The third icelandic flag on the Icelandic woman's uniform actually looks to contain a Punisher skull, which is also a symbol used by law enforcement, similar to the thin blue line flag, that originated in the United States. In fact, you can often find the thin blue line flag integrated with the punisher skull.

@azore1184

2 жыл бұрын

Thin blue line is fine but the punisher scull is kinda cringé

@b9446_

2 жыл бұрын

@@azore1184 I think both are a little funky looking, but yeah punisher skull is a cringe and weird symbol, not only that but super inappropriate. A skull as a symbol for law enforcement? Especially with all the political stuff going on recently, a skull is not at all appropriate.

@joeykauhi7938

2 жыл бұрын

I saw that too

@TheAmericanPrometheus

2 жыл бұрын

it seems they're just adopting that symbol because it looks cool.

@ByzantineDarkwraith

2 жыл бұрын

The Punisher Skull certainly qualifies as a hate symbol added on to the Vinland flag, as the ADL says is often done. (The Punisher Skull is popular with US white supremacists and people who support police brutality).

Regarding the ancient kingdoms of England, I can definitely say that Portsmouth is not generally considered to fall within the bounds of Mercia (though the historical boundaries were quite loose) - the western south coast is more associated with Wessex. Mercia is synonymous with the Midlands region, and still features in the names of government institutions there (e.g. West Mercia Police, or the Mercian Regiment of the British Army). So I'd guess the flag comes from an expatriate midlander living on the south coast.

@yogsothoth7594

2 жыл бұрын

Mercia did establish overlordship over the kingdom of wessex at one point but yeah

@togerboy5396

2 жыл бұрын

Funny, I’m in Tamworth right now. It was the capital of Mercia back in the day.

@andrewtonks6222

2 жыл бұрын

The map defines the board between Wessex and Mercia on the Thames

@bittenhare4493

2 жыл бұрын

On the map J.J. showed at 2:30, Portsmouth (on the south coast) is clearly in Wessex not Mercia, whose southern border is the river Thames.

@stratisgeorgilis7703

2 жыл бұрын

Not entirely true, it’s considered part of Mercia pre Alfred the great, then after it is still part of Mercia, but Mercia itself was under Wessex’s sphere of influence

Still hoping Hollywood will produce "J.J. McCullough, Flag Detective" in which J.J. is called in when the royal standard is stolen and replaced by a mystery flag just before the Queen's visit to Vancouver. Just get Adam Driver to grow his hair longer and and a mustache and we're all set. [cameo of Michael Buble as Justin Trudeau]

@mrturnip6641

2 жыл бұрын

Ngl that sounds like a good idea, and the sequel would be someone replacing the Governor Generals flag with the flag of the British Ionian islands before she gives a speech, and JJ has to find the culprit

@WildBill-yj6ch

2 жыл бұрын

Part 3 JJ is summoned to the United States where a group in Key West is trying to re-establish the Conch Republic and who've been leaving the flag of the Conch Republic across Florida. It's up to JJ find the perpatrators and help the FBI stop these separatist and break up their ring. It turns out it's a group of far right retirees who moved to Florida from liberal states like California, Illinois, New York and New Jersey hoping to make their own ideal Republican place to live going off the Conch Republic framework. The climax is when JJ is captured, and in a monologue of his "last words" educates them about how they share the country with different cultures and beliefs and what makes us so great is our differences. Just then the FBI's HRT storms in and rescues him.

@inwalters

2 жыл бұрын

@@WildBill-yj6ch Love this idea, but you need to be more specific when using acronyms. Did you mean the "Hostage Rescue Team" that saves those being held against their will or the "Hair Restoration Team" that forces certain people to use hair gel?

@mrturnip6641

2 жыл бұрын

Part four is JJ at the Italian embassy in Canada as the Italian flag has been switched to the Newfoundland republic flag. As it turns out, a group of Newfoundland separatists are doing it to force the government to separate Newfoundland. When he finds them, there is a shootout near a pub in gander, and the rcmp arrest the suspects

@antoniotoronto4132

2 жыл бұрын

Fvck Scott Pilgrim that would be my favorite movie of all time

JJ talking about Type O Negative out of nowhere was incredible

@OysterBoyo

2 жыл бұрын

TON were the best, miss you Peter

@maple494

2 жыл бұрын

Saw this comment before I watched the video and I thought he was gonna talk about blood types lol

@Pa_blito

2 жыл бұрын

dude, how much i miss peter

@oscartheamazing6745

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't listen to what the ADL calls a hate symbol, they have got to be the most stuck-up progressive organization ever. They classify so many thing as hate symbols, you probably have one in your own home.

@statesminds

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yess

As a Brit I can confidently say (probably) that the ancient English kingdoms have very little influence today - maybe with the exception of giving people the idea of being a ‘northerner’, ‘southerner’ or someone from the midlands - which includes parts of Mercia but honestly it was probably the football team Keep up the videos and greetings from the uk!

