Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Weird History" channel.

  1. The use of x-rays for bootleg records was also because you could roll them up and hide them up your sleeve.
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  2. Artist: I shall call him Mini-Me.
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  3. “Don’t shoot him... you’ll just make him mad.”
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  4. Wonder what gave him away? Arrrr father who aarrrt in heaven...
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  5. “You ARE the father... and the... grandfather? Get off my show.”
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  6. “Put them in the Iron Maiden.” “Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!” “EXECUTE THEM!” “Bogus.”
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  7. “Emperor, there’s a horrid plague roaming the lands!” “Oh dear, that’s more bad news.” ‘Cheer up.” “So there is good news then? “Yes! The people have named the new plague after you.”
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  8. It must be noted, in the USSR these girls weren’t considered “human” but “mutants”. One wonders if one of the horrible experiments was to see if they could alter Masha’s personality to be so different from her sister.
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  9. There was also the infamous 1977 blackout in New York City, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back and chaos erupted over large parts of town. It was also the year of the World Series in the Bronx where an apartment building nearby was on fire, and Howard Cosell is misattributed as saying, “There is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.”
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  10. SNL had Nixon talk to the portraits! Lincoln, “You’re lucky Abe... they only shot you.”
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  11. It doesn’t help the “Cobain was murdered” theory that the alleged hitman was later hit by a train... but many point to the “last” Nirvana song, “You Know You’re Right” that he’s singing about leaving... something (either his wife, or fame... or the living (and subsequently his daughter).
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  12. You missed that when they picked up her head, it fell out of the wig she was wearing... all the stresses of her life made Mary Queen of Scots a little bald.
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  13. “You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!” -Dennis
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  14.  @massalleh5255  very much, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , which was changed to Windsor during Ww1, Even though Prince Philip was a Greek royal his family was the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glücksburgs! After losing their kingdom, they adapted the last name Battenburg, but changed to Mountbatten to sound less German also because of the war.
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  15. I played the video game “Yukon Trail” (like “Oregon Trail”), picked a First Nations woman as the guide (figured she knew the land better than anyone else), and though my character and her had many setbacks (she broke her leg at some point), they made a small profit and even got married and started a family at the end!
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  16. Imperial Japan also did horrible medical “experiments” (and many other bad things) to people in China and Korea... much of this was never heard of in the Western world.
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  17. Right, but then her daughter never had an heir and the Crown went to Scottish Kings (Stuart) for a while... and then they had to invite over Germanic royals (Hanover) after they eventually had the same problem!
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  18. Actually the Queen Mother wasn't the only Royal family member to pass in 2002, her other daughter, Princess Margaret, died a few weeks earlier.
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  19. We last did nuclear drills in Junior High School (right around the time of the fall of the USSR). They’d make us shut all the shades over the windows, then bunker down in the hallways away from the classroom doors. We’d joke that we’d live because the walls and ceilings were covered in many layers of lead paint, and the floor tiles were made with asbestos fibers.
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  20. Why aren’t there movies about these ladies? I’d like to know their stories in more detail.
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  21. I believe either Erick the Red or his Leif Ericsson were “outlaws” when they journeyed across the Atlantic, Leif eventually finding North America (500 years before Columbus... it’s just that the Vikings weren’t so happy to share this news with the rest of Europe.)
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  22. Many cultures also consider wearing outside shoes indoors to be rude and offensive. Slippers are provided so long as they are never worn outside the house, and in Japanese culture there’s even a special pair of slippers to be worn solely in the toilet.
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  23. Mr. Chopsticks nicotine was also considered “medicine” for a long time...
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  24. I never knew he was married, or that his wife was also of Japanese heritage. Creepy.
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  25. Some speculate that Caligula was suffering from untreated syphilis, which once it crosses the blood brain barrier can lead to insanity as the disease destroys brain tissue.
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  26. Kurt was self medicating a life long issue of stomach pains. He probably had celiac disease before it was well documented...
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  27. Actually, the Viking short on the sides, long on top is practical in battle, stuff the top hair under your helmet (no horns on war helmets) and no enemies can grab you by the hair.
