He must have been a reptilian overlord who is of course disguised as a human. Makes more sense then a perpetually drunk alchoholic chainsmoking primeminister who lead brittain through ww2 and lived to be 90 and according to the coments ...took amphetamines and barbiturates

He always believed he had a destiny from a young age. The amount of crazy stuff he survived through his life is phenomenal.

Churchill was a young soldier in India, they could not drink the water there as it wold make you sick so they had to either mix it with alcohol (which killed the nasties in it) or at least drink something like beer. My grandfather who was also in the British army of that era ended up moving to Spain because he got sick of paying the high taxes on tobacco and booze, he literally drank gin all day, and chain smoked. Lived to 96. It's weirdly common for that generation. Almost like their body adapted to it.

@@nikc888 Do you hear a lot about those that died at 50 or 60? No. You only hear about those who lived to be 80+ who were chain smokers...

Very rich man with access to everything, the best food, full nutrition as a child, a doctor as fast as a poor guy could run and get him one, never did manual labour, etc etc etc. It's no different now. The queen, Prince Phil, Murdoch, Kissinger, that old walking army dude last year, Soros, the old ginger fella who owned lad Vegas, king of Oman who just died or wherever it was. All hit their 90s at least afaik

RIP

"a liquor captain never abandons a sinking shit-ship"

Ah yes, the same great man and his famous war speech "Julian"... *SMASH*

ah yes, Jim Lahey, the great

Lim Jahey. Nice to meet ya bud.

@@i_omac8614 No, Minuet is not the word he was looking for, Minuet is a particular type of dance/music that originates from France and linguistically comes from the French and Italian words "Menuet" and "Minuett." Minute has several definitions and at least two different pronunciations.

@@MugenHeadNinja The word he was intending was menstrual.

Right

Came from long expeditions without! ..H2O

@@MugenHeadNinja all the slaps in the world are not enough for a annoying person like you

Lol I feel that

What a legend indeed.

Who was this prestigious lady?

@@kaelkirkby9191 Nancy astor, the first women mp

🤣

Churchill also once said "thenatzlensjkaööögn"

@@maggoteater2290 baaaaah the french

​@@ethanwiley7605 That was Orson Welles, though the principle does apply.

@@maggoteater2290 "ineneeeventhahiswaweeinenado"

@@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree For some reason this translates to "CbrilJ_EoncEbQfQ1-KXMHA has a lot of equipment" in English, just thought you should know

me mum lived to 99 on pure spite 😂

@@JR-tr1df hilarious mate lol

@@JR-tr1df lmao

@@CertifiedHater98 you do realize the English have existed longer than the US has, right? We should be using british english.

odour* you forgot the unneccessary u

The English language was invented by the English mate

This comment needs *more* likes. 👍🏻

I learned to read from English^2 books in my local library in Germany as a child, and when we later moved to the US, all of my teachers had really ignorant fits over both my use of 'ou' in words as well as my German 7's. 'Murica

@@rorysimpson8716 america, the land of the free (as long as you colour within the lines)

Bravo.

'Drop the U, it's cleaner' - Ben Franklin.

Grant was a heavy drinker, but also was leading the most brutal American war, while being harrassed and called a butcher. After sending man after man to die he most likely suffered from depression, extreme pressure, self hatred, PTSD, so on, only cure was the bottle sadly. Edit: It believed at one point he finally broke down and started to cry, this is of course after getting the death report of his men he sent out....

as someone with anxiety, alcohol does manage it fairly effectively

@Ayethere M8 Oh I have pretty severe anxiety. And no, alcohol doesn''t make it go away 100% :)

@@gmart225 makes it 100 times worse the next day tho

The drugs we have today effect the same receptors as alcohol but alcohol has a short duration of action and the pills last for hours. The problem is the long duration of the pills creates a strong tolerance, alcohol does this too but because of its shorter duration the body has time to adjust. Both are not very good for anxiety management in the long run and should be coupled with some form of therapy

He was a raging racist, so where does that leave us

Ok then, I'll judge Churchill for saying that he didn't have a problem with the Germans killing Jewish people, and I'll judge Churchill for stopping supplies going to India when there was widespread famine because he wanted them to suffer.

me too haha

This is my second time through, and hey, if it shows up again, I'll definitely be watching it again!!

No one needed your insight since it adds nothing.

@@VTheMighty Someone's upset a random geezer on the internet had positive engagement. Hope the rest of your day goes better, chap, and thanks for getting me to watch through once again, always enjoyable.

