My favourite Churchill comeback was in response to a comment from an Etonian. Harrow and Eton are the two prestigious schools that, for a long time, provided the majority of the ruling elite class, and they are bitter rivals. The Etonian, upon witnessing Churchill neglect to wash his hands after using the toilet : "At Eton they taught us to wash our hands after using the lavatory." Churchill: "At Harrow they taught us not to piss on our fingers."
A group of friends and I used to blame "Paul" if something went wrong, or if we didn't want to say who it really was. The Paul we knew was a DIck... or was it Richard?
Diane Morgan to The Mirror (a newspaper): "The interviews last a couple of hours, so I start off with quite normal interesting questions and they really get into it, then once I’ve lulled them into a false sense of security, I start pulling out the madder questions. Then it’s too late for them to leave."
Comic Relief is still going in the UK, and Richard Curtis the person who she was interviewing at the start of the clips is the co-creator of Comic Relief. He is also the writer director of many famous films such as Four Wedding and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jone's Diary, Love Actually and many more. He was also a writer for Black Adder, Mr Bean, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, The Vicar of Dibley and an Episode of Doctor Who.
She's British humor at it's finest. Dry, deadpan blink and you missed it. It's worth reactivating Netflix for for a month or two just to binge on them.
For me, she's the funniest woman alive, at least who is current. "Sir Francis Drake became the first person to circumcise the globe, which is probably why this type of sailing ship is called a clipper."
There's an apocryphal story of Churchill, as PM, being told that two guardsmen were found having intimate relations in a park. His response was, allegedly, "Bloody cold last night....makes you proud to be British!"
Monty Python answered your question about taking turns being in charge in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. ARTHUR: Then who is your lord? WOMAN: We don't have a lord. ARTHUR: What? DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,... ARTHUR: Yes. DENNIS: ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting... ARTHUR: Yes, I see. DENNIS: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,... ARTHUR: Be quiet! DENNIS: ...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--
When it comes to nicknames, there's often a shortened version of the name that has another version with a letter that doesn't fit. For example: William can also have a nickname of Will and Bill. Same with Robert, you have Rob and you have Bob. For Richard, the nickname is Rick, so you can see how the name Dick came into it.
I think I have a pretty good idea of their origins. some people are very bad at remembering names or have dyslexia or something, then they relay that an individuals name is something similar but one latter off. Then old Billy decides that it's cute that they're calling him Billy and doesn't correct them.
I had a manager who's name was Richard Head. He added the name Kennedy in the middle thinking it would solve the problem.....it didn't. Richard Kennedy Head was still a dickhead. 😂
It’s funny, the guy she talks to about voting to end democracy and introducing a rotating council was apparently so irritable and aggressive, the producers ended filming early and had to tell him to chill the hell out lol Diane Morgan had even said she was kinda worried he was gonna get up and throttle her.
The first guy is Richard Curtis. The screenwriter, Blackadder (a history based comedy) etc. and film director, Notting Hill, etc. it was on Comic Relief, so he knew what he was in for
The "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" is the title of a 1992 book by John Gray. It purported to be a psychological look at the differences in psychology between men and women, but it was heavily criticized for playing to stereotypes instead of, you know, psychology. The book was very popular for a while in the 90s and lead to numerous parodies of the title. The short version of Richard comes from Middle English when it was popular for people to pick nicknames for others with rhymes. Sort of like how in more recent history putting "y" on the end of a name was seen as cute.
It also links to the Roman Gods; Mars being the God of War (Equivalent to Ares in Greek mythos) and a male figure, whilst Venus is the Godess of Love (equivalent to Aphrodite) and symbolising the female figure. The (WE ARE SPARTA)n's also saw Aphrodite as a goddess of war, and in a relationship with Ares behind her husbands back, similar to the Roman Mythos.
I think for a future reaction it would be interesting to see Mr. Terry watch a complete video, rather than these quick-fire joke compilations (that are edited so quick-fire it's easy to miss why they were funny). There's a couple five-part series like Cunk on Britain and Cunk on Earth that would make for a great watch.
The biggest question I had today was "can an ostrich kick a man's head off?" I can't find a video of it happening, but there are some of bears tearing women's heads off. Nobody was trying to help them either. I think the men are from Mars, women are from Venus is more of an analogy based on Roman mythology. Men do war stuff and don't get decapitated by ostriches. Women do sexy stuff, and do get decapitated by bears.
There's a really sad video online of an ostrich in a pen getting its head stuck in something, the poor thing freaks out and decapitates intself yet it's body is still active for a few moments.
