I feel Sam needs to do one of them shiny tooth glint things for these ads, but on Simon's head, just to be extra rude about the lack of loft insulation... :P
"The general concensus was that Kabul wouldn't fall that quickly" The consensus of politicians maybe, but people who actually served there were largely unsurprised.
I listened to veterans that served there and a former intelligence officer who also served there warn Kabul was going to fall months before it did. Politicians are just trying to cover their ass.
Well, the consensus portrayed by the media... but they're shocked when the sun comes up at a slightly different time each day, "it's chaos here, nobody seems to be able to predict exactly what will happen next" It's hard to even say that Kabul really "fell" to the Taliban, like there was anything standing that could fall... what, all the people who were being bribed were just in it for the money, shocker!
Honestly, my reaction was "how'd it last this long?" I was there in the early 2000's, and I thought it was going to go sideways at any moment. FUBAR was the word of the day, every day. I was USN CSaR, so I mostly only put boots in dirt for no more than a week at a time, and even I could see that things were shaky. I can only imagine what it was like for the USMC and US Army troops that were actually in country 24/7. I've heard stories from fellow vets, but I'm sure they aren't doing justice.
Medicine in America isn't ALWAYS expensive. As a cancer survivor, the medicine I take every day to keep me alive only costs about $1.76 a day. It costs about $0.02 to make, but how could pharmaceutical companies survive if they didn't make a 880% profit off a drug first synthesized in 1914?
@@Gersti96 which is absolutely pathetic and infuriating as the guy who first made synthetic insulin sold it to them for pennies because he wanted it to be sold to patients at cheap prices that everyone could afford.
He knows all about the fail as he often references to it when explaining to the Americans about it being the Fox news of British tabloids, so basically far right edging onto Fascism.
Jack monroe is particularly famous for writing cooking books for incredibly tight budgets. And then trying to make them as accessible as possible to the poor who need them. They rock!
@@terryenby2304 Oh, I'd actually missed that! The thing I most remember about them was buying a book called 'A girl called Jack'. :) However, due to them being a nonbinary I'm pretty sure they wouldn't appreciate being called a 'he' repeatedly either. (although I do appreciate that fact-boy didn't know who they were :) )
@@terryenby2304 Actually I think they rejected 'she' a little later on; they tried to adopt the handle 'mxjackmonroe' on a few social networking sites which resulted in Mx Monroe receiving mental health-threatening levels of vitriol. To the extent those accounts are now no longer active. I hate people sometimes, I really really do. But yes to the unintended part, of course that doesn't matter; my original post was a smart alec one essentiallty; I didn't expect to find such serious issues, or indeed any apart from 'she's a girl and she's called Jack... just look at her book!'.
@@DUTCHESSMD Right lol I never run out of Simon content, even without ever getting around to old videos I'd like to catch up on from before I found his work. I REALLY want Simon to just make his own website and upload all his content there too, then we could pay a couple bucks a month for access and enjoy zero intrusive/external ads, and he could just do his hilarious sponsor spots and use the page content surrounding the videos to promote his retail products. And people on there would all be hardcore Simon fans so the comments would be on average more interesting and wholesome than on TH-cam. I hope he does this lol I've been commenting it constantly lately
@Jay Ro I'm glad other fans dig it! I hope one day he does it. And I agree, most of his content would fit right in on Nebula. I don't think it's a fit for quite all his channels but certainly most of them haha
I have absolutely zero interest in being a TH-camr, but I would jump at the opportunity to have a pint and shout random obscenities with Simon for a half hour. Simon should book a BB Booze Cruise. A ship full of drunk people screaming "AM I RIGHT, PETER" would be legendary.
@@SkunkApe407 Hahaha!!!! Yes!!! That would completely, utterly legendary! Simon, if on some microscopic off chance you’re reading this, you should most certainly consider booking such a trip! You would make shitloads of cash for the channel, and the trip would fucking rock!
@@ravenestrella2310 the BB audience is largely made up of the redheaded stepchildren from all of his other channels. We're probably the best educated, most foul-mouthed demographic on TH-cam. Get us all together on a ship full of hooch, and we'll probably wind up reviving the Golden Age of Piracy. Simon would become the Dread Pirate Blazebeard, and we'll all become his hardy crew of scurvy sea dogs. We'll travel the Caribbean, capturing prizes and bestowing lavish gifts of Rotting Turtle and Beard Blaze upon the locals.
If you slow it down to one third speed you get "Insurance policy at university was to His Royal Highness Simon Whistler because I thought it would be a laugh to put 'His Royal Highness' in the - ah - in the title box 'cause they had it in the dropdown" (Audacity FTW)
Keep in mind that there were a lot of tourists to Afghanistan before the Saur Revolution of 1978 started all the carnage. I’ve known a lot of people who went there in the old days and every one loved it. That doesn’t make people like Miles any less of an idiot, of course.
I feel like that guy definitely thought that knife would do something. The number of men who think they can fight off a bear or shark... yeah he definitely thought he could fight a gun.
I mean there is a non zero chance that any given reasonably healthy man could survive winning a fight with a bear or a shark. There is also a non zero chance of someone sneaking some drugs into my next beverage, me buying a lottery ticket, winning, and using the money to buy 10 consecutive winning lottery tickets without losing once so that doesn't say much, but it isn't impossible.
@@garethbaus5471 yes, statistically there is a non-zero chance. The drink one, depending on your gender and location is WAY more likely than the others, the lottery one is... beyond statistically insignificant, and I would put the bear one in the statistically insignificant range. Because these men who are asked are not polled about encountering a bear and surviving when it is aggressive, but straight up fighting a bear... now, you CAN win with a knife in a gun fight in close quarters. More than you can win against a bear. BUT a knife vs someone coming at you with a machine gun firing, you're dead unless you get SUPER fucking lucky, and you are able to hide until the guy is close enough. But that guy was obviously not the brightest.
@@darkermatter125.35 since I am a male who doesn't go to parties the chance of someone sneaking the type of drugs into my next beverage that would lower inhibitions enough for me to buy a lottery ticket without reducing my motor control enough to prevent me from doing so is probably low enough to be comparable to winning the lottery at least once, but yes that absurd set of circumstances was intentionally selected to be technically possible but unlikely enough that it really isn't worth ligitimately planning for. Also depending on what is meant by close quarters, and whether or not the guy with the gun is expecting you, or you are expecting the guy with a gun you might actually have slightly a better chance against a bear assuming you have a decent sized knife (more because guns are really effective at stopping you before you get close enough to touch your opponent then because you are likely to win a fight with a bear.
