lol, found it funny, and the debating just as amusing. I came to watch a silly vid, and read even sillier debates in a comment section for a star trek vid. Only on youtube. XD
@MrRobertSama France owned almost all countries