6:49 It’s a classic British film from 1969 called Kes, considered a staple of working class social cinema about a boy from a northern mining village who defies the rough nature of the people and industrial landscape around him by finding a kestrel and training it.
My mind is officially blown. I genuinely thought that this film (I've not got around to watching it) was much more modern. Thank you for highlighting this.
Oh..now the skit on that British comedy show about Kes the kestrel makes more sense. Off topic now - Can't remember the show title now... guy used to wear half masks for different characters like Mel B and Craig David. He'd play Craig David with a thick Geordie accent and would say what a success he was because he owned his own Soda Stream and was only 23. Made no sense and it was hilarious.😂
Came here in September 24... to say the same. Now feeling embarrassed. And lonely. Very self conscious now. Yes, you should stop reading. Nothing more to see here
All together now " we're off to button moon, we'll follow Mr. Spoon, button moon, button moon" I can't be the only one who now has that song going around in my head.
3:19 That code is in BASIC, an early programming language that many early desktop computer users learned to either write their own programs or modify existing ones. I learned this on the first personal computer I used back in the 1980s, and some programs I meticulously copied from a book of BASIC programs bought in a bookshop! Anyway, the code here is a simple example of an infinite loop (a phenomenon many BASIC users will be sadly familiar with): it will print "I am a nerd" repeatedly unless you force break the execution or switch off the computer.
There's some obscure British references in their videos such as the bit at 6:30 on the top right of their video. That black and white bit used to tell regions of ITV television that a ad break was about to happen. 6:33 their logo and ident theme are in reference to ITV's Southern franchise. 6:50 as others have said is Kes, a film from the late 60's. 7:19 Yes. 7:47 As you can see Mr Spoon is from Button Moon, a kids tv show originally aired in the early 80's. 11:40 That photoshopped phone box is an old British Telecom KX phone kiosk but with an T in its logo instead of B. 15:02 That's Marvin, the paranoid android, from the tv version of Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
@@nightw4tchman yeah, I was assuming the box referred to wasnt that one actually shown, It also has the "herald" logo on it (I forget which greek/roman god thing it was supposed to be (not Pan as such?)
The kid at about 20:44 is the main character in a famous book about a boy and his kestrel. Both the book and the kestrel were called 'Kes'. It went on to become a great movie of the same name.
@@jsmith498 In order to get David Bradley to feel genuine grief at the death of Kes, Ken Loach had someone locate a dead kestrel. He told David that he had killed Kes for the scene. The tears are genuine.
this is actually a great example of how reaction videos can benefit creators i only started watching map men again recently since your reactions reminded me of them. (and perfect timing with this vid since i just watched the original yesterday)
Hi, Re GG for gambling sites, In the UK most gambling was on Horse Racing, Horses were referred to as GGs by/for children, going to horse racing was called going to the GGs, no idea why
The kid at the top is a book and film named kes I had to study it for my GCSE exams. The film was filmed where I live in Barnsley and we have loads of statues around the area celebrating kes.
Absolute boss react as usual, you turned an 11 minute video into a 20 minute reaction, transformative af! I haven’t watched map men in a while but since your reactions I’ve gone back to their channel and watched a ton of videos from them because you reminded me how funny and interesting they are! And I find entertainment value in watching your reactions as well as just their video. Exactly how reactions should be!
Don't forget the waffle maker on top of the computer disk reader in that spoof advert. The 'kid with the bird' is a reference to a film of a book, the bird is a Kestrel, and the book's title was 'A Kestrel For a Knave' and the film was just called 'Kes', a very British tale that was a great favourite at the time - 1970s
The Kid with the bird is from the film “Kes” ( short for Kestrel). It was a gritty film set in 1960s which lots of schoolchildren got taken to see in 1970s.
