What i was trying to say is that the british like to make jokes involving hitler very much (or dress like him, make conspiracy theories, …). In germany this would be considered a trivialization. You rarely make fun about hitler in public here. (NOT out of respect for Hitler!) I'm personally okay with making jokes about anything.
@knurtel That is because you all want to forget it as if it never happened. If you go on a history tour in Berlin have a look at the pamphlets you receive, the dates 1914-1918, and the dates 1939-1945 are empty with nothing next to them. It is disgusting that you want to forget about something so horrible, we make fun of Hitler because he deserves it. He is an evil piece of Satin spawn. He even used propaganda indicating himself as a Christian and so because we suffered we will make fun of him.
@xUKxPenguinx Everyone in the World cup of 1966 are retired or dead. You can not say that the world wars are English victory. They belong to Scotland; England, Ireland, Wales and much more of the world.
@Rareheroe Clearly only a troller would think that Any, one country could win the second world war alone, so don't reply to this because I have no time for trollers.
@IAmCaptainMarvel You are a racist, stupid prat. Britain would have lost without Russia and America, and if you think that England has won all battles think again, we Scots may have joined with England, thus forming Britain, but England never bet Scotland. Search Stirling Bridge. Also how dare you insult me like that, 8 members of my great family fought in those wars, three of them fighting against the MG's and Panzers at sword beach and and one at one on a beach in Gallipoli during WW1.
@IAmCaptainMarvel You are clearly trying to imply that England is better than everywhere else, England tries to say that we Scots cost them money and that we cost more than we're worth. So why do they get annoyed and do everything in there power to keep us part of Britain when we say we'll go independent, tell me that. When Americans and others try to insult Britain it is England stereotypes they use, they are fine with us. "Lion heart", ha, London has a higher crime rate than Glasgow.
@viciouswolf1111 Exactly, as soon as they lost they immediately went back to 1966 despite the fact that everyone who was on that team is now dead or retired.
Ok, this may be a tad ignorant, but whoever isn't saying this is funny, I'm immediately assuming it's an american who is jealous that their own fat nation didn't come up with this ingenious humour.
@funkyfranx Either that or an over defensive German, can't blame them though, we crushed them in both wars, to be even more so, if you search up the WWII Gurkhas, you'll notice that the Germans had no chance against us.
@knurtel Yes its probably to do with that tiny little thing from about 73 years ago, what was it, oh yes, him trying to invade our country and kill us all, not that big of a deal I suppose although he was responsible for the death of one of my most noblest family members.
Do you know what that fire extinguisher did? It exploded in my face. I mean, what is the point of a fire extinguisher? It sits there for months, and when you actually have a fire - when you actually need the bloody thing - it blows your head off! I mean, what is happening to this country? It's bloody Wilson!
oh i love this episode! :D i am german so its twice as funny :D i just scrolled down some comments and wow... guys, war is war... nobodys right, nobodys a hero and i think we all should concentrate on these happy days we have
As an American and a Marine veteran, I do not see what all this bickering back and forth about who done what in WWII is for. It was called the Allied Powers for a reason, meaning everyone contributed to the war effort. I do not take anything away from any country that participated in that concerted effort to defeat the Nazis. I think all of OUR heroes that fell during that war, and the few that are still alive, would be greatly disheartened by this talk.
@KamikazeSOF2 you have any idea why the war even started lil navy boy? or how your government let pearl harbour happen on purpose as a cause to enter the war or staged the gulf of tonkin
@GrandMasterKai First of all, I don't see how a post honoring everyone got you so upset. With that out the way, you seem to buy into rhetoric too much. Not everything you read is true. Despite pressure from its allies, the US entered the war late; it didn't need an excuse. No one likes an internet tough guy. Little navy boy is very inaccurate description, as I am a Marine, big difference. Additionally, I find it hard to believe you would be so boisterous face to face.
@KamikazeSOF2 "Not everything you read is true" do you deny the gulf of tokin was staged yes or no? even though the US government admits it was staged and the US was funding both sides of the war and let pear harbour happen on purpose and no you are a lil marine working for the private companies and banks that rule america :) and how america is going way way down hill
No, really, the simple fact that you're choosing the ORIGINAL way to spell it as opposed to the US format just shows you actually know English better than the countries across the seas in other continents that claim to speak it as their first language.
It's the little differences, using U's like humour, using S's in place of Z's, "Realisation, improvisation, civilisation" as opposed to "Realization, improvization, civilization".
@IAmCaptainMarvel In German schools, children learn what is commonly called 'Oxford English'. My English teacher even insisted that we use 'lorry' instead of 'truck', 'boot' for 'trunk' and so on, and mocked atrocities like 'tonite', or 'lite'. Learning the purest form just seems logical.
Universities switch over to American Business English, depending on direction of study, which isn't necessarily a bad thing when the world's economy operates on US Business English.
You're not the first to tell me this, I once spoke to a Hungarian who told me the same, but chose not to because "he learnt it in video games" which frankly I find insulting. I'm actually trying to learn German at the moment, but I'm making it my business I'm getting the info from genuine Germans (not Austrians or Swiss).
And I see where you're coming from, but it's good to see you choosing ours anyway. Trust me, you score a lot of points with Englishmen and women that way.
