people too. This generation of limp cocked cissy boys would be cowering under the stairs.
people too. This generation of limp cocked cissy boys would be cowering under the stairs.
I'm considering starting a social media rumour that the Wuhan virus has been discovered in kale, quinoa and avocado toast. That ought to make those Millennials tremble in fear. Hopefully it will go viral. Get it? Viral? Virus?Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Tbf, H, a century ago da yoot had just spent five years being forced to run into machine gun fire on the orders of their elderly generals, with the full support of their parents' generation back in Blighty*. So it's fair enough if this time it's the oldies that get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
And if this one takes out the OAPs, when the next one comes round in a couple of decades, it will be the turn for the young again. And I'll have got away with both of them. Shrood.
*Graves and Sassoon talk about this together in Goodbye to All That. Imagining what a role reversal would be like with only the over 40s being sent to the front, and their sons telling them how proud they were on them making this sacrifice for all of us.
I was re-reading Goodbye To All That the other day. I was struck by the casual way he mentions he came down with the Spanish Flu and then happily accepted a lift from an old friend and his wife. Tw@t.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
All those war 'poets' grit my shít. Whinging poofs. "Ooh it's so horrid and muddy here in the trenches and the nasty Germans want to kill me!" YOU'RE IN A WORLD WAR DICKHEAD, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Yes, plus it’s the most tremendous rot. I saw that thing where they’d coloured in WW1 and all those lads seemed to be having a grand time. Smiling away with their terrible dentition they were.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It would be amazingly interesting if it solely targeted one type, say maybe jews, muslims, labour voters, vegans, climate change ****s, man u fans or lefties :cloud9:Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Edit: I forgot scousers!
Read Owen and Sassoon's MC citations and get back to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I said nothing about their actions, did I?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
I said I was irriated by their whinging about it afterwards.
The great writers of WW2 didn't whinge, did they? Currie, Goodson, Deere, Johnson... they recounted their experiences in a spirit of forebearance and good humour.
No, I'm afraid the literature of the first lot is a hotbed of leftism.
fro weeks blubbing like a girlchild whose had her barbie confiscated. Didn't see much stoicism from you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
How is it by the way?
It's alright at the moment thanks. Next check in May, by which time we might all be dead I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Well good luck and stiff upper lip old chap. If the doctor has to break terrible news just remember it's far harder for him that it is for you. You are an Englishman (sort of) with a depthless reservoir of spunk and phlegm. He is probably a small, greasy asian with none of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Remarkably, he is a fine, old-school English gentleman. He has taken something of a shine to me and chats about his divorce and his grandson, who has been landed with the moniker 'Buddyhugs California' for some reason. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Yes. And they were all poofs, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
But they didn't whinge afterwards, C.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Owen died, Graves stayed in the army till he had kids and Sassoon had given up his lefty progress to go back to looking after him men and killing Krauts (for the heinous crime of killing his gay lover.)
I think you're jealous, C. They've shown more bravery than you could ever hope to and can sculpt sublime iambic pentameters.
And look at the full time score.
Lefty, gay, British poets 1-0 Right-wing, macho, German philistines.
That's why my MA tutor said about the trouble of using them as primary sources. As upper-class, closeted poofs with literary aspirations, they're not exactly representative of the average British Tommy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Still, they did write some of the finest poetry in the English language or finest war poetry in any.
Have you read Forgotten Victory by Gary Sheffield? He blames the poets and Eng Lang teachers for us having a negative opinion of the BEF's performance. But ironically, it was my love of the poetry that got me into studying it properly and I'm now a Haigite.
What do you know of the bravery I have shown, hmm?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
For the avoidance of doubt, the answer is nothing. You know nothing from my bravery shown.
Have you ever single-handedly captured a German trench, scattering 60 Hun, armed only with a book of poems, C?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
"Sassoon's periods of duty on the Western Front were marked by exceptionally brave actions, including the single-handed capture of a German trench in the Hindenburg Line. Armed with grenades, he scattered sixty German soldiers:
He went over with bombs in daylight, under covering fire from a couple of rifles, and scared away the occupants. A pointless feat, since instead of signalling for reinforcements, he sat down in the German trench and began reading a book of poems which he had brought with him. When he went back he did not even report. Colonel Stockwell, then in command, raged at him. The attack on Mametz Wood had been delayed for two hours because British patrols were still reported to be out. "British patrols" were Siegfried and his book of poems. "I'd have got you a DSO, if you'd only shown more sense," stormed Stockwell."
Left-wing, poetry-writing, batty-boy gentlemen - the bravest of the brave.
These poofter poets are our ruling class.
Explaining why you're scarred by jealousy
Cos lefties iz much braver than Sir C.
You wish you too could take it up the ĺrse.
See? Iambs come naturally to us left-wing gents.
This raises the interesting question of whether one would rather charge a machine gun nest or suck a dick?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult