Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain? 

ill do it because you are jay foreman and you are intresting

How do you have a comment 25mins ago the vid just came out a sec prior

Why does it take you so long to post a video

@@Lee247Jamaica i think because of the editing, script, organization (etc)

Can you do another live stream concert. I loved the last one you did.

potato

Map, map, map map map men

ikr i sang along expecting a second "men" but i was left finishing that last syllable on my own

we should start a riot. @startariot #starariot

They are watering down "Map Men"! I will not stand for it! Soon it will only be "Men" and no "Map"!

Woah,that gotta be so cool!

Lol, thats a little depressing that Russian spies can mark a house on a map better than the people who built/own the house/land. 😂

👍😁😆

That’s insane

@@magpiesign4748 well in soviet era they didn't have to use spies to mark a soviet home on soviet land :p

maybe too well

"Nuke em'"

Thought the same thing

I'd say it aged fine. What they said about their "today" was true. Now if they had said, "from this point forward"...

it's especially weird noticed that the two next levels on the lower side of the dial are painted yellow and blue WAKE UP SHEEPLE

Здарова, русский хакер!🤩

@@niiv9747 Hello

Да ладно, Фиксики работают на Кремль?

На здоровье! Водка балалайка

@@Tuziaka Бабушка, медведи.

being a spy sounds pathetic. Everyone hates them

“Bad ass Vlad” gay movie about UASSASSASSR spy in America and his adventures

@@dalbaeb4594 what’s wrong with being gay

@@vibechecker1994 all is ok

@@dalbaeb4594 lmao nice name

They haven’t secured a Men budget for 2021 yet, so they have to conserve as many as possible until then.

Keeps you on your toes.

It's 3 or no deal

They gave us an extra ‘map’ in the last video so that makes up for it

It hurt me on the inside.

damm, those maps aren't classified, are they?

@@Klaevin classified by the Russians? I doubt it because I probably wouldn't have had copies if they were.. But who knows. I don't remember where they came from.

@@WillKemp I mean, classified by the US. They love classifying everything

@@Klaevin True. But I doubt even the US could succesfully classify Russian data

Pilots in Afghanistan were using Russian maps when supporting infantry because they were more accurate early on than what anyone else had

Да, настолько экурейт что патау в 2022 году додумались начинать вторжение, ориентируясь по ним и не понимая, откуда взялись новые районы, пропали, старые и что это вообще за населенные пункты с совсем другими названиями?

@@akdele5 я от хорош, а вот 66к Ванек уже нет

@@maksimfedoryak м-м, что за число?

@@akdele5 да так, ничего страшного, просто ядро армии рфии уничтожено в степах Украины

@@maksimfedoryak россии*

Thanks for the confirmation comrade!

damn thats so cool

Is it true that the civilian maps were intentionally less accurate than the military maps? I read that even maps used for roadbuilding and major projects were still less accurate than the military ones.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t6EIDksAzAs.html russia got those maps for 400years___

@@asicdathens sort of depends on country really but usually yes except for topographic maps they're the same normally except for buildings etc

@@averagerussiaenjoyer6114 the fuck are you on about

Yeah and nearby Porton Down, research cluster of Ministry of Defence.

@@averagerussiaenjoyer6114 faked what?

@@mangoitaliano1757 He thinks the UK faked the attack. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I wouldn't be surprised if he's a flat-earther too....

@@averagerussiaenjoyer6114 piss off ya fool.

Why British called them goodies?

@@chenyeanmingtakumi9033 did you watch the video?

They said England, not Britain btw

Not really. Math and russian language are the most important subjects in the russian schools. Physics, biology, geography, history, informatics, chemistry are bit less important. Geography it is not only maps,it's also about economics, culture and may be even a bit about history. Chemistry is mostly theoretical, without labs, and it's sad to say that most of us don't remember anything but periodic table of elements we here in russia proudly call mendeleev table. This table we love almost as much as the maps. (Mr putin, please do not consider this comment as the high treason)

@@ivanmoskvin7638 hell nah, this is treason, I'll go and write a denunciation

Russia is traditionally pushing hard on STEM too. Because someone has to bulid the rockets.

Maybe it depends on the time, but in the last two decades geography is subject with one of the least priorities in Russian schools. This year only 3% of school-leavers chose geography as the final exam (they determine the future program in the uni) - it was the last place among all subjects.

@@figel_a9 well that's cause only a select number of unis need geography as your major, it's only natural

i can rest peacefully knowing smarter every day is a fan of map men

Yes, a good video indeed!

Hello Destin!!!

@@mclanee "fan" is a bit rich, he apparently just found out they exist (Tweet).

@@woutervanr An instant fan, then

Ohh! Great to see you here doc. Your channel is awesome as well

I can picture the then Soviets facetiously claiming to have SONAR satellites, for the sole purpose of getting the U.S. to waste millions of dollars and years of research just to see if it's possible.. all in the name of one-ups-manship

Well spotted!

I'm so glad someone spotted that! :)

I genuinely feel rather star struck to have replies from BOTH Map Men. It's enough excitement to make a Russian spy blow his cover. Спасибо!

To samo

Nawet nie zrozumiałem co mówił 😂

Musiałem kurwa napisy włączysz.🤪

No ja nie zrozumiałem co on powiedział i powiedzeli że jusz lepiej po polsku mówią

He said something that sounded like "well done"

maybe they wanted to know the median average not the mean

@@michaelfordsham2715 Given that it would be for a strategic reason, I doubt technical semantics were relevant. Probably more to do with moving or emplacing vehicles or artillery.

​@@jaye1967Someone in the comments mentioned it was combined with average height and width of trees in order to figure out whether you could send a tank through.

That sounds fair!

O kurde Graf

I love how in an alternative reality the Poles invade England, what would London be called... Łondowy?

Londyn

@@Dan-yr7zn No, it would be called "Londyn" because that's what Polish speakers call London

Likewise I had to rewind and check I'd heard it right (wrong. Right? Wrongright?)

@@pete3767 Wright

I said "men men men" like some priest

I think 2 "men" makes more musical sense actually

@@alek_42 Makes it more interesting. Without the unexpected bar of 5/4 at the end it would be too plain and forgettable, since the melody is very simplistic.

дааа.. бл.. я тоже по ним гулял.. половины дорог нет.. и дохрена новых, там где по карте должна быть глухая тайга.. хорошо, что у нас была железная привязка к местности на севере в виде огромного озера, а то мы бы загрустили на маршруте..

I thought thise maps were based on the maps German "alpinist" spies made right before the war.

@@zztopz7090 Both sides had accurate maps, it was just that the Soviet secretaries went overboard with secrecy, so they led to the result that their own did not have accurate maps

Funny joke everyone knows earth is flat 😂

Funny joke, everyone knows that earth is round Karen....

The earths a frikin patato 🥔!!

The earth is a triangle

@@thomaswang4427 But, it's not,... Ok.

An invasion that the people of Grenada still use as a scary story to tell their children. One of my primary school teachers was Grenadian and she scared the sense into us with those accounts.

you'd think with insane and classified CIA budget they could hire a cartographer once in a while.

Ah yes the Soviets only planned to invade the us actually invaded

@@kazmark_gl8652 Exactly. You'd think the Caribbean desk would have something to scramble to special forces considering not much else was going on there at the time. In the eternal wisdom of the White House they rushed through the whole thing to keep the 'element of surprise.' The only reason this didn't turn into a FUBAR catastrophe was sending special forces & overwhelming force. And even then had far higher casualties than expected.

Guy from DoD: 50,000 grenada maps plase that old guy from the map store: why so many though sir? Guy from DoD: ah it's nothing, just a small invasion to latin american nation

I want it to be "men map men map men men men map map"

NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear fran

that's an interesting way of spelling, "men men men men men men men men men"

@@AxxLAfriku shut

And eventually just "map"

Лланваирпиллгингиллгогерукоирндробоилллантисилиогогогоч ...fuck! that was hard (and probably inaccurate).

Hahaha, I just uploaded it to Google translate, I wasn't far off and it is fucking HILARIOUS hearing it in a female Russian accent.

They'd have had a hard time invading Wales on that basis.

Блин, это было сложно, ведь кому нужна фонетическая постоянность, нахуй это да, уельсцы?

@@kirmerk8282 Валлийский - респектабельный язык, внимание! Мое правописание было безупречным ;-)

> which funnily translates to "men map" instead of "map men" French generally puts adjectives after the noun, like "chat noir" -> literally "cat black" instead of "black cat". Although, "map" is a noun functioning as an adjective, which I believe requires a conjunction like "de" or "à", but I'm not fluent so I'm not sure.

@@WilliamAndrea Yeah, I'm not fluent either, but I don't think you can normally compound nouns like that. Especially since adjectives are supposed to agree in gender and plurality.

@@WilliamAndrea Many languages place adjectives after the word they modify.

@@WilliamAndrea yes, it should be "hommes de cartes"

@@MediocreHexPeddler Yes in Welsh you say car green, not green car

I actually shivered when Jay sent me the first edit of this

Least you can quote report of the week

Pretty sure it’s the make up for the three ‘men’s in the last one

@@ohyeahitsthatguy9454. What do you mean “make up”? There are *never* enough “Men”s in the title!

@@markcooper-jones7494 don't worry, next time, we will have a whole minute dedicated to "men-men-men..."

OUR house

@@penisenlargement2319 In the middle of our street.

@@talentlesscommentermdxxvii9419 welcome to the lions den

@@penisenlargement2319 your account name is legendary

@@AlphaDaxter1 shame my account hasnt grew 😉

Lol Russian fighter jets frequently fly over the British isles. Shadowed by Typhoons!!

@@Omarheimer UK: i dont think thats better.

@@Omarheimer oh yeah. Russian accent. The only thing they can do accordingly to popular stereotype

Russia: ..and btw its Britain and is not a country.

@@Timsturbs UK: how did you do that? *HAVE YOU BEEN SPYING ON ME?*

05:56

Now that *did* escalate quickly! 😂

Just in case operation sealion 2.0 needs to happen...

5:56 I loved the very British "might wave at them" but... WHAT ARE "REGULAR DMs"?

@@ixlnxs direct messages. Not Doc Martens 🤪

Same

There was one episode where they added two extra mens in the intro

OCD kicking in, mate? I know that feeling 🤣

cow map

cow map

kow map

@@whooshifgay Koshmar Also, whoosh

@@whooshifgay wooosh. Now lets get this party started!! Edit: gay spelling mistakes.

Lol

Men

This is... Unexpected, but welcome.

map map map men men

men

... also Zamenhof was born in Russia. At least were he was born was Russia at the time.

Was VODKA mentioned?!

The best thing about Russia is that it keeps China a long way from Europe

@@Soundbrigade Yes. But they didn't mention Lada

@@PiousMoltar Coronavirus: "You're on."

Shame the people there don't know how to drive them

NUKE ALL OF THEM except edinbrough, they serve good coffee there

They would rather nuke it all except 221B Baker Street because Sherlock lives there and they admire him (google Sherlock Livanov).

Who the FUCCCCKKKK likes bradford ?!?!?!

@@TheSpearkan Are the people there driving on the right side? Soviet spies might have had a little too massive invasion, then.

I never want to again ever

the MinorAttractedPersonsolute?

Well said my good sir! Greetings from Griiiimmiiiiisby.

The MEN one is good, the MAP one is eh, a bit weak, shall we say

youre gay

Jay would never allow that. There has to be a clear line between ad and content in his videos. The video always has a black screen for a second or so before the ad starts. And I think that's admirable.

​@@MarceldeJong never even noticed that... Guess I watch too much youtube... I mean if that was tier zoo or real life lore it would've been a VPN add for sure... instead left wondering wtf as the actual add hits

@@MarceldeJong That's the other half: Jay's ad segments are always seperated from the main video by a short black screen.

I was expecting the same thing! I did not expect it to continue! As Marcel said, "There has to be a clear line between ad and content in his videos."

Oh it's not? I stopped watching it after that because I thought it would be a VPN ad too.. Guess I'll go back and finish then.

Well, I doubt the Danes would need much coercion to surrender in case of a Soviet (or East German) invasion. America, though?

@@JJLiu-xc3kg If the Cold War went hot though I’d’ve loved to have seen the documentaries about the battle where the Russians lost because they tried to capture a port that never existed

@@theshinygoldenemperor2422 Moscow, 1949. After the Berlin Blockade escalated into direct conflict between East and West Joseph Stalin unleashed rapid invasion plans, Soviet scientists announce the successful development of nuclear bombs. Nervous, scientists decide to test on Copenhagen, intending to permanently irradiate the Baltic Sea and prevent any naval invasion of the Baltic States. Then, day of-it detonated harmlessly into the ocean. Stunned, Soviets realise too late cartographer Ivan Nikolayevich Yakovlev had mapped a nonexistent port. But before he is hanged for treason against the state, Soviet radars detect a series of atom bombs headed for Moscow, Leningrad and every major Eastern Bloc city from Sofia to Stalingrad.

