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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. My surname is interestingly the same as yours by the way, wonder if we're related
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  5. 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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  6.  @merpding6069  you were the one who first responded not him
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  7. 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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  8. That is not a movie you should watch if you're going to try and take it seriously lol
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. godzillavkk yeah they are really but the second one could definitely have been a lot better
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. NobleKorhedron and a good thing too or I wouldn't be here :)
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  19. Vitorruy1 who was that in reply to
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  20. 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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  21. Alexandru von Carstein Zarovich Kantakouzenos yup unfortunately
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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. Mr Nobody which part?
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  25. 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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  26. Full on Patriot cool
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  27. Mr Nobody cool! And yeah I've seen them but they're not exactly cheap haha
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  28.  @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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  29.  @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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  30. Adrian Muñoz Screw you you disrespectful piece of shit
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  31. 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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  32. RogueDragon05 couldn't agree more
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  33. 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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  34. Not always, some were but they varied more in quality
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  35. 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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  36. harbl99 that theme was amazing
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  37. TheLordDynamic there seemed to be a German touch there to me but maybe not everyone hears it?
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  38. Don't you know?! the REAL reason we haven't gone back is because of the super-fast rock-spiders
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  39. 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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  40. Bruce Tucker yup, what he said lol (didn't see you'd already said it)
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  41.  @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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  42. So the ancient Germans were basically white Zulus lol
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  43. Do you think Crozier survived to the bitter end and was the 'last man standing' then?
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  44. 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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  45. SantomPh "yeah and look what happened to that" (I'm British, I'm allowed to say this stuff 😂)
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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. '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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  50. 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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