I clicked on the video the second I saw Philomena’s name. So happy you enjoy Diane Morgan! The first person she interviewed is Richard Curtis who created Blackadder and The Upstart Crow a comedy about Shakespeare. Both of those shows would be brilliant for you to react to as well, if you can with copyright.
Bit late to the table here after a month but my favourite Churchill anecdote is when George Bernard Shaw invited him to the first night of one of his plays with the add on... 'bring a friend, if you have one'. To which Churchill replied, 'can't make the first night but will come to the second night, if there is one'. 😊
Thinking about thinking about thinking IS insane, tbh. I was recently talking to my mom about the film that literally introduced me to death. My whole reality changed. Land Before Time made me realize, that someday or suddenly, I could lose my mom. And as if that wasn't shocking to me enough at the time, everyone else I loved, and myself. Idk, for me, it was earth shattering and left a mark. I feel like everyone has these defining moments in their lives that they'll remember teaches them about things that we eventually have to understand and even embrace as an everyday part of life. And thinking about that, really made me think. Thinking-ception. I was always kinda interested in a philosophy class, as long as they keep me from mentally spiraling into multiple existential crisises.
Fear of death is a surface level existential crysis, what is way scarier and painful is the one where you feel like stuck in reality without any way out besides death, both of which i experienced.
Times have changed. When I was young the Disney film that made kids terrified of losing their parents was _Bambi_ . By now it's probably _The Lion King_ .
My grandsons in 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧 love Philomena and also another history series called Horrible Histories (BBC, 72 episodes) and the books on which they were originally based. The boys are aged 9-13. History - both domestic and global, is a subject taken far more seriously in those countries than we experienced while living six years in the US, when my oldest children were 9-15. As an example, when I sat A level (US high school senior) in history, I had to sit two, 3-hour long examinations. (I chose the period 1485 to 1714).
My potential Churchill tweet: "I would enjoy discussing philosophy with Stephen Fry, but I would rather have a drink with James Blunt." One of his most savage (real-life) comebacks though, was to Lady Nancy Astor. She said to him "Winston, if I were your wife, I'd put poison in your coffee." To which he replied, "Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."
I have no idea how much philomena cunk media there is but please don't stop reacting these have become my favorite videos this is the best thing that's been made since Belgian techo anthem pump up the jam.
While I love the reactions, the channel, Mr Terry, his information and insights, and Philomena Cunk who I myself only started watching in the last couple of months; it's pity there are so many poorly edited compilations where you miss the best bits or responses of the experts. I guess it's a series that doesn't look as good when they only show seconds of a 2 or 3 minute clip and you / we completely miss the better "bits". I recently watched a stage interview, was it SAG Afra or Bafta or other where they had Charlie Brooker (a character himself), Diane Morgan and one other (sorry) giving great insight into how much work and thought goes in to these; and these series been going six or more years now I think (dipping under most peoples radar I suspect)
Comic Relief is an ongoing charity and the thing they're ptobably most well known for is Red Nose Day, a now annual telethon involving just about every comedian in the UK and a significant portion of all the non-comedian UK celebrities. I think my first exposure to it was a VHS copy of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death, a parody written by Steven Moffat (before the show's revival and, therefore, long before he wrote anything for it) starring Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean, Blackadder), Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Roy Skelton (second voice of the Daleks), Julia Sawalha, Hugh Grant, and Joanna Lumley. _That's_ the kind of big-name shenanigans Comic Relief brings out.
I don't know if you have ever seen "Assume the Position" with Robert Wuhl. It was filmed for HBO in 2005 and is half a history lecture and half stand up comedy. It can get cheesy, but I absolutely love it. There is also a second episode
comic relief also known as red nose days is almost like a uk holiday, it happenes every year and comedians and celebrities do shows and stuff to raise money for charity. It just happened last month.
'Dick' is from the 1550s. It's a rhyming nickname for Rick, which is from Richard. Another rhyming nickname is Bill for Will(iam). Dick widely meant 'a fellow' - and, meaning the male member ('my fellow'), it's from 1891, probably British army slang.
Going back to the Roman gods, Venus represented primarily love, beauty and other historically feminine attributes. The Greek equivalent to Venus was Aphrodite, the daughter of Dione (also the name of one of Saturn's moons). Mars was the god of war and protection, roles rarely associated with the fairer sex. He was the Roman equivalent of the Greeks' Ares.
