Comments by "Owain Shebbeare" (@shebbs1) on "Biographics" channel.

  1.  @WalterKlemmerPiano  I wish an awful year to nazi's and Communists/Leftists, opposite sides of the same coun, and you act so much alike.
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  2. Trouble is the "right reasons, the right way" is highly subjective and susceptible to abuse.
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  3. Well the second bit was true, as Brunel always has financial issues, but was a definite success, way above Musk. Musk is exalted by Americans but is really more like Edison, building on the accomplishments of others. Musk is also a corporate socialist, loving his big projects just so long as taxpayers foot the bill.
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  4.  @MsPuffykinz  They also don't have any associations that might alert suspicion, with no extremism, political or religios or social. That said, modern forensicsmight have helped here.
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  5.  @StevenOBrien  You are concerned about a small detail regarding a bloke who drew homo-erotic cartoons for a living?
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  6. To be fair, "the nation" didn't assassinate him, and even your suggestion that there is some sort of collective community responsibility for the assassination of MLK is rather moronic.
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  7. What bollocks!
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  8.  @lapamful  And those composers were usually the middle-men, having gained their inspirations from earlier works, often from classical cultures, be they songs or stories or legends..
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  9. Why not? Most of the world doesn't know, nor care about MLK day. No reason to
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  10. The often used "Thou shall not kill" is actually a misquote. The correct quote, in English, is " thou shall not commit murder", and the distinction made when it was written was deliberate and important.
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  11.  @CommodoreFloopjack78  It depends, as the initial version was precise and definitely specific, the later modern version is also designed to convey a certain message. You might call it a technicality, but communication often requires parsing between similar, but not identical words. This might seem pedantic, but it is indeed true that "- not commit murder" and "-not kill" are not precisely the same, and were written deliberately to convey different interpretations of the law. The first is a clear command not to murder, specifically, at the time other Israelites. Like today's legal definitions, not all killing is defined as murder, and these were laws crafted for a specific cultural setting. Commanding not to kill is more inclusive.
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  12.  @poonoi1968  Plus no leader in those days would have fought for, or even likely conceived of, a modern post-Enlightenment notion of freedom.
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  13.  @marciaosullivan3200  Actually inoculation (not modern vaccination) was fairly effective at reducing all three plague forms, though pneumonic and septicaemic types were indeed more deadly. Modern vaccinations are even better. Mind you, anti-vaxxers will never be convinced.
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  14. In short, yes he did, in 1945.
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  15. A fascinating man, a tragic statistic of Soviet ideology.
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  16. Sorry, but that cannot be proven. Santos Dumont's first heaver-than-air powered flight was after the Wrights.
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  17. I assume you don't drive, or get driven? While you are entitled to bitch aboyt the social cost of the automobile, at least admit your role in this "lethal, addictive, diseased peroccupation", as you are part of it and unlikely as any Greens politician or activist, to be developing a practical solution.
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  18. With pictures!
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  19. We go to the countryside, Americans go hunting, tomato, tomayto!
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  20. God save us from zStar Wars geeks.
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  21. Where? Simon doesn't sound like Shatner.
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  22. I went to school in Australia, and at a Lutheran school. They were quite open about Hitler, Stalin, various other dictators, tyrants and the problems of colonialism, especially British colonialism, which seemed a little biased given they were hardly to only ones in on that game. Nothing was ever mentioned of Leopold II or the atrocities in the Congo. Belgium is seen as a sort of quiet, anonymous Euro state filled with pompous EU bureaucrats, and not much else besides great beer. It might have been the school, the curriculum in the 1980's or something else, but this was never mentioned.
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  23. How so? At least make a charge and defend it.
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  24.  Gerhard Olm  Drunk? So was FDR, who was a womaniser too, before his polio. Coward? In what sense, as he stood by what he said and did, was not cowed by Hitler or Japan or Gandhi, so I think your claim is just BS.
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  25. Surprising still is the number of people who think Robin Hood stories are true.
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  26.  @nay4658  As much as a move towards a republic in Australia (or Canada) might occur after the Queen passes, we are not, depite the ever wishful thinking of Lefty republicans or your rather uninformed view, republics in all but name. I am obviously not in favour of us becoming a republic, the cock up by the Australian Republican Movement in our 1999 referendum wil hopefully be repeated, given the model politicians favour has them choosing the president, and the people prefer they not. In the end an Australian republic is likely inevitable, but the structure of it has not been decided on, and it involves more than just changing a few names and the face on our coins.
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  27.  @mustardorb8867  Good luck, Lenin would have described you as a 'Useful Idiot'.
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  28. Yes, and most history was written with little consideration for objective facts, as we might recognise them. Makes it a bit frustrating.
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  29. As well as getting your tense wrong, Trump is nothing like Quisling. Hillary was closer, as was Obama who actively appeased dictators.
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  30. Add the that the leaning iff technique he taught was already well-known, but he did spread the technique more widely
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  31. I think you are one of those people who can best help the world by remaining silent.
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  32. Whatever gave you the idea that Charles is too old to be king?
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  33.  @mannetjieman2546  Drunken? If you are American then point the finger at that womanising piss-head, FDR.
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  34. Damn, mate, your nihilistic view really does typify Millenial thinking.
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  35. Well not really, that would have been tbe prior Islamic invasions. For some reason those brutal expansions of Islam are ignored or excused.
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  36. Sort of correct, though inocculation, as developed by Jenner, and vaccination are not the same thing, even though both are aimed at triggering an immune response.
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  37. Not really, and certainly not at the time.
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  38.  @SamPJohan  well, I cannot speak for other countries, but doing that in Australia for all churches would mean a lot more need for state welfare, which is notoriously inefficient as there would be no volunteer workforce. I volunteer for my churches' charity, but definitely would not volunteer to help the government. That said, charitable status needs stricter regulation p.
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  39.  @kalanaherath3076  Yet UK Labor, and here in Australia in spite of your claims now embrace Marxism, if indeed they ever really distanced themselves from his diseased raving. Greens are a little less secretive about their ideology and goals. You haven't told me anything I didn't know, but your defence of any stripe of Leftism is an issue for you to grow up from.
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  40.  @breadandblack7718  So, around 10% are functionally illiterate? I thought Australia was bad at 1%.
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  41. It is hardly a secret, and that was the family origin. The Queen is British, owing nothing to Germany.
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  42. Poor editing?
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  43. Same problem! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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  44.  Emperor Augustus  Actually he merely popularised the production line concept, they were already in use in parts of the US and Europe. Some Americans still reckon he invented the automobile.
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  45.  @thirushangovender5423  True, though a lot of hispersonality and beliefs were close to modern SJW beliefs, and not just the antisemitism.
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  46.  @christineparis5607  you just described LBJ, one of your worst presidents.
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  47. Is David Irving that Holocaust Denier?
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  48. As much as his death was tragic, the Ugly American attitude where bad behaviour is excused as jokes and I have sadly seen a lot of that in Asia. He didn't deserve death, but you Americans have as bad a reputation as you deserve.
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  49. Drunk? Unllikely as you cannot then spell that name when you are pissed. Rule one of being a piss-head is to have an easy to spell name.
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  50.  @ido5269  By use of the Americanism "butthurt", it would appear you an American, still sore at the fact that you live in a former British colony? As for the events of 106y, I think we Brits face it in a far mire marpture manner than you claim.
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