Comments by "JamesT" (@Parawingdelta2) on "History Debunked" channel.

  1. In Australia, our national day of celebration 'Australia Day', has some formal ceremonies, but largely consists of people relaxing with family and friends on the beach or having a barbeque and a few beers. The day itself has been 'reinvented' by activists on behalf of the indigenous people as being 'Invasion Day' or 'Survival Day'. Last year, despite Covid restrictions forbidding Australia Day parades, these activists protested (unchallenged by police) in major cities around the country. Most of them were white 'social justice warrior' types of university age; many of whom (when interviewed) didn't know what the traditional relevance of the day was!
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  2. I don't allow people I don't like come into my house, so I wonder who decided that the British people couldn't have the same view of their country.
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  3. What's curious is how a schoolboy gets 100,000 pounds damages? Normally the damages are in keeping with estimated financial losses incurred by the plaintive. What possible financial losses would a schoolboy have for being called a bully? Half a million in court costs? I can see who the criminals are.
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  4. It's heart-breaking to see a police force which was arguably considered the benchmark of professional policing degraded to this level.
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  5. It always amuses me when Australian Aborigines remind us that they have the 'oldest living culture' with something like 50,000 years of history. It's said as though it's something to be respected and revered. In my mind, the word 'culture' represents development and growth. You would think James Cook would have been faced with hover cars!
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  6. Time to put on a dress and call yourselves Cindy, fellas. Oh wait, that's no good, they'll put you in charge!
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  7. There seemed to be a time when we didn't mind so much if these people were relatively well off. We had an expectancy that they were intelligent, well schooled, of good character and derived a good income in no small way to try and ensure that they didn't have financial problems that would see them tempted by 'offers' for favours. We all know we live in a hierarchical society; traditionally (for the most part) based on opportunity and competency. Now it appears that these principles have gone to shit in a handbasket.
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  8. I would imagine many young men are sexually frustrated, particularly when they are very reserved, lack confidence with girls or are just not particularly attractive to women. I was all three and an idiot as well. Sexual assault could not have been further from my mind. I'm seventy one now and feeling much better thank you.
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  9. And they talk about 'White' privilege!
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  10. It breaks my heart. I've lived in Australia for many years now but spent most of my early and middle childhood years near Newquay. Went to secondary school at St. Column Minor. Dad was in the RAF and worked as an air traffic controller at RAF St. Mawgan (now Newquay airport) while we lived at the old married quarters at the disused RAF airfield at St. Eval. I've been back to Newquay twice since 2014. Don't think I'll be back anytime soon though.
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  11. I live in Australia and the majority of those who demand infinite regress for the indiscretions (by modern standards) of the colonial past towards Aborigines, are either white socialists or those who are barely recognisable as having Aboriginal heritage. In many cases my swarthy Welsh complexion is darker than theirs!
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  12. When I first emigrated from the UK to Australia as a nineteen year old in 1970, it wasn't long before I noticed that it seemed that those people who owned the biggest and most splendid houses were of Italian or Greek origin. It may have been an inaccurate conclusion, but there it was. I was soon to realize why this was the case. Their work ethic in their country of origin probably brought meager rewards, but applying the same ethics in a place like Sydney in the sixties and seventies really paid off. They also seemed to make full use of the family with the elderly and children all contributing to a common wealth. It seemed to be looked upon by the born and bred Australians with a degree of envy and resentment who were quite satisfied to work from 9 to 5 and have weekends on the beach. Personally, I resented having to work even those hours!
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  13. I've made this comment before. My mother served in the RAF during the second world war and at one stage was based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Whilst she was there, the aircrew of what was to become the famous 617 'Dambuster' squadron assembled there before finally forming up at RAF Scampton and carried out the daring raids on the dams in Germany. The commanding officer of the squadron was Wg Cdr Guy Gibson who had a black Labrador dog named 'Nigger' A film of the episode was distributed in 1955 starring Richard Todd in the main role. I have seen the film aired on free to air television (even recently) many times and there are a number of scenes where characters in the film refer to the dog as 'Nigger'. Thankfully this classic film hasn't succumbed to 'progressive' interference. My mother used to feed Nigger before he was run over by a car.
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  14. In 2019, my daughter serving in the Royal Australian Air Force was deployed to the Middle East. She asked me to fly from Queensland to New South Wales to look after her kids while she was away. The kids' day care centre was on her RAAF base and as a result I had to get clearance to drop them off and pick them up. Because I still had British citizenship (despite serving in the Australian army), an Armenian born security guard with an accent pronounced to the edge of illegibility, labelled me as a foreign visitor. Something seriously wrong there.
