As young lad we had "learn about jobs"- week. So I worked in a museum and two days I just photocopied some archeological research reports. At the end the guy let me hold three thousand years old spear head. I asked in awe "what happens if I accidentally drop it?" His answer "I will kill you"
I worked in a video production shop/unit. Edited a For TV Advert involving Ultravox and smashed a customers camera in front of their face. Interesting 3 weeks...
We had two weeks of work experience. First week was in a kindergarten (I think, we call it reception here) and got bitten. Second was in a tech company where I wasn't allowed to use the bathroom without hunting down my supervisor lmao
That sounds much better we justg had parents and local people that came in and informed people of jobs. My dad and his fire department came out and I got to be their helper by showing how gear is put on but that's all we did we never got to go work at places that would've been cool!
My dad was doing a PhD in the geology department and one of the honours students on a different project was given a deep ocean core sample to process. They do this by passing it through a series of sieves staring with the largest then collecting the finer material. This student forgot to put a bucket underneath when they used the first sieve and washed most of a $15000 core sample down the sink.
nice. reminds me of the museum joke. "A little girl asks a guard how old the dinosaur fossil is, 65 million and 7 years he replies. Gosh that's very accurate says her farther. Yes replies the guard they told me it was 65MYO when I started working here 7 years ago". Not very funny, but I refer to it from time to tie when people assume high degrees of accuracy for what were originally estimates (can you tell I am an engineer?)
@@MrTerry That makes sense. I wonder if you could find a compilation from individual episodes. The Shakespeare and Christmas ones are two of my favorites. I really enjoy watching your genuine reactions. It adds another level of humor to her hilarious documentaries. Thanks for making great content.
Paul is a common name for middle aged men in this country. It was seemingly very popular in the 60s/70s. My dad is a Paul, and I swear a ridiculously high percentage of people I meet who are around my age also have dads called Paul lol. So basically, everyone knows a Paul. So shes playing off of that, in that Paul is one of those very stereotypical middle aged bloke names, sorta like Dave or Bob.
Paul is a friend. She always says “My mate Paul”. He never appears, but is the protagonist of many stories. You should watch the entire moment of Wonder from Charlie Brooker’s weekly and annual wipes (and the lockdown special, antiseptic wipe)
As far as I'm aware, Paul has never appeared in Philomena Cunk. His only role is to be the subject of Philomena's disturbing stories. If you remember old episodes of Frasier, they also did this with the main character's sister in law Maris.
These skits are great. They allow her to ask the really stupid questions many people probably ask themselves but don't have the courage to speak out. I'm sure a few of the science-men who encountered her rethought how they should teach some things hence forth. I think the main audience for this comedy is average people who don't understand scientific things but feel a bit better if they see someone else seeming even more uniformed than themselves.
Nah, it's for everyone. Despite the riot of one liners, the history is actually presented accurately, and Cunk herself can land a few right hooks at times around sensitive topics. Diane is a great actress - she was in a series with Ricky Gervais too where she plays a Cunk like character to hilarious effect.
It was the execution of William Wallace (better known as Mel Gibson's Braveheart) . Paul is never seen and only referred to with bizarre anecdotes , he is just a "friend" . Loving these reaction vids Terry .
12:10 Something interesting I learned about the excavation of Pompeii in the realm of Linguistics . . . They found 2000-year-old Latin graffiti on the walls of Pompeii that the catastrophe had preserved. Things like "Octavius was here" (which is also kind of interesting it itself, seeing that must be part of human nature!) Anyway, the graffiti was written phonetically (kind of like how some people text in modern English) which has given us a much better understanding of how Latin actually sounded at the time!
Same thing can be said about vikings. They did graffiti on places they raided, wich I find a bit hillarious TBH. It because of that we know some of the places they have been. 😂
My favorite historical graffiti was in a church (I forgot what country) that was something like 500 years old way up on the ceiling that just read "It was hard to get up here"
Funnily enough, Philomena might not be entirely wrong about King Harold. While it's known he died either during or shortly after the Battle of Hastings, there's no documented evidence from that time period saying he died from an arrow to the eye, except for the Bayeux Tapestry depiction. And some historians have recently cast doubt on the figure with the arrow in his eye actually being Harold at all, having pointed out other figures in the tapestry who could also, feasibly, be Harold instead.
@@vincegamer The writing goes all the way along the top of the tapestry, telling a story. Just because the name 'Harold' happens to sit above a picture of a soldier with an arrow in his eye doesn't mean it's a label on a diagram - any more than having an advert for haermorrhoid cream next to a newspaper headline about a bank robbery means the robbers stole haemorrhoid cream from the bank they robbed. Anyway, I'm just relaying what these historical experts have said - Im not making any claims myself. They're the ones who've been studying the tapestry for years, so I'm not gonna be the one to tell them they're wrong!
IIRC the current theory is that the arrow was a later addition to the tapestry that, at that point, had become worn and lost some of the original stitching, and that it was based on the "arrow in the eye" stories, but examination of that part of the tapestry suggests the Harold figure may have been holding a spear.
I think TIme Team did a recent episode where they tore apart a parking lot built over the chapel at the scene of his death and they found an appropriate skeleton in a fancy burial.
We love Philomena! My girlfriend saw her first and introduced her to me and I couldn’t stop laughing. I hope you share more of her throughout the world 🔑🗝️
Some mystical characters from Anglo-Saxon or Celtic Britain did exist, but you're entirely right in your analysis that most of these were probably only local chieftains which history has magnified. Merlin, for example, is Merddyn in Welsh and a town and a whole region are named after him, Caerfyrddin (Merlin's fort/castle).
