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- What is a city? What is a town? What is a village? What is this madness? Britain has a strange history of classifying these places. By the way, how does you United States define them? The Map Men explain it all!
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What's the difference between a town, village, and city? Make it make sense!
As with most things in life, it depends on your perspective!
Normally, I would define it based on size: a village is small, a town is medium-sized, and a city is large. In my country's case, a city is a place that is "incorporated", usually because of its size.
However, as Jay and Mark said, in Britain's case, a city is a settlement that pleases the Sovereign, not one that is large, which is, admittedly, strange.
as with City Status, Town status is by royal decree but for an important thing, a Market (many towns in the UK have markets which were allowed by royal appointment and this is normally shown in some names like Market Bosworth) Villages though only need an anglican church to be a village (a parish). A village I grew up in barely had over 600 people living there and stretches along about 2 miles on a road but because it has a church still it is a village
All this crap is of no relevance to anyone least of all to a small minded racist American like this dumbbell.
The first joke is this:
“City” can be interpreted as “Sit-ty”, the verb “sit” but with a “y” on the end
So, you sit(ty) on a chair(y)
"mare" is an adult female horse. Young female is a filly. Adult males are stallions. Young males are colts and neutered males are geldings. Not that you asked but there you go.
city
sit-y
chair-y
Hate-y
0:45 - it’s a pun, in the vein of “Q: Where do generals keep their armies? A: Up their sleevies.”
That's a good pun! Thanks for sharing this!
@@Hand-in-Shot_ProductionsI confess I didn't get it at first (and I'm a Brit). Then I realised he was saying CHAIR-IES, not CHERRIES.
@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions Where do Pirates Keep their Buccaneers ?
@@highpath4776 I don't know. Where do pirates keep their buccaneers?
@@crose7412under their buccanhat
I watched Jay's video a few days ago, and I found it quite entertaining! Now, I've seen what Mr. Terry, complete with a knight's armor, thinks of this.
Also, if nobody else told you already, the first lines ("It's what you do on a chairy") is a pun on "city" sounding like "sit-y". The joke is that if "sit" is what you do on a chair, then "city" (or "sity") is "what you do on a chairy".
Thanks for posting this!
Should ewe really need to explain this??????
It’s like the old joke of Where does the general keep his armies?
In his sleevies!
Well, the City of London is basically an area with some weird special mercantilist exceptions. Granted by the few clauses of the Magna Carta that still remain in effect. It's very confusing.
Living here ain’t confusing
I agree that it is confusing! I've watched CGP Grey's videos on the City of London, and indeed, it's government is very mercantile in nature. In fact, the main legal basis for the City's government is "time immemorial", meaning that it is so old that that age gives the government of the City of London its power!
Thanks for sharing this!
And, if I recall correctly, the monarch still has to ask permission to enter. The bollards surrounding it have a crest and are tipped with white and red to delineate the area that the Crown cannot enter without permission. (Although that's from memory and Google could find me wrong!)
A Cathedral has a chair, a church does not. Seriously. This is the difference.
Not just any old chair surely? Even if we don't count pews, then I couldn't convert my local church to a cathedral by taking in some old chair, could I?
@@steviebudden3397I think it has to be the specific chair dedicated to a sitting bishop or archbishop? Not catholic but I took a Catholicism class that mentioned something like this
Sort of. A cathedral contains a specific throne intended for use by the bishop, but this is because it serves as the figurative seat of power within the diocese from which the bishop operates and official decisions affecting the rest of the diocese are issued. It's the "capital" of its respective diocese, if you will.
@@steviebudden3397 the chair is generally pretty old.
The pope's throne has an upside down cross to recognize the first pope.
Jay literally told you the definition of a city in the US at the beginning 🤣
"How would you define a sitty?" "It's what you do on a chairy." That's the joke at the beginning.
"How would you define a sit-ee?" "It's what you do on a chair-ee."
Generally speaking...
~ Delineation between a "Village" and a "Town" or "City" is Incorporation - as with businesses, this establishes the region and its operational authority as a legal entity. Such status is granted by the State, and each State has its own specific requirement to become or remain incorporated.
