Blue: Spends two weeks researching, writing, and producing a video about Scottish History Also Blue: *USES THE WRONG FUCKING FLAG* Rest assured, everybody, I'm veritably mortified by how badly I messed that up. -B
@@roosterbooster6238 Better off as English and scots and not caring about Britain. Too vastly different countries with completely different cultures and both with a proud identity shouldve never been put under one flag.
@@CalumOH Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but Scottish and English cultures are pretty much indistinguishable. We eat mostly the same foods, we speak the same language, we watch the same TV shows and movies, read the same books, our high streets have the exact same shops, we celebrate the same holidays (except maybe saints days), we enjoy the same sports like rugby and football. And to be brutally honest if you walked through an English scheme or a Scottish scheme, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference 🇬🇧
Andrue Klements As a campbell its not that bad. Just picture one big fucked up family reunion but with swords and where eventually the women reign them in or join the stabbing(do not involve children ever)
“Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots. Or Welshmen and Scots fans. Or Japanese and Scots. Or Scots and other Scots. Damn Scots, they ruined Scotland!” -Groundskeeper Willie
yeh fun fact during the times of william wallace and robert bruce, one of the ways scotland pissed of england was by making friends with france. we actually did that alot throughout history
@hyndergogen Moreso based on the very real possibility that England would conquer you both. A war on two fronts makes that a virtually impossible task.
I thought he was trying to sound Japanese or Russian before I remembered I'm watching a video about Scotland. Blue, please, if you want to sound Scottish at least take the easy route and go for something more like Glaswegian...
It's not that bad, he just has trouble with some of the vowel and 'r' sounds (it isn't always rolled, but when it is it's only done as a half roll rather than a large exaggerated one). Trust me, my partner tries to do a Scottish accent around me all the time and, let me tell you, it fucking blows.
My Review: As a Scottish person, this is an all round decent look at Scottish History. Some mistakes with a few flags, could have been clearer on the Act of Crowns and the act of union as well as glaring over the 2014 referendum but apart from those points, this is pretty decent. One of the best videos I've seen on Scottish history not made by Scots especially on CZcams. P.s. Edinburgh is pronounced as Edin-burah like bra, not Edin-burow like the the borough of the Bronx. I used to have to teach it to tourists at my old job so it's not a biggie.
As a Glaswegian, who has many american friends, I've never heard anyone with a North American accent pronounce the world Glasgow as well as you just did. I physically recoiled because it was so unexpected.
We can blame England for: America’s love/obsession with freedom Much of the Middle East’s absolutely bonkers borders The Australian heritage of livestock theft, assault, and murder Scotland’s nationalism Ireland’s population count And others...
Thomas Edgerley Humans existed as a species for 250,000 years. Spent that whole time as apes screaming mad. First cultures arrive about 10,000 years at the most reaching. Sticks and stones. England exists for a few hundred years and now everyone is up to date. They arrived and upheld their treaties with he Indians... until Puritan Christians reach the land in mass exodus and literally every treaty was soiled after that hand over. Also carried diseases unknown to the world and made because of the cultural development and human life population allowing diseases on the tier of plagues to develop which would’ve happened anyway. Introduced live stock and work animals to the west, Africa where none were before of such size and quantity, look at how use the zebra and buffalo domestication is going compared to dogs, cows and so on A few hundred years too early for vaccines to be invented (can somewhat blame Christians for that with the burning of the Alexandria Library and the hoarding of knowledge which to this day exists in 52 miles of shelf space- of which is off access by even professionals) Also a somewhat fair deal and trade with colonies after the 1950’s which tagged with shitty understanding of resources resulted in a famine which swayed them to “fuck England rule” Also the war with America was the dupe the French to spend all their money supporting America which secured England as a global power until WW1 which is when it started to decline. Even slaves of Romans benefited by being conquered compared to what they lived in before. And thanks to capitalism you no longer need to store food, your store of food, supplies and so on can be kept in your pocket wherever you go. Look and Venezuela to see when the blood of a nation’s currency is infested by parasites. ‘The oil price drop did it’ they say, none of the other even more oil dependent nations were so affected, however the workers lowered and dropped as the price rises- they didn’t believe the price would ever stop rising or prepare for it. It now allows you to make trade with a paper card from one end of the world to the other and you to support people there.
Red: apologizes profusely for pronouncing Welsh names perfectly fine. Blue: absolutely BASTARDIZES a Scottish accent at times and utters nary a word of apology.
Fun fact: When Robert the Bruce died he wanted to go to heaven so the story goes the he took about 100 of his knights and they put his heart in a box (after he was dead) and took it to the holy land but before they could get there they got attacked by an army on the way and his favourite knight, (of clan Douglas) took his heart out of the box and threw it into the air and the heart grew wings and flew to heaven. So Clan Douglas’ symbol is a heart with wings.
Hate to shoot you down mate, but Robert the Bruce's heart is buried at Melrose Abbey with the inscription, "A noble hart may have no ease, gif freedom failye" on the gravestone. It is true that James Douglas was taking the heart on a tour of the holy land, and it is true that they never made it there, but there are no records of flying hearts, either his or any other. There is a legend that, before Douglas was killed in a surprise attack during this voyage, he threw the urn with the heart ahead of him and cried "Lead on, brave heart, I'll follow thee," but regardless of whether or not this is accurately, the heart was brought back to Scotland with Douglas' body. Both of which they buried near Melrose. Many years later (I think 700, but don't quote me on that), the urn was exhumed and interred within Melrose Abbey, as Robert the Bruce had originally desired.
I am polish, and just learned, that my great grandfather was actually Scottish. And I still have a Scottish last name too (Leksa or Lexa ) Now I want to learn more about this nation. So thank you for this video! Big Love from Poland! 🇵🇱
Wow. I know there’s a ton of Scots with Polish ancestry because of the War, but I think you’re the first Pole I’ve ever come across with Scottish blood. Cool. Human migration in action, as it should be.
@@angstyalienartist7028 The British flag as you incorrectly called it, is literally a mix of the Scottish and English flags. If anybody should feel slighted by the flag it's Wales. Seeing as the original decision was "Well you're part of the kingdom of England ain't ya? England represents you"
I mean, I lived in Newcastle when I was a kid, so I picked up a sort of mix between American-Mexican-Geordie amalgamation of accents that sounds like a bad impression, but it's completely involuntary,
I think Scotland has shown remarkable unity where required. when you look at it, there's loads of angles, gaels, Scoti, normans etc.. races come together. not really convinced by the civil war kill yr neighbours bit in a big way. nobody's fool
@Afra The Cat Girl First of all he never "wasted" his time on this video, that time was everything but wasted. I am not mocking his accent, I'm making fun of it, I am laughing. His accent was not sarcastic, it was exaggerated, and he included himself doing that accent because he thought it would make people laugh, guess what, it worked. My comment is not complaining, it is stating a funny fact, Blue tried (or didn't I don't know) and it didn't work. He made an entire video about Scotland, he must have know that his accent doesn't sound Scottish, and as he's well aware of that he must have consciously included himself attempting to recreate it badly to make people laugh. Seriously, do you even know how complaining looks like? Because this ain't it. Okay next, this is not his channel, this channel is two people, Red and Blue. And lastly, stop being so overly sensitive, not everything is a hate comment. Don't waste *your* time by trying to scold people for making light hearted jokes you misinterpreted.
@Afra The Cat Girl lol okay I give up, trying to explain anything to you is pointless. Maybe when you grow up you'll understand the concept of a "light hearted joke". Also try to maybe turn off your CZcams notifications if it bothers you so much you can't sleep?
As a true born Scot i just want to say that that accent is... Great, Funny, Dripping with Stereotype and that I've never met another Scot that cares about that last one. We kinda love our over the top representation. Thanks for the fun and info packed video.
@@mmouse1886 With Labour in the majority at the time. One of their very first acts was to put together a committee / task force. To determine the EXACT blue for the Saltire. The investigation involved Labour MSPs with their friends / family / mistresses traveling all around the world to hot sunny countries (Staying in luxury accommodation of course) for years. Before it was eventually determined that the blue currently used by flag makers was the correct one....
@@maddoctorscientist9472 That is oddly an aggressive statement. No one has said anything about people not identifying as British and Scottish. The OP posted that he thinks the first words were 'classy'. @M Mouse states the first thing the parliment did was vote for a pay raise and I added to the effect of Labour using the colour of the flag as as an excuse for a junket.
Being a Scotsman myself, this feels great to be appreciated and not joked about for how we say things because we’re associated with England. ALL THE TIME.
@@AnimeSunglasses Would you believe an absolute idiot, while on stage providing background characters and chatter, during the middle of the damn show, asked why you can't say the Scottish play in a theater. By name. On stage. During a show. And not a production of said play, but of god damn Footloose. Thank god there was a break right after and we made him do the full ritual (at least the variation of curse cleaning that we had) before he was allowed back in the building at all, and everyone was SUPER on edge the entire time. A couple minor injuries did happen, but mostly nipped it in the bud.
