Britain: *Sees unclaimed land Britain: ... Britain: *SIPS TEA AGGRESSIVELY -B

@Tomahawkist_

2 жыл бұрын

it's only a matter of time until the spiffing brit will arrive in this comment section

@CosmicCreeper99

2 жыл бұрын

Dang, am I only the 3rd reply here? I’m at the end of the video!

@aa-xi8bc

2 жыл бұрын

*Sees claimed land* … *CHUGS TEA AND CONQUER ANYWAYS*

@dieucondorimperial2509

2 жыл бұрын

The French when the saw the British colonizing : - How dare you do this ! *Saw the massive money it makes* -… Without me !

@bensmith1955

2 жыл бұрын

Quite right, tally ho!

"Geopolitical Megazord" may be my new favorite sentence.

@dantespicysausage9615

2 жыл бұрын

I can even hear the faint go go brittania afterwards too

@AxxLAfriku

2 жыл бұрын

I STRONGLY DISAGREE! Being as famous as I am on KZread, I know that it gets hard to read every comment I get. I try my best, but I am just so famous, that I can't do it much longer. Sorry, dear sha

@hypernyan6173

2 жыл бұрын

@@AxxLAfriku Shut up!

@faizahmohammedaruwa

2 жыл бұрын

@UCHxeqZ4Qfe7ZdcyflX-yTIA ^ what they said 😂😆🤣

@Kingfisher-

2 жыл бұрын

I love the “geopolitical megazord” bit because the isles look like the torso and legs 😂.

"France was egging them on" - that sentence is doing A LOT of heavy lifting.

@quantumditto3318

2 жыл бұрын

A fine example of the art of understatement on such a scale

@joshuahunt3032

2 жыл бұрын

Talk about a British-grade understatement…

@fullmetaltheorist

2 жыл бұрын

To this day.

@Mizore2008

2 жыл бұрын

Yup to the point they bankrupted themselves

@ethanb663

2 жыл бұрын

yeah Americans don’t like the idea that anyone helped them with the revolutionary war

"Their plan was certainly extreme, and their idiocy correspondingly immense" A fine addition to my collection of "anime plot or history summary" quotes

@artsman412

2 жыл бұрын

Any more you'd like to share? We can guess below.

@gabrielbastos18

2 жыл бұрын

Or the plans a D&D group cooks up.

@MrDalisclock

2 жыл бұрын

Some people don't half ass anything. They go all in, even if means on stupidity

"Britain became the biggest empire in Human History." Wales: "And I helped!"

@JoshuaSmith-mf9uj

2 жыл бұрын

Tbf wales did have lot of coal to help fuel the industrial revolution iirc

@jlg8560

Жыл бұрын

hell yeah, welsh + english sailors were class

@mrbritannia3833

Жыл бұрын

@@jlg8560 West country I.e Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devonshire maybe Cornwall andHampshire not the welsh or northern and eastern english

@jlg8560

Жыл бұрын

@@mrbritannia3833 cardiff had a huge amount of sailors. I know im just generalising?

@mrbritannia3833

Жыл бұрын

@@jlg8560 Oh I thought we were talking about good sailors not just sailors

Reminds me of something I read recently: "the only reason there are pyramids in Egipt is they are too heavy to move to the british museum"

@Tom-dg6pg

2 жыл бұрын

We did invent the saying. Take everything and the kitchen sink. If it isn't bolted to the floor, we're having it. And sometimes even when it is bolted down.

@vassily-labroslabrakos2263

2 жыл бұрын

There's a reason the British museum is called the biggest fence in history

@robbell3217

2 жыл бұрын

"Welcome to the british museum. Don't ask where we got all this stuff!"

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the people living in Egypt had been pillaging the ruins for millennia and stealing stones to build their houses so like… when Britain showed up to nick the capstones nobody in the country had a concept of the value of the Pyramids but the British.

@vassily-labroslabrakos2263

2 жыл бұрын

@Tristan Lane you're aware the pyramids outweigh Stonehenge.

"The Sun never set on the British Empire" didn't mean it would never end, it was quite literal. There was never a time of day were the sun wasn't above a part of it

@myamdane6895

8 ай бұрын

It’s worth mentioning that the sun still hasn’t set on the British Empire through her overseas dominions

@alexcrazy1492

3 ай бұрын

@@myamdane6895I mean most are in the western hemisphere tho right so it does, just not for very long

@richeybaumann1755

2 ай бұрын

​@alexcrazy1492 nope, not yet. The Pitcairn Islands are the only part under the sun for like an hour between 00:00 and 01:00 UTC.

A British video? I say, I am certain that it will simultaneously be both the most _civilized_ and _uncivilized_ video we have ever seen, as any good British video must be!

@beaglaoich4418

2 жыл бұрын

*and Irish too

@ThinWhiteAxe

Жыл бұрын

@@beaglaoich4418 not just the Celts... but the Angles, and the Saxons, too!

