ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. TO HIS VETERAN CHOSEN ONES, ZARDOZ HOPES YOU HAD AN ENJOYABLE DAY. ZARDOZ HAS GIVEN HIS BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS THE DAY OFF IN THEIR HONOR. FRIEND STEVE SMITH AND HIS COUSIN WILL HELP GIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK, BELOW. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
SEA SMITH SAY HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY. HE NOT REALLY VETERAN, BUT HELP IN COLD WAR. BY HELP, MEAN RAPE SOVIET KILO CLASS SUBMARINE ONCE. USSR NAVY NOT COME BACK NEAR SEA SMITH HOUSE AFTER THAT. SEA SMITH HOPE ALL NAVY VETERANS HAVE GOOD DAY. COME ON BACK DOWN TO OCEAN, WATER FINE!
STEVE SMITH HOPE ALL VETERAN FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE HAVE GOOD DAY. HIM GRANDFATHER WAS TERROR OF EASTERN FRONT IN GREAT WAR. BY TERROR, MEAN HIM RAPE MANY CENTRAL POWER SOLDIERS. STEVE SMITH READY SERVE CASCADIA WHEN GET INDEPENDENCE. HIM BE STRATEGIC RESERVE…BY STRATEGIC RESERVE, MEAN … YOU KNOW.
FREE CASCADIA!
- “MAFIA”, “RUBBISH”… BULGARIA PROTESTERS FUN!
- STEVE SMITH NO CONFIRM OR DENY THIS.
- NO GET HAIR WET!
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*ahem*
May as well .
Nicely done.
Ya know, in order to appease those ‘nationalist types’ that Macron was just bitching about.
Macron. Rusty chainsaws. Wood chippers. Wet nurses.
Relevant
Would
And first loser.
When you say Spud, you’ve said it all.
I need to learn to format these things
https://www.google.com/search?q=old+soldiers+never+die-+youtube&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab
Too old to learn, I guess
Download monocle. Easy peasy. It is on the downloads page around here somewhere.
Thanks
so then, for tonight’s movie , Patton? 12 o’clock High? Band of Brothers?
Kelly’s Heroes or The Dirty Dozen or Jaws
I like the Dirty Dozen recommendation.
I also always like the Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare.
I loved the books. I thought HMS Ulysses was one of Alastair MacLean’s best novels.
Didn’t know the same guy wrote those, I’ll have to check him out. I’m kind of worn out on Crime and Sci-fi/fantasy stuff, maybe some war stuff will get me reading again.
Just ordered a used paperback copy of HMS Ulysses, it better not suck Spud, cost damn near 10 Strohs.
I’ll be curious to see what your opinion is. It was one of his first books.
Ice Station Zebra
10 Strohs? You found a book for $4?
Ice Station Zebra was another good one. As a kid, I think I read every book he wrote.
I read a lot of them but not all. ISZ the movie is terrible for the most part.
Never read Eagles but it’s one of my top 10 war flicks of all time.
Oh ya, both good.
The “Cruel Sea” by Nicholas Monsaratt. The Battle of the Atlantic from the little ships. Book is great and movie is good because they sweated the small details.
Kelly’s Hero’s.
Jaws needs to be reserved for the really big holidays like Independence Day. It’s that good.
That’s a good point. I guess you could watch Quint and Han Solo in Force Ten from Navarone (Don’t it’s a horrible movie)
No argument here.
I enjoy Force Ten, even though it is not a good war movie. Mostly because I had to teach a few neighborhood kids I babysat about the while dambusting history of WW2. And there is nothing kids like better than you saying damn whole lot.
Also, the movie tosses a bone to the Tito/Chetnic thing.
“To Hell and Back” starring Audie Murphy” as himself
A World War I movie like Hell’s Angels or Wings or The Big Parade.
Paths of Glory
I celebrate Veterans Day, I’m American, OHH RAHH Mutherfucker!! Hell’s angels was good though.
