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Sounds sensible.
ОтветитьOther countries that have border disputes over islands 🏝 should do the same thing that Spain 🇪🇸 and France 🇫🇷 do with Pheasant Island.
ОтветитьAll borders are divided by time. But with different frequencies and patterns.
ОтветитьI sm not going to cross the border illegally. I am just going to sit here and wait for the border to cross me.
ОтветитьLove the Craig Ferguson theme XD
ОтветитьSuper nice:-) You are, however, totally wrong about the main point, sorry 😂🤣 The border is not flipping, ever, the island IS the border. It is both Spanish AND French at all time. It’s a very rare legal situation known as condominium, when a piece of land is owned by two sovereign states (there have been only a few in history and I think there’s another one currently in the middle-east).
What is flipping every six months is the operational responsibility over the island, but the border doesn’t move.
Imho even weirder and cooler than a flipping border:-)
Does this invalidate the EU requirement of stable borders?
ОтветитьWhich bit of spain? Manchester. LOL 😂
ОтветитьAccording to your description of the history, the border does not flip. What flips is the administrative responsibility. The island is always a part of both France and Spain.
ОтветитьI thought the world was full of flippin' borders.
ОтветитьWhy not make bridges and a restaurant, and make it an attraction site?
ОтветитьSpot on with the Craig Ferguson theme song!
ОтветитьIt would be fantastic if the island also was in a different time zone based on what country it belonged to at the time.
ОтветитьWhat about the island between Canada and Denmark?
ОтветитьI actually looked up Maria Theresa's life after this video and wow she truly did live miserably. An awful time to be a princess.
ОтветитьThe fisher price tune that suddenly plays made me laugh
ОтветитьThe island with joint custody.
Ответить“Maybe someone should tell the King, ‘why don’t you just let go of the island and forget about marrying your double first cousin?’”
🤷♂️
“You just don’t get it, that’s not how things are done around here!”
You've inadvertently reminded me that there are clips from the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on this platform. Thank you!
ОтветитьIts weird neither town decided to have some festivities around this, possibly attracting tourists? Kind of an open day for the island, with ferries going there from both sides? Maybe this is a cautionary tale to not have the navy run your cultural sites.
ОтветитьIsn't there also the one that switches between Denmark and Canada?
ОтветитьNothing is celebrated because local population wouldn't like it, both sides are basque, we speak the same language, some of us are even family, or either we've studied in the same school. It's like we don't give a fck about who is legally "controling" the island
ОтветитьTypical of government doing idiotic stuff. It's all government does is stupid, dangerous and illegal stuff.
ОтветитьVery interesting
ОтветитьAfter my last stop on the little "pedant tour" (Llívia), I am now on the other side of the border, Pheasant Island (which should be Spanish at the moment 🇪🇸)!
Thanks for sharing all these little known places. I really enjoy learning about them and also visiting them when possible!
The main idea of keeping the island as a condominium between the two nation was to celebrate the common history of France and Spain. I do wish we'd have actual baton-passing events every 6 months, because that's quite an endearing tradition, and testifies of the long history between our two wonderful nations.
Also, I am glad Fran is just as Spanish as you are French. Truly we couldn't have hoped for better representatives.
A unique story with a documentary done well, actually quite entertaining. Lots of interesting and educational material on this channel!
ОтветитьFree movement between France and Spain?
ОтветитьIs it really big deal?? Just 600 km, area!!!
ОтветитьLove it when historic figures have Zoom meetings! Good thing you found those recordings.
ОтветитьAnti-climactic border change here. Why isn't there a delivery driver delivering the official island change letter at exactly this time with all the pomp and circumstance that can be mustered?
ОтветитьI love the idea of someone landing on Pheasant Island in a rubber dinghy and immediately getting shelled and hit with depth charges by the French or Spanish Navy
ОтветитьSo technically this Island was part time occupied by ze Boches during WW II?
ОтветитьNow, does this make enough of a difference that they should change the area of the country?
ОтветитьIM THE QUEEN OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF PHEASANT ISLAND HAHA
ОтветитьI think I could take pheasant island
Ответитьit’s like a different parent watches over it every few months
ОтветитьOne iskand with two countries.
ОтветитьA matter for the Navy? Now I want to invade that island. Just to see what they send.
Ответитьdid google maps also flip?
ОтветитьA truly LAME ending.
Why didn't Tom Scott actually GO to the flippin' island?!
From the looks of it, it's like a 30-second row.
Then he could have been on-island at midnight, and forever more legimately be able to claim that he had once travelled from Spain to France without having moved one inch!
A story one could dine out on for years...
Again, LAME!
If you are born on the island at midnight on 31 Jan or 31 Jul, what nationality do you have?
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