~ Delineation between a "Town" and a "City" is more vague, though it generally seems to concern utilities - Cities own and operate their own water and sewage systems, build and maintain their own roads, etc. Towns, by comparison, contract such services provided by other entities (typically the County or a nearby City).
In more vernacular terminology, "Cities grow up; Towns grow out." Urbanization (and/or the sense thereof) is a key delineation for whether a place 'feels' like a City or a Town. Amarillo Texas has a population just over 200,000 - Founded in 1887 and Incorporated in 1913, it is unquestionably a City though it self-identifies as "The Biggest Town in America". Excepting the 374-foot (31-story) FirstBank Tower and 220-foot (16-story) Amarillo National Bank Tower, no building stands taller than the old 188-foot Santa Fe Building. Despite a sizeable Civic Center and a revitalizing core, even the downtown area retains its 'small town' atmosphere.
Throughout most of Europe until maybe 1800 ish a City was just a place that had gained the gratitude of the local ruler (king, Prince, Duke...) and gotten a letter granting it city rights. Thus sometimes the confusing cases where a place that today has just 2,500 inhabitants still having the same status legally as metropoles...
Which included the liberty of its citizens from the duties the normal rurral populace had to respect, up to and including ending indentured servitude if you made it into a city for "year and a day"... Also all cities had market rights, but not all places with market rights were cities.
So basically... before nation states came around cities were towns with a nice certificate and a few special rights.
@Mr Terry, It's called the M25. The motorway around Greater London. I'm an American expat in London. It's really difficult to get used to these things at first. I lived in Fernley, NV which became a city in 2001, but no idea why it was suddenly a city.
The Black Sigil Ogdura.
Expat or immigrant?
That Gaiman and Pratchett used it as the calling card of Satan in Good Omens should be enough to remember it :D
"How do you define a city [sit-ee]?"
-> "It's what you do in a chair-ee!"
'cause You sit in a chair. Add the ee sound to both: city - chairee
Similarly:
Q: Where do generals keep their armies?
A: In their sleevies!
(Arm/sleeve + ies)
London itself is technically, TECHNICALLY a county…
Goals: Become king somehow.
Name a barren patch of field a city.
Profit.
I thought you planned to name a random patch of land 'City Profit' first time I read it.
I always figured the word Mayor was derived from "major". ...and I figured that was where the last name Meyer came from, as well. Although I never looked it up.
You are quite right, it comes from latin via French. Latin for Greater is Major, so the French called their local government chiefs Meire's and we English took the French pronunciation but the more Latin spelling Mayor (we obviously couldn't spell it Major because, well, that would cause major headaches when the Major wanted to announce major Majoral updates 😉)
Meyer/Maiyer/Meier is a job of someone makes diary products like yogurt.
@@danshields9980
Oh wow! Thanks for explaining all of that to me. I'm interested in all of this stuff, but I'm a total amateur, and so it would've taken me HOURS to figure all that out.
Meierei is a word from northern Germany - else it is called Molkerei - the job of the medieval Meier was a steward or bailiff.
Staying with puns: a city is larger than any other settlement - Universe-city but Global Village with a town in between and a Metropolis on top (or Urban Sprawl if the settlements have grown into each other). History vs. Geography - Rights granted to a settlement (fortification = town) in the pastr - number of inhabitants is all that counts today: with fixed bounderies, the cancerous settlements grow suburbs and sattelite towns all around them - but those commuters belong to the city/town they work in, although they are not accounted for there
The origin of the surname 'Meyer' is actually a bit complicated, but ultimately you are right. During Frankish rule in modern-day Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Germany, the Roman way of administrating was beginning to take hold. Throughout history, this sort of increase in bureaucracy has often led to traditional ways of specifying people being found insufficient, especially in cultures, like the Germanic ones (the Franks were a Germanic tribe), where you are most often referred to as the son or daughter of your father, and your first name is often the name of an older relative, which in practice meant that two neighboring villages often had several men and women with essentially the exact same names.
This all meant that for people who were important to note down by the administration, new surnames were needed. These were mainly occupational or denoted where you lived. 'Meyer' is a bit of both.