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  28. WH: “It’s so easy, a caveman could do it.” Caveman: “What! …yeah ok, you got us. But just this once.”
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  29. It used so much fuel because on take off it was literally burning fuel. It used afterburners like a fighter jet, fuel is injected into the hot exhaust so it ignites (that orange glow at the back of the engines) it gives a speed boost. It also explains the loud racket both inside and outside the plane (saw this taking off a few times, it was LOUDER than anything else in the skies.)
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  30. 2% mortality rate, but a 20% hospitalization rate. What country has enough hospital beds for 20% of the population? I do agree people are acting like the mortality rate is more like 100%... and they somehow believe toilet paper and now paper towels will save them. (Last store I was in had neither... I wasn’t looking to buy those, just trying to find discounted Easter chocolate. :)
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  31.  @ringingsteel8729  that Johnny Depp film "Don Juan DeMarco" where he gets locked in a harem with 1500 women... Which later comes back to bite him when the love of his life, who is OK with not being his first, asks how many lovers he had previously and he says "before you... one... Thousand five hundred and two." (Don Juan's narrative voice over) "Perhaps this was not the best time for total honesty." 😂
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  32.  @FastBowtie388  actually several Emperors opted to take an adopted or surrogate son under their wing and make them the heir, but if that “son” lived at the palace, he’d be eating the same amount of Sapa anyway.
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  33.  @seraphik  right, so the closest thing left of Celtic Britons in modern times are the Welsh... And people from Brittany in France. I don't think the UK would accept anyone from these places as the "true heir" to the throne.
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  34. Trolling while nude with the window open, and electrocuting a turkey.
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  35. Eric Hutton and Jackson had previously been shot during a duel... that lead ball was also not removed. However, the would be assassin had TWO pistols misfire... and that probably ticked off Jackson even more!
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  36. One of the rumors about Jackson’s White House party: it got so out of hand, Jackson had to sneak out of there through a window and he retreated to a nearby hotel for the night.
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  37. “It’s just you and me now, lock of hair.”
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  38. “You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.”
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  39. China: hold my beer and watch this Great Leap Forward.
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  40. If I remember correctly that spot is “approximately” where the scaffold was, they didn’t have an accurate location for it... but it was still kind of creepy and didn’t seem like a place to eat.
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  41. Strange but true: prior to coming up with the Teacher in Space idea, NASA wanted to fly Big Bird on the shuttle. The logistics of flying a large muppet suit ultimately led to them abandoning the idea. Can you imagine if Big Bird wound up on Challenger?
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  42. Another Simpsons episode first pulled and then heavily edited for obvious reasons: The City of New York vs Homer Simpson…due to scenes around the World Trade Center pre-9/11 including two guys yelling from each tower at Homer and one guy says, “Don’t mind him, they stick all the jerks in Tower 1.”
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  43. Michael Scott yelling, “No! God no!” On an infinite loop.
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  44. Interesting that this tryst drove the one sister to become a nun... It would have been funny if later on when Casanova was messing around with two other nuns she ran into him.
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  45. Roland Tuason it was medieval times, everyone stank and had shit on them... unless they were a king.
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  46. Martha: “He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.” George: “[aside] honey, don’t tell them that.”
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  47. Better call Saul Odinson.
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  48. Catherine the Great: got Russians to adopt to early vaccination. Russians today: “Get that needle away from me!”
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  49. There’s two artificial islands of of Staten Island: Hoffman and Swinburne, they were used for quarantining sick migrants from Ellis Island. One island was for people expected to recover. The other… well it had a crematorium. During WW2 they were used for training and to hold anti-submarine nets. Despite plans to make them parks, or even homeless shelters, both have been left to return to nature as part of the Gateway National Park system. Many harbor birds and even seals use the islands. If you are going over the bridge you can see them to the south, and they are visible from South Beach as well.
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  50. It’s called hire a bigger plane.
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  51. To this day they still won’t let you say Mee-Krob on TV.
