Youtube comments of Kevin Kennelly (@Kevin_Kennelly).

  1. 30:24 "Aboard HMS New Zealand, Captain John Greene, also known as 'Jimmie', solemnly orders the Maori warrior skirt and green pendant, be brought to the bridge, where he puts them on. Thus enabling the supernatural protection that these items bestow upon his ship." THIS. This is why I am here.
    1900
  2. How do you identify "quality content" on Youtube? You endure 30 brutal minutes of watching this painful episode of your countries' history. And you can't wait for part 2. Well done Drach. Thanks.
    1400
  3. Mavis Batey was born in 1921. Which means, the leading female codebreaker at Bletchley Park, was 19 years old when she helped break the Italian Navy Enigma. 19.
    942
  4. Drachisms Of The Day: "And her crew's gunnery was downright terrible. Even by Beatty's standards." 6:30 "Up ahead, Queen Mary was somewhat more performance-impaired, as it exploded." 8:14
    856
  5. "And they responded particularly badly to having holes poked in them by high velocity metal projectiles, like, say, cannon-fire." By the way. This type of video, tracing the evolution of a particular technology, is my favorite. Well done and thank you Drach. And Merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) to you and all of your listeners.
    834
  6. "scare horses and, somewhat decisively, bypass armor" "discover new and interesting ways to disassemble their enemy" "surrounded....by smarter crews in swifter ships" "vaguely legitimate, but mostly piratical" 19:50 "Let's just say, shipboard guns, of the period, included, but were not limited to, the following: (he names 26....i'm not doing that...the exhausting thoroughness of the list is it's own humor) (i've said this before. this type of video, tracing the evolution of a particular technology, is my favorite. thanks and well done, Drach.)
    729
  7. "three-legged, drunken elephant tIhat had started running downhill and suddenly discovered gravity was not, in fact, it's friend." This is a very well written episode. I enjoyed your sentence gymnastics.
    701
  8. Drachism of the Day: 14:24 "Instead, the two sides decided to start trolling each other in a manner that wouldn't be entirely out of place in a 21st-century internet forum. Only they were using somewhat more polite language, better spelling and, of course, the use of flags."
    619
  9. 5:25 "As the Japanese had been told by the Army that they had, in fact, captured the airfield. This little omission didn't really do that much for Japanese Navy and Japanese Army relations, although, to be perfectly honest, there weren't that many bridges to burn at this point."
    586
  10. Naval logistics. Put another way: Water, water everywhere. And not a drop to drink.
    541
  11. Drachism Of The Day: "(in the US) Do you really want the Bureau Of Ordnance touching your weapons? Probably not. But sometimes you might be forced to." 26:45
    524
  12. 53 minutes on 'battleship hull design'. What has my life come to?
    508
  13. Drachisms of the Day: 12:07 "Charles Martel takes the cake, the biscuit and quite probably the container as well." 16:29 "And now we move on from the least-pronounceable to the most visually-offensive." 37:38 "Fully capable of having electrically-powered turret, training and elevation mechanisms without putting on something of a lightning-show for everybody in the vicinity." 40:42 "Which rather put them in the status of 'obsolete on launch', unfortunately." 46:51 "And, to be honest, in some cases, horrific to look at."
    503
  14. Drachisms of the Day: 2:16 "Armor, given that these were small wooden boats, consisted largely of going very fast, thoughts and prayers and good old fashioned harsh-language." 8:31 "along with, presumably, a distinct list to port"
    472
  15. "Vickers did manage to slide their ever persistent fourteen inch gun salesman into at least one meeting." "a close range knife-fight"
    462
  16. 22:14 "But, the water damage control station, which would have primarily controlled this effort, had been redistributed, at high speed, to a number of other parts of the ship courtesy of a Helldiver's bomb."
    429
  17. 11:28 "I've got a scale model trebuchet that's about 3, 4 foot long. About 4 foot high." WHO ELSE WANTS TO SEE THIS? IN ACTION!!!
    410
  18. 35:11 "And set to work on the business of rebuilding the US Navy into a juggernaut that would crush all of King's enemies before him." (and hear the lamentations of their women)
    383
  19. "So, in classic British, 'patched up in the back of a shed' style".
    377
  20. 5:53 "The torpedo would travel at fairly high speed, just instantaneously in all directions at once, disassembling itself and any nearby people, with considerable enthusiasm."
    354
  21. 21:40 "launched a torpedo which, in a rare event for the US Navy in 1942, functioned perfectly!" What goes better with coffee than sarcasm?
    328
  22. When you turn a U-Boat on it's side to transport it overland, does it become a C-Boat? Asking for a friend.
    320
  23. "irretrievably dead"
    302
  24. "perhaps asking landing-pilots to fly thru a steel-tunnel was a bad idea" "The partially finished Eagle was patched into a vaguely working state." "god's own torpedo battery"
    288
  25. "A 32 pound, short barreled carronade." >Because sometimes you want to see 'the whites of their eyes' before you send them to their god. "If you imagine a bar-fight." >Good to see Drach immersed in Boston culture. Drachinifel....international tour guide impersonator. Firing ship's guns. Makes me look forward to the USS New Jersey tour.
    257
  26. Drachisms of the Day: 4:00 "Some of the early ideas were.......shall we say....somewhat 'endearing' in their naivety." 5:48 "It was also considered to try fitting a destroyer with a trawling-net to ensnare a submarine as if it was a school of particularly heavily-armed tuna." 10:58 "He ended up living to a ripe old age of 90. So, in theory, being repeatedly torpedoed can be good for your health, apparently." 11:29 "Given that a large number of the UK's best inventions tend to come from old men wearing flat-caps whilst working in their sheds." (I almost stopped listening at this point, thinking that "There is no way he's gonna top that".) 17:44 "But. Oh well! Better late than never." 21:06 "Which would, of course, only increase in number over time as the 'Clemson-Swarm' began it's inexorable rise." 22:23 "A tactic that was only marginally better than running around blindfolded, in a dark room, with a knife and trying to stab people based on what you can hear." 24:12 "Yaaay. I win! I win! I win!" (I picture a 'Talking-Drachy-Dolly'....with a pull-string on the back, that says such things.)
    256
  27. This is my favorite type of video. Tracking one significant technology from start to finish.
    254
  28. 1:20 "Thus, once the USSR had settled down to only having a few major purges every decade."
    226
  29. 6:18 "The experience of being hit by the shock wave of a nearby nuclear weapon was probably 'just another Tuesday' as far as the ship was concerned."
    225
  30. Drachism of the Day: "But, when your options were that or gulag, you did what comrade Stalin asked." 2:50
    221
  31. 37:19 "But, with Jellicoe promoted to First Sea Lord and, in at least this matter, with the support of Beatty..." The shade never stops.
    217
  32. 2:43 "Just in case a random Hilfskreuzer decided to hilf itself to a US ship."
    210
  33. Drachism of the Day: 6:49 "These abortions are the result of a psychological maladjustment." (this is a quote, not a Drachism). 8:11 "By this point it was clear that battleships, along with common sense and an appreciation of reality, had long since left the realms of sensibility and established a FIRM hold in fantasy-land." I now understand why these videos should be done with the human-voice. No CG-voiced video is capable of conveying the snark (both subtle and overt) in Drach's voice.
    208
  34. "aside from sea-spray and the odd fish fragment, she hadn't taken any hits."
    200
  35. 17:06 "Presumably, these would be conventionally tipped, but only because large air-burst nuclear warheads didn't fit on them, and no one had made the logical leap to sticking Davey Crockett warheads on them, and then taping some nails to the outside of the resulting monstrosity for some plasma based shrapnel effects." 18:33 "was quietly taken out back and given the 'Old Yeller' treatment."
    199
  36. "and the Medway was unfortunately much better guarded these days, which ruled out the other tried and true method of expanding the Dutch capital ship fleet" (it would have been interesting to hear how the computer-generated-voice mutated the pronunciation of 'De Zeven Provincien')
    196
  37. Wisconsin guns: "Hi. I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl."
    193
  38. The Royal Navy's use of biblical quotes. "Brother Maynard. Consult the book of Armaments." "And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats..."
    193
  39. Whoa!!! Those are YOUR ships. Setup on THE ship? That is something to be proud of. Congrats.
    190
  40. 4:17 "However, on their way back to port, Littorio was hit by, you guessed it, ANOTHER torpedo. This time from a Wellington bomber, of all things."
    188
  41. Phrase of the day: "3-inch aircraft irritating units" 5:54
    185
  42. Drachisms of the Day 10:01 "The Royal Navy could trade beer and the Americans could trade ice-cream. Which was a massively equitable arrangement for both." 28:34 "trying to catalog all of those, we'd be here till the sun dies" (I felt the same way when I saw Drydock was 4+ hours long) 33:22 "What do you mean, 'Our ships fell completely apart in a typhoon.' That's dishonorable. Tell them to stop immediately." 59:03 "Don't you just love the weird confluence of technologies that was around in the 1910s?" 1:06:33 "She can theoretically make her top speed. If you fancy the experience of being a brick in a tumble-dryer." 1:19:05 "British battle-cruisers get a lot of stick, ummm and, for understandable reasons given that they seem to have a distressing habit of, um, scattering themselves actively to the four winds." 1:33:24 "It meant you EITHER angered the Atlantians, in which case Jason Momoa was about to come and rip you ship in half OR, perhaps more prosaically, you were approaching a rock, which might also rip your ship in half, only without the whole 'sucking you down into the Mystical Underwater Kingdom' part." 1:49:46 "Everyone's like 'Ah! Let us follow this man. He speaks in clear sentences'." 2:46:08 "The Russians and Ottomans fighting together. I suspect the next thing will be dogs and cats living toghter and somebody cracking open the Book of Revelations and noticing four horsemen riding across the skies. But never mind." 2:48:45 "I mean, after all, touching things with considerably longer than a ten-foot-pole didn't work out for the CSS Hunley, did it?" 2:52:58 "this kind of slightly eccentric hysteria kind of just ran away with them" 2:57:00 So that's a grand total of sixteen fleet carriers and, uh, another twenty eight smaller carriers, three french-hens and a partridge in a pear tree." 3:40:17 "a radar equipped Yamato wandering around, wondering what all the ice is about" 3:42:28 "Although, if you did name a carrier USS Congress, it might mean you could legitimately say that Congress was actually doing something for a change." 3:44:33 "His ears must be ringing a little bit." 4:06:16 "That was down to it's captain's seemingly pathological desire to ram everything in sight." 4:12:52 "the US keeps..sort of starts 'turret farming' the twelve inch gun" 4:18:21 "I was gonna put it at the end of this video, but, to be perfectly honest, the chances of the majority of you reaching this point are fairly slim."
    178
  43. 260 episodes. Five years of Drydock. Congrats on a good job Drach. Thanks for all the work.
    174
  44. Drachism of the Day: The entire episode. All 9-minutes, 12-seconds of it. It's everywhere. 7:40 "Nobody had told them about the Mark XIV torpedo so they still thought that they actually had to try and evade."
    172
  45. "And, so the ship's XO was housed in the former pigeon coop. Presumably after something of a cleanup."
    172
  46. "A remarkable display of accuracy. And a minor display of overkill." "liberating two further ships from the shackles of positive buoyancy." "produced with the usual helpful sabotage of the US torpedo building establishment."
    167
  47. Drachisms of the Day: 0:22 "Brought to you by the melted gelatinous puddle that used to be known as Drach." 4:01 "Quite how that would have worked out? Who knows? Probably better off that we don't find out." 11:13 "Oh? Germans? Really? Here? In a war??? Who'd have thought? Eww." 12:11 "Arc Royal can start sorting out Skuas, for what they're worth." 14:24 "Rather than just being a pinata for anything that comes along with a gun bigger than 6-inches." 18:11 "I'm sure Tom Cruise was very disappointed about that." 19:14 "As for who's armor was better. He he. Oh boy, isn't that a little can of worms to open up?" 29:26 "You might as well call them 'Washington Cherry Trees', for lack of a better term, because they really didn't come about that much." 32:40 "After Trafalgar, Napoleon had...well...more 'Russian-shaped' things to worry about (especially when it came to the winter)." 39:01 "Well, I imagine the Captain of a US warship going out onto the wing of his bridge, staring at the Normandy coast, bringing up a scroll, and then just going: "Dear Grid Coordinates, I no longer wish you to exist. Signed, The US Navy. Open fire." 40:51 "So, congratulations. You have constructed a battleship whos, I guess, Q-turrets only function is to blow away the rear-superstructure, when inevitably it rebels and declares it's independence from the rest of the ship." 42:45 "You don't want to deflect the torpedo DOWNWARDS into the lower portion of your ship. THIS IS A STUPID IDEA." 47:24 "Yeah...just 'no'. Um..they needed to go. I mean, there's a reasons the Chileans didn't accept them." 51:07 "I might as well start throwing rocks at the ungodly number of aircraft that the USN is going to throw at me later in the war. Which doesn't sound like a very fun idea to me AT ALL." 52:18 "So, kinda by default, you end up with the Italians. And, it's like, 'Well, OK, decent food!'" 55:38 "There's nothing really I can do to help the Japanese. They picked a fight with America, in America's own 'personal pond'. So, I guess I could make a 'white flag machine' for them. Might save a few lives."
    164
  48. 0:57 "And, by the end of WW2, the happy fun-times refined spicy rock, transported by big metal bird."
    158
  49. Not incompetance. CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. And probably much worse when it comes to the prosecutor. Throw the book at her racist ass.
    157
  50. 21:51 "Difficult though the situation is, Scheer didn't get to be commander of The High Seas Fleet by writing in for a competition or winning it in a cereal packet".
    148
  51. Drachism of the Day: 5:20 "With her peacetime role including stints as the world's largest and most heavily armed yacht. Taking various members of the Royal Family on tours of the British empire."
    144
  52. Drachisms of the Day: OVERLOAD! OVERLOAD! OVERLOAD! Just watch the damned thing.
    142
  53. Chester Nimitz lost a finger. If he'd lost two more fingers, he would have been 'invalided out' of the USN. Chester Nimitz went on to become Admiral Nimitz. Isoroku Yamamoto lost two fingers at the Battle of Tsushima. If he'd lost one more finger, he would have been 'invalided out' of the IJN. Isoroku Yamamoto went on to be come Adrmiral Yamamoto.
    134
  54. Drachism of the Day: 0:37 "And if you thought you'd found a ship with a complicated and convoluted design history, well I hope you're sitting comfortably.... because this one's even BETTER." 3:36 "And this lead to the ship needing many many funnels. 'Well, how many?' I hear you ask. ALL! ALL the funnels." 5:48 "Admiral Sims decided to be the only sane man in the room." 6:13 "After nearly twenty years of redesigns the ships eventually started construction. And then they were promptly cancelled under the Washington Naval Treaty. Sometimes you just can not win."
    131
  55. Drachism of the Day 4:37 "Surviving a triple torpedo strike from a US submarine in WW2, by the grace of the Bureau of Ordnance."
    126
  56. Drachisms of the Day: 5:25 "Basically, roaming 'death squads' of British and American ships looking for things that haven't yet been exploded." 6:39 "And moving at such speed that U-Boats were just like, "Hmmm! I hear a ship coming. Up periscope." Zzmmmmmmmm. "AH! Oh well, back to looking for merchantmen. Never mind." 12:48 "I'd say, to a certain degree, they probably hated each other more than they hated some of the people they were fighting." 14:10 "There was almost a 'Klingon-level' of rivalry between officers within the same naval service." 30:07 "It's like saying "Well, yes. This person has the advantage in killing you if he runs you down with a 32-ton HGV, as compared to this person who is ONLY hitting you with a 7.5-ton moving van." I DOUBT you're really gonna appreciate the difference that much." 33:58 "And then N3 unleashed the torpedo salvo of 'complete unexpectedness'." 37:11 "You don't want a Spearfish or an ADCAP coming towards you, much less six. Umm...or worse if you have the misfortune to meet an angry Seawolf-class. But never mind." 39:15 "The British would probably have gone, "Hmmm. You declare for our enemies, do you? It's real pity you're using those Vickers 14-inch guns, isn't it? Ah well, I guess we have some spare 14-inch guns. Anyone buying?" 42:31 "Submarines submarines everywhere. And, oh dear, carrier-aircraft." 45:41 "On a battleship, it would be considered a medium weight AA weapon at best and 'Why the hell have you put this thing on our ship? Why can't we have something better?" 46:48 "You also have to consider things like 'inertia' and 'momentum'. Which are fairly related." (Newtonian snark) 50:55 "The answer tends to sound a bit 'waffley'". 54:10 "If you just did a straight swap...ahhh...the British would rip your hand off, in their efforts to shake it. And thank you from the highest-of-heavens for the absolute easy ride you've just given them." 54:53 "But that was because it was handed a weapon that was probably better at beating the enemy over the heads with physically in a boarding action, than actually firing at them." 55:13 "The phrase 'a little bit faster than the Bureau Of Ordnance' can be applied to many things including Competitive Snail Racing."
    124
  57. Drach Drinking Game. Take a shot every time he says 'shot'.
    123
  58. But do you really want to fight in a ship that smells like grandma's closet?
    121
  59. Drachisms of the Day 5:56 "I suppose if they want to name a support ship "HMS Beatty" I can allow that. It might do something useful for a change." 20:08 "Yeah when splinters are scutting around the ship that is gonna be a very bad time to be a shin." 28:46 "I mean, if your gonna spend this kind of stupid-money, you might as well throw a couple of extra billion in there. Um, for fun. If nothing else." 37:12 (on wargaming) "You're one side. You're the other side. These are your objectives. Um, basically, go out and do what you would actually do, with the exception of the whole actual 'blowing up' part." 41:43 "Admiral Tiberius asks a question that is so glorious that it really must be read in it's entirety." (the answer includes 'congressional-grizzly-bears' and a 'very big sofa') 56:27 "Oh! OK. I see what you're doing there. Good luck. Ahhm, this should be fun to watch."
    116
  60. 2:46 "Newly promoted to foremost gun position." 5:14 "She was then assigned to the 10th Destroyer Flotilla, which is where the Royal Navy concentrated the captains, who in peacetime would probably just been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and in wartime were just pointed in the vague direction of the enemy and unleashed."
    115
  61. Drachisms of the Day: 55:36 "Wins the Vlad Tepes award for cruel and unusual punishment of an enemy who was already horribly beaten into the ground anyway." 1:09:12 "When you build a ship where your secondary battery out-ranges your main battery and it's supposed to be a Dreadnought, you really really have learned the meaning of failure." 8:10 "Then you have 'Mongo The Elephant'. Yes, I said that correctly, 'The Elephant'. He lived on HMS Courageous for a while." This is NOT a 'Drachism'. This is a plea for an entire episode dedicated to Mongo. WTAF!!! 1:28:41 "Sooo, the Battle of the Barents Sea is more seen as a failure due to the sheer comedic ineptitude of the whole engagement." 1:52:17 "I need a drink."
    112
  62. Drachisms of the Day: 3:50 "Eww, well. This one's a little bit of a doozie. Innit?" 15:26 "And before this entire episode turns into 'The Adventures of Admiral Drach, Royal Navy'." 19:02 "Once it gets going, it's gonna get going at a pretty sharp clip. And good luck stopping it." 26:58 "At the battle of..um..I have no idea how to pronounce this. The battle of Me Yong Gim Yang. Question mark?" 30:17 "And, as well the name suggests, this was a dispute in the early 1960s over...who should have the right to fish for lobsters. Well I suppose the UK got involved in the Cod War, so this is really not THAT much more absurd. Although there is the rather interesting premise of whether a lobster is a fish or not." 35:24 "The war started earlier than they expected, um, thanks to Germany's antics." 44:58 "Who do you believe are the seven most awful admirals, captains, commanders etc, thru naval history." (The second I heard this question I knew that I'd end up transcribing the entire answer. I'm not doing that. Enjoy listening for yourself. It's a hoot. Here are some samples.) 45.19 "Lest I start getting very angry and ranty again." 46.17 "How the heck do you end up in command of the second largest formation in the British Navy? Just 'How?'. And 'Why?'. 48.22 "You can kinda see how Napoleon wanted to replace him." 1:36:13 "I can't remember from my german-class how you pronounce that weird 'sb' shape in German. Anyway, sorry." 1:38:11 (exasperated resignation) "OK. Fine." 2:01:23 "More important codes that were broken, were broken by the Japanese Army. Who, of course, refused to tell the Navy about it."
    110
  63. 00:38:48 - What ships actually looked like at early 20th century naval warfare ranges? Filming this piece outside, on a clear English day, was an inspired bit of production. Thank you.
    109
  64. Drachisms of the Day: 15:10 "At which point, five British battleships fall on the remaining Japanese aircraft carriers like the fists of an angry god." 21:08 "Which basically went, "What the??? OH! Ow! Ow! Ow! Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Ow!". GLUG! 26:54 "You would also have to interdict the air-routes. Which a nuclear submarine is not necessarily the best at doing." 35:23 "It didn't roll over, sink, stress itself in high-seas or try to be a submarine." 40:20 "Trying to avoid the plague that is the Japanese 25mm." 52:55 "Sure. Ah, yeah. Having eighty oxygen-fueled Long Lances on the deck of a battleship is surely never going to have any bad consequences whatsoever to anyone. Said nobody. Ever." 55:29 "It is gonna survive to get into combat. And what is more, when it goes into combat it is gonna ram you. And it is gonna run you down. And it is gonna sink you. And at the WORST, they're gonna have to repaint the bow." 1:03:42 "But it's main armament is no less than fourteen 5-inch-guns and eight 25mm-guns, because I guess someone has to get punishment-duty." 1:04:30 "It turns out that, performance-wise, it is relatively strong and stable (Oh....there's that phrase again. Oh dear.) 1:05:00 "So effectively, it's a heavily armed knife." Enjoy Tankfest. Bring ear-plugs.
    108
  65. Drachism of the Day 6:54: "poorly armored firecrackers"
    107
  66. 44:05 "And the day went on, with the weather getting worse and worse." It was about here that I began hearing The Ballad of Gilligan's Island.
    107
  67. Drachisms of the Day: 19:48 "But yeah...when you see phrases like 'running rivers of burning liquid TNT', umm, I don't think you need that much more explanation as to why things started going 'Boom'." 22:05 "I mean, there was some faulty hull-design in terms of the ventilation systems and such which didn't help, turning the ship into a fuel-air bomb." 22:36 "Meant that the explosion then blew out large amounts of the ship's sides, quite violently, which has something of a deleterious effect on a ship's ability to survive." 25:19 "A lot of it, ironically enough, um, much as it sounds like bit cliche, but 'Blame Hitler!'". 29:06 (derisively) "The HMS Ocean, which is, well, it's a amphibious assault ship. It carries helicopters and such. So, yeah." 40:32 "Lewis Masgill asks 'Favorite naval-architect of the period 1850-1950 for each of the following: UK, USA, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy and everyone else'. Eh, don't ask for much!" 1:01:57 (tuba toots) "Though I cannot help but feel, some flash doors would be nice. Fire! Fire! Big explOOOsion. Fire! Fire! Big explooosion. Fire! Fire! Big explOOOsion. Back to the drawing board."
    107
  68. Beautiful ship drawings. They worked well with your narration. I think it's safe to say that we all walked away from this with a smile. Many thanks. 35:03 "And this, AT LAST, would be the ship that would become Yamato."
    104
  69. Drachisms of the Day: 11:03 "I think you could probably best describe Halsey as an effective admiral in the same way as a man charging into a knife-fight, wielding a sledge-hammer is effective." 11:44 (on Yamamoto) "He was also the one who ran and organized the battle of Midway from the Japanese side and, well, that didn't go particularly well for them. Did it?" 16:07 "It became a 'Sail closer, I literally want to hit them with my sword.' Drop the corvus. Pin the enemy in place so it can't use it's superior seafaring skills against you. And then pour legionaries across. And then cut everyone to pieces. And that worked fairly well for them." 16:45 "The Roman Navy went from 'We're really an army, only we float.' stage." 21:50 "And I'm sorry to say, but, sitting around Scapa Flow, and looking out at various views of the North Sea, in it's multiple stages of gray...is not ESPECIALLY attractive." 1:29:54 "The greater Chilean economic prosperity sphere."
    104
  70. Drachisms of the Day 13:34 "a one-sided curb-stomp" 18:27 "Ah yes, the Albacore. One of life's great failures." 35:29 "It was a serious, serious tactical error on the British part that they didn't flatten the invasion of Norway in pretty miuch the same manner that a steam roller would go after a small bag of crisps that had been pinned onto the road." 38:13 "They would have beaten it, crushed it to a fine powder, collected the powder, and put it in a box to sooth the itching later on." 58:48 "And then you have the more prosaic enforced forms of retirement, that usually come in the shape of 32-pound cannon balls traveling at high-velocity. Ahm, which were not very popular with the person who was forcibly retired by said cannon-ball."
