Where does London stop?

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  • čas přidán 28. 02. 2019
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    - - - UNFINISHED LONDON EPISODE 8 - - -
    Written by
    JAY FOREMAN and PAUL KENDLER
    Filmed and directed by
    PAUL KENDLER
    Edited by
    JAY FOREMAN
    Props and special effects make-up
    JADE NAGI @jade_nagi
    Sir Edwin Herbert
    MARK SILCOX @marksilcox
    Sir Charles Morris
    RICHARD SOAMES @richardsoames
    William Lawson
    DAN BULL @itsDanBull
    / douglby
    Prof. William Mackenzie
    STUART ASHEN @ashens
    / ashens
    Paul Cadbury / Essex Spitting Man / Council Tax Twins / Bus Passenger
    PAUL KENDLER
    Confused member of the public
    HANNAH WITTON @hannahwitton
    / hannahgirasol
    Surrey Spitting Man
    JOHN HENRY FALLE @thestorybeast
    Kent Spitting Man
    THOMAS RIDGEWELL @thetomska
    / tomska
    Kent Spitting Woman
    LAUREL FOREMAN
    Reluctant Londoner / phone voice
    MANDY DASSA @MandyDassa
    / themandassa
    Woman on toilet
    COOKIE FOREMAN
    Problem Solver 3000
    JADE NAGI @jade_nagi
    Newspapers designed by
    LOU STEATON @LouSteaton
    STEWART FRASER @golfsaleriots
    Additional props provided by
    LIZ HORTON @lizhorton
    RHIANNON EVANS @ReeJEvans
    Cameras etc provided by
    SHIFT 4 www.shift-4.com/
    Visual effects by
    CHRIS WALKER @BigDamnArtist
    Additional graphics
    JACK HERBERT @JackTHerbert
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Komentáře • 7K

  • @shortvideosilike4697
    @shortvideosilike4697 Před 5 lety +7263

    I just watched a 9 minute video on a border that doesn’t concern me and I loved it. What???

    • @generalamsel437
      @generalamsel437 Před 5 lety +120

      Same here i live in the US so literally everything he talks about London basically doesn't matter

    • @_aragornyesyes_7171
      @_aragornyesyes_7171 Před 5 lety +50

      You came here for the comedy didnt u?

    • @Amghannam
      @Amghannam Před 5 lety +110

      Welcome to geography mate, where everything everywhere is interesting :D

    • @sarahprunierlaw9147
      @sarahprunierlaw9147 Před 5 lety +3

      +

    • @brunasantana8266
      @brunasantana8266 Před 5 lety +7

      Me too! I live in Holland and having a hard time looking for houses to rent 😭

  • @tomtom4867
    @tomtom4867 Před 4 lety +10797

    Well if you're an American, London stops when you get to Scotland.

  • @kanzeon7729
    @kanzeon7729 Před 2 lety +1231

    He actually hit the police horse with his map of London. Absolutely hilarous

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  Před 2 lety +994

      Not in real life. That was a bit of computer magic. I can’t throw anywhere near that far.

    • @nandi7772
      @nandi7772 Před rokem +21

      Time stamp?

    • @TheStargateNerd
      @TheStargateNerd Před rokem +51

      @@nandi7772 03:45

    • @nandi7772
      @nandi7772 Před rokem +5

      @@TheStargateNerd 😂😂

    • @Ijustdidthat
      @Ijustdidthat Před rokem +50

      @@JayForeman lol I really thought that happened 😂 kudos for the transparency 👏 also, did the real map land outside of the picture or did you edit it out? 🤔

  • @doctorkilombo1406
    @doctorkilombo1406 Před 3 lety +335

    3:44 Very good trick with the cardboard map hitting the policemen on horses...

    • @TheLadyPlantagenet
      @TheLadyPlantagenet Před 3 lety +3

      Did it actually XD?

    • @cheemsdog7662
      @cheemsdog7662 Před 2 lety +39

      @@TheLadyPlantagenet sadly, no. he said under a comment that he edited it in.
      very good editing though!

    • @aelbert128
      @aelbert128 Před 2 lety +1

      I saw that and was like, “did that just happen?!” I love the little Easter eggs in this series, too funny!

    • @tyrozone5
      @tyrozone5 Před 2 lety

      Didn't Jay noticed?

  • @danbull
    @danbull Před 5 lety +6176

    Hep! Hep!

    • @smuecke
      @smuecke Před 5 lety +93

      Hahaha I was thinking Mr. Lawson looked familiar :D

    • @DaniDipp
      @DaniDipp Před 5 lety +61

      Hep! Hep! Hep!

    • @YUNOBF3
      @YUNOBF3 Před 5 lety +65

      Map Men x Rap Men soon™?

    • @theyoutubeguy1
      @theyoutubeguy1 Před 5 lety +6

      @@YUNOBF3 I think they are realising one on Monday.

    • @My_Old_YT_Account
      @My_Old_YT_Account Před 5 lety +5

      Hep!

  • @CityBeautiful
    @CityBeautiful Před 5 lety +8233

    Did... did that cardboard London hit a horse?

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  Před 5 lety +4430

      Nope. Computer magic and a cheeky sound effect. In real life, the cardboard thing landed nowhere near the horse.

    • @ashleycrane415
      @ashleycrane415 Před 5 lety +1130

      I’ve a feeling Jay grew up on a steady diet of Monty Python, the goons, Ronnie Barker and yes (prime) minister. Editing is occasionally illogical.

    • @kimbrolyy
      @kimbrolyy Před 5 lety +515

      But did the horse land anywhere near the cardboard thing?

    • @ashleycrane415
      @ashleycrane415 Před 5 lety +334

      Kimberly Brouwers it’s entirely possible that the cardboard representation of London remained completely stationary and the horse, Jay and the rest of the greater metropolis moved around it, but I think that may be beyond the scope of this video.