If anything it's Hellish, sharing the same language as Americans. I mean imagine being apart of England, the original creators of the language you speak, but EVERYTHING American is just shoved down your throat, their history, their spelling differences, their different names for things, their irritating accent, the way their culture just seeps through and infects your own, their ignorance, the way they've destroyed our language.
@IAmCaptainMarvel Really? You complain on the internet about linguistics? You blame Americans for the British losing their culture? That is the stupidest idea I have ever heard
Listen I can understand why you'd think that, and I don't blame Americans entirely, Briain has its own problems spawned from other places, chavs for example take their inspiration from Jamaicans. But Americans don't understand how much of their things actually get exported here, slang and language differences with it.
For example, before America took their own spin on it, a faggot was usually synonymous with a type of food.
In the US many people get the impression that we defeated Germany all by ourselves (in both wars) and that everyone else just fumbled around for a bit until we cleaned up the whole mess. They forget that we were late to the party and millions more lives have been lost due to our indecisiveness.
When scrolling down for the comments I was hoping for the best of comments being quoted here. Unfortunately, this drifted off into a huge bragging about historical war achievements...maybe you should all follow his demand and NOT MENTION THE WAR.
The fact people are arguing about past wars that cannot be changed makes me laugh. If you are going to argue about countries being at war argue about current ones if you have to at all.
I think your 'I know all about world war two' is just talk, and your ridiculous way of trying to win the argument. Don't state fact as opinion, you only make yourself look even more dullard.
Britain had little to do with the war!? Are you really serious? We're the ones who DECLARED war, dumbshit. Britain told Germany to stat away from Poland but they invaded it anyway, so Britain said 'Fuck it, war.' Fuck me, how ignorant are you?
@funkyfranx Well, I'm not defending her but surely Germany declared war by ignoring britains warnings and invading poland. They knew full well what it meant and they did it anyway
@sharonloveish btw.do you know what basterd means,it has 3different meanings..lets see if you can figure those out,clever lil 12year old school kid,Go back to school and learn english with some grammar
British people truely are proud about winning the second world war even though they barely did anything to achieve the victory. Churchill even said that two more weeks of the luftwaffe terror and they wouldve surrenderd.
@Lillie1986 Nice way to insult all those people who stood up against oppression and tyranny and did not give in despite the odds. Pride comes from knowing we stood firm against an enemy stronger than we, and despite the hardships suffered we came through and along with our allies saw an end to the tyranny of the Nazi regime. You should think before you write shit you have no clue about.
@swedish84 Thats not what I was saying. I was saying that youre acting like you singlehandedly won the war against the germans. When you infact had very little to do with it as a country.
@Lillie1986 Can I ask if you have any viable source of information, or is this just hearsay? Because i would never, and i believe the majority of British people with half a brain would ever say or insinuate that, i have never met anyone who has and i live here. To be honest i have only ever met Americans who take that view of winning the war. Sure, without America Europe would have fallen, but at the same time it is fucking offensive to say other allied countries did "very little"!!!
@Lillie1986 You do know that there was a 'Plan B' in place to get RAF out of the way of German bombers. If of course you are referring to the Blitz then you really have no clue. You really need to do some research before you make such comments
@aspiringdrummer17 Im willing to bet that I know ALOT more about world war 2 than you do. Ive been deeply interested in anything concerning the war since I was little, and I have a grandfather that served in the navy during the war.
Hitler lost the battle of britain because of his own fuckups, not because Britain managed to defend themselves.
@Lillie1986 Goering's, not Hitler's. But saying that the UK 'had very little to do with the war' is EXTREMELY offensive, disrespectful, ignorant and incorrect. You should be rather ashamed of yourself for saying it
@aspiringdrummer17 No Hitler not Goering, if Goering got his way Britain wouldve lost. Hitler interfered with everything the german warmachine did, and in most cases for the worse.
And its not as offensive as taking credit for something you dont deserve.
@secretsantaone Not really. Britain was done for. Then Hitler thought itd be better to start bombing London instead of military targets. The germans had the invasionplan ready and everything, but Hitler canceled and postponed over and over because he had too much respect for the british as he figured they were also "arian".
@Lillie1986 That doesn't change the fact that if Britain had surrendered during the 1940-41 period, the war would have been over, and there wouldn't have been 2 fronts for Germany to fight on after the Russian invasion. The fact that Britain remained independent and endured constant bombardment without capitulating for 4 years enabled the Allies to stage the D-day invasion. Britain didn't win the war, and they may well have been defeated if things were different, but they did their fair share.
@secretsantaone Youre wrong. Britain launched no invasion of france/germany so there was never a battle on two fronts. And in 1944 when the joint allied forces launched the invasion in normandie the russians had already pushed the germans back to the ukraine so they were already loosing.
Russia defeated the germans singlehandedly, D-day only shortened the war by a few years and even so the invasion was mostly american.
@Lillie1986 I never said Britain invaded, I said it was the staging ground.
Can you not see how if Britain had surrendered in 1940 how the invasion of Russia might have gone differently? More time to build up a more powerful army. Less resources pooled into bombing, less troops stationed in the east, being able to stage a better defense due to not splitting their forces.
Also half of the troops on the D-day landings were American, the other half were British and Canadian.
@Lillie1986 Actually, it was mostly British/Commonwealth. 3 out of the 5 Normandy beaches were British/Commonwealth ops, Gold, Juno and Sword. These had about 83,000 troops. Omaha and Utah had 73,000 men assigned. By either number the invasion was mostly not American.