See, along with the Roman style of administration came the Latin language. In Latin, they referred to a large household as 'maior domus', (lit. larger house). The two types of households that are typically larger than usual are manors, aka. seats of people with regional privileges, or independent farmhouses. The people who ran these places both received the surname 'Maior'. So, in essence, you could either be an independent peasant or an administrator of a manor.
Later on, collective farming started to become a practice in Central Europe in order to increase productivity and competitiveness. This meant that individual farms stopped producing all they needed for themselves and instead focused on producing one or a few products more efficiently, which they could only safely do because they had made an agreement with neighboring farms about which products they produced. Anyway, this specialisation inevitably led to dairy farms becoming the biggest ones because cows are big and the process of turning milk into other products requires a lot of space. Hence, the dairy farm often became the 'maior domus', or as it was known by then, the Meierei, and the farmer who led the dairy was the Meier.
When Jews entered Central Europe and also needed to get proper surnames to be approved by the administration, the ones who got to choose themselves and didn't have a very important lineage to represent (Levi and Cohen come to mind) went with names that fit with both German and Hebrew and Jewish culture. So, for example, the Latin 'Cantor' (singer) was obvious for a family of hazzans (the original Hebrew name for the (typically) man who leads the congregation in sung prayer) since it was also a title of a leading singer in a church, and Meyer or Meir was often chosen because it sounds like the German surname but also sounds similar to מֵאִיר (me'ir), which means "illuminating". You can see similar phenomena all over the world with diaspora populations. Here in Denmark, one of the more common Turkish first names is Deniz (means "sea) because it also sounds like the more usual Danish names of Dennis (m.) and Denice (f.), which have a completely different origin.
I was born in Perth Australia but grew up in Perth Scotland for a while. This caused me big problems when i was applying for my abode staytus for Hong Kong. I was born 3 days before the law changed so although i was born in Auz i was always Scottish, if i had been born 3 days later i would have been a Auzy.
So when trying to get my Hong Kong card they were extreamly confused because how could someone be born in Perth in one country but live in Perth in another country, oh the joy of being held for 8 hours, my father had to tell them exactly what i told them 'there are 2 Perths' but for some reason having a man say exactly the same made more sence.
"having a man say exactly the same made more sense" is a really weird, jilted and incorrect way to interpret that ordeal. Perhaps try: "having someone else independently verify and back up my story helped convince them".
Bro when i was a kid I thought a city with 3 or more buildings that had people in it I couldn’t have been so wrong
Pokémon logic, if you get what I mean
City status in the US depends on the state. I grew up in Connecticut, which designates several larger municipalities as cities znd has a few towns with city taxing districts, I now live in Oregon, which calls every incorporated municipality a city. The smallest city in Oregon has a population of 3.
The most recent place to be granted a city is Southend-On-Sea, with a population of 180,000, as a posthumous way to honour its former MP, Sir David Amess, who was murdered while doing constituency work and had been campaigning to get city status for Southend for his entire career.
Here in the often confusing UK we have fairly well accepted definitions of Hamlet, Village and Town but, Cities are too new to have been properly defined (we have only had them for about 800 years after all).
...often confusing....that's an understatement about GB...no, England ..no, UK...British Isl........
Hamlet ... wasting a perfectly good 90 minutes to listen to long dead danish Nobs whine about court intrigue...
😂
Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in Medieval English history and warfare I hotly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series
Please react to Map Men's video about why British place names are hard to pronounce because it talks alot about the history of the country so I think you'd find it really interesting
The map men triggered my tea response with that add!! The striped lines in the top right are so nostalgic!
OOOOHHH he's reacting to Map Men! One of the best series in RUclips to be sure.
He did once or twice before, I honestly thought they might have asked him to not do more reactions since it's been so long
I agree! It's both hilarious and informative!
St Davids is a beautiful city, even if it's small. The Cathedral used to be a significant place of pilgrimage in the middle ages with 3 trips to St Davids being the equivalent of 1 trip to Rome (don't quote me on the exact exchange rate there). It's still worth seeing nowadays.
