Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "History Buffs" channel.

  1. Zuzana Bicikova true but he's also right about the older audiences thing, this movie just didn't attract enough younger viewers despite being probably the best naval war movie ever made. Sodding millenials
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  2. Rainbow six seige IQ no, your ancestors, not you yourselves won a protracted and bloody conflict and then every generation of 'Muricans SINCE that one refused to shut up ABOUT winning it for the next 200 years despite no-one outside your borders giving a shit, you don't hear us constantly telling the French we beat THEIR arses or the Russians saying it to the Germans or, for that matter the Chinese or Vietnamese saying it to YOU. Stereotypes exist for a reason and this is a major part of why the rest of the modern world views America as the arrogant loud-mouth that thinks nothing can touch it and doesn't really care what anyone else thinks of it
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  3. ethan hatcher what you mean the Sentry Bot from Fallout 4? :P
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  4. Visible Jeff yes but with upper-class British upbringing. He was known to have said "being born in a stable does not make one a horse"
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  5. L. Wolf yeah I love watching that too :)
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  6. Major Koenisch 'You are damn dogs' but that probably doesn't quite cover it
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  7. Imperator well Napoleon WAS known for a loud voice and mercurial temper, everything you see is according to the real history
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  8. SonofaGlitch if only the rest of your country was this well educated and level-headed on the subject there'd be far less stupid arguments about all this. Couldn't agree more mate, finally one of you who really gets it
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  9. Johnny Thunder historically I agree with you, at the end of the day the 'Jonathans' were no real threat to England whereas Napoleon was looking for any chance to invade, no matter how fleeting and had a massive force ready and waiting to do just that; however in the cinema the French have not really been shown as any great threat to Britain at any time especially at sea, from Nelson to Hood and Drake, Hornblower and Killegrew to Lucky Jack they're never really shown in what public perception there is of the era as being superior to the British, and the British never the underdogs; the French or Spanish navies fighting the Royal Navy would not, as far as modern audiences without any great knowledge of history are concerned provide anywhere near the suspense and controversy that a Britain versus America battle would make for, it's my view that instead of playing it safe they should've went for it and made them American, as whether they'd love or hate it you KNOW that'd get people wanting to see it and made the movie far more money
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  10. Mr Nobody makes sign of the Aquila oh no not at all ;-)
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  11. Well if they DO ever decide to scrap her, even though even us British have no desire to see that happen I suggest we steal her and HMS Victory and have a re-match before they can :P
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  12. Ernest Spencer Victory may be in dry dock but I bet with new masts and some fresh copper plating underneath she'd be good to go once again, they've kept her pretty damn well-maintained and back in the day they actually used to sail her out on special occasions for the navy
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  13. David McConville it was a different time with different countries run by different people. Nobody ever said Britain or it's Empire were perfect champions of light, freedom or democracy. They certainly helped introduce the ideas of them to a lot of the world though, along with most of the inventions allowing those ideas to develop and the free speech to discuss doing so in the first place
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  14. Only he has a curved sword MADE OUT OF a bigger, heavier straight Norse one, being smaller and weaker and not being used to that kind of weapon he has trouble with it in it's original form but once turned into what's basically an Arab Scimitar he can use it no problem, makes total sense to me
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  15. Gunboat diplomacy haha
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  16. Кира Терещенко you do realise Russia used to have an empire with the exact same policies right, one only made bigger and badder with a different face when the Soviets took over? I suppose if you now disagree with this comment and reply to it accordingly though that doesn't count as apologising for imperialism because it's only the British who have ever been guilty of it
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  17. rancper the Islamic empires TRIED to bring their version of 'civilisation' to Europe by force on many occasions and nearly succeeded, fortunately they were held off in northern Spain at great cost, if they'd won there would BE no modern Europe and therefore no world as we know it today. Modern English language and mathematics do take influence from Islamic ones it's true but they ALSO have considerable influence from an eclectic mix of Roman, Viking, Anglo-Saxon, French and German sources as well as many other lesser ones, just as the British THEMSELVES as we are today are descended from a mixed bag of other country's influences and races, primarily European of course but also many of them from parts of our former Empire
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  18. Ernest Spencer yep, historic landmarks 'disappearing' due to modern land-development is an all-too-common occurrence even to this day, the battlefield at Waterloo no longer has most of Wellington's ridge line because the Dutch, completely ignoring their frankly hopeless performance during the majority of that battle decided to bulldoze it in order to build a massive and rather vulgar lion statue there instead in honour of the valiant troops from the Netherlands who were of course the REAL reason that battle was won...