The Jacobite rebellions weren't trying to gain Scottish independence, they were trying to re-establish the Stuart dynasty to power. Also there were actually five uprisings starting in 1688 led by Bonnie Dundee and the final one led by Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. P.s some Jacobotes did fight for Scottish independence but that wasn't the goal in the eyes of most of the army.
The one-line summary that I've heard was "The Scottish, Irish and English all fighting amongst themselves over whether they wanted a French or a German king"
0:22 says England, shows British flag. Blue, I’m going to need you to hand over your historian card. Edit: I also need your historian card for saying royal politics is dumb
I think that was intentional, seeing as Britain is almost entirely owned by England, and is basically just a means by which the English can boss around the Scottish
So...like do they just try rehearsing their lines while saying “He Who Must Not Be Named” in a rush but still slanted iambic pentameter??? Then sweat about switching back on Opening Night??? (I...have serious questions...)
Raiga Both were wrong though the bridge more wrong. I wouldn't put it past people to don the facepaint of ancestors passed but the bridge is kinda important.
They also made William Wallace have a sexual relationship with someone who historically would have been an infant... He also looked nothing like William Wallace.
As someone who’s fully Scottish and an actual highlander I feel compelled to say he sounds a lot more like Connor maccloud than any actual Scottish person... So Scottish-ish by way of a very french Christopher lambert 😅😅
You might be interested in Contact, the second book in the Crossover Series by Walt Soch Time travelers and Native Americans fight Irish and Viking raiders in 1074
is that the type of Pokémon that comes only from Scotland also :p his Proud chest pop hairs speaks volumes on this native grounds story he dwells from indeed
Tbf that's also true. They're currently dragging us kicking and screaming out the EU for example. It's kind of a running thing for the British parliament to choose to do the exact opposite thing from what Scotland wants and then just force us to put up with it. Privatising the NHS, investing in nuclear weapons (and having the cheek to make us be the ones who have to store them). The UK kinda goes out of its way to make shit difficult for Scotland then acts surprised when we tried to become independent in 2014.
@@ColossalRay "...(and having the cheek to make us be the ones who have to store them)..." Wait, so does that mean you get to keep them if you leave, or...?
I'm mortally wounded you failed to mention their national animal: *THE UNICORN!!* VITALLY important to understanding their culture, alongside their deathtrap of a national flower.
According to Scottish lore a unchained Unicorn is a dangerous animal so they had to keep it in chains. on the other hand the Unicorn is also a middle finger to England as the only thing that kills a Lion (England’s National animal) in mythology, is you guessed it a Unicorn.
So how come they like simultaneously invaded England? It's like what a six hours horse ride right? Totally could knocked out before the British empire was an empire.
@@TheKnizzine Because for most of their history Wales and Ireland frankly never got their act together and were normally only unified against England when half their lands were already taken over as they were more interested in fighting among themselves
macsikar Mackay have you read Shakespeare? It in no ways makes scots look barbaric. Plus if you knew your history then Macbeth in the play isn’t as bad as some of the actual historical people... black dinner?!
@Donald Mackay why would Shakespeare want to show the Scottish king of England that the Scots were barbarians? Your right about it being propaganda to please the king, but because the king was descended from one of the allies of the king that defeated Macbeth.
OH GOD THERE IS SO MUCH IS WRONG HERE. I'M SO DISAPPOINTED, BLUE. 1) The Scots language has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Norman French; it is a very close cousin of English (a lot of Scots words are actually from Old English, like "ken"), and it is today so varied and poorly defined that its linguistic status is pernanently being debated by politicians who don't know what they are talking about. 2) Robert the Bruce was an Anglo-Norman lord, and professional opportunist who actually fought with the English at various points. But he's a hero in all the textbooks, so I don't blame you for that one. 3) They call themselves clans today, but in the Middle Ages, lowland "clans" were just the surnames of English-style feudal lords. This was retrofitted later (see point 6). Central authority was always stronger in the lowlands than highlands, except for the "Reiver" controlled area around both sides of the English border in the 1500s and 1600s (sort of a cross between warlords and bandits). 4) The Act of Union removed sovereignty, currency and parliament, but kept the separate legal system, church, educational system and most of the structures of government, which remain to this day (see point 11). The Act also wouldn't have happened if Scotland didn't invest literally 20% of its economy into trying to set up a failed colony in the Panamanian jungle. Think of how well Jamestown, VA went and multiply it by a million (England and Spain's fear of competition didn't help to be fair). 5) Frustration with the Act of Union did have something to do with the rebellions in 1715 and 1745, but not much. They were mainly fought because religion - the Catholic highlands fought to get back the Catholic king that William of Orange had been invited to replace in the 1680s - James VII, hence the semi-Latin term "Jacobite". The Lowland Scots were firmly against them because they were Protestants and scared. Hence why the lowlanders spearheaded the atrocities and cultural genocide after the 1745 rebellion. Oh, yeah, nothing turned for the better in the Highlands... JUST WAIT UNTIL THE CLEARANCES HAPPEN. 6) People like Walter Scott and Robert Burns essentially made up a new Scottish identity because a) there was no unifying identity at that point between highlands and lowlands and b) the highland identity and organisational structure had been systematically destroyed by the lowlanders and the English. Clan tartans, for instance, were completely made up. It's basically cultural appropriation from the highlands to the lowlands. 7) People like Adam Smith and David Hume didn't give two shits about Scottish sovereignty because they directly profited so much off the British Empire, including slavery in the 13 colonies. They gave a shit about Scottish institutions, like the law, while remaining in the UK. 9) A Cornishman invented the steam engine, a Scot made it more efficient and another Cornishman and a guy from Newcastle put it on rails. Scotland can't lay claim to the steam locomotive any more than America can to the computer. They did build a lot of them though. 10) Scotland never built large numbers of wooden naval ships because it had very few hardwood trees; it did build a significant proportion of the later steel ones. 11) The modern Scottish Parliament was the brainchild of a guy called Donald Dewar, who was a diehard unionist from the UK-wide Labour Party, but again placed a great value on maintaining Scottish institutions within the union. The other reason is that they thought it would placate the actual Scottish nationalists. Which worked SO well in the long run, because a combination of Labour incompetence, 13 years of comparative nationalist competence, right wing nut jobs in London, and the problems around Brexit (to name a few) have meant that there is for the FIRST time in hundreds of years, ALMOST a majority in favour of independence. That has never been true until pretty much right now. There are SO MANY glaring mistakes, omissions and harmful myths in this video that I had to give it a dislike. I felt really bad doing it though.
@@walsh9080 must be nice to be you ...actually not being able to have any self awareness could cause you to have your head caved in one day ....make of that what you will.
@@hanssprungfeld8487 Lol at your pathetically salty comment. I didn't invent the tropes you moron. Nor was I the person that related them to the British characters. I wasn't even the person who related the English to elves. Can you not read? You want to question other people's self awareness and you can't even follow a comment thread that contains 3 comments.
luke proud england hasn’t had a foreign policy since the act of union and besides British foreign policy was essentially identical in nature to every European power...
@@roosterbooster6238 To be fair though, it's not like Wales was *that* big an actor in the decisions o the British govt. S'like sayin US foreign policy when everyone knows they mean Feds, the Army, and occasionally California or Texas.
@@Dom-fx4kt and he just entirely skipped over the Jacobite rebellions and the highlands cleansing and the Scottish political fight for autonomy in the 20th century (while not so secretly supporting the Irish wars against the British in the 20s and 1960s-90s) that culminated in the formation of the Scottish Parliament in 99.
a video that claims to sum up the history of scotland but dosent even mention the Darien purchase or the highland clearances i expected better from OSP i am of disappoint!
what is the most scottish thing you have ever heard? mine is this quote- as my granddad once said, give me 12 highlanders and a bagpipe, and you will have your rebellion
"I've got a bagpipe, two goats, and a claymore. I'll stick all of it up ya fookin ass if yee don' get out me way." Admittedly it was at a renaissance fair (or should I say just like. Medieval cultures appreciation? Not much renaissance going on.) But I thought it was hilarious nonetheles
Blue: is half Scottish Blue: doesn't use ken instead of know Blue: dinnae shorten his words and lengthen his S's Blue is a sassenach I'm so sorry for all the roasts, you did a wonderful job on the video though!!
Ken's pretty specific to the west coast (Ayrshire?), I used to get made fun of it by folk from elsewhere in Scotland; "Who's this Ken ye keep goin' oan aboot?"
@@charliechan8063 yes but the guy who plays borat isn't russian...he's from london. Like if I said someone sounds like a mix of scottish and "braveheart" ...his accent isn't Scots...he's an aussie trying to play a Scot....badly 🤣
@@charliechan8063 Yeh, he was born in hammersmith, london, England. His dad was born in london too but brought up in wales. Cohen was raised jewish though because of family on both sides have jewish/german/israele family. My point was that the guy sounded like a mix of his impersonation and actual russian.
