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

  1. Ottoman Succession: basically a crossover between The Hunger Games & Taken. May the odds be ever in your son's favor.
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  2. A. You're talking about Feudal Japan here. They weren't exactly noted for refering to anyone but themselves in a glowing light. No matter how bigoted you think your own culture might be, it will never hold a candle to that level of xenophobia and racial ego. B. Their exposures to Westerners were based on a bunch of sailors showing up on their shores. The Yamato people didn't exactly send much in the way of objective explorers out into the world to figure out the rest of the world's hygiene practices. C. Besides the cherry picking over who had the better soap, they developed a quick love for Western fashions learned through visiting traders and ambassadors. They wouldn't have become obsessed with fancy Victorian era suits if they really thought Western culture was filthy.
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  3. It was Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the candle stick.
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  4. Dr Snow: Poop in water = Cholera outbreak London: You know nothing, John Snow
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  5. In the 9th grade, I asked my Health Class teacher during the Sex Ed lessons why most species have a mating period where females are 'in season' , but not women. The females in class lost it. I thought it has scientific merit, personally. Later, she too me aside & said "The entire month after Valentines, sweetie. That's when the desperation kicks in, we start looking up old boyfriends and single guys we haven't talked to in years. That's your moment." And she was right.
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  6. I hate to break people's notions of having come a long way since then, but Hardtack is still a field staple for soldiers in 2021. You just know them as MRE crackers. And if you got lucky, you scored the Jalapeno "cheese" to go with it. But we'll hear more about that from WeirdHistory in 2121.
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  7. Woman who didn't like Winston Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.." Churchill: "Madam, if you were my wife, I'D DRINK IT "
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  8.  @Kittykat81572  You're reading "combative" tones where they don't exist. And that's on you, not me. People have no obligation to adopt a submissive tone for your sake. And that's not combative either, it's just a statement.
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  9. Legend says his cousin is still passed out on the floor.
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  10. Dad, is that you?!? Edit: Actually, true story: When I was 9 my grandmother told my mom she wanted to "teach me about working to earn money", and wanted some work done on her property. She owned a half acre overlooking a river (she was not poor), and what she didn't tell my mom was that the "work" was to dangle off the cliff on a Ski rope (I kid you not) and cut down some offending bushes blocking her view. She lowered me down after tying off the rope to a tree, then went inside and hit the Wine. Left me out there about 2 hours, checked to see if I was done, said "not yet", so she left me out there another hour. I got $10 and a life lesson. Never trust the comfortably wealthy and old. Because they sure as shit aren't going down the rope to deal with their own probs.
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  11. "They bought children from their parents. How horrible." **Laughs in FoxConn**
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  12. According to my old-money adoptive Grandma, these rules behind 'appropriate marriage' didn't relax until the 1970's in affluent America, even on the west coast. If you're an Oregonian, you know about Lake Oswego. Right family name (and not too many cousins removed from the source...), attend the right church, live on the right side of the tracks, right schools, no history of associating with Jews or mingling between Catholics vs Presbyterians vs Lutherans, etc.
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  13. My greatest memory: Not being a Freshman anymore. Seriously, high school kids today have only heard the legends. They never saw the far more horrifying reality.
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  14. I am Baron Steven Stephen, of the Clan McSteve. There can be only one.
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  15. There should have been Jester duels on the battlefield. Like a rap battle, but with pikes and billhooks.
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  16.  @ericbrown6757  Well shit, so do I. So no sympathy there And I sure don't get an Airborne Uber to go golfing
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  17. If you were willing to stick your tongue in someones mouth a century ago, you were willing to stick it anywhere
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  18.  @setsenblank  No she didn't. That was internet 101 behavior. Pick a fight, but don't make it look like you are, try to pretend you're the moral highground gatekeeper. It's a rookie move.
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  19. It amazes me that movie pundits still laud Clockwork Orange, but immediately disavow Caligula as a 'legit' movie. Together they were the quintessential McDowell movies filled with dystopian insanity, sex & violence, but one was produced by the owner of Penthouse magazine, therefore regarded as illegitimate. It had Peter O'Toole, ffs. Yet Warhol gets a pass for Blue Movie. Pedigree and connections still rule the cinema world, not merits.
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  20. Motto of the Montana sheep rancher
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  21. After retiring, I ran into my old Battalion Command Sergeant Major. He was my kid's Biology teacher. Let's just say I made sure he turned in his homework after that parent-teacher conference. I didn't feel like getting smoked for my troop's lack of motivation and failure to meet standards again. *shudder*
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  22.  @jamesthomas8161  Like my mother in law? It wasn't the Communism that made it a police state, it was the Stalin Police State and deep cultural prejudices that made it a Police State. She's always been very emphatic about this. She was a shipping clerk and manager for lumber exports for 18 years before she came to the US, and her mother crewed a T-34. She still thinks the employer/employee/landlord/tenant relationship in the States is mind bogglingly one-sided and looks an awful lot like Feudalism.