* Myrddin Hence "Caer-" - meaning "fort" - and "--myrddin" (which becomes "-fyrddin" due to the transmutation rules of the Welsh language) becoming "Caerfyrddin". "Caerfyrddin" in English is called "Carmarthen", and there's an ancient tome called "the Black Book of Carmarthen". What's notable about the Black Book is that it mentions an "Arthur" who rode into battle with a cross on his shield. But this is not mythological Arthur. He's not a King. Indeed, that Germanic import - the concept of a "King" - did not yet exist. This was "Warrior Chieftain Arthur". In fact, in Welsh, "arth" is the word for "bear". His name implies no wimpy king, but a bear-like beast of a man, who went around beating the shit out of his enemies. Brutal and savage. The Black Book speaks of a historical man, with no mythological exaggerations. He was a leader of his people - a chieftain - who, significantly, rode into battle with a cross on his shield. In other words, what was significant about Arthur - that put him into legend - was that he was a Christian. He warred and conquered in the name of Christ - and, likely, spread Christianity by the sword to the pagans. Killing and converting, bringing Christ to those pagan lands. But this adds up with the mythology. You know, "the Holy Grail" - an early Christian ruler, questing for Christ. And the concept of the round table - a table which had no head, so all who sit around it were equal. A very Christian idea of equality, and that the only true "King" was the King of Kings, Jesus. Oh, and there's no possible way that "Arthur" and "Myrddin" (Merlin) could ever have historically met. There's centuries between their stories. (Not unless Merlin really was a magician, who lived his life backwards and could prolong it for centuries, as some of the legends have it.) But, ah, the two local historical "celebrities" - Myrddin giving his name to the Welsh town, and the Black Book reciting Arthur's history found in the town - are bashed together in myth and legend. (Indeed, there's two candidates for Merlin. A "Myrddin Gwyllt" - wild Merlin - and another Myrddin centuries earlier. Which one is the Myrddin of legend? Truth is, it's probably both of them. A little bit of column A and a little bit of column B, creating a hybrid mythical character, who's got the interesting bits of both, blended together into a new mythological character.) One thing, though. Arthur's definitely NOT the King of England. Absolutely not. Perfectly impossible, in fact, as England did not even exist back then. There was a tree in Carmarthen. Merlin's oak. And it was said that if the oak fell, the town would fall. It ended up in the middle of a traffic roundabout - they built a road around it. It was long since dead, and a few cars crashed into it. In desperation, they filled it with concrete, to avoid it falling. It was a sad sight. And then they moved it to a museum to preserve it. Merlin still hasn't shown up, though. So I'm not sure the legends are really true. Although, there's a Roman amphitheatre just down the road from where Merlin's oak used to stand. Carmarthen was a Roman settlement to begin with, you see, as the invaders wanted all that Welsh gold from the Dolaucothi gold mines nearby. Indeed, their plundering of Welsh gold helped pay to run the Empire for a good long while afterwards. They pretty much emptied those mines out entirely. There was a reason why the Romans invaded Britain, you know. Welsh gold, Bath's healing springs. Lots of natural resources to plunder.
Harry Potter is based on a real character and he has shops and a town named after him as well as a whole area in the west midlands. He has sold more books than many gods and shows us how to live a good and virtuous life in the service of others.
@@klaxoncow What you say about Arthur makes sense, considering Wales was Christianised in around the 4th Century, about 1 to 2 centuries before the Anglo-Saxons were, and records of St George's death in 303 AD, it would make sense for a person wearing the cross of St George to be around in Britain killing off Pagans, who would most likely be Anglo-Saxon invaders and what would now be called the English, and iirc there's a group of people in welsh myth from what is now Lincolnshire who were known to have some magical powers to do with hearing.
Love your reaction to the Cern Abbas Giant. Recently discovered to be not Romano-British but 16th century. I wasn’t allowed to take the kids to see it. My wife put her foot down on that one. We had to stick to WW1 regimental badges.
😂 Americans are so repressed even when it comes to ancient art. I don't think it's the size of the D they have a similar attitude to Michelangelo's David.
Well according to legend, if a girl takes her knickers off and sits on the giant, she'll get pregnant. Perhaps the wife didn't want to take the risk......?
The reason archaeologists find everything buried, is because soil depth is constantly increasing. If we look at Roman mosaic floors, they are often found at a depth around one metre on farm land, so a 2000 year old floor has been slowly covered at a depth of around 0.5 mm per year because of additions to the soil through natural die back of grasses, crop residue, fertilisers etc. In heavily forested areas its likely to be around 1.0 mm per year because of seasonal leaf drop, branches and trees rotting down and adding more depth.
I'm from Edinburgh, Scotland. We had many plague pits. A few of our hilly streets are the result of building over plague pits. One of which is in a very creepy and apparently haunted city centre graveyard, it still brings up bones to the surface after substantial torrential rain.
Paul is just a friend we never see who does mad stuff that some friends do, he goes back to the earliest Philomena stuff on Charlie Brooker’s Wipe series
King Arthur is based on a centurion named "Lucius Artorius Castus" in Wales. This combined with other events to inspire Welsh myth which made it to English folklore that would have probably been popularized around the time England united.
The chalk figures, like the Cerne Abbas Giant in this video, are not like the Nazca lines. The former are visible from ground level and other hills as they are on sloping hillsides. The Nazca lines, which I have been able to fly over, are on flat desert and are not visible from ground level. However, there are a few figures on the desert hillsides in that part of Peru that are, of which the most famous is the Peracas Candelabra.
Love your commentary of the best historian so far, Philomena Cunk. It truly opens up a whole array of dark and light insights of history angels we have not explored enough. "My mate Paul" is only the start of a new insight we didn't need 🤣
The short clip near the beginning was of the famous Peter Brook production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1970. I saw it as a young teenager - it was wonderful. Cunk on Shakespeare was magnificent too!
As an Englishman Mr Terry, you are frigging awesome. So very funny and I love how well you get the prank. I also love the reality you give as you play the videos. Best history lesson I have ever had and I am an old fart.
In the UK we have many chalk hill figures ranging from the Cerne Abbas Giant you showed to horses, a crown, crosses, a lion etc. Some fairly old and some quite recent.
9:24 You taught me something I've been wondering about recently. I'm reading about the collapse of the Inca Empire and I wondered why the European diseases affected the natives so much, but that whatever diseases the Incas might have had didn't likewise affect the Europeans. Your explanation makes sense, thanks!
He said "the stain" in the background was a map of Nepal. The Red Nose guy was Richard Curtis CBE (born 8 November 1956) a British screenwriter, producer and film director, Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013) and Yesterday (2019). He is also known for the drama War Horse (2011) and for having co-written the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. His early career saw him write material for the BBC's Not the Nine O'Clock News and ITV's Spitting Image.
@@SomeGuy-hd4cn Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Award given for distinguished and innovative contribution to one’s occupation or any area.
Yes. Rollo (Gange-Rolv) is a good example. He was "mythified". We can assume he existed, but his legend has probably grown bigger than he (reportedly) actually was. My mate Paul is a sort of interlude she brings up from time to time. Paul is a disturbing mate. You should absolutely watch her stuff full length. They are all great. Good actress (also in Ricky Gervais' Afterlife).
Made me laugh that you scooted over the Cerne Abbas Giant, but I drive past it with my kids in the car and they say "Daddy there's a man on the hill with a big willy". Yes son, it's a very important historical artefact.
I recalled watching an King Arthur movie which doesn't start with him but Merlin having Excalibur killing someone who killed his father, then he tried to return the sword to the lake but The Lady of the lake gave it back to him so Merlin puts it in the stone, later in the movie King Arthur has to fight his own son
Your question about King Arthur really got me thinking. It's such an interesting discussion. I would personally love to see the "debate" or a video on it.
Probably wouldn't be allowed because of the bad language. Maybe with the older students though, my teachers kinda stopped caring about the language they used once I was in my last two years.