    100
  71. Drachisms of the Day: 4:00 "And they (Parrot guns) did have a disturbing tendency of exploding. Which is not necessarily something you want in your rifled artillery if you value your life." 5:07 "They (Dahlgren guns) did not have the habit of exploding. Which is pretty much the entire reason Dahlgren invented them." 6:00 "Personally, I would almost go with the Dahlgren. But then that's mainly because I don't like 25 pounds of explosive blowing up a 12-ton cannon right next to me . Cause I like life!" 10:37 "Obviously the ends of the ships will then be hilariously vulnerable to gunfire. BUT...that's not exactly a new thing." 12:43 "Chances are all your completely unprotected life rafts and launches are probably in little, tiny, burning pieces all over your ship. At which point, they're not incredibly useful to you." 21:40 "And in America you've got Langley. For all the good that is." 25:41 "If the carrier forces negate each other, OH WELL, back to WW1 battle-line tactics then." 32:41 "The Swordfish was so hilariously obsolete that it kind of looped all the way around the circle and came back to being good again." 33:10 "Oh well. There's a hole. I guess we're down to STITCHING THINGS back together tonight." 40:02 "BUT...the words 'compensated for' are not necessarily the ones you want to have when you are dealing with your naval guns." 47:40 "Although to be fair, if you are reduced to the point of arming merchant-ships, you're probably less likely to be worried about the legal niceties of international politics." In regards to a 'Drachism of the Day T-Shirt'. My humble suggestion: No text. Just a photo/drawing. My candidates: a 25mm Japanese AA gun ...or...the mighty Nassau. One picture is worth a thousand words.
    98
  72. Drachism Of The Day: The opening line of dialog is "Ah! The USS Galena. A ship I've previously described as, possibly the worst US ironclad ever to put to sea". I'm thinking "Oh boy. Here is comes." What follows is a typical Drach Guide To Warships....fact filled, well written and produced. But it was snark-free!!!! I think Drach saves his best jokes for DryDock.
    98
  73. Drachisms of the Day: 11:50 "The US engineers assumed some degree of sanity had gone into the manufacture of Prinz Eugen's propulsion system, were left in charge, the majority of Prinz Eugen's propulsion system took itself off to it's own personal fuhrer bunker and shot itself. Disassembling in a rather spectacular manner." 12:44 "None of the very early carriers came out of things looking particularly brilliant." 17:58 "I suppose if you do need to worry about 'ship worm' on an iron ship, you've probably got bigger things to worry about." 20:19 "Tracing genealogies and various people who basically spent their part of the last millennia stabbing, shooting or hitting people over the head in the military." 21:00 "And yes, I will write it in the manner that I tend speak, hopefully. So it will be a little bit sarcastic, a little bit flippant, a little bit off the hook. But, what else do you expect, to be perfectly honest?" 23:25 "As built they were so terribly weak that THE SEA could bend them out of shape." 24:06 "Putting a 6-inch cruiser gun on them would probably end up looking like a giant 20000-ton-bus-version of that." " 35:57 "Master Of Dickery asks..." 42:44 "Uncle Stir-fry asks..." 52:27 "Grand Emperor Kurtz asks..." 58:32 "Assuming there's a magical money printing machine that is immune to the effects of inflation thru temporal paradox ... or something." (all due respect to the names of people asking questions....it just sounded funny)
    96
  74. 15:38 "To send her over onto her side, taking all but 17 of the almost 500 man crew with her." . "Knowledge maketh a bloody entrance." The Bard.
    96
  75. Kudos for 'debunking' the false history.
    93
  76. "drowned in a vat of Brie". Cannibal fondue.
    89
  77. Drachisms of the Day: 16:00 "That's the first I've seen a battleship on Ebay." 28:54 "Which is full of torpedos and guns and shells and other kinds of explosive things which make the pyromaniac in me very happy."". 35:45 "They're just a little bit 'glass cannony'". 42:47 "Unlike an active sonar, which is where you hear the 'PIINNGG'". 45:43 "Because this is a 3-inch steel cable. There aren't that many sharks out there that are gonna gnaw that off." 46:07 "So it had to be a slightly different type of cable-cutter. One that effectively went "Nom. Nom. Nom. Nom." If you imagine a gigantic, underwater mouse or hamster that eats steel, you've got pretty much the right idea." 49:55 "The Conqueror was able to snip thru the cable, clamp it to it's side and make off with it with a low laugh." 50:20 "So perhaps the kleptomaniac tendencies of the British Armed Services were needed in this case." 55:35 "You ended up with a shell pattern that was ... ahhh...it would impress the Italians. On a BAD day of their shooting." 01:30:58 "And had a rather interesting habit of either not listening to them or not listening to them and then killing them. Because they obviously knew best." 01:32:24 "REALLY? You want me to pronounce that?" 01:38:10 "So you're not going to get the decisive leadership except possibly for orders to withdraw." 01:38:50 "It also has, apparently, divine protection from being hit." 01:51:25 "Which is a bit weird. But then the phrase "Well, that was a bit weird" and "Imperial Japanese Navy" get conflated an awful lot more than is common for most other navies when it comes to the Second World War." 02:04:27 "Pick your particular flavor of poison when it comes to that particular, um, treacherous pit of discussion." 02:18:32 "Oh boy. I need a drink now."
    86
  78. Drachisms of the Day: 13:02 "Oh, look at me. I've got such a big battleship. Insert relevant 'compensation joke' here thing." 14:02 "Now, it has been pointed out to me that I have recently been answering multi-part-questions in the correct order. This is heresy and must not be stood for. So, in the reverse order...." 17:59 "And, as for just how lethal these things could be, there's a reason why an awful lot of people who flooded ships magazines and saved the ship by doing so, ended up being awarded those medals posthumously." 18:37 "The rigid airship, as lovingly modeled here, by USS Akron." 21:34 (in regards to rigid airships) "You could just divert over another country and ... what are they going to do about it?" 22:22 "Battleships are big. The Earth is CONSIDERABLY larger." 22:45 "Because, to be honest, if you were close enough to a hostile ship the detailed picture would help you figure out which ship it was, you were probably far too close." 24:56 "But from this altitude, are you really going to be able to pick out exactly which ship it is? Wether it's a North Carolina or a South Dakota? Um...I mean for those of us who are obsessive naval historians, we probably can do." 29:52 "At the beginning of WW1, the British based the grand fleet for a while over in Northern Ireland. Umm..so, yeah, good luck with that." 43:51 "But be a much more fightable ship without it's front turrets being turned into temporary aquariums."
    84
  79. 17:17 "With the IJN loosing ships like they were running some kind of giant, very explosive, insurance scam." Blah blah blah..."Finding Nemo".
    83
  80. Drachisms Of The Day: 7:28 "unobtainium propeller shafts and Tardiss-like engine spaces" 9:07 "bears the somewhat dubious privilege of being one of the most modernized pre-Dreadnoughts of all time" 33:40 "also, growing a brain-stem and realizing that possibly the Enigma codes had been cracked" 43:12 (singing) "Skippy! Oh Skippy the bush kangaroo." 43:50 "Which spells very bad things for Prince Eugen who would be the one to catch most of that in the face" 49:25 "ramp up the power plant to EVEN MORE hilarious levels"
    83
  81. "structural integrity of the crew"
    82
  82. Well done Michael Lowery. You certainly have the history down pat. But what struck me was that this was a very well "organized" presentation. As I was listening, questions began to occur to me. And, within a few minutes/sentences, you addressed them.
    81
  83. The AAA gun mounts, seen at 4:50, look a bit like candle holders.
    77
  84. One of the subscribers to this channel owns a shell case from the Koningsberg. That's pretty cool. Happy New Year to all of you.
    76
  85. Drachisms of the Day: 14:46 "No one ever accused them of being competent. But schizophrenic may well be accurate." 16:02 "And then, when the war ended it's like 'Navy? What Navy? We don't have a navy. No, no, no! Those lovely Slovenes, Croats and Serbs over there. They have a navy. That they're very quickly repainting. But it's not ours. So you can't have it.' Buuut....well..........the allies didn't quite buy that." 17:40 "They just had the misfortune of when they eventually encountered pushy westerners in warships." 20:13 "They never really quite got their act back-together after Lepanto, way back when. But, they tried. You got to give them points for trying." 25:14 "Trying to command a battle from an open bridge was a cold and damp affair. Being British, I don't know quite why they were complaining about that. It's the natural way of things after all." 28:23 "Which could best be described as a steel ingot that they put a Lion class armament on." 1:02:13 "The hundreds of thousands, if not more, volts of energy, that you need to drive a ship, suddenly being dumped into them and their surrounding environment. Mmm, tends not to go to well." 1:03:09 "At least you're not turning the entire rear half of your ship into a giant fly-grid. Except for humans.
    76
  86. 3:09 "But these required the ship to keep moving fairly quickly , unless it wanted to be in the vicinity of a depth-charge explosion, which tended to have somewhat negative effects on a ship's ability to remain afloat. Bearing in mind that one of the primary jobs of a destroyer-escort was to HUNT submarines, not join them." "anemic surface armament" 8:03 "for a fleet that was hoping to attack almost any of the major Japanese targets that were mostly likely to be next on the US Navy's 'to-do' list." 13:32 "But of course the majority of them had already been forcibly withdrawn from active service and reassigned to reef duty."
    75
  87. Drachisms of the Day (3/3): 5:56 "Firing, effectively, a full-broadside, let's say every ten seconds, because the Captains feeling kind." 16:39 "Oh, well look! The person with the massive heavy ships versus lightweight ships managed to win. Shock, horror!" 17:28 "So I'd be able to turn that around, at least, in theory. Assuming anyone listened to me." 19:27 "And...also the simple fact of the matter is generally, in land battles, that, ah, you are shooting at men and horses which are a lot squishyer and easier to kill than ships of the line." 23:02 "But they don't need to be available quite as soon as the machinery, cause, well generally speaking, as you can see here with the USS Florida, the guns go on the top." 27:20 "I managed to avoid a 'technical derail'. Huzzah!" 28:21 "The OTHER way of doing it was to basically bake it into something that was so hard and moisture-free that it was more 'building material' or 'melee weapon' than food-stuff." 30:56 "And discovered that they hadn't quite got the technology right. And they kind of put on a minor electrical storm every time they tried to turn the turrets. With massive arcs of blue fire. Which looks pretty but is not particularly effective." 38:34 "As an Englishman, I'm almost genetically duty-bound to rag on the French on occasion."
    73
  88. Drachism of the Day: "Obviously, with the 'Essex 3-D Print Production Line' going, the USN is not really at risk of ever running out of these ships." 34:30 Bonus Drachism of the Day #1: "There's not really that much wrong with the Japanese guns themselves. And they hit harder...when their shells actually explode." 42:05 Bonus Drachism of the Day #2: "The general craze everyone had for ramming things." 48:40
    72
  89. 33:58 "The issues with the K class, on their trials, didn't stop there though." 39:48 "Somewhat ironically, given that they were submarines, the K class were now also fitted with depth charge launchers." 51:18 "This was, however, the first time a K class had dived uncontrollably by the stern. So, meh, new accomplishments and all that!" 55:19 "K22 decided it was going to lawn dart into the seabed again." TITLE DROP
    69
  90. Drachisms of the Day: 16:50 (in regards to rubberized flight-decks) "And then you would have had the Kitty Hawk turned into the world's largest trampoline". 46:58 "You've just let a bunch of water into your ship voluntarily which is probably not a good idea to do in the face of an enemy battleship that's about to, possibly, let a lot of water into your ship involuntarily." 48:24 "You know what? STUFF THIS. I'm going after him."
    68
  91. "we have not yet reached SkyNet" "a spark went off and so did the ship" 49:44 "A number of Japanese carriers were damaged, survived, made it back, were patched up and sent back out again. Ahhm, most of them to only then to be bombed and sunk later on, but that's a minor detail." 51:06 "Which kind of makes you wonder if there was a somewhat angry and vengeful, if somewhat inaccurate and low powered deity, desperately trying to take the thing out."
    68
  92. When Gehres took command of the Franklin from Shoemaker he addressed the crew and, in regard to the Oct-44 kamikaze attack, supposedly said: ‘It was your fault because you didn’t shoot [the kamikaze] down. You didn’t do your duty; you’re incompetent, lazy and careless. Evidently you don’t know your jobs and I’m going to do my best to shape up this crew!’ . Read: "Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin" by Joseph Springer
    68
  93. I spent last Saturday, with many of you, on the Battleship New Jersey. We visited with Drach, toured the ship, shot the guns and spent hours in Q&A sessions. The questions covered all things nautical, and more. British humor and sarcasm were the topic more than once. And, years after seeing "The Holy Grail", my curiosity was finally satisfied. I now know the meaning of "mangy scots git". Thank you Drach, for crossing the Atlantic to bring me this knowledge. I encourage everyone to attend the Meet-n-Greet on Drach's next tour. You never know what you'll learn.
    68
  94. I worked for a publishing company in the 80s; We published a group of magazines targeted at computer manufacturers (DEC, IBM, HP). We had an 'art department', as you describe it. People cutting and pasting strips of text into the shape of a printed page. And then along came Adobe with Aldus Page Maker. We bought a Mac and an IBM PC-AT. Installed Pagemaker on both. And sat them down side by side in the Art Department. It took a day to decide. I ended up buying every new Mac that came out. And the SAVINGS were insane. Before you print 250000 copies of the magazine, you have to print ONE copy and have the advertisers approve it. That costs about $6000 per page. Until you can do it yourself. And the big machine that spewed out columns of printed text to be cut/pasted....gets unplugged. And I got to avoid having to support the IBM PC and Windows. Thank you Adobe. I named my son Aldus.
    66
  95. "about as complicated as Latin grammar"
    65
  96. Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm
    64
  97. Emma Hamilton. Her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
    62
  98. Drachisms of the Day (1/3): 18:51 "It was commanded by the rather wonderfully named "Manley Power". 19:38 "And they seemed to carry the tradition of the ALABAMA in more ways than one. Especially as they all ended in similar ways." 21:54 "Hmm. Nice merchant navy. Shame if something were to happen to it." 23:03 "By the traditional method, which was 'Pay us or we'll shoot you.' Because the British would have been; 'OK, you want to try it that way. Let's go then.'". 29:18 "But then again, I am British. So I guess eccentricity is somewhere down there in the DNA." 33:47 "Instead of...well, yeah...the 'melee-weapon' that is the Mark XIV." 34:07 "But it's certainly going to put a VERY big spanner in the works." (to my ear, this is a 'Yank-specific' Drachism). 46:44 "If I ever find who made that video, I'm coming for you with a blunt object." 47:00 "As I've said before, if I could BE on any one ship, it would be something like the USS Massachusetts, because, well, if you didn't loose anybody, so I get to live. Huzzah! I like life." 49:56 "Sit there and let the horribleness overtake you."
    61
  99. 27:41 "However, before internal dissent in the Imperial Japanese Navy could escalate beyond yelling and threats of physical violence the Imperial Japanese Army turned up to remind them all who the real enemy was." Kendo? That makes sense. The sport is pure aggression. And nothing is resolved faster than a kendo attack.
    61
  100. I appreciate that you add 'human voice' to the title. Your dry humor is much more enjoyable this way. However, I have also come to enjoy the 'oddities' that your computer-voice narrative creates. Thanks so much for your work here. Keep it up.
    61
  101. "a very Australian thing" 42:20 The tale of Teddy Sheean. Another reason to love Australians.
    60
  102. 24:28 "And yes, for a suicide weapon, they also had a self-destruct."
    59
  103.  @neilatkinson5142  Which explains why Mrs Atkinson's front yard is always free of mines.
    59
  104. Many thanks to Dr. Fred Hocker. Congrats on your well organized and delivered responses. You, Sir, are a good teacher.
    57
  105. Drachism Of The Day: "Then you would be shot or sent to gulag. Or, sent to gulag and then shot. Or, possibly be shot and then your body sent to gulag. But, there you go. There's Russia for you." 1:29:37
    55
  106. Drachisms of the Day 15:06 "yet it did practically nothing other than roll over and sink" 21:21 "All Galena really did was to provide an opportunity for some Confederate gunners to up their kill-count. So yeah, cancel that thing. Bit of an embarrassment, really." 29:24 "Much as I hate to say it, no one was going to be particularly terrified of the Philippine Navy." 34:14 "No one is going to be particularly distressed if your plate isn't perfectly circular. Unless you've got really crippling OCD." 35:42 "Now, I don't know about you, but two kilos of explosive is a fair bit of BOOM." 41:37 "You can't run. You can't hide. Big Daddy Lexington's coming to fiiinnd you."
    54
  107. 0:39 "The Canadian Navy Presents Great Attractions to Men and Boys". That didn't age well.
    53
  108. 2:18 "or some other horrifically mind-numbing permutation of the British turret naming system"
    53
  109. Drachisms of the Day 14:54 "I don't know what you did to the English language, Americans. But I..I..I give up." 17:25: "If you think Peral Harbor was bad, watch what happens when the twin-engine bombers get in on the act as well." 21:42 "Reality doesn't have to make sense. Fiction has to follow rules." 29:05 "And there's a whole lot of complicated equations that go into that. So, again, because I don't want to spend the rest of the DryDock talking about the hydrodynamic principals of hull-design, umm, just take my word for it." 31:50 "It will be cool and fine for about the next five minutes and then it will end in blood, tears, explosions and wreakage over the water. So yeah, maybe leak those plans to your enemy first." 50:17 "14th century cannons had a distressing habit of exploding and scattering the crew, themselves and lots of bits of burning, hot metal all over the place. Which is not really something you want when you're on a small wooden warship covered in, ah, men and burnables." 54:42 "...upper class nit-witery that occasionally infected the Royal Navy's upper echelons..." 57:20 "You know what? Stuff it. All sails to full. We are going into this battle come hell or high water and probably both are not too far away."
    52
  110. Drachisms of the Day 23:38 "And the Germans, especially when it came to the Admiral Hipper class, went 'I know. We shall take our little, overly-complex hodge-podge and we will run it at a THOUSAND psi. That'll end well.' Yeah, I can hear the trans-Atlantic head-desking. Trust me, I can." 27:34 "Fuel goes in here. Water goes in here. Steam goes out here. Connect it up. Wheee! Happy Days!"
    52
  111. 13:17 "Second class submarines included the 'Type F' which appears to have just meant 'F' in a rather pleasing change of pace." 13:59 "The development of this sometimes bewildering variety of submarines..."
    51
  112. Drachisms of the Day (2/3): 12:34 "Well, I couldn't easily find a picture of the 'B-Bomb' for love-nor-money, sooo...HERE...have a picture of a 'Grand Slam' instead! Ah...(lowered voice) it's always good for a laugh. Anyway..for those of you who are unaware, the B-Bomb was a design of bomb, unsurprisingly enough. HaHa." 15:11 "Level bombing in, or dropping bombs from any significant height at any sort at the beginning of WW2, was NOT the world's most accurate endeavor." 18:19 "And then, at some point in WW2, they just dropped all subtlety and went with stuff like this...which was, yeah, you know, 'STUFF ACCURACY. We'll just hit the same post-code and you'll still be dead.' 20:27 "As opposed to the old black powder charges, which were: Fire guns. INSTANT smoke screen. Everyone might as well sit down and have a cup of tea because nobody can see what-the-heck is on either side of that cloud of smoke for a good five or six minutes." 27:19 "Imagine some kind of weird trimaran-IOWA maybe if they just..MAYBE IF THEY LITERALLY just took some industrial girders and strapped a couple of ATLANTAs to each side." 28:41 "In some ways, eh...BOTH of the answers actually are potentially answers to BOTH of the questions, in that aspect." 31:58 "Well if you want to break the Naval Treaty, you are effectively shooting your own economy in the head. Soo..have fun with that. (continue listening until) It was a simpler time back then." 33:28 "Everyone was horribly 'rules lawyering' the Washington Naval Treaty." 46:04 "DON'T PUT YOUR MAIN MAST RIGHT BEHIND THE FUNNEL. Stupid people. Anyway." 53:08 "Their ball-and-chain effect on the rest of the fleet is less." (I googled 'b bomb', 'bee bomb', etc. No luck. Your assistance is appreciated.)
    48
  113. Drachism Of The Day: 1:05:36 "And hopefully not drowning in endless amounts of rain and mud because I'd much rather keep that for the WW1 re-enactors."
    48
  114. Drachisms of the Day: 1:36 "not particularly badger-like to my estimation" 28:57 "If, by any chance, there's a human behavioral psychologist or two listening to this maybe you can chime in as to whether this theory has, or ever had, any particular weight, um, and we'll see where I go from there." 31:55 "Carriers generally have a fairly enlightened bit of self-interest in staying away from enemy shipping as well." 32:55 "Was in line with the three British battleships, forming a somewhat incongrous battle-line." 34:12 (with pride) And, ironically enough, technically won." 34:44 "There was nothing in it's design...that was completely impossible to do." 43:39 "So this particular little interception scenario greatly depends on what the Japanese actually bring to the party." 47:07 "In regards as to what happened to Mutsu ... well, it went BOOM." 47:56 "The report that was issued at the time officially blamed a disgruntled crewman who had been accused of theft and may have decided to do the ultimate hara-kiri." 50:49 "A bit of note, note-paper that says 'Something bigger, better and faster than whatever the French have just built.'" 58:16 "There's also a little bit of ramming. And a few of the British ships are lost. Umm. But, by and large, that may come as little shock to people."
    48
  115. Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency. Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Our four*...no... *Amongst our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
    46
  116. "by the time the horror was all over" "a useful way to guarantee that their shells fusses initiated and little else"
    45
  117. They got a bit carried-away with the 'Double Decker Tank'.
    44
  118.  @tcpratt1660  It was MUCH worse than that. Read "Shattered Sword" by Parshall. At the end, he does a 'what if' speculation about how the IJN landings at Midway would have gone down, had they occurred. It was NOT good. It was Tarawa-level bad. Midway and Tarawa are both atolls. They share oceanic topographies. Thus, amphib assaults have identical problems. Except this time, it wouldn't be the USMC slogging thru the lagoon. This time, it was the USMC that was dug in and waiting. Fish in a barrel.
    44
  119. Drachism of 2020 23:45 "Can you tell us about the Russian naval doctrine? Oh boy..." "Oh boy!" That pretty much sums up 2020. Here's to 2021.
    44
  120. Obscure History Fact: The USN did attempt a land-submarine campaign. They couldn't get the torpedo's to work. BuOrd blamed the earth.
    44
  121. 17:46 "Unfortunately, there is only one known photo of Yamato class." In "Build The Musashi" by Youshimura, he discusses the test firing of the guns. They'd bolted cages to the deck, within the blast zone of the guns. They placed small animals within the cages. This book is noteworthy because much of it discusses the extreme security measures surrounding the construction of this class of ship. The result of the security measures is that this book suffers because it is 'sparse' on detail. My opinion.
    44
  122. Can we all just take a moment to acknowledge that this is TAKING A TOLL ON TRUMP. Can we take a moment and consider the amount of stress and pain that this is causing him. Can we stop and smile about his misery. . And let's not forget the 75 million republican bootlickers who voted for him...and lost. Let's never forget their anger and humiliation. There is great joy to be found in their pain.
    43
  123. At 38:26. German sailors with tears in their eyes. I had to stop there. I had tears in my eyes.
    43
  124. Drachism of the Day: Name your golden retriever 'Doubloon'. So you can say you have a 'Golden Doubloon'. 35:45 Bonus Drachism of the Day: "Well, without going into too much horrific detail, if we're going to stick around with Churchill and 'strange fetishes' we could be here for a while. So we won't" 43:20
    43
  125. Released....6:29 "with a rather jauntily raked extension to her funnel".
    43
  126. More or less
    42
  127. Drachism of the Day: "And if anyone so much as mentions 'rogues', there will be pain. Lots of pain." 40:50
    41
  128. Like all large organizations, the USN is guilty of a lot of stupid shit. The USN is particularly BAD at being guilty many many times. There is this example, Captain McVay/Indianapolis, trying to pin the '89 turret explosion on the Iowa on a 'gay' sailor...the list is ugly. BUT...consider the state of the USN on December 6th, '41. Then consider the state of the USN on September 2, '45. Let that sink in for a moment. You have to admit that, on the whole, they did a remarkable job. And they did stupid shit. They still do.
    41
  129. I play a similar game once a year, 3 out of every 4 years. I was born on 29-Feb, Leap Years Day. To celebrate, on non-Leap-years, every Feb-28th, at 11:59:59 PM, I close my eyes, hold my breath and jump into the air. When I land, my birthday is over.
    40
  130. Drachisms of the Day: 19:57 "And, to his credit, Russel Crowe doesn't quite give us the linguistic tour of the UK that he does in some other films." 33:03 "Hilarious to watch. Not so hilarious to run away from." 59:27 "Unless you get a complete and utter suprise attack obviously, which ... Eh! It's possible. But I wouldn't put my money on it." 1:26:03 "Outside of a few computer aided ... stunts."
    40
  131. 1:06 "THANK YOU ALEX." Another mystery of the universe...sadly revealed. I suppose 'Alexander' is an appropriate name. But it wasn't on my list. I speculated that it was 'Nelson'. Or 'Horatio'. Or 'Spongebob' What names were on your list?
