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

  1.  @MasterMatter  You would be amazed the things our families get away with sending us during deployments. No, I'd retired as of the 2nd week of the Trump admin. I barely survived Bush Jr, many of my friends did not. It seemed like the right time to drop my 20 year (retirement) letter. At age 27, you're gonna have no problem, even if you are out of shape, they will get you IN shape. Just don't lie about anything stupid and illegal you did when you were young. Military pay today is NOT bad, actually. The days of us needing food stamps died in the 90's. The first few years won't be great, but when you make E-4 it'll be decent. There's a lot of old Cold War misconceptions still attached to life in uniform. But you really, REALLY need to consider what branch and job you're gonna do, and you have to make peace with the idea that sooner or later, you're going to be spending time overseas, and that's hard on marriage like you wouldn't believe. Even when it's not a combat deployment. Navy and Marine Corps don't spend nearly as much time at home in the CONUS (continental united states) as the Army and Air Force. I advise those for the truly young and single, same with combat jobs. At 27, the best gigs are probably in medical and electronics maintenance support for making a career after you get out. Aviation jobs are hands down the most satisfying though. Helicopters and Planes, my friend.
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  2.  Ricardo VS  It's not some statement about white superiority. I'm not white, so there's no room for me on your bandwagon. It wouldn't have mattered if it was the Aztecs or Eskimos who showed up. The Japanese of the time were just massively xenophobic and arrogant about their own race. Everyone was, and frequently still are. Just ask the Koreans the Japanese subjugated. Or how contemporary Russians view Ukrainians. Everyone has racists (like you), but the Yamato people took it to 11.
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  3. People keep saying Today's justice system is catch and release. They have no notion of history. Times have not changed, people are still crazy, and the justice system is still dyslexic.
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  4. Did common funeral honors and pallbearer team duties lots, and buddy...it was hard enough. That was always absurdly stressful, especially with hundreds watching you while knowing that you can't scratch your nose, which just makes it itch even more. Tomb Guard sentinel duty is next level masochism for the most stubborn among us. I would rather go through RIP again.
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  5. Incredibly deadly. Your odds of survival were significantly better as an infantryman. But the living conditions were a heck of a lot better. The Merchant Marine service (sailors crewing the cargo ships keeping England alive) were up there too. Edit: you had a less than even chance of surviving as Bomber crew, 1 in 4 died as a British merchant Sailors, lost 1 in a dozen killed as US Infantry, and still 1 in 28 were killed in support occupations.
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  6. Roman Senator #1: All of our women are dying young or in child birth. Can't get a date, total sausage fest. What to do? Roman Senator #2: War with Carthage. Captured sex slaves. The math checks out. Roman Senator #1: I like your style.
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  7.  @mlw4428  You clearly weren't around for the era of the Oatmeal Cookie Bar
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  8.  @evolutionarydeadend6812  in our current physiology yes, we would not survive oxygen toxicity. That's the point he's making. The other problem with us evolving to that kind of density & oxygenated environment as...ogres...is heat dissipation. We would have to have evolved as proportionally slower moving endotherms.
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  9.  @sierrasouthwell9237  https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/306909-report-china-sells-minorities-into-forced-labor-to-benefit-apple-foxconn-others https://www.cbsnews.com/news/foxconn-faces-allegations-of-forced-student-labor/
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  10.  @TheEpicGypsy  That's what I always told my first wife.
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  11. Whenever someone says the 60's were better I always say "Inter. Net." You can keep your sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. I got Cat memes.
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  12. Add John Wayne and J Edgar Hoover, and viola...Legion of Doom: Origins
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  13. Wow. Who knew the denizens of the animal kingdom could be so savage.
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  14.  @donh01965  I'm right behind you. Old now, young then, but old enough to remember the things we saw and the things our parents were into. I remember it getting really grim when we started the 80s, too. The 80's still felt like the 70's until about '84. Our hippie parents got into heavier drugs, the economy was never fantastic but got even more divided, the Mob was still a real thing that seemed to be just about everywhere, bikers & serial killers too, & people just didn't keep their hands to themselves. Domestic, school, or public, violence was routine.
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  15. On the bright side: They didn't have to put up with anti vax renobs
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  16. Perspective. To them, they lived in the good times, an age of wonders, unlike their ancestors in centuries prior. As we all do. Either that, or our radioactive mutant grandkids are going to be fighting it out on Fury Road for a few drops of gasoline and a bite of longpork in the wasteland.
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  17. You see, CEOs? You want the best talent and most motivation from your employees, you offer solid benefits and a profit share package. And maybe Pirate Casual Mondays with a ration of rum
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  18.  @janel.8921  Please, Madam...We prefer the pronoun Men of Culture.
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  19. You would be surprised. You remember the movie theater from Spies Like Us? Not too far off, and not rare. There's a lot of strategic oil reserve (and other) bunkers dotting the US disguised around abandoned gas stations, etc., complete with wierd hidden ramps and access points. Contractors (usually truck drivers) hauling sensitive goods cross country are frequently given directions to some of these as "safe harbor" stations they can use if they have to pull off the road while hauling things like Night Vision equipment, etc. These people have security clearances.
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  20. Same. And lost my virginity to a girl who smelled like cigarettes and Aqua-Net wearing stirrup pants and a Dead Kennedy's T-Shirt, so, ya know....best year ever.