@Lillie1986 Canada is part of the British commonwealth. Yes Omaha was the toughest sector, but Utah was also the least defended by far. Neither of which matters, the point is it wasn't "mostly American", it was mostly NOT American. Calling it "Mostly American" is taking credit where credit is NOT due.
@Lillie1986 Actually far more than 50% of the troops on D-Day were British or Commonwealth. You seem to forget however, that if Britain had fallen, Europe would be under Nazi Rule (if Germany had beaten the USSR) or Soviet Rule (If the USSR had defeated Germany; why would they stop there if France and Britain were defeated?). Also, If Britain had not fought through 1940-1, then the USSR may not have been ready. I think we did more than the USA to beat Germany. Britain was needed to win in Europe
@Lillie1986 So? My great grandfather served in the cavalry in world war one therefore I know everything about the cavalry, world war one and horses. It doesn't work like that. America did very little during the war. I know you like to think that without you Europe would have been destroyed and germany would rule the world but really america didn't have THAT huge an effect
@Lillie1986 : I find everything you say offensive.
You pretend to understand the situation Britain was in during World War Two. You underestimate the strategic importance this tiny island in the North Atlantic played in the war against a truly great and terrible evil. You go so far to say that the British were doomed. You completely misinterpret the circumstances as one in which Britain "had very little to do with it as a country", and continuing to say my country was an “embarrassment”.
@Lillie1986 : Britain played a major role in the war. It is easy to say that Germany lost due to Hitler's tactical blunders. But I still think that British and Commonwealth forces played an important role in the war against terror, and oppression (not ignoring our allies). We fought on land, at sea, and in the air: we fought in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Atlantic, the North Sea, and the Pacific. Our soldiers died in France, Italy, North Africa, Germany, and the Far East.
@Lillie1986 Our sailors died at sea and our pilots died in the air. Our civilians were not untouched either: our cities were bombed and merchantmen were hunted by U-boats as they supplied Britain when it was surrounded and Hitler was poised to invade.
Have you not seen the cemeteries of people who died?
Britain played its part in the war, not singlehandedly did we win it, but without us the world today may have looked very different.
@EldarionsBeard I didnt say you didnt suffer, everyone suffered, so did the germans. You had nothing to do with winning world war 2 however, more than the convinient landmass.
@Lillie1986 Britain played a larger part than any country on the allied side during WW2, the british commonwealth were the only countries willing to stand up to Hitler for the first 3 years of the war.
The British were fighting the Japanese from the very start in South-East Asia and took massive losses in France and on home soil. Heard of the Blitz?
If not for the efforts of the British, the Germans would have occupied all of europe in less that a year.
@AndyMcCy You really dont know alot about world war 2 do you? There is absolutely nothing correct with anything youve written in that comment, unfortunately youtube wont allow long enough posts to explain the truth of your false statements.
So you think that the British didnt fight in Burma and that the Blitz of cities all over Britain resulting in the death of 43,000 civilians didnt happen?
Maybe the efforts of the BEF, the Battle of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain were all imaginary?
Were the French not defeated and occupied almost immediately leaving Britain the only Allied country still able to fight until 1941?
@AndyMcCy As I said previously I never said you didnt suffer, I said you didnt do anything to stop the germans. I didnt say you didnt do anything to stop the germans because you didnt want to either, but becaue you couldnt. Battle of Dunkirk wouldve been a complete massacre if it hadnt been for Hitlers suddenly felt compassion for the british. The germans themselves lost the battle of britain for two reasons which takes too much space to write here.
@Lillie1986 You seriously think that Hitler felt compassion towards a large british army that could threaten Nazi occupied territory?
The Brits escaped at Dunkirk because thousands of british boats, the majority of which were civilians, crossed the channel to evacuate them while British soldiers gave their lives to stop the German advance and save their comrades.
Do you have any knowledge of the fighting in Norway, North Africa or Burma?
@AndyMcCy Wow you really are clueless. I suggest you go look at some ww2 documentaries on youtube, especially those about the battle of britain and the blitz.. As I said, I cant make proper responses as youtube limits how much I can actualy write.
don't mention the war
you started it
no we didn't
yes you did, you invaded Poland!
strikefreedom67 1 day ago
that fake eating bit and the poland bit cracks me up every time:')
hewhomustnotbenamed4 4 days ago
quote of the century
saintgermain93 6 days ago
"Listen, don't mention the war. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it" - always makes me collapse in laughter
united4lifeandlonger 1 week ago 4
This had me laughing so hard the first time I saw it I didn't see the end.
fugu08 1 week ago 2
He could have just apologized instead he makes it worse and worse
rhombusskullvsteal 1 week ago
Wow, I thought to myself "this sketch is a little dated". But the commentaries show that the issue persists...
lllorenz 2 weeks ago
So that's 2 egg mayonnaise, a Prawn Goebbels, a Herman Goering and 4 Colditz salads
jahbad1 2 weeks ago
Its funny he uses his fingers to get a hitlermustasch.. He must have forgotten that its allready there.
TheLandbergaren 2 weeks ago
I'll bet the girl in pink is really trying to make it seem like she's crying, but in reality the actress is laughing XD.
imaginekey 3 weeks ago
Don't mention the war!
robbie0195 3 weeks ago
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland" is unfunkable
91nataly 3 weeks ago
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland" is possibly the best line from any sitcom. ever
ArcaneFaith 4 weeks ago 3
I didn't express myself clearly enough.