    • @mukrifachri
      @mukrifachri Před 5 lety +16

      Green screen :wink:

  • @spetsnatzlegion3366
    @spetsnatzlegion3366 Před 3 lety +1393

    London never stops, we will expand until London covers the earth, sea and sky, London is inevitable

    • @clinton8421
      @clinton8421 Před 3 lety +88

      The sun will never set on London.

    • @cestyplarpis7947
      @cestyplarpis7947 Před 2 lety +3

      London already has

    • @stevehendon4076
      @stevehendon4076 Před 2 lety +8

      I sincerely hope you are NOT including France in this 😂😂

    • @LonDanDoc
      @LonDanDoc Před 2 lety +53

      @@stevehendon4076 ewww no. We will ignore the French

    • @flashmanfred
      @flashmanfred Před 2 lety +5

      You joke but it really feels like that sometimes!

  • @FooBarBash
    @FooBarBash Před rokem +18

    Love that little bit of the CGP grey jingle on "that's a story for another time"!

  • @jdgannonable
    @jdgannonable Před 4 lety +2092

    2:54 Gibraltar on the list of places being classed as 'not London' - I'm dying

  • @Kay-vf8wu
    @Kay-vf8wu Před 4 lety +4535

    Epsom then: We're Surrey
    Epsom now: Please let us use an oyster card. Please.

    • @ad3z10
      @ad3z10 Před 4 lety +110

      At least there are TFL bus lines that come down here.
      I can do Dorking -> Kingston for less than 1/4 of the price of Dorking -> Reigate.

    • @Kay-vf8wu
      @Kay-vf8wu Před 4 lety +31

      @@ad3z10 oh I can only imagine. TfL if you head towards somewhere out of Epsom. No TfL for local buses within Epsom/Ewell, and certainly not getting to the Downs.

    • @helplmchoking
      @helplmchoking Před 4 lety +85

      Ooh I feel that. I’m living in Sevenoaks and the bloody oyster systems stops literally one station before mine, which means I pay a fortune in train tickets

    • @jeff4362
      @jeff4362 Před 4 lety +33

      @@ad3z10 The one great thing about London compared to other UK cities is the publicised bus network. Cheap prices!

    • @daveybearful
      @daveybearful Před 4 lety +16

      When they changed the borders why did they not change the postcodes?I live one road away from Beckenham Kent which officially isn’t Kent but Greater London & my mum lives one road away from Croydon Surrey which is also officially Greater London.

  • @Afropean85
    @Afropean85 Před rokem +159

    As a Romford resident who feels more like a Londoner than an “Essex girl”, this video is so on point!!

    • @SD-iv4sz
      @SD-iv4sz Před rokem +2

      I wouldn’t count anyone from London that’s not in north west south or east

    • @JohnnyBurbank123
      @JohnnyBurbank123 Před rokem +4

      Na I from Romford and we are defintly Essex boys.

    • @LH-kr4od
      @LH-kr4od Před rokem +8

      You're the first person I've ever heard of from Romford who feels like a Londoner! Most are fiercely Essex.

    • @krob2327
      @krob2327 Před rokem

      @@LH-kr4od I think it’s her race...the comment is racially tinged. She seems rather racist wanting to distance herself from largely white Essex. A common theme in Britain is black on white racism but nobody is allowed to talk about it

    • @user-uw4qp4qr3j
      @user-uw4qp4qr3j Před rokem +6

      @@LH-kr4od I'm from Romford too and I definitely identify more with east London than Essex

  • @jaishuu__
    @jaishuu__ Před 2 lety +52

    4:00 London: Haha! April fools your now a Londoner!

  • @aidanmelling3315
    @aidanmelling3315 Před 5 lety +4895

    Watch 3:46 where Jay indirectly assaults a Metropolitan Police horse in the background by throwing his map carelessly

  • @tobiaslang3621
    @tobiaslang3621 Před 5 lety +3325

    This channel is the incarnation of the weird british humour

    • @MarcyB
      @MarcyB Před 5 lety +72

      True, which means it's awesome.

    • @joshentertainment2
      @joshentertainment2 Před 3 lety +21

      Monty python

    • @theobolt250
      @theobolt250 Před 3 lety +28

      I know this. I know this. He's the illegitimate son of one of the Monty Pythons. Via this medium he want to prove himself to his dad.

    • @content682
      @content682 Před rokem

      true

    • @yeungyuenhei541
      @yeungyuenhei541 Před rokem

      @@theobolt250But your name is Bolt.

  • @ShelleyDuncan
    @ShelleyDuncan Před 3 lety +101

    "Poor old Middlesex, already lumbered with a funny name, was gobbled up almost entirely by Greater London
    and the remaining bits were ceded to neighbouring Surrey and Hertfordshire.
    As a result, since 1965, Middlesex is no longer a thing..."
    My husband and I both interjected, exclaimed "There's one in North Carolina!"
    Thanks for such a neat-o show, and for having us rowdy-some over!

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 Před 2 lety +4

      There's one in Virginia too.

    • @artisiole325
      @artisiole325 Před 8 měsíci +1

      One in Massachusetts, one in New Jersey, one in Ontario, and one in Jamaica.
      That's all.

  • @soulman4292
    @soulman4292 Před 3 lety +316

    These videos are so well made. The jokes, the information, and the skits are so well integrated. It’s a seem less show of creativity. I also laugh my American ass off because I love your humor.

    • @MrRorySteel
      @MrRorySteel Před 8 měsíci

      Hello I'm Sir Edwin Herbert 🤣🤣

  • @TomJohnson67
    @TomJohnson67 Před 3 lety +2365

    Neverthenonetheless: a great and definitely real word.