Comic relief happens every single year in the UK. It’s a night of comedy crossovers, skits, and things like that. I love it! All while raising money. The red nose is a symbol of comic relief. You’ll notice a lot of British compilations will include things from comic relief cos we get a lot of really brilliant one off comedy shows.
I think Winston would tweet something about alcohol as many other celebrities were huge drinkers back then. For example classical musicians, with his wit he would say something like, "Some people can't hold their liquor, allow me to demonstrate, how to properly hold the bottle." 😂
Paul is a construct. There is a long history of British comedians inventing recurring characters as a technique of attributing a story or circumstance to a particular character to give it more authenticity. Some comedians - Larry Grayson may be the king - have whole friend groups of imaginary friends and acquaintances. Over years, audiences actually come to ‘know’ these characters and can tell a way a story is going to go based on their knowledge of those characters. Other comedians may use invented family, Dame Edna Everidge had two children that people knew quite a bit about, despite them never having existed. - this can also extend to drama, where a number of shows have characters that have never appeared.
The question of how these shoes got into the fridge was even more puzzling in Socrates' own time, since there were no fridges and he only wore sandals.
"How did these shoes get into my fridge?" is up there with "Why are my pants in my mailbox?" The latter of which I may have said once in my heavier drinking days.
Democracy vs "why don't they just take turns..." If you want a chuckle on this subject, read GK Chesterton's "The Napoleon of Notting Hill." it's a witty, satirical little novel which takes place in a Britain where the king is chosen by national lottery, rather than bloodlines.
"where does your lap go when you stand up." Genius! Given that the function of a lap is to place things on...oh...oh...laptop (which I'm typing this on)...and when you stand up you can no longer place things on it without them falling off (not trying it with another laptop, I learned my lesson the first time), it's a perfectly sensible question. Incidentally...the 'twerk' was invented as a way of overcoming this issue when there were not enough seats in lapdancing establishments.
Comic relief is still huge here in the UK and i encourage you to you tube this year's (march 2023)i have a feeling you will find some great content to review and i would really look forward to seeing you ❤
i've once swum in open water. drifted a little over the "shelf" while looking down at the floor and i've never had such an extreme vertigo in my life. 50m back to the boat felt like 50km
She was a mini-sketch section of Chary Brooker's, she used to have 5 min segments in an hour. It's only recently that she's been given her own show that is based on history. It is also part written by Brooker (the guy who writes/ makes Black Mirror)
I agree with Baldur below, but just to add; names were passed down and to differentiate between generations nick names came about. So John bacame Jack, Mary became Molly became Polly. Its rhyming and/or alliteration
Here's my take on a Churchill tweet: Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no Wi-Fi.
I am glad to say I have never found my shoes in my fridge but if I had, that would definitely be one of the two top questions about life I would have, along with, how does thinking work.
For the US viewers, Comic Relief (links back to 'Dick' Curtis) is still one of the largest and most successful fundraising events (held every 4? years) in the world, and involves comedians, actors, directors, sports people, news anchors, and other celebrities. It's kinda a national event. See also 'Red Nose Day'.
Comic Relief/Red Nose Day used to be amazing in the 90s. The Spice Girls released a single and gave all proceeds from sales to Comic Relief. And yes- I am absolutely terrified of the ocean and large bodies of water because when I was 14 years old, I was in a fishing boat on Loch Ness when I fell out and my lifejacket (that I was luckily wearing as I cannot swim) pushed me up but under the boat so I was trapped in the pitch black water with god knows what lurking about me. I personally believe I have sighted Nessie (the Loch Ness monster) so that added an extra fear to me. I haven't been the same since.
7:54 - Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus was the title of a popular 80's self-help book. I always used to think "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus...and pop psychology is from Uranus".
Richard Curtis is producer/director of blackadder and love actually amongst other things. Putting him into context for those that don't recognise his name
Youre not alone in being afraid of the ocean or specifically the ocean depths, Im like that aswell, and theres other aswell, The fear of the ocean is called Thalassophobia
You should do a reaction to Assume the Position with Robert Wuhl. It's a hilarious take on American History. I believe it was filmed as a lecture at Yale. There is also an Assume the Position 201.
Winston Churchill died in 1965, I remember seeing his coffin being sailed on the river Thames before it was buried. There was a special Winston Churchill 5/- piece called a crown minted in 1965 to commemorate him, we used to spend them in the tuck shop at school.
I live on the atlantic coast of Canada 🇨🇦, i grew up sailing in the open ocean. Honestly it is a whole lot of fun once you get used to it. I mean sailing, no power boats, true sailing. Kept me out of trouble in my teen years because i came home too tired to cause any trouble. Haha.