What i was trying to say is that the british like to make jokes involving hitler very much (or dress like him, make conspiracy theories, …). In germany this would be considered a trivialization. You rarely make fun about hitler in public here. (NOT out of respect for Hitler!) I'm personally okay with making jokes about anything.
knurtel 4 weeks ago
@knurtel That is because you all want to forget it as if it never happened. If you go on a history tour in Berlin have a look at the pamphlets you receive, the dates 1914-1918, and the dates 1939-1945 are empty with nothing next to them. It is disgusting that you want to forget about something so horrible, we make fun of Hitler because he deserves it. He is an evil piece of Satin spawn. He even used propaganda indicating himself as a Christian and so because we suffered we will make fun of him.
viciouswolf1111 3 weeks ago
i thought the Germans were going to order "sauerkraut"
bogosort777 1 month ago
*Facepalms* The Hitler impression. . . zomg. . .
VampiresExist0013 1 month ago
Ah, 19 Germans watched this clip
TheMeschugge 1 month ago
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4rtificial1dioty 4 weeks ago
Two World Wars and one World Cup, doo-da, doo-da...
xUKxPenguinx 1 month ago
@xUKxPenguinx The world wars are British victory, not just England, besides, Germany crushed England last year.
viciouswolf1111 1 month ago
@viciouswolf1111 But back in 1966 (i think) England crushed Germany. That makes one World Cup each, and Two World Wars to us.
xUKxPenguinx 1 month ago
@xUKxPenguinx Everyone in the World cup of 1966 are retired or dead. You can not say that the world wars are English victory. They belong to Scotland; England, Ireland, Wales and much more of the world.
viciouswolf1111 3 weeks ago
@viciouswolf1111 WWII was won by the Allies, made out of the US, France, Britian and the Soviet Union.
RockInsideOfYou 3 weeks ago
@RockInsideOfYou Read my comment properly, "They belong to Scotland; England, Ireland, Wales AND MUCH MORE OF THE WORLD."
viciouswolf1111 3 weeks ago
@viciouswolf1111 No, no, no. It was all England and England alone. The others were just invited to hail their triumph.
Rareheroe 3 weeks ago
@Rareheroe Clearly only a troller would think that Any, one country could win the second world war alone, so don't reply to this because I have no time for trollers.
viciouswolf1111 3 weeks ago
@viciouswolf1111 tbh i think that was sarcasm :)
gameworm12 3 weeks ago
@viciouswolf1111
One showed up late, one surrendered, and one was originally the ally of the enemy.
Out of the four you mentioned, only one truly remained consistent. The Lionheart aided by its empire of lions.
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 weeks ago
@IAmCaptainMarvel You are a racist, stupid prat. Britain would have lost without Russia and America, and if you think that England has won all battles think again, we Scots may have joined with England, thus forming Britain, but England never bet Scotland. Search Stirling Bridge. Also how dare you insult me like that, 8 members of my great family fought in those wars, three of them fighting against the MG's and Panzers at sword beach and and one at one on a beach in Gallipoli during WW1.
viciouswolf1111 2 weeks ago
@viciouswolf1111
I made a point saying "aided by its empire of lions".
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 weeks ago
@IAmCaptainMarvel You are clearly trying to imply that England is better than everywhere else, England tries to say that we Scots cost them money and that we cost more than we're worth. So why do they get annoyed and do everything in there power to keep us part of Britain when we say we'll go independent, tell me that. When Americans and others try to insult Britain it is England stereotypes they use, they are fine with us. "Lion heart", ha, London has a higher crime rate than Glasgow.
viciouswolf1111 2 weeks ago
@viciouswolf1111
Damn, quote of the year.
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 weeks ago
@viciouswolf1111 The World Wars were victory for the world, not just Britain.
Cream147player 3 weeks ago
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@Cream147player Read my comment properly, "They belong to Scotland; England, Ireland, Wales AND MUCH MORE OF THE WORLD."
viciouswolf1111 3 weeks ago
@viciouswolf1111 Exactly, as soon as they lost they immediately went back to 1966 despite the fact that everyone who was on that team is now dead or retired.
viciouswolf1111 3 weeks ago
fawlty towers, keeping apparens( mrs bucket) and mr bean is the best humour in the word
felixandreason 1 month ago
hors d'oeuvres which must be obeyed at all times without question
maxisttot 1 month ago
Ok, this may be a tad ignorant, but whoever isn't saying this is funny, I'm immediately assuming it's an american who is jealous that their own fat nation didn't come up with this ingenious humour.
funkyfranx 1 month ago
@funkyfranx Either that or an over defensive German, can't blame them though, we crushed them in both wars, to be even more so, if you search up the WWII Gurkhas, you'll notice that the Germans had no chance against us.
viciouswolf1111 1 month ago
The british seem to have a thing about hitler.
knurtel 1 month ago
@knurtel That complex or 'thing' is indeed the topic of this satire - some 35 years ago- but nonetheless well observed, welcome on board!
paulmrussell12 1 month ago
@knurtel not really he tried it on, we beat him.
Not such a big thing really.
msmoo1968 1 month ago
@knurtel Yes its probably to do with that tiny little thing from about 73 years ago, what was it, oh yes, him trying to invade our country and kill us all, not that big of a deal I suppose although he was responsible for the death of one of my most noblest family members.
viciouswolf1111 1 month ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
British humour is so primitive and simple.