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  52. Yeah… Prince Andrew just got booted out of all of this.
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  53. In the Beatles Anthology one of them recounted actually meeting Elvis and going to a house he was staying in, in Los Angeles (not Graceland) where Elvis basically just hung out watching TV with them, then showed off that he could play bass. 🤷‍♂️
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  54. Yes, because what kid wouldn’t love something with lots of teeth that hisses at you and plays dead while emitting a really bad smell?
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  55. Boy, Bill and Ted picked some great historical figures. 😂
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  56. Ghost Dog: “This is the way.”
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  57. I wonder if anyone has ever counted all the f-bombs he’s put on film... has to be some kind of record...
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  58. Charles became the monarch as soon as his mother passed, being crowned in church is purely ceremonial. There is no gap between monarchs outside of a Regency period. (Say Charles passes in 5 years, but William has died, George is too young, so a Regent must rule until he’s 18 years old.)
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  59.  @michafaine2433  most religions give people hope (false or not is up to you to decide) that the 'end' isn't THE end for you... I like to think that we just return to space, as Carl Sagan said, "we are made of star stuff".
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  60. Child trafficking.
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  61. She’s not that obscure, they produced a Broadway Musical about her!
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  62. This comment goes to 11.
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  63. Karens gonna Karen.
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  64. “Piss boy” I was hoping for a reference to “History of the World, Part 1.” King Louis XVI: “It’s good to be da king.”
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  65. Peasant 1: Who's that there? Peasant 2: I don't know... Must be a king... Peasant 1: Why? Peasant 2: He hasn't got shit all over him.
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  66. Animals don’t drink or swear… how do you know what a dog is saying to another dog on the street? Woof woof woof: “Hey, other dog, f—k you!”
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  67. High quality armor (read expensive) was good, but a poor knight had to buy “off the shelf” stuff that fit poorly, thus hindering him.
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  68. “Can we have some more beans Mr. Taggert?”
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  69.  @kevinlewis808  right, but her mother was also named Elizabeth and she died in 2002
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  70.  @luckybassturd7260  I work with lawyers, a joke: argue facts if you have them, or argue the law if it's on your side. If you have neither? Shout and bang on the table.
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  71.  Cole MacGrath  Sounds like Trump and his base too... we’ve all dug our trenches and built our own safe spaces... which will likely cost us everything in the end. Maybe we can work on this and come back together as a nation... probably not.
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  72. LordCutlerBeckett yes, he was brilliant, did Star Trek II... and a small movie called Titanic.
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  73. Garbage barge... who had the bright idea tha someone would want Islip’s trash?
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  74. Cheaper to pay off grieving relatives than to actually fix the flaw… putting profits over human life.
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  75. Sparkly vampire falls for mouth breather.
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  76. USSR cookbook: Chicken Kiev... nah, Chicken Pripyat is better!
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  77. Lilly Mom I’m sure once she actually became Queen, she could have anything she wanted imported... including a chocolate master.
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  78. Queen Victoria was also under 5 feet tall, so she was a much smaller target in an age of less than accurate pistols (at least in England)
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  79.  @joshwoods7641  if Trump (and possibly McConnell) refuse to admit defeat, won't leave office and prevents an inauguration we the people may have to pull a Howard Dean... 'yaaaaaahhhhh!"
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  80.  @RunninUpThatHillh  2016 election saw 4 cases of voter fraud, 3 were people trying to vote twice... For Trump. He just told people, "vote for me two times"!
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  81.  @daedreaming6267  Cartman kept saying that Thai dish should be a curse word... And when they found the "cursed" words mee-krob was one of them!
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  82. Seems to have been corrected.
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  83. Visit the Tower of London, they have Henry the VIII’s armor... he REALLY was compensating for something!
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  84. “Ray, the next time someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!”
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  85. Surely they must’ve realized something was amiss... “Our jaws are so bad we can’t eat! And all the children died young.”
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  86. Modest Mouse song “Paper Thin Walls”, “It’s been agreed the whole world stinks so no one’s takin’ showers anymore.”
