Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Metatron" channel.

  1. And you can always spot the king because he's not covered in shit.
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  2. ​ @HerzausStahl  As does Tsar
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  3. When I read Shogun in the 80s the book slowly introduces Japanese. By the end of the book whole conversations are in Japanese and one can follow them easily.
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  4. She belongs to the half of the human race George Carlin was talking about.
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  5. You have a right to freedom of expression. You do not have a right to be offended by what other people say.
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  6.  @rotwang2000  It's like the guys wearing Carhartt stuff that have never been near a job site
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  7. Yes, the Greeks and Romans along with the Egyptians and likely other painted statues, temples and other public buildings. But I have to say that I find the bare statue devoid of pigment vastly more beautiful. Why? Because the naked stone, no matter the color of the stone, displays the skill and technique of the true artist in their creation. The sculptor. Painting the objects to me was just gilding the lily.
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  8. That is neat.
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  9. We have only a minor fraction of what the Romans wrote and recorded. Much less everybody else.
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  10. The year 1600 is actually the last year of the 16th Century. The 21st Century runs from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2100.
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  11. You want heirloom vegies? Plant a garden or visit a farmers market.
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  12. Or 2016, or 2020 depending on who you ask.
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  13. In the History of the World according to Flip Wilson Chris set sail to discover were the Ray Charles records came from.
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  14. ​ @gamera5160  Thiacovsky (sp) was gay. Who the hell cares.
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  15. Just the term Samurai Caveman has me thinking of John Belushi. I know I'm showing my age.
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  16. There is another problem with boots that get wet from sweat and are worn day in, day out. Their insides rot pretty fast 9 months if your lucky. When I was working I got into the habit of having two pairs of good quality work boots of different styles that I would change off every work day so they had a chance to dry out. I'd wear the soles out before the uppers went bad.
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  17. There are bronze alloys a lot tougher than Tin Bronze. There is a company founded in the 1910s that specailizes in bronze alloys. The first product they brought to market was meant to be used for cutting tools for machining steel. Companies name is Ampco
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  18. Applying modern morals to past societies is in my mind a game for losers. Every nation has practices or behaviors that another group will define as immoral.
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  19. Projecting the values of today onto the past is common enough in judging the morality of the actions of people and societies. And that is idiotic. Projecting the values of the fringes of society onto the past makes the first statement completely logical. One thing that frosts me as descendants of Scandinavian Southern Gentlemen (aka Danes) is calling the people who lived there Vikings. They were Norse and likely identified as their clan or tribal group first. And then possibly as Norwegian, Swedish or Danes. To go Viking was an activity.
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  20.  @clauricaune  Probably slot of academic papers are read by the peer reviewers and that's the last time. As Harlan Ellison once said "95% of science fiction is crap. But the 95% of everything is crap". There are a number of fields in academia where one would think that they have been so thoroughly mined out that coming up with a PhD* thesis would be impossible. Piled higher and Deeper as a professor with a PhD in Psychology i knew used to say.
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  21. Remember, it could be worse. The History Channels universal answer could be "the Earth is flat"
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  22.  @willmfrank  "You'll knap your eye out kid!"
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  23. So even in the Middle Ages people like Jeranism would still stand out as idiots.
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  24. Biggus Dickus. Shagiator.
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  25. One of the best examples of using foreign language in an English language production or book was James Clavell's Shogun. In the begining everything in Japanese was followed by English in Italics. By the end of the book everything in Japanese is not followed by a translation and you are able to read it.
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  26. ​ @s6748-z5j  And read stories to them
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  27. Hopefully Jada Smith had nothing to do with this.
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  28.  @UncleMikeDrop  People tend to think of "deadly weapons" as guns, knives and clubs. If you attempt to smother someone with a pillow. That pillow is now a deadly weapon. I once served on jury where one of the charges wa assault with a deadly weapon. The weapon was a cell phone. The attackers cell phone. Left at the scene. Two words that truely do not go together are criminal and mastermind.
