@Colonel Marcellus - ☺️ Thank you! ☺️ I used a snatch of it some years ago on a now defunct upload, and it came immediately to mind when editing this vid.
Am I to understand that an English "chain gang" is simply walking around in circles on the lawn? Oh, by the way, Ted: I was so entertained by your description that I watched the clip several times. I hope that boosts your numbers significantly. In Kentucky in the 1950s and 1960s, most teachers wielded an infernal device called "the paddle", some of which had holes drilled in them to (supposedly) make them faster and/or sting more. I recall an Assistant Principal who was never seen without his, like a samurai with his swords. Badge of office, perhaps.
@Colonel Marcellus - Like you, I haven't come across "chain gang" being used in this respect before, but yes, it appears to be as simple as that, walking in circles. The storyline was written for certain by two men who went through the English Prep / Public School system, one of whom (Robert Morley) is on record as hating the whole experience; doubtless the "chain gang" we see here is based on one or both of the writers' experiences. Regarding the paddle, not a British thing but I have seen them in American movies, e.g. "Dazed And Confused", which actually shows at the beginning a bully making an "aerated" paddle in the school carpentry workshop (I can't bring myself to say just "shop", that's a place where people go shopping). I went to a very good English "state" (for which read public in North America) school where the cane was the severest form of punishment, but neither the teachers or headmaster ever carried one As far as the "new" Ted Says" channel is concerned, it's getting the usual Autumn / Winter uplift in views, aided by an increasing number of uploads, but there's still a very long way to go to match the old Ted Says in overall subscriptions and views. If you want to know something about the uglier side of the English Prep / Public School system, I suggest you read the book "Stiff Upper Lip" by Alex Renton.
@Lukion Smith - You sound surprised, there is only one Spencer Tracy. The M-G-M financed film was set and shot in England and is based on a British play which also ran with moderate success on Broadway.
@@tederbate When i went to school on the English Welsh Border in the 1950s we were always caned on the backside except for certain Romany boys who when they reached 13 years of age refuced to bend over for any one which left the schoolmaster powerless.Years later one of these Romany boys after being fined for poaching managed to join the Policeforce while his brother became an Engineer in the oil Industry in North Africa. At junior school we had old wood stoves and more than one pupil had a log of wood thrown at him across the class room narrowly missing his head. All the above boys lived in council housing and there fathers worked on farms.
@Phillip Williams - Interesting! ☺️ I'm not surprised about the Romany bit, although I am surprised they attended school at all! As for one joining the Police after being fined, that certainly doesn't surprise me, UK policemen have never been recruited on the basis of integrity or any degree of intelligence, I'll say no more. The other Romany doubtless made a lot more money in the oil industry than he would have from poaching back home.
You need a certain mindset to want to be a policeman in any country, the kind of mindset which doesn't require much intelligence or education. "Bobby" is a cosy word for policemen and rarely used by the English these days, and while on the subject, no English person would use the silly word "soccer" when they mean football, which (not surprisingly) is a game almost entirely played with the feet, and doesn't require wearing padding, except to protect the shins. Why Americans haven't got the imagination to coin a better word for the game they play which is a variant of rugby, I do not know - not that I give a damn about "football" of any kind.
P.S. Once again, a great music selection.
@Colonel Marcellus - ☺️ Thank you! ☺️ I used a snatch of it some years ago on a now defunct upload, and it came immediately to mind when editing this vid.
Am I to understand that an English "chain gang" is simply walking around in circles on the lawn? Oh, by the way, Ted: I was so entertained by your description that I watched the clip several times. I hope that boosts your numbers significantly. In Kentucky in the 1950s and 1960s, most teachers wielded an infernal device called "the paddle", some of which had holes drilled in them to (supposedly) make them faster and/or sting more. I recall an Assistant Principal who was never seen without his, like a samurai with his swords. Badge of office, perhaps.
@Colonel Marcellus - Like you, I haven't come across "chain gang" being used in this respect before, but yes, it appears to be as simple as that, walking in circles. The storyline was written for certain by two men who went through the English Prep / Public School system, one of whom (Robert Morley) is on record as hating the whole experience; doubtless the "chain gang" we see here is based on one or both of the writers' experiences.
Regarding the paddle, not a British thing but I have seen them in American movies, e.g. "Dazed And Confused", which actually shows at the beginning a bully making an "aerated" paddle in the school carpentry workshop (I can't bring myself to say just "shop", that's a place where people go shopping). I went to a very good English "state" (for which read public in North America) school where the cane was the severest form of punishment, but neither the teachers or headmaster ever carried one
As far as the "new" Ted Says" channel is concerned, it's getting the usual Autumn / Winter uplift in views, aided by an increasing number of uploads, but there's still a very long way to go to match the old Ted Says in overall subscriptions and views.
If you want to know something about the uglier side of the English Prep / Public School system, I suggest you read the book "Stiff Upper Lip" by Alex Renton.
Is that Spencer Tracy in an English film?? 🤔
@Lukion Smith - You sound surprised, there is only one Spencer Tracy. The M-G-M financed film was set and shot in England and is based on a British play which also ran with moderate success on Broadway.
Keep up the good work.
@Phillip Williams - Thanks, will do! ☺️ ☺️ ☺️
@@tederbate When i went to school on the English Welsh Border in the 1950s we were always caned on the backside except for certain Romany boys who when they reached 13 years of age refuced to bend over for any one which left the schoolmaster powerless.Years later one of these Romany boys after being fined for poaching managed to join the Policeforce while his brother became an Engineer in the oil Industry in North Africa. At junior school we had old wood stoves and more than one pupil had a log of wood thrown at him across the class room narrowly missing his head. All the above boys lived in council housing and there fathers worked on farms.
@Phillip Williams - Interesting! ☺️ I'm not surprised about the Romany bit, although I am surprised they attended school at all! As for one joining the Police after being fined, that certainly doesn't surprise me, UK policemen have never been recruited on the basis of integrity or any degree of intelligence, I'll say no more. The other Romany doubtless made a lot more money in the oil industry than he would have from poaching back home.
@@tederbate UK Bobby’s are hiring from the shallow end of the gene pool????
You need a certain mindset to want to be a policeman in any country, the kind of mindset which doesn't require much intelligence or education.
"Bobby" is a cosy word for policemen and rarely used by the English these days, and while on the subject, no English person would use the silly word "soccer" when they mean football, which (not surprisingly) is a game almost entirely played with the feet, and doesn't require wearing padding, except to protect the shins. Why Americans haven't got the imagination to coin a better word for the game they play which is a variant of rugby, I do not know - not that I give a damn about "football" of any kind.
In 1930s
@ishowclock7 - Like it says, this DEPICTS the 1930s, the film was made later
Music uk 🇬🇧
@ishowclock7 - The music is Baroque imitation, Baroque style music began in 16th Century Italy, it is not British in origin.
Oh I forgot
@ishowclock7 - Like I forgot about the phone code 😪 😪 😪
Stooooooooop don’t say that!!!!!!😡😡
@ishowclock7 - Stooooooooop being so childishly neurotic