    • @caidenlipoth1247
      @caidenlipoth1247 Před 3 lety +29

      @@hiccup1001 and not several meters to the left.

    • @Rubyssbu
      @Rubyssbu Před 3 lety

      It is a real word

    • @hollisticbomber2660
      @hollisticbomber2660 Před 3 lety +19

      I thought it was neverthelondonless.

    • @sarahbasto6520
      @sarahbasto6520 Před rokem

      I absolutely LOVED his very first sentence.

    • @CinemaDemocratica
      @CinemaDemocratica Před rokem

      Oh I thought he was saying, "Neverthelondoness" which also would have been pretty dope, if also considerably less portable to other situations.

  • @Bandecki
    @Bandecki Před 5 lety +2270

    2:55 - Are you trying to tell me that Gibraltar is NOT LONDON?!

  • @baller84milw
    @baller84milw Před 2 lety +26

    5:36 thats the saddest sink I've seen in my life

  • @peterlee242
    @peterlee242 Před rokem +20

    Gwangmyeong is a suburban city, being southwest to Seoul City proper, of Greater Seoul (technically belonging to Gyeonggi Province) in South Korea, but not still part of Seoul proper. It used to be planned to be annexed into Seoul City proper, but the central government, rather wanting to foster satellite cities, didn't want to expand Seoul more, so it had to become an independent municipality despite the residents' hope to become proper Seoulites.

  • @DopamineMVWM
    @DopamineMVWM Před 4 lety +4015

    “London was also divided into 32 new boroughs, but that’s a story for another time”... releases video 13 months later 😂

    • @Ephoros
      @Ephoros Před 4 lety +329

      I think that is still a better track record than CGP has with his "stories for another time". :D

    • @shapeovertime6364
      @shapeovertime6364 Před 4 lety +86

      Guntis Murāns definitely. He waited 5 years to do the indian reservations video

    • @angrypepe7615
      @angrypepe7615 Před 4 lety +70

      @@shapeovertime6364 and he still hasn't started the first real video on it

    • @dontspikemydrink9382
      @dontspikemydrink9382 Před 4 lety +3

      native american, shape overtime

    • @shapeovertime6364
      @shapeovertime6364 Před 4 lety +6

      @@dontspikemydrink9382 alright grammar police

  • @bridgecross
    @bridgecross Před 5 lety +666

    "neverthenonetheless"
    my new favorite wourd.

    • @beepboopbobop
      @beepboopbobop Před 4 lety +5

      Neverthenonetheless, bridgecross never used this word.

    • @JalanBax
      @JalanBax Před 4 lety

      Leeds vs Manchester vs Birmingham

    • @Jivvi
      @Jivvi Před 4 lety +1

      Insofarasinasmuchas it's not really a word, it's now one of my favourites too.

    • @bello__
      @bello__ Před 4 lety +1

      Im your 666th like

  • @Scholar_Nosk
    @Scholar_Nosk Před 3 lety +59

    This has the energy of the Monty Python crew making an educational video for middle schoolers.

  • @Redu3
    @Redu3 Před 2 lety +1

    3:45 - I swear I've watched this video like 5 times, and never noticed this moment. Such subtle editing, amazing

  • @May-gr8bp
    @May-gr8bp Před 4 lety +1231

    3:58 four and a half million people woke up as Londoners for the first time!”
    “AAAAUUUGGGGHHHHHHH”

    • @BrainforBrains
      @BrainforBrains Před 4 lety +23

      You sure its not an april fools joke?

    • @mynewaccount2361
      @mynewaccount2361 Před 4 lety +20

      Hey, did you watch the fucking video too?

    • @screamsinrussian5773
      @screamsinrussian5773 Před 4 lety +8

      @@mynewaccount2361 I know right, tired of the damn comments just being quote spam

    • @sheepketchup9059
      @sheepketchup9059 Před 4 lety +20

      @@screamsinrussian5773 just because you don't enjoy it doesn't mean that other people aren't allowed to make a remark.

    • @screamsinrussian5773
      @screamsinrussian5773 Před 4 lety +2

      @@sheepketchup9059 no fun allowed reeee

  • @battlestar62fleet
    @battlestar62fleet Před 3 lety +2824

    I'm a Californian with no aquaintances from the UK nor any plans to visit it, yet I cannot stop watching these videos

    • @thegoodmudkip3652
      @thegoodmudkip3652 Před 3 lety +15

      @fluidgrab I wanna go to the UK...

    • @thegoodmudkip3652
      @thegoodmudkip3652 Před 3 lety +7

      @fluidgrab I see. Well I'm glad to be in the other half

    • @imcarlosjr4898
      @imcarlosjr4898 Před 3 lety +11

      Also a Californian, I’m still asking to same question

    • @lukey666lukey
      @lukey666lukey Před 3 lety +51

      Ah so it begins, in a few years time you will be sipping tea in your garden having just pottered about in the shed all while complaining about the weather.

    • @gauthamlal7754
      @gauthamlal7754 Před 2 lety +2

      Like number 420! Good job everyone!

  • @__u__9464
    @__u__9464 Před rokem +5

    This is such a great video, you really can see how much effort has been put into it! Thank you very much!

  • @simplicitylost
    @simplicitylost Před 3 lety +29

    The whole “I live in a different town than what my mailing address says” is an issue in the US too. I’ve found that most people default to saying what’s on their mail as being where they say they’re from…. unless it’s a very rural area. In those areas, the zip code town name is huge, and so you have to be more specific when saying where you live. If the made-up zip code name of Anywhere has an area of 50 miles, it’s more helpful to say you live in the little town of “But Here” within “Anywhere.”

