Why does London have 32 boroughs? 

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And we think Boaty MacBoatface was a modern phenomenon.

Is that flaggy flag?

@@fane757 That is indeed flaggy flag. Viva la revolución!

Ham Sandwich

Unfinished Unfinished London

I can guarantee you that that's probably never going to be the case.

Unfinished London 2050: Why is london still unfinished?

I say let’s drag it out to keep the enjoyment coming in.

@@chasbodaniels1744 yeah lol

Most of the residents there don't eat pork so not sure they'd want to live in a ham sandwich.

@@Cial no, their meat becomes the ham

@Kit that would be called beef.

@Kit where do u get this kinda info?? 😂 😂

I do appreciate how they chose New Ham and made it Newham. That kind of simplification is how New City became Naples, just with a thousand years or so of language changes.

As somone who does not have english as his native language I have to say this was very headache indusing. My brain makes me think I'm doing something wrong translating and therefore tries to understand it even more...

@@fabianwhs9891 as a native english speaker who has not yet watched the video i am still wrapping my head around it trying to see what it means lol

How ironic of the Brits to create a situation they no longer want any part of

I know this comment is a year old, but try rearranging the sentence like this: “Getting rid of _precisely this sort of silliness_ was the entire point of this exercise.” And see if that makes more sense?

@@anonymouscheesepie3768 I found no problems but the sentence is complex though

Who says that he just didn't stand in front of a funeral?

C'mon let's donate to him, he put an awful lot of effort into this. Imagine how hard you'd work to pull that off

@@marcosmanuelvillarreal8823 You just don't randomly chatter about London's boroughs in the middle of a funeral

@@georgedoty-williams2085 dunno, British are weird man, maybe that's one of their traditions or something like that

Is it the same priest that marries the two in 5:33?

She's doing her best ❤️

Working very hard :) having a RU-vid and music career on the side ❤️

stray dodie enter the fray haha

Haha I was like "omg dodiiie !"

Nice. Didn't realise that was you. Timestamp for others 0:36

Jersey can keep that shithole. No soul dare touch the Island of Misery

Yea I was thinking the same

We don't talk about it

Yeah Staten is like the adopted child from Jersey who doesn't fit in

I’m guessing you never been outside Manhattan.

And Near East. And East Africa (Map Men - Bir Tawil). And...

Lmao

bold words from a Spanish person, Señor Patria 😉

@Anglus Patria Except you're wrong because "...stan" countries aren't in the middle east

@Anglus Patria Yes, that is a different definition. Some people it seems *cough* have a hard time distinguishing the concepts of middle easterners, south asians, and muslims

Regrettably probably true

True, but stay tuned for Map Men in 2025 maybe? Pessimists... :)

It’ll be out in May 2020

alright brb in 10 years

@@jadeforeman131 does jay use the Islamic calendar?

And St Henri is stil surrounded by freeways

And also most of the English language majority towns on the island of Montreal just flat out refuse to be arrondissements of the Ville de Montreal outright for whatever reason, even though it would make much more sense and more cost effective just to merge all the English speaking municipalities into the city of Montreal.

How come i have heard about any of these boroughs (excepted maybe southwest) And I live in Montréal

Most people don't use full borough names, just the neighbourhood names (e.g. Villeray, St-Michel, Parc-Ex, RDP, etc.). The borough names are more used in municipal politics than daily life.

@@pontificate2090 Je n'ai jamais compris comment c'est possible pour Montréal de se rendre jusqu'à Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, mais pas les minuscules exclaves de Côte-Saint-Luc dans Côte-des-Neiges.

The number you shall count to is 32...

@@RedmarKerkhof 32 Shall be the number of thy counting and the number you shall count to is 32

35 is right out.

I don't understand. Why so many boroughs for a small city, let alone a small country. It gets more confusing.

@@heathergittens3223 I was a little confused too but hearing that each of them has population around 200.000 people made it sound reasonable for me.

C: Owls eat mice

*Jay Foreman eats mice

Lmao

Da king, where can I buy the t-shirt?

If penguins can't use computers why does Linux exist?

Let me guess for them. 1-5: Louvre, Bourse, Temple, Le Marais, Pantheon. 6-10: Luxembourg, Invalides, Champs-Elysees, La Fayette, Les Deux Gares. 11-15: Voltaire, Daumesnil, Italie, Montparnasse, Lecourbe. 16-20: Trocadero, Wagram, Montmartre, Jaures, Gambetta.

The first 3 are right, but they others aren’t. They are named after areas of Paris or important things inside the arrondisement not just random French things or people like Voltaire

I noticed it but it's a british tv thing and didn't recognize it

internet comment etiquette's ads are so good the comment section complains when there isn't a sponsored section.

It is a cue mark or a cue dot : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark

A monthly subscription to skill share is what I want.