12:45 I occasionally have nightmares of swimming in the ocean with jellyfish, sea urchins, anemones, venomous snails and what have you. Basically everything in there wants you dead.
Back in the days when name shortening became a thing, in the early days of English generalised handwriting, rhyming slang became a big thing in England, particularly around the capitol, where most people who could write lived. Richard got shortened to Rick, then rhymed into Hick or Dick. Robert got shortened to Rob, then rhymed into Bob.
I always thought the men from Mars and women from Venus thing was a reference to Roman mythology. Mars being the God of War and Venus being the goddess of fertility
I enjoy the beach, wading in the ocean and have even jumped in. Then I tried snorkeling in it a couple times and decided it wasn’t for me. I felt overwhelmed. Lol. It’s a whole other world that I’d rather view on the discovery channel or PBS. 😂
Arguably, drinking and smoking are not as severe self-inflicted health issues as a bullet to the brain, but I see the point. There's a RUclips video of two lads recreating Churchill's diet for a day. History made real.
'Men are from Mars and women from Venus' is probably because of stereotypes that are attributed to these Roman gods and by extension the planets named after them. The alliteration makes it memorable, especially in Dutch since the word for woman is 'vrouw', giving it 2 alliterations.
The phone thing is called the bystander effect. Its crazy. Its the thought that "someone else is gonna help so i shouldn't help" my dad and mom taught me differently and i never not help Also absolutely Terrified of bodies of water too! Ill stick with my pools lol and even then those can get infested. We had a toe biter water bug one year. It was terrifying it got my foot. My brother had to come out everytime and make sure the pool was safe for me lol
2:04 My mom smoked weed as as a teenager/young adult and apparently she had a habit of putting her shoes in the fridge after, so her mom always knew when she’d snuck out 😂
Check out this Philomena reaction next! ruclips.net/video/7yQAv_6bxkA/видео.html
"Historians are experts on people we've never met."
"Oh, like stalkers?"
Bang on...! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Like gossip reporters.
My favourite Churchill comeback was in response to a comment from an Etonian.
Harrow and Eton are the two prestigious schools that, for a long time, provided the majority of the ruling elite class, and they are bitter rivals.
The Etonian, upon witnessing Churchill neglect to wash his hands after using the toilet : "At Eton they taught us to wash our hands after using the lavatory."
Churchill: "At Harrow they taught us not to piss on our fingers."
that's hardly a comeback. dude shoulda washed his hand
That’s pretty good
I feel like Philomena put the hypothetical tweet best, better than anyone could probably: "We will fight them bitches"
came here to write this, you beat me to it. Chapeau!
Paul is her 'friend' who is always getting into trouble. Shaun is her 'ex boyfriend' she ridicules on TV 😅
A group of friends and I used to blame "Paul" if something went wrong, or if we didn't want to say who it really was. The Paul we knew was a DIck... or was it Richard?
Paul represents how people like Philomena get most of their knowledge. Someone they blindly trust will tell them something so it must be true.
@@aspzx Spot on 😂👌🏼
Didn't know she also had shaun 🤔
It's only paul that i kept on hearing from her
@@aspzxso paul is the british "trust me bro" then...
Diane Morgan to The Mirror (a newspaper):
"The interviews last a couple of hours, so I start off with quite normal interesting questions and they really get into it, then once I’ve lulled them into a false sense of security, I start pulling out the madder questions. Then it’s too late for them to leave."
Philomena asks the questions the rest of us are too scared to ask.
What sort of power is a mirror?
When men went to the moon, did they technically become aliens?
Sorry... This is pretty borin'!
10:13 - to quote Palpatine:
"I love democracy."😊
12:57 - Putin and Medvedev
14:00 - Cogito Ergo Sum
Sorry i hated it. She seems incapable of thinking of two sentences at a time. Not my kind of humour when it's so cut up and miniaturized.
Comic Relief is still going in the UK, and Richard Curtis the person who she was interviewing at the start of the clips is the co-creator of Comic Relief. He is also the writer director of many famous films such as Four Wedding and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jone's Diary, Love Actually and many more.
He was also a writer for Black Adder, Mr Bean, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, The Vicar of Dibley and an Episode of Doctor Who.
She's British humor at it's finest. Dry, deadpan blink and you missed it. It's worth reactivating Netflix for for a month or two just to binge on them.
Yes more of Philomena. No matter how much I see of her, I never tire of her. Comedy and history are a great combo.
