35 Insurgents Down As Brits Charge...
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Re: 35 Insurgents Down As Brits Charge...
The Sun? Isn't that the same rag which apologised for dropping those fake British photos on us? This is rubbish until I see it in another source.Admiral Valdemar wrote:With bayonets fixed!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004223179,00.html
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That was The Mirror.BoredShirtless wrote:The Sun? Isn't that the same rag which apologised for dropping those fake British photos on us? This is rubbish until I see it in another source.Admiral Valdemar wrote:With bayonets fixed!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004223179,00.html
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Believe it.BoredShirtless wrote:The Sun? Isn't that the same rag which apologised for dropping those fake British photos on us? This is rubbish until I see it in another source.Admiral Valdemar wrote:With bayonets fixed!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004223179,00.html
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The sun doesn't even attempt to be a newspaper.Sharp-kun wrote: That was The Mirror.
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There's always a good quote about it in the series Hellsing too mocking it.TheDarkling wrote:The sun doesn't even attempt to be a newspaper.Sharp-kun wrote: That was The Mirror.
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and this is a good thing? Don't get me wrong, patriotism is all very well, but the Sun is stupidly so. At least the Mirror pretends to report news, the Sun is barely more than a porn mag.There's always a good quote about it in the series Hellsing too mocking it.
But in this instance, it's right and it's always patriotic.
Who buys the Sun for news?Tatterdemalion wrote:and this is a good thing? Don't get me wrong, patriotism is all very well, but the Sun is stupidly so. At least the Mirror pretends to report news, the Sun is barely more than a porn mag.There's always a good quote about it in the series Hellsing too mocking it.
But in this instance, it's right and it's always patriotic.
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The sun does have news in it... it just has such a slant on it that its no longer truly news..
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Oh and those Scots = HARDCORE!!!
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How is that possible? That's impressive, though. I hope they hand out medals by the bucket for people involved in that battle.
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I wonder if propaganda will be spread about the scots now? I seem to recall during Gulf war I propaganda had many Iraqi soldiers convinced we were demons from hell or somesuch nonsense, that it was futile to fight us, because we would effectively damn them for all eternity with but a glance...
anyway, Bayonet battles, as I understand it are brutal and savage, In the U.S. army, I was always told that the command Fix Bayonets translated into 53 other languages directly as "Kiss your ass goodbye" Good for the scots. I fully support allowing blue facepaint now.
anyway, Bayonet battles, as I understand it are brutal and savage, In the U.S. army, I was always told that the command Fix Bayonets translated into 53 other languages directly as "Kiss your ass goodbye" Good for the scots. I fully support allowing blue facepaint now.
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It's not pretty, since you're going up close and personal against another human being, and you're both trying to kill each other in any way possible, unlike a firefight, where you only have a fleeting view of a human figure.Chardok wrote:anyway, Bayonet battles, as I understand it are brutal and savage, In the U.S. army, I was always told that the command Fix Bayonets translated into 53 other languages directly as "Kiss your ass goodbye" Good for the scots. I fully support allowing blue facepaint now.
It's good to see that the "Thin Red Line" hasn't lost its influence...
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Given you were in the military I'd expect you'd know this. Ah well, the "Thin Red Line" is the pseudonym for the British army back in the imperial days with the empire in full tilt. The Redcoats were referred to the thin red line that separates England from the rest of the world and holds the peace.Chardok wrote:Thin red line.....
It was also used for a long, dull and frankly completely unrelated Hollywood film about US troops in Japan etc. during WWII which is just as retarded as called Braveheart[/ui] something like The Green Berets instead.
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Spot-fucking-on!Admiral Valdemar wrote:Given you were in the military I'd expect you'd know this. Ah well, the "Thin Red Line" is the pseudonym for the British army back in the imperial days with the empire in full tilt. The Redcoats were referred to the thin red line that separates England from the rest of the world and holds the peace.
It was also used for a long, dull and frankly completely unrelated Hollywood film about US troops in Japan etc. during WWII which is just as retarded as called Braveheart[/ui] something like The Green Berets instead.
Urgh, I knew there would be connections with that piece of shit.
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:It was also used for a long, dull and frankly completely unrelated Hollywood film about US troops in Japan etc. during WWII which is just as retarded as called Braveheart[/ui] something like The Green Berets instead.
Read the novel version of "The Thin Red Line". It's much better. Much much better.
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Gil Hamilton wrote:Admiral Valdemar wrote:It was also used for a long, dull and frankly completely unrelated Hollywood film about US troops in Japan etc. during WWII which is just as retarded as called Braveheart[/ui] something like The Green Berets instead.
Read the novel version of "The Thin Red Line". It's much better. Much much better.
My dad may have it given he got a bunch of war novel to movie adaptations ages ago after seeing We Were Soldiers. I never got around to those though, he's a slow as hell reader given he does a page a day then spends the rest on crosswords.
The film had some good bits (music mainly), but was otherwise dull as a brick.
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Fear the men in skirts?Chardok wrote:I wonder if propaganda will be spread about the scots now? I seem to recall during Gulf war I propaganda had many Iraqi soldiers convinced we were demons from hell or somesuch nonsense, that it was futile to fight us, because we would effectively damn them for all eternity with but a glance...
Good on the Scots for this, though I think we need more tales of Australians kicking ass and ignoring names completely.
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