HORRIBLE HISTORIES - Scott of the Antarctic

GREAT NEWS! A brand new series of HORRIBLE HISTORIES starts on CBBC on 31st May 2010!! In the meantime... Another sketch from the brilliant CBBC sketch show Horrible Histories, based on the best selling books: Captain Scott checks his equipment before setting off to the South Pole... just to make sure it's completely useless.

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[Strategos300]

I am Norwegian...and let me just say; We beat your ASS BRITAIN!!!

Just had to...sorry..

[eddieoxford]

@gunande

Britain, Holland, France and Spain DID found America building trade posts people arriving gorwing etc

The USA Needeed Britain just as we needed you

"most of us has English as second language isn't because of England, but because of USA, winner of WW2"LOL So what language did you speak over 200 years since independance? Americano lol, India Austrailia NWZ SA speak English because of the Empire. Athens had the first democracy after Hipparcus and the return of Clythsenes! Get facts first

[pequodman]

Skyrad01 is correct.Scotts expedition was financed on the basis that he would undertake scientific research on the way.Amundsen was given a free hand.Scotts party for example had to haul rocks as geological samples on the sleds,they were even being collected on the final leg.Hardly a fair "race".

[Skyrad01]

Scott accomplished unimaginable feats of endurance, its not surprising that Amundsen was first to reach the pole, its not a race if you're the only one racing. Scott's scientific legacy lives on. While Amundsen accomplished a first to the South Pole being pulled by dogs his journey added no scientific knowledge, had Nansen and the world known that his lie about going to the North Pole was to cover his true hidden intention its doubtful that he would ever have set sail.

[Skyrad01]

'you chaff and sneer and taunt them for not doing the things you daren't do yourself. And all the time you laugh! laugh! laugh! eternal derision, eternal envy, eternal folly, eternal fouling and staining and degrading,until, when you come at last to another country where men take a question seriously and give a serious answer to it, you deride them for having no sense of humour, and plume yourself on your own worthlessness as if it made you better than them.' GB Shaw

[Krornus]

@UsagiDreams america isnt really even a democracy :/ its a constitutional republic

[PhenomenalHeadShot]

@UsagiDreams Yes. Unfortunately the majority of my country is made up of idiots.. with the new orders on censoring the internet.. Its only going to get worse. I'm gonna need a gun and a big ol' bottle of suicide pills soon enough -1 year later.

[WillyOeverland]

@multimicer Norwegians discoverd Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Canada (Vinland), founded York and Dublin and pillaged the British Islands.

[WillyOeverland]

@Strategos300 Normennene knuste engelskmennene totalt.

[figarominhest]

Since all the other norwegians is comenting: I am norwegian to and they beat scotts ass. But i feel so sorry for him. I mean he came to the polar midle point, only to discover that amundsen alredy had been there. And i f that weren't bad enough he died on the way home. Sooooo only the norwegians can select out equipment to a polar expedition :)

[PhilAFire93]

@Strategos300 Oh well you beat our arse to the Antarctic, congrats :D haha

[Stariod1994]

I a Norwegian too and we will always be first at the arctic points >:D Litterally (Evil Viking laugh)