@benjipixel1438

11 ай бұрын

@@ThinWhiteAxe you hate sand...dont you

@seekingabsolution1907

11 ай бұрын

Being English myself and having done a decent dive into both domestic and imperial UK history, I can say the motto of England or at least London, specifically the subset of the city known as The City of London, might as well be: "Nowhere will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy". Were it not for them having several million working class hostages, I'd advocate the city be burned down harder than the great fire and bombed off the face of the earth more effectively than the Blitz and then and only then might the world have some hope of recovery, some modicum of justice for the crimes of the sneering jackles who inhabit that place. The british ruling class are, I am convinced the most effective, dangerous and down right evil group of power jockies the human species has ever produced. Whilst they remain power, the world might never be free.

@oppionatedindividual8256

10 ай бұрын

@@beaglaoich4418 the Irish are British, they’re from the British Isles whether they like it or not.

Frenchman standing on the coast looking out with binoculars “Monsieur, the britONs.. they have... stopped fiegh-teng eachother.” The whole world: shit.

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

As if we needed more similarities with Warhammer Orks…

@ApeX-pj4mq

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bushflare HUMIESSS

@potatuslied553

2 жыл бұрын

I mean they were based off of football hooligans

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

@@potatuslied553 that was the joke, yes.

@hurgcat

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bushflare dem gits need krumpin'

World: *"Hey, Britain, how many countries did you colonized ?"* Britain: *Start singing Yakko's World*

@StarshadowMelody

2 жыл бұрын

yakko's world but it's only where britain's been

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

@@StarshadowMelody If you do it with only nations Britain or her cultural children have won wars it’s basically the whole song.

@SandsBuisle

2 жыл бұрын

@@StarshadowMelody That requires almost no cuts.

@jasonreed7522

2 жыл бұрын

A map of nations Britain hasn't invaded is basically just a map of double landlocked nations like Kazakhstan.

@imawaffle148

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonreed7522 technically, kazakhstan has access to the caspian sea, but idk if you wanna count that for landlocked since it's an inland sea with no connection to the outside.

Damn 4:56 was a really succinct but strong emotional beat. Good writing Blue, and good editing Indigo

@dilemma3002

2 жыл бұрын

Idigo

@emperorofwends8875

2 жыл бұрын

Why are you everywere

@Stoneworks

2 жыл бұрын

@@emperorofwends8875 9/12/21, I will be in your dream.

@cow1816

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stoneworks OWO and Justin were chill, while Stoneworks be out here giving people nightmares

@diogene_s8032

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I recognize you. Still have to catch up on the series about the worldbuilding server, but I will soon.

"George, the British Empire covers half the globe. While the German Empire covers a small sausage factory in Tanganita."

@user-si3gu8pm6j

2 жыл бұрын

👏

@MrDalisclock

2 жыл бұрын

I see you are a person of culture

@user-si3gu8pm6j

2 жыл бұрын

“The poor old ostrich died for nothing”

@richiestyles5143

2 жыл бұрын

The German empire actually wasn't too shabby either.

@TheNightmareRider

2 жыл бұрын

@@richiestyles5143 That's da joke.

As a Scotsman, who is deeply interested in the history of Britain, I say you did a really good job summarizing. You missed some things, but if you didn't it would be 6 hours long.

@Alaryk111

2 жыл бұрын

What's your opinion on Scottish independence?

@georgethompson1460

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alaryk111 Not really independence if you join the EU though...

@DeusBlackheart

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alaryk111 Not the biggest fan. The EU has a wait time to be accepted, even if you meet all the requirements for a new member state, and it would be like Brexit again as our biggest trading partner is the other parts of the UK. Specifically England. I'm not a fan of the Westminster government, and the Anglo-focused parliament where Scotland makes up 56 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons (which is technically an over representation of one, by population) but the issue is that the SNP are not a healthy party.

@DeusBlackheart

2 жыл бұрын

@@d6995 I'm from Glasgow specifically, and I saw Blue's old Scotland vid. He's got the patter.

@DeusBlackheart

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgethompson1460 I wouldn't mind joining the EU, the EU hasn't been mistreating Scotland for nearly a millennia

Overly Sarcastic Productions: "History Summarized: Britain" Me: "I'm Carving 'Baldric' Sir!"

@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569

2 жыл бұрын

“My family and other animals”- Blackadder

@TheBatmobeale

2 жыл бұрын

Hear the word I sing! War's a horrid thing....

@user-pn5cc4uj9w

2 жыл бұрын

i have a cunning plan

@christianfarren1179

2 жыл бұрын

KZreadrs of culture I see! “Baldrick, you have built a working time machine. And are therefore, the greatest genius who has ever lived.” -Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

@wcapewell3089

2 жыл бұрын

I read this comment and immediately burst out laughing.

Fun fact: After being sworn in as king, Charles II had Cromwell's corpse dug up and executed posthumously to get revenge for his father

@lewis123417

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't his head also left ontop of parliaments roof for like 80 years lol

@SonofSethoitae

2 жыл бұрын

@@lewis123417 28 years, actually

@Mr.Patrick_Hung

2 жыл бұрын

How is that fun?

@WHATTHEHELL666

5 ай бұрын

Pettiness can be funny sometimes./neu@@Mr.Patrick_Hung

@charliefarmer4365

4 ай бұрын

@@lewis123417it also travelled a lot after being blown down and stolen.

But Blue you missed the amazing part were Britain declared itself the centre of the world, with the times zones and trade. Also just the fact that this video is in English says a lot about the British Empire.

