Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "Great Britain Explained In A Way That Finally Makes Sense" video.

  1. lol! good point! It always struck me as bit militaristic, fittingly so unlike Bernie's bird
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  2. you took the toilet and made it the basis of an entire culture
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  3. what's interesting is that Scotland is named after the Scots/Gaels tribe who were from Ireland while England comes from Anglo-Land the Anglo-Saxons from northern Germany and Denmark. Much of Wales was made up of the celtic refugees from the Anglo-Saxons and the name "Wales" is derived from Old English. English language itself is a mishmash of old germanic Anglo-Saxon, nordic from the Vikings, and Norman French which also was Viking descended after 1066. British history later became so anglo-sized down the road we forget that England was a bilingual country for nearly 300 years with the top speaking Norman French and the everyone else speaking Old English. Kings like Richard the Lionheart didn't speak a word of English only French and spent most of his 10 year-reign outside of England yet some still naively think him "ye goode English kinge"
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  4. yeah that bit of friendly rivalry struck me as a bit odd and wrong. Really "Great Britain" was an English drive for unity with them at the head. The Welsh didn't ask to be part of it. They were conquered and cajoled into it, the same with Scotland. Those who didn't go along with it went the way of the highland scots - murdered, imprisoned, or sent off to the colonies. Sure down the line there were political reasons for unification but there's a reason why english not welsh or gaelic is the primary language.
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