Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Drachinifel" channel.

@albundy9597 as for what had the king done for us, that particular one, George The Third? Not a lot positive truth be told, but at the time it was very much "ours is not to reason why". Other kings and queens before and after him had done plenty of important stuff for their country though, AND plenty of others were just as mad, vain and useless, people are and always will be imperfect fallible things whatever their rank haha; 'The Crown' though is a British and in particular English institution and a set of ancient traditions, part of it's history and culture that shouldn't be forgotten or cast aside just because the monarchs are no longer in unquestioned control of life and death throughout the land
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@albundy9597 oh agreed, there's nothing beautiful or noble about senseless bloodshed. I am patriotic to some extent myself, I've no problem with waving the flag on special occasions and so on and do have pride in my country's past achievements and indeed in our military history which my own family was very much part of for several generations, but I wouldn't say I'm a royalist exactly (Parliament runs the country, the kings and queens are basically just figureheads now and frankly that's how it should be, the tradition shouldn't be cast aside though as it IS part of who we are as a people), and I've certainly no desire to somehow bring back the old Empire or stuff like that. Been to Germany myself, loved it there, the Rheinland in particular, beautiful place
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@bkjeong4302 yeah but so long as all the major powers DID think that way and so long as a combination of luck and human error COULD still leave completely outmatched ships having to face 15" guns or bigger, the battleships were still worth having, as I see it. Oh air attack or submarines could bring one down more surely than the guns of a fellow battleship any day of the week, no question, and many of course WERE lost that way, but they or their destroyer & cruiser escorts also could deal with those threats under the right circumstances, and if somehow a German surface raider evaded all that kind of thing and came across a convoy without a battleship of it's own to fight them off they'd be like a wolf in a field of sheep (well unless, granted, the destroyers in the convoy decided to suicidally bravely attack a ship with an order of magnitude more size, armour and firepower which seems to have happened surprisingly often)
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@sarjim4381 you also, actually as an official naval requirement got a daily ration of strong alcohol, usually rum or grog in pretty generous quantities, so that must've helped take the edge off haha
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@sarjim4381 as for the living conditions aboard, wouldn't have been that bad once you got used to it I don't think, everyone after all was quite literally in the same boat after all (groan haha) and it'd certainly make you get on well with the men you spent the time living and working in such close proximity with out of sheer necessity; your crew would basically become your family, to all intents and purposes, and the ship would become your home
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@matthewrobinson4323 to you I'm sure it doesn't. To each their own ☺
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@albundy9597 the ones before him weren't, it's the crown and the throne and the history they stand for that matter not whoever happens to be wearing said crown and sitting on said throne
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GOD SAVE THE KING
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LONG LIVE THE IMPERIUM OF MAN
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Well I don't
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Nguyen Johnathan doesn't mean we despise them
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Nguyen Johnathan well no but he did
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@matthewrobinson4323 Eh? I meant HOLLAND was the Republic being defeated by a NON-republic not the other way round? but ok if you want to get into historic examples fully how about this one, Julius Caesar versus Pompey Magnus and The Senate in Ancient Rome. Corrupt and debauched though they may have been they WERE a damn republic, one of the ORIGINAL republics built on the Greek model, and led into battle by Pompey The Great no less, but defeated by a single all-conquering military man with aristocratic background- and with a vision; a man who wished to sweep away the old order, put a new one in it's place and make himself dictator for life, much like the later kings, kaisers and emperors he would inspire- and who, briefly, SUCCEEDED. Before he did though they probably arrogantly sneered at him for daring to put himself up against their oh-so-mighty republic, believed they could crush Caesar like an insect- they were wrong
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Thirded, yes please :)
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Well as he says she WAS completely worn out by that stage, and far bigger and more famous warships had sadly gone the same way before her and others would after her, just seems to be the way with these things unless they're lucky enough to get purchased by a group with enough money and determination to preserve them. I'm happy to report two other British frigates of the era WERE preserved though :) HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool and HMS Unicorn in Dundee
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@ScienceChap damn right sir, couldn't agree more, keep telling it like it is!