@andyhemsted4570

Жыл бұрын

Not sure it actually went that way. Most trade maps had Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, and also the USA had set their time zone based on GMT. So an international conference thought it made sense

"Hey King George, what's the opposite of tea? YEET!" *almost spits out hot mouthful of therapeutic tannins

@themandownstairs4765

2 жыл бұрын

I don't care if it's a dead meme that will never be anything short of the perfect summary of that event

@mr.cobalt1668

2 жыл бұрын

I wasn't even drinking anything yet *same*.

@daanwilmer

2 жыл бұрын

I laughed way too hard at that.

@LukSter18998

2 жыл бұрын

* spits out liquid of rotten fruit and boiled water

@lysanamcmillan7972

2 жыл бұрын

@@themandownstairs4765 Memes never die. We still have jokes in English that were coined thousands of years ago.

quote i will never forget: blue: what's the opposite of tea? blue: *YEET*

@Inksternonimous

2 жыл бұрын

This line almost made me spit out my coffee... Which I'm now realizing is pretty ironic

@flatlo

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t get it.

@Rndm9

2 жыл бұрын

@@flatlo Search up 'Boston tea party'

@lorelei4468

2 жыл бұрын

During the American Revolution rebels dressed up as native Americans, sneaked into a tea ship and like yeeted millions of tea over lol

@LincolnDWard

Жыл бұрын

@@flatlo also, tea could very easily be spelled "teey" without changing how it's pronounced, which written backwards (the opposite) is yeet

Blue: "And so the World Wars happened." Me, a WWI historian: !!! Blue: "Yes, they're very important. We're not getting into it." Me: - Sad WWI historian noises-

@AtholAnderson

2 жыл бұрын

I can sum up WW1 history in five words: "And then things got worse."

@trhett87

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtholAnderson Yes, but that just doesn't do justice to the scope of it.

@piperhays8698

2 жыл бұрын

@@trhett87 “And then things got worse for everyone who didn’t have money or who’s name ended with Romanov”

@nicholassmith7984

2 жыл бұрын

How many times have you watched Blackadder Goes Forth?

@hailghidorah2536

2 жыл бұрын

@@piperhays8698 “No, those guys just had to wait a _little_ bit for their problems…”

Britain will be like “Is anyone else gonna claim this land for themselves?” and not wait for an answer.

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

“Whatever that language is I don’t speak it so this land is mine now.” “I’m Irish, ya cunt!”

@internetenjoyer1044

2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly enough Britian, for much of the history if its empire, wasnt looking for land for its own sake. It only really cared about controlling strategic coast lines and making others trade on good terms with us. It refused requests to join the empire. This does change during the scramble for africa as fear of other's taking the land made Britiajntake land itself

@dallasrover5515

2 жыл бұрын

"Anybodywantthisnokthanksi'lltakeitbyyyyeeeeee!"

@Juho221

Жыл бұрын

@@internetenjoyer1044 Exactly, Mexico, Uruguay and Ethiopia wanted to join the empire but the British didn't let them. Britain also protected south American countries, because after the fall of spanish rule there the US and other European powers wanted to colonise it

I imagine Wales looking on the constant wars between England, Scotland and Ireland just like the dog in the burning house meme saying "this is fine"

@lirazel6414

2 жыл бұрын

Except when they covertly participated, of course.

@stormrunner4081

2 жыл бұрын

If I don’t move they won’t notice me

@Arrek8585

2 жыл бұрын

Also Wales spent most of the first millennium fighting Rome, the Angelo Saxons and the Normans. There is a reason there are more castles in Wales per capita then anywhere else and it wasn't because the architecture was nice.

@calebdouglas2512

2 жыл бұрын

@@Arrek8585 although admittedly, the architecture IS nice. You should visit Caerphilly castle sometime. Pretty impressive

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

@@Arrek8585 It’s because Wales is Afghanistan with sheep. You need that many castles to govern that kind of terrain.

That feeling when you're chilling on a island in the Pacific and the waves start playing "God Save The Queen"

@discountchocolate4577

2 жыл бұрын

Nightmare-inducing. Only the Star-Spangled Banner would be scarier.

@glasscardproductions4736

2 жыл бұрын

@@discountchocolate4577, Top 5 Scariest Anthems to Hear while being Colonised: 1, The Star-Spangled Banner; 2, Rule Britannia; 3, Госудáрственный гимн Росси́йской Федерáции; 4, Horst-Wessel-Lied; 5, La Marcha Granadera.

@YataTheFifteenth

10 ай бұрын

​@@glasscardproductions4736 Battotai should be an honourable mention

@glasscardproductions4736

10 ай бұрын

@@YataTheFifteenth If this was a Top 10 list, Battotai would be 6th.

"Hey King George, what is the opposite of tea?" "Y E E T" You can hear Blue's laughter as he says that last word. I love it.

@chrisstaves1473

5 ай бұрын

What's 'Yeet'

"Napoleon's own hubris" I mean, also Britain's infinite amount of cash which allowed them to pay the entirety of Europe to attack Napoleon. That had a small role.

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts

2 жыл бұрын

Those attacks failed though. Napoleon just failed harder.

@maxdavis7722

2 жыл бұрын

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts well Britain’s cash and trade persuaded the Russians to stop the embargo which resulted in napoleons biggest defeat. The British were heavily involved in napoleons failure at the peninsular campaign which sapped resources and the British played the biggest role at Waterloo. So the British played an important role in all three of napoleons major downfalls.

