The Past Was The Worst - History’s Most Horrible Inventions and Medications

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[@marcbeebee6969]

75 years later. Germany is now a province of the magnificent Chinese Empire. God bless winny poo

[@anarchyantz1564]

Simon: That's what we do here on the Blaze! Aha! You finally said it without saying you AREN'T the Blaze! We knew it!

[@rivertrash9862]

Heads up, there's an impostor channel called Business Blazes that's trying to scam people.

[@nickdaveNDM]

How much is Magellan per month after the free trial? I think it's time I get it

[@nickdaveNDM]

@@rivertrash9862 link? I looked and couldn't find

[@Horizontalvertigo]

"Brain's role in processing the emotions is still largely a grey area" Ooh, I liked that one Danny, that was sharp

[@Joe_Potts]

BUH DA DUM BUM

[@atmclick]

Seeing a writer get some direct love makes me happy

[@gandalf_thegrey]

@@Joe_Potts TSSSSSSSSSSS

[@Summertimeislife]

Almost as sharp as a ice pick

[@brianjrichman]

Meme Accountant here... FINALLY - SIMON PRONOUNCES ROTHERHAM PROPERLY. My work here is done. Bye all.

[@DAD5447]

Where have you been

[@runed0s86]

Stay! He might go back to his wrong pronunciation if you leave! We can't have that happening.

[@michael-fisher]

And next video, ETA make a come back....🤣

[@LizRealGirlBeauty]

How do I get him to pronounce Plantagenet correctly?

[@Hollylivengood]

I thought it was a drinking game, every time he miss-pronounces Rotherham differently take a drink.

[@Kadeo-ms6qw]

When Simon sneezed on that script it’s value increase by nearly 700%

[@sallyintucson]

PLAGUE SPREADER 😳

[@ninerand]

now we need to get the script and his DNA on it and clone him!

[@otakuman706]

@@ninerand We don't need any more... Er, Cloning Simon wouldn't be a good idea, they'd probably start to work together and end up taking over a remote military base. One where those not allowed in just wonder and worry about what's going on inside. And they wouldn't want to know. It was fucked, I mean it would be fucked up seeing the first, oh say 12-16 tries. Around that many probably wouldn't come out the other side very....well. And those who later might come out functional, always seem to have...a slight twist to the usual Simon personality....and not in a good way.

[@ItsAsparageese]

@@otakuman706 I'd read this fanfic

[@jessiesratrods1210]

@@ninerand he already clones himself XD..... that's how he dominates KZbin!!!

[@mickm2486]

I experienced the past while working in Egypt. I cracked a tooth and got told to go to a local dentist to have it extracted. This wasn't in a major city this was in a village. The "dentist" who I strongly suspect was also the village mechanic, or maybe just a keen amateur, pulled out a pair of oily bloodstained pliers, rested my head on a flip flop (his flip flop, sans foot) and heaved at my tooth until it finally snapped out. Anesthetic was not on offer. It was fucking barbaric and if I'm honest it hurt so much, a little bit of piss came out. In the past, dentistry I can attest, was the absolute fucking worst

[@unchargedpickles6372]

My front tooth broke in half when I was a struggling college student. I live in the US but finally found a dentist from Mexico who was willing to fix the tooth for $175. He drilled in a small metal rod into the tooth to help the bonding stay and he blew cold air on the tooth as he drilled into it to help with the pain. That was my anesthetic lol it was horribly painful but it looked good and held on for years lol

[@rhyslogan6490]

Yeah I would've just left that shit in until I got somewhere modern. Actually I've had a cracked tooth for a couple years now

[@grantfairley340]

😂😂😂

[@CharlesGriswold]

Simon: "You don't want to have surgery any time that isn't now." Simon, I just don't want to have surgery.

[@philipemmons3580]

... but Simon, everyone is getting surgery these days, don't you want to be popular?.... -Simon. You have seen how many subs I have, on all of my channels?... -Simon. I am the definition of Popular.

[@97TheWatcher]

I wouldn’t mind some old school cocaine numbed eye surgery

[@CharlesGriswold]

@@97TheWatcher Cocaine-fueled lobotomies for EVERYONE! WHEE!!

[@runed0s86]

@@CharlesGriswold OMG yes image a diabetic pump but with cocaine cartridges

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

We're still figuring it out There's a technique to flush cells of an organ and leave structural cells and then refill the organ with the patient cells so that the patient could have an organ transplant without ever having to take immunosuppressants, this was done on rats - a rat limb

[@EMurph42]

OMG Danny, pointing out that a suicide victim won’t be excited to be reanimated is my favorite dark joke of the day!