2:11 I reckon you’re probably on the right track. I recently watched a 1hr documentary on King Arthur here on RUclips where they go right through every version of the story. Basically Arthur is based on a story about someone but there’s 8 known battles credited with being won by Arthur. 2 of which happened 100 years apart. So the story about the person is very liberal with the old “don’t let the truth hurt a good story.
Your point around the 2 min mark, about where legends and myths came from...its been my hypothesis for a while now. After reading Earths Children series, it made a lot of sense that a lot of myths are very possibly real people who were extroadinary in some way for their story to be told and retold. I started thinking this around the point in one of the books when a story teller comes to the group, which, this is in the stone age when neanerthals are still around, but barely, and tells the story about the main character...but twists it and makes it into a deity like story, with no hint it was even about her. She also has the effect of making people feel awe by the simple fact she rides a horse and tames a wolf....and a cave lion. For a bit of back story and context, she was actually raised by neanderthals after her family died in an earthquake and being rescued by the clan of them. She is eventually banished by the jealous son of the leader who becomes new leader. While on her own, she learns to pit trap animals, but one ends up being a nursing mare, whose foal follows her back to her cave of solitude...following its mother corspe, and from there, the girl takes care of it and raises it. Later on, when the foal grows up into a mare, she accidently causes a stampede that crushes a baby cave liom, which ended up being abandoned by its family, thinking its going to die. Hyenas start to mess with it, and she has a deep hatred for hyenas, so chases them away, and takes the cub home...and cures it ( shes a healer, taught by clan medicine woman, who adopted her), and raises it. Eventually it leaves to start his own pride, but once in a while it sniffs her out to come say hi, i missed you. One of these times is after she meets people of her own kind family. Later on, after shes met family and sort of established with them, she kills a nursing wolf, thats alone, not with a pack, and feels guilty, because it was needless kill, stealing hers to nurse its baby. So she hunts out its den, and finds the baby...and you guessed it...raised it. She basically introduces the idea of dogs and horse riding to people. She is also extremely talented with the sling because she practiced so much as a child out of secret competition of the leaders son. But...the people all are awed by her, often even wonder if shes a goddess, THE goddess, like the great mother goddess. Theres one point where a whole camp abandon what theyre doing and run away when she approaches on horse back...because horses are food then, not something to ride, or be a pet. They dont even know what pets are. So they see her as supernatural and out of fear shes evil, they run away, in the middle of tool making, cooking, playing with dolls...ect. Point im making is a lot of times she reminded me of some mythological story, and it makes sense that they were once real people, the gods and mythical creatures that are more human like. Just...not fully understood. The girl in the books did perfectly ordinary things anyone in our time might, and more likely do. But back then, it was amazing, it was crazy, it was unthinkable. So she must be a goddess. But she wasnt. She was a human being, like you and me, whose story was exaggerated to keep an audience, and also not oust her personally, as she wasnt attention seeking by any means. And stories work like a game of telephone. None of the classic fairy tales started out as we know them. Cinderella and Snow White were hardly the kid friendly stories Disney would have us believe them to be, and even worse when you explore their origins before Grimm. It makes more sense the myths we know were about real people who did extoardinary things...for their time...only for their stories to evolve into the myths we know today...which...even those have gone through quite the change when you consider once upon a time, Hades wasnt part of the pantheon...not even a thought. In fact, his wife predates him...under a different name, with a different husband, the god of the sea. So that too, kinds of helps give evidence to that idea. Ok im done lol. Sorry so long. It was fun to type out though 😊
The penis thingies reminded me of when I was about 10 yo and my mother went to my School and saw that someone had written "FITA!" on the wall. That is a misspelling of a vulgar word for Vagina (kind of like if they had written "CONT"). My mother was sooo upset, not about the graffiti or the language, but that the one who did it didn't know how to spell
The bloke reading Shakespeare is one of the best actors in the world Sir Simon Russell Beale, who was absolutely brilliant as Beria in The Death of Stalin, and unsurprisingly he is a superb Shakespearean actor
Paul can be found at any pub. He's someone we all know, all over the world. He's the guy that tells you all the bizarre stories that are unlikely to be true, but he swears they are.
Speaking of King Arthur. Saw a movie about it claiming it's based on some archeological findings that points to Arthur as a Roman commander named Arturius and his knights were Sarmatian Cavalry, Merlin was a Cletic Chief and Guenevere a Celtic warrior. I don't know about the authenticity but it's fun to think it may be the case.
king Arthur last i heard was basically narrowed down to the theory of a strong leader who fought against the Saxons, at this point hes basically like Achilles, its obvious nobody like him existed but more a really good warrior at the time had his achievements exaggerated. although if nobody mentioned it and you are unaware there was an archaeological find in 2019. -a sword, found encased in a rock, at the bottom of a lake....in Bosnia.
just my opinion on Arthur is that he's either an ass or we're in for a rough time, because he's supposedly going to return from the dead to rule Britain in its most dire need, which tells me 1 of 2 things. 1) he just abandoned us during the world wars 2) something worse than the world wars is yet to happen to Britain and i dont know which one upsets me more.
The current consensus on King Arthur is that he was a man of Roman descent who fought against the Saxons. A burial pit was found where one of the soldiers (clearly a soldier) was over 6' tall, which was unusual for the time (the burial was also within the confines of Goddodin and where Gildas stated he fell). It is believed his status rose to that of a king in mythology, at some point during the Viking invasions.
King Arthur can kill two stones with one bird. When King Arthur looked into the abyss, the abyss looked away. Chuck Norris... er, King Arthur beat the sun in a staring contest. You see where I'm going there, I hope.
Paul is just the name they chose to tell these stories. But as a mechanism he is not dissimilar to Maris in that you never see him, you just hear insane stories.
To answer your question I think it's about the distinction between history, legend, and myth. I think mythological figures like Zeus have a clear link to the proto indo-european religion that makes their historicity as real people unlikely. Too many sky father gods with names with similar etymological roots. If they are based on real people then it's far back enough that their stories have changed so much as to be completely unrecognisable. However legendary figures from the same stories, like Heracles, I think are likely based on heroic real world figures whose stories became vastly exaggerated through the years. I think the same is probably true for lots of other legendary figures like Moses, Perseus, Achilles, etc. I don't think their stories are accurate anymore, but there's certainly good arguments that they existed in some form. Edit: spelling
...Moses isn't a legend. There's DNA evidence in one of the genealogical branches of ethnic Jews that shows that over 50% of them share a very specific gene group, stretching back over 4000 years to their ancestor Aaron, who was the brother of Moses. Not 100% because over the years there will be lying about belonging to the group getting mixed in and of course good old-fashioned adultery messing things up.