@@garethbaus5471 There is literally different training for knife/gun interactions with close quarters, 15 feet was the furthest distance set within the parameters of one video for a police training situation where the knife was out. All things change depending on knife and gun size within close quarters. Like if you are trying to pull a shotgun vs a knife in close quarters, it is honestly better to use it as a club of some kind first before shooting. I am a 4'11" woman who has had to fight way too many rapey men, and also pull knives on way too many rapey men, because they see me as an easy target if they aren't street smart. People who are more familiar with dangerous areas never get near me, because they see I'm comfortable there and not an easy mark. That is why I know things about close quarter combat, because I've even had to use it against a veteran. So I am sadly pretty fucking well versed in these situations. I have come up against people with guns before, but they have backed off and haven't pulled it. I've also had people try to kidnap me, as I grew up in an area full of pedophiles. And I wasn't trying to equate them, I'm just saying that a man with no weapons fighting an angry bear in a ring and thinking he will win (poll taken in the US might be an important thing to know) is a mindset that an unreasonable number of men have, so if we were to let them all do it, the statistics of winners would be statistically negligible, in my opinion. Also, as someone who has been drugged twice (like I said, men just REALLY like to fuck around and find out with me), that shit hits you hard and fast, and my advice, should it happen, is the moment something feels off, immediately get to safety, alerting someone on your way. Each time I got to a place only a few blocks away and locked myself up safely, thankfully the second time I had flashed a knife, kicked off heels, and ran, because there were multiple men. Also I just didn't want to assume your gender, I don't mean any offense in any of my comments.
I remember reading about a guy who decided to go to Iraq or Afghanistan after things went nuts to quote "see what the situation was like" instead of going home to see his mother for the holidays. Got decapitated. Mission accomplished?
It was always going to end this way. There was never anything we could have done to make it permanent. What we should have done was just gone in, kick the ever living shit out of Al Qaeda, put Bin Laden's head on a stake (... quite literally.) And gtfo. Just show the world that we will fuck you up if you fuck with us. Not get stuck in another Vietnam.
Yeah I had cut back on the Kool aid by the time I got "promoted" to the flying primary. It was just nice to cling to the few positives, in a ocean of destruction. Now I just imagine those are ashes now also.
@@iowafarmboy They didn't want Bin Laden dead tho, keeping him "out there" was too helpful in scaring people into supporting more wars that weren't about the thing they were said to be about. Obviously, it would look bad if Bin Laden kept funding anyone with a plan to attack the US, so they just capitulated to his demands, and closed the military bases in Saudi Arabia. Obama only needed to kill Bin Laden because he wanted to put the drone base in Saudi Arabia, those Yemeni children aren't gonna blow themselves up! Well, enough "over the horizon" trauma, and they might eventually start doing just that. The problem with setting up a democracy was never that it couldn't be done, but it was never really tried... democracy means listening to the population, not creating a corrupt "elite"(ish) and then trying to pretend they have some kind of legitimacy. Especially not all out of Kabul, ignoring the massive regional differences in what people want and who they will work with. Democracy is not something you give people, it's something you let them have.
Keeps: a hair loss solution Me: imagines Keeps sends you a box to keep your lost hair. I may have been listening to Simon for too long. Nah, that's not possible.
About teachers messing up on field trips. One of my friend's social studies teacher arranged for his class to visit a conference held by one of the country's largest companies. Only too late did he find out there was an open bar and attendees were assumed to be of legal drinking age. Most of his students were not.
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plain, and the women come out to cut up what remains.. Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, an go to your Gawd like a soldier..." - Kipling, 1890 Reading that verse didn't make Afghanistan seem like an attractive holiday destination...
Or it just proves that banning these people doesn’t change anything. I don’t fully buy everything I’ve heard about her here due to it being obviously bias, but Katie just sounds like she was a bitch LONG before social media was a thing.
@@NathanCassidy721 There might be some embellishment but I wouldn’t say it’s accurate to call it hyperbolic…and even still, she’s hardly the only example. My general point though was that a lot of people have gone from thoughtful criticism to contrarianism to outright trolling (or “just a joke” as they might put it when they back peddle). It’s not about having a principled objection or a reasonable criticism-it’s just about showing your team that you’re sticking it to the other guys…😕😓
@@thefourshowflip While I agree, the flaw in your thinking is you think it's just "trolling" or that these people are reasonable. it's more like people joined a cult. It doesn't matter what you do, if you don't follow the orthodoxly you are branded as a heretic. No debate, no chance to defend yourself, it's just "Obey."
Being contrarian in essence is trolling, tbh. If you are against something just for the sake of it and not because of strong personal reasons or evidences, I don’t see why that’s not just trolling to piss off the “majority”. Hating things that are popular even though you know nothing about it, for example.
We've had teachers taking classes of children down to the beach to 'watch the tsunami' when we've has tsunami warnings in New Zealand. So often the govt had to tell them to stop.
@@rosiehawtrey most of those children probably don't have a choice in the matter, so not really, unless New Zealand in general is primarily populated by idiots.
Jack Monroe wasn't even earning a great deal of money when it happened, they were a struggling single parent writing cook books for those on a budget. Jack also gives out copies of their books to food banks and is generally a great person
I remember rimmy’s video on the guy who went to Afganistán, I highly recommend going and watching that video. He bought a lord title, he exposed the name of an Afghan government translator, Rimmy used contacts he had through playing arma to scrub that from the Internet, surprisingly successfully. P.S. Miles accidentally exposed the U.N safe house he was in.
I think the translator wanted his name released so he could get out of there. I'm pretty sure that topic came up in count dankulas interview with miles.
You mean African American people. The rest of us Pan Africans and Afro Latinos are fine with regular freaking names like Joseph and Renee, and not T'shequan or Rakadaka'isha.
@@JohnGalt916 katie hopkins is british so not african american. Black British names. Here we just say black, we dont use "black british" unless writing it on like ethnicity things.
I live in Australia and while Ill admit the border laws are strict, its not like there was no warning they were closing. Those people overseas who got stuck, its not like they had no idea it was going to happen. The government had been saying for weeks "We are going to do this, come back home folks and if you are planning to leave, don't. People overseas, if you want to come back, come back home now. Okay its been like a month now" *Door closes* Suddenly, people overseas "WHY WERE WE GIVEN NO WARNING???". Wait, what? What the fuck? What the ever loving mother fucking fuck? The pandemic was getting heavy, you were told, why the heck didn't you come home. There comes a point in things were people have to take responsibility for their own actions. By the time borders were closed you had had plenty of warning it was happening. Its not like it was like the government set a stop watch at three seconds and went "Three, two, one, sorry you're fucked". The problem with this issue is letting a pustulent infection like Katie Hopkins in when our own citizens couldn't get in. I mean if I was an Aussie still stuck overseas Id be like "Oh damn, maybe I should get a swastika tattoo and start posting hateful shit against non-whites online, maybe then I can get back home". Seriously Aussie government, what fucking message are you sending to the world. "Racists welcome! Everyone else can fuck off!"? We are like a dollar store South Africa. Edit: 20K was too much for Katie. The UK should have paid us to take her. I am not even sure why we deported her when we have so many sharks just offshore :P
Simon; might I recommend that the fragrances of rotting turtle, rotten badger and corpse flower be available to the masses via the medium of scratch and sniff cards, at the price of $2 a pop, including postage and packaging. Your OGBB follower Dan would love a bottle of rotten badger for influencing the masses.
Those conversations would be hilarious "hey scratch this and tell me what you think it smells like" to a friend and watch their face as you say rotten badger.