[@savannamiller7568]

There was a guy that suicided was brought back then arrested for it.

[@Riwillion]

@@savannamiller7568 Pretty sure I´ve even read about someone from some Middle-Eastern country or some other ass-backwards shithole who attempted suicide, was saved, and then executed... because logic.

[@gchicklet]

Waking up alive is an actual thing

[@MF-R]

@@Riwillion they were "saving" his soul - duh. BTW - you mean they have backwards shit-hole GOVERNMENTS. If we're judging citizens on their government's actions - America makes the shit-hole list aswell.

[@EMurph42]

@@MF-R 👏👏👏👏👏

[@Llamacowking99]

Better see that Zombie Simon bit used in future meme spots, that's solid

[@ThursonJames]

“AM I RIGHT, PETER?” Is possibly my favorite BB variation on a theme.

[@edmundthespiffing2920]

AM I RIGHT.... KEVIN?

[@ThursonJames]

Edmund the Spiffing - please don’t put me in the same company as Peter...

[@projectmgrnj]

Yeah, you don’t want to be in the same class as Peter, am I right?

[@ThursonJames]

Pete F no disrespect to the name, just the referenced individual. 👊

[@seansopata5121]

I expect this will become a series. "The past was the worst: volume 87"...

[@liamrussell367]

Love his rants of the past

[@bronhaller]

YES PLEASE!

[@333SarahBeth]

I could see it being a channel. Simon hasn't started a new one this month yet.

[@jessallard6851]

@@333SarahBeth this is what I was thinking and like a good little sheep I will go and subscribe to it 😂

[@Periwinkie22]

We can only hope

[@princesskatarina351]

Simon, in the past we had these things called books. The ones with pages. And what you did, the intelligent people that is, the ones who realize they are going to be waiting on things like: the bus, the plane to begin boarding/flying/landing/disembarking (repeat however many connections you have), the doctor to see you, or your number to finally be called while waiting at the dmv... Where was I? Oh, yeah. We would bring along a book and READ IT! Or is that just me? I still do, in fact. Not always, but often enough.

[@zippymacadoo6336]

Always have one in my purse. Remember interacting with passers by?

[@catherine_404]

Newspapers? I imagine the past with at least half of the passengers with giant news sheets in front of their faces being a nuisance to others.

[@SarafinaSummers]

No… I still read books. In fact, I have over 130 in my digital library right now.

[@LizRealGirlBeauty]

Sam, please make Simon's version of "is that crack? Is that what you smoke?" into the actual new meme!! That clip should live on into improving history!

[@ItsAsparageese]

THIS. Bonus points if we get Simon's voice with the Barbie's video, her voice with his video, or both. Also the dog filter on the "............... No." meme was glorious

[@spddiesel]

Simon: "who doesn't love a heroin and cocaine drink?" *River Phoenix has entered the chat*

[@dudepool7530]

*Sam Kinneson liked this*

[@Foolish188]

John Belushi says Hi.

[@roscojenkins7451]

Too soon!!!! Says the guy who made a 9/11 joke before the second tower even fell

[@slateslavens]

Comment of the week

[@spacecowboy2957]

Simon: "Like they should have people going in for an operation and then a separate place for people after the operation..." Me: "Uh, like pre-op and post-op wards? Yeah, they have those. They totally have those. Well, at least in countries with good medical care, they have those."

[@juhis5936]

my man just quoted himself

[@elizabethfreymezzo]

Simon doing the “is that crack, is that what you smoke?” meme was so endearing. Please use it in future videos, Sam!

[@ItsAsparageese]

THIS. Bonus points if we get Simon's voice with the Barbie's video, her voice with his video, or both. Also the dog filter on the "............... No." meme was glorious

[@ValentineS97]

literally just got to that part and i second your request 😅🙌🙏

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

I sent that meme to our Prime Minister last week when the government decided now was the time to insult nurses with a truly pathetic pay offer. In the face of a deadly pandemic. That we've managed to keep out of the country. For now. Which would, if it got in, kill us by the thousands. I have yet to hear back.

[@georgecaplin9075]

That was funny Even though I read your comment first, I still laughed when Simon did it.