    • @aycc-nbh7289
      @aycc-nbh7289 Před 2 lety

      The suburban communities of Rochester, NY seem to be in a similar limbo. When I visited there, I found out that RIT bordered a place known as “Henrietta”, but then I found out that its postal address was still in Rochester. I then found an Outback Steakhouse in “Greece” (the community in Upstate NY, not the country), but it was again in Rochester according to its postal address. My question is whether the city of Rochester has ever had to do something like London did.

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 Před 2 lety

      There is a zip code in my county that crosses the boarder into the next county. More confusingly, the zip code name is the same as the name of this other county. So people who live there have to give their address as being a county they don't live in.

    • @Trixtah
      @Trixtah Před 2 lety

      In the UK, you need to also include different countries. A friend of mine lives in Wales, but her postcode is for Herefordshire, which is in England. (While they're both obv in the UK, they are still different countries.)

    • @dylanmurphy9389
      @dylanmurphy9389 Před 2 lety

      @@Trixtah in the Wirral, Merseyside our post code is still CH for Cheshire and it often says Cheshire on addresses

  • @sirwilczek1813
    @sirwilczek1813 Před 5 lety +290

    I feel like there's a CGP Grey reference in this video... but thats a story for another day

    • @SaraBearRawr0312
      @SaraBearRawr0312 Před 5 lety +19

      Some say that the mysterious CGP Grey will return one day and on that day he will provide and in depth pseudo-animated infographically educational electronic cinematic film short on the geopolitical subdivisons of a geopolitical subdivision located within a geopolitcal subdivision of a rocky celestial body called earth. All we know is... Hes called the STI- wait wrong show.

  • @JayForeman
    @JayForeman  Před 5 lety +3825

    First!!

  • @marvinhensbergen1515
    @marvinhensbergen1515 Před 3 lety +9

    love the transport tycoon, simcity and lemmings adlib stuff used! Great channel, very educational and amusing!

  • @Andyhandle
    @Andyhandle Před rokem +64

    Great video.
    My view of what was "London" proper or not was mostly shaped by the underground fare zones. Upto zone 4 in London. Zone 5 iffy but possible. Zone 6 definitely out! There seemed to be some areas that wanted the best of both worlds - Croydon?

  • @charliespringer1
    @charliespringer1 Před 5 lety +423

    this feels like it was made in 2002 but no, it was made in 2019. Love it.

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  Před 5 lety +53

      How have documentaries changed since 2002?

    • @mumblic
      @mumblic Před 5 lety +35

      @@JayForeman You have to be more polarizing, the video is way to nuanced!
      Also the average attention time spam has been reduced to 28 seconds ! ;-))

  • @IndyHasSpoken
    @IndyHasSpoken Před 5 lety +1548

    Greater London: "Oi, pay your Council Tax!"
    Surrey: *"WHY DON'T YOU COME OVER HERE AND MAKE ME?!"*

    • @linusoredsson7111
      @linusoredsson7111 Před 5 lety +25

      @Egikam kamemura You swallow.

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 Před 4 lety +18

      @Egikam Which is why it costs an arm and a leg to live there...

    • @Achkahkl
      @Achkahkl Před 4 lety +7

      London stop on Hijab border

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 Před 4 lety +9

      @@Achkahkl Alas, even #Dorking has a mosque these days..

    • @nobbynobbynoob
      @nobbynobbynoob Před 4 lety +7

      @@aclark903 Meh, in east Surrey (Redhill, Caterham...) it's not that bad: it only costs about HALF an arm and a leg. ;)

  • @genocidal_clip_dump
    @genocidal_clip_dump Před 2 lety +4

    Absolutely love these Cameos you put in, like how Ashens was in the team made by Sir Edwin Herbert

  • @robertotrottski
    @robertotrottski Před 2 lety +28

    Greetings from Timor-Leste.
    I stumbled across your channel for the first time today and have already devoured three of your videos.
    What a pleasure it is to watch and listen to you.
    At last, someone informative with a bloody great sense of humour, producing videos that make me laugh out loud.
    Brilliant to say the least.
    I grew up in Australia watching British comedy (which was, and still is the best in the world) and Jay, you are up there with the greats of the past six decades.
    Keep it up.
    You are the perfect compliment to my morning expresso.
    One other thing.
    May i suggest that you visit Kim Jong-un's barber to maybe spruce up your hair style?

  • @amov1escriptending
    @amov1escriptending Před 4 lety +908

    2:30
    Wonderful Watford
    Delightful Dartford
    ...Slough

  • @thelastcube.
    @thelastcube. Před 5 lety +584

    3:26 so that's what Tomska is busy doing at these days
    Accurate CGP Grey impression too

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 Před 5 lety +1

      Something about the hair though

    • @samitefan1
      @samitefan1 Před 5 lety +31

      CGP Grey impression? Oh right, "that's a video for another time."

  • @Repus89
    @Repus89 Před 3 lety +5

    I love the fade out that didn't go anywhere. Comic genius.

  • @BNoble86
    @BNoble86 Před 2 lety +1

    It's nice that you have this little thing you can do with your friends.

  • @michaelbianchi22
    @michaelbianchi22 Před 5 lety +1385

    As an American it's not like I need to know about London politics, but when you present them with the humor of Benny Hill it suddenly becomes very important to me.

    • @juzoli
      @juzoli Před 5 lety +19

      JC Fennec I kinda want to move to London just to make these videos relevant to me:)

    • @nathanschmick9681
      @nathanschmick9681 Před 5 lety +8

      Never hurts to learn new things...

    • @doubtfulguest5450
      @doubtfulguest5450 Před 5 lety +17

      -I'm going to confidently propose that you either didn't watch this video, or you have never watched Benny Hill.-
      -I refuse to accept that the US education system is so bad that you could have watched both, yet still drawn the conclusion of the OP.-
      Ok, the OP responded to Jay and I retract the above. The US education system really _is_ that bad.