@@boyzrus842 Nobbleberry. Now on BBC 12.

why does this have so little likes lol

I didn't expect you here

Hi

Omg it is Oversimplified

Hello father

Glad you spotted/enjoyed it! :)

Ben “Mum, can we get Simon Pegg?” “We have Simon Pegg at home.” Simon Pegg at home:

Wait, when? Nevermind, found her!

She’s at 0:38

I love Dodie this was such an exciting cameo.💕

@@rosiem4586 I know, she's amazing. I've seen her in concert, she's even cuter irl.

British comedy is best comedy

Best British comedian? I only agree with you if leaving Britain disqualifies you, but I enjoy John Oliver as much as the next guy

@@botigamer9011 Sorry, but idk who's John Oliver. Sounds familiar though.

He was in movk the week for a whole and now hosts last week tonight with John Oliver in HBO He is funny nonetheless

We are now at war

Yeah, it was clearly something familiar but it's hard to tell what. Guess whoever was drawing kinda cocked that one up.

The Prime Minister

hmmm

It sure does look a bit like the prime minister Boris Johnson. Can't tell why tho.

That proper borough looked a bit Dickensian to me!… LOOOOL

Hear, hear!

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OrDEEERRR!!

That penguin sounded suspiciously Welsh

​@@cajmo8635 The word Penguin originates from the welsh language so this is either a really clever joke or an amazing coincidence

@@br60066 Seeing the details throughout the episode. I doubt it's ever a coincidence, you can watch it multiple times and find new things

​@@TheFreshSpam Agreed the detail is phenomenal so it must have been planned

Huh, I thought he sounded vaguely Scandinavian.

It's still unfinished

There is still much to do, so it can absolutely end up like that.

Well, London isn't really finished. It just shows that life is a really complex and intere...........--------

But when is it finished?

@@Wheeze_NL n e v e r

Wait what?

Jay makes a small appearance in Tom Scott's recent video about copyright

@@oscarmccormack1611 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Jwo5qc78QU.html there you go, even with a nice little timestamp

To be fair, it was a pretty good scream.

He had to wait for Tim Traveler to arrive!

Imagine if they actually allowed him to film and talk at some random funeral I’m sure their all just paid actors

“Alright, who invited uncle Jay?”

@@coffeebrown9371 I mean, of course they are :) The vicar's shown up in a few other videos. Still, it makes for a great scene

And imagine spelling borough wrong on a clip about boroughs.

@@davidfellows1650 Jeez, can you imagine if that did happen. Luckily i did spell it write though :]

Nah, think he randomly gatecrashed a funeral. It must have been before Covid kicked off though as there is more than two people there.

joncurtis199 yeah

Things like these make these videos great. Very big effort for single lines or "unnecessary" jokes

Oh boy oh boy read me

@@robertoschaumburg5719 you have been read

@@ThatOneIrishFurry So then what color are they now?

@@Blue-Maned_Hawk blue? im not sure why your asking this question

@@ThatOneIrishFurry You said that they have been red.

There must've been a better reason for not giving one of the Riverside boroughs that wanted to be called Riverside that name though!

Siddharth Mishra Instead that name went to a football stadium in Middlesbrough

yeah they are dick....

That's how they name neighbourhoods and streets in my area. Lakeview? There's not even a lake! A name ending in "heights" on a low elevation area full of two storey homes? Woods? The whole forest was chopped down to make the bloody houses!

They should've had three Riversides.

To make that fair and comparable they should have given the job to an African person who has never set foot in the UK and given him a straight-edged ruler to divvy up London into 32.

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 honestly they'd probably do a better job.

The us and Canada still have border disputes due to British borders. New York and New Jersey had there borders drawn by the British and the 2 states still to this day fight over the border.

Heard of brexit? We love strong borders so much that we've invented a new internal border to go through the Irish Sea to avoid the reimposition of another British-invented border inside Ireland, and we're going to build another internal border around the English county of Kent to stop pesky truck drivers sneaking over to France.

@@James-gc5if Wait, is that *seriously* the compromise y'all came up with? I mean, I knew the situation with Northern Ireland would suck either way, but an internal border? Really?

Someone is an R.C.E fan too! I’m amazed he hasn’t commented on this!

This made me laugh 😂

lmao i saw it too

Damn, came here looking for this comment, took me a while to find it and i was starting to get worried that noone else saw it. Lololol

I noticed it to

Its gotta be Dickenson or Ballsy. Can't have both. Unless that bellend is full of rich people its against the rules.

That's were billions of spemires shall reside.

Chuck. They are! He get obsessive too. Edits for at least 12 hours a day. Glad it’s worth it.

Well, he has a lot of free time to make them now... Unfortunately he probably won't be able to do another Map Men for awhile, since that's a two-man job.

andyjay729 They are going to use the lockdown time to write new episodes so that can film as soon as they’re allowed in the same room.