[@bayoubilly5176]

@@thehangmansdaughter1120 it's so frustrating how every gov fucks healthcare, they would be famous for decades for doing it right . But nah better cut healthcare n education ...left or right. Right just does it with glee

[@seansopata5121]

"Doctor, he is sometimes getting violent" "Well, maybe we should try stirring his brain with an icepick through his eyehole?' "... Great idea!" EFF the past.

[@gwick358]

Yeah, they used to lobotomize women to " calm them down ". Eff the past

[@elenaderoet4926]

@@gwick358 hysterics- that was a catch all phrase for any emotion deemed undesirable in females.....

[@petesk9655]

@@gwick358 They did it with vibrators in 19th century, but still, past was the worst. "Oh you cut your finger on a needle? BLOOD POISONING BOYY YEEEE" thank god for vaccines and antibiotics

[@mpbMKE]

I was still being wheeled into recovery when I woke up from my appendectomy (in 2011) and I heard the surgeon say, "Wow, that was weird." 😂😂

[@elenaderoet4926]

When I was a kid, we lived within basically spitting distance of the Post Cereal Factory in Battle Creek Michigan. The air often smelled like Cocoa Pebbles... it was magical.

[@MissBee13]

In Buffalo, we get the same thing, except Cheerios.

[@theHotpointHoodlum]

Simon “ I’m not a doctor I just play one on KZbin” Simon’s latest title Doctor of information!

[@casadilla111]

11:31- In the US they do have a separate area for post-operative patients, at least to monitor them for a while to make sure they’re stable and won’t have to be brought back into surgery for any complications.

[@jordanwhitecar1982]

that eye worm couldn't have been at a worse time...i was mid-bite into my lunch. thanks Sam, you made me puke.

[@philipemmons3580]

Wait what are you talking about...... I'm on the edge of my seat anticipation waiting for whatever you're talking about cuz I can't wait and sorry for your misfortune and timing. And please tell me that you were eating magic spoon

[@isaacwilson5284]

I feel like everyone that watches this channel gets put on a watchlist...

[@TearDownGenesis]

Communism is frequently mentioned by Danny. Cocaine by Simon.

[@Baconpotato710]

Doesn't the inconsistent views between scripts help remove the risk of watchlist? If cocaine content gets you on a list I feel sorry for Hollywood /s

[@brainblaze6526]

THE WATCHLIST FOR LEGENDS. AM I RIGHT, PETER?

[@evepayler1461]

@@brainblaze6526 you need to bring back EDA I miss his beautiful eyes

[@hbeachley]

I’d be so dead if it weren’t for penicillin.

[@robinderoos1166]

These days you go to the doctor,. He tells you that you got cancer and should go to the hospital. The hospital tells you: ok, you are on the 2 month waiting list for diagnose, then a 6 month waiting list for 1st treatment.

[@alanhilder1883]

Is that like the Irish abortion clinic, there is a 10 month waiting list.

[@o5-693]

I don't think I've ever been this early to a blaze. I feel special.

[@matthewkoster9967]

Same

[@lemonmuncher14]

Don't.

[@mwadfb6196]

@@imperial_corner 632nd

[@LacieWhy]

Simon needs to make a channel that’s officially titled “The Past Was The Worst”.

[@spacecowboy2957]

Simon: "Is heroin addictive?" Me: ...

[@runed0s86]

What could go wrong?

[@jessn.2665]

My city, overwhelmed with bodies……and a giant heroin problem

[@DHFlip18]

The past was the BEST Simon, that's where Danny got kidnapped remember

[@MaxxJagX]

As a Canadian, I can confirm that our system is similar to the UK. We switch our "paper" money ever few decades. "Paper" because it's more of a plastic like thing now.

[@jenitoten2212]

Our paper is more cloth now

[@jonhambrey]

Our notes are made out of the same plastic material now, they're based on the Canadian notes.

[@alanhilder1883]

Australia invented that plastic money.

[@ridoldy]

P-p-p-polymer!

[@HallowqueenCrafting]

Yeah, but if someone was to find an old paper note, they might get looked at funny, but they will be accepted. I too, as a Canadian went to Europe and saved my various currencies, not because I wanted to use them on my next trip, but because the Euro was coming in and those various currencies were going extinct. They're among my souveniers of my trip. Mostly change, a few notes, but you can't get them now.

[@MaxPower-zp2vd]

I’m not a doctor, yet. Though I’ve been practicing in my garden shed.

[@dudepool7530]

I'm not a doctor, I just stalk a dude who plays one on tv!