'My mate Paul' is just a running gag. The huge figures in Britain are not like the Nazca Lines. The Nazca Lines are drawn on flat surfaces and can indeed only be fully seen from up in the air, in Britain however they are on the sides of hills so you can actually appreciate them from the ground.
One thing about archeology - while you're correct that in many cases they are digging up "trash", in many other cases they are digging up religious artifacts intentionally left behind. An interesting - and contentious - example of this is the ruins found in the search for Ciudad Blanca in 2015 (I think). "The Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston, who chronicled that expedition, is an excellent book (the audio book is also quite good). The city appears to have been abandoned, quite possibly after a plague decimated the population. Definitely worth a read and he covers a great deal of the history of the search for the city. The number (and extent) of some of the cons associated with it were pretty spectacular.
12:20 there's an illustrated book called Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay that explores this! It's super silly but it also reframes our modern interpretations of our current archaeological finds
8:34 Nah, the transition from water to land happened wayyy before that. During the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous mammals were basically small rodents. Their size is likely how they survived the K-Pg extinction (the asteroid) 66 million years ago, and with the extinction of their predators, they thrived and took over the world! (:
As somebody else said on the matter of Paul (might be Philomena herself): "We all need our own mate Paul in our lives. A man of sheer wisdom... and absolutely no intelligence."
Has anyone ever suggested you react to Real Pixels's "How Historically Accurate is Red Dead Redemption 2"? It's a really well done video with tons of historical information. I think you 'd like it.
I think, especially with kings, It would be possible to spread stories of them within their territories to improve their peoples view of them which may eventually lead to legends. So maybe author not only existed but was some sort of king or lord
King Arthur was almost certainly based upon the son Uther of Pendragon. He was the King in an area of Wales. He was associated with a dragon, and is why Wales has a dragon on its flag. Arthur means The Bear 🐻 and was given the name because of his strength and prowess in battle.
British sarcasm can't be beat by any country in the world. It's a lesson that the vast majority of us laugh at in Britain. 70 million people who don't give a shit really about anything. Laughing keeps us going .
I am quite curious as to how long it took to finish 5:00, that is quite the dedication to the joke, that has to be a world record. Its made even funnier by the fact that the GODS themselves, more than likely sees them, I wonder what the reactions to them would be like. 😂
11:45 why we dig up some historical stuff? Because, we have time. Progress. With time, comes rains, erosions, soil, swarm of animals and plants, the alteration by humankind, etc. The soil build up layer by layer. And if it's hundreds or even thousands of years, it can be like.. 10 meter below the ground. It's especially hard if it's near volcano. Volcanic ash can bury the site so deep. Each eruption can produce like.. 2 meter of ash layer on the ground .
8:55 It depends, of course, but what I've learned from the "Alone in the Past" documentary is that an ordinary person of 15 century has so many essential routine tasks so they never go further from their home than to get more fire wood. All their life is inside the mile radius. Surprisingly we modern people usually do not travel further than one hour long away from our homes too. Except that our modern modes of transportation can take us further away in a said one hour.
Robin Hood is another mythological character that may be based on perhaps some person in history, or a class of persons, that grew into legend over time.
Check out this Philomena reaction next! ruclips.net/video/7yQAv_6bxkA/видео.html
Everytime she says "my mate Paul" i know some utter hilarity is about to come out of her mouth.
As young lad we had "learn about jobs"- week. So I worked in a museum and two days I just photocopied some archeological research reports. At the end the guy let me hold three thousand years old spear head. I asked in awe "what happens if I accidentally drop it?" His answer "I will kill you"
I worked in a video production shop/unit.
Edited a For TV Advert involving Ultravox and smashed a customers camera in front of their face.
Interesting 3 weeks...
We had two weeks of work experience. First week was in a kindergarten (I think, we call it reception here) and got bitten. Second was in a tech company where I wasn't allowed to use the bathroom without hunting down my supervisor lmao
That sounds much better we justg had parents and local people that came in and informed people of jobs. My dad and his fire department came out and I got to be their helper by showing how gear is put on but that's all we did we never got to go work at places that would've been cool!
My dad was doing a PhD in the geology department and one of the honours students on a different project was given a deep ocean core sample to process. They do this by passing it through a series of sieves staring with the largest then collecting the finer material. This student forgot to put a bucket underneath when they used the first sieve and washed most of a $15000 core sample down the sink.
nice.
reminds me of the museum joke. "A little girl asks a guard how old the dinosaur fossil is, 65 million and 7 years he replies. Gosh that's very accurate says her farther. Yes replies the guard they told me it was 65MYO when I started working here 7 years ago". Not very funny, but I refer to it from time to tie when people assume high degrees of accuracy for what were originally estimates (can you tell I am an engineer?)
I think Paul is a made-up character that she uses to deliver these jokes. (Just a hunch)
Yeah that's what I thought, it's just a character.
Given the random and bizarre things that her mate Paul gets up to I really hope it is a made up character.
Nope
Like Ali G's "Dave" on the show, until the movie when he was played by Martin Freeman?
@@rickb.4168 Ahh. Haven't seen Screen Wipe in years.
"He couldn't fly, or tolerate Gwyneth Paltrow"
Lmfao as someone who has never liked her, that one made me laugh pretty hard 😂
Philomena is great. Her method is a mix of improv and asking questions a 7 yearold would ask
That's how Brooker frames her. He tells the experts to treat her like a small child asking them questions but to answer seriously.
because she is treating her audience as if they too had the IQ of a 7 year old. :(
I love how much you love Philomena. It would be brilliant to do a full episode and provide commentary.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of copyright issues with doing full episodes. That would be ideal though!
@@MrTerry That makes sense. I wonder if you could find a compilation from individual episodes. The Shakespeare and Christmas ones are two of my favorites.
I really enjoy watching your genuine reactions. It adds another level of humor to her hilarious documentaries. Thanks for making great content.
@@MrTerry there are full episodes on youtube though, so I doubt they'd come down on you too strongly
Paul is a common name for middle aged men in this country. It was seemingly very popular in the 60s/70s. My dad is a Paul, and I swear a ridiculously high percentage of people I meet who are around my age also have dads called Paul lol. So basically, everyone knows a Paul. So shes playing off of that, in that Paul is one of those very stereotypical middle aged bloke names, sorta like Dave or Bob.
Yup born in the 70s myself.
Thank McCartney and The Beatles 😊
The "Willis" guy she was talking about with execution is William Wallace, but in that episode she intentionally called him "Walliam Willis"
Paul is a friend. She always says “My mate Paul”. He never appears, but is the protagonist of many stories. You should watch the entire moment of Wonder from Charlie Brooker’s weekly and annual wipes (and the lockdown special, antiseptic wipe)
Definitely. Start with Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on the BBC.