That Megatronix desktop would have been a dream when I did my degree - we had a terminal in our department building. You had to book a time slot to get onto it, then type in your FORTRAN'77 code, praying that you made no typos, and it would be whisked over to the Computer Centre by the magic computer pixies. Once in the mysterious vault a CDC mainframe would eventually give our little programs a millisecond of consideration, and the next day we could collect out printout of the results. At least that's what normally happened. I learned a very valuable lesson one day by accidentally submitting a program which had an infinite loop of division by zero. First the local university centre went down, then the university to the west, then those to the east and north . . . Someone managed to pull the plug before the entire north of England network crashed.
I have loved Map Men for years, but I think I prefer watching you react to their videos as you take time to deconstruct the large number of jokes that run past me when I usually watch their videos.
1:55 not to mention the waffle maker peripheral. The boy with the bird (kestrel, to be precise) at 6:50 is David Bradley, who played Billy Casper in the 1969 film "Kes".
If anyone knows what Nominative determinism (which is when a name matches a job. eg John Baker grows upto be a baker). Postel was destined create the "internet postcode"
"Ats us nai!" is a clichéd phrase that people associate with us in N Ireland. Indeed "that's us now", which is something you might say when finally relaxing in front of a pint of beer or cup of tea after a hard day's work. Like an exhalation of relief, if you will.
Back in the early '80s, computers didn't come with graphical desktops (asking a bit too much of the primitive hardware). Rather they'd come with the BASIC programming language. You'd turn on the machine and then the BASIC prompt - famously "ready" on Commodore machines to tell you that the computer was ready to accept new commands - would appear and you'd type simple commands. For example, you'd type LOAD to load programs from your tape player or disk drive. RUN to execute the loaded program. And so forth. But it was a programming language, so you can actually create programs with it as well. You did this by supplying a number - such as the "10" or "20" in the example BASIC code in the video - which specified the order in which instructions should be executed. So "10 PRINT", followed by some message, would print these characters to the screen and then "20 GOTO 10" would tell the machine to return to line 10 again and execute it. Then it'd execute line 20, which returns to line 10. And this would go on forever. So kids back in the '80s would remember this pattern and go to their local computer store, where there were demonstration machines, then type something like: 10 PRINT "THIS COMPUTER STORE SUCKS" 20 GOTO 10 Which would result in "THIS COMPUTER STORE SUCKS" streaming down the screen forever. In reality, I'm being polite, the messages that kids would have streaming down the screen would typically be more controversial in their language than merely suggesting the computer store sucked. This was a hilarious prank enjoyed by all. Even those who had no idea how to code in BASIC would learn this pattern, just so they could print offensive messages streaming down the screen of any demonstration computer they encountered. Such as shops or every machine in the school computer lab. If you're wondering why I'm typing all the commands in UPPERCASE LETTERS, this is because these early machines were so primitive that they often couldn't actually show both upper case and lower case letters simultaneously. Microsoft got their start making BASIC interpreters, by the way. They sold "Microsoft BASIC" to these computer manufacturers to supply with their machines.
Ah, yes. But have you considered whether an AI reaction channel would the react to the reaction? Look, hang on a minute. We're all going to be spending our time watching reactions to original content. Oh, wait. 🙂
I was wondering the same. Only just noticed it myself at the last second. Good on you for pointing it out and I hope JJ sees your comment. These guys are unfailingly hilarious! 🤣
Can you please react to so Irish stuff? As a Norwegian living in Ireland 20+ years, I really enjoy seeing other outsider perspectives of Irish slang, culture etc. I've had American friends visit and they've loved it. It's just across the pond from England so why not??
"CV" is short for Latin "curriculum vitae". Which means "course of life". Which is what CVs are all about, of course, mapping the course of your life for prospective employers to see who you are and what you've done. America went French with "Résumé". Brits went Latin with "Curriculum vitae". Neither of us bothered coming up with our own word for it. Typical.
I was trying to think of a literal English version of it. I suppose we could call it "Talent Shower" but that goes horribly wrong for all sorts of reasons.
