution and so on, having a state named after a British Queen might not have been so popular. But both the sites I checked out say historians believe, so it's not set in stone. What do you know as a Virginian probably more about your history than me.
@mm-qd1ho2 жыл бұрын
The state of Virginia was named in 1584. Virginia Dare was born three years later in 1587. But what do I know, I'm just educated...
@muttleycrew2 жыл бұрын
It's not ideal when British comedians know more about your state's history than you do.
@tobybartels84262 жыл бұрын
@@mm-qd1ho : When Ananias Dare announced that he hoped to have a child in the New World and that he was going to name her Virginia (after his grandmother of course), all the other colonists decided to name the colony after Dare's future child. They also pledged to remain celibate until she was born, so she could have the honour of being the first child born in the colony that bore her name. (They were all rather annoyed that it took 3 years for her to be born, but they kept their pledge, because they were Englishmen.)
@ismayb7542 жыл бұрын
It does seem insane that when thinking of naming a place after the Queen, the first thing that comes to mind is the fact she's a virgin, rather than, IDK, her name? Or ANYTHING else lol. It just shows how men perceived women, even the queen.
@robinarmitage13762 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Elizabeth I was rarely, if ever, a victim of sexism.
@ThreadBomb2 жыл бұрын
@@robinarmitage1376 You should read some history.
@peterembranch57972 жыл бұрын
She called herself the Virgin Queen, and made much of it.
@whisperedarcc65432 жыл бұрын
New York got its name because "old" York got sacked by the Danes
@tomonetruth2 жыл бұрын
New York is named after the Duke of York, who was awarded New Amsterdam after the it was seized from the Dutch. I don't think the Danes had anything to do with it.
@whisperedarcc65432 жыл бұрын
@@tomonetruth Thank you for explaining everything I already knew and also for missing the fucking joke. LOL. You don't get out much,do you? The joke went WOOOOOSHING over your head. Why do you watch comedy skits if you lack a sense of humour?.At what point did it ever seem like I was being serious? It was clear as day that I was being tongue in cheek. I suppose you wanted to show everyone how much of a big brain smart smart you are. Then again it isn't exactly a difficult subject and I could have given you a full detailed essay on the full history of new york when I was nine. However as for a little light hearted human in line with the craziness of place names my comment was obviously a joke and no sane person would ever have taken it as being a serious comment.
@tomonetruth2 жыл бұрын
@@whisperedarcc6543 no, i didn't realise it was a joke - i don't get it. i was just passing on a bit of (what i thought was) interesting trivia, but as you say, i don't get out much. honestly wasn't trying to show off, i certainly didn't know all that stuff when i was nine. didn't mean to upset you!
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
I didn't even know he was employed by them.
@tomonetruth2 жыл бұрын
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 whispered arcc did. when he was 9.
@docastrov90132 жыл бұрын
Painfully unfunny.
@littlefluffybushbaby72562 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Doc got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning