History WebVideo / Lindybeige

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Played with in a video on archery. "Suppose you fire an arrow, and it lands in a tree, or a Frenchman, or the ground, or something..."

* CulturalPosturing: Lloyd is preposterously British and ostentatiously English. While he generally gives all cultures the consideration they deserve based on their historical or local context, it shows most notably in any discussion of [[ArcherArchetype longbows]] or [[UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront World War 2]].

* GutturalGrowler: Lindy sometimes parodies the kind of TV narration associated with RatedMForManly action by affecting a ludicrously deep, gravelly, American-accented voice. He does it for the title of each video in his ''Film/{{Ironclad}}'' review series, the intro of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQEDzLeAkBs Super-recognisers: the future of law enforcement?]]", and in his Churchill tank video with The Chieftain when he says the title of ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks''.

* [[invoked]]TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: The target of his rant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN9iJCZ5Il8 Modern art insults me]], where he describes a visit to a Slovenian castle where they were showing a certain sculptor's work, and despite a program extolling it as being full of meaning, it just looked like a pile of refuse to him. What made him feel insulted was that the work made no effort to be understood. He compares this to when you throw a big fancy costume party and everybody dresses up, and if one guy shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, then it's kind of insulting to the host because he didn't put any effort into making the party a success like everybody else did. What most people appreciate is effort, skill, and an apparent attempt to please, and he thinks that all of these things are missing in a very great amount of modern art. In contrast, he thinks the critical establishment tends to look down upon artists such as hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck who puts a huge amount of skill and craftsmanship into his creations, but the public loves him because they see that the artist is making such an effort to show them something extraordinary.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Lindybeige gets [[VisualPun to the point]].]]

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Played with in a video on archery. "Suppose you fire an arrow, and it lands in a tree, or [[AcceptableTargets a Frenchman]], or the ground, or something..."

* AcceptableTargets[[invoked]]: Lloyd never passes up a chance to insult the French. He regards them as default enemies in many hypothetical war discussions; in a video on Nelson's Column, he sees defeating them as the pinnacle of human achievement and automatically worthy of a statue, regardless of one's other failings; and in a video on flails he starts to read from a historical French source about the effectiveness of said weapon before stopping and wondering aloud, "why am I not reading this in an outrageous French accent?" before continuing in that vein. In ''Stoke Mandeville'', an exaggeration of Victorian values, the steampunk characters consider Frenchmen their total enemies, killing them is allowed with little comment, and their cuisine is treated as inherently poisonous. However, he does avoid the lazy pitfall of regarding them as cowardly "[[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys cheese-eating surrender monkeys]]", and is careful to point out that the French are good at fighting. In short, he sees them as quirky {{Worthy Opponent}}s.

* BuxomIsBetter: Analyzed from an evolutionary biology perspective in "[[https://youtu.be/xcrxNBlqrbM Why do women have breasts?]]", where Lloyd briefly looks at the question of why some men find bigger breasts more attractive in the course of a larger effort at puzzling out why women evolved to have breasts ''at all''.

* AnAxeToGrind: His video [[https://youtu.be/boioSxBIkfk Battle-axes were SMALL]] looks at real battle-axes as compared to their film and gaming counterparts. As you can probably guess by the title, real ones were much smaller than the behemoths often wielded by fantasy barbarians.

* SimpleStaff: Has done several videos on quarterstaffs (or quarterstaves) and their fighting techniques ([[https://youtu.be/F4bXBDvN9Wc?list=PLCA860ECD7F894424 starting here]]). To sum up, they're fairly handy as a nonlethal weapon, and while you can hold them with your hands near the middle as is shown in every movie, once one gets used to wielding them one tends to prefer holding them like a spear, with both hands near one end, because of the greater reach advantage. However, you can also change your grip on them very quickly, allowing for a great variety of techniques.

* KnifeNut: Has made many videos on knives and the use thereof, from various periods. The most glorious is probably [[https://youtu.be/bteyMFfeaYk?list=PLzzh7AuEBkElcKTeIIXnQyGEtHMCjcKPk the one that's in verse]], although it kind of backfired as so many people misunderstood his point that he had to make a 20-minute follow-up video explaining what he meant.

* ''Doctor Who and the Angels of Herräng'', made in association with Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, a ''Series/DoctorWho'' parody featuring Lloyd as the titular Doctor facing against Weeping Angels as they attempt to invade the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr%C3%A4ng_Dance_Camp Herräng Dance Camp]] in order to make off with its women.

* GladiatorGames: [[NotSoDifferent Gets compared with]] ProfessionalWrestling and Professional Boxing in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMK60O695r4 a video about Gladiators]]:

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''Lindybeige'' is a Website/YouTube channel operated by Nikolas Lloyd, aka Lindybeige or Lloyd. He uses his experience in filmmaking, history, archaeology, and dance to make videos. The channel focuses on ancient and medieval warfare and technology, and occasionally addresses other subjects such as politics, evolutionary psychology, war gaming, and tabletop gaming. Lloyd often addresses whether certain media tropes are realistic, and tears into inaccurate works with his characteristically sarcastic sense of humor.

* ConspicuousCGI: All the backgrounds in ''Stoke Mandeville'' are CGI, which Lloyd admits is not his strong suit. They vary in quality from passable so long as you don't look right at them to jarring.