(no music) #1098 - Talking about stuff I have no knowledge about - Let Me Bore You To Sleep - 16th April 2024)

Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello and welcome to Jason at Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. I hope that you're well and uh please only listen once you can safely close your eyes and today's Tuesday the 16th of April 2022. Let me see what's the the speed of my internet.

Okay well oh it's gone down it's going down it's going down oh so about 30 29 27 26 24 25 download 25 megabytes per second it should be about 40 to 50. Earlier on before I reset it it was about 7 megabytes a second upload is 16.77 megabytes a second.

My neighbor one of my neighbors downstairs asked me asked me to if they could have the password to my internet because their was it I don't know mobile data ran out or something and ever since then my I've started getting buffering when I'm watching things like YouTube well YouTube Netflix stuff like that and the internet's going slow it's like really it's like they shouldn't I mean I think Netflix only needs four megabytes a second to run smoothly so I reset it and I'm a little bit addicted to keep checking it now as well oh the download's gone down 20 19 18 17 16 megabytes.

Blimey the upload's nearly as fast as a download so the weekend I was trying to watch boxing and it just kept buffering so I have to have a word I don't know I mean I don't know if it is because it's being shared or because it's just going slow for some other reason I don't know but I might just have to change the password which I don't really want to do because you know I don't want to be I can't be bothered to be fair I can be bored that so

um what's occurring ladies and gentlemen let's see if I've got any messages have I got any messages I just had a pizza just had a pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza you know sometimes I come onto Facebook and I just see posts from just you know posts from people not not directed at me but just and I think wow I just like it's uh quite often anti-Trump posts or anti-Biden posts and it all seems very fanatical to me very extreme and we're not really like that

in this country I'm not saying there's no extremism here is but when it comes to politicians generally we're bad I think laxadazetal is it laxadazetal whatever it's called we're not quite so excitable about you know taking sides although when Brexit happened a made-up word but when the UK had a referendum whether or not to leave the European Union it divided the country really you know there's a lot of I've heard of people that won't that stopped talking to each other because they had different views I remember I had a friend

and she fell out of her son and her son was I don't know 19 probably and she was upset because he had different views to her and I said he's not your friend doesn't have to have the same views as you the same political views as you he's your son not your friend yeah you're not hanging out with each other you don't have to have conversations about politics you know you love him you gave birth to him he loves you he I don't know you gave birth to us well the

same both type both sides but blah blah blah there yeah but he he he thinks he's a he's a Tory and I'm a Labour oh I'm into Labour he's really conservative like yes so yeah but I don't like his opinions on stuff he's too right-wing but he's your son I don't like his but you don't have to like what he thinks as long as he isn't being you know respectful to you and stuff as long as not being horrible to you you know that's a different thing but you don't have

to talk about politics it's not that in some people are probably thinking but you're talking about it you don't have to talk about either but you are I'm not really I'm just just commenting on something that I sawed on Facebook but some of the comments almost like it's really uh you'd think that's that a something really extremely horrible has just been posted and people are commenting on that and when you look it's just an anti an anti-president post or an anti-former president post what we say former and future president post

probably so it's weird I mean we we view in this country we view American politics and in a way that perhaps it in two ways firstly of extreme importance to us and the world from a you know from a societal financial all that stuff it's very important that we because you know we rely so much they're almost like the big brother of this country without them we would be in trouble and probably quite a few other countries would be as well potentially you know there was a time when we ruled

the world but that was a while ago and had this country and the people running this country treated all those other countries well and with respect then we probably would still rule the world the silly billies they didn't know what they had ah well so um let's be at least two countries handed back during my lifetime then it was the Falklands Argentina decided Argentina Argentina oh my god he's talking about he's talking about conflicts and wars he doesn't normally talk about stuff like this I don't know I'm not really so

how close is how close is the Falkland Islands distance to Argentina let's have a look it's 945 miles okay 945 miles to England to England 7969 miles wow it's a little bit closer to the Falkland to us Argentina than us isn't it the Argentina decided they found some documents saying that they used to own the Isle of Wight we've come back to get the Isle of Wight I didn't realize it was so far away from the distance to the USA it's actually closer it's closer to America than it is to