Fun fact, the Scottish princess who became an English queen was the great grandniece of Edward the Confessor. So in a way, the House of Wessex regained control of England.
I mean it's not wrong, we dont really wanna be in the uk, a tiiiiny bit of ireland is in the uk and wales.... we dont talk about wales. The uk is 99% england
Most of the wars between England and Scots involved people fighting on both sides depending upon different loyalties.. they are more like civil wars as everyone are British and fighting to keep some monkey in a throne
Big mood. Same drama, different social consequences for me. I can talk about the spicy infidelity, divorces, and public viewings of marriage night sex... If it's over 100 years old. But if I talk about modern celebrity infidelity, divorce, or sex tape, I am a trashy gossipmonger. Similar with politics. I can talk about people rounding up and punishing innocent people in witch hunts a couple hundred years ago. But if I mention the Trump network of concentration camps in the year of our lord 2019, people go bananas.
"The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes." Michel de Montaigne
Loved the Spanish accent but I fail to see how it's relevant to a video about Scotland. p.s. "dinnae" can be pronounced dinn-ay, dinn-eh, dinn-a or even dinn-ee but NEVER "dun-eye" Blue I love you but what were you thinking
I’m Scottish and I’m gonna “translate” Scottish slang Fae =from Aye = yes Wit = what Hied = head Fitbaw = football Wee = little Yer = your Didnae = didn’t Dae = do Pish = piss Windae = window Dug = dog
Blue: the 1200s didn't see a whole lot of drama Me: *remembers how alexander ii crushed his rivals once and for all by taking the newborn daughter of his rival from her mothers arms and bashing her brains out against a market square cross* !?!?!
I'm pretty sure they cut out the part with the bridge because winning a battle on even ground seems like a greater accomplishment than bum rushing an army before they can properly set up their formations
@macsikar Mackay you missed my point. I'm not taking any glory away from the victory. I'm just saying winning on an open field against superior numbers is a greater feat and would look better on film. Also, I wouldn't say rushing an army while it's on a bridge (therefore unable to surround and envelope your own army) requires any real "military strategy". Seems more like common sense to me 😂
It's probably of dubious authenticity but there is a popular story about the filming of Braveheart in Scotland (*fun fact, most of Braveheart was actually shot in Ireland but not the part in the below story.) Apparently while filming a scene a few locals came over to the set to see what all the commotion was about. One old man approached Mel Gibson without knowing who he was. The conversation went something like this. OLD MAN: Hey sonny, what's happening over there? MEL: We're making a movie. OLD MAN: Oh aye. What's it about? MEL: It's a film about William Wallace. We're filming a battle scene. OLD MAN: Ah right. So which battle is this then? MEL: It's the Battle of Stirling Bridge. OLD MAN: Aye. Okay... [long pause] OLD MAN: Where's the bridge? MEL: Well I really wanted a big straightforward battle with a lot of free movement of soldiers and horses. I found the bridge really got in the way and made that really difficult. OLD MAN: Oh. Fair enough... [pause] ...the English found that too.
Man you ken the real reason William Wallace won wasn’t just coz o the bridge it was really due to the conditions, horse pits and hidden spikes, and good tactics like that wee spike circle ting
@@MaxArturo The Jacobite Rebellion was more a disagreement on the Monarchy than anything having to do with the slightly over publicised "English Nobility being dicks to "x" people" however it made the English realise that because of the act of Union, especially within Monarchical terms the Scots do have a massive say over the Governance over Great Britain. Also this video entirely skips over the Scottish Nobility and overfocuses on the "Dickish English Nobility stomping all over everything" much similar in purported "Irish History" which simply is not the case in anything.
@@MaxArturo Don't waste perfectly good sympathy feeling bad for things you weren't there for. It's a virtue to remember history so you aren't doomed to repeat it, but you're literally repeating history if you pretend you're living it now. Tis' fine to look in the rear view mirror at where you came from and what might come from behind, but keep your eyes on the road ahead, please.
The pictures ~6:00 is where I live. The place is called Glen Coe, or 'The weepy mountains' due to the amount of rain they get and the green color. The Gaelic names for the mountain summits usually comes by describing the conditions, features or shapes of the mountain.
glad you mention the outlaw king and the fact that the blue paint thing is more Pictish then Scottish, although I would've thought you'd mention the fact that the tartan, bagpipe and claymore weren't really things till around the 1500-1700s
Well, claymores are a little earlier than that. Two-handed swords were around during the Wars of Scottish Independence for example, but they weren't widespread, not as big and did not necessarily have the well known claymore-design.
Obligatory, yet belated reply something something dominant something something. But after going through similar ones, I now can't get over how a golden opportunity to put a dragon on the Union Flag was missed.
Robert Bray the issue with the dragon means that the flag isn't symmetrical so can't be viewed from both sides as the same now two dragons on the other hand...
As a Swede, all I can say about that list of wars is: That's cute. (Edit: I'm referencing that Sweden and Denmark have had, as far as I've read, the most proclaimed wars between them. Many other conflicts between countries have been more brutal and long-lasting and I apologize for my comment making light of that.)
Started watching Outlander and now I'm really interested in learning about the history of Scotland 😀 Thanks for making this both entertaining and super easy to underground!
Scottish history is just a massive middle finger to england. I mean, the unofficial national anthem is just a tale of how the Scottish beat back king Edward.
@@davidfergusson5559 check the Wikipedia page, idk if it's true but it would make sense since great Britain and all. But it's not official but just recognized as the national anthem
They even picked the Unicorn as their national animal because England picked the Lion and the Unicorn is believed to be the natural enemy of the Lion... Scots know how to run a country!
I've been to Scotland once. Started at Edinburgh and drive for a few days until I reached the Isle of Skye. Really lovely country and remarkable history!
Blue: Spends two weeks researching, writing, and producing a video about Scottish History
Also Blue: *USES THE WRONG FUCKING FLAG*
Rest assured, everybody, I'm veritably mortified by how badly I messed that up.
-B
nice
(Failure trumpet sound effect)
Blue, I still have my sickle.
It's a CZcams historian curse. Just ask Extra Credit
Phew, I came down here for that very reason
"The Scots and the English hate each other, but it can't be that bad."
*Distant British laughter, and slightly more distant stabbing*
*polishes longsword* ah shit here we go again.
Better of British and saying who cares about either the English and scots
@@roosterbooster6238 Better off as English and scots and not caring about Britain.
Too vastly different countries with completely different cultures and both with a proud identity shouldve never been put under one flag.
@@CalumOH Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but Scottish and English cultures are pretty much indistinguishable. We eat mostly the same foods, we speak the same language, we watch the same TV shows and movies, read the same books, our high streets have the exact same shops, we celebrate the same holidays (except maybe saints days), we enjoy the same sports like rugby and football. And to be brutally honest if you walked through an English scheme or a Scottish scheme, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference 🇬🇧
@@RetroSegaMaster no the Scots are Celts the English are Germanic the only reason that lots of those are the same is because we're in the same country
5:20 "Scotland was free to be its own antagonist, the way God intended." ...
Aye. Aye, that's fair.
Ren9077 still to this day 2 “Christian “groups that don’t believe in god still create a substantial friction
Shaun Keaney ...what.
Pyreleaf yer da sells avon
They're mortal enemies
Like Englishmen and Scots
Or Welshmen and Scots
OR SCOTS AND SCOTS
*DAMN SCOTS, THEY RUINED SCOTLAND*
Andrue Klements
As a campbell its not that bad. Just picture one big fucked up family reunion but with swords and where eventually the women reign them in or join the stabbing(do not involve children ever)
“Scotland was free to be its own antagonist the way god intended”
Never have felt so incredibly insulted for something I totally agree with.
“Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots. Or Welshmen and Scots fans. Or Japanese and Scots. Or Scots and other Scots. Damn Scots, they ruined Scotland!”
-Groundskeeper Willie
"Scotland has a LOT of wars with England"
*France goes for the high five*
Want to gang up on them? 💪🏻😂🏴
Frequently they where allies though
yeh fun fact during the times of william wallace and robert bruce, one of the ways scotland pissed of england was by making friends with france. we actually did that alot throughout history
@hyndergogen we are the auld alliance kinda funny as well because we are the oldest alliance not longest but oldest
@hyndergogen Moreso based on the very real possibility that England would conquer you both. A war on two fronts makes that a virtually impossible task.
I'm not even Scottish and I demand an apology for that accent.
I thought he was trying to sound Japanese or Russian before I remembered I'm watching a video about Scotland.
Blue, please, if you want to sound Scottish at least take the easy route and go for something more like Glaswegian...
