James Fell > Quotes

“No one ever needs an excuse to eat tacos. Now I want tacos.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“Going overboard on a quest for perfection leads to life suckage and backsliding.”
― James S. Fell, Mission Motivation: A Realistic Guide to Getting and Staying Fit

“Many other people died working with the stuff. Google “Radium Girls.” Nasty stuff.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“Eight years of exile followed, then Vlad III Dracula said fuck that cousin-douche Vladislav and invaded his homeland again,”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“We choose to go to the moon”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“the whole Protestantism thing really took off, there were thirty years of war with 8 million dead,”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“radium would come to be used in many products,”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“The whalesplosion, which took place on November 12, 1970,”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“It was in deep debt to Britain, France, and Spain. Back then, when you couldn’t pay your debts, you didn’t get harassing phone calls from some soulless douche at a collection agency; you got warships.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“The Battle of Gettysburg”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“it didn’t even get rid of the whale. They blew a fair-sized chunk out of it, but most of the carcass remained right where it was. What wasn’t around anymore was a single fucking seagull.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“There are regions in Mexico that have almost no running water because the local Coca-Cola plant is using up most of it. With no water, the inhabitants drink Coke, and their rates of obesity and diabetes have skyrocketed. It takes three gallons of water to make one gallon of Coke.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“No one is owed your admiration. No one.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“Republicans made every effort to block Obama’s policies no matter what they were.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“In China, they officially call it the “June Fourth incident” because the state-controlled media doesn’t like referring to that 1989 incident as the Tiananmen Square massacre. It might give people the right idea. Students have often been at the forefront of pro-democracy protests, which is why repressive regimes love to cut funding to education because they need lots of stupid people to say fuck yeah this totalitarian regime is awesome. See: Trump voters.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down: Number 2

“Alcohol overindulgence is no joke. In the United States about 90,000 people die each year from over-imbibing, and roughly a quarter trillion dollars is lost each year, mostly in terms of hindered workplace productivity;”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“the liberalization of publishing in England regarding writing about fucking, including use of the word “fuck” to describe said fucking.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“There are regions in Mexico that have almost no running water because the local Coca-Cola plant is using up most of it. With no water, the inhabitants drink Coke, and their rates of obesity and diabetes have skyrocketed.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“It was an important Scottish artifact, so naturally those English fucks took it.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“there remain fundamentalist Mormon sects that believe polygyny is a requirement for “exaltation”—the highest level of salvation—and still practice it today.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“launching Operation Overlord to invade Normandy on June 6.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“Reckless became a hero. The battle lasted three days, and in the middle of it she made fifty-one solo trips between the front and the rear in a single day, packing up over 9,000 pounds of ammunition, and carrying several wounded men to safety.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“Mary was a virgin who was impregnated not by Joseph, but by the Holy Spirit.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“There are 120 guns for every one hundred people in America. Second place is Yemen, with fifty-three guns per one hundred people.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down: Number 2

“Wake up, you sonofabitch! It’s time to kick some ass!”
― James S. Fell, Mission Motivation: A Realistic Guide to Getting and Staying Fit

“The Tea Party, aka the American Taliban,”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“She was a painter who became radicalized toward Irish nationalism and women’s rights in 1907 when she engaged in that perilous and mind-altering practice of…reading books.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“They intended to confront the assembled Founding Fathers and other rich white dudes and say hey motherfuckers army life sucks make it suck less please.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“Canada’s Caillou is like a four-year-old drank the souls of an entire flock of geese and was raised by Chernobyl wolves while fed a steady diet of meth and Monster Energy drinks.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

“Rights come from fighting for them, not asking nicely. Advancements in society are made because people are pissed about not being treated with a modicum of decency, and they’re willing to reveal just how pissed they are. Those with power will ignore anyone petitioning for change that doesn’t serve the interests of the powerful. They must be forced to change by making it more costly to ignore demands than accede to them. Across areas and eras, it has repeatedly been shown that this is how the world works.”
― James Fell, On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down