    39
  132.  @hothoploink1509  "And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
    38
  133. "Within an hour the ship had been sunk with 46 killed and 42 wounded from a crew of 530." Usually I feel a bit of sorrow hearing that the fate of the ship was "sold to the breakers". I have to rethink that.
    37
  134. The new drydock formula is fine. You've become the victim of your own success. I particularly like the idea of doing Q-n-A on your recently published works. I'm happy to hear that I am not alone in discovering duplicate books in my library. Best wishes for a full recovery for the throat/voice. My advice on your move to a new home....you only need to unpack toilet paper and your toothbrush....everything else is secondary.
    37
  135.  @mattblom3990  Matt. Thank you for using the word 'community'. My opinion is that this is a 'community'. Drach should be proud of having created it.
    36
  136. The extended sequence at the end. All of the lingering shots of the ordnance. The musical accompaniment. It is well produced.
    35
  137. Phrase of the Day: "Beatty was basically more like a well-spoken Klingon when it came to battle. Very unsubtle and rather predictable." 50:26 K'plah!
    35
  138. Who else has a Sunday morning routine that includes Drydock?
    35
  139. Not Pinned Post for Q&A. She encountered an old German mine in 1956. Which raises the questions. What sea-mines lurked the longest (after the conflict ended) and then inflicted damage? And... What sea-mines lurked the longest before they were discovered?
    35
  140. Cut scene from "Life of Brian". Drach learns to conjugate. Centurion: What's this then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'? Drach: It says 'Romans go home.' Centurion: No it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!
    35
  141. This was the collaboration we'd all been waiting for. Well done Gents.
    35
  142. We can make it. But making it here doesn't produce enough PROFIT. You see, we let corporations do business here in the USA. While at the same time, we let those corporations send our jobs and our national-security, overseas. That's what you get when you vote for republicans.
    34
  143. 1:02:59 "Our wonderful, classic 'spikey' mine" Sometimes, the technical jargon is overwhelming.
    34
  144. DRACHISM OF THE YEAR 47:06 "But, after a long career wearing out anchor cables."
    34
  145. I wanted icons to begin appearing on the screen.
    33
  146. "the mighty North Korean Navy"
    33
  147. 30:57 "Admiral Kurita had already had enough, and left". Samar, in eight words. 40:41 "Plus, "filling in any remaining space with twin 20 mmm Oerlikons." And no, I'm not even joking, that's exactly what it says on the order papers."
    33
  148. When I read this, I use Monty Python "pepperpot" voices.
    33
  149.  @Dave5843-d9m  That name only applied to the Type XIV boats. The 'milch cow' boats. AKA: U-Haul.
    32
  150. Drachisms of the Day 23:04 "They were unable to fight the fire despite the fact that the ship was moored alongside the dock and, well obviously, is in an infinite supply of water." 24:21 "Which was probably a bad idea to start with, but...yeah, 'and then it got worse'." 24:41 "Yeah, clap clap clap. All stand up for that one. I wonder who's getting sent to gulag today?" 27:24 "and generally converting it into a fast-moving cloud of chaff"
    32
  151. Drach arrives at Phila International Airport Customs Gate With a backpack laser in his luggage. "Anything to declare?"
    32
  152. A reminder that history is ultimately a purely human affair.
    31
  153. This type of '5 Minute Guide', the ones concerning WW2-Era USN ships, make me sad. They tell the stories of fighting ships. Ships where our grandparents served, fought, suffered and died. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad that Grandpop survived the war. What saddens me is that the guides mostly end the same way. "Scrapped".
    31
  154. 20:12 "I've just shot a prisoner by mistake." 24:07 "If a U-boat was detected by any means then the area was to be immediately plastered in burning phosphorous and magnesium in such quantities, that one might be forgiven for thinking a second sun had risen." 40:25 "something of a bent bow"
    31
  155. "Excalibur" would be a good RN ship name.
    31
  156.  @Pyxis10  Captain Crunch
    30
  157. Today's version of this would be an armed container ship. . Imagine running into a "15000 TEU" ship. Not knowing which of the container doors are about to swing open.
    30
  158. 'favorite naval uniform'. One of the guys in my wargame-group was considering painting an army. So he googled 'men in uniforms'. And discovered the world of gay-fetish/SM-porn. Years later, the morale rolls are still clunky. But it's not a bad game.
    29
  159. I like the format. I think that, by reacting to an author's opinions, it causes you to discuss specific points (design, manufacture, operation, etc) at a greater level of detail than you might normally address.
    29
  160. No. They are only laughing at you.
    28
  161. Every day Mitch gets older. He can feel death closing in. And he sees his life's work....being torn to pieces....right in front of his eyes. . Suffer Mitch.
    28
  162. 1:06:43 "The Luftwaffe, charmingly, seem to have managed to set fire to a portion of those records." The Luftwaffe's 'film archives' were located in Dresden. "from a book I read"
    28
  163. Over the years, I have spent plenty of money on disappointing books. So I find 'book review' videos to be very useful. Please keep up the good work.
    28
  164. Drydock - Episode 256 Coming up on the five year mark.
    27
  165. 2:24 "Which might have been enough to deter an attack by a particularly aggressive rowboat."
    27
  166. Drone's last words: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."
    27
  167. In regards to U-Boats shelling the refinery on Aruba. I suggest "The U-Boat War in the Caribbean" by Gaylord Kelshall. The oil is in Venezuela (which you can see from Aruba). The refinery is on Aruba (I stood at the gates). The Brits, being clever empire-builders, did not want the Venezuelan's having full control of 'production of oil'. So they put the refinery out of their grasp. This necessitated a fleet of tankers to schelpp the crude between the two points. Venezuela has a shallow coastline. So the tankers were 'shallow bottom', custom-made, tankers. There were 10 of them in the fleet. Now for the fun part. The U-Boats sank one of the 10. Had Doenitz appreciated the situation, he should have gone after the other 9. Their sinking would have crippled the operation and denied Britain a large percentage of their 'empire oil'. One other bit from Kelshall's book. A U-Boat attacked a freighter in the Carib. They watched as the freighter-crew abandoned ship faster than they'd ever seen happen before. So fast that they left one of their shipmates aboard the sinking freighter. So the U-Boat pulled up and took the sailor on board. The sailor was very nervous...natural for a POW, the U-Boat commander assumed. It wasn't until the freighter sank below the waves that the truth came out. The freighter was hauling ammo. And it went BOOM. It almost sank the U-Boat. No word on how the POW was treated on his trip back to Germany. These experts are from memory. I apologize for inaccuracies. The book is OK. It does shed light on a neglected theater of war. I'd give it a half-hearted recommendation.
    27
  168. Yeah. That's a Drachism. Well done, Sir.
    26
  169. You are invited to 'Dinner With The Drachs'. Accept _ Decline _
    26
  170. The Glengarryy??? "Put that coffee down! Coffee is for sinkers only."
    26
  171. Never trust republicans.
    25
  172. Thank you. Looks like this one will be Kindle. "https://www.amazon.com/Nelson-Vanguard-Development-1923-1945-Distinguished-ebook/dp/B00L1E1V3O/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WA4CGC22WNB5&dchild=1&keywords=nelson+to+vanguard&qid=1595426572&sprefix=nelson+to+van%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1"
    25
  173. 29:42 (Parshall) "You look at Kaga. Umm...my god. You know, even if they'd been able to tow her home...she'd have been worth nothing but razor blades at that point." 57:57 (Parshall) "There's always going to be some irascible sea-dogs running around. I mean obviously the US Navy, as a whole, is run by Earnest King who's not exactly, you know, a ball of laughs at a party." 1:01:30 (Parshall) "And frankly, from the Russian standpoint, I think it's an open question as to whether or not Russian is going to survive 1942." (BINGO)
    25
  174. From: The Battle of Jutland Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkR2HpkrJ2c&t=1856s 30:24 "Aboard HMS New Zealand, Captain John Greene, also known as 'Jimmie', solemnly orders the Maori warrior skirt and green pendant, be brought to the bridge, where he puts them on. Thus enabling the supernatural protection that these items bestow upon his ship."
    25
  175. 7:28 "For fairness, and because nobody trusts politicians." 12:18 "But that's why this channel is about warships, and not politics." (Hear Hear)
    24
  176. The accompanying illustrations, paintings and photos are some of the best work I've ever seen on this channel.
    24
  177. 0:33 "Previously, the text-to-speech was damning the Swedish language for tying it up in pretzels trying to pronounce the word "Sverige" correctly. Now I'm speaking in English. I have a microphone. I can mess it up in all sorts of new and interesting ways. Anyway."
    24
  178. Soooo much fun, watching his reaction. Especially since it tears directly at his 'family'. (not that family means a thing to republicans) . AND THIS IS ONLY THE START!!!!!
    23
  179. Carbs
    23
  180. Episode 259. Next week is five years. That's an achievement.
    23
  181. Rather Wonderful Drachisms of the Day. 22:52 "A rather wonderfully labeled 'Explosives and Grenades' ". 32:02 "The rather wonderfully named 'Supply Department: Acid Locker'. I will leave it to others to describe what the acids, stored aboard, are used for. Spoiler Alert: It's not quite as exciting as you might think." Bonus Drachism (not as wonderful): 35:16 "The rather entertainingly named 'Chemical Warfare Materials Stowage'."
    23
  182. The original 'Twilight Zone' TV series had many stories with 'twist' or 'final sentence' endings. Nicely written, Drach Serling.
    23
  183. BEST DAY EVER! . Knowing that he suffers is a joy. Seeing his supporters humiliated is fantastic. . AND....we get to see MORE OF THIS UNFOLD!!!! More of his pain. I can't wait.
    22
  184. Drachisms of the Day 15:58 "At which point it's the Battle Of The Falklands all over again. Just slightly different." 40:49 "Give anybody that's trying to visually spot you a minor seizure."
    22
  185. Aren't ALL knife-fights 'close range'?
    21
  186. My suggestion for deterring 'salvage' operations of warship/grave sites is the same as how to stop 'wildlife poachers' and their ilk. Go after the bankers that finance them.
    21
  187. It's time to play 'One of these things is not like the others'. Tiger Lion Blake Play along and win a prize.
    20
  188. "Snakes on a Trireme". Starring Samuel L. Jackson. "I've had it with these motherfukin snakes on this motherfukin trireme." Coming soon to a theater near you.
    20
  189.  @VersusARCH  Veni Vidi Hilfi
    20
  190. It's "79: Part 2 The Dryer Dock"
    19
  191. But they cut off king's heads. Just sayin.
    18
  192. Drachisms of the Day: 21:53 "They were deliberately going out and colonizing areas, but it was not for imperial acquisition purposes, it was more for, well, either offloading weird religious fanatics..." 38:01 "Or, in some of the German cases, you ended up with ships that sincerely wished to identify as U-boats and would do everything in their power to join the U-boat corp, eh, whenever the waves looked to be more than a few inches high." 47:51 (conspiratorially) "And, I may or may-not have quietly sneaked into a couple history-course lectures without telling anybody that I wasn't actually on the course while I was at university. Um, but we shall say no more about that." 49:07 "Which again, they got very familiar with me." (no judgement) 54:13 "The idea of your own ship basically committing suicide by running up to full speed is not something that you want to take lightly." 57:32 "At the end of the day, nothing quite beats taking a big slab of metal downrange and then blasting away with naval artillery."
    18
  193. After Pearl, the Mark 14 must have felt like a virgin at an orgy.
    18
  194. 14:48 "If the enemy was, of course, kind enough to approach at walking pace so that you could hand-load each of your 37mm rounds."
    18
  195. The Indianapolis speech was written by John Milius. He also wrote/directed both 'Conan The Barbarian' and 'Red Dawn'. He wrote the screenplay for 'Apocalypse Now'. "Charlie don't surf". 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning.'
    18
  196. 13:02 "I'm not dumb enough to think I can drive across the Australian outback." Just walk away! Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.
    18
  197. In a much larger sense, conducting war is about 4 things. 1) Extracting raw materials needed for warfare. 2) Transporting those materials to a location for processing. 3) Processing those raw materials into weapons/supplies. 4) Transporting those weapons/supplies to the battlefield.
    18
  198. Sailing within range of any gun is a bad idea when your deck launcher is loaded with a Type 93 torpedo. Using compressed oxygen as an oxidizer wasn't the most brilliant idea when in battle. When the IJN first started to equip ships with this device, the oxygen tank was labeled as 'Auxiliary Fuel'. They knew. They tried to hide it from the sailors. Perhaps a question for Drach would be "How many IJN ships were victims of their own Type 93s?"
    18
  199.  @mattblom3990  That sounds a bit 'war-hammerish'. But who am I to question to traditions and beliefs of the Mighty Maori.
    17
  200. Brilliant. Bravo. My favorite type of video is when you focus on a particular technology and it's evolution. 31:52 "the world's biggest and messiest slinky" And yes....please go into the finer details. Annealing, Quenching.
    17
  201. On one hand, I'm thinking "Two hours? On a Tuesday afternoon? Why?" On the other hand, I look at the date.
    17
  202. I strongly agree with the 'lights to highlight'. It is a useful addition to the production.
    17
  203. You discussed this topic, 'book recommendation videos', aboard the battleship New Jersey just a few weeks ago. Speaking as someone who's been building a (Russo-German-WW2) library since 1975, I find this to be tremendously valuable. I told you that I have many hobbies. Books are an expensive hobby. So I say again, I find this to be tremendously valuable.
    17
  204. Applause to Baron Engel. Nicely done, Sir.
    16
  205. Deck guns (on subs). What special procedures were required to operate them? All that salt water had to have some impact. How were they sealed, drained and maintained?
    16
  206. He was in a mood.
    16
  207. Hans and Gruber? Hans Gruber? Welcome to the party, pal!
    16
  208. Could be worse. Could be a childproof cap.
    16
  209. It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.
    16
  210.  @bigblue6917  According to Drach (a few months ago), the man must be wearing a 'flat cap'. (i may have mis-remembered this phrase).
    16
  211. Operation Crossroads, the nuclear weapons tests in question, was comprised of two tests. The first test was conducted on July-1, 1946. It was a Friday. The second test was conducted on July-25, 1946. It was a Thursday. Tsk tsk.
    15
  212. Who can read this without using Samuel Jackson's voice?
    15
  213.  @SeveralWeezelsInaTrenchcoat  "Open the pod bay doors Drach." "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave."
    15
  214. 31:52 "I made a complete 'pig's ear' of it." Which, according to 'Phrase Finder', derives from "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
    15
  215.  @nikolailucyk  I suspect that part 2 is going to be a lot more gruesome. 2400+ died that day, most in the harbor. The salvage effort was essentially them digging up a battlefield. A battlefield filled with drowned, bloated bodies. Bodies burned beyond recognition. Crushed into paste. Liquified by explosions. I don't know where he's going to go with part 2. But I suspect, it won't be pretty.
    15
  216. Everything I learned about 'statistics' came from Mark Twain. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    15
  217.  @stevenhall8891  I don't understand how such a toxic personality made its way up the ladder of command. How did the USN not see him for what he was?
    15
  218. Have you ever read the warning labels on a ladder?
    15
  219. In regards to 'canned food' (and with well-deserved nod to Admiral Tiberius). James Burke wrote and hosted the TV series "Connections". (and again, the following is from my memory of the first book published to accompany that series) Napoleon went into Italy for the 2nd time. Forage was bad and his armies were widely separated. And he almost got his head handed to him. So he went back to Paris and told the Institute of Science to research a solution. And thus was canned food developed. Burke further draws all the 'connections' between canning and refrigeration. That was a fun book.
    15
  220. 2:55 "Two decades earlier, the German Navy had scarcely been more than a glorified coastal defense force. But now it stood as the second most powerful navy on the planet." HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? Yes, Germany had steel and coal industries. But what about SHIPYARDS? How did they build that fleet? Are shipyards (and ship building skills) that easy to develop? I'm aware of the US/USN explosive naval growth in WW2 (read "Freedom's Forge" by Herman). How did the Germans do it?
    14
  221. Ramming will always be popular.
    14
  222. Congrats on another collaboration. Together, you exceed the sum of your parts.
    14
  223.  @Strelnikov403  Your Russian accent isn't Scottish enough.
    14
  224. Kid Rock is a talent-less piece of shit. Those that go to his concerts are no better.
    14
  225. She's not overweight. She's big boned.
    13
  226. I've owned three English Bulldogs in my life. So I believe it is fitting that a bulldog, "Pelorus Jack", the mascot of HMS New Zealand, receive due credit. "https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/pelorus-jack-the-mascot" When a dog bites you, it's nose is pressed against you. That obstructs it's breathing. A bulldog's nose is recessed. When they get their teeth into you, they have no problems breathing. They NEVER let go.
    13
  227. HMS Pointy Stick
    13
  228. 44:34 (on Bligh) "He did have his faults. He could hold a grudge like a dwarf with a bad headache."
    13
  229. So, during this period, guns were changing FAST. 8 inch. 9.2 inch. 10 inch. And up and up and up. What impact did this rate of change have on ammo production? How did they avoid overproduction? Underproduction? Were orphaned calibers just disarmed and scrapped?
    13
  230. Thanks to India for removing Y turret and smaller parts of the ship and sending them to NZ and RN. It is nice to thwart the scrappers for a change.
    13
  231.  @hothoploink1509  For me, it's the orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats.
    13
  232. Built by William Cramp & Sons (in Phila PA). I grew up directly across the street from a Phila 'public school' (K-thru-5). "William Cramp School". Not at all surprised to hear that this ship became a 'torpedo testing' platform that retired in 1921. Because BUORD didn't bother to test any of their torpedoes after that!!!
    13
  233. Last time I was this early, she was yelling from the bedroom to 'get back and finish what I'd started'. More than one dry dock that day.
    13
  234. (on the status of test-recording instrumentation) "potentially has ceased existence on this mortal realm".
    13
  235.  @Bird_Dog00  I went with mutated because it felt more 'virus themed'.
    13
  236. Before the 6 year old psychopath started shooting, a school employee was tasked with searching him for a weapon. AND THAT PERSON FAILED TO FIND A WEAPON. . How is it possible to be unable to find a loaded gun on a six year old??? That person is criminally neglectful and should be charged.
    12
  237.  @bakomusha  It is fun to listen for them, isn't it?
    12
  238. 6:59 "Nelson was under repairs after an Italian torpedo bomber had blown a hole in her side, taking an especially valued cheese with it." WHAT?
    12
  239. Finally! You got your vax. Do I still need to wear a mask while I listen?
    12
  240. When I hear a question like that, I smile and think "Oh boy. Here it comes."
    12
  241. Last night was our weekly wargame. It was ACW Ironclads. There were a LOT of 'critical hits'. A few ships went 'BOOM' and glugged. Everyone was wondering why I was humming 'Battle Hymn Of The Republic'.
    12
  242. Salvage? No. This is desecration.
    12
  243. How nasty is the North Atlantic in winter? Bad enough for a crew to man a burning tanker filled with 11000 tons of aviation fuel.
    11
  244. This is a helpful book review.
    11
  245. Drach at night (not found on YouTube).
    11
  246. "weird and wonderful services"
    11
  247. In regards to trireme speed, Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just add a second drummer to the oar deck? About the early USN monitors being compared to a 'heavily armed raft'. How long did it takes to inflate one of them? Did they use an air pump? Or just blow into the red valve?
    11
  248. 16:45 "The other exception was France, which was merrily in the process of guillotining everyone in sight, and thus, was not in a position to do much of anything." 34:12 "from a spate of 'near-Roman' level of assassinations" Europeans: We'll send them cannon and guns. Americans (eventually): We'll send them ammunition. Used.
    11
  249.  @CDNShuffle  Too late. The AI has already has a name. Lefinihcard
    11
  250. You'll need an Enigma machine to interpret your dreams.
    10
  251. 22:29 "in the vicious ongoing war in the Channel and Mediterranean between the Allied small craft and their Axis counterparts". Sounds like something I'd like to hear more about.
    10
  252. Such cruelty.
    10
  253.  @Drachinifel  Cut white paper into pieces just a "tiny-bit" larger than the ship-bases. You only need enough to place them beneath the models of one side. The "outline" should provide visible but SUBTLE differentiation. Different colored paper might yield a more aesthetically pleasing contrast.
    10
  254. How much coal did one of these ships burn? That might make an interesting topic (as if your backlog isn't large enough). 'The evolution of fuel consumption and the supply-logistics involved.'
    10
  255. Well said. This ship/crew seems to embody the phrase, 'fighting spirit'.
    10
  256. One other (poorly remembered) detail from the book. There's a well known story of a U-Boat crew delivering a 'captured pig' (the crew named him 'Douglas') to Admiral Doenitz. Seaman Porky was taken prisoner in the Carib by U-162. No word on his ultimate fate. Or flavor.
    10
  257. I've read that foresters would use 'braces'. Devices that would force the tree to branch/grow into specific shapes. Ostensibly, this gave the wood a natural-shape and a natural-strength when it was harvested.
    10
  258. You've done a man's job, Sir.
    10
  259. Stay warm. Bring along extra coffee so you can write "KPDubbs71 was here." in the snow. Merry & Happy to you and all Drachers.
    10
  260. Doubtful. trump is a liar. And his maga-morons know that he is lying to them. And they like it.
    9
  261. On a completely unrelated note. It was just announced that Edward "Teddy" Sheean, of the HMAS Armindale, was just awarded the VC! I believe this man was discussed on a previous DryDock. Respect.