Zarathustros 1 month ago
@Zarathustros so are you USA origin then?
msmoo1968 1 month ago
when basil is doing the dance you can see polly going into the kitchen due to laughter haha
thecians 1 month ago
Don't mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
SweetSweetWaldo 1 month ago
I wanna tap Polly SO bad...!!! haha
DK101GT 1 month ago
Der Krieg! DER KREIG!!!
Well it was your bloody fault wasnt it!?
Paladin1441 1 month ago
fenomenalno
MysteryBlue7 1 month ago
LMAO!!!! 'Would u like a drink before the war?'
94babylozzi 1 month ago
I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it allright...
havoc697 1 month ago
'Yes you did, you invaded Poland'
Everytime I hear him say that, I fall off my chair LOL
keokiracerhalsteren 1 month ago 59
Memebase brought me here.
deinvadder88 1 month ago
was für ein scheiß...
Wassercorgi 1 month ago
iduel
2SikclanChannel 1 month ago 9
who won the bladdy war anyway?
neonWHALE002 1 month ago
Manuel for President.
Reviewanygame 2 months ago
If you want to get technical, the French started the war, with the treaty of Versailles and the like.
Trashcansam123 2 months ago
@Trashcansam123 actually to get more technical, the english started the war, we declared war on germany therefore starting war!
Bandanabrethren 2 months ago
@Bandanabrethren nope germany attacked poland we are/were allied with poland = teamwork
purecodskillz09 1 month ago
Do you know what that fire extinguisher did? It exploded in my face. I mean, what is the point of a fire extinguisher? It sits there for months, and when you actually have a fire - when you actually need the bloody thing - it blows your head off! I mean, what is happening to this country? It's bloody Wilson!
Reviewanygame 2 months ago
Is there something wrong.....?
Will you please stop talking about the war?
Me....? You started it.
We did not start it!
Yes, you did, you invaded Poland.
Reviewanygame 2 months ago 3
Does anyone know the actual joke Basil was going to say?
oliness 2 months ago
"I'M TRYING TO CHEER HER UP, YEW STUPID KRAUT!!" LOL
BenAliGtor 2 months ago
oh i love this episode! :D i am german so its twice as funny :D i just scrolled down some comments and wow... guys, war is war... nobodys right, nobodys a hero and i think we all should concentrate on these happy days we have
TheHitman488 2 months ago
"Well you started it."
"No we didn't you did."
"No, you did when you invaded Poland."
Kazuhika 2 months ago 6
As an American and a Marine veteran, I do not see what all this bickering back and forth about who done what in WWII is for. It was called the Allied Powers for a reason, meaning everyone contributed to the war effort. I do not take anything away from any country that participated in that concerted effort to defeat the Nazis. I think all of OUR heroes that fell during that war, and the few that are still alive, would be greatly disheartened by this talk.
KamikazeSOF2 2 months ago
@KamikazeSOF2 you have any idea why the war even started lil navy boy? or how your government let pearl harbour happen on purpose as a cause to enter the war or staged the gulf of tonkin
GrandMasterKai 2 months ago
@GrandMasterKai First of all, I don't see how a post honoring everyone got you so upset. With that out the way, you seem to buy into rhetoric too much. Not everything you read is true. Despite pressure from its allies, the US entered the war late; it didn't need an excuse. No one likes an internet tough guy. Little navy boy is very inaccurate description, as I am a Marine, big difference. Additionally, I find it hard to believe you would be so boisterous face to face.
KamikazeSOF2 2 months ago
@KamikazeSOF2 "Not everything you read is true" do you deny the gulf of tokin was staged yes or no? even though the US government admits it was staged and the US was funding both sides of the war and let pear harbour happen on purpose and no you are a lil marine working for the private companies and banks that rule america :) and how america is going way way down hill
GrandMasterKai 2 months ago
British humour is the best. Greets from Germoney.
omma911 2 months ago 86
@omma911
The fact that you're a German who spelt humour with a 'u' makes me like you all the more.
If only more Europeans didn't go the American route of spelling in English.
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 months ago
@IAmCaptainMarvel heh, thanks! ;)
omma911 2 months ago
@omma911
No, really, the simple fact that you're choosing the ORIGINAL way to spell it as opposed to the US format just shows you actually know English better than the countries across the seas in other continents that claim to speak it as their first language.
It's the little differences, using U's like humour, using S's in place of Z's, "Realisation, improvisation, civilisation" as opposed to "Realization, improvization, civilization".
More Europeans need to spell it like you do.
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 months ago
@IAmCaptainMarvel In German schools, children learn what is commonly called 'Oxford English'. My English teacher even insisted that we use 'lorry' instead of 'truck', 'boot' for 'trunk' and so on, and mocked atrocities like 'tonite', or 'lite'. Learning the purest form just seems logical.
Universities switch over to American Business English, depending on direction of study, which isn't necessarily a bad thing when the world's economy operates on US Business English.
omma911 2 months ago
@omma911
You're not the first to tell me this, I once spoke to a Hungarian who told me the same, but chose not to because "he learnt it in video games" which frankly I find insulting. I'm actually trying to learn German at the moment, but I'm making it my business I'm getting the info from genuine Germans (not Austrians or Swiss).