us it's 6758 miles 6700 miles and it's nearly 8000 miles from here blimey I didn't realize that Argentina was that far away I thought it was quite close to Spain probably because of the football you know the Spanish players and don't they speak Spanish in Argentina Falklands Falklands language English is the dialect of the English language I know that spoken in the Falkland Islands this is thought it is mainly British in character as a result of the remoteness of the islands the Falkland Islands a cluster of 780 now this is

something I didn't know there's 780 different islands off the coast of Argentina I thought just one island like the Isle of Man has no indigenous population how can I have no indigenous population so the settlement history here we go let's have a look uh the Falkland Ascends needs to be stronger okay settled settlement history the Falkland Islands a cluster of 780 islands off the eastern coast of Argentina had no indigenous population when the British arrived to explore the islands in 1690 continuous settlements dates only to 1833 all right so we

were visitors according to England Britain we were the first visitors but we obviously had no way of knowing that is a um I'm guessing chances I'm just a guess that maybe some of those places closer would have found it before we did just a guess and but no one apparently according to this settled until 1880 1833 wow this is interesting 1833 okay okay in 1945 the capital the capital town of Stanley located on East Falkland was established okay wait continuous settlement dates this is Wikipedia so I don't know if it's

true or not but we didn't have Wikipedia in the early 80s so I didn't didn't get to find out really okay continuous settlement dates only to 1883 continuous settlement dates only see that is not even a proper sentence when British forces removed 26 Argentinian soldiers from the island and claimed the island for the for the British um so the 26 Argentinian soldiers did Argentina class it as being theirs I mean it's not like it was close oh it was close to them wasn't that sorry but it's 26 Argentinian soldiers oh

I wonder what happened to them I don't know I'm genuinely don't know in 1845 the capital town of Stanley located well there you go look no other country would have a town called Stanley only England Stanley as a British name as a very proper old-fashioned English name Stanley Brian Stanley Derek so you know it's definitely not you can tell it's definitely an English name so it's located in East Falklands Argentina also defend Argentina also has a claim to the islands okay so there was this thing that happened where um it

was a big deal in the early 90s so early 80s I won't go through that and 99.8% of islands of islanders voted to remain under British sovereignty in a referendum I don't know when that referendum was 2012 2012 second class citizens okay I don't know Falkland Islands referendum Falkland Islands referendum who were the three no votes the Falkland Islands referendum returned an overall overwhelming yes vote but who were the trio that voted no this is the 12th of March 2013 so they had a referendum and they there's only six people

lived there it's not a lot of people lived there I don't think um we've got islands here did you know that those that live in other countries you might not realize we've got lots of islands around the UK how many islands around around the UK British coastline it's a British British around 188 can you believe that 188 but that does include part of Ireland okay they're including that so which would be Northern Ireland so um so we used to own Ireland for how long did we own Ireland how long hundreds

of years did Britain own Ireland maybe own is not the right word several centuries British rule in Ireland built upon the 12th century Anglo and Norman invasion of Ireland on behalf of the English king and eventually spanned seven centuries 700 years that involved British control of parts or entirety of the island of Ireland 700 years that's a long time and then when did Ireland become part of the UK to 1801 all right I'm getting too confusing the story of Britain's rule over Ireland began in 1169 when the Normans first conquered

the island and then on except and then on except for a brief period of independence in the 1640s Ireland remained an integral part of the English imperial system until 1922 and the establishment of the Irish free state let's delve into the historical timeline shall we okay uh when did it become when did they get some freedom from us in 1919 an Irish republic was proclaimed by a Sinn Féin Irish nationalist party facing civil war in Ireland Britain partitioned the island in 1920.

What is it about Britain that liking they enjoy partitioning things they did it in India didn't they Pakistan and partitioning parts of India they did it in the Middle East partitioning they were part of the Palestine Israel partition yeah there's a lot of old men with their cigars old fat men with cigars in the you know 70 80 years ago 100 years ago sitting around making decisions without thinking what the consequences would be because it didn't affect them because they were big and fat smoking cigars probably didn't have long to

live and they were rich and didn't have to worry about anything so oh this is very political let's make it up to go along 1922 the Irish free state was formed and almost immediately the north east northern Ireland withdrew and accepted self-governance with the United Kingdom 1937 a new constitution and renamed the nation IRE or Ireland and in 1949 became a republic and left the British Commonwealth so I've got I got a little stake in Ireland in the sense of my family my dad's side of the family comes from Ireland

so I am part Irish and but I did live there for a little while lived there for a little while and I remember when I was there because you know this is in the 90s there was still it was we were still getting well basically in London around the country still getting bombed by the IRA and stuff that was still happening this is 94 that I went to Ireland and I was under the misconception that it was it showed you how how ignorant I was and I still am ignorant but

