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

It used to be that beer wasn't considered alcohol per se in some really old societies because it was difficult to purify water to be safe enough to drink. They discovered that people would be less likely to get sick after drinking what is technically beer because it had just enough alcohol in it to kill any organisms in the drink but it was such a small amount of alcohol it didn't really get you drunk the way modern beer does.
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@johnharbour2631 Yeah I am sure there is some scientific reasoning beyond me that could further explain it but one way or another, people used to drink "beer" (not what we would consider beer) because it was safer to drink than water. Before they figured out how to clean water and all that.
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Yeah they're like "We need your help but we don't need it so bad we're about to float you $200 thousand. Guess you can get merked in the streets after all... good luck!"
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In defense of Limp Bizkit, I was only 12 years old when I called myself a fan of their garbage I mean music. You know how McDonald's is bad for you but still somehow tastes good? Yeah that's how I feel about Limp Bizkit sometimes.
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That's interesting. I had a teacher in high school as well and she was from the soviet union. She was a music teacher and she explained basically that she had no choice or say in the matter. They basically would give kids a placement test and if you showed any musical talent or aptitude as a child, you were put on an educational path that would make you a musician at the end of your education. The government decided what jobs people would work from an early age. I guess the only difference from there is deciding what instrument or instruments you'd learn. In her case she was a choir teacher so she was just taught to sing basically. It was interesting hearing her tales of the old country and how things were different before and after the soviet union's collapse.
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@tiggy7777 100% historical fact.
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I mean honestly when you start messing around with stuff that can be turned into explosives, any parent and/or government bureau especially schools are immediately not gonna be comfortable, whether he gets his own personal Walter White to Jesse Pinkman him along or not. I agree though if he was my kid I'd have tried to foster his clearly passionate interest in the subject matter by hiring an excellent tutor that can teach him the right values and teach him some fun, safe and legal things to do with it. Leave the dangerous stuff at hypotheticals and demonstrations only. But the danger there is that once he learns it, he can't be supervised 24 hours a day.
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@maksphoto78 That's wild I didn't know that! I always wondered where the India in IPA came from.
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Oh, he's dead now unfortunately. He died in 2016 :(
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Red phosphorus, that's one of the primary chemicals in Walt's meth cook. I am pretty sure he was also able to weaponize it by throwing the phosphorus into boiling hot water thus creating the phosphine gas that kills Emilio and nearly kills Krazy 8.
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I remember getting Blink 182's Enema of the State in this way, of course I didn't order it my Mom did. If we got ripped off I never heard about it
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MURDER? I could totally see fraud and unsafe work conditions but... MURDER?
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I love Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot Chili Peppers but honestly, when they mayor asked him to try to quell the audience and he responds "What do you think, they're going to listen to ME?" Actually yeah I kind of do think that. You being the front man of one of the headlining bands of the festival, I think it's safe to say you underestimate the power you have in that moment. I mean, can he prevent an all out riot necessarily? No. But he could have done more and then to top it all off as bonfires are raging all around them they decide to play "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix, which I genuinely believe was part of the set list the entire time. Why? Because Jimi Hendrix famously burned his guitar at the end of playing the very same song, and his performance in Woodstock '69 is widely considered by many to be the best performance of the entire festival. Which is nearly impossible to say honestly considering how many legends performed the original Woodstock.
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@maksphoto78 It's okay, I forgive you. People drank beer instead of water. The alcohol in beer or other fermented drinks like cider and ale DOES kill germs. Of course it goes bad eventually, everything does, but even ground water had the potential for and the capacity to have organisms in it -- organisms that would have a harder time surviving in alcohol based drinks than water. I don't care if you got it from a medieval Brita tap water filter, still water of any kind become breeding grounds for germs and organisms of all kinds. The people back then didn't understand any of this let alone know what germs or the concepts of germs were, but they did view beer and other alcohol-based drinks not just safer (from experience as much as anything else scientifically speaking) but more nutritionally sound than drinking water. All they knew was they'd be less likely to get sick drinking that than water from any source they had available. Acting like ground water is somehow impervious to germs. What the fuck are you talking about?
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@Walker-ow7vj IPA's are great man haha
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This guy is was (RIP) a genius. Mom and the stepdad should've spent less time amazed at his work ethic and more time at figuring out how to take this gift to the next level. In a responsible way. His parents were just like "welp, our son's the next Einstein. Get me a beer honey."
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