For me, she's the funniest woman alive, at least who is current. "Sir Francis Drake became the first person to circumcise the globe, which is probably why this type of sailing ship is called a clipper."
History and anything really, besides plumbing/medicine.
There's an apocryphal story of Churchill, as PM, being told that two guardsmen were found having intimate relations in a park. His response was, allegedly, "Bloody cold last night....makes you proud to be British!"
Monty Python answered your question about taking turns being in charge in Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,...
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,...
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: ...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--
Watch a full episode. The context makes it all better
When it comes to nicknames, there's often a shortened version of the name that has another version with a letter that doesn't fit. For example: William can also have a nickname of Will and Bill. Same with Robert, you have Rob and you have Bob. For Richard, the nickname is Rick, so you can see how the name Dick came into it.
I think I have a pretty good idea of their origins. some people are very bad at remembering names or have dyslexia or something, then they relay that an individuals name is something similar but one latter off. Then old Billy decides that it's cute that they're calling him Billy and doesn't correct them.
There's also the thing where the N gets switched words. For example: 'mine Ed' became 'my Ned'
Or for Christopher, there is Chris or Fhris.
“Dick came into it”
I had a manager who's name was Richard Head. He added the name Kennedy in the middle thinking it would solve the problem.....it didn't. Richard Kennedy Head was still a dickhead. 😂
It’s funny, the guy she talks to about voting to end democracy and introducing a rotating council was apparently so irritable and aggressive, the producers ended filming early and had to tell him to chill the hell out lol Diane Morgan had even said she was kinda worried he was gonna get up and throttle her.
The first guy is Richard Curtis. The screenwriter, Blackadder (a history based comedy) etc. and film director, Notting Hill, etc. it was on Comic Relief, so he knew what he was in for
He also co-founded Comic Relief, and that particular interview was a Comic Relief special so there's no doubt he knew what was going on.
The "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" is the title of a 1992 book by John Gray. It purported to be a psychological look at the differences in psychology between men and women, but it was heavily criticized for playing to stereotypes instead of, you know, psychology. The book was very popular for a while in the 90s and lead to numerous parodies of the title.
The short version of Richard comes from Middle English when it was popular for people to pick nicknames for others with rhymes. Sort of like how in more recent history putting "y" on the end of a name was seen as cute.
It also links to the Roman Gods; Mars being the God of War (Equivalent to Ares in Greek mythos) and a male figure, whilst Venus is the Godess of Love (equivalent to Aphrodite) and symbolising the female figure. The (WE ARE SPARTA)n's also saw Aphrodite as a goddess of war, and in a relationship with Ares behind her husbands back, similar to the Roman Mythos.
@@Ebbonhart That is what the book was doing, yes, just trying it to the planets named after them and then playing off gender stereotypes.
You know what they say, women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9.
The Men are from Mars thing surely must be older than 1992?!
@@leeriches8841It certainly feels that way, but sadly 1992 is longer ago than it feels. That's been 31 years. We're just getting old.
7:18 "Flesh emoji" is probably the greatest description of a human being I've ever seen.
Nancy Astor: "If I were your wife I would poison your coffee!"
Winston Churchill: "And if I were your husband, I would drink it!"
Legend. 😄
It was tea
I think for a future reaction it would be interesting to see Mr. Terry watch a complete video, rather than these quick-fire joke compilations (that are edited so quick-fire it's easy to miss why they were funny). There's a couple five-part series like Cunk on Britain and Cunk on Earth that would make for a great watch.
The biggest question I had today was "can an ostrich kick a man's head off?" I can't find a video of it happening, but there are some of bears tearing women's heads off. Nobody was trying to help them either.
I think the men are from Mars, women are from Venus is more of an analogy based on Roman mythology. Men do war stuff and don't get decapitated by ostriches. Women do sexy stuff, and do get decapitated by bears.
Preach
There's a really sad video online of an ostrich in a pen getting its head stuck in something, the poor thing freaks out and decapitates intself yet it's body is still active for a few moments.
Winston Churchill: "I wonder why I have an office space in every restaurant, and why there's only a toilet in it"
I clicked on the video the second I saw Philomena’s name. So happy you enjoy Diane Morgan! The first person she interviewed is Richard Curtis who created Blackadder and The Upstart Crow a comedy about Shakespeare. Both of those shows would be brilliant for you to react to as well, if you can with copyright.
“Where does your lap go when you stand up?”
The same place your cake goes when you realize the plate is empty- straight to your thighs!!
Bit late to the table here after a month but my favourite Churchill anecdote is when George Bernard Shaw invited him to the first night of one of his plays with the add on... 'bring a friend, if you have one'.