Can't say we're happy she back, but she's our problem now. It's kind of our fault we can't find anyone to pay for the Ketchup Packet as her listed assassination fee.
@@Ciborium Britain really hasn't abolished free speech. There is a big difference between banning free speech and banning hate speech. North Korea has no free speech. Afghanistan now now under the control of the Taliban has no free speech. China has limited free speech. If you can't say what you want in Britain within the confides of the law and without upsetting the average person then maybe the other person isn't a 'snowflake' but rather what you're saying isn't okay and you just need to evaluate your way of thinking to remove any unconscious biases that you didn't know you had. And it's okay to admit it because everyone has them regardless of race, religion, age or gender but it's about recognising them and improving so that everyone can feel more included
No actually Danny was right to write it that way, it was pretty obvious stuff was going to hit the fan once military personal has left the chat. I mean it is the literal Taliban, how did people (in charge as well as general public) expect this to roll out otherwise?!
They expected that because last time (the Soviet withdrawal) it took THREE YEARS for the Taliban to take over and that mostly had to do with the Soviet collapse suddenly isolating Dr. Najibullah's government from his primary source of military and financial aid. Well, unfortunately Ashraf Ghani and his cohort have nowhere near the balls Najibullah had, nor an actual functioning military.
Just for the sake of clarification, the damages awarded to Jack Monroe were in the order of £25k, it was the legal costs that drove the Katie Hopkins’ bill to £300k.
My aunt travelled from the UK to Australia over land and sea in the 70s. The borders (Iran, Irag etc.) were closing behind her and apparently my nan was having kittens! CLASS memes Sam!!
25:19 If Simon knew who Barnaby Joyce is, he'd designate him as an "absolute bellend" (because Barnaby Joyce has a lot of scandals, not because of the lockdowns).
As a massive history nerd, to this day I would absolutely love to go and experience Afghanistan and Iraq. Hell, it's where Alexander died, it's maintained tourist relativity for that alone for 2500 years and I don't see it ending any time soon.
Acktchuually Simon, pretty much all coalition military intelligence knew exactly how fast the Afghan Government and Kabul would fall, the US State Dept and Pentagon just didn't listen and were more concerned with politics rather than running military operations.
Anyone that was in the military and spent time on the ground over there was not surprised. I don't understand where all this shock comes from. I fund it kinda irritating that people keep saying that the concensus was that the government would last. Literally no one over there believed that.
Yeah, the idea that no one told the Biden administration what would happen is unadulterated bullshit. They wanted out at any cost and decided to just double down on the "consensus" story. After all, it worked for Trump! The whole situation makes me livid. I can't even imagine what it must be like for people who served over there.
@@luxorien The problem was that not one bit of information or planning changed hands from the Trump administration to the Biden administration. Biden's people were left with a deadline and an end, but zero plans to accomplish it. Like people keep saying, all of us that were there saw it coming. That said, administration is NOT boots on the ground. A majority of people in advisory or desk positions haven't had mud on their boots since Vietnam or Korea. So no, they had no freaking clue what was going on, what to do, or how to make anything of substance happen.
"Who is Katie Hopkins?" I don't know, I've not heard of her before either. "Criticised people giving their kids geographic names even though her child is named India." OHHHH, now I know who she is.
Literally the same thing happened at our school😂 A year before us, they went on a school Trip to Amsterdam. One of the teachers got mad drunk and high and tried to make out with one of the other teachers. Needless to say, our school Trip the following year got cancelled.
Never thought I'd ever be able to say this, so I'm not missing the opportunity. I can't wait to receive my rotting badger! *cheesy advertising grin and thumbs up to camera* Also please contact whatever dropkicks are still producing big brother Australia, watching you stuck with the random E, F, G all the way down to L grade "celebrities" would be a bloody marvellous tv show. I'll kick in an extra 20k?
I have a suggestion for a future BB episode that SIMON WILL LOVE! "CEOs and heads of state who chose to rely on astrology/voodoo/fortune cookies/etc." (For example, the President of Haiti in 1963 claimed he had caused the assassination of JFK using the power of voodoo! (Allegedly.))
Actually, while hospital visits in the USA are exorbitantly expensive, geberic meds are super cheap. Some brand names are expensive though. Like an asthma inhaler is minimum $60. But a one month supply of something like antidepressants is maybe $5. So it varies.
At Kroger I can get my asthma inhaler for $48.00 Cause I have no insurance. It's the 50-250 to get the Dr to write on a sticky note that I can have the inhaler is real issue.
Fortunately we live about a half hour away from Mexico. Inhalers that cost $50 in the US are $5.00. And they have way better meds for nebulizers, also $5.00 for a bottle that provides 5 treatments.
A couple in New Zealand went to see the wife's parents for a holiday in Afghanistan. When the father escorted them to the airport the military wouldn't let the father go back to his wife. They said he'd be killed by the mobs outside. He was forced on to a plane to New Zealand leaving his wife behind. I don't know what happened after this. NZ media doesn't seem that interested.
I don’t understand it. If there’s one thing I’m jealous for, it’s your one dollar bills. My sister brought me one dollar from the US and I was amazed. I imagine how rich I would feel with 50 one euro bills. Going to a friend, be like “yo, thanks for helping out! Here are the twenty-five euro you gave me.” *swoooosh* (The sound of money flying in his direction.)
I currently live in the US.. Same with my brother.. He is probably going to no longer have one of his legs soon... The number he found out that he would have had to pay without the insurance he has.. is way above the number you used as a throwaway amount that it could be.. .. and that is just for them cutting it off. This is not speaking of a prosthetic, hospital time, physical therapy ,ect.. Keep in mind though this is the result of a surgery he had during his football days ( American football ) where they took out something that.. Back then they thought is what you should do.. When it turns out it was the worst thing you could do.. and since that point.. Basically imagine bone being smashed on bone with nothing between it, it losing several inches of bone every X amount of months doing that.. and hes had that for years.. At least till he had total knee replacement surgery. ( Twice. They also wanted to do a ligament replacement but he refused it.. The fact that it was going to be from a corpse did not sit well with him.. ) .. That said I would have hated it if he where still living back in our home country.. Since medicine there at the time was basically a few years behind. ( And still is mostly due to "That is how things are done". Gotta love Japan and how hard it is to get things changed for the better.. When I last lived in Japan I tried to get schools into using new books for English. The ones they currently use is full of misspellings as well as meanings that are fully incorrect... Back then I found out the hard way that such a thing is basically impossible to get changed.. *Small edit.* In-case anyone is wondering why I do not live in Japan. The US has basically been mostly my home since I was 9 when my brother became my legal guardian, my brother being 15 years older than me... I did live in Japan again for a few years in my 20s but went back to the US due to my brother needing help... My brother sadly really,really hates our relatives in Japan and.. Has a overall dislike for our home country.. I normally visit relatives every other year but you know.. Cant with covid.. Though I was allowed to attend a funeral for the youngest uncle of mine who was killed in a firebombing.. Sadly that was the last time I have been in Japan thinking about it. )
Don't wish dementia on someone allegedly horrible. Wish them full mental capacity while being unable to speak or move and being looked after by someone indifferent. 💩
Simon: How about we don't do that? I don't care if you like tories or labor; how about we don't spray that across war memorials Me, who probably has more than a few fundamental disagreements with Simon: Yeah, I can support that. Let's not do shit like that.
