Comments by "Thurso Berwick" (@thursoberwick1948) on "Thoughty2" channel.

  1.  @DBZ483  "London England" - you must be a Yank, because only they can make films with a shot of the Eiffel Tower saying "Paris, France". The English London needs no qualifier.
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  2.  @aaronstepien2363  Your Nazi rumour is just a garbled version of the Napoleonic one. Probably with Indiana Jones thrown in. A lot of black supremacists claim white people did this to hide the Sphinx's black features and did it to other Egyptian statues. The only problem is that if you go to Rome you can see plenty of obviously white statues with noses broken off. Even nineteenth century ones it happened with.
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  3.  @CallousCoder  Well, exactly. He used to present himself as a nerd who started out in a basement. It's not remotely true. One of his relatives even owned his own bank! He has stolen frequently. He didn't want to pay for the rights to the Helvetica font so had a cheap copy called Arial made up.
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  4.  @timdoherty101  "Worthless" would be better, or "of no real value".
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  5. Hancock comes out with a lot of BS but also some fascinating ideas among it all. He's a bit of a huckster which is his problem.
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  6.  @ThomasTrue  Yes, there are more statues of animals in Edinburgh than women, apparently.
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  7. He has been very lazy in his topic choices recently. I'm not even bothering with this video. Just here for the comments.
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  8. Because back then there were a lot of independent countries and colonies. Tiny islands, micro-republics and all the rest. Modern Germany was made up of a lot of tiny states - Liechtenstein and Luxembourg were the only two who didn't get swallowed up by bigger states.
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  9.  @joelbibeault1169  It wouldn't be the first time that people have colonised an area and got themselves poisoned or irradiated. The Soviet Union had plenty of such places and then there are towns in Australia and the USA where they used to mine asbestos and it's still in the local dust. We also don't know how children will respond. No one's been born up there, let alone grown up, up there.
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  10.  @DBZ483  "Freak" - another Americanism. Either you spend your entire time watching American films/TV or you don't come from London.
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  11. The word "soccer" comes from England, by analogy with "rugger" (i.e. rugby), which is also a form of football.
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  12.  @dankone3  Americans (US) think they're the only people on the internet. Or behave that way.
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  13. Promotion of Flat Earth Theory is mostly a psy-op to discredit alternative thinking. Don't agree with the government? You must be a flat Earther too.
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  14.  @justaminute3111  "Virtually all the hairy (large) humanoid stories come from the US, Canada and Australia" Take it you've never heard of the Yeti then? And that's just for starters. These stories are common throughout much of Asia, including the former USSR. South America has its own version too.
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  15.  @macdeus2601  "No one can maintain 24/7 surveillance of the entire planet all at once." Big tech: Hold my Beer.
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  16.  @artist81317  Governments do hide proof of things, or make it hard to come by. Maybe not Skinwalker Ranch, but certainly things like people experiencing blood-related issues within two or three weeks of being given their you-know-whats. But you can't talk about that here. I've had links to medical journals and even government ministries' websites "fact checked" because the info didn't fit. So yes, some things are covered up.
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  17. I hate that song. Gotta love the way this sea shanty craze was started by someone from one of the few Scottish counties without a coast. And is sung by people whose sole experience of boats was going on a ferry.
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  18.  @meamtheme3550  What is racism? That term has been warped now too. For a start supposedly darker hued people can't be racist, but lighter ones are inherently so and incurable. At least according to the new wisdom.
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  19. Yes! Good shout. No one seems to know if it was a publicity stunt or not.
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  20. Bill Gates is more likely
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  21. And now we are the opponent. Ordinary people to be held in check. Digital IDs will soon be needed to do anything including shopping, going to the library, a bar, you name it. And a certain recent situation will be used to justify it.
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  22.  @nou3503  I come from the UK. We don't pronounce the word "farmer" as "fahmah", around where I live. We pronounce both of the Rs.
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  23.  @MountainFisher  Charles Fort once said that Darwinism just proves, "the survivors survived." He then went on to say that unfitness can be seem everywhere, so it's not even just a case of the fittest surviving. (Humans have a number of unfit features - notably our child rearing. Human childbirth kills many women and human babies are incredibly helpless.
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  24. He's not always right, but he is loud, fat and angry which serves its opponents.
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  25.  @TeddysTube  Yes, key emphasis on docile. They'll support a few intelligent people if they can be roped into working for them or their interests do not conflict with theirs.