To which Churchill replied, 'can't make the first night but will come to the second night, if there is one'. 😊
The system of government you're looking for is called an anarcho-syndicalyst collective.
Like the muck farmers in Holy Grail
Thinking about thinking about thinking IS insane, tbh. I was recently talking to my mom about the film that literally introduced me to death. My whole reality changed. Land Before Time made me realize, that someday or suddenly, I could lose my mom. And as if that wasn't shocking to me enough at the time, everyone else I loved, and myself. Idk, for me, it was earth shattering and left a mark. I feel like everyone has these defining moments in their lives that they'll remember teaches them about things that we eventually have to understand and even embrace as an everyday part of life. And thinking about that, really made me think. Thinking-ception. I was always kinda interested in a philosophy class, as long as they keep me from mentally spiraling into multiple existential crisises.
Fear of death is a surface level existential crysis, what is way scarier and painful is the one where you feel like stuck in reality without any way out besides death, both of which i experienced.
Funny enough the show Dinosaurs did that to me.
It was a tough few weeks for a 12yr old
Times have changed. When I was young the Disney film that made kids terrified of losing their parents was _Bambi_ . By now it's probably _The Lion King_ .
"Thinking about thinking", known as meta-cognition, is the foundation for the modern science of Psychology...
My grandsons in 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧 love Philomena and also another history series called Horrible Histories (BBC, 72 episodes) and the books on which they were originally based. The boys are aged 9-13. History - both domestic and global, is a subject taken far more seriously in those countries than we experienced while living six years in the US, when my oldest children were 9-15. As an example, when I sat A level (US high school senior) in history, I had to sit two, 3-hour long examinations. (I chose the period 1485 to 1714).
My potential Churchill tweet: "I would enjoy discussing philosophy with Stephen Fry, but I would rather have a drink with James Blunt."
One of his most savage (real-life) comebacks though, was to Lady Nancy Astor. She said to him "Winston, if I were your wife, I'd put poison in your coffee." To which he replied, "Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."
"My mate Paul..."
Famous first words.
I have no idea how much philomena cunk media there is but please don't stop reacting these have become my favorite videos this is the best thing that's been made since Belgian techo anthem pump up the jam.
While I love the reactions, the channel, Mr Terry, his information and insights, and Philomena Cunk who I myself only started watching in the last couple of months; it's pity there are so many poorly edited compilations where you miss the best bits or responses of the experts. I guess it's a series that doesn't look as good when they only show seconds of a 2 or 3 minute clip and you / we completely miss the better "bits".
I recently watched a stage interview, was it SAG Afra or Bafta or other where they had Charlie Brooker (a character himself), Diane Morgan and one other (sorry) giving great insight into how much work and thought goes in to these; and these series been going six or more years now I think (dipping under most peoples radar I suspect)
Comic Relief is an ongoing charity and the thing they're ptobably most well known for is Red Nose Day, a now annual telethon involving just about every comedian in the UK and a significant portion of all the non-comedian UK celebrities. I think my first exposure to it was a VHS copy of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death, a parody written by Steven Moffat (before the show's revival and, therefore, long before he wrote anything for it) starring Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean, Blackadder), Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Roy Skelton (second voice of the Daleks), Julia Sawalha, Hugh Grant, and Joanna Lumley. _That's_ the kind of big-name shenanigans Comic Relief brings out.
I don't know if you have ever seen "Assume the Position" with Robert Wuhl. It was filmed for HBO in 2005 and is half a history lecture and half stand up comedy. It can get cheesy, but I absolutely love it. There is also a second episode
comic relief also known as red nose days is almost like a uk holiday, it happenes every year and comedians and celebrities do shows and stuff to raise money for charity. It just happened last month.
Hypothetical Tweet : It was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. I don't think I'll be going back to taco bell any time soon.
Riddle-Wrap Supreme
'Dick' is from the 1550s. It's a rhyming nickname for Rick, which is from Richard. Another rhyming nickname is Bill for Will(iam). Dick widely meant 'a fellow' - and, meaning the male member ('my fellow'), it's from 1891, probably British army slang.
Going back to the Roman gods, Venus represented primarily love, beauty and other historically feminine attributes. The Greek equivalent to Venus was Aphrodite, the daughter of Dione (also the name of one of Saturn's moons). Mars was the god of war and protection, roles rarely associated with the fairer sex. He was the Roman equivalent of the Greeks' Ares.