    • @DSAhmed
      @DSAhmed Před 5 lety +25

      @@doubtfulguest5450 Everything British to a lot of Americans is just Monty Python and Benny Hill. We know nothing else.

    • @Muzikman127
      @Muzikman127 Před 5 lety +12

      ...Benny Hill? Tf does this have to do with Benny Hill hahaha

  • @DJ-ov2it
    @DJ-ov2it Před 5 lety +260

    2:10 "Neverthenonetheless"

  • @fsodn
    @fsodn Před 3 měsíci

    It's always lovely to see Jade! It's so much fun watching the two of your interact.

  • @davewright9921
    @davewright9921 Před rokem +5

    I've been struggling badly lately with depression and anxiety and your videos not just entertaining but so helpful in so many ways thank you so much ☺ ♥

    • @vituperation
      @vituperation Před rokem

      Know that just like Greater London's borders, you too can change :)
      (also, I got assigned fluoxetine and bupropion and it has done wonders for my brain. Ask your doctor about it today!)

  • @TomJohnson67
    @TomJohnson67 Před 4 lety +436

    2:30
    'Wonderful Watford'
    'Delightful Dartford'
    'Slough'
    Just Slough.
    Slough doesn't deserve an adjective.

    • @DonMorris
      @DonMorris Před 4 lety +22

      Don't think Dartford deserves Delightful. Should be Dreadful hahaha

    • @adeladd7638
      @adeladd7638 Před 4 lety +8

      It's the Slough of despond

    • @petrichor446
      @petrichor446 Před 4 lety +14

      not british, but know that slough is slough. and definitely nothing more

    • @keithrose6931
      @keithrose6931 Před 3 lety +4

      It's know as Dirtford .

    • @grantosgroover6556
      @grantosgroover6556 Před 3 lety +3

      Slough. Or Sluff as some call it. The wrinkly scrotum of despair.

  • @MichaelOrtega
    @MichaelOrtega Před 5 lety +1316

    Here in America, In the New England area. We still have names like “Middlesex” among others like Kent, Peterborough, Bristol, Cambridge, etc etc. I’m sure the early colonist didn’t want to pick new names for this new land at the time but if “middlesex” got lost to London in the UK, rest assured it’s still alone in America. Lol

    • @watson956
      @watson956 Před 5 lety +119

      We've also got a Middlesex County in Ontario AND it surrounds London on three sides.

    • @cameroncook2048
      @cameroncook2048 Před 5 lety +82

      It was so groups of people who left their town didn't feel homesick when they reached America. Lots of other British colonies do the same. Perth, Australia/ Perth, Scotland, Exeter Adelaide/ Exeter, England are a few examples. Also nice to know where the people in my town went.

    • @PiousMoltar
      @PiousMoltar Před 5 lety +34

      @@watson956 Just wait, our London ate our Middlesex, maybe yours eventually will too :P

    • @fivesquaredyt2521
      @fivesquaredyt2521 Před 5 lety +2

      69 likes

    • @platenoise256
      @platenoise256 Před 5 lety +11

      there's a kent in washington state

  • @SundayTalksYT
    @SundayTalksYT Před 2 lety +1

    why can this history video be so enjoyable to watch- it's so good

  • @Lasagnaisprettycool
    @Lasagnaisprettycool Před 2 lety +1

    I'm marathonwatching all videos of this channel and it's been EXHAUSTING with the british humor oh my god 😂 I don't know if I now have a permanent smirk or just want to sleep for 5 days and forget all about it

  • @tedioustotoro4885
    @tedioustotoro4885 Před 5 lety +104

    I love how there’s just 3 second cameos by random British CZcamsrs

    • @IkeOkerekeNews
      @IkeOkerekeNews Před 5 lety +3

      Who?

    • @44ro.n
      @44ro.n Před 5 lety +2

      all i recognise is 1:50 which i think is ashens?

    • @atreyuflames
      @atreyuflames Před 5 lety +3

      Dan bull was one of them

    • @maceroni5869
      @maceroni5869 Před 5 lety +2

      Look at description to see who was in the video.

  • @valentins.2637
    @valentins.2637 Před 5 lety +174

    2:55 now I know why Gibraltar isn't in London

    • @Marylandbrony
      @Marylandbrony Před 5 lety +6

      And Leatherhead.
      Edit: Wait,It's a town in Surrey. Not a horror franchise character.

    • @ultimaterocker4
      @ultimaterocker4 Před 5 lety

      Fuck thought I was the first to notice haha fair play

  • @jennyrayman2505
    @jennyrayman2505 Před rokem

    40 years as londoner and I honestly learnt about boutoighs and boundaries from you. Awesome . Thank you@

  • @FaxxuYT
    @FaxxuYT Před 2 lety +7

    Living in Dartford i always found it weird that we don't seem to be in greater london but yet we still have things that greater london has (such as contactless payment for buses and trains) but we also miss out on some other things avalible to us. Its super strange.

  • @Cl0ckcl0ck
    @Cl0ckcl0ck Před 5 lety +641

    The BBC should give you loads of money to make actual content!

    • @xiupsilon876
      @xiupsilon876 Před 5 lety +1

      Can't tell if this is a compliment or an insult. British people are weird.

    • @plywoodman8626
      @plywoodman8626 Před 5 lety

      Cl0ckcl0ck they did

    • @starry_lis
      @starry_lis Před 5 lety +42

      This is the most actual it can get, mate.

    • @Marcus51090
      @Marcus51090 Před 4 lety +10

      Cl0ckcl0ck he can’t work for the bbc he’s not a sex pest lol

    • @Posiman
      @Posiman Před 4 lety +10

      @Time Traveller Well, Jay has a bunch of videos on promoting urban biking, making public transport more environmentally sustainable and minimizing the spread automobilism in the city. So UNLIKE the BBC Jay has a very clear agenda on this channel. It's an amazing agenda that everyone should promote, but an agenda nevertheless.

