Comments by "GWTPict GWTPict" (@gwtpictgwtpict4214) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. We've always been batshit crazy, we just hide it well under a smooth, suave, tea drinking veneer of respectability. It's how we got away with the Empire for so long. For a modern example of British batshit craziness I give you cheese rolling. Been going on for hundreds of years, generally happens annually though modern Health & safety types do try and stop it now and then. Held at Coopers Hill in Gloucester which is nice and steep. A 7 to 10lb round of Double Gloucester cheese is released down the hill with a one second head start before the competitors can chase it. In theory you can win by catching the cheese, though as it can reach 70mph that doesn't happen, so the winner is the first person to cross the finishing line after the cheese. Prize is the cheese. Note, the hill is too steep to run down, you will fall over and finish your run bouncing arse over tit down the hill. Much beer will be drunk post the cheese rolling, possibly a fair amount before, including the competitors. Bruises, contusions and friction burns are expected, broken bones, concussions etc also happen. Don't think anyone has actually died though. To finish, a quote from the Wikipedia article and a link, 'Canadian competitor Delaney Irving won the ladies race in 2023, despite finishing unconscious, and only learning of her victory in the medical enclosure.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdKRx30s6sk Batshit crazy enough for you? 🙂 ETA youtube link.
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  2. Ok, this is purely from a vague memory. If your guns are loaded with fragmentation rounds for shore bombardment and then the USS South Dakota rocks up, the quickest way to unload the frag rounds is to send them. You're not going to pierce the main armour belt but if you get a hit on the superstructure you might take out a fire control system, set fire to ready use AA ammunition etc. Then you start feeding AP into the ammunition hoists. You may still be stuck with a few frag rounds in the hoists but again, quickest method is probably to just load and fire them until the AP rounds arrive. With luck the frag rounds will allow you to determine range, if so when the AP arrives you may need to adjust for a different ballistic arc but you're basically on target. Not a gunner but I think this makes sense? Happy to be corrected by those with more knowledge.
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  3. @ For the Royal Navy everybody had/has a job when the ship goes to action stations. For those not directly involved in fighting the ship you'd be in a damage control party, mustering to the sick bay, assisting in ammunition handling etc etc. The cooks would probably stick with doing their day job, if the ship was at action stations for any period of time nobody is getting fed at the usual times so the galley is churning out brews and butties that can be delivered to the fighty people while they're doing their steely eyed dealer of death thing.
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  4.  @Concealed1911  I do remember reading that it was the absence of engine noise that woke people up, if you're at sea and the engines stop then you have a problem.
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  5. Captains name was spelled Pellew.
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  6.  @bkjeong4302  You can make a fair argument for HMS Hood (32 kts)being a fast battleship. Obsolete at the time she entered service you say? She commissioned in 1920. Big carrier threat in 1920 was there? She died doing what she was meant to do, fighting other capital ships. The King George the Fifth class, 28 kts, all ordered and laid down and in service, at least some of them, before the Kido Butai demonstrated that well handled carriers were the new Big Kids On The Block. Your 20-20 hindsight may allow you to pronounce that battleships were a waste of time in WWII, which you frequently do, but the point is nobody knew until the end of 1941. I'm with @jacobdill4499 and @Cailus3542 on this. Can you not just leave it?
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  7. Hi Eddie.
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  8. Lol dude, everyone I've heard in England says bi UUURN munich.
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  9. Ass-cold would not be embarrassing to an British person, as ass being a member of the horse family. Arse-cold however, could be considered somewhat vulgar.
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  10.  @Drachinifel  As someone who has worked in IT for over thirty years that makes me feel really happy. Now can you confirm that at least one of those drives is off-site? If so I shall proceed to ecstatic and go for a lie down.
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  11. Ideally yes, but Lambs Navy is a lot easier to find.
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  12.  @Jayne22  You will. Also the related binocular throwing jokes. Have fun.
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  13.  @scottsmith4612  It can be done, but as I said it brings it's own problems. HMS Victory has been out out of the water for just over 100 hundred years now, during that time the structure supporting her in the dry dock has had to be changed when it was realised the hull was sagging around the original supports. IJN Mikasa's hull is encased in concrete up to I think the waterline in Yokosuka, Japan. So, it can be done, but whether it's a better idea than maintaining the hull and keeping a ship in the water probably depends on the state of the ship in question, available funds, both short and long term etc etc.
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  14. Sheer genius. By the way, what were you drinking/snorting/inhaling when you came up with this?
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  15.  @pyronuke4768  You're not being trolled, the M class submarines of the Royal Navy built in WWI carried a 12" gun. I think only three entered service.
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  16.  Kabuki Kitsune  I think weight is an issue, the higher up it is the less stable your ship.
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  17.  @danieltaylor5231  Thank you, plan for tonight is a base of pearl barley cooked off in stock with fried onions and mushrooms, served with grilled black pudding and a fried egg on top. I'd cook it now but the Mem Sahib's daily drugs mean we can't eat for another couple of hours. or so :-(
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  18.  @danieltaylor5231  Sounds like a plan, a good plan. Now you've got me wondering what's in the freezer that's stewable...
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  19. You'd end up with a Navy that never left port in case someone got hurt.