Comic relief happens every single year in the UK. It’s a night of comedy crossovers, skits, and things like that. I love it! All while raising money. The red nose is a symbol of comic relief. You’ll notice a lot of British compilations will include things from comic relief cos we get a lot of really brilliant one off comedy shows.
I think Winston would tweet something about alcohol as many other celebrities were huge drinkers back then. For example classical musicians, with his wit he would say something like, "Some people can't hold their liquor, allow me to demonstrate, how to properly hold the bottle." 😂
Churchill tweet: God that Hitler fella! Can someone just cancel him already?
Paul is a construct. There is a long history of British comedians inventing recurring characters as a technique of attributing a story or circumstance to a particular character to give it more authenticity. Some comedians - Larry Grayson may be the king - have whole friend groups of imaginary friends and acquaintances. Over years, audiences actually come to ‘know’ these characters and can tell a way a story is going to go based on their knowledge of those characters. Other comedians may use invented family, Dame Edna Everidge had two children that people knew quite a bit about, despite them never having existed. - this can also extend to drama, where a number of shows have characters that have never appeared.
The question of how these shoes got into the fridge was even more puzzling in Socrates' own time, since there were no fridges and he only wore sandals.
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I cant believe i finally learned about the Magna Carta from a Philomena Cunk reaction video. 😊😊😊😊
I’m so glad I found this because I love learning and laughing
The rotation system with a council where the President role rotates exists. This is how Switzerland is governed.
Sith Empire used to have a council that rotates as far as i remember...
"How did these shoes get into my fridge?" is up there with "Why are my pants in my mailbox?" The latter of which I may have said once in my heavier drinking days.
Some cultures did have domestic lamas that would, on occasion, stay in their homes during severe weather conditions.
Guess as head honcho the Dalai Lama stayed in a palace rather than a house.
Churchill died in 1965 at the age of 90 (almost 91) and having been an MP for 64 years.
Democracy vs "why don't they just take turns..."
If you want a chuckle on this subject, read GK Chesterton's "The Napoleon of Notting Hill." it's a witty, satirical little novel which takes place in a Britain where the king is chosen by national lottery, rather than bloodlines.
"I don't have a carbon footprint: I drive everywhere." (Jeremy Clarkson)
17:54 Danger Mouse (the greatest secret agent in the world) and Penfold live there.
Churchill Tweet: This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is the end of a perfect tweet
Some are clips from Charlie Brooker’s end of year Wipe, 2016 Wipe is excellent, so are not history-related but talking about events of the year.
LOVE all this Philomena + Mr Terry content!
"where does your lap go when you stand up." Genius!
Given that the function of a lap is to place things on...oh...oh...laptop (which I'm typing this on)...and when you stand up you can no longer place things on it without them falling off (not trying it with another laptop, I learned my lesson the first time), it's a perfectly sensible question.
Incidentally...the 'twerk' was invented as a way of overcoming this issue when there were not enough seats in lapdancing establishments.
A guy behind "black morrow" is writing this stuff. Paul was a character in "the weekly update" in UK.
Nice shot! Now bring on more Cunk!
Comic relief is still huge here in the UK and i encourage you to you tube this year's (march 2023)i have a feeling you will find some great content to review and i would really look forward to seeing you ❤
Very much with you with the ocean…saw a documentary on freak/rogue waves as a child and have never wanted to go anywhere near the deep sea since
i've once swum in open water. drifted a little over the "shelf" while looking down at the floor and i've never had such an extreme vertigo in my life.
50m back to the boat felt like 50km
I think you'll enjoy the comedy set in Rome called Plebs and the kids history show called Horrible Histories
Churchill tweet: none of my billion hangovers was worse than russia
Paul is her friend, but he is mostly just a vehicle to deliver jokey anecdotes. As far as I know he doesn't actually exist
"How do you get Dick from Richard?" "You start by buying him a drink."
She was a mini-sketch section of Chary Brooker's, she used to have 5 min segments in an hour. It's only recently that she's been given her own show that is based on history.
It is also part written by Brooker (the guy who writes/ makes Black Mirror)
Ok, Churchill tweeting would just be amazing.
I agree with Baldur below, but just to add; names were passed down and to differentiate between generations nick names came about. So John bacame Jack, Mary became Molly became Polly. Its rhyming and/or alliteration
I've loved this series of Cunk reactions 👍🏼♥️
Here's my take on a Churchill tweet:
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no Wi-Fi.
I am glad to say I have never found my shoes in my fridge but if I had, that would definitely be one of the two top questions about life I would have, along with, how does thinking work.
