To be fair studies have shown if your asked an unexpected question like that you have a high chance of your brain just blanking even if you know full well what the answer is so take street interviews with a heavy grain of salt
I love how this highlights both practicality and ignorance. Like, most of these people are just saying "i dont know that, why whould I?" And just not caring about the things they think that don't impact their lives.
@@Cherrycreamsoda1 It reminds me of that "book learnin" line about Americans, just in how it encapsulates the stereotype of the traditionalist, independent tradesman that thinks nothing of the world, until it affects their business.
Even today there are lots of RUclips videos of random questions being asked of people on the street who give stupid answers... nothing has changed. There will always be stupid people in society, lol
@@onelonelypickleI'd argue it's not necessarily stupidity, it's likely ignorance (in these historical accounts). Smart people are ignorant of what they had no opportunity to learn. It's also possible to be stupid and ignorant of course, but in these examples, we can't know.
@@rationallyrubyyeah no even if ain’t Christian you know who Jesus is it not a world view thing so don’t make it that Especially when your live England a Christian dominant country Like that a level of clueless I didn’t even believe it was possible Then again all of this could have possible being trolling
@DLlama yeah I just love history of everyday life because it makes the past feel closer, despite the completely different culture. It helps remind me exactly of what you just said :)
This is actually a good idea to think about if you're writing a fantasy novel. Some books act like the average person in a fantasy world is able to give a lore dump at the drop of a hat. But in reality, they probably wouldn't know or even care much about their own country's history or religion it doesn't directly affect them or their family.
100%. Makes for way more funny and interesting conversations, too. It reminds me of a battle in the English Civil War, after it had already been going for some time. One side was setting up near a field, and one of the officers talked to a local farmer and explained that there was going to be a battle between parliamentary forces and the royalists. His response was reportedly "What, has they two fallen out again?". So he was aware of the existence of the King and Parliament, and was vaguely aware that they bickered, but he hadn't even heard there was a war happening yet. People always overestimate how much ordinary people care about high drama when it doesn't directly impact their lives. "Powerful people are always fighting, why should I keep up with it" is a common sentiment.
People forget that our current state of general knowledge is possible only because we have near-universal basic literacy, cheap books, and an active press that’s been putting out daily or weekly papers for a couple-few centuries now. Without that, there’s a limit to how much history a community’s collective memory can hold. History gets boiled down to stories that are often more entertaining than they are accurate, and they get distorted as the times change and elements make less sense to people in the present. Your questing hero may stop by the pub to get his lore dump and come away with the local equivalent of George Washington and the cherry tree. Some cultures value retelling histories and do a better job of passing on knowledge. In places like early America and England, a lot of that itch is scratched by stories from the Bible-from a local lore standpoint, useless. So your hero may get an earful of stuff that he thinks is The Key to It All, except that it happened thousands of miles away in a completely irrelevant country.
Another thing i hate that, everybody is a sceptic or agnostic about magic in a low fantasy world. "Oh yeah demons, dragons, i donno, maybe a 1000 years ago who knows. Probably just tales. You are a silly boy to belive that you can find magic in the realm" While irl people belived that werewolfs were people so possesed by Satan even the by standers shared their hallucination😅
@@HectorGonzales-o1n naaaah, they probably would still beat the living crap out of you if you ever told them they were wrong about something they felt they knew , the dumber they are the less dumb they think they are for the most part , it is a sad part of human nature 😅
he probably did in college i had to do a poll of small shop owners for a group project they easiest way to get them to answer was buying something before asking the questions at a cafe i sit drink a coffee on a dollar store bought a lot of small items i buy candy for halloween at a candy store shop owners are more willing to give 5 minutes of their time to a client than to a random guy
Sounds like in a video game when you talk to a shopkeeper. I can picture stepping away and then stepping back up to the counter and the shopkeeper repeats the same thing again in the same exact tone.
@@justinfleming5119well yeah, people today would rather hear others' opinions on bills and even the Constitution for much much longer than it takes just to read the damn things.
it's really fascinating actually, nowadays it's seen as a virtue to know as much as possible about basically everything, but back then if it wasn't crucial it wasn't worth your time. i wonder if that was a purely organic cultural thing, or if it was engineered to keep serfs in line by not letting them know too much
@@pvp6077 maybe if we ignore the whole "preserving humanity's knowledge" thing, there's still the fact that everything is connected. if aerospace engineers knew nothing about biology, nobody could make it to space. besides, british history is none of my business but i'm still subbed to this channel cause i like learning new things
@meadowl It seems throughout history, this attitude differs and fluctuates depending where you were and when. Which is also interesting. While other communities emphasized learning things and practicing skills, others would segregate education and teach only one skill to one person.
One of them is funny because it’s correct. The first man and woman ever made who lived MUST have been more than a hundred years ago. Just so happens it’s a LOT more than a hundred years ago, but it sure is more than a hundred.
@@jamesredmond7001 i got a trivia question right on a technicality, and it's still one of my prouder moments 😂 question was: these two bands each had hit songs containing what word in the title? No one in my group knew the intended answer, so I was like, "Put 'the.' There's no way one of them doesn't have a song with the word 'the' in the title. And if they don't count it, I'm gonna fight 'em." And when they read the answer, they were like, "The correct answer is 'middle,' and also a point to the two teams who put 'the.' Ope, and I think we can tell which two teams they are," as we cheered loudly in smartass self satisfaction.
The creationists who simply add up the reigns of the Kings of Israel in the Bible and there you have it - the origins of civilisation on Earth. What's 'evolution' anyway? Daft concept.
You could read Henry Mayhew's books. I think these quotations comes from "London Labour and the London Poor". This book is quite a bible for however would like to write a fiction about Victorian London, since was a common reference book for authors like Charles Dickens, Alan Moore and Terry Pratchett
What it was like after compulsory education: Men can be men or women. Women can be women or men. Either one can be both or none of the above. Anything you say against 1 certain ideology will get you banned. (It's always been like that, though) Parents should have zero rights regarding what their children are being taught. The kids are property of the government.
Country singer Kelly Pickler was a celebrity contestant on the defunct quiz show “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader,” in which a panel of genius fifth graders tried to help each adult contestant with various elementary school questions in a set of categories, from first through fifth grade levels. Contestants were eliminated if they missed a question, but at certain levels they could “drop out of school” and take home their winnings so far, much like the more successful “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” Kelly got up to the last question OK, then chose Fifth Grade Geography, and called the last and smartest kid to be her helper. The question was “Of which country in Europe is Budapest the capital?” While discussing the question aloud, she revealed thinking that Europe “was a country” and never having heard of Budapest, and finally allowed her partner to save her. He got the correct answer , Hungary, and won her the money for her charity. Then she admitted not knowing that “hungry was a country!” Still, she was smarter than the uneducated folks in the 19th century.
At least there was some logic applied to the sun and the moon question. The cognitive ability and potential is always there and it is a tragedy when education is not applied to it.
@@anyawillowfan…. Literally everything. The origins of life. Gravity. That the earth is a sphere… LIKE the sun, LIKE the moon. Organic chemistry relies on this interaction, so you go into oxygen-assisted energy transfer, and also chemistry - how nukes work like the sun. Seasons are dictated by the moon, as are ocean levels. You’re also introduced to trigonometry by using shadows, so you learn how to calculate distance.
@@Qwerty0791 @Qwerty0791 I'm not saying education is a bad thing (though I do believe that, for many of us, we assume that what we are taught in school is correct and factual, regardless of later discoveries, because we hold education (not knowledge) as the pinnacle of success), but that, for the majority of us, we don't need to know how a phone works to appreciate what it gives us, just as not knowing about the sun doesn't mean we can't appreciate what that we need it to grow our crops and keep us warm. Not knowing trigonometry (as many of us only know very little of it, if any at all), doesn't prevent us from living meaningful lives.
@@MisterAppleEsq That was pretty much my point. I love learning, but sometimes it's harder knowing what we don't know, than simply knowing enough to stay alive and enjoy our lives.
Funnily enough, in The Elder Scrolls, the seas weren't made by any sort of deity or deific being. The world was created by Lorkhan and the Aedra, using some of the other Ettada. (Lorkhan, a god, tricked some other gods into helping him create the world, and they used some parts of other gods to do it.) But the seas in TES are actually sort of a metaphysical waste product, made up of the memory of all the previous incarnations of the world.