Lots of episodes on YT. Weekly, yearly, games, almost all except Antiseptic but there are clips
Dian Morgan is quickly becoming a national treasure hear in the UK. She is awesome.
10:40 "Willis" is her mis-pronunciation of William Wallace, she called him Walliam Willis.
As far as I'm aware, Paul has never appeared in Philomena Cunk. His only role is to be the subject of Philomena's disturbing stories. If you remember old episodes of Frasier, they also did this with the main character's sister in law Maris.
Don't forget Norm's wife Vera.
These skits are great. They allow her to ask the really stupid questions many people probably ask themselves but don't have the courage to speak out. I'm sure a few of the science-men who encountered her rethought how they should teach some things hence forth. I think the main audience for this comedy is average people who don't understand scientific things but feel a bit better if they see someone else seeming even more uniformed than themselves.
Nah, it's for everyone. Despite the riot of one liners, the history is actually presented accurately, and Cunk herself can land a few right hooks at times around sensitive topics. Diane is a great actress - she was in a series with Ricky Gervais too where she plays a Cunk like character to hilarious effect.
Do I detect a Robert Mac fan?
"My mate Paul" is just a story telling device, and she uses it over and over with hilarious examples.
It was the execution of William Wallace (better known as Mel Gibson's Braveheart) . Paul is never seen and only referred to with bizarre anecdotes , he is just a "friend" . Loving these reaction vids Terry .
“Before Snapchat, hills were the most efficient way to send dick pics”
Terry loses it- breaks down in laughter! (Great laugh btw)
That one killed me too.
The bad thing about those compilations is that they cut all the awkward silences, they are the best part
12:10 Something interesting I learned about the excavation of Pompeii in the realm of Linguistics . . . They found 2000-year-old Latin graffiti on the walls of Pompeii that the catastrophe had preserved. Things like "Octavius was here" (which is also kind of interesting it itself, seeing that must be part of human nature!)
Anyway, the graffiti was written phonetically (kind of like how some people text in modern English) which has given us a much better understanding of how Latin actually sounded at the time!
Same thing can be said about vikings. They did graffiti on places they raided, wich I find a bit hillarious TBH. It because of that we know some of the places they have been. 😂
My favorite historical graffiti was in a church (I forgot what country) that was something like 500 years old way up on the ceiling that just read "It was hard to get up here"
"Before Snap Chat......" 😂😂 I laughed for at least a minute and it got funnier each time 😅
Funnily enough, Philomena might not be entirely wrong about King Harold. While it's known he died either during or shortly after the Battle of Hastings, there's no documented evidence from that time period saying he died from an arrow to the eye, except for the Bayeux Tapestry depiction. And some historians have recently cast doubt on the figure with the arrow in his eye actually being Harold at all, having pointed out other figures in the tapestry who could also, feasibly, be Harold instead.
The nuns who made it and stitched his name next to the picture must feel pretty silly (or would if they were still alive)
@@vincegamer nuns are immortal as you well know. Sister susan will be kicking herself.
@@vincegamer The writing goes all the way along the top of the tapestry, telling a story. Just because the name 'Harold' happens to sit above a picture of a soldier with an arrow in his eye doesn't mean it's a label on a diagram - any more than having an advert for haermorrhoid cream next to a newspaper headline about a bank robbery means the robbers stole haemorrhoid cream from the bank they robbed. Anyway, I'm just relaying what these historical experts have said - Im not making any claims myself. They're the ones who've been studying the tapestry for years, so I'm not gonna be the one to tell them they're wrong!
IIRC the current theory is that the arrow was a later addition to the tapestry that, at that point, had become worn and lost some of the original stitching, and that it was based on the "arrow in the eye" stories, but examination of that part of the tapestry suggests the Harold figure may have been holding a spear.
I think TIme Team did a recent episode where they tore apart a parking lot built over the chapel at the scene of his death and they found an appropriate skeleton in a fancy burial.
Thank you Charlton Brooker for creating this series, the writers, guests and Diane Morgan portrayal of Cunk is fantastic!
Charlie Brooker...
@@TheEulerID Charlie _is_ short for Charlton. Look him up...
I would kill to meet/marry a woman like Philomena. There would never be a dull moment She's absolutely curtains.
People like her dont suddenly become normal, when you tire of us.
We love Philomena! My girlfriend saw her first and introduced her to me and I couldn’t stop laughing. I hope you share more of her throughout the world 🔑🗝️
The 1st reaction from the Expert to "Came a lot" was priceless. Also the Red nose guy was Richard Curtis, famous director, started Red Nose Day
Some mystical characters from Anglo-Saxon or Celtic Britain did exist, but you're entirely right in your analysis that most of these were probably only local chieftains which history has magnified. Merlin, for example, is Merddyn in Welsh and a town and a whole region are named after him, Caerfyrddin (Merlin's fort/castle).
* Myrddin
Hence "Caer-" - meaning "fort" - and "--myrddin" (which becomes "-fyrddin" due to the transmutation rules of the Welsh language) becoming "Caerfyrddin".
"Caerfyrddin" in English is called "Carmarthen", and there's an ancient tome called "the Black Book of Carmarthen".
What's notable about the Black Book is that it mentions an "Arthur" who rode into battle with a cross on his shield.
But this is not mythological Arthur. He's not a King. Indeed, that Germanic import - the concept of a "King" - did not yet exist.
This was "Warrior Chieftain Arthur". In fact, in Welsh, "arth" is the word for "bear". His name implies no wimpy king, but a bear-like beast of a man, who went around beating the shit out of his enemies. Brutal and savage.
The Black Book speaks of a historical man, with no mythological exaggerations.
He was a leader of his people - a chieftain - who, significantly, rode into battle with a cross on his shield. In other words, what was significant about Arthur - that put him into legend - was that he was a Christian. He warred and conquered in the name of Christ - and, likely, spread Christianity by the sword to the pagans. Killing and converting, bringing Christ to those pagan lands.
But this adds up with the mythology. You know, "the Holy Grail" - an early Christian ruler, questing for Christ. And the concept of the round table - a table which had no head, so all who sit around it were equal. A very Christian idea of equality, and that the only true "King" was the King of Kings, Jesus.
Oh, and there's no possible way that "Arthur" and "Myrddin" (Merlin) could ever have historically met. There's centuries between their stories.
(Not unless Merlin really was a magician, who lived his life backwards and could prolong it for centuries, as some of the legends have it.)
But, ah, the two local historical "celebrities" - Myrddin giving his name to the Welsh town, and the Black Book reciting Arthur's history found in the town - are bashed together in myth and legend.
(Indeed, there's two candidates for Merlin. A "Myrddin Gwyllt" - wild Merlin - and another Myrddin centuries earlier. Which one is the Myrddin of legend? Truth is, it's probably both of them. A little bit of column A and a little bit of column B, creating a hybrid mythical character, who's got the interesting bits of both, blended together into a new mythological character.)