I know right? I wish they'd make more videos like this together. I'd also recommend Cold Ones if you're into similar kind of content :D

Why is that a miracle?

@@Gismo3333 Smoking and drinking as much as he did. Plus the stress he must have had from running a war effort. Surprised he didnt have some sort of cancer or disease

Liquid courage that is.

Yes - Do Carry On! Great quote - words to live by

✌

🤣

Have you seen Whitnail and I? Classic English movie with lots of discussion and consumption of alcho.

id rather a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy 😜

short, heavy drinker and brilliant political mind ? Is Tyrion the Med-Fan version of Winston Churchill ?

@@ryancronk6762 Tom Waits, and just like Churchill, heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has outlived many of his "healthier" contemporaries.

he was a walking dead

He and Grant both.

Look I turned myself into a pickle, Grant! I'm Pickle Churchiiiiill

My grandma did the same thing.

My uncles all the same ... white rum (generally a fifth) daily and cruised into their mid- to late 90s.

You know your an alcoholic when you consider Winston Churchills daily consumption of alcohol isn't that bad.

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me”

Actually, that never happened... but it is a good story and Winston was a drunk.

Realistically, him being sober in the morning would not last long.

Misattributed

I’m not sure who it was it might have been a random woman. But Churchill was told by one woman…. Madam: Mr. Churchill if you were my husband I would rightly put arsenic in your tea. Churchill: Madam, and if I was your husband, I would gladly drink it.

*parks in front of the pairlament *strides in *dies *now government is mandated by law to give him a state funeral *own’d

A lot of people have said they want to kill Tony Blair. He is one of those cockroaches that can survive anything. Just keeps on going and becoming more vulgar by the decade… 🪳

Christ, barbiturates with high volumes of alcohol, not only is that dangerous I'm surprised he was able to retain any information he received, his short term memory must have been shit, must have had a good secretary for keeping notes. The amphetamines probably did keep him on his feet but with the barbiturates and alcohol it wouldn't do shit for his memory.

@@andrewrivera1054 Its honestly shocking that he lived through his cigar habit alone. Several of the actors who have tried to keep up with his habit(he inhaled those) got light cases if nicotine poisoning even though they smoked cigarettes before switching for the role.

@@andrewrivera1054 As far as his memory, it was sharp as a trap up untill he declined by age alone.

@@PostPatriot1978 and he lived to the age of 90. 90! Those aristocratic genes man

That was the early days before science knew much about those drugs and the general idea was if a doctor said it was ok, it was 100%safe. And what he got was probably as clean as it gets out of a lab. The barbs and amphetamines that gave them a bad name 3 decades later are poorly synthesized from pharmaceutical industry labs or made by backyard chemists from industrial grade chemicals like cleaners and all that. I wouldn't mind getting some of that Sandoz Industries stuff from back then. People who said they got dosed back then say it was way, way better and cleaner than any of this these days after the recipes have been tainted.

What a beautiful life. A genuine inspiration

LOL. Yes! Got me too. Giggled a bit and wife gave me a funny look.

Mere moments later: "Fuck you Siri." And so, it begins.

Funny, I was thinking that about the guy with the beard.

Lolol except he literally says he has a podcast 🤣

The clean shaven guy?

He reminds me of Dan from Deadwood. Just smaller.

He sounds like a posh american

What brand of whiskey was your go to?

@@Furio666 Jim Beam mainly because I was pretty broke at the time. Jameson or Makers when I had the money.

@@gibbyg2001 oh yeah man. When I was really heavy in the booze (Evan Williams and Miller Lite) it was a couple doubles to get me going, a “tasting” at work (liquor store), and another fifth with a few beers at home after work. Never really ever felt all that drunk, just felt like shit 24/7. Before that it was like 18pk of beer at night, tall boy at lunch, rinse and repeat. Again, only ever felt drunk at night after the 18 was gone. It’s 100% tolerance. Little practice I could finish this day like it was my fkn job.

Yeah, as a previous functioning alcoholic myself, this didn’t even look like a lot to drink. Like a WHOLE day to drink that? With a nap? No problem. Hell a friend of mine use to drink a handle of vodka a day, and then go to the bar. He was a bit worse and less functioning than I was.

Absolutely, the cigars would wreck me way worse.

I used to drink 24 beers a day . This all can be possible and manageable but not for a lot of people. People get to rowdy as we say in Canada .