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  21. Well, that and the fact that 'diet aid' pills were flying off the shelves and gobbled like M&M's by housewives into the 70's. Suzy Homemaker was a tweaker for about 50 years.
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  22. I remember having to listen to all that on tape in my older sisters '86 Civic. Because 2/3rds of the radio stations were still playing 70's stuff with Casey Cassum. No, not 80's billboard stuff. The 80's didn't truly die until Nirvana anyways. 1990 was still pretty much an 80's year in every practical way.
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  23. Anything that didn't fit in with your church in the 80's could be blindly labeled 6 things by "decent" society in the 80's: Communist, pornographic, drug related, satanic, gang bangin', or gay lifestyle/AIDS promoting. Times haven't changed.
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  24. Would love a history on the many, MANY descendents of the Winter Queen basically writing the bloodline into the ENTIRE royal pantheon of Europe. Like her daughter Sophia of Hanover. That woman's ovaries single handedly reshaped 17th Century European Politics for hundreds of years.
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  25.  @jmk0574  Appreciate it, but that's just basic estrus cycle. Everyone who ever passed health class knows that. But humans and some primate species are rare in excluding/evolving beyond a spawning and mating seasons and lifecycles that isn't tied in the same way. Some of the 1989 research explains with the way we and some few species can and do migrate semi-permanently where other species are tied to geography and annual or other time cycles. Apparently this is just as touchy and controversial a topic in scientific circles as it is for school kids. It's noted frequently as a sort of taboo topic in much of the research work that's publicly posted on university websites.
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  26.  @Hollylivengood  The Khan was buisy rapey.
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  27. Take that shit to Reddit. Anything with actual wit don't belong on YouTube, where comments go to die
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  28. Haggis is what happens when bury your expired Bangers in the Pet Sematary. Sometimes dead is better.
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  29. It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a Viking child to raze a village
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  30. 1/10th the size of the entire Mediterranean sea, and greater than half the Caspain and Black seas
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  31. Well, gee whiz. Imagine this kind of thing in the puritanical Victorian era. Why, I never... Who knew that forced cultural values lionizing chastity and virginity would result in a culture rife with chimos **cough Evangelicals, cough**
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  32.  @lovatojonasfan1  Oh you bloody heretic... Edit: Maybe we should tell them how we make Ranger pudding/brownies. Draws a parallel right to the Hardtack soaked in Coffee thing.
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  33. If you can't convince the Other Team you're not a spy, at least pretend to be a really bad one so you can get away with shit they didn't expect
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  34.  @Merylstreep1949  <--- this comment wins the Hitachi lifetime achievement award
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  35. Cobra Commander: Yeah, he's a bit much.
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  36. I'd love living on a MODERN Roman's diet. Anything to get away from this cornsyrup infested, obesity-is-the-only-thing-affordable food economy that will be the subject of Weird History episodes of the future.
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  37. It doesn't matter if I believe in Evolution or not. Evolution just is Any delicate feelings and desire to change reality to suit myself won't change that.
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  38. Grown man with Lilli on his shelf: It's a major award....
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  39. Everyone assumes an army runs on beans, bullets, bandaids, and diesel. They actually run on caffiene, nicotine, and paperwork. These latter 3 food groups enable the former 4 to flow in the first place. There's logistics, and then there's logistics
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  40. Benedict was the Impostor
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  41. Meanwhile: I'm still going door to door selling Publishers Clearing House subscriptions
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  42. "Nanny state", lol
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  43. And we were also watching The Kids in the Hall, and The State... We had alternatives in the 90's we didn't have in the 80's, when cable was still very expensive and you pretty much had to adjust bunny ears on your TV or went to a wealthier friends house to watch MTV back when they actually did music vids.
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  44.  @hussein7517  Well, just some gems: 1. If you got off a bus, meant you were an underclassman and could look forward to getting blasted with an egg or a paintball after getting off the bus from a speeding car, because Juniors and Seniors had cars and little better to do. 2. The wrestling team would assault you on the regular. And I do mean assault. Oddly enough, they picked on JV football players a lot too. And it was not like some Hollywood movie where they were just hazing you then all nice to you later. 3. God help you if you had a girlfriend as a freshman. An upper classman WOULD spot you together and then she would be hazed for dating you. Which was a guaranteed way to make sure you couldn't keep seeing each other, and why Freshman girls tended to date Sophomores or Juniors. 4. Sharpie and other vandalism attacks on yourself or your clothes. 5. Your food was definitely going to get messed with in the Cafeteria. Your paperwork assignments would get yoinked out of textbooks and tossed in the air. Your locker would get kicked in so hard you could never get it open. 6. You definitely weren't welcome at any of the Ditch Class hangouts, be it a nearby 7-11 or a spot where the smokers/stoners congregated. It was a fast track to being physically threatened if you tried. 7. Don't walk in the parking lot where upper classmen had their cars. It was the #1 spot for someone to try beating the crap out of you without ever getting caught. It was a demilitarized zone.
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  45. As soon as I saw the title, I knew this video was gonna blow up
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  46. Married men of today can relate
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  47. 26 years later, and I'm still traumatized. By Evangelion.
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  48. "Just stay away from Women" And thus, the MGTOW movement was born like so many things in the crucible of Dubya Dubya Deuce
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  49. Cigar enthusiast
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  50. But is it Istanbul or Constantinople? Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business.....
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