@TheBreadthatcausedLesMis

2 жыл бұрын

I'd say out of all the ancient kingoms the closest to any modern relevance would probably be Northumbria. Simply because of the Northern independence Party using that flag for themselves.

@sdrawkcabUK

2 жыл бұрын

True.. ‘Mercia’ is used for West Mercia police though I can’t think of anything else. Most people in the region describe it as ‘the Midlands’. I travel there often and have never seen this flag. East Anglia is still commonly used for Norfolk and Suffolk collectively. Others are used obviously where they later became counties (Kent, Sussex, Essex etc. and even little Lindsey is used for the northern Lincolnshire region). The Anglo Saxon period is not generally taught in schools so most English ppl are quite ignorant about it. Fun fact - Mercia has the same etymology as Denmark - a ‘borderland’, in their case between north, south and the Welsh.

@speedypichu6833

2 жыл бұрын

I know there was time called the Mercian supremacy, where Mercia was the largest kingdom, but it has little influence on the modern world, and it was pre-1066, so probably a football fan or from that city

@alancrotty904

2 жыл бұрын

I was assuming the same. I'm Irish so haven't had the same history curriculum as you but this is the first time I've heard of Mercia. Is it a topic that's covered in secondary school at all can you remember? I wonder do most people have a familiarity with it... Side note; I recently saw a flag I didn't recognise in the wild, so I took a pic and asked the vexillology community on reddit. Turns out it was the Knights Templar flag according to most redditors but everyone from Brazil said it was the flag of a local football team, so perhaps the reverse of this scenario lol

@bobhart677

2 жыл бұрын

When J.J. mentioned Mercia, I was aware that at one time it was the largest kingdom on the island. But only because I am a fan of the TV show Vikings.

I'm so focused on the fact JJ called Type O Negative "death thrashing metal" that I didn't even comprehend the rest of the video

@Johnny.Picklez

2 жыл бұрын

Nice Wu Tang pfp.

@TheRealWilliamWhite

2 жыл бұрын

They have definite thrash influence but not really death metal.

@hunter458

2 жыл бұрын

True, but the chances of him knowing they were a Gothic Doom band were so low that I had to give him a pass. Hell, I’ve seen seasoned metalheads who weren’t sure what to call them.

@killerbug05

2 жыл бұрын

You get used to it eventually, a lot of people don't even consider other genres of metal exist beyond metal heavy metal and death metal 😭😭😭😭

That map was from the period of the Mercian supremacy and encompasses territory a lot wider than traditionally associated with Mercia which usually would be nowhere near Portsmouth, I honestly thing the St. Albans flag is more likely

@JJMcCullough

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he was a Mercia supremacist

@chegayvara1136

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJMcCullough yeah when you said mercia included portsmouth i had a conniption fit

@Saruman38

2 жыл бұрын

I think J.J. misread the map, according to it Portsmouth would be located in Wessex, not Mercia, which is further north.

@ByzantineDarkwraith

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJMcCullough I'm so confused, doesn't the map show Portsmouth would be in Wessex ??

@JJMcCullough

2 жыл бұрын

@@ByzantineDarkwraith what’s a Wessex

The "Colonialist" current flag of Hawaii was not forced upon them, King Kamehameha I was presented with a Jack Flag by James Cook, liked it, and wanted something similar, IIRC.

@retronymph

2 жыл бұрын

They never even were officially a British colony. Kamehameha was a fan of the British and they were friends, but they were a completely independent nation up until they became a US state.

@Domhnall1989

2 жыл бұрын

History isn’t important to far left revisionist racists

@surprisedchar2458

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the king just thought it was neat and told his flag guys to put it on theirs. Because of the trading relationship with the US before annexation, they included the stripe pattern of the US flag for similar reasons.

@arjay4397

2 жыл бұрын

@@Domhnall1989 nice joke

@Saad-A16

2 жыл бұрын

@@Domhnall1989 You are aware that JJ is a very staunch conservative, right?

RE: the Mercian flag, I have a mate who lives in Dorset and flies the flag of the ancient Kingdom of Wessex, I think it's simply a sort of new regionalism that has developed recently separate from the generic sense of "Englishness" as people get more and more fragmented

3:47 What a lost opportunity to put the Estonian flag their.

@michaeldavis9190

2 жыл бұрын

Blue is on the top, though. While the color pallet is right, the blue would not be in the middle

@Slippin_Jimmy1012

2 жыл бұрын

There’s already an Estonian flag in the thin blue South African flag

As a Brit, the idea of Heptarchy period irredentism is quite comical. Lang leofa Eastseaxna rice!

@ludogibson7067

2 жыл бұрын

Good to see some Anglo Saxon culture in the KZread comments

@ourresidentcockney8776

2 жыл бұрын

EAST! EAST! EASTSEAXNA! EAST! EAST! EASTSEAXNA! EAST! EAST! EASTSEAXNA!

@thomaseriksen6885

2 жыл бұрын

Lenge leve!

@-haclong2366

2 жыл бұрын

Old English looks a lot like Dutch (I mean, yeah both are West Germanic languages, but still).

