Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Scary Interesting" channel.

  1. This is exactly how modern corporations would treat everyone if they could still get away with it. They are ruthless, reckless, and utterly without morals. Bravo on the insurance company for being uncharacteristically decent and paying out.
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  2. The amount of rage I feel hearing about that horrific brutalisation in the last story, and knowing that greedy people brought such atrocities across the planet.
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  3. Yeah, a special kind of selfish insanity.
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  4. Fate may not be ours to decide, but placing yourself in a situation where fate becomes a factor, certainly is.
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  5. I would hardly say Kimberley spent decades constructing a false identity. She made a few changes in her early adult life and simply lived as that new person. Unless the letters specifically say the weight of that life was why she killed herself, I'd say it was equally likely she killed herself because of her failed relationships, or because of loneliness.
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  6. I can't imagine anything more sould destroying than spending your whole life thinking your child has been kidnapped by human traffickers.
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  7.  @apocratos0174 The conversation is far more nuanced than that, but companies that have a fiscal responsibility to return profit to shareholders, are structurally designed to behave in a way that is parasitic, deleterious to employees, and bad for society at large. As for socialism, when you're spending other people's money - taken under force of law, accountability is low, bureaucracy, waste and corruption are high. But they are polar extremes, not the only choices. But I'm sure that you already considered all that?
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  8.  @VR-gs9hd  I agree with your comment about gratitude. I disagree with your contempt for the modern generation. I think that they are facing constant assaults on their emotional well--being. Just look at the rise of stress related suicide and heart attacks. Much as I am empathetic of those who grew up during wars, or before medicine, I think each era comes with its own challenges.
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  9.  @locklear308  No, it's not about stupidity - it's about absolute amorality. Green is king.
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  10.  @The_ZeroLine  Utter nonsense.
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  11. Wow, your production values and animations have gone off the charts. Superb quality!
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  12.  @davidblyth5495  The reason Zimbabwe for instance, had to beg for food after independence was PRECISELY because Mgabwe's corrupt Zanu PF party, and the Shona tribe he was a member of kicked all the professional white farmers off their lands, and instead gave it to members of his tribal militia, none of whom had any farming experience.
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  13.  @dan3nad  That's not true. Corporations have an unsustainable drive to create endlessly increasing profits. There's nothing wrong with commerce so long as it is equitable. In the past, people made things or offered services, add a fair profit markup over costs and that was enough. Nowadays, enough is never enough.
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  14.  @doggodoggo3000  Hear hear!
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  15.  @davidblyth5495  Unfortunately, too much of Africa still governs itself tribally. And now it seems like the US wants to divide into two partisan tribes. So depressing.
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  16. Hear hear!
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  17.  @impoppypanda  100%
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  18. A despicable human being, but damn, he was wily. Shocking how small the planet is though, that he was spotted all over the globe.
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  19. Surely there are many reasonable explanations for finding a man's DNA on Leah's clothing? It sounds as though she absolutely wanted to disappear and she got her wish.
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  20. My contempt for people who willingly put themselves into such situations is immeasurable.
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  21.  @Subject_Keter  I live in Britain and I know about both incidents. You underrate the internet.
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  22. If the man murdered Dorothy to cover up tax evasion why the hell would he taunt the family? It was clearly a sadist, or somebody with a personal grudge. I think it's disgraceful that the personal lives of suspects can be placed into the public domain without a conviction.
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  23.  @EarthIsNotFlat  Before the era of the stock market, the business model was to calculate the cost of production, add a profit margin, and that was the price you charged. Where's the evidence? The fact that houses are no longer affordable. The fact that the past world did not exist in a state of constant financial crisis. The fact that profit was not designed to feed shareholders who required never ending growth. The fact that the world was full of small businesses, not a few mega corps who own 99% of all manufacturing. "if the counterparty doesn’t like the price they’re free to walk away and not complete the transaction" How naive are you? If it's food, housing, fuel, electric, internet - where do you go then? What if you've captured the entire market? What if there is simply no choice because you work in a rarified market such as drug manufacture? What if you are constrain by urgency or proximity in your choices? And that's to say nothing of companies who buy the politicians to artificially limit your choices, such as drugs in America. As for your comment about souls, being deliberately obtuse doesn't improve your argument.