If you actually read Genesis it literally does not say anything about God creating the sea. Separating land from sea, sure. But the sea (“the deep”) was there before God starts creating. It’s literally in the text, but people have been trained theologically not to notice.
Arguably it does, in that God creates the seas as we know it by dividing the pre-existing water into that which exists inside the heavens and that which exists outside the heavens, and then separating the water inside the heavens into land and sea. The water though? That was already there. @@daviddeane2923
It's a `trope' of ancient creation myths, that the sea represents chaos and nothingness. Remember, they were not space-faring peoples, so the sea fills a simnilar idea of "nothing" in the ancient imagination that "the void of outer space" has in ours.
@@Spheronic and they probably had some way more defined skills than your average person now. I bet they knew about all sorts of herbal medicines, how to make and repair things, how to survive in general with very little provided for you.
You know, if you put in his name, the year, and the word "interview" into Google, it finds you the book he wrote. It's not like she's repeating these from a tradition of word-of-mouth stories.
It would be really interesting to hear what they DID know that most of us don't learn today. Many people would have known a lot about gardening and farming, about darning and knitting and repairing things in the house, about building and crafting and caring for the elderly....
Yes, and it is a crime we don't teach everyday skills in schools too. However, without the overall knowledge of the world being tought, people stop asking questions and get stuck in their ways, without the incent or possibility to grow and evolve.
Kinda like Sherlock Holmes. He might not know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but he can analyze a footprint because that knowledge is actually practical.
I'm just guessing, but these are London poor, they might not have known much about stuff like gardening. I guess they would have known about their own jobs. They would have known stuff like how to navigate their own social world as much as we do. I assume they also knew songs and stories.
@@justforplaylistsMight depend on where they lived in London. A lot of houses in London have surprisingly good sized backyards, so they might have at least known gardening.
As a person on the left in the Midwest, I see a lot of similarities between this and rural folk. I often drive thru rural areas. The way they live makes it clear that all that matters is survival. I don’t blame them.
Its kinda like those talkshows where they show how uneducated people are by asking randoms people on the street questions and then showing only the funniest answers
yes, but this isn't stuff people can reasonably not know in the modern age. These people lived lives where this stuff wasn't particularly relevant, and without any education, they simply never learned it. They weren't stupid but even if you could make the people of london sound incredibly ignorant by cherry picking examples today, nobody is going to be as ignorant as these people were.
One who won't read can read if he fall into a situation that forces them to read. One who can't read won't be able to do the same. Sounds like a clear advantage to me, albeit a niche what if
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@@chie970the one who will not read is defined by refusing to do it.
I say the one who can’t read might have an advantage because at least there’s a chance they’re teachable. The one who won’t read is a willful ignoramus and an incurable ass.
Excellent point. Though it does show the state of education concerning known facts at the time. All scholarship going back at least 3000 years knew that the Sun was *much* further than the Moon. The exact distance had even been calculated during classical or late antiquity.
I feel like its unfair to judge common folk older then Arthur Morgan on shit like this. Like obviously educated people knew better but most people werent educated which i guess is the point, but still people in 1850 knew all the was wrong just not most people
There’s alot of people who have currently gone through the 12 years of compulsory education that would still answer those questions exactly the same as before.
It's sad we all know like 40% of the solar system but can't spin thread out of cotton or cobble our own shoes. Something to be said for the loss of artisan crafts
I find it interesting how people assume things of the past. That they were either much wiser or far dumber. When the average person is about the same. There’s obviously more collective knowledge as a society but that doesn’t mean that each individual were morons. Just like cause we know more now it doesn’t mean every high school graduate is a genius compared to the past.
Yep. A buddy of mine was deployed to Poland and asked me what language Polish people spoke On another matter, an NCO asked what was the language on the signs when we were in Ireland. It did not occur to them that Ireland has its own language, albeit a language that neither history nor Britain has been kind to
Back in highschool, half the class didn't even know how much continents there were. Or how rice was grown. Its sad but they are still the minority whereas in the past its the majority
@@001variationSurely an examined scholar like yourself has read the Great Gatsby? “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
The Kardashians are indeed, scaly lizard, like humanoid, creatures from far far away in deep space strange unpredictable, nasty creatures who don’t like humans
At this rate you’d have better luck balancing an elephant on a knitting needle on your nose. The government doesn’t care about education they care about making mindless droid workers who listen to their every word and line their pockets before worrying about the people.
This reminds me of that fantastic scene in Princess Mononoke where Lady Eboshi demonstrates that the emperor’s will doesn’t matter out where they are because nobody knows who that is
I remember reading somewhere. In 1900 (or something) teacher (or researcher) asked students what is common about a fox and a rabbit. Pretty much all students said "one is chasing another". Then in 2000 (or something) another teacher asked his students same question. Most students answered "they both are mammals"
@@KazehareRaidenthat would be me half the time. I've always been bad at geography and history. Chem was fun and biology. But that's cause I liked those subjects.
“The paradox of education is precisely this--that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated” (Baldwin, 1963)
@@cybr69lolimo yeah. For people now, almost everyone is trying to find anything to get triggered about or have some sort of emotional outburst about. A lot more emotional sensitivity to things that naturally aren't even our own business. We're nosy and like lots of drama
I like how she reads these all in such a way that even though I find are dumb statements, they are said in such a likeable tone. Like I'd still totally get along with all these people.
Not dumb just ignorant intelligence and knowledge are 2 separate things you can have all of the knowledge in the world but it won't mean shit if you don't know how to apply knowledge is just knowing things intelligence is being able to apply the things you know to life
When I go back home I meet people like this. They do read but you wouldn’t find a book in their house. Their knowledge is limited to how it helps them in their daily endeavours. They are pretty nice folks but you can’t use big words with them.
There is a small telephone-shaped thing inside every chromosome. I forgot its proper name because I always labeled it "chromophone" in my notebook sketches.
You joke, but when the mitochondria revolt and start making people in a New York City opera house start instantly combusting into flames and manifest themselves in a woman turned monster and you have to take it down... It's the nerdy guy who tells you "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell....... and they're revolting" is the guy that ends up saving the day in the end so... I'm glad you know that. Never die. We might need you some day.
@@hy_9_11if you think geographic knowledge is better in the UK than the US, you're sorely mistaken. The only places a Briton can point at on a map are Britain, France, and Majorca.
My grandfather emigrated from Sweden in the late 1800s, with a 3rd grade education. As his children went to school (all 10 of them) he would sit with them shadowing their school work. He and Mor-mor learned to read, write and speak English, learned a lot of history, science and mathematics. All 10 graduated from high school, and all 20 of their grandchildren graduated from college.
I’m really bad at math, so when I help my brother with his schoolwork, I ask HIM to explain it to ME. And I still don’t understand math, but he’s really improving.
I graduated HS in '88, in Pennsylvania. When I work with young adults here in California (right out of HS, through about 25), I am amazed how they don't know States on the East Coast or what the difference between the Mid Atlantic States vs New England, or where my Home State of Pennsylvania is. I might as well tell most of them that I am from Connecticut.
I had the opportunity to visit a schooling program in jail. It was very moving to see men in their 50's receive a prize for being able to read and do basic maths that every kid knows at 10. Best moment of my career, hands down. The same day, I saw 15 years old girls arrested for pickpocketing being taught what seasons are. I never even imagine that you could live with no notion of what winter is.
Naw, didn't happen. But you should move to Hollywood, I hear they're short on writers atm...maybe you can take one of thebstrikers jobs...they pay well enough as long as you're not entitled...
@amandafletcher8680 It was about 15 years ago in Prison de la Santé, the only jail you'll find in Paris. It wasn't the best program ever, but it was quite moving to see the director of the jail (a woman at the time) hand those men their first diploma. There was some carpentry and building courses too, and they even had a fake internet system to help the inmates to handle google once they'd get out. I guess a quick look on the internet may help you realize that this kind of things do exist. Now, you may be right, I've probably mixed two separate experiences because I visited 3 jails that week : there's only one women prison in the region of Paris (Fleury Merogis), so I guess the pickpocket class was given there, not in La Santé. As I said, long time ago.