WWI was the first of many Stupid wars we got involved in, and it never really ended, in the eyes of many, including me,
Patton it is,
/Americans Love a Winner!
It was Armistice Day before it was Veterans’ Day.
And Decoration Day is for Civil War movies.
when I was born is all I care about, fuck History!!!!
Sergeant York
+1
All Quiet on the Western Front
Tora! Tora! Tora!
All great suggestions, I don’t have most of them, but great movies for sure
Saving Private Ryan.
JUST NO, Fuck Matt Damon, BoB is far superior
Hell yeah it is. Bastonge is one of my favorite ones…they tried to capture the hell that it was and it was inspiring but I couldn’t imagine.
Nüsse!
I had a boss that might as well have been Lt. Dike. Fucker could not make a decision if his life depended on it.
Battleground. Van Johnson, Jimmy Whitmore, James Arness, Richard Jaeckel, bunch more.
John Wayne – The Fighting Seabees.
Pristine Whites……
Lol!
Someone here suggested Stalingrad a while back. I eventually watched it and it’s good.
The 90s German one, FTR. Don’t…bother with the other.
For the correct war for this day, Gallipoli?
Good one, One of Churchill’s finest hours……………
I’ve read strong, sound cases both ways – that is was a ridiculous diversion and that it was the only strategic initiative. I tend toward the latter, as any resources that might have been put into the Western Front would have been spent in useless attrition. The Army wouldn’t let the Navy run the operation, and the Army leadership was beyond incompetent (look at a map of the peninsula and ask yourself, under what conditions would you land at the tip in order to fight your way up the length of it?).
I pretty much held the “Churchill was an ass” view but Fromkin’s “Peace to End All Peace has something of a different take. Doesn’t exonerate Churchill but essentially argues the rest of the War Cabinet backed the plan then left WC holding the bag when things went south.
At least, I think that’s what he argued. I’ve been working on some Martell cognac so my recollection is hazy. BUT, he did present a more complex picture than the norm.
Enemy at the Gates is a war movie my wife will watch…not bad popcorn flick and Ed Harris is awesome in that
For the other side and showing some disrespect for the Nazis: “Das Boot” and “Cross of Iron.”
War in the East, WW2 from the soviet POV, very well done, it’s all on YT, oh yeah,it’s a Serial Documentary
The Cranes Are Flying and Ballad of a Soldier, for two Soviet movies about the war.
I don’t know if my opinion matters, but that;s ‘s a really good movie, even for commies.
I saw Das Boot in the theater when it came out, and was the first movie I ever watched with subtitles. Great movie.
The sequel Max Boot really sucks, though.
Good call. The Lost Battalion isn’t a bad WW I film either.
Haven’t seen too many war movies I like, but Saving Private Ryan is one of them. I really liked the WW2 documentary series I bought my granpa on DVD. Can’t remember who made that, but it was the best one I’ve ever seen. Guy was in the Normandy Invasion, the Pacific Islands, and served all during the Korean war. I have a big box of medals he gave me on a display plaque. Including 2 purple hearts.
The Keep is a WWII movie, if you look past the immortal demon and hero dudes.
I read the book years ago. I didn’t know they made it into a movie.
It’s a glorious train-wreck with an interesting cast and great music. I might put it in later.
I barely remember the book it’s been so long. I think that I liked though.
I was also reading some Ludlum books at the time like The Rhineman Exchange and The Osterman Weekend. I definitely liked those.
It’s been discussed here before but TL;DR it’s the first in a fun series by the same author, spanning many years up to the near-present day. His other much longer series, Repairman Jack, is a sort of side-series and they combine at the end.
Hmm, I’ll have to check it out.
Do it. RJ especially is a bad-ass. He’s kind of a libertarian fighter of supernatural crime in NYC, without being some sort of superhero – just a normal guy who wants to do “the right thing”.
Awesome:)
Michael Mann directed – he has his style stamped all over it. Whether that is good or bad is a tough call.
In this case I’d say it’s both.
McHale’s Navy
+1 Ernest Borgnine.
+5 Tim Conway
+10 Joe Flynn
-1 million Tom Arnold remake
April Morning.
Regarding Armistice day. I recently was involved in a discussion regarding this picture.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s7Q5eqZCBOI/WAWssJ-o5GI/AAAAAAAALis/y0YjH20GH4YCMsMWDsBCmT29K6ZeKPvjACLcB/s1600/shell_shocked_soldier_1916.jpg
It’s cited as an example of shell shock on various websites. But there isn’t any evidence to support who this soldier was, nor whether he was suffering from shell shock. My thoughts were he was caught with a shit grin in the right light to make it look creepy. Usually the picture is just focused in on him to make it seem even creepier. Zoomed out you can see a medic grinning too. My guess was someone said something funny and they got caught at the right time, or he was happy to be wounded and out of combat. It’s an interesting picture I’d love to learn more about.
*Referring to the soldier crouched on the left.
He looks exhausted and happy to be alive, not loony
Why, it’s almost if people instinctively smile when they see a camera!
Let’s ask Kinnath for his opinion.
I hear he’s pretty close in age to the War’s end
Which war?
Say what?
I believe Ted is commenting on your avatar’s fantastic smile.
I figured it out about half an hour after I posted.
Ding ding ding ding ding!
Some of us don’t. I imagine back then most people would.
I wonder when that became a thing. It certainly wasn’t at the beginning, if all the dour expressions you see from that era are any indication.
PS. I don’t fake-smile for the camera either.
Back then, it was a solemn occasion to get a picture taken and probably the only one they’d ever have. Also, in a lot of those pictures, they had a dead person, posing for a last shot before getting buried.
Yeah, I saw a website of those once. I don’t miss that trend.
Coincidentally I just read an article about this a few days ago.
tldr: they wanted to look like the serious people in paintings.
Interesting article. I still won’t smile unless I’m genuinely happy.
People react different in all situations. There are those that believe we are to be (outwardly) and when someone dies, sullen when shell shocked, cry when we hurt.
Fortunately for them we are not robots and while those are primative human functions, we process them differently.
Some smile like HM said when this relatively new fangled device that is a small camera came about. Or a joke was made…or just happy they weren’t one of the thousands on the killing fields
Yeah, unless there is some further evidence not being shown – that guy’s expression could be anything.
I dunno, Zardoz, I think it’s about time for a cleansing. I’m talking a big one. Extinction event level cleanse.
SMOD 2020
Re the protests in Bulgaria. Quick search shows gas a little over 5$ a us gallon. That is about the same as Canada but they have a much higher median income. You want to see protests? Make gas $5 a gallon in the states.
Unpossible. The right wingers are working too much, to buy gas. And progs love high gas prices, because save the planet.
I paid 4.79 in 2009 in the PRC, I didn’t see any Riots……
That is the PRC and it didn’t last long. I have never paid close to $5. Give us several years of 5 bucks and then announce an increase and see what happens.
it’s 3.65 now, and AZ is only 2.65 I wonder why?
We are around 2.93
Brand new Costco here in NV and I paid 2.74 3/4
That’s almost worth a drive to Vegas to fill up and hit some buffet’s.
I just filled up tonight at $2.31 for regular unleaded. The premium stuff was a buck more expensive…
Damn, do they have really cheap buffet’s where you are?
I’m in Florida, so I don’t think it would be worth the drive to save on gas. Can’t comment on the buffets though…
I have planned overseas return flight itineraries through Miami just to eat Cuban Sandwiches so don’t misjudge my idiocy when it comes to wasting money for some food.
$2.39 here in my slice of Ohio, and with my Kroger points, $2.19
Because Californians care more about the environment than people in other states.