The Hawaii state flag was also the flag of the historical Kingdom of Hawaii, before it was annexed by the US. So the Union Jack and the stripes are not actually colonial influences; they're the result of the Kingdom of Hawaii's tight relations with Britain and the US.

@thecampverdekid806

2 жыл бұрын

the tight relations between the hawaiian monarchy and these states, not the Hawaiian people.

@shrimpflea

Жыл бұрын

@@thecampverdekid806 They should do someting about it instead of just complaining.

The American flag in black and white started out as a military thing. It is referred to as a "subdued" coloring, which simply means that it is dark and monochromatic rather than red white and blue. The reason is that bright colors make an easy target in a combat situation, so you don't want to go running off into combat with a bunch of primary colors potentially drawing the eye of a well armed enemy. At the same time you were sort of expected to wear the national symbol, so this was the compromise. I think originally it was used Night mission special ops types, with a different subdued design (green and dark khaki) later used by some other teams during the day. Other countries eventually copied this, and now yeah there's a whole bunch of them for different countries all over the world, with no particular significance to most of them. I would assume that this one has IS on it because it is monochromatic and the Norwegian,Sweedish, Finnish, and Icelandic flags are identical, except for coloring.

@JJMcCullough

2 жыл бұрын

I saw a similar German one that was three Monochrome stripes with a big DE in the middle

As a Manx person I felt both a sense of euphoria when JJ mentioned the Isle of Man and rage when it was described as a ‘non-country’. It’s the crown dependency life I guess…

I recognized St Alban's cross immediately! Going to 'Alban Academy' middle school, I had the symbolism very much drilled into me. On that authority I declare that it's pronounced Awl-bn.

@geznicks

2 жыл бұрын

Is that the one in great baaarford? Another Bedford boy out ere

I never thought I’d see the flag of my tiny English “city” (only counts as a city because by the English rules all settlements with a cathedral count as a city) on JJs channel

@katashworth41

2 жыл бұрын

That’s not strictly true, Blackburn has a cathedral and isn’t a city.

@boass

2 жыл бұрын

A “City” in the United Kingdom is… very strangely, something the Queen/King has to hand out… Once the title of city is given to a place it remains a city… You can look it up, I’m not kidding in the slightest.

@jmasters7515

2 жыл бұрын

@@boass maybe, I guess nowerdays it’s the Prime Minister who actually decides though

Can I just say in regards to the current Hawaiian flag, speaking as a Brit, we didn't put the Union Jack there. Hawaii was never a part of the Empire. They just liked the design.

@Revolution1975

2 жыл бұрын

There was a brief episode called the "Paulet affair" where this was attempted. IIRC it was not authorized by the Crown.

@tomtomtrent

2 жыл бұрын

It’s kind of an interesting case on what represents Native Hawaiian culture more. The current flag was one that was actually designed by the Hawaiian king, so should you use that to honor him? Or does it represent Hawaii falling under European influence and the beginning of the decline of Hawaiian culture?

@JonahNelson7

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was more out of respecting the UK not just liking the design

@zjzr08

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomtomtrent It seems more like an anti-monarchist flag to me on that context and maybe now anti-Western sentiment and a push for a more Polynesian-focused culture.

@boomshanka8743

2 жыл бұрын

The last queen of Hawaii (shortly before it was annexed by some businessmen from the USA) reached out to Queen Victoria to become part of the British empire. She was under house arrest at the time, and I guess she saw the brits as the lesser of two evils. The brits weren't interested, and the rest is history.

The Icelandic flag part reminds me of how one of the redesigns of Germany’s flag after WW2 became a Nazi symbol because of its status as an uncommon alternate flag of Germany

@Joe_Mama661

2 жыл бұрын

Cross flag?

@elvish-visionary6828

2 жыл бұрын

@@Joe_Mama661 he is talking about the Wirmer flag

@symon4510

2 жыл бұрын

It was literally an anti Nazi flag lol

@surprisedchar2458

2 жыл бұрын

@@xunqianbaidu6917 probably because people who didn’t recognize it handed it to them. Because people are usually morons.

@budgetlifter

2 жыл бұрын

i mean it looks cool but why would germany have a nordic cross flag i wouldn't consider Germany Nordic except for maybe the northern most edges

Noustalgia for the old English kingdoms isn't a common thing at all. There's an incredibly fringe Northern Independence Party, if they got their way they'd create a new nation of Northumbria, like the old kingdom, but I think that's rather just because they couldn't call a nation "The North". There's an earl of Wessex, which is a recently made up title based on the old kingdom that doesn't seem to mean anything, as no-one refers to what was the Kingdom of Wessex as Wessex anymore. A handful of the old kingdoms are now just single counties, or ceremonial counties, so if you display those flags you're simultaneously flying the flag of your home county and the old kingdom. I'm from Sussex, which is just a ceremonial county as administratively it's divided into three counties (each with their own flags), I have up the one that represents the whole county, and the old kingdom.