@OhitsONnow

2 жыл бұрын

@@maxdavis7722 Wow. Britain really does fight itself

@maxdavis7722

2 жыл бұрын

@@OhitsONnow what?

@mrbritannia3833

Жыл бұрын

@@OhitsONnow ?

"What's the opposite of tea?" "YEET" My sides hurt.

@georgethompson1460

2 жыл бұрын

ah yes george washington in red face.

@pinkajou656

2 жыл бұрын

Aet.

@lemonade_011

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgethompson1460 it’s funny cause his names so southern English decent lol.

“We will collapse your century old kingdom just to fund our tea addiction” Some Brit boi in China probably

@hailghidorah2536

2 жыл бұрын

AND WE'LL GIVE YOU AN ADDICTION TOOOOOOOOOO🎶

@garethharold3600

2 жыл бұрын

The Qing were doing a pretty good job of collapsing already, tbh. Not China's greatest dynasty, the late Qing.

@trla6505

2 жыл бұрын

@@garethharold3600 I think theres a reason why the British were able to do what they did

@garethharold3600

2 жыл бұрын

@@trla6505 Well, and the Japanese, French, Russians, Germans, and so on. And a thousand different Chinese rebel groups.

@HenshinFanatic

2 жыл бұрын

Great Britain was stanning Genshin Impact before it was cool, because they were all about the Keqing Keqing Keqing.

This was one of the most hilarious ones yet, thank you for the humorous breakdown. ...Like, dear gods though, at one point I paused and said to myself "This sounds like every game of civilization I've ever played" especially "Throw infinity money at every conflict to make it go away" XD

@LordTomyh

2 жыл бұрын

That and building a lot of settlers to claim as much land as you can, then conquering everyone close to you.

The people that James sent to Ireland to "colonize" were the border reavers, who frequently made their living raiding across the border between Scotland and England. (The Scottish king James) shipped them off to Ireland so whatever trouble they habitually caused, wouldn't be trouble for a newly united Britain.

Red can you do a video on some Slavic mythology and god's? They aren't very well known but you might have fun. For example you can talk about Veles, Cernebog and Perun. You can also talk about creatures from vampires to vilas to multy headed dragon's named Lamija

@trajectoryunown

2 жыл бұрын

This would be awesome. I know literally nothing. I'd also very much like to know why that is that I haven't heard anything.

@AzraelAngel945

2 жыл бұрын

Yes fucking please! An OSP Slavic Mythology video is horribly overdue

@5555petros

2 жыл бұрын

We might as well get Blue to do the Balkan wars. Though I doubt anyone will survive to see the end of them.

@LazyVik05

2 жыл бұрын

@@5555petros if they do a video on that there would be a 3rd Balkan war in the comments

@lirazel6414

2 жыл бұрын

@@5555petros Sadly, that includes everything but the mountains themselves.

If you’ve ever looked up how many countries Britain/England has invaded, you’ll find the answer to be “22 countries. All but 22 countries.”

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

And to be fair, many of those 22 only came about after Britain retired from the Empire Business to begin with. Had they existed beforehand they might not have been so lucky.

@ApeX-pj4mq

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bushflare Those god damn Mongolians just had to be landlocked

@topfactlord5448

7 ай бұрын

That can be changed...

Im very proud of blue for delving so far into the age of vanity. I understand as a classicist it probably hurts his soul but as someone fascinated by this period it's wonderful to hear blue's take. After all its the period of history most relevant to formation of the modern world despite how convoluted it can be. Fantastic workas always!

I will be honest as a Englishman I tend to take a 'Warts and all' approach to our history. The good, the bad and the ugly. I laud our successes, criticise our failures and try to learn from the dark underbelly which was a part of it to not make the same mistakes twice. For all the great (not necessarily good) things the empire did it cannot be separated from all the flaws. Britain is a model on which many nations got their infrastructure, sports, even good portions of systems of governments - but at the same time the cost that was to local people and cultures. I bring this up namely because this is a big part of the British consciousness, that being our pride in Empire while also accepting what it did. I am neither attempting to start a argument on the nature of Empire, but more provide a current perception of British culture on Empire that is not the chest pounding of 'Empire good' or the attitude of 'empire bad.'

50% of Britain's history is either connected with Tea or France

@TauGDS

2 жыл бұрын

pretty sure we can easily stretch that to 100%

@billcipherproductions1789

2 жыл бұрын

@@TauGDS Especially with hating France.

@MasaokaKun

2 жыл бұрын

@@billcipherproductions1789 To be fair, everyone hates France. Even the french. (yes, I'm joking)

Could you guys do something about the Isle of Mann? It's the first governmental body to give women the right to vote, has possibly the longest running parliament in the world, and with a fascinating blend of Gaelic and Norse culture.

@TheUnrealInsomniac1

2 жыл бұрын

That'd be so cool! I have some ancestry from there and I'd love to learn more!

@MidlifeCrisisJoe

2 жыл бұрын

Do they get a lot of jokes about their Mannish Women, or their hopes for Mannkind?

@minutemansam1214

2 жыл бұрын

Iceland has the longest running parliament in the world, at least according to tradition.

