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@mrpink8951

Жыл бұрын

But who was the greatest Scottish pirate? 😂

@francisbarlow9904

Жыл бұрын

🤣😂🤣

Your ability to switch from "Ram it right up them!" to your soothing guide voice is astonishing

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜🤣🤣

Here's a pirate joke, why was it hard for the pirate to learn the alphabet, they had a hard time getting over the high c's. I made this one up, I once told a peg leg pirate a scary story, it shook his timber.

@McItoshi

Жыл бұрын

You should be made to walk the plank for that

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was going to be the problem they have with Aaaaaarghs

@elendil7

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours 😂

@beth12svist

Жыл бұрын

To make it even better, switch "learning the alphabet" for "learning to sing". ;-)

@gypsyrobin

Жыл бұрын

My grandson told it better. What is a pirate's favorite letter of the alphabet? The "R"? No, it's the "C"

There’s no F’in Lemmings! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

@DylanTheMattressMan

Жыл бұрын

That’s because they all jumped over the cliff

@stuartroxburgh4104

Жыл бұрын

@@DylanTheMattressMan - 😂😂😂

That was a truly great story Bruce. Well told and we'll conceived. That is just not something you're going to get in any old classroom. Thanks for passing it on to us! Good morning from America!

I never forget to tune in to these remarkable small history stories. The delivery and passion is clearly from a professional. Keep up the great work.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah thanks man

Love it when you have footage of my hometown, Berwick. And remind us that we once played a more important part in things.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Loads of history there for sure

@mikhailabunidal9146

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿w Bruce Fummey كلامك معقول يا بروس.فيه فعلاً كتير تاريخ tha na tha thu ag ràdh a’ dèanamh ciall Brus gu dearbh tha tòrr eachdraidh ann

@adelwulf8864

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours that's aboot all there is there now 😅

The moral of the story: Catching Crabs is a bit of a problem.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

It's easier than you think😜

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Yikes....

"The Phlegm really stuck in Edwards throat"...👀

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

I hope someday I get to go to Scotland! I'll not be coming back here to America that's for sure!

Nothing is exciting as Saturday Story time with Bruce 🥳😀😊 moreso as we draw the line at Geordies, but don't say I said so 👀

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😂

What a series of twists and turns in this man’s life of adventure. Very well done history! Thanks very much sir.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

You always make me laugh with your jokes and innuendos ! 😂

Lovely to see such an apolitical view of Scotish history. A totally unbiased, neutral, and fair perspective. Well done, sir.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

9 ай бұрын

FREEDOM 😜

@ScotlandHistoryTours You are a fantastic storyteller. I have 3 questions. 1) If you could go back in time in Scottish history, which event would you go back to witness and why? 2) or, who would you go back to meet, what would you say and why? 3) or, if you could change just 1 event to turn the tide in favor of Scotland and out of English rule, what would it be and how would you go about it? I'll contact you when I build my time travel machine. The tardis was occupied. Your answers would make 3 great videos though I have to say, all of your videos are fantastic. I listen to your stories often. Thank you very much.

Thanks Bruce I'd never heard of Crabbe before. The man had an interesting life to say the least.

To think how we complained in the 21st Centry about our problems with the Supply Chain issues between the Covid Shutdown & the cargo ship stuck sideways in a major Canal was nothing compared to ships being captured with all those various products on board.

Bruce. You are a bad man. I have a migraine today. "No F in Flemings" "I know they all..." hurt my head when I laughed a lot. Thank you though.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

i have learnt so much about Scotland and i honestly have to say i always want to learn much more!

I'm glad you are so good at telling true stories. And with humor!😜👏👏👏

You need to cover the history of James Douglas " the Black Douglas". That guy was a bad ass dude. Also an ancestor of mine. Love your channel.

@ernestchadwell9069

Жыл бұрын

He mentions him at the 3:00 mark..

Almost thought there was another Scottish hero i was unaware of ...until about the 13th minute....when Judas was reborn... Great Story Bruce 👏

@ScotlandHistoryTours

9 ай бұрын

😆

Bruce, sir, I can't believe how green the grass is in Scotland in the Winter. Here in South Carolina it is brown and dead from November to March, except for some course wild native grasses.