You know no matter how shit the day I had was Sam and his memes make the day bearable, Sir I am taking the moment to thank you. Simon don't forget to feed Danny.
I was rather confused for a minute when it appeared Simon knew who Barnaby Bell-end Joyce was, given that the beetroot faced Barnaby is one of the must lacklustre politicians is Australia.
Regarding that woman that would not let her children play with lower class names and she inserted two names. You did not understand why those days would be lower class… In America those names would be associated with Black people so this indicates that she is indeed A racist although we probably already knew that from other things that she said
Miles Routledge probably was inspired by Rory Stewart, who at the age of 30 (2002) took a break from the British Foreign Service to hike across Afghanistan and then was made assistant governor of a province in Iraq, despite having little relevant experience. Rory Stewart's book, "The Prince of the Marshes," describes the descent into chaos of his province during his tenure. Upon his return to the UK, Stewart entered politics and was elected to parliament and served in the cabinet. He is now a fellow at Yale University. His books are worth a read.
That miles dude is funny until you remember he took an evacuation flight space from an afghani who worked with the west, who has now probably been executed.
I live in Australia and no body here had any idea who the fuck that lady was. It was random, suddenly people were going on about this weird lady nobody knew about. Might be just my silo.
Sounds like a total Karen to me. He thinks it’s funny or ironic somehow but maintains he will be safe. This man has no idea how close he came to oblivion. The Taliban DO NOT play games. He came inches from being imprisoned, tortured, and beheaded. All he accomplished was wasting government time and money. He has also made a mockery of all the lives lost in that region. Shame on him and his family.
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You need "Rancid Vulture" next!
Medsin. 💖
If this is the first you’ve heard of Katie Hopkins, you might find this interesting.
Legendary even th-cam.com/video/eRIdtMlqwNA/w-d-xo.html
I'm not payinf 50f$ for a scent fact boy, I'll just smell like 50$ worth of Dove spray on deodorant lol
I feel Sam needs to do one of them shiny tooth glint things for these ads, but on Simon's head, just to be extra rude about the lack of loft insulation... :P
"The general concensus was that Kabul wouldn't fall that quickly"
The consensus of politicians maybe, but people who actually served there were largely unsurprised.
Cuz Trump told them to prepare for it a year before, so they were ready
I listened to veterans that served there and a former intelligence officer who also served there warn Kabul was going to fall months before it did. Politicians are just trying to cover their ass.
Well, the consensus portrayed by the media... but they're shocked when the sun comes up at a slightly different time each day, "it's chaos here, nobody seems to be able to predict exactly what will happen next"
It's hard to even say that Kabul really "fell" to the Taliban, like there was anything standing that could fall... what, all the people who were being bribed were just in it for the money, shocker!
Honestly, my reaction was "how'd it last this long?" I was there in the early 2000's, and I thought it was going to go sideways at any moment. FUBAR was the word of the day, every day. I was USN CSaR, so I mostly only put boots in dirt for no more than a week at a time, and even I could see that things were shaky. I can only imagine what it was like for the USMC and US Army troops that were actually in country 24/7. I've heard stories from fellow vets, but I'm sure they aren't doing justice.
Especially with no air support. We trained them to fight with air support. That's like being surprised a kick boxer loose a grappling match.
Medicine in America isn't ALWAYS expensive. As a cancer survivor, the medicine I take every day to keep me alive only costs about $1.76 a day. It costs about $0.02 to make, but how could pharmaceutical companies survive if they didn't make a 880% profit off a drug first synthesized in 1914?
Keep on surviving man, you've got this!
only 880%? Wow, those saints... Could be making 7580% profit, but no... Incredible
As a diabetic: if i lived in the US, i might have been dead by now with those insulin prices.
@@Gersti96 which is absolutely pathetic and infuriating as the guy who first made synthetic insulin sold it to them for pennies because he wanted it to be sold to patients at cheap prices that everyone could afford.
Yeah but Cancer ppl get a lot of discount and donations that help keep the cost down
Lord Simon "Legend" Whistler. Sounds great.
Allegedly
Sir Whistle Boy.
@@DerptyDerptyDUM That's a good one too but Legend is missing as the middle name.
Or “Lord Dickhead” 😂🤣
Lord Simon Legend "Fact Boy" Whistler.
Simon - “Who is Katie Hopkins?” -> Absolute proof that Simon doesn’t read the Daily Mail.
A point in his favour, I'd say.
He knows all about the fail as he often references to it when explaining to the Americans about it being the Fox news of British tabloids, so basically far right edging onto Fascism.
@@anarchyantz1564 Good description of both Fox and the Daily Mail, yup.
As a Chantal, I'm glad I've never heard of her!!!! Jesus!!!!!!
He reads Wikipedia.
Jack monroe is particularly famous for writing cooking books for incredibly tight budgets. And then trying to make them as accessible as possible to the poor who need them.
They rock!
Also....
Jack Monroe is a woman. Who rocks. :)
@@danieljones9937 didn’t they come out at nonbinary? Or am i misremembering?
@@terryenby2304 Oh, I'd actually missed that! The thing I most remember about them was buying a book called 'A girl called Jack'. :)
However, due to them being a nonbinary I'm pretty sure they wouldn't appreciate being called a 'he' repeatedly either. (although I do appreciate that fact-boy didn't know who they were :) )
@@danieljones9937 yeah, I think their pronouns are she/they. But as long as it’s unintended, I think it’s less of a big deal?
@@terryenby2304 Actually I think they rejected 'she' a little later on; they tried to adopt the handle 'mxjackmonroe' on a few social networking sites which resulted in Mx Monroe receiving mental health-threatening levels of vitriol. To the extent those accounts are now no longer active.
I hate people sometimes, I really really do.
But yes to the unintended part, of course that doesn't matter; my original post was a smart alec one essentiallty; I didn't expect to find such serious issues, or indeed any apart from 'she's a girl and she's called Jack... just look at her book!'.
Simon's into of "as always I'm your host" is becoming more and more literal
Playing into the Demolition Man future of "Now all TH-cam channels are Whistler properties" that we're barreling toward.
@@joehemmann1156 😂
I literally watch Simon across all of his channels all day, every day. At least my sister and I share our own personal inside Simon jokes 🤷♀️😂
@@DUTCHESSMD Right lol I never run out of Simon content, even without ever getting around to old videos I'd like to catch up on from before I found his work. I REALLY want Simon to just make his own website and upload all his content there too, then we could pay a couple bucks a month for access and enjoy zero intrusive/external ads, and he could just do his hilarious sponsor spots and use the page content surrounding the videos to promote his retail products. And people on there would all be hardcore Simon fans so the comments would be on average more interesting and wholesome than on TH-cam. I hope he does this lol I've been commenting it constantly lately
@Jay Ro I'm glad other fans dig it! I hope one day he does it. And I agree, most of his content would fit right in on Nebula. I don't think it's a fit for quite all his channels but certainly most of them haha
Simon: 'That fellow student needs to stop dumping on this guy'
Also Simon: Makes whole video dumping on this guy
I found that ironic as well 🤣😂 lmao
Normally Simon seems pretty level, but his hot takes on what the guy who actually knew that twat said were rough.
i love brain blaze. 30 mins of simon being unrestricted. who wouldnt love it?