As for my home city of Swansea, my late step-father told me an urban myth that Swansea used to be a city in the middle ages but lost it's city status on account of siding with King Charles during the War of the Three Kingdoms (aka English Civil War). There's no evidence of this, however it's a good story. If it were true, Swansea would have gone from town to city to town back to city again in the 60s...
It's much like the joke, where did George Washington keep his armies? In his sleevies.
I love the way Mr Terry thinks you can just give the king a brown envelope and become a city 😂
Americans are very confused about monarchy.
Probably because not that many people care about the monarch
Might well have been the case in the past before our monarchy became constitutional rather than absolute, in those days favour could well have been a valid reason for a town to be elevated to city status, especially after the monarchy became the head of the English church.
These days the government decides such things and the king just makes the official ceremony etc.
@@helenwood8482"Amicans
are very confused."
FTFY.
Brown envelopes is how this country works. Ask Michelle Mone. Not that far fetched.
When I was younger, i thought we moved from town to city when we passed 5000 population.
2:03 something tells me you've never seen the aftermath of a soccer game in the UK
The London thing is the kind of confusion you can get when a settlement has existed for around 2000 years.
In The Netherlands, places used to get a city status if the government so decided (usually, it was bought). This was eventually abolished, causing some "cities" like 's Gravenhage to not have a city status. Louis Napoleon, however, officially made it a city during his reign, even though this practice had been abolished.
Nowadays, The Netherlands officially don't have city status at all: the constitution never mentions cities, only munincipalities. What is(n't) a city is a social-historical construct here. The closest thing to a definition of a city should be "the governing center of a munincipality"
Well you HAD to go and complicate things with your "not yet quite King" Kings, the Stadholders :D
That opening joke isn’t British as such, it’s just a daft joke that primary school kids might find funny. City sounds like sitty, and therefore you would sitty on a chairy. But I think sometimes we laugh at these jokes as adults not because the joke is funny but that it’s funny to use a lame joke in that situation.
Here in Brazil a *city* ('cidade') is the *seat district* ('distrito-sede') of an autonomous *municipality* ('município'), whereas a *town* ('vila') is the center of a non-autonomous *district* ('distrito').
The only tangible difference when a new City gains the status is that the local government will change its name. For example after Doncaster gained City status in the 2022 Bidding Round, the local council was renamed from "Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council" to "City of Doncaster Council".
Doncaster is actually an interesting example of the different definitions of Mayor too. Doncaster has three different Mayors: an appointed Civic Mayor which is the historic officer who does ceremonial stuff (currently Cllr Duncan Anderson), an elected Executive Mayor who leads the City's administration (currently Ros Jones), and the elected Combined Authority Mayor of South Yorkshire (currently Oliver Coppard - as mentioned in the video).
5:07 Australia did a similar thing with local governments (but some were merged into other shires like the *City* of Castlemaine was merged into the *Shire* of Mount Alexander, and some just became of no decree like Sunshine Coast *Regional* Council or MidCoast Council, or neiche ones like *Rural City* of Swan Hill). The 'cities' are also usually independent of the local government especially after states amalgemate them (but sometimes split away (before reamalgimation) from their namesake shire due to economic differences).
Fun fact- there was once a borough in Victoria that was so big that the borough had to be made law. (It ended up merging and losing the status along with Castlemaine in the 1990s as part of post-recession reform)
0:41 it's a play on the word sit, and it's audio similarities to the "cit" of city.
The map and head bit is just slapstick ala Mr Bean.
This video was way too british for Mr terry to understand hahahaha
The bit about "How do you define a city? It's what you do on a cherry!" is a _(purposely)_ bad British pun. You... "Sitty" on a "Chair-y." The British are... interesting people. There are a great deal of these in Shakespeare plays that, sadly, aren't picked up on by Americans. Too much German in American genetics to get the outright silly. (😉)
That said - may I make a recommendation for a topic for a video? Kurzgesagt - The Egg
Edit: If you want some fun one day: Visit Britain, go to London, and venture into the East End - then discover, fairly quickly, that they have a "rhyming slang." Wherein the slang terms for things do not have any direct relationship to what it refers to... the words relate to _other_ words that rhyme with the original word. Once you get used to the Cockney buggers - puns like in the opening is child's play. Which is, incidentally, where jokes like in the intro are from. British children's games of making up silly puns and rhymes.
