The Great Emu War | Sam O'Nella | History Teacher Reacts

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  • @MrTerry
    @MrTerry  3 года назад +69

    Use the link to get a FREE 30-Day Trial of Audible!: audible.com/mrterry
    Or text "mrterry" to 500-500

    • @themichelinman7323
      @themichelinman7323 3 года назад +3

      You should react to sam o'nella dog breed deformities

    • @pumpkinboi9441
      @pumpkinboi9441 3 года назад +1

      why did hitler commit suicide?
      he saw his gas bill

    • @kelvinherbener4639
      @kelvinherbener4639 2 года назад

      😅The emus had allies a bunch of kamikaze bombing pilot birds known as Peewees ,Magpies and plovers and they're a pack of crazy bastards

    • @TheRezro
      @TheRezro Год назад

      Big problem with Emus is that they are so large that they can break fences and tough enough that they can sponge bullets.

  • @deavenswainey6415
    @deavenswainey6415 3 года назад +860

    One of my favorite jokes is "What do you call two crows?"
    "An attempted murder."

    • @michaelhibbard654
      @michaelhibbard654 3 года назад +9

      That is a good joke

    • @zeallust8542
      @zeallust8542 3 года назад +9

      This made me chuckle out loud. Thanks.

    • @13vatra
      @13vatra 3 года назад +7

      New favorite joke.

    • @sarenhs4535
      @sarenhs4535 3 года назад +3

      Good one.

    • @NewGothOnTheBlock
      @NewGothOnTheBlock 3 года назад +4

      Not murder in the 2nd degree? The attempted murder is funnier 😄

  • @Deneberus
    @Deneberus 3 года назад +421

    Thank you for pronouncing Emyu correctly. Also, you try shooting a giant flightless bird when your bullets drop upward.

  • @peanut354
    @peanut354 3 года назад +614

    The entire country of Australia just feels like a meme.

    • @michaelhibbard654
      @michaelhibbard654 3 года назад +96

      How dare you... We are only 3/4 meme. The other 0.25 is pure, concentrated poison.

    • @anappropriatehandle
      @anappropriatehandle 3 года назад +6

      do you know about Harold Holt

    • @iamaspaceman8533
      @iamaspaceman8533 3 года назад +13

      America is the big brother of meme potential

    • @Pedrohnm
      @Pedrohnm 3 года назад

      Why the foreigns are afraid of Brazil?😭 We have good food 😎👍lol were a country too kkkkkkkkk 🤣😽

    • @Pedrohnm
      @Pedrohnm 3 года назад +1

      Ur going to Brazil lol 😭😭😭😭😎😭🤣😭

  • @supersasukemaniac
    @supersasukemaniac 3 года назад +78

    As oversimplified puts it "Here's the plan. When they start shooting we run away."
    "Sir....your a genius."

  • @gaaraofthefunk265
    @gaaraofthefunk265 3 года назад +176

    7:50 I'm not worried about how the truck looks. I'm just worried about how big those emus are in comparison.

  • @meatman2203
    @meatman2203 3 года назад +177

    I love how the Australian used their very small amount of money they had during the depression to hunt down a shit ton of bulletin proof birds rather than actually help their citizens with.

    • @breadbread4226
      @breadbread4226 3 года назад +37

      That bounty system was honestly one of the best things they could have done for the Western farmers.
      I mean you are basically paying them to bring you a small chunk that proves that you went out hunting for an edible bird.

    • @mathewkelly9968
      @mathewkelly9968 3 года назад +3

      Huh what are you talking about ? The government instituted unemployment payments for starters

    • @ipadair7345
      @ipadair7345 3 года назад +3

      @@breadbread4226 but ain't that just creating the Indian cobra problem, where people would breed the bounty target, and selling a part of it.

    • @breadbread4226
      @breadbread4226 3 года назад +11

      @@ipadair7345 the difference is that cobras can be kept in small confinement and are easy to feed. Emus aren't. But thanks for informing me of that problem.

    • @sirdurtle9519
      @sirdurtle9519 3 года назад +9

      Yes, they did in fact throw cork boards at the emus

  • @DanGamingFan2406
    @DanGamingFan2406 3 года назад +145

    During the truck chase, one of the emus got its head caught in the window, causing the driver to crash and flip over, crushing it.