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  15. She's very fixated on the colour of people's skin. What happened to "Judge a person not by the colour of their skin....."?
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  16. This push for "Diversity and equity" isn't as 'new' as what some people may think. About 20 years ago I was still employed in local government and was attending a seminar where the facilitator claimed that we needed more women. When I asked why, she said that I had missed the point of the whole seminar. Another voice was heard saying, "I don't think he has."
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  17. Our headmaster had an immediate cure for kids with Pathological Avoidance Syndrome.
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  18. When I was about ten (1960), a friend and I managed to enter a parked bus. My friend managed to inadvertently start the bus and we both panicked and ran away. We were apprehended by adults who called for the local 'bobby'. He took our names and told us he would call in and see our parents. By the time it got to about seven o' Clock, on the assumption that he wasn't coming, I casually mentioned it to my mother without mentioning the police. No sooner were the words out of my mouth then there was a knock on the door and the unmistakable shape of a policeman's helmet could be seen through the frosted glass window.
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  19. I've always argued against the paranoia people have about those who shout accusations of paedophilia towards someone who is taking photographs (or recording) in a public area where children may be subject to inadvertent inclusion. If your kids are out in public where someone's wants to photograph or record it doesn't make the camera user a paedophile and they don't need anyone's permission. Having said that, this issue is something entirely different. For someone who admits to being attracted to children and not only doesn't expect the electric bonnet treatment but is looking for sympathy, may try the dictionary somewhere between 'shit' and 'syphilis'.
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  20. It was something that I've, (reservedly) thought to be true without bothering to do any research. It was, of course inferred in the film 'The Battle of Britain'. My parents were both in the RAF during the war (father for 35 years) followed by my late brother. I think even they just accepted the general account. Makes you wonder if we can believe anything anymore without spending all day checking it. Fortunately, my retentive ability is going so I don't remember half of what I told anyway (so my wife tells me).
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  21. I commented on another YouTuber's channel yesterday on some scenes he recorded in Manchester. I pointed out how this was a very different image to what I hade known of the England in which I grew up in the fifties and sixties. Another viewer (sarcastically) feigned shock and horror that I found changes over sixty years. What I was really observing, was what appeared to be an elevated state of psychosis in the behaviour of the general public included in the clip. I wouldn't imagine that time alone has changed human behaviour that much.
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  22. My father joined the RAF in 1937 and remained in it for thirty-five years. My mother served in the RAF during the war. My brother joined in 1974 and served for twenty years. They're all gone now and I'm glad they didn't have to see what the RAF has become. I have a daughter in the Royal Australian Air Force with sixteen year's service and I think they're heading the same way.
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  23. I wonder if this will apply to Muslim, Hindu or Jewish parents who undoubtedly have very traditional and defined views on this subject? Probably not. I dare say it only applies to white Christian or atheistic parents with British heritage.
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  24. I'm seventy one years old, retired and I live in Australia. My main concerns are maintaining a reasonable level of health and well being for me and my family. There is another man in Russia who has the same view. I don't know who he is but we should be appointed as world leaders. If we're not available my friend Brian is available on Wednesdays.
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  25. I live in Queensland, Australia and over exposure to the sun (particularly in summer) is a real hazard. Even here events aren't cancelled because of that. People know what's required to deal with it and they do. It always amuses me when radio and television identities remind me to drink water on a hot day. It's like when they tell me to drive carefully on a wet day which totally ruins my weekend plans to drive as dangerously as I can.
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  26. How is this even legal? The ideology that selects people (particularly for roles such as that) based on anything else but competency is insane. In 1970, I applied for flying training with the Royal Australian Air Force and was rejected in not meeting eyesight requirements. Fortunately, it saved them the inconvenience of discovering that I was too lazy and stupid to be trusted with a twenty million dollar aircraft.
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  27. Those 'Filler' words such as "like", "you know", or "So" at the beginning of every sentence etc. are also known as 'discourse markers'. Not to be confused with 'speech disfluency' such as "um" and "err".
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  28. It's interesting how that back in the fifties and sixties, policemen still had a bearing such that one didn't 'trifle' with them despite the absence of weapons and tattoos.
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  29. One would have hoped that by now, even the most enthusiastic 'welcoming brigade' would realise what's been let into their midst.
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  30. Yes, it's easy to sound like an 'old fogey' when you talk about how things were in the past. I think though, there use to be a pride in whatever uniform a person wore as a representative of a company or government organisation. I think it was almost regarded as a privilege to be given free clothing and there was an expectation that you looked after it and wore it in a manner that brought credit to you and your employer.
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  31. Now it's all very well to use the Bible as a term of reference for these doctrines, but personally I'd like to see the minutes of the meetings.