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  29. ​ @Gillymonster18  The steel use in cars today is thinner than it was 50 years ago. It is also probably of higher quality. Even so if you take a flat sheet sheet say 50 cm by 100 cm you would not believe just how flexible it is across the 100 cm length. The sheet metal used in a car gains a lot of its stiffness just from the shapes stamped into it. Traditionally from my experience a single fender could require a set of up to 5 seperate dies just to stamp that one body panel.
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  30. Sir, thank you for your frank and honest appraisal of some academics. Academics are people just like everyone else. With all the attendant baggage. Pride, blindful or willful ignorance, arrogance and preconceptions. These go along with the admirable traits of honesty, humbleness and being able to concede when they are wrong. That said there are fair number of YouTube channels that deserve the ridicule that academics heap on them. Aside from the delusional Flat Earthers (aka flattards) a fair number of these seem to involve antiquity and some of the more outrageous ideas that have cropped from the minds of some people. Myself I do happen to think that some of these channels do bring up valid points. And ask interesting questions. But they can not seem to stop them selves and usually jump right off the cliff into the big steaming pile of woo at the bottom. The woo includes the usual suspects. I think you know who I mean. Also there are other factors in academia was well as other areas of society. Political correctness and the seeming refusal on the part of some people to even entertain ideas that they might find offensive. One example. The whole Solutrean Hypothesis. Were the original proponents and later on Dennis Stanford on to something? I'm not qualified to judge but on one hand it seemed the idea had to be rejected because it might offend some "First Peoples" groups. Also the seizure on the idea that some truely offensive people did latch on to the idea that "Europeans" were in the Americas first (1). I admit I do find Stanford's proposed methodology for how Solutrean hunters following seals along the edge of pack ice in the North Atlantic might have ended up in North America intriguing (2). But the first people in the Americas? I do not think so. We know people were in Alaska 40K years ago. There is one out of place artifact in that was found in th he Jamestown area as a surface find. So unfortunately dating it is pretty much impossible. This is a flint knife blade. When the flint was traced to its source it was found to be from a quarry in Southwestern France in the area the Solutrean Culture inhabited. Is the artifact genuine? A fake? An flint knife dropped by an English settler or farmer. 1) I suspect that in the end we will find that people have lived in the Americas longer than we think. How long is an open question. As to the origins of people in North America pre Columbus aside from a few Old World sailors or fishermen that somehow got driven across the Atlantic because of storms the evidence is overwhelming they originated in Northeastern Siberia. Which actually is part of the North American tectonic plate. The reason we give Columbus the credit or blame is that's when contact between the Old World and the New stuck. 2) Stanford never implied that the Solutreans were Europeans as we think of them today. It is my understanding that he felt they originated in Northwestern Africa.
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  31. Probably Stone Age quarterbacks or pitchers
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  32. A typical Paleolithic family. H Sap strong mother figure. Dumbass H Denisovian father figure. Transgender daughter who identifies as male H Sap homosexual. Retarded Incel H Sap son who can't bang two rocks together. Source. The Guardian most likely.
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  33. Decent sword fights too. Far too many sword fights in movies are just waving the points at each other. For a great sabre duel watch Deluge.
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  34. I remember pollen grains being found that were consistent with pollen from 1st Century Judea. I could be mistaken. But if true that in my mind rules out a 14th Century forgery
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  35.  @penultimateh766  Short conversations at least. As the book progressed the amount of Japanese steadily increased.
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  36.  @kaltaron1284  No. In Latinized spelling.
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  37.  @annaclarafenyo8185  I do not mean to be flippant. Who's god?
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  38. The 80s mini series and Cosmos are what prompted me to buy my first VCR
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  39. The oldest known boat. Boats/watercraft likely go back a long way. The first ship of multiple pieces of wood. An actual boat or ship. One place we might find a really old one is in the Black Sea. Below the Oxygen layer.