It was in France but I think you'll find this kind of programs in a lot of countries, as I was assisting a Chilean delegation that had previously visited other similar initiatives in Europe.
Now that reminds me of that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when a group of peasants not only don't recognize King Arthur, but don't even understand the concept of monarchy.
@@sleepysteev2735what do you mean they understood it better than anyone else in the movie. Strange women giving out swords shouldn't be a form of government and it is based on oppression
I'm from Puerto Rico and on my father's side of the family there used to be this old guy who remembered when we belonged to spain, he had no education to speak of, and yet, he was fully able to calculate basic math (things like multiplication and division) as well as being able to figure out what pieces everyone had when he played 4 person dominoes, the guy was generally regarded as incredibly intelligent and even when he died sometime in the 80s, he was still able to impress people.
theres the phrase "Formal education" to stand out from education, he must have been either taught by someone how to do basic math or learned it from something so he was educated, just not formally, doesn't really take away from the achievement but worth mentioning, also you say old guy on your fathers side of the family, was he like your great uncle?
@@evigkriegersome people are born with an understanding of math. It's hard to fathom but if you think about it, it had to be discovered some way. Math is the basis of science and an education is not required to make a scientific discovery, therefore an education is not required to make a mathematical discovery. Some people just have amazing capabilities.
Intelligence and knowledge is different. You don’t have to have knowledge to be intelligent, as this kind of person illustrates. It helps to have facts to think about though, in other subjects than math. If you think intelligently with a base of untruths, you won’t get very far.
@@bubkis1390 it wasn't so much discovered as improved upon, we could understand counting on our fingers inherently to some degree so we used other things to count higher than our hands could, but this never left the realm of addition before that knowledge was handed down and people educated about the previous system before improving upon it. Theres evidence with some of few texts describing it and the remains we were able to discover for the tools used for multiplication pointing to it being purposefully invented to track things like stones needed, supplies on hand, bags of grain etc for the ancient Egyptians, this process is discovery and education just like mathematicians working out things like the theory of relativity and string theory, the knowledge is not really inherent but a continuous progression from our first ancestors in huts using their hands and toes to count to our trying to understand the workings of the universe. So much of that just to say, even if you trap the greatest savant ever born in a cave from the time they were an infant until they are an adult, they won't understand how to speak much less basic math besides counting sticks and stones, but you may educate and introduce math to them and they may end up doing calculus in a couple months.
@@evigkrieger he may have been taught addition and subtraction, but it's very unlikely he was taught anything else. This was in rural Puerto Rico, the only modern civilization was around the san Juan area and nobody would've ever met someone from there until after ww2. As for his relation to me, I'm not fully sure, he died in the 80s, and I was born in 2002, my father knew him, but he never specified his relationship with him, judging by the time period, and the way my family tends to relate to one another, he's probably my great grandfather's cousin or brother, but I no longer have any contact with my family, so there's probably no way to know
Honestly, at least they tried using their brain to come up with some conclusion. The wheels were turning, in the wrong direction, but they were turning.
It is common for people to make it to age 16 in public school in USA and still learn nothing beyond sports, carving desk tops and bullying. The 12 years has turned out many flat earth tik-tok producers.
My favourite real life was back in the mid 1970s. We, in the UK, had had more than 3 days of very warm days one summer. An elderly lady in the butchers said "well. I reckon its all them Russians and Americans." Butcher asked why. " Stands to reason. All them rockets leave holes in the sky and lets the sun in."
Making up stuff just like global warming today... All B.S. of course the world is warming up. It's about time we unlock the mysteries of all those frozen societies that are still frozen and heat this world back up.
I mean if you know what the sun means at a certain position in the sky, then does it matter what revolves around what? I use the same idea to orient myself to tasks and strip away all the useless information that my adhd doesn't need to deal with. I completely forgot that humans lose their teeth as they age until I had my kids. 😅
I don’t really think so. People used to be, and still are ignorant to the things around them. People are still like this today, it’s just more people are becoming curious about the world they live in and therefore know these things. It’s not bad, but it makes me wonder what kind of life they live if they never wonder or ask about these things at least once.
@@jenconvertibles7858I think it's less so that more people are becoming more curious about the natural world, humans have been curious forever (Greek philosophers immediately come to mind) but I think as a society we've come to a point where we can sorta force everyone else who doesn't really care to have at least a baseline level of education and know these things. Also incentive. There is an unbelievable amount of people who take advanced high school classes not because they care about the subject, but because they get an advantage when applying for college with them.
But he could figure out that a painting is a forgery because there is a comet painted on thag was discovered way after the paintinv was supposedly created. XD
"He's no customer of mine." Too true, i feel that. No need to know what you don't have to, but look at me talk, I'm the one with too much lore in my head
Also, there are a lot of essays from back then, that mention how English people would often respond to stupid questions (from strangers wasting their time, particularly) with stupid answers, delivered with a straight face. The game was to say something really outrageous and see if the stupid stranger would buy it. Extra points if it was a rich twit who was not tipping people for wasting their time. So I am not saying Mayhew was a stranger asking stupid intrusive questions... But probably that is how he came across. And a lot of these answers sound like they were playing him, and that he just didn't get it.
Yeah the ones that said they didn’t know who Jesus was or what Christianity was sounds like bunk. There are churches all over England and Jesus is probably the most famous figure in western culture.
I wonder where that got lost in translation over time! It’s well documented that part of the reason Americans and Brits have a hard time communicating is because both cultures are particularly sarcastic, but in vastly different ways. “Playing dumb” is the most prevalent form of American sarcasm and Brits tend to take that at face value, as if all Americans are just stupid and lack common sense. I’d be curious to know when the cultural consciousness in Britain switched to sarcasm mocking dumbness to sarcasm mocking poor manners. The upper class was almost certainly doing it first, but I wonder when everyone else caught on.
I heard an Aussie comedian tell of his time as a coal miner. Asked a co-worker, “Do you know Marcel Proust.” And the miner replied “Nah, he must work down in the other shaft.”
I think you could ask most people this question and they wouldn’t know who that is, even very smart people. If you aren’t particularly interested in literature, you’d probably have no idea
@@alface935 You say that but unfortunately 'London is in England and England is in London' has refused to pay any rent and has now claimed to be in the early stages of pregnancy, so they can't be lawfully evicted.
Wow. Totally believe it. People just didn't need to know things beyond their existence when they were never going to be anything more than laborers or shopkeepers. Reminds me of that old joke, interviewer asked a man in the street if he thought the problems with the world today were ignorance and apathy. Man replied he didn't know and he didn't care. 🤣
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It really does seem like Henry Mayhew was interviewing people the same way Late night TV asks people to find countries on a map.
My first thought exactly. Victorian Jaywalking!
Same here. I figured todays answers wouldnt be that much different then today's.
OR Rick Mercer, doing his "talking to americans".
@@sanctionh2993Than, the word is THAN not THEN! Dios mío
To be fair studies have shown if your asked an unexpected question like that you have a high chance of your brain just blanking even if you know full well what the answer is so take street interviews with a heavy grain of salt
I love how this highlights both practicality and ignorance. Like, most of these people are just saying "i dont know that, why whould I?" And just not caring about the things they think that don't impact their lives.
@@Cherrycreamsoda1 It reminds me of that "book learnin" line about Americans, just in how it encapsulates the stereotype of the traditionalist, independent tradesman that thinks nothing of the world, until it affects their business.
Hence why Americans don’t know geography. Non of y’all really have any meaningful impact on our day to day and for most people never will.
@@freelancerthe2561pretty blissful existence you ask me
Even today there are lots of RUclips videos of random questions being asked of people on the street who give stupid answers... nothing has changed. There will always be stupid people in society, lol
@@onelonelypickleI'd argue it's not necessarily stupidity, it's likely ignorance (in these historical accounts). Smart people are ignorant of what they had no opportunity to learn. It's also possible to be stupid and ignorant of course, but in these examples, we can't know.
That last line feels like something a shopkeeper in a video game says to you as you pass his shop.