Просто они под землей)

@@JJLiu-xc3kg Seems like something along the lines of The Hunt for Red October

Yet it is the U.S. that provides the best maps of other planets in the Solar System to ESA, Japan, China, India, and Russia to use to plot out their planetary landing and rover missions.

@@rwboa22 that's a whole other rabbithole of capitalism: space races and exploration

Important note: to help them invade _Europe_ I heard this from leftist Twitter, so take it with a grain of salt, but apparently we've never uncovered any USSR plans for the invasion of America. Given the fact that we have _American_ plans for the invasion of _Britain_ (seriously, Half as Interesting did a video on it, look it up) we're fairly certain that the Soviets had no desire to invade the US, or at least understood the military impossibility of such an invasion.

@@Sammie1053 Took me two seconds. Remove the "response to first strike" and you have a perfecrly fine first strike invasion plan

@@Sammie1053 There is alleged cold-war plans for a Soviet invasion of the US, but as you said it seems that the Soviets were pretty well aware how impractical this was. It appears their plan in a conventional war would be to capture Germany and have enough momentum that France would pressure the UK to accept a peace with the Soviets securing a far more desirable bufferzone. Their conflict with the UK and US would primarily be focused on their colonies/foreign puppets or friendly nations, and long range bomb campaigns, which for most of the cold war wouldn't have been effective (the Soviets enjoyed only brief periods of being significantly enough more advanced with their aircraft to have been able to seriously threaten the US mainland with a widespread bombing campaign). Bombing the UK would have been plausible however. I would take left-twitter takes on the USSR with a grain of salt most of the time as you said. Too many people are more interested in rabidly defending a union that doesn't exist anymore and when it did was active in imperialism, industrialism and the seizing of resources from borderline colonized areas, than actually finding practical ways to make people's lives better. The USSR may have been ideologically different in many ways to the west but they were still first and foremost driven by a greed for profit and domination (of resources and people). As with the US, they realized little was to be gained from a world war, but a lot could be gained through proxy wars and influencing minor nations. Countries like Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan and much of South America were (and are) seen more like playgrounds to major powers, than the homelands of millions of innocent people. Two sides of the same coin when you look past the branding of "freedom" and "communism" (of which each respectively failed to achieve). This of course is not to dismiss the legitimate fears during the cold war. Nuclear weapons are not bargaining chips and the aforementioned lust for power and profit very nearly did reach nuclear war. Definitely two sides. Just one coin.

Товарищ, не палите внедрение!

Это кодовое слово. Нас рассекретили!

He pronounced it like ослик Й-Я, from Винни-Пух (winnie Poh)

@@anassyria5176 Me?!

@@Tim_Guttmann Ты? Может быть.. Не знаю)

Exactly. They could just make a video full of adverts and rake it in.

The road to many pleasures.

erogenous zoning?

I used to play bass for 'Illicit Cartography'

that’s the name to someone’s highschool punk band

But I am very intrigued by the prospect of it.

Poland were going to go through Denmark hoping to tap into their roots and launch another danish invasion into England

Counter attack. Yeah right

@@rachelar Yes, counter attack. Believe it or not, the East wasn't the big bad, and the west is just as bad as the east.

@@pureaidswithmemes8053 Wait so if the East wasn't actually the Big Bad, but the West was just as bad as the East, that means they were both equally bad?

@@ScurvyBoi Yes, they were both the Big Bad

imagine that, a country giving its taxpayers what they paid for and not just appointing "good ole boys" as embassy staff, imagine that!!!! oh you are an commonwealth slave, of course you cant understand that as you are regarded less valuable than sheep you herd for your masters :D tell me, what NZ embassy in my country, Croatia does for you? Issues papers when you loose your passport on vacation? dont you think they should be doing more than just waiting for you to loose your passport?

mfers invented Google maps

I mean, if I was a soviet spy in NZ, I'd rather walk around drawing buildings and what's inside them, and also would talk to nice people (and Hobbits as well), than be a pencil pusher in some badly heated Moscow office with laughable salary.