I really didn't understand it so I said oh no I said well we can say what we want I was in the south of Ireland in Carlo County Carlo near County Kilderry Kilderry and I thought well just you talk about anything just be careful what you say in Northern Ireland and they said no it's the opposite I said what do you mean he said well the supporters the IRA wants Ireland to be one country and they want Northern Ireland to be part of Ireland they don't want it to be one

they're separate from the UK completely separate they're all over Ireland the supports for that some of them are in Northern Ireland some of the ones that oppose that also in Northern Ireland but the majority of the ones that want Ireland to be one place live in Ireland than 95 percent of the country like percentage of the land or whatever it is I don't know what percentage of land it is and I thought oh and I had that um I didn't think that it would be an issue but then I dated

a Northern Irish girl and she said for the first few years of living in Southern Ireland their house would get egged and painted on regularly tell them to go back to Northern Ireland go back to Britain and I think the father had a job here I think it might be in a coal mine or some kind of job and not here but you know in in the town so they stuck there and she was a kid and when I met her she was I don't know how she was early 20s

probably so she'd gone through that but after a while people just were okay but took years and I thought that's very strange because everyone seems so friendly everyone seems so friendly and then I went with Andre not my boy the ferret Andre but my friend Andre he was born in Carla he was Irish through and through and I went to a nightclub with him and I went to the toilet as you do you need to do a wee wee I was just sitting there on my own and two blokes came

in and they started trying to pick a fight with me and they started saying oh you English scum go back to England oh I'll never live in England it's a crap hole I said you're right it is crap that's why I'm living here but because I agreed with them they were flummoxed they didn't know what to say like oh and I just laughed and just walked out because if they thought they were going to like try and intimidate me first of all you can't intimidate me when I'm sober you definitely

can't intimidate me when I'm drinking you know I mean it's just a you can't intimidate anyone when you're drinking not really even the the the mildest person generally doesn't take crap from people when they're drunk you know so and it's weird that they was like yeah I agree mate rubbish country I didn't think that by the way I kind of did a little bit I wasn't a big fan of England at the time just because my life hadn't been going particularly well to be honest but I didn't I didn't really

feel that way or think that Ireland was better or anything like that but I did like Ireland I like being there and I knew that that's where my partly where my heritage comes from that's where my ancestors lived it's I'm going back a bit it's my Nan's parents came over the Nan that I was really close to her parents came over from Ireland and she she didn't she was she was a Cockney she was born in East London moved to North London during the war because East London a lot of

East London was flattened by the uh a European country that would fly over and drop things that went bang so yeah it was uh a weird time and then they started building stuff outside of London like you know North London and into Hertfordshire and Middlesex all kind of was kind of created sort of post-war time because people needed somewhere to live it's partly made up but I think some of it's true and then she was born a Cockney then she she grew up I mean she was she was I think

about 17 when the war started in 1939 and my granddad was 29 so she was 17 my granddad well maybe 18 maybe 16 even I don't know but she was my granddad was quite a bit older than her they'd already been dating I think for a couple of years or a year or so and and my granddad had been in the in the army so it was felt he'd spent I think 12 years in the army so he left school went straight into the army served like 12 years or something

got out got a job with the government started date he might have been dating my nan while he was in the army I don't know I can't ask her can I and she the so the second world war started he went off to war he was one of the first people called so other than the the actual serving regiment you know the actual army navy RAF apart from people who were actually serving he was the first called like the the previous people that had just left the army or the RAF

or the the navy so previous people which makes sense doesn't it I guess so he was called back and then they started constricting constricting constricting constrict whatever it is um forcing people to to go to war uh members of the public and my granddad didn't need to be asked he was just ready to go he was he wanted to go not wanted to go but to defend to defend the country he he wanted and that's why he spent 12 years in the army so which is weird the weird thing about