My Mate Paul has to be it's own series.
For the US viewers, Comic Relief (links back to 'Dick' Curtis) is still one of the largest and most successful fundraising events (held every 4? years) in the world, and involves comedians, actors, directors, sports people, news anchors, and other celebrities. It's kinda a national event. See also 'Red Nose Day'.
The ocean is genuinely terrifying!
Comic Relief/Red Nose Day used to be amazing in the 90s. The Spice Girls released a single and gave all proceeds from sales to Comic Relief. And yes- I am absolutely terrified of the ocean and large bodies of water because when I was 14 years old, I was in a fishing boat on Loch Ness when I fell out and my lifejacket (that I was luckily wearing as I cannot swim) pushed me up but under the boat so I was trapped in the pitch black water with god knows what lurking about me. I personally believe I have sighted Nessie (the Loch Ness monster) so that added an extra fear to me. I haven't been the same since.
7:54 - Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus was the title of a popular 80's self-help book. I always used to think "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus...and pop psychology is from Uranus".
Richard Curtis is producer/director of blackadder and love actually amongst other things. Putting him into context for those that don't recognise his name
Best hypothetical Churchill tweet: Agrhbu burglawr mamrrr tenacious derghar blrblrblr in the glabraaah country.
So many of Churchill quotes stand up to today's time I have none
It's a Red Letter Box(not a trash can), so I think she is referencing the British 80s cartoon DangerMouse.
Youre not alone in being afraid of the ocean or specifically the ocean depths, Im like that aswell, and theres other aswell, The fear of the ocean is called Thalassophobia
You should do a reaction to Assume the Position with Robert Wuhl. It's a hilarious take on American History. I believe it was filmed as a lecture at Yale. There is also an Assume the Position 201.
I thought it was funny that Churchill didn't know that a two finger salute meant f*** off, when he started the V for victory sign.
Comic relief is very much still a thing!
Winston Churchill died in 1965, I remember seeing his coffin being sailed on the river Thames before it was buried. There was a special Winston Churchill 5/- piece called a crown minted in 1965 to commemorate him, we used to spend them in the tuck shop at school.
I live on the atlantic coast of Canada 🇨🇦, i grew up sailing in the open ocean. Honestly it is a whole lot of fun once you get used to it. I mean sailing, no power boats, true sailing. Kept me out of trouble in my teen years because i came home too tired to cause any trouble. Haha.
If you get chance please do some Blackadder reactions
The subtle part is how she pronounces "Comic Relief"... ;)
12:45 I occasionally have nightmares of swimming in the ocean with jellyfish, sea urchins, anemones, venomous snails and what have you. Basically everything in there wants you dead.
Back in the days when name shortening became a thing, in the early days of English generalised handwriting, rhyming slang became a big thing in England, particularly around the capitol, where most people who could write lived.
Richard got shortened to Rick, then rhymed into Hick or Dick.
Robert got shortened to Rob, then rhymed into Bob.
@Mr. Terry History I totally agree we as human DO NOT belong under the water 🤣🤣🤣
I always thought the men from Mars and women from Venus thing was a reference to Roman mythology. Mars being the God of War and Venus being the goddess of fertility
I've submitted "cardboard volcano" as the Latin-English translation of 'magma carta' on Google Translate.
I enjoy the beach, wading in the ocean and have even jumped in. Then I tried snorkeling in it a couple times and decided it wasn’t for me. I felt overwhelmed. Lol. It’s a whole other world that I’d rather view on the discovery channel or PBS. 😂
Arguably, drinking and smoking are not as severe self-inflicted health issues as a bullet to the brain, but I see the point. There's a RUclips video of two lads recreating Churchill's diet for a day. History made real.
'Men are from Mars and women from Venus' is probably because of stereotypes that are attributed to these Roman gods and by extension the planets named after them. The alliteration makes it memorable, especially in Dutch since the word for woman is 'vrouw', giving it 2 alliterations.
Always going around asking about his shoes? No wonder they called him Sockrates....
The phone thing is called the bystander effect. Its crazy. Its the thought that "someone else is gonna help so i shouldn't help" my dad and mom taught me differently and i never not help
Also absolutely Terrified of bodies of water too! Ill stick with my pools lol and even then those can get infested. We had a toe biter water bug one year. It was terrifying it got my foot. My brother had to come out everytime and make sure the pool was safe for me lol
2:04 My mom smoked weed as as a teenager/young adult and apparently she had a habit of putting her shoes in the fridge after, so her mom always knew when she’d snuck out 😂