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  26.  @TeddysTube  I've known quite a few docile smart people. Usually bookworm types. High schools are full of them, often girls who just knuckle down and keep a low profile so they can get into a decent university.
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  27.  Clambert Jamdrip  "we have enough of the stupid gene on this planet... don't breed" - Ah, a bit of lovely far right eugenics creeping in there. Here's a tip, if you're not super rich, the world's elite don't want you to breed. The peasants won't be of any use when everything's automated.
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  28.  @joelbibeault1169  And that's the point. Humans are willing to expose each other to poison and radiation to make a quick buck, or for political power, back on Earth, so they'll be happy to do so on Mars.
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  29.  @joelbibeault1169  You're making my point for me. They'll cut corners up there. They always do. The first habitats will be solidly built, and they will grow overconfident as they build new ones and try and cut price. They probably won't maintain the old ones properly either, except where the rich people live.
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  30.  @leviroch  Wild ones smell rank. They'll have bits of crap clinging to them, and the smells from carcasses etc they've been eating
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  31.  @jommzom9715  Suggest you reread my comments above. Carefully this time. p.s. Not all of Scotland is on the island of Britain.
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  32. Really? This is basic general knowledge. You need to start reading books.
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  33.  @aaronstepien2363  No they don't. The Nazis weren't even in that part of Egypt. It was British controlled. The usual story was that Napoleonic troops did it. The French actually were in Egypt. But even that story is false - the nose was damaged.before that. A convincing story is that the face was originally a lion and later changed to a person's.
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  34.  @benda5664  Some of them are more open-minded. They do try to make everywhere like the US. I remember one saying to me when I was over in Germany, "These cookies aren't like American ones." I just replied, "I know... They're delicious!" Most of the Germans there got my joke. 😉 Don't get me wrong there are some good things about the USA. We could do with a proper Bill of Rights where I live.
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  35.  @Fr00stee  In reality, if it weren't for non-conformist thinking, we'd still be living in caves. People who can think outside the box produce cultural, political, social and scientific progress. People who stay in the box keep bad ideas and bad governments in power.... Which is precisely why bad governments don't like non-conformist ideas (if they can't can't co-opt them like they did with, say rock music), and promote the idea that non-conformity automatically makes you a "Flat Earther".
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  36.  @lostbutfreesoul  People claim to experience similar things, pretty much everywhere. The hairy man motif, along with giants and dwarfs, is found in pretty much every primitive culture. People also claim to see weird things in the sky everywhere.
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  37. I like Hancock in some ways, but he is a huckster, and he does come out with a lot of hogwash as well as good ideas.
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  38.  @winnifredforbes1114  He also can't help covering topics dozens of other Youtube channels have covered. He used to be good at providing unusual content... These days he just recycles other people's content - some of the info on the Pacific here is recycled from the Real Life Lore channel for example.
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  39. Lemuria was supposed to be in the Indian Ocean between Africa and India.
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  40. Bond is British. Something you Wikipedia readers never factor in. There are actually several better candidates with a British background who fit just as well.
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  41.  @SHAX516  There are plenty of better models such as Fitzroy MacLean (who operated in Serbia etc btw), Dalzel-Job, Sandy Glen etc. As well as members of Ian Fleming's own family.
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  42.  @cliffordstokes595  Communists wiped out a hundred million people last century. They are anti-religion.
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  43.  @THEMFORMATION  I don't really care about American elections. Two party systems are crooked in themselves. I care about the world.
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  44. The internet's childhood was the seventies (when almost no one had it) and the eighties (when few did apart from nerds and academics). The internet changed around 2010 because complaints were made at a very high level about it. Our mandarin class may publicly promote democracy but they don't like to see it in action.
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  45. HeLa Monster. No it doesn't sound like "healer" unless you speak a variety of English which drops "R" at the end of a syllable.
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  46.  @belqeesslama648  Thanks Colonel Moran.
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  47.  @HarshitRautela  You have my sympathy about (c) - I had an article stolen from me and put on someone's blog. They barely tried to rewrite it. I never gave permission and I had submitted it to a paying magazine previously. Unfortunately, there are a number of these things. The public probably don't know about most of them but there are certainly some nuclear reactors and bombs which have been lying under the sea, and also nuclear waste that has seeped into groundwater etc.
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  48. It's by design. Complaints were made at a very high level around 2010. I remember hearing about it before it happened.
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  49. Original is "a bottom in front of me than a frontal lobotomy".
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  50. The Sphinx appears to be based on a much earlier rock formation although whether this is natural or artificial is a different question.
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