@ellenjampole1905

Жыл бұрын

And the weeds; they are amazingly green & healthy. Myrtle Beach area resident.

I love history and I love learning it from you. You teach it so well. Keep it up!

Bruce, you had me at " Let me tell you a story."

@ScotlandHistoryTours

10 ай бұрын

😜

You brought up pirates, not me. Scotsman John Paul Jones, fighting for American independence, was charged with piracy for his attack on Whitehaven. I believe that was the last time an enemy invaded Britain. I was in the museum when I saw that JPJ had been pardoned by Mayor Geoffrey Blackwell. Which is how my brother spells his name!

As an American I was hoping this would be about John Paul Jones, but I'm here for the story. We keep expecting stories to be about us, blame Hollywood.

There's no f in lemmings! Love it! 🤣

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

You touring the Commomwealth, teaching the facts, as you do...See you Alberta, Canada??

@ScotlandHistoryTours

10 күн бұрын

I'll be there

Thank-you fer a wee treat, the video was a great wee history lesson.. wish ma history teachers long ago had your skills. Anything on Scotland getting the grandslam in the 6 nations... Maman.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

🤣I could tell the tale of my hangover on the 1990 weekend

I'd never heard of Crabbe before. Thank you.

Another excellent video. The convoluted story of John Crabbe is fascinating and, like your other videos, well told.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

There's no F in lemmings.... near gutted masel.... brilliant

As someone from Flanders thank you for this video very interesting!

Your always have the best in Scottish history .. hand's down ! Thank you for all you do !

My family were indentured in VA in the 17th century for what could technically be considered piracy. Interesting stuff.

@Davemte34108

Жыл бұрын

As was mine.

There's nobody I like to hear history from more so

Always an entertaining watch, thank you 👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Hey Bruce have you done a story on Scottish golden age pirates?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

No, but I'm sur I will. This is a long term project.

@DylanTheMattressMan

Жыл бұрын

Well Duncarron are doing a Pirate Weekend at the beginning of June for a back drop as a thought Also I am working a Glasgow Cathedral this summer lots of stories there

Great video as always Mr.Fummey. I liked it very much as it is your most "Flemmisch" video date. But I have a question for you : where there knights templar at the battle of Bannockburn and did they saved the day for the Scots? Greetings from Flanders and there is no "F" in lemmings!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I don't believe so

One of my favourite historical Scottish characters is Thomas Cochrane. Reading his endeavours made me think he had missed his calling as a pirate

@ScotlandHistoryTours

8 ай бұрын

True

I might be biased, cos I was named after him, but I'd argue the greatest pirate out of Scotland would be John-Paul Jones..

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

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Yet another terrific tale. Thank you. Oh, and victuals.... pronounced 'vittles'. ;-)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

It is now. Was it then?

@Simon-Wolf

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours From what I have gleaned from the best etymological sources I could find... very probably. It stems from the same Latin root as Vit-ality. The C is a relatively recent artifact.

I saw this and screeched to a halt with merry cries. A pirate video is the perfect touch to my weekend! Were there any Scottish female pirates?

Great video Bruce. Is there a chance of a video in the future about Sir Andrew Wood? Would love to hear you tell his story.

Yet another interesting story told with your usual humour. I’ll be in Berwick on the 13th of next month. I’ll drink a toast to you 🌞

@ScotlandHistoryTours

11 ай бұрын

Splendid

A pirate, a buccaneer, and a privateer walked into a pub, and the bartender said: "What is this, some kind of a joke?" ☠

I always look forward to your videos keep them coming ☺

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

@mikhailabunidal9146

Жыл бұрын

@Brian Connaughton Same here , he (i.e. Mr. Fummey) always has something new to bring us into the Scottish History Tours table

Wow! What a story. Thank you, Bruce.

Is that a jelly knife youre holding??! 😊 so cute!

Well it certainly wasn't Kidd, poor bugger basically bumbled into piracy by misfortune.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like my career

@Seraphus87

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I'll join your crew if you have a ship!

Another great presentation!