That's how I understood the pun! Fortunately, this American is English enough to not only understand Jay's pun, but also many of the Shakespearean puns. The puns in _Hamlet_ (such as "I am too much i' the sun.", which is funny in context) can be quite hilarious!
Also, I've heard of that rhyming slang, and it can be quite interesting unto itself! I, for example, can be called "septic" because I'm a Yank.
Thanks for the comment!
@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions I was being a bit cheeky, about the Americans not catching on to the puns. Mostly so that I could take a small shot at both Americans and Germans with the same thought. 🤫
In the U.S.A., it depends on state law.
Fremont Hills, Missouri. Calls itself a city despite having less than 1000 inhabitants. It does not have it's own police, fire department, city hall, school district, utilities, zip code or any type of amenities except for its golf course with clubhouse, three churches, a gas station/c-store and a brewery.
Town is an unincorporated large area, Hamlet is a small unincorporated community, Village is incorporated under 15k in population, City is incorporated over 15k in population. Very easy to understand.
In my county we have 16 Towns, Bennington, Attica, Middlebury, Covington, Perry, Warsaw, Orangeville, Sheldon, Java, Wethersfield, Gainesville, Castile, Genesee Falls, Pike, Eagle and Arcade. Those towns contain multiple hamlets and 7 villages, Attica in Attica, Wyoming in Middlebury, Perry in Perry, Warsaw in Warsaw, Arcade in Arcade, Castile in Castile, and Gainesville and Silver Springs in Gainesville. Pike used to be a village but unincorporated the same year as Pluto was demoted to Dwarf Planet and is now a Hamlet in the Town of Pike.
In my state, the biggest city is prevented from growing so there are suburbs of that city that are basically cities (but not by nane) much larger than any other official city in the state.
Perth is in Scotland, there’s been a settlement there since prehistoric times! (Perth in Australia is named after Perth in Scotland).
In Maine there are three levels of local government. Plantations which have town meetings, but can't pass local ordinances. Towns which have Town meetings but can pass local ordinances, and cities which generally elect a city council and have a manager., Plantations are generally the smallest, usually under a 100 people. Towns range in size from 50 to 22,00. Cities range from 1200 up to 69,000. What can I say Maine is a small state.
Perth in Australia is named after the one in Scotland. 🙂
An incorporated city in the US is a state-level designation, with each state having its own rules for incorporation as a municipality. You can also have an unincorporated or disincorporated city, which doesn't have legal municipal authority but may be registered as a "populated place" with the US Geological Survey or a "place name" with the US Postal Service and those names can include the word "city" even if it's not incorporated as a municipality. That said, there really is no broad rule on whether to call a municipality a "city", "village", "town", "hamlet", or just "municipality" and the municipalities themselves are usually the ones that decide.
I live a few miles from a disincorporated city. Due to a natural disaster, that city opted to be annexed by its neighbor, but it still shows as a "city" on maps 30 years later, still has its own "city" post office, and has all of 6 homes.
There are a few villages, towns and hamlets with populations of 1, but the smallest city I could find was Warm River, Idaho, with 3. It was incorporated in the 1940s to allow them to issue liquor licenses.
3:17
A Cathedral contains a Cathedra, which is usually a raised throne but could be any sort of seating item really, and is the literal seat of power from which a bishop overseas his bishopric.
So, technically, a tiny and unremarkable shed in the middle of a barren field could be a cathedral if a bishop put a sitting pillow in it and then considered it to be his seat of power.
Fun thing too: "Cathedra", as a term, is derived from Greek _Kathedra_ which just means "chair/seat", and lacks any sort of religious connotations
The wordplay at the start was weird, took a couple of retries to understand it as a non-native English speaker. When I got it I lol'd though.
