Obviously the pilots were state-educated, if your family had enough money to send you to private school, they had enough money to bride whoever needed to be bribed to keep you safe. Posh people ended up in safe positions, unless they volunteered to enter the DANGER ZONE
What "accent" is being referred to from 3:16 onwards? Sandi Toksvig calls it "jordan" but that only gives search results relating to the accent of people from Jordania. Is Jordan a person? Or is Rob Brydon imitating someone in particular I've never heard of? This is driving me nuts, help greatly appreciated.
The discussion around 3:00 confuses me... They say that 30% went to public school, and then say that 70% were "state educated" - but aren't these two terms synonymous?
@@mandel94 Publicly funded schools are known as state schools. This link helps to explain why private schools were originally known as public schools, although these days are usually called independent schools. www.britannica.com/topic/public-school
There’s a great python sketch of an RAF squadron and one of the pilots “banter” gets all cocked up. Perhaps people like an Edinburgh accent because that’s where Eric Winkle Brown hailed from, probably the finest pilot in the history of aviation
The problem with the idea that only privately educated people speak with a posh accent is quite ridiculous. There is one section of education which is completely ignored by this statistic; the grammar schools, which were often effectively a route for upper class people to avoid having to pay school fees. There are still some of these left, and they are still very effective at getting their students into the elite Universities. And the 20% who were notBritish shouldn't be a surprise. Canadians, ANZACS and South Africans also volunteered, and the Polish fliers were also eventually allowed to fly active patrols, and proved to be extremely successful, with some of the highest kill rates of any allied units, in fact 303 squadron, in spite of arriving late to the Battle, had the largest number of kills of any squadron in the battle
When your pilot says why aye, a little bit of sweat starts to drip from the old forehead 🤣. Love how manc, cockney and scouse accents just snuck their way through this discussion without getting a mention
To anyone who is interested in the RFC or RCAF (Later) you might want to read the Bandy papers. It's a series of humorous books chronicling a Canadian who fights for the British in the trenches, and eventually becomes a part of the Air Ministry.
I'm always confused by the fact that "public" school is used to refer to private institutions and publicaly funded institutions are referee to as "state".
Richard Todd was in the Parachute Regiment and was involved in the capture of Pegasus Bridge on D-Day. He later played another person in the film The Longest Day, about the action. How weird must that have been, less than 20 years after the event, playing a character in a film about something in which you played an important part. As an aside, in the 1970's, one of the daily newspapers released a selection of reprints of newspapers of the War years. I recall seeing an advertisement in one of them for pilots in the RAF. It basically said that one of the entrance requirements was a Grammar School education. I was at Grammar School at the time and found it hard to believe that men, not much older than I were defending the Country and being killed doing so. A sobering thought. Especially as at the time, on a daily basis we convened in the hall facing the stage for assembly. On the back wall of the stage was the list of 'Old Boys' that had given their lives during the First and Second World Wars. At the time, I never really gave it a second glance, as nobody spoke about it.
Hypothetical question here. Suppose that most of the “lower classes” in the UK were black and in a racist UK in the 1914s there was a perception that black/poor people didn’t have the best hygiene and irrationally loved watermelons. Now when the lady makes a joke by saying “omg we can smell the air raid coming and look the pilot is eating watermelons” , is she mocking the unfortunate racist/classist outlook of the British in the 1914 or is she perpetuating those stereotypes in the modern times?
Only 30% went to public school. Public schools are private schools in britain? Public school in canada is what everyone goes to unless you're in a private school.
It's a little frustrating how much i want to share these gems with entourage but i can't force them to watch nor qppreciate british humour (like i do), nor (for some) make them understand english.
State school educated is quite literally what Armstrong and Miller's fighter pilots are, come to think of it ;) Unexpectedly on the money and all that shit
Interesting and curious to note that 85% polled would favor a male pilot. If the demography was a representative average, that means a supermajority of women felt that way too.
Would be lovely, if the BBC could put out something like an XL, of the first few seasons wich didnt have that. Or maybe even uneditet. I'd pay good money to see that :)