I was thinking it reminds me of fallout 4 when you ask in diamond city if anyone knows anything about your son
I thought the same. It's in Fable 2, I swear
The OG NPC
@@LUNE.44SHAUN! WHERE'S SHAAAUUUN?!
Reminded me of the first couple episodes of Castlevania. The civilians in Gresit I think.
“I never heard of Christianity” I’m sure the vicar on the nearby corner dropped his tea hearing that
That one and the one not knowing about Jesus are the crazier ones
@@niclasjohansson5992I know it’s hard to imagine but not everyone shares your world view. Many people don’t know who Jesus is. Not surprising.
This was in 1851@@rationallyruby
@@rationallyrubyyeah no even if ain’t Christian you know who Jesus is it not a world view thing so don’t make it that
Especially when your live England a Christian dominant country
Like that a level of clueless I didn’t even believe it was possible
Then again all of this could have possible being trolling
@@painvillegaming4119 🙄 I’m sorry that’s difficult for you to understand but there’s many tribes and cultures where Jesus isn’t known or talked about…
"He's no customer of mine" is ICONIC. we need a whole series on these responses
Watch any tv host or comedian do an "asking people on the street" bit and it's roughly the same We've changed... but not by much 😂
@DLlama yeah I just love history of everyday life because it makes the past feel closer, despite the completely different culture. It helps remind me exactly of what you just said :)
Stop misusing the word iconic!
@@hippojuice23 my ability to use 'iconic' in the colloquial sense is on fleek
@@schoo9256 you're no customer of mine.
These are the most British sentences I've ever heard.
Other than that they're being spoken by an Englishwoman, and the geography references, in what way are they especially British ?
@@ChristoferKelly There's a tone of blunt, deadpan honesty with a sprinkle of cynicism. They all sound like lines from Dickens.
@@lumburgapalooza Ah yeah, OK, I see what you're getting at.
Lord, grant me the suave and charisma to commit powermoves like an uneducated 1850s briton with tuberculosis
Ever … Erd!
These are all perfect Fable NPC lines
Bowerstone is in Albion, and Albion is in Bowerstone.. but I don’t know which part.
Samarkand is in Oakvale I think, or maybe in Knothole Glade?
I’ve heard of William Black, but I don’t really know who he was, and I don’t particularly care.
I don’t know what’s the difference between the Temple of Avo and the Temple of Light.
OI? Is that chicken chaser?
I love English sarcasm and dry humour. Without the inflection of audio, it's difficult to tell if they're taking the piss or not
What you hear walking around in any medieval game “he’s nofin to me if he ain’t a customer of mine” (hammer proceeds to smack an anvil)
Real
The barkeeper NPC: "I need nuffin in life but a strong swig o' Dwarven ale"
they're masterworks all, you can't go wrong
Why are you striking an anvil?
Fable II
I'm not in business at all, but I will certainly use that "no customer of mine" line when I want to avoid certain conversations
Like what kind? :)
@@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700 Politics and random drama more than likely
@@kamikaze4172 yeah I totally get that, sometimes you just don’t want to be sucked into drama
Works unironically anymore with OF.
"More than a hundred years ago"
Technically correct
no no, hes got a point.
The *best kind* of correct!
This was my exact thought😂
As a teacher, I know I would’ve taken a second to collect my thoughts and responded, “Not… wrong.”
A math teacher would probably still say it's wrong because it lacks precision ;)
Reminds me of that Rick and Morty episode where the math teacher is like "Morty, that's exactly correct! Five times nine *is* at least forty!"
This is a nice reminder that systems of logic didn’t just pop up out of nowhere
Yes it did.
This is actually a good idea to think about if you're writing a fantasy novel. Some books act like the average person in a fantasy world is able to give a lore dump at the drop of a hat. But in reality, they probably wouldn't know or even care much about their own country's history or religion it doesn't directly affect them or their family.
100%. Makes for way more funny and interesting conversations, too.
It reminds me of a battle in the English Civil War, after it had already been going for some time. One side was setting up near a field, and one of the officers talked to a local farmer and explained that there was going to be a battle between parliamentary forces and the royalists. His response was reportedly "What, has they two fallen out again?".
So he was aware of the existence of the King and Parliament, and was vaguely aware that they bickered, but he hadn't even heard there was a war happening yet. People always overestimate how much ordinary people care about high drama when it doesn't directly impact their lives. "Powerful people are always fighting, why should I keep up with it" is a common sentiment.
People forget that our current state of general knowledge is possible only because we have near-universal basic literacy, cheap books, and an active press that’s been putting out daily or weekly papers for a couple-few centuries now. Without that, there’s a limit to how much history a community’s collective memory can hold. History gets boiled down to stories that are often more entertaining than they are accurate, and they get distorted as the times change and elements make less sense to people in the present. Your questing hero may stop by the pub to get his lore dump and come away with the local equivalent of George Washington and the cherry tree.
Some cultures value retelling histories and do a better job of passing on knowledge. In places like early America and England, a lot of that itch is scratched by stories from the Bible-from a local lore standpoint, useless. So your hero may get an earful of stuff that he thinks is The Key to It All, except that it happened thousands of miles away in a completely irrelevant country.
That’s a great point!
Another thing i hate that, everybody is a sceptic or agnostic about magic in a low fantasy world.
"Oh yeah demons, dragons, i donno, maybe a 1000 years ago who knows. Probably just tales. You are a silly boy to belive that you can find magic in the realm"
While irl people belived that werewolfs were people so possesed by Satan even the by standers shared their hallucination😅
This, all of this ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾
The main thing that jumps out is that they readily admitted when they didn't know.
More humble probably
There was no internet to publicly scrutinize their responses.
no one would ever do that today
@@HectorGonzales-o1n naaaah, they probably would still beat the living crap out of you if you ever told them they were wrong about something they felt they knew , the dumber they are the less dumb they think they are for the most part , it is a sad part of human nature 😅
Oh here we go 😅
As a retail worker I still encounter people like this.
And they had education too. But it's still same results.
i see your 12 years of education got you far (jk dude, I ain't a smart one myself)
Same
@@connordrake5713almost like thats the joke they were making
When I was working in retail, this older guy came in a few times asking for gluten. What a world we live in.
"Every 60 seconds in 19th-century London, one minute passes."
This just sounds like things you’d hear every day on love island.
😂 that’s so true!!!
I've never watched the show but that's so mean. Hilarious 😂😂😂
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Bet those lot think they’re on Love Ireland and just have no idea what Ireland is supposed to look like
I feel like half of these responses were polite "why are you asking me questions. Buy something or go away"
he probably did
in college i had to do a poll of small shop owners for a group project
they easiest way to get them to answer was buying something before asking the questions
at a cafe i sit drink a coffee
on a dollar store bought a lot of small items
i buy candy for halloween at a candy store
shop owners are more willing to give 5 minutes of their time to a client than to a random guy
Sounds like in a video game when you talk to a shopkeeper. I can picture stepping away and then stepping back up to the counter and the shopkeeper repeats the same thing again in the same exact tone.
Yes, well spotted.
A mild rebuke perhaps for asking a stupid question.
These responses aren't even that farfetched from how I've known people to actually be like on the Internet and in Philadelphia
Some of these answers were stupid, but some of them were absolute power moves.
I'd wager some of them were just deliberately messing with the interviewer.
I was thinking that these people probably had a firmer grasp on their political interests than today's citizens.
@@justinfleming5119facts
@@FoxhoundAK74 They were out there trollin' before the Internet got rollin'.
@@justinfleming5119well yeah, people today would rather hear others' opinions on bills and even the Constitution for much much longer than it takes just to read the damn things.
I love the sound of the old grammar with phrases like "I don't particular care" and "must be nearer than the moon, for it's warmer"
"it's nothing to me when hes no customer of mine" is how i want to respond to news about any famous person tbh
I've used that response a lot of times. It's going great when you start practicing it. (But make sure you already grew out of FOMO phase)
The Kardashians would be a perfect person to use this on.
@@bland9876 the kardashians are over rated as hell
I'm gonna start using this line
how do i grow out of the fomo phase PLEASE@@marzipanmerci1068
He asked them if they knew things and they said "That's none of my business"
I love that
it's really fascinating actually, nowadays it's seen as a virtue to know as much as possible about basically everything, but back then if it wasn't crucial it wasn't worth your time. i wonder if that was a purely organic cultural thing, or if it was engineered to keep serfs in line by not letting them know too much
And they were right. It had nothing to do with any of their businesses.
