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Jay Foreman
United Kingdom
Registrace 4. 04. 2006
Hello. I make very silly educational videos.
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UNFINISHED LONDON
A show about London's quirky, unexplained unbuilt infrastructure, exploring bridges over nothing, tunnels to nowhere, and borders that don't make any sense.
MAP MEN
Me and Mark Cooper-Jones (the comedian off the telly who used to be a geography teacher and really loves geography) team up to talk about the world's weirdest/funniest/interestingest maps.
POLITICS UNBORINGED
What does the Prime Minister do? Who does the government? What does Right Honourable mean? If you don't understand the first thing about British politics, but you want to, this series was made for you.
VARIOUS OTHER THINGS
Various other things.
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UNFINISHED LONDON
A show about London's quirky, unexplained unbuilt infrastructure, exploring bridges over nothing, tunnels to nowhere, and borders that don't make any sense.
MAP MEN
Me and Mark Cooper-Jones (the comedian off the telly who used to be a geography teacher and really loves geography) team up to talk about the world's weirdest/funniest/interestingest maps.
POLITICS UNBORINGED
What does the Prime Minister do? Who does the government? What does Right Honourable mean? If you don't understand the first thing about British politics, but you want to, this series was made for you.
VARIOUS OTHER THINGS
Various other things.
The Phantom Island of Google Maps
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Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island?
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Written and presented by
JAY FOREMAN jayforeman
MARK COOPER-JONES markcooperjones
Director/DOP
JADE NAGI jade_nagi
Edited by
JAY FOREMAN
Runner
ABBY TIMMS
VFX
DAVE BRAIN guksack
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Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island?
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Written and presented by
JAY FOREMAN jayforeman
MARK COOPER-JONES markcooperjones
Director/DOP
JADE NAGI jade_nagi
Edited by
JAY FOREMAN
Runner
ABBY TIMMS
VFX
DAVE BRAIN guksack
Highly recommended browsing:
andrewpekler.com/phantom-islands/
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You'll never guess the most popular internet country code
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Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about
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Why British cities make no sense
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Why is North up?
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What went wrong with the Tube Map?
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The Tube Map nearly looked very different
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Why are there no bridges in East London?
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Tower Bridge could have looked very different
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What happened to Old London Bridge?
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English counties explained
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The longitude problem: history's deadliest riddle
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How many continents are there?
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How do you start a new country?
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Where is America?
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What will the world look like in 250 million years?
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What will the world look like in 250 million years?
Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?
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Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?
Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?
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Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?
Why do maps show places that don't exist?
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Why do maps show places that don't exist?
2:31 holy shit, so many people in the neighborhood!
It looks like you've joined Australia and New Guinea together At the end of the video
Well I can't do it, but look up jay foreman's song "Where'd you get your food from, Grandma?" on youtube, his mouth trumpet solo in that is iconic
When you’re wishing there was more Monty Python and Look Around You in existence and then discover these videos everything is alright again
ireland mentioned lets go love my little island
The Wrong Bin sketch is hilarious…and so true!!!
4:26 I laughed so hard 🤣
because western civilisation began there. how old is skarra brae again England?
the microphone voices were funny. 😅
Does anyone Les what the Uk looks like?
Here Are all the Countries they look like Kuwait:Thumb Madagascar:Lean Burundi:Heart Qatar:Bean India:Diamond Slovenia:Splot Mauritania:L Malawi:Seahorse Somalia:Sock Australia:CatDog Kazakhstan:A Turtle with a Leaf stuck in its mouth Peru: Resting dog Guyana: Ghost Ethiopia and Switzerland: Potato Wedges Thailand: Elephant head shape Botswana: Flounder Chad: Jay Leno Mongolia: Bat Congo: Kinda Foxy Myanmar:Genie and Not even Sightly boxy Sri Lanka: Raindrop Kyrgyzstan: Bird in Flight Cameroon: Chicken with a Huge Badonkadonk Gambia,Vietnam and Panama: Snakes Palau: Jellyfish Pakistani: Duck Azerbaijan: A bird that’s Ben Ran Over by a TRUCK! Monkey: Armenian Shooting star: Laotian Jamaica,Malta and Niger: Creatures from the Ocean UK: And old witch sitting sideways on a Pig
Is "Glorified dirt clod with no staying power that eroded relatively swiftly" one of the causes of phantom islands?