it this is a bit a little bit more serious than a lot of the other recordings his my granddad's younger brother you see he had to be 16 to join the army I think his younger brother I'm pretty sure his name was Harry his younger brother joined the army at 14 because he wanted to be wanted to be um he wasn't this wasn't during the during the war this was previous but there was other wars like the boa war or something I don't know what different wars going on around the

country around the world India Africa different places so his younger brother wanted to join the army basically because none of them had any money no food or anything so he knew he'd get fed basically so he joined at 14 he faked his id and he he got blown up in a in on some mission and my nan had in a in a like a a tin thing whatever she had both his army uh registration forms so the date and his date of birth or maybe his badge or whatever uh and

she also had his passport no she had his no she had his birth certificate or at least a photocopy of the birth certificate and had the it might have been a photocopy I don't know of his I think it might be the rations card or I don't know something that he had when he was in the army when he first joined that had his date of birth and it was literally two years difference one said 1901 the other one said 1903 or something I don't know what kind of age they

were and that wouldn't have been that bad I mean my granddad died at 80 and it was in 1991 so he was born in 1911 would that be right yeah 1911 so his brother would have been born I don't know how much younger he was than my granddad maybe a few years a couple of years so he probably born in 1913 so 23 or so but probably about 1928 he went into the army and back then you could leave school at 14 but you couldn't join the army I don't think

until you were 16 now if it was younger he was still he was two years younger than you could join so age of joining army before second world war age conscription conscription still doesn't sound right so in 1941 the parliament passed the second national service act it widened the scope of conscription still further by making all unmarried women and all childless widows between the ages and 20 and 30 liable to be called up men were required were now required to do some form of national what this you know this required

men to undertake a six months military training and some 240 000 registered for the service wow on the day britain declared war on germany 3rd of september 1939 parliament immediately passed a more wide-reaching measure so during the spring of 1930 isn't that interesting so during the spring of 1939 before war even started the deterioration international situation forced so they were already preparing for war months before it even started so they started conscripting people to join up wow i didn't know that i really didn't i thought i just yeah i didn't

know that so in the spring so we're talking march april time and the war started in september wow in december 1941 parliament passed a second scope of the 20 so they made it so people up to the age of 60 you had to do some kind of form of national service which included military service for those under 51 wow i'm just over that line i'm just over that the main reason there was not enough men volunteering for police and civilian defense work or women for the auxiliary units of the armed

forces now i know that i remember people saying that these people that refused to go conscientious objectors had to appear before a tribunal to argue their reasons for refusing to join up if their cases were not dismissed they were granted one of several categories of exemption and were given non-combatant jobs so that makes sense if someone's you know for me my reason would be i'm a coward and that should be taken seriously because let's face it if you're in an army and you're you know you have to rely on the

people that you're serving with this like really rely on them and i'm not reliable because i'm a coward and i will run at any opportunity as soon as you're honest about that it's like will you have your your colleagues back will you be there to help no i won't i'll be running i'm off as soon as i can will you help protect your no no i'm i'm a coward i told you i was a coward it would make sense to not put that person in a war like get them to

a job they don't like maybe outside you know making tea or something i don't know what do i think about this stuff i don't know huh so ireland 700 years that's quite a long time isn't it even in today's standard 700 years and back then you don't get people didn't live necessary to be really old some people did but you know the majority i think you know 40 was quite old back then so if you think of each century at least two generations maybe three generations in a century times by

7 7 14 21 21 generations that's quite a lot it is isn't it it's quite a lot don't you think it's like me you with a bit of it be now i don't know much about politics i don't know much about history but i do know that i love you and i know that if you love me too what a wonderful world it would be i don't know it's i just i find it fascinating but at the same time i do wonder i have little questions in my mind okay and

it's it's not maybe it's offensive i don't mean anything to be offensive but i do wonder right so let's say if we're going to look at spain not spain we're going to look at mexico mexico okay officially the united mexican states country of the southern part of north america covers 761 610 square miles i don't know what that means 1 720 000 kilometers it's a world's 13th largest country by area with a population of almost 130 million the 10th most populous country and the most populous spanish-speaking country okay that's my

question right human presence in pre-columbian mexico dates back to 8 000 bce i don't know what bc stands what does bc stand for bce before the common error okay let's answer the question still don't know what it means and it's one of the world's six cradles of civilization so here we go the mesoamerican region hosted various entwined or intertwined civilizations including the olmec the maya to tapotec and the aztecs came to dominate the area prior to european contact okay so we're going 8 000 bc now we're heading all the way