@@pvp6077 maybe if we ignore the whole "preserving humanity's knowledge" thing, there's still the fact that everything is connected. if aerospace engineers knew nothing about biology, nobody could make it to space.
besides, british history is none of my business but i'm still subbed to this channel cause i like learning new things
@meadowl It seems throughout history, this attitude differs and fluctuates depending where you were and when. Which is also interesting. While other communities emphasized learning things and practicing skills, others would segregate education and teach only one skill to one person.
One of them is funny because it’s correct. The first man and woman ever made who lived MUST have been more than a hundred years ago. Just so happens it’s a LOT more than a hundred years ago, but it sure is more than a hundred.
Technically correct can be the best kind of correct.
@@jamesredmond7001 i got a trivia question right on a technicality, and it's still one of my prouder moments 😂 question was: these two bands each had hit songs containing what word in the title? No one in my group knew the intended answer, so I was like, "Put 'the.' There's no way one of them doesn't have a song with the word 'the' in the title. And if they don't count it, I'm gonna fight 'em." And when they read the answer, they were like, "The correct answer is 'middle,' and also a point to the two teams who put 'the.' Ope, and I think we can tell which two teams they are," as we cheered loudly in smartass self satisfaction.
The creationists who simply add up the reigns of the Kings of Israel in the Bible and there you have it - the origins of civilisation on Earth.
What's 'evolution' anyway? Daft concept.
@@rylieread1865 Stealers Wheel and The Pretenders?
There was no first man and woman, that's not now evolution works.
I could watch an hour of this.
I would watch 24 hours of this
You could read Henry Mayhew's books. I think these quotations comes from "London Labour and the London Poor". This book is quite a bible for however would like to write a fiction about Victorian London, since was a common reference book for authors like Charles Dickens, Alan Moore and Terry Pratchett
@@Uriellico Thanks for the suggestion
RUclips has shown us that street interviews really haven’t changed.
Bro "no customer of mine" line is such an NPC Fable thing to say and I'm cackling
RIGHT OMG
I kinda respect it tbh he really just said i don't know him and don't give a shit
What it was like after compulsory education:
Men can be men or women.
Women can be women or men.
Either one can be both or none of the above.
Anything you say against 1 certain ideology will get you banned. (It's always been like that, though)
Parents should have zero rights regarding what their children are being taught.
The kids are property of the government.
All I can think about is some merchant with his arms crossed while saying that line😭
Chicken chaser?
I'll be honest and say that I wouldn't be surprised if I heard the one about Naples today
Especially in America…
@@bob_the_bomb4508 as a European, I don't even know where Naples is. British people don't like stereotypes, so why do stereotypes about Americans?
@@thewitchstarot6975british people fit most of the sterotypes lets face it and also if you're in europe how do you not know where Naples is
Country singer Kelly Pickler was a celebrity contestant on the defunct quiz show “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader,” in which a panel of genius fifth graders tried to help each adult contestant with various elementary school questions in a set of categories, from first through fifth grade levels. Contestants were eliminated if they missed a question, but at certain levels they could “drop out of school” and take home their winnings so far, much like the more successful “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.”
Kelly got up to the last question OK, then chose Fifth Grade Geography, and called the last and smartest kid to be her helper. The question was “Of which country in Europe is Budapest the capital?” While discussing the question aloud, she revealed thinking that Europe “was a country” and never having heard of Budapest, and finally allowed her partner to save her. He got the correct answer , Hungary, and won her the money for her charity. Then she admitted not knowing that “hungry was a country!”
Still, she was smarter than the uneducated folks in the 19th century.
@@thewitchstarot6975 “British people don’t like stereotypes”
Oh, the irony…
lol those answers sounds like those street trivia interviews where people can’t name 3 countries
At least there was some logic applied to the sun and the moon question.
The cognitive ability and potential is always there and it is a tragedy when education is not applied to it.
Yes, and no. What difference would it have made to their life, if they'd known what we know about the sun and moon, etc?
@@anyawillowfan…. Literally everything. The origins of life. Gravity. That the earth is a sphere… LIKE the sun, LIKE the moon. Organic chemistry relies on this interaction, so you go into oxygen-assisted energy transfer, and also chemistry - how nukes work like the sun. Seasons are dictated by the moon, as are ocean levels. You’re also introduced to trigonometry by using shadows, so you learn how to calculate distance.
@@anyawillowfanMakes me think of how Sherlock Holmes doesn't know the Earth revolves around the sun, because what use is that for solving crimes?
@@Qwerty0791 @Qwerty0791 I'm not saying education is a bad thing (though I do believe that, for many of us, we assume that what we are taught in school is correct and factual, regardless of later discoveries, because we hold education (not knowledge) as the pinnacle of success), but that, for the majority of us, we don't need to know how a phone works to appreciate what it gives us, just as not knowing about the sun doesn't mean we can't appreciate what that we need it to grow our crops and keep us warm. Not knowing trigonometry (as many of us only know very little of it, if any at all), doesn't prevent us from living meaningful lives.
@@MisterAppleEsq That was pretty much my point. I love learning, but sometimes it's harder knowing what we don't know, than simply knowing enough to stay alive and enjoy our lives.
"God made the Heaven and Earth - I never heard of him making the Sea"
Good God, Oblivion dialogue was realistic as fuck all this time.
I gotta remember this one
Funnily enough, in The Elder Scrolls, the seas weren't made by any sort of deity or deific being. The world was created by Lorkhan and the Aedra, using some of the other Ettada. (Lorkhan, a god, tricked some other gods into helping him create the world, and they used some parts of other gods to do it.)
But the seas in TES are actually sort of a metaphysical waste product, made up of the memory of all the previous incarnations of the world.
@@cannaroe1213 I explicitly stated that this was from Elder Scrolls. Jfc, get your shit together.
@@ErikratKhandnaliethey deleted but I got to know, did someone think you meant irl? 😂😂😂😂
@@Twiztid_Jupiter They thought Lord of Rings lol
That "god not making the sea" line will live in perpetuity in my mind
If you actually read Genesis it literally does not say anything about God creating the sea. Separating land from sea, sure. But the sea (“the deep”) was there before God starts creating. It’s literally in the text, but people have been trained theologically not to notice.
Confirmed: Yahweh evolved from the primordial ocean, just like we did.
Arguably it does, in that God creates the seas as we know it by dividing the pre-existing water into that which exists inside the heavens and that which exists outside the heavens, and then separating the water inside the heavens into land and sea.
The water though? That was already there.
@@daviddeane2923
... ahm ... there is no god.
It's a `trope' of ancient creation myths, that the sea represents chaos and nothingness. Remember, they were not space-faring peoples, so the sea fills a simnilar idea of "nothing" in the ancient imagination that "the void of outer space" has in ours.
Moral of the story: People don't really give a shit about anything beyond their immediate life, unless you tell them about it.
More like you don't know what you don't know, but I guess it's kind of the same idea in some capacity.
@@Spheronic and they probably had some way more defined skills than your average person now. I bet they knew about all sorts of herbal medicines, how to make and repair things, how to survive in general with very little provided for you.
"I don't know what the pope is... It's nothing to me when he's no customer of mine" that's kind of a badass line ngl
Man if only only governments were truly secular. People should be able to chose their religion or none
It sounds like a line from _Deadwood._ It's even in iambic pentameter!
Honestly sounds like a line from a Monty Python skit
Sounds like something straight out of Black Adder
It’s badass until you realize it means this person has no idea who a man who has power over a large portion of the planet’s population is.
Holy shit, I could read an entire book made up of just this.
You know, if you put in his name, the year, and the word "interview" into Google, it finds you the book he wrote. It's not like she's repeating these from a tradition of word-of-mouth stories.
@@darrennew8211 Who?
@@kenlandon6130Henry Mayhew.
Rick Mercer: talking to Americans. The average person hasn't really changed that much
@@darrennew8211yeah. Its a major historical document because it describes London as the poorest in society knew it. The underbelly of the Empire.