    • @jlokison
      @jlokison 3 года назад +31

      Well 1 confirmed kill, but trading a truck for 1 Emu is not sustainable.

    • @Shadowmants
      @Shadowmants 3 года назад +23

      @@jlokison Not with THAT attitude!

    • @PinkGoldBeans6197
      @PinkGoldBeans6197 3 года назад +13

      A suicide bomber. They're evolving

  • @devilmaycry09dante
    @devilmaycry09dante 3 года назад +79

    Studied in Australia for 2 years, and when I asked about the Emu war, my friend Bernard told me "Emu are effin scary man, don't mess with them". I went to the library to read about it instead.

    • @thelegendaryfk7922
      @thelegendaryfk7922 3 года назад +8

      I guess the Australians are still scarred from that war almost 90 years later

    • @synshenron798
      @synshenron798 2 года назад

      Holy shit dude. If the Australians are scarred of an Emu then you know you better be scarred too cause everything in Australia wants to kill you

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz 2 года назад

      As we're talking about a venomous bird the size of a man, I would stay clear, even if I had a 12 gauge shotgun.

    • @synshenron798
      @synshenron798 2 года назад +2

      @@mikitz how are they venemous

  • @sumvs5992
    @sumvs5992 3 года назад +30

    Important lessons to take from the Emu War
    1. Regularly maintain your weapons to ensure that they don't jam at the worst times
    2. Make sure your zero is always where you want it
    3. Engage targets (especially if they are animals) at a distance that ensure you get a clean, humane kill
    4. Emus are the australian version of Snipe

  • @MrHitmancheg
    @MrHitmancheg 3 года назад +96

    Can you imagine if it was Great Cassowary War? Australia would lose not because they ran out of ammo, but because all human life in Australia would be extinguished.

    • @artsysabs
      @artsysabs 3 года назад

      😂

    • @HeyItsNate2
      @HeyItsNate2 3 года назад +2

      its best to not provoke them, if we start a war against them we will be wiped off the face of the earth.

    • @michaelhibbard654
      @michaelhibbard654 3 года назад

      That would be terrifying

    • @jlokison
      @jlokison 3 года назад +12

      As long as the Emus, Cassowaries, and magpies do not start working together as a unified force some humans might survive. Although no matter how the bird wars go the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will probably have most of the surviving humans.

    • @xPandamon
      @xPandamon 3 года назад +3

      Ah, a fellow mndiaye\ Casual Geographics watcher I assume

  • @BJ_au
    @BJ_au 3 года назад +72

    "It's a nice change of pace to have the kids eat the dingoes for once" 😂
    Sadly under appreciated by an American audience

    • @kirayoshikage3258
      @kirayoshikage3258 3 года назад +2

      “Space dingo will you eat your space baby”

    • @richeybaumann1755
      @richeybaumann1755 3 года назад +2

      "A dingo ate my baby!" (we think. Probably. At least, Lindy and Michael almost certainly didn't kill her.)

    • @angrydragonslayer
      @angrydragonslayer 3 года назад +3

      Fair amount of coyotes eating babies in the US

  • @Daxelinho9
    @Daxelinho9 3 года назад +2

    10:15 That can very easily backfire: Cobra effect.
    Basically if you pay them for shooting Emus they might breed them specifically to get the bounty.
    If the government then ends the funding the farmers release the Emus and it's worse then before.

  • @invalidvulture1408
    @invalidvulture1408 3 года назад +48

    You actually aren't entirely wrong with saying "The emus are going to inform the other emus that they're being hunted" - Many animals, but especially things like social birds, do seem to share this knowledge with others of their kind when flocks intermingle. This is most observed in birds like crows and some large-flocking songbirds, but it's not unheard of in ground dwelling birds like emus.
    It's very prevalent in chickens; If you raise them, you'll definitely have see them 'tell' other chickens what is or is not a threat, even if you've never made it clear to the flock yourself!

    • @skourpi142
      @skourpi142 6 месяцев назад +2

      You are correct, I know it doesn’t pertain to this situation, but this is what whales did when whaling was at its height. If whales can do it underwater, I see no reason why Emus couldn’t do it on land.