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  40. And here l thought angels looked like Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
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  41.  @SidheKnight  Yah, but it costs an arm and a leg
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  42. The Asterix in Britian reminds me of the Lindsey Davis novels featuring the Roman informer (detective) in Britian The Silver Pigs A Body in the Bathouse The Jupiter Myth The audio editions are highly entertaining due to the narrator
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  43. Flint is still used today by re-enactors, recreational shooters and hunters using flintlock firearms.
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  44. And here I thought they were all Russel Crowe clones. Say that one 10 times as fast as you can. A new tongue twister 😂
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  45. The problem is he's telling everyone the Emperor has no clothes but the idiots won't listen.
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  46. What's to say the the crew of any ship knew anything about metal working beyond basic blacksmithing.
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  47. In the US if you are wounded enough to get sent home that's a Million Dollar Wound. Or was anyway. Given inflation it's more like a Billion.
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  48. I question as to whether or not the Roman's actually used Roman numerals for serious work or whether they had an informal system of signs for doing calculations that was used by people who actually used math in their profession. Bankers, surveyors, engineers etc. The formal system may simply have been used for official documents etc. And by an informal systems one individual may have his own symbology
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  49. If they want to do a sequel starring Ruseel Crowe. It should be a sequel to Master and Commander.
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  50. They were probably too good looking to wear a nasal bar.
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  51.  @rotwang2000  Well, it works out decently for the people working in the truck and drive train facilities 😉
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  52. I don't know what you call them but the guys that kept the torches lit in abandoned tunnels
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  53. Pretty much everywhere in the ancient world was terrible.
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  54. The bit about armor and firearms. Tell it to the Polish Winged Hussars. Or French Curriasers (sp) in Napoleon's Grand Army.
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  55. ​ @guidedmeditation2396  To which she will pay not the slightest attention. IMO trying to attach yourself to the achievements of people 2000 years or more dead is dumb. No matter who you are. You can be proud of your ancestors achievements. But they are NOT YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS. If Jada wants an epic tale involving ethnic Bantu how about one involving the Bantu kingdoms of West Africa or the great migration of Bantu peoples from West Aftica into Southeast and Southern Africa. But that might smack of colonialism.
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  56. Logically he most likely looked like a generic Jew born to Jewish parents (we'll leave aside the divinity of his birth) who were of Jewish ethnicity. In the end it does not matter one iota. What matters is the message.
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  57.  Billy William  as stated in the video skeletal remains from 1st century judea most closely resemble modern Jews in Iraq. But in the end does it matter.
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  58. ​ @forestcampbell8962  If it's the Taboo I'm thinking of it had two sequels.
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  59. Oscar Meier bolanga has nothing to do with Mortadella. The worst Ametican pronunciation of as n Itslian word is Eyetalian
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  60. Reading this on October 28, 2023.
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  61. Evil? By who's standards. By our standards yes they were. By the standards of their time? Slavery wasn't uncommon. It was more the norm. If they were evil I think it comes out in their entertainment. IE the Games. When it comes to entertainment concerning Rome I think my favorite are Lindsay Davis's series of detective stories set in late 1st century Rome. These feature Marcus Didius Falco and his adoptive daughter Flavia as the main protagonists. While the print editions are worth reading the audio editions are great. Aside from the British accents.
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  62.  @lucarod8877  It is my understanding that the Romans tried as much as possible to rule through locals. Yes the legions were always present as Rome's fist but as long as you paid your taxes, trade flowed and nobody caused any trouble it was no problem. If Jesus posed any kind of threat to Roman rule in Judea it was as a potential focal point for rebellion. Which one does not see in the Gospels
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  63.  @ThxGod_ItsOver  Arctic peoples in Asia and North America have higher menilen levels that Europeans and are almost always clothed year round. Yet they have no problems with vitamin deficiencies (in the normal cultural diet) due to that diets inclusion of organ meats and fat.
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  64. Quit calling the prey "game". The prey were both a food and material resource. Also I'd be willing to bet prior to domesticating canids Humans hunted wolves both for fur and to eliminate a competitor.