It would be really interesting to hear what they DID know that most of us don't learn today. Many people would have known a lot about gardening and farming, about darning and knitting and repairing things in the house, about building and crafting and caring for the elderly....
Yes, and it is a crime we don't teach everyday skills in schools too. However, without the overall knowledge of the world being tought, people stop asking questions and get stuck in their ways, without the incent or possibility to grow and evolve.
Kinda like Sherlock Holmes. He might not know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but he can analyze a footprint because that knowledge is actually practical.
I'm just guessing, but these are London poor, they might not have known much about stuff like gardening. I guess they would have known about their own jobs. They would have known stuff like how to navigate their own social world as much as we do. I assume they also knew songs and stories.
@@justforplaylistsMight depend on where they lived in London. A lot of houses in London have surprisingly good sized backyards, so they might have at least known gardening.
@@leavoda3791 I feel like public education really started to go down hill once we stopped requiring things like home ec and auto shop.
As a person on the left in the Midwest, I see a lot of similarities between this and rural folk. I often drive thru rural areas. The way they live makes it clear that all that matters is survival. I don’t blame them.
Its kinda like those talkshows where they show how uneducated people are by asking randoms people on the street questions and then showing only the funniest answers
Can you point to Iran please? *Points at Canada*
My thoughts exactly. You could probably ask the same questions
Thats a type of bad science called cherry picking!
neither actually accounts for those merely taking the piss out of the one asking
yes, but this isn't stuff people can reasonably not know in the modern age. These people lived lives where this stuff wasn't particularly relevant, and without any education, they simply never learned it. They weren't stupid but even if you could make the people of london sound incredibly ignorant by cherry picking examples today, nobody is going to be as ignorant as these people were.
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
- Mark Twain
One who won't read can read if he fall into a situation that forces them to read. One who can't read won't be able to do the same. Sounds like a clear advantage to me, albeit a niche what if
@@chie970the one who will not read is defined by refusing to do it.
@@chie970If it’s that niche, then it’s not an advantage
I say the one who can’t read might have an advantage because at least there’s a chance they’re teachable. The one who won’t read is a willful ignoramus and an incurable ass.
@Exactly
We know now its ridiculous, but that first dude at least had a decent thought process when it came to the sun lol
Yeah, without more investigation, logically there are two options: it's really big or it's really close.
Better critical thinking skills than my employees
Excellent point. Though it does show the state of education concerning known facts at the time. All scholarship going back at least 3000 years knew that the Sun was *much* further than the Moon. The exact distance had even been calculated during classical or late antiquity.
@@Tru_G.R.I.Tbetter critical thinking skills than our US president
Bro was smoking a joint and just went "how far you think that thing is" and accidentally became a genius
My brother in law lived at the base of a "ben" in Scotland. I asked him, has he ever been to the top. "Never lost any sheep up there."
There seems to be this underlying feeling of ‘if it doesn’t effect me or my business then I don’t care’
No I don’t know where Germany is. If they get back on there shit I’ll look them up on a map for round 3. Until then I don’t care
They didn’t have time to care.
a better way to live, honestly.
You’ll find this similar flavor of “fuck you I got mine” in most of the US these days.
I feel like its unfair to judge common folk older then Arthur Morgan on shit like this. Like obviously educated people knew better but most people werent educated which i guess is the point, but still people in 1850 knew all the was wrong just not most people
There’s alot of people who have currently gone through the 12 years of compulsory education that would still answer those questions exactly the same as before.
Yes!!! Literally 😂
Or worse
me
The difference is that there is alot less
This feels so ironic, but I have to:
* a lot
Sorry, not sorry.
While they don't know this I bet there was one singular topic (most likely their job) that they could tell you more than you'd ever want to know.
Yeah, they would have had loads of skill & knowledge in things that have been completely lost to us due to technological advances.
It's sad we all know like 40% of the solar system but can't spin thread out of cotton or cobble our own shoes. Something to be said for the loss of artisan crafts
@hishenmathurin2844 To get ones that fit? I've been tempted to try since *nothing fits comfortably.*
@@hungrycrab3297yeah but... Why expand? That cart is all one person can manage and it feeds you alright, what you need more for?
@@_TheLoneWandererwhat makes you say that? You got hands, and you’ve got eyes. Everything else is just a tool and a learning curve.
Even with compulsory education there's plenty of people who would still give quotes like this.
One of the things I like most about reading historical accounts first hand is how quickly you realize that people haven't changed much.
When I was younger I always thought humanity learned from what came before.
Then I grew up, and was severely disappointed.
@@citizenvulpes4562idk its kinda funny in a cosmic sense.
If you wanna feel better read Roman dog tombstones, we have always been human ❤.
Now many of us are that uneducated after 12+ years of "education", if not worse.
How much lead are you drinking that you think this is like today.
I find it interesting how people assume things of the past. That they were either much wiser or far dumber. When the average person is about the same. There’s obviously more collective knowledge as a society but that doesn’t mean that each individual were morons. Just like cause we know more now it doesn’t mean every high school graduate is a genius compared to the past.
You can still find people like this, they're everywhere
Especially during election season. Or global crises such as a pandemic.
Uneducated people are unfortunately really susceptible to propaganda.
Yep. A buddy of mine was deployed to Poland and asked me what language Polish people spoke
On another matter, an NCO asked what was the language on the signs when we were in Ireland. It did not occur to them that Ireland has its own language, albeit a language that neither history nor Britain has been kind to
@@saldol9862 In high school, I had a friend ask me whether Cornish hen was pig or cow. The entire classroom went silent.
Back in highschool, half the class didn't even know how much continents there were. Or how rice was grown. Its sad but they are still the minority whereas in the past its the majority
@@neurofiedyamato8763 You are completely backwards on how the people of the past were.
"Pope is no customer of mine." I'm gonna start using that one.
Every time you get asked who you’re gonna vote for
(Candidate) is no customer of mine
@@HufflepuffBaseball42313 Oh that's good!
Based af
@@HufflepuffBaseball42313 go vote for joe Biden
@@snakebitmcgee6532 he’s no customer of mine
I think you could still walk up to a few people today and ask them the same questions, and I think the answers would probably be similar.
A lot of those have "Won't change the way mustard tastes" energy and I'm here for it.
Many of these people knew what they needed to know for their lives. They didn’t have time for theoretical or abstract questions.
@@censusgary Failure to see the bigger picture is just living an unexamined life.
@@001variationDid they have the time or energy for one? No, amd it's not their fault.
@@001variationSurely an examined scholar like yourself has read the Great Gatsby? “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
I loved that community episode
"I don't know who the pope is, no customer of mine." What a class lass.
These are all my responses when someone throws celebrity names my way.
I thought the Kardashians were from Star Trek
@@stumbling you're completely correct
@@stumbling Good for you. Good for you...
The Kardashians are indeed, scaly lizard, like humanoid, creatures from far far away in deep space strange unpredictable, nasty creatures who don’t like humans
“Do you like Chris Hemsworth?”
“He must be closer than the moon.”
The stark difference being that people knew they didn't know instead of being under the impression they have a clue.
Excellent observation
Now imagine if everyone got 12 years of _good_ education.
Hard to imagine tbh
At this rate you’d have better luck balancing an elephant on a knitting needle on your nose. The government doesn’t care about education they care about making mindless droid workers who listen to their every word and line their pockets before worrying about the people.
Not with our current system. The education field in academics are totally f'd.
Nah, should go back to only schooling to the 8th grade.
@@tylerpotts9087 I'd say we need focused and specialized education. Not necessary ending at 8th grade
To be fair, I know people who’d respond in the same way now
Street interviews with random folk never changes.
@@IRUKANJIso how do we talk about the self educated folk at the time versus our people. The average man is still as dumb as he was back then.
This reminds me of that fantastic scene in Princess Mononoke where Lady Eboshi demonstrates that the emperor’s will doesn’t matter out where they are because nobody knows who that is
"That's nice, who's he?"
"Is he supposed to be important?"
Well I didn't vote for the imperial dynasty, descended from the Gods.
didn't expect a Mononoke reference here in the comments
@@marypalmer00 Yeah.. least where you’d expect huh. Even more surprising that it checks out and is relevant
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" How far away are the stars "?