  • @neolithiumproduction
    @neolithiumproduction 3 года назад +6

    Thing about emus is their vital organs are in a very small condensed area at the front of their body. So unless you know emu anatomy well and are a great shot, many of the bullets you put into an emu are nothing more then flesh wounds with no vitals hit.

  • @MrTerry
    @MrTerry  3 года назад +104

    Who won the war?

  • @pudgeboyardee32
    @pudgeboyardee32 3 года назад +27

    their feet look more like the claws of velociraptor or utahraptor. theyre basically a natural reboot of that body plan. all the big flightless birds are, even turkeys are like this. some geneticists have even suggested that turkeys could be genetically modified to make novaraptors, or new-raptors. it was research into these similarities that convinced lots of paleontologists that many dinosaurs likely had feathers and behaved similarly to large flightless birds. their eggs are similar, the nests are similar, the brain pans seem similar enough that the same sort of group coordination couldve been very common in many ancient raptors. big packs splitting into smaller units and communicating tactics to each other. a lot of this is still up in the air and cant be directly tested but thats why some people want to use the bits of utahraptor dna that has been found to modify turkeys and other large birds and see what happens. needless to say, there has been some pushback on that idea. i personally think its neat on paper but probably not something anyone could be trusted with. and the research would still be speculative at best and a gamble with living beings at worst. the world needs murder-turkeys like it needs another hole in the ozone.

  • @CrashKinkaide
    @CrashKinkaide 3 года назад +15

    I love collective nouns. For example, a group of ravens is an "unkindness," a group of lemures is a "conspiracy," and a group of teenagers is a "slouch."

  • @leholen381
    @leholen381 3 года назад +38

    The Great Emu War is one of my favorite moments in history

  • @LeveyHere
    @LeveyHere 3 года назад +73

    The next CoD after Vanguard needs to be about the Emu War

    • @scareraven9669
      @scareraven9669 3 года назад +8

      And for zombies it’s just you in a grassy field surviving waves of emus, while also drinking water so you don’t dehydrate.

    • @The-Plaguefellow
      @The-Plaguefellow 3 года назад +3

      Wouldn't that make all the missions fighting retreats in the end?
      And man, that multiplayer will be fricking unbalanced, since the Emus would be so strong

    • @kngsvg8201
      @kngsvg8201 3 года назад +4

      Gonna have flightless birds dropshotting you with a mp40

  • @bobd2659
    @bobd2659 3 года назад +96

    Emu is pretty damn delicious! It's kinda expensive here (In Canada), but it is available. I do NOT suggest trying the eggs. I haven't had one, but I've seen enough videos to know they aren't that great...

    • @IsakSZN-es6uj
      @IsakSZN-es6uj 3 года назад +3

      Don’t get what the point is to ship some dead animal halfway around the globe so that people say look I ate an exotic animal

    • @brisket5588
      @brisket5588 3 года назад +13

      @@IsakSZN-es6uj because people are willing to pay for it

    • @jacksmith-vs4ct
      @jacksmith-vs4ct 3 года назад +17

      @@IsakSZN-es6uj they breed them in the US so its not like they are going that far lol some people even keep them as pets

    • @LukasJampen
      @LukasJampen 3 года назад +6

      @@IsakSZN-es6uj even here in Switzerland we have a few farmers that breed them and sell their meat. They aren't that difficult to take care off and yes their meat is pretty delicious.

    • @brendondavid7349
      @brendondavid7349 3 года назад +1

      Love emu, probably my favourite meat

  • @bieltann9058
    @bieltann9058 3 года назад +13

    Well, Emu's are on the Coat of Arms of Australia. Pest is a bit strong. They can be pretty aggressive if you're around them like any large/human-sized animal.

  • @calebgoodman2076
    @calebgoodman2076 3 года назад +6

    Keep in mind that the Emu War is the *first* time humans waged war on birds and lost. The second time was against sparrows about twenty years later in China. Thousands of *human deaths.* Mostly from starvation. Worst part is it was all due to a mistake!

  • @ToaArcan
    @ToaArcan 3 года назад +3

    Can confirm that the emu does not have a human foot. Like most ratites, they have giant dino-claws instead.
    Special mention should go to the Hell Turkey that is the Cassowary, which has replaced one of its toes with a giant murder-claw, because Australia has apparently decided it was okay to respawn Velociraptors, but with the violent disposition that can only come from being a creature that doesn't have to worry about hunting food.