I'm surprised the US doesn't use .us more. It seems to be the law that if it doesn't move you stick a US flag on it, or kick it until it moves, and then stick a US flag on it. It seems very short sighted to not stick .us on every website as kids wont necessarily see the flag whilst glued to their screen and may forget which country they're in.
I love this channel, but the moment it showed Tokelau, and he said “that looks like an ideal place for a resort” I was like 😖 ugh, so American 😭 sorry sorry. ( 11:14)
@@JJLAReacts Well deserved praise -- as I've said before you're absolutely the best American Reactor (among many) I've encountered. Always look forward to your uploads 'cause you react intelligently with a great sense of humour. You're a class act, JJ!
14.20 Bodge It = British slag for a job done quickly at low cost, low quality bit janky... Bodgers were itinerant craftsmen who produced turned chair legs on hand operated turning machines for the local furniture industry. The wood they used was often 'green' (not seasoned) so would distort as they dried. As a result they could only be used on the cheapest chairs and stools. Hence, a bodged job.
6:49 It’s a classic British film from 1969 called Kes, considered a staple of working class social cinema about a boy from a northern mining village who defies the rough nature of the people and industrial landscape around him by finding a kestrel and training it.
I mean tbf it seems only right to mention that this story came from a book originally. Called “a kestrel for a knave” by Barry Hines.
My mind is officially blown. I genuinely thought that this film (I've not got around to watching it) was much more modern. Thank you for highlighting this.
@@JamesLMasonthe film is a great interpretation of the book but the book is much better
Oh..now the skit on that British comedy show about Kes the kestrel makes more sense. Off topic now - Can't remember the show title now... guy used to wear half masks for different characters like Mel B and Craig David. He'd play Craig David with a thick Geordie accent and would say what a success he was because he owned his own Soda Stream and was only 23. Made no sense and it was hilarious.😂
@@nolajoy7759 haha your thinking of Bo Selecta.🤣👍
You didn't mention the 'waffle maker' attachment to the computer picture... 😂
Yeah, I missed it LOL. Good set of eyes on you! Thanks!
Came here in September 24... to say the same. Now feeling embarrassed.
And lonely.
Very self conscious now.
Yes, you should stop reading.
Nothing more to see here
@@KevFrostI don't know how to make waffle batter as well.
[Stares angrily at PC]
I've ended up on a JJLA binge while working today. What a great algorithm suggestion! Subbed!
Thank you!!! Cheers 🍻
The car number plate is a Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy joke. Earth is in sector ZZ9 plural Z - alpha.
All together now " we're off to button moon, we'll follow Mr. Spoon, button moon, button moon"
I can't be the only one who now has that song going around in my head.
Love the song lol ❤
I loved that when I was little!
3:19 That code is in BASIC, an early programming language that many early desktop computer users learned to either write their own programs or modify existing ones. I learned this on the first personal computer I used back in the 1980s, and some programs I meticulously copied from a book of BASIC programs bought in a bookshop! Anyway, the code here is a simple example of an infinite loop (a phenomenon many BASIC users will be sadly familiar with): it will print "I am a nerd" repeatedly unless you force break the execution or switch off the computer.
There's some obscure British references in their videos such as the bit at 6:30 on the top right of their video. That black and white bit used to tell regions of ITV television that a ad break was about to happen.
6:33 their logo and ident theme are in reference to ITV's Southern franchise.
6:50 as others have said is Kes, a film from the late 60's.
7:19 Yes.
7:47 As you can see Mr Spoon is from Button Moon, a kids tv show originally aired in the early 80's.
11:40 That photoshopped phone box is an old British Telecom KX phone kiosk but with an T in its logo instead of B.
15:02 That's Marvin, the paranoid android, from the tv version of Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
I think the round circle with the T and dots (all in yellow) was the BT brand logo in the mid 80s
It was but the logo on that kiosk was the one used in the 90's.@@highpath4776
@@nightw4tchman yeah, I was assuming the box referred to wasnt that one actually shown, It also has the "herald" logo on it (I forget which greek/roman god thing it was supposed to be (not Pan as such?)