*farts into wine glass, sniffs*
Cali was nearly there…and then Gov. Moonbeam made the infamous comment that anti-tax drivers were freeloaders
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So you agree, there would be riots.
We make do with punishing sin taxes and assorted fees and fines.
I wish they would show how much of the gas price was taxes.
They do at every pump, nobody bothers to look
Lesser known movie suggestion. A Midnight Clear. Caught the movie when I was sick as a kid I’ve made it a habit to watch it every year around Thanksgiving/ Christmas.
BoB had a similar scene, They could hear the Germans sing oh Holy Night on Christmas eve from across the front lines….. probably true as well as anything in War, still people, you know?
I hope everyone played a great game of Diplomacy today in honor of the holiday. And it ended with Turkey being eliminated, Austria occupied by Italy, and the Germans drawing with their original supply centers and nothing else.
I played F04 and blew shit up. Does that count?
Did You Win? S’all good then….
I played some Battlefield 1and proceeded to kill and die at Mont St. Quentin and some former chateau during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive .
Axis and Allies but I made the Axis The US, Japan, and Britain.
My grandfather wanted to go to war in WWII. The government wouldn’t allow him since he was the breadwinner and had 4 kids already. By the time my mom was born in the mid to late 40s, war was over and the government was more than happy to oblige his 2 year commitment. Luckily he did it and was again not picked up for that shitshow Korea
My grandfather dropped out of Temple to join up. He looked so young that allegedly they thought he was lying about his age but let him in with a nudge and a wink anyway. Later, he earned the nickname, “The Candybar Kid” in North Africa because he’d trade the smokes in his rations to other guys for their chocolate bars. Apparently nobody knew what the hell he was doing with dozens of candybars a week; they assumed he was some young naive college kid from Philly who didn’t smoke and had a sweet tooth. Later they found out he was using them to pay hookers in town at a candybar a pop. It’s kind of amazing he came out of the war without some social disease. As it is, it’s pretty much a lock there are some Algerians or Tunisians running around with some black Irish in them.
My grandfather was orphaned at 10, lied at 17 to get in, and was at Schofield Barracks during Pearl Harbor.
Maybe He knew My Grand father, at Pearl Harbor on the Tender USS Hawaii, It died of fright, being tied to a Ship that was hit by bombs
One of my grandpas was stationed at Pearl, but got sent to a school a couple of months before Dec 7th so missed it.
My grandfather was married with 3 kids and worked for a defense contractor. Got drafted in late ’43 or early ’44, but they put him at a desk job in the US.
Tobacco addiction? You forgot gun ownership, voting for smaller government and not agreeing to the “social contract”.
Also, the inability to dance or jump.
So Menthol is OK?
Not if you’re a control freak in New York State bureaucracy. (They want to ban it – I can’t wait to see the intersectional fallout that will cause.)
Another bootlegging opportunity.
The end result will be a ban on fruit flavors (with the bootlegging you mentioned) and no ban on menthol because racist. All of this will probably be accompanied by massive taxes and a campaign to intercept mailings like they did with cigarettes. Because nothing says “I care” like propping up a bloated government on the backs of people addicted to nicotine.
The behavior of state legislators is no different than what it would be if they were being paid by the drug cartels
I can shopping for groceries like a motherfucker. but that might make the neanderthal list too. Actually it probably should.
I’m pretty sure that I’m part Neanderthal. Either that or part bear.
The men in my dad’s side of the family trend hirsute, tend to sweat when the temperature’s above 68F, and are built a little bit like gorillas: big, barrel-shaped torsos, long arms, short legs. I’m not saying we’re cavemen, but, I mean, if you told me there was some Neanderthal in the tree some where I wouldn’t be terribly surprised.
Your family sounds like my family. Nearly exact same build in the majority of the men
I always attributed to our Scandanavian heritage of old.
Ya, that is called Neanderthal.