@hotcocoandart

2 жыл бұрын

@@minutemansam1214 I said possibly, and the Manx one is over 1000 years old Edit: I checked both to make sure. I don't think there's any way to know which is older, since records would be pretty scarce from the 900's. But the Isle of Mann has some serious Nordic influence, so it's entirely possible they were founded around the same time.

@daveharrison84

2 жыл бұрын

and cats with no tails

Every time I look at British history it always shocks me just how powerful we were

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

Look at modern America and the crippled, collapsing giant it has become. Power That great is too heavy for any structure to bear for too long. The wheel of history turns and those at the top eventually find themselves crushed beneath the bottom.

@jamieyoung9206

2 жыл бұрын

You mean power to destroy

@internetenjoyer1044

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamieyoung9206 and to create. remember that many coutnries were clammering to join the British empire; it couldnt have existed without bringing benefits to people

@bdidbwvolume2.230

Жыл бұрын

@@jamieyoung9206 You have a child's understanding of history. I suggest you grow up.

@ianhogben3472

Жыл бұрын

@@internetenjoyer1044 are you refering to places like malta

In a side note, I love how enthusiastic is Blue in this videos you can tell how much he likes making them

To be entirely honest, I would watch the four times as long version.

"List of British overseas territories" This list is incomplete. You can help by *_expanding it_* *[Rule Britannia intensifies]*

@Minihood31770

2 жыл бұрын

Nah mate. I'd rather we not meme supporting british colonialism. Make jokes at the expense of empire, by all means. But jokes implying you support the british empire ironically, when too many people actually do, just aren't funny anymore. The attitude of "rule britannia" is responsible for our violently racist immigration policies, for the shot in the foot of Brexit, for our current corrupt and incompetent leadership who have killed over 150,000 predominantly minoritised people with their mishandling of the coronavirus.

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

@@Minihood31770 Cool idea but alternatively the Empire is fun and cool and Zulu is an awesome movie so like… nobody worth paying attention to gives a damn. The Empire is fine to enjoy.

@ipadair7345

2 жыл бұрын

@Tristan Lane do you know what Bolshevism is, or do you think whomever understands that your country or nation has done anything bad is somehow a totalitarian. This comment has nothing to do with economics, or the amount of authority a governing body should have, Bloshevism isn't a term which should be used willy-nilly, this makes people assume a false meaning of the term, making your comment an anti-democratic misdemeanor. Yours Sincerely, a stranger on the internet.

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

@@ipadair7345 Oooooooohhhh get dunked on. Yours ironically Someone who thinks this gag is cringe as hell.

@derraabe8462

2 жыл бұрын

@Tristan Laneyou do know that people disagreeing with you is not censorship and jokes where not banned in the udssr that is ridiculous even if they where the udssr also had conscription that doesnt make liking the military bolshevist words have meaning

"Hey, King George, what's the opposite of tea? YEET!" is hand down the best example of modern language enabling *pure gold* historical humor that would have made absolutely zero sense at the time. Well done, Blue. 🤣🤣

“Rinse, repeat, buy more slaves” is straight out of a CGP Grey video and I love it (the writing, not the slave trade)

Monarch: Mummy Daddy Military: Yes honey? Monarch: I want that toy! Military: But you already have plenty of toys. Monarch: I know, but I want it, PLEASEEEE! Military: Ok dear.

@Shugamri

2 жыл бұрын

Great Britain/England as Willy Wonka's Veruca Salt oddly fits??

Edward Said once wrote: "Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

@mollymcdade4031

2 жыл бұрын

I remember actually reading some quotes from a 1900’s parliamentary debate where several leftist politicians called out this excuse of ‘stopping slavery in savage nations’ (which we claimed to do once banning it ourselves) Basically pointing out that this excuse would mean we’d be at war forever and the colonialists weren’t really that interested in the case in the first place. They also pointed out that the public were basically unaware of how much money we were losing doing all this conquering and would be appalled to find out about how our forces were treating people abroad. Because it really was a handful of greedy politicians wanting to take over these places and insisting to the public that it was a Very Good Thing

@blackaua

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure the Mongolians or Romans saw themselves as anything so altruistic.

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

@@mollymcdade4031 To be fair, atop all of that we DID put the Atlantic Slave Trade in the ground. We just did the same thing America did in Afghanistan and moved directly into political statecraft at the cost of lives and money.

@deathbower

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bushflare The Atlantic slave trade was mostly done in by the British Captains though. They were justifiably zealous despite getting slapped on the wrist regularly for going beyond what was technically legal. Eventually the politicians caved and let them do their thing (although knowing politicians, this was probably more because it harmed rival powers than altruism).

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

​@@deathbower This is true and condemnable but Britain was also the nation that put a stop to it. The Africans had been dealing in slaves internally for centuries and the Europeans just jumped into that trade and supercharged it. When the abolitionists gained enough power to overcome the greed Britain then went to war not with itself like America but with the nations that were the lynchpins of the slave trade. A cynic would say this was because Britain was beyond the point where it benefitted from slavery and they’d probably be correct to some degree but as always history is rarely decided by a single factor and the strain of English Liberalism born on the isles was instrumental in the freeing of the slaves as well as the mostly peaceful dissolution of the Empire because England over time evolved to become very concerned with the concept of fairness and it was folks like Wilberforce and Gandhi who used their hearts and minds to make it impossible for the Emperor to continue without clothes. The fascinating part of British history is how in spite of the evils inflicted and the damage done there is still so much virtue milling about within. The English really we’re convinced they were the good guys simply because they were rarely the *worst* guys. The internal contradictions are fascinating.

