Identifying more mysterious flags (submitted by YOU!) 

Took less than 30 minutes!! Congrats!! flag mystery: SOLVED

J.J. McCullough don’t mean to brag, but I technically found it first

@@SeanA099 I love all my children equally.

I thought it would be a city flag, I went looking on the Wikipedia page of US city flags but gave up halfway through lol

Epic channel

If we want to get technical all flags are made up

@@seamusmckeon9109 Yes.

@@seamusmckeon9109 Flags are also typically made up using cloth, fabric, paper, and/or ink.

Well the other flags are official

Well all flags were at some point "made up" technically, but this "E" flag was never one that gained widespread use.

Tim Schill thank you my friend! There’s enough darkness in the world.

@J.J. McCullough Great video. But you lost the game...

Yes, he's definetly my favorite RU-vidr!

Yeah, I wish I could manage JJ's level of consistent positivity

J.J. McCullough More than enough...

It probably killed the children too

@@caiselohare4938 sheeeeesh

Sounds right to me. Vegans are people who come from Vega, right?

My mother is a California Native. Why does she say it like that?

@IanBoi211 i think that’s just apart of JJs little personality quirks lol

also the word "ensign”

Thankfully, this video isn't too controversial! After all, even a foolish RU-vid drone can tell this video is perfectly harmless.

Whooosh

@@VAArrow Is it windy? I have heard this is the expression for when one missed sarcasm and irony. Was Iain being sarcastic? If so, I am sorry for missing the joke, especially since these flags are harmless, even by the standards of RU-vid's drones, which apparently break RU-vid's own guidelines (I have heard many history RU-vidrs criticize the drones for forgetting that history videos follow RU-vid's guidelines). If I am getting this Google search for "Whoosh" right, thanks, VAArrow! I am not a Reddit user.

​@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions The sound is supposed to imply that a "joke" (or sarcasm or irony) has flown over the head of someone at high speed, as if it were a physical object. The subject has therefore failed to catch or intercept the humor, i.e. they didn't "get it." The usage definitely predates Reddit. And the World Wide Web. Perhaps far earlier than that.

@@LiveFreeOrDieDH I didn't know the symbolism of "Whoosh", nor that it's more than some Reddit thing! Now I got the joke! Apparently, "Whoosh" has whooshed over my head for a long time, which is a very fitting self-example of "Whoosh". Thanks, Dennis! Now, I can appreciate another part of English slang the next time a joke flies like an airplane: over my head, and making a "Whoosh" sound in the meantime! I guess the Reddit page is just a page full of jokes flying over people's heads.

Yep, Asclepius being the god of medicine with one snake around his staff while Caduceus (with wings and two snakes) belonging to Hermes, god of many things, including travellers and merchants - thus the symbolism

You can pass this message to medical organizations that kept using the Caduceus on their symbols, which helped create the confusion in the first place. They should have followed the World Health Organization, which correctly uses the Rod of Asclepius on their logo.

Yes, I was going to comment the same.

One snake v. two snakes

So pleased to see this! Was going to make the same point. Rod of Asclepius: ⚕ associated with Asclepius, a Greek god of healing. Caduceus: ☤ associated with Hermes, messenger of the gods.

You can just call it mullet mate

Rawr

He needs to thin it out. Just my opinion

He's slowly but surely turning into an older Finn Wolfhard (Fitting too since both are from Vancouver)

@Enacoid 1203 not a mullet, mullets are “business in the front, party in the back” but this one is good vibes all around

i solve it american export lines merchant flag

Careful though, lest someone claim your meaningless flag as the right one for their flag-less cause

Just like the climate change guy?

when i fly my micronation flag ill put a flag next to it explaining what it is so noone gets confused

@@aaa69200 ...in wingdings font

I bet you someone did just that as an April Fools prank back in the very early days of the internet.

I second this

@@makotopark7741 h

He should do a filler week video about Canada with JJ

oh i wish that would happen

There’s also a flag referendum for Québec’s English-speaking community.

The new state flag of Mississippi is ugly in my opinion. Not as bad as the old one but still bad.

The other flag put more effort into the shield than the background.

și aici te găsesc?

Stark Industries my flag was the south african police service flag

And now he’s dead

J.J. McCullough Spoilers, please!

pretty humble guy

@@JJMcCullough but we still kind of remember him, legacy!

servant of soros he has more titles in the first two lines than fc Tottenham hotspur had won in its entire history

Why?

@@TP-mv6en Because vexillology is the study of flags and I thought it would be funny for JJ to use the word vexed when he's puzzled by a flag. Like I mentioned, it's stupid.

Very clever.

Looool

Såg det där också, tog lite sjukt! :D

I looked up his name to see if he actually had those but I think it's just making fun of how Swedish has dots over letters! Ethnic

@@frosty_brandon Eh it would be dumb cus we don't even have an "ë" in our vocabulary. I mean look at that fuckin letter it's an abomination

@@mirurbin Ja, va fan är den här bokstaven: "ë"??

