Comments by "Bob" (@bobs_toys) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. Not always, but by-and-large. It's why we can give many examples of successful Western Capitalist countries, while the closest thing to a success for a Communist state is Cuba plus excuses.
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  2. If you've ever read the long ships, you'll see that the Viking arguments were simple but effective.
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  3. A reminder that this and worse is going on in Xinjiang, Tibet and Outer Mongolia at the moment. It's not a historical source of current trauma for people in these places, it's something that's going on right at this moment.
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  4. Bless paradox. But feels more like imperator than CK2 Edit: realised the timeframe is EU. So... Possibly completely correct.
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  5.  @sinthoras1917  it's a reminder that the Nazis and Soviets were allies at this point.
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  6. This is a joke that seems feasible.
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  7.  @davidm382  Madagascar. Greenland shows who's a latecomer to the global Plague game
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  8. As much as this is true, the standards of the time were set by Sulla. Not the highest of bars to cross 😛
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  9. So no turning into a bull before he....
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  10.  @Ferroes  have you dealt with a kid with a cold? They're pretty damn miserable and make those around them even more miserable. An excuse to do that would be lovely
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  11. ​ @Bee-of9uu  not Chinese history, but my niece was genuinely surprised that Stalin wasn't exactly the nicest of people. She'd been with us for about a year. Early 20's. I married a now former party member who came to Australia to study. It's been an interesting couple of decades. We're in Australia and were watching the Queen's funeral and it went to discussing history, colonialism, etc.
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  12. I'm in Hong Kong. That pile made me envious. I'm down to three rolls and waiting on an Amazon order.
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  13. I ordered from Amazon. Hopefully that's the only time I'll need to order toilet paper internationally. Because I could only order a large amount and I'm living alone, I also ordered a bunch of hot sauces.
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  14. Missed a life of Brian reference. And he grew He grew and grew Grew up to be Grew up to be A world spanning serpent.
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  15. Well, in fairness, they were defending Poland, while the French were only defending France.
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  16.  @SpookyMarine  Yeah. It's basically equating turning a blind eye to someone getting mugged with putting the boot in and taking the guy's wallet. Both bad, but the latter is much worse. An enabler vs an instigator.
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  17.  @Obsidianen  good, God that's savage. No. My backup plan involves the shower next to me and a lot of bleach. Like... A lot.
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  18. Walk around the forum sometime, and think about where everything went.
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  19. It feels weird to actually see stuff like this.
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  20. I saw toilet paper in Market place last night. Hopefully that shortage is almost done
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  21. Flashman was so lucky to escape this.
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  22.  @janet6421  my wife is a mainlander and I've always got a cough. My coworkers seem to think I'll be the first to get infected. Wife and daughter are in Australia while I'm in Hong Kong. Daughter threw up on her last day of quarantine.
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  23.  @acninee  seriously? The reason I wish I was sick instead of my daughter isn't that I want her to feel good, but that the disease would make me less miserable than her reaction😛 And she ended up being fine. Thanks 😊
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  24. Dangerous. Eventually he'll get onto Welsh.
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  25. How dare you give me the lie?
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  26.  @0799qwertzuiop  did they eat anything else?
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  27. What a nose!
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  28. ​ @Inkan1969 by the time the Ukrainian army is in Crimea, probably quite easy.
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  29.  @carcollerote8121  just like Kherson's forever
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  30.  @hullutsuhna God.... Imagine if the Finns had conquered England instead of the Anglos and Saxons. And then that went on to become the globally dominant language. Your average children's book about a monkey chasing a balloon would need to be printed as a Tolkienesque trilogy.
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  31. It's times like this, I like to ask myself "what would Krieger do?"
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  32. For a real sponsorship deal, should have gone to real dolls.
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  33. And how well she goes with marshmallows
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  34. No one talks about flat stone land 2.
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  35.  @yt_user0316  the second place found with flat stones. Held up as an example of truly creative naming.
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  36. As a Queenslander who's lived in the UK, I've had similar questions.
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  37. >> And anyone who fought the Nazis kind of got a free ride for a while<< Even former allies of the Nazis.
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  38. It's (possibly) fiction, but anyone who hasn't read Flashman at the Charge probably should for a very well researched book/potential personal account of what happened. Then to on to read the rest of the series covering what happened to the school bully from Tom Brown's (not Tompkinson's. I'm pretty sure he went on to bully at the great universities before becoming a party whip) school days after he was expelled for drunkenness.
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  39. My daughter's excited about all the coal I've told her she's getting.
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  40. ProductiveDiscord thanks, Shenzhen. Keeping the air pure
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  41.  @IOStalin  Czechoslovakia was a disgrace. So was Poland. But still a different level to active participation. Britain, France, etc disgraced themselves by opposition to war and the deluded belief they could avoid it. The USSR actively joined in and assisted for its own share of the spoils.
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  42.  @Chikanuk  yep. It was bad of them. Does it change that the USSR was allied to Germany?
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  43. ​ @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 modern times require modern cock-ups.
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  44. It must be nice. I'm developing a twitch from whenever presenters butcher Chinese names that are really simple in English. Just put in the basic effort. Listen to a name instead of only reading it. I'll stop before I rant.
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  45. @Olivia SUN Amazon just delivered two year's supply. Now if only I can resist going to have a curry.....
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