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  87. That photo of JFK at the very end, where he’s leaning over his desk looking burdened was taken during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Foreshadowing a future video?
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  88. @Èlà Ifá Yêhvêh unless the relationship ends badly.
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  89. His behavior after the assassination attempt sounds like a Stalinist purge!
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  90. Need a video on how the Democrats and the Republicans essentially switched sides (conservative and liberal) in the 1960s and 1970s.
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  91.  @DarDarBinks1986  Vikings didn’t have the logistic capacity to maintain colonies past Iceland, their two villages on Greenland failed (quite horribly: read Jared Diamond’s book”Collapse”) because they came in a warmer year and didn’t realize just how cold it could get until they were starving and desperate over a very long winter.
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  92. Yes, it's totally fine to catch your flying bass with your face.
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  93. “I like big ruffs and I cannot lie, you other brothers can’t deny…”
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  94. Not quite Atari, but I read that Steve Jobs was not a fan of deodorant... eww.
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  95. Easy Money!
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  96. Oh to be 20 years old again… how was that 24 years ago?!!!😢
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  97. I’m surprised they were able to get the cat in there. “Okay kitty, get in the box.” RRRROOOWRR! “Okay, let me get a box of band aids and some chain mail.”
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  98.  @SooHooSamaSito  yep, supposedly during the time between being crucified and the resurrection he teleported to the future upstate New York, helped the local natives and hid gold plates and a pair of glasses with rocks instead of lenses so Smith could read the “Egyptian hieroglyphics” on them. You can’t make this stuff up... but Smith sure did!
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  99. Las Vegas means “the meadow” in Spanish... yeah... no meadows there now. Edit: Hughes eventually moved out of the Desert Inn... he had taken over the entire top floor, secretly installed an express elevator from outside to that floor (that was problematic during the demolition of that resort as it wasn’t on the blueprints!), and apparently never opened any of the drapes as the window facing side of them were bleached white by the sun.
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  100. Especially with all the renewed interest in Burr and Hamilton thanks to the musical.
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  101. prettyfar33 codpieces.
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  102.  @AverageJoe483  Hamilton has cities and several counties named in his honor as well: Hamilton, Kansas Hamilton, Missouri Hamilton, Massachusetts Hamilton, Ohio
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  103. Yes, and it continued up to modern day, boys and men would be in circus sideshows as “dog faced” and women would be “the bearded girl/lady.”
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  104. And despite all that secrecy, the Soviets were able to get their hands on most of the specs for building an Atomic Bomb, and later a Hydrogen Bomb... because many of the scientists involved thought, “Aren’t they our Allies?”
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  105. You missed that as Ambassador to Russia he closed the deal on the purchase of Alaska, a place just as badass as him!
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  106. I had to force my phone to think I’m in Canada just to get it to use Metric!
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  107. We eventually got “smart” and moved the tests underground... but not before, Test Sedan: which asked the ridiculous question, “Can we use nukes for excavation?” One “worlds largest man-made crater” and a lot of radioactive material being thrown up into the atmosphere, “Well... we can... but it’s probably not something we want to do again.”
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  108. Shirt woot did a “Night of the Karen’s” t-shirt... but it’s more zombie inspired.
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  109. Moissanite, looks just as good as a high quality diamond, but it’s much less expensive (they are lab made because the total amount of natural stones on the planet wouldn’t cover your thumbnail. It’s much more abundant in space though.)
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  110. Unless you were in a cold swimming pool.
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  111. Trump has admitted those air stairs are pretty treacherous, that’s why he always walked up slowly and used the hand rail... if he tripped, he knew he’d never live that down. I’m surprised he didn’t replace them.
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  112. Coming soon: 2009, starring Tom Hanks.
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  113. Chernobyl unit 4 operator: “Hold my vodka and watch this!”
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  114. Prince has left the chat.
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  115. Those 3 majority Muslim countries they mentioned are paranoid that the people giving the Polio vaccine are going to convert their kids to Christianity... seriously.