And the light blue circle symbolizes someone doing your mom.

"Vay-gen" lol

Ikr

He just wants to see the world burn

@@joshuataylor3550 im pretty sure he's right with pronouncing it "en-sin". "en-sign" does seem pretty common, though, but still inaccurate, as far as i know.

@@cosmicostrich3657 at least it's not as bad as PM Boris Johnson's pronunciation. "Vee-GAN"

Is full quarantine still a thing in Canada? Even in Germany, a country with many regulations (in general and CCP virus related), we can easily and safely get to the barber.

BallHeadFreak we’re about the same here in Canada (as far as I’m aware) but it feels like we’re slowly crawling back into full quarantine mode

@ammonium phosphate sorry about that, it probably has to do with your country unfortunately living right next to the plague ship that is the USA right now....

I know right?? Which is probably why they were banned. It’s not good to have something so bad also be associated with so many nice things, from the camel to the goodies, all things that entice those who wouldn’t into those who would

Izaya Orihara as an ex-smoker, I say who cares, let people smoke if they want to smoke, everyone knows how bad it is for you in the west, if someone decides “silks” are worth the risk of smoking, who are we to stop them? Sure you can have rules about not smoking everywhere in public, but I don’t see a problem if they are adults at home. We let people sign up to go to war at 18, how can cigarettes really be that much worse. We have birthday cake vodka, and alcohol that comes with novelty items, why can’t we have birthday cake cigarettes and “silks”? If you are worried about children seeing them then require they only he sold in tobacco stores, like liquor is only sold in liquor stores where I live. Make it require you to be 18 to enter, like weed dispensaries in legal states require you to be 21 to even enter (should be 18 if you ask me but whatever better than it being illegal) don’t just ban it. I doubt most people who smoke do so for little goodies anyway, when I started smoking I did it because I thought it would feel good, and it did, that’s what draws most smokers. My first cigarette tasted awful, but did that stop me? No I smoked for like 7 years before I quit.

Izaya Orihara just educate children honestly about the risks of smoking and they won’t do it. That’s the best defense against smoking. Don’t just fear monger either, be purely fact based. Give them enough evidence to choose on their own to not smoke when they get older. Some will smoke anyway but that’s human nature, drugs have always been with humans and always will be, nothing you can do about it except try to reduce harm, in that light we could point people to safer alternatives to cigarettes. But prohibition itself doesn’t work, Australia is having a mess from its soft prohibition through extreme taxes, black market tobacco is growing, illegal tobacco is more dangerous than regular tobacco and is easier to access by teenagers.

Nah I’d just buy the packets and collect the silks without smoking

Finland did unofficially use red and yellow cross flag at one point as well.

@@sarasamaletdin4574 the red and yellow cross flag is the unofficial flag for Finland's Swedish speaking minority. A similar flag is also used for the Swedish region of Scania

I thought this was a new segment.

Not the segment, I’m saying it’s been awhile since the last mystery flags video

You just lost the game. Read my comment for an explanation.

feelsbadman :(

@Kristian Kalinkina He is an elected official But he abuses his powers from time to time His popularity is sinking though Soon enough he might lose

@Kristian Kalinkina yes and no, it is a complicated situation

@@wdwuccnxcnh7022 jokes on you, I lost the game ages ago.

What would it be like?? I would love to have a show like Anthony Bourdain where I go around the world and see stuff.

@@JJMcCullough That would really suit you. We need a channel like that for Canada or anything. I think that if you had a TV show like that - you should include your segment where you review souvenirs from the country - it would be sacrilege without it (JK). I also had way too many video ideas if you ever run out: 1) The very obscure fringe parties of Canada or the fringe parties of the U.S (so many) 2) More mysterious flag videos (I loved that series) 3) Explaining the capital cities of each province (I've only been to Vancouver, very beautiful city) 4) Ranking all Prime Ministers of Canada by any means like accomplishments, or what they are known for 5) Making a history video of your channel 6) A video where you react or share some funny comments 7) Crazy stories which have occurred to you in or out of Canada 8) What Canadian stereotypes are true and not true (I'm Canadian but barely) 9) What to know or what to do if visiting Vancouver or just any city in Canada 10) Rating Canadian city flags (I know there are some really good ones, like Toronto, and some bad ones like Halifax) 11) Rating international flags 12) Giving your opinions or thoughts on people from each province of Canada, or even territory (I had a neighbor from the Yukon for a month oddly enough - even though I live in California)

Delaware

Luke Toussaint ah you Are correct my mistake

Delaware, not NJ

@@mattswaggy7804 it did actually go into parts of south west new jersey. The whole colony sort of stradled what is now the border between Deleware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

That’s a good idea! The only problem is youtube makes it impossible to make music based videos

J.J. McCullough man that sucks. Whatever, I’m sure I’ll like whatever you’ve got in the pipes right now. Keep up the good work!