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  23. 'Your honor, my client, Captain Mittens, CLEARLY committed no fraud in his purrrrsuit of Cat Stevens albums, whereas the Plaintiff engaged in a pattern of harassment by stuffing his litter box with yet more singles of Baha Men's Who Let The Dogs Out. He is not a good boy."
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  24. Me: Tries putting Vinegar sponge in mah 'Rona mask Also Me: Suddenly realizes medieval docs must've been Hardcore AF
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  25.  @sunny10710  Bitch please. Women wear and design the shit they do because they're far more socially competitive than men. Everything is a goddamn status battle between them. At all ages, at all levels, in all situations. Plumage is their everything for that little xtra edge. Men just wish the wife would wear some goddamn sneakers shopping so they can pull their own weight and not bitch about their feet hurting 24/7, not the fucking heels Sally insists on because image is her #1 goal, and they don't even look good anyway. They do this to themselves today. We sure as shit aren't the ones designing their torturewear or deciding Prada bags have value equal to a used car. Some think that Men not wearing a suit everyday anymore = society going down the tubes, we see it as Fuck That Shit, we hate ties. But the Mrs. of the world think they're important social signals. They demand their men be socially competitive too, they just call it 'Confidence' instead.
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  26. East bound and down, loaded up and truckin We gonna do what they say can't be done We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there I'm east bound, just watch ol Bandit run
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  27. Americans at large have been on the "Why the hell don't we have Bidet plumbing/diverters in our Toilets" wagon for a while, but builders here cut every single $ they can. Last thing they want is a new expected standard in building construction. They expect you to dig deeper in your wallet, head to Home Depot, and renovate, not demand that they innovate. It's why few new homes come with solar preinstalled.
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  28. The lesson everyone tried to teach Kids in the 80's: Don't believe advertising 80's kids: Let's invent Facebook
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  29. The most prevalent example of the Turing Test you can find today: YouTube comments.
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  30. "Ryan, some things here don't react too well to bullets."
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  31. Wehrmacht: We are an Alpine people. Let us invade Russia and stay for the winter. Red Army: You do not know cold, comrade. We know cold. Salty Finns: You're adorable.
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  32.  @NotThatBob  Were you there? At the end of the day, it's shitty people doing shitty things to other people to satisfy themselves, or show off to a crowd. Like putting people in stocks. There's a moral to this story, and you missed it.
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  33.  @MeowingWhale  My bad. I got lost after wandering away from a cultural relativism subreddit
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  34.  @siddharthshekhar909  Thank you. 25 years too late to enlighten my teen self, but I appreciate someone with a straight answer and no BS. Too rare in this day and age. Edit: And thanks for gifting me the appropriate verbage. Key word helped dig up related research docs, such as paternity confusion, a Female primate mating strategy to breed away from the non-dominant male of a group by hiding ovulation cycles & avoid inbreeding in closed groups. I think the modern Human equivalent would be "Ooooh, he's so different" or being a sucker for a foreign accent to bring outside males into a breeding pool, when they normally compete with each other over (and begrudgingly share) the local Chad in the office.
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  35. DARE was about getting people to buy their drugs from Pfeizer rather than El Chapo
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  36. And here I thought it was one of George Santos' lesser known achievements.
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  37. This was explained in the video... There was even imagery of the braces...
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  38. "Don't let your dingle dangle dangle in the dirt" - A D.I. who really knew the value of a double entendre
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  39. 1976 VW Rabbit. $300. Pumpkin orange with black rims. Had no gascap, oil cap, muffler, or speedo. But it did have a double barrel Weber progressive carb, so I had that going for me. 11th grade priorities aren't to be questioned.
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  40. When a drop of pine sap sticks to your fave shirt, knowing it won't ever truly wash out, it can feel like a death sentence. One sympathizes.
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  41. I'd like to thank Gygax and Arneson for D&D. Got my first Basic boxed set from a KB Toy & Hobby on sale for $4.99 when I was 10 and having trouble reading. Turned me into a voracious reader for life. The OG Gateway drug for literacy.
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  42. Nowadays, we pay to go poop outside like it's a vacation treat. We call it camping.
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  43. I would be curious to hear what Legionaries considered to be their 4 Fingers of Death ration
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  44. It's almost like some figured out that human beings behave like animals when and wherever possible
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  45. McBallin'
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  46. Came for the Ludicrous Laws, stayed for the D&D Sports Trivia
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  47. Oh I love threads like these. It always attracts the Nazi apologists with their 'strange' fangirling over 1940's German equipment and lame brain gaslighting about the Versailles treaty = Hitler Did Nothing Wrong garbage.
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  48. "A check's a check, I guess." - Aristotle. On tutoring Alexander the Great....and Terrible.
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  49. Like 3 dudes strapping their butts on top of a 3,100 ton rocket (edit: heavier than some Naval destroyers) and telling everyone "Laters! Heading to the Moon. And coming back ..."
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  50. Care packages from people who don't understand Soldiers: Send bad novels, bible stuff, freeze dried coffee, gym socks, shaving cream People who understand soldiers: Send baby wipes, woobies (poncho liner), logs of Copenhagen, porn, and a folding chair
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