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

  1. When you look at the track record of Pfizer over the last few decades, which includes massive legal settlements and fines, there would also be reasonable cause for concern.
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  2. I was making exactly this point the other day! You see these television presenters and other so called identities along with medical experts and politicians, all talking as though there's no other level of knowledge or thought outside the narrative they want us all to swallow. It's quite bizarre and disturbing. They're the ones that shouldn't be allowed out in public!
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  3. Just ignore it and if necessary, fight it at every opportunity. Make those who wish it upon us very uncomfortable by the mere suggestion that we should capitulate to this attempt to implement compelled speech. If Muslims can stand up in public and incite murder, we can say what we want. I've been retired for seven years now but just before I did, I drove buses for a while. We were instructed not to refer to a wheelchair as a wheelchair. I totally ignored the instruction and continued using the term over the two-way radio when required. No reaction because they knew it wasn't enforceable.
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  4. He'd quickly go from an electrician to a conductor.
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  5. I live in Queensland, Australia and a short drive from where I live, there's a section of clear open beach stretching uninterrupted for thirty kilometres. I was allowed to go to the local 'off licence' and walk amongst dozens of strangers (we call them bottle shops) but would be fined for walking alone on the beach with someone with whom I share a bed (my wife to be clear). Never again!
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  6. I live in South East Queensland, Australia and have the impression that this winter season has been cooler than in previous years. Despite that observation, I have it from a reliable source (my sister) that this is also caused by climate change (global warming). When my sister advises me of the science, it's well and truly 'settled'.
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  7. It always amuses me as to people's proclivity to readily discuss someone else's business with a third party. It starts at a very young age. I use to drive school buses (as well as scheduled services) and the primary school kids were forever informing me of some sort of mischief or unacceptable behavior (as they saw it) of others. It manifests itself later in adults too. Occasionally, I have been told something in confidence and sworn to secrecy; which was rarely a problem for me owing to my lack of interest or memory failure. However, it was almost inevitably the case that the 'secret' was barely contained for more than twenty four hours by other means.
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  8. Of course, there's wars and then there's wars. There's also still the megalomaniacs who wish to conquer by means other than military.
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  9. It sounds as though there's been a committee involved there somewhere.
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  10.  @phoenixobrien163  I wouldn’t disagree with you although I think the term right and left wing has virtually lost all meaning. However it's not beyond belief that any attempt to control the behavioural patterns of the population can be applied to some and not others. I live in Australia and eighteen months ago people were being arrested for walking on an open stretch of beach during Covid lockdowns. During the same period Aboriginal activists were marching through the streets of capital cities in protest of events that occurred 200 years ago vandalising public property and doing so with impunity.
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  11. I believe 'Ben & Jerry's supported Black Lives Matter.
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  12. I was born in Wales and live in Australia. I've been back seven times but with Drakeford creating a complete mess, I don't know if I'd go back again.
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  13.  @methaneman4045  That was in the days when the physical size was seen as a 'tool of the trade' to enable a policeman to contain a perpetrator without having to use weapons or 'batter' him.
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  14. I live just north of Brisbane in Queensland and several years ago I accompanied a group of friends to a resort island for a day's 'recreation'. While we were there, we all competed in a 'flip flop' throwing competition. Most of the efforts resulted in the item only being projected a few metres. When I threw it, it caught the air at the perfect angle (inclined plane) and soared off into the distance, never came back and was never to be found again. As Charlie Drake would say, "I'm a disgrace to the Aborigine race".
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  15. When I look around I have no doubt there is a noticable degree of 'fatness' around. Whether it existed before or not I'm not sure. I think if there has been any increase over the years, it would be in men. Occupations tend to be much less labour oriented these days than before, with greater access to 'bad' diets. I must admit I was shocked to be assessed as obese (according to a chart at work) at a height of five foot, ten and a half inches (189cm) , and a weight of 94kg.
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  16. Same. I find that if I listen carefully I can actually hear my skin crawl.
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  17. I've followed Alex for some time now and he can carry on like a bit of a 'loon' at times but (if you believe him) he has been subjected to some degree of discrimination; if not persecution. There's not much he says that doesn't resonate with me to some degree. It is however concerning that YouTube are going to trawl for comments that may "upset" someone. I can see I'll have to pull out my old 'Enigma' cipher device. Only really smart people will understand what I'm saying.
