Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "thehistorysquad" channel.

  1.  @paulmanson253 The word is “pepper.” Pepper the offending adults.
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  2. BTW, I’d guess the child was more along the lines of 7-10. A five year old isn’t going to be a effective grenadier.
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  3. That’s just a coincidence, my man.
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  4. Your demo tools take this from great to amazing. I find it funny that many modern people think people in the middle ages went around caked in mud and feces or that medicine in antiquity was all superstition and no trial and error or using scientific observation of the world around them.
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  5. I’d give so much just to be able to go back in time and attend just one party when this castle was in its fully glory and listen to the men talking politics, business and war, the women’s gossip and the staff arguing and making jokes about all the pompous aristocrats.
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  6. Wow, the first British soldier to ever see a T-72. Wild. Awesome.
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  7. Can’t imagine the expense of building, but even more expensive, maintaining that beast and paying all the servants. And this is less than half of the original house.
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  8. You’re a modern mix of Nick Hook and John Cornewaille. It was endlessly amusing that any Englishman or Frenchman thought a ruler based in one or the other could ever rule both.
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  9. Hotspur has to be one the coolest medieval nicknames ever. By the by, a crazy aunt did a family tree all the way back to the Battle of Hastings. The most notable ancestor found was the Earl/Earls of Shrewsbury. My father actually had the same name, by pure coincidence, as “Old Talbot,” the first EOS John.
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  10. Major head/brain injuries almost always result in major character changes, which are almost marked by massive increases in aggression and paranoia. Seems to explain a lot about of Henry VIII.
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  11. I’m so happy for once, the wife was prosecuted too. In most similar stories from the time, only the man is arrested. Edit: just got to the lenient sentences for the husband and son were even more infuriating.
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  12. American tourists are continually embarrassing the country.
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  13. Poor Suleiman. I hope he was later to rebuild his life and a new family.
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  14. I really pray that no one who got covered by the rubble was still alive after it stopped. That’d be the most horrific fate imaginable. The worst part is that I know some almost certainly were.
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  15. The church begged the nobility not to joust or participate in competitive melees. They even made it illegal for a while with the threat of excommunication.
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  16. When I cross the River Styx, I expect to see Mr. Hix still aboard demonstrating medieval surgery on a dummy to entertain Mistress Styx herself.
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  17. I loved reading about King Edmund and the leftover Roman infrastructure they still used in Bernard Cornwell’s books. Fantastic books. BTW, your costume wardrobe must be absolutely MASSIVE.
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  18. During antiquity and even as recently as the middle ages, doctors used by commoners were often better than high status doctors as the elite doctors tended to be handed their position hereditarily rather than merit and were often dismissive of new discoveries.
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  19. Your Patreon community is thriving. Fantastic! More content for all us history fans.
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  20.  @thehistorysquad  Don’t scream at me, Mr. Hicks.
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  21. You look right smart in that uniform, Kev. It’s good to see mil medical personnel getting more recognition in recent years. They often faced greater danger and definitely more horror than your average GI.
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  22. BTW, I have to register my disapproval of your cannibalism, Kevin.
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  23. Ah, a good distraction from our slide into autocracy. Wood won’t necessarily result in an infection. So, I’d rather risk leaving in the snapped off bit of a sailor.
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  24. I always cringe when American tourists appear in Kevin’s stories. I know they’ll be doing something to make us look ridiculous. The MoA being located in Minneapolis is no coincidence. It’s so cold in winter, it’s literally deadly, especially for older folks. So, it’s a great captive audience and a way for people to get out without getting out. BTW Kev, you should know better than to ask for one let alone “one little one” of anything in America. Bulk servings, bulk groceries, pickups the size of lorries to carry 600 pounds of ham + a family of land bound blimps. I was proud of how many Americans risked their lives for each other in and around the WTC on 9/11. All colors, class, creed + profession performing heroic acts that often saved lives at the cost of their own. Recently watched new, totally raw video of that day, including a doc crew that, by chance, was embedded w/ the NYFD brigade chief that day. It was haunting to see the firefighters keep jumping as bodies kept crashing into the overhang not by ones or twos but dozens and the moment they realized it was bodies. Worse was to see the crew in the second tower start up the stairs knowing there a high likelihood the building was going to collapse on them. Sadly, Americans also easily fall into jingoism, lack the nous to see when a bad cause is being wrapped in the flag or tune to the fact that the more someone claims a monopoly on patriotism, the more suspicious one should be.
