Oversimplified Mini Wars Reaction Compilation

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  @VloggingThroughHistory · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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

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• JU

  @JustAnotherAccount8 · 2 years ago

  One of my favourite comments on the original Emu war video says something along the lines of &quot;The farmers weren&apos;t looking for the minister of defence, they wanted the minister of da fence&quot;.<br>Credit goes to that person because it&apos;s pretty damn funny

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• HO

  @HouseOfPercy · 1 year ago

  The Emus are using the Fabian Strategy.

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• JO

  @jonahfalcon1970 · 1 year ago

  That Honey ad has aged like milk.

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• DA

  @danielmcdermott452 · 2 years ago

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

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• BO

  @bottomofthebarrelguardian · 2 years ago

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

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• MA

  @MadMonkofDenver · 2 years ago

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

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• MI

  @MichaelScheele · 2 years ago (edited)

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

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• BA

  @BATTLESOFRAP · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fipjPiR3dU8&amp;t=2600">43:20</a> about that 😅

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• PA

  @pauld.6216 · 2 years ago

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

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  @Ymirheim · 2 years ago

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

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• NA

  @nachibtalib102 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fipjPiR3dU8&amp;t=1210">20:10</a> both games come from the same game, which was a completely unregulated mess originating in the Middle Ages, named football. The rules varied greatly from town to town and the only real similarity was the basic premise of putting a ball in some sort of goal. In the 1800s people decided they should probably regulate the rules. Nobody could agree on how to do that so we now have a bunch of completely different sports all named football, including the different forms of rugby, because rugby union is “rugby union football” and rugby league is “rugby league football”. &nbsp;“Soccer” comes from an English slang for “association” as in Association Football, which is the official name of the game

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