Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

  1. The panicked fear of women's genitalia is hilarious.
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  2. And by the way, the patients were NOT all comatose or frozen. If you read the book by Oliver Sacks, you'd see that the symptoms ranged from comatose to ambulatory, silent to loquacious, frozen to hyperkinetic. The connecting factor was in how they'd come to their conditions, and the fact that all their symptoms made normal life impossible.
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  3. * looks at thumbnail * How long have you been waiting to use that pun, Simon?
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  4. All these silly myths came about because we no longer have "stacking" songs, songs where you start with one small thing and then keep adding new elements, repeating the entire list every time an item is added. So people had to come up with all kinds of silliness to explain what used to be a fairly common song structure. There used to be lots of these stacking songs (they were especially well suited to drinking songs), but the 12 Days of Christmas is the only one still generally known. ("99 Bottles of Beer" isn't a stacking song but it's a similar idea - a song that keeps going on with a change in each verse as long as you can keep at it.) I learned a few of these when working at a Ren Faire in the 80's. They're actually really cool, it's too bad we don't have them anymore.
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  5. Jeez, these a holes. See that big blue building? I've lived within a few block of that thing (used to be a hospital) my whole life. These scammers are always at the bus station a few blocks away, looking to get their hooks into anyone who looks gullible. They have to go there because NOBODY in the area will give them the time of day. We all know about them and they ain't fooling us. Creepy AF. (Creepiest thing about that building? Every single shade in every window is ALWAYS pulled down. Not a ray of sunlight ever gets in and no one can see anything inside.)
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  6. The best way to perpetuate a joke is to get everyone else to join in.
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  7. Overuse of the comma is still a problem. It's amazing how even some published authors will salt their sentences with way more commas than are necessary.
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  8. She used the word "demeaning"? That's a surpise, she's never said that before. She has said she was frustrated because she was not given more to do. The role itself was hardly demeaning - Uhura was fourth in line to command the ship, was skilled in several languages, AND was the only one who knew that comm console well enough to repair it at a moment's notice. But these aspects of her character - which were there from the beginning, Uhura was written for Nichelle, Roddenberry's girlfriend - were not explored because the network pushed back against the idea of a woman having that kind of authority. No, not demeaned, just fed up.
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  9. Remember Paul Sorvino in The Rocketeer? "I ain't no Nazi. I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American!"
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  10. Weird thing is, saying "cheese" doesn't make you smile unless you actually want to smile while saying it.
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  11. Gotta love Christers who act as if everyone in this country isn't bombarded with their crap EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR. Yeah, it's just so secret you have to go around offering help. Don't any of you ever READ that book of yours? Jesus said DON'T GO AROUND TALKING ABOUT HIM. He said that SPECIFICALLY. Yet you ignore everything he said. Ridiculous.
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  12. GAM-JEE. (Makes it clearer.) :)
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  13. I think Simon rehearses his mispronunciations. There's at least one in every video he makes.
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  14. +Chase Sepuvado AHAHAHAAA. Wow, can't imagine why anyone thinks you Christers are arrogant and unpleasant.
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  15. Damn, I'd forgotten all about pistachios being red. Been so long since I saw one like that.
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  16. LOL, people have gotten so hysterically paranoid about germs. It's hilarious. Y'all are going to end up scrubbing yourselves with alcohol ten times a day and wrapped in plastic your entire lives. What a pathetic existence.
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  17. Oh, OUCH.
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  18. Here's a question: Why do identical glass items stick together when you stack them?
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  19. +Mladja Ah, so I take it you never cut your hair, or eat shellfish, or wear any poly-cotton blend. And that you kill your children if they talk back to you. And you certainly don't have any tattooes, right? Are you treating your slaves okay? That's important, too. Oh, and your wife never speaks a word in public, of course. You are beating the shit out of her if she dares open her mouth, yes? All of these are laws laid out in your book, so you must be obeying them, right? I mean, you're a good Christian who takes every word of the bible literally, RIGHT?