    9
  262. Philly Drachism 25:14 "the expoldy stuff goes in there"
    9
  263. Drachisms of the Year. Vol 1 First Anniversary Edition. DotD commenced on 4/28/19. Here they are. All of them. But first, today's Drachisms. 1:25 "There's probably a point at which she was going down anyway and the rest of the bombs just kinda helped rearranged the rubble." 11:10 "But that's a lot better than finding yourself on the bottom of the ocean-floor unexpectedly." 23:11 "Yeah. Unfortunately, with the Japanese Navy it was usually a case of 'Roll 3D6' and, ah, well your gonna roll a 1 on at least one of those dice. Just hope you don't roll triple 1s." 25:02 "To be perfectly honest, being rescued by the Japanese Navy and take to a Japanese internment camp you might wish they'd left you to the sharks." 58:03 "The first thing the Japanese know, it's two o'clock in the morning, the buzz of Swordfish and Albacores and Barracudas, floating around and dropping torpedoes in places the Japanese would really rather they not be." 1:04:54 "And our lock down bonus question for the day..." 1:12:26 "Now I've gotta go off and start recording whatever monster the Patreon Drydock for next week's gonna turn into. Wish me luck." The previous DotD are all below. In descending date order. These older timestamps don't work with this video. The file's a bit too large to post here. I'll reply to this comment with the remaining Volumes. * * * 4/17/20 Drachisms of the Day 2:10 "The armor is eyyeh...eyyeh, maybe. Ahem, that's a whole other box of frogs to open up." * * * 4/10/20 Drachisms of the Day 15:58 "At which point it's the Battle Of The Falklands all over again. Just slightly different." 40:49 "Give anybody that's trying to visually spot you a minor seizure." * * * 4/4/20 Drachisms of the Day 13:34 "Yeah, I think the Germans would have loved to be in a position where they could casually fling 55-gallon drums of burning fuel at people." 24:28 "For the other roles, I could go on all day." (and he does) 1:08:36 "I've built and painted a scale model replica of the HMS Hood so I can point at it with sticks." 1:28:54 "Obviously it was an ammunition problem in the end, because the magazines went BOOM." 1:37:24 "Vanguard would be reaping quite the kill-talley, methinks." (he mentions 'Argentiniam vs Argentine' 3 times. the concern implies respect) * * * 3/28/20 Drachisms of the Day 23:38 "And the Germans, especially when it came to the Admiral Hipper class, went 'I know. We shall take our little, overly-complex hodge-podge and we will run it at a THOUSAND psi. That'll end well.' Yeah, I can hear the trans-Atlantic head-desking. Trust me, I can." 27:34 "Fuel goes in here. Water goes in here. Steam goes out here. Connect it up. Wheee! Happy Days!" * * * 3/14/20 Drachisms of the Day 14:54 "I don't know what you did to the English language, Americans. But I..I..I give up." 17:25: "If you think Peral Harbor was bad, watch what happens when the twin-engine bombers get in on the act as well." 21:42 "Reality doesn't have to make sense. Fiction has to follow rules." 29:05 "And there's a whole lot of complicated equations that go into that. So, again, because I don't want to spend the rest of the DryDock talking about the hydrodynamic principals of hull-design, umm, just take my word for it." 31:50 "It will be cool and fine for about the next five minutes and then it will end in blood, tears, explosions and wreckage over the water. So yeah, maybe leak those plans to your enemy first." * * * 3/7 Drachisms of the Day 4:40 "The Japanese shells at least had the decency to explode most of the time." 9:48 (on landing craft) "And if there's one thing you probably don't want to take up to a beach, it's a high pressure steam engine system." * * * 2/22/20 Drachisms of the Day 23:04 "They were unable to fight the fire despite the fact that the ship was moored alongside the dock and, well obviously, is in an infinite supply of water." 24:21 "Which was probably a bad idea to start with, but...yeah, 'and then it got worse'." 24:4 "Yeah, clap clap clap. All stand up for that one. I wonder who's getting sent to gulag today?" 27:24 "and generally turning it into a fast-moving cloud of chaff" * * * 2/15/20 Drachisms of the Day 5:56 "I suppose if they want to name a support ship "HMS Beaty" I can allow that. It might do something useful for a change." 20:08 "Yeah when splinters are scutting all around the ship that is gonna be a very bad time to be a shin." 28:46 "I mean, if your gonna spend this kind of stupid-money, you might as well throw a couple of extra billion in there. Um, for fun. If nothing else." 37:12 (on wargaming) "You're one side. You're the other side. These are your objectives. Um, basically, go out and do what you would actually do, with the exception of the whole actual 'blowing up' part." 41:43 "Admiral Tiberius asks a question that is so glorious that it really must be read in it's entirety." (the answer includes 'congressional-grizzly-bears' and a 'very big sofa') 56:27 "Oh! OK. I see what you're doing there. Good luck. Ahhm, this should be fun to watch." * * * 2/8/20 Drachisms of the Day 13:34 "a one-sided curb-stomp" 18:27 "Ah yes, the Albacore. One of life's great failures." 35:29 "It was a serious, serious tactical error on he British part that they didn't flatten the invasion of Norway in pretty miuch the same manner that a steam roller would go after a small bag of crisps that had been pinned onto the road." 38:13 "They would have beaten it, crushed it to a fine powder, collected the powder, and put it in a box to sooth the itching later on." 58:58 "And then you have the more prosaic enforced forms of retirement, that usually come in the shape of 32-pound cannon balls traveling at high-velocity. Ahm, which are not very popular with the person who was forcibly retired by said cannon-ball." * * * 2/1/20 Drachisms of the Day 10:01 "The Royal Navy could trade beer and the Americans could trade ice-cream. Which was a massively equitable arrangement for both." 33:22 "What do you mean, 'Our ships fell completely apart in a typhoon.' That's dishonorable. Tell them to stop immediately." 59:03 "Don't you just love the weird confluence of technologies that was around in the 1910s?" 1:06:33 "She can theoretically make her top speed. If you fancy the experience of being a brick in a tumble-dryer." 1:19:05 "British battle-cruisers get a lot of stick, ummm and, for understandable reasons given that they seem to have a distressing habit of, um, scattering themselves actively to the four winds." 1:33:24 "It meant you EITHER angered the Atlantians, in which case Jason Momoa was about to come and rip you ship in half OR, perhaps more prosaically, you were approaching a rock, which might also rip your ship in half, only without the whole 'sucking you down into the Mystical Underwater Kingdom' part." 1:49:46 "Everyone's like 'Ah! Let us follow this man. He speaks in clear sentences'." 2:46:08 "The Russians and Ottomans fighting together. I suspect the next thing will be dogs and cats living togehter and somebody cracking open the Book of Revelations and noticing four horsemen riding across the skies. But never mind." 2:48:45 "I mean, after all, touching things with considerably longer than a ten-foot-pole didn't work out for the CSS Hunley, did it?" 2:52:58 "this kind of slightly eccentric hysteria kind of just ran away with them" 2:57:00 So that's a grand total of sixteen fleet carriers and, uh, another twenty eight smaller carriers, three french-hens and a partridge in a pear tree." 3:40:17 "a radar equipped Yamato wandering around, wondering what all the ice is about" 3:42:28 "Although, if you did name a carrier USS Congress, it might mean you could legitimately say that Congress was actually doing something for a change." 3:44:33 "His ears must be ringing a little bit." 4:06:16 "That was down to it's captain's seemingly pathological desire to ram everything in sight." 4:12:52 "the US keeps..sort of starts 'turret farming' the twelve inch gun" 4:18:21 "I was gonna put it at the end of this video, but, to be perfectly honest, the chances of the majority of you reaching this point far are fairly slim."
    9
  264. Further reading (for beneath the waves): The U-Boat War in the Caribbean. By Gaylord Kelshall
    9
  265. 32:03 "Mangled By Sea Monsters". I'm adding that, as a table, to the rules of our Ancient Naval wargame. Do NOT roll a 20. Death by tentacles.
    9
  266. I forgot to mention. Milius also wrote/directed "The Wind And The Lion". If you haven't seen that movie, you have not lived. THE WIND AND THE LION (1975)
    9
  267. Now I can't get this song out of my head: "Benson, Arizona, blew warm wind through your hair. My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to there. Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky. But they seemed so much kinder, when we watched them, you and I." - source, the movie, "Dark Star" - author, John Carpenter
    9
  268. Interesting point about the USN DDs at Komondorski. Smoke screens seem to be quite effective.
    9
  269. Respectfully. I disagree. See my comment (here) about BUORD.
    9
  270. Phrase Of The Day: "vaguely sane"
    9
  271.  Caliban777  True about Congress/funding. But AFTER Pearl Harbor (when the torps were revealed to be defective), BuOrd insisted that nothing was wrong. Many sub commanders reported their observations/suspicions for MONTHS. And BuOrd dismissed those reports. "Silent Victory" by Clay Blair is a good read on the topic. Again, true about Congress/funding. You mention "ultimate responsibility". BuOrd failed their responsibility miserably. They were arrogant while our people were dying.
    9
  272. I'm just Kennelly
    9
  273. I love tech manuals. A typical manual on 'Bomb Diffusing' reads: "Expose the detonator assembly. Cut the blue wire." (turn to next page) "But first, disconnect the green wire."
    9
  274.  @erikgranqvist3680  Thanks Erik. I'm a skeptic, so I don't believe everything I read. You seem to know what you are talking about, so I appreciate the feedback. I don't believe that they were using braces for 'masts'. I believe they were trying to grow the trees into shapes that would be used as 'ribs'. Now that I think about this, it seems that the topic, forestry for shipbuilding, would make an interesting topic for one of Drach's viddies. What types of wood were used for what types of applications. How they were cultivated. How they were harvested and cured. How they were cut and assembled.
    9
  275. A suggestion. Don't 'press the button' on the DSLR camera. Use the remote.
    9
  276. I would love to see drone footage of Moscow Mitch in the Ukraine. Drones always bring exactly what the republican deserves.
    8
  277. The Italian Navy 'taking a bit of an early retirement'.
    8
  278. Agreed.
    8
  279. 20:29 "Although, in the case of any bagpipers aboard, the switch in lethality was a little bit questionable."
    8
  280. Millions have visited. None have forgot.
    8
  281. 3:59:03 (on depth charging subs) "which did the movie-trope thing of exploding lightbulbs and bursting pipes." I would like to hear your 'Top Tropes' list. Perhaps a broader discussion of the good/bad/ugly in 'naval movies'.
    8
  282. Imagine a world where the SMS Nassau survived and was converted to a museum ship. For Drach, hell is that world. And he must tour the ship every day.
    8
  283. 12:57 "It's useful, having an Australian around."
    8
  284. Being a Naval Histriographer is not a popularity contest.
    8
  285. 17:00 Brave Sir Thomas ran away, Bravely ran away, away. When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.
    8
  286. You, Sir, are now on my Christmas card list.
    8
  287. Congrats on another collab with The Operations Room. Combined, you exceed the sum of your parts. I'm impressed with the size of Tulagi coconut logs.
    8
  288. Drachisms of the Day: 0:47 "Which was probably just as well considering the alternative would have been a high-speed tin-can full of explosives with the name 'United States' plastered all over it." 1:34 "So they just lied about it and said they weighted 33000 tons anyway."
    8
  289. Conner, you miserable piece of republican dog-sh*t. How dare you say "Got it". You don't "got" anything but yours. And that is how people like you want to live...I've got mine, to hell with the rest of you. It is my sincere hope that, one day, you find yourself 'in need'. Furthermore, I hope that you hear the laughter of Ivanka, and those like her, who want to deny you any help. After all...it is money that you didn't earn. You pathetic, selfish child.
    8
  290. You fear education. You fear books. Your conservative life is nothing but hate and fear.
    8
  291. Release the Krake???
    7
  292. Thank you for your comment, Tim. I enjoyed reading it.
    7
  293. I want to know more about the WRENS gaming against Horton. And defeating him. Regularly. So I ordered: "A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II" by Simon Parkin.
    7
  294. Ask Walter White.
    7
  295. FATHER: You only killed the bride's father, that's all! LANCELOT: Well, I really didn't mean to... FATHER: Didn't mean to?! You put your sword right through his head!
    7
  296. I applaud your question. You should repost it in the "Pinned Post for Q&A"'.
    7
  297. You, Sir, are my hero.
    7
  298. Time and again, I hear the same phrase: "thanks to technological progression'. That march of technology changes everything. Ships become 'best in class', and then fall into obsolescence, sometimes in a matter of a decade. So it struck me that this might be a good topic. The many technologies that drove this evolution. The progression of: refining, metallurgy, chemical-engineering, optics, communications, electronics. With a primary focus on the technologies themselves....how (and why) industry arrived at such things. A secondary focus on how they were eventually applied to fighting ships.
    7
  299. You're in the Navy now. You're not behind a plow!
    7
  300. "Where's your god now, Sacred Chicken?" Splash. Splash, splash.
    7
  301. That sea is rugged.
    7
  302.  @stevewhite3424  I agree about the human aspect. You are correct. It is 'the single biggest aspect'. The original poster is also correct. Without 'repair and maintenance', without 'new construction'...victory is more elusive. Others have quoted "Amateurs study tactics. Professionals study logistics.' They are correct. I was only talking about a "much larger sense". The ability to equip and sustain those armies/navies, in the theater.
    7
  303. "Stay close to zee candles. Zee stairs can be treacherous."
    7
  304. I agree. Italian and Spanish sound 'lyrical' to my ear. As for food. On my first night in Rome I was served the toughest piece of meat I've ever gnawed upon. I wanted to be sure the chef was still wearing both shoes. Every other meal was a feast. The only thing better than Italian food....is Italians. Lovely, warm people.
    7
  305. In the late 80s we ordered a 1.9GB drive. It took 4 of us to carry it up the stairs.
    7
  306. Good re-purpose of the tire. I'm using that idea.
    7
  307. Turn off fox news and READ something for a change.
    6
  308.  @Kizdo69  No. Just you.
    6
  309.  @southernknight9983  he stands in front a a camera and mocks handicapped people. and you are OK with that? that doesn't 'fail' for you?
    6
  310. I love watching them cannabalize themselves.
    6
  311. How to watch a 4 hour drydock. 1) Click the video. 2) Click the 'SHOW MORE' at the intro. 3) Read the questions. You'll KNOW which ones will be hilarious.
    6
  312. I've paid little attention to the Battle Of The Copyright. You have my sympathies. I have no productive solutions. But I'm wondering if, working together, we can't achieve a non-productive, petty and evil solution. What would happen if I were to post a video on Youtube of just the music in question? Would your nemesis be forced into reacting to that? Would it require them to spend time ($$$) taking action against me? Now....what would happen if all 451000 of your subscribers were to post that music? Could we flood the evil copyright-squatters? How much of their time($$$) could we waste?
    6
  313. The 'Indianapolis speech' (in Jaws) was written by John Milius. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." written by John Milius. "Conan The Barbarian" (1982) written and directed by John Milius. "The Wind And The Lion" (1975) written and directed by John Milius. If you are reading these words and you have not yet seen "The Wind And The Lion"....you have not yet lived.
    6
  314. In regards to 'animation'. I do not know the work or costs involved in producing animated videos. I do know that software isn't cheap. And learning curves can be long. I imagine that producing a quality animation is not a small task. * "Incredible Victory", Walter Lord's retelling of Midway was one of the first mil-history books that I ever read. That was in 1975. And to this day, I still can't "see" that complex battle. Until I found "The Operations Room" here on YouTube. "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnZJt7yQw5IztVwe-Dscd-Q" I've found a few channels that attempt military animation. This channel produces the animated content I enjoy the most. His video on Midway, "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HkBW7X7LaU" , answered ALL my questions. And for the first time, I could SEE it...the entire battle. It is a beautifully produced video. * I find it impolite to discuss other channels on Drach's (or anyone's) forum. But Drach is very open in this regard, inviting other content producers to participate here. I apologize if this mention seems out of place. I should also point out that The Operations Room has produced 2 dozen videos in the span of 1.5 years. Quite a bit less than Drach. So, I'll assume that producing 'animations' is not a quick or easy thing to do.
    6
  315. How did I not hear that? Thank you.
    6
  316.  @philvanderlaan5942  DINGO: And after the spanking, the oral sex. GIRLS: The oral sex! The oral sex! PHIL VANDERLAAN: Well, I could stay a bit longer.
    6
  317. 2:12 "he observed the Hitler Youth gliding organizations". The Treaty of Versailles put severe limits on German aviation. But it said nothing about gliders. And that's why you read about gliders in WW2.
    6
  318.  @AtomicBabel  Confess! Confess! CONFESS!!!
    6
  319. It is a classic.
    6
  320. Some of my favorite bits of 'history' are....the things that didn't happen.
    6
  321. Could be worse. They could be attacking the Ukraine.
    6
  322. The channel was only CG voice when I got here. And I miss it. The C made some spectacularly bad/funny mistakes. Especially with "naw__tit__ickle" words and phrases. Ship names were always a crapshoot.
    6
  323. Merry Christmas to you, Drach. And Happy New Year to you and all of your listeners.
    6
  324. Cogito ergo cognito. I think, therefore I am. Cogito ergo spud. I think, therefore I yam.
    6
  325.  @JaneCobbsHat  THANK YOU!!! I couldn't make it out. Thus, the mid-sentence edit.
    6
  326. OMG. First prize is to have a guaranteed Dry Dock answer. Where's my tool belt? I'm building a ship.
    6
  327. No. It is time to fight. Time to marginalize the republicans. Time to make them run. Stop talking to them. Stop socializing with the. Stop selling to them. Stop buying from them. EXCLUDE THEM IN ALL POSSIBLE WAYS FROM OUR LIVES AND COMMUNITIES. . The point is...they are wrong. They are selfish. They are evil. THEY HAVE TO GO. So Brian, learn from this. Learn that you and your ideas are not welcome in America. Learn that you are the minority (not the black people you fear and hate). Learn that we are fed up and are fighting back. We are taking it away from you Brian. Just like we took the NFL from you (thanks Colin). Just like Nike. And Disney. And Bud Light. Just like we took your orange pig racist president. Just like we arrested your 6-Jan traitors. And Brian, you dumb fook, the next generation hates you more than we do. So crawl back under your republican rock and die there. You ain't welcome here.
    6
  328. Actually, it was VMS internals that showed up in NT. And when it was discovered, rather than going to court, DEC had Microsoft agreed to port NT onto DEC's ALPHA chip.
    6
  329. THEY KNEW IT WAS COMING. . THEY "PLANNED" FOR IT TO HAPPEN.
    5
  330. This is a whole new 'day one'. Day one of his prosecution. I am enjoying it so much. And I'm looking forward to the party at the end. Hope to see you there. . I LOVE TO SEE HIM AND HIS SUPPORTERS SUFFER.
    5
  331. You want funny? REPUBLICANS CAN'T AIM.
    5
  332. 70 million Americans....getting their noses rubbed in it. Again and again and again and again. . I love it.
    5
  333. What right do European jews have to Middle Easterners land?
    5
  334. And we are still going to vote so people like you are forced to climb back under your rocks.
    5
  335. Sooo happy that it pisses the republicans off. It is fun to know that their day is that much worse because of this. Knowing that they suffer is a joy.
    5
  336.  Great White  I grew up near a meat packing plant. They had their own outdoor 'stockyards'. I know what BS smells like. You smell like BS. (or you could document what you've just lied about)
    5
  337. 00:27:42 - What could you tell about HMS Scourge vs the Sans Cullote?? "Sans Cullote"? "Without Pants"? How could you not have a bit of fun with that name?
    5
  338. More like a 'fleeting operation'.
    5
  339. The first thing the Germans did when they colonized China....was to build a brewery. I question their foreign policy. I applaud their priorities.
    5
  340. That's more plausible than that &$#* movie.
    5
  341. 1896. When 25 pounds represented half a year's wages. . An era when labor was free.
    5
  342. I was born on Feb-29, Leap Years Day. So, for me, it's been close to a year. (true) >>>or<<< I don't recall. I do remember first hearing him talking about the 'recent Battle of Lepanto'. >>>or<<< He'd just switched from Morse code to robo-voice. >>>or<<< ARPANet >>>or<<< Back when a virus was something that mostly happened to your computer. Mostly.
    5
  343. Portable torpedo nets, I believe.
    5
  344. Bad news....they are all Patreon Drydock Marathons.
    5
  345. Drachisms of the Year Vol 2 1/25/20 Drachisms of the Day 15:06 "yet it did practically nothing other than roll over and sink" 21:21 "All Galena really did was to provide an oppourtunity for some Confederate gunners to up their kill-count. So yeah, cancel that thing. Bit of an embarrassment, really." 29:24 "Much as I hate to say it, noone was going to be particularly terrified of the Phillipine Navy." 34:14 "Nobody is going to be particularly distressed if your plate isn't perfectly circular. Unless you've got really crippling OCD." 35:42 "Now, I don't know about you, but two kilos of explosive is a fair bit of BOOM." 41:37 "You can't run. You can't hide. Big Daddy Lexington's coming to fiiinnd you." * * * 1-22/20 "Previously, the text-to-speach was damning the Swedish language for tying it up in pretzels trying to pronounce the word "Sverige" correctly. Now I'm speaking in English, I have a microphone, I can mess it up in all sorts of new and interesting ways. Anyway." * * * 1-11/20 Drachisms of the Day: 1:36 "not particularly badger-like to my estimation" 28:57 "If, by any chance, there's a human behavioral psychologist or two listening to this maybe you can chime in as to whether this theory has, or ever had, any particular weight, um, and we'll see where I go from there." 31:55 "Carriers generally have a fairly enlightened bit of self-interest in staying away from shipping as well." 32:55 "Was in line with the three British battleships, forming a somewhat incongrous battle-line." 34:11 (with pride) And, ironically enough, technically won." 34:44 "There was nothing in it's design...that was completely impossible to do." 43:39 "So this particular little interception scenario greatly depends on what the Japanese actually bring to the party." 47:07 "In regards as to what happened to Mutsu ... well, it went BOOM." 47:56 "The report that was issued at the time officially blamed a disgruntled crewman who had been accused of theft and may have decided to do the ultimate hara-kiri." 50:48 "A bit of note-paper that says 'Build something bigger, better and faster than whatever the French have just built.'" 58:16 "There's also a little bit of ramming. And a few of the British ships are lost. Umm. But, by and large, that may come as little shock to people." * * * 1/4/20 Drachisms of the Day: 0:53 "Greetings people of the future. Tell me of your strange and mysterious ways." 8:59 "And of course you've got the fact that this would almost certainly being done by the Soviet Union, in an era where their maintenance budget for the Red Fleet was two bits of black bread and a bowl of stroganoff." * * * 12/21/19 Drachisms of the Day: 21:53 "They were deliberately going out and colonizing areas, but it was not for imperial acquisition purposes, it was more for, well, either offloading weird religious fanatics..." 38:01 "Or, in some of the German cases, you ended up with ships that sincerely wished to identify as U-boats and would do everything in their power to join the U-boat corp, eh, whenever the waves looked to be more than a few inches high." 47:51 (conspiratorialy) "And, I may or may-not have quietly sneaked into a couple history-course lectures without telling anybody that I wasn't actually on the course while I was at university. Um, but we shall say no more about that." 49:07 "Which again, they got very familiar with me." (no judgement) 54:13 "The idea of your own ship basically committing suicide by running up to full speed is not something that you want to take lightly." 57:32 "At the end of the day, nothing quite beats taking a big slab of metal downrange and then blasting away with naval artillery." * * * 12/14/19 8:48 "Short of a Death Star laser, or something, Germany wasn't going to be winning WW2." 9:26 "Luke Dogwalker asks..." * * * 12/11/19 Encrypted Drachism of the Day: 53:14 "JNER SDIF GHWE BORS DDFL XKIQ ISKE DPEJ BDRT KWQI GJCM NWTY VYIS SZPE DEFL KWTE TOWS, ZIFE AEIW DEIB HUXC ICNR WRMD IWDF WPIN MPET DAIC CUNJ NARF" (decrypted) 53:14 "And, if you've particularly enjoyed the nice warm feeling of your brain melting out of your ears, in a desperate attempt to flee from what you are trying to do to it" * * * 12/7/19 Drachisms of the Day: 3:50 "Eww, well. This one's a little bit of a doozie. Innit?" 15:26 "And before this entire episode turns into 'The Adventures of Admiral Drach, Royal Navy'." 19:02 "Once it gets going, it's gonna get going at a pretty sharp clip. And good luck stopping it." 26:58 "At the battle of..um..I have no idea how to pronounce this. The battle of Me Yong Gim Yang. Question mark?" 30:17 "And, as well the name suggests, this was a dispute in the early 1960s over...who should have the right to fish for lobsters. Well I suppose the UK got involved in the Cod War, so this is really not THAT much more absurd. Although there is the rather insteresting premise of wether a lobster is a fish or not." 35:24 "The war started earlier than they expected, um, thanks to Germany's antics." 44:58 "Who do you believe are the seven most awful adminrals, captains, commanders etc, thru naval history." (The second I heard this question I knew that I'd end up transcribing the entire anwser. I'm not doing that. Enjoy listening. It's a hoot.) 45.19 "Lest I start getting very angry and ranty again." 46.17 "How the heck do you end up in command of the second largest formation in the British Navy? Just 'How?'. And 'Why?'. 48.22 "You can kinda see how Napoleon wanted to replace him." 1:36:13 "I can't remember from my german-class how you pronounce that weird 'sb' shape in German. Anyway, sorry." 1:38:11 (exhasperated resignation) "OK. Fine." 2:01:13 "More important codes that were broken, were broken by the Japanese Army. Who, of course, refused to tell the Navy about it."
    5
  346. 1:03:04 "Because, you know, if you're gonna die overseas, at least make it dramatic."
    5
  347.  @RedRocket4000  Read "A Game of Birds and Wolves". It is near the top of my 'waiting to read' stack. "https://www.amazon.com/Game-Birds-Wolves-Ingenious-Secret/dp/0316492094/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BG36DMI6XB90&dchild=1&keywords=a+game+of+birds+and+wolves&qid=1604150263&sprefix=a+game+of+bird%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-1"
    5
  348.  @NM-wd7kx  "I saw a Chelsea tractor with a dazzle camo paint job driving down the motorway". That sounds like a lyric from Yes's song 'Roundabout'.
    5
  349. 38% of all snow blowers are purchased by very lonely snowmen.
    5
  350. I was mistaken. "This is why WE are here." Forgive my hubris.
    5
  351. Another cautionary note. Galveston is a tourist destination. Plan accordingly. Avoid the crowds.
    5
  352. 11:15 But the fine details of battleship gun manufacture are best left to their own video. I look forward to that discussion.
    5
  353. And thus, the USS Cunningham was born. More likely, the USS (insert Chief's name here) was born.
    5
  354.  @karlvongazenberg8398  Agreed. It was a deliberate edit on my part. Good ear.
    5
  355. "Only 12 'E Z' payments! "Call now! Operators are standing by."
    5
  356.  @thomashemenway7384  Blair's talent is in how he 'distills' both the Atlantic and Pacific campaigns into 2 volumes for each theater. Martin Middlebrook is best known for his formulaic-yet-astounding books on 'Bomber Command'. "Convoy" is his retelling of the March-1943 battle between 42 boats and two convoys. I have never read anything that conveys the PACE of such battles. Time. Tedium. Terror. Above and below. Nonstop. Middlebrook nailed it. And no pigs were harmed. I've been reading WW2 since 1975. I'd give this book, "Convoy", my highest possible recommendation.
    5
  357. Nice
    5
  358. This is why I read comments while listening. Thanks.
    5
  359. To underline the point. Richard Matheson wrote 16 episodes of that series. Often, he used 'twist' or 'final sentence' endings. His best work (opinion) in this regards was NOT in the series. It was a book that ended with the sentence "I am legend." The final sentence being the title of the book.
    5
  360.  @drtidrow  Well said. I agree. BUT. The computer-voice did have a habit of mis-pronouncing certain nautical words and phrases with HILARIOUS results. I found it fun to listen for those mis-pronunciations. And to listen for the occasional snarky Drachism. When he switched to voice, the snark floodgates opened up and it was a whole new ballgame.
    5
  361.  @TacgnolSimulacrum  I've been appending the weekly DotD into one file. But only for the last two months. That's about a third of them. The first one can be found in the comments of Drydock Episode 039
    5
  362. What a crock of republican sh*t.
    4
  363. Do you know what kind of people believe Stanley Kubrick filmed a fake lunar landing? People who are so lazy and unimaginative that they are incapable of doing the hard work required to land on the moon.