through to 1521 the spanish empire alongside indigenous indigenous this in 1521 the spanish empire alongside indigenous allies conquered the aztec empire establishing the colony of new spain in the former capital tenochtitlan now mexico city over the next three centuries so it's 300 years so 15 16 17 18 21 spanish expansion enforced christianity spanish expansion enforced christianity spread the spanish language and exploited rich silver deposits in zacatecas and the colonial era ended in the early 19th century with the mexican war of independence okay here we go following independence mexico faced political

and socio-economic upheaval the united states invasion during the mexican-american war resulted in significant territorial losses in 1848 liberal reforms introduced in the constitution of 1857 including the french intervention and establishment of an empire countered by the republics this is getting confusing man the late 19th century saw the rise of porfirio diaz's dictatorship sparking the mexican revolution in 1910 which led to profound changes including the 1917 constitution subsequent governance by a succession of presidents often former war generals persisted until the emergence of the institutional revolutionary party in 1929 the 20th century

saw a shift towards neoliberal policies neuter america north american free trade agreement in 1994 okay so they got their independence after how many years of being run by spanish you think the first thing i want to do is get rid of spanish as a language wouldn't you can you imagine they say if you know i can't remember the country that was at war with with this country in the 40s but um whichever country that was sebastian might know um if they had one like they would have taken over the country

and i guess expected us to speak or we would eventually be speaking german and when we got rid of them because we would eventually get rid of them however long it took we'd they'd be out one of the first things we'd do is get rid of the language we'd go back to speaking english people would be speaking english privately even if they weren't allowed to in public so the language could keep going and then as soon as we got it we go back to speaking english wouldn't continue speak the language

of the oppressors so i just don't know how to say that why would you keep speaking the language of a country that invaded you but then you could say that about this country we've been invaded like okay oh you don't know what it's like to be invaded well actually we do not me personally my country england how many times has england been invaded what do you reckon so how many times which country okay let's have a look which country country has been invaded the most throughout history let's have a look

shall we let's have a look shall we no which has been invaded not who's invaded is saying the british empire without a doubt takes the cake for invading the most countries in history that's not what i asked it's not what i asked um which countries invasion of invasion of i want to know about england which country hasn't been invaded the most right here we go world atlas let's have a look let's have a look the mongols no because this isn't doing it is it it's talking about people that have done

the invading which country has been invaded the most although the exact answer is up for mass debate there are compelling reasons to believe that india may just be the most invaded country of all foreigners have invaded the state over 200 times the first person to successfully invade india was alexandra the quite quite good i know the great in the year 321 bce while the last people were the british who finally give way give way for an independent india gave way didn't do that pronounced it wrong so the british who finally

quit and alexander the great the mongols between 12 21 and 12 13 27 they're focusing on india i want to know about britain british empire which countries have invaded much there okay i'm going to change the question how many times has england been invaded invasion the british isles wikipedia okay invasion of england 97 93 to 12 83 oh come on 10 times more than more than 10 times surely a map of every country britain has ever invaded no stop it leave my country alone we didn't mean it horribly didn't mean

it they didn't know any better i thought they were helping people i didn't know that they were map of the countries britain invaded countries britain has not invaded it's like three norman which countries have invaded britain oh here we go which countries have invaded britain invasion of the british isles has occurred throughout history various sovereign states within the territory of total space that constitute the british isles has been invaded several times including by the romans the german germanic peoples vikings normans the french the dutch and blimey let's have a look

it's a neolithic transition so the arrival of the bell beaker to 2400 bc arrived in britain probably from the lower rhine an archaeological culture characterized by a new bell-shaped pottery style engraved hoods that included copper daggers i had no idea at all then the celtic antiquity before the romans came to britain and with them the advent of written records and toilets the majority of britain was celtic how and when these people arrived in the british isles as a matter of much conjecture and 11th century gabbalah describes successive invasions and settlements

of ireland by a variety of celtic and pre-celtic peoples how much of it is based on historic fact is um very much a bit of a master debater uh roman invasions 55 bc celtic britain was invaded by romans under julius caesar caesar two invasions did not conquer britain but established it as a major trading partner of rome i thought they did conquer britain okay fair enough a century later a botched attempt to conquer britain was made under the emperor of caligula and caligula's uncle and successor claudius was the first emperor