I think people like me is how werewolf legends got started. Lol. Lucky I have a pretty face.
My SIL to a tee, HMMM, I never called Him a Neaderthal, yet……
Debate (by Brits and a Canuck) about whether the UK should have stayed out of WWI. Pretty clear to me they should have.
I was surprised the role the German invasion of Belgium had. In the end the whole disaster was just about the feels.
We sure as hell should have stayed away.
https://youtu.be/BqO5CnnKLtA
Yeah, the agreement with Belgium really appealed to the whole “British honor thing.” If KW2 and his friends hadn’t basically said we want to build a fleet to compete with Britain, the Brits may have just let Europe beat itself up again.
I’ve thought for years World War I was pretty much because the major powers wanted to see who was the big boy of the bunch, with England and France the old guard, and Germany the new guy. The assassination and the associated treaties was just a convenient excuse.
Did interbreeding wipe out the Neanderthals? Scientists say extinct species mated with humans – and were NOT killed off by them
That explains a lot.
At his final stop in Paris, President Trump sucked it up and got soaked — but didn’t seem happy about it.
Just don’t let him eat a burnt steak after midnight and then get wet.
I learning to fly the B-29 Bomber, it’s Easy, truth is the warbirds were a nightmare to fly, not all that “awesome” at all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtpHQ6FZ9sY&index=2&list=PLH4ybOmk59pmSYqLERBh158JMOe1WxadC&t=0s
Trump should have gone to the memorial with a Gortons fisherman MAGA hat and not going is pretty damn lame, but John Kerry is the last mother fucker I want to hear giving speeches about honoring veterans. Fuck that POS.
Macron tries to talk tough
At an event to honor the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, French President Emanuel Macron lashed out at President Donald Trump, devoting his speech at a veterans’ memorial to fire back at Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.
Just weeks ago, Trump called himself an unabashed “nationalist,” praising both domestic and foreign policies that put America before its allies. The move drew swift condemnation at home, as Republicans and Democrats alike cautioned Trump over the connotations of openly “nationalist” rhetoric.
But Trump has maintained that he values American sovereignty in foreign entanglements, and that matters of trade — and even of defense — will be judged by an “America First” standard.
Sunday, at a multi-national war memorial event in Paris, Macron repudiated Trump by hearkening back to the “nationalist” policies that gave way to World War I, and brought about the slaughter of millions of young men. Macron pleaded with his audience to “never again” allow nationalism to supersede global unity.
Nationalism and patriotism are not necessarily opposites. I would expect the American president to care about his own country first and foremost. I expect the same of the French chief exec for France. The US is a sovereign country and it has done a lot for France in the last century. So, kindly fuck off and perhaps pay for your own defense.
It almost echoes that long-running trope of the socialist who wants what you have, yet you’re the greedy one if you want to keep it.
Watching my 2 favorite war films – Stalag 17 and Mister Roberts and getting ready to go to work. Recently listened to Carlin’s Hardcore History about The Great War; Holy Mackerel, what a bloody, pointless nightmare that war was.
Civil War era tactics and almost modern guns and artillery. A recipe for slaughter. And the generals really didn’t learn anything new, trying the same tactics pretty much the whole war. The side that won had the home front that lasted the longest. Didn’t really win on the battlefield.
I’ve been binge-listening to Hardcore History and was hit with the double whammy of Achaemenid Persians and the Triple Entente. I know a century of hindsight and all that but it really makes one want to take a stick to the leadership of all of these nations – “Have you big dummies learned nothing over the last 5000 years?!?”
Nah. The “leaders” and the generals, as brighter people than I have said, almost always fight the last war.
Did anybody ever watch Come and See? I’ve heard varying comments that it’s unbelievably brutal, very good, and Soviet propaganda. Maybe all three?
Since it’s Veteran’s Day, some dirty, filthy, Hippie Music .
I thought you would have put this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7qkQewyubs
I like this version better.