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  18. I can now inform my friends that I am one of the founding fathers of modern literature because I use to read 'The Beano'.
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  19. I emigrated to Australia in January 1970, so my last 'Guy Fawkes' night was in 1969. I seem to recall private purchase of fireworks was banned around that time. I remember there was a tragic case (amongst many burns cases) where an elderly lady ad a firework go down the front of her dress and she was burnt to death. As a kid 'bonfire night' was one of the highlights of the year.
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  20. Many, many, years ago I was at a 'training' seminar within local government. The seminar was focusing on 'women in the workplace'. At one stage, the facilitator said "We definitely need more women in the workplace". I should, at this point say that I personally worked with some lovely, competent women. However, I raised my hand and asked "Why?" The facilitator's face turned sort of 'cloudy' and was visibly irritated by the question. She simply responded by saying "You obviously haven't been paying attention and have missed the point entirely".
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  21. I live in Australia, and it can take me about an hour and a half to mow my lawn. It looks quite nice (providing we've had sufficient rain to make it nice and green) with the edges that meet the concrete driveway all nicely trimmed. A couple of weeks ago, it was 38⁰C as I suffered through the process and questioned my sanity.
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  22.  @forthfarean  I use to work with a guy who ended every single sentence with "Do you know what I mean?" Even when I sarcastically answered every time with "Yes I know what you mean", he still didn't catch on.
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  23.  @Mary-lx3zs  There's certainly that sort of thing going on here but probably a bit less consistent. We don't have the same illegal immigration issue or hotels filled with single men who have come over by boats. There was an incident the other day where woman's rights protesters were attacked by pro trans groups (in Melbourne I think). I live north of Brisbane in Queensland so I'm probably not exposed to some of the activities in the cities.
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  24. It's beginning to sound very much like Sharia law.
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  25. I lived in Malta in the sixties and returned for a visit in 2010. It still looked the same to me; although they did lose a big chunk of it when the top bit of the 'Azure Window' arch fell into the sea.
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  26. A few years ago I was on a tourist excursion from Hong Kong to the main part of China. The public toilets were just a hole in the floor where you were expected to squat (with no support), line up your Norden bombsight, somehow avoid dumping in your trousers and hope everything was on target!
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  27. I like Denzel Washington in films and haven't ever felt the roles in which he's performed have been 'tokenism'; until this one. I think Washington himself tends to voice his opinion against this sort of thing, but he's not going to knock back a few million dollars. I noticed Matt Lucas was in it. Didn't he piss off to Europe because he reckoned Britain was too racist?
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  28. Many years ago, I was working as a street cleaner in an area of an Australian city which had a high degree of ethnic diversity. As I swept the gutters, I saw a twenty dollar note fall otherwise unnoticed from the pocket of a man sitting on a nearby bench. I picked it up and made the man aware he had dropped it. He seemed to be of mediterranean origin and thanked me but added the return of the money to him would not have happened in his country.
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  29. It's a well-known fact that the NHS would have never succeeded without the contribution of people with ginger hair and rode 'Hercules' bicycles.
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  30. I've got mixed feelings about compulsory vaccinations for children. On one hand it could be said that the parents have the sole obligation to decide what's best for their child. On the other hand, you get some real 'looneys' who don't accept 'proven' life saving medical procedures. I think there's been a lot learned over the last few years in terms of making the right decision.
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  31. I live in Australia and I happened to read the recruiting policy of our national airline. It outlined inclusion, diversity and 'reconciliation' (for indigenous people). It also made reference to abandoning (or word to that effect) the "stereotypical" images of the past. I assumed it meant the mature, white, experienced, highly skilled, pilots from predominantly European heritage who have contributed to the enviable safety record making the airline one of the most respected in civil aviation.
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  32. In 1969, I worked for an automotive company in Norwich and we had to work every second Saturday (all day) as part of our normal working week. I was getting £9 per week!
