Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Infographics Show" channel.

  1. 16:39 - He killed seventeen people that we know of.
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  2. 7:02 - Granted, manually-guided missiles like the Sagger are themselves quite effective in the hands of a skilled operator (as Israel learned to their sorrow in the early part of the Yom Kippur War, when Sagger-armed Egyptian infantry wiped out a large chunk of Israel's total tank force), but this requires a lot of training to produce missile operators who can effectively steer the missile to the target and avoid losing their nerve (and letting the missile go wild) under enemy fire.
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  3. 12:47 - To anyone wondering how on earth anyone could survive on one peso a day, you have to remember that a peso was worth orders of magnitude more back then than it is now (because inflation). That said, standards of living were also rather lower back then.
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  4. 9:24 - On the other hand, loads of people watch slasher movies and listen to Black Sabbath without becoming serial killers.
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  5. 1:07 - Producing a son was especially important for Henry since he didn't have any other close male relatives (brothers, nephews, male first cousins) to fall back on; his only living relatives closer than at least the third-cousin point were his two sisters.
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  6. 24:56 - It might not have been quite that unintelligent; had Cutler taken reasonable precautions to keep his potatoes out of Griffin's (or anyone else's) pig (e.g., a stout fence) only to have Griffin's pig break in and eat them anyways, or did Cutler have his potatoes unprotected (other than by his marksmanship) and simply rely on Griffin to keep an eye on his pigs 24/7?
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  7. Not sure where the doubts about Brilliant Pebbles's efficacy are coming from; using computers and radar to aim your shots makes it easy to hit a missile in flight with a projectile.
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  8. 14:20 - On the other hand, the much-shorter female urethra makes it much easier for bacteria and other nasties to make it up into the bladder and points proximal.
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  9. 18:55 - On the plus side, alcohol does have some analgesic effect, which could make getting one's Johnson & Johnson stuck in one's pants zipper slightly less painful.
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  10. 5:45 - Of course, unguided rockets are also vastly cheaper than guided, so you can afford to simply shoot lots of them at the enemy tanks to make sure that some of them hit (and keep in mind that many of the misses will still end up hitting things like the other tanks in the formation, as well as creating havok in the escorting infantry [although admittedly less than rockets with dedicated anti-infantry high-explosive warheads do]).
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  11. 26:45 - No, you can see a British Union Flag flown by the Americans to show goodwill. It's only a Union Jack when it's being flown from a warship.
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  12. Creepy, and also really, really sad for all the family members who'll never get closure about what happened to their daughters and girlfriends and sisters.
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  13. 461 years plus life sounds a bit... redundant.
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  14. On the plus side, as long as they're bringing in enough fresh blood from without, that should dilute any shared recessive genes enough that your family shouldn't have much trouble on that front.
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  15. 1:08 - Khabarovsk is actually in eastern Asia; it's at the junction of the Amur and Ussuri rivers on the border with northeast China.
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  16. 2:51 - Those riders were lucky they got off with only eye and skin irritation; the organophosphate esters used as fire retardants in hydraulic fluid are powerful neurotoxins that can cause irreversible brain damage if absorbed in significant quantities.
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  17. 3:10 - Yet more evidence of America's bizarre phobia of recreational drug use.
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  18. Technically, this should be "Most Painful Things Only AMAB People Can Experience", but that's a bit clunkier. (Very pre-op trans woman here, for context.)
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  19. 3:00 - Iceland was technically independent, they just happened to have the same king as Denmark.
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  20. 1:10 - So apparently lollipop sticks and plastic candy rings have nutritional value?
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  21. 3:20 - Thinking about it, I'm actually a bit surprised that Henry didn't arrange for Catherine to have an "unfortunate accident" to clear the way for him to marry Anne.
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  22. 20:26 - ...at least, until tank designers start putting thick armor on the tops of their vehicles to defeat air-launched weaponry.
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  23. Rather-fitting epilogue: Mengele's skeleton is now used to help teach anatomy by a Brazilian medical school. (Yes, the actual Josef Mengele's actual skeleton.)
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  24. Thank goodness for mechanized agriculture!
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  25.  @thetayterminator1436  "when women on average have 3 to 4 times as many ex partners as men do and on average women initiate up to 75% of divorces" - Maybe we're better at cutting our losses and getting out rather than sticking with a bad partner long-term?
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  26. That was one oblivious grandma. Actually, I take that back. There were a LOT of oblivious people here.
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  27. Maybe they thought the swollen hand was unrelated to the "food poisoning", and that it was probably a scratch or something that got badly infected? He did work at a junkyard, after all.