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  65. @gurugurukuma  To me people calling species that are hunted game sounds more like modern sport hunting. I don't have anything against hunting as long as the animal is used for food. But hunting just for a trophy to hang on the wall. No, l don't like that at all And in my life I've eaten Pheasant, Rabbit, Ducks, Goose, Venison, Racoons, Elk, Moose, Bear and lots of fish.
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  66. I wonder if gunpowder originally came from either alchemists or magicians messing around with fast burning powders to create smoke effects.
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  67. Did any Roman ships reach the Americas? Or any of the other classical cultures? I suspect that occasionally one storm tossed vessel did. Perhaps one or two a century. But as others have stated the crews and passengers were likely dead. But some of the odd finds over the years could have come from other sources. IMO the first Europeans that reached the Americas and made it stick after the Norse were either Basque or British cod fishermen from Bristol
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  68. Having lost my first wife to cancer my condolences.
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  69. While I have serious doubts about the Shrouds authenticity as I understand one of the inquiries in to it found pollen grains consistent with 1st century Judea.
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  70. No tomatoes, no pizza. 🤔 At least no late deliveries, cold pizza and snotty drivers.
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  71. You can take a certain amount of pride in things your ancestors accomplished. Just as you can admit to the wrongs they may have done (1). But remember. They are not your personal accomplishments. Nor are the wrongs they may have done your personal responsibilty. 1) Never fall into the trap of judging the past entirely by your own person morals or the standards of your time. Or of your society. There are things that were done in the past by societies and individuals that may well have been seen as morally right by their standards.
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  72. Now let's here his opinion on American lasagna. It's all what you're used to.
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  73.  @burned357waffles  Ask yourself. Does that say more about him or about potential critics.
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  74. ​ @gamera5160  Come June expect them to be painted in a 🌈
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  75. A film company has an absolute right to race swap or gender swap roles if they want to. We the viewer have an absolute right not to purchase tickets to see or pay for a subscription service showing the film.
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  76. It does not matter what Jesus looked like. What is important is the message.
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  77. Where do castles come from? Castles are Us.
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  78. The producers of this dumpster fire (and a few others) have an agenda. That's my opinion. Of course prople who disagree can always point to films made in the past that feature almost exclusively actors of European origins as trying to push a narrative. But l don't remember anybody trying to claim Cleopatra, The Egyptian, Land of the Pharohs etc are documentaries.
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  79. The spice trade. The real societal driver behind the Age of European Exploration
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  80.  @obadiahspong2300  Don't you know the Vatican Secret Archives hold all the secrets of the Illuminati, conclusive proof of UFOs and Aliens (along with complete engineering specs), the recovered treasure of Oak Island, Willian DeVere's outlines for Shakespeare's plays or anything else the conspiracy whack jobs can dream up.
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  81.  @obadiahspong2300  Well, they can't really read their own language really.
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  82. Damn straight. Putting pineapple or spam on pizza is just soooooo wrong.
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  83. If a medieval meal has lentils in it. It sucks totally IMO.
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  84. This is just stuff we know about. I suspect in early farming villages the path in front or leading to something had a name relating to it.
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  85. That's a multigenerational thing it's the Simpsons. There are kids today whose grandparents watched the Simpsons.
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  86. Another point of how long an actual duel with swords would last is just how much is required to meet honors sake. Unarmored vs armored. The unarmored individual can run a lot faster. Feet don't fail me now!
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  87. In terms of man years the metal age is probably a lot more time.
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  88. The best pizza is what you like personally.
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  89. Some women hunters were better than some men. And some weren't. And one learned how to ride a horse and tame a wolf. It's true. There was a whole series of books about it 😂
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  90. I've had genuine style Italian pizza here in the US. The way it was explained to me is true homemade pizza is simply a way to use what you might have on hand. But that was Calabrese as most of the Italians in our area have roots in Calabria. Mainly Cozenza. The pizza in the US I really like but can not get anymore is one without sauce.
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  91. Watercraft of some type have to go way back. I suspect that Homo Erectus was paddling around canoes of one form or another
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  92.  @AThousandYoung  Zippos!