This channels ability to tackle serious topics with the level of severity they deserve yet still seamlessly move to lighter tones and less severe topics without any jarring shifts will always amaze me. 4:56 was so well done, it allowed enough for the horror and tragedy and deserved abhorrence to sink in without the topic or overall flow of the video being shifted off- focus. Red, Blue and Indigo always do such an amazing job.

@Juho221

Жыл бұрын

I didn't like how he talked about Britains participation in slave trade, but he didn't mention that it was Britain who ended the Atlantic slave trade, and also the African and middle Eastern slave trade that had been going on for thousands of years

'The Second Hundred Years War' ...I never thought about it that way, but damn it you're not wrong. Neat.

The myths of the British Isles are very interesting. Most know of the Arthurian legends, but the Welsh tales in the Mabinogion and Irish sagas are very nice too. Aside from that it is very interesting to try to find out about pre-Christian religion in the Isles. Super cool stuffs

@markchapman6800

2 жыл бұрын

Red has complained in another video that pre-Christian Irish mythology is largely lost, due to having been heavily rewritten by Christian missionaries.

@Sootielove

2 жыл бұрын

Arthurian legends are also Welsh for the most part, aside from the occassional additions the English and French made when they used it for their romantic periods

@radioactiveowl95

2 жыл бұрын

@@markchapman6800 The pre-Christian beliefs of the Anglo-Saxons are even more mysterious and equally interesting.

@mollymcdade4031

2 жыл бұрын

English myth is really complicated because we probably had a lot of original myths and legends but they’ve kind of been buried thanks to being conquered by the Romans and Vikings and taking on their myths.

@yammoto148

2 жыл бұрын

There are celtic myths but again much like Irish myths a lot of them have been Christianised or erased over time. As for Anglo Saxon, its speculated Rome Assimilated some of their gods but because Rome has been sacked so many times we don't know which ones. The oldest English original poem is Beowulf and it doesn't even take place in Britain.

“Hey, King George! What’s the opposite of tea? *YEET!* “

@Nimelennar

2 жыл бұрын

Legendary.

The Opium Wars is an under appreciated part of British history that plays a greatly understated role in current events in regards to how China handles itself.

I started my B.A in History about the time I found this channel and it’s been very nice to these videos as stepping stones to work off of. Entertaining in their own right they’ve helped me slog through so much research. Thank you ❤️

Blue: *finally makes a history summarized video on Britain* Me: "this is where the fun begins"

Any other country has a navy The British empire “your gonna regret that”

@BonaparteBardithion

2 жыл бұрын

It's Athens all over again.

@dmen89

2 жыл бұрын

And then some people from mainland Europe sailed up the Thames to steal the flagship and block the harbour. Fun times

@dantecruz9463

2 жыл бұрын

@@dmen89 only once

@dmen89

2 жыл бұрын

@@dantecruz9463 once was all it took to utterly humiliate the English Navy

@thetrickster9885

2 жыл бұрын

British ia preety gay ngl

Of all your videos on the Isles, I can say this one is my favourite. You hit that great sweet spot in a historical video few can achieve; the appreciation of achievements, innovation and even conquest, tempered by the horrors of reality.

I left college a while ago, yet OSP more-or-less keeps taking me back to school. And I love them for it.

British history: Random sailor: Hey look at that piece of land over there! Britannia: Anyways so then I started conquering…..

@goroakechi6126

2 жыл бұрын

“If a flag isn’t waving, it’s ripe for enslaving!” -every European monarch ever

@dantespicysausage9615

2 жыл бұрын

What's this? Your golden statue of a deer? It'll look lovely in a museum

@No_Sense_Of_Self

2 жыл бұрын

@@afflict9341 ok then lol

@jacklong1644

2 жыл бұрын

no its anyway so i started colonizing

@mollymcdade4031

2 жыл бұрын

Or rather Sailor: Hey look land! Highly Decorated Military General: Well we should definitely go and take all the stuff- I mean liberate them Sailor: What? General: What?

Me, reading the title: Oh boy, here we go Blue, immediately : Oh boy, here we go

This is as fair and accurate as a blind person with one arm using a bow and arrow. But I respect the effort to condense it into 12 mins is an enormous challenge. A very American perspective on British History.

Rome to British Empire: “I like your cut, G”

I'm honestly surprised you didn't summise it down to "pissing off our neighbours for several centuries" as that fairly aptly describes our history.

@HivefleetMagoladon

2 жыл бұрын

British history is best summarised thusly: Being invaded repeatedly until they go super saiyan and take over the world.

@AnInsaneOstrich

2 жыл бұрын

@@HivefleetMagoladon which can also somewhat fit into the History of America.

@jamesharding3459

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnInsaneOstrich Until we decided that eating McFatnolds and watching Netflix for all time was better than building a glorious future for the world. The Cold War sucked, but it got us a man on the moon. What had the 21st century gotten us, besides a nation on the verge of civil war and political, economic, and demographic collapse?