    4
  364. Conspiracy people are cowards.
    4
  365. I love seeing trumpers suffer. It's a joy to see your impotent frustration.
    4
  366. It's about time. These dim-wit republicans deserve to be excluded.
    4
  367. Enjoy the feeling of your lungs collapsing.
    4
  368.  @MandrakeCigars  I disagree with 'gaslighting'. It's more like fox is spoon-feeding the morons who support the pig.
    4
  369. She's a religious zealot. Not a judge.
    4
  370.  @davidbrennan660  We were all much younger then....that's before we watched a few of his marathon 'Patreon Drydocks'.
    4
  371.  @frankbodenschatz173  Weapons. Wild animals. Elvis. Driving. Beer. What could possibly go wrong?
    4
  372. 8:44 "having to go back to get her guns re-lined". What is 're-lined'? I've always been curious about this topic. Perhaps "Gun Wear and Repair" is a topic worth discussion.
    4
  373. Play it at twice the speed. Sure, it sounds like Mickey-Drach. But you eventually plow thru.
    4
  374. In regards to names given to superstructures I am not sure 'pyramid' is best suited. I think 'ziggurat' works better.
    4
  375.  @philvanderlaan5942  The IMDB cast-page for Grail lists actresses for: Zoot/Dingo. Doctor Piglet and Doctor Winston. 18 actresses named 'Girl In Castle Anthrax'. No mention of the varletesses, Midget and Crapper.
    4
  376. Can you discuss fratricide between USN aircraft and USN anti-aircraft (in the Pacific). How big of a problem was it? Are there notable 'incidents'. What doctrine/tactics/policy/procedures were used to mitigate fratricide?
    4
  377. Yes. Clay Blair describes it in 'Silent Victory: Vol-2'. (I just woke up. I'm still on 1st cuppa-coffee. I haven't verified this. I may be mis-remembering)
    4
  378.  @williestyle35  I am in the same time zone as you. 7AM Saturday. Since the guides are only five minutes (more or less), it's easy to relax with coffee and Drach. When I was compiling 'Drachism Of The Day', on Sunday, I'd have to start early and spend much of my morning here, if I wanted to publish the comment early. After 52 weeks, that got old. Now, I consume Drydock in bite-sized pieces.
    4
  379. I've seen artwork and models of 'triple-deck space-ships'. So maybe it's just a matter of time.
    4
  380. He's moving to a 24-hour format.
    4
  381.  @sundiver137  HMS Shroom
    4
  382. Whiskey distilling, in Kentucky, results in bourbon. So long as it waits for 2 years, in a charred oak barrel.
    4
  383. "The first report is always wrong." . That gets added to the Book Of Axioms.
    4
  384. 42:33 "And Thunderer's turret explosion, caused by dull loading a gun by accident." Could you please explain "dull loading". Google can't.
    4
  385. 3:30 "there was also an armored conning tower if you wanted to go die in a giant bell"
    4
  386. During the French Revolution about 17000 French aristocrats went under the guillotine. When the next revolution comes, people like Griffon and Simons won't be able to build walls high enough, or hire enough gunmen to protect them from the 99%. And I think that they'll envy the fate of those french aristocrats.
    4
  387. If you were to WILDLY SPECULATE.... what technologies could possibly lead to the next (beyond EUV) generation of ICs?
    4
  388. Whatever position China eventually takes towards Gallium and Germanium, I want the west to take the same position in regards to wheat.
    4
  389. In the movie Dragnet, Jack Friday (Dan Akroyd) refers to the Yugo as "The cutting edge of Serbo/Croatian technology."
    4
  390. KEEP PILING IT ON. EXPOSE THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE. TRAITORS WHO TRIED TO STEAL OUR ELECTION. REPUBLICAN TRAITORS WHO WOULD DESTROY OUR NATION JUST TO HOLD ONTO POWER.
    3
  391. Plot of next 'National Treasure' movie. Nick Cage's search for Merrick Garland's balls.
    3
  392.  @SeansModelBuilds  I look forward to election day when we will rub your nose in dogsh*t.
    3
  393. Convict the people who incited him to political violence. The REPUBLCAN Party.
    3
  394. The Winter War. 1939. Russia invades Finland. And tiny Finland, outnumbered and outgunned....BUTCHERED the russian invaders. For decades after the war, if you walked off roads in SE Finland, and into the woods....you'd find russian bones.
    3
  395. On a similar note: I am fed up with hearing about lend lease to the Soviets. Stalin was an ingrate and the average soviet citizen seems little better. On the other hand, I am very happy with current military support for the Ukraine.
    3
  396. Drag the traitor into court and force him to tell the truth....for once in his republican life.
    3
  397. Neville Chamberlain of NZ
    3
  398. Don't vote for republicans. Then you'll avoid having unqualified political hacks for 'judges'. Shoving their agenda, not our laws, down the court's throat.
    3
  399.  @lenapistone7135  Why are you holding a torch and pitch-fork?
    3
  400.  @elizabethhill3606  Aren't you going to add Warren G Harding to that list??? What is the weather like today in Crazy Town?
    3
  401. My outline for a War Of The Worlds sequel: 1) We adapt the technology of the defeated Martians. 2) We use it to go to Mars. 3) We methodically commit planetary genocide.
    3
  402. What person is unable to find a handgun in a child's backpack??? Who is so criminally, stupidly incompetence that they cannot perform such a simple task? Or, did this person simply shrug their responsibility and not perform the task??? WHO DID THIS? WHAT IS THEIR NAME? WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE?
    3
  403.  @gurnblanston3210  No. We just hate you.
    3
  404.  @frankthecat  And we LOVE knowing that is how you feel. Seeing your misery is a joy. Please post more of your pain. We could use the laugh.
    3
  405. (spoken in a MIster Burns voice) Yes! Yes! The plan is coming together. (wrings hands) Excellent. We shall force her to testify against daddy.
    3
  406. Teaching kids to pray to a fairy tale is worse.
    3
  407. "trickle down economics" has created the greatest wealth gap in human history. Oh...and for all you hypocrites.....IRAN/CONTRA. Another criminal republican administration for you to be proud of. Because that is who you are.
    3
  408. Left or right? Which trump boot tastes better?
    3
  409.  @JB-ym4up  Welcome to my Christmas card list.
    3
  410. The models are a bit too large for wargaming. But damn! They'd look nice on my table.
    3
  411.  @mattblom3990  Correct. Drydock #1 was published on Aug-4-2018. I arrived long before that (no memory of when or how many subscribers when I got here). And I lurked for 8 months of Drydocks, before I commenced 'Drachisms of the Day'. It was all robo-voiced Five Minute Guides when I got here. And the snark (Drachisms) were there (funny to listen to robo-sarcasm). But even funnier was the way the robo-voice mispronounced the 'naw-TIT-icle' terms and names. He has since republished the robo-5MGs into human-voice and deleted the robo-voice viddies. He seems to have commenced that around March-2018. I stopped Drachisms of the Day after 52 weeks. One year of beating that dead horse was enough. My *opinion*. His true achievement is that he has "created a community". A very knowledgeable community. Read any comments section and you'll learn something new.
    3
  412. HMS Can't We All Just Get Along
    3
  413. Now I am seeing Drach with a Persian cat on his lap.
    3
  414. You don't remove lethal-level splinters from a finger. You remove the finger from lethal-level splinters.
    3
  415.  @sundiver137  Most times, I hear the question and think, "Here it comes". Agreed...anticipated.
    3
  416. CSS Toblerone
    3
  417.  @sundiver137  A classic Drachism.
    3
  418. You should post this as a reply to his "Pinned post for Q&A :)" (up at the top). They are good questions. Especially the 2nd.
    3
  419. "They would have been sitting ducks. Or very slow ducks, to say the least."
    3
  420.  @deeznoots6241  Corrected. Thank you.
    3
  421. 'Napalm in the morning' was written by John Milius. Who wrote and directed 'Red Dawn', 'Conan' and 'The Wind And The Lion'. Who wrote the Indianapolis scene in 'Jaws'.
    3
  422.  @sarjim4381  I agree.
    3
  423. Drachisms of the Year Vol 7 5/19/19 Drachism of the Day: "Obviously, with the 'Essex 3-D Print Production Line' going, the USN is not really at risk of ever running out of these ships." 34:30 Bonus Drachism of the Day #1: "There's not really that much wrong with the Japanese guns themselves. And they hit harder...when their shells actually explode." 42:05 Bonus Drachism of the Day #2: "The general craze everyone had for ramming things." 48:40 * * * 5/12/19 Drachism of the Day: Name your golden retriever 'Doubloon'. So you can say you have a 'Golden Doubloon'. 35:45 Bonus Drachism of the Day: "Well, without going into too much horrific detail, if we're going to stick around with Churchill and 'strange fetishes' we could be here for a while. So we won't" * * * 5/5/19 Drachism Of The Day: "Then you would be shot or sent to gulag. Or, sent to gulag and then shot. Or, possibly be shot and then your body sent to gulag. But, there you go. There's Russia for you." 1:29:37 * * * 4/28/19 Phrase of the Day: "Beatty was basically more like a well-spoken Klingon when it came to battle. Very unsubtle and rather predictable." 50:26 K'plah!
    3
  424. Drachisms of the Year Vol 6 8/7/19 Drachisms of the Day: 16:00 "That's the first I've seen a battleship on Ebay." 28:54 "Which is full of torpedos and guns and shells and other kinds of explosive things which make the pyromaniac in me very happy."". 35:45 "They're just a little bit 'glass cannony'". 42:47 "Unlike an active sonar, which is where you hear the 'PIINNGG'". 45:43 "Because this is a 3-inch steel cable. There aren't that many sharks out there that are gonna gnaw that off." 46:07 "So it had to be a slightly different type of cable-cutter. One that effectively went "Nom. Nom. Nom. Nom." If you imagine a gigantic, underwater mouse or hamster that eats steel, you've got pretty much the right idea." 49:55 "The Conqueror was able to snip thru the cable, clamp it to it's side and make off with it with a low laugh." 50:20 "So perhaps the kleptomaniac tendencies of the British Armed Services were needed in this case." 55:35 "You ended up with a shell pattern that was ... ahhh...it would impress the Italians. On a BAD day of their shooting." 01:30:58 "And had a rather interesting habit of either not listening to them or not listening to them and then killing them. Because they obviously knew best." 01:32:24 "REALLY? You want me to pronounce that?" 01:38:10 "So you're not going to get the decisive leadership except possibly for orders to withdraw." 01:38:50 "It also has, apparently, divine protection from being hit." 01:51:25 "Which is a bit weird. But then the phrase "Well, that was a bit weird" and "Imperial Japanese Navy" get conflated an awful lot more than is common for most other navies when it comes to the Second World War." 02:04:27 "Pick your particular flavor of poison when it comes to that particular, um, treacherous pit of discussion." 02:18:32 "Oh boy. I need a drink now." * * * 7/30/19 Drachisms of the Day: 15:10 "At which point, five British battleships fall on the remaining Japanese aircraft carriers like the fists of an angry god." 21:08 "Which basically went, "What the??? OH! Ow! Ow! Ow! Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Ow!". GLUG! 26:54 "You would also have to interdict the air-routes. Which a nuclear submarine is not necessarily the best at doing." 35:23 "It didn't roll over, sink, stress itself in high-seas or try to be a submarine." 40:20 "Trying to avoid the plague that is the Japanese 25mm." 52:55 "Sure. Ah, yeah. Having eighty oxygen-fueled Long Lances on the deck of a battleship is surely never going to have any bad consequences whatsoever to anyone. Said nobody. Ever." 55:29 "It is gonna survive to get into combat. And what is more, when it goes into combat it is gonna ram you. And it is gonna run you down. And it is gonna sink you. And at the WORST, they're gonna have to repaint the bow." 1:03:42 "But it's main armament is no less than fourteen 5-inch-guns and eight 25mm-guns, because I guess someone has to get punishment-duty." 1:04:30 "It turns out that, performance-wise, it is relatively strong and stable (Oh....there's that phrase again. Oh dear.) 1:05:00 "So effectively, it's a heavily armed knife." Enjoy Tankfest. Bring ear-plugs. * * * 7/23/19 Drachisms Of The Day: 7:28 "unobtainium propeller shafts and Tardiss-like engine spaces" 9:07 "bears the somewhat dubious privilege of being one of the most modernized pre-Dreadnoughts of all time" 33:40 "also, growing a brain-stem and realizing that possibly the Enigma codes had been cracked" 43:12 (singing) "Skippy! Oh Skippy the bush kangaroo." 43:50 "Which spells very bad things for Prince Eugen who would be the one to catch most of that in the face" 49:25 "ramp up the power plant to EVEN MORE hilarious levels" * * * 7/16/19 Drachism Of The Day: 1:05:36 "And hopefully not drowning in endless amounts of rain and mud because I'd much rather keep that for the WW1 re-enactors." * * * 7/2/19 Drachisms of the Day: 55:36 "Wins the Vlad Tepes award for cruel and unusual punishment of an enemy who was already horribly beaten into the ground anyway." 1:09:12 "When you build a ship where your secondary battery out-ranges your main battery and it's supposed to be a Dreadnought, you really really have learned the meaning of failure." 8:10 "Then you have 'Mongo The Elephant'. Yes, I said that correctly, 'The Elephant'. He lived on HMS Courageous for a while." This is NOT a 'Drachism'. This is a plea for an entire episode dedicated to Mongo. WTAF!!! 1:28:41 "Sooo, the Battle of the Barents Sea is more seen as a failure due to the sheer comedic ineptitude of the whole engagement." 1:52:17 "I need a drink."
    3
  425. Drachisms of the Year Vol 5 7/28/19 Drachisms of the Day: 0:22 "Brought to you by the melted gelatenous puddle that used to be known as Drach." 4:01 "Quite how that would have worked out? Who know? Probably better off that we don't find out." 11:13 "Oh? Germans? Really? Here? In a war??? Who'd have thought? Eww." 12:11 "Arc Royal can start sorting out Skuas, for what they're worth." 14:24 "Rather than just being a piniata for anything that comes along with a gun bigger than 6-inches." 18:11 "I'm sure Tom Cruise was very disappointed about that." 19:14 "As for who's armor was better. He he. Oh boy, isn't that a little can of worms to open up?" 29:26 "You might as well call them 'Washington Cherry Trees', for lack of a better term, because they really didn't come about that much." 32:40 "After Trafalger, Napoleon had...well...more 'Russian-shaped' things to worry about (especially when it came to the winter)." 39:01 "Well, I imagine the Captain of a US warship going out onto the wing of his bridge, staring at the Normady coast, bringing up a scroll, and then just going: "Dear Grid Coordinates, I no longer wish you to exist. Signed, The US Navy. Open fire." 40:51 "So, congratulations. You have constructed a battleship whos, I guess, Q-turrets only function is to blow away the rear-superstructure, when inevitably it rebels and declares it's independance from the rest of the ship." 42:45 "You don't want to deflect the torpedo downwards into the lower portion of your ship. THIS IS A STUPID IDEA." 47:24 "Yeah...just'no'. Um..they needed to go. I mean, there's a reasons the Chileans didn't accept them." 51:07 "I might as well start throwing rocks at the ungodly number of aircraft that the USN is going to throw at me later in the war. Which doesn't sound like a very fun idea to me AT ALL." 52:18 "So, kinda by default, you end up with the Italians. And, it's like, 'Well, OK, decent food!'" 55:38 "There's nothing really I can do to help the Japanese. They picked a fight with America, in America's own 'personal pond'. So, I guess I could make a 'white flag machine' for them. Might save a few lives." * * * 8/21/19 Drachisms of the Day: 11:50 "The US engineers assumed some degree of sanity had gone into the manufacture of Prinze Euigen's propulsion system, were left in charge, the majority of Prinze Euigen's propulsion system took itself off to it's own personal fuhrer bunker and shot itself. Disassembling in a rather spectacular manner." 12:44 "None of the very early carriers came out of things looking particularly brilliant." 17:58 "I suppose if you do need to worry about 'ship worm' on an iron ship, you've probably got bigger things to worry about." 20:19 "Tracing geneologieos and various people who basically spent their part of the last millenia stabbing, shooting or hitting people over the head in the military." 21:00 "And yes, I will write it in the manner that I tend speak, hopefully. So it will be a little bit sarcastic, a little bit flippant, a little bit off the hook. But, what else do you expect, to be perfectly honest?" 23:25 "As built they were so terribly weak that THE SEA could bend them out of shape." 24:06 "Putting a 6-inch cruiser gun on them would probably end up looking like a giant 20000-ton-bus-version of that." * * * 8/14/19 Drach O Day Drachisms of the Day: 4:00 "And they (Parrot guns) did have a disturbing tendency of exploding. Which is not necessarily something you want in your rifled artillery if you value your life." 5:07 "They (Dahlgren guns) did not have the habit of exploding. Which is pretty much the entire reason Dahlgren invented them." 6:00 "Personally, I would almost go with the Dahlgren. But then that's mainly because I don't like 25 pounds of explosive blowing up a 12-ton cannon right next to me . Cause I like life!" 10:37 "Obviously the ends of the ships will then be hilariously vulnerable to gunfire. BUT...that's not exactly a new thing." 12:43 "Chances are all your completely unprotected life rafts and launches are probably in little, tiny, burning pieces all over your ship. At which point, they're not incredibly useful to you." 21:40 "And in America you've got Langley. For all the good that is." 25:41 "If the carrier forces negate each other, OH WELL, back to WW1 battle-line tactics then." 32:41 "The Swordfish was so hilariously obsolete that it kind of looped all the way around the circle and came back to being good again." 33:10 "Oh well. There's a hole. I guess we're down to STITCHING THINGS back together tonight." 40:02 "BUT...the words 'compensated for' are not necessarily the ones you want to have when you are dealing with your naval guns." 47:40 "Although to be fair, if you are reduced to the point of arming merchant-ships, you're probably less likely to be worried about the legal niceties of international politics."
    3
  426. Drachisms of the Year Vol 4 8/11/19 Drachisms of the Day (2/3): 11:34 "Well, I couldn't easily find a picture of the 'B-Bomb' for love-nor-money, sooo...HERE...have a picture of a 'Grand Slam' instead! Ah...(lowered voice) it's always good for a laugh. Anyway..for those of you who are unaware, the B-Bomb was a design of bomb, unsuprisingly enough. HaHa." 15:11 "Level bombing in, or dropping bombs from any significant height at any sort at the beginning of WW2, was NOT the world's most acurate endeavour." 18:19 "And then, at some point in WW2, they just dropped all subtlety and went with stuff like this...which was, yeah, you know, 'STUFF ACCURACY. We'll just hit the same post-code and you'll still be dead.' 20:27 "As opposed to the old black powder charges, which were: Fire guns. INSTANT smoke screen. Everyone might as well sit down and have a cup of tea because nobody can see what-the-heck is on either side of that cloud of smoke for a good five or six minutes." 27:19 "Imagine some kind of weird trimiran-IOWA maybe if they just..MAYBE IF THEY LITERALLY just took some industrial girders and strapped a couple of ATLANTAs to each side." 28:41 "In some ways, eh...BOTH of the answers actually are potentially answers to BOTH of the questions, in that aspeact." 31:58 "Well if you want to break the Naval Treaty, you are effectivly shooting your own economy in the head. Soo..have fun with that. (continue listening until) It was a simpler time back then." 33:28 "Everybody was horribly 'rules lawyering' the Washington Naval Treaty." 46:04 "DON'T PUT YOUR MAIN MAST RIGHT BEHIND THE FUNNEL. Stupid people. Anyway." 53:08 "Their ball-and-chain effect on the rest of the fleet is less." * * * 8/11/19 Drachisms of the Day (1/3): 18:51 "It was commanded by the rather wonderfully named "Manley Power". 19:38 "And they seemed to carry the tradidition of the ALABAMA in more ways than one. Especially as they all ended in similar ways." 21:54 "Hmm. Nice merchant navy. Shame if something were to happen to it." 23:03 "By the traditional method, which was 'Pay us or we'll shoot you.' Because the British would have been; 'OK, you want to try it that way. Let's go then.'". 29:18 "But then again, I am British. So I guess excentricity is somewhere down there in the DNA." 33:47 "Instead of...well, yeah...the 'melee-weapon' that is the Mark XIV." 34:07 "But it's certainly going to put a VERY big spanner in the works." (to my ear, this is a 'Yank-specific' Drachism). 46:44 "If I ever find who made that video, I'm coming for you with a blunt object." 47:00 "As I've said before, if I could BE on any one ship, it would be something like the USS Massachussets, because, well, if you didn't loose anybody, so I get to live. Huzzah! I like life." 49:56 "Sit there and let the horribleness overtake you." * * * 8/4/19 Drachisms of the Day: 5:25 "Basically, roaming 'death squads' of British and American ships looking for things that haven't yet been exploded." 6:39 "And moving at such speed that U-Boats were just like, "Hmmm! I hear a ship coming. Up periscope." Zzmmmmmmmm. "AH! Oh well, back to looking for merchantmen. Never mind." 12:48 "I'd say, to a certain degree, they probably hated each other more than they hated the people they were fighting." 14:10 "There was almost a 'Klingon-level' of rivalry between officers within the same naval service." 30:07 "It's like saying "Well, yes. This person has the advantage in killing you if he runs you down with a 32-ton HTV(?), as compared to this person who is ONLY hitting you with a 7.5-ton moving van." I doubt you're really gonna appreciate the difference that much." 33:58 "And then N3 unleahsed the torpedo salvo of 'complete unexpectedness'." 37:11 "You don't want a Spearfish or an ADCAP coming towards you, much less six. Umm...or worse if you have the misfortune to meet an angry Seawolf-class. But never mind." 39:15 "The British would probably have gone, "Hmmm. You declare for our enemies, do you? It's real pity you're using those Vickers 14-inch guns, isn't it? Ah well, I guess we have some spare 14-inch guns. Anyone buying?" 42:31 "Submarines submarines everywhere. And, oh dear, carrier-aircraft too." 45:41 "On a battleship, it would be considered a medium weight AA gun at best and 'Why the hell have you put this thing on our ship? Why can't we have something better?" 46:48 "You also have to consider things like 'inertia' and 'momentum'. Which are fairly related." (Newtonian snark) 50:55 "The answer tends to sound a bit 'waffely'". 54:10 "If you just did a straight swap...ahhh...the British would rip your hand off, in their efforts to shake it. And thank you from the highest-of-heavens for the absolute easy ride you've just given them." 54:53 "But that was because it was handed a weapon that was probably better at beating the enemy over the heads with physically in a boarding action, than actually firing at them." 55:13 "The phrase 'faster than the Buearu Of Ordnance' can be applied to many things including Competitive Snail Racing."