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  20. Damn, your arrogance is astounding, just like all the other Christers. I'VE READ THE BIBLE. More than you, I'll warrant. When will you guys learn that assuming everyone else is beneath you is NOT the way to win anyone over? Just DO WHAT YOUR SAVIOR SAID and STOP HARANGUING PEOPLE ABOUT YOUR RELIGION. Damn, how clear did he have to make it? He said it EXPLICITLY. And yet none of you are interested. THAT is why I cannot take you seriously - because YOU do not take YOUR GOD seriously. Grow up, stop being a child, and then maybe we can talk. MAYBE.
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  21. +Norm T NOPE. Wrong. Uhura was fourth in line. Look up the writer's bible for the show, I believe it's online somewhere. Sulu was given the conn because the NETWORKS didn't want a woman in command. But neither Roddenberry not Nichelle were happy about that. Uhura was always fourth in line, from the beginning.
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  22. Well, well. A ground-breaking scientist is basically ignored over and over and his innovations attributed to others, all because he is also a religious person. What's the word for that again? Oh yeah - bigotry. How very surprising.
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  23. "Scotch" is not racial term. "Scottish" is not a race, it's a nationality and a cultural identity. There's a big difference.
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  24. +Mladja Funny, you CHRISTIANS do that all the time. And you know, that's another bit of your arrogance - assuming that anyone who isn't a Christian can't know the bible. I probably know the damn book better than you, so you can stow the condescension, Sparky.
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  25. Thinking that religion is somehow opposed to science only proves the bias of the speaker. I learned about evolution from Sister Lucida, the Catholic nun who taught science for my sixth-grade class. She practically went into ecstasy describing the process of evolution and what a marvel it was.
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  26. Apparently, Germans are inattentive. It was DOOHAN who said the best engineers are Scottish.
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  27. +JustBanter Being a long time Star Trek fan, I read the "making of" books that came out in the 70's. Read them 'til they fell apart, basically, because back then, the books were all we had other than the reruns. Doohan was the one who said that. (You'd be surprised how many of the "facts" in these kinds of videos are DEAD WRONG. Many of these video makers do very little research other than pulling stuff off other internet sources, who also do very little research other than pulling stuff off the internet... etc. It's an echo chamber and you really can't trust it that much.)
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  28. Dr. Schulz: Mr. Feldman, you're going to have to stop masturbating. Mr. Feldman: But why? Dr. Schulz: So I can examine you! (h/t Old Jews Telling Jokes)
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  29. One of the major Discordian saints. Hail Eris! Hell yes!
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  30. I can't believe you didn't mention Oliver Sacks, the doctor who came up with L-DOPA, the medication that brought them out of their condition briefly. He wrote a brilliant book, Awakenings, that got made into that movie. Fascinating stuff, a deep dive into the disease and its effects. This is not as forgotten or as misunderstood a disease as this video claims.
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  31. Ah, yes. Using dolphins to retrieve bombs or some dipshit stuff like that.
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  32. He has a good editor.
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  33. THAT WHICH IS IS THAT WHICH IS NOT IS NOT IS THAT IT IT IS
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  34. +Flintstoned Cute, but a very very bad analogy. If you're going to refute ridiculous questions, try to come up with something that actually works as an analogy.
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  35. How would the baker removing a loaf to eat make one MORE loaf??
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  36. Hey, look everyone. A fucking bigot! * points up to Gallagher *
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  37. I can't believe Oliver Sacks is not mentioned anywhere in this as the doctor who came up with the medication.
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  38. +k I can't stand this kind of vicious, heartless, self-serving bullshit. "Oh, they just want attention." How can ANYONE be so vile as to say something like that?
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  39. YOU'RE the one!
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  40. No, they are not "modern spellings". They're AMERICAN SPELLINGS. This country is not the arbiter of culture worldwide, doofus. You're better get used to that.
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  41. The day I never have to hear that dumb canard about "ultra-tight, ultra-restrictive corsets" again, I will dance a happy dance. All that bullshit about women being tortured and unable to breathe is just that: BULLSHIT.
