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

  1.  @Kolibri71  The US Civil War, people inflicting their personal senses of 'propriety' with the force of law upon others with actual physical consequences, Industrialized Europe and British Empire....and the groundwork for WWI forming elsewhere in the shadow of industrialized nationalism. In fact, I would say it didn't really end until the massive tectonic shifts that brought. The Victorian Era was NOT stable, nor was it particularly enlightened. Just well dressed.
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  2. You just can't make this shit up, folks
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  3. USA: The good news.....we're going back to the moon. We have the technology. Again. Also USA: The bad news.....we still can't get home builders to include simple toilet+bidet combo thrones. You'll have to import one of those expensive Japanese cyborg jobs that look more like a microwave than a crapper.
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  4. Andrew Jackson: We win. Off to Oklahoma with you. Natives: You're taking our lives, our homes, our land, and our slaves?? Jackson: Oh no, you can keep the slaves. Game recognizes game.
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  5. "Why don't you take a seat over there..." - Michael Jackson
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  6.  @apexstrength3797  You still described the conditions of about 70% of the human population...today. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go poop in some potable water and go spend extra $$ for food that has fewer calories. Because obesity is now our most pressing problem. 1st world probs, man. 1st world probs.
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  7. "Independent" Counsel Ken Starr, lol Well. That aged like milk. Dude is still a boot licking party hack.
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  8. You can still get Mt Vernon whiskey/bourbon/brandy today
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  9. Why do we keep calling it "Passing" when it's obvious the deceased failed?
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  10. Pretty sure that's also the underlying philosophy of every drill instructor in the military, ever Take stand up prodigies, load them up on angry pills, then cut them loose on crowds of high school grads who thought THEY were the class clowns. It writes itself.
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  11. Understandable. Back then OKCupid software was still in the alpha.
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  12. "The reconstruction that would follow" Not really. John Wilkes Booth won the most decisive battle for the Confederacy with a single shot, and Dixie continues to undermine the Union even now. Far, far too much mercy was afforded to those traitor slavers, and we still live with the consequences of a sabotaged vision of reconstruction to this day.
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  13. Ah yes, the classic American tradition of making heroes of scumbags for a buck.
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  14. You have to wonder how many bodies have been buried over the years to keep hidden the money and secrets of Monaco's royals. The blood spilled in the Las Vegas sand is probably bush league compared that.
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  15. This is when society had more to say about your love life than you did Get the wedding sack!
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  16. Commodus = Andrew Guiliani? Parents are ALSO cousins with delusions of royal power.
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  17. Like by the Pope Blessed even.
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  18. Nothing says delicious like a bagel with a little Pabst Schmear
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  19. 99% of the people who had to comment on that don't realize they've been trolled Some people are just no pun
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  20. Probably the only real strategic victory the south ever walked away with. Because it still got them half of what they wanted by putting Andrew Johnson in office to sabotage reconstruction and civil rights, which lingers on for the next 162 years.
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  21. NYC is just 1st century Rome with higher rent
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  22. Ordinary kid cruising on dad's boat: Flies DJI drone over isolated island to take some footage Isolated peoples on island: THE GODS HAVE NOTICED US. Prepare the virgin for sacrifice.
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  23. My final speech as a condemned pirate: "But don't take it out in public, or they will put you in the dock...and you won't...a-come...a-back. ATHANKYOUVERYMUCH."
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  24. Funny how Republican voters still pin NAFTA on Clinton to this day.
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  25. History of Cannibalism. Do it. I triple dog dare you.
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  26. You can take a man's gun from his cold, dead hands But you try and take fashions away from women and they will CUT A BITCH
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  27. THE SHERIFF IS NEAR
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  28. History's first Chad discovered in Chad
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  29. How did I know this was gonna attract the kind of viewers who like Odal Rune and Sonnenrad tattoos
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  30. Considering the fan fiction that is God is a majority stakeholder of the war in this world, maybe pin your hopes on our various peoples behaving like rational adults instead of emotional children who kill in the name of Magic Sky Daddy & his rules regarding conditional 'love'. God hits you because he loves you, folks. He hits you because he loves you.
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  31. You should've maybe feared a significant portion of the younger generations IDOLIZING the Nazis. Remember that many of you wanted to play neutral & recast Antifa kids as villains when they stood up to fascism, and you all sat down and pretended to be above it all. One would've thought anti fascism in the face of rising white nationalist fascism was a slam dunk thing to get behind. Remember that the next time your coworker with a Sonnenrad tat, the self-described a WW2 history buff, gushes about German armaments.
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  32. Maneuver is everything in combat. Ask any of us today how wearing 55 lbs of IBA or IOTV armor and X-SAPI plates completely degrades your speed to maneuver vs. the enemy in environments like Afghan mountains, where limited ability to move fast will get your platoon killed, whereas in Baghdad it was highly useful and saved lives aplenty. Combat is always a "right tool in the right place at the right time in the right hands" scenario. There are no universal arms & armor.
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  33. I feel so connected to him now. I got cited when I was a drunk 18 year old Army Medic trainee with a fake ID (the tattoo shops all sold them for $20 as 'novelties') for peeing in the River Walk across the street from the Alamo as a boatload of tourists were floating by. Half my platoon also got into a (losing) brawl with the Texas A&M Defensive line at our motel because someone peed a player's convertible.
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  34. Dorn's Angry Bois: Origins
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  35. Sounds like the treadworn mewling of people who still want to hide and grift unworked-for wealth based on a mostly useless symbolic thing that can be used abroad to dodge taxes. Like crypto. Or diamonds. The only people who enshrine the gold standard are people who smell opportunities for scams to manipulate or hide it. The Gold Standard for freeloaders, literally.
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  36. "Then who were they?" Raid healers, obviously
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  37. People don't tend to absorb the scale of wartime casualties. They hear a battle ended with 200 deaths on one side, 300 on the other, and they think that's small potatoes because they hear other historical numbers like hundreds of thousands captured and killed on the Eastern Front, etc When you hear about the loss of a single Battallion of 900 men, which is just a fraction of a single Regiment/Brigade, which is just a fraction of a Division, they forget it's the equal of an entire high school. Now picture an entire high school dead. Yeah. Never get number numb to the butcher's bill.
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  38. Whatever, we all know Rasputin was the most influential figure in Russian history Now there was a cat that really was gone
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  39. Everyone knows free range Marshmallows are grown in swamps. It's in the name.
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  40. Still a better love story than Scientology
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  41. As soon as the words "Tammany Hall" were uttered, you just knew this was going straight to Dumpster Fire Land
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  42.  @kyriljordanov2086  Sooo, is there, like, a line or do I just hop right in there?
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  43. My mom was constantly claiming that the old house we were renting was haunted. Which is super fun to hear from your mother when you're 9. Some people just want to play make-believe at any price. Of course, she was obsessed with naturopathic medicine, tarot and horoscopes, and alt religion literature. Like many hippies. The kind of people who would tell you to put butter on a burn, and drinking raw milk was the way to go. Q cult prototypes.
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  44. Cthulhu is a grumpy neighbor, so you damned kids should stay off his lawn. That's all I'm saying. Well, that and Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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  45. It's a happy little secret
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  46. I mean, if ANYONE would have owned an autographed first edition of the Necronomicon, it would have been C.L. His parents scripted every cheat code in existence during his conception, and he congratulated his parents the day he was born
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  47. Maybe now Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd don't feel so bad about how the Ace Tomato Company viewed them
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  48. Could have been worse. '98 was a terrible year to go skiing.
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  49. I find the lack of Kawasaki motorcycle puns disturbing
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