to oversee a successful invasion see that shows where we went wrong so we let the romans in right because they were they weren't invading they were trading partners we were trading with rome come in we do some trading international trading wonderful without knowing that they had little ideas like we're going to conquer this country we're going to conquer that wonderful land of britain well anyway um it did get taken over easy it's a botched attempt under caligula his uncle and successor claudius was the first emperor to oversee a successful invasion

he used as an excuse to please for help that came from atrobates so they tricked us yeah we need we've been called for help we need help why have you got all those boats i know a lot of us need help why have you got all those spears and swords and why are you building the houses don't worry about that what's that big arena of lions don't worry about that it's fine blimey so claudius arrived himself bringing up to 38 war elephants within how did he explain that one away so

when the celts or celts were finally defeated the keratikus force the keratikus forced to flee to wales and okay so the the celts forced wales blah blah blah claudius returned to rome in the early ad 60s a celtic tribal queen boudicca led a bloody revolt against roman rule while the governor gaius was pursuing a campaign on the isle of angelsi and boudicca angered by maltreatment at the hands of the romans urged her people to rise up they did and marched on now colchester where many former roman soldiers had settled the

romans in dunnum were massacred after a brief fight meanwhile the legio ix hispana ninth legion had been sent south from lydon now lincoln to put down the revolt it failed to arrive in time and when it encountered the celts was annihilated the battle however may have a step enabled governor suetinius to arrive in londonian london with a small roman army despite the pleas of the civil officials suetonius marched out of the city with his troops knowing that any stand would be disastrous boudicca sacked london sacked london and pushed on to

verilenium now st albans which was also raised suetinius has gathered a large enough army however to do battle on the roman road wattling street boudicca was defeated and the roman rule was restored to britain blindly in sub-roman britain the scott of ireland raised and colonized the wetis of german invasion no not that one is a different one as the roman empire declined its hold on britain loosened by a d410 roman forces had been withdrawn and small isolated bands of migrating germans began to invade britain what are germans there seems to

have there seems to have been no large invasion with a combined army or fleet but the tribes notably the jewel jutes angles and sexans quickly established control over modern-day england anglo-saxons they were germans was they anglo-saxons the people is now called the anglo-saxons largely came from jutland and northern germany first landing in eastern britain helicopter that's nice there are a few seconds there are a few records existing that account this migration and those were written come mainly from mediterranean areas or were created long after the event there was a small

number of anglo-saxons already living in britain before the roman withdrawal in ad408 the majority of these served in the army and helped the romans fight sex and pirates who raided the southern and eastern coasts of britain from the third century onwards wow invasions of england one two three four five six seven eight nine ten these are from external invasions external well what but then the great heathen army then olaf guffrington eric bloodaxe these are just different invaders sven forkbeard and then invader knut a smithsville i think harold havarada of norway

william the conqueror dane under swindle too henry book clerk later henry ii of england and prince louis of france later louis v 111 he was proclaimed king louis i of england at old st paul's cathedral but never actually crowned i don't know how much of this is true it might just be made up i mean who'd be bored enough to put this together and we'll be bored enough to read it me wow according to north sagas in 18865 the legendary viking chief ragnar lodbrok lodbrok lodbrok yeah lodbrok fell into the

hands of king ella of northumbria ella allegedly had ragnar thrown to a snake pit it is said that ragnar's enraged sons taking advantage of political instability of england recruited the great heathen army which landed in the kingdom of east anglia that year it says there's no proof that this legend has any basis in history however it is known that several of the viking leaders grouped their bands together to form one great army that landed in the kingdom of east anglia to start their attempted conquest of england in 866 so how

did we come up with english so you got scandinavia invaders olaf gladiason kingdom of dublin norway denmark denmark norway so this is these invaded list of external invasions of the all external huh but what about i was 793 to 1285 but what about 1283 let's have a look 1285 so what after 1285 see this is very all over the place i just want to know give me lists okay i know where to go for this here we go how long was uk britain britain ruled by romans 400 years britain was