Hey @Jay Foreman What Brazil is too?
This song went from a bit revelant to extremely revelant, to unrevelant at all
The chinese coming to north america in the 1300s "theory" hold about the same amount of water as the theory that Africans actually discovered America thousands of years ago and became the Native Americans. Both theories are unsubstantiated bullshit lmfao
You’re gonna hurt your penis maskelyn!! 😨😨😨😱😱😱😱😱 6:02
Equatorial Guinea Is Square!
9:40 How the heck did you convince the journey planner to give you this insanely convoluted route? Is there a secret “avoid green park” checkbox hidden somewhere?
It’s an animation I faked myself. Glad someone noticed! :)
Tower Bridge is acknowledged for 4 seconds but it does link to East London along side London Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Millennium Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge into East Central London. Interesting video and great presenting though
If you’d like to see Tower Bridge acknowledged for a full ten minutes, check out our previous episode.
Its ok guys, any islands we found that actually did exist will be underwater soon anyway
6:53 even that map has the island of California!
Can't wait til Google decides to pull a Google and kill off their undersea cables. RIP Google Podcasts, Google Domains, Stadia, Hangouts, CZcams Originals, etc.
My backyard goes undiscovered about every 3 weeks, until I finally get around to mowing it.
Can William Cowley's discovery of the Falkland islands be a justification of UK's domination of the Falklands as it's territory against Argentina?
He didn’t discover the Falklands. And he didn’t think he had either. He thought he’d discovered another island 200ish miles north that wasn’t the Falklands.
Fake royals, all government are puppets, voting is a waste of time ,you get more of the same .they are part of the same bird ,each have a wing. The polices change to fool the people. The government do what they are told by the real ones ruling the world ,the hidden ones. The world will know the truth .
One of my favourite videos from this channel. Though, the Paris arrondissements do have "names". The 1st, is called the Louvre, 3rd, Temple.... Basically just small names...
Totaly agree with the argument in 5:10. We, who live in democracy, are responsible for our country's future and should vote. If there is no party we like, we should start one. We can decide not to vote, but then we don't have the right to be angry with the results.
Problem is we 100% have the right to be angry with the results, not like it's non-voters that are typically whining about them anyways. We already know that we the people have no responsibility nor power to shape the country or its future so why bother. Please wake up my friend. Stop wasting your time on something that will never change.
There is another reason why to vote even for a party that don't have a chance: in some countries (like Czechia), the parties gets financial benefits from the stae if they cross the 3% line. That means that the party you like can get more money for future campaigns.
No, .cat isn't actually the same kind of stuff as .ninja or .pizza : it's Catalonia :)
Locally famous are Adolphus and Gordon Islands in the Salish Sea, reported by a US Navy explorer who is presumed to have wanted more things to name after historical admirals. They're probably not mentioned here because (a) nobody else ever drew them on further maps, and (b) they're not in the open ocean, and therefore weren't the kind of nuisance the ones in this video were.
The blue oceans in Google maps satellite view are not satellite imagery but color coded bathymetry data. On real satellite imagery, the ocean appears black. This is why this “island” appears black.
Random fun fact - jay foreman knows of he existence of the roblox train game scr (stepford county railway)
if everyone agrees that the continent should be australia then the country australia should name itself the united states of australia
the hair length changes go crazy. probably took a whole year to make
And as we know... A magnet points to its opposite pole, so I deed South is up
.tv? Tuvalu? Locking in my guess before I watch. I bet I'm wrong.
It's been more than a week, and I still watch your ads. Thank you for being actually entertaining.
Thank you also for the joke about Putin.
I had heard of Tokelau, and I am disappointed in myself for getting it wrong. Wait a minute, which was more popular? .tv or .tk?
5:53 aged poorly
Severing Europe into a separate continent is absurd. Only Europeans could come up with this in order to distinguish themselves from the rest and consider themselves special. If there is a clear border between Europe and Asia, then where do Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia belong? But if we assume that Europe stands out from other continents because of culture, language and ethnicity, then why are the Arabian Peninsula, India and China located on the same continent?