  • @brucewayneisdeadpool830
    @brucewayneisdeadpool830 Před 5 lety +152

    Those are some very sweet special effects at 3:45 hahaha

    • @_Piers_
      @_Piers_ Před 5 lety +5

      Yeah, it's wonderfully done :)

    • @Darkiie
      @Darkiie Před 5 lety +2

      Wait... I thought he threw the map and it actually hit the horse and bounced off? I was wondering why the police didn't say something lol

    • @melododie
      @melododie Před 5 lety +1

      Ikr they're really good. Couldn't tell it even was special effects at first.

  • @5thdawg917
    @5thdawg917 Před 2 lety +1

    As a Londoner just discovered this channel! Amazing channel

  • @marksimpson2321
    @marksimpson2321 Před 2 lety

    I csme across these by chance . Brilliantly entertaining and hilariously informative!

  • @IamCrusaderRUS
    @IamCrusaderRUS Před 5 lety +537

    Map
    men
    map
    men
    bring
    back
    map
    men
    men

  • @krozjr5009
    @krozjr5009 Před 5 lety +834

    2:57 - “Gibraltar not London” YOU DON’T SAY?!?

  • @heavycortisone
    @heavycortisone Před 2 lety +1

    Your videos are very informative and fun 😀 Greetings from Austria!

  • @solanceDarkMOW
    @solanceDarkMOW Před 2 lety +1

    I finally found him!
    I've been scouring your video catalogue for hours looking for where i remembered that Sir Edwin fellow from and he's here!

    • @Demiglitch
      @Demiglitch Před měsícem

      He's in a few different comedy things on TV and online and I never remember his real name.

  • @thomasNL030
    @thomasNL030 Před 5 lety +318

    HEY I SAW AT LEAST TWO MAP MEN IN THIS VIDEO

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat Před 5 lety +4

      Map men?

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat Před 5 lety +27

      Map...
      Men...
      **cut to wooden storage case being enrolled into map storage warehouse**

    • @valentins.2637
      @valentins.2637 Před 5 lety +43

      Map men map men map map map map men men

    • @KikomochiMendoza
      @KikomochiMendoza Před 5 lety +7

      @@MostlyPennyCat Map Map Map Men . . . Men
      (It's a separate Jay Foreman series about Maps)

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat Před 5 lety +3

      Yeah I know.
      But I'll die before I pass up a chance to make a Top Men joke...

  • @fuckyshityfuckshit
    @fuckyshityfuckshit Před 5 lety +367

    "Captains log , year 3156. We are losing the battle with London. Soon London will encompass the entire planet in a smoggy, british haze..."

    • @nathanbanks2354
      @nathanbanks2354 Před 4 lety +43

      Fortunately this expansion brought rain to the Sahara.

    • @thelonesculler
      @thelonesculler Před 4 lety +15

      Ngl I read as far as 3156 and assumed this was about to say the UK has asked for it's 500th extension to article 50

    • @martinburke362
      @martinburke362 Před 4 lety +2

      Ther will be nothing British about that haze by that date will be a Muslim haze!!!

    • @ILoveYani
      @ILoveYani Před 4 lety +7

      @@martinburke362 you are like dumb

    • @MoonlightWalnut
      @MoonlightWalnut Před 4 lety +8

      Martin Burke when britain is 85% ethnically white but apparently the 2% are now producing 100% of the emissions for the entire country. Also what do you even mean by a ‘muslim haze’? The sky is full of muslims? Muslims raining from the sky? The only thing apparent from your comment sadly is your lack of education and understanding of the world.

  • @razor2k911
    @razor2k911 Před rokem

    Another jewel. Man I love these videos.

  • @bythelee
    @bythelee Před 7 měsíci

    For a moment, I forgot who I was watching, and was totally buying into the "Problem Solver 3000".
    The scream when she was faced with a problem she couldn't solve is the highlight of the whole video for me.
    Short but very sweet. Great entertainment. And educational, too. Teaches much about the epic British skill for "muddling through".

  • @weesalikesmilktea4829
    @weesalikesmilktea4829 Před 5 lety +688

    3:55 A CGP Grey reference?
    I see you are a man of good taste

    • @MadeByLVA
      @MadeByLVA Před 5 lety +8

      I was thinking the same thing lol

    • @jamesdavison1786
      @jamesdavison1786 Před 4 lety +2

      ysa :P *culture

    • @DeanAyres
      @DeanAyres Před 4 lety

      I saw that too!

    • @SL-ht1nu
      @SL-ht1nu Před 4 lety +1

      No shit

    • @midgetwars1
      @midgetwars1 Před 4 lety +11

      Yes and both of them when they say "another time" they also happen to mean in 5 years. So yeah..

  • @jaywool
    @jaywool Před 3 lety +77

    “Why does this bit stick out, here?” *tickle tickle* and I almost spat out my tea

    • @PrinceEWS
      @PrinceEWS Před 2 lety +1

      The same thing was happening in Kent.

  • @delboy512
    @delboy512 Před 3 lety

    Fantastic videos, crystal clear explanation. Keep it up 🙂🙂🙂

  • @mortimerbrewster8575
    @mortimerbrewster8575 Před 3 lety +4

    “Never-the-none-the-less”. Brilliant.

  • @AdioAurel
    @AdioAurel Před 5 lety +554

    Your advertising strategy is the best and smartest on CZcams.
    You know that your content is so good that people easily watch it to the end, including the creative advertisement, which is also fun to watch.
    Great job m8!

    • @airhab
      @airhab Před 5 lety +6

      I'm still not signing up though!

    • @rizkysaragih7875
      @rizkysaragih7875 Před 5 lety +16

      @@airhab at least we dont get irritated by it. So well done..