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  19. In Birmingham and London around the same time, if you're a Peaky Blinder you somehow make a flat-cap, grey suit and an old gun from WW1 into the most badass thing anyone's ever seen. That, apparently, is the British way
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  20. "In an almost Communist way"- see what you did there lol
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  21. Thibaud Latil-Nicolas well the French are briefly shown at the end and there's a French secondary character but their contribution to the 'American' victory is certainly downplayed and overlooked
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  22. jay'sup pretty sure I'm sensing some anti-British feeling here...
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  23. Ernest Spencer well in all seriousness I'd be shocked if she was, it's bad enough when one of these grand old tall-ships bites the bucket UNEXPECTEDLY like the poor old Cutty Sark Clipper Ship did, let alone when governments decide because they're too expensive to maintain or something that the only solution is getting rid of them altogether
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  24. Neither side kicked EITHER'S arse, it was a drawn-out failure for BOTH sides, our efforts mostly failed at sea and yours mostly failed on land, neither of us achieved our war-aims or really, ANYTHING at all except a lot of dead people on both sides, a burnt White House and a lot of embittered and disillusioned Canadians, US settlers and Native Americans; basically it was all just a big prelude to the far more dramatic upheavals in Europe just like 1776 before it- trust me if our geographic positions were reversed you'd forget that war and America altogether pretty quickly too with all that going on
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  25. True enough but it IS Tomcats in World War Two haha, you're not really supposed to take it too seriously
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  26. daniel Goodson don't forget to drain some engine oil from your car into a bowl and then waft it around the house, and also make sure no-one living there showers or bathes for a few weeks beforehand lol, THEN you get the proper atmosphere :p
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  27.  @TawnyRain2332  thought it had to be something like that
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  28. MrNegativecreep07 yeah pretty sure that's 'for dramatic effect' again and he'd actually have been yelling and gesturing
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  29. And of course, if you want the real historically-accurate ultimate British gangsters, just Google the Kray Brothers
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  30. I went back and re-watched that 'who started the war' scene three times, that's one of the most darkly funny things I've ever seen in a movie XD I can, sadly enough see soldiers from opposing sides having that exact same exchange if they ended up like that in far too many another conflict through the centuries though
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  31. Aaaaand here we go again. Well if any country wants to try now, in the modern day they can feel free, due to economic troubles our navy's presently the smallest and weakest on paper that it's yet been (although that should change soon so better hurry up); Argentina in particular can tell you it's probably not gonna be as easy as you think it's going to be though. In the more than four hundred years since Great Britain as a united nation was formed, and by this I mean the home islands not the empire, no foreign power has ever succeeded in invading and conquering her, and yet during that time our Royal Navy has rarely been the biggest numerically nor the strongest on paper in the world- although the skill, discipline and professionalism of it's crews has never wavered, and they above all else, along with an equally small yet capable and dependable army and air force are what has kept our island home safe and secure, and remaining so to this day
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  32. Logical Juan see my reply to the other 'came back' comment lol
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  33. Wildtrexkid probably true lol. The last (original) episode, Sharpe's Waterloo is almost as good as this I'd say, the second best recreation of the battle I've seen. And he doesn't even die in it :-D
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  34. j0nnyism I dunno, the box magazine and bolt action would definitely have sped up the reloading between volleys
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  35. Terry Shulky that and the combination of a box magazine with a nice, smooth bolt action and the advent of smokeless powder all made the Lee Enfield series a far more effective overall weapon system, lower individual round stopping-power or not
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  36. Alfie Nokes that and I'm pretty sure that song wouldn't even be written for about 70 years lol
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  37. Retardo Mcqueen for most of the world, it definitely, indisputably was. And if it hadn't been us it'd just have been either France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Japan or even the United States instead
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  38. jay'sup I suppose no other nation on Earth has ever done those things while conquering other peoples and colonising their lands
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  39. Jack the Gestapo sounds fantastic, throw in some salt, vinegar and bread & butter and I'll happily trade houses with you lol
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  40. burtlangoustine1 only women, disabled people, kids and the elderly do that here actually, men whiz standin' up pretty much everywhere :)
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  41. MrChiangching well they DID kill over one thousand of our soldiers, they were invading the Zulu's country at the time of course though, so it could be argued that BOTH had reasons to do just that
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  42. LordVader1094 yeah but the film wasn't a big box office success, and I reckon the controversy from hype of an upcoming modern blockbuster movie pitting the British against the Americans, two of the leading world powers and the main voices of the English-speaking world, especially given how much anger 'The Patriot' before it sparked outside America, would've gotten far more people in seats to see it, made more headlines and social media comment streams, generally gotten more attention; as it is it flew under the radar and in my opinion it's because of the French no longer being considered the major threat they were at the time. To you and me they make historical sense sure, but to the vast majority of the modern, younger movie-going public there simply isn't the suspense there
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  43. 431 people are clearly 'muricans :)
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  44. Dalle Smalhals just Das Boot lol
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  45. Triblow _ it's only the theatrical version though, director's cut and miniseries versions are considerably longer
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  46.  @MiltonFindley  bahaha he should've been there when you were watching it, would've given you some extra immersion (pun intended)
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  47. Mr Nobody good for you and damn right :) read all the books?