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  42. For all his yammering about fighting neo-Nazis, it's amazing how closely Putin is hewing the Hitler's playbook. The propaganda, the claims of "defending" the country - he's even used the term "final solution".
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  43. Best book on this subject is "Searching for the Amazons : the real warrior women of the ancient world." No, they didn't exist, at least not as such. But there have been groups of women warriors that may have given rise to the legend. I'm most intrigued by the Amazons of Dahomey, a female army recruited and employed by the African kings of Dahomey, and by repute extremely ferocious and lethal.
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  44. Um, what does Liam Neeson have to do with Pet Rocks?
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  45. So what do you want, a cookie?
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  46. Can't imagine why he did the video, then.
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  47. * sigh * Sure, and the answers to the universe would be apparent if I were onmiscient. But I'm not. That's why I'd like to see a video about it. Is that really so hard to understand?
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  48. Yeah, I realize that. But I didn't ask for an audience opinion. I asked because Simon always asks us to put suggestions for videos down here. So that's what I wanted - a detailed discussion of exactly why this happens, rather than someone saying "well, maybe it's this." Hell, I could do that if that's all I wanted.
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  49. "It's controversial past"? IT'S??? Who in the name of the gods is doing the text editing on these videos? I keep seeing the most embarrassing typos cropping up. Things my fourth-grade teacher wouldn't have allowed me to get away with. Do you guys really not care that you look so sloppy?
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  50. I saved that website before it disappeared. Really great stuff.
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  51. Anyone who has ever gargled with vinegar and honey knows well how effective honey is at treating infections.
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  52. The Vulcan greeting actually starts with "Peace and long life". The response is "Live long and prosper". Also, LOL at the wimpy actors who couldn't stand their tight costumes. NOW YOU KNOW HOW WOMEN FEEL.
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  53. When word nerds get this obnoxious, it just becomes hilarious. Dude, nobody uses EITHER word except word nerds like you. Try aiming your spooge into a Kleenex next time.
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  54. It's the kind of misremembered quote everyone thinks is correct but was never actually spoken. Like "Elementary, my dear Watson". Holmes never said that, either.
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  55. You've discovered the impermanence of existence. Congratulations.
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  56. Ah yes, I keep forgetting how many Youtube commenters are abysmally ignorant of history.
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  57. Actually, it did. It just didn't land there.
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  58. So in other words, they get stoned. Interestingly enough, catnip has the opposite effect on humans. Whereas it makes cats hyper and crazy, it actually calms humans down. It's a great herb for a sleepytime-type tea.
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  59. Good to see I'm not the only one who realized the pronunciation of the two words is the opposite of what's being said here. Banzai is the exclamation, and bonsai is the little trees. (In the ultimate irony, you cite The Karate Kid, which has a moment where Mr. Miyagi corrects Daniel on this very point.) Seriously, dude, this is not a difficult thing to verify. Disappointed.
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  60. I don't care much about the McRib. The one I miss is the Arch Deluxe. That was a really good fast food sandwich.
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  61. Thank you for pointing out that religion is in no way a guarantee of animosity towards science. Atheists can get just as tiresome with their mythology as Christians can get with theirs.
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  62. Why? Medicine comes FROM nature. Humans were physicking themselves with natural substances for THOUSANDS of years.
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  63.  @ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641  Because MOST BABIES DIED for those THOUSANDS of years. Maybe learn a little something about AVERAGES before you start spouting off as if you know what you're talking about.
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  64. So what was the project he turned down for The Descendants?
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  65. Actually, that's not the reason more men die from suicide than women. The reason is pretty obvious, when you think about it. Can you guess? (Hint: look at the photo in the video when Simon brings that up.)
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  66. +James Z Most countries don't have THOUSANDS of suicides every year, either.
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  67. Why do people in the US want everyone to use THEIR spelling? People spell things the way they're used to spelling them. In Britain, their spelling is correct, so what's your problem?