Simon's mom... Allegedly.
I have absolutely zero interest in being a TH-camr, but I would jump at the opportunity to have a pint and shout random obscenities with Simon for a half hour. Simon should book a BB Booze Cruise. A ship full of drunk people screaming "AM I RIGHT, PETER" would be legendary.
I love all of his channels, but this one is, without question, my absolute favorite!
@@SkunkApe407 Hahaha!!!! Yes!!! That would completely, utterly legendary! Simon, if on some microscopic off chance you’re reading this, you should most certainly consider booking such a trip! You would make shitloads of cash for the channel, and the trip would fucking rock!
@@ravenestrella2310 the BB audience is largely made up of the redheaded stepchildren from all of his other channels. We're probably the best educated, most foul-mouthed demographic on TH-cam. Get us all together on a ship full of hooch, and we'll probably wind up reviving the Golden Age of Piracy. Simon would become the Dread Pirate Blazebeard, and we'll all become his hardy crew of scurvy sea dogs. We'll travel the Caribbean, capturing prizes and bestowing lavish gifts of Rotting Turtle and Beard Blaze upon the locals.
It was a real treat seeing Simon learn who Katie Hopkins is.
Who?
@@rhondasisco-cleveland2665watch the damn video 🤣
Simon: "I've told this story before, haven't I?"
Also Simon: launches into story.
Sam: helpfully hits the FF> button.
Thanks Sam 👍
I don't care that I've heard the rant before, I wanted to hear it. Sam's skip made me sad :"(
If you slow it down to one third speed you get "Insurance policy at university was to His Royal Highness Simon Whistler because I thought it would be a laugh to put 'His Royal Highness' in the - ah - in the title box 'cause they had it in the dropdown" (Audacity FTW)
"Danny lives in the UK."
Cool story, Simon. We know he lives in the basement!
Keep in mind that there were a lot of tourists to Afghanistan before the Saur Revolution of 1978 started all the carnage. I’ve known a lot of people who went there in the old days and every one loved it. That doesn’t make people like Miles any less of an idiot, of course.
Yeah was it a Buddhist country back then or was it Hindi people forget
I feel like that guy definitely thought that knife would do something. The number of men who think they can fight off a bear or shark... yeah he definitely thought he could fight a gun.
I mean there is a non zero chance that any given reasonably healthy man could survive winning a fight with a bear or a shark. There is also a non zero chance of someone sneaking some drugs into my next beverage, me buying a lottery ticket, winning, and using the money to buy 10 consecutive winning lottery tickets without losing once so that doesn't say much, but it isn't impossible.
@@garethbaus5471 yes, statistically there is a non-zero chance. The drink one, depending on your gender and location is WAY more likely than the others, the lottery one is... beyond statistically insignificant, and I would put the bear one in the statistically insignificant range. Because these men who are asked are not polled about encountering a bear and surviving when it is aggressive, but straight up fighting a bear... now, you CAN win with a knife in a gun fight in close quarters. More than you can win against a bear. BUT a knife vs someone coming at you with a machine gun firing, you're dead unless you get SUPER fucking lucky, and you are able to hide until the guy is close enough. But that guy was obviously not the brightest.
@@darkermatter125.35 since I am a male who doesn't go to parties the chance of someone sneaking the type of drugs into my next beverage that would lower inhibitions enough for me to buy a lottery ticket without reducing my motor control enough to prevent me from doing so is probably low enough to be comparable to winning the lottery at least once, but yes that absurd set of circumstances was intentionally selected to be technically possible but unlikely enough that it really isn't worth ligitimately planning for. Also depending on what is meant by close quarters, and whether or not the guy with the gun is expecting you, or you are expecting the guy with a gun you might actually have slightly a better chance against a bear assuming you have a decent sized knife (more because guns are really effective at stopping you before you get close enough to touch your opponent then because you are likely to win a fight with a bear.
@@garethbaus5471 There is literally different training for knife/gun interactions with close quarters, 15 feet was the furthest distance set within the parameters of one video for a police training situation where the knife was out. All things change depending on knife and gun size within close quarters. Like if you are trying to pull a shotgun vs a knife in close quarters, it is honestly better to use it as a club of some kind first before shooting. I am a 4'11" woman who has had to fight way too many rapey men, and also pull knives on way too many rapey men, because they see me as an easy target if they aren't street smart. People who are more familiar with dangerous areas never get near me, because they see I'm comfortable there and not an easy mark. That is why I know things about close quarter combat, because I've even had to use it against a veteran. So I am sadly pretty fucking well versed in these situations. I have come up against people with guns before, but they have backed off and haven't pulled it. I've also had people try to kidnap me, as I grew up in an area full of pedophiles.
And I wasn't trying to equate them, I'm just saying that a man with no weapons fighting an angry bear in a ring and thinking he will win (poll taken in the US might be an important thing to know) is a mindset that an unreasonable number of men have, so if we were to let them all do it, the statistics of winners would be statistically negligible, in my opinion.
Also, as someone who has been drugged twice (like I said, men just REALLY like to fuck around and find out with me), that shit hits you hard and fast, and my advice, should it happen, is the moment something feels off, immediately get to safety, alerting someone on your way. Each time I got to a place only a few blocks away and locked myself up safely, thankfully the second time I had flashed a knife, kicked off heels, and ran, because there were multiple men.
Also I just didn't want to assume your gender, I don't mean any offense in any of my comments.
Depends on the shark.
I remember reading about a guy who decided to go to Iraq or Afghanistan after things went nuts to quote "see what the situation was like" instead of going home to see his mother for the holidays. Got decapitated. Mission accomplished?
Some people will lose their head while avoiding family reunions
I agree with you that the other day that you have said they can legally do it for you?
I suppose that is just what happens when you don't have a good head on your shoulders...
The problem really only happens when you stick your neck out
Sad story, but excellent replies.
Afghanistan withdrawal makes me feel like everything we experienced and attempted to accomplish was completely moot and irrelevant.
Honestly it was kind of naive of us to think that we could set up a long lasting democracy in Afghanistan.
It was always going to end this way. There was never anything we could have done to make it permanent.
What we should have done was just gone in, kick the ever living shit out of Al Qaeda, put Bin Laden's head on a stake (... quite literally.) And gtfo. Just show the world that we will fuck you up if you fuck with us. Not get stuck in another Vietnam.
Yeah I had cut back on the Kool aid by the time I got "promoted" to the flying primary. It was just nice to cling to the few positives, in a ocean of destruction. Now I just imagine those are ashes now also.