    3
  427. Drachisms of the Year Vol 3 11/29/19 Drachisms of the Day: 14:46 "No one ever accused them of being competant. But schizophrenic may well be accurate." 16:02 "And then, when the war ended it's like 'Navy? What Navy? We don't have a navy. No, no, no! Those lovely Slovenes, Croates and Serbs over there. They have a navy. That they're very quickly repainting. But it's not ours. So you can't have it.' Buuut....well..........the allies didn't quite buy that." 17:40 "They just had the misofrtune of when they eventyally encountered pushy westerners in warships." 20:13 "They never really quite got their act back-together after Lepanto, way back when. But, they tried. You got to give them points for trying." 25:14 "Trying to command a battle from an open bridge was a cold and damp affair. Being British, I don't know quite why they were complaing about that. It's the natural way of things after all." 28:23 "Which could best be described as a steel ingot that they put a Lion class armament on." 1:02:13 "The hundereds of thousands, if not more, volts of energy, that you need to drive a ship, suddenly being dumped into them and their surrounding environment. Mmm, tends not to go to well." 1:03:09 "At least you're not turning the entier rear half of your ship into a giant fly-grid. Except for humans. * * * 11/27/19 14:14 "And having your ship literally disolve itself away into nothing is a pretty good party trick. But not really good for the long-term health of the crew." * * * 11/23/19 Drachisms of the Day: 19:48 "But yeah...when you see phrases like 'running rivers of burning liquid TNT', amm, I don't think you need that much more explanation as to why things started going 'Boom'." 22:05 "There was some faulty hull-design in terms of the ventaliation systems and such which didn't help turning the ship into a fuel-air bomb." 22:36 "Meant that the explosion then blew out large amounts of the ship's sides, quite violently, which has something of a deleterious effect on a ship's ability to survive." 25:19 "A lot of it, ironically enough, um, much as it sounds like bit cliche, but 'Blame Hitler!'". 29:06 (derisevily) "The HMS Ocean, which is, well, it's a amphibious assault ship. It carries helicopters and such. So, yeah." 40:32 "Lewis Masgill asks 'Favorite naval-architect of the period 1850-1950 for each of the following: UK, USA, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy and everyone else'. Eh, don't ask for much!" 1:01:57 (tuba toots) "Though I cannot help but feel, some flash doors would be nice. Fire! Fire! Big explOOOsion. Fire! Fire! Big explooosion. Fire! Fire! Big explOOOsion. Back to the drawing board." * * * 11/16/19 4:59 "You only live once. Unless you don't. 5:59 "The Royal Navy's motto is 'Si vis pacem, para bellum'. Which is 'If you wish for peace, prepare for war'...for a relatively good reason! Um..they were usually fighting someone or another and when they didn't have a nation-state to fight, they found something else to go and shoot." * * * 11/6/19 0:47 "Which was probably just as well considering the alternative would have been a high-speed tin-can full of explosives with the name 'United States' plastered all over it." 1:34 "So they just lied about it and said they weighted 33000 tons anyway." 0:37 "And if you thought you'd found a ship with a complicated and convoluted design history, well I hope you're sitting comfortably.... because this one's even BETTER." * * * 11/2/19 Drachisms of the Day: 11:03 "I think you could probably best describe Halsey as an effective admiral in the same way as a man charging into a knife-fight, wielding a sledge-hammer is effective." 11:44 (on Yamamoto) "He was also the one who ran and organized the battle of Midway from the Japanese side and, well, that didn't go particularly well for them. Did it?" 16:07 "It became a 'Sail closer, I literally want to hit them with my sword.' Drop the corvus. Pin the enemy in place so it can't use it's superior seafaring skills against you. And then pour legionaries across. And then cut everyone to pieces. And that worked fairly well for them." 16:45 "The Roman Navy went from 'We're really an army, only we float.' stage." 21:50 "And I'm sorry to say, but, sitting around Skapa Flow, and looking out at various views of the North Sea, in it's multiple stages of gray...is not ESPECIALLY attractive." 1:29:54 "The greater Chilean economic prosperity sphere." * * * 10/12/19 Drachisms of the Day: 13:02 "Oh, look at me. I've got such a big battleship. Insert relevant 'compensation joke' here thing." 14:02 "Now, it has been pointed out to me that I have recently been answering multi-part-questions in the correct order. This is heresy and must not be stood for. So, in the reverse order...." 17:59 "And, as for just how lethal these things could be, there's a reason why an awful lot of people who flooded ships magazines and saved the ship by doing so, ended up being awarded those medals posthumously." 18:37 "The rigid airship, as lovingly modeled here, by USS Akron." 21:34 (in regards to rigid airships) "You could just divert over another country and ... what are they going to do about it?" 22:22 "Battleships are big. The Earth is CONSIDERABLY larger." 22:45 "Because, to be honest, if you were close enough to a hostile ship the detailed picture would help you figure out which ship it was, you were probably far too close." 24:56 "But from this altitude, are you really going to be able to pick out exactly which ship it is? Wether it's a North Carolina or a South Dakota? Um...I mean for those of us who are obsessive naval historians, we probably can do." 29:52 "At the beginning of WW1, the British based the grand fleet for a while over in Northern Ireland. Umm..so, yeah, good luck with that." 43:51 "But be a much more fightable ship without it's front turrets being turned into temporary aquariums." * * * 10/9/19 Drachism of the Day: 14:24 "Instead, the two sides decided to start trolling each other in a manner that wouldn't be entirely out of place in a 21st-century internet forum. Only they were using somewhat more polite language, better spelling and, of course, the use of flags." * * * 10/6/19 Drachisms of the Day: 19:57 "And, to his credit, Russel Crowe doesn't quite give us the linguistic tour of the UK that he does in some other films." 33:03 "Hilarious to watch. Not so hilarious to run away from." 59:27 "Unless you get a complete and utter suprise attack obviously, which ... Eh! It's possible. But I wouldn't put my money on it." 1:26:03 "Outside of a few computer aided ... stunts." * * * 9/12/19 Drachisms of the Day: 16:50 (in regards to rubberized flight-decks) "And then you would have had the Kitty Hawk turned into the world's largest trampoline". 46:58 "You've just let a bunch of water into your ship voluntarily which is probably not a good idea to do in the face of an enemy battleship that's about to, possibly, let a lot of water into your ship involuntarily." 48:24 "You know what? STUFF THIS. I'm going after him." * * * 8/11/19 Drachisms of the Day (3/3): 5:56 "Firing, effectively, a full-broadside, let's say every ten seconds, because the Captains feeling kind." 16:39 "Oh, well look! The person with the massive heavy ships versus lightweight ships managed to win. Shock, horror!" 17:28 "So I'd be able to turn that around, at least, in theory. Assuming anyone listened to me." 19:27 "And...also the simple fact of the matter is generally, in land battles, that, ah, you are shooting at men and horses which are a lot squishyer and easier to kill than ships of the line." 23:02 "But they don't need to be available quite as soon as the machinery, cause, well generally speaking, as you can see here with the USS Florida, the guns go on the top." 27:20 "I managed to avoide a 'technical derail'. Huzzah!" 28:21 "The OTHER way of doing it was to basically bake it into something that was so hard and moisture-free that it was more 'building material' or 'melee weapon' than food-stuff." 30:56 "And discovered that they hadn't quite got the technology right and they kind of put on a minor electrical storm everytime they tried to turn the turrets. With massive arcs of blue fire. Which looks pretty but is not particularly effective." 38:34 "As an Englishman, I'm almost genetically duty-bound to rag on the French on occasion."
    3
  428. 5:36 (in regards to the launching of the Essex swarm) "just a year earlier than anyone had thought possible." That seems like a gross miscalculation. Why did the Essex's arrive so quickly?
    3
  429.  @DimoB8  Read "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. (Ebola's fist visit to the USA.). There are viruses out there that we haven't stumbled upon yet. Covid-19 is mild by comparison. 2020, as a pandemic, may well be only a 'dress rehearsal'
    3
  430. Also: Italian Ordnance QC
    3
  431. About the 'Gibraltar kill zone'. They've improved it. They've added an aircraft runway. I had to stand in Spain and wait....as the Airbus landed in front of me. Then I was able to continue my assault on The Rock.
    3
  432. No. I don't agree. In my opinion, BUORD get's a bad rap. BUORD does not deserve the negative reputation. I began harboring this thought while reading Friedman's "Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery". Specifically, about the turret/gun stabilization systems. They were the responsibility of BUORD. As was everything else having to do with naval AAA. And SO MUCH MORE. This raised a question. "What was BUORD responsible for?" How many systems and subsystems were under their prevue? Yes, they screwed the pooch with the torpedos. And their initial reactions (41 and 42) to this debacle made them 'seem' even more evil and incompetent. BUT...what percentage of their 'responsibility' was torpedos? How much of their work are we ignoring when we paint them with only a torpedo brush? I don't have the time or inclination to answer those questions. I don't have the factual data. But I have a 'feeling'. I 'feel' that we are guilty of 'the glass is half empty' syndrome. I 'feel' that BUORD is not being judged fairly. Am I wrong?
    3
  433.  @Julius_Hardware  Ninja koalas.
    3
  434.  @AdamMGTF  (with humility) Sir, your comment made my day. Thank you.
    3
  435. Drachisms of the Day commenced with #39. I'd been listening since before that date. He was still doing CG voice when I got here.
    3
  436. YES! DO THAT!!!! Excellent suggestion, Sir.
    3
  437. Sir, I learned to type on an old Royal. Taught by Sister Charles Bronson. My library has insured that the kids got the best education a Community College can offer.
    3
  438. How many tons of naval blueprints, drawings, documentation and photos did the Japanese have to burn before they surrendered?
    3
  439. Asked and answered a few months ago. I recall that it was on the order of 7 hours to produce 1 hour of content. (caveat: my memory isn't factual data) Greatly dependent upon familiarity with the specific topic. Again...the caveat.
    3
  440. Here's a fun game. Imagine if Drach had a 'cockney' accent?
    3
  441. That's meant as a joke, not a fact. I have no data on interwar torpedo testing. It's dis-info.
    3
  442.  @nonamesplease6288  "poin-ted stick" You nailed it!
    3
  443.  @lawrencelewis8105  You 'attributed'!!! You sited your source. RESPECT.
    3
  444. I love history.
    3
  445. How many hours does it take to produce one hour of "Drydock"? You've got to wade thru oceans of questions and select/assemble them. Then the research. The writing. The editing. The recording. The post production (adding photos, intro, outro, etc). The publishing. What else? Same question for a "A Five Minute Guide".
    3
  446. Galveston is an island. Their fishing fleets supply countless restaurants, And locally, they serve world-class seafood. I hope you discovered that, while you visited. . Their drydock project is tiny. You can see their offshore oil rig projects, looming in the background of this video. Those projects are not tiny.
    3
  447.  @Wolfeson28  Ozzie. Harriet.
    3
  448. PTSD is real.
    3
  449. So the first officer tore a door of it's hinges. How long had he been married?
    3
  450. Woodford Reserve is called for.
    3
  451.  @alganhar1  Many materials, when ground to a powder, are prone to explosion. The material has been ground up to such a small size that, overall, there is MUCH more surface area exposed to the atmosphere (oxidizer). Light a log on fire and it burns. Turn that log into sawdust and light it. It explodes.
    3
  452.  @TheNavalGuy  There's only one way for you two guys to decide who is 1st. Thunderdome!
    3
  453.  @VintageCarHistory  I hope my text did justice to your fine voice(s). Well done, Sir.
    3
  454. "a Johnston-free firing position". Poetic.
    3
  455. I read that as "BECAUSE VE KAANN."
    3
  456. Yo, Philly! Years ago, a friend was touring Europe. She'd gone from Greece over to Italy, where she landed in Brindisi. At the time, "Polo Brindisi" was a popular, cheap wine. She said, "Naming a wine 'Polo Brindisi' is like calling it 'Polo Camden'."
    3
  457. Tossing spicy meatballs cause me to 'coffee-spit'.
    3
  458. It needs lyrics.
    3
  459. ​ @martentrudeau6948  Or, 'colourful' English.
    3
  460. Same. But I was waiting at the DMV.
    3
  461. If the international community of nations were children, China would be the kid who takes his ball and goes home when he doesn't get what he wants.
    3
  462. But you prove that nothing is like 'being stupid'.
    2
  463. They have been TOLD that they are ignored and betrayed. And the sad thing....THIS GUY has been telling them. And now he act like he's got no blood on his hands.
    2
  464. He called for them to come to DC on Jan-6. He intentionally incited the crowd to violent riot. He went inside and watched the attack on TV. He intentionally delayed the deployment of the National Guard for an hour.
    2
  465. They were planning on "fear" in the Supreme Court. They wanted the "fear" to sway the courts actions. THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF TERRORISM. This is what bin Laden wanted to happen after 9/11.
    2
  466. I love how they'll put people on TV....just to drag 75 million trump voters thru the mud. Knowing that it causes you pain is more than enough for me.
    2
  467. What's wrong baby? Do the bad newsmen make you feel pain because your orange pig is going to jail? That is good. I hope it gets worse for you. Suffer for us. We enjoy it.
    2
  468. Who WOULDN'T tell them??? We ALL want to see this. Dragging trump's co-criminals thru the mud is HILARIOUS.
    2
  469. Does anyone care what the russian version of Archie Bunker has to say?
    2
  470. Here's what I want to see. The names of everyone who testified. How many times they said "I don't recall".
    2
  471. Suffer traitor, suffer.
    2
  472. What if....and hear me out....what if we don't sell guns to the other crazies.
    2
  473. When can I buy some "Blacks for Trump" merch???
    2
  474. Dear FBI Agents. Aim for the hat. Right between the words "Make America Great Again". And remember, you are not being paid to bring ammo back to the office.
    2
  475.  FE Gaming  No. You don't see it a lot. You are one of the dumb people.
    2
  476. THANK YOU CNN. Keep at it. Keep digging. Drag Carlson and fox thru the mud. Expose them AND THEIR EMPLOYEES for what they are.
    2
  477.  @sadismybag3440  Remember election day? Remember when the results were announced? Remember how that made you feel? So angry. So insignificant. So powerless. So small. I just wanted to remind you of that.
    2
  478.  @robert1973williams  I know! I know! I know. The one true god. It's Thor!!!!
    2
  479.  @gfunk63901  you are an idiot
    2
  480. Cohen, a trumper, walks out of a prison cell. Stone, a trumper, walks into a prison cell. The glass is half-full.
    2
  481.  @stephenbrand5661  Sir, All Names Matter (no shade to BLM).
    2
  482.  @johnrichmond.4783  Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm
    2
  483. Repeating russian lies isn't gonna make you any less of a liar.
    2
  484. "charismatic" "charming" "self confident" "unable to buy a jacket that isn't made for clowns"
    2
  485. A party of cowards. A party for cowards.
    2
  486. STOP CODDLING HER. STOP CODDLING HER PSYCOPHATIC CHILD. SEPERATE THEM. ISOLATE (JAIL) THEM. The only tragedy is that she wasn't sterilized a long time ago.
    2
  487. The republicans are the problem.
    2
  488. So obvious. Nothing to see here. Everyone go home now. YOU SAD LITTLE MAN.
    2
  489. Bootlicking republican.
    2
  490. Live in ignorance, you bootlicking republican.
    2
  491. republican traitor.
    2
  492. The pig has never 'written' a book. Ghostwriters write for him. He, like his supporters, is far far far to stupid to 'write' anything.
    2
  493. Fox news ENABLED THE LIES. Fox news makes money by destroying our country from within. Boycott their advertisers. Have the FCC revoke their license to broadcast.
    2
  494. The Russians can win this. They've done it before. Stand in Moscow in 1941. Stand in Berlin in 1945. The Red Army learns from its mistakes!!!
    2
  495. Reasonable leadership would have immediately worked with the 'other side' to hammer out a plan. Republicans cooked up their corporate-welfare package and excluded 'the other side' from any input. Instead, we are in a worldwide pandemic and Moscow Mitch is playing politics. Why does anyone vote for republicans??? Are you intentionally blind to what happens around you?
    2
  496. How can anyone who claims to be a republican have a shred of self respect?
    2
  497. It is not important that there be a conviction. It is important that, FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, HE WILL BE DRAGGED IN AND OUT OF COURTROOMS. When he is in a courtroom, HE HAS TO SIT THERE AN KEEP HIS BIG MOUTH SHUT. When he is in a courtroom, HE IS POWERLESS TO BULLY HIS WAY AROUND. When he is in a courtroom, HE IS NOT THE PERSON "IN CHARGE". . Those facts alone, are killing him slowly. He can't escape the situation. He must play by the rules. He is powerless. . I hope it eats him alive. Pay close attention to the look on his face as he goes in and out of the courtroom. It is delicious to see his seething anger. It is wonderful to watch his impotent struggle. It is a joy to witness how he must plead the 5th and keep his endless lies to himself. . And most of all....the best part of this whole thing.....is that this process will go on and on and on and on till he is dead AND....the entire republican party and all of his dirtbag supporters get dragged along with him. ENJOY THAT YOU RACIST TRAITORS.
    2
  498.  @DortonFarb  And on election day, in 2020, we rubbed your nose in dogsh*t. Remember that? We do. We laugh about it constantly. Knowing how we crushed your dreams is a joy. Did you enjoy the taste of dogsh*t? Get used to it. We plan on doing that to you again and again and again. And there's nothing you can do about it. Suffer.
    2
  499.  @DortonFarb  Are you a child?
    2
  500. All the comments about her are so supportive. But nobody gives respect to the lack of applesauce on the couch.
    2
  501. republican plan. Give tax dollars to the rich. Take tax dollars from everyone else.
    2
  502. Enjoy those words. You'll be eating them for years.
    2
  503. Blame the republican party. They supported and protected their pig, trump, the entire time.
    2
  504. HAIL SATAN!!!!
    2
  505. Put you fingers in your ears. Loudly say "LA LA LA LA LA LA LA." You are now a republican. Traitor.
    2
  506. 36:40 French comment de jour
    2
  507.  @kemarisite  My last 'long haul' drive was only a 12 hour marathon. I could feel the eye strain at the 9 hour mark. I had nightmares about truckers for the next few days. Congrats on getting home in one piece.
    2
  508. I want to hear the tale of the mighty tender of seaplanes, Zmaj.
    2
  509.  @Mike-DuBose  Welcome to my Christmas card list.
    2
  510. Saturday morning coffee always tastes rich from sip to gulp.
    2
  511. Contrast the Fletcher and Gearing classes. Because I'm too lazy. And since I'm lazy: Discuss fratricide between USN aircraft and USN anti-aircraft. (or any nationality) How much of a problem was it? Notable incidents. And most important...what doctrine/tactics/practices mitigated the fratricide??
    2
  512. Woodford Reserve. Kentucky bourbon. No hangovers.
    2
  513. Matris immorator.
    2
  514. Encrypted Drachism of the Day: 53:14 "JNER SDIF GHWE BORS DDFL XKIQ ISKE DPEJ BDRT KWQI GJCM NWTY VYIS SZPE DEFL KWTE TOWS, ZIFE AEIW DEIB HUXC ICNR WRMD IWDF WPIN MPET DAIC CUNJ NARF" (decrypted) 53:14 "And, if you've particularly enjoyed the nice warm feeling of your brain melting out of your ears, in a desperate attempt to flee from what you are trying to do to it"
    2
  515.  @marvindebot3264  That explains the statue of Jeff Goldblum
    2
  516.  @RCAvhstape  I mention this because, over the years, I have found that many people, wargamers and history enthusiasts, who would appreciate the film have not seen it or are not aware of it.
    2
  517. Who's kidding who? I think he just likes the sound of his own voice. 😁
    2
  518. 12:58 "non-cannibalistic Chilean cruiser" gives me an idea. I've played histo-wargames with miniature figures, weekly, since 87. We 'ran out of history' decades ago. How many times can you do Gettysburg? I'm always on the lookout for a game gimmick Like using cannibal crews. And why not zombie crews? Cliche rules apply to each. It would make boarding actions a LOT more fun.
    2
  519. Six hours? I suppose you could kick up the playback speed. It's kinda hypnotic.
    2
  520. The audio quality was good.
    2
  521. I share your enthusiasm. I'm sure you've encountered "The Hunters" and "The Hunted" by Clay Blair. Have you found "Convoy SC122 and HX229: Climax of the Battle of the Atlantic, March 1943" by Martin Middlebrook? It really gives you the sense of time (often days) that it took for these battles to take place. Middlebrook is perhaps best known for his series of books on RAF Bomber Command Raids.
    2
  522.  @gregwright5704  Don't let that colour your opinion.
    2
  523. You mention that the ships were fitted with "stabilizers making them much better AA platforms". That got me curious. Rather than ask a Q, I went looking for an A. "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilizer_(ship)"
    2
  524. "Build The Musashi" (Yoshimura) was a frustrating book. It starts off well, and initially, it moves at a good clip. But it turns towards the security/secrecy that surrounded the project. It becomes much more about the security than it does about the building. MUCH more. A large percentage of the book more. So you stick with it, and it really doesn't ever change. Details about the 'building' remain sparse. Eventually you come to realize that it is BECAUSE of the security/secrecy that the building part is so thin. There's an ugly story about testing the effect of the guns on the ship. They put some small furry critters in cages and bolted the cages onto the deck near a turret. Then they fired the guns.
    2
  525. It's not that BuOrd made mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. It's BuOrd's response to the problems with the MK14, when they were reported. First, they dismissed the reports. Second, they blamed the crews. Third, they ACTIVLEY DISCOURAGED any field testing. (according to Blair) People were dying...and they shirked their responsibilities. Much like today.
    2
  526. Good day Drach. I just read a question, here, about Operation Ten Go. I've seen other IJN/IJA operation names with the word 'Go' in them. So....could someone provide the translation of that word. (google translates it as 'five', which doesn't make sense) . Arigato.
    2
  527. "As of 2012, Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes" "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Indonesia"
    2
  528. 39:15 The ROK Navy isn't messing around. 128 VLS launch cells on each of the three ships in the Sejong The Great class. 96 on an Arleigh Burke. So the Korean People's Army Naval Force has 384 incoming problems to deal with.
    2
  529. Terry Gilliam's favorite 5MG.
    2
  530. I had the coffee ready. Then I built a fire. So, awake and warm.
    2
  531. Weapon Of The Day: A 16-inch Sniper Rifle.
    2
  532. 20:27 "a mixture of 'ramming to disable' and 'ramming to board'." So...what's the difference?
    2
  533.  @absalomdraconis  So the rule would be "You must wait one half hour before going back in the water.'
    2
  534. @Fred Smith I've got sharks. My ACW Ironclads game plays like Robert Shaw's 'Indianapolis speech from Jaws'.
    2
  535. Wasn't it Cmdr McHale's base?
    2
  536. 2:53:44 The Kiel Canal. The graphic has an 'NHN -0,20 m' indicator for all 3 iterations of the canal. I can't find what that means. Being written in German does not help my search. Anyone? Navigation lane?
    2
  537. 2403 dead that day. Most, in the harbor. I like to think of this epic salvage as 'quintessentially American'. Heroic. Defiant. But the truth of the matter is that every day, bodies, body parts and remains were pulled from the wreckage. Every day. FOR MONTHS ON END. Every photo of this work is a photo of a graveyard being excavated. That's not my definition of 'heroic'. So yeah, Drach, I don't wonder why you had to split it in two.
    2
  538. Valid point. Context is everything.
    2
  539.  @Tuning3434  Let's all make a sacrifice to Bacchus, praying that brewery-workers are considered 'essential'.
    2
  540. In response to your question. Drach recently published "Western Approaches", WW2 British convoys and ASW. The HQ was in Derby House in Liverpool. In the midst of the Blitz, they had to operate 24/7. So they had a backup power generator. It was powered by a engine taken from a captured WW1 German Uboat. Read: 'Game of Birds And Wolves' by Simon Parkin.
    2
  541.  @TrickiVicBB71  He started the channel with robo voiced 5 Minute Guides. I arrived just at the end of the robo voice era. He then switched to 'human voiced' 5MGs. He began to revoice and replace the old robo videos. It was then that he introduced Drydock. . But don't rely on my memory.
    2
  542. We call it "the 2nd Amendment".
    2
  543. We need to compile a list of 'things I do while listening to Drach'.
    2
  544. Who will protect us from Gamilon and The Comet Empire?
    2
  545. A free-standing vertical triple expansion engine, NOT MOUNTED IN A SHIP, is something to see. It really makes you wonder how they get them through all those narrow passageways.
    2
  546.  @BradPittler  I don't 'do' anything. I'm just a stenographer.
    2
  547. Every Sunday morning...same routine. Wake up. Get outta bed. Drag a comb across my head. Then brew a pot of Mr. Coffee while Mr. Computer wakes up.
    2
  548. I agree about the coffee. It takes 2-pots to get thru his 2-hour DryDocks. Then I'm wired.
    2
  549. Thanks. Now I have to learn about Norwegian Coastal Seabed Topography. Off to the maps.
    2
  550. I'd like to hear the entire history of the Canadian Navy during that conflict. Canada's role in the Atlantic Campaign was impressive.
    2
  551. Aye! It was.
    2
  552.  @AndrewPalmerMTL  Sir. Your suggestion, 'tabs', is how we do it in our mil-hist-weekly-game-group. I agree with you that the models are too small to be identified/differentiated. 1:6000 bases are too small to print visible-info upon. My pet peeve is 'clutter' on my game table (which I call 'visual pollution'). That is why I stressed the word 'subtle'. The 'visual' problem is taken to a whole new level when trying to photograph game tables. Covid has forced me to run 3-webcam Zoom games. Lighting and unit-recognition are the biggest challenges.
    2
  553.  @gneisenau89  Gehres arrived AFTER the Franklin got hit. He had nothing to do with any 'heroic effort'. The top brass of the USN has always suffered from moral-rot when exercising leadership. Ask Captain McVey of the Indianapolis. Ask the 'gay sailor' in turret-2 of the Iowa.
    2
  554.  @Gentleman...Driver  The USN seems to enjoy rewarding their loosers. The guy who ran BuOrd (and gave us the Mk14 torpedo-nightmare) was put in charge of nuke testing in the Pacific after the war. Halsey, after blundering at Samar, and then killing hundreds of sailors in typhoons, was given a 5th star after the war. And that is just the view from the very top of the ranks. . I think perhaps, this has something to do with the history of naval command. Set out on a mission. Isolated for months/years. Acting on their own. Nobody to judge them. This may contribute to how 'defective commanders' are treated by the top brass. . Armies don't have this problem because fragging is so easy.
    2
  555. Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mr. Lincoln?
    2
  556. I remember those commutes. I remember sitting in traffic, thinking...."If this car doesn't move before the next question get's asked, I am gonna road rage like there's no tomorrow."
    2
  557.  @jeffholloway3882  Thanks for sharing your story. I can see it, in my mind's eye. It must have been glorious to have been at Pearl that day.
    2
  558.  @clubwho  Isn't it fun to work with 'brass polish'? (insert 'eye-roll' here)
    2
  559. Totally agree about the Navy Yard.
    2
  560. 14:50 "Much of the excess powder would just be blasted out of the muzzle, unburnt. Which, admittedly, would be somewhat spectacular pyrotechnic display as some of it would eventually ignite."
