Comments by "Not shaped for sportive tricks" (@notshapedforsportivetricks2912) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1.  @allenjones5525  Dear Lord, you're right. And as I recall, there was a german surface raider called Pinguin! The dastardly swine ..., I mean fowl. It's all so obvious.
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  2. Not exactly an HoS, but what about Alexander Kolchak? He held his job longer than did Doenitz.
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  3. The Terror of Tobermory? I thought that that was Great Uncle Bulgaria.
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  4.  @z3r0_35  Weeelll, yes and no. You're quite right that the early model Seafires were pretty dire and even the later marks couldn't match the versatility of the Martlet or Corsair (which itself was fairly ropey in the ealy version, which is why it were shunted off to the Marines & FAA). So while the Seafire might have started as a stop-gap, it didn't say that way and gave good service in an admittedly limited role. Once you got to the Mk XV with the Griffon engine and added a drop tank for some extra range, it was quite a decent performer and was even in action during the Korean War.
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  5. Maybe a Jaffa Cake as well. Those canucks are tough negotiators.
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  6. Think R101.
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  7. A Rum Ration on the Havana shipyard could be an interesting diversion.
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  8. It means something like cheeky or insolent; as in Blackadder (II)'s comment ... "a damned saucey wench whould be a fine thing"
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  9. I always thought that Horton's boats ran tha gauntlet through the Skagerrak. The E-class boats were pretty big.
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  10. It's partly a dynastic thing and partly a search for legitimacy, I suspect. The Plantagenets were fairly long lasting, hence the flood of Edwards. The Hannoerians had four Georges in a row. George VI, by contrast chose his regnal name to reinforce the link to his father following the embarrasing interruption Edward VIII.
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  11.  @Dave_Sisson  Umm, usually, but not in this case. The british (bless their cotton socks) maintain three totally independent legal structures within the UK. Thus english law is applicable only to England and Wales, while scottish law (which like many scottish institutions) maintained its existence after the Act of Union in 1707) applies only to Scotland, and Northern Irish law applies only to the six counties of Northern Island following the partition of the Kingdom of Ireland in 1921. The law which I mentioned which classifies the bagpipes as weapons is an english law, having effect only in England and Wales, not in Scotland. That said, the scots apparently banned the wearing of kilts after the '45; though that law fell into disuse after George IV wore one during a tour of Scotland in, I think, 1824. The british never do anything simply.
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  12. I visited Warrior almost 30 years ago and was fascinated by the 110 pounders, even if they were made of fibreglass. I could never work ouy how the breech closed as you could look out through the hole in the brech all the way through to the end of the muzzle. I must ask our host one day.
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  13. Drach could also have used ... "Which in this war was English, not French". (Just threw that in to celebrate Bastille Day.)
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  14. Worth it just to see a house-trained Lancaster.
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  15. That must be in a Wylie Coyote/Roadrunner script somwehere.
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  16. Highly Polished Turd started it, Sir.
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  17. The Royal Australian Navy definitely have a "Hold my beer ..." tradition.
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  18. Speaking as a filthy royalist, I also have read Frazer's biography and Old Noll didn't come out of it looking THAT good. And I'm not even irish. 😉
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  19. If its 1:1 scale, it isn't a scale model, is it? You're a very stupid boy, Thompkinson. Get rid of it immediately.
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  20. If an admiral has his flag on a frigate, something has gone horribly wrong somewhere.
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  21. ​ @RedXlV  Hmmm. I think that the Luftwaffe might have had something to say about that course if action.
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  22.  @sharlin648  More arrogant than de Gaulle??? Mon Dieu!
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  23. I wouldn't entirely rule out a boarding action.
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  24. Nowadays penicillin clears that right up.
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  25. Wunderbar! I've been hanging out for another video on my favourite period of naval design. Many thanks, Drach. Now on to the Marine Nationale!
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  26. They could have been psychic.
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  27. Snap!
