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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