[@regmatshiya1437]

Hearing Simon scream “Am I right Peter” is oddly therapeutic 😂

[@travisbrown9017]

Simon: Gimme what I want.. What I really really want! Me: Spits drink out 👃

[@liamrussell367]

Best blaze for an age! Cocaine back on the menu! “Sneeze - sneeze, COVID” I do this every time I cough. Even in the middle of a que.

[@slateslavens]

I just wait until the coughing fit passes and ask if anyone has a smoke I can bum...

[@angelachouinard4581]

As someone who majored in history I have to agree with Simon, the past was worse. He could do a hundred videos on this topic. The medical and and sanitation stuff alone is scary as hell. This video is just an appetizer. Plus, this topic brings out great comments from Simon and great writing from Sam.

[@CharlesGriswold]

I had my appendix removed. Then they had to go in *again* and remove the infection that was growing where my appendix had been, because removing all of the disgusting mess that happens when someone's appendix has burst is really damn tricky.

[@EMurph42]

I don’t want to hit “the like button” about this, I dislike that this happened to you!

[@CharlesGriswold]

@@EMurph42 It really sucked, but it was a long time ago. #ThePastWasTheWorst

[@Netasuke]

This is the most valuable script, it's covered in Simon's DNA. We can clone him now!

[@timothyneiswander3151]

gross

[@ashleysmith38]

Simone already has clones that's how he does so much content (ether that or he's a master of out sourcing the hard bits)

[@Citizen_Lynch]

Fantastic, now he can make more content...SimonTube...has a ring to it.

[@enquiryplay]

Unlimited power!

[@philipemmons3580]

Guys like Simon's already got clones for his like cryogenic research so do they count as being like cloned first like do they get birthdays ahead of time compared to our clones we're going to make we should like hash this out now before it gets all awkward and s*** during Christmas dinners

[@paulmccrory8564]

Simon: Looks up an and says “thank you Danny”…….. we all know Danny’s down below…. In the basement

[@onemoreguyonline7878]

Spoiler alert, Danny has Simon in the basement.

[@garcemac]

@@onemoreguyonline7878 Now that you mention it, I have never seen Simon and a window in the same room.

[@WKRP187]

@@garcemac .,. There's video evidence of Simon and window together. He filmed and released some of his first videos from his apartment where construction was always going on... You should search for it... Pretty funny stuff!!! 👍

[@onemoreguyonline7878]

@@WKRP187 keyword is first videos. That was the last time Danny was foolish enough to let comrade Simon enjoy open air for free - it gave Simon ideas that he would ever be more than FactBoi

[@chri-k]

@@onemoreguyonline7878 that’s what he ( Simon ) wants you to think.

[@sickofwashington]

I love explaining terms like "broken on the wheel" and "hung, drawn, and quartered" to those people that think things were so much better in the past. Then I drop the fact that these brutal execution methods were seen as great family entertainment for a Saturday evening...😮

[@jessicaevans7847]

"Who doesn't love a heroin/cocaine drink?" - Simon Whistler - Make the shirt Simon.

[@rixtunz3625]

"Soon to be President" JFK was 24 when his sister was banished to a Wisconsin Convent after the botched Lobotomy, and the family was kept in the dark as to what had happened.

[@LizRealGirlBeauty]

My tonsils were taken out when I was 11, I had strep throat for more than 6 months straight, and they were still infected when they were removed. Luckily, unlike Danny (in so many ways, I have a TV and couch in my basement), I had the room to myself and never saw anyone else have their's removed. I remember being silent, which is no longer possible, and I remember the feeling of going under anesthesia.

[@DeidreL9]

Did you have ether? I had ether, godawful to wake up from. Lol I can’t be silent either! I wonder, given Simon’s chattiness, if that’s a side effect?😂

[@ericjones1289]

@@DeidreL9 Ether is plain evil, unless you have had it, no one knows. Seeing brain cells popping in an oscilating red mist. The cocaine much Preferable but it never lasts long enough, always some downside.

[@Nakahat01]

Its funny, what they said about heroin is exactly what they said about oxycodone

[@thetangieman3426]

Also Vicodin. Let's not forget that era where they were prescribing bottles of 300 Vicodin 10x325 for basically everything. And monthly refills.

[@justinyates1154]

Well think about it, why would they throw away a perfectly good business model? It's always worked for the pharmaceutical market to say their new product is "safer" than an alternative medicine when in reality they have no idea about side effects or consequences from long term use because the compound itself hasn't even been produced and sold long term.