Fascinating stuff...excellent story,thanks for sharing this with us all, best wishes from the wirral peninsula..E...

thanks for video , am down on holiday at moment and realised brixham this weekend and bank holiday its brixham pirate festival so as never seen as normally come after it see my parents ,i am Scottish born i been in brixham from age of 10 to 18 , ended up back in to borderlands of scotland ,..........any way the golden hinde is in brixham

So interesting--as usual! Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Surely a Flem from Aberdeen would be a Flemadonian?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I wish I'd thought of that

I so enjoy your videos. I admire your amazing gift of storytelling.

Luv it!!💃❤💃Scots we've eh!😂 But it be known..? Lizzy the First, was the biggest Pirate of all!

@carolynnesbit8670

Жыл бұрын

Doh..predictive text lah! Meant to be..'Scots wa'hae!😉

As a Flemish history nerd with an enormous love for Scotland, I really love your video's! Especially, offcourse, the ones with a link to Flanders 😉 Fun fact about te battle you mentioned in the beginning that makes it even more amazing: a huge part of the Flemish army weren't even trained footsoldiers. They were serfs and craftsmen! They were being seriously abused and downtrodden by the rich merchants they worked for, who's power and wealth knew no bounderies and who were the best of friends with the French King. They rebelled against their employers/abusers and around the same time the Count of Flanders, who didn't agree with the privileges these merchants were given, rebelled against the French King. He was captured by the French, and in response to that the Counts' family and loyal vassals openly chose to side with the serfs and the craftsmen in their rebellion. An alliance between the highest nobility and the poorest of the poor! Such an alliance had never happend before, let alone it being a successful one! We still celebrate their victory on the 11th of July, the Day of the Flemish Community.

How fortunes change, loved the big smiley face on the building behind you, was that deliberate.

Excellent ,cheers Bruce !

A great story, really well told.

What a great story! I really love your presentations. 👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Another excellent history lesson.I appreciate how you help us understand how complicated things were.

Thanks for sharing; take care

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thank you too

Sir High Admiral Andrew Wood's life was very interesting also. He is known as Scotland's Nelson and lived from 1455 to 1515.

@sheronasims6783

Жыл бұрын

And he was lucky enough to not witness Flodden.

Love your enthusiasm for underdogs Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Doesn’t everyone have that?

Please come to Wellington NZ too. We'd love to have you here.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Sorry, maybe next time

A'reyt Bruce. The trouble with privateers is that they were in it for the money and make much better villains than heros. I think I will stick with my childhood hero, Alan Breck Stewart, who sorted out the seafaring baddies, even if it was just a story. Today's story was a goody though, as always on this channel. Always best to sort a flem problem out before a trip away. Mind you, I thought we were about to get a rendition of "When the Boat Comes In" at one point.

Love your channel.

I thought that you would talk about John Paul Jones. He was a Scot who turned American rebel & is widely celebrated today as the father of the US Navy. He stole so many English ships & reaked havoc on these ships. 1 of the towns in Sheffeild England, gave him an honorary pardon in 1998.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

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Great to watch this, sat in a hotel room in Brugge :) Not sure I can share your Flemings jokes here with the Flemish staff :)

ah my ancestor Crabbeke 🤘

Hi Bruce Enjoyed the video as always For some reason having watched this video I am prompted to ask if you have done anything on the Darien Expedition?

Many thanks Bruce! 💓💓💓 Thanks for interpreting what they would have said. "Lol! Ya cracked me up."

Here's me thinking, it was Kishmul, there you go, every time you learn

back in the days when politics were more active and less sitting around bloviating in a room. and I have French ancestry, but still appreciate when the french come a cropper. well, actually when any bully comes a cropper, even if they're french.

Can't wait to see you in Dunedin NZ!!! 🥳🥂🥳

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Heading your way girl

@taniakaratau5654

Жыл бұрын

@Scotland History Tours I'm waiting for tickets to get onsale!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Hey Tania, Can I ask you to spread the word any way you can. Let's try and fill this place with atmosphere events.humanitix.com/stories-of-scotland-with-bruce-fummey

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Tania, I'm an idiot. This is the Dunedin link www.dunedinfringe.nz/events/stories-of-scotland

Hey, why did I get a new notification for this video again today? I just watched & LOVED it yesterday. LoL I actually got excited thinking that it was a director's cut or an extra info version (idk maybe you were doing something new). Damn you KZread!!! 🤣🤣 But really I do get excited whenever I get notifications for your 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 videos. I do truly appreciate the way you tell us Scotland's stories. Keep making great videos Bruce! Until the next time...

