Comments by "Pyromania101" (@pyromania1018) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. The only problem with the series is the Tunbaq. I think it would have been better if the monster had been a regular polar bear, which is pretty scary in its own right.
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  2. From what I heard, mentioning the topic to her will prompt her to just walk away. She HATES when people bring that up.
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  3. I just started re-reading his memoirs.
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  4. "That's a paddlin'." ~Lee Kuan Yew
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  5. Actually, even with that excuse, Franz Joseph was reluctant to go to war, but the Kaiser, wanting a "place in the sun" for Germany, egged him on, promising to support him.
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  6. Aurelian's biggest flaw is that he would punish even the smallest mistake with execution, so when a slave made a tiny error on a record, he panicked and rallied a bunch of other soon-to-be targets to kill the emperor before he could kill them.
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  7.  Butterballs Crawford  Can't say I entirely disagree with you. I just wish they didn't take millions of people down with them.
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  8. There needs to be a movie about this loon, starring James Franco.
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  9. Elena Ceausescu saw her as a role model, and Jiang was all too happy to take Elena under her wing, urging her to not just be a side character. Elena turned out to be even worse, being not only vicious and vain, but also incredibly stupid.
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  10.  @j.p.obregon1415  Well, his handling of COVID was rather sloppy, but a part of me wants to chalk that up to inexperience. And he could've pulled a Grover Cleveland and run for a second, non-consecutive term, but instead, he destroyed any hope he had of getting another shot at the White House.
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  11. Mosley kicked William Joyce out of the party because he thought that Joyce was too anti-Semitic. Let that sink in.
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  12.  @mcnultyssobercompanion6372  I freely admit that I voted for him both times, but his tantrum after losing the 2020 election was just pathetic.
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  13.  @williamwhitcombe6487  Ugh. It was the French GOVERNMENT that surrendered. French troops were furious and still wanted to fight, and held off the Germans during the Dunkirk evacuation before going underground and forming a resistance movement that was nationwide.
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  14.  @amandajones661  Not all Roman emperors were deified posthumously: Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellus, and Julianus weren't, just to name a few. One of the few bad emperors to be deified was Commodus, and that was done by Severus in order to suck up to the bastard's family.
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  15. @Ladey Babey Reconstruction and industrialization dealt with both problems, but they were too busy whining about the fact that they couldn't own slaves anymore to appreciate that. And frankly, it was also that little fact that made the war unwinnable, among other things: they grew so much cotton that they neglected to grow enough food.
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  16.  @wolf8550  It's the interpretation made by Livy, admittedly not an unbiased source. According to him, Scipio was apparently pleased that Hannibal regarded him as a more accomplished general than Alexander.
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  17. @CKS1949 Yeah. The government of Taiwan still supported him, though, albeit not as much as the city did.
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  18. Peter was Paul's dad: Paul began behaving very similarly to him as he got older.
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  19.  @SovereignStatesman  Surrendered as a convert? Okay, sure, whatever. Plus, if the letter was fake, why did they take care of him in his later years? What's with the hostility?
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  20.  Hissam Ullah  At one point, he even dared his torturers to bring in his accuser, promising to confess to everything they told him to if they did. They couldn't, because the supposed accuser had been killed during the Civil War back in the '20s. He was eventually released without explanation and given an army to command, and boy, did he command it. I've been hunting for Rokossovsky's memoirs, but they're out of print, and the only copies you can find online are super-expensive.
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  21.  @IanAlcorn  He didn't even have good intentions: he tried to protect the expansion of slavery. The guy was borderline, if not outright, treasonous.
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  22. Nah, that's Beria. Stalin even called him "our Himmler". Ironically, Iron Felix didn't like Stalin all that much.
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  23. "I think she's dead." "No, I'm not." (screams, crashing and smashing)
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  24.  @barra6709  I wish it had kept that scene where he accidentally got two innocent bystanders killed and felt bad about it.
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  25. Yeah. Simpler times, when disgruntled workers were walled up in abandoned coke ovens.
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  26. Well, he did try to give him the best tutors to prepare him for the role. Even Dio, who was unsympathetic, acknowledged that he wasn't born evil.
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  27. Wellington himself described Waterloo as a "close-run thing".
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  28. 2:40-2:50 "That is a royal mouthful." ~Grover
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  29.  @wwc51450  Not a fan of Biden, but he does seem more proactive than Buchanan, for better or worse.
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  30. "That is a royal mouthful." ~(Lovable, Furry Old) Grover, "Sesame Street"
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  31.  Gage Acosta  Too bad he didn't live to see the third Kim take power. Now they've got their Unholy Trinity. And I don't think he was dismissing it. I think he was just describing what was going on.
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  32.  @nehcooahnait7827  In addition, they grew to love each other. She even spent the next quarter-century campaigning to have his remains buried with other dead emperors.
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  33. At least Severus deified him.
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  34. According to Suetonius (something of a flatulist himself), as Claudius began choking from the poisoned mushrooms, he discharged an explosive fart that might have saved him, so a slave on Agrippina's payroll inserted a poison-dipped feather into his mouth to finish the job.
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  35. He had a judge's mindset, which is why he wanted to be a judge rather than a politician. Chief Justice was the perfect job for him.
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  36. "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular" ~Idi Amin's full title
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  37.  @raghul0078  I know that's who he is. What's his name?
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  38. Wow. I didn't know that. You learn something new every day.
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  39. Well, Russia was in a state of internal turmoil when he invaded, and he made sure to exploit that. The Germans did that in WWI and were on the cusp of winning when Lenin took control and bought them off, but Napoleon and Hitler faced a united Russia.
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  40. Well, he didn't rig elections and have opponents killed--just locked up and caned, or if not that, he sued their pants off. Plus he enforced religious and racial toleration (aside from gays and Jehova's Witnesses) and made drug smuggling a capital crime. But I agree that he deserves his own video.
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  41. I know he's your husband. What's his name?
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  42.  @mr.iforgot3062  Nothing. I just think this should have ended like a Biographics video. And I'll say and do as I see fit, thank you very much.
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  43. You missed a few things: * That ex-fiance who died? Well, her family blamed Buchanan for that and wrecked his legal career out of spite, necessitating his turn to politics. * Jackson made him the ambassador to Russia just to get him as far away from the country as possible, famously declaring that he'd have sent Buchanan to the North Pole if he could, "but we don't have an embassy there." * His trips abroad gave others the (incorrect) belief that he had some diplomatic/political know-how, to the point of where Ulysses S. Grant voted for him out of fear that his opponent would "cause a civil war." Hmm, why do I hear foreboding music in the background?
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  44. Badum-tish!
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  45.  @JK-gu3tl  And then there were the Rosenbergs.
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  46. For a little while. Then England stopped playing around and conquered the hell out of Scotland.
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  47. How did the old guy react when informed of the mistake?
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  48. Russia: Hold my taters.
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  49. And Heinz Heydrich. He was initially an enthusiastic Nazi, but when he learned about the Holocaust after his brother's death, he resolved to help as many Jews as he could. He committed suicide in 1944 when he thought the Gestapo had caught onto his actions in order to protect his family from being sent to the camps. In truth, they never suspected a thing.
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  50. Rome hadn't finished economically exploiting Carthage yet, so destroying it would have been impractical. Cato was repeatedly reminded of this, but he was such a petty, stupid man that he ignored it.
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