Comments by "Thurso Berwick" (@thursoberwick1948) on "Why Can't Anyone Find This Mysterious Country?" video.

@timdoherty101 "Worthless" would be better, or "of no real value".
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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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Yes! Good shout. No one seems to know if it was a publicity stunt or not.
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@shuruff904 I just said this was a good video. Can you read? If I completely hated this channel, I wouldn't subscribe to it. This is one of his better ones recently. As for Simon WHISTLER (not Wheeler!), he makes highly inaccurate videos. We're not talking about obscurities here, but basic details, yet he says it all with such authority that some midwit types believe it and already take to quoting his "facts". I haven't watched or thought about Vsauce in years. He was okay... Never heard of NileRed.
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@Vee_of_the_Weald Are there any facts in Simon Whistler's videos? Every one he makes is full of howlers, laughable mispronunciations etc. I know the story of Poyais already, and I haven't noticed Thoughty2 make an obvious mistake in this video.
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No matter, they'll make useful low paid labour for the boss class,... while they promote all this as "diversity"
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Look up Lazarus Long (the real version not Heinlein's character)
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@hakancarlsson2881 Elon Musk takes public money, rather than money off the public in most cases. If you get the distinction. (Richard Branson is the British equivalent.)
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@hakancarlsson2881 Not quite. SpaceX and Tesla are propped up by money taken off the US government (from public taxes), including NASA budgets. The public, on the other hand, aren't handing their money over willingly. (You and me appear to be both Europeans. No idea if our governments fund him too. I do (unwillingly) fund Richard Branson though.)
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@hakancarlsson2881 The difference is one is given voluntarily and the other is taken off you by the state and then handed over. Middleman maybe.
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What a dreadful title for a book.
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Not really, I haven't seen much fresh from him in six months. This was a good video, but am already familiar with the story. An acquaintance tried to write a novel on it.
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@shuruff904 Well, it's not just my opinion, others have noticed. I spot the more obvious things like horrible pronunciations of names etc, if you know the particular subject better then you can probably spot more of them. A friend of mine did European history at university, and told me he'd watched some of Whistler's videos and spotted tonnes more that I would probably miss. Things like dates, locations and other things. I prefer Thoughty2 - he can put a smile on my face, even if he is wrong. I know about the Poyais scam, partly because of my Scottish background, and also through helping someone with a novel about the period. It's a good story.
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@shuruff904 I'm well aware Thoughty2 makes some mistakes, but compared to some YouTubers he's not so bad in that regard. I can put up with it because he's often mildly entertaining. However, the man who does do very good original videos is Tom Scott. He puts a lot of effort and research into his videos, and as far as I can tell is very accurate. He also talks about many things I've never heard of, and which are not all over the internet. Simon Whistler... or at least his writers... do most of their "research" via Google search, and it shows. Then he reads it out. He's not even bottom tier though. There are some YouTubers who just read Wikipedia articles and regurgitate them. (That fashion even creeps onto television. I saw some "expert" quote something I'd put in a Wikipedia article almost verbatim on a documentary. It was a little known fact about some minor local history, and is only mentioned in one or two sources.)
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@shuruff904 p.s. I've written books and articles of my own in the past. I check, double check, triple check and then run it past a few people. Some mistakes do creep in inevitably, but it helps gets rid of the most basic Simon Whistler ones.
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