One thing, though. Arthur's definitely NOT the King of England. Absolutely not. Perfectly impossible, in fact, as England did not even exist back then.
There was a tree in Carmarthen. Merlin's oak. And it was said that if the oak fell, the town would fall.
It ended up in the middle of a traffic roundabout - they built a road around it. It was long since dead, and a few cars crashed into it.
In desperation, they filled it with concrete, to avoid it falling. It was a sad sight. And then they moved it to a museum to preserve it.
Merlin still hasn't shown up, though. So I'm not sure the legends are really true.
Although, there's a Roman amphitheatre just down the road from where Merlin's oak used to stand.
Carmarthen was a Roman settlement to begin with, you see, as the invaders wanted all that Welsh gold from the Dolaucothi gold mines nearby. Indeed, their plundering of Welsh gold helped pay to run the Empire for a good long while afterwards. They pretty much emptied those mines out entirely.
There was a reason why the Romans invaded Britain, you know. Welsh gold, Bath's healing springs. Lots of natural resources to plunder.
Harry Potter is based on a real character and he has shops and a town named after him as well as a whole area in the west midlands. He has sold more books than many gods and shows us how to live a good and virtuous life in the service of others.
@@klaxoncow What you say about Arthur makes sense, considering Wales was Christianised in around the 4th Century, about 1 to 2 centuries before the Anglo-Saxons were, and records of St George's death in 303 AD, it would make sense for a person wearing the cross of St George to be around in Britain killing off Pagans, who would most likely be Anglo-Saxon invaders and what would now be called the English, and iirc there's a group of people in welsh myth from what is now Lincolnshire who were known to have some magical powers to do with hearing.
Love your reaction to the Cern Abbas Giant. Recently discovered to be not Romano-British but 16th century. I wasn’t allowed to take the kids to see it. My wife put her foot down on that one. We had to stick to WW1 regimental badges.
😂 Americans are so repressed even when it comes to ancient art.
I don't think it's the size of the D they have a similar attitude to Michelangelo's David.
Just love that you lost it at that point👍😅😂
Well according to legend, if a girl takes her knickers off and sits on the giant, she'll get pregnant. Perhaps the wife didn't want to take the risk......?
The reason archaeologists find everything buried, is because soil depth is constantly increasing. If we look at Roman mosaic floors, they are often found at a depth around one metre on farm land, so a 2000 year old floor has been slowly covered at a depth of around 0.5 mm per year because of additions to the soil through natural die back of grasses, crop residue, fertilisers etc. In heavily forested areas its likely to be around 1.0 mm per year because of seasonal leaf drop, branches and trees rotting down and adding more depth.
Exactly, often the layers and type of dirt helps to identify the timelines.
It's always buried because Big History keeps hiding it from us. The truth really is beneath our feet.
Her mate Paul and her ex Sean are two characters she mentions frequently for the sake of humour
I'm from Edinburgh, Scotland. We had many plague pits. A few of our hilly streets are the result of building over plague pits. One of which is in a very creepy and apparently haunted city centre graveyard, it still brings up bones to the surface after substantial torrential rain.
so the creepy graveyard just goes: 'ere, 'ave a gander at me forgotten collection... ?
Paul is just a friend we never see who does mad stuff that some friends do, he goes back to the earliest Philomena stuff on Charlie Brooker’s Wipe series
King Arthur is based on a centurion named "Lucius Artorius Castus" in Wales. This combined with other events to inspire Welsh myth which made it to English folklore that would have probably been popularized around the time England united.
The chalk figures, like the Cerne Abbas Giant in this video, are not like the Nazca lines. The former are visible from ground level and other hills as they are on sloping hillsides. The Nazca lines, which I have been able to fly over, are on flat desert and are not visible from ground level. However, there are a few figures on the desert hillsides in that part of Peru that are, of which the most famous is the Peracas Candelabra.
Love your commentary of the best historian so far, Philomena Cunk.
It truly opens up a whole array of dark and light insights of history angels we have not explored enough.
"My mate Paul" is only the start of a new insight we didn't need 🤣
The short clip near the beginning was of the famous Peter Brook production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1970. I saw it as a young teenager - it was wonderful. Cunk on Shakespeare was magnificent too!
As an Englishman Mr Terry, you are frigging awesome. So very funny and I love how well you get the prank. I also love the reality you give as you play the videos. Best history lesson I have ever had and I am an old fart.
I'm sorry, "Dick Pics to a wide audience" got me too 😆😅🤣😂 I am English and we love toilet humour.
Whilst wiping your eyes and trying not to laugh, you try to explain historical Glyphs 😅 I will never forget this lesson of History 🤣
You need to watch the full program its such fun
How does she do it with a straight face? My goodness, she's hilarious.
In the UK we have many chalk hill figures ranging from the Cerne Abbas Giant you showed to horses, a crown, crosses, a lion etc. Some fairly old and some quite recent.
I do believe you'd enjoy a watch of Time Team, mate. It's a bit forced (why only 3 days to do it all), but it's a good watch. And there's tons of it.
They have put a lot of the old 90s episodes on YT, they even have some newer episodes on.
9:24 You taught me something I've been wondering about recently. I'm reading about the collapse of the Inca Empire and I wondered why the European diseases affected the natives so much, but that whatever diseases the Incas might have had didn't likewise affect the Europeans. Your explanation makes sense, thanks!
He said "the stain" in the background was a map of Nepal.
The Red Nose guy was Richard Curtis CBE (born 8 November 1956) a British screenwriter, producer and film director, Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013) and Yesterday (2019). He is also known for the drama War Horse (2011) and for having co-written the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. His early career saw him write material for the BBC's Not the Nine O'Clock News and ITV's Spitting Image.
Whats BCE mean?
@@SomeGuy-hd4cn Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Award given for distinguished and innovative contribution to one’s occupation or any area.
"That is the first and most disgusting thing I've heard done with a red nose"
My god.... that response was brilliant.
Richard Curtis' expression at 2:44 had me wheezing 💀
Questioning all the life choices that lead him to this interview 🤣🤣🤣
Yes. Rollo (Gange-Rolv) is a good example. He was "mythified". We can assume he existed, but his legend has probably grown bigger than he (reportedly) actually was. My mate Paul is a sort of interlude she brings up from time to time. Paul is a disturbing mate. You should absolutely watch her stuff full length. They are all great. Good actress (also in Ricky Gervais' Afterlife).
Glad to see you react to this content!!
Made me laugh that you scooted over the Cerne Abbas Giant, but I drive past it with my kids in the car and they say "Daddy there's a man on the hill with a big willy".
Yes son, it's a very important historical artefact.