    • @Vyker
      @Vyker Před 4 lety +4

      We even got a catchy jingle 😂

    • @mrtalos
      @mrtalos Před 2 lety +2

      I'm concerned about the problem solver 3000's appendage severing issues though. I'm not sure he should be advertising it.

  • @sonicbobomb15
    @sonicbobomb15 Před 3 lety +141

    I love CGP Grey and i'm glad you poked at him.

  • @lebowski1181
    @lebowski1181 Před 2 lety

    U really are one of the rare channels that catch me on the sponsoring clips :D
    all others get usually skipped and yours are even at the end of the video🤣

  • @MsEnermis
    @MsEnermis Před 3 lety

    I hope your sponsors pay you twice as much as other youtubers. These are the only videos I actually keep watching when the sponsored content comes up. Its always something new and it's fucking hilarious and

  • @burhanur
    @burhanur Před 5 lety +522

    That London shape cardboard hit the horse in the head when he threw it. 3:43

    • @slaughterround643
      @slaughterround643 Před 5 lety +75

      WOW REALLY? THANKS FOR EXPLAINING THAT FOR THOSE WITHOUT EYES!

    • @channel7zip
      @channel7zip Před 5 lety +46

      its VFX

    • @Jiskpirate
      @Jiskpirate Před 5 lety +45

      I didn't see! Glad someone pointed it out

    • @hydrowolf1
      @hydrowolf1 Před 5 lety +1

      Why spend time in 3d bs just 4 that one joke

    • @channel7zip
      @channel7zip Před 5 lety +31

      hydro bubbles23 thats what jay foreman does

  • @pre-debutera6941
    @pre-debutera6941 Před 4 lety +191

    3:51 That CGP Grey parody. 💀

    • @Jivvi
      @Jivvi Před 4 lety +3

      Freebooting!!!

    • @lisaanimi
      @lisaanimi Před 3 lety +1

      Shots fired :D

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 Před 3 lety +5

      I somehow didn't catch that , its so obvious , I got the music being from that but not that its paroday as a whole

    • @Hatchet1
      @Hatchet1 Před 6 měsíci

      The disrespect

    • @spherius2account
      @spherius2account Před měsícem

      Hexagon

  • @spaceflights
    @spaceflights Před 3 lety

    Utterly Brilliant! Thank you

  • @internetperson9813
    @internetperson9813 Před 3 lety +27

    1:37 British government asking a lawyer to draw the border between India and Pakistan

  • @Jaidencharlotte
    @Jaidencharlotte Před 4 lety +461

    Wait
    1st April 1965
    What if London’s border is just one massive April fools prank

  • @lankyGigantic
    @lankyGigantic Před 5 lety +384

    Did NOT expect to see Stuart Ashen in this video

    • @Offensive_Username
      @Offensive_Username Před 5 lety +15

      Now I understand why it was in my recommended videos.

    • @bigoil48
      @bigoil48 Před 5 lety +3

      I honestly thought he was Simon Pegg

  • @ld8619
    @ld8619 Před 7 měsíci

    Absolutely hilarious 😂 wake up as londers and all your other quick comedy shots 😂❤love it

  • @LadyGavGav
    @LadyGavGav Před rokem +1

    I can't wait to see the video for when London is finally finished.

  • @kylesw555
    @kylesw555 Před 5 lety +335

    Someone has finally made this video! I'm so happy that finally I have something to back me up when I have this argument with people!

    • @pyeltd.5457
      @pyeltd.5457 Před 5 lety

      Fake world wide Web videos just like fake news. Sorry.

    • @nobbynobbynoob
      @nobbynobbynoob Před 5 lety +2

      The GEOGRAPHIC home counties - Middlesex, Berkshire, Essex, Kent, Surrey - still do exist, however, and encroach into the political area of Greater London. However, those run right up to the walls of the ancient City, and do not respect the political changes of 1889 and 1965. So Hounslow is in Middlesex geographically, but so is Westminster. Bexley is in Kent geographically, but so is Lewisham. And so on...
      Postal counties that show home counties in Greater London specifically outside of the cardinal inner-London post codes, however, were formally axed in 1996.

    • @allisonjuno7654
      @allisonjuno7654 Před 5 lety

      @@pyeltd.5457 you ok?

    • @pyeltd.5457
      @pyeltd.5457 Před 5 lety

      Fate 04 yes.

  • @kostathomas8732
    @kostathomas8732 Před 5 lety +261

    I like how at 3:45 he pretty much threw the cardboard cut out of London at the two police officers

    • @agent00x
      @agent00x Před 5 lety +42

      @Roderick storey it hits the horse's head at 3:47

    • @includenull
      @includenull Před 5 lety +42

      It's VFX, it bounces off the horse's head before landing on the floor and disappearing.

    • @NotMe35971
      @NotMe35971 Před 5 lety +1

      lol

    • @jrickard
      @jrickard Před 5 lety +4

      listen on headphones for the unmistakeable sound of horse distress

    • @al35mm
      @al35mm Před 5 lety

      @@includenull Really? You think so?

  • @Aledharris
    @Aledharris Před 2 lety +3

    The biggest mystery for me is how you are so funny. None of the jokes you make should be funny on paper but they’re all hilarious.
    I think that’s probably a sign of genius.

  • @sandybarrie5526
    @sandybarrie5526 Před rokem +5

    some of the funniest and great documenteries…

  • @user-ky6vw5up9m
    @user-ky6vw5up9m Před 3 lety +196

    The Commuter “journey-time-test “ was done in the days when many of the rail routes in were still diesel and not yet electrified. Electrification made a hell of a difference.

  • @fortyyards1397
    @fortyyards1397 Před 3 lety +280

    This is brilliant. We moved to Kingston 15 years ago and always wondered why, unlike Greater Manchester we don't use Greater London in our addresses or common vernacular. I tell family back home we live in Greater London but then they say we live in Surrey due to our postal address. Even people in London say, 'that's not London'. Trying to explain to people back home that we live in London is a tough one to get across. Great video!

