Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "Weird History" channel.

  1. Um, I doubt that Freddie Mercury tribute concert happened in 1982, dude.
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  2. Christ, I can't believe no one mentioned Glenn Gould. Bunch of unlettered savages, the lot of you!!!
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  3.  @gypsydust  The world doesn't run on "should", though.
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  4. +April B I'll go you one better. I knew a really sweet, wonderful young guy who was turned on to heroin by his FATHER. Bastard wanted somebody to get high with. Took the poor kid years to get off that shit.
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  5.  @adwoaosei-akoto4715  Please don't force your religion down other people's throats.
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  6. And modern thinking doesn't like a king who places his legacy above everything else. Henry wasn't some vicious serial killer. He was a king who NEEDED a male heir and couldn't seem to get one, to the point of it becoming an obsession. He was also surrounded by devious power players who whispered into his ear constantly. Modern revisionism aside, THAT is why he turned against Anne, not because he was randy.
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  7. "Star-crossed" means "ill fated". In other words, a star-crossed love affair is one that has bad luck, and ends badly.
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  8. The Romans also built temples in Rome to the gods they came across in their colonizations. It's one of the reasons they were able to dominate so much territory - if people were allowed to keep their gods and religions, they tended to be less prone to revolt. The Romans even had a temple to Jehovah in Rome. (They were great believers in CYA.)
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  9. Here's a tale for you: Back in the 70's, pot was not against the law in California. (Yeah, we were the first, but nobody remembers that.) You could have an ounce or less on you, according to the law. If you had more, you'd get a ticket for about $100. One day, I was with a couple of friends in a record store, and one of them (unbeknownst to us) was shoplifting. She got caught, and when the police came, one of them looked in our bags. He was a young guy, and rifling (gently) through my best friend's bag, he pulled out a lid of pot. (That's an ounce bag, for you young'uns.) He looked at the bag, looked at her. She shrugged and smiled, he rolled his eyes, tossed it back in her bag, and never said a word. They had better things to do than bust stoners, and they knew it.
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  10. Yes, they did. Henry was a Catholic until the break with Rome, and until very recently, Catholics were expected to name their children after saints. (This held until the 1960's, and Vatican II.)
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  11. * sees Bowie thumbnail * Oh dear. Is the Anaconda going to rear its shiny head?
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  12. Yeah, I know. That was my point. The video says 1982.
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  13.  @SireRose  Feel free. It's an axiom that deserves spreading. :)
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  14. "Pate" (meaning scalp) rhymes with "wait". Your pronunciation "pa-tay" indicates a meat paste.
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  15. Wouldn't be everything. He was actually a pretty good king until he started to go haywire because of his obsession with an heir. People these days don't realize how incredibly important heirs were, so we tend to think he was just some randy asshole. His affairs were due to a surfeit of appetite, but his running through all his wives had little or nothing to do with that, and pretty much everything to do with knowing he had to have someone to hand the country over to, and NOT GETTING HIM.
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  16. You didn't have to be poor. I was young when DARE first started, and I knew it was complete bullshit. Pretty much all the young people I knew thought it was a fucking joke.
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  17. Is it really necessary to be so nasty and derisive? What is it about art that offends you so much?
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  18. Ignore the Russian trolls in the thread, guys. They're just trying to piss people off and divide us.
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  19. There is no movie called "Rambo 1". The movie is called "First Blood". The second is called "Rambo: First Blood, Part II", a title which the great Harlan Ellison said had "all the grace of a hyena with a shattered spine dragging itself to a waterhole." LOL
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  20. +zach miller And telling kids in those situations that they should "just say no" is supposed to help???
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  21. Yeah, opium was great - it didn't cure your sickness, but you sure wouldn't feel it anymore. 🤣
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  22. DARE was such a fucking joke. I didn't know anyone who didn't think it was ridiculous. If you sat down and deliberately designed a drug prevention program guaranteed to convert absolutely no one, you couldn't have done it better than DARE. You just don't get teenagers to stop doing something by telling them they shouldn't do it, for gods' sakes.
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  23. "Democrat politicians"? Okay, fuck you. You can keep your wingnut dog whistles.
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  24. I miss ECSTASY. Damn, that was a beautiful drug.
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  25. No. Nobody threw feces in the streets. That's a canard invented during the Enlightenment, to make their own time seem more "civilized". There were systems for dealing with effluvia that did NOT include miring their own homes in lakes of piss and shit - that is just nonsensical.
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  26.  @austinmajor3288  Dude, it's NOT called the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages and the Medieval Era are two different timespans.
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  27.  @austinmajor3288  The Dark Ages are generally from 500 to 900 CE. The Medieval Age is about from 900 to 1400 CE. Then comes the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and so on. One follows the other - that's how time works.
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  28.  @austinmajor3288  You're welcome! The two get confused all the time, but they're not the same at all. :)
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  29. Has anyone tried making it in safe equipment? It might not have the same taste but it still sounds yummy.
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  30. Not particularly. You think that because of the crappy myths that came about during the Enlightenment. The medieval era was not nearly as awful as people are led to believe.
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  31. It'd be nice if this video acknowledged the fact that this whole thing was about censoring RAP, not rock. Snider came in support of 2 Live Crew, whose explicit lyrics were the ones that set off the bluenoses in hysterics. He wasn't the only one, either. John Denver also testified in their defense. So this whole thing was about censoring BLACK artists, and rock just got dragged into it. Maybe next time, do a little more research.
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  32.  Andrew Harper  They were seminal in the history of rap, dude. And not everyone has heard of Twisted Sister, either. I know I hadn't thought of them in years before I came across this video. Just because you haven't heard of something doesn't mean OTHER people haven't heard of it.
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  33. Yeah, that's what I always call him, the Keebler Elf.
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  34. +Nick Davis I've been calling Sessions that for years. A lot of people have.
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  35. I never understood why people there found it so hard to believe a wild animal would kill a baby. The fact that the animal is cute has nothing to do with it - it's still fucking wild. How misogynistic does a culture have to be when people blame the mother rather than a wild dog?
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  36. ^^^^^^^ THIS THIS THIS ^^^^^^^^
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  37. There were also the belladonna drops she put in her eyes. The tincture was said to make the eyes preternaturally bright.
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  38. +Oxy Moron Actually, not quite. There was a research program started in the 1970's (yes, the era of Jimmy Carter) into the possible medicinal effects of pot. It was discovered that it was good for glaucoma, the first medicinal use that was scientifically proven. So a program to give it to glaucoma patients was initiated, but it only ever had a handful of patients. (I remember reading an article in People about the first guy to get the pot. It came from a government-run farm in Mississippi, and he claimed it had a "medicinal taste.") The program was ended in the early 90's. By that time, about half the recipients had died, so I guess they decided it wasn't worth continuing the program. But the story that it was handed out for free is, in fact, true, if extremely small-scale.
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  39. We're still being ruled by bluenoses.
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  40. If you think slavery fell with the Roman Empire, you really don't know much about the modern world.
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  41. Thought I was going to watch an information video. Didn't know I'd be seeing an advertisement for the new version of DARE. Downvoted.
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