@@iowafarmboy They didn't want Bin Laden dead tho, keeping him "out there" was too helpful in scaring people into supporting more wars that weren't about the thing they were said to be about. Obviously, it would look bad if Bin Laden kept funding anyone with a plan to attack the US, so they just capitulated to his demands, and closed the military bases in Saudi Arabia. Obama only needed to kill Bin Laden because he wanted to put the drone base in Saudi Arabia, those Yemeni children aren't gonna blow themselves up! Well, enough "over the horizon" trauma, and they might eventually start doing just that.
The problem with setting up a democracy was never that it couldn't be done, but it was never really tried... democracy means listening to the population, not creating a corrupt "elite"(ish) and then trying to pretend they have some kind of legitimacy. Especially not all out of Kabul, ignoring the massive regional differences in what people want and who they will work with. Democracy is not something you give people, it's something you let them have.
How is what America did to Afghanistan fundamentally different from what Russia did to Poland in the second half of the 20th century?
Keeps: a hair loss solution
Me: imagines Keeps sends you a box to keep your lost hair.
I may have been listening to Simon for too long.
Nah, that's not possible.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Roflmao. I love it
About teachers messing up on field trips. One of my friend's social studies teacher arranged for his class to visit a conference held by one of the country's largest companies. Only too late did he find out there was an open bar and attendees were assumed to be of legal drinking age. Most of his students were not.
Did that stop them?
@@jean-lucpicard5510 The teacher had to explain to a bunch of parents why half the class were drunk.
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plain, and the women come out to cut up what remains.. Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, an go to your Gawd like a soldier..." - Kipling, 1890
Reading that verse didn't make Afghanistan seem like an attractive holiday destination...
Sam totally updated his game to a new level here. Well done, sir.
Simon, you're not F-list. You're at least D-list. Give yourself some credit.
He is f list. I'm a fan but.
I thought he might be c-list, for cocai....
People like Katie show us just how blurred the line between contrarianism and being a troll has become…not that contrarianism is a virtue, on its own.
Yes it is!
Or it just proves that banning these people doesn’t change anything.
I don’t fully buy everything I’ve heard about her here due to it being obviously bias, but Katie just sounds like she was a bitch LONG before social media was a thing.
@@NathanCassidy721
There might be some embellishment but I wouldn’t say it’s accurate to call it hyperbolic…and even still, she’s hardly the only example. My general point though was that a lot of people have gone from thoughtful criticism to contrarianism to outright trolling (or “just a joke” as they might put it when they back peddle). It’s not about having a principled objection or a reasonable criticism-it’s just about showing your team that you’re sticking it to the other guys…😕😓
@@thefourshowflip While I agree, the flaw in your thinking is you think it's just "trolling" or that these people are reasonable. it's more like people joined a cult.
It doesn't matter what you do, if you don't follow the orthodoxly you are branded as a heretic. No debate, no chance to defend yourself, it's just "Obey."
Being contrarian in essence is trolling, tbh. If you are against something just for the sake of it and not because of strong personal reasons or evidences, I don’t see why that’s not just trolling to piss off the “majority”. Hating things that are popular even though you know nothing about it, for example.
We've had teachers taking classes of children down to the beach to 'watch the tsunami' when we've has tsunami warnings in New Zealand. So often the govt had to tell them to stop.
Don't tell them to stop, they're doing a service to the IQ of the human race.
@@rosiehawtrey most of those children probably don't have a choice in the matter, so not really, unless New Zealand in general is primarily populated by idiots.
I think this might be Simon’s most unhinged channel
Thank you Sam for fast forwarding through Simon's story about filling out forms.
"Holiday in Cambodia" by the Dead Kennedys seems like it would be the perfect theme for this.
(I have not watched it yet.)
Jack Monroe wasn't even earning a great deal of money when it happened, they were a struggling single parent writing cook books for those on a budget. Jack also gives out copies of their books to food banks and is generally a great person
I remember rimmy’s video on the guy who went to Afganistán, I highly recommend going and watching that video. He bought a lord title, he exposed the name of an Afghan government translator, Rimmy used contacts he had through playing arma to scrub that from the Internet, surprisingly successfully.
P.S. Miles accidentally exposed the U.N safe house he was in.
I think the translator wanted his name released so he could get out of there. I'm pretty sure that topic came up in count dankulas interview with miles.
I don't remember him exposing a UN safe house though.
Re: Katie Hopkins - By "lower class names", she meant "culturally Black names". She meant Black people.
You mean African American people. The rest of us Pan Africans and Afro Latinos are fine with regular freaking names like Joseph and Renee, and not T'shequan or Rakadaka'isha.
It's mainly the southern influence.
@@JohnGalt916 , your families kept the names their owners gave them?
@@JohnGalt916 katie hopkins is british so not african american. Black British names. Here we just say black, we dont use "black british" unless writing it on like ethnicity things.
Nice to know you can read minds
Doing the sponsor read first really set the tone for the next half hr. Amazing.
Simon really missed the point where it said the guy landed on the day the president left the country
I live in Australia and while Ill admit the border laws are strict, its not like there was no warning they were closing. Those people overseas who got stuck, its not like they had no idea it was going to happen. The government had been saying for weeks "We are going to do this, come back home folks and if you are planning to leave, don't. People overseas, if you want to come back, come back home now. Okay its been like a month now" *Door closes* Suddenly, people overseas "WHY WERE WE GIVEN NO WARNING???". Wait, what? What the fuck? What the ever loving mother fucking fuck? The pandemic was getting heavy, you were told, why the heck didn't you come home. There comes a point in things were people have to take responsibility for their own actions. By the time borders were closed you had had plenty of warning it was happening. Its not like it was like the government set a stop watch at three seconds and went "Three, two, one, sorry you're fucked". The problem with this issue is letting a pustulent infection like Katie Hopkins in when our own citizens couldn't get in. I mean if I was an Aussie still stuck overseas Id be like "Oh damn, maybe I should get a swastika tattoo and start posting hateful shit against non-whites online, maybe then I can get back home". Seriously Aussie government, what fucking message are you sending to the world. "Racists welcome! Everyone else can fuck off!"? We are like a dollar store South Africa.
Edit: 20K was too much for Katie. The UK should have paid us to take her. I am not even sure why we deported her when we have so many sharks just offshore :P
Simon; might I recommend that the fragrances of rotting turtle, rotten badger and corpse flower be available to the masses via the medium of scratch and sniff cards, at the price of $2 a pop, including postage and packaging. Your OGBB follower Dan would love a bottle of rotten badger for influencing the masses.
Those conversations would be hilarious "hey scratch this and tell me what you think it smells like" to a friend and watch their face as you say rotten badger.
Years ago I created a meme of a picture of a human turd with scratch n sniff spot on it. 🤣
On behalf of us Aussie’s we’re sorry for sending Katie back to the UK she would of made great drop bear bait
should have made a detour....to the Congo
Can't say we're happy she back, but she's our problem now. It's kind of our fault we can't find anyone to pay for the Ketchup Packet as her listed assassination fee.
@@AvoidTheCadaver to the sun. I think it that would be better
Well that’s a bit mean. What did the poor drop bear do to you?
Sorry your country is awful. Nothing to do with your post you just happen to live in Australia. Truly tragic.