This is a VERY good question and I’m annoyed we didn’t address this properly in the video. Apparently (I found out a long time after uploading) it all comes down to the ancient Greeks, who were the first to invent a distinction between the regions of Europe, Asia and Africa. The divide persisted for so many centuries mostly because of religion.
and Toronto is Divided into 6 Boroughs, 2 of which were official Cities and the rest are actual boroughs Those 6 are: City of Toronto (Old Toronto), City of York, Borough of North York, Borough of Scarborough, Borough of Etobicoke and Borough of East York
Hahahahahaahahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Hahahahahahahaha😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒 3:17
Kidnapping PSA If you’re a kid reading this, I wanted to let you know that being kidnapped is VERY bad, for reasons you might not know about yet (and don’t need to), but you probably don’t need to worry too much. Kidnapping is pretty rare, but nobody on the Titanic thought they were about to plummet into the depths of the ocean, so you should still keep this info in the back of your mind, Juuust in case. <<THE MOST IMPORTANT PART>>. My main reason for writing this is to just tell you that if a car pulls up to you, even if they look genuinely confused, or if a stranger talks to you, or if somebody follows you, just run. I have friends that talked to people in cars before and I just wanted to let you know that that’s not safe. They could very easily take you. All of the other info in this is stuff you probably know already, I just mostly wanted to make sure you knew THIS, specifically. <<THE OTHER MOST IMPORTANT PART>>: When talking to people on the internet, Never, and I mean never, exchange contact info or personal info, or anything they can use to chat with you privately (like discord or other social media accounts). Never date them, either. If they try to guilt trip you into doing anything you don't want to do, don't do it, and tell your parents about it. If they threaten to do awful things to themself, you, or others, tell your parents, or some other trusted adults, and then you guys can handle the situation together. You might lose certain computer/internet privileges, but honestly if the situation ever gets this drastic you probably aren't going to care that much, and getting away from this person is way more important. If you’re an adult reading this, pass this kind of info on to your kid. I know you know all of this stuff already, and it’s really not my business to tell you how to parent your kids (I’m a kid myself), but this stuff is important to know. Also if you’re a parent, make sure you emphasize how important it is to learn about this sort of thing. My parents always told me all the tips and tricks as well as all the strategies used by kidnappers, and I never really cared all that much, because they never really told me why I had to be careful, just that I did. Make sure they’re scared enough that in the rare instance someone does come after them, your kid fights back and fights back hard. You should also make sure you have a codeword, and keep up-to-date info and pictures of your kid to help identify them. If you get a weird feeling about an adult, just run away. Being polite is good, but your safety matters more. If they ask you to do anything or go anywhere, don't do it, even if it sounds like fun. If they offer food or candy or gifts, don’t take it. If they tell you to go to their car or go anywhere, RUN. If they try to take you to their car, fight back in whatever way you can. Scream. Shout. Bite. Do whatever you can to escape. Even if they fight you back, keep fighting. Gouge their eyes if you need to, or kick/punch them in the privates. If they try to make you come with them in ANY way, run away. A very common strategy they use is to tell you that there’s an emergency at home or your mom was hurt or something. If you don’t know them, it doesn’t matter, just run away, even if they claim to know your friends and family, heck, EVEN IF they have evidence (they could have looked stuff up). Make sure you know what houses are safe to run to in case of an emergency. If they ask you personal questions, don’t answer them. Memorize your parents’ phone numbers, as well as your address and your full name. <<ALSO, ONE MORE THING>>, completely different topic, but be careful about how many pills you take and if you’re taking the right pills. I don’t really have anything more to add on this particular topic, but pill overdoses are incredibly common, and I almost took too many pills myself, so I wanted to make sure that nobody else does that too.
More inaccuracies! Calling what's obviously duct tape "electrical tape", is clearly the most egregious fake news Map Men has spread to date!!
5:12 just curious, what is this song?
Jdhs
And people wonder why all the printed map companies died.
ENGLAND sold everything and brought the whole world in .....I remember made in England had huge value before 2000 in most countries
Did you know Jay, Olympics in Europe are celebrating Paris 2024! That’s why in France they remember that.
The amazonian woman made we spit my hot chocolate on my laptop. thanks.
Jersey isn’t a phantom island by the way
3:51 we all lived here once