It's not that bad, he just has trouble with some of the vowel and 'r' sounds (it isn't always rolled, but when it is it's only done as a half roll rather than a large exaggerated one). Trust me, my partner tries to do a Scottish accent around me all the time and, let me tell you, it fucking blows.
He sounded Jamaican by the end of it.
@@guardianofasgaard7469 true
The accent is better than some I've heard.
- is half scottish
- sounds like a South African thats been living in Romania for 20 years trying to do an Irish accent
This is a more accurate description.
IKR
Yes!!! Oh my god!!! I'm mistaken for American all the time!!!
I am 77% Scottish and Irish and 23% English and Welsh
@@EveryoneElseIsWeirdImNormal i'm 99% European in general.
I’m Scottish and not gonna lie that accent physically hurt
I'm not Scottish and I was physically hurt by that accent.
@Skelly Arts same, I physically cringed at the accent
I'm also Scottish and I can fully agree
But he did have “Bawbag” in the speech bubble...
im of welsh descent on my moms side well im descended from welsh immigrants from the 1800s who came to the states as indentured servants.
My Review:
As a Scottish person, this is an all round decent look at Scottish History. Some mistakes with a few flags, could have been clearer on the Act of Crowns and the act of union as well as glaring over the 2014 referendum but apart from those points, this is pretty decent. One of the best videos I've seen on Scottish history not made by Scots especially on CZcams.
P.s. Edinburgh is pronounced as Edin-burah like bra, not Edin-burow like the the borough of the Bronx. I used to have to teach it to tourists at my old job so it's not a biggie.
And “gay-lick” is Irish. Gah-lick is Scottish
What about when he skips over the Jacobite Rebellions as "wars for independence"
His pronunciation of inverness aswell
Isn’t it “Edin-bruh”? That’s how I’ve always pronounced it and I live there
@@jossephrhue8886 Depends where you're from, some parts say of scotland say "Edin-Brah" others "Edin-Bruh" and then some say "Edin Burah"
As a Glaswegian, who has many american friends, I've never heard anyone with a North American accent pronounce the world Glasgow as well as you just did. I physically recoiled because it was so unexpected.
Had to rewind and holy shit he did say Glasgow right!
Same, man. I didn't know Americans could say the word xD
Aye a weeige
No he still got it wrong it's glesga
Why is it Glaswegian instead of Glasgowan. I'm curious because, while I'm a literature nerd at my day job, I'm a language nerd on the side.
"Who hurt you? Trick question, it was England!" could apply to basically every nation on the planet. Including England.
Too true.
We can blame England for:
America’s love/obsession with freedom
Much of the Middle East’s absolutely bonkers borders
The Australian heritage of livestock theft, assault, and murder
Scotland’s nationalism
Ireland’s population count
And others...
@@pretzelbomb6105 Some of the issues between Pakistan and India.
I'm English and I'm trying to think of a counterpoint to this for own national pride...
But........
Yeah
Thomas Edgerley
Humans existed as a species for 250,000 years.
Spent that whole time as apes screaming mad.
First cultures arrive about 10,000 years at the most reaching.
Sticks and stones.
England exists for a few hundred years and now everyone is up to date.
They arrived and upheld their treaties with he Indians... until Puritan Christians reach the land in mass exodus and literally every treaty was soiled after that hand over.
Also carried diseases unknown to the world and made because of the cultural development and human life population allowing diseases on the tier of plagues to develop which would’ve happened anyway.
Introduced live stock and work animals to the west, Africa where none were before of such size and quantity, look at how use the zebra and buffalo domestication is going compared to dogs, cows and so on
A few hundred years too early for vaccines to be invented (can somewhat blame Christians for that with the burning of the Alexandria Library and the hoarding of knowledge which to this day exists in 52 miles of shelf space- of which is off access by even professionals)
Also a somewhat fair deal and trade with colonies after the 1950’s which tagged with shitty understanding of resources resulted in a famine which swayed them to “fuck England rule”
Also the war with America was the dupe the French to spend all their money supporting America which secured England as a global power until WW1 which is when it started to decline.
Even slaves of Romans benefited by being conquered compared to what they lived in before.
And thanks to capitalism you no longer need to store food, your store of food, supplies and so on can be kept in your pocket wherever you go.
Look and Venezuela to see when the blood of a nation’s currency is infested by parasites.
‘The oil price drop did it’ they say, none of the other even more oil dependent nations were so affected, however the workers lowered and dropped as the price rises- they didn’t believe the price would ever stop rising or prepare for it.
It now allows you to make trade with a paper card from one end of the world to the other and you to support people there.
Red: apologizes profusely for pronouncing Welsh names perfectly fine.
Blue: absolutely BASTARDIZES a Scottish accent at times and utters nary a word of apology.
yeah, that accent was horrific. but it's not blue's fault they talk like that.
I think his Florida accent kinda ruined his Scottish impression accent
Well what do you want, that’s why we like him, it’s his thing to castrates foreign accents
@@roceb5009 give him an award lmao
She didn't pronounce Welsh names fine. PWYLL IS NOT PRONOUNCED PWISH!
Fun fact: When Robert the Bruce died he wanted to go to heaven so the story goes the he took about 100 of his knights and they put his heart in a box (after he was dead) and took it to the holy land but before they could get there they got attacked by an army on the way and his favourite knight, (of clan Douglas) took his heart out of the box and threw it into the air and the heart grew wings and flew to heaven. So Clan Douglas’ symbol is a heart with wings.
???
Hate to shoot you down mate, but Robert the Bruce's heart is buried at Melrose Abbey with the inscription, "A noble hart may have no ease, gif freedom failye" on the gravestone. It is true that James Douglas was taking the heart on a tour of the holy land, and it is true that they never made it there, but there are no records of flying hearts, either his or any other. There is a legend that, before Douglas was killed in a surprise attack during this voyage, he threw the urn with the heart ahead of him and cried "Lead on, brave heart, I'll follow thee," but regardless of whether or not this is accurately, the heart was brought back to Scotland with Douglas' body. Both of which they buried near Melrose. Many years later (I think 700, but don't quote me on that), the urn was exhumed and interred within Melrose Abbey, as Robert the Bruce had originally desired.
@@nathanm5653 spot on 👍
I'll sign up to audible if you promise never to do a Scottish accent again.
He sounds more like a jamaican with constipation than a scotsman. It hurts my ancestry.
I'll sign up the audible if you use it forever
Is it just me or does he sound like a french man who learned english from a scot?
I thought he was a confused Dracula for a moment.
He sounded like a Russian trying to imitate a Jamaican.
In the first 3 seconds:
“That’s a lot of stabbing” and
“Scotland? Who hurt you!”
He's not wrong
@ i mean...when a dudes name has "shank" in it, you might wanna watch out for your kidneys...
“Scotland? Who hurt you”
“Trick question: England.”
Shows the flag of the UK, of wich Scotland is a part.
We hurt them a lot to
Basically kinda of a big deal.
then puts the UK flag...
True to this day.
I am polish, and just learned, that my great grandfather was actually Scottish. And I still have a Scottish last name too (Leksa or Lexa ) Now I want to learn more about this nation. So thank you for this video!
Big Love from Poland! 🇵🇱
Wow. I know there’s a ton of Scots with Polish ancestry because of the War, but I think you’re the first Pole I’ve ever come across with Scottish blood. Cool. Human migration in action, as it should be.
"Scotland, who hurt you? Trick question. ENGLAND"
*Proceeds to show British flag, not the English one*
I hate the British flag and it might as well be an English flag because Englands parliament controls fukin everything :(
@@angstyalienartist7028 England doesn't haven't a parliament.. God I really hope you can't vote
@@jamesfeguson3445 Westminster you dumb fuck
@@jamesfeguson3445 Houses of Parliament, Westminster is a leisure center now is it?
@@angstyalienartist7028 The British flag as you incorrectly called it, is literally a mix of the Scottish and English flags. If anybody should feel slighted by the flag it's Wales. Seeing as the original decision was "Well you're part of the kingdom of England ain't ya? England represents you"
I'm English and even I took 200 damage from that accent
So you are saying it worked?
@@JeroenDoes oof thanks for pointing that out
I'm not from anywhere near the British Isles and I died from that accent.
British isles should be a no go zone for foreign impressions (lets be honest though we speak pretty weird)
I mean, I lived in Newcastle when I was a kid, so I picked up a sort of mix between American-Mexican-Geordie amalgamation of accents that sounds like a bad impression, but it's completely involuntary,
"and left Scotland to be þeir own antagonist, as God intended"
You just insulted my entire race of people
But yes
Principal Skinner : You Scots sure are a contentious people.
Groundskeeper Willie : You just made an enemy for life!
How the crap did you get a thorn character in there?
@@inkmaster5480 Icelandic google keyboard
@@connormacgregor9460 Ah, that makes sense.