  • @potatomanuno7038
    @potatomanuno7038 3 года назад +11

    I like this Certified History Teacher with such broad knowledge got hyped up for this youtube stickman who hasnt posted in what feels like years to say "hey kids"

  • @wolfhurricane897
    @wolfhurricane897 2 года назад +1

    Ah yes. Australia. The country where everything with a pulse can kill you. Kangaroos, Dingos, Crocodiles, Spiders, not even the Koalas are safe.

  • @rikishikato5001
    @rikishikato5001 3 года назад +3

    "Don't crowdfund. Crowdsource."
    Gotcha, Sammy boi.

  • @ronmaximilian6953
    @ronmaximilian6953 Год назад +1

    1. Nine rounds per person would actually be really good for a war.
    2. Emus are edible. Their meat taste surprisingly like gaming grass-fed beef
    The fat on its back is actually valuable these days because no one rendered it becomes a very nice skin ointment for eczema and related conditions.

  • @GearShotgun
    @GearShotgun 3 года назад +28

    Me at 13: GOD I HATE SCHOOL
    Me at 26: Oh boy here I go learning again!

    • @terryhiggins5077
      @terryhiggins5077 3 года назад +5

      Key take away is school sucks and not the learning part lol

    • @chuggingtar
      @chuggingtar 3 года назад +5

      Humans naturally love learning new things it's in our biology, school has been proven to make humans resent learning

    • @penguinsrockrgr8yt216
      @penguinsrockrgr8yt216 3 года назад +6

      @@terryhiggins5077 education system is bunked and we should all try to make learning fun in schools

    • @artsysabs
      @artsysabs 3 года назад +3

      I didnt hate school but wouldnt say it was my favorite place. I liked my teachers, but didnt have many friends and was the typical awkward mess of a teenager 😂 Love learning stuff though

    • @arandomuser9459
      @arandomuser9459 3 года назад +1

      Me when I'm on the bus: Finally its friday
      Me 20 minutes later: Time for history!

  • @l.b8896
    @l.b8896 3 года назад +1

    He’s right yo, Australia doesn’t get enough cred for constructing an entire society upside down.that’s sounds difficult as fuck! Mad props ozzies, mad props.

  • @Shantari
    @Shantari 3 года назад +2

    A group of owls is a parliament. (CS Lewis had fun with this in one of the Narnia Chronicles)

  • @lynxraide
    @lynxraide 3 года назад +5

    We fought the emus... cause there is no way we are messing with the cassowaries...

  • @dethspud
    @dethspud 3 года назад +2

    "It'sa nice change of pace for the kids to eat the dingoes"
    A "dingo ate my baby" reference?
    Well played, Sam.
    *golf clap*

  • @santerilaakeristo7305
    @santerilaakeristo7305 3 года назад +5

    10k rounds to 1000 kills is actually decent ratio if you compare it to any other war really!

  • @WolvieXXXZandalari
    @WolvieXXXZandalari 3 года назад +2

    This actually makes me a bit sad... they didnt even touch on what beat the Emus in the end.
    A fence. Yes, a fence. They made a new fence that kept the Emu's out.

  • @Theturtleowl
    @Theturtleowl 3 года назад +1

    Now that I know a group of Emus is called a mob, I can't wait for the Godemu part I and II and Scarbeak.

  • @ItsAsparageese
    @ItsAsparageese 3 года назад +1

    I feel like the audio balance between the video and your voice is way, way better lately! This video is a perfect example, I didn't have to turn it down or up the whole time at all! Thanks so much 😊🙏💚

  • @juliakovacs4885
    @juliakovacs4885 3 года назад +4

    My favorite unit of animal measurement is "a kindle of kittens"!

  • @tracesosebee5485
    @tracesosebee5485 3 года назад +1

    Emus are Australia's national bird... and a massive pest

  • @FFSteveEMT
    @FFSteveEMT 3 года назад +5

    Emoo and Emew are both correct pronunciations.

  • @reapershadow2966
    @reapershadow2966 3 года назад +2

    i still don't get why they didn't just use the emus as an alternate food source ......