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  24.  @Pezled  "Without fearless adventurers you would still be living in a cave." No I wouldn't. The vast majority of humans have NEVER lived in caves, and even if we did, hiding in caves was not fearless - it would have been a logical shelter from animals and the elements. But the fcat is, there just are not that many caves. It was human INTELLIGENCE that elevated us, not foolhardy recklessness. These guys are literally, evolutionary dead ends - Darwin Awards personified.
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  25. Talk about failing upwards. The rich and well connected are never held accountable until it's too late.
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  26.  @cfG21  With the benefit of hindsight, we all say "What did they have to lose?" but oppressors can always find ways to be even more evil.
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  27.  @EarthIsNotFlat  That is ABSOLUTELY not true. Human commerce operated on a non parasitic basis for millennia. Also, people have compassion and an awareness of the future - corporations do not.
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  28. How is Jill one of the world's best divers, and how the hell did she have the temerity to get angry when Paul dropped back to help Wes?! At every moment, the expedition was a shit show and she repeatedly led them into life threatening danger, and would have done so again had the glacier not collapsed. No wonder women are not respected in the world of diving if SHE is an exemplar.
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  29. "Southwark" pronounced suthurk
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  30.  @francisgoin3112  You act as though she spent every day weaving a complex false narrative. She did not. She created an alter ego early on, which consisted of nothing but a name, and simply refused to discuss her past, as was her right. If anything, it was other people's constant prying that was the problem.
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  31.  @marhawkman303  "Role?" She took on a new name. Where's the role? She gave away nothing of her past. All she had to do was be herself in the moment.
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  32.  @marhawkman303  What impersonation was needed to step into the persona of a person who died as a child?
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  33. No, it's known all over the world, along with Vincent's heroism.
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  34.  @marhawkman303  Heartbreaking and sickening.
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  35. Blows my mind that such dangerous chemicals are transported along roads and in non-armoured vehicles.
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  36. Children are more likely to die at the hands of their mothers.
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  37.  @CCFONESOL  It's a pity you chose to round off an interesting post with a patronising last line. Do you feel better now?
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  38.  @EarthIsNotFlat  I do not compare my standard of living against that of the entirety of history, and regardless of when you live, being exploited is still being exploited. In the UK, housing prices are fine in places where people don't want to live - far from population centres, amenities, public transport, etc. I don't know to what extent immigration is a factor - for a chunk of the recent decades in Britain, more people emigrated than immigrated. Placing national restrictions on where councils can build, and preventing them from using the money raised from right to buy sales has not helped. In our cities, as with America, vast amounts of property is either owned by the mega wealthy, or by investors buying houses purely for profit. Sadly, the very people enforcing the rules, are directly or indirectly associated with the very monied interests that you refer to in your second paragraph. Wolves farming the sheep.
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  39. Cave diving is on a par with wing suit gliding in terms of its sheer pathetic attempt and self termination. Literally should NEVER waste a nickel or a second cleaning up or trying to save them if it goes bad.
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  40. Why the hell would you even take a river journey along an open cesspool?!
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  41. Last woman was an ice cold bitch. As for the first woman - jeez if a bear walks into your camp and you scare it away, that's all 9 lives gone and you should take the goddamned hint. How did they EVER go back to sleep after that?
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  42. You can - he has a patreon listed in the details.
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  43. 😁👌
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  44.  @naomihatfield3015  Yeah, when you can dehumanise people to that degree, you should not be on this planet any more.
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  45.  @cfG21  I'd like to think I would do the same, but millions oJews never did, so perhaps when you're IN the situation, it's not so easy. But once they did that to your daughter...
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  46.  @badassdanthepowerman6438  So if they didn't do it, society wouldn't have to waste resources rescuing them? Not seeing the positive here.
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  47.  @Pezled  Are you done fabricating your fantasy psycholological profile of me yet?
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  48. Surely, the second you crash the ship, and everybody is on the land, the captain no longer has any power? Why would anyone listen to him?
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  49. I don't understand why that guy at the end did not end his dive immediately that the giant Humbolt came into view.
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  50. Suicide to even enter. Just hope nobody died going after them.
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