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Although the model of one if her predecessors at 10:18 actually looked very much like the HMS Unicorn from that TinTin book 🙂
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@philstaples8122 agreed and that's 'DOCTOR' Kehinde Andrews remember lol 🙄
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@sarjim4381 as for modern Millenial-types they wouldn't last five minutes back then
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Wasn't a worker supposed to have died trying to build her and his bones ended up sealed in her hull
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@sarjim4381 yep, oh don't get me wrong life at sea in the Royal Navy was no picnic but at least you knew you'd GET food, and it might not have exactly been gourmet fare or a particularly varied diet but at least it was something both officers and ordinary sailors for the most part shared in common (yeah the officers would get better food for a while after a re-supply like fresh meat, bread and vegetables but this would soon go off or run out, then it was back to the salted-meat and ship's biscuit/hard-tack everyone else was already living off). As for the harsh discipline and brutal punishments at least everyone knew the rules, everyone knew exactly where they stood and orders were carried out obediently, quickly, thoroughly and efficiently by all aboard as a result, which tended to be more than you can say for their opposite numbers on the French and Spanish ships lol
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Known as the 'head' in sailor jargon for some reason
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@bennylofgren3208 Merry Christmas to you too. Now kindly shut up and fuck off
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@bennylofgren3208 that wasn't what I was disputing and in what way was I 'ranting'? And I don't need anyone on the Internet telling me what the 'honourable thing to do' is thankyou very much
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@matchesburn wow you're clearly one of THOSE kind of trolls, I give up, done this shit too many times before, not gonna get into one of these stupid months-long arguments that go nowhere again
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@matchesburn it IS that simple, by your logic nothing done by either side in the entire conflict was legal and everyone involved on both sides is a murderer
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@arpitakodagu9854 thanks for the likes and support but don't bother trying mate, he's clearly completely unwilling to accept any point of view that contradicts his own
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@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 oh ok fair enough 🙂
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"Cheese-killin' b*stards you killed my Parmesan. Yoooo CHEESE-KILLIN' B*STARDZ, YAH KILLED ME PARMESAN!!!"
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@kartezparks5505 on her Quarter-Deck then
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@Jon.A.Scholt well she sounds amazing and well sounds like a perfectly good arnament, one relatively heavy gun able to fire in all directions instead of lots of smaller ones only able to fire in one; bet that's how her original inspiration was able to get the better of her British counterparts haha, combined with speed and good seamanship. Sounds a lot like a smaller version of the fortress swivel-cannons at Fort George in fact, a huge fortress built in the Jacobean era and now preserved as a museum I've been to
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Oh absolutely and we were as ever after a major war, completely out of cash so scrapping everything that wasn't on the absolute cutting edge of technology to make a little money back seemed like the best move. Isn't anything new, the only thing to keep HMS Victory herself from the breaker's yard after the age of wood & sail came to an end was public outcry and support
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@Jon.A.Scholt if only real original stuff will do though, tell you what how about Ironclads haha, how's HMS Warrior sound 😁
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@Jon.A.Scholt oh, bollocks, sorry, scratch that, just looked it up, they used models for the wide-shots and a combination of mock-ups and HMS Victory for the close-ups, had just assumed since the other ships on that show were real that one was too
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@Jon.A.Scholt so yeah let's trade old warships shall we lol. No other Ships Of The Line but we do have a couple of preserved frigates of our own as well
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@Jon.A.Scholt well we have hardly any more recent ships ourselves, all our big battleships are gone for example, closest thing we have left is the cruiser HMS Belfast (well unless you count the British-built Japanese pre-dreadnought Misaka)
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@konac6610 where'd you hear that?
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@philstaples8122 tell that to Kehinde Andrews 😑
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@misterthegeoff9767 maybe she didn't but she knew the British people WOULD
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@r.gilman4261 no, it wouldn't have survived those torpedo hits, not dead-on direct hits from three all on one side, I'm not questioning that. But show me a ship of any size that could possibly have actually ever been involved in that battle, WW2-vintage OR NOT, that actually WOULD HAVE
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