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  28. 1:04 - Really? You don't consider tying someone to their bed abuse?
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  29. 5:12 - Given the severe time crunch they were under in the Québec campaign, why didn't they simply isolate and bypass Fort St. John and leave it under siege to deal with later?
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  30. 4:20 - In an IT context, what those two guys were talking about wasn't sexist at all. Forking something means creating an independent development branch of something, and a dongle is a device that plugs into a computer to provide additional functionality.
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  31. Operation Outward: One of the most cost-effective military operations ever. Operation Fu-Go: One of the least cost-effective military operations ever.
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  32. Bit hard, given that they're all dead by now.
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  33. 2:30 - "Whether that's true or not..." Spoiler: it isn't.
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  34. He did fall out of favor with the end of the war in Europe, and quite spectacularly too. He just fell back into favor when the Cold War kicked off.
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  35. 10:20 - The Spaniards thought Jenkins was a pirate for being a British sailor shipping sugar from a British colony to Britain?
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  36. 9:35 - 17th-fattest out of 200-or-so countries... is still pretty bad.
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  37. Username checks out.
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  38. 0:30 - To be fair, a lot of Americans agree with those assessments of Americans.
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  39. "The traveller had taken a baby ball python, put it in his stocking, and stuffed it into the hard drive." R.I.P. that poor hard drive. 😢
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  40. This is literally the only Infographics Show video I've watched that has ever made me feel physically ill.
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  41. 3:01 - What if trees start growing through the cabin floor midflight? You've gotta be prepared!
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  42. 3:20 - How did anyone other than Rep. Hardy have access to Rep. Hardy's official Twitter in the first place?
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  43. 12:33 - In general, officers' swords are highly anachronistic and obsolete in modern warfare. The above statement does not apply when the officer in question is named Jack Churchill. (And likely some others, as well; I seem to recall hearing about an American officer in the Korean War who led his men into battle on the beaches of Inchon swinging a cutlass.)
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  44. 10:21 - Apparently 1918 (Russia; admittedly, they'd been dethroned the year before), 1958 (Iraq), and 2001 (Nepal) don't count as "modern" for regicide purposes.
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  45. Remember that India lies in the same range of latitudes as the Sahara Desert - and, were it not for the monsoons, it would be as dry as the Sahara (as would some other places in that latitudinal range, like the American Southeast and South China
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  46. Couple questions. - How does the process of prosecuting a war differ if the war is between two countries of approximately-equal strength and neither country can quickly gain air superiority or decapitate the enemy's C&C? - Why can't airborne forces be heavily-armed? Modern transport aircraft are big enough to carry heavy weaponry up to and including tanks and large-caliber field artillery, and vehicles and weaponry/ammo pallets could easily be parachuted in along with the infantry.
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  47.  @TheInfographicsShow  Thanx! Regarding the weight problem, could tanks and other similarly-heavy equipment be equipped with braking rockets to slow them to a safe touchdown speed (like those used on spacecraft designed to touch down on land)?
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  48. Isn't the main reason France holds onto French Guiana because they launch rockets from there?
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  49. 10:28 - Not so surprizing if you know that pilus is Latin for "hair".
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  50. 2:52 - The scientist on the left looks alarmingly cheerful for a discussion on people gouging out their own eyes.
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  51. 16:22 - "You know, you'd go for a drink somewhere to your local and they'd ridicule you." Gee, I wonder why?
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  52. Why did the trials have a maximum age of 12? Usually these sort of things have a minimum age in that ballpark, at least at first...
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  53.  @Vareiili  If that were the reasoning in place, you'd expect getting the vaccine tested and approved for 13-and-ups to be a higher priority than getting it tested and approved for 12-and-unders, since the 13-and-ups are more at risk for dangerous complications if they get the disease that the vaccine prevents than the 12-and-unders are.
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  54. FAIL, Yugoslav army.
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  55. 2:38 - External-beam therapy is also known as teletherapy, if you want help beating your friends at Scrabble.
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  56. Neither, it's all the long zigzagging lines you have to draw across the family trees.
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  57. Don't newer hospitals use accelerators rather than radioactive sources for radiotherapy, for more-or-less precisely this reason (the radiation goes away when you turn the machine off, and you don't have to deal with highly-radioactive materials if the hospital shuts down; plus, you don't have to periodically replace a decaying source)?
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  58. Minor quibble: all of these balloons (including the barrage balloons) used hydrogen, not helium, not just the Outward strike balloons. Hydrogen was vastly-cheaper-and-easier-to-get than helium (and still is, although to a lesser degree), it produces more lift for a given-size balloon, and its main disadvantage (its flammability) is basically a nonissue for unmanned balloons (especially given that the burning hydrogen rises up into the air, away from the ground).