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  28. When Drach was reading out the list of RN overseas bases, was anyone else reminded of Yakko's "Counties of the World"?
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  29. 01:55 on alternative fuels; in the movie "Around the World in 80 Days", Phileas Fogg was able to use his own ship as fuel for his own ship. Which coicidentally also relates to the question on cross-polliation of modes of transport, as the Marx Brothers had exactly the same idea in "Go West".
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  30. Congratulations, Se No. It IS a bit like climbing Everest, especially when you encounter one of those five hour monsters (Drach's equivalent of the Abominable Snowman). Now you can start on the livestreams!
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  31. Never mind Drach, it's your content that sucjs us in, not the intro music. Accompany yourself on the kazoo, for all we care.
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  32. 12" dynamite guns in a Gattling format. Yes, Jackie. DO IT!
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  33. To be fair, she's part of a class that includes USS Iowa-clickbait, IJN Yamato-clickbait and KMS Bismarck-clickbait.
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  34. And I understand that King Charles is thinking of setting up a military unit to be called the Brigade of Guards. Can't wait to see their uniforms.
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  35. Or indeed, to razor blades.
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  36. Yes. Originally a french term, I believe. Of course a chanticleer isn't as good as a chocolate eclaire, but better than nothing. 😊
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  37. During the joint investigarion into the loss of USS Frank E Evans after the Evans managed to get herself t-boned by HMAS Melbourne, an Australian offi er was giving evidence about what he was doing on Melborne's flight deck at the time of the collision. He explained that it was part of his job to strike down US aircraft. The americans were horrified at this until it was explained to them that inn this case, US meant unserviceable and that strike down meant to remove fo the hangar.
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  38. I'm certain that Drach will make a fine moderator, but I think that the institute missed a golden opportunity by not inviting Taylor Swift instead. Apart from the enormous boost in publicity for the institute, they could have had Tay-Tay on Leyte at Eigh-tay. I'll see myself out.
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  39. A sub-chaser is a biat that likes to chase submarines but isn't fast enough to catch one. Sort of a sea-going cocker spaniel.
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  40. How could they have scrapped Caliope in 1951? Sheer barbarism.
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  41. Never underestimate an irritated seagull. The bugger will pinch your chips straight out of your fingers if you give it an excuse.
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  42. The hybrid battleship/destroyer is the way to go. Imagine the Cossack or the Johnston with a couple of 15" guns. (I was going to be REALLY silly and suggest a battleship/submarine... then I remembered HMS M1.) 😉
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  43. That's nothing. YouTube is apparently convinced that I have a fascination for bloody otters! I ask you ...
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  44. I'll see your Project Orion an raise you a Project Pluto. Nothing like a battleship armed with multi-warhead nuclear powered cruise missiles spewing radioactive fallout in their wake to impress the neighbours.
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  45. 'Tis but a flesh wound.- HMS Warspite.
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  46. A great idea, but how could any human being hope to keep up with his output?
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  47. MREs = Meals Rejected by Everone.
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  48. Sitting under a tree somewhere in Bedfordshire sounds fairly safe; assuming we're limiting the discussion to naval engagements.
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  49. Regarding reducing a ship's draught to allow it to enter shallow waters, C. S. Forrester described the process (known as a "camel") in one of his Hornblower stories. In the story "The Commodore", Forrester sends Hornblower to the Baltic in 1812 (presumably so he doesn't have to send him up the Potomac to burn Washington) in charge of a small squadton to assist the russians against Bonaparte. In one episode, he fills a couple of lighters with water and then lashes them to each side of a bomb ketch. The water is then pumped out of the lighters, which raises the ketch sufficiently to be able to cross the bar of a river and attack french shipping. I don't know if this ever worked in reality, but Forrester usually did a good job on his research.
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  50. Almost true, except that King George's regnal number was VI, not V. Oh, and as the King was an ex-sailor who (among other things) fought at Jutland, I doubt that he needed to have naval rhyming slang explained to him.
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