American Reacts Why It Is Called 'Great' Britain
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I was once on holiday in Cancun when a Stetson wearing American said to me, ‘What’s so ‘great’ about Great Britain?’ I replied, ‘What’s so United about the United States?’ 😂
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HMS Invincible was a French war ship captured by Britain in 1747, and used in the battle of Trafalgar under Nelson's command.
He's saying, "It's not coz he's bottling it up." To bottle something up means to repress, or hide, your feelings; literally putting them in a bottle, eg. 'His girlfriend left him. He says he's not bothered, but I think he's bottling it up'
Ranulph Finnes is the greatest living explorer at the time this video was recorded. I read his auto biography some years ago he's the typical English upper class hero utterly fearless and a little mad. His father while commanding the Scots greys regiment captured a dozen Germans armed only with his pipe. One of his ancestors famously left a note for his Valet it read " leave six bottles of port by my bed and wake me on Thursday. " just weeks after a heart attack he ran seven marathon's in seven day's on seven continents for charity. His book is called Mad bad and dangerous to know every page is filled with courage insanity and pure comedy.
At 2:02. Ranulph Fiennes is a British explorer who holds several endurance records. Al says he’s going to the South Pole in slippers (comfortable indoor footwear).
Queen Victoria was always dressed in black hence the early goth reference.
To bottle something up is to withhold true feelings which you really want to express.
The Imperial system was introduced by the British, although much of it came from the Romans (e.g. miles, gallons, quarts) and the rest from Anglo-Saxon/Germanic origins (e.g. feet, inches, pounds). The Americans inherited the British Imperial system in the early 1800s... ironically just before the British decided to standardise it, which is why some US volumetric units differ from the UK; you'll get more in a British pint/quart/gallon than you will in America.
Mr Fines is the ultimate can not be stopped adventurer. He has done several treks to the poles. To prove this point after one trek the frost bite he had in the tips of some fingers were causing him pain. To deal with this and save time he got a micro blade hacksaw blade, and sawed the tips off his own frost bitten fingers with an electric hacksaw..
Invincible was one of the aircraft carriers that we had when this show was recorded. We had two others at the time, Illustrious and also Ark Royal.
They were relatively small carriers and have now been replaced with the much larger Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales.
And yes, Victory is the name of Nelson's flagship.
Plus HMS Hermes back then 👍
Ranulph Fiennes is Ex Army and an explorer, he went from the North Pole to South Pole (or the other way around) in 14 months (no flying).
Sir Ranulph Fiennes explore ex S A S cut his own toes off is a shed after frost bite ran a marathon on every continent in a week after a hart attack
@@davidmccarron4832 Which is part of the Army. His tops of his fingers was taken off too, because of frostbite (by himself). He's has been on many TV shows and talked about it. He was also part of a militia too. Most squaddies and even officers don't mind the privilege of being called Sir, they rarely use it themselves.
He was also turned down for the role of James Bond, because he had hands "like a farmer" (I think I know this from an episode of Top Gear)
I think I'd have also referenced Brian Blessed punching a polar bear in the face. Hard as nails.
THE Man's Man.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes who he joked was so hard he would scale Everest again in his slippers, was an ex SAS soldier who got frost bite climbing Everest. He was told on return they needed to be amputated before the gang green spread and was told they needed to wait a short period for some reason. He got irritated by the pain so he hacked them off in his shed using a vice and a saw.
Imperial measurements are Roman, slightly before the USA I think.
Only slightly by 1500 years or so.
😂😂Yeah, at least a fortnight 😂👍
Al Murray's sketch show Multiple Personality Disorder is very good.
Imperial Measurements = Measurements of the Empire.
The best way to remember who did things first is to make note of the fact that many of "The Amercans" at the time of the Independence Rebellion were British. Before 1776 American History was British History.