I think Scotland has shown remarkable unity where required. when you look at it, there's loads of angles, gaels, Scoti, normans etc.. races come together. not really convinced by the civil war kill yr neighbours bit in a big way. nobody's fool
Blue, you went all around the world with that accent of yours but somehow never hit Scotland
At least the French bit would appease the old alliance, but i swear he passed through bangladeshi at one point...it was strangely impressive!
@Afra The Cat Girl why?
@Afra The Cat Girl again, why is it rude?
@Afra The Cat Girl First of all he never "wasted" his time on this video, that time was everything but wasted.
I am not mocking his accent, I'm making fun of it, I am laughing. His accent was not sarcastic, it was exaggerated, and he included himself doing that accent because he thought it would make people laugh, guess what, it worked. My comment is not complaining, it is stating a funny fact, Blue tried (or didn't I don't know) and it didn't work. He made an entire video about Scotland, he must have know that his accent doesn't sound Scottish, and as he's well aware of that he must have consciously included himself attempting to recreate it badly to make people laugh.
Seriously, do you even know how complaining looks like? Because this ain't it.
Okay next, this is not his channel, this channel is two people, Red and Blue.
And lastly, stop being so overly sensitive, not everything is a hate comment. Don't waste *your* time by trying to scold people for making light hearted jokes you misinterpreted.
@Afra The Cat Girl lol okay I give up, trying to explain anything to you is pointless. Maybe when you grow up you'll understand the concept of a "light hearted joke". Also try to maybe turn off your CZcams notifications if it bothers you so much you can't sleep?
To be fair, "Godfather with Togas" sounds like it'd be awesome
It’s been done!… just watch I. Claudius and Rome!
Steve Porter I can't find any mention of it on CZcams
As a Scottish person I can confirm this is a video.
Nivag Nadrog hi also Scottish and aye it sure is a video.
Yep I’m also Scottish and I can confirm that you confirming his confirmation that this is a video is correct
I can also confirm all confirms. As a scotsman
as a Scot, aye
good007 well that’s one thing all Scots can agree on 😂🏴
As a true born Scot i just want to say that that accent is... Great, Funny, Dripping with Stereotype and that I've never met another Scot that cares about that last one.
We kinda love our over the top representation.
Thanks for the fun and info packed video.
Everyone asks WHAT is scotland
*But no one asks HOW is Scotland*
you spelt Scotland wrong
But WHY is Scotland?
But WHEN is Scotland
@@lemonsinuse4418 I think they are doing ok right now
Ye probably because it's always shite. Dey already know how Scotland is doin'.
"The Scottish parliament adjourned on the 25th of march, 1707, is hereby reconvened".
Classy
What isn't talked about is that those MPs in the Scottish Parliament's First Bill that they passed was... a pay raise...
@@mmouse1886 With Labour in the majority at the time. One of their very first acts was to put together a committee / task force. To determine the EXACT blue for the Saltire. The investigation involved Labour MSPs with their friends / family / mistresses traveling all around the world to hot sunny countries (Staying in luxury accommodation of course) for years. Before it was eventually determined that the blue currently used by flag makers was the correct one....
I support the idea of a Scottish Parliament, but as long as under the British Monarchy.
Aye, many identify as both British and Scottish. Deal with it.
@@maddoctorscientist9472 That is oddly an aggressive statement. No one has said anything about people not identifying as British and Scottish. The OP posted that he thinks the first words were 'classy'. @M Mouse states the first thing the parliment did was vote for a pay raise and I added to the effect of Labour using the colour of the flag as as an excuse for a junket.
@@ptonpc I was replying to OP. Otherwise, I would have mentioned someone.
(the "deal with it" is a meme, if that was the issue)
"Scotland got to be it's own antagonist, just like god intended" IM DYING
As Groundskeeper Willy said "Damn Scots, they ruined Scotland"
Jed Roberts so Willy is a Pict?
Ah like Spain
@@The_preserver_x16 the Spanish could actually agree on something
We are most definitely our own worst enemies sometimes-we weren't called "the sick man of Europe" for nothing lol
Being a Scotsman myself, this feels great to be appreciated and not joked about for how we say things because we’re associated with England. ALL THE TIME.
🏴❤❤
Blue: “macbeth is haunted”
Also Blue: *proceeds to tell people listen to the audiobook on audible.*
The curse is only invoked if you say the name while NOT performing the play.
Theater curses are generally like that.
^^ yeah you can read/listen/watch it, you just can’t say the word out loud. That’s the curse. It’s more like a paranoid jinx thing.
@@dannybeads3672 Actually, it only occurs if you say it in a theater. Anywhere but a theater is fine
How dare you mention the name.. Of the scottish play!
@@AnimeSunglasses Would you believe an absolute idiot, while on stage providing background characters and chatter, during the middle of the damn show, asked why you can't say the Scottish play in a theater. By name. On stage. During a show. And not a production of said play, but of god damn Footloose.
Thank god there was a break right after and we made him do the full ritual (at least the variation of curse cleaning that we had) before he was allowed back in the building at all, and everyone was SUPER on edge the entire time. A couple minor injuries did happen, but mostly nipped it in the bud.
I respect the attempt at a Scottish accent, gave me a good giggle. Went a bit Russian, though.
Went a bit too Flintheart Glomgold rather than Scrooge McDuck...
I thought it went Jamaican
@@LocalMaple BlOw mE baGpIPes
Sounded more Jamaican.
You sound like a vampire trying to pretend to be Scottish to cover up the fact that he's a vampire
lost my shit lmao
...Wha.
@@madlad2200 precisely what it says
But is the vampire Scottish?
@@jobansand No, he's Egyptian. [Highlander reference]
The Jacobite rebellions weren't trying to gain Scottish independence, they were trying to re-establish the Stuart dynasty to power. Also there were actually five uprisings starting in 1688 led by Bonnie Dundee and the final one led by Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. P.s some Jacobotes did fight for Scottish independence but that wasn't the goal in the eyes of most of the army.
And they were catholic not protestant - Culloden was mostly Highlanders (Catholic) vs Scots Lowlanders (Protestant)!
Just Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson he himself was born in Scotland after all.
The one-line summary that I've heard was "The Scottish, Irish and English all fighting amongst themselves over whether they wanted a French or a German king"
0:22 says England, shows British flag.
Blue, I’m going to need you to hand over your historian card.
Edit: I also need your historian card for saying royal politics is dumb
*loicense
And Scotland is British
I think that was intentional, seeing as Britain is almost entirely owned by England, and is basically just a means by which the English can boss around the Scottish
@@marsupialmole3926 r/wooosh
James A Clouder Royal politics IS dumb
Blue: Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is haunted, therefore i'll be calling this historical figure Macboy.
Also blue: Go listen to "Macbeth" on Audible!
So...like do they just try rehearsing their lines while saying “He Who Must Not Be Named” in a rush but still slanted iambic pentameter??? Then sweat about switching back on Opening Night??? (I...have serious questions...)
....Macbeth...
@dimapez Ah, someone of culture.
Potential haunting is worth an audible sponsorship.
It's only cursed because of the witches' spell, which is just a lovely piece of poetry.
""The Scots and the English hate each other, but it can't be that bad."
Oh, sweet summer child this bad blood runs so deep it's hitting Atlantis
Assuming Atlantis is above the earth's core here cause that bad blood could build through the earth
@@clayxros576 I think that's how New Zealand was formed.
As a brit or half brit, I personally apologize.
Brilliance
@@zazi5094 don't apologise. Let the hate flow
Then there’s me half Scottish half English having an identity crisis every other day
I'm the same. I wholeheartedly identify as Scots though. My full English mum pretty much does at this point as well.
@@camerondon3712 you can't be half a nationality
Same
Have ye ever heard of “British”. It solves your identity problem.
Blue: Braveheart is historically inaccurate due to the blue facepaint
Scots: Where is the bridge at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Yeah, pretty sure that was the main strategic factor, lol.
Raiga Both were wrong though the bridge more wrong. I wouldn't put it past people to don the facepaint of ancestors passed but the bridge is kinda important.
I think a car in the background is the most inaccurate
They also made William Wallace have a sexual relationship with someone who historically would have been an infant... He also looked nothing like William Wallace.
Gibson: it would have gotten in the way
Scots: aye, so it did for the English
"Scotland, who hurt you?"
"Trick question: England"
*Shows Union Jack*
*Facepalm*
Edit: You even get it right a couple of minutes later
‘It’s no excuse, its an honest mistake they’ve made but it’s really not that hard to get your head around
Blue i love you but, as a Scot, your Scottish accent makes me want to die
Yeah me too
Is that not qhat y'all sound like?
@@royalpayn4089 no
I was like Blue, Blue stop, you're gonna offend people, Blue, don't cost yourself Subscribers
He learned by watching Scotty on Star Trek.
As someone who’s fully Scottish and an actual highlander I feel compelled to say he sounds a lot more like Connor maccloud than any actual Scottish person... So Scottish-ish by way of a very french Christopher lambert 😅😅
Yay, my people!