" Dunno. About a mile or two, I reckon. "
I remember reading somewhere. In 1900 (or something) teacher (or researcher) asked students what is common about a fox and a rabbit. Pretty much all students said "one is chasing another". Then in 2000 (or something) another teacher asked his students same question. Most students answered "they both are mammals"
and in 2020 "both were stars of zootopia"
How do both have "one is chasing another" what does the rabbit chase?
@@MountainsAreCoolthe rabbit was trying to sell an extended warranty
I would’ve said they both have feet
@@MountainsAreCoolno, the kids meant "they are both involved in the same chase"
But let's be honest. Some people who go to school for 12 years today would still give similar answers. 😂
They still do
They can force them to be there physically but not mentally
Yeah. A youtuber talked to some UCLA students and they didn't know where the Atlantic ocean was located
@@KazehareRaidenthat would be me half the time. I've always been bad at geography and history. Chem was fun and biology. But that's cause I liked those subjects.
Not all the people saying that they’ve seen a homosapien once, terrible thing it was, or how we need to find a way to live along side homosapiens. 😂
We HAVE to get education right - it's our chance to fix so many issues
A shame that people in positions of power have motivations to mess with it.
@@impartialthrone2097
Then again, they have reason to mess with anything good.
“The paradox of education is precisely this--that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated” (Baldwin, 1963)
Look at the US today. Or Brexit. Less educated people make lousy citizens for a democracy.
It also can ruin everything when done for that purpose
This is the best npc dialogue.
“And I don’t in particular care” killed me
@@BouncyStickmanOuija keyboard
Bro this comment went from 666 to 675 and I watched it happen bro
I was gonna comment about it being 666 likes but I refreshed
and it turned into 675 bro
Deadass in seconds bro
Thats true in many ways
there were people who knew clearly what their circle of concern was.
The pope? He is nothing to me if he's no customer of mine😂
I thought every Brit was supposed to be taught the Pope was a servant of Satan in those days.
and for people now it isn't?
@@cybr69lolimo yeah. For people now, almost everyone is trying to find anything to get triggered about or have some sort of emotional outburst about. A lot more emotional sensitivity to things that naturally aren't even our own business. We're nosy and like lots of drama
This
I like how she reads these all in such a way that even though I find are dumb statements, they are said in such a likeable tone. Like I'd still totally get along with all these people.
Not dumb just ignorant intelligence and knowledge are 2 separate things you can have all of the knowledge in the world but it won't mean shit if you don't know how to apply knowledge is just knowing things intelligence is being able to apply the things you know to life
When I go back home I meet people like this. They do read but you wouldn’t find a book in their house. Their knowledge is limited to how it helps them in their daily endeavours. They are pretty nice folks but you can’t use big words with them.
This statement seems to imply you don’t usually get along with people of lower academic capabilities? I sense surprises in the likability.
Well, you'd get along untill you got into argument about what 1 + 1 equals 😅
1000th like :3
Love the acting and antiquated phrasing!
Some of these seem right out of Oblivion and others are just so pure and adorable
"I don't know what the Pope is... It's nothing to me when he's no customer of mine"
My guy was just minding his own business
Literally.
"You're excommunicated"
"I... don't care"
"Oh no! Apathy!" *proceeds to disappear*
The Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
so your saying i can get super powers? 🤔
There is a small telephone-shaped thing inside every chromosome. I forgot its proper name because I always labeled it "chromophone" in my notebook sketches.
"The mitochondria is no customer of mine... He's barred."
@@stumbling As someone with a Mitochondrial disease, I’ve never felt so seen. 😂
You joke, but when the mitochondria revolt and start making people in a New York City opera house start instantly combusting into flames and manifest themselves in a woman turned monster and you have to take it down...
It's the nerdy guy who tells you "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell....... and they're revolting" is the guy that ends up saving the day in the end so...
I'm glad you know that. Never die. We might need you some day.
"The Pope ain't my customer, so he ain't shit" is such an amazing thing to say though, that person had their priorities in order lmao
you know that geography one really hasn’t changed much.
This is about the UK
i’m ngl we’re good at geography, especially european geography - got football/fifa to thank for that 😂
@@hy_9_11if you think geographic knowledge is better in the UK than the US, you're sorely mistaken. The only places a Briton can point at on a map are Britain, France, and Majorca.
@@Webi your average Brit can barely speak English, mate.
That's only true for the US
My grandfather emigrated from Sweden in the late 1800s, with a 3rd grade education. As his children went to school (all 10 of them) he would sit with them shadowing their school work. He and Mor-mor learned to read, write and speak English, learned a lot of history, science and mathematics. All 10 graduated from high school, and all 20 of their grandchildren graduated from college.
I’m really bad at math, so when I help my brother with his schoolwork, I ask HIM to explain it to ME.
And I still don’t understand math, but he’s really improving.
@@misskate3815 do you write mor-mor and not mormor? What a crazy world we live in!
@@niclasjohansson5992 Wasn't Othello a mormor?
@@johnchandler1687Othelllo is desribed as a moor, black african or arabic.
Awesome story! Thank you for sharing!
"Nothing to me when he's no customer of mine" that's going to my list of catchphrases
Would be great for an NPC
I graduated HS in '88, in Pennsylvania. When I work with young adults here in California (right out of HS, through about 25), I am amazed how they don't know States on the East Coast or what the difference between the Mid Atlantic States vs New England, or where my Home State of Pennsylvania is. I might as well tell most of them that I am from Connecticut.
0:46 Bro literally said "England is my city" in a roundabout way.
Jake's been a reincarnation all along
"must be more than a hundred years ago" I mean, yeah
Technically correct
@@greenLimeila the best kind of correct
They're not wrong!
Home girl really transported me back in time for a second
It’s really easy for us to take for granted how many hats this lady has, but don’t let it. The hat game is amazing
These sounds like npc lines you would hear walking around in a medieval rpg
Mudcrabs are filthy creatures. I avoid them.
I had the opportunity to visit a schooling program in jail. It was very moving to see men in their 50's receive a prize for being able to read and do basic maths that every kid knows at 10. Best moment of my career, hands down. The same day, I saw 15 years old girls arrested for pickpocketing being taught what seasons are. I never even imagine that you could live with no notion of what winter is.
Kudos to whatever system you visited that was busy educating those it caught. First step to redirecting a life of crime is basic education.
There is dry hot and wet hot what the hell os winter.
Naw, didn't happen. But you should move to Hollywood, I hear they're short on writers atm...maybe you can take one of thebstrikers jobs...they pay well enough as long as you're not entitled...
@amandafletcher8680 It was about 15 years ago in Prison de la Santé, the only jail you'll find in Paris. It wasn't the best program ever, but it was quite moving to see the director of the jail (a woman at the time) hand those men their first diploma. There was some carpentry and building courses too, and they even had a fake internet system to help the inmates to handle google once they'd get out. I guess a quick look on the internet may help you realize that this kind of things do exist. Now, you may be right, I've probably mixed two separate experiences because I visited 3 jails that week : there's only one women prison in the region of Paris (Fleury Merogis), so I guess the pickpocket class was given there, not in La Santé. As I said, long time ago.
It was in France but I think you'll find this kind of programs in a lot of countries, as I was assisting a Chilean delegation that had previously visited other similar initiatives in Europe.
Reminds me of that scene in Princess Mononoke where the emperor is mentioned and a group of women are like “who’s that?” “Is he somebody important?”
Now that reminds me of that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when a group of peasants not only don't recognize King Arthur, but don't even understand the concept of monarchy.
@@sleepysteev2735what do you mean they understood it better than anyone else in the movie. Strange women giving out swords shouldn't be a form of government and it is based on oppression
Actually sounds pretty similar to the answers you'd get if you surveyed random people on the street today
I'm from Puerto Rico and on my father's side of the family there used to be this old guy who remembered when we belonged to spain, he had no education to speak of, and yet, he was fully able to calculate basic math (things like multiplication and division) as well as being able to figure out what pieces everyone had when he played 4 person dominoes, the guy was generally regarded as incredibly intelligent and even when he died sometime in the 80s, he was still able to impress people.
theres the phrase "Formal education" to stand out from education, he must have been either taught by someone how to do basic math or learned it from something so he was educated, just not formally, doesn't really take away from the achievement but worth mentioning, also you say old guy on your fathers side of the family, was he like your great uncle?
