Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. Zelensky was rich long before he entered politics. He wasn’t just a comedian (with a law degree), he founded and run a production company that made movies and TV shows. Is he a billionaire now? I highly, highly doubt it. I would need to see non-Russian sources for that. (And Keir is probably not stupid. The more likely explanation is an IQ of 120 + autism.)
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  2.  @AegonCallery-ty6vy some of whom have horrible family members. Mo, for example, in the UK.
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  3. There might have been more than one tweet?
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  4. Sounds like a “bye, Felix” moment :)
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  5. Britain was on the wrong side in the First World War, anyway.
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  6. There’s a reason why they were proud Brexiteers — knowing the first thing about foreign policy isn’t really compatible with brexit. (Neither is knowing literally the first thing about immigration in the UK — the Pakistanis are not there because “the EU forced the UK to take them”.) They are good at showing us what the works are up to, though. That’s enough to make them worth watching most of the time.
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  7. Don’t be so proud of their fighting in WW1. The UK was not on the right side in that one. Look up Raymond Poincaré (French President) to see how that war actually started.
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  8. Trains are a lot costlier to run than the gentlemen hosts realize. The trains are slower than planes so they can't be used as many times a week as the planes. There is a shocking amount of infrastructure along the way. Trains are not all that energy efficient if they aren't full. Countries with cheap trains (to the consumer) are countries with exorbitant subsidies to their trains.
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  9.  @freebird7017 also, Russia is very far from the Whitopia many Westerners think it is, apart from the whole dictatorship, war, corruption, mafia state thing.
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  10.  @moose6869  pardon me, but Yanukovich was a Russian puppet “elected” by Russia. Ukraine has had a Democratic government ever since they got rid of that traitor. Sure, there are still lots of problems in Ukraine: corruption and oligarchs being the two big ones (of those that aren’t Russian war/occupation). Those are not exactly something Russia can help them solve, are they? The EU can, though.
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  11. The UK was protecting that money until the day the Mullahs disappeared and it could be given back to Iran’s rightful government.
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  12.  @Kwisatz-Chaderach he did study for the priesthood for a while, when he wasn’t robbing banks.
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  13.  @martyfeldman3269  I think you should read a bit more about it, particularly from non-English sources.
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  14.  Josef Blanc  no, I’m just apparently better informed than you.
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  15.  @UltraKardas  I clearly know more about both than you.
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  16. EV cars are less fire prone than petrol/diesel cars.
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  17. There actually was, in lab animals, but it was ignored.
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  18.  @baldieman64  no, I’m talking about thalidomide. In any case, we have lots of data on various COVID-19 vaccines now. They are very, very safe.
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  19. Pundicherry?
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  20. No, the "Danish cartoonist" was NOT murdered. The cartoons were drawn by a dozen different people. The man who drew the "turban bomb" was attacked by a mad Somali with an axe (while the artist's young granddaughter was with the artist). The artist managed to get into his safe room and escaped alive. The Somali was recently released and has not been kicked out of the country... because Somalia says they don't want him. We are apparently supposed to respect Somalia's wishes. In the meantime, we can't keep the would-be murderer locked up because of his "human rights".
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  21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1801) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_K%C3%B8ge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1807) Where's my reparations, huh? England attacked Denmark early in the Napoleonic wars (1801) not because we were allied with France -- we weren't -- but because we were neutral. And we tried really hard to stay out of those wars. Then they did it again in 1807 -- the only reason why England could get away with it the second time was that practically the entire army and navy were stationed down South to prevent an attack from the French and their Spanish ally! After the unprovoked attacks of 1807 we joined the French... Who were the honour-less perpetrators? "Heroes" like Nelson and Wellesley (Wellington).
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  22. What dignity she started with must be very diluted by now.
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  23.  @de14jabs  yes, clever. But their stupid system thankfully makes it hard for them to harness all their cleverness.
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  24.  @bronsontolliver9027  I want criminals to be second class citizens. Why wouldn’t you want that?
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  25. They didn’t steal their land from the Bantus. You did actually steal yours from the Palestinians.
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  26.  @zxyatiywariii8  thalidomide was an honest mistake. There are two molecules that are mirror images of each other. One works against nausea, the other causes birth defects. The latter effect doesn’t show up in the test animals they used. Thalidomide is still used against certain cancers, btw.
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  27. That was a tax crime/treason thing. It had nothing to do with freedom or justice, no matter what they “taught” you in school. Not really relevant to the current situation in the UK, much of Europe… and the US. Americans can get in a lot of trouble for saying that Saint F wasn’t murdered, that an innocent policeman is in jail, or that the BL&M are crooks and terrorists.
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  28. Who paid for their journey to the UK?
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  29. That change happened in large Western cities way before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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  30. “Antisemitism” is used for exactly the same thing regarding Zionists, Israelis, and Jews of any kind. Of course some of the things these people do are wrong and of course it must be criticized (and in some cases hated). I hate the words “antisemitism” and “islamophobia”. The words “extremist”, “populist”, and “fascist” are beginning to be used in exactly the same way to prevent criticism of Communists. I’m beginning to hate those words as well.
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  31.  @workinprogress3609  erm, smartphones? Internet? It’s quite hard to sneak things past millions of smartphones… just like we get fewer UFO sightings now and not *more*. It is one of the least staged wars in history… obviously.
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  32.  @workinprogress3609  take your meds. Zyprexa is very good in the acute phase: it takes a day or two to work. After you are stabilized, you should switch to a different long-term medication.
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  33. I’d say Kipling was very Indian. He spent all his adult life longing for the India of his childhood. (I am not saying Yousef is Scottish, mind you.)
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  34. @Javier-u8v1ethat took 700+ years… and sadly stopped at the Strait of Gibraltar.
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  35.  @buckodonnghaile4309 Sun Tzu. Not a lot of people know that. Or maybe it was Abraham Einstein.
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  36. There are many kinds and degrees if autism — we should probably replace the term with a dozen or two more specific names. Some autists have no language, for example. I bet most people would have aborted one of those as a foetus if they could.
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  37. Would be kinda hard for us to interbreed if we really developed independently, wouldn’t it? Of course the Out of Africa theory is true, it’s just not quite the full story. More like 95% of the story.
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  38.  @geoffas yes.
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  39. They both have explicit exceptions for criminals. Look them up!
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  40.  @Campocosas and pay his gambling debts with more loans.
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  41. Pauline Hanson is quite stupid. There is a wonderful video on youtube where she is trying to make a fool of an Australian Rear Admiral during a hearing in Parliament -- without understanding anything at all about submarines.
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  42. Probably also IQ and willingness to cheat the state. I don’t believe your Germans and New-Germans are equal in those two respects.
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  43. Syria is not exactly peaceful either.
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  44. The colours are much the same, though.
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  45. “Carl!”
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  46.  @carynewman there’s never been so many of them as there are now. Also, the main export of Africa seems to be people…
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  47.  @johnturner1073  I think he is quite happy that they were rescued. Maybe he wants them back in Greece, maybe not. If Greece were a sane and healthy country then I definitely think he would want them back in Greece. Alas, it is not.
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  48. I don't think you are her type.
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  49.  @six2make4  ha! I wish that were true. I am Danish and it is unlikely to become true anytime soon.
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  50. What, they have more than 10 people!?
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