Comments by "Drecon84" (@Drecon84) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. "Nothing made by the devil could taste so sweet" Wait, isn't that exactly what he's supposed to be doing? Making things look more enticing to get us to do things that are bad for us?
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  2. When being poor becomes a crime...
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  3. He was Anansi's neighbor and was a trusting man? Just moved to the neighborhood then?
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  4. I love to hear about these old visionaries. Especially in retrospect, when the whole of the world (well... most of it anyways) eventually follows their grand design.
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  5. "By this point the hare was very good at counting" Nice one.
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  6.  @randommcWOman  A quick Google search would tell you that. The Alp creatures are actually from north Germany rather than south-east, where those mountains are. Interestingly the word Alp seems to be related to the word Elf, so there's that I guess?
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  7. Yeah, James looks almost real.
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  8. +Hiker Wolfspaine I've been playing this game for 25 years and have never noticed it... My mind is so blown right now.
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  9. I really can't help hearing 'demonic' instead of 'demotic'.
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  10. So... you're basically doing all the Civ 5 leaders? :P
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  11. This fills me with the hope that there might be a chance for the EU still.
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  12. Word.
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  13. The core message here is that if your work is good enough, it will get there, even if the experts don't agree.
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  14.  @TheFiresloth  spoilers! :P
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  15. A fowl force indeed.
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  16. I'm gonna make my own video. With Blackjack. And hookers!
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  17. I only just realized that the Jewish people must have had a history between the rise of Christianity and the second world war... I know nothing of that entire period.
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  18. Thanks
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  19. Wait.... wait... Russian-Japanese war? reads So... Japan used to be a world power, controlling most of Oceania and Asia? Why did I never learn that in school?
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  20. I have no idea how you made such a boring topic interesting, but somehow you did.
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  21. Glad you got a Dragonball Z reference in, but even more glad you kept it subtle.
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  22. Now I know why Shakespeare loved Rome so much.
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  23. Wow. This video series explained so much.
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  24. Nothing unites people like a common enemy
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  25. Gee, I wonder why people in the middle east hate the west so much. It's a mystery.
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  26. These war episodes are always a bit boring but I'll watch them anyways because it's better than nothing I guess.
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  27. Have you ever been so angry that you retreated in quiet contemplation?
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  28. As enlightening as all of this is, it does make visible a lot of ways that the current political system is horribly broken.
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  29. The Dutch pronunciation for (Simon) Stevin is actually more like "Stay-fin". No biggie though, we're used to foreigners not having any idea how to pronounce our language. It's a hard one to learn.
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  30. Interesting thing about Simon Stevin by the way, he pretty much invented a whole new vocabulary for math in Dutch. Dutch has a strange word for pretty much every mathematical term. This actually makes it very hard for Dutchies to learn math in another language. None of the terms match up.
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  31. So.... Schizophrenia?
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  32. How about we force politicians to watch sesame street every day? I mean, maybe it will rub off on them at some point?
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  33. I've been re-reading Dune lately, so this series is more than welcome.
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  34. Constantine!
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  35. I hate so much that this world needs money. Most of the things that are wrong with the world are because of money.
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  36. I just heard the term "GOP" for the first time here. I can't believe that a party would call itself "Grand Old Party" and be taken seriously. The USA is so absurd to me.
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  37. What do you mean in response? Portal: Three Kingdoms actually didn't have instants you know.
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  38. Wait, what kind of swallow are we talking about here?
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  39. Imagine sending cameras to capture humans shooting animals with machine guns as a promotional thing.
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  40. As a maths teacher I'm very excited about this series.
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  41. Maybe it was a peach tree?
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  42. Free medical care? Now there's a sure sign of enlightenment. Nice.
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  43. "sort of like a religion and a private club" So... a cult?
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  44. I'm not sure if there's any reasonable argument left that the USA holds democracy in high regard. Change my mind (by voting, I hope)
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  45. Yes Ibn Battutta went everywhere. That's literally what he's known for.
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  46. I was born in 1984. My life would never be the same.
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  47. Yay, two of my favourite channels working together is fun :)
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  48. -30% less chocolate? Yes please!
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  49. Love this episode <3
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  50. Currently re-reading God-Emperor. It's such a brilliant work (the entirety of the series of course, not even that book specifically)
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