  • @modnationgunner879
    @modnationgunner879 3 года назад +3

    Have you ever checked out puppet history? Full of jokes and cool events/people all across history

    • @cathuang6212
      @cathuang6212 3 года назад +1

      this absolutely

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  3 года назад +1

      I have not, but thanks for the rec!

  • @adamlatosinski5475
    @adamlatosinski5475 3 года назад +1

    Luckily for Australians, gravity there works upside down as well, so it all sticks.

  • @edwin75571
    @edwin75571 3 года назад +1

    Australia: the country that went to war against animals twice and lost both times

  • @Dragonemperess
    @Dragonemperess 3 года назад +1

    Props to Australia for not falling off of the planet.

  • @golem26
    @golem26 3 года назад

    Emu and kangaroo's are both considered pests and are hunted (with a license but as long as you are with someone who has one you're usually fine) they are both our national animals and can not walk backwards.

  • @DatAlien
    @DatAlien 3 года назад +1

    Ten bullets per kill isn't bad for a MG.

  • @MortimerFolchert
    @MortimerFolchert 3 года назад +1

    Sam: "If you want to commit Massmurder, don't 'Crowd-fund' -> 'Crowd-Source'"
    Charles Manson: "I like the Sound of that..."

  • @danielhughes1711
    @danielhughes1711 3 года назад +7

    Who misses Sam O’Nella

    • @GrifoStelle
      @GrifoStelle 3 года назад

      Their last video was a year ago ?!

    • @DanBulboTheGamer
      @DanBulboTheGamer 3 года назад +2

      He is in final years of college if I'm correct but he said that he would post a video late 2021

  • @tsenario6212
    @tsenario6212 3 года назад +4

    you can definitely eat emu's, but would recommend tenderising it somehow.
    kangaroo's also not bad, but need to be pretty rare.

    • @tsenario6212
      @tsenario6212 3 года назад +1

      In case anyone cares, the Emu "problem" was dealt with a combination of mainly better fences being built, as well as bounties to control the population.
      Also, I agree we definitely not the dominant species down in upside down world, but Emu's are the least of our problems.
      Venomous snakes in most area's, jacked as heck kangaroos, venomous spiders a few of which can take you out in hours; and that's just land.
      Waters in the northern coast probably have the most venomous creatures we offer, like the box jellyfish.
      It's totally the place for a holiday get away, all peachy~

    • @michaelhibbard654
      @michaelhibbard654 3 года назад +2

      @@tsenario6212 thank goodness for antivenom

    • @bogtrotter17
      @bogtrotter17 3 года назад

      I had a pulled emu sandwich and it wasn't bad. It was some kind of exhibit at the state fair here in VA promoting raising them here

    • @stroud9208
      @stroud9208 3 года назад

      Adult Emu's are a bit too chewy, it's the premature ones you want

  • @attigator
    @attigator 3 года назад +8

    Awesome video! You should do a reaction to Internet Historian’s video, The Gentleman Pirate

  • @lawaern3474
    @lawaern3474 3 года назад +1

    Ah great. Another reminder of those bloody emus and their bloody victory. I've a mind to go get feather hats.
    And yes Mr Terry, emus can be a bit of a pest, but where I live cockatoos are WAY worse... Granted there aren't many emus in Sydney. Also, emus are a part of the local First Australian Diet. It isn't as popular as beef or anything, but it is definitely a thing. Way more so than those 'bloomin' onions' or whatever you seppos think we eat.
    Here's a fun fact, I once heard a Dream Time story (First Australian mythohistory) that the emus used to have proper wings, but the emu got into a fight with the kangaroo. The kangaroo had a really sharp boomerang that cut the emu's wings straight off. So Humans

  • @bogtrotter17
    @bogtrotter17 3 года назад +1

    Now they are fighting the great mouse war

  • @anhondacivic6541
    @anhondacivic6541 3 года назад +1

    i hope sam does a vid on how china lost a war against sparrows

  • @Mathadar
    @Mathadar 3 года назад +1

    I definitely recommend the other Dan Brown book, "The Lost Symbol". Love that book that is all about Washington D.C., Symbology, and has someone who is trying through ancient and due form, trying to become a god.

  • @rogervanaman6739
    @rogervanaman6739 3 года назад +1

    Ostrich tastes good. I wouldn't mind trying some emu.

