Name: Camp Bonifas and Yorkshire Scouting: Citation Needed 5x04
Uploaded: 2020-04-01T01:08:38.000Z
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This is the Technical Difficulties, we're playing Citation Needed.

Joining me today, he reads books you know, it's Chris Joel!

Everybody's favourite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan!

Yes, I did order a Crunch Corner, but not that crunchy.

And the bounciest man on the internet, Matt Gray!

In front of me I've got an article from Wikipedia, and these folks can't see it.

Every fact they get right is a point and a ding [DING]

and there's a special prize for particularly good answers, which is...

And today we are talking about Camp Bonifas.

-- Camp Bonny-face! -- Bonny-face. I mean...

because it's a United Nations Command military post. [DING]

So it's not the US, but it is 'camp' in the sense of military post,

In the sense of a place you go to camp with a tent!

-- What, you mean... -- "Look at his camp bonny face!"

-- Actually, given that 'bona' is actually Polari... -- Oh, it is!

Yeah. Polari being the language of gay men in the 1950s and 60s,

descended from carnival speak. So, if you hear Kenneth Williams --

Julian and Sandy -- you know, "vada your eek" means "he's got quite a nice face".

Stuff like that. It's how gay men would talk to each other,

so that the police and other people couldn't hear them,

'cos obviously homosexuality was entirely illegal.

Polari... that's Polaris. That's something else. That's not quite...

Actually, loads of Polari has made it into regular English.

Looking through... barney, having a barney, having a fight with someone, is in there.

To zhoozh up, a zhoozhing bag, is to do your hair and have a handbag, or something like that.

Basically, as with so many things, the rest of Britain just went:

Bringing this all back: Camp Bonny-face...

...does not... and it's Bonifas! ... does not mean just someone with a nice face, sadly.

Why is it, when you say "United Nations Command Centre",

I immediately think "damn, that's exciting!"

That's because you grew up on Gerry Anderson and Thunderbirds!

Anything! United Nations Command Centre! Nah, it's lots of dull men looking at laptops.

-- It's four men with laptops in a hotel room. -- Yeah.

We're not in a hotel room here. Definitely not in a hotel room.

-- It's an actual camp. -- Is it an actual camp?

It's an actual camp, in the sense of military encampment.

-- Middle East! -- No, you're all wrong...

-- Something Spanish-y! -- United Nations.

No. You've listed most of the regions of the world,

I think you've missed three continents so far...

-- Australia! -- One continent remaining.

Literally the last continent to be named.

It's not 'cos we didn't like you, we're just saving you for last.

Do you want that on the cutting room floor or not?

So where is there going to be a United Nations Command Post in Asia?

-- Is it Korea? -- Yes! [DING] You're absolutely right.

And I'm going to ask a loaded question here, so have a point,

Yes it is! Well, it was. It's now become various other things,

but yes, this was the United Nations Command military post

400 metres south of the southern boundary of the Korean DMZ.

Right. 'Cos that's the one where you have North Korean soldiers on one side of the room

staring at South Korean soldiers on the other side of the room

-- and they never communicate. -- And never the twain shall meet.

Are they being that person in the fight going "ey! ey!"

Essentially, yes. That was part of their job.

It was returned to being Korean territory in 2006,

but yes, this was for many, many years the home to the batallion

So what can you find there? What could you find there?

Portakabins, wasn't it? It was just like school classrooms that were effectively --

that was the channel you would go through for whatever immigration was.

Yeah, I'll give you a point. [DING] Small collection of buildings,

surrounded by triple coils of razor wire.

"It would look like a big Boy Scout camp if it wasn't for..."

-- All the Korean men with guns! -- The bibimbap!

If it wasn't for the land mines that surrounded it, yes.

Can I just point out: must've not been on a Yorkshire Scout camp.

Yes I was a Scout! I was a Beaver, I was a Cub, I was a Scout.

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Camp Bonifas and Yorkshire Scouting: Citation Needed 5x04

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