@jacobseager4897

2 жыл бұрын

I’d say the only exception there is Cornwall, we still have a large Cornish identity

@dantaylor9665

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobseager4897 True, I rather neglected that as it isn't one of the Anglo Saxon heptarchy. Kinda a special case.

I believe Niue is also known from minting interesting ceremonial coins, they put Pokémon on them once.

@TurtleMarcus

2 жыл бұрын

Like many tiny islands, Niue issues a lot of coins and stamps and sell them to collectors. For some islands, this is even an important source of revenue. Although Niue coins and stamps are actually minted and printed in New Zealand.

@theobuniel9643

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that’s how I knew about Niue in the first place.

Side note about the "Vinland" flag and Type O Negative. It first appeared on Type O Negative's 1996 album "October Rust", with the message "Product of Vinland" underneath the flag. It would appear on every studio album after, from 1999's "World Coming Down", 2003's "Life Is Killing Me" and their final 2007's "Dead Again". The band would also come up with a fictional history of the country of "Vinland" with October Rust containing a track titled "The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa". And in 2005 during the Roadrunner United project Peter Steele would create a fictional language called Vinnlandish, and would sing the song "Enemy of the State" in this fictitious language.

JJ's moustache deserves it's own flag

@johnransom1146

Жыл бұрын

Quirky smile with the killer stache

I live in St, Albans and it's amazing to me that the city's flag ended up on here. The city was originally a roman settlement until it was sacked by the Iceni Queen Boudica. The ruins of the fort walls can be seen to this day; however, most of it was torn down to construct a cathedral around a millennia ago.

One of these days I'm going to make my own flag and put it in random places in the hopes it drives this community crazy.

The official Hawaiian flag is, despite superficialities, the opposite of a colonial flag for Hawaii. It was based on a flag given to King Kamehameha by a British admiral who was helping the then independent Hawaii organize its navy along modern standards (for the time).

@FimiliarGalaxy9

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting enough.. King Kamehameha’s fleet possessed two former American schooners, one of which was his flagship “the Fair American”

Sizes of legislatures might be an interesting topic for its own video! Here in the US we have only 435 House members for 330 million people; meanwhile the state of New Hampshire has 400 state House members for 1.3 million people.

@alphabettical1

2 жыл бұрын

400! I have so many curiosities to google now.

@Psyk60

2 жыл бұрын

The US has 435 House members for 330 million people, while the UK has 650 MPs for about 70 million people. And we also have the House of Lords with 800+ members. But maybe that's not too relevant as the House of Lords isn't elected and has limited power.

@firmi_2119

2 жыл бұрын

Chinese Parliament (even if it's just a rubber-stamp thing): *Pathetic*

Fun fact: dark mode flags aren’t just for looking cool, it’s so a cop or soldier can display their flag without the bright colors standing out and giving them away to a potential enemy

@r.ndomperson

Жыл бұрын

what happens with Iceland and Norway, or Denmark, Sweden and Finland?

@dode3614

Жыл бұрын

@@r.ndomperson Well hopefully those nations don’t go to war

@romulusnuma116

Жыл бұрын

​@Random Person they would probably have letters to identify themselves

3:47 So should we find some way of incorporating the thin blue line naturally into the flag? Nah lets just slap a blue line across the middle despite how ugly it looks.

@EliF-ge5bu

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not ugly at all. I kinda like it.

@Canalbizarrof

2 жыл бұрын

The middle beam not being the blue line annoys me to no end

@samhansen9771

2 жыл бұрын

@@Canalbizarrof I guess it's to emphasize it's thin

@SRQmoviemaker

2 жыл бұрын

You'd think they'd take a Scott the woz approach [blue borders around the flag]

I've been waiting for another one of these flag mysteries forever now, I'm so happy it's back!!

Hey JJ as a native Hawaiian I actually prefer the current state flag which has been the official flag since the days of the Hawaiian Kingdom. The flag is called in hawaiian Ka Hae Hawaii. Although it appears to evoke a British past Hawaii has never been part of the British Empire. Although it can be argued that it was very briefly a protectorate(look up the paulet affair). The Hawaiian monarchy also enjoyed very good relations with the British crown one heir to the Hawaiian crown the son of Queen Emma was named as a godson to Queen Victoria, and given the name Albert. It is not known exactly why the union jack was used in the flag. It was reasoned by historians that Kamehameha 1 liked the flag of the east India company ships and incorporated into his flag. The stripes represent the 8 major islands in the chain Hawaiian Archipelago. It's my personal opinion that this flag represents the Hawaiian people better than a flag which was created in the 2000s and incorporated colors associated with the reggae movement which is popular in the islands and in my view appropriates Hawaiian symbols such as the kahili and the paddle. The flag itself claims to be the "true" Hawaiian flag which was destroyed by the British in the paulet affair however that claim is highly dubious and lacks evidence. I'm not an Anglophile by any standard and I also agree that the union jack needs to be removed and replaced with something that represents the Hawaiian people and nation as a whole and not just represent a single aspect of the sovereignty movement.

Nuie's capital is Alofi, and Guadeloupe's capital is Basse-Terre. St. Kitts and Nevis's capital is also Basseterre, but without the hyphen. Different city, same name. I've been learning capitals lately.