    • @Davey-Boyd
      @Davey-Boyd 3 года назад

      I have to say Ostrich steak is the finest meat I have ever tasted. Burgers are good too. Used to buy it in Lincoln market (England) when I lived there. They have Ostrich farms there. Never tried Emu yet though.

  • @TheSteelKlown
    @TheSteelKlown 3 года назад +4

    My friend feeds emu to her dogs and we up in Canada so they definitely should eat them

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  3 года назад +1

      More like Em-ew

  • @tomsmith5584
    @tomsmith5584 3 года назад

    I remember playing both of those games in the background when I was in college. I got really good at them.

  • @solinvictus2132
    @solinvictus2132 3 года назад +4

    You guys should check out the sequel, "EMU WAR: The movie" by mechanic shark channel

  • @GREENPATRIOT99
    @GREENPATRIOT99 3 года назад +1

    If I had a nickel for every time a country declared war on birds and lost, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s strange that it happened twice.

  • @anappropriatehandle
    @anappropriatehandle 3 года назад

    the funny thing is when I was little on the farm I got a go at killing emus, i was given a sniper of some sort and killed 15 emus with 18 bullets so those guys must have been drunk while shooting

    • @DatAlien
      @DatAlien 3 года назад

      WW1 MGs aren't exactly known for their accuracy.

  • @ThePsyko420
    @ThePsyko420 3 месяца назад

    Emus with guns sounds like a horror movie

  • @zacerax6000
    @zacerax6000 Год назад

    "there's some weird units of measurement out there"
    Sam O'nella: *cracks knuckles*

  • @velvadere7832
    @velvadere7832 3 года назад

    Unkindness of ravens
    A wedge of swans
    A horde of people
    A pod of whales

  • @Someone0nR3ddit
    @Someone0nR3ddit 3 года назад +2

    What other Sam O'nella video haven't you watch?

  • @naygoats955
    @naygoats955 3 года назад

    i hate how everyone outside of australia prodounces emu as emoo like it's some kind of electrinic cow

  • @cb289
    @cb289 2 года назад

    I am half British, half Australian. Have lived in both countries. Appreciate the correct pronunciation of Emu at the beginning, now I don't have to complain :D
    Also - you've never come across a cassowary have you. Flightless giant prehistoric birds with massive claws are no joke. I was almost mauled by one. I think they might even be distantly related to raptors. A mob of those let loose and the Australian government would have to declare a state of emergency. Lucky I knew krav maga and was able to side step the bird and run fast. Don't go hiking near Cairns if you want to live

  • @Bobcat205
    @Bobcat205 3 года назад +1

    10:57 Mr. Terry’s dog makes a cameo.

  • @saiken811
    @saiken811 3 года назад

    Oh god… those emu with human legs… they are back… nightmare flashback lol

  • @JoTheSnoop
    @JoTheSnoop 2 года назад

    Interesting fact:
    Australia's economy had plummeted in 1927, two years prior to the Wall Street Crash. That prolonged the effects of the Great Depression.

  • @spooknukem1177
    @spooknukem1177 3 года назад

    The thing that Sam don't mention is that the guns ur using 303 ammo witch is a big fuck off round and the emu's can still take three or more of the rounds

  • @stickman69420
    @stickman69420 6 месяцев назад

    Yeah it's fairly hard for us but the ground harness makes it much easier

  • @m00k61
    @m00k61 3 года назад

    The Great Emo War = Fall Out Boy Vs. Taking Back Sunday

  • @DerPlaystationZocker
    @DerPlaystationZocker 3 года назад

    at least they still got the big dingo fence!

  • @Danceofmasks
    @Danceofmasks 3 года назад

    Kangaroos are pests, too.
    The difference is, Kangaroos are easy to kill.
    Mmm ... kanga bangas.

  • @jaykecee9496
    @jaykecee9496 3 года назад

    Dude, history was always my favorite subject. I would have loved you to be my teacher. Keep being awesome. My favorite teacher was Mr. Barman, tought AP Russian History. Best class I ever took in high school. He had tiny scale models of seige weapons, he was awesome. You seem to love history as much as him. Keep going, I promise it inspires at least one person in every class. Thank you for your service, especially in times like this.