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  25. The actual number executed during Henry VIII’s reign was actually just a hair below 24,000, but the majority were not on Henry’s orders. The 70k+ figure came from William Harrison, but it turned out his source for the figure was essentially continental gossip fed to him by Gerolamo Cardano. An Italian who had actually never been to England. The average number of execution per annum neither increased upon Henry’s ascension nor increased after his death beyond the normal margin of error. Still, he was an awful guy after the head injury which turned into him an utter monster.
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  26. A 125cc?! Those cheap b*stards. But wow you’ve saved a life. I’ve been around horses a lot. I’m happy none of the horses got hit. I bet the family would’ve been even more grateful had they know what a struggle you dealt with that.
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  27. I think 50 people in there on a regular basis is likely a significant, even massive, underestimation. You don’t that many kitchens let alone ones of that size for just 50 people. I’d estimate there were hundreds of people when the full entourage was there. If they were preparing for a siege, I’m sure it would have been around a thousand.
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  28. This wasn’t one of the king’s primary residences at the time though was it? If it was, times must have been tight if he couldn’t afford to construct chambers with greater privacy.
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  29. Wish I had gotten to experience the 1970s West Berlin nightlife and explored all the living history.
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  30. I’d tape rocks over my knee. 😂
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  31. Nick Hook (the protagonist of Cornwell’s “Azincourt” - I forget why he spelled it liked that instead of Agincourt). A hero for the everyman and a Nick myself. Thank you, Mrs. Hicks, for the camerawork.
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  32. Still going until 1983?! I remember how disappointed I was to find out what Al really was: pure evil. BTW, Kevin, you’re looking smart as a carrot! 🥕
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  33. Oh thank god you didn’t use actual Swedes, Kevin. This was one of my favorite episodes.
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  34. Love your real life stories (all the rest too). Binging on my new main man. You, Hicks!
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  35. Mr. Hicks was/is an “‘ard man” (as he likes to say), which is why I love that he still gets into the full get up. It really enriches the video.
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  36. All the stories and nonsense gotten up to around Cuthbert’s bones in Cornwell’s stories never fail to make me smile. Oh, father Beocca, what will we do about our Uhtred?!
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  37.  @insaaanestuff  Seriously, no one watches anything on TV anymore, unless it’s a Netflix or premium channel prestige show.
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  38. 11:00 - puts a whole new meaning on the term poll tax. Disgusting yet hilarious as a pun. No matter how many times I read or hear this story, I feel myself getting inspired. Especially when they decide not to loot.
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  39.  @thehistorysquad in case you missed since I edited it in after posting: I think you’d love the channel HOKC, Kev. They recount the most glorious and epic stories and battles of the tribes, the tribes and the Texas Ranges, the Spanish, US Army, mountain men, etc.
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  40.  @thehistorysquad  Kev on it even before me. He nailed it.
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  41. If the funds were available, I wish they’d reproduce just one of or two the rooms’ interiors so people could see what they looked like at the time as too many people actually think they just lived in cold castles with bare stone walls.
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  42. Hamon of Chigwell is a classic name (conjures a not so handsome face). I’m impressed the court looked into it so it so closely rather than adopting a “good riddance to bad rubbish” attitude as it seems Ralph intentionally avoided trying to kill Roger by only using the flat of his sword to avoid. Maybe an early trial for excessive use of force? That or going alone, which allowed this situation to develop in the first place.
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  43. You liked Latimer because of his bow sermon. You love a good Castle Warwick bow. 😉 (edit: I wrote that even before I got to your conclusion)
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  44. Wow, sounds like an amazing time. Wish I had been around for the horn sounding. I’d love it on a misty day. Anyway, it always amazes me how little common sense people have.
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