We're off to button moon, we follow Mr. Spoon, button moon.
There's Button Moon, shining very brightly in blanket sky!
To this day, the British space force insists on its rockets being covered in Heinz Beans/Plastic funnel livery.
For the yankee doodle dandies, and other rebellious colonists: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Moon
The ".bok .bok bok .bok bok .bok .bgaaaaark" reference is a common interpretation of a chicken "clucking" 😂
The kid at about 20:44 is the main character in a famous book about a boy and his kestrel. Both the book and the kestrel were called 'Kes'. It went on to become a great movie of the same name.
The book was called A Kestrel for a Knave, iirc.
@@catherinebutler4819 Ah yes! It was the film that was just called 'Kes' wasn't it? Happy to be corrected.
The Picture of the boy is from a british film called Kes. It is a film about a boy and a Kestrel. The one on the boys arm. You should watch ir.
Karl Pilkington's second favourite film. Also, we saw Evil Edna. 📺
@@jsmith498 In order to get David Bradley to feel genuine grief at the death of Kes, Ken Loach had someone locate a dead kestrel. He told David that he had killed Kes for the scene. The tears are genuine.
Yes, it will also be a good insight into the Yorkshire accent/dialect. ❤
Sounds like I need to watch this one. Thanks!
this is actually a great example of how reaction videos can benefit creators i only started watching map men again recently since your reactions reminded me of them. (and perfect timing with this vid since i just watched the original yesterday)
Thank you for video
Good on ya for know Mick being from Simply Red (And half a point bonus for also stating Simple Minds!)
Great stuff!
I have climbed Roseberry Topping. It is a hill South East of Middlesbrough - but I haven't put it on my CV.
LOL Put it on there! You might get your dream job from it!
These guys need a tv show - freaking hilarious !! love them
The boy is from a British film called kes a cult classic ❤
I love your attention to detail and the way you research while reacting. You not only react to the video but also to the subject of the video 👍.
You missed the waffle iron next to the 15k computer
HAHA, you're right, thanks for pointing that out!
Hi,
Re GG for gambling sites, In the UK most gambling was on Horse Racing,
Horses were referred to as GGs by/for children,
going to horse racing was called going to the GGs,
no idea why
The kid at the top is a book and film named kes I had to study it for my GCSE exams. The film was filmed where I live in Barnsley and we have loads of statues around the area celebrating kes.
The boy with the bird (a Kestrel) is from a British film called 'Kes'
Ahhhhh, thank you.
KES its a film based on the book kestral for a knave (photo of boy and kestral)
Absolute boss react as usual, you turned an 11 minute video into a 20 minute reaction, transformative af!
I haven’t watched map men in a while but since your reactions I’ve gone back to their channel and watched a ton of videos from them because you reminded me how funny and interesting they are! And I find entertainment value in watching your reactions as well as just their video. Exactly how reactions should be!
Very funny..you didn't lay a 💩 on it at all. High praise! 😂
Don't forget the waffle maker on top of the computer disk reader in that spoof advert. The 'kid with the bird' is a reference to a film of a book, the bird is a Kestrel, and the book's title was 'A Kestrel For a Knave' and the film was just called 'Kes', a very British tale that was a great favourite at the time - 1970s
The Kid with the bird is from the film “Kes” ( short for Kestrel). It was a gritty film set in 1960s which lots of schoolchildren got taken to see in 1970s.
I knew it was TV for Tuvalu, well, it wasn’t but it is now
Definitely watch the Map Men episode on how the Longitude Problem was solved by a watch!
That Megatronix desktop would have been a dream when I did my degree - we had a terminal in our department building. You had to book a time slot to get onto it, then type in your FORTRAN'77 code, praying that you made no typos, and it would be whisked over to the Computer Centre by the magic computer pixies.