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  116. Considering the current royal line goes back to several old German states (Hanover, Coborg, etc) and Greece (also via Germany in Battenburg/Mountbatten) I guess you’d have to look for the perverts over there.
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  117. With the lack of jobs (and money) the risk of the younger generation leaving seems low, since they couldn’t afford the cost to travel somewhere else.
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  118. Martin Scorsese was assistant director and one of the editors for the documentary.
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  119. @Jew Tube they want Scandinavian style socialism (like Denmark, which won't work here since their their system depends on their small population) which is not full blown Lenin /Castro communism. Or are you one of those that believes just because it's in not line with your right wing ideology it "must be commies". The world is not that simple.
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  120.  @Khangel  king George III went mad, but it made him retreat into seclusion, by the end of his life he was blind, deaf, talking nonsense and unable to walk. Plus he had no idea what was going on, didn’t realize his wife and one of his sons had passed away, or that he was king of Hanover as well as the UK. They put his son in charge as Prince Regent for the last years of his life.
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  121. Fun fact: due to nothing blocking direct solar UV light, the flags we put on the moon are all bleached white.
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  122. Egyptian Lego minifig entourage!
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  123. Facial reconstruction does have it's limits, which is why face transplants are becoming a thing.
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  124. It would be very interesting if they left that “suicide” square in the game.
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  125. I’m sure the job pays way more than any other private family gig.
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  126. Madame Toussauds in NYC has a Holyfield wax figure, and it’s missing the piece of his ear. Doctors weren’t able to reattach it in real life.
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  127. The Latin for lead is Plumbum, hence why it’s PB on the periodic table.
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  128. 2003, my cousin missed his sisters wedding because he was waiting to go into Iraq... and then he only spent a few weeks in Kurdistan before he got sent back to Germany.
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  129. It’d be like George Costanza at that kids party.
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  130. The war ended... but the UK didn’t stop trying to get back at us for it until after we fought again in 1812-1814.
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  131. Correction: Henry VIII had his first (edit:second) wife quickly and cleanly beheaded by the best swordsman he could find... she was the Queen after all... and the usual axemen were terrible at hitting their marks the first time... ow.
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  132. I think that Anna was so mentally fragile, that people CONVINCED her she was a Romanov, and eventually it settled on “Oh, I’m Anastasia.”
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  133. Jefferson is also on the Nickel, so if we ever stopped using pennies like several other nations, it would be the lowest value currency.
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  134.  @withgoddess8029  Geraldo exposing the horrors at Willowbrook Institute in Staten Island
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  135. Letterman though NBC would give him the Tonight Show... hired Leno instead. Conan: “Why did I trust them?!”
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  136.  @Rando_Shyte  unless radioactive contamination gets into the birds and fish.
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  137. I remember when Game Boy came out too... got it that Christmas. Memories of greenscale graphics.
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  138. Okay... knowing how badly this went... for everyone, I think I get why China doesn’t like the Falun Gong movement. 20 MILLION dead??? Yikes.
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  139. No need to island-lake-island-etc. Just call them Droste Islands.
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  140. That genetic mutation has popped up again during another epidemic... HIV. Having 2 copies of this rare mutation gives FULL immunity to HIV, because HIV gets into immune cells the same way as the plague.
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  141. It’s only mass hysteria if dogs and cats were living together.
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  142. George Carlin was a Philosopher and he’s been proven RIGHT since 2016.
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  143. The Scots lost Culloden because of the poor terrain, and the English training their troops to fire their single shot long guns at a faster pace to overcome the “Scots charge.” (literraly a horde of angry armed to the teeth screaming Scots running straight at the British lines with broadswords and dirks (really long daggers). That actually did work for time, as they were able to close the distance before the British could shoot again).
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  144. At the time it was just the new government of Germany, we figured staying on their good side wouldn’t hurt (see also the UK and that whole “Peace in our time” snafu)... how wrong we were.
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  145. The issue was also that the Atari 5200 (also released in 82) was just not as big of a hit as the other consoles on the market like Colecovision (which came with Donkey Kong.)
