Oversimplified Mini Wars Reaction Compilation 

I get requests for compilation videos for popular reaction series, so here's another one! Recorded over the past few years, my reactions to the "mini wars" of Oversimplified - The Emu War, the Football War, and the War of the Bucket. Enjoy!

One of my favourite comments on the original Emu war video says something along the lines of "The farmers weren't looking for the minister of defence, they wanted the minister of da fence". Credit goes to that person because it's pretty damn funny

When comparing bullets used per kill in WW2 and Vietnam you have to consider a lot of them were spent in support roles . Suppressive fire and cover fire . In the war against the Emus they didn’t fight back so it was all rounds being used simply to kill the birds

My Australian friends are more scared of North American wildlife than their own. Supposedly, they hardly ever see the spiders and snakes we are scared of.. they mention mountain lions, bears, and the tons of rattle snakes here.

I didn't have to imagine. I had my own emu war growing up. My father had a farm and someone at the local swap meet (Flea market) had a breeding pair of Rheas they had for sale. My father saw these giant, aggressive birds and thought. "Do you know what my farm needs? Rheas." The only part of his farm that had a fence large enough to contain these big ass birds just so happened to be the privacy fence around the immediate back yard of the house. Which just so happened to contain all of us kids' playing equipment. Swing set, see saw, sand box. All of it. Did he move any of this stuff out of the back yard? No He did not. So I had to spend an entire summer where all our outdoor activity equipment was on the opposite side of a fence patrolled by one of the angriest species of avis on the planet. The height of the birds, the height of the fence, and the height of myself were just such that if you wandered too close to the fence and weren't paying attention. Well I hope you were wearing a sturdy hat.

Chris, "soccer" was coined by the British as a shortened form of "association football" as the game was called in the 19th century. For some reason, British university students at the time took to adding "-er" as a suffix. Much like the current use of "-ie" (e.g., brekkie for breakfast) in the UK. They took "soc" from "association" and added "-er," thus becoming "soccer". While not as common as the term "football" in the UK, "soccer" is used for a British TV program about the game and is also used in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, and a few others. We retained the use of "soccer" because American football (derived from rugby) became the more popular of the two sports in the US.

During the football war of 1969, El Salvador and Honduras both had Corsairs and Mustangs they had purchased from the US surplus after WWII. The brief four day war would be the last time that piston-driven aircraft would fight against each other.

Loving the videos Chris. Looking forward to hopefully more videos about medieval history in the future. Personally the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fall of Constantinople is my favorite time period to learn about and I love it when you react to videos about events in that era.

Just found out today I am descended from Sir Geoffrey Boleyn who was the Great Grandfather of Anne Boleyn. Only got into researching this after seeing your videos lol so pretty damn cool man thanks

The Lweis gun actually featured a heat sink, (its what the huge round cylinder is on the barrel), so it wouldn't never get hot enough to cause harm to the guy whose shoulder it was on

Just wanted to say, on the topic of "reaction" videos. You sir are one of the best examples on the internet of how someone can add real substance. There are reaction channels on youtube and there are what I would call commentary channels that is more like watching the commentary track on a DVD. And this is the latter for sure. Best wishes from Sweden.

Even though i watched each single one of those and each single one of your videos more than 5 times already, still i will watch this too As i said and i won't get tired of saying it, my absolutely favorite channel on RU-vid Sending much much love from bonn, Deutschland ❤❤

6 foot tall, runs 30mph, and also cannot walk backwards. Another reason its Australia's national bird, its always supposed to move forwards.

So for the Honduras- El Salvador war is misunderstood. Yes, football was making the news and create more friction. But the friction was already there. This was more about land than football. At first el Salvador attacked for land they disputed with Honduras. Then they got cocky and wanted to go all the way to the Caribbean, as they had no port there. At least thats what my family, who lived this war, told me about it.

I have to recommend anything to do with Harald Hardrada. His story is so interesting. Went and fought in the varangian guard, kidnapped the emperor’s daughter, escaped with riches, went home and made himself king of norway. I cant think of a more hollywood story if i tried

I would love to see your reactions to The Young Adventures of Indiana Jones, particularly the episodes when he's serving in WWI as part of the Belgian army and as a French Intelligence operative.

Austrialia: Goes to war with animals. Austrailia: Loses war. Other countries: I can't believe Austrailia lost a war with animals. Austrialia: At least I wasn't the only one... Ecuador: Silently leaves the room.