Reading’s football team are even nicknamed the royals and yet they’re still slumming it with their town status
My city in SC broke away from the surrounding town over differences in policy and the application for incorporation had a bulleted list with village, town, city, etc and we picked city just to spite our old town. So no there’s no requirement you just get to pick
Which is not the same in every of the 50 states though.
I love how basically no one notices the joke about cities in Germany. The British definition is quite sensible compared to our mess.
It's as if 'city' is a medieval concept that granted certain rights previously witheld by a monarch to a settlement, that nowadays, since we're devoid of monarchs, all (incorporated) settlements come with anyways.
The 'status' (stadt, anyone?) doesn't really do anything, so why is it still a thing communities are seeking?
Edit: Oh, yes, the Brits still have one of those, so it does make just that bit more sense. (it still doesn't make a difference, since Karl can't give away any special powers, can he?)
You sitty in a chiary
I was literally having goat cheese when Jay said ‘It had something to do with cheese’!
I never! Our flash mobs are the best most organized queues in the world I'll have you know!
The US has smaller cities than the UK. Like with 7 people or something. Some US states like Weast Dakidaho where practically nobody lives, the county seat of each county has city status. And those "towns" are often just a few buildings around a crossroads where about 7 people live.
The original Perth is in central Scotland and Lisbun is in Northern Ireland.
Also the Magna Carta isn't really relevant anymore and the UK has no written constitution to put this stuff in.
I, myself hail from the City of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand with 9 million people. In 20024, I was an exchange student at the "city of Evansville" in Wisconsin. The city had about 4,000 people then while the nearby village of Oregon had about 10,000 people. 😂
So I live in one of those 'new' 21st century cities (although its been referred to as 'The Fair City' since the 19th century).
Perth, Scotland.
Funnily enough, thrre are only 8 cities in Scotland:
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Dundee
Inverness
Perth
Stirling
Dunfermline.
Though its worth noting that Dunblane, Brechin and Elgin all claim to be cities based on their having cathedrals (they're not though).
Mr. Terry, While the Perth in Australia has become better known (and much larger, roughly 2.2 Million metro), it is named after a Perth in Scotland (pop. 47,000).
By the way, while in most of the states, you have municipalities of various sorts which are generally within counties, although they may be either in several counties (Atlanta) or merged with the county government (Nashville). However, in Virginia, there are a relatively few cities, in part because the laws make the cities entirely separate from the counties which they are associated with. So Charlottesville is surrounded by and is the county seat of Albemarle County, but the city itself is not a part of Albemarle County. Since counties do not like to be carved up, there is generally resistance to the formation/incorporation of new cities.
And annoyingly Google maps always assumes you want Perth in Australia, even if you’re in Scotland when you search ‘Perth’.
I just knew that St David’s or as we know it Tyddewi, David’s house, was going to show up.
In France, it is a town with over 2000 inhabitants
The best content to watch while drinking milk in The middle of the night and petting my cat.
It's a pun: City - sit-ee
Somewhere you put a chair in
Somewhere you sit
A cathedral has a Bishop, a church does not.
It might not make sense to an American. It makes perfect sense to us Brits.
that armor 10/10
There is another Jay Foreman video that describes what London is (it’s not about M25, nor is it about postcodes)
Do u wear that outfit when u teach medieval or Europinan history lol it’s pretty cool xx
I’m from Warrington which briefly appeared and I know in the year 2000 my town was buying historic things from other places to seem more historic
And built a lot of statues begging the queen to remember Alice in wonderland was written here
Except it wasn't. Charles Dodgson lived in nearby Daresbury until the age of 10, but the Alice books were written in Oxford (under the pen-name Lewis Carroll) when he was in his 30s/40s.
For anyone who wants to argue - All my figures are from the *Office for National Statistics* the government agency, and only official source for UK statistics.
The *15 biggest cities in the UK by population:*
1 - *Birmingham - 1,140,525*
2 - *Leeds - 798,786*
3 - *Glasgow - 635,640*
4 - *Sheffield - 589,214*
5 - *Manchester - 555,741*
6 - *Bradford - 542,128*
7 - *Edinburgh - 527,620*
8 - *Liverpool - 500,474*
9 - *Bristol - 465,866*
10 - *Coventry - 379,387*
11 - *Cardiff - 369,202*
12 - *Leicester - 354,036*
13 - *Wakefield - 351,592*
14 - *Belfast - 342,560*
15 - *Nottingham - 337,098*
Part of the joke with the Year 3000 "Queen" robot is that every town around Reading has become a city but Reading still hasn't.