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  48. Mr Nobody is the new one out yet? Have read up to Salvation's Reach myself. And on and off, never been very good at it and I don't have a great memory, is a pretty complex game after all and tend to get all the rules mixed up, got sick of other players taking advantage of that so don't play it much any more. Pretty good at the video games though, the Dawn Of War series in particular and LOVE collecting and painting the models themselves, always have, been doing so since the early '90's and am quite good at it if I say so myself :) as for which armies in 40K mostly Space Marines, Ultramarines in particular (started out with them like most people and decided to stick with 'em) but I've started collecting Guard models more recently; my dream's to actually create the complete Tanith First regiment in real life someday (then most likely get my camo-cloaked arse kicked trying to actually play a big game with 'em lol). I also have some Ork stuff too as I love how customisable they are :D something I also wanna try at some point is improvising a Squat army as I found the idea of them interesting and didn't like the fact GW basically killed them off. Anyway how about yourself?
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  49. Mr Nobody oh I've no intention of going official with it, I like to customise my own models :) there's other companies that make unofficial parts like camo cloaks that'll fit GW's own stuff and sell them as seperate parts. What official Tanith models there are I'll probably still use to some extent mind although I thought their version of my namesake was a little lacking so definitely gonna customise my own Gaunt
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  50. Harry Palmer it has EVERYTHING to do with it and I know a lot more than the bloody basics pal, the only reason the call for civilian boats went out in the first place was due to the large ships not being able to do the job because they couldn't go right up to the beaches and could only load up with men either from the mole or from smaller boats shuttling the men out to them, which led to too few men at too great an amount of time expended getting them per ship; and every time those ships did do that they immediately became a big fat sitting duck for every Stuka in the sky; small, fast moving boats ferrying men right from the beaches to ships already out in the channel, where they at least could move and had a chance of fighting off or escaping attack was a far better way to do it; yes the majority of men got out through going along the mole and the other piers straight on to the ships but if they'd been put out of action the small boats would still be there as a back-up option, and as it was greatly added to the number safely rescued
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  51. Harry Palmer and yes I know they largely had navy crews or at least a member of the navy aboard to oversee things but there were still plenty of civilians who did go to help including, yes a lot of fishermen, after all they knew their own boats and how to handle them far better than anyone new to them ever would
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  52. Well I'm actually from Sheffield, 'PAL', my mother was from London and my father from Glasgow, and I'm a working-class 32-year-old British-as-it-gets car mechanic who will talk or type however the hell he wants thankyou very much, and who just happens to also read a lot of actual BOOKS in his spare time especially about military history, a subject I love and know well; and if you think I give a flying steamy monkey-fuck about you, your grammar, MY grammar or anyone else's or indeed whether you actually read what I'm typing you're an even bigger shithead then you seem, although the very fact you bothered to say all that about something you'd supposedly ignored kinda shows you did, found I was right and you were wrong, and resorted to pointlessly attacking me instead of calm discussion and indeed, DEBATE. The unnecessary insult is always the first and last resort of the mentally-challenged bully in a school playground, somewhere you should definitely go back to as you clearly haven't grown up enough to talk rationally with the adults yet
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  53. Great stuff, keep up the good work! as a future videos suggestion, and keeping with the theme of naval history how about 'The Battle Of The River Plate'? :)
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  54. My surname is interestingly the same as yours by the way, wonder if we're related
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  55. Stoatwarbler Mangrove hmmm, what shall I take my historical education from, an American TV show or EVERY BOOK ON THE SUBJECT EVER WRITTEN
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  56.  @merpding6069  you were the one who first responded not him
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  57. condeguga well he, or rather his marshals and generals, very nearly DID and certainly would have if it wasn't for the British and Wellington in particular
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  58. That is not a movie you should watch if you're going to try and take it seriously lol
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  59. General x Productions true. A possible footnote of that though is that it's said that Roman survivors ended up settling in western China, the first Europeans ever to do so, and sure enough to this day there's a Chinese village whose people have distinctly Caucasian features