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  68. +Ryan Duncan LOL, I think you'd be surprised to hear what the British think of YOUR pronunciation. Don't be so quick to stick your nose in the air, because you're not pronouncing English "correctly" either.
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  69. * eyeroll * It's spelled "color" in America, not "colour". That's my point - it's not a "modern" spelling, as in that's the way English is written now. It's an AMERICAN spelling, as in that's the way English is written HERE. The first implies it's universal, the second implies it's not. Do you get it now? Or am I using words that are too big?
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  70. LOL. Whenever PTL said they were going to do a show on backward masking, I'd invite my friends over and we'd smoke a bunch of weed and laugh our butts off at the hijinks. Good GODS, that show was idiotic. I especially loved the theory that the cover of Hotel California included Anton LaVey's disembodied head in one of the windows. 😂😂😂
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  71.  decembrist  No, in fact it wasn't. It was a PUBLIC outcry that happened when the design of the disc was leaked. A bunch of bluenoses started shrieking and the scientists had to capitulate.
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  72.  @robmeagher2443  Because the people producing the porn are NOT the people whining about morals. I would've thought that would be obvious.
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  73. I've got a subject you guys should tackle. You've done a few videos on subjects relating to the penis. How about a video on why it took all the way until the 1990's to find out the actual size and structure of the clitoris? Because that is some mind-boggling stuff, and everyone should know about it. (Seriously, if ever a story laid out the way the sexes are treated in our culture, it's that one.)
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  74. Ah yes, the airy handwave. The eternal dodge of the lazy and/or misinformed. If you want to be taken seriously, you'd best be able to back up your claims. Sniffing "google it" only makes you look like a troll.
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  75. Wait, I thought Krishna was the young horndog who got down with the cowgirls in the fields.
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  76. :50 Ewan MacGregor is the savior now? Who knew?
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  77. If I have a choice, I use three completely unrelated words. And yes, I write them down. Who the hell is going to break into my house to look for a notepad?
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  78. No vacuum. I'm talking about, say, stacking bowls in a cupboard. I've noticed that, no matter the shape, if they're identical, they'll stick together. I find it weird since it only happens with glass - metal bowls, for instance, don't do that. Only glass.
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  79. Doesn't answer the question of why it only happens with glass, though. Metal, ceramic, wood - anything else, it doesn't happen. Only glass. That's why I'm so curious about it. What properties does glass have that other materials don't, that makes it do that? I hope Simon does a vid about it. It's been bugging me for years. :D
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  80.  @Born_Stellar  * yawn * Uh huh.
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  81. That mistake made me think of Carnal Knowledge. There's a scene in that movie where the three protagonists are sitting around talking about words they've mispronounced, and "misled" came up, with that same mistake.
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  82. Twitter is exactly this but speeded up about 1000x. About EVERYTHING.
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  83. Well no, mainly because your little trail of assumptions aren't in any way necessarily true.
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  84. Yeah, so many people think it legitimizes cruelty and arrogance.
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  85. Funny how you guys are the ones whining.
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  86. It's less redundant that responding "hello" when someone says it to you. And why on earth (or Vulcan) would a greeting that people give each other every day be "mystical"? How would it sound if humans greeted each other with, say, "Sacred starlight upon thee"? Pretty stupid, right? So why would Vulcans, who are so much MORE rational and logical, etc., give each other some dumbass moonbeam nonsense?
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  87. There are plenty of websites that will help you with your spelling and grammar. How about you go first?
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  88. He wasn't an idiot at all.
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  89. Yes, I do appreciate the fact that their headlines are always accurate. The videos are about exactly what the headline says they're about. That's pretty refreshing.
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  90. No, pink for boys and blue for girls actually makes more sense, since red (pink) is associated with fire, the male element, and blue with water, the female element.
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  91. Ah yes, the JK dodge. Yet another classic move by trolls whenever they're called out for being idiots. Keep digging, Sparky. You'll get to China eventually!
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  92. And now the personal shit. Of course. What's next on the Internet Whining List?