@AnInsaneOstrich

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesharding3459 I'm fairly certain a man on the moon is not worth being on the verge of total atomic annihilation. We are still making technological and medical advances, even today. Think about what technology was like in the year 2000 and think about what it is like now. We have self driving cars, vastly more advanced phones and computers, even better rocket technology for reaching the moon and other parts of out solar system.

@jamesharding3459

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnInsaneOstrich It was more a gripe at the downward spiral of the US than praising the Cold War. Having 10,000-odd nukes pointed our way was less than fun, according to everyone I know who’s old enough to remember it.

I’m a Brit. This is 100x more simple and entertaining then history class.

@KingFunky

2 жыл бұрын

I know right, but no, we need to know about the war of roses

@anotherguycalled6253

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingFunky Exactly im in year 8. Going to year 9. Asked my teacher about it he said you learn it in year 10.

@gerstein03

2 жыл бұрын

@Sean and when I was in eleventh grade in America, I had to learn about your colonization efforts as well as a bunch of other stuff America had no role in. What's your point? It's world history. There's more history you should know than what happened in your country

6:00 I choked on my drink so much I needed a minute to breathe.

"I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark."

@jamesharding3459

2 жыл бұрын

Especially with a sheep

@jamesharding3459

2 жыл бұрын

@Sean oof

@luigiwoo4469

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesharding3459 that's the Welsh you're thinking off

Can we please acknowledge the absolute SAVAGERY of the phrase “Rinse, repeating, buy more slaves”?!?! I am blown away! Keep up the good work Blue!

@mvande4

2 жыл бұрын

So so true 😃

@DCPTF2

2 жыл бұрын

then that raises the question, who was selling them?

@roberthall7689

2 жыл бұрын

Also, the British ended the slave trade (as part of the slavery abolition act of 1833)

@lorenzodocx4021

2 жыл бұрын

@@DCPTF2 oh ffs not that argument again. The people that sold the slaves to the british had a very differrent idea of what slavery was. (nonetheless still cruel). A kind of indentured servitude, where you could be set free, staring to see the differences. these african slavers would've not sold them if they knew what would happen to them

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

@@roberthall7689 The Atlantic Slave Trade Slavery continued on the far coast of Africa and proliferates within many places in Africa even today. But the Atlantic one is the only slave trade people seem concerned with.

Britain: sees any land mass” is for me?”

This was insanely more concise than i expected and also very enjoyable :)

Some further suggested readings to try unpack the world's largest empire. Empire by Niall Ferguson is a great look at the good, bad and the ugly of the empire from its inception as funder of piracy to its collapse as basically a vassal of its bastard child. The Pax Britannica Series by Jan Morris is an excellent look at what life was like across the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th century. Very good books! Explains a lot about the ideology behind British imperialism. And a History of the English People by Paul Johnson is also really good, especially for explaining the foundations of the early empire. I enjoyed this video! Impartial and insightful. But I also think it's important to create a distinction between pre and post-Victoria Britain. Britain before Victoria was very much a profit-driven empire that didn't even acknowledge its own imperial nature, while it was Victoria's era that really started developing the British idea of what their empire meant to themselves and the world. Also, would have liked a mention of Britain's instrumental role in the abolition of the slave trade.

it could have easily been 20 videos, but thats gotta be the world record speedrun for british history. good stuff as always!

Me: How did Britain begin? OSP: Allow us to introduce ourselves Me : *Long have I waited for this*

ngl as a British person studying British history... this was really good! you got all the important beats and talked about the important stuff as well as stuff non-British people don't always understand like the culture-mix and the very heavy effect that the empire/dissolution has on modern-day Britain. I really enjoyed it!

Visuals in this video are a chef's kiss Incredibly well made Blue!

I feel like you should have clarified the Puritanism of the English Parliament during the English civil war and wars of the 3 kingdoms. You make it seem like the Scottish turned on the English after Charles was executed, but in actuality after the first English civil war the Scots changed sides due to a secret deal with Charles, thus why Charles the second lead 2 more civil wars

“Hey King George! What’s the opposite of tea? Y E E T” Pls help I’m deader than the British empire

And we back! Let's GOOOOO!!!! Another great video. I like the longer ones.

Really glad I was able to help on this Blue!

if one thing is true we brits like its making everything overly complex.

Cromwell marched onto Irish shores, beat the Irish forces in several battles, then committed massacres that appalled many contemporaries (even though the casualties weren't unusual for Continental Europeans at the time), left a devastated country with no organization against further diseases. In total, between 10 - 25% Irish were lost.

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

Well, there’s other reasons people don’t like Cromwell but that one’s gotta be up there.

@DogseatDogs

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bushflare Cromwell was a dour hypocrite. Other reasons to hate hin are his ascension to becoming literally king, just without a crown, and his supposed banning of Christmas, even though there were no documents on that. Unfortunately, many people, particularly in England and Scotland, only knew their reason for hatred on Cromwell was because of what he did to them, not to the Irish. People don't condemn others for what they do to other folks, they only joined the hate-train when they themselves got a short end of a deal.

@Bushflare

2 жыл бұрын

@@DogseatDogs Such is history, and now modernity suffers from the other extreme ailment of being too concerned with others and paying no mind to the requirements of the self. A hilarious irony that will also be extremely fitting when it reaches the history books.