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  60. Where are YOU from may I ask, or more specifically of what descent is your nationality? I'm guessing India from the above? if so there would BE no India as we know it without the repeated invasions and eventual conquering by the British and their subsequent domination and imperial colonization of the landmass it is situated upon, and more importantly the people living there; this had numerous results, both good and very, very bad ramifications throughout the long history of the 'Raj' as I'm sure you're very aware, ones that still affect India to this day in fact, and I won't go into them in detail here as this comment is going to be long enough as it is haha; my point is that if you're going to start reacting like that maybe, before ending up, as you do sounding rather superior and holier-than-thou you should consider your own (presumed ancestral) historical position, due to the undeniable fact that India's entire history as a nation was being heavily influenced by outsiders and Great Britain in particular centuries before 1947, and that the above 'statement' that this whole stupid Youtube 'comment war' was somehow started by was clearly referencing overall national identities as we commonly think of them far more than the landmasses they're sitting on or what they were in ancient times; in other words think before you type please. While I'm here I feel I should also add the aforementioned 'statement' was clearly not intended to be politically intelligent or sensitive on any serious level but simply a rather poor and predictable attempt to get a few laughs, and I'm only responding to you with such seriousness due to your own taking of it so seriously.
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  61. Zooumberg we do not talk about that movie, I did not see that movie, there is no second movie, that movie did not happen. Clear? Lol
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  62. godzillavkk yeah they are really but the second one could definitely have been a lot better
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  63. Bobby Wolfe if this movie was real we all know Tom Hanks, Ben Affleck, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Brad Pitt won World War Two by themselves lol
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  64. MrBanausos not necessarily, I'm 33 and my father was in the RAF in the 50's and 60's, and my grandfathers and great grandfathers on both my mother's and father's sides fought in the second and first world wars respectively, with my mother's father going on to fight in Korea as well
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  65. MrBanausos actually they're dying sooner because of that AND the fact it's a 1984-style humanitarian nightmare of a country, a dystopian neo-Communist hellhole where if you have any political or religious beliefs that clash with those of the party you can be arrested and forced to admit to trumped-up charges in TV show-trials before going to the Chinese equivalent of a Soviet gulag- IF you're lucky, if you're NOT you simply disappear in the middle of the night and the next day your organs appear for sale on the black market. But I digress :)
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  66. MrBanausos and? Men aren't like women in terms of their reproductive organs no longer working after a certain time, while certainly less common with older males they technically can have children their entire lives so long as their testicals can still produce sperm
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  67. MrBanausos well he wasn't 30 then but he also certainly wouldn't have to be 'at least 20' to be an officer there, that would be considered quite old for say a luitenant, and aristocratic families would often pay to have their offspring given commissions back then so he probably wouldn't have had to bother with much training in fact
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  68. NobleKorhedron and a good thing too or I wouldn't be here :)
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  69. Vitorruy1 who was that in reply to
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  70. Well it doesn't and he's not suggesting it does, he was just making a joke about Hitler and his 'reaction' to it
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  71. Alexandru von Carstein Zarovich Kantakouzenos yup unfortunately
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  72. ProcolHarum1967 yeah but the severity of the punishment was generally up to the judge so that wasn't always the case
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  73. Eexpers there's a reason no-one gave a shit back in the seventies until this happened and they nearly died though, drama is drama, humans need it on some level to avoid becoming bored with an experience and most of the time successful space flights and operations pass without incidents dramatic enough to BE memorable, and even when they DO happen it rarely sticks in the mind for long because they're dealt with calmly and professionally by those involved just like Apollo 13, to a non-scientific-minded man or woman in the street "about as exciting as taking a trip to Pittsburg". Now I know, you know and Nick knows full well that for all their calm, collected ways of dealing with it there's plenty of interest going on, but the fact is to someone who's not aware of any part of the situation other than what they're seeing on their TV, phone or computer screens it's BORING AS HELL a good 90% of the time, just people floating around and talking without any real 'action' to keep them invested, then and now
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  74. Mr Nobody which part?
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  75. Full on Patriot I don't even know what the original comment was anymore mate, if I was annoyed at the time I'm not anymore, no worries. And which actor would this be then?