The memes trying to get Katie Hopkins citizenship revoked while she was in another country before she got deported were hilarious
@@Ciborium Britain really hasn't abolished free speech. There is a big difference between banning free speech and banning hate speech. North Korea has no free speech. Afghanistan now now under the control of the Taliban has no free speech. China has limited free speech. If you can't say what you want in Britain within the confides of the law and without upsetting the average person then maybe the other person isn't a 'snowflake' but rather what you're saying isn't okay and you just need to evaluate your way of thinking to remove any unconscious biases that you didn't know you had. And it's okay to admit it because everyone has them regardless of race, religion, age or gender but it's about recognising them and improving so that everyone can feel more included
No actually Danny was right to write it that way, it was pretty obvious stuff was going to hit the fan once military personal has left the chat. I mean it is the literal Taliban, how did people (in charge as well as general public) expect this to roll out otherwise?!
They expected that because last time (the Soviet withdrawal) it took THREE YEARS for the Taliban to take over and that mostly had to do with the Soviet collapse suddenly isolating Dr. Najibullah's government from his primary source of military and financial aid. Well, unfortunately Ashraf Ghani and his cohort have nowhere near the balls Najibullah had, nor an actual functioning military.
@@andrewsuryali8540 also the time that caused the US to step in, it took the Taliban 3 months to take Kabul... This year it was 3 weeks 🤷♀️
Most of the experts were saying it would take a little while. It's not like you can blame someone for basing their decisions on what they were saying.
Just for the sake of clarification, the damages awarded to Jack Monroe were in the order of £25k, it was the legal costs that drove the Katie Hopkins’ bill to £300k.
Imagine seeing the vacation photos as a student from that Costa Rica trip.
Simon doesn’t get that “lower class names like Charmaine and Chantelle” is code for black people, allegedly.
Afghanistan before 2021: "America needs to leave."
Afghanistan after 2021: "Its America's fault because they left."
My aunt travelled from the UK to Australia over land and sea in the 70s. The borders (Iran, Irag etc.) were closing behind her and apparently my nan was having kittens!
CLASS memes Sam!!
I literally watch Simon across all of his channels all day, every day. At least my sister and I share our own personal inside Simon jokes 🤷♀️😂
Literally all day??? Literally??? Across all his channels???
"You went on a holiday and end up an immigrant" is GOLD,
You know you've gone wrong when an ex-penal colony deports you back
😂😂😂
25:19 If Simon knew who Barnaby Joyce is, he'd designate him as an "absolute bellend" (because Barnaby Joyce has a lot of scandals, not because of the lockdowns).
Yep he is worse than Katie tbh
Agreed. I'm unfortunate enough to live in his electorate, and the man is an absolute tosser.
Is that the one who was after Amber Heard?
With that title, but especially that thumbnail, I already know this is gonna be a classic BB episode 😂
Simon, keep these nutty rants up. they're helping me stay sane.
Don't worry - in Australia we also cannot believe that the Red Rooter is the deputy PM. I'm also unfortunate enough to live in his electorate.
i feel for you. I happen to live in the electorate of the Bruz
@@lukedudgeon8699 oh dear. You have my sympathy.
As a massive history nerd, to this day I would absolutely love to go and experience Afghanistan and Iraq. Hell, it's where Alexander died, it's maintained tourist relativity for that alone for 2500 years and I don't see it ending any time soon.
Come on Sam! Why did you have to fast forward the part that Simon tells the student ID story? I wanted to hear it for the 27th time.
Woah, someone else is keeping count! Also, the number is technically 34 because of the reuploads
It doesn't matter when you are, or where you are, idiots gonna idiot and all we can do is pick up the sometimes litteral pieces.
There’s a reason why we Lincolnshire folk refer to it as “Skegvagas”. It’s the most exotic part of the shire.
Indeed. It's great
Simon, we have credit scores in the UK too... and if you put the wrong details on banks, it's definitely fraud 😅
Thanks so much. If my day goes straight down the toilet from here at least it started out with a chuckle!
Acktchuually Simon, pretty much all coalition military intelligence knew exactly how fast the Afghan Government and Kabul would fall, the US State Dept and Pentagon just didn't listen and were more concerned with politics rather than running military operations.
I don't remember it being a huge surprise to anyone that the Taliban took over after the US left, although maybe not that quickly.
Anyone that was in the military and spent time on the ground over there was not surprised. I don't understand where all this shock comes from. I fund it kinda irritating that people keep saying that the concensus was that the government would last. Literally no one over there believed that.
The Taliban did have months of warning, the US announced when they would be withdrawing, kind of makes things easy for them
Yeah, the idea that no one told the Biden administration what would happen is unadulterated bullshit. They wanted out at any cost and decided to just double down on the "consensus" story. After all, it worked for Trump!
The whole situation makes me livid. I can't even imagine what it must be like for people who served over there.
Not only that but we made the Taliban the most well equipped terrorist army in the world. Sorry World. But I didn't vote for the SOB!
@@luxorien The problem was that not one bit of information or planning changed hands from the Trump administration to the Biden administration. Biden's people were left with a deadline and an end, but zero plans to accomplish it. Like people keep saying, all of us that were there saw it coming. That said, administration is NOT boots on the ground. A majority of people in advisory or desk positions haven't had mud on their boots since Vietnam or Korea. So no, they had no freaking clue what was going on, what to do, or how to make anything of substance happen.
"Just take the leg"
"Okay, amputation. $60,000, +$150 for a saline bag."
Natural selection at its finest!
"Who is Katie Hopkins?" I don't know, I've not heard of her before either. "Criticised people giving their kids geographic names even though her child is named India." OHHHH, now I know who she is.
Literally the same thing happened at our school😂
A year before us, they went on a school Trip to Amsterdam. One of the teachers got mad drunk and high and tried to make out with one of the other teachers. Needless to say, our school Trip the following year got cancelled.
Never thought I'd ever be able to say this, so I'm not missing the opportunity. I can't wait to receive my rotting badger! *cheesy advertising grin and thumbs up to camera*
Also please contact whatever dropkicks are still producing big brother Australia, watching you stuck with the random E, F, G all the way down to L grade "celebrities" would be a bloody marvellous tv show. I'll kick in an extra 20k?
Ah yes Skegness the most dangerous holiday location.
Simon with the best ad reads in the biz. Didn't disappoint.
Afghanistan: Come for the falafel 🥙, stay for the military quagmire
Wrong food, genius
Giggity!
@@CAHA6 Fair enough... I realized I don't really know what they eat there... Falafel seemed like a good bet 🤷
Hundred of non-afghans got priority out of Kabul because they were too lazy to leave any sooner. This kid isn't an exception, he's the hecking norm.
Huge fan of all your channels...thanks for all ur hard work
An F-list celebrity perhaps, but A-list in our hearts ♥️
I have a suggestion for a future BB episode that SIMON WILL LOVE!
"CEOs and heads of state who chose to rely on astrology/voodoo/fortune cookies/etc."
(For example, the President of Haiti in 1963 claimed he had caused the assassination of JFK using the power of voodoo! (Allegedly.))
I too lost my hair in my twenties. Ads for Keeps are torture.