  • @Zarkoneous
    @Zarkoneous 3 года назад +1

    I now want to try emu

  • @tsilarij-p3726
    @tsilarij-p3726 3 года назад +6

    Oversimplified made it much funnier

    • @RRW359
      @RRW359 3 года назад +1

      You misspelled Potential History.

  • @Springboi101
    @Springboi101 3 месяца назад

    What makes it funnier is that it’s there national bird

  • @hendrikusscherphof7348
    @hendrikusscherphof7348 3 года назад

    Australia used to be a place for criminals. Once your moral code is upside down, it's easy to design the rest of society around that
    Also a fun fact about how the bounty system can go horribly wrong: There have been instances where people started breeding pests to hand in the bounties. Other times the bounty could be earned by showing the animals body part, for example a tail, which meant people started catching animals, cutting their tails off, and releasing them back so they could be caught again once their tails had grown back

  • @GrifoStelle
    @GrifoStelle 3 года назад +1

    I love the double dose of snark

  • @GrifoStelle
    @GrifoStelle 3 года назад +1

    ... did they at least eat the emu?

  • @TheMasonK
    @TheMasonK 3 года назад +3

    Lmao the Hillary joke made me laugh and I ain’t even right wing 😂

    • @ollikoskiniemi6221
      @ollikoskiniemi6221 3 года назад

      It's good to laugh. Your political opinion shouldn't matter, but too many jokes are still political. When they become too political it's no longer funny. Just painful. Rip Norm Macdonald.

  • @TheIshakuro
    @TheIshakuro 3 года назад

    "I can't believe they figured out how to operate a society upside-down" Have you seen Aus politics? I would argue against calling that operational.

  • @MrChainrule
    @MrChainrule 3 года назад

    A moment of silence for the emus that were killed and the men that were embarrassed...

  • @christianmw1020
    @christianmw1020 3 года назад

    At this point we need Sam to come back just to do a collab with Mr. Terry

  • @AudreySmith-223
    @AudreySmith-223 3 года назад

    Group of crows is called murder

  • @blackmcbain3145
    @blackmcbain3145 Год назад

    No other country has been through this experience which most closely simulates a likely alien invasion. We need to learn alien war fighting from the aussies defeat at the hands of the emu federation

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Год назад

      You’re absolutely right.

  • @spreest9537
    @spreest9537 3 года назад

    Would you consider reacting to Count Dankula's 'The Byzantine Blinding'? It's so interesting. Love your channel, long time lurker here!

  • @Phoenixryu
    @Phoenixryu 3 года назад

    If Australia is upside down like you say then their losing was actually them winning!

  • @anonymousbrooks8194
    @anonymousbrooks8194 3 года назад

    I know I'm just spitballing here, why didn't they just eat that emus? It probably solve a lot of The hunger crisis going on back then.

  • @beamerball666
    @beamerball666 3 года назад

    @02:40 Mr Terry be like "say the line Bart"

  • @magnalucian8
    @magnalucian8 3 года назад

    Emu meat is eaten, you can get it along with kangaroo meat in the "Coat of Arms Burger"

  • @calebgoodman2076
    @calebgoodman2076 3 года назад

    Do you think any of the people tasked with eliminating the Emu got Mobbed?
    Yes the pun was intended.

  • @tbush6657
    @tbush6657 Год назад

    I don't even know how they don't fall off the earth living under it

  • @Merennulli
    @Merennulli 3 года назад

    The emu won the war, but the rabbits conquered the continent.

  • @victore8342
    @victore8342 2 года назад

    3:06 fun fact: Australia is the only place in the world where you can get a pineapple right-side-up cake 🍍 🎂

  • @1995DylanJ
    @1995DylanJ 3 года назад

    starts @2:33

  • @longslhonglogan2959
    @longslhonglogan2959 3 года назад

    It’s hard beening upside down

  • @perrygroeneveld302
    @perrygroeneveld302 3 года назад

    People, I have found a Sam O'Nella-like channel to at least somewhat fill the void he left behind.
    Ok, so I know this is not the proper way to recommend a future video, but seriously Terry you should check out BlueJay "The dumbest Russian voyage nobody talks about". His channel just took off and it is scarily similar to Sam O'Nella. I wouldn't be surprised if he was directly inspired by him.