@@evigkriegersome people are born with an understanding of math. It's hard to fathom but if you think about it, it had to be discovered some way. Math is the basis of science and an education is not required to make a scientific discovery, therefore an education is not required to make a mathematical discovery. Some people just have amazing capabilities.
Intelligence and knowledge is different. You don’t have to have knowledge to be intelligent, as this kind of person illustrates.
It helps to have facts to think about though, in other subjects than math. If you think intelligently with a base of untruths, you won’t get very far.
@@bubkis1390 it wasn't so much discovered as improved upon, we could understand counting on our fingers inherently to some degree so we used other things to count higher than our hands could, but this never left the realm of addition before that knowledge was handed down and people educated about the previous system before improving upon it. Theres evidence with some of few texts describing it and the remains we were able to discover for the tools used for multiplication pointing to it being purposefully invented to track things like stones needed, supplies on hand, bags of grain etc for the ancient Egyptians, this process is discovery and education just like mathematicians working out things like the theory of relativity and string theory, the knowledge is not really inherent but a continuous progression from our first ancestors in huts using their hands and toes to count to our trying to understand the workings of the universe.
So much of that just to say, even if you trap the greatest savant ever born in a cave from the time they were an infant until they are an adult, they won't understand how to speak much less basic math besides counting sticks and stones, but you may educate and introduce math to them and they may end up doing calculus in a couple months.
@@evigkrieger he may have been taught addition and subtraction, but it's very unlikely he was taught anything else. This was in rural Puerto Rico, the only modern civilization was around the san Juan area and nobody would've ever met someone from there until after ww2. As for his relation to me, I'm not fully sure, he died in the 80s, and I was born in 2002, my father knew him, but he never specified his relationship with him, judging by the time period, and the way my family tends to relate to one another, he's probably my great grandfather's cousin or brother, but I no longer have any contact with my family, so there's probably no way to know
I want more of this. It's fascinating.
"Dont know nothing about the sun, must be nearer than the moon for its warmer" i mean, i wouldnt blame them for reaching that conclusiom
Hello, I'm from the flat earth society. Would you like to know more about our organization?
Honestly, at least they tried using their brain to come up with some conclusion. The wheels were turning, in the wrong direction, but they were turning.
@@sagehale744it's just funny how they focused only on distance and not the size.
@@ksy4747"what am I supposed to look at the sun for? Everyone knows it hurts your eyes, get some common sense lad"
@@flashdimenson 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is common for people to make it to age 16 in public school in USA and still learn nothing beyond sports, carving desk tops and bullying. The 12 years has turned out many flat earth tik-tok producers.
Could you do a part two? I find it fascinating hearing what some of these people were saying back in the day lol
You can probably find the study with all the quotes if you google it
@@tmontoya4994 Yeah but it wouldn't have the cute costumes or great line deliveries
@@carlinkag2525exactly
I like how they don't try to seem like they know.they just seem to say"I don't know" or "I don't care".
just interview your local mcdonalds customer
My favourite real life was back in the mid 1970s. We, in the UK, had had more than 3 days of very warm days one summer. An elderly lady in the butchers said "well. I reckon its all them Russians and Americans." Butcher asked why. " Stands to reason. All them rockets leave holes in the sky and lets the sun in."
Making up stuff just like global warming today... All B.S. of course the world is warming up. It's about time we unlock the mysteries of all those frozen societies that are still frozen and heat this world back up.
That's some really good imagination
better put, oil and fuel are warming the planet, so she was kinda right
Also the internet
Yo how did she know about the ozone layer?
Reminds me of Sherlock Holmes not even wanting to know things like heliocentrism, for it was not his bussiness.
Exactly. Only got room for useful information.
I mean if you know what the sun means at a certain position in the sky, then does it matter what revolves around what? I use the same idea to orient myself to tasks and strip away all the useless information that my adhd doesn't need to deal with. I completely forgot that humans lose their teeth as they age until I had my kids. 😅
I don’t really think so. People used to be, and still are ignorant to the things around them. People are still like this today, it’s just more people are becoming curious about the world they live in and therefore know these things. It’s not bad, but it makes me wonder what kind of life they live if they never wonder or ask about these things at least once.
@@jenconvertibles7858I think it's less so that more people are becoming more curious about the natural world, humans have been curious forever (Greek philosophers immediately come to mind) but I think as a society we've come to a point where we can sorta force everyone else who doesn't really care to have at least a baseline level of education and know these things. Also incentive. There is an unbelievable amount of people who take advanced high school classes not because they care about the subject, but because they get an advantage when applying for college with them.
But he could figure out that a painting is a forgery because there is a comet painted on thag was discovered way after the paintinv was supposedly created. XD
Excellent channel. Thank you.
"He's no customer of mine." Too true, i feel that. No need to know what you don't have to, but look at me talk, I'm the one with too much lore in my head
"he's nothing to me if he's no customer of mine" the grind never stops🔥
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tbf some of those are based af. "i don't know what the pope is, he's nothing to me when he's no customer of mine" legendary
this video presented a great opportunity to show of your hat collection!
Also, there are a lot of essays from back then, that mention how English people would often respond to stupid questions (from strangers wasting their time, particularly) with stupid answers, delivered with a straight face. The game was to say something really outrageous and see if the stupid stranger would buy it. Extra points if it was a rich twit who was not tipping people for wasting their time.
So I am not saying Mayhew was a stranger asking stupid intrusive questions... But probably that is how he came across. And a lot of these answers sound like they were playing him, and that he just didn't get it.
Yeah the ones that said they didn’t know who Jesus was or what Christianity was sounds like bunk. There are churches all over England and Jesus is probably the most famous figure in western culture.
@writingtotortureyou I agree. That sounded a bit suspicious to me too
I wonder where that got lost in translation over time! It’s well documented that part of the reason Americans and Brits have a hard time communicating is because both cultures are particularly sarcastic, but in vastly different ways. “Playing dumb” is the most prevalent form of American sarcasm and Brits tend to take that at face value, as if all Americans are just stupid and lack common sense. I’d be curious to know when the cultural consciousness in Britain switched to sarcasm mocking dumbness to sarcasm mocking poor manners. The upper class was almost certainly doing it first, but I wonder when everyone else caught on.
Do you have a link to these essays or names etc? Would be interested to read one.
Love that they had pre historic trolling back then 👏. I’d 100% do the same shit today if I got asked a street interview question 🤷♂️
I heard an Aussie comedian tell of his time as a coal miner. Asked a co-worker, “Do you know Marcel Proust.” And the miner replied “Nah, he must work down in the other shaft.”
That joke was written by Peter Cook. Appears in one of the Policeman’s Other Ball benefits.
I think you could ask most people this question and they wouldn’t know who that is, even very smart people. If you aren’t particularly interested in literature, you’d probably have no idea
"London is in England and England is in London" lives rent free in my head
Just call the I.R.S on Them so They can start paying the Rent to be inside Your Head
It is Free Money
@@alface935 You say that but unfortunately 'London is in England and England is in London' has refused to pay any rent and has now claimed to be in the early stages of pregnancy, so they can't be lawfully evicted.
@@RoosterFloyd Dammit...
@@alface935 Even worse... this blokes head is in California. So... yeah, he ain't getting anything besides the tax bill.
@@RoosterFloyd Oh well time to go find another Free Money Glitch I guess idk
Jay Leno went out on the streets too and they still said sh*t like this
The funny part is you could legit still get these answers right now in street interviews
Yeah, but nowadays it's a CHOICE to stay ignorant. Everyone gets the opportunity to learn. Back then, many people just didn't have that option at all.
Jay Leno’s Street Walking interviews
Wow. Totally believe it. People just didn't need to know things beyond their existence when they were never going to be anything more than laborers or shopkeepers. Reminds me of that old joke, interviewer asked a man in the street if he thought the problems with the world today were ignorance and apathy. Man replied he didn't know and he didn't care. 🤣
Honestly, these could be quotes from Love Island contestants
😂😂😂
Alright Peirs Morgan.
Or viewers
Interesting selection you chose.