Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "" video.

I SENT MY AMERICAN FRIEND some pictures of the bombed-out houses I played in as a child in the 1970's [Britain] - She asked with American innocence "Why were they not rebuilt?" "Because no one in the family survived the bomb" - It struck me that only someone from a nation that has never experienced civilian bombardment would now know that? If every member if the family is killed, how do you rebuild the house? You cant just go TAKE the house, it does not belong to you and the neighbours would linch you, so they stay there - a ruin for decades.
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@ronik24 AND you think its easy to locate distant relatives after a global war do you...??? And what about the feelings of the community, the neighbours who knew the people who died, might be waiting for distant relatives to come and claim it, you think its just a simple case of selling the land off to a developer??? In the mid-1970s we used to get told off for playing in the ruins cos it was disrespectful, it was the sight of a family's DEATH. "Or the community owned it and did not manage to sell it to anyone." It would have been regarded as grave robbing.
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@RustyDust101 Sorry - I did not realise I had not made it obvious - this was in Britain. This was in an area on the outskirts of the city of Leeds, Leeds was not very heavily bombed in WW2 but where I lived was along the road that led from the south into Leeds. There were about 5 or 6 houses that had been hit by bombs that had not been rebuilt in the mid 70's.
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@mrnice81 I did not make it clear in the OP but this was in Britain, however the same still applies that it was NOT an easy thing to do to trace the living relatives of the occupiers, and TBH people had better things to be doing like building houses for those who did survive. But the main issue IMO was it would have been seen as grave robbing to sell off the plots to developers. One of the houses got used by our neighbour as a garage for his car, he put a roof on the remaining structure. Another got used for storing ladders by a guy who was a painter and decorator.
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YOU SHOULD DO THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA from the European perspective - its very very different [we used America as a genetic dumping ground for 250 years] Or the revolutionary war from the European perspective
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@marge2548 Sorry - I did not realise I had not made it obvious - this was in Britain. This was in an area on the outskirts of the city of Leeds, Leeds was not very heavily bombed in WW2 but where I lived was along the road that led from the south into Leeds. There were about 5 or 6 houses that had been hit by bombs that had not been rebuilt in the mid 70's. Ive edited the OP to say Britain. Even in Britain, it was normal for the bomb damage in the cities to be repaired. I lived in the suburbs where the houses were more substantial and mostly privately owned in the war, so a bombed-out house was quickly hidden behind an overgrown hedge and garden. I lived in a kind of courtyard and the two houses next to the stables had been bombed out, there was very little of those left and eventually, they got used by the neighbours as a garage and a storage unit. Further up the road were 2 semi-detached houses in an awful grey, they had no rooves or windows, I think maybe a fire bomb got them, they were bricked up for safety. But the best one was a huge detached house in a grand overgrown garden - it must have been 300m2 and incredibly magnificent red brick, It has clearly been a very impressive house and this is the one we used to play in. It was all fallen roof timbers and doors hanging off. As little kids you were just told not to play in them "its dangerous" but you could always tell there was another reason you weren't being told. Eventually when you got old enough to understand you would be told the truth, but being a little kid that just somehow made them even more appealing.
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@marge2548 I think most places wanted and needed to rebuild as quickly as possible. Certainly, there were many prefabricated houses about when I was a child. I think not rebuilding and caring about the memory of the dead is probably a very suburban middle-class thing now I come to think of it. We lived in a little workers' cottage to what was the "big house" in a Victorian ornamental garden. The road was a strange mixture of massive older houses filled in with later more modest properties. My friends had names that matched the streets, the families have been there so long John Woolin of "Wollin Avenue" Garry Price of "Price Gardens"
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@rb3058 YEAH when you are the dominant empire in the world you cant have upstart countries getting ideas - look at America, they have bombed 75 countries since WW2 and they are losing their sh!t over China doing well economically. Your argument is valid, but its more valis for WW1 than WW2
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@SirHeinzbond - It would be good to do them as a pair of videos because Europe come out looking really really bad from the founding of America, and then America comes out looking really bad from the revolutionary war. It would be nice to show that "being bad historically" is a pretty universal thing.
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@Garagantua Yeah as I said in one of my other comments "I think not rebuilding and caring about the memory of the dead is probably a very suburban middle-class thing now I come to think of it."
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@andywilliams7323 "Partly because they became memorials for the community." this was definitely the case where I lived
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@rb3058 I made another comment on this video "YOU SHOULD DO THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA from the European perspective - its very very different [we used America as a genetic dumping ground for 250 years]" If you can find it I think you could like the comments below it. People are generally nice, generally good, generally decent - but countries are almost universally BAD and EVIL and WRALIKE. Counrites exist to serve the needs and desires of the worst of us. Look at the invasion of Ukraine - how many PEOPLE wanted that...?? 20 at most? Probably more like 5. Even slavery - only 20% of the confederate states white population owned a slave and 1% owned the vast majority. Wars are not started by countries, they are started by people. But ironically they are one of the very few truly democratic institutions. You don't get to share in the wealth of the nation, you dont get to be rich, you dont get to go to the best schools or the top universities - but a large war - YOU get to share in that all right.
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@jpotter2086 Its really funny you should mention that - late last night I was watching a thing about the post wild fire problems in California - $10,000 a month rents was one as so many people needed to rent a house as theirs had been destroyed. But also, many people didn't have insurance as it had become too expensive, so they have abandoned the ruins and move to another state to start again.
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@TypeAshton My country - Britain - tends to come out looking very bad LOL. But the French handcuffed a criminal to a prostitute, married them and shipped them off against their will to Lousinina to populate it...!!!
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@MoreAThanI We tended to scrape up the "undesirables" of our cities and ship them off to America along with the religious nutters and the crazies. Its WAY cheaper than housing / looking after them. "Sound like a political agenda / framing to me." NO - Im British and we were some of the worst for this if THE worst. We shipped 250,000 criminals to America from Britain as indentured slaves [7 years I think and they got their freedom]
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@charleskroeger5735 Ive hear the term "Arcadian French" but have no idea of the history. Being English I assume we were bing evil and not sending them on a nice holiday LOL
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@orcstr8d Are you trying to equate a one off terrorist event that killed 3k people with 5 years of nationwide carpet bombing that killed 140,000 British, 600,000 Gernams, 200,000 Japanese, and 27 million Russians...???
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@trueamnisias - I cannot speak for other areas, but where I am talking about it most definitely was not a poverty issue. There are many 500+m2 houses in this area. As I say in the comments - we lived in a worker's cottage to the "big house" - these houses had stables and heated greenhouses 50m long.
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