As a half-Niuean who watches this channel religiously I have to say this felt like a special shout out! I honestly am not used to seeing any depictions of Niue even about its admittedly weird flag

Love watching these so much. JJ really does a good job with classifying and explaining the meanings of these flags!

It's really weird that Guadeloupe doesn't have an official flag of its own. As far as I know, our mainland French regions do have their flags officially recognized (although some, like my region of Occitania, are butchered bureaucratic versions of the original flag).

@ignemuton5500

2 жыл бұрын

i suspect this goes back to french colonial flag policy where almost all french colonies never had official flags that weren't the tricolour, french colonial policy was after all heavily involved in bringing french ideals and trying to turn those colonies into just another part of france, so this is probably a part of it.

@gamermapper

2 жыл бұрын

The fact that Occitania have been given so little territory is so horrible. The real Occitania is all of the homeland of the Occitan people where people speak Occitan. All of Southern France, except for Basque Country and Catalonia is Occitania.

@ignemuton5500

2 жыл бұрын

It is very sad, because french policy seems to have not shifted away from trying to erase non french cultures, like grand est for example whose entire german heritage has been almost destroyed.

@FairyCRat

2 жыл бұрын

@@ignemuton5500 Yes, the post-revolutionary jacobinist policies are one of the most extreme cases of forced assimilation. And I hate to see that our overseas regions are still being neglected, even though they're technically integral parts of our country and not colonies. At least they have the right to vote, unlike US territories.

@ignemuton5500

2 жыл бұрын

@@FairyCRat it's very frustrating to see indeed, Guyane for example has been reduced to the level where it could theoretically never be self sufficient, it will always have to rely on the central government which is probably why their independence movement hasn't really caught on as much.

Fun fact about the Hawaii state flag, Hawaii was never actually a British colony, the king at the time just thought the Union Jack looked cool and just kinda slapped it on there. Hawaii was though once invaded by a rogue British naval commander, which almost started a war between Britain and the US.

@JJMcCullough

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a pretty thoughtlessly designed flag

@josharcher7073

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJMcCullough apparently he once received a Union Jack as a gift from a British trader and liked it so much he used it as his royal standard.

You skipped talking about the Punisher skull on the Icelandic flag, that it self can lend itself to interpretation of context.

I know this has been said before, but i just want to tell you how appreciative we are of you JJ! I love how EVERY person who sends you something, or is part of a discussion you make a video about, etc, they are all your "friends" and not just "fans". Truly makes it feel like a community here. :)

It’s always a good day when another JJ flag video is published.

Shout out to St Albans - we used to be called Verulamium and were the third biggest town in Roman England

One of my favourite videos from you J.J! Thanks!

I am a Pacific island enthusiast, even hoping to move to American Samoa. I actually run a Pacific island culture appreciation server on Discord. I am proud to say, I actually recognized the flag of Niue. Sadly, I did not recognize the Hawaiian flag.

@adanactnomew7085

2 жыл бұрын

E te iloa tautala fa'aSamoa?

@michaeldavis9190

2 жыл бұрын

@@adanactnomew7085 Fa'amagalo mai fa'amolemole. I am Palagi. I do not speak Samoan, at least not yet, but I am studying the language on Sa'olelei...

@michaeldavis9190

2 жыл бұрын

@@adanactnomew7085 By the way, may I ask what that said? All I recognize is "fa'aSamoa" which I understand to mean "the way of Samoa" or "in the manner of Samoa"

@adanactnomew7085

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldavis9190 it means Do you speak Samoan. Fa'aSamoa means the language too. Same rules as in English (demonym can mean the language)

@michaeldavis9190

2 жыл бұрын

@@adanactnomew7085 Ah, thank you. No, I don't speak it, and I'm learning very slowly. Work and life get in the way of my ability to study. If you do not mind me asking, are you either Samoan or American Samoan?

I'm genuinely more impressed by your Google skills than by your knowledge of flags 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Yay flags!! Hearing JJ say hello friends is so comforting. :) These are some of my favorite videos from our resident flagspert! Happy Saturday everyone!!

Always good value, J.J. Exactly the kind of content I needed today!

3:01 ah don't you just love it when the *law* enforcement self-identify with a hyper-violent extrajudicial vigilante whose entire purpose is to critique the criminal justice system

Thank you so much for your videos. I love them so much! Everyday I hear KZreadrs say that they are going crazy from all the awful posts, that’s not something that should be happening. We who are watching videos need to show support and good vibes (and occasionally constructive feedback, but with kindness!). Hope you have a great day. And know I’m a subscriber for life.

@JJMcCullough

2 жыл бұрын

Well not ANY

@neallong2480

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJMcCullough sorry 😞 I don’t understand

You ought to do this more often, really interesting to learn about flags I haven't heard of

3:50 What a great way to distill a nuanced conflict into a one-way shallow jab. Nice.