    2
  561. I ran an ACW Ironclad game where Godzilla took on both navies.
    2
  562.  @sadwingsraging3044  "thicker jungle". "sharper teeth". I enjoyed reading that.
    2
  563.  @davidwhitfield6025  That is why we can't have nice things!
    2
  564.  @Drachinifel  Thank you. Naval history isn't my thing. I read WW2, Russo-German. (I am a dilettante). I'm skeptical because I wasted 20 years (1975 thru 1995) reading what was available. And what was available, came from 'the German generals'. And then the USSR collapsed. And they opened the archives to western historians. (I think they were desperate for dollars). And I learned not to believe everything I read. Now there's the internet. Please pass the salt.
    2
  565. I'm happy to see that you have "Naval AA Special" on your to-do list. I am interested in fratricide between USN AA and USN Aircraft. I'm trying to understand policy/doctrine/tactics that were in place to avoid this. Sooo...piled on my desk are two of Friedmans's books, "Fighters Over The Fleet" and "Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery". I've only skimmed thru them and what I've found is encouraging. Can you suggest any further reading on this topic? I look forward to your upcoming work on this topic. Thanks for the Johnston viddie. I enjoyed the phrase "fighting from a Johnston-free area".
    2
  566. How to make a P-47 look small. . Park it under the wing of a B-29! . Especially if the B-29 is the Enola Gay. Go see for yourself at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Annex at Dulles Airport.
    2
  567. You can feel the "leadership" just coming off the screen.
    2
  568. Alas, I shall never know if I won 'Best Tug Design'.
    2
  569. Could you apply "cost savings due to mass production" to the Essex-class?
    2
  570. You are in for a VERY BIG surprise. Prepare to encounter the biggest 'time suck' that you've ever experienced. It will fill you Covid-lockdown time. Follow Stephanie Wilson's advise and your curiosity will be richly rewarded. Welcome to the party, pal.
    2
  571. You are correct. See my previous post. It's always nice to meet another person who just gets exhausted having to google everything.
    2
  572. The story of the SS Anglo Saxon and Robert Tapscott prompts this suggestion. Do a history of 'the merchant marine'. I have family who served in the US Merchant Marine during WW2.
    2
  573. Brilliant! Thanks for the laugh.
    2
  574. Now they have to content themselves with just being bankers for tax-evaders, drug-cartels and arms-dealers.
    2
  575. Natalie, Mila and me.
    2
  576.  @xerxeskingofking  Thank you Sir. After a few minutes hunting for it on Google, I gave up. Would it have killed him to call it a 'lorry'??? And don't get me started on 'scouser'.
    2
  577. We share a view of Wikipedia. Their bibliographies have great value.
    2
  578.  @H-Zazoo  Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson!!! I remembered that name without the link.
    2
  579. I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused. (your comment made me think of this lyric. name the song, win a prize.) (PS: there is no prize)
    2
  580. Agree about "Danger UXB". Haven't seen it in decades.
    2
  581.  @tyronekozlowski8017  Shouldn't you be attacking our nation? Somewhere, there is a cross for you to burn. Show us what a proud boy you are. Proud to lick the boots of trump, your orange god.
    2
  582. Do republican voters EVER learn that they are suckers???
    2
  583. "Unix is snake oil." Ken Olsen
    2
  584. What a horrific waste of a decade.
    2
  585. I liked the root-spliting. Thanks.
    2
  586. Very nice product. Best of luck.
    2
  587. The next war is going to be a "come as you are" war. It will be fought with the weapons and soldiers we have in inventory. No 'building programs'. No 'recruitment drives'.
    1
  588. If the Israelis occupied the US and treated YOU the way they treat Palestinians, you would be firing rockets at them too.
    1
  589. The republican party tried to steal our democracy. Hang the traitors. Outlaw their traitor party.
    1
  590. Rally size isn't an indicator of a nations political mood. Your political analysis is the work of a child. Nobody cares what boggles your tiny mind.
    1
  591. The anonymous accuser must be named. She must bear the consequences for her actions.
    1
  592. Another Texas Traitor.
    1
  593. Your dead children are not as important as my guns. signed: The Republican Party
    1
  594. I could care less what the taliban want.
    1
  595. This is surprising. You can READ???
    1
  596. CONFRONT ME TUCKER. Please. I'll take the felony. You'll eat thru a straw.
    1
  597. You should go to DC and attack our nation's capital. That's what you do.
    1
  598. CLASSIC. The election didn't turn our how I wanted...so everything must be destroyed. Pure republican.
    1
  599. The good news is: IT IS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE FOR REPUBLICANS.
    1
  600. Our nation wasn't attacked by trump supporters on 6-January. Our nation WAS ATTACKED BY REPUBLICANS. A party of traitors. A party for traitors.
    1
  601. A party of lies. A party of liars.
    1
  602.  @anonymouslegion4928  Ironic that you need to be told this on social media. Since social media seems to be your only source of information. But here goes. DEAL WITH FACTS.
    1
  603. You are all crazy. And we are all sick of you.
    1
  604. There are no 'long standing GOP values'. Conservativism is a dead, empty husk. It never stood for much to begin with. And now, it only is a mask for race hatred. Regan and republican 'trickle down' lies have created the greatest wealth-gap in human history. Which means that you were either a billionaire, a sucker or a Klan member.
    1
  605. The people of Michigan have show us what they are. DEPLORABLE.
    1
  606. This suits the average American republican family. Ivan, Svetlana and little Nikita.
    1
  607. I encourage trump supporters to keep on fighting. Cannibalism is what the republican party deserves.
    1
  608. Blowing up their planes is nice. But Ukraine, please....TARGET THE PILOTS.
    1
  609. How can anyone WANT to belong to the republican party? Aside from the racism. The violence. The hate. The racism. The corporate bootlicking. The racism.
    1
  610.  @jn1066  Yes. That's the one. The traitor. The rioter. The seditionist. The republican. And the next time republicans come to my capital, I want them greeted with .30 cal . (unless there's a lot of them that causes the mob to bunch up deeper than 3 levels....then .50 cal) What you don't understand JN is that America is sick of you and your dead traitor republican cow. We don't care how many of you traitors they kill.
    1
  611. If that happened to you or me, we would be afraid LONG after the incident ended. I am happy, knowing McConnell lives in fear.
    1
  612. How did he become the richest man in russia. How did he come to lead russia's largest private oil company? Hard work? Or crony communism? This POS stole as much as possible from the russian people. Why is he still alive?
    1
  613. I love how this is dragging out, day after day after day. And better still...the wheels of justice, which turn SLOWLY have barely begun to spin. This will take forever...and I love it. Because it is slowly killing him. . And best of all...it reminds the 70 million deplorables who voted for him that they are scum just like him. I want their persecution fantasies to be realized on a daily basis for as long as possible.
    1
  614. What do you get when rich racist white southerners convince poor stupid racist white southerners to betray their country and fight a war against America so the rich could keep their slaves? You get Lindsey Graham.
    1
  615. One day, soon, Donald will die. And the republicans will live with his legacy forever. I can think of no better legacy. Suffer republicans. You deserve every moment.
    1
  616. They KNEW what they were doing. They KNEW that they were spreading lies. The KNEW that they were ripping our country apart. They KNEW that they could profit from doing this. PUNISH them. REGULATE them. Or shut the whole app down.
    1
  617. So happy to hear this. Anytime republicans get their noses rubbed in dogsh*t is a good time.
    1
  618. It was 2015. I was standing in the local volunteer fire department. It is our polling place. Everyone was in a good mood. We were about to elect Hillary as our first president. And then, I had this feeling. Something wasn't right. So I looked behind me. Standing there was an old woman. In her late 70s. Very very short. What struck me was the look on her face. She was the most miserable old crone I had ever seen. Her intentional frown was a dark cloud in the room. When I caught her eye, I smiled at her. That provoked a deeper frown. And of course, I realized who this woman was there to vote for. The orange pig. That day ended as it did. THE MORALE OF THE STORY. That old woman is still out there. Still frowning. Still hating. Still voting.
    1
  619. No! We want him to share all his opinions. And most of all...WE WANT YOU TO HEAR THEM AND SUFFER. That's right....we enjoy your pain. So please, keep suffering because you can't lick the republican's boots.
    1
  620. The truth is that the majority of white women voted for trump. I don't see that herd of cows having any empathy whatsoever for other women...or any other human beings.
    1
  621. What a pathetic moron. Just like his supporters...he is clueless.
    1
  622. I can't wait for the 'perp-walk'. Put the traitor in cuffs and drag him past every camera on earth.
    1
  623. One day he will walk up to a door. The wrong person (as far as he is concerned) will be on the other side.
    1
  624. Republican traitor. He knew exactly what he was doing. And now the coward is trying to back away from his actions. HE IS NOT QUALIFIED TO SIT ON THE SUPREME COURT.
    1
  625. @Don Diggy No. I am thinking about his pain. That brings me joy.
    1
  626.  @AmericanPatriotsLoveTrump  Remember election day? Remember how it made you feel? WE DID THAT. We love doing that to you. Enjoy the humiliation.
    1
  627. I love this. Thank you for your pain and suffering, republicans. And just think....there is SO MUCH MORE TO COME. You get to be humiliated day in and day out for the coming months. Enjoy it.
    1
  628. It shows exactly how republicans think 'law' should work. They think it should be purchased by the highest bidder.
    1
  629. Commercial real estate is in bad condition. So much office space is empty. Much of that is because of COVID. If only the government did a better job of dealing with COV ..i ...d.
    1
  630. Give them short axes. Put them in a ring.
    1
  631. It is more than the casualties that 'mirror' Afghanistan. The Ukraine and Afghanistan have one thing in common. They are both ONE FOOTSTEP AWAY from Russia. They are ON THE BOARDER. And even with that MASSIVE LOGISITICAL ADVANTAGE....the Red Army can't do it. All my life I've been told about the big bad russians. All my life I've had to live under the 'threat' from them. All my life...the Pentagon has told me how dangerous they are. And all my life...I've paid taxes...TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THE PENTAGON. FOR WHAT? To fight the Red Army???? The Keystone Cops of modern militaries? I want my tax dollars back. And NEXT YEAR....I want the Pentagon to EXPLAIN WHY THEY NEED SO MUCH MONEY.
    1
  632. GOPski
    1
  633. Karma is the guy on the Chiefs.
    1
  634. "I was disgusted with myself." . Republicans all need to reach this level of self awareness.
    1
  635. I have something in common with Donald Trump.
    1
  636. That never happened. Well...not where normal people live. But you keep sucking on your gun barrel.
    1
  637. There are kids with mental health issues in every school on earth. Funny how you don't read about their mass shootings. Oh wait... (tell us johnny....how many dead children are your guns worth?)
    1
  638.  @PApro  Are you a child?
    1
  639.  @aaronsmall1394  They don't need to do that. Republicans want ANYONE to buy a gun.
    1
  640.  Timothah Molone  Mumbo-jumbo for weak minds.
    1
  641.  @jetmirmetaliaj8521  Poor child. Is that the best you can do?
    1
  642. I love that the hearings get him angry. I want them to bring him fear. And jail. And prison rape. And a slow, persistent knawing on his insides....as he watches it all close in on him. . And it's nice to know that his supporters, the 75 million racists who voted for him, it's nice to see them dragged thru the mud everyday. It is nice to see them being told what degenerates they are for supporting him. It is nice to see their hopes and dreams being crushed in front of their eyes.
    1
  643. Melania's underwear.
    1
  644. One down.
    1
  645. Crush the republican liar.
    1
  646. His gray hair will be an ideal set of 'handle bars' to be used during his prison rapes.
    1
  647. Conservatives and Republicans really need to learn from this. There are valued lessons for these people. Such as: WE DON'T LIKE YOU. WE OUTNUMBER YOU. YOUR TIME IS UP.
    1
  648. Calling them "trump supporters" feeds a false narrative. THEY WERE REPUBLICANS.
    1
  649. She will sue. She will win her suit. TAXPAYERS will pay. Take the money from the police retirement fund. Make all cops pay for tolerating bad cops. Make all cops learn that the rules apply to all of us. The freaking bullies with badges mentality needs to be broken. The 'thin blue line' bullcrap needs to end.
    1
  650. I was just a kid in the 60s. I turned on the TV. There was Tina, doing Proud Mary. By the end of the song, I'd gone thru puberty.
    1
  651. WHO ELSE IS FED UP WITH SEEING MICHAEL COHEN ON CNN???
    1
  652.  @Michael-tl2yj  Poor Mikey. Are you sad? Did the big bad government do something to hurt you? SUFFER!!! Your orange god is going to jail...and that makes you just as guilty. SUFFER. Every day that a news story about trump comes out....SUFFER. Spend your life defending your republican dirtbag leaders....and SUFFER. Because knowing that you suffer brings joy to Americans who are not traitors like you.
    1
  653.  @grandfrosty  Put on your red MAGA hat and walk around in public.
    1
  654. Miss Graham does not want to testify. Think of it as her version of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". . Closet queen republican needs to be locked in a cell...with men.
    1
  655.  @ninij9692  Go ask the Secret Service guy who was driving the limo. Your orange god tried to strangle him in anger. (imagine those tiny child-hands, trying to get around a man's neck) I LOVE KNOWING THAT HE SUFFERS.
    1
  656.  @waynegrabert6839  Good point Wayne. But when it comes to the numbers I prefer to look at it this way: HE WAS ON THE PHONE TO GEORGIA, COMMITTING CRIMES, BEGGING OTHERS TO COMMIT CRIMES. TRYING TO 'FIND' 11000 VOTES. Only 11000. How sad and humiliating is that??? Remember that trump voters. You and your orange pig-god were dragged thru the mud by the average attendance at a college football game.
    1
  657.  @TheDiamond2009  So long as you are suffering. And willing to publicly display your pain. We are happy. Looser.
    1
  658. Who will change his prison diapers?
    1
  659. What you WANT and what you NEED are two different things. Saying "we don't WANT socialism" clearly indicates that you should be saying "we NEED an education". How about if the rest of us (49 states) refuse to send Federal Tax money to your backwards state? Since you don't want socialism, you should be fine with that.
    1
  660. I didn't know the republican party was in Uzbekistan.
    1
  661. bluddy 'ell
    1
  662. He had no 'message'. He wrote nothing 'important'. His views were not 'significant'. . He was a violent, mentally ill freak. And now he's dead.
    1
  663. This is the man that fired the whislteblower. This man was appointed by the pig in the White House. Do you trust a word that comes out of this man's mouth?
    1
  664. I'm glad you took it down. It was the right thing to do.
    1
  665. You can conceal Javelin ATGM under a Swiss Guard uniform. Those guys are all packing state of the art death. Thank you Mark, for bringing this channel to us. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your listeners.
    1
  666. I love the smell of burning russian tanks in the morning. MAKE THEM PAY THRU THE NOSE.
    1
  667. I have a question about captured soviet female soldiers. HOW DID THE RUSSIANS TREAT THEM WHEN THEY GOT BACK? For that matter, how were all soviet POWs treated. Now that you are seeing the bodies of Ukrainians on your TV every night. Bodies murdered by russian soldiers. ISN'T IT TIME FOR THE GLOVES TO COME OFF???
    1
  668. The FOP sees nothing wrong with this and will fight to bring her back.
    1
  669. Elon Musk is digging his own grave faster than the family of a russian soldier.
    1
  670. Chinese protesters are lucky. They get beaten by chinese police. . Chinese students are not lucky. They get run over by Chinese tanks. NEVER FORGET. CHINA IS A DICTATORSHIP THAT WILL HAPPILY MURDER IT'S OWN PEOPLE TO STAY IN POWER. FEAR AND GUNS ARE THE ONLY REASON THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT EXISTS.
    1
  671. Stop making excuses for the cow.
    1
  672. Not all.
    1
  673. Stop making up fairy tales because you are afraid of death.
    1
  674. "all enemies....foreign and DOMESTIC" America needs to flush it's toilet, just like the Germans did.
    1
  675. Left? Or right? Which boot do you trumpoids prefer to lick first? It's good to see you all here, suffering for your orange god. Keep suffering.
    1
  676. It is impossible to say how happy I am to read your comment. Knowing that you are upset by this, brings me profound joy. Seeing you publicly humiliate yourself, licking the boots of your orange god, is hilarious. Keep suffering.
    1
  677. Just so long as we are making you miserable, it's all good.
    1
  678. Are you illiterate?
    1
  679. I love seeing trumpers suffer. It's a joy to see your impotent frustration.
    1
  680. Bootlicker.
    1
  681. Isolate them. Exclude them. Ostracize them. Marginalize them. Don't let them into businesses. Don't sell them tickets to events. Don't employ them. Don't feed them in public restraunts. Don't let them in hotels or airplanes. Don't allow them civil services. Make them feel the consequences of their selfish actions.
    1
  682. Why should they take them? Israel stole their land. Israel created the refugee problem. Let Israel fix the problem they created.
    1
  683. The pig trump and his supporters have big problems with Obama. But the problems are really only 'skin deep'.
    1
  684. Since you are so concerned with the independence of CNN's reporters, we'd all be fascinated to hear your views of Fox and other right-wing media outlets. Come on Chrissy....show us how 'fair and balanced' you are.
    1
  685. Bring back 'chain gangs'. Let the seven of them pick up trash along the side of the roads. That would make a good TicTok.
    1
  686. Say any of that out loud in public. All that'll be left of you is a greasy spot on the ground. republican traitor.
    1
  687. THIS! This is how you get mobs to attack our democracy. HAVE THE FCC PULL FOX BROADCAST LICENSE. COMPLAIN TO FOX ADVERTIZERS.
    1
  688. I want to see the pig in a SAW movie.
    1
  689. Fox news. Telling idiots what to think.
    1
  690. Time is up Tucker. Tick tock. Rupert won't live forever. But you tucker, you have MANY years ahead of you. Walk out in public tucker. Without your bodyguards.
    1
  691. I want to send you Christmas cards forever.
    1
  692.  @tu3aa121  It must be so difficult to be you. To fear and hate women because someone tells you to. Such mindless belief. Such a desperate need to be spoon-fed.
    1
  693. How does it feel to be you? To go thru life, afraid of people with vaginas? You poor, cowardly little boy.
    1
  694. I don't like being lied to. So I don't watch fox. And here on Youtube, I don't click on their videos. BUT....these comments are hilarious. ITMFA
    1
  695. BOYCOTT FOX NEWS ADVERTIZERS. BANKRUPT THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE.
    1
  696. And his dumb-as-a-post supporters, who pay taxes, pretend that this is OK with them. YOU MINDLESS MAGA DRONES.
    1
  697. How about you relive election day, when we rubbed your nose in it.
    1
  698. Idiot.
    1
  699. What happens to your catalytic converter after it is stolen? The only reason they steal it is for the valuable metals inside. And the only people who deal in that value are SCRAP METAL YARDS. I think a junior/trainee/rookie police detective would know this. I think that they could easily track what scrap yards are selling these valuable metals. I also think that police are corrupt.
    1
  700. Paper tiger. What is Russia's military, if you take away their nukes? Sure, they'll fight to defend Mother Russia. But, do you think some teenage Ivan is going to fight to take Baltic states? Or anything? For Putin?
    1
  701. It isn't about the message. This is about the messenger. And Megyn Kelly isn't a journalist. She is a propagandist.
    1
  702. They tried to pin the Iowa turret explosion on a 'gay sailor'. They pinned the loss of the Indianapolis on Captain McVeigh.
    1
  703.  @chzomn  ALWAYS GET A CIVILIAN ATTORNEY!!!!! DO NOT TRUST THE USN.
    1
  704. More jokes please....
    1
  705. Are you better off now? Than you were in 2020?
    1
  706. Seriously? "Grow your own food." Roseanne has had that silver-spoon in her mouth WAY TOO LONG. Come down on the 'street' for a change and see how REAL PEOPLE live Roseanne. It's nonsense talk like this that explains why your career, and not your comedy, has been the joke.
    1
  707. What does "Goysplaining" (at 4:02) have to do with anything? What is she trying to say here?
    1
  708. In other words.....STEAL MORE TECHNOLOGY FROM THE WEST.
    1
  709.  @thickpenguin4814  Nope. They live in a state that suppresses individualism. They live in a state that discourages uniqueness. They live in a state that denies the work of one person. They do not innovate. They do not think. They do not work. The 'state' does that. And their state finds it easier to steal from the West.
    1
  710. Right? Or left? Which boot do you prefer to lick first?
    1
  711. The pagers were turned into anti-personal mines. They were sent to KNOWINGLINLY be consumed by civilians. And, with the push of a button, they were detonated against civilians. But the Holocaust happened. So it's OK to do this.
    1
  712. It's not a popularity contest. It's identity politics. And trump supporters identify with an unqualified, uneducated, racist bully.
    1
  713.  real american  is nothing but a Russian bot.
    1
  714. It's a worldwide crisis unlike anything we've ever seen before. And what do republicans do? They cook up a 2-TRILLION-DOLLAR stimulus package.... ...and deliberately exclude democrats from any input. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS "PLAYING POLITICS" WITH OUR LIVES. They don't care if your grandmother dies in wheezing agony. They don't care about anything but themselves. Why do you vote for them???
    1
  715. Republicans stealing from the middle-class to benefit their wealthy friends. Just like every other day of the year.
    1
  716. Trump is the symptom. The republican party is the disease. They nominated him. Voted for him. Backed him. Protected him. For four years. And now....they are wiping their ass with our Constitution and trying to disregard the will of the people. The republican party....it's leadership...and it's rank-and-file.....are the problem with America.
    1
  717. Nobody cares about your superstitious mumbo-jumbo.
    1
  718. Stealing people's land has consequences also.
    1
  719. You stole their land. You bulldozed their homes. You herded them into concentration camps. AND YOU BLAME THEM! Ask yourself this. What would Americans do, if they had to live under Israeli occupation?
    1
  720.  @Scout34111  Still repeating conspiracies and lies. You pathetic man. How can you get thru life with zero skills at critical thinking?
    1
  721. This is going to sound shocking to you. But guns don't solve every problem.
    1
  722. Bootlicker
    1
  723. Flynn sent me here.
    1
  724. Brought to you by the LIAR NETWORK. And you dumb turds keep on believing it. Because you need lies to survive. Truth burns you.
    1
  725. She's a religious zealot. It's like putting a Taliban on the Supreme Court.
    1
  726. The press covers NEWS. Fox is ENTERTAINMENT. And you idiots suck it up like pigs at a trough. You deserve your ignorance as much as you deserved your humiliation last election day.
    1
  727. The 'acute disability' that your son suffers from is a complete lack of conscience. Plus the child has not concept of 'right and wrong'. On top of that, the child has a vast supply of rage that he taps into to commit violent acts. STOP CODDLING. START CORRECTING.
    1
  728. Before the shooting the school administration had a teacher search the kid for a weapon. HOW CAN A PERSON NOT FIND A HAND GUN ON A 6 YEAR OLD? HOW CAN A PERSON MISS THAT? WAS THE TEACHER MENTALLY INCAPACITATED? IS THAT WHY? OR ARE THEY JUST PLAIN STUPID? IS THAT WHY? OR ARE THEY CRIMINALLY INEPT AT DOING THEIR JOB? IS THAT WHY? OR ARE THEY CRIMINALLY LAZY AND DID NOT DO THEIR JOB? IS THAT WHY? . I WANT TO KNOW WHY THESE QUESTIONS ARE NOT BEING ASKED. I WANT TO KNOW WHY THIS PERSON IS NOT IN POLICE CUSTODY. I WANT TO KNOW WHY THIS PERSON STILL HAS A JOB. I WANT TO KNOW WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIRING SUCH A CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT, INEPT AND LAZY PERSON.
    1
  729. "The firearm our son accessed, was secured." THAT SENTENCE WAS WRITTEN BY A LAWYER. The same people who are saying those words are the people who let a mentally unstable six-year-old to get his hands on their gun.
    1
  730. You must miss Tucker. Who do you get to lie to your face?
    1
  731. All republicans are white. The only other criteria are being uneducated and being a racist.
    1
  732.  @v4mmps  How about we do what you say and wait around for the NEXT school shooting.
    1
  733. What did the republicans learn on 6-Jan when they attacked the Capital? They learned that the next time they try to overthrow our democracy, they need to bring more guns. And that's all they learned. Because there are no consequences for treason.
    1
  734. Yes. And I hope you are the 85%. I want to know that money is being taken from your pocket. I want you to suffer.
    1
  735. You give tax breaks to the rich. Suck a meat pole.
    1
  736.  @markpayne369  Good to hear that you are pissed. It is a joy, knowing you are pissed. Stay pissed. But stop drinking it.
    1
  737.  @kentgrewe4608  I got to study your mom.