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  146. Ever notice how much medieval language is still in the church: Lord, Prince, King, Queen, etc... back then it must have also helped to normalize the hierarchy on earth, “well if there’s a king after we die, then it’s okay to have one now.”
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  147. Domo arrigato Mr. Roboto... what, not that Kilroy?
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  148. Disco Demolition night would have been a disaster even without the riot, the explosives used to destroy the disco records ripped a huge hole in the outfield and the game would have been forfeited anyway.
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  149. With all the toxic substances they were deliberately exposed to, it’s surprising anyone made it to the 20th century!
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  150. Winston: “Cleo, the next time someone asks if you’re a god, you say YES.
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  151. sidgar1 wondering if that somehow became the origin of “buckaroo”
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  152. I believe I read it took two men to lift those ammo crates. And THAT is why you don’t wrestle a bear.
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  153. I pity the guys that had to actually put Dave in that straight jacket... they must’ve played an epic game of Rock Paper Scissors...
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  154. Actually there are some paintings that do, though this appears to be a small portion of a larger work: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugh_specs.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
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  155.  @J3diMindTrix  there were a lot of shenanigans going on that the ref seemed to allow or not see in that bout. Still Tyson always had one weakness, endurance. If you could withstand the pummeling he gave out in the first few rounds, he’d tire out and get desperate. As he got older he got tired faster. Early rounds Tyson hit like a truck on the freeway, though.
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  156. Technically because of Pitcairn Island, the sun still doesn’t set on the British Overseas Territories.
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  157. From the era when cigarette ads featured doctors touting how smoking was good for you.
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  158. The place looks like it’s a fortress with that giant wall... but the pipes lead right out into the street?
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  159. Sad fact: something all the way down there is eating the iron in the hull. Too many visits from the surface is actually accelerating the issues as stirring up the water around the wreck is putting stress on it.
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  160. He was poor because rather than make money selling his inventions (like Edison), he sold the patents off to people like Westinghouse, just to raise enough cash for his experiments. Tesla always wanted to press forward, once an invention was successful (like the A/C generator) he dropped it like a hot potato to move on to the next “crazy” idea.
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  161. Captain Terrell: Wait a minute Chekhov... you weren’t there when Khan took over the Enterprise. How would you know about the SS Botany Bay? Chekov: ...well... it’s embarrassing, I was a lower decks Ensign and well... I had some bad Mexican food and broke the toilet before Khan tried to use it.
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  162.  @sairbear444  whoops!
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  163. Ahh... the year I was born... you missed that in the video. 😜
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  164. Kent State has ties to the band DEVO as several members were there and at least one of them knew someone that died.
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  165. The history of shamrock shakes?
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  166. Mythbusters not only explored the Hindenburg disaster, they also got a lead ballon to fly!
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  167. I’d say CLEAN indoor plumbing. The Romans had indoor plumbing, but it was with lead pipes.
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  168. Woodstock 99 only happened because of Woodstock 94.
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  169. I saw a program on this... to add insult to injury, Greenwood was bisected by an interstate highway in the 1950s.
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  170. No mention of the fear of crucifixes, sacred ground, holy water, etc...
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  171. Native American beer was “weak” and corn based... Think something like Chicha from Mexico.
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  172. Reminds me of “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” with that club of people wearing big hats.
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  173. I believe a documentary about this admitted that the melting core did burn through half of the steel casing before it cooled back down.
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  174. Pretty sure child workers exposed to toxic factory environments from such a young age was a good reason why life expectancy was so low for the working class.
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  175.  @buttkid3548  there was a later spinal tap thing where they did get a full sized Stonehenge, but it didn’t fit through the door of the venue in time for the song.
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  176.  @dukecraig2402  later missions put the flag farther away, but yeah, blast off knocking over the flag must've been embarrassing... "whoops... Uhhh Houston, can we go back down again?"
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  177.  Millian Macalintal  if you never saw him on "Boston Public" I recommend tracking it down.