[@hhairball9]

My father was a heroin addict most of his life. He became addicted during the Korean war. He told me to never try it, not even once, because it was such a great high, that it would hook you immediately after one try.

[@alexschenewerk7436]

Truth

[@antonioarroyas7662]

The next beard oil should be called "Rotting Spice"

[@ph3onixlightsworn232]

Rotting corpse

[@mildlydazed9608]

@@ph3onixlightsworn232 That's too close to the Rotten Turtle.

[@andiward7068]

Pungent Corpse?

[@ItsAsparageese]

I wonder how many fitting paraphrases for the same name/conceptually same name there could be lol, just because that would be an entertaining way to name scents in the line. Rotting Turtle, Decomposing Testinude, Purulent Tortoise, et cetera

[@georgiawardle618]

I was doing my makeup while I watched this and I nearly poked myself in my eye with a mascara wand several times due to suddenly bursting out laughing at Simon's crack and heroin jokes

[@dissodatore]

self-lobotomy????

[@aeray3581]

Girl, you know better!

[@brittanywoodman6559]

Canada is much like America we’ve had 3 different notes that I can remember in the past 25ish years you can use any of them as long as we can tell they’re real

[@shxtgigs4662]

Not gonna lie mate would pay too see a Canadian trump.... I’m Australian and I would rather be on a prison ship then share a border

[@hacker4chn841]

This is the best channel - so much rambling. It's glorious!

[@ckought69]

I've always had all the world's entertainment in my pocket.

[@liamrussell367]

Wink wink

[@grimd8788]

Your hand? You need to get out more. 😉 Joking

[@darrenmonaghan]

#Tamagotchi 😂

[@ckought69]

@@grimd8788 - More than a year inside and social distancing, ya gotta find your own entertainment where ya can.

[@bradbrad6521]

Can you imagine the ways people might feel about us in the same way in a 1000 years from now?

[@powerbeard5653]

they'll probably hate us for destroying the environment :^)

[@bradbrad6521]

@@powerbeard5653 if we destroyed the environment how would humans be alive in a 1000 years and not regressed into a worst society?

[@chiralvandal]

100 years at max!

[@aeray3581]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Doctor McCoy is horrified at barbaric dialysis.

[@shutup-gc2yk]

Simon's "is that crack" moment was so damn cute lol I fucking love this man tbh

[@jessicarakowicz1627]

“Hasn’t exploded yet, I’m excited for when it finally does” oh Simon.

[@dudepool7530]

"The Past Was the Worst" I think Simon finally has an original series he can put out, instead of the lazy title pic he shoves in the basement grate, lmao. i would love to see a annual series of this!

[@rodepet]

This will be his next channel with daily videos coming out

[@twocvbloke]

Well, whoever ends up in possession of that script best make sure to keep it sealed in an antiseptic environment... :P

[@FettTheWatcher]

The exploding Simon meme is my all time favorite now

[@10000bonus]

got to say,it always makes me laugh

[@gorillaau]

Can we watch Simon go Nuclear, but from Alaska for safety purposes?

[@613aristocrat]

3:11 That was the best meme amalgamation ever!!! Thanks, Sam! LOL

[@DAD5447]

Tremendous really

[@Battle_Beard]

Simon’s Spice Girls cover: proof that the present is worse.

[@beanholder3634]

I miss the good old days when his cover didn't exist.. The present is the worst

[@x3roxide]

considering it was released in around 1996, I'd say that it's in the past.

[@Battle_Beard]

@@x3roxide Actually, I’m pretty sure Simon covered it for the first time on camera within the last few weeks 😏

[@x3roxide]

@@Battle_Beard oh I didn't read it correctly. His cover! So true.... still, it's better than the original

[@Carmensrt]

My mother took us to this old coot doctor who understood that tonsils were important before the rest of the medical community caught up. He wouldn't take them out no matter how many times I got tonsillitis every year. I hated him virulently then, I wish I could thank him now.

[@logansmall5148]

Dear Simon, there is still an operating Blockbuster in Bend Oregon.

[@liamrussell367]

And they hAve all the b-buster merch

[@dudepool7530]

*Rushes to Oregon* LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!!!!

[@dudepool7530]

@@liamrussell367 shut up and take my money lmao

[@keyman1969b]

Wow.....really?.?

[@keyman1969b]

Wow.....really?.?