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  59. 10:00 - (This was back before diplomatic immunity was a thing.)
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  60. 10:36 - Actually, only Germany and Austria are part of the European Union - not Switzerland. All three are, however, part of the Schengen Area, which is the important bit for not-getting-arrested-for-drifting-into-another-country purposes.
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  61. I have yet to see one that didn't.
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  62. Shot 20 times... someone must really've wanted him dead.
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  63. Huh. I'd always thought the Goiânia accident was fairly-well-known.
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  64. There are bits of France on literally every inhabited continent in the world except for Asia.
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  65.  @tape2518  Women aren't more likely to attempt suicide than men; it's just that those women who do are a lot more likely to survive the attempt and try again than men are (it has to do with the predominant methods chosen, respectively, IIRC, med overdoses and firearms).
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  66. 4:17 - "...because what entirely-sane person would attempt to remove their own eyes?" IIRC, there was once a (completely-sane) Chinese general who took an arrow to the eye during battle, and, to keep his troops from panicking at the sight of him with an arrow sticking out of his eye, actually plucked it (the eyeball) out and ate it, kebab-style. That was just the one eye, though.
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  67. And suddenly a lot of things about the British twit class seem to make a lot more sense.
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  68. For anyone who's wondering, all five conspirators went to the electric chair.
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  69. 🎝 The Brown family got devoured by the undeeeeeeeead... 🎝
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  70. 1:26 - "After the Balkan War, Serbian nationalists wanted to liberate the South Slavs of Austria-Hungary, thus unifying the Slavic peoples under one nation." I'm sure the Bulgarians would be surprised to learn that they're not South Slavs...
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  71. I'm surprised that South Africa never invaded Lesotho to get them to stop supporting the opponents of apartheid, given how willing South Africa was to send their troops into other nearby countries (coughcough Angola coughcough) in the 70s and 80s.
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  72. What's with all the "suspended and then fired"? Why not just fire someone out of the gate?
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  73. 1:16 - "...that Little is the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history" The most prolific that we know of.
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  74. Dynamite has never been widely used in warfare - even stabilized, it's still too sensitive to shock and heat to be a good military explosive. (Nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin, on the other hand, are ubiquitous in war - they're the main ingredients in smokeless powders.)
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  75. 4:06 - Where do you fly where the duty-free shops aren't airside?
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  76. 0:12 - When Germany started launching V-1 cruise missiles at the U.K. in 1944, they equipped their wings with devices to cut through barrage-balloon cables so that the wing would take out the cable rather than the other way around. I've never understood why this solution wasn't used earlier, or on manned aircraft.
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  77. 8:01 - And people wonder why there was so much pro-Axis sentiment in India at the end of World War II (and still is to some extent; Kolkata's main international airport is named after a Japanese collaborator, for instance).
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  78. Given that everybody and their dog knew that the U.S. was behind the Bay of Pigs invasion anyways, it's mind-boggling that Kennedy didn't simply send in U.S. troops to topple Castro, with an attached Cuban-exile unit.
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  79. 4:26 - OK, even for a kid, that is REALLY, REALLY DUMB.
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  80. 8:50 - It's pretty amusing that both of those supposedly-vestigial things are things that feel really good.
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  81. 6:36 - "...and they quickly assumed that a clean-cut law student with no criminal record couldn't be behind the abductions." [insert evil-lawyer line here]
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  82. 11:26 - And then, a bit later, Mexico had shrinking pains. 😛
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  83. American policing at its finest. 🤦‍♀
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  84. The Pakistani government's ineffective response to the 1970 Bhola cyclone was actually one of the main factors leading up to Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan the following year.
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  85. 1:15 - Not all of Henry and Catherine #1's sons were stillborn or miscarried. They did have one live-born son, Henry, born on 1 January 1511 (what we would call New Year's Day today, but the year started in March back then rather than January), who lived for seven-and-a-half weeks before dying in late February.
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  86. 1:10 - The same purpose could be equally-well served by linking the door latch to an "occupied"/"unoccupied" indicator on the outside of the door, like in aircraft lavatories, but that would cost extra money to include and building designers and builders are cheapskates.
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  87. @YayDude123 They must be a Cyclops!
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  88. 0:16 - Actually, it works like 95% of the time; it's just that you only hear about the times when it doesn't.
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  89. 10:00 - Of course, a lot of Mengele's "experimental" records were burned without ever being read, so...
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  90. And that is why you don't try to drink a seasoned alcoholic to death.
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  91. I hope never to find out.
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