And I see where you're coming from, but it's good to see you choosing ours anyway. Trust me, you score a lot of points with Englishmen and women that way.
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 months ago
@omma911
If anything it's Hellish, sharing the same language as Americans. I mean imagine being apart of England, the original creators of the language you speak, but EVERYTHING American is just shoved down your throat, their history, their spelling differences, their different names for things, their irritating accent, the way their culture just seeps through and infects your own, their ignorance, the way they've destroyed our language.
It makes you hate them, if I'm honest.
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 months ago
@IAmCaptainMarvel j00 j3LLy 8R4H?
Cronos844 1 month ago
@Cronos844
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IAmCaptainMarvel 1 month ago
@IAmCaptainMarvel Really? You complain on the internet about linguistics? You blame Americans for the British losing their culture? That is the stupidest idea I have ever heard
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Cronos844 1 month ago
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IAmCaptainMarvel 1 month ago
@Cronos844
Well, where else am I gonna complain? The UN?
Listen I can understand why you'd think that, and I don't blame Americans entirely, Briain has its own problems spawned from other places, chavs for example take their inspiration from Jamaicans. But Americans don't understand how much of their things actually get exported here, slang and language differences with it.
For example, before America took their own spin on it, a faggot was usually synonymous with a type of food.
IAmCaptainMarvel 1 month ago
@omma911 british humor is garbage
meProudToBeCaucasian 1 month ago
@meProudToBeCaucasian if you think this is isn't funny you have no sense of humour
SuperLittlebigyoutub 1 month ago
@omma911 You're German? I won't mention the war then.
sov6rulz 1 month ago
eeeej folks! would you please stop mentioning the war?
satanic666sonic 2 months ago
I've had that "Stupid Kraut!" line stuck in my head for hours! xD
Shadowfang3000 2 months ago
Also think that RADAR, was of most useful objects invented that contributed on winning the war, all brit.
Goosecocksucker69 2 months ago
In the US many people get the impression that we defeated Germany all by ourselves (in both wars) and that everyone else just fumbled around for a bit until we cleaned up the whole mess. They forget that we were late to the party and millions more lives have been lost due to our indecisiveness.
blazerider6 3 months ago
All the people below me need to stop mentioning the war.
blazerider6 3 months ago
Can't we just say that the worst thing about the war is that we had to have one? Really thats the take-away lesson from most of them.
DamienDCLXVI 3 months ago
When scrolling down for the comments I was hoping for the best of comments being quoted here. Unfortunately, this drifted off into a huge bragging about historical war achievements...maybe you should all follow his demand and NOT MENTION THE WAR.
my favorite:
-We didn't start it.
-Yes you did, you invaded Poland! :)
PHILSCHRADER 3 months ago
@AndyMcCy : Don't forget the russians.
MasterDiablovn 3 months ago
Probably the best comedy ever made!! This scene is pure brilliance! John Cleese is absolutely genius. Makes me laugh harder every time I watch it!!
flyingsaucer0619 3 months ago 3
Please, commmenters. Don't mention the war.
1olofpet88 3 months ago 45
@1olofpet88
I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
kjhgfdsxcv 2 months ago 7
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000000AEA000000 3 months ago
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland."
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aluisious 3 months ago 3
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See, don't mention the war. People are learning from this
TeChaff 3 months ago
oh Basil... y u so crazy??
austinthebookworm5 3 months ago
i love how he does the hitler mustache and the walk
windycityflyer23chi 3 months ago 4
m8 humor :)
mrTuRKoH 3 months ago
HAHAHA BREAT EXAMPLE OF BRITISH HUMOUR RIGHT THERE XD
Eloise672 3 months ago
i thought of the little kid yelling "BLOOD! BLOOD! IT'S NOT FUNNYYYYY" at 4:08 since the kid says it the EXACT same way
magsimus7 3 months ago 3
Jesus, only on YouTube could you find a bunch of twits arguing about who died more in WW2...... on a Fawlty Towers vid.
pretorious700 3 months ago 4
@pretorious700 Not necessarily, we could be arguing in our spare time.
Wafflepudding 3 months ago
@Wafflepudding upper class twits of the year arguing in their spare time.
samuraipizzacat29 3 months ago 3
@samuraipizzacat29 Silly walks to Mr. Hilter's National Bocialist campaign centre can only fill so much time.
Wafflepudding 3 months ago
Well at least we can all agree that the Germans lost.
erridgeman 3 months ago
Listen, don't mention the Euro. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.
mikesheen741 3 months ago 79
Wew I love reading those comments!
RateArtist 4 months ago
Whahahaha, this is epic, just epic. Thank you John Cleese (and the whole crew of Fawlty Towers) for giving the world laughter.
HardcoreTomErik1981 4 months ago
Lets not argue, and just enjoy the beauty of faulty towers.
sammehsaladpants 4 months ago
@sammehsaladpants It's not Faulty Towers...
It's Watery Fowls...
RateArtist 4 months ago
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"Will you stop talking about the war?"
"Me? You started it."
"We did not start it."
"Yes you did you invaded Poland!"
Baurles 4 months ago
i just watched this episode on netflix i almost died laughing. comedians should all aspire to be as great as john cleese
theIGNentertainment2 4 months ago
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Bestmanme08 4 months ago
John Cleese, at his best :D
CFProElite1 4 months ago
At 3:45 starts the most epic moment in comedy history.