«Ру́сское географи́ческое о́бщество» - географическое общество России, основанное 6 августа 1845 года. Одно из старейших географических обществ мира после Парижского, Берлинского и Лондонского.

@@ArthurD why were they badly heated? the heating was and still is good. Soviet Union didnt lack energy resources. It wasnt certainly laughable. What a bunch of myths one can procure.

Can you translate into russian comrade? Danke

Лайково!

Спион? Нет...

Did you mean to say "Ха, нот биг сюрпрайз" instead?

I have already expected a VPN commercial.

I recommend buying a copy of The Red Atlas, the book this episode is based on. There’s a link in the description.

We the people of this channel demand the restoration of the two lost men!

Woah, this is a crossover I wasn't expecting😮

The kiwi approves.

Was not expecting to see you here 😄

Мап мен мап мен мап мен мен мен ...Срасиьо

Nap meme

не отлично, но и не ужасно

Kow map

hmmm, cauchemare is a french word, he could've used ужас instead.... double spy! get him!

@Ewan i know but it looks like kow map (cow map) and i think that's the kind of pun they wanted

That’s a brilliant idea!!!!

Write that screenplay and pitch it! Get that Hollywood money! Edit: Have Helen Mirren in the title role!

@@gozerthegozarian9500 he’s basically already got an elevator pitch

Dude, if the Russians kidnapped Helen Mirren that'd have meant WAR.

Someone call Hollywood!

I've got the Russian double agent: Kaspsersky

Russian gang!

100% expecting it to be a Nord VPN advert but nope left wondering WTF as they baited me into another dam skillshare add

You'd be surprised how many viruses scan the system they are about to encrypt for settings like cyrillic script or time zone.. even russian hackers don't want to mess with russia and this is by far the easiest way to rpevent... accidents... or at least prevent ending up in a russian prison. Mostly. Maybe. Perhaps. Who knows, the internet is wild.

xaxa

It's actually xaxaxa

Oh wait I get it, there's two type of laughing, hehehe and hahaha

@@MagikMako ouh lol

@@MagikMako i know im very late, but technically it's not really "hye", unless "y" is silent ('cos Russian "е" doesn't always have the "y" sound at the beginning) and fun fact: in Russian there are 3 ways to laugh - хаха (haha), хехе (h[e]h[e], with vowel like middle of "hey"), and хихи (h[i]h[i], with vowel like in "his")

@@MagikMako let's talk in IPA then. there's no meaningful difference between long [i:] and short [ɪ] in Russian, so i wasn't caring about that either. And as far as I can tell, "хе" is pronounced [xe], not [xje] (i might have butchered some close variations, but i def know that Russian х and english h are different) in Russian terms, "hye" sounds to me like "хье"/"хйе", not "хе"

Same!

Map men map men you need a VPN

Это была реклама русских шпионов

With the word guessing game, I was expecting a password manager.

Could've had a great Nobelborsky crossover

The wonderful FSB.

I think Russia is the country filled with the most Russian spies.

One might even be inside you.

@@shuriksvoboda6883 Oh, my! Really? I'll check.

@@shuriksvoboda6883 No, he pulled out

To be fair it should be probably written as "Dżilingam" to be phonetically accurate.

@@maciejmularz7786 damn, until you have written it I was 100% assured that it’s pronounced with solid G, not Dz sound

@@maciejmularz7786 Isn't the "H" silent?

@@user-sn5cx1yt6v The worst part is there's another town called Gillingham that *is* pronounced with a hard G, 150 miles to the west

@@NickHoad WHAT?!

I too watch him

Or both of them scheduled the upload.

I saw them both in my notifications and I was like "This is a blessed day".

Wasn't it the same with the last video?

I hope he appreciated the space floating cutlery scene.

"Bith"

I snorted. +1. Move along.

Mep Man, Mep Man, Mep Mep Mep Man Man!

And here is the mip!

Not sure if Kiwi or Dutch

"Nuke 'em again!"

It's about accurate for UK sensibilities

We've seen jumps from "victory poses in fotos together" to "head for the enemy capital" within hours, so not that surprising.

i mean not on the christmas card list is an clear symbol of hate

To be fair, that's how I treat my social circle...but, then, I'm an extradimensional demon-god who was the big bad in a classic 1980s movie!

I didn't even notice that, in my mind they went the full mile (and are still singing) 😂 I may have a problem.