Once in the mysterious vault a CDC mainframe would eventually give our little programs a millisecond of consideration, and the next day we could collect out printout of the results.
At least that's what normally happened.
I learned a very valuable lesson one day by accidentally submitting a program which had an infinite loop of division by zero.
First the local university centre went down, then the university to the west, then those to the east and north . . . Someone managed to pull the plug before the entire north of England network crashed.
As a Northern Irish person it was spooky how you pronounced "that's us now" (Ats us nai) spot on
I never heard of John Postel. Learned something new.
I have loved Map Men for years, but I think I prefer watching you react to their videos as you take time to deconstruct the large number of jokes that run past me when I usually watch their videos.
Just found your channel mate. Really enjoying the videos. Never watched reaction channels before but these are all so nice to watch
It was so much fun watching your reaction to this! 🤗❤️🌸
14:55 it's also the extension of sega game gear's rom files
Kes always makes me cry 😢
1:55 not to mention the waffle maker peripheral.
The boy with the bird (kestrel, to be precise) at 6:50 is David Bradley, who played Billy Casper in the 1969 film "Kes".
'Beef Butter' got me 😂
If anyone knows what Nominative determinism (which is when a name matches a job. eg John Baker grows upto be a baker). Postel was destined create the "internet postcode"
"Ats us nai!" is a clichéd phrase that people associate with us in N Ireland. Indeed "that's us now", which is something you might say when finally relaxing in front of a pint of beer or cup of tea after a hard day's work. Like an exhalation of relief, if you will.
Back in the early '80s, computers didn't come with graphical desktops (asking a bit too much of the primitive hardware).
Rather they'd come with the BASIC programming language.
You'd turn on the machine and then the BASIC prompt - famously "ready" on Commodore machines to tell you that the computer was ready to accept new commands - would appear and you'd type simple commands.
For example, you'd type LOAD to load programs from your tape player or disk drive. RUN to execute the loaded program. And so forth.
But it was a programming language, so you can actually create programs with it as well. You did this by supplying a number - such as the "10" or "20" in the example BASIC code in the video - which specified the order in which instructions should be executed.
So "10 PRINT", followed by some message, would print these characters to the screen and then "20 GOTO 10" would tell the machine to return to line 10 again and execute it. Then it'd execute line 20, which returns to line 10. And this would go on forever.
So kids back in the '80s would remember this pattern and go to their local computer store, where there were demonstration machines, then type something like:
10 PRINT "THIS COMPUTER STORE SUCKS"
20 GOTO 10
Which would result in "THIS COMPUTER STORE SUCKS" streaming down the screen forever. In reality, I'm being polite, the messages that kids would have streaming down the screen would typically be more controversial in their language than merely suggesting the computer store sucked.
This was a hilarious prank enjoyed by all. Even those who had no idea how to code in BASIC would learn this pattern, just so they could print offensive messages streaming down the screen of any demonstration computer they encountered. Such as shops or every machine in the school computer lab.
If you're wondering why I'm typing all the commands in UPPERCASE LETTERS, this is because these early machines were so primitive that they often couldn't actually show both upper case and lower case letters simultaneously.
Microsoft got their start making BASIC interpreters, by the way. They sold "Microsoft BASIC" to these computer manufacturers to supply with their machines.
.nu was popular in Sweden for a short while. It became regarded as a bit tacky in the early/mid 2000s
Don’t worry, if an AI version of your channel pops up you could always do reactions to the AI version of you reacting. 😁
Ah, yes. But have you considered whether an AI reaction channel would the react to the reaction?
Look, hang on a minute. We're all going to be spending our time watching reactions to original content.
Oh, wait. 🙂
Did we all miss the IBM (irratable bowel movement - i only just noticed it)
I was wondering the same. Only just noticed it myself at the last second. Good on you for pointing it out and I hope JJ sees your comment. These guys are unfailingly hilarious! 🤣
Did you spot the peripheral plugged into the computer like an external floppy drive was a waffle iron?