@@spryatol2808 For a while I was drinking a bit too much, and once in a while I got pretty drunk, not blackout drunk but balance was a bit of an issue. However, at one particular night I went overboard (on my own terms of course) if I can recall I drank about 75% of the bottle of a cheap whiskey I bought mixed with coke, the drink of course (50cl apparently) a full bottle of Jager in the form of Jagerbombs (35cl) half of bottle of a, please don't laugh, Rose (75cl) mixed with soda. After, I called my friend who was working late, said some stupid stuff, we both laughed our asses off, then he prank called me with one of his female coworkers and I called it a night. Tomorrow morning I got up with immense pressure around the area of my kidneys, it continued on for a while and at this time I think I got used to it, I don't even feel that sensation anymore but I don't think I'm better. And out of fear and laziness I don't go to a doctor, since the outcome might come out as "Your drinking days are over." and I don't think I can handle that, not at my mid-twenties. HOWEVER, my main point, in the form of a question, is: How the f*ck do you drink 24 beers a day and not have any problems with your health? My dad was a hard drinker for the most part of his life and passed away from something unrelated and on top of that my mother's side are slavic, and still drink a f*ck ton while nearing their 80s, so genes aren't suppose to be a problem. I don't get it. I don't wanna be miserable throughout the rest of my life... Anyways sorry for the "book" I've just typed and thanks for reading.

2 pints an hour for 10 hours a day thems whats makes the alcoholics, in most pubs known as “the regulars”

My grandfather is Irish. My grandmother's side is French specifically Norman French going way back with Scandinavian roots. Born in Canada. I can drink like a frigging fish. Don't drink suoer often but cask strength whiskey and rum and a 750ml bottle by myself is nothing. I think it's just genetic honestly.

I went out with a friend on Friday and hit a few bars, I am 6’4 and 250lbs and I was done for the night after 4 pints, a corona and 2 shots. 20 pints a day? Not only is that just an insane amount of liquid but I would be beyond alcohol poisoning at that point

A pint of champagne is like over half a bottle lol

@@tweisbek2 Which is not much really.

@@tweisbek2 And champagne is only around 12% alcohol. It's like having a few beers. He averaged less than a drink an hour which is slower than the human body processes alchol. Add on top of that the fact that he drank regularly and would have had a tolerance, and he probably didn't even catch a buzz unless he went out of his way to.

@@ev6558 was this his everyday though? He was human, if this was his minimum amount he would drink i wonder how much he would drink when stressed/celebrating.

Thats absurd

I hear you.. But.. Cigar beans

"Cigars are comprised of three different types of leaves: filler leaves, binder leaves, and the wrapper. Binder and filler tobacco leaves make up the interior of a cigar's ingredients. Binder leaves come from the middle of the tobacco plant and are harder and rougher to the touch." That's what I googled. woo, knowledge

@@Broockle "..... I just had to know!" Is the indication that I Googled. I apologise if my comment offended you in anyway. I hope you can get over this trauma and continue on a positive path. Please remember that my thoughts are with you on this long journey to recovery.

@@g3ntl323 uhh... o... I think I know what happened. You think I'm correcting you smh? Not my intention at all. I thought I made that clear with "woo knowledge". my bad. Hope I didn't offend you smh.

Helps protect the fingers.... False. How the hell would anyone believe that bs?!?

Hope you're doing well now!

And then you get korsakoff's syndrome

He also lived to a very advanced age, in an age where most senior doctors trained via apprenticeship and permanganate was considered a useful mouthwash

that's insane. I didn't realise that was even possible to do without dying. Amazing what your body can get used to

@@charlesc.9012 Permanganate is a good mouthwash, what do you mean

“Mr. Churchill, if I were your wife, I’d poison your tea!” “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it!”

Tell ‘em you’re a frat boy…

And here you are bragging about it…your parents must be so proud.

​@@Mydogisbetterthanyou1go get 15 more booster shots beta

@@shanefowler9443 I've had 18 covid shots, evenly dispersed between the J&J, Pfizer, and Moderna vaccines. I'm the only one in my massive family who hasn't had covid, and they all got vaxed too, although nowhere near to how many i've had. I've been exposed multiple times, f'd my girl while she had it, ate out of the same bowl, with the same fork, and drank out of the same glass as my best friend who had it, and never contracted it. The vaccines work, you just gotta mix and match them, and get a bunch.

​@@shanefowler9443Bro what lmao, go back to the Incel corner of the interwebs

And died after a drinking competition with English sailors.

