Yeah, the background is the important bit... Talk about it some more.

@sublimebeauty1

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😂

This has got to be a wind up , nobody can be like this in real life even in the US 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Easily distracted by a purposely crap background of the sea. Never become pilots guys, you could end up flying into a cliff. 😂

You were distracted from what he was saying by the background??!! Jesus!

You Know people travel thousands of miles to see water doing something different for a change.

Can’t you stop with the water and concentrate on his point.

Reaction might not quite be the right term - watching you miss joke after joke because you’re so engrossed in everything except what you’re watching… wow. I’m with the person thinking you’re plunking us

Nope, never paid attention to the background until you brought it up! It's just a cheesy background for the video, it doesn't matter.

The story of Edward II's red hot pokering is as apocryphal as the horns on the Viking helmet. Edward may have been poisoned, strangled or suffocated, but he did not get his arse roasted internally.

Edward II wasn't killed that way though. No-one suggested he was for over 100 years after his death. Then someone thought it would be funny to say a man accused of homosexuality had a funnel stuck up him followed by a red hot poker to burn through his insides. That in itself is an example of a joke told so long after the incident, no-one alive was involved in, so it's ok to embellish for comic purposes. In reality, the likelihood is he was locked in a room in Berkley Castle and starved to death. Same way they killed Richard II but in a different castle

@True_Heretic

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Good call, Ed. Though its fair to say that Richard III did have a sword rammed up his noble behind after his defeat at Bosworth Field. That makes it seem almost like Henry Tudor had a bit of a gangland mentality.

His co-writer John Finnemore has some brilliant sketches on youtube - check out his Kirates sketch, or his Herod sketch.

@mykabayiri

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Totally agree. He also wrote a great comedy series for BBC radio 4 called Cabin Pressure. Definitely worth searching for.

Please. Micky Flanagan. Totally suits your sense of humour

The red hot poker up the bum was a torture, even up to a couple of hundred years ago. Often reserved for gang members who let down their mates.

Indeedy-doo I believe is the full phrase... 🙂

You must watch Mitchell and Webb Look - Evil Genius. It is hilarious!

One other reason why these atrocities may not stand out so much when they're so long ago is that things were so awful back then that these actions genuinely didn't stand out as much. Pirates were doing both R and P, it's true, although less of the R thankfully since there weren't so many women on the ships which they plundered. But remember the people they attacked were equally bad: they were busy R&P'ing the indigenous Americans as much as possible, stealing all their gold, trafficking slaves the other way, setting up plantations and getting their slaves pregnant, and so on. Which is worse, the slave trader or the pirate who robs him?

@somniumisdreaming

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Viking raids stood out.

indeedy is very cool

backgrounds 2nd most interesting bit

Have a look at JUNNA through the Fire and flames it’s epic

I think R & P is viewed this way because both victim and perpetrators were both our common ancestors so we share the guilt and the horror of what occurred I live now in what was the Danelaw area of England.

Americans have great teeth. I got nice teeth also but they cost £5000 and I got them in Turkey

Yes, the Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets.

@BoringReviews

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I was being sarcastic. Haha

@somniumisdreaming

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Weirdly older IP warriors are shown with horns.

Chaque mort est instantanée, c'est le moment où vous ne vivez plus. Bien sûr, vous pouvez être torturé jusqu’à votre mort, mais jusqu’à ce que vous le fassiez, vous êtes en vie.

Meanwhile, Chaps, could we please get back to what Mitchell was actually _saying_ ? It was rather important!

That's why the nords are good looking people. They took all the best looking people from my shores and left the less fetching people(womanz)...........👀

Just you Nick and my oldest son :)

It should be remembered that the word "rape" has only relatively recently come to mean "sex imposed without consent": originally it just meant "steal." The famous Ancient Romans' "Rape of the Sabine Women" didn't refer to an on-the-spot orgy, but the then all-male Romans' abduction of their Sabine guests' wives and daughters to take as their own wives. Doubtless some rape in the modern sense then ensued, but sadly nobody back then thought women's wishes to be of any importance, the offence was the stealiing of the Sabine men's property. Equally, Alexander Pope's 1712-14 humorous poem "The Rape of the Lock" was not about a sexual assault carried out on a canal, but rather about a lovesick man cutting off and stealing a lock of his (one-sidedly) beloved's hair while she was asleep. Words frequently change, lose old, and adopt new meanings over long periods, so "fossilised" phrases like "rape and pillage" often had original meanings rather different from how they are interpreted today.

@terryhunt2659

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Actually, I slightly misremembered the poem: the Baron doesn't cut off the lock of Belinda's hair while she's asleep, he does so while they're playing cards. It was supposedly inspired by a true incident.

@somniumisdreaming

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Stealing women for sx ends in rpe.

@terryhunt2659

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@@somniumisdreaming Yes, and I said as much in my second paragraph, but we are discussing the (quite recent) evolution of the meaning(s) of a word from 'steal' to 'sexual assault', not the evolution of social customs (marriage by abduction routinely featured in many cultures) and the generally brutal treatment of women by men throughout history.

This old guy in the hat is unbelievably annoying.