"Daddy chill" 💀
Thanks Jen/Sam
Actually, while hospital visits in the USA are exorbitantly expensive, geberic meds are super cheap. Some brand names are expensive though. Like an asthma inhaler is minimum $60. But a one month supply of something like antidepressants is maybe $5. So it varies.
Sooo true one of my inhalers cost 75.00 but my anxiety meds cost 1.94 😂. I can’t breathe but I’m chill about it
At Kroger I can get my asthma inhaler for $48.00 Cause I have no insurance. It's the 50-250 to get the Dr to write on a sticky note that I can have the inhaler is real issue.
Fortunately we live about a half hour away from Mexico. Inhalers that cost $50 in the US are $5.00. And they have way better meds for nebulizers, also $5.00 for a bottle that provides 5 treatments.
A couple in New Zealand went to see the wife's parents for a holiday in Afghanistan. When the father escorted them to the airport the military wouldn't let the father go back to his wife. They said he'd be killed by the mobs outside. He was forced on to a plane to New Zealand leaving his wife behind. I don't know what happened after this. NZ media doesn't seem that interested.
I wonder how many Americans gonna scratch their heads to Simons "I don't have a credit card" 😁
Most Americans aren't raised knowing to get credit cards and have to wait till adulthood to even get into it so less than you think
Fuck credit cards... just another bullshit way to control people. I don't think I'll ever got one. I Make enough money I don't need to be a debt slave
Im in my thirties and do not have a credit card. I'm American too
I don’t understand it. If there’s one thing I’m jealous for, it’s your one dollar bills.
My sister brought me one dollar from the US and I was amazed. I imagine how rich I would feel with 50 one euro bills.
Going to a friend, be like “yo, thanks for helping out! Here are the twenty-five euro you gave me.”
*swoooosh* (The sound of money flying in his direction.)
I am American and I say "Good smart man."
I have zero. Subscriptions though.....
finally a Brain Blaze where you call it just that
I currently live in the US.. Same with my brother.. He is probably going to no longer have one of his legs soon... The number he found out that he would have had to pay without the insurance he has.. is way above the number you used as a throwaway amount that it could be.. .. and that is just for them cutting it off. This is not speaking of a prosthetic, hospital time, physical therapy ,ect..
Keep in mind though this is the result of a surgery he had during his football days ( American football ) where they took out something that.. Back then they thought is what you should do.. When it turns out it was the worst thing you could do.. and since that point.. Basically imagine bone being smashed on bone with nothing between it, it losing several inches of bone every X amount of months doing that.. and hes had that for years.. At least till he had total knee replacement surgery. ( Twice. They also wanted to do a ligament replacement but he refused it.. The fact that it was going to be from a corpse did not sit well with him.. )
.. That said I would have hated it if he where still living back in our home country.. Since medicine there at the time was basically a few years behind. ( And still is mostly due to "That is how things are done". Gotta love Japan and how hard it is to get things changed for the better.. When I last lived in Japan I tried to get schools into using new books for English. The ones they currently use is full of misspellings as well as meanings that are fully incorrect... Back then I found out the hard way that such a thing is basically impossible to get changed.. *Small edit.* In-case anyone is wondering why I do not live in Japan. The US has basically been mostly my home since I was 9 when my brother became my legal guardian, my brother being 15 years older than me... I did live in Japan again for a few years in my 20s but went back to the US due to my brother needing help... My brother sadly really,really hates our relatives in Japan and.. Has a overall dislike for our home country.. I normally visit relatives every other year but you know.. Cant with covid.. Though I was allowed to attend a funeral for the youngest uncle of mine who was killed in a firebombing.. Sadly that was the last time I have been in Japan thinking about it. )
My boy... you had me in the intro. Mon capitaine!!!! Please do the picard hair
Holy shit! Not three minutes in and Sam is ON IT!!!! Lmfao!!! He deserves an hour of freedom from the basement!!!
Don't wish dementia on someone allegedly horrible. Wish them full mental capacity while being unable to speak or move and being looked after by someone indifferent. 💩
So…. a resident in a nursing home then?
Sam, we really need a tangent meter in the corner! Please it would be great!
Simon: How about we don't do that? I don't care if you like tories or labor; how about we don't spray that across war memorials
Me, who probably has more than a few fundamental disagreements with Simon: Yeah, I can support that. Let's not do shit like that.
You know no matter how shit the day I had was Sam and his memes make the day bearable, Sir I am taking the moment to thank you. Simon don't forget to feed Danny.
If Instagram was around in September 1939 you just know people would be making a beeline for Poland to take some selfies.
are you background lights burnt out or is that just part of your AMAZING lighting skills?
20,000 Australian Dollar equals 10,690.30 Pound sterling - it’s even worse!
For carnage he should had stick to a Friday night on Swansea or Glasgow.
Or a Monday lunchtime in Newport.
Or Bedlam in Cardiff
@@SJ-ou9xs I've been in war zones, 'spoons in Newport was worse.
@@basaltplainscreationsaustr1194 😂😂😂probably right there! I can't say much I'm from and live in Merthyr so I'd probably feel right at home 😅
Anyone who's been there for any stint of time could have told you how fast it was going to be
25:23 - I think you're confusing Australia with the UK bruv... 😂
You need a shirt that says “Legend……allegedly”.
I was rather confused for a minute when it appeared Simon knew who Barnaby Bell-end Joyce was, given that the beetroot faced Barnaby is one of the must lacklustre politicians is Australia.
Count Dankula live-streamed with this kid Miles.
Oh lord miles, what a guy
Regarding that woman that would not let her children play with lower class names and she inserted two names. You did not understand why those days would be lower class… In America those names would be associated with Black people so this indicates that she is indeed A racist although we probably already knew that from other things that she said
The blaze... Yay... Thank you Simon and co...
Brain blaze the best thing to watch while taking a poop
Miles Routledge probably was inspired by Rory Stewart, who at the age of 30 (2002) took a break from the British Foreign Service to hike across Afghanistan and then was made assistant governor of a province in Iraq, despite having little relevant experience. Rory Stewart's book, "The Prince of the Marshes," describes the descent into chaos of his province during his tenure. Upon his return to the UK, Stewart entered politics and was elected to parliament and served in the cabinet. He is now a fellow at Yale University. His books are worth a read.
That miles dude is funny until you remember he took an evacuation flight space from an afghani who worked with the west, who has now probably been executed.
I always watch videos on x2 speed except a few channels. I always forget to switch back to normal so Simon isn’t a chipmunk.😳
You didn't know who Katie Hopkins was, but you totally sized her up accurately. Allegedly.
I live in Australia and no body here had any idea who the fuck that lady was. It was random, suddenly people were going on about this weird lady nobody knew about. Might be just my silo.
Sounds like a total Karen to me. He thinks it’s funny or ironic somehow but maintains he will be safe. This man has no idea how close he came to oblivion. The Taliban DO NOT play games. He came inches from being imprisoned, tortured, and beheaded. All he accomplished was wasting government time and money. He has also made a mockery of all the lives lost in that region. Shame on him and his family.