@@bananaempijama That's my boy! Go out swinging and swigging.

Oliver Reed...did he not play the violent robber Bill Sikes in the musical Oliver?

@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 The very same.

Andre the Giant probably wipes the floor with them all if the stories are true.

I couldn't imagine smoking that much. I remember going too hard on a single cigar and ended up getting nicotine sickness. Now, if I even remotely feel sickness coming on, I stop, it was awful. Though I am a lightweight when it comes to all things intoxicating.

Pretty sure we need a Junkies edition

@@ericmcdaniel2719 preferably a Meth Head.

@@braxlucky5718 "matching Ozzy stab for stab"

@@ComeGetSome5297on weekends, if I go out for lunch, then dinner and after dinner, I've gotten up to 6 cigars. And I'm talking about 2 robustos, 2 toros and 2 torpedoes.

Please do

My advice, don't go to Beguim. First of all they'll beat the shit out of you, plus, the country is a toilet.

As a German I can also back this statement

@@jonhelmer8591 Laughing my Belgian *ss off. 😁

Come at me

Boys would be rolling down the stairs

I think my wife and I will try it together.

Speaking as a Churchill, our spouses tend to keep up with us

@@safetymikeengland well? What are the results?

would be wonderful with fancy upper class meals also, hope you do try it!

@@safetymikeengland ...And that's the last we heard of him 😂

i'm sure some level of guilt over his horrendous treatment of the Irish helped fuel the drinking.

@@CloudianMH Don't forget Gallipoli, which was one of his commands and a failure of monumental proportions. A lot of people theorize he had deep regret and self-loathing for how many men he got killed in that invasion.

@@justusbladetooth nonsense, that was the military's blunder, they landed on the wrong beach.

@@cargumdeuwhich he commanded

@@jameson1239 not really, but he was First Sea Lord and had to fall on his sword as a result. He was behind the idea, but not responsible for the Navy's poor execution of it.

Absolutely. The feel in your mouth after a day of drinking and 1-2 cigars make the hangover alot worse!

Age ups the hangover for me

Whenever I throw cigars into the mix it feels like I gargled broken glass the next day.

I love sniffing a few cigars

When I got my current job I drank about a pint of whiskey and a cigar and blacked out for two hours and then carried on with my evening 😅

who is heaton?

@@colinvannbohemen11 check the description

The Hunter S. Thompson day

Dude your father must have been the life of the party.

@Heramb Hasabnis This was the way they were raised back in the day. Had a drink with breakfast and one before going to bed. And his hand was never empty in between the two. He always told me if you can't drink like a gentleman then you should not be drinking at all.

That’s a hell of a quote. I’m going to start using that!

@coffeelover6977 First of all, understand. I mean no disrespect. Your perception of how drunk you think you are or are not is irrelevant. Especially at the lofty age of 21. It is more about your performance proven over many years. Quite a few people think they are very good drinkers, especially when they are young. Over time, they discover they are not quite as accomplished as they thought that were. After you have had 40 more years of experience, I'd be curious to see if you have the same opinion of your drinking abilities. Or better yet, if other people share, you're opinion of your drinking abilities. Find an old person that you respect and show them my comment. I would be willing to bet that they will agree 100%.

@@joedunbarjr I've done my 40 years, I used to be black out drunk and appear only relatively drunk, never angry and having great laughs...apparently. Only a few people who knew me well could tell the person I was talk to that I would have no memory of the conversation. I can still drink but I don't like I used to because I hate having to ask what I did last night and the 3 day recovery is brutal

depending on who, it could end badly

MAKE IT SOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

They should try to match Andre the Giant in drinking beer xdd.

I’d love to see the Wade Boggs drink for drink

Hunter.S.Thompson - Everyone dies, though it'd be a lot easier on you without the drugs lmao

yea I used to know him great guy

You're also forgetting the amphetamines, cocaine and barbiturates

@@rohanlorange3660 Yeeeaaahhh

Yeah and the speed

seconded about the thinking - when I'm drinking I don't wanna think too much or it feels like I'm burning off the alcohol

One thing to think about is that the older wine yeast didn't give as strong wine as today. The wines was mostly around 8-9% not 12-14 as today. Also do we know if Churchill smoked the whole cigarr.

YES very sure of Dr.benfungi. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

My first experience with shrooms cleared my mind and I started seeing the world on a whole new level

Does he make delivery across the country? Am here in Ireland 🇮🇪

​@JanetRichardson-mq5esI could probably help you out there

Maybe when they've finished Winston Churchill they can do an episode on Joe Rogan.