Connor, can I suggest you find a British person to watch these with you. They can then explain the references you don't understand. 🇬🇧🇺🇸💜
For now we're Connor's surrogate, virtual Brit co-watchers; we're in this together, it's therapy!
wouldnt have the patience
After one of the largest and greatest navies on earth was dismantled after the Second World War, The Royal Navy, it was a bloody miracle how Great Britain assembled an armada and sent its navy and armed forces to the other side of the globe to retake the Falkland Islands, when so many said it was foolhardy to try. But NO, Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady stood by her guns, and said we will fight back. So when we won, when it seemed it was a suicide mission into the unknown, our armed forces did us proud. This epitomises the British bulldog spirit, when we’re United, we can achieve the impossible…
And that’s why now, I’m so proud to see British shipbuilders building new ships again, including the Type 26, the worlds most powerful frigate, which is being built for the Canadian and Australian Royal Navies. The Type 31, including, Aircraft carriers, and the Astute nuclear submarines, and stealthy, Dreadnought nuclear submarines. And the new British Type 83 Destroyer, all of which will be added to our small navy to make it one of the worlds most advanced navies, and much larger in size. These will create new jobs, and supply chains in the U.K., and create a renaissance in British manufacturing again, which will filter down into other industries as well. :)
Another great video thank you, A very merry christmas to you and your family from your cousins across the pond. 😃😁
Royal Navy ship names have been recycled throughout it's history. The same names are kept for a new ship when it's predecessor is retired/scrapped or sunk.
Royal Oak, Ark Royal, Endurance, Royal Sovereign, Prince of Wales, Ajax, Defiant are just some examples.
4:05 Al talking to the guy who is a civil servant was asked if his dad was proud of him, he hadn’t, so Al said “Because he wasn’t bottling it up” ie not saying anything.
The date: 3 May 1747
The Royal Navy capture France’s finest 74-gun warship L’Invincible. The Royal Navy sail her under a new name, HMS Invincible and her new flag, the Union Jack. They measure and draw every inch of her and make a full set of plans. The Royal Navy use these plans to build new, faster 74-gun ships, with a few British changes.
The place: out to sea, off Cape Trafalgar
The date: 21 October 1805
The Royal Navy use 16 of these faster 74 gun ships to fight the French under Admiral Horatio Nelson. Using French secrets to fight the French.
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
Great Britain gets its name from a geographical neighbour, Brittany. It's easier to appreciate this in French viz. Bretagne ( in NW France) and Gran Bretagne ( the British Isles). Both have a large Celtic contingent, similar climates and both produce great cider rather than wine.
Other way around: Brittany got its name from Britain, because it was settled by (Celtic) Britons fleeing Anglo-Saxon expansion. But yes, the "Great" bit exists to distinguish GB from Brittany.
I’m guessing it’s the slippers reference, they are basically footwear that is designed only to be worn it the house, a soft fabric.
I think all Imperial measurements were from Latin, so it was only natural the original settlers continued to use them. UK has a very strange system that uses both metric and Imperial.
We are a nine tbh with our hybrid system despite everyone being taught metric in school
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Hope your good Connor 👍
Connor,what do you think BTWs stand for concerning your heating system ? British Thermal Units !!
Not because he is "bottling it up" is an expression meaning someone who keeps back from saying what they feel.
slippers are comfortable foot ware normally wore in the house instead of shoes
It is a bit difficult to believe that anyone would consider something called the ‘imperial system of units’ would have been created in the USA. And this country was using acres long before the USA was even thought of.
Aw sweetie the USA has only been going a couple of hundred years, they haven't really invented anything and they are all descendants of other countries who have been inventing stuff for a long long time. This is why the USA behaves on the whole like teenagers and why we give them a bligh,(let them off,) You are adorable and it's lovely how you are so willing to learn about other cultures and history. Your smile is endearing and you're too handsome to be single. Have a wonderful Xmas holiday and many Blessings for the New Year. 👍🏴
America invented delusion, the delusion they invent stuff :)
@@BrianM0OAB That's a bit harsh, if you don't know, you don't know. We have a good few thousand years of history and look at us now! Still behaving like peasants tipping our cap to powers that control us. The Americans have an excuse, what's ours? We have the deluded notion that we are free, we must have invented stupidity lol. I think deluded is better than stupid don't you? 😁🏴
To lose your ‘bottle’ = to lose your nerve/courage. Bottling out.
In reality it's called Great Britain as opposed to Little Britain. Two places where Britons lived in late Roman times. The old meaning of Great is "big". Little Britain, "Britany", also had Britons living on it and is now part of France.
I don't mind the pausing, and I enjoy your quest to learn stuff. So, thank you very much, Connor, and I hope you have a very merry Christmas.
We could not see the bottom part to see the person you pointed out, or the microphone you mentioned.
The Imperial system was in use long before the English settled in America.
A Pound Sterling (£) comes from how much a pound (lb) of Sterling Silver cost.
Hi Conor - we didn't do so well at Suez (1956), but the Brits tend to gloss over any conflicts that didn't go according to plan. You can add Afghanistan and Iraq to that list.