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  33.  @wjf0ne  Yes I'm fully aware that I was generalising. As I said; maybe my observation wasn't correct, and it was just anecdotal evidence, but it sure seemed that way. I worked in Sydney as a carpet cleaner (and later Brisbane) and went in many, many homes and spoke to many people. There appeared to be a common thread.
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  34. Many years ago I was employed as a cleaner in an open air city mall. There was always evidence of anti-social behaviour and disrespect directed at cleaners sweeping up rubbish and emptying bins. At a later stage, I was reassigned to the mall in the Chinatown area. A completely different 'kettle of fish'. Nothing but courtesy, respect, and pleasantries.
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  35. So it wasn't the Zulu king Cetshwayo kaMpande who was the first man to break the sound barrier then?
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  36. Yes; I subscribe to 'AB' and a few others. A combination of paranoia, rudeness and arrogance towards the public by members of the police force is commonplace.
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  37. Do they really think they're making some sort of impact on racial differences? I've got no problem with a black woman winning a British beauty contest but whoever wins it should represent the generally accepted view of beauty by that country. Would an Asian country consider a 'wide eyed' red haired Scottish woman as beautiful as one of Asian appearance? I would say not.
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  38. When I started secondary school in England at the age of eleven in the sixties , I enrolled in the school boxing team and soon became quite competitive. A few years later my family moved to Malta and I attended a school administered by the Royal Navy. To my great disappointment, they had abandoned any such activity. It was probably a case of not having a teacher willing or able to devote the time and effort into what was an extra curricula activity, but I always thought it was a shame.
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  39. I can quite understand how a young Nigerian girl wouldn't have any particular desire to go to an Irish pub.
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  40.  @fredericksaxton3991  I can understand how they don't want to take the financial risk of the film being boycotted if they use the original name. The other option is that they don't feature the dog at all; it's not as though his presence is particularly relevant to the storyline even though it does add to the 'personal' aspect.
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  41.  @AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp  I was thinking of getting a dog and naming him 'Shark', then taking him for runs on a crowded beach.
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  42. I don't doubt the fact that the British government made attempts to prevent the continuation of the slave trade; but whether that was through some high moral approach or denying others the economic advantage of having slaves is something to consider. They didn't seem to have any problem with (for all tense an purposes) enslaving their own people in mines and other cruel and barbaric conditions.
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  43. I don't think I've seen a police force descend into such disrepute so quickly. I never thought it would happen to the police in Britain. They need a real change in leadership.
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  44. When I was growing up I didn't like girls because they all had fleas and none of them liked me (probably because I accused them of having fleas). I hardly gave a thought to different races although I thought we'd better watch out for Zulus after watching the film 'Zulu'. I'm now retired with a wife and five grown up children and have no discriminating thoughts about Zulus or any other races even though I don't recall anyone having any specific discussion on ethnicity and gender issues.
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  45. I still see people wearing face masks in supermarkets. I had some guy wearing one who said something to me the other day, but I couldn't understand a word he said. I made no effort to respond. His problem; not mine.
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  46. I've lived in Queensland, Australia for over forty years and on particularly hot days there are numerous public warnings about not going outside and drinking plenty of water. I go outside, drink when I'm thirsty and at seventy-three years of age don't seem to have any problem.
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  47. I think there probably is a tendency to be less 'accepting' of black people than say Chinese or Indian. We probably associate Chinese, Indian and middle eastern countries with cultural aspects which we find appealing. Chinese Indian and Mediterranean/ Arabic food is immensely popular in most English-speaking countries. Most cities have a 'Chinatown' which adds a cultural colour to the district. I can't honestly say that African culture has the same impact.
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  48. Love your channel, but this is where we temporarily part in parallel thoughts. The whole concept of religion and religious belief and it's mindless doctrines (particularly Islam) leaves me cold.
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  49. Best time of my life. No work, meals served up on demand and slept whenever I liked.
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  50. I get the 'irony' about pub car parks but just because someone drives to a pub and parks there, it wouldn't necessarily mean they were going to drink over the prescribed legal limit or in fact at all. I've made several return visits to the UK from Australia and have often had lunch or an evening meal in a pub and despite loving a few drinks never have any when I'm driving. Sometimes, the pub car parks are for guests actually staying in accommodation, so it's not so incongruent to have them there really.
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