Ethanol is a CYP2E1 inducer, which is also one of the enzymes that metabolizes ethanol. So regular, heavy drinkers will actually start to metabolize it more quickly. That much drinking daily will surely kill his liver, but unlikely to get to acute alcohol poisoning unless he's having 20 drinks within an hour or two.

Died at 90 and was an alcoholic. What a man's man🤣

I am a functioning alcoholic and honestly this amount is more than doable. Sober 2 years so far

Nah, he is technically consuming alcohol at a metabolic rate (his body is digesting it at about the rate it is being drunk). This is generally assumed to be 1 ounce per hour by the way, though of course the actual science is far more varied and complicated. 15 drinks is a lot, but over 15 hours it is far less impactful

@@matthewsherman4734 yup, he basically kept a buzz throughout the day every day. That's how I lived for a while, 11 months sober today.

*Whiskyd. This is Scotch whisky, not Irish whiskey. Also he is actually more of a controversial figure than non Brits realise. His sexism, racism, collonialist outlook, and his military incompetence in the first world war as well as his ignoring of major details and events in the second world war mean he is not actually as revered as perhaps he once was. His legacy seems more as a 'mad lad' than as a great leader nowadays. The Bengal famine, the ignoring of intelligence regarding the holocaust, adn the WW1 failings at Gallipololi (his personal fault) are looked at under a different lense nowadays.

@@citizenerased1992 What a load of nonsense. Churchill had organized a relief effort for the Bengals that couldn't get through because the Japanese were blockading the major shipping routes from AUS to India with submarines. Once the blockade was lifted, the famine ended. He personally took responsibility for Gallipoli and stepped down the Lord of the Admiralty, serving the rest of the war as a Captain of an infantry company in Flanders. If you had read any biography of Churchill, you would know this. Ignoring of intelligence regarding the Holocaust? The fuck? What the hell were the British supposed to about it? Not only was the Holocaust taking place in areas far, far away from the British isles, it would take until 1944 when Britain and the United States felt confident enough to launch a major counteroffensive after the Italian campaign had become a stalemate. If anything, Britains victory at El Alamein prevented the sizeable Jewish population of then-Palestine, now Israel to fall into the Germans hands.

So would you rather be taken over by nazis or what…

@@Donnerbalken28revisionist historian says what?

"They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits" damn youre right, churchill was a living saint xD@@Donnerbalken28

I agree with this statement..

To be fair it's easy to underestimate just how much you build up your tolerance when you drink like that every day. I used to be almost as bad in uni and you kinda hit a point where you just work through it.

It's a matter of historical record that the first time Churchill met Stalin, Stalin drank Churchill under the table with vodka and Churchill had to retire early complaining of a headache. No doubt, Stalin was trying to do exactly that: get Churchill sloshed and then extract concessions from him.

That’s also known as a functioning alchoholic

@@RottingFarmsTV Agree wholeheartedly. For the most part dealing with them was unpleasant.

People who are really successful usually do

Really? the most failures of any person…..ever?

Don't forget about Abraham Lincoln.

If there’s one thing that Mark Twain and Winston Churchill would have in common is there witty quotes.

He was responsible for the Bengal famine

I mean he died of a stroke, so maybe not.

at the ripe old age of 90 - I'm just saying, not a bad innings for his time haha@@ryukshinigami13

@@ryukshinigami13Dying of a stroke at 90 is still pretty good

Did wild speed thougu

That and because he wanted to remain a member of the House of Commons.

Coward, drunkard, war criminal... truly outstanding! Read David Irving's "Churchill's War"

Long live winston churchill memory? How about long live the memory of the people who were victims of his genocidal ways.

@@t00bgazer nar I prefer to remember him, his genocidal ways won a war against WHO? Hitler!? Who was a picture of perfection by your comment 😂 as demolition man once said, "send a maniac to catch a maniac" and it worked a bloody treat.

I can think of many who wouldve treated the indians and irish much worse, people that wouldve made hitler blush. At least winston had respect for the soldiers of the empire and felt guilt over his fuckups which was more than many of parliament's paper pushers even of today.

@@mallardofmodernia8092 Although he was an absolute idiot when it comes to war and logistics. His leadership skills were something to behold as to rally Britain together.

@@puma2334 yh i was praising the guy despite his faults.

Honestly, the food would probably help.

@@Vikingwerk my thoughts exactly

Yes!