@PastPresented

2 жыл бұрын

It took the Irish until about 1939 to figure out what they had been doing wrong throughout recorded history

@jdlc903

2 жыл бұрын

@@DogseatDogs no,in England he used to be seen as a progressive who killed the King.

Blue: What’s the opposite of tea? Yeet! Me: *dies from laughter* Blue: I will not mourn the British Empire but I will mourn Hong Kong Me: *is crying inside* - A Hong Konger

@1224chrisng

Жыл бұрын

Glory to HK, the mainland imperialists will never conquer us

Amazing video, the quality of the animation only gets better everytime! 💗🤞✨

Videos like this are good because it reminds people that nations are moved by powerful individuals rather than the nation as a whole deciding to invade somewhere or whatever. It's always a king, politician or industrialist (all three working together), in an attempt to increase personal power, never the everyday man. A factory worker in London was hardly dictating the actions of the elites, but simply serving the expansion of power through necessity for work.

@Lightwolf234

2 жыл бұрын

A nation can stand up against powerful individuals, you know.

@joshbishop9639

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lightwolf234 revolutions against regimes tends to be lead by people from the elite class rather than a member of the underclass. Regardless, my point being that 97% of the British people had very little say on the actions of its leaders. They weren't asked if they wanted to participate in slavery or empire building or industrialisation, they were events that happened to and around them. Understanding history we can see that rather than blaming entire ethnic groups we should recognise the recurring behaviors of unaccountable leaders.

"Hey, King George, what's the opposite of tea?" *YEET* I don't know what, but this little bit had me giggling fiercely and patriotically.

Absolutely loved, your making history and mythology fun again. Thank you

I would like to be on record both as saying you are a madman for taking on all of this in one video and that you did a shockingly complete job for so little time.

I have been waiting for a true OSP history video for 4 weeks!

Britain- Seeing Spain colonizing “Ok, my turn” America seening Britain colonizing “right that down, right that down!” I see I have made a spell error but I don’t care

@euansmith3699

2 жыл бұрын

I thought you were just using some variant American spelling 😉

Honestly appreciate the philosophy of who should own what? That ran through this episode, it's so key in Britain right now and for humanity in general. The sooner we realise that we all own everything the better.

Been feeling pretty low lately. Gotta say, seeing this in my queue made a world of difference for me.

"Hey King George, whats the opposite of "tea"? YEET!!!" HAHAHAHAHHAAHA! I literally spent the last five minutes laughing so hard i actually choked a little...i was VERY not prepared to suddenly find my absolute new favorite description of the Tea Party!!!

I really appreciate you going all the way up to the New Millennium. I have a terrible bias that "History" and the perceived antiquated ideas of Empire somehow end after WWII. It doesn't. It is all alive and well, albeit with different tools and rhetoric. Britain has a huge gravity in the events of history and I am not only impressed with how much I learned but that I learned it in ~12 minutes. Nice.

@tyler1107

2 жыл бұрын

I dont know, imperialism took on such a different form after the post-WW2 revolutions that I’m not sure imperialism is even the right word for it anymore. There’s no other word for it though.

@lewis123417

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah you only have to look at how to communist party of China is getting third world countries into debt traps. That's true communist imperialism

Thank you blue for inspiring me with a rough idea of what I’m gonna write my AP Research paper on!

But also this was a awesome and very informative video. It's amazing to realize just how many diffrent historical events happened so close to eachother

Favourite piece: The invention of popular sovereignity by a parliament just deciding its boss now (while kinda being laughably transparent power realpoliticians at the same time).

Been a while waiting for this one

Just started a modern British history (1688-now) class earlier this week. This couldn’t have come at a better time

Another great video, keep up the good work.

Alright, time to use my knowledge of lostbelt 6 and see how much I know.

"When I was a lad, a quarter of the world map was colored in red, and that was the British Empire." "Now it's just all the people we owe money to."

@jacklong1644

2 жыл бұрын

we dont plan to pay

@v_cpt-phasma_v689

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacklong1644 we actually already do pay? we have paid them for years, every ex British colonies economy grew massively under British control.

@jacklong1644

2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know that thanks for the info also it was a joke I know next to nothing about politics and such

@lewis123417

2 жыл бұрын

@@v_cpt-phasma_v689 I don't think the same could be said for Syria and Iraq after we left them with lovely straight lined borders that made no cultural sense. I'm a patriotic brit but we were terrible at drawing borders

@v_cpt-phasma_v689

2 жыл бұрын

@@lewis123417 oh yeah but thats because our plan behind borders wasnt based on ethnic regions, our borders were planned around allied tribal leaders/governers and we gave them whatever territory they wanted, to do it based on ethnic regions would have meant lots of smaller nations that probably wouldve ended up fighting eachother anyway.

Seeing a new OSP is one of the best parts of Friday.

I would love a video that takes a little longer to focus on the more interesting things that came out of the British empire. Obviously, as everyone knows, there was a lot going on that wasn't cool, but the little good that did come of it is fascinating

6:06 - I love this joke. For a moment it felt like Blue turned into GrayStillPlays.

Congrats for 1.7 million subs!

I appreciate the attention to detail with regards to Norway's former claim to Axel Heiberg Island.

Ahhhh! This is a great video