[@goochfitness26]

In 50 years I’ll come back to this video and I’ll let you know how it’s going Simon.

[@richewilson6394]

There's a show that's called ancient discoveries and they showed that ancient Romans for able to have created the first set of surgical instruments that are the same as today and almost the basic same techniques including a syringe made to take out cataracts. Also they showed that the Aztecs for able to use a sharp form of stone to perform surgeries such as relieving pressure on the skull

[@theduke7539]

Nostalgia for the past comes not from a place of appreciation but a place of regret. no one ever appreciates all the good in the world today, honestly thats just a fact. theres no way you can just ignore problems and only appreciate happiness today. but in the future, you get to look back and see all the things you wish you had enjoyed when you had it.

[@Chef_PC]

Lobotomy has become “largely” abandoned now.... Wait, wut?

[@Wormweed]

That tonsil removal tool is what nightmares are made of! I almost died from blood loss when i had my tonsils removed as a kid, 20 years ago, because it turned out i was a bleeder, whoops i guess. I'm sure that would have been picked up way sooner today.

[@joshuahunt3032]

4:20 I loved how the first college I go to was apparently close enough to some food place that the smell would sometimes be carried on the wind. I love the smell of food, to the point where smelling nothing at all is boring to me.

[@marasullivan9203]

My dad had his tonsils out at 73. He had, too, as he had cancer in that area. I felt bad watching him after. He slept, sitting up and mostly drank his meals for a day.

[@RachaelMarieNewport]

My tonsils and adenoids were removed when I was like 5 because of my constant fights with ear infections and needing tubes in my ears to save the little bit of hearing I have.

[@patrickrudiger8762]

I am 37 and got Hairy cell Leukemia. The desease discovered first in 1923. It was first characterized in 1958. So before that, it was usual that patients would just die without ever knowing what they had (its a tumor that messes with the production of immune cells - in contrast to acute leukemia the main effect is that bone marrow is replaced and thus too few blood cells are produced - usual cause of death is an infection). A bit later, the first treatment was discovered. While HCL displaces bone marrow, a large amount of the tumor mass is in the spleen. The first known treatment was to remove the spllen to reduce the tumor burden. This delayed inevitable death by something like 3 years. In the 1980s they invented using inteferone alpha as treatment. It lead to a slow recovery and in many cases had to be administered indefinetly since while remissions were frequent, they were usually partial and relapse usually occured after discontinuing treatment. Side effects were flue like symptoms. Fortunately the disease usually needed a very long time to adapt to the treatment and the disease is very indolent in course - so people lived often for 20 years. However, they had flue like symptoms 3 days a week due to inteferone injections. In the 1990s cladribine and pentostatine were invented as treatment. A 1 week course (cladribine) or one injection every 2nd week with a total of 8 injections (if i remember correctly - pentostatine is less frequently used now) lead usually to long remissions, often for > a decade. Retreatment was also frequently sucessful. However, subsequent remissions became shorter. The main side effect is a quite significant immunosuppression (very strong for the 1-2 month which are a bit risky, but also some remaining for 3-4 years due to decimation of CD4/8 cells (including those memory T cells that also get destroyed by HIV) - these need plenty of time to regenerate. However, after some treatments, HCL often becomes refractory. In the 2000s it was found out that subsequent treatments can be made more efficient and provide longer duration when combining cladribine or pentostatine with Rituximab. Often, 2nd line treatment leads to minimal residual desease being completely eliminated - while ppl never are deemed cured - because relapse can happen even after several decades - many get old and die without ever experiencing relapse. Now even more drugs for the case of relapsed/refractory desase have been found. Braf V600 has been identified as an important genetic mutation leading to the disease and allowing it to proliferate by activating Raf pathway, and drugs blocking this pathway have been developed (mainly as a treatment for melanoma which has the same mutation - however, while it works great in HCL, melanoma usually quickly adaps and thus it only provides melanoma patients some extra month). Also, scientists managed to combine binding domains of antibodies to one of the surface proteins of HCL with the toxine of pseudomonas, which is also quite efficent. Since these treatments are quite new, its not yet that well known whether these drugs should be combined with other drugs and if so with which drugs. 50 years ago, i would be in a situation to plan my own funeral. Now, it still feels like a damocles sword over the head - the desease still can get refractory and infections during treatment are a serious risk - but the likely course is that i live a relatively normal life. 70% of the people with this desease die of unrelated courses (however, median age of onset of the desease is in the late 50s, and a desease that is uncurable and gets refractory to treatment with time, the younger you get it the more likely you are to die of it so if nothing new would be developed my chance would be rather something like 50-50 to survive till i get a different cause of death. So clearly, one does not go much into the past to see that the improvements in medicine are very real and very rapid. And this even is the case in totally non drug related fields. Go back 20-30 years. People did not know much about the risk factors relating to sudden infant death syndrome, which is the most frequent cause of death for small infants (they basically just stop breathing and thus die). It was however found out that the most important risk factor is fleeping on the belly. infants sleeping on the back have only 1/10th of the risk of infants sleeping on the belly. Consistant provision of information cut the mortality of SIDS by like 90%. When my little one was born, i was fortunately aware. Because some fucking stupid uneducated midwife told us to put the baby on its belly for sleep because that way the baby could breath better... Well. We officially stayed calm - and of course disregarded her advice.. Instead we informed some better educated child nurse of the hospital to give the hospital the chance to fix that very apparent staff education issue that could cost lives very easily....