The Scots and their eternal battle with their arch-nemesis, the Scots
@@KingOfSciliy you scots sure are a contentious people
@@jamesgillespie5529 YOU JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE
Let's build a wall and make the scots pay for it!
@@JCDFlex no need, the Scots will build it for free just to keep the English out.
Stop hitting yourself... Stop hitting yourself...
I am a simple woman.
I see a video about my own country.
I click.
Same
I see any video by OSP I click. But Scottish video I click faster
You might be interested in Contact, the second book in the Crossover Series by Walt Soch
Time travelers and Native Americans fight Irish and Viking raiders in 1074
Same!
is that the type of Pokémon that comes only from Scotland also :p his Proud chest pop hairs speaks volumes on this native grounds story he dwells from indeed
*History* : _England hurt Scotland_
*Overly Sarcastic Productions* : _The United Kingdom hurt Scotland_
Accurate
Is he wrong
Tbf that's also true. They're currently dragging us kicking and screaming out the EU for example. It's kind of a running thing for the British parliament to choose to do the exact opposite thing from what Scotland wants and then just force us to put up with it. Privatising the NHS, investing in nuclear weapons (and having the cheek to make us be the ones who have to store them). The UK kinda goes out of its way to make shit difficult for Scotland then acts surprised when we tried to become independent in 2014.
@@ColossalRay y'all should leave the UK that would really stick it to those Brexeitsers
@@ColossalRay "...(and having the cheek to make us be the ones who have to store them)..."
Wait, so does that mean you get to keep them if you leave, or...?
"cAuSE I dUnnEye KnoW wHaT iS" I'm sorry but when he did that Scottish accent I died inside
time stamp?
I'm mortally wounded you failed to mention their national animal: *THE UNICORN!!*
VITALLY important to understanding their culture, alongside their deathtrap of a national flower.
God, I love my culture.
England: "We have an army."
Scotland: "WE HAVE A UNICORN."
O. McNeely but sadly it’s still chained to that fecking crown
According to Scottish lore a unchained Unicorn is a dangerous animal so they had to keep it in chains.
on the other hand the Unicorn is also a middle finger to England as the only thing that kills a Lion (England’s National animal) in mythology, is you guessed it a Unicorn.
Sir Bobo except our national animal is also a lion as in the lion rampant.
Muumi Peikko no
As a French person i will always be intrigued and interested by Scotland our "we hate england since 1000 years" buddy
Yep, the Auld Alliance!
Pretty sure Wales and Ireland are right there with ya
Pretty sure 3/4 of the world agree with you there.
So how come they like simultaneously invaded England? It's like what a six hours horse ride right? Totally could knocked out before the British empire was an empire.
@@TheKnizzine Because for most of their history Wales and Ireland frankly never got their act together and were normally only unified against England when half their lands were already taken over as they were more interested in fighting among themselves
Scotland: “home” of the Internet’s favorite Pokémon trainer.
"Oh no. She's Scottish."
Nicholas Michel, “I’ll take your word for it.”
I'm confuzzled.
@@whoknows7968 same
Look at the bloody starting village, she's obviously from Cornwall!
"What makes me a good country? If I were a bad country, I wouldn't be sittin' here discussin' it with ya, now would I!"
Shakespeare, an Englishman: *writes MacBeth*
MacBeth’s Ghost: “Oi! Quit slanderin’ ma name! I’ll curse ya for that!”
Anonymous Fellow I say this too
macsikar Mackay have you read Shakespeare? It in no ways makes scots look barbaric. Plus if you knew your history then Macbeth in the play isn’t as bad as some of the actual historical people... black dinner?!
Or more accurately, "Thusa! Nach cuir nair air an ainm agam. Cuiridh mi mallochd ort air sin son! ;)
@Donald Mackay why would Shakespeare want to show the Scottish king of England that the Scots were barbarians?
Your right about it being propaganda to please the king, but because the king was descended from one of the allies of the king that defeated Macbeth.
Bruh you used the flag for the United Kingdom for England 😭
It's even weirder that Blue used the right flag later.
I hurted.
Pretty sure it's intentional to show how England used Britain as a way to boss Scotland around.
@@Lord_Of_Night That's plausible.
@@Lord_Of_Night but Scotland is Britain
The Auld Alliance can be summed up as such:
"You hate England? I hate England! Let's be friends"
I think there was also a bit of:
"You like brandy? I like brandy! Let's be friends"
It's that pretty much every European alliance?
And even every country's reason for joining the EU.
@George Job I thought they imported claret and smuggled in brandy.
The enemy of my enemy is my frenemy 😀
Robert Bray that was free trade and the politics came later
OH GOD THERE IS SO MUCH IS WRONG HERE. I'M SO DISAPPOINTED, BLUE.
1) The Scots language has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Norman French; it is a very close cousin of English (a lot of Scots words are actually from Old English, like "ken"), and it is today so varied and poorly defined that its linguistic status is pernanently being debated by politicians who don't know what they are talking about.
2) Robert the Bruce was an Anglo-Norman lord, and professional opportunist who actually fought with the English at various points. But he's a hero in all the textbooks, so I don't blame you for that one.
3) They call themselves clans today, but in the Middle Ages, lowland "clans" were just the surnames of English-style feudal lords. This was retrofitted later (see point 6). Central authority was always stronger in the lowlands than highlands, except for the "Reiver" controlled area around both sides of the English border in the 1500s and 1600s (sort of a cross between warlords and bandits).
4) The Act of Union removed sovereignty, currency and parliament, but kept the separate legal system, church, educational system and most of the structures of government, which remain to this day (see point 11). The Act also wouldn't have happened if Scotland didn't invest literally 20% of its economy into trying to set up a failed colony in the Panamanian jungle. Think of how well Jamestown, VA went and multiply it by a million (England and Spain's fear of competition didn't help to be fair).
5) Frustration with the Act of Union did have something to do with the rebellions in 1715 and 1745, but not much. They were mainly fought because religion - the Catholic highlands fought to get back the Catholic king that William of Orange had been invited to replace in the 1680s - James VII, hence the semi-Latin term "Jacobite". The Lowland Scots were firmly against them because they were Protestants and scared. Hence why the lowlanders spearheaded the atrocities and cultural genocide after the 1745 rebellion. Oh, yeah, nothing turned for the better in the Highlands... JUST WAIT UNTIL THE CLEARANCES HAPPEN.
6) People like Walter Scott and Robert Burns essentially made up a new Scottish identity because a) there was no unifying identity at that point between highlands and lowlands and b) the highland identity and organisational structure had been systematically destroyed by the lowlanders and the English. Clan tartans, for instance, were completely made up. It's basically cultural appropriation from the highlands to the lowlands.
7) People like Adam Smith and David Hume didn't give two shits about Scottish sovereignty because they directly profited so much off the British Empire, including slavery in the 13 colonies. They gave a shit about Scottish institutions, like the law, while remaining in the UK.
9) A Cornishman invented the steam engine, a Scot made it more efficient and another Cornishman and a guy from Newcastle put it on rails. Scotland can't lay claim to the steam locomotive any more than America can to the computer. They did build a lot of them though.
10) Scotland never built large numbers of wooden naval ships because it had very few hardwood trees; it did build a significant proportion of the later steel ones.
11) The modern Scottish Parliament was the brainchild of a guy called Donald Dewar, who was a diehard unionist from the UK-wide Labour Party, but again placed a great value on maintaining Scottish institutions within the union. The other reason is that they thought it would placate the actual Scottish nationalists. Which worked SO well in the long run, because a combination of Labour incompetence, 13 years of comparative nationalist competence, right wing nut jobs in London, and the problems around Brexit (to name a few) have meant that there is for the FIRST time in hundreds of years, ALMOST a majority in favour of independence. That has never been true until pretty much right now.
There are SO MANY glaring mistakes, omissions and harmful myths in this video that I had to give it a dislike. I felt really bad doing it though.
9:00 Yeah so... there's a reason Fantasy Dwarves have Scottish accents. Insular, fractious, stubborn, honest, and very, very constructy.
And also love booze... And hate Elves who usually sound like high class Englishmen...
@@CollinMcLean Elves are usually portrayed as significantly more intelligent, rational and better looking.
Make of that what you will.
@@walsh9080 must be nice to be you ...actually not being able to have any self awareness could cause you to have your head caved in one day ....make of that what you will.
@@hanssprungfeld8487 Lol at your pathetically salty comment. I didn't invent the tropes you moron. Nor was I the person that related them to the British characters. I wasn't even the person who related the English to elves.
Can you not read? You want to question other people's self awareness and you can't even follow a comment thread that contains 3 comments.
@@hanssprungfeld8487 I'm guessing from your terrible grammar, clunky unnatural phrasing and general hostility, you must be Scottish right?