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  93. Think hard, Sparky. It'll come to you eventually.
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  94. It's standard in almost ALL religions, not just the "Abrahamic" ones. "Namaste" means basically the same thing.
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  95. He didn't say "rosenberry". Are you high?
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  96. ...despite the fact that all those expressions are still in use.
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  97.  @Sorrowdusk  I know! I didn't get that at all. :(
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  98. "Hallucinyagins". LOL, that's cute. I hadn't heard that pronunciation before.
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  99. +James Z It's okay. I get responses mixed up all the time, too. No worries! :)
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  100. It works if you use it correctly, but hardly anyone ever does. I've been very amused to see how hard people have to twist and reword their arguments in order to force the Razor to serve their purpose.
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  101. It's the only technique that got anything useful out of the 9/11 detainees (the ones who'd actually DONE anything, I mean).
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  102.  @franciscampagna2711  LOL, right. They'll send Mr. Spock's brother Shecky to pimp them out.
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  103. This question is an excellent test of who's read the book and who hasn't. After all, the answers are all right there.
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  104. I don't understand why people don't know this. It's RIGHT THERE on the label - there's always a "other than the consumer" clause to the warning. If you buy the thing, you can take the tag off. Does nobody read the labels on things they buy?
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  105. An insane system that NO OTHER COUNTRY has. When are we finally going to get rid of this nonsense and join the civilized world??
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  106. Fun fact: this is where Mel Brooks's character in Blazing Saddles gets his name.
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  107. LOL. This was funny!
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  108. Funny, the image that leaps to mind for me isn't a woman, it's a guy and his eye-watering cloud of Axe body spray. That shit just REEKS and guys seem to dip their whole damn bodies in it.
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  109. I keep thinking of soup when you pronouce "Meso-American".
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  110. Or you could, you know, just learn how to write. Just a thought.
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  111. Actually, it's the other way around. The Ouija Board was invented and marketed by Parker Bros. as a mind-reading party game. It was only after the film of The Exorcist came out that it started to be seen as some kind of magical tool. A backstory accrued to it, but it's neither ancient nor especially wicked.
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  112. If you're so lazy that you can't even come up with a backup to your assertions, maybe you don't believe what you're saying... or you're Just A Fucking Troll. Which is obvious, frankly. Thus, I'll ignore you now. Bye. * BLOCKING YOU *
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  113. Where in the world did that pronunciation of Therese come from??
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  114.  @memofromessex  And that's why it works.
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  115. Hey, it was an improvement on what the Assyrians used to do to their criminals.
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  116. Sounds like a sadist taking advantage of arrogant idiots.
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  117. No other culture than ours could come up with something as patently ridiculous as that ass-smoking thing. For fuck's sake.
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  118. CandiRU. The accent is on the last syllable. Which should be obvious by the way it's written.
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  119. Also, why the hell did you make this video if you hate the subject so much? Why waste your time?
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  120. Hear it from the horse's mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLwxKmor-xo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yfSjp7TBvE
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  121. So where's the link to the Moreland film promised?
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  122. Wait, middle names are "antiquated" now?? When did this happen?
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  123. Yes.
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  124. "A bit"? So it doesn't taste like chocolate pudding. Jesus, I'm sick of clickbait.
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  125. I would have thought those covers were valuable even though the astronauts didn't die.
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  126. And yet some people still buy the alien crop circle myth. Hilarious.
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  127. The TV series L.A. Law did an episode on this stupid rumor.
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  128. The original site is still available via the Wayback Machine. As is For Sale By Mental Patient, I believe. A truly awesome site in the early internet Useless tradition. (Other such sites included Staring Contest With David Duchovny, the Mr. T Name Generator, and Passed Out Goths. Ah, the late 90's.)
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  129. ETA: Goodness, I just checked, and it turns out For Sale By Mental Patient is still extant! http://pages.total.net/~fishnet/
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  130. LOL. You tell a joke to show why the rule is wrong, and you omit the one word that makes the joke work - "to"!
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