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  178.  @NeoTribe1  ooh, big "man" coming and calling me a scared bitch almost a year after I commented. Fuck you asshole.
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  179. Drunk all the time... so the Lannisters are an accurate depiction then?
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  180. We do seem like backwards thinkers for not using metric, as compared to the rest of the world. But most factories that sell things overseas are tooled up in metric only, why waste money having two of everything?
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  181. F. Lee Bailey just died in a hospice a few days ago, after a long and severe illness. He has a new book coming out detailing how they came up with the defense strategy for the OJ trail.
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  182. That later chest armor thing looked like the Ironman chest plate Stark needed from the comic books.
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  183. I just remember the Blizzard of ‘96 that crippled NYC for days.
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  184. Eiffel 65 has left the chat.
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  185.  @ThePhantomSafetyPin  Starfish Prime, which also knocked power out in Hawaii because they didn't understand what an EMP is. There was also an attempt to use nukes in natural gas fracking... Project Gasbuggy.
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  186. Rumors that the pistol used was a British revolver only issued to certain government men… aka, British spies thought having Rasputin “removed” would bolster the Russian war effort.
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  187.  @GabyGeorge1996  depends on the bear, some black bears are still scared of humans and will try to run away
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  188. Like George the models were in the pool before they met the sculptor?
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  189. That Smother’s Brothers explosion left Pete and Roger with life long hearing damage too.
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  190. Considering the enslaved people had no money or property of their own... it made sense to ask to be paid for the work they’d been doing for free... at least until they save up enough to leave and make it on their own. Of course you also couldn’t expect all the plantation owners to be fair and truthful about what just happened.
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  191. I believe J.P Morgan tried to save the market over the weekend between the bad Friday and Black Tuesday... but as soon as he saw signs of stability he pulled his funds out believing he had done enough. Whoops.
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  192. @Katie Alexandria no, but I've been to Seattle a few times.
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  193. Beware if you visit the tower, the ravens are notorious thieves of anything shiny... watch your jewelry.
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  194. Arcade Fire’s song “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)” was inspired by that.
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  195. Not too dissimilar to being an unaccompanied minor on an airplane, aside from the whole “it was cheaper to label the kid as mail” part.
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  196. Russia is so humongous, would losing a bunch of tiny republics really hurt them?
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  197. May be hard to find, but Henry Rollins has a spoken word/comedy story about the first time his band went to post-Soviet Moscow to play a show, and the hotel/casino offered them all a big dinner, but the food was terrible and none of them ate much of it. When it was time to go back, the band didn’t want to, but he insisted, they went to a better hotel and got more edible western style food. He asked the promoter why they got terrible food the first time around and he was told, “Someone told us you wanted to try traditional Russian food.” 🤦‍♂️
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  198. Back to who controls Middle Eastern oil… again… and again… (fun fact: for about 2 seconds the mission to invade Iraq in 2003 was “Operation Iraqi Liberty” whoops, that acronym would have bad optics!) Time to break the oil addiction and invest in better battery tech for electric cars.
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  199. 1994, I left Junior High School for High School and the New York Rangers finally won a Stanley Cup.
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  200. I was only a few months old at the start of the year... and that May, my future wife was born... halfway around the world behind the iron curtain. We didn’t know what adventures we’d have that brought us together all those years later in 2012. Still having adventures, but now with our own little family.
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  201. Ah yes, actual indoctrination in schools, as opposed to all the alleged indoctrination that the GOP keeps whining about.
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  202. Hit my 10th year on this planet in '90, finally got a Gameboy that year.
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  203. 7:07 : the true origin of Putin!!! AHHHH!!!
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  204. Crusaders: Deus Vult! Deus: ... huh?
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  205. Peasants revolt for an end to serfdom gets put down violently? Dennis: Aha! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Arthur: SHUT UP! Dennis: (yelling to all the other workers) Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP, HELP, I'M BEING REPRESSED! Arthur: (letting go and walking away) Bloody PEASANT! Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did'j'hear that, did'j'hear that, eh? That's what I'm all about! Did you see 'im repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?!