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  20.  @murderouskitten2577  Well done in not addressing my point that hanging officers who got people killed would result in a Navy that never left port. I will point out that the ships who didn't run aground were the ones at the back who had time to to see it was all going wrong and react appropriately. As to arrogance, humility, incompetence, brains etc. Intelligence, I'm going to assume the guy wasn't a dribbling half wit, he had risen to a rank that let him command a destroyer squadron. Arrogance? You could argue that's not necessarily a bad thing in a military commander, your job is to make decisions after all. Incompetence? He chose to trust standard operational procedure over a new idea he had no or limited experience of. Turns out he was wrong, well that happens to all of us. Humility? He held his hand up and accepted the blame. Enjoy your 20-20 hindsight.
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  21.  @billmuller6133  The inputs to the FCS included your best estimate of your targets range, course and speed which you would amend as necessary depending on your observed fall of shot.
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  22.  @DonDueed  Ah, thank you. I wondered what the idiot was on about.
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  23. Bourbon? Johnnie Walker Black Label is a blended scotch whisky.
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  24.  @lambastepirate  Bourbon is distilled primarily from corn. Scotch whisky is primarily distilled from malted barley, though a 'single grain' Scotch whisky may be made from corn. As Johnny Walker Black Label is a blended Scotch pretty sure you'll find there's a lot more malted barley in it than corn, if there is indeed any corn involved. It's not a Bourbon.
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  25. Locomotives were sent around the world by sea at the end of the nineteenth century so I can't see a problem with battleship engines, if necessary you could send them as parts to be assembled at the receiving end.
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  26.  @TheArchaos  Your original question states aircraft, not aircraft carrier. May be you should learn to proof read before hitting send?
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  27.  @TheArchaos  Ah you found the edit function and corrected your error. Who's a clever boy then?
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  28. I've now got a 'Crazy World of Arthur Brown' earworm.
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  29.  @joshthomasmoorenew  A fleet carrier is a big, expensive and relatively rare asset, well rare unless you're the USN in 1944 - 45. HMS Courageous in her aircraft carrier form displaced around 25,000 tons and carried an air group of about 50. HMS Audacity, the RN's first escort carrier in contrast displaced around 5,500 tons and carried an air group of 6, she was a converted captured German merchant ship. When she was torpedoed and sunk in 1941 it was a shame, but no huge loss to the RN. When HMS Courageous was torpedoed and lost in 1939 that was a major loss to the RN. In short, your fleet carriers are too valuable to go looking for U-Boats in.
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  30. Ah, but if you keep building castles eventually one stays up.
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  31.  @adamalton2436  Absolutely, it's called trial and error. Might not be the most efficient method but eventually you'll get there. Look at cannon, in Western Europe you'll see them showing up in the 14th century as siege weapons to bring down castle walls. Encircle the castle, bring up the guns, emplace them. Load gun with gunpowder (having thoroughly stirred it first), then a huge iron bolt, then pack the muzzle with clay to confine the blast. Wait for the clay to dry off, then fire the gun. BOOM. Rate of fire measured in rounds per day. A few centuries later and we had cannon you could tow into battle behind horses, deploy, and have rates of fire you could measure in rounds per hour, with the added benefit that they were unlikely to blow up in your face. Progress :-)
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  32. Ask your self how much time was spent in battle against time spent just getting from point A to point B.
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  33.  @scottmason2557  You captured it and took it home with you :-)
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  34.  @d675ose7  The blast effects are outside the turret, the crew are inside the turret.
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  35.  @jamesbugbee6812  In my world it's 22:11 on the 22/12/2021 as I post this. The fridge is stocked with cheese, pate and cooked meats for the upcoming festive weekend. Fresh bread will be picked up on Friday and a case of wine was delivered yesterday. You have time sir, you have time.
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  36. It would need to last months if not years in the RN of the age of sail.
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  37. They did all sorts of silly shit, Beatty seemed to have a fetish for rate of fire, because it worked for Nelson! Yes, but Nelson's preferred range of engagement was about 10 feet, not several thousand yards.
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  38. Japanese Long Lance torpedoes were fueled with liquid oxygen. Made them very explody. Other nations torpedoes, not so much.
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  39. Unlikely, to get 'British' on them they're probably just 'a bit of a dick'. I'll leave it there.
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  40. White squalls. You can Google it.
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  41. We play football, America plays something that can best be described as hand egg.
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  42.  @calvingreene90  A contraction of 'Association football' I believe.
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  43. It's a spider plant. It's what they do.
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  44.  @shadowwolf2608  The French built The Surcouf in 1935 which had two eight inch guns in a turret placed at the front of the conning tower. She didn't achieve much before being lost in early 1942 while serving in the Free French Navy, cause of loss still debated.
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  45. Do like the ramikin food dye experiment around suction and sinking, the man's an engineer, 'well we should model it and see what happens'. Bloody good effort.
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  46.  @Rammstein0963.  Sort your education system out then.
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  47.  @parrot849  That is a level of stupidity I find difficult to comprehend. Best of luck with sorting it.
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  48. He's selling off duplicate books from his stash so the amount of a given book available is probably going to be one.
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  49. Yes.
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  50.  @Dave_Sisson  I do like his stuff, just wish he had the time to do more!
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