    • @keithrose6931
      @keithrose6931 Před 3 lety +11

      If you get free travel you're in London

    • @leod-sigefast
      @leod-sigefast Před 2 lety +12

      Most Greater Manchester residents do not use Greater Manchester on their addresses. Just like Greater London, a lot of folk are very proud of the historical counties and districts and will therefore put either Cheshire or Lancashire. The postcodes are also similar to London, as in they keep codes from (what were once satellite towns, like Oldham OL..., Bolton, BL..., Stockport, SK..., Wigan WN...) their original town, even though they are now in Greater Manchester. Very similar to London. Funnily enough the oft-stated city-in-its-own-right Salford uses a Manchester (M...) postcode! It is a bit messed up but nothing on the scale of London!

    • @philcooper279
      @philcooper279 Před 2 lety +1

      Suppose, you lived in Swansea, how would you explain that?

    • @SD-iv4sz
      @SD-iv4sz Před rokem

      Not really London though

    • @bfc2155
      @bfc2155 Před rokem

      @@SD-iv4sz neither is Tottenham or Fulham

  • @hadorstapa
    @hadorstapa Před 2 lety +1

    Music from Transport Tycoon for the suburb test section: brilliant!

  • @sponsoredmessage201
    @sponsoredmessage201 Před 9 měsíci +1

    For me this is Jay Foreman's magnum opus, I keep re-watching it.

  • @onionbot2
    @onionbot2 Před 3 lety +113

    2:32
    wonderful WATFORD
    delightful DARTFORT
    *SLOUGH*

  • @dlwatib
    @dlwatib Před 4 lety +290

    Well of course the rich people raised a stink. The whole reason they chose to live where they did in the first place is because it was close to London but it wasn't London.

    • @urmaisgay6495
      @urmaisgay6495 Před 3 lety +22

      yeah, notice how the only tory voting parts of london are on the very outskirts.

    • @EnteiFire4
      @EnteiFire4 Před 3 lety +20

      There was a similar problem when boroughs merged into the city of Montreal like 15 years ago. The richer one didn't want to join, since that would mean that their money would be distributed to be used for the needs of other more impoverished boroughs.
      If you look at the map of Montreal, you will see "holes" in the island, which include Westmount, Mont-Royal and Côte-Saint-Luc.

    • @Desmaad
      @Desmaad Před 3 lety +3

      @@EnteiFire4 I thought it was a language issue, since those towns are also mainly Anglo.

  • @BiteBolt_77
    @BiteBolt_77 Před 2 lety

    4:04 remains to be the best portion of all Jay Foreman videos of all time imo. It's just so funny

  • @HUNdAntae
    @HUNdAntae Před 3 lety +1

    The amount of Monty Python-isms on this channel is absolutely delightful.

  • @JKEOJKEO
    @JKEOJKEO Před 5 lety +113

    I know it doesn't, but at 3:44 it looks like London hits the mounted police officer on the helmet, hahaha

  • @zeevro
    @zeevro Před 5 lety +114

    I loved the CGPGrey reference :)

    • @internetguy7965
      @internetguy7965 Před 5 lety

      What reference???

    • @internetguy7965
      @internetguy7965 Před 5 lety +3

      Oh! Surprised I missed that.

    • @soepgroenten9811
      @soepgroenten9811 Před 5 lety +2

      did he just hit a police horse with a chunk of cardboard at 3:43?

    • @zeevro
      @zeevro Před 5 lety

      @@internetguy7965 "But that's a story for another time" at 3:54

  • @FlagsinFocus
    @FlagsinFocus Před 10 měsíci

    Just found this channel, you are an inspiration Jay.

  • @SeekerGoldstone
    @SeekerGoldstone Před 3 lety +2

    1:33 How did they get The Actual Mark Silcox for that bit!? That was simultaneously one of the funniest and most impressive things I've ever seen on youtube.

  • @Nyjawonder
    @Nyjawonder Před 4 lety +244

    Playing with London`s Willy like that at the start is just not on.

  • @joewilliams5057
    @joewilliams5057 Před 5 lety +115

    I needed this to have been made two years ago when an acquaintance absolutely tore me to shreds for referring to visiting friends in Croydon as "going to London". To them, only the London postcode district was Proper London.

    • @niazgulhazarboz9043
      @niazgulhazarboz9043 Před 5 lety +3

      Yeah I had a friend from Croydon who would always say " I am going to London" and I would be like you are in London!

    • @tomturnbull2066
      @tomturnbull2066 Před 5 lety +4

      As someone who lives in Bromley I can confirm the mockery is real. 'No SE postcode, no London' they say

    • @PiousMoltar
      @PiousMoltar Před 5 lety +4

      Only the square mile is proper London
      It's also its own city and its own county

    • @rosiefay7283
      @rosiefay7283 Před 5 lety +1

      @@PiousMoltar So that'd mean that e.g. Camden, Finsbury and Islington aren't in London. What do you think they are? Separate towns? Where's the countryside in between?

    • @tecwynjones6532
      @tecwynjones6532 Před 5 lety +1

      @@rosiefay7283 Nah, City of London is different from London due to the French (Normans) weren't able to defeat it.

  • @AlwaysCooodooolu6
    @AlwaysCooodooolu6 Před rokem +2

    wonderful *WATFORD*
    delightful *DARTFORD*
    “mum, i’m sorry. i’ve made a big mistake. i went to slough.”

  • @andrewholland1390
    @andrewholland1390 Před 2 lety

    Great video as always, I'm just struck mainly by the use of in-game music from the 90s PC classic, Transport Tycoon at 2:11!