I recalled watching an King Arthur movie which doesn't start with him but Merlin having Excalibur killing someone who killed his father, then he tried to return the sword to the lake but The Lady of the lake gave it back to him so Merlin puts it in the stone, later in the movie King Arthur has to fight his own son
The "My mate Paul" story is one of her running gags
Your question about King Arthur really got me thinking. It's such an interesting discussion. I would personally love to see the "debate" or a video on it.
I’m curious. Have you actually showed Philomena to your students even if some of the language she uses is a bit coarse?
Probably wouldn't be allowed because of the bad language. Maybe with the older students though, my teachers kinda stopped caring about the language they used once I was in my last two years.
2:11 I reckon you’re probably on the right track. I recently watched a 1hr documentary on King Arthur here on RUclips where they go right through every version of the story. Basically Arthur is based on a story about someone but there’s 8 known battles credited with being won by Arthur. 2 of which happened 100 years apart. So the story about the person is very liberal with the old “don’t let the truth hurt a good story.
Your point around the 2 min mark, about where legends and myths came from...its been my hypothesis for a while now. After reading Earths Children series, it made a lot of sense that a lot of myths are very possibly real people who were extroadinary in some way for their story to be told and retold. I started thinking this around the point in one of the books when a story teller comes to the group, which, this is in the stone age when neanerthals are still around, but barely, and tells the story about the main character...but twists it and makes it into a deity like story, with no hint it was even about her. She also has the effect of making people feel awe by the simple fact she rides a horse and tames a wolf....and a cave lion.
For a bit of back story and context, she was actually raised by neanderthals after her family died in an earthquake and being rescued by the clan of them. She is eventually banished by the jealous son of the leader who becomes new leader. While on her own, she learns to pit trap animals, but one ends up being a nursing mare, whose foal follows her back to her cave of solitude...following its mother corspe, and from there, the girl takes care of it and raises it. Later on, when the foal grows up into a mare, she accidently causes a stampede that crushes a baby cave liom, which ended up being abandoned by its family, thinking its going to die. Hyenas start to mess with it, and she has a deep hatred for hyenas, so chases them away, and takes the cub home...and cures it ( shes a healer, taught by clan medicine woman, who adopted her), and raises it. Eventually it leaves to start his own pride, but once in a while it sniffs her out to come say hi, i missed you. One of these times is after she meets people of her own kind family. Later on, after shes met family and sort of established with them, she kills a nursing wolf, thats alone, not with a pack, and feels guilty, because it was needless kill, stealing hers to nurse its baby. So she hunts out its den, and finds the baby...and you guessed it...raised it. She basically introduces the idea of dogs and horse riding to people.
She is also extremely talented with the sling because she practiced so much as a child out of secret competition of the leaders son.
But...the people all are awed by her, often even wonder if shes a goddess, THE goddess, like the great mother goddess. Theres one point where a whole camp abandon what theyre doing and run away when she approaches on horse back...because horses are food then, not something to ride, or be a pet. They dont even know what pets are. So they see her as supernatural and out of fear shes evil, they run away, in the middle of tool making, cooking, playing with dolls...ect.
Point im making is a lot of times she reminded me of some mythological story, and it makes sense that they were once real people, the gods and mythical creatures that are more human like. Just...not fully understood. The girl in the books did perfectly ordinary things anyone in our time might, and more likely do. But back then, it was amazing, it was crazy, it was unthinkable. So she must be a goddess. But she wasnt. She was a human being, like you and me, whose story was exaggerated to keep an audience, and also not oust her personally, as she wasnt attention seeking by any means. And stories work like a game of telephone. None of the classic fairy tales started out as we know them. Cinderella and Snow White were hardly the kid friendly stories Disney would have us believe them to be, and even worse when you explore their origins before Grimm.
It makes more sense the myths we know were about real people who did extoardinary things...for their time...only for their stories to evolve into the myths we know today...which...even those have gone through quite the change when you consider once upon a time, Hades wasnt part of the pantheon...not even a thought. In fact, his wife predates him...under a different name, with a different husband, the god of the sea. So that too, kinds of helps give evidence to that idea.
Ok im done lol. Sorry so long. It was fun to type out though 😊
“But do we know if he came a lot, or just the same as an average man, like, about a tablespoon?”
A tablespoon is a bit of an ask.
I'm a ladle kinda guy myself 😊
Whoever makes these compilations just keeps cutting out the best parts. When you know the punchline behind the punchline it's super frustrating.
The penis thingies reminded me of when I was about 10 yo and my mother went to my School and saw that someone had written "FITA!" on the wall. That is a misspelling of a vulgar word for Vagina (kind of like if they had written "CONT").
My mother was sooo upset, not about the graffiti or the language, but that the one who did it didn't know how to spell
😂 _That's disgraceful!....._ spelling.
The bloke reading Shakespeare is one of the best actors in the world Sir Simon Russell Beale, who was absolutely brilliant as Beria in The Death of Stalin, and unsurprisingly he is a superb Shakespearean actor
Diane Morgan is an excellent actress too.
She is very funny in 'Motherland' , a recent very funny series on the BBC.
How does she stay in character and keep a straight face without laughing😂?
Paul can be found at any pub. He's someone we all know, all over the world. He's the guy that tells you all the bizarre stories that are unlikely to be true, but he swears they are.
Speaking of King Arthur. Saw a movie about it claiming it's based on some archeological findings that points to Arthur as a Roman commander named Arturius and his knights were Sarmatian Cavalry, Merlin was a Cletic Chief and Guenevere a Celtic warrior. I don't know about the authenticity but it's fun to think it may be the case.
king Arthur last i heard was basically narrowed down to the theory of a strong leader who fought against the Saxons, at this point hes basically like Achilles, its obvious nobody like him existed but more a really good warrior at the time had his achievements exaggerated.
although if nobody mentioned it and you are unaware there was an archaeological find in 2019.
-a sword, found encased in a rock, at the bottom of a lake....in Bosnia.
just my opinion on Arthur is that he's either an ass or we're in for a rough time, because he's supposedly going to return from the dead to rule Britain in its most dire need, which tells me 1 of 2 things.
1) he just abandoned us during the world wars
2) something worse than the world wars is yet to happen to Britain
and i dont know which one upsets me more.
Mis Morgan is amazing at playing stupid. It's hilarious to watch
I’m a physics teacher in Portugal, loved your videos about Cunk
The current consensus on King Arthur is that he was a man of Roman descent who fought against the Saxons. A burial pit was found where one of the soldiers (clearly a soldier) was over 6' tall, which was unusual for the time (the burial was also within the confines of Goddodin and where Gildas stated he fell). It is believed his status rose to that of a king in mythology, at some point during the Viking invasions.