From St. Albans here; I was excited to see the St. Albans cross (long ‘a’ in Alban, btw) and am horribly offended that it has been besmirched as less likely to be flown in Portsmouth than the Mercian flag, not least because Portsmouth isn’t in Mercia. As the map shown in the video clearly shows, modern day Portsmouth is in the ancient kingdom of Wessex.

I find it interesting that even thogh the Guadeloupe flag is unnoficial you can still type it as an emoji 🇬🇵

Loving this content dude!

this is such a good series!

@councilofknowledge

Жыл бұрын

I am making videos about country flags on my Channel :) hope to see you there! Cheers!

Love your flag videos JJ. Cool to see people promote vexillology and make people be interested about flags! 💪💪💪 P.S.: Guessed all of them correctly 💁🏼‍♂️.

(Brit here) Mercia was the kingdom ruled over by King Arthur and the location of his famous round table, so perhaps the St Albans flag belongs to a history/folklore buff?

@billytompkins6694

2 жыл бұрын

King Arthur was mythical, but if we pretend his story was real he is usually referred to as a celtic man fighting off the anglo saxon invasions of England. Mercia was an anglo saxon nation so 100% not true

@Seth9809

2 жыл бұрын

@@billytompkins6694 Wasn't Mercia one of the last Anglo kingdoms to fall, hence the fact that it's not named like the others?

@ericwiddison7523

2 жыл бұрын

Mercia is mentioned by Arthur in the Monty Python film, which I'm sure is a peer reviewed piece of scholarly excellence. Actually, I went to a great talk at a university about the film. It has a lot of historical details that it either got right or deliberately modified for comedic effect. However the emphasis was on literary history and political philosophy, not political history.

@billytompkins6694

2 жыл бұрын

Well if Monty Phyton mentioned him he must be true 😁 Ive not seen many phytons. Life Of Brian and the Holy Grail I think

I don’t always click on your videos when they’re on my feed, but when I do… I start binging your channel

This video was how I found about Type O Negative and now I’m obsessed with their music. Even found out my dad hung out with them a few times in Midwood. R.I.P Peter Steele

@willfakaroni5808

3 ай бұрын

That’s really cool

The modern hawaiian flag isnt colonial, the king of hawaii literally chose it just because he liked the look of the union jack

@brokenland5154

Жыл бұрын

As well as wanting strong ties to the British empire for protection and strengthening their navy.

the return of my favorite JJ series is here boys

@Cacaborea

2 жыл бұрын

Yep it my favourite too

500k subs. Congrats man

Fun fact, the Hawaiian state flag is basically a redesign of the flag for the Kingdom of Hawaii. From what I understand, the flag was designed when Hawaii's first King, Kamehameha 1, sent a trip to China under Alexander Adams, a scot who served as Hawaii's Commander of the Navy (though as far as I know there is no proof it was yet made, only that Adams gave his ship an ensign to use at port). The Flag is meant to have the colors and th Union Jack because at that time, the US, UK, France, and Russia where the other states that usually docked at the harbor in Honolulu. Oddly enough for being as you sawy "Agressively Colonial Design" it was originally never used to express Hawaii as a colony, and only could arguably play that role once the Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown by mostly American Businessmen to be annexed into the US.

@JJMcCullough

2 жыл бұрын

Well from what I understand the flag was designed with the goal of appeasing the leading imperial powers of the 19th century because the kingdom feared them.

@darkraven5106

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJMcCullough To an extent that is true. The whole reason Kamehameha went through the trouble of unifying the HawaiianIslands into one Kingdom is so they would be strong enough to defend against the Imperial powers. But I wouldn't say it was competently out of fear. After all these powers were the same ones Hawaii was mostly trading with, so appeasing them for trade benefits would not be out of the question, especially since trade allowed him access to the firearms and western vessels he used to unite Hawaii. But Kamehameha was also not to afraid to defy western powers. When the Russian Governor of Alaska set up a fort in Hawaii, he sent troops to force them out peacefully, taking the fort over. He also kept a strict watch on foreigners to prevent them from basically taking over the islands (something which unfortunately his ancestors failed to do) However Kamehameha also liked some foreigners. As stated they brought valuable trade to the islands, but he also brought foreign advisors into his court and military, as seen with his navy being led by a shot. He also had a respect for King George III, and exchanged gifts with him. So fear isn't probably the best or only word to use. The flag had some appeasement for trade reasons and was obviously effected by the importance of flags in the age of western dominance, something I believe you discussed before, but fear played likely more of a role in unifying the Kingdom then the creation of its flag. Then again my history on Hawaii is admitted limit, and there are probably other people who understand the situation better. So admittedly I could be completely wrong about this.

It looks like the Vineland flag on the cop has the punisher skull which I've seen cops also use with the thin blue line

@JJMcCullough

2 жыл бұрын

Is Punisher considered a good guy?

@markhill3285

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJMcCullough in the comics he's a sort of anti hero vigilante who takes the law into his own hands usually pretty violently, a lot of people who don't like the thin blue line also don't like police using someone like the punisher as a symbol, including the original creator of punisher I hear

@TheAlexSchmidt

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the association of the Punisher with "law-and-order" right-wing vigilante types comes from "American Sniper" Chris Kyle, who used it as a symbol since he liked it and the Punisher was also a sniper.