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  206. Mary was Queen before Elizabeth. “Bloody” Mary tried to force England back into the folds of the Catholic Church through something akin to the Spanish Inquisition and the French reign of terror.
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  207. The odds of this applying to anyone watching this might be better than getting a 20 on a roulette wheel 2 times in a row.
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  208. His son Quentin remains the ONLY child of any serving or former President to die in combat. He was shot down over France on Bastille Day 1918.
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  209. Right, thanks to the new cover... but, where to put something THAT radioactive that won’t be mistakenly “found” by someone centuries later that might not know what it is or how dangerous it is (languages evolve over time, we’d need to put up warnings that blatantly obvious for future humans (or non-humans) that might not understand what this symbol: ☢️ means.
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  210. Yes, but did the knights of the round table really dance whenever they were able? “On second though, let’s not go to Camelot, ‘tis a a silly place.”
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  211. Coke did do a clear soda... for the USSR.
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  212. This part of the Earth is pretty much another world... it’s amazing anything lives down there.
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  213.  @Mr_T_Badger  yes, the actor who portrayed him in the recent mini-series just passed away from a brain tumor.
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  214. I was 10, and pissed that my cartoons were preempted for Gulf War news reports... Who cuts away from kids Saturday morning TV to show war and death?
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  215. Whacked out on pain pills and complaining about the hippies and their drug use… guess he didn’t equate his drug use with theirs?
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  216. Jethero Tull is sad because there was no Aqualung.
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  217. The 90s... which ends with a Star Wars Prequel... which means, we have to go back to the 70s next to find the original Star Wars!
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  218. Where’s the “based on a true story” movie for him where he finds and fights a yeti bare-handed for no reason other than to put in action sequence?
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  219. Eventually all major TV church leaders will fall in scandals...
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  220.  @SandmanX1  “Well gosh.”
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  221. For those thinking this, or a super volcano (the 8/8 on the scale) could solve global warming, a warning, a massive volcanic event in ancient Siberia is believed to be the cause of one of Earth’s greats mass extinction events that killed off the majority of life on the planet.
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  222. Should have charged that kid as an adult, after all, he was drinking adult beverages while driving.
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  223.  @theannoyedmrfloyd3998  Kamala (RIP) did it too... but I’m not sure if it was during a match. Edit: yep it was- https://youtu.be/_nzTG6TQu0c
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  224. I remember one of NJ State Troopers pulling over a car near the Meadowlands and finding a drunk Iron Sheik and one of “All American” styled (Hacksaw Jim Duggan maybe?) wrestlers inside.
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  225. Those 3 countries are Muslim majority and believe rumors that the people trying to vaccinate against polio are secretly converting children to Christianity... and they attacked the foreign doctors and ran them out of town on a rail (heard about this at the first Global Zero concert). It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, condemn your children to possible paralysis to “save” them from another religion.
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  226. I believe because Trump had them buy “used” (pre-built but never used by the original buyer and put in storage) 747-800s, and not custom built from the wheels up new planes, putting in the refueling equipment would be impossible without rebuilding the entire airframe (which might cost more than putting it into a custom build).
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  227. Wellington: It’s no use Napoleon! I have the high ground! Napoleon: You underestimate my infantry! [Sends them in, they get locked inside a courtyard and are slaughtered.] Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! That’s it... deploy the waterslide.
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  228. Simone Giertz (a maker and YouTuber from Sweden who lives in the US) has pointed out that she doesn’t censor herself and won’t until she sees someone on TV saying, “I was a good kid until I heard f—k and s—t on TV, then I became a criminal.”
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  229. Florida really messed up that election with their stupid ballot design.
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  230. Chernobyl did happen again, in Fukushima, Japan, except it was multiple reactors failing and releasing radiation. One even blew up on live tv!
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  231. Boo, Pluto is still a Planet, as are all the other new ones we've found! Cowards couldn't admit we have more than 9 planets, so they demoted one.
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  232. That hat needs to have a little fan and a vent on top like a mascot head.
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