[@paulherman5822]

The only thing that I really like from the past is the fountain pen. And of those, many of them are actually better made than most today. Of course, I may be a little biased, as most other pens hurt to use... (Of course, my glasses are an 1880s style, too, but that's because I ruin nose pads, so a saddle bridge works better for me. And they were cheaper than others.)

[@juliaelrod2154]

I feel so old. Born in 67'. Graduated high-school in 85'. And I liked life when we went to the library and stopped for ice cream at Woolworths on the way home. Blockbuster came later. I miss that too. Just seems the less we have to do to get something. The less enjoyable it is. The more our electronics distract us. The more we miss.

[@Brian-L]

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

[@chasebarber6154]

That hurt my brain when I read it.

[@rohtvak3]

@@chasebarber6154 oldest dad joke on earth

[@devin7342]

Husband: "My wife seems to think she has rights and opinions that matter and will not bend to my will whenever I say." Doctor: "Her brain is diseased. Admit her to an asylum." Past is the worst.

[@isaiahhamid1292]

It was indeed what i wanted I didn't know i wanted it but thankfully simon told me what i really really want

[@whyjnot420]

Simons face as he reads the line @ 13:23 is priceless.

[@bpmcgrain]

Sam is such a good EDITOR that he got Simon to do him memes for him! Absolute Legend!!

[@VoxVocisCruora]

30:20 Dude, imagine being that guy, and some weird-ass Russian scientists actually managed to bring you back to life, only to turn their weird science machine off and you die again. Like you were standing in line at the gates of Heaven for a couple of hours, got yanked back down into the mortal coil for a few brief moments, and then returned to the fluffy clouds above. You would probably be so fuckin' confused.

[@jamesslade3743]

“This is off the wall already” is basically my new life motto 😂 Thank you Simon.

[@jessicaevans7847]

"I'm a scientist, not a fucking freak" - Simon Whistler -

[@Luubelaar]

You can still wander about in Woolworths if you come to Australia. It's a big supermarket chain here.

[@Cokehead124]

I write this comment before I watch because this is literally the episode we been waiting for... well this and the episode he finally fixes his sign but until then FUCK YA THE PAST WAS THE WORSE!!

[@ic3olate]

You can be prescribed diamorphine (heroin) in the US for severe pain and used for post-surgery pain, albeit for a very short time unless under specific circumstances. Cases such as late-stage cancer patients can even be prescribed fentanyl and other very powerful synthetic opioids due to tolerance buildup.

[@thelegocornman3110]

I love hearing simon attempt to pronounce slavic names lmaooo, also vladimir demikov is the one that did the dog head onto another dog surgeries btw not Sergei

[@Elizabeth-xp2sf]

As someone that studied history in college Simon only spits facts when it comes to things like this

[@suzettesanborn5659]

I don't remember anything to seriously bad that happened during my childhood. From 1972-1991. I feel like I could live pretty happily during the late 70s all through the 80s. Since I already lived through it I'd be familiar with how everything worked, what to do, what to wear, and how to act.

[@zippymacadoo6336]

Ditto. They would survive. Plus, they'd be able to remember bell bottoms and platform shoes.

[@kingpin7666]

I just found out the UK doesn’t have pizza rolls! How has the UK survived so long without them?