Mr. Spoon was part of a kids show called button moon :)
Can you please react to so Irish stuff? As a Norwegian living in Ireland 20+ years, I really enjoy seeing other outsider perspectives of Irish slang, culture etc. I've had American friends visit and they've loved it. It's just across the pond from England so why not??
take a look at roseberry topping (Mountain
Newton-Under-Roseberry, Scarborough YO13 0NE ) national trust land.
would love to see your reaction to some famous british tv comedy shows like fawlty towers or only fools and horses / open all hrs / porridge etc etc,
I love button moon
I'm watching your version first my friend. Followed you before them😊
Kes. Classic film is the boy with the kestrel.
"CV" is short for Latin "curriculum vitae". Which means "course of life".
Which is what CVs are all about, of course, mapping the course of your life for prospective employers to see who you are and what you've done.
America went French with "Résumé". Brits went Latin with "Curriculum vitae".
Neither of us bothered coming up with our own word for it. Typical.
I was trying to think of a literal English version of it.
I suppose we could call it "Talent Shower" but that goes horribly wrong for all sorts of reasons.
Were off to button moon,we,ll follow mr.moon,button moon,button moon 😊
7:24 nailed it! 🤣👍
Would love to see JJ try some other humorous educational channels, like BIll Wurtz or CGP Grey.
7:18, spot on!
Kes,british classic film ❤
I went ahead and subscribed but tbh I prefer your reactions and how you do all the pausing to read the jokes because I'm lazy lol
Have you done the Unfinished London series on the m25 or London airports?
I'm surprised the US doesn't use .us more. It seems to be the law that if it doesn't move you stick a US flag on it, or kick it until it moves, and then stick a US flag on it.
It seems very short sighted to not stick .us on every website as kids wont necessarily see the flag whilst glued to their screen and may forget which country they're in.
the roseberry topping joke is funny to anyone from teeside....or northumbria
I love this channel, but the moment it showed Tokelau, and he said “that looks like an ideal place for a resort” I was like 😖 ugh, so American 😭 sorry sorry. ( 11:14)
Yes, I am American.
If only this fact were mentioned in the video title...
You are the best ❤❤❤
Oh my gosh, wow! Thank you! That makes me feel great! Much love and cheers to you! 🍻❤️
@@JJLAReacts Well deserved praise -- as I've said before you're absolutely the best American Reactor (among many) I've encountered. Always look forward to your uploads 'cause you react intelligently with a great sense of humour. You're a class act, JJ!
misses waffle maker attachment to PC ( I could not work out the specific significance of that)
the awnser is: who cares 🤣🤣🤣 love map men 😆
You should have tried a couple of those URLs, even more jokes :D
I so wanted a ICAAN vs UKHANT joke
John postel to me looks like a cult leader lol
CV = Curriculum Vitae. Look it up 🙂
I’m surprised they didn’t mention .io
at 15:25 did we just witness an AI realise it's an AI, and become self aware?
😂
❤❤❤ simply red ❤
14.20 Bodge It = British slag for a job done quickly at low cost, low quality bit janky... Bodgers were itinerant craftsmen who produced turned chair legs on hand operated turning machines for the local furniture industry. The wood they used was often 'green' (not seasoned) so would distort as they dried. As a result they could only be used on the cheapest chairs and stools. Hence, a bodged job.
Eurgh means 'eww' in American.
The chances are that the binary scrolling code says something
i thought jjla was a cyborg?
is no one talking about he’s from the yt channel Your Daily Dose of Internet
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Bok bok bok bgaaark! 🐔 🐔 🐔
I love you darling but you always look so worried. Love to you from Glasgow.
Haha, thanks for your concern. It's probably just my glabellar lines getting thicker as time wears on. Love to YOU! Cheers 🍻
@@JJLAReactsI love you too but I never get a love heart from youn😢❤
Thank you.
The Cook Islands have .co.ck…
Who _doesn't_ love the .co.ck?