ruled by romans for about 400 years blimey so i'm guessing we would have spoken italian would we not roman conquest began originally but um we were their slaves weren't we so the english british were how many british how many british were slaves during this time here we go estimating the number of britons enslaved during the roman period is challenging due to the limited and fragmented history when the romans invaded britain they enslaved many of the local population as a result of military conquests these slaves were many of the local populations

okay these slaves were used for various purposes such as labor in the agricultural sectors working mines domestic servitude and entertainment some were taken to other parts of the roman empire however specific numbers of even reliable estimates of how many britons were enslaved during the roman occupation are hard to determine the records do not show do not provide comprehensive data on the number of slaves and much of what is known comes from archaeological findings and occasions uh can britain britain can british people so so here's the answer the idea of british

people asking italy for reparations or conversation due to historical roman occupation of britain is not grounded in current international law or practices the roman conquests occurred over a millennium ago and the notion of holding modern countries accountable for actions that took place so long ago is not typically supported by legal frameworks or international norms in the contemporary world issues are reparations generally focused on more recent historical injustices where the impacts are directly traceable and affect living populations well what happened during the romans affects where everything that happens in the past

affects where we are now and we could blame yeah i mean reparations i want reparations for my ancestors being slaves let's face it you can't necessarily go forward you know i haven't reproduced but i can go back forever we all can we'll go back to the first person but basically there has to have been you keep going back there has to have been two people a mother and a mother and a father who did whoopee together to produce the baby or we could just say there has to be a mother

obviously that obviously has to be a father so and then them two had to have been had father and mother and them two had to have had mother father and father so we go back forever to the beginning of time baby wherever whichever country we originated from originally where was africa or india or i don't know the isle of man by the way the island i've been to the isle of man i said this before i say it again no women there it really is an island full of men five

men that's it at least that's what it was when i went there i think it gets busy during the tt races i think they are the isle of man races motorbike cross bike racing thing but the rest of the time and vinnie's just farted not really relevant but oh and that's what a window opened oh she had a vent in my oh my oh proper stinky it's like he's done a poo but it just hasn't come out yet wow um what were they talking about yeah reparations i want reparations that's

all i want i want reparations because if you go back 50 years then you can go back 100 years if you can go about 100 years you can go back 200 years if you can go back 200 years you can go back 500 years you can go back a thousand years that you know so who's to say you know i like to think that if i've got any relatives that were wrongly accused of something i'd like them to be pardoned even if it was a thousand years ago and that's a

weird thing because i won't continue my timeline the family timeline i won't continue it and i don't think any of my brothers have had kids so the timeline ends with us but when you go back there's always someone which means there's always someone else and there's always someone else there's always someone else that gave birth to that person and there's someone that gave birth to the person that gave birth to the person that gave birth to the person and there's someone that gave person to the you know it just goes

on and on and on which means that he's pretty much right back to the we all originate back to the first people on the planet you can't not unless you were made in a laboratory somewhere sometimes when i look at myself i do think maybe i was in a laboratory baby i don't know i'm not really sure what that means if i'm honest oh what i'm talking about today i'm just just uh i just wondered for years why do people all these different countries speak spanish when they're not spanish you

see what i mean like mexican are mexicans they're not spanish they speak spanish but they're not spanish they're mexicans and then you got places in canada who think themselves as french because they speak french but they're canadians if you're born in canada you're canadian speaking a different language doesn't it's like where you're born is what you are you know especially if you if your parents were also born in canada and their parents were born in canada because at some point that ends see my my nan her parents were irish so

they were irish their whole lives wherever they lived they they could have been classed as british as well but they were irish she was british because she was born in the uk she's born in england she was english but both her parents were irish so you could say well yeah she was irish as well like 100 irish because both her parents were irish then she had kids with an english man so and they were he was born in england the kids were all born in england so they weren't irish they

were english and i've forgotten what my point is i don't know what my there's a point i don't know what it is oh yeah so they're english so you know i dated this girl years ago it's the last one yeah so ages and she kept saying she was french and she she could speak french she she spoke french she's english as well spoke english spoke perfect english but french was her main language and she kept saying she was french which implies she's from france does it not to me if you

say oh i'm german that means that you were born in germany or you're french i was born in france you're english you're born in england doesn't mean you live in england now but and of course you can be british it can be anywhere it can come from anywhere in the world and be called british but english is it's you know you have to be born in for that and so it's very strange she she said oh yeah i'm i'm french i took a word for it turns out she's born in