Ranulph Fiennes is a polar explorer. Slippers are soft shoes you wear indoors.
Well , militarily the Anglo French and Israeli forces won. Diplomatically it didn't go so well.
the british pound was the value of a pound of silver, all other measurements came over with the pilgrim fathers
Oh Connor Imperial comes from Britain, your country adopted most things, before it became a Country. The founding fathers used the things they knew.
Unsure if as our imperial measurements got destroy that they often said as American units and we got imperial now (what seen is not same size on like fluid amount at least)
Imperial measurements - from the Empire as it was - the clue is in the name.
Just how Al says Britain is Great - the clue is in the name.
The US inherited virtually all its common units of distance, velocity, acceleration, volume, mass etc from Britain's pre-metric systems and i.i.r.c, we got many, though not all, of them from the Romans. Americans have, however, lost some units entirely while others are now somewhat different from UK equivalents... eg; a US "short" ton = 2000lbs, while a British "long" ton = 2240 lbs. And a US gallon = 6 pints, while a British gallon = 8 pints.
You really need to watch Mark Felton's video on Britons war in Vietnam. Most people don't even know that that war even took place - it will surprise you.
Just remember that the US is a very 'young' country. There are churches in Britain dating from 12th century. Lots of Brits emigrated to the US. Same with my country, South Africa.
Great Britain gets its name because it’s on the biggest island of the British Isles. Hence why the United Kingdom includes Norther Ireland as that’s on the smaller part of the British isles so it can’t be part of Great Britain.
I wish it was for other reasons though.
Connor, watch Lindy Beige video about currency...You will need to lie down after watching it :P
Pounds and ounces go way back to ancient Rome and beyond. In Latin it was pondo and uncia. Then there are Troy ounces and pounds, which I'm assuming are based on Greek weights.
Then they picked up a stone or used GBP to buy and was like that is 14 or 16 pound (yes I am confused on stone, pound, ounce on what way 14 and 16 is)
Nelson was on HMS Victory at Trafalgar you are right about that. I thought HMS Invincible had something to do with the Falklands War but people below are saying there was another HMS Invincible stolen from the French before Trafalgar which does ring a bell. So there must have been two HMS Invincible’s.
Yes, a captured French vessel used against the French at Waterloo and the aircraft carrier used in the Falklands 👍
Yes, the HMS Invincible that Al Murray is referencing was captured from the French and then used against them. It was grounded on a sandbank in 1758 and ONLY in June this year (2022), the lost rudder of the ship was found intact, 60 metres (200') away from the main shipwreck !
US customary units come from the UK, but you decided to go your own way a few decades before we standardised the units, which is why Imperial pints and gallons are 25% larger than US ones.
7:57 I'm surprised, it's named the imperial system. The US would have called it something else had they invented it I would have thought.
Like American units as their imperial and GB imperial on at least fluid, I wonder as our imperial measurements got destroyed some time ago
Imperial measurements are called that because they came out of the Empire... the British Empire. Can't believe you didn't work that out!
You just need to show some more of the video screen Conor.
Is Ranulph Fiennes tough.... Well he got into massive trouble with the ultimate authority...
After getting frost bite in his toes he returned home, cut off one of his own toes BUT made the huge mistake of leaving the severed toe in the bathroom where his wife found it!....Oooops (however he survived)
Oh yes a few other things, walking to the Pole UNSUPPORTED, steeling military explosives to blow up a dam that the locals were objecting too. Along with a huge list of other mibd blowing trips.
Ranulph Fiennes is a polar explorer, ex-member of the SAS, and actor Ralph Fiennes' uncle. He's so hard he's going back to the South Pole in carpet slippers. You surely have carpet slippers in the US?!
SLIPPERS...are cosy wool shoes, you wear at home in front of the fire, and go to bed in, after a hard days work
Bottling it up, means holding back his emotions
Slippers soft indoor footwear
He's not bottling it up.
Bottling it up
To think something and not say it. Generally feelings.
Pound Yard inch etc are all pre USA.
Of course the Imperial measuring system was an American invention. Named after the American.. Empire..? oh shoot..
3:19 Not because he is bottling it up... in other words not because he is holding it in and won't tell him.
wait....whyd it need censor/hiding?