Spektraswe 4 months ago
The fact people are arguing about past wars that cannot be changed makes me laugh. If you are going to argue about countries being at war argue about current ones if you have to at all.
Chazzehh 4 months ago
they deserve it haha
sharky0922 4 months ago
Absolutely fantastic
Lucvv11 4 months ago
I love this sketch.. specially the part from 3:46 haha
BrianFromHolland 4 months ago
I think your 'I know all about world war two' is just talk, and your ridiculous way of trying to win the argument. Don't state fact as opinion, you only make yourself look even more dullard.
funkyfranx 4 months ago
Britain had little to do with the war!? Are you really serious? We're the ones who DECLARED war, dumbshit. Britain told Germany to stat away from Poland but they invaded it anyway, so Britain said 'Fuck it, war.' Fuck me, how ignorant are you?
funkyfranx 4 months ago
@funkyfranx Well, I'm not defending her but surely Germany declared war by ignoring britains warnings and invading poland. They knew full well what it meant and they did it anyway
ausdude77 4 months ago
Best skit ever bloody funny, "not funny you're joking."
jlennon48 4 months ago
@sharonloveish btw.do you know what basterd means,it has 3different meanings..lets see if you can figure those out,clever lil 12year old school kid,Go back to school and learn english with some grammar
Tube11ize 5 months ago
How about Bottom?
paquitomoralles 5 months ago in playlist Tom Lofthouse
British people truely are proud about winning the second world war even though they barely did anything to achieve the victory. Churchill even said that two more weeks of the luftwaffe terror and they wouldve surrenderd.
Lillie1986 5 months ago
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Medevila 5 months ago
@Lillie1986 I think you should be quiet before you embarrass yourself any further.
darkmaterial 4 months ago
@darkmaterial Your country is an embarrasement.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 Nice way to insult all those people who stood up against oppression and tyranny and did not give in despite the odds. Pride comes from knowing we stood firm against an enemy stronger than we, and despite the hardships suffered we came through and along with our allies saw an end to the tyranny of the Nazi regime. You should think before you write shit you have no clue about.
swedish84 4 months ago 3
@swedish84 Thats not what I was saying. I was saying that youre acting like you singlehandedly won the war against the germans. When you infact had very little to do with it as a country.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 Can I ask if you have any viable source of information, or is this just hearsay? Because i would never, and i believe the majority of British people with half a brain would ever say or insinuate that, i have never met anyone who has and i live here. To be honest i have only ever met Americans who take that view of winning the war. Sure, without America Europe would have fallen, but at the same time it is fucking offensive to say other allied countries did "very little"!!!
swedish84 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 You do know that there was a 'Plan B' in place to get RAF out of the way of German bombers. If of course you are referring to the Blitz then you really have no clue. You really need to do some research before you make such comments
aspiringdrummer17 4 months ago
@aspiringdrummer17 Im willing to bet that I know ALOT more about world war 2 than you do. Ive been deeply interested in anything concerning the war since I was little, and I have a grandfather that served in the navy during the war.
Hitler lost the battle of britain because of his own fuckups, not because Britain managed to defend themselves.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 Goering's, not Hitler's. But saying that the UK 'had very little to do with the war' is EXTREMELY offensive, disrespectful, ignorant and incorrect. You should be rather ashamed of yourself for saying it
aspiringdrummer17 4 months ago 11
@aspiringdrummer17 No Hitler not Goering, if Goering got his way Britain wouldve lost. Hitler interfered with everything the german warmachine did, and in most cases for the worse.
And its not as offensive as taking credit for something you dont deserve.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 The fact that for over a year Britain was the only major power fighting against the Germans probably counts for something.
secretsantaone 4 months ago
@secretsantaone Not really. Britain was done for. Then Hitler thought itd be better to start bombing London instead of military targets. The germans had the invasionplan ready and everything, but Hitler canceled and postponed over and over because he had too much respect for the british as he figured they were also "arian".
Theres been quiet a few documentaries about it.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 That doesn't change the fact that if Britain had surrendered during the 1940-41 period, the war would have been over, and there wouldn't have been 2 fronts for Germany to fight on after the Russian invasion. The fact that Britain remained independent and endured constant bombardment without capitulating for 4 years enabled the Allies to stage the D-day invasion. Britain didn't win the war, and they may well have been defeated if things were different, but they did their fair share.
secretsantaone 4 months ago
@secretsantaone Youre wrong. Britain launched no invasion of france/germany so there was never a battle on two fronts. And in 1944 when the joint allied forces launched the invasion in normandie the russians had already pushed the germans back to the ukraine so they were already loosing.
Russia defeated the germans singlehandedly, D-day only shortened the war by a few years and even so the invasion was mostly american.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 I never said Britain invaded, I said it was the staging ground.
Can you not see how if Britain had surrendered in 1940 how the invasion of Russia might have gone differently? More time to build up a more powerful army. Less resources pooled into bombing, less troops stationed in the east, being able to stage a better defense due to not splitting their forces.
Also half of the troops on the D-day landings were American, the other half were British and Canadian.
secretsantaone 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 Actually, it was mostly British/Commonwealth. 3 out of the 5 Normandy beaches were British/Commonwealth ops, Gold, Juno and Sword. These had about 83,000 troops. Omaha and Utah had 73,000 men assigned. By either number the invasion was mostly not American.