In Wisconsin, you become a city if you change forms of government, and take on more responsibilities.
Finally Map Men!!!
4:31 Inhabitant of Harrow here. Can confirm, dull suburban borough.
First joke (you didn't catch) -- How would you define a sit-y? It's what you do on a chair-y. :_)
Predicting they just named some random settlement they had or something
From what i know the "City of London" part of London is the old borders of Roman Londinium.
Sitty is what you do on a chairy , bad dad joke
USA city definition
1. a center of population larger or more important than a town or village. 2. in the U.S., an incorporated municipality whose boundaries and powers of self-government are defined by a charter from the state in which it is located.
Perth is a city in Scotland, just like there is a Launceston, TAS in England.
Constitution are great in theory bit they are also cumbersome and take a lot to change or amend. The USA had to amend the Constitution to get rid of slavery. In the UK it only took an Act of Parliament.
HEHEHYSAFSGHH JAY FOREMAN i love both channels’ input dam this really made my day
"I know we make fun of you"
You do? ....cos its usually us making fun of you as far as i am aware 😂
I'm moving to the UK! Where size really doesn't matter.
Great, now you've really segwayed into another reaction. You now need to see CGP Grey explain City of London.... it's a 2-parter and great video
You missed the CGP Grey drama with VTH didn’t you?
@@iamjohnfarlow I missed the meat of it, but apparently it was resolved?
@@mrklin99 yeah, he got his video back up but he’s said he won’t be reacting to CGP Grey anymore.
@mrklin99 Segue.
@@crose7412thanks
Winnersh and Pangbourne are suburbs of Reading
A “cathedra” is a chair, the literal “seat” of a diocese. That’s the seat that signifies the primary teaching office of the Church in a certain region, I.e., the bishop.
City sit'tee "sit" tee chair "chair'ree" lol
I'm sure you would've understood the joke in the beginning if you had played it again. How do you define a "sitty"? It's what you do on a "chairy".
A British flash mob isn't as lame as an American who cannot understand the city/sit-ee chair-ee joke. (An American who purports to be a teacher, and doesn't know what a mare is)
Americans don't understand Europe per se - because it's just too complicated and 'multi layered' for them to get their heads around. And that also spplies to just Britain aswell.
Its a well known fact that Americans find British humour very difficult to understand. Because it can be funny on many levels, or conversely - it can be very crude. And Im not even going to attempt to explain "double entendres'. Thats a whole new level of British humour!
Double entendres are... not an exclusively British thing. Do you think all Americans can barely form a coherent sentence or something? So condescending.
City -sit(ty) on the chair(ry)
The rules of municipalities in the US varies by the state.
I did read an article about when Bangor, Northern Ireland was granted city status, becoming Northern Ireland's 6th city.
As for the difference between a cathedral and a church, the term cathedral comes from cathedra, which is the chair a bishop sits in. Therefore any chair a bishop uses becomes a cathedra and thus the building a cathedral. It's still a church regardless.
No, not every church a bishop plants his butt down in becomes a cathedral, only the one where he's supposed to sit down to perform specific parts of his office (teching the doctrine).
Basically if the Church has the "Study" or "private office" of a bishop in it, it's a cathedral and if it doesn't have that additional function it's not.
As a Brit I don't even get the joke at the start.
0:36 What define a « sit » -y ? It’s what you do on a chair -y ? It’s a universal Anglo Saxon joke. You can be American and understand it.
You sit-e on a chair-e, how can you not get that?
Map men? Yay 🎉
Nice crown
I am sorry to any British in the comment section. Because I know that your country has a great history and its contributed to our world history too. But my knowledge on your cities is based on which Premier League team represented them.
but half the premier league teams are just quarters/suburbs of London :P
@@Ugly_German_Truths and that's why my knowledge of England is very limited.