Your pronunciation of Scottish towns cities clans and names hurts my Scottish soul but I still love you OSP 😂
Look you can either get a better phonetic spelling put up with it, just like the French and Welsh. IDK get some accent marks or something.
He pronounced Glasgow and Edinburgh pretty correctly
@@triehe ...not Edinburgh, or at least not very bloody well.
He got Edinburgh almost right (Edinbruh), Glasgow (Glazgo), also he said Frasher instead of Fraser. Might of missed a few
@@kk-ei5zz He got Inverness wrong. He pronounced it as Invirniss instead of Inverness
English foreign policy for the past 1000 years can be summed up with two words
*maniacal laugh*
luke proud england hasn’t had a foreign policy since the act of union and besides British foreign policy was essentially identical in nature to every European power...
The foreign policy of england was essentially: kill everyone who isn’t english and betray everyone (and sprinkle a little genocide in there)
@@roosterbooster6238 I understood the way you put it, people not realising England and Britain are different things
John Maclagan yes.i get so fucking pissed when they use the wrong flag😂
@@roosterbooster6238 To be fair though, it's not like Wales was *that* big an actor in the decisions o the British govt. S'like sayin US foreign policy when everyone knows they mean Feds, the Army, and occasionally California or Texas.
"Scotland who hurt you?"
"England!"
Except, hat's not the English that flag... Pretty bad start for a history video dude!
He also said the Scots dialect came from Norman French. just a mountain of bad inaccuracies
@@Dom-fx4kt Did he? 😆
@@alystairmabloch401 Yes haha he did indeed, I'm still cringing to death right now XD
@@Dom-fx4kt and he just entirely skipped over the Jacobite rebellions and the highlands cleansing and the Scottish political fight for autonomy in the 20th century (while not so secretly supporting the Irish wars against the British in the 20s and 1960s-90s) that culminated in the formation of the Scottish Parliament in 99.
*United Kingdom:* _Are you dare to challenge me?_
*Scotland:* I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye...
*Do you dare to challenge me?*
UK wasn't even a thing then
England hun
Mr. Friendship I understood that reference
@@pyrrhusofepirus8491 ...are you challenging me ?
a video that claims to sum up the history of scotland but dosent even mention the Darien purchase or the highland clearances i expected better from OSP i am of disappoint!
This comment should be higher
+
Yeah this felt like 1 hour of research, not two weeks.
Video appears to be someones P1 homework. Appallingly poor.
Specifically came down here to complain that these events weren’t covered
5:16 I have a very serious question here:
Which one is Clan McDuck?
The second most Scottish one
@admiralofcuteness Still richer and more Scottish than "Clan" Glomgold. I know it's you, Flinty.
its up by aberdeen somewhere
I love don rosa.
Scrooge McDuck can I join the clan please? I would like to swim in your money
therapist: osp blue with a scottish accent doesn’t exist, he can’t hurt you
osp blue with a scottish accent:
>Says he's half scottish
>Can't pronounce Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, or Scotland
granted he doesnt say it like "glesga"but at least he doesnt call the capital "Ed in burg "
@@FiisforMichael Aye but he could have done done better and said glass-go at least.
@@endtimesasmr2590 fair
Pitlochrie. Kilconquhar. Strathkiniss.
@@martyndavidson6598 Kirkcudbright
Sweden and Denmark is another stab happy pair of siblings worth looking into if you like these parts of history.
what is the most scottish thing you have ever heard?
mine is this quote-
as my granddad once said, give me 12 highlanders and a bagpipe, and you will have your rebellion
I once went to school with a guy called Hamish McSporran
The most Scottish thing I’ve personally heard is my da calling people donkeys
Scrooge McDuck, right?
@@tyrant-den884 ye
"I've got a bagpipe, two goats, and a claymore. I'll stick all of it up ya fookin ass if yee don' get out me way."
Admittedly it was at a renaissance fair (or should I say just like. Medieval cultures appreciation? Not much renaissance going on.) But I thought it was hilarious nonetheles
“Scotland, who hurt you?”
“England”
*shows UK flag*
4:08
C'mon, don't act like you wouldn't watch a version of The Godfather set in ancient Rome
a hink the poin bein made wiz it wid take place at the same time as it currently does, but wae ancient clothin
That's pretty much Caeser's rise
Watch the show Rome.
i would
Blue: is half Scottish
Blue: doesn't use ken instead of know
Blue: dinnae shorten his words and lengthen his S's
Blue is a sassenach
I'm so sorry for all the roasts, you did a wonderful job on the video though!!
Ken's pretty specific to the west coast (Ayrshire?), I used to get made fun of it by folk from elsewhere in Scotland;
"Who's this Ken ye keep goin' oan aboot?"
@@gaz9957 nah Ken's more tayside
@@soakedmovie9231 They say it up in Aberdeen an all.
@@gaz9957 ken is very edinburgh along with barry
Ken seems to be common on the east coast, west coast and some of the central belt but certainly not Glasgow for whatever reason
That audible accent sounded like a mix of russian and "Borat" 😂absolute quality 👌🤣
Khazakstan was russian
@@charliechan8063 yes but the guy who plays borat isn't russian...he's from london.
Like if I said someone sounds like a mix of scottish and "braveheart" ...his accent isn't Scots...he's an aussie trying to play a Scot....badly 🤣
@@piinkyh6717 lol i kno Ali G is my favorite character im pretty sure he is jewish by his name being Cohen which is priest in hebrew
@@charliechan8063
Yeh, he was born in hammersmith, london, England. His dad was born in london too but brought up in wales.
Cohen was raised jewish though because of family on both sides have jewish/german/israele family.
My point was that the guy sounded like a mix of his impersonation and actual russian.
It was shite
Fun fact, the Scottish princess who became an English queen was the great grandniece of Edward the Confessor. So in a way, the House of Wessex regained control of England.
Macboy and his bro Banqwoah
I'll let myself out...
Macboy and BanqBruh.
...May I join you outside?
I mean it's not wrong, we dont really wanna be in the uk, a tiiiiny bit of ireland is in the uk and wales.... we dont talk about wales. The uk is 99% england
Jacobite rebellions weren't fighting for independence but to put the Stuarts back on the thrones. And there was 4 rising between 1689 and 1745
Most of the wars between England and Scots involved people fighting on both sides depending upon different loyalties.. they are more like civil wars as everyone are British and fighting to keep some monkey in a throne
@macsikar Mackay German Hanovarian dynasty? The House of Stewart or as the French spelling Stuart was the rightful dynasty.
They didn’t like the (mostly) catholic Stuart dynasty . Which is why they replaced it with the German house of Hannover
Today the British royal family is descended from both through Princess Diana who’s ancestors where related to Charles 2
@@Valencetheshireman927 As I understood it the royale stewarts were Presbyterian
I love royal politics and drama, it’s like shity reality tv but important and you get rewarded for hearing about it
Big mood.
Same drama, different social consequences for me.
I can talk about the spicy infidelity, divorces, and public viewings of marriage night sex... If it's over 100 years old.
But if I talk about modern celebrity infidelity, divorce, or sex tape, I am a trashy gossipmonger.
Similar with politics. I can talk about people rounding up and punishing innocent people in witch hunts a couple hundred years ago. But if I mention the Trump network of concentration camps in the year of our lord 2019, people go bananas.
"The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes."
Michel de Montaigne
9:22 Being Glaswegian I must say, your pronunciation of "Glasgow" is on point. 👌
Loved the Spanish accent but I fail to see how it's relevant to a video about Scotland.
p.s. "dinnae" can be pronounced dinn-ay, dinn-eh, dinn-a or even dinn-ee but NEVER "dun-eye" Blue I love you but what were you thinking
Dinnae for Glasgow, dinna for everywhere else.
It is mostly scummers that speak like that
@@roosterbooster6238 do you mean scunners? Love scots venacular! Howabout; away an bile yer heid? Gonnae no dae that?
qlnbd How about fuck off ya prick
@@qlnbd cannae? Gonnae no.
I’m Scottish and I’m gonna “translate” Scottish slang
Fae =from
Aye = yes
Wit = what
Hied = head
Fitbaw = football
Wee = little
Yer = your
Didnae = didn’t
Dae = do
Pish = piss
Windae = window
Dug = dog
Kin= know
Crackhied: Drug Addict
Thank you all, this is very useful
@@bigbadgammagnome "Gonnae no dae that?" "How?" "Just, gonnae no."
Lmao, it's like lazy literal english
Mate I’m from Glasgow and your Scottish accent is sounding more like Russian fs😂😂
Its glesga 🌚🏴
From Dumfries and very much agree 😂
I'm from Ayrshire and I very much agree
From Stranraer, yep
I’m from Angus I have trouble understanding weegys sometimes. Thanks for making the rest of the world think we sound like idiots.
Are we all agreeing that England is history's main villain?
