Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. I feel like a shallow burial is just how people parked an obnoxious drunk for the night back then. Which would explain the plethora of Irish undead folklore from Banshees to the Fear Gorta.
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  2. @ I think you're leaving out a key word I used there: MARKET capitalism. Which is indeed based on that golden Ferengi rule "He who has the gold makes the rules", which is also why Religions love Gold so much. Humanity's oldest, and most barbaric, form of government. And we still can't get rid of it.
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  3. The darker side of Beauty and the Beast that Disney didn't tell you Gaston: How do you like me now?
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  4. How much did it really change afterwards? They still have a paper emperor, and the Merchant class absolutely runs Japan. Ghibli is the floating world, and Weebs still import Japan's most absurd & wierd shit like it's secret treasure.
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  5. It would definitely help round out & add context to the Incan empire series
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  6. Gunboat Diplomacy: History's first Black Friday sale
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  7.  @openthinker6562  Why should they? They haven't been the Dixiecrats since before Carter. Republicans willfully took on the mantle of the Racist's party of choice. Democrats didn't have to shift a thing. What they did was prove that positive change is possible. What you're saying is that you believe in original sin.
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  8. Every time people cite the Sword in the Stone as Excalibur, I get the urge to slap them like people who missed the early seasons of GoT, and think the Lanister ending was romantic
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  9. Haiti was Vietnam's wars before it was cool
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  10. Eh, I put him on the same podium as Jean Paul Jones, Ida Lewis, and that absolute unit that was the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square, who couldn't even be bothered to put down his groceries before winning a staring contest with a tank platoon.
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  11. He fell for one of the classic blunders: Never get involved in a land war in Asia
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  12. This explains every golden era Anime I ever saw in the 80's & 90's, ever.
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  13. You gotta admire Disney's ability to retcon Baba Yaga from cannibal witch to 'Fairy Godmother'
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  14.  @luisandrade2254  Because of the oceans of blood holy fan fiction spills.
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  15. Vore hentai has been around for way, WAY too long.
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  16. Suspicion confirmed: My great, great, great, great Grandma was a ho
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  17. He who can destroy a Pumpkin Spice Chai, controls a Pumpkin Spice Chai
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  18. Huh, weird. A similar system for corporate managed rental properties used to house much of the US population today. Who knew.
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  19. 1780 England: A pig of a "Lord" leads a mob of hateful minority rabble demanding overturned discrimation laws come back, or else they will attack the Government and Public 2019 America: "LOL, what a bunch of A-holes. So glad times have changed....."
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  20. Nobody spies on their allies (or assassinates civilians in allied nations) better than Mossad. The Russian GRU/FSB is still trying to catch up to their K/D ratio abroad. They still deny the elimination of allied agents, sources and citizens of the UK, the US, and Canada.
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  21. Whole thread is like listening to people argue over whether Gacy was cooler than Bundy.
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  22. Christ, what I would give for everyone to just wake up tomorrow morning without the Babel curse, able to speak to and humanize each other through one common tongue, with no memory of borders and no history. Just a clean start and today's problems, not yesterdays, and none of yesterdays vendettas. Tired of watching the bored and the power hungry weaponize the history of dead men to kill children today.
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  23. Until McDonald's puts the Bald Eagle Sandwich (for a limited time only!) on the menu,l that is
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  24. I knew this would loop back around to the Eaters of the Dead sacrificial funeral eventually It was the most lurid part of the book
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  25. What do you mean getting blitzed during the holidays "was" a holiday custom? Watching your thrice-divorced Aunt Karen on Thanksgiving as she puts away half a box of wine and regale your mom with tales of how she should have gotten more in court is just the midway point of the holiday fun.
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  26.  @tomc6255  I would like to take this moment to thank D&D for acquainting me with all these warped, psychotic pantheons & legends when I was 10, including lore of Baba Yaga's hut, and for all the therapy I never got afterwards
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  27. HOLY FURRY BAIT, BATMAN
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  28. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
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  29. Ancient Farmer: Rain isn't doing what I want it to do today Ancient Politician: Let's build a pyramid and cut some hearts out. Ancient Famer: Does that work? Ancient Politician: Only one way to find out.
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  30. Chiselled Spam.
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  31. Pardon criminals to marry a prostitute and move to Louisiana. And thus Bourbon Street was born, and has been the same ever since
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  32. The real reason they lost: They didn't consider how delicious Emus were. (My mom's best friend ranched Emus, they taste like beef) It'd be like growing wheat crops for a year, just to find a giant herd of valuable cattle overran your farm. The right answer: Admit that fate is telling you to stop being a farmer and start being a rancher
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  33. Imagine if your dealer was just like "Aw man, I'm all out of Weed, Coke, basically everything you want. How about some Quinoa? Not as much demand." Thankfully, this hypothetical never happens in practice. Your dealer ALWAYS has more stock somewhere and is thankful to get your business.
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  34. No. They're called Laws. We have them.
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  35. A 9 day illness, you say?!?? Social Distancing intensifies
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  36. Me: Hey lady, got a light? Her: SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! KILL, MAIM, BURN! Me: Oh, I see you're a Taurus. That's nice.
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  37. But the world was heading for a dumbing down... Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
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  38. SPAH SAPPIN MUH SENTRAY!
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  39.  @jatziberoja04  Yeah, that resonates better
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  40. Because it's fucking trivia. Unless you've got a plan to create peace in the middle east? Which means you probably have an advanced degree with an emphasis on regional history.
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  41. Coffee is the gateway drug to Qat. Change my mind.
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  42. Would anyone be surprised if Jack Sheppard was Great x8 Grandpappy of the Lock Picking Lawyer?
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  43. Must...cover... Elizabeth....Bathory Gotta keep this truth behind the bloody legends thing going
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  44. Strict "moral" code. Enforced with the most immoral of means for the most amoral of goals, whipped up by the most morally warped people. Some things never change.
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  45. People pay good money for that kind of experience at 6 Flags
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  46. In the enlightened brightness of the near future, there are only rainbows
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  47. @yossarian I have no objection to this. You may proceed.
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  48. I'd have ridden with him. A worthy death. But would have put earplugs in when it was Sermon hour around the fire. They should have put statues of him up everywhere in the south after 1865. Just to give him the last laugh.
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  49. When someone takes all your ideas, research, and hard work to create something making the world a better place, but adds their own little flourish just to proclaim that IT'S ALL MINE I'MMA BE RICH, yeah, you should have the legal right to knock out one or two of their teeth.
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  50. Map ended after he tried to get his care package 3 times.
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