@@cuy50 I don't need to imagine...

@@cuy50 he held it in all week to get more done. Release on the weekend.

Prime... Minister? 🤔

Well, this is a more exaggerated version of it. Churchill definitely drank a decent amount, but he liked to exaggerate it - he thought it was good propaganda/made him seem manlier to be able to handle 10 cigars and massive amounts of alcohol a day. The scotch drinks were probably more watered down (his daughter or secretary describing it as mouthwash), and the rest seems like too clean a figure (a whole bottle of champagne twice a day) along with a stiffer pour of cognac than he'd probably have had. But for a regular routine? Yeah, still quite a bit of drinking compared to what we're used to today, but manageable.

@@mattgopack7395 i just assumed this was his most intense days/bad days i can imagine him staying up all night smoking cigars tbh thinking of wtf hes gonna do

It was a British liver, sir! Far superior to the ordinary continental one . . .

Health effects aside, Churchill would have had a high tolerance for alcohol. The amount of alcohol he drank is ridiculous for a regular person who doesn't drink very much, but for a seasoned alcoholic it's just Tuesday.

Yea, I work with a few guys who put away a fair amount of booze every evening, they don't seem any worse for it and are rarely ill or off work , we usually say ' he'll out - live us all' Winston had good genes and the best doctors in the land his whole life e.g. the current Royal Family 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Seeing even a one man line made me miss the US and UK as an American living in Italy.

Bercow got a hell of a lot less funny before he got fired. He flipped to labour so he could have a social life stabbing a bunch of people in the back on his way out.

@@vagabondwastrel2361 Or...he, like many conservatives, including those on this side of the pond, became disillusioned with the populist slant of conservatism that's been popping up, specifically in the US and UK. It's why I haven't voted Republican since 2012. The current incarnation of conservatism is toxic, and all it takes is a critical analysis of the talking points to realize "oh, these people don't have a small government agenda anymore, they have a cultural agenda. That agenda is to reject anything that might buck the status quo". But hey, you're free to rationalize why your opinion of the man changed over the years. I'll happily enjoy the compilations of his soliloquies on the house floor.

@@reikoshea Have you read you wrote? Have you read it again, considering your target audience? If you had, you'd understand why being called "toxic" by someone like you pretty much immediately ends any hope of an engaged conversation or debate. I'm assuming you did those things because to feel as high and mighty as you seem to be feeling you must at least think you're a decent person, and decent people consider others' perspective and generally attempt to be amenable. So, since you're a decent person that did your due diligence, and posted that anyways, what were you really trying to accomplish? Self gratification, like every other armpit-weasel with a keyboard? If you were going for like, reeeeeeeeeeeeeally dry humor, maybe you should target a different audience. Lewis Black levels of dry usually lands better with the general US comment leaver in my experience, so maybe add a spritz of ironic courtesy next time.

@@rufusconnolly8489 I, of course, re-read my previous post before making it. If I could write like that without editing, I'm definitely wasting my time in my current profession. The fact of the matter is I have no intention of debating my perspective nor do you (otherwise you wouldn't use a term like "someone like you"). My original post was meant to signal an appreciation for subtle moments in the sketch that may not be appreciated by most American viewers. My reply to the previous poster was to say "I see your disdain for Bercow, but as an American that follows British politics pretty closely, you may want to look at yourself to see if it's really Bercow that has changed or the Tories". There was no debate to be had there. Maybe a call for self reflection, but it was a less than subtle middle finger for dragging politics into a place where it had no business being discussed. I wasn't responding to seem high and mighty, because, as previously mentioned, this isn't meant to be a debate. I responded because someone took something that was initially apolitical and spewed political sewage on it like said sewage was welcome or warranted. I'm responding to you now because you used the term "someone like you" as though I were a life-long bleeding heart liberal. That assumption couldn't be further from the truth, but you've made up your mind about who I am just like I've made up my mind about toxic populist conservatism. It's ok though. They're just words. In a day you'll forget you ever decided to wade into the cesspool that is political commentary on apolitical youtube videos, and you'll go back to worrying about immigrants stealing jobs that are now left going unfilled, and an immigration system that's letting fewer and fewer people legally immigrate. Or whatever is today's new target of outrage. And, in case it wasn't clear. This post wasn't meant as some kind of debate of your "ideas". This is yet another not-so-subtle middle finger to say: My original post was meant to be apolitical, and I find it's devolution into something that is obviously political as distasteful as the ones who dragged it to this place.