@@andyjay729 what happened to map man I?

@@00bean00 I wrote that just as the COVID lockdowns were beginning.

Or "Barking Mews"

My dog has been taking clarinet lessons on the tube. His progress has been rapid, he went from Barking to Tooting in just over an hour. Sorry.

Odin Emtertainment that would have put the cat among the pigeons lol.

I have allways called it Barking and Dogingham for other reasons😉

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@Paulie Doodle I mean, Germans don't even call it Germany, so

@Jedem Das Seine It is sad to know that some Europeans are as ignorant as Americans then.

Love it

This guy is going places.

A blessed moment

Oh good, I'm glad I wasn't the only one excited to see him. I've never met the guy yet for some reason I'm proud of him.

He looks like Simon Pegg.

I thought he looked familiar when he was looking at the map, but once he was talking to camera I realized it was The Tim Traveller. Oh yeah, and the penis shaped ‘Proper Borough’ made me lol. 🤣

I thought Sinjohn was spelt StJohn . Otherwise, Sinjohn's ambulance! Then there's StMary pronounced Simmary as in StMary Ax (sp?). Must be others?

H Adamson I thought that too but a quick check on Wikipedia suggested it was indeed Sinjohn and of course if it’s on Wikipedia it must be right!

My dad's middle name is St John, said as Saint, but there are those who say Sinjohn for StJohn too.. So, there's a mix of the lot, from my limited experience

@@egpxthank you. Coulda looked it up myself but Sunday morning lazeee :-)

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It's very British, silly humour, certainly not everyone's piece of cake... But god i love it lmao

There are some examples of this in I Am Not Okay With This, already in episode 1. You might enjoy that series. :-)

I've rewatched that part so many times and still laugh each time. The best bit about it is the fact they both stress the same vowels and say it in the same way.

Definitely an element of Python in this, right down to Basil Fawlty's car at 5:07

The proper borough is shaped like a dick

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Another fact about it: it's the part of London that actually holds city status as Greater London as a whole does not hold city status; Westminster is a city in its own right as well so London as a whole isn't a city but a conurbation that contains two cities within it

Stephen Fry did a whole TV show on it

@Anglus Patria peak comedy

@Anglus Patria clearly is

ridded

That took *so* long :-(

***VERY*** well spotted! 🏆

I was always super jealous of their living situation in that film watching it as a kid, their house looked so nice

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AHHHH THATS THE BEST

can i have a link to it?

*clapping noises*

Boo. Off to Gulag with you.

Audio accordance involving vowels is actually very aptly known as assonance

Alliteration always alleviates alarm alongside alluring alacrity

espicially a whole priest and everyone has to wear a suit

Or he just gatecrashed a funeral

They even had to kill someone to make it more realistic.

@@sunny_muffins r/cursecomments

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I was wondering what that was, thought it was a glitch or something

That's a "cue mark or "cue dot." Love Jay's attention to details. This blog explains those cue marks better than I ever could: moonrakerblabbering.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/heres-5-classic-british-tv-symbol-signals/

I was your 25th like, where is my prize

He said on his community post that he gathered all the footage before the lockdown. Pay attention bruh

You can still go out during lockdown you know?

@@NathanielBTM yh but only one person per family, you aren't allowed to meet up with people outside of your family, and you can only go to a park for exercise or shopping for food

@@n3bloons23 Is it warm down in the valley where every joke flies over your head?

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Hello, your greatness! Always good to see you.

Keep up the good work Kim

How’ve you managed to spread your influence absolutely everywhere it’s scary

Oh look it's the almighty himself. Mr Jong kim

I'd agree. Apart from the fact y'all had a referendum and decided you didn't want independence from Britain

@@AndrewAbraham83 But why are you relating the difference between Scotland & England to the issue of independence from the UK? Your remark would only have some relevance if England and the UK were synonymous.

@@amct1019 Well when you look at the history England Conquered Wales and turned it into a principality of England and the only English Pope ever gave Ireland to Henry II of England leading to the centuries of rule there. Henry VIII elevated it to a Kingdom as it was a Lordship before. Scotland was neither conquored nor given to England, the King of Scotland James VI inherited the Kingdoms of England and Ireland as well as the Principality of Wales, it was his idea to refer to it all as Great Britain. The whole country exists because of the crown was the property of one family hence United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which required several acts of Parliament to create the formal bonds and then remove Republic of Ireland. Even though the Scottish King united these Kingdoms he moved to London and an act of Parliament settled London as Capital, Scotland was depopulated during the industrialisation of Britain as people went to work in towns or left for the colonies. This left England as the most populated and industrially developed part of Britain with many Scots, Irish and Welsh families living in England and their decendents remaining for generations. One look at the old phone books can show just by looking at surnames the significant number of Scots, Welsh and Irish surnamed people living in England (family could have moved at any time in the last 423 years). England may not be synonymous with UK but it constitutes the largest part of the population, and has absorbed more resources and peoples from the other parts of the UK than they have from England. On the other part of this the whole of what would later be England and Wales was part of the Roman Province of Britannia where we get the name from. Ireland was Hibernia and Scotland was Picts.