Wafflepudding 3 months ago
@Wafflepudding one of those british commanded "beaches" were canadian though.
Besides Omaha beach was by far the most fortified and the most defended
Lillie1986 3 months ago
@Lillie1986 Canada is part of the British commonwealth. Yes Omaha was the toughest sector, but Utah was also the least defended by far. Neither of which matters, the point is it wasn't "mostly American", it was mostly NOT American. Calling it "Mostly American" is taking credit where credit is NOT due.
Wafflepudding 3 months ago
@Lillie1986 Actually far more than 50% of the troops on D-Day were British or Commonwealth. You seem to forget however, that if Britain had fallen, Europe would be under Nazi Rule (if Germany had beaten the USSR) or Soviet Rule (If the USSR had defeated Germany; why would they stop there if France and Britain were defeated?). Also, If Britain had not fought through 1940-1, then the USSR may not have been ready. I think we did more than the USA to beat Germany. Britain was needed to win in Europe
mariokartvssb 3 months ago
@Lillie1986 The invasion was actually mostly British and Canadian.
TheTeaBiskit 2 months ago
@Lillie1986 So? My great grandfather served in the cavalry in world war one therefore I know everything about the cavalry, world war one and horses. It doesn't work like that. America did very little during the war. I know you like to think that without you Europe would have been destroyed and germany would rule the world but really america didn't have THAT huge an effect
ausdude77 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 Dude, Africa? Commonwealth forces? Alllll british over there
XGGotNoStyle 4 months ago
@XGGotNoStyle Reserve forces dude. And you had american help :P
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 : I find everything you say offensive.
You pretend to understand the situation Britain was in during World War Two. You underestimate the strategic importance this tiny island in the North Atlantic played in the war against a truly great and terrible evil. You go so far to say that the British were doomed. You completely misinterpret the circumstances as one in which Britain "had very little to do with it as a country", and continuing to say my country was an “embarrassment”.
EldarionsBeard 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 : Britain played a major role in the war. It is easy to say that Germany lost due to Hitler's tactical blunders. But I still think that British and Commonwealth forces played an important role in the war against terror, and oppression (not ignoring our allies). We fought on land, at sea, and in the air: we fought in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Atlantic, the North Sea, and the Pacific. Our soldiers died in France, Italy, North Africa, Germany, and the Far East.
EldarionsBeard 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 Our sailors died at sea and our pilots died in the air. Our civilians were not untouched either: our cities were bombed and merchantmen were hunted by U-boats as they supplied Britain when it was surrounded and Hitler was poised to invade.
Have you not seen the cemeteries of people who died?
Britain played its part in the war, not singlehandedly did we win it, but without us the world today may have looked very different.
EldarionsBeard 4 months ago
@EldarionsBeard I didnt say you didnt suffer, everyone suffered, so did the germans. You had nothing to do with winning world war 2 however, more than the convinient landmass.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 Haha im not even british lol:P
Im dutch, u know, the ppl who surrendered in 5 days lol
XGGotNoStyle 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 Britain played a larger part than any country on the allied side during WW2, the british commonwealth were the only countries willing to stand up to Hitler for the first 3 years of the war.
The British were fighting the Japanese from the very start in South-East Asia and took massive losses in France and on home soil. Heard of the Blitz?
If not for the efforts of the British, the Germans would have occupied all of europe in less that a year.
AndyMcCy 4 months ago
@AndyMcCy You really dont know alot about world war 2 do you? There is absolutely nothing correct with anything youve written in that comment, unfortunately youtube wont allow long enough posts to explain the truth of your false statements.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 Are you deluded or something?
Please point out what was wrong in my comment and i'll gladly tell you how you're living in ignorance.
AndyMcCy 4 months ago
@AndyMcCy Please read my comment again then as it seemingly didnt go through.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 So your response is "all of it"?
So you think that the British didnt fight in Burma and that the Blitz of cities all over Britain resulting in the death of 43,000 civilians didnt happen?
Maybe the efforts of the BEF, the Battle of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain were all imaginary?
Were the French not defeated and occupied almost immediately leaving Britain the only Allied country still able to fight until 1941?
Or maybe your idea of WW2 is based on ignorance.
AndyMcCy 4 months ago
@AndyMcCy As I said previously I never said you didnt suffer, I said you didnt do anything to stop the germans. I didnt say you didnt do anything to stop the germans because you didnt want to either, but becaue you couldnt. Battle of Dunkirk wouldve been a complete massacre if it hadnt been for Hitlers suddenly felt compassion for the british. The germans themselves lost the battle of britain for two reasons which takes too much space to write here.
Lillie1986 4 months ago
@Lillie1986 You seriously think that Hitler felt compassion towards a large british army that could threaten Nazi occupied territory?
The Brits escaped at Dunkirk because thousands of british boats, the majority of which were civilians, crossed the channel to evacuate them while British soldiers gave their lives to stop the German advance and save their comrades.
Do you have any knowledge of the fighting in Norway, North Africa or Burma?
Did you know about the Nazi nuclear plans?
AndyMcCy 4 months ago
@AndyMcCy Wow you really are clueless. I suggest you go look at some ww2 documentaries on youtube, especially those about the battle of britain and the blitz.. As I said, I cant make proper responses as youtube limits how much I can actualy write.
Lillie1986 4 months ago