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I wish I knew how KZread worked

@therabbithole-sn5yb

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I was just busting balls, but you sure have a GREAT channel for someone who don't know how KZread works lol...

I'm glad you draw the line at Geordies, Bruce! 😉 Loads o' good shots o' Fittie in that... So you're buggerin' off to the Antipodes for a while. No doubt you'll manage to feature a koala, a kookaburra, a kangaroo or some kauri wood in one of your next Scotland videos. Only you could do it. Keltik kool... 😃🦘

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I've just finished filming three videos in Japan. Head to Oz on Monday mate😎

@marklammas2465

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Shout when you're back at Breakneck. I missed you last time. That's if you survive an xs of 4xxxx...

April .........sounds like a plan.......

This whole story is - in the Scottish vernacular - 'Completely Mental'.

That Flemish victory was won by the most polite weapon - the Goedendag or Good day" kzread.info/dash/bejne/pq1rl9igY6nRd9o.html

Brilliant as always 😊 Arrrrrr! 😂

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

If life hands you Lemmings, make Lemmingade.

I am so glad that 'Tasting History' sent me to your channel. So much history I have been missing. An I agree, stick it to the French.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

🤣

Way off topic Bruce - I really liked The Lost King. You were really good in it.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Yay

@kathrynsamuelson1983

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Did you get to meet Phillipa Langley? I admire her.

Imaging, watching Scottish history and learn about your own country... There are a few details my history teacher forgot to mention and it is not the 1302 squirmish, obviously

Possibly the most influential pirate in Scottish history was an Englishman, Hugh atte Fen. He's the guy who captured James I and handed him over to Henry IV. :-(

Depending on what the definition of a pirate is the greatest Scottish pirate is.... John Paul Jones.

@KingEdwardtheTurbulentNeill26

11 ай бұрын

Ruari the Turbulent is the greatest Scottish pirate who ever lived

Still no Sydney? I was hoping there would be a show, Sydney has graves of some of members from the Radical war who were transported over here.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I'll be in Sydney, I just didn't manage to get a show organised

@MrSamps3

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours go for a pint then?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Possibly. We'll be there round about 11-14th April. Still to sort out details

We talk about Tavish Dhu (also known as Black Tom) in county Antrim. What facts are there on him ? He was meant to be associated with Edwards decision he needed a crown like his brother.

TIL what the Barnett Formula is

NICE

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

The deadly mosquito-borne virus Encephalitis has been detected for the first time in regional South Australia. That place is Deadly...lol

@smurf904

Жыл бұрын

Stay Safe

Hmmm John Crabbe, I knew about Grace O’Malley and some of my Scottish ancestors were inclined to raid Man for cattle, but that is just cattle stealing by sea something they had apparently decided to take up when stealing cattle from friends and neighbors got too easy or maybe unprofitable. Piracy is promised a twenty first century renaissance since the US has decided to stop guarding the sea lanes for the first time since World War II!

9:00 Damn, if ye want t' be kleppin in Vancouver, I'll fork o'er a wee bit o' the falthy lucre jist t' see ya.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Maybe next year

@mungmungie

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours That would be amazing. Fancy a wee dram?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Let's get the trip organised first😂

Piracy is a Celtic tradition .😊

The Pirates of Wales and Cornwall often overshadow the Pirates of Scotland and Ireland in the modern memory. Many forgetting that the Scots and Irish were just if not more successful, and a few mer equally brutal ends as well. Dalzeel, Barton, Gow, Wimund, and later, Ruari Og MacNeil of Barra all plundered ships from Scotland, Ireland, Jolly England and the countries across the English Channel long before Kidd and Teach, and were. It's just a more profitable version o' Cattle Reiving after all. 🤪

Ah I thought the video was going to be about Ruari the Turbulent and the MacNeils of Barra clan

@ScotlandHistoryTours

11 ай бұрын

Maybe one day