Not all Scots want independence but they still definitely aren't England

@@xp_studios7804 I wonder how many people would vote for independence in another referendum given the current situation regarding Brexit and the Boris...

Didn't that enable some kind of recorder box thing to skip adverts?

@@robinw77 That might have been an unintentional bonus feature, but it was actually to allow the advert playout facilities to cue up playback.

@@robinw77 It was actually to notify the grid to temporarily increase the power to homes. Because British people like tea.

Lol. Yeah I saw this too. Not seen it in years mainly cos they dont have it in canada and we 100 percent streaming.

@@GeorgeFoxEdwards "I'll put the kettle on..."

North Ken is normal.

The posh rich twat borough

Torytopia has a certain ring to it.

Half of it is very poor though.

That's the great misconception, though. It's super rich and posh at one end, but it has large underfunded and ignored council estates too. It's an unbelievably divided borough. Don't forget that Grenfell Tower was in K&C.

.. Or maybe Ham 2.

Ham Ham

Pressed Ham.

Ham Sandwich

Ham and Cheese

That might be a future video in the Unfinished London series.

@@gordontaylor2815 Unfinished (City of) London

CGP Grey

Unfinished series (Unfinished London (City of))

those weren't extras, those were the 2 guys from the show

Luckily the t-shirts are re-used in one of the Map Men ads, I think. Reduce, re-use, recycle!

"Hiring two extras" or, as we say in England, "getting one of your mates to be in your video with you."

Well, Jay uses a lot of different people in his videos, surely he can't know all of them!

Exactly. For example, literally every slide from 6:39 to 6:58 shows each of the former borough's names, their population sizes respectively, their new name once merged together and their precise location on a London map on the bottom right of the video. Hell, there's even a (fairly long) cliff note on the slide shown at 6:58 if you pause it. He makes the kind of videos you can watch 10 times in a row and still catch a bit of new information or notice something different each time. Amazing, high quality, information rich filled videos.

please don’t point this out XD

Gregorix xD

Exactly I’m trying not to be 12 I had to scroll down to see this

ohhhhhhh nice pick

It’s a pp

Come on, the part that belongs to Hamburg Central is AN ISLAND outside of the river Elbe ;) We Pinneberger also don't complain about the fact, that WE got Helgoland (the simple reason for that was: Schooling: Helgoland Kids went to Wedel secondary Schools, as the Helgoland Liner to Hamburg also stopped in Schulau).

The London Underground line that goes furthest south is the Northern Line

New York's boroughs are former counties absorbed by the city.

@@acmenipponair Ach komm schon. Ihr hasst die Hamburger am meisten xD Immerhin habt ihr ne Insel xD. Ich mag die Fede zwischen euch und Hamburg und wer der echte Norden sei... Hachja. Funny:)

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Whilst I find it impressive, I find it tiresome when watching the video, I don't want joke after joke, I want the information in a fun video. Not an over the top video. I wish he'd focused more on sound design than jokes and special shots to give the information that the video is made for

I personally love how creative he presents these rather abstract to portray topics. Makes the videos much more enjoyable to watch.

@@kfish6347 don't watch it if you don't like it, im sure there are more boring videos on youtube about london boroughs

@@fuego5532 Lol was the passive aggressiveness needed? I stopped watching after I realised I wasn't fond, and commented just to share my opinion

@@kfish6347 idk i find it weird to go out of your way to share an disapproving opinion on a piece of work someone's obviously worked hard on so i commented, but to each their own

I came back here just to watch the ads

I hope they appreciate it - it's one the best ads I've ever seen. I've watched it several times now. If more advertising was like this, I think more people would take the time to watch it - instead of trying to switch it off at all costs. I might try NordVPN too ... looks good :)

@@NopWorks if you guys like Jay's ads, try Zach Star and Ryan george.

You cannot distinguish an accent based on the neighbourhood at all. Accents vary depending on the county, NOT the street 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@deekay7109 yeah but aren't there like 15 different accents in London alone??

@@deekay7109 You'd be surprised. I live in Birmingham and the amount of different accents there were in my college classes alone was insane

@@deekay7109 in the north of England the accent changes every 10 miles. Someone from Salford sounds completely different to someone from Rochdale who sounds completely different to someone from Halifax, never mind the 30 mikes between Manchester and Liverpool translating to an accent worlds apart.

@@deekay7109 You can absolutely tell whether someone's from the east or west of the city of Hull based on their accent 😂 less so for people under 25 or so nowadays, but absolutely for anyone middle-aged or older