Christianity killed so mutch galic and norse information. Then England if you ask me 😅🤷🏻♂️
Only until the Monroe doctrine made USA the villain
@@qgpartourThough the US existence is Britain’s fault
(honestly, creating the United States is probably their worst crime)
"Scotland's whole again!....Then it broke again!"
Screaming Meat oh shit were Europe’s China
Foxtrot Delta that made me exhale through my nose
Blue: the 1200s didn't see a whole lot of drama
Me: *remembers how alexander ii crushed his rivals once and for all by taking the newborn daughter of his rival from her mothers arms and bashing her brains out against a market square cross* !?!?!
Wait... WHAT?!!!
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 yeah... that was a thing that happened. See neil olivers history of scotland if you're interested
@@tessyb8 how can i not be awesome in who is apparently the hulk Hogan of Scotland?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 he does have fabulous hair
@@tessyb8 did he ever do anything MORE epic.then what you just described?
the accent hurt me more than the wars we fought
William Wallace: wins the Battle of Stirling Bridge because of the bridge
Braveheart: cuts out the bridge because it got in the way
Me, a Scot: BOI!!!
I'm pretty sure they cut out the part with the bridge because winning a battle on even ground seems like a greater accomplishment than bum rushing an army before they can properly set up their formations
@macsikar Mackay you missed my point. I'm not taking any glory away from the victory. I'm just saying winning on an open field against superior numbers is a greater feat and would look better on film. Also, I wouldn't say rushing an army while it's on a bridge (therefore unable to surround and envelope your own army) requires any real "military strategy". Seems more like common sense to me 😂
It's probably of dubious authenticity but there is a popular story about the filming of Braveheart in Scotland (*fun fact, most of Braveheart was actually shot in Ireland but not the part in the below story.)
Apparently while filming a scene a few locals came over to the set to see what all the commotion was about. One old man approached Mel Gibson without knowing who he was. The conversation went something like this.
OLD MAN: Hey sonny, what's happening over there?
MEL: We're making a movie.
OLD MAN: Oh aye. What's it about?
MEL: It's a film about William Wallace. We're filming a battle scene.
OLD MAN: Ah right. So which battle is this then?
MEL: It's the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
OLD MAN: Aye. Okay...
[long pause]
OLD MAN: Where's the bridge?
MEL: Well I really wanted a big straightforward battle with a lot of free movement of soldiers and horses. I found the bridge really got in the way and made that really difficult.
OLD MAN: Oh. Fair enough... [pause] ...the English found that too.
Man you ken the real reason William Wallace won wasn’t just coz o the bridge it was really due to the conditions, horse pits and hidden spikes, and good tactics like that wee spike circle ting
@@bertiesaurus You mean a Schiltron?
Me: Scotsman with a Welsh last name and is a Quarter English....
History: Well screw you.
Yer at war wit' yerself.
@@effigytormented story of my life
@@GJones_books_photography alloys are stronger, just tell yourself that.
You could just combine them and say Briton as they were the first here
@@effigytormented
Every Australian would agree!
You didn't talk about the Highland Clearances. It is very important part of Scottish history.
Maybe you could do video of that?
I'd like to have more context over the Jacobite Rebellions, Probably one of the most important things in Scottish History gets a most 2-3 sentences
@@mmouse1886 tbf that's because it's really boring
@@MaxArturo The Jacobite Rebellion was more a disagreement on the Monarchy than anything having to do with the slightly over publicised "English Nobility being dicks to "x" people" however it made the English realise that because of the act of Union, especially within Monarchical terms the Scots do have a massive say over the Governance over Great Britain. Also this video entirely skips over the Scottish Nobility and overfocuses on the "Dickish English Nobility stomping all over everything" much similar in purported "Irish History" which simply is not the case in anything.
@@MaxArturo Don't waste perfectly good sympathy feeling bad for things you weren't there for.
It's a virtue to remember history so you aren't doomed to repeat it, but you're literally repeating history if you pretend you're living it now.
Tis' fine to look in the rear view mirror at where you came from and what might come from behind, but keep your eyes on the road ahead, please.
@@MaxArturo You think the Scottish land owners were any different?
The pictures ~6:00 is where I live. The place is called Glen Coe, or 'The weepy mountains' due to the amount of rain they get and the green color. The Gaelic names for the mountain summits usually comes by describing the conditions, features or shapes of the mountain.
I knew he'd try the accent... but it still hurt so much when it happened
glad you mention the outlaw king and the fact that the blue paint thing is more Pictish then Scottish, although I would've thought you'd mention the fact that the tartan, bagpipe and claymore weren't really things till around the 1500-1700s
If he'd stopped to note every historical inaccuracy in Braveheart, we'd have had a 2 hour long video.
@@lemax6865 my friend who is a history major uses that movie as a drinking game.
Wait, bagpipes weren't a thing until the 1500s? Why is there ancient Roman art depicting bagpipes?
Preston Jones bagpipes where a thing, they just weren’t common in Scotland yet
Well, claymores are a little earlier than that. Two-handed swords were around during the Wars of Scottish Independence for example, but they weren't widespread, not as big and did not necessarily have the well known claymore-design.
Obligatory “says England shows British flag” comment
Obligatory, yet belated reply something something dominant something something.
But after going through similar ones, I now can't get over how a golden opportunity to put a dragon on the Union Flag was missed.
Robert Bray the issue with the dragon means that the flag isn't symmetrical so can't be viewed from both sides as the same now two dragons on the other hand...
@@lucabarrett2 the Union Jack isn't symmetrical anyway. At least with a big dragon in the middle it would be obvious which is the right way up.
As a Swede, all I can say about that list of wars is: That's cute.
(Edit: I'm referencing that Sweden and Denmark have had, as far as I've read, the most proclaimed wars between them. Many other conflicts between countries have been more brutal and long-lasting and I apologize for my comment making light of that.)
As a Scot, all I can say about your neighbours is: That's cute.
@@gaz9957 touché!
*laugh in polish about cute wars list with neighbors*
As an American the only way I know about the historical wars Sweden has fought in is through Sabaton.
@@MysteriumArcanum yeah, we know the American education system sucks.
As an Edinbugger I felt my soul leave by body when you said EdinBROOOOO
"The best part about Glasgow? You never get homesick!".
Michael Anderson Yeah you just get regular sick instead 🤷♂️
Gavin's dad
I don't get it?
Weeeeegieeee
Awa n tak yer face fur a shite
England: **Left the frontier unguarded**
Scotland: A'm aboot tae end this man's whole carrer
8:40
Hume claims that reason was the core of human thought??
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" -David Hume
Being both English and Scottish made this super hilarious and awkward-
Mixed ancestry for the win!
I feel your pain
Yeah I’m half as well but I consider myself Scottish since I was born and live there
Lol like a half Israeli half Palestinian lol
Being English Irish and Scottish made this hilarious awkward and nervous too
Scottish is inaudible
Me: well this calls for a war
As a Scottish man im deeply offended with the Scottish accent and him calling it EdinburGH
Edinburgh is shite anyway. It's all about Glasgow 👐
I'm pissed off hes dissing braveheart
@@stevenmalarkey9391 fuck off stabby stabby man
Potheadz YT aww ffs 😂😂😂😂 am pretty sure glesga is about 65% junkies
@@tammushican4823 stabby stabby man? Thats moved too london pal
Started watching Outlander and now I'm really interested in learning about the history of Scotland 😀 Thanks for making this both entertaining and super easy to underground!
Scottish history is just a massive middle finger to england.
I mean, the unofficial national anthem is just a tale of how the Scottish beat back king Edward.
Do you mean Flower of Scotland? Nothing unofficial about it, it is Scotland's national anthem
@@davidfergusson5559 check the Wikipedia page, idk if it's true but it would make sense since great Britain and all. But it's not official but just recognized as the national anthem
Something Somewhat we see it as our national anthem even though we technically don’t have one. But it’s played at matches and shit I think
They even picked the Unicorn as their national animal because England picked the Lion and the Unicorn is believed to be the natural enemy of the Lion...
Scots know how to run a country!
@@CollinMcLean yet there are no lions in England, never was a natural resident of England the unicorn... Well we will never know 🤣
Dinny dæ a Scottish accent mate please
Gid video tho
He's aff his heed!
(as a Spanish person I have to say this sounds completely alien to me and I have no idea what could you people possibly be talking about)
@@dreameater8548 this is Scottish
I love how blue says England and then uses the flag of the United kingdom which includes Scotland
The Scots might disagree with you there
@@benjaminrobinson7203 the Scots are british, with or without the United kingdom
@@benjaminrobinson7203 Hey, they had a referendum and they're still here
Well, not for much time some might say...
@@phazonlord0098 they'll always be British tho
UK: Stay down, final warning.
Scotland: I can do this all day, mate.
I've been to Scotland once. Started at Edinburgh and drive for a few days until I reached the Isle of Skye. Really lovely country and remarkable history!