The reason the loose gun's that big is because that big jacket on the outside is a radiheater for the lewis gun, if that thing wasn't on it, it would be a lot lighter

17:15 actually that huge "barrel" is just a giant jacket which the barrel sits in. It's there to help draw cool air in and over the barrel. It probably gets warm, but not too much to be a burn hazard. Although there is footage of some german troops doing this with an MG34, but considering the jacket lies much closer to the barrel, and it's only there on the MG34 to keep your hands off the barrel, there might be some burn risk there. On a lewis gun though, for short bursts, it's probably fine.

The ball used in American football is 12 inches long... so it is a foot long ball... hence Football

Got scared. Thought I missed a new over simplified video. Glad to have this one though

liked for awknowledging the football soccer stupidity

Point of order, Chris. President Bush didn't land a fighter onto the Abraham Lincoln. It was a S3 Viking.

Also in Australia, we called football , soccer as football or footy for us is Australian Rules Football (AFL), Rugby League and Rugby Union

Love your videos, I never knew george S. Patton was one of the guys in US military history to use vehicles in a war till now history amazes me

I spent 3 days in the hospital when I was 14 because of a bite from a brown recluse spider right here in the U.S.A. Australia isn't the only country with dangerous spiders.

We named a suburb in the Australian national capital after Minister Pearce.

Gridiron football, rugby football, amd association football are all descended from the football games that developed in British schools. Fast forward and basically whatever sort of football is most popular in a country gets the unmodified name there, except for rugby which is just rugby (further divided into union or league). "Soccer" is itself an abbreviation of "association." Japan might be an exception; I think soccer is more popular there but they have, until recently, used a derivative of "soccer," but I think their national governing association has moved to calling it "football."

Moved to youngstown a year ago and we got a wedgewood inn bar/diner right down the road and my my is it good

I'm sure other people have mentioned it, but as I understand it, "football" refers to the fact that it's played on foot as opposed to on horseback. Football, rugby, soccer, these all fall into that category. You'd think that could also apply to basketball, but I'm sure there's some manner of grass or outdoor-ness assumed with the "football" term. Though, that doesn't rule out baseball. Bat-football?

i didnt know Georgia had penal colony roots. Georgia is too good of a state to be a penal colony, penal colony states would be wyoming: flat, cold, and windy or nevada: a craggy, sun blighted, wasteland. i was going to also add Louisiana but i think Louisiana is just my own personal vision of a hellish place to live. i consider it a bad omen when you live in a place where the dead dont stay buried and the amount of bugs per sq meter is absurd.

The Lewis Gun has an interesting air-cooling system.

Yo! Vlogging through history!

I can verify, as a native and longtime resident, that Georgia is in many ways, *still* a penal colony.

You forgot the falklands, that was the first mini-war oversimplified did

Regarding your final words: I think this phenomenon is nowhere quite as easily observable as in the 19th century, or more precise the time between the Napoleonic wars and the great war. In those roughly 100 years, you have literally thousands of groundbreaking decisions that sound completely logical viewed from the perspective of that time, but if you just take one decision away or make one outcome slightly different, you suddenly have hundreds of follow-up decisions that lead the great war seem useless or idiotic.

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We get to see the war of the bucket again! 😀

Voting in for more 'Drawn of History' reactions

And now i want to see Emus vs Machineguns in Ultimate Epic battle simulator 2.. :D

Chris I like to think of you as a commentator than a reactor, but the whole 'reaction' word itself gets more views.

Love your content 😊😊

They claimed that the mission accomplished banner was for the ship because it was for the ship. I knew when i watched it live that it was for the ship.

When are you going to play more war of rights, game is very underrated

Soccer comes from an English slang word.

You are confusing G.W. Bush with his father. G. H. W. Bush was a fighter pilot in WWII

hopefully you can do a similar thing, except new, with the History Matters videos. They are short which is why I assume you havent done them much, but they are rife with content.

Sweden and Irlenad calling opposing that those economic crashes were not so bad... A bit of starvation is alright i guess

i hear thier huntsman spider is stupid big

Do more Sandroman Videos!

IAM A AUSTRALIA AND EMUS ARE CREEPY AS HECK

Can you react to starv harv ruining middle ages history

You don't do reaction vids, you do commentary vids

Americans are using the correct term for the sport of soccer. The country that invented the sport the UK originally called it soccer. There were multiple versions of “football”. The term soccer was used to identify the version that we all play today. TL;DR Soccer is the correct term Americans are right everybody else is wrong. 🎉

Compilation time leg out Lfg!!🤲🛐📿🙏🕊️🌿👆(💀 respectfully)

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I can’t believe no mention of Modena being balsamic vinegar users. Shame on Oversimplified.