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  76. Full on Patriot cool
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  77. Mr Nobody cool! And yeah I've seen them but they're not exactly cheap haha
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  78.  @mrnobody9193  hiya if you're still on here and reading these haha, sorry for stopping replying there but never saw your last one, and well ok that sounds cool and I do love Battletech Mechwarrior stuff, they are pretty awesome. Dunno if you like video games but I can recommend an old early 90's one I happen to have the official strategy guide for 😁
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  79.  @samuel10125  well not all of us but even when some of us DO still say stuff along those lines it is at least a good-natured humorous thing in our case, Blackadder or Monty Python-style, and not taken to extremes or seated in any real deep-seated disrespect or contempt, at least not in my case or in that of anyone I know; point taken though and well since I made the above comment I've actually made some American friends and talked with them about all this and changed my mind a bit about them, so sorry for any offence caused before. The whole "we saved your asses in WW2" or "we kicked your asses twice" thing IS still annoying though lol
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  80. Adrian Muñoz Screw you you disrespectful piece of shit
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  81. Harry Palmer they both had great importance, those big ships were the primary targets of the German's attack as were the few big, deep piers and moles sufficient for embarking onto them, and even if not they were nowhere near sufficient to get all the men away that were rescued; the 'little ships' were important solely BECAUSE of their shallow draft allowing them to get so close, although needless to say their small size meant they had to make more trips and deliver their loads of men to bigger ships waiting further out
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  82. RogueDragon05 couldn't agree more
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  83. Did you know that during the 1982 Falklands War an Argentinian patrol vessel was taken as a prize of war by the Royal Navy? as far as I know that's the last time to date that's happened
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  84. Not always, some were but they varied more in quality
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  85. robertnordsieck true but you didn't need to be in the KGL if you were of Anglo-German ancestry, there were plenty of British soldiers in ordinary line regiments of mixed heritage
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  86. harbl99 that theme was amazing
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  87. TheLordDynamic there seemed to be a German touch there to me but maybe not everyone hears it?
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  88. Don't you know?! the REAL reason we haven't gone back is because of the super-fast rock-spiders
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  89. Sam Lucas that's because the Spanish air force still had large numbers of German aircraft, albeit with Merlin engines and other minor differences that could pass for Heinkels and Messerschmidts
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  90. Bruce Tucker yup, what he said lol (didn't see you'd already said it)
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  91.  @ShahidKhan-ke8fe  damn right but don't expect a sensible response to that or any response at all. People with an anti-British agenda can never see past their own stereotyping of us and never will
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  92. So the ancient Germans were basically white Zulus lol
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  93. Do you think Crozier survived to the bitter end and was the 'last man standing' then?
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  94. Would you rather they'd used models, or CGI had it been made in the modern day, or actually gotten one of the few remaining original Mitsubishi A6M2's and just kept duplicating the image or something like that? there simply weren't enough original aircraft left in safe flying condition so this was the next best thing, it's the same with Battle Of Britain
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  95. SantomPh "yeah and look what happened to that" (I'm British, I'm allowed to say this stuff 😂)
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  96. Task Don every British soldier carried a good solid enamel mug during the second world war (including at least three of my relatives)
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  97. No ships lost and only three or four deaths? Think that's the old adage of 'history is written by the victors' in action there
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  98. I just want him to get on with doing proper history-based movie and TV show reviews, these would certainly be high on my list though
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  99. 'The Final Countdown', is a thoroughly bizarre cult classic about the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier accidentally travelling through time with Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas in tow, complete nonsense lol but fun nonsense and the 80's military hardware being showcased is awesome to watch. The music he plays is from 'Starship Troopers'
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  100. Your Every Day Joe Blogg he might not have reviewed it but he has done a couple of videos discussing it
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  101. Macumazahn I'd say he, like myself as a fellow Brit (from Yorkshire in Northern England in my case), has a relatively fair and unbiased view, being not only a century and a half removed from it but from what was a neutral country in that war (one of the few times we HAVE been in a major conflict from start to finish without any direct military involvement, and given it would only have made everything even WORSE if we had really stuck our noses in you're welcome for that on BOTH sides). I really do see merit from both points of view, I beleive there were genuinely good and honourable soldiers and bloodthirsty murderers and criminals on BOTH sides and everything in between, that neither side was wholly good OR evil, that it's a tragedy so many had to die with that being the case; and yes we do indeed find it remarkable that you've since had a relatively war-free 150 years, at least at home, guess it was enough to get it out of your systems, definitely something to at least ponder ourselves too in Britain, in Europe and in the world in general
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  102. Frankly I think comparing it to the history channel would be way more harsh than anything he says here
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