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  32. It's lunacy is what it is! Believing in something other than plain scientific theories of how we all got here is one thing. Believing there's some superior being 'tuning in' to people on their knees or prostrate asking him (or her) to alter some vast eternal plan on their behalf, whilst at the same time he's transmitting individual messages is insane. I wonder how many Muslims there are (just in the UK) would either do what this guy has done, condone and support it, justify it or even accept it. When you add all those up, I would bet there's thousands of them.
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  33. I think the responses from the chief constable could be classified as 'obscurantism'. Deliberately presented in an imprecise, convoluted or abstruse manner, designed to limit further enquiry or understanding.
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  34. That role description sounds like it was written by someone in the HR department of the city council where I use to work. The only requirement was it was written in English and it was broken into several key selection criteria that nobody understood but just put "yes I can do that" on the application. I think decolonising just means you have to make sure there's an exhibit which shows that Cetshwayo kaMpande developed supersonic flight.
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  35. The concept of 'romantic interlude' was even dispelled in the issues of the 1950's kids comic 'The Topper' where the stone age characters in the 'Big Uggy' episodes were seen with a club over their shoulder dragging a recently acquired wife (supporting a big lump on her head) away by the hair.
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  36. We may be looking through 'rose coloured glasses' a bit I suppose; with memories of 'Dixon of Dock Green still fresh in the minds of some of us older generation. I live in Australia and look at police officers on duty, with tattoos, unpolished shoes, no hats and chewing gum. They definitely don't have the dignity and bearing of what one would have expected years ago. Oscar Blaketon wouldn't have stood for it!
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  37. I had no intention of using the expression, but now I'm going to use it for anything from describing my breakfast, to how I put on my underpants.
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  38. I emigrated to Australia in January 1970. I solved the crisis in the pub down the road.
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  39. I'm guessing the York City Council is dispensing with the traditional functions of local government like infrastructure maintenance, public transport, capital works and all those other inconvenient things which normally justifies the rates people pay.
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  40. I'm afraid I just don't get it. Why people are so offended or 'triggered' by what someone else says. I certainly don't get this driven to suicide because of social media business. Are we raising a generation of fragility where there is no structural integrity in their thinking? Maybe they should bring boxing back as a selective sport back into the schools.
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  41. I think they may want to call it Diane Abbott Park because of her contribution to mathematical achievement.
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  42. I raised the issue of the melting ice about two years ago and my comments were summarily ignored. In simple terms the vast majority of a lump of ice floating in water is actually displacing water (by being underwater). When it melts, the volume and displacement is less, so (even taking the tip of the iceberg into consideration) if anything, the water level would go down.
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  43. I think it was in Alistair MacLean's novel 'When Eight Bells Toll' he used a description of one character as saying "The displacement between his hairline and brow provided an adequate representation of the capacity within".
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  44. The immediate problem would probably be housing. Those given refugee status will undoubtedly receive some sort of priority; inevitably making availability of housing for others more difficult and more expensive. Ironic that the 'Empire' has come back to bite us in the arse even after all this time.
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  45. Ah, but there's a big problem with these private organizations doing what use to be solely carried out by the government. There is a distinct absent of vital consultative meetings with essential steering and advisory committees. Not forgetting the registers of the minutes of meetings and controlled documents which have to comply with quality assurance and continual improvement assessment outcomes. How on Earth can they function without these things?🤷‍♀️
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  46. Why do people expect (demand) that we are not allowed to dislike something without them attaching the 'phobia' suffix. Maybe it's sympathy they're looking for? They'll find it in the dictionary somewhere between 'shit' and 'syphilis'.
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  47. Ah, yes, but what it is, is that they've actually come from Columbia and the current took hold of their dinghy and swept them up the channel to Dover. They were aiming for Portugal and valiantly paddled as furiously as they could and even lost all the elderly and women and kids on the way. They obviously tried as hard as they could and seeing as there's four star hotels available, they may as well stay?
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  48. I think the "elephant in the room" is the degree of respect, admiration or general feeling people have for one nationality as opposed to others. You can look at a number of social, cultural, technological, and other aspects of some and inevitably draw conclusions about on whom you would prefer to invest time, effort, money or opportunity.
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  49. My thoughts exactly. I grew up in the UK in the fifties and sixties where, generally, seeing a black person was a rarity. So where did they all go? I did actually have a black friend when we lived on an RAF station in Cornwall but that was because his dad was Jamaican.
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  50. I think when they talk about 'BAME' they just mean 'B'. I live in Australia which is probably a bit different in so far as the immigration diversity issues are mainly focused on people from Asian countries. In some ways the acceptance of diversity from some of the southern African and Muslim countries is fast becoming a problem.
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