@markhill3285

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAlexSchmidt I think so, it became popular in the military, and a lot of ex military guys become cops so it took off with them next

@TheAlexSchmidt

2 жыл бұрын

@@markhill3285 Yeah here's a video on it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p22jmKSBpJqtn9I.html

10:24 JJ just butchered the word archipelago. Again.

@Loguer

2 жыл бұрын

Arkipehlago(w)

love your flags videos J.J.

I really enjoy this series. You did some good sleuthing.👍

If J.J. McCullough's channel had a flag, what would it be?

@kunalns

2 жыл бұрын

On a field of yellow, a red gym ball with the motto, "Hello Friends!"

4:00 Let's be real, the Anti-Defamation League lost all credibility after they declared Pepe the Frog to be a hate symbol.

@afgone

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it the ADL that also bought 4chan's trolling about the "ok" symbol being "hate speech?" The ADL has become a joke.

@modmaker7617

2 жыл бұрын

That's sounds like declaring the Sonic the Hedgehog fictional media franchise as pornography not suitable for kids.

@Seth9809

2 жыл бұрын

@@afgone Yeah, but there are a lot of pictures of far right people doing the "okay symbol". It's inception. It was a joke, that people co-oped, so they could claim deniability. "Oh, I'm not a far right guy, I'm just doing the funny joke".

@Croz89

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like they're turning into the PETA of hate speech (though I believe the two aren't on speaking terms since the latter likes to equate livestock farming to the holocaust).

JJ, Flag Detective. Can you do some more of a these - this was super awesome :D

Yesss! I love this series

Love ya JJ MUCH respect brother! Keep that smile brother it’s priceless! Edit: Niue is a BEAUTIFUL island!

@jeremysanchez5545

2 жыл бұрын

Please someone should help here...I lost $30,000 on live trade ,I thought I've trade is the same as demo trade, because I was winning with demo account account, please this is quite frustrating, what should I do?

@bigbunn833

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeremysanchez5545 don’t have a clue what you’re talking about mate!

@wallywallendo

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeremysanchez5545 idk

Fun fact: Mercia was one of the "angle" kingdoms and not one if the saxon kingdoms

Absolutely love this channels videos

8:20 Gladstone only went there so he could finish a book he was writing about Homer. He was obsessed with the ancient Greeks.

😳Is it looking at me???

Can we about JJ's pronunciation of "archipelago"

"I'm a bit of a flagspert" HE DID IT, HE SAID THE THING

The Mercia flag along with the flags off the other ancient kingdoms are used to represent vague cultural areas - Northumbria for the North, Wessex for the south and Mercia for the Midlands. Not really sure what it was doing in Portsmouth tho (which is firmly in 'Wessex')

Fun Fact: The study and principles of flags is called Vexillology

@no1fanofthepals

2 жыл бұрын

I think if someone is watching this channel, they would probably know

@shubhamkaushik5906

2 жыл бұрын

JJ knows this, he doesn't like the word I guess

@JJMcCullough

2 жыл бұрын

It's called Flagspertese

@gamermapper

2 жыл бұрын

Putting the lol in vexillology

@knuckl6972

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJMcCullough yeah, I guess you're right

Saw kekistan flag blurred had to come

Iceland black flag with IS is their flag but in military colours. Usual military uniforms use in other Nordic countries 3 different variants of flags. 1. Real colours for barracks, training or parade. 2. Black and grey. For urban warfare or swat missions. 3. Green camo colours for forest. Police usually use those 1 and 2.

@eskil8775

2 жыл бұрын

+peacekeeper force sometimes uses yellow sand camo colours.

That blue one with yellow on it reminded me of one I've seen with a kingfisher on it, which is the Halifax Municipality flag here in Canada. I would love to see a video on flags of various parts of Canada as there are some really neat ones, from cities, to ethnic groups, and all kinds of stuff that would make for an interesting video.

I’m from England (it’s 1:30 here at the moment) and I believe the mystery Portsmouth flag is more likely to be a poorly photographed Scottish flag (it is not unimaginable that a patriotic Scot living in England might fly the saltire) rather than the flag of mercia, simply because I am a history buff but barely know anything about Mercia in spite of that. Furthermore flags didn’t really exist in ancient kingdoms so the Mercia flag is probably pseudo-history anyway

Speaking as a "Mercian", "Mercia" is sometimes used as a geographic description for the English midlands, rarely though, there are plenty of business that reference the name "Merica" and there's a Mercian Regiment in the British Army, but it's not so commonly used that any English person (or indeed any English midlander) will know what Mercia was. Portsmouth wasn't really in Mercia though, it was only briefly so during the "Mercian Supremacy" period where it held the southern Kingdom of Wessex, this time is what that map illustrates. In general Mercia spread from London to Manchester, so was a very large kingdom but didn't hold nearly all of England as that map implies. So, the person flying that flag in the picture is likely a history buff originally from the midlands.