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  93. Gai-Jin was the last one written by Clavell. I think he was starting to slip. In order of publication. King Rat, Tai-Pan, Noble House, Shogun, Whirlwind and Gai-Jin. Clavell was actually a POW in Changi Prison in Singapore. His novels have had mixed success as films or television productions. King Rat and Shogun are good to very good. Tai-Pan was atrocious. Killed Brian Browns career pretty much.
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  94. Townsends is one of the best living history channels on YouTube. Period.
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  95. Street names are very unusual were l live. Almost everything is numbered on a grid. 100 years ago they allowed builders to name local streets. Hence multiple streets with the same name not connected in anyway. It got so bad the Post Office could not deliver the mail. Hence the city went to numbered streets east-west and avenues north-south. Names were reserved for highways, loop roads and diagonals. Now idiots want to go back to street names.
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  96. If there is an American accent it's the one you hear on the nightly news.
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  97. To bitch slap France every 50 years on average.
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  98. Metatron. Your "critics" would claim you said the sky was orange if you said it was blue.
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  99. Not related to armor. That shot (13:25) going down the cortidor with all the torches. How come in movies etc we never see the guy that goes around lighting or replacing them when they burn out. Even in abandoned "lost" tombs or tunnels. 😅 Did they run down to James the Torch Sellers shop for eternal torches?
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  100.  @robertstone9988  Perhaps I should have stated that you have no right to abuse others with that your sense of being offended by the truth. If you are offended by things that clearly are wrong in a moral* or societal sense. That's a different matter. *even morality can be a slippery slope in that what may be immoral to one society may be perfectly moral to another.
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  101.  @robertstone9988  I'm fairly tolerant. But I find I do not suffer fools gladly. Myself included if I'm being foolish.
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  102. I saw that too. Probably a typo
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  103. Just so you know. The term "spear chucker" is very offensive to some people*. Jesse Jackson included. He actually got called one at a political rally. For him. True story. *Given the way it's usually used I do not blame them one bit.
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  104. They immigrated from Latin America. Right?
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  105. Did a war occur around the site of Troy? I think yes. Did it involve what happens in the Illiad. Probably not. But the war or wars inspired the epic poems that became the Illiad. And the wars were likely over Troy strangling trade through Bosporus.
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  106. And he didn't even drink Dos Equis
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  107. I think calling them insane is being generous.
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  108. Sandals and socks. How European.
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  109. Yes Metatron. You could be and probably are an alien. But are you a registered alien?
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  110.  @metatronyt  I thought you would get the joke. When I was a kid every year at as certain time of the year there would be TV public service spots reminding registered aliens to RAs to turn their paperwork in. This was in the 1960s. There were still large numbers of DPs* that came over in the 40s and early 50s that had not applied for citizenship *Displaced Persons
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  111. It depends on the options. Dungeon? Dungeons? Equipped with chains? Built in torturer?
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  112. There are people today who produce arrow heads etc by knapping glass. One of the more unusual stone artifacts found in the Americas was a flint knife found in the area of Jamestown. It was a surface find. So dating it is damn near impossible. When the stone it was made from was traced to its source. That source turned out to be a quarry in southwestern France associated with known Solutrean tools. Real? Fake? Planted to throw off paleo-archeologists? I have no idea. And I don't think anyone else does either. It begs the question though. Just what would an English settler be doing using a flint knife in the 17th century. And if the blade was snapped by a member of the tribes living along the James River just where did he get the stone from.
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  113. The problem with inclusion in historical fiction is that there will be individua who accept is historic fact.
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  114. Canoes are one thing. Especially dugouts made from one tree trunk. Some of which can be quite large. But what about vessels made from multiple pieces. Actual wooden ships. It's possible that very old ones could be found in the Black Sea below the depth were oxygen is basically not present. And then their are composite vessels. Watercraft made from wooden frames with skin coverings. And those made of reeds.
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  115.  @appelflapdrol  Perhaps one of the oldest watercraft aside from a log could be the inflated stomach of a larger animal.
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