Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1.  @dellawrence4323  okay let's deal with you. All versions of English and for that matter any language are bastardized. There are many different versions of English spoken in England let alone the UK. None of them is the correct version. The mere notion of that is an absurdity. This is an extremely silly thing to be jingoistic about, sir.
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  2. I was going to comment this. A puteee is more or less the same idea as a gaiter.
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  3. To be honest it's fairly rare for an American to have a reason to say Oxfordshire in either way. (edit, I accidentally posted at this point, which might come across as impolite.) The point I was going to make is that if you get to general American recognition of Oxford, the shire isn't part of it at all. In general, I think most of us would know there's an Oxford university somewhere or other, and that it is prestigious. We also probably know of Oxford as being a basic type of shirt for office workers at the bottom of the professional queue. If you asked the man on the street what "shire" meant, he'd probably say, " I dunno, where hobbits are from?" A couple decades ago, it would have been "where Robin Hood is from, I guess?" This is because most of us have no more reason to be aware of it than you would have the need to know the correct way to pronounce Willamette, or Oregon. In general, people from the UK put a lot more pride and emphasis on their regionalisms, than is done here. Americans do have pride of place, but not to the degree that is generally caricatured in EU media. Alaskans and Hawiians are a lot more likely to make it part of their identity. Texans to a lesser extent, though they talk of it more. For them, it is more of a shared running joke with an element of truth. We alaskans love to make fun of the people from little texas...
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  4. My grandfather grew up during the prohibition in Missouri. His first oranges were the annual Christmas orange each child was given at school.
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  5. In the USA Robertson is usually called square drive. It is common for long wood screws such as one would use for decking
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  6. I would say describing the government is not forcing us to almost has it backwards. a lot of white us trade and industry works in imperial is because we must build and manufacture according to myraid regulations which are set in standard units. Ships are built to barrel widths. Pipes are NPT in various schedules. The cost of persuading the government to allow a new way of doing any tasks often exceeds the profit margin. only if the ability to source cheaper or better material that is metric allows a company to have a competitive advantage is it worth the dual costs of switching processes and lobbying for permission.
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  7. Kipling has always been a favorite of mine. Much like Jack London and Mark Twain, you can see the deep sadness that comes from their shared hopeless worldview.
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  8.  @highpath4776  Thanks for the insight sir.
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  9. And we continue to see the incredible wisdom of government shutdowns and restraints.
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  10. Yo-yo is a brand name for a type of automatic fish catcher. It's basically a spring-loaded reel which will yank the fish in if something tugs on the line. So it's essentially a law against a fishtrap not against using the toy to catch fish.
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