@arpdadawg1536

2 жыл бұрын

mercia 😎

@quidam_surprise

2 жыл бұрын

I think that you meant... « that will reference the name *'Mercia'* ».

Finally new video of this series

Nice video, you have a talent for finding these flagsteries

The Hawaiian flag is interesting because while Hawaii was colonized and the Union Jack is almost always a symbol of a state's colonial past, in this case Hawaii was never colonized by the UK and it's flag predates the overthrow of Hawaii's indigenous kingdom.

@JJMcCullough

2 жыл бұрын

My hot take is that the Hawaiian flag isn't very good. It requires too much explaining, and its symbolism is very dated.

@Kaizoku_Zoro

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJMcCullough I agree and as a US State it feels intentionally Unamerican like the flag of Georgia or Alabama.

@jonhanson8925

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJMcCullough Fair points. However, I personally think it's one of the more attractive state flags and what it lacks in meaningful symbolism, it makes up with history.

@gamermapper

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kaizoku_Zoro well it makes sense. Hawaii isn't in America, it's in the Pacific.

@Kaizoku_Zoro

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamermapper yes but something from the US or is part of the US is called American

The black and white/grey-scale national flag is somewhat popular with certain American right-wing types and seems to have gained a real following after the thin blue line flag was introduced. Some say it’s a black flag of no quarter but that’s up for some debate

mercia is associated with the midlands, an area often ignored when people talk about the british north-south divide

J J, I like your videos, but sometimes I miss them. But I was actually watching another video when yours popped up and I saw the flag of Niue 🇳🇺 and had to click on it!! I spent 6 months there, and it is very beautiful!!! And yeah, the population is very small, but they’re some of the best people you could meet!

Mercia was as you stated, one of the 7 kingdoms of Anglo Saxon England. It's geographic area roughly corresponds with what would today be considered "The Midlands", between the North and South of England. Perhaps this person was flying the Mercian flag as a symbol of midland pride? Also, Portsmouth was not a part of Mercia but rather the Kingdom of Wessex. Excellent Video JJ!

Brit here. The ancient kingdoms of England weren't really taught in our schools. We are taught of Rome's invasion of England, and then almost the entire of the dark ages (from 400-1000AD) is glossed over and our education skips to william the conqueror, the first true King of all of England. The ancient kingdoms in the time before this are lost on most Brits. This is probably as a result of the fact spoken word was more common than writing at that time, and so stories from this era have been somewhat deligitimized and are considered fanciful.

@ourresidentcockney8776

2 жыл бұрын

William the Bastard was certainly not the first king of "all of England" as you put it. Furthermore, "true King" is utterly laudable!

@Tom_Hillman

2 жыл бұрын

@@ourresidentcockney8776 yeah man I'm just explaining what we were taught in school

Loved it!

One of my favorite series :)

St Albans is pronounced Saint all bans. I hate English names too. And Mercia doesn’t really have any significance today. It is from when England was split into many different kingdoms (murcia, Dummonia, east anglia etc.) this was in the early 1000s, when William the conqueror came in, he United all the kingdoms into a single of England.

@natxian7236

2 жыл бұрын

To be super nitpicky, this isn't strictly true. The unified kingdom of England predated the invasion of William the Conqueror, and the Anglo-Saxon earldoms (of which Mercia was one) continued past the Norman Conquest.

@DrRiq

2 жыл бұрын

*remember that he's got a North American accent, so for him it'll be better transliterated as "Saint All buns"

The ironic thing about the Hawaiian flag is that it was actually the flag of Hawaii pre US colonialization. The newer one is just revisionist and ignorant.

@ixamisus

2 жыл бұрын

Well one person decided it was the flag for everyone, so you cant say its a flag that represents the people

@adanactnomew7085

2 жыл бұрын

@@ixamisus As opposed to the other flag designed by one person appointed to an entire group of people

@ixamisus

2 жыл бұрын

@@adanactnomew7085 its not offical

So I looked into what you said about the Hawaiian flag. It turns out the King of Hawaii, Kamehameha had a British flag that he flew. However, the war of 1812 ended up in some miscommunication because Hawaii was neutral. So Kamehameha made an amalgamation of the two flags.

What is that funky synth song around 3:50? Great video as always by the way!

If one still takes the ADL seriously, stop. Just stop

First

@b__c7538

2 жыл бұрын

Shut up

@chewy7626

2 жыл бұрын

@@b__c7538 no u

@b__c7538

2 жыл бұрын

@@chewy7626 No

A lot of people don't realize that the official Hawaiian flag does not have the Union Jack for the usual colonial reason. Hawai'i was never the official colony of the UK but was an independent kingdom under an indigenous monarchy until 1893. It seems that the Hawaiian government simply used familiar symbols from naval flags of Europe to make their own flag, basing it mostly upon the naval ensign of the East India Company which was one of the first flags that the Hawaiians encountered.

my flag goes full staff when i see a new 'Mystery Flags' video in my recommendations