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

  1. prettyfar33 codpieces.
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  2.  @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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. I had to force my phone to think I’m in Canada just to get it to use Metric!
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  7. 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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  8. Shirt woot did a “Night of the Karen’s” t-shirt... but it’s more zombie inspired.
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  9. 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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  10. Unless you were in a cold swimming pool.
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  11. 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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  12. Coming soon: 2009, starring Tom Hanks.
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  13. Chernobyl unit 4 operator: “Hold my vodka and watch this!”
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  14. Prince has left the chat.
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Martin Scorsese was assistant director and one of the editors for the documentary.
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  19. @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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  20.  @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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  21. 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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  22. Egyptian Lego minifig entourage!
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  23. Facial reconstruction does have it's limits, which is why face transplants are becoming a thing.
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  24. It would be very interesting if they left that “suicide” square in the game.
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  25. I’m sure the job pays way more than any other private family gig.
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  26. 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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  27. The Latin for lead is Plumbum, hence why it’s PB on the periodic table.
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  28. 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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  29. It’d be like George Costanza at that kids party.
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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34.  @withgoddess8029  Geraldo exposing the horrors at Willowbrook Institute in Staten Island
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  35. Letterman though NBC would give him the Tonight Show... hired Leno instead. Conan: “Why did I trust them?!”
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  36.  @Rando_Shyte  unless radioactive contamination gets into the birds and fish.
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  37. I remember when Game Boy came out too... got it that Christmas. Memories of greenscale graphics.
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  38. 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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  39. No need to island-lake-island-etc. Just call them Droste Islands.
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  40. 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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  41. It’s only mass hysteria if dogs and cats were living together.
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  42. George Carlin was a Philosopher and he’s been proven RIGHT since 2016.
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. Domo arrigato Mr. Roboto... what, not that Kilroy?
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  48. 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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  49. With all the toxic substances they were deliberately exposed to, it’s surprising anyone made it to the 20th century!
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  50. Winston: “Cleo, the next time someone asks if you’re a god, you say YES.
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