Comments by "Goatcha" (@Goatcha_M) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. Not the only one he missed. Pink Floyd had problems with their big pink balloon pig in the battersea powrr station album cover. They had to employ a sharpshooter in case it got loose.
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  2. Buninyong. Pronounced Bunningyong by locals. Also Rutherglen pronounced with an ah sound.
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  3. Traffic on the left dates to at least the Roman empire and its highways.
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  4. The only reason waffles are "relatively famous worldwide" today is because of Hollywood. They're not a thing in Australia, outside of waffle cones for ice cream anyway and those are a very different thing.
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  5. Coles Supermarkets in Australia use Pneumatic Tubes to send money from the register desks to the safe whenever the tills exceed a certain amount.
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  6. 1:37 Flinders Petrie, not Finders Petrie.
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  7. Googled them, so, they do exist, but yeah, not sold in bakeries, supermarkets or even Wendys. Waffles are just not a major thing here. In fact I used to think waffles were just some sort of square crumpet, before I learned that no, they're a crumpet that's stuffed with sugar. Actually learned more from this video than I've picked up at random over 30 years.
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  8. Actually it has kiwi origins and originally refferred to the combined ANZAC forces. Its been maintained due to tradition and reference to the trenches of WW1.
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  9. Accommodation at the Y? Hmh, different times.
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  10. Mesoamericans erven had a god named 'Smoking Mirrror' Tezcatlipoca, god of Obsidian. He is depicted with various mirrors about his person.
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  11. Owning 80 pairs of pants is a ridiculous luxury for any time.
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  12. I personally believe that 100 grand for redecorating is a waste of money these days, money that could be better spent on upkeep for historic monuments, or university scholarships. But where the heck did the money for this gold and silver encrusted palace come from?
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  13. Horrific. Still a much smaller insurrection than the Revolutionary War though.
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  14. There was a JAG episode where an airman mechanic did something similar, I wonder if the writers knew of this incident.
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  15. I remember some old black and white movie that showed the British breaking the sound barrier first, or at least first to break it after ground launch rather than air drop. Can't remember the movies name though.
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  16. Hardly surprising the Wiggs were struggling when anyone who did get elected wasn't permitted to stand for a second term.
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  17.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  The what? never heard of them.
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  18. There's nothing mysterious or forgotten about the origins of the War of 1812, except the US's tendency towards selective memory. Blockades of France and fishing disputes with Canada were just an excuse; the reason the USA invaded Canada was to conquer territory, they thought it would be easy with Britain being busy with Napoleon. But they underestimated the Canadians much as Russia underestimated Ukraine, and once Napoleon was dealt with Britain could turn their full attention to the Americas and the tide of war swiftly shifted against the US.
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  19. A Coast Guard Cutter with.. how many turret guns?
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  20. Whie Australia Policy. No n on the end.
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  21. Mediterranean, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian, North Pacific, South Pacific and Artic work for me. Could definitely argue having Black Sea and Southern Ocean and combining the two parts of Atlantic and Pacific though.
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  22. Pretty sure you mean East, not West.
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  23. If ot was a lion, or even if it was just a Rabid Great Dane, the real question is, why did the attacks stop? Did it die in the woods somewhere? Finally succumbing to its wounds?
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  24. Ah, for a historian, bit of a mistake to be speaking of King Solomon as if he really existed when the historical and archaeological evidence is pretty clear about the fact that his Kingdom never existed.
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  25. That line is from Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack The Giant Killer is a completely different story.
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  26. Jefferson was a worthless slaver. Not someone you should wax lyric about.
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  27. Ideal place to set up some telescopes.
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  28. Its pronounced Eem-you.
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