africa but she's born in a french colony colony that speaks french colonized by france who basically took advantage of people in the country i guess which most colonists i don't think they treated people particularly well if i if i remember correctly so she wasn't french she spoke french but she wasn't french she thought she was french because she spoke french so it's kind of it's no different really if you get two french teachers both born in the uk both english born in england or both born in scotland live in scotland

the whole lives both scottish and they bring a child up and for the very first few years of that child's life all that child hears is french because they're both french teachers they speak it fluently and they teach that child bring bring that child up homeschooled as well french all the way through childhood and then they get to the age of 16 17 ready to go out in the world and get a job maybe meeting people for the first time is that kid french just because they speak french or the

what about the fact that they've had both the parents who live in scotland born in scotland maybe both have scottish parents scottish grandparents great great grandparents whatever so the whole lineage is from scotland but they both teach the kid to learn you know just bringing the kid up on doesn't even tell the kid is french just that's just how it learns just from listening just from watching observing is that kid then french no so yeah see i found it interesting so i don't really know the history of um of canadia

and the whole french thing i don't really know how that came about to be honest with you why does parts parts of if i put in canada okay it's gonna fill us rest in why does parts of canada why does parts of canada okay i'm gonna google this i'll bet you it fills it in why does parts of canada canada celebrate thanksgiving okay if i put an s shut down sell ship to canada split start stock drop ship to hawaii save sink sell ice cream okay if i put p split

i thought speak split speak spread sports space spoil spend speech spring spray spritz speak why does oh i'll put maths instead of parts that's probably why why does parts of canada it i bet it comes up now speak french here we go french is spoken in parts of canada due to the historic influence of french colonization and the preservation of the french language and culture in certain regions of canada french settlement in canada began 16th century and even though the british gained control over the country french culture and language persisted

these communities had their own accents and dialects of french combining different elements from other regional languages and folk dialects that were spoken in france at the time of colonization 16th century so this i do again i kind of wonder why but then if you think about it i kind of colonized but then if you're born and you're raised to speak french for example even though you're not in france clearly and you're a long long way away from france and you're in a in canada near america then well it depends what

part of canada because it's kind of huge isn't it so and you're born into a french-speaking family and then us old british heroes come along and free you from the we what do we do what i said even though the british gained control over the country the people that were thought of themselves as french wanted to continue which to be fair should be their right shouldn't it i mean if i i'm just thinking i speak english now if if for example the people in this country decide we're going to get

rid of that when we go back to speak in dutch or when you go back to speak in italian like we used to when the romans were here or we're going to go back speak in norwegian like we did when the norways the the vikings were here or whatever you know so and let's face it the romans were here for 700 years 400 years sorry is pretty likely that a heck of a lot of people spoke italian or roman whatever their language was back then so i'm guessing if you're born

into that imagine your your father your great or your your great auntie a great grandmother her great grandmother even all spoke italian and you speak italian and then suddenly they're gone you know the romans move out overnight bye-bye nice knowing you see ya and you kind of like i guess you wouldn't know what to do would you all you've ever known is speaking the language you're speaking ah it's very confusing makes me wanna eat some ice cream ice cream ice cream makes me wanna eat some sponge cake sponge cake and

ice cream ice cream but then i realized i got no ice cream no ice cream left so what i might do is have sponge instead oh this has been a weird weird one i don't know i'm talking about nothing but talking about some real stuff as well it's probably not but i don't know if this was uh i don't normally talk about this stuff i don't know what i did i do find i do i find it interesting sometimes you know history and how do we get to where we are

now i look at how things are changing in the world and how things are going to move to a different place and just find it fascinating all right i might have some ice cream in the fridge in the fridge freezer i mean i might i don't know i've got this little idea little bell's gone in my head saying have a little check you never know there might be some ice cream in there if there is wow i will be excited excited isn't the word actually it is the word it's the

correct word i don't know why but you know you know what i mean so i'm gonna go thank you very much for listening all this information is stuff i've got off the internet so none of it is known i don't know anything about history i know a little bit not much i thoroughly enjoyed watching vikings the television show absolutely loved that show but anyway remember remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy be gentle with yourself lots of love bye bye bye