    1
  738. Suffer!
    1
  739. A school employee was assigned to 'search the child' before the shooting. That person reported finding no gun. HOW DOES AN ADULT NOT FIND A GUN ON A SIX YEAR OLD??? Either the person is mentally incapable of holding a position of responsibility. Or the person is too lazy and did not perform the task. EITHER WAY....THAT PERSON SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. They should NOT be working in a school...or any place of responsibility. They should be held accountable for their failure to perform the simplest of tasks.
    1
  740. The kid IS evil. "I shot the bitch." is what he said after attempting to murder her. His parents will only say that he "suffers from an acute condition".
    1
  741. What a coward.
    1
  742. Have his supporters send him their money.
    1
  743. The Saudi's gave Jared and Ivanka $2billion.
    1
  744. Hang every one of the traitors.
    1
  745. The ONLY way that cop should accept the apology from the republican traitor is when there are prison bars between them.
    1
  746. WHO "SEARCHED" A SIX YEAR OLD FOR A GUN AND COULD NOT FIND IT? That person needs to be charged with criminal negligence. Or criminal stupidity. Or failure to do the assigned task. It isn't just the administrators. It is the lazy fellow teacher who failed to do the simplest of tasks. How lazy do you have to be? How much of a drone are you? How much do you believe that being a civil servant is a ticket to a lifetime of doing nothing?
    1
  747. You work for fox news. You are a conservative republican. Being a stupid son of a bitch goes with the territory.
    1
  748. YES. Bitch and moan. Complain. WHINE WHINE WHINE. We love hearing it. Seeing you suffer in public is delightful. WHINE WHINE WHINE. You pathetic snowflake. You complete hypocrite. Or...as The President Of The United States Of America would say.....'you stupid son of a bitch'.
    1
  749. Why haven't the criminals who run wells Fargo been put in prison?
    1
  750. The people at JP Morgan will get a bonus.
    1
  751. Mitch tried to stop the US/Ukraine arms deal when his orange-pig-god got caught trying to extort false info out of them.
    1
  752. Guns are the problem. Gun freaks, who deny that there is a problem, are the problem.
    1
  753. Stop talking about 'hypocrisy'. There is only one sentence to say. THE REPUBLICANS ARE THE PROBLEM.
    1
  754. Her OnlyFans are Proud Boys.
    1
  755.  @notacommie5415  Do you prefer the right? Or the left? Which boot tastes better when you lick it?
    1
  756. The 'booting companies' are criminal. Towing companies are worse. . God bless and protect these ladies.
    1
  757. Identify the politicians who vote in favor of boot companies. Boot their cars.
    1
  758. Poor baby. Tell us how you hurt? Tell us about how you miss your orange god. Show us your pain. We love seeing it. We love knowing that much your election-ass-whipping makes you suffer. Suffer more for us. Post more of it here. We love knowing how it makes you feel. Poor baby.
    1
  759. Lia Thomas has no shame. And if there are a dozen people who have messed up hormone levels....THEN THEY CAN'T PLAY.
    1
  760. Barr is a liar. Anyone who listens to a word he says, is a fool.
    1
  761. You are a child. And a coward.
    1
  762. Go pound on the door of the local FBI office. Carry a gun while doing it. And scream your post at the top of your lungs while doing so. PLEASE.
    1
  763. YES YES YES YES YES. Hit them where it hurts...money....their god. Make him live in a home that says "LG Refrigerator" on it's side. Best part of this....we get to watch him go thru Bankruptcy Court. That's gonna be a LOT of fun.
    1
  764. No. They are relying on people like you..."The Big Stupid".
    1
  765. 1) Take the Senate. 2) Get rid of the filibuster. 3) Pack the Supreme Court. 4) Establish a 'Presidential Crimes Commission'. 5) Enact every 'voting protection' law imaginable.
    1
  766. I agree with your idea. I disagree with your choice of political party. LEAVE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. From the rank-and-file up to the leadership....is that who you are? Are you one of them? The angry, racist mobs at trump rallies? Is that who you are? Are they your leaders? Those who put party before country at every possible step? Is that who you are? Leave the republican party.
    1
  767. You wrote that. In public. On the internet. You told the whole world that you support that brainless bag of meat. How embarrassing for you.
    1
  768. Typical republican. Are you going to attack our nation's capital because you disagree with the results of an election? Like your fellow republican traitors did on 6-Jan?
    1
  769. FEDERALIZE THIS INVESTIGATION. Don't let anyone from texas anywhere near this investigation. They are not interested in investigating anything. They only want to cover up the truth (that being...texas is a miserable corrupt cesspool filled with corrupt coward cops) KEEP TEXAS OUT OF THE INVESTIGATION. THEY ARE CORRUPT AND COMPLICIT.
    1
  770. 370+ cops were there. Not one apology. Not one word of remorse. Not one act of personal responsibility. I am patient. 370+ all have to live with this. They all have to be alone with their thoughts when they try to sleep at night. They all have to see themselves in the mirror. And every single one of them has a loaded weapon. Wake me when the suicides commence.
    1
  771. The film of them standing around....chatting about what they'd do if THEIR kid were inside. Beyond infuriating. They have given COWARDICE a new meaning. I am shocked that there have not been suicides amongst their ranks.
    1
  772. Yes. Term limits. And...Abolish the Electoral College. ONE MAN. ONE VOTE.
    1
  773. Sickening republican January-6th traitors.
    1
  774. Republican politicians tell republican voters to fear and hate gay people. Ministers in churches say worse things to their 'conservative christian' congregations. AND THIS SUPRISES YOU???
    1
  775. Republican/conservatives shoving their mumbo-jumbo superstitions down America's throat. And their judges, ALL OF WHO LIED AT THEIR CONFIRMATION HEARINGS, happily pissing on people who don't need fairy tales to get thru a day.
    1
  776. YES. Blame trans people. Hate trans people. Fear trans people. That's all we've heard from you and your racist republican party for the past few decades. HATE and FEAR. That's all YOU know.
    1
  777. I pray to Thor. Thor is my god. That makes as much sense as saying 'jesus is my god'.
    1
  778. Take your superstition out of my tax funded classrooms. Just because you are too weak-minded to be able to get thru a day without resorting to your witch-doctor-idiocy, does not mean we should allow our children to be exposed to your pathetic inability to live in the world.
    1
  779. What color is the sky in trump-world? . YOU ARE IN A CULT. It's called "Being A Republican Traitor".
    1
  780. How does it feel? To see your orange god being dragged thru the mud like this? To see him about to be charged with crimes against America? . Does it make you mad? Do you feel like you have been a looser all your life? Do you have a pouting face? Are your tiny hands balled up into fists of impotent rage? . Good....because that is what you deserve. Republican traitors.
    1
  781. Since you seem to know, let me ask: What does Q-semen taste like?
    1
  782.  @ericjaysmusicpromotion957  We are gonna put your kangaroo clown in prison. How does that make you feel? Bootlicker.
    1
  783. You don't pay much attention, do you?
    1
  784. No. Let's just enjoy watching your orange pig get kicked. Republican suffering is something we all enjoy. Let it continue. . And if I were you, I'd get used to it. So many others are waiting to LOCK HIM UP. This humiliation is heading your way again and again and again. Enjoy it...we are.
    1
  785. "your victory"??? What will give you that 'victory'? The Peoples Liberation Army? There's only one good use for a PLA soldier. AS A SANDBAG. Ask the USMC.
    1
  786.  @yaseenmeyer8452  FACE THE TRUTH. MUSLIMS IN AFGHANISTAN PRODUCE MUCH OF THE OPIUM IN THE WORLD.
    1
  787. And, under the taliban, Afghanistan will ONCE AGAIN become one of the world's leading producers of opium. Remember that, the next time they start talking about how they are pious Muslims.
    1
  788.  @bluemarlin8138  Arrrr!
    1
  789. Shop Smart! Shop S Mart!
    1
  790. What will be the fate of the pigeons?
    1
  791. The first rule of Fightcamp is:
    1
  792.  @johnbuchman4854  SCIENCE!
    1
  793. Agreed. Plan on 2022. Spring. Because summer = Hades. Hurricanes actually bring welcome relief from the heat.
    1
  794. 4:36 "They were left to the naval equivalent of yelling at their opponents to 'Get off their lawn"'" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NelBNtNm8l0"
    1
  795. I, for one, welcome our new Satanic overlord.
    1
  796.  @leebronock887  Have you seen "Hope And Glory"?
    1
  797.  @leebronock887  They bought a house in London after the war? That would be a rare find.
    1
  798. Glug-glug Maru
    1
  799.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Fat chance.
    1
  800. I see what you did there.
    1
  801. How many cats? What are their names?
    1
  802. I shall NEVER play another 'ancient naval game' for the rest of my life, without stealing your joke. Thank you Sir.
    1
  803. You published Episode 251 an hour ago. So the fifth anniversary of DryDock is 9 weeks away. I think you should celebrate that.
    1
  804. They also serve, who only float and wait.
    1
  805. They look tasty.
    1
  806. They are tasty.
    1
  807. 3:42
    1
  808. 1:00:36 Irish girls helped with this
    1
  809.  @jonrolfson1686  Well said, Sir.
    1
  810. Interesting, how the availability of copper influenced direct/indirect submarine propulsion. Could you list other national resource scarcities that impacted naval decisions?
    1
  811. 44:59 "being in the same boat" is an idiom. And now it's a pun.
    1
  812. I am retired from a career in data processing. The last 15 years of which were spent with Oracle databases. Data administration is easy. Data analytics is not easy. Many wonderful and expensive tools are available for analytics. They can produce insightful knowledge. They can produce misleading garbage. Try explaining this to a Senior VP of Marketing who is sitting on a warehouse filled with Jar Jar Binks toothbrushes.
    1
  813.  @jaredmiller9021  Agreed. Jared? Bill's son?
    1
  814. I was wrong. I've been told that you CAN see the USS New Jersey from the deck of the Olympia. And I failed to mention. The USS Becuna (Balao-class sub) is tied up right next the to Olympia. Tours are free. So yeah....three-birds, one-stone.
    1
  815. The Olympia is docked on the Delaware River in Philadelphia PA. You can almost see the USS New Jersey, on the other side of the river, from the deck of the Olympia. So, two-birds, one-stone. The Olympia has seen better days. Tour her first. Locally, there is a strong-effort to preserve her. Yay Philly! When in (history-drenched) Philly....visit Independence Hall. We colonials sent you a bit of mail from that address...titled 'The Declaration of Independence'. We also ratified the US Constitution there...a document that changed the course of human-history. You can walk there from the Olympia. Gettysburg is a 2+ hour drive from the Olympia. Best way to describe it to YOU....imagine being in a row boat, on the ocean, at the coordinates of Trafalgar. Land warfare may not be your wheelhouse (ha), but you should not miss the opportunity to visit. I'll arrange transport and tour if you like. One-day-affair. I too, have visited the Kennedy Space Center. The moment I stepped into the display of the 'Saturn-V Center' changed my life. It is engineering on a mind-numbing scale. Somewhat akin to standing next to the A turret of the USS New Jersey (or Missouri). Finally. Jim's Steaks. The Philly Cheese Steak is copied world-wide...often poorly. Come learn why I mention this artery-clogging delight. You can walk there from the Olympia.
    1
  816. It's difficult to listen to a 'side-by-side' comparison of audio on two vids. So my assessment isn't based on discernable differences. BUT...on the topic of audio. I was watching YouTube on my TV and I left the room without turning it off. When I returned it was running an old viddie of yours...a collab on Operation Cerberus(?). You had clock counter text appearing onscreen at various times. That text was accompanied by an audio 'typewriter keyclick' sound as it appeared. That volume of was set way too high.
    1
  817. I think he used a stunt-man/look-alike for that shot.
    1
  818. Or perhaps...a book on the topic. "A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II Hardcover" by Simon Parkin. I'm still waiting for it to arrive, so my recommendation is conditional. What strikes me is that the WRENS, thru sheer repetition of 'playing', must have become the most tactically astute ASW people on earth at the time. They may not have ever been on a ship BUT, in my minds eye, I see them on a bridge...calmly directing the battle.
    1
  819. My question to J. Parshall. I've heard said that a significant impediment to writing histories that rely on the archives of other nations is the 'cost of translation'. Is this true? I imagine that it probably requires translating MANY pages, just to write one sentence of history. Seems to me that a "Go Fund Me" campaign could help. I would be happy to support authors involved in this work. I believe the community of history-readers would agree with me.
    1
  820.  @lazaglider  Your reply qualifies as a 'Drachism'.
    1
  821.  @paulpeterson4216  Bull Durham
    1
  822.  @maxkennedy8075  I think it had more to do with the five main turrets. The blast from those guns will liquefy anyone standing near their barrels when they go BOOM. Their design left the USN with a lot less deck space to satisfy their penchant for 'guns, guns and more guns'. So, with less deck space, they decided to mezzanine the AAA guns.
    1
  823. "Is it 'New Orleans' or 'New Orleans'"? 10:26 It's Naw Leens.
    1
  824. The German Navy had the same problem in WW1. It was called a Kaiser Roll
    1
  825. Well, 40K is a pleasantly surprising tonal shift. Who else finds great amusement, listening to THIS VOICE narrate this topic? Cognitive dissonance.
    1
  826. Ironic critique. I strongly agree with your assessment that you don't need 'eyes glued to the device'. But your ears. They MUST be glued to the device. The writing and editing demand it. Aside from the jokes, every sentence is only nonstop facts. Nothing is superfluous.
    1
  827. "her slumber was disturbed"
    1
  828. About your electro magnetic problems. We call that "The Philadelphia Experiment".
    1
  829. It seems to me that her 'curse' was to pickup survivors.
    1
  830. So, about the North American tour.... I can't seem to find the info on dates and locations of the meet-n-greets. What's the story with the Philly leg of the tour?
    1
  831. 35:35 "So you have, of course, this thing."
    1
  832. Last year I ran a Halloween-war game, ACW Ironclads Vs. Godzilla. Next year...tripods. (Godzilla was a 'bank' for coins. It was only his upper torso...so he appeared to be 'half-submerged' in the water. )
    1
  833.  @andrewharrison7811  Thanks Charles & Andrew. I do not want to spread dis-info.
    1
  834.  @Tevildo  Thank you so much.
    1
  835.  @watcherzero5256  very poetic answer
    1
  836. You should put this in the Pinned post for Q&A.
    1
  837. In regards to the American 'redesign of the 40mm Bofors'. The redesign was NOT driven by the gun's performance. It was to redesigned to improve the 'mass production' of the gun. This is from my memory, so please take it with a grain of salt.
    1
  838.  @fletcher-ashipwithmanysist4282  Thanks for the clarification. I really didn't want to hear about your 'armpit fetish'.
    1
  839. Hint: B is next
    1
  840. I'm not asking for reviews of naval-movies. I'm interested in what the movies got 'right' and 'wrong' in regards to naval details. Tactics. Technology. Techniques.
    1
  841. Nice.
    1
  842. Respectfully. I disagree. See my comment (here) on the topic of BUORD.
    1
  843. To be clear. I am looking at numbers. Numbers of 'systems' (weapons). Number of subsystems (mounts, stabilization, fire-directors, computers). The success numbers are big. The failure numbers are ... not as big. I obviously need to read more about 'Iowa turrets' and 'teat-sucking sycophants'. Any suggestions for my reading list?
    1
  844. My mind wandered at the 37 minute mark. "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkvD7-u7y8"
    1
  845.  @AtomicBabel  The only Latin that I can mis-remember is 'mater fututor'.
    1
  846. A company I worked for also implemented 'The Shiny New System'. It lasted 20 months.
    1
  847. Ted, This is a pretty good idea.
    1
  848. Ask MHV to iconify it.
    1
  849.  @cosmoflanker  Thank you, Sir.
    1
  850. At the 6:00 timestamp there is a drawing. It has seven acronyms printed on it. They are: BLO, ADS, DF, SC, PH, FCS and CT. Can someone please help me understand what they are. Thanks fellow Drachers.
    1
  851.  @robertstone9988  I intend to boycott Quantas. And WiFi. And the entire Southern Hemisphere.
    1
  852. !
    1
  853. 20:29 "sooner or later, somebody would have figured out what the Yamatos actually were" I've read that it wasn't till after the war that they finally concluded that the Yamatos were armed with 18" guns. True? False?
    1
  854.  @treyhelms5282  Isn't it 'Da da deda deda!".
    1
  855. 0:53 "Greetings people of the future. Tell me of your strange and mysterious ways."
    1
  856. Search for 'clip fan'.
    1
  857. In regards to "Japanese Foreign Ministries' bungled declaration of war on the US". My opinion is: There was no 'bungling'. It happened exactly how the Japanese Foreign Ministry wanted it to happen. All the bungling was engineered. They wanted a fig leaf. They wanted deniability. They wanted a sneak attack. I want to believe that they (the Foreign Ministry) lied to the IJN and Yamamoto. I want to believe the stories of Yamamoto's reaction to learning that the attack was 'undeclared'. I feel sorry for the guy. They threw him under the rickshaw.
    1
  858.  @barrypope4358  Welcome to my Christmas card list.
    1
  859. Thank you for the free medical advice. It's worth every penny.
    1
  860. The Patreon Drydock marathons work best for me. I can bang out an entire Panzer unit.
    1
  861. Sir. Buy your beverages off the top shelf. Well distilled alcohol results (for me) in a less pronounced hangover.
    1
  862. I am part of a weekly wargaming group. Two members of the group work in education. One, Kelly, runs the Physics Dept at a local collage. The other, Matt, just retired from a 'Quaker/Friends' secondary school. It is frightening how much his career mirrors this video. Matt, aka 'Latin Boy', began teaching classical languages/history. He' endured the dissolution of the 'classic' department and, by retirement, had moved into 'history'. I told Matt about this video. Here is his reaction: "Devereaux makes some excellent points. It takes me back to why I made the decision to pursue secondary school positions in 2000 rather than university positions. I remember having a discussion back in 97 with several other relatively new Phd's about our prospects. That year there were between 50 and 60 tenure track positions and probably about a hundred other one or two year assistant professorships. There were over 300 people applying for those jobs and if my memory is correct, the best jobs went to people from Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews (and other UK universities and new Phds from Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Brown got most of the others. After the economic downturn in 98, it only got worse. " When it comes to wargames, Matt can be terrible with dice. Kelly is the opposite. I often ask him "What was Satan's first offer?"
    1
  863.  @leonmusk1040  True, paper is flammable. But this was the FILM archive. Acetate is much worse than paper.
    1
  864. I've read that as soon as the news of the Battle of Hampton Roads reached the British Admiralty, they scrapped their 'building plans' for the RN. I've only read this in one place...so I take it with a grain of skeptical-salt. Can someone confirm or refute?
    1
  865. I hear: Kwa-juh-leen
    1
  866. The recent Trafalger series, where you used your age-of-sail ships, confirmed that you gamed. On a recent friday afternoon, I noticed the Corellian CR90 on the shelf behind you. So, I know you sail. But, do you fly?
    1
  867. Good camera work. You captured the 'scale'.
    1
  868. Nobody ever got fired for buying Vickers.
    1
  869. Interesting to hear that you 'know the language'. Your ability to translate is a valuable skill.
    1
  870. Not facetious at all. I don't think there'd be much impact on policy/strategy. They knew about American industrial might, but I believe it's doubtful that ANYONE could have predicted how that might was about to become mobilized. But they knew. By that time, they were committed to their course of action.
    1
  871. Drone: "I'll be back."
    1
  872. 2:10 "the floating barn"
    1
  873. I don't remember the book where I read it. I don't remember the name of the person on the Prince of Wales who observed the explosion on the Hood. I remember what he said. "It was a revelation of horror."
    1
  874. Next week is Patreon DryDock. So, this week he is pacing himself.
    1
  875. My only question. One eyebrow, or two?
    1
  876.  @shebbs1  Yes. He's been cinematic this week. Check out the comments in the current Drydock (134).
    1
  877.  @alexroselle  Well done! I was trying to fit that in, but couldn't come up with a 'C'. Cruising is the perfect fit. Well done!
    1
  878. 811
    1
  879. 17:24 "infinite confused wisdom"
    1
  880. When I heard this I was reminded of Happy Fun Ball. "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M&t=29s"
    1
  881.  @jbigger59  I try to do my own research also, before posing questions. It's not always easy. I've read that the Iowa class also suffered from the same vibration problems. More to the point, I've heard that if you visit an Iowa, you can easily see that the rear-mast is 'reinforced'. Can anyone confirm? You are on the right track. Keep reading.
    1
  882. Wood. Do a viddie on wood. For shipbuilding. What types of trees were used? For what purposes. How were they cultivated, harvested and cured? How were they cut, shaped, assembled and fastened? Because it's something that I 'need to know' in my day-to-day life.
    1
  883. Next year, when you do get around to 'resupply at sea', please go into detail about the IJN capabilities (as mentioned here). I believe the topic is crucial to a better understanding of that campaign.
    1
  884. (without malice) The old music is gone. Let it rest. The new music is here. Get used to it. . Not every detail in the universe is subject to our up-or-down vote.
    1
  885. What does your North American tour schedule look like? Specifically, when and where are the 'meet-n-greets' going to take place?
    1
  886. I've owned 3 Bulldogs. All were knee high....but thick. 60lbs. 27kg. None needed a Great Dane bodyguard. It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.
    1
  887. See ya sunday morning.
    1
  888. ​ @sundiver137  Listen to some of the early 5-Min-Guides. Those that are computer-voiced. Some of the mis-pronunciations produced hilarious results.
    1
  889. I'd like a bit more info on river (naval) logistics in the ACW. Does this mean that they are supplying ONLY naval units. Or supplying both river and land units?
    1
  890. Jesus of Lubeck. Known for turning water into grog.
    1
  891. All that will remain for the main topic for that episode...."War Canoes of the Native Americans"
    1
  892. Agree. The Japanese reacted to the Russians. Not the atom.
    1
  893. 46:00
    1
  894. "a fairly niche opinion"
    1
  895. Nice.
    1
  896. I encourage you to do more in this 'pinata' series.
    1
  897. 34:05 "if you get a steam leak (at 1200psi) you're not going to notice until you wander into it, and it cuts you in half." "If you find yourself alone riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled, for you are in Elysium and you're already dead!!!"
    1
  898. Fire didn't move fast enough. He survived.
    1
  899. TSMC .... without the T, is inevitable. Or, to quote Interstellar, "it's necessary".
    1
  900. I don't think any companies changed their business process to 'adapted' themselves to suit SAP. I know that a business will change it's processes, procedures, or protocols in order to suit SAP.
    1
  901. I enjoyed this. Thank you.
    1
  902. "frivolous liberal-artsy ridiculousness"
    1
  903. May the earth rest lightly upon him.
    1
  904. This is the same way it's done at the Republican National Convention.
    1
  905. They are not athletes. They are cowards, afraid to compete against their own gender. Boycott any coach, any school, any team, any league that even suggests that trans boys can compete against women.
    1
  906. The ONLY thing the average russian wants is a return to the prosperity that oil has brought them. In the USSR they lived like third-world savages. But they had the illusion that they had a first-world military. Now they've gotten used to products from the West. And the rubles needed to buy those products. Well Ivan, those times are over.
    1
  907. When it starts to go REAL BAD for Putin, that will change. Putin will organize fake attacks. He will blow up a few russian schools filled with russian kids. And blame the Ukranians. He will blow up a few railroad bridges. And blame the Ukranians. He will bomb a few russian towns. And blame the Ukranians. And the russian people. Will blame the Ukranians. BECAUSE THEY ARE LAZY COWARDS WHO ALLOW OTHERS TO THINK FOR THEM.
    1
  908. The everyday russian supports putin. MAKE THEM ALL PAY.
    1
  909. Congrats to you Lilly. The knife looks beautiful. And again....I learn new things when I watch your videos. Thank you so much.
    1
  910. Thank you so much! This approach....what worked for me....is the best type of review. Keep up the good work Lilly. It is appreciated.
    1
  911. In the spring I put my Timberlands in the closet. In the fall, the leather is hard as a rock. It takes only a few minutes for them to soften up and fit right. Thanks again Lilly. Another honest and informative review. You have integrity.
    1
  912. I was so happy to see this. Congrats Lilly!!! You deserve this. Keep up the good work.
    1
  913. I just read thru the comments. Everyone says CONGRATS. Everyone says how much you DESERVE it. But most of all, there are SO MANY who mention the QUALITY of your CONTENT and PRODUCTION VALUES. Today, to honor you, I am wearing my shirt that says 'HEY BEAR'.
    1
  914. Great series! Very well done. I looked forward to seeing you post each episode. Tell us....when you 'got back'....how did that first meal taste? That first beer?
    1
  915. Who knew that Admiral Akbar's first name is Tobias?
    1
  916. I agree. A small ax is a superior tool for that task. The ax has much more momentum than a knife because of it's weight. But the weight is also the problem. You need to travel light in a survival situation. Your tools need to be multi-purpose (knife). I agree with your opinion for day-to-day work. And I agree that Lilly is a very good YouTuber. I bet she'd make a good teacher.
    1
  917. Keep up the good work Lilly.
    1
  918. Thanks so much Lilly. Keep up the good work.
    1