It’s just a towel my friend got me when he went there

Keir Hardie I wish

Ya think???

I also used to mispronounce it that way. This is perhaps because someone from Las Vegas is a Las Vegan or alternately a Vegan. Also pertaining to the star Vega. That's how I assumed it based on reading. Of course there is a joke how do you know if someone is a vegan don't worry they'll tell you. But if you do you would know how it is pronounced. I also think this is not a joke that resonates with me well because occasionally meet vegans who talk a lot about it, but for the most part I'm more likely to meet someone who is vocally reactionary to vegans, and I find in my life vegans are usually discrete. but it pretty much is vegan with an eeeeee sound. But Vegan is a another word that comes from a different word system. that being said it is sometimes quite surprising to me how wrong JJ mispronounces words. I say that because I don't mind people mispronouncing things I probably do it a bunch. But I also feel like I tend to learn a lot of new words by listening. So in that case spelling is harder for me than pronouncing since the novel aspects I don't know is getting the spelling from the sound instead of the sound from the spelling.

I'm in the area...I don't think I've heard anyone pronounce it like that in a long time. But he pronounces a lot of things weird, seemingly on purpose.

@@Melissa-L yeah it almost seems intentional. for someone who is fastidious in video making as JJ seems to be, it doesn't seem like it'd be that much harder to find a clip of someone saying certain words and matching that. but i mean, i like the JJ style

It's how its pronounced in Portuguese, well I mean it's how it's read in Portuguese, how the actual letters form into sounds, now if you're talking to a person who consumers English language media they could pronounce it like they heard it there, that's very common. There are 3 gradients of phonology/Alphabet. On the top is Chinese (Hanzi), Words are just Drawings, no sound is really fixed, Mandarin and Cantonese can sometimes be unable to understand each other in spoken language at all, but they're saying the exact same words, written in the exact same alphabet, this also extends into Japanese and previously Korean and Vietnamese, which while speaking different languages with different origins often use the same "Words" (Chinese Characters, sometimes modified.) Then comes English, which I think is very unique in that regard. English just imports whole words from other languages Willy-Nilly, and has been doing so since the Norman Invasion, Importing BOTH the writing and radicals of every word, and very often the sounds too (see ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EqLiRu34kWo.html), that means it's basically like Chinese in that every word could be said in a different way but... NOT. Well, every syllable, every set of letters, CAN be said in multiple ways, but when they form a full word, that word is set (even if there might be homonyms) and generally standardised, even among different dialects, say, Jamaican and Australian English, so they end up still mostly understandable, and have a strong point of reference, usually British English, from which to path the variation from. So it's kind of like Chinese, but the dialects are not as old or as separate to be completely unintelligible, and due to a small Alphabet (26 letters and several diacritics VS Tens of Thousands of Chinese Characters), less likely to promote effective communication once they are actually separate.. And last there's Romance languages, with lots of emphasis on conformity of sound and grammar, since the Roman Empire started forcing their subjects to abandon their languages, and administering all of Western Europe under one law code. Romance languages have regularly underwent revision to eliminate silent letters, unify different sounds into one letter and sometimes even codify Grammar in Spelling and Spelling in Grammar, sometimes completely obscuring the roots even of Greek and Latin words in the process. Recently with the advent of instant communication and new words being coined and popularised very fast this process has been greatly weakened, resulting in an "Engish-ization" of Latin languages, both in the sense of directly adopting english words into the language, and of adopting the cosmopolitan, english, approach to spelling, a particularly poignant example being people who spell "Wikipedia" the american way in brazil, even though Wikipedia itself latinised their name to Wikipédia, as to be pronounceable like Enciclopédia. I don't really know how Arabic fits into all of this.

Well, Quebec actually used to have a blue ensign flag with a UK flag in the corner, that's kinda one

There is still an English speaking minority in Quebec.

There are English speaking quebecois. Not a lot, but they exist

Really? I hate it

Couldn't agree more

I know right? I clicked one of his other videos from 4 months back and had to do a double take to see how far apart the two vids were. Like dayum, that’s an impressive transformation. It’s amazing the kind of changes confidence and comfort can bring on (wow, that was a lot of C words all in a row.... weird, anyways!) definitely looking forward to the future, excited all the way!

Liberia

J.J. McCullough thank you so much! This really helps!

How common we talking

@@JJMcCullough Very common. If you google "medicine symbols" you get more Caduceus than the Rod.

@@Majnik_ "Caduceus is actually not the symbol of medice." If it's used to symbolize medicine, it is a symbol of medicine (though not *the* symbol of medicine as there are others as well). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medicine

@@seneca983 You are right, I wanted to say, that despite it being used often as a symbol of medicine, the official symbolism of Caduceus is not medicine.

J.J. McCullough They are correct it’s 1 snake not two. Across Europe that’s the sign to look for in all countries along the bowl seen in the link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_of_Hygieia