[@MysticWanderer]

This atrocity must be rectified. call Totino‘s

[@etmr]

I was waiting for a "Past Was The Worst" vid on this channel, I knew FactBoy and the Basement Crew would deliver 🔥

[@businessblazes526]

•W•H•A•T•S•A•P•P•M•E• √+•1•2•1•6•3•6•5•8•8•9•7√ √F•O•R•M•O•R•E•G•U•I•D•I•A•N•C•E•√√√√√√√..

[@stephjovi]

Was out with a friend on Saturday Forgot my phone. When she went to the toilet I just sat there stared out the window and wondered how I used to wait around without my phone for so many years. The past is the worst

[@BabyMakR]

My mother had hers out in the 50s. Not because she was having problems with her tonsils, but to keep her sister company while she had hers out...

[@revolverguy]

"Honestly, you should be sad that you aren't born 50 years from now, because it's almost certainly better" Foreshadowing.....

[@rivertrash9862]

12:00 What?! How? Smh that's terrifying, and pretty impressive.

[@meganlukes6679]

Fanny packs are still a thing. They’re great for (lawful) concealed carry while still looking non-threatening. If you’re in the US, don’t piss off men with Fanny packs.

[@tomtheplummer7322]

More aptly: hip or belly pack. I’ve never seen them on a fanny.

[@tanakaba]

@@tomtheplummer7322 I've heard that in Europe, the fanny is in the front.

[@Naptosis]

Never piss off men with fanny packs (bum bags) because if a man doesn't care about the fashion police, he sure ain't gonna care about the police.

[@AndiPandiBee]

I remember the several specialists my parents went to just to for them to decided wether or not a tonsillectomy was for my dad. They said he was super duper high risk of hemorrhage, brain damage (no idea where that come from) and possible death from it . But after a year they decided finally to do it after lancing his tonsils several times in hospital. They were whipped out asap, he did piss blood out of my throat pretty heavily but he was home the next day with much less pain than he went in with.

[@IamSnowbird]

In 1960 I had my tonsils taken out. When I got home I started hemorrhaging and had to be rushed back to the hospital and given a blood transfusion. I was 7 years old. All so I wouldn't get so many colds.

[@charliechan8063]

I love the flex seal guy go "thats alot of damage" lmfao

[@stacyrussell460]

As someone who suffered thru tonsillitis many times & random laryngitis before during & after a simple sore throat as a child, I begged my parents for the surgery (tonsillectomy). But then my mom said hers had been removed as a child & actually grew back. Turns out that's rare, but it happens. So my parents figured what's the point of paying for a surgery when what's being removed can possibly grow back?

[@sonnieaaron]

Simon. The UK is not the only country to give kids heroin. When I was a kid in the Midwest, everyone took Paregoric for diarrhea. Its main ingredient was heroin. I have other bones to pick with medical "practices" in the US.

[@puellanivis]

Have you done anything on Blaze about the surgeon who managed a 300% mortality rate in one surgery? Yeah, dude’s actions were basically directly responsible for the deaths of three people, rather than even just the one patient he was going to be operating on.

[@greatbigguy]

My dad (b. 1931) had his tonsils out on the kitchen table. The doctor was taking care of his older brother and figured he might as well do my dad's while he was there.

[@patrickhasachannel]

I told my dad for his birthday that I got us Magellan. his birthday was in March and I lost the code from the BB video sponsored by Magellan that week so now we ACTUALLY have Magellan

[@brent_miserwannabe_3thousa38]

I forget the editors name, I'll just refer to the editor as "Nota Danny, and/or Notta Simon". So, Nota Dany's insertion of the olden ad, depicting an open, offering, hand holding a "Big 'ole jar of Heroin" directed at Simon as he stopped recording due to his hacking up a lung, or two. That delivered a box of giggles, with complimentary chuckle.Nice job Notta Simon! Uh, nice script Danny. Way to give an effort Simon. As effort rendering of vaguely off topic rants, wonderings, as well as general nonsensical bulshit seems to be all anyone should ever expect from your exceedingly vigor work ethic. Surley a result of countless hours toiling away, narrowly avoiding exhaustion while rigorously narrating a script provided to you complete with witticisms jokes and/or antidotes. Really dig your guy's channels. (Pick a lane already. Is it truly necessary to make a video for 3/4's of YT's categories? J/K'iing, kinda. ;-)

[@memeju1ce]

i’ve just realised that Simon is just Joe Scott but 10000x more chaotic lmao

[@Terri_MacKay]

When the new polymer bills were introduced here in Canada, the old paper bills were slowly taken out of circulation. There are still some out there, and you'll get one with your change once in a while.