Comments by "" (@MonkeyJedi99) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. U.S.S. Shaw: "The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated, and I think I'll join in for the whole game if you don't mind." - This series is very interesting and educational. So much attention is paid to the warfighting, but none of it would have been possible without the massive efforts of ship builders, fitters and repair crews.
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  2. This thing, if built, would have changed the fight against the Gamalons.
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  3. I also love the Firefly reference in the video title.
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  4.  @Dave_Sisson  The Cabbage Class operates under only one law! Cole's Law!
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  5. I get a kick out of the railway engines being basically a flat car with the front half of a farm tractor bolted to it. And they were smart enough to mount the engine transverse to avoid having to install a transfer gearcase to change the direction of drive by 90 degrees.
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  6. Nevada, from the front, looks like a pile of guns that accidentally floats.
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  7.  @TonboIV  A circumcision joke! l'chayim!
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  8. I too have run into problems having to priorities my loot to be able to move... in video games.
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  9.  @mrwdpkr5851  The obligatory nay-sayer has been hear from! Hallelujah!
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  10. And the E4 mafia has not stopped telling the tale since.
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  11.  @AmbianEagleheart  You nearly cost me a keyboard. I was drinking tea when I read your comment.
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  12.  @Jon.A.Scholt  And the one after that in the class ought to be named Thunderchild! (With the exclamation mark included in the name)
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  13. This battle started with the US fleet shouting, "SNEAK ATTACK!". I'm shaking my head.
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  14. Plot armor works better.
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  15. Only prompting occasionally with a small leading question. Good technique.
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  16. Hotel of the Line is my favorite one.
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  17. One of the ships stuck around until 1905?! Now I am imagining these ships at the battle of Jutland.
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  18. Well, that explains Colin Furze.
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  19. Sweet Pasta, this narrative of the disaster of a training exercise made me think the exercise was planned by a horde of kindergarteners and the ships captained by capuchin monkeys on a blend of cocaine and tranquilizers.
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  20. Neither the UK nor Germany had that kind of binoculars budget!
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  21. Last time I was this early, Kamchatka had a full box of binoculars.
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  22.  @TheEDFLegacy  Thanks for the laughs!
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  23.  @randbarrett8706  Drach's point is to share information, and he assiduously avoids discussing modern ships and events. In my view this is because the politics of the near past only result in arguments that devolve into name-calling and hate.
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  24. One navy, one army, one marines. They collected the whole set!
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  25.  @Nebris Don't blame the name or the navy. Blame the gold-braids who thought the LCS was a brilliant idea. US taxpayers certainly do!
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  26. Well if you slam enough dud torpedoes against a ship's hull, you may make a dent big enough to let in water...
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  27. Other channels I go to for good history: Metatron, Cone of Arc, Rex's Hangar, Ed Nash's Military Matters, The Chieftan, (some of) Lindy Beige, The History Guy, Simple History, Military History Visualized, Military History Not Visualized, (much of) Forgotten Weapons, History of Everything Podcast (long and short videos)...
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  28. "Curse you, Wet Baron!" as Snoopy flies away in his Sopwith Camel doghouse.
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  29. But it wasn't over. It was in the PROCESS of MAYBE being over.
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  30. That is some serious, "I can do this all day," energy. Steve Rogers approves.
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  31.  @bradymenting5120  My favorite PBS hour when I was a grade-schooler in the 1970's was World at War.
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  32.  @Freyja666  Help! I need CPR after that pun!
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  33. I salute the service of those hull sections! (I like cider)
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  34. And thus, Kaiser got a Permanente place in the history books.
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  35.  @HighlanderNorth1  If you want palm trees and clear waters, go to Wales. I'm not kidding.
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  36.  @danhammond8406  A pair of binoculars being chased by a torpedo boat?
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  37. You need to make sure your drinking water had at least the minimum required content of aviation fuel!
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  38. Yesterday I saw an article about substandard welds being recently found on some US Navy ships, including USS New Jersey. I had to read the article to realize they were talking about the submarine of that name.
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  39.  @Jon.A.Scholt  Well. Let us first posit that life, even microscopic, once existed on Mars, which is largely borne out by meteorite evidence. Then let is suppose that one or more of those meteorites that made it to Earth from Mars did so both long enough ago and with some volume of viable microscopic life to be able to thrive in the environment in which it found itself. Then let us imagine (yes, each step is getting more conjectural) that this Martian life somehow incorporated itself into the vastness of developing Earth life. - If the above chain of supposition occurred, then it is possible that any animal vs animal, to include human vs human, conflict could be seen as us (the genral us meaning Earth life) fighting Martians. - Ergo, we need an HMS Thunderchild. The ball is now in the court of the Royal Navy.
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  40. Prior to joining this channel, everything I knew about PT boats came from a delightful show starring Ernest Borgnine.
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  41. If my US education was better, I would never have told a single Polish navy joke. I would have told jokes about this Russian navy.
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  42. Every time I see a picture of one of these inter-war small ships painted white, I think of the movie, 'The Sand Pebbles". Yeah, that was a gunboat and this one is some kind of... destroyer(?) but the memory still comes up.
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  43. When doing a training or refit montage, music choice is key.
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  44.  @RCAvhstape  Yeah, they only had ill-tempered sea bass.
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  45. I think an updated Habakkuk would be cool. . pun intended
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  46. "WHO HAS WOKEN ME?" - "Oh Mighty USS Jarvis, a conflict arises in a place called Korea." "I SHALL ATTEND TO THIS SPAT!"
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  47. When my brother was working in home construction he would have a normal breakfast in the morning, eat about half of his packed lunch on his first break mid-morning, lunch was $20-30 at the catering truck, the rest of his packed lunch was his afternoon snack, he might pick up a burger or two on the way home, then after a hour of resting, would have a double-sized dinner, and maybe even a late night snack. And if he didn't eat like that, he would start to dangerously lose weight. - It was quite an adjustment when he changed to a CAD job at a desk!
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  48. I also don't get the fascination navies had with DELIBERATELY putting big underwater holes in the hulls of major gun combatants.
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  49. Instructions unclear, used the rust-removing laser on my Ford, now have an empty parking spot.
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  50.  @HSS_yt  Hood is also a major dairy brand in my part of the US, and their ice cream is delicious.
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