I'm wondering the same, I even skimmed through the original video and have no idea still
You thought inches, yards pounds etc were American??!! Many of those units are actually from Roman times
Connor, "PMT" is what you call "PMS", in case you missed that joke.
when al was talking to the blonde guy he said "and thats because hes bottling it up" which means the dad isn't afraid to say he is proud of you son it implies the dad just isn't proud of him at all
i meant to put "and thats NOT because he is bottling it up"
The line you missed was "He's not bottling it up", slang for keeping his opinion to himself.
No. To repress or conceal feelings over time.
"his anger and frustration had been bottled up for years".
I’m shocked you thought America invented the imperial system of measurement. Britain was using imperial measurements 1,000 years before America was even thought about.
The only war we didn't get involved in was Vietnam, and look how that went 😆
Oh, we did get involved!
- weapons and other equipment, advisors and financial aid
- RAF combat missions against targets in Laos and North Vietnam
- troops on the ground, both regular infantry and special Forces (SAS)
@@Dr.IanPlect Yep, Brit SAS used the Commonwealth to fight under the Aussie Forces, slip right under the fence
@@gabbermensch 👍
"Your dad’s never said he’s proud of you…it’s not cos he’s bottling it up"
he said, "That`s not because he`s bottling it up"
Britain gave the world most things. Surprised you did not realise Britain gave the world Imperial measurements.
you are in a british colony, where do you think do measurements come from? " we just landed here and have forgotten how distance works"
I’ve been to one of his shows it was absolutely brilliant but being the coward I’am I wouldn’t sit in the 1st couple of rows.
Al Murray is a very well-informed historian in his spare time.
@@jmshuk I wish my history teacher was like him I may have learnt something.
There is actually a place called " Little Britain " .
We can only see Almari from the chest up
He said "Not because he's bottling it up".
A mile is 1.6 kilometres
Not because he's "bottling it up" i.e Keeping it to yourself - Not Saying .
Slippers is footwear when Yr ready for bed , so gonna the south Pole in slippers rather than snow boots says where hard as nails 🤣
Sorry but why on earth did you think America thought up measurements etc. I wonder if americans don't realise just how new you are, how do you think a 12.5 thousand year old country works.
"OK, no more pausing".....
America didnt invent imperial or metric, Pretty sure imperial measurements where around 2000 years before america even existed, regardless, 70% of UK people use both systems, for different specific stuff, Not sure why but we learned both, and use both, as for land mass etc Acres is all anyone uses, and has ever used, not sure what the other measurement would be :)
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1 ) Slippers - comfortable indoor footwear, 2) Not because he's bottling it up (his farther is not proud of his son!)
Father even
@@brucedickinson12 Apologiz! - spellink isnt mi best talunt!!
Bottling up ie not expressing love for his son ie putting a cork in his emotions
The weights and measures act was adopted 1824 until 1864 then we started using metric as well but we still use imperial system as well as metric today, USA similar to the one developed by the British but its own version.
We didn't go metric in 1864.
@@nicksykes4575 We started using metric as well but you could have been arrested.
@@davidgilbert9917 Not in 1864 we didn't.
@@nicksykes4575 So all ref to the metric system being introduced to GB and the British colonies is wrong from 1799 up until 1962 (Goodnight)
bottling it up
if you want percentages ive seen a few times out of all the wars that a country has won by percentage
Britain is at 78% victories
USA is at 68% victories
France is at 62% victories
Now do victories without Allies out of interest or solo efforts with minimal support🤔 I have a feeling the USA will be right at the bottom? ✌️
@@martindunstan8043 not sure for Britain and France since i haven't really looked in terms of specific research and these percentages are what others have researched.
but i remember from a debate, i had to look for Britain and since the US was created Britain had won around 60 - 70 wars or large conflicts alone.
and i recently looked at the USA last month and they have won 31 wars or large conflicts alone, all of them before WW1 and 27 of them against native tribes.
Why did you think they were called imperial measures?.
Undefeated in a 1000 years.
Love your vids but please stop pausing so often.
Remember USA was a British colony, so all your weights and measures came from across the Atlantic.
The imperial system...
The clue is in the name. Imperial.. Empire.. The British 😉
12 inches please 😅😅
american imperial system is different from uk
For God's sake Conner, America didn't invent anything let alone the imperial system of measurement.
Acres are most definitely British
Now nit must great
Imperial = empire
The Americans are only 250 years old ,we talk English,and so do you
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The British are hard as nails. The Ukrainians definitely are.❤
What do you expect? The first two letters in Ukraine are UK 😆
Well when they get billions of dollars of equipment
Lol why do you think we call it a pound cause of the weight