King Arthur can kill two stones with one bird. When King Arthur looked into the abyss, the abyss looked away. Chuck Norris... er, King Arthur beat the sun in a staring contest.
You see where I'm going there, I hope.
Did he come a lot though?
@@Anna-zi7sx Aye, and went as well.
@@mfree80286Yeah into the realm of the aburd with nothing resembling Arthurian Lore.
There is a sword in a stone. I think Arthur was real, but not merlin and such. There is a real sword in a stone that they think inspired the story
I’ve known a fellow archaeologist publish a full thesis on the archaeology of a van, to emphasise the point of what archaeology is. So amazing.
Paul is just the name they chose to tell these stories. But as a mechanism he is not dissimilar to Maris in that you never see him, you just hear insane stories.
To answer your question I think it's about the distinction between history, legend, and myth.
I think mythological figures like Zeus have a clear link to the proto indo-european religion that makes their historicity as real people unlikely. Too many sky father gods with names with similar etymological roots. If they are based on real people then it's far back enough that their stories have changed so much as to be completely unrecognisable.
However legendary figures from the same stories, like Heracles, I think are likely based on heroic real world figures whose stories became vastly exaggerated through the years. I think the same is probably true for lots of other legendary figures like Moses, Perseus, Achilles, etc. I don't think their stories are accurate anymore, but there's certainly good arguments that they existed in some form.
Edit: spelling
...Moses isn't a legend. There's DNA evidence in one of the genealogical branches of ethnic Jews that shows that over 50% of them share a very specific gene group, stretching back over 4000 years to their ancestor Aaron, who was the brother of Moses. Not 100% because over the years there will be lying about belonging to the group getting mixed in and of course good old-fashioned adultery messing things up.
'My mate Paul' is just a running gag. The huge figures in Britain are not like the Nazca Lines. The Nazca Lines are drawn on flat surfaces and can indeed only be fully seen from up in the air, in Britain however they are on the sides of hills so you can actually appreciate them from the ground.
The "my mate paul" are some of the best moments from the series.
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The Cerene Abbas giant (cheeky chalk hill figure) and other chalk figures in UK are visible from ground level, and drawn to be seen from the ground.
Fun thing, Devin Townsend had a skullet when he had Strapping Young Lad and his earlier devin townsend band.
Her roast of pre Renaissance art and that of AG Bell are chef's kisses
joke about snapchat is probably best joke i heard last few years... literally had me crying!
One thing about archeology - while you're correct that in many cases they are digging up "trash", in many other cases they are digging up religious artifacts intentionally left behind. An interesting - and contentious - example of this is the ruins found in the search for Ciudad Blanca in 2015 (I think). "The Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston, who chronicled that expedition, is an excellent book (the audio book is also quite good). The city appears to have been abandoned, quite possibly after a plague decimated the population. Definitely worth a read and he covers a great deal of the history of the search for the city. The number (and extent) of some of the cons associated with it were pretty spectacular.
Once you’ve seen it you can’t unsee it! She kills me
12:20 there's an illustrated book called Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay that explores this! It's super silly but it also reframes our modern interpretations of our current archaeological finds
Everyone should have a mate like Paul
The experts are told she is a comedian but not the questions.
8:34 Nah, the transition from water to land happened wayyy before that.
During the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous mammals were basically small rodents.
Their size is likely how they survived the K-Pg extinction (the asteroid) 66 million years ago, and with the extinction of their predators, they thrived and took over the world! (:
finally
we got the arthur one
wait
thats not the full clip
12:40 reading our language and history only through condom and Twinkie wrappers, what a story that will tell our successors 😂
As somebody else said on the matter of Paul (might be Philomena herself):
"We all need our own mate Paul in our lives. A man of sheer wisdom... and absolutely no intelligence."
The Tyrranical Sawdust Rex is by far my favourite dinosaur
Please react to Horrible Histories! Python-esque historically accurate sketches, the first 5 seasons were awesome.
I really like history and wished that we had horrible histories in my day. It is classed as a kids programme, but won a British comedy award love it❤
Paul is her "mate" which means "boy-friend" in the King's English. The damp on the wall was the map of Nepal. He said it twice.
Can't tell if that's joking. "Mate" does not mean boyfriend in English English.
The "king Arthur came a lot" clip is even more funny when you see the full clip.
Has anyone ever suggested you react to Real Pixels's "How Historically Accurate is Red Dead Redemption 2"? It's a really well done video with tons of historical information. I think you 'd like it.
Welcome to England, my friend. Land of music and comedy.
I think, especially with kings, It would be possible to spread stories of them within their territories to improve their peoples view of them which may eventually lead to legends. So maybe author not only existed but was some sort of king or lord
King Arthur was almost certainly based upon the son Uther of Pendragon. He was the King in an area of Wales. He was associated with a dragon, and is why Wales has a dragon on its flag. Arthur means The Bear 🐻 and was given the name because of his strength and prowess in battle.
British sarcasm can't be beat by any country in the world. It's a lesson that the vast majority of us laugh at in Britain. 70 million people who don't give a shit really about anything. Laughing keeps us going .
He’s her “mate” her buddy. Lol😂 my mate Paul always comes with an epic story
Try and watch a whole episode of PC’s, half hour documentary style programmes. They are brilliant and, seen in context, her genius shines out.
You have to watch the whole shows to get it. Like Cunk on Britian, Cunk on Earth and Cunk on Shakespeare. A friend who you never see, Paul.
Love her outrageness,theyre not jokes 😂theyre her questions to shock !!!😅😅😅😂😂😂❤❤❤
I am quite curious as to how long it took to finish 5:00, that is quite the dedication to the joke, that has to be a world record. Its made even funnier by the fact that the GODS themselves, more than likely sees them, I wonder what the reactions to them would be like. 😂
I can't forget the one Paul story about the bib. No matter how much I try. The implications...
11:45 why we dig up some historical stuff?
Because, we have time. Progress.
With time, comes rains, erosions, soil, swarm of animals and plants, the alteration by humankind, etc.
The soil build up layer by layer. And if it's hundreds or even thousands of years, it can be like.. 10 meter below the ground.
It's especially hard if it's near volcano. Volcanic ash can bury the site so deep. Each eruption can produce like.. 2 meter of ash layer on the ground .
Two of the greatest arcade games ever in the background i love it :)
You’re obviously a cultured individual
8:55 It depends, of course, but what I've learned from the "Alone in the Past" documentary is that an ordinary person of 15 century has so many essential routine tasks so they never go further from their home than to get more fire wood. All their life is inside the mile radius.
Surprisingly we modern people usually do not travel further than one hour long away from our homes too. Except that our modern modes of transportation can take us further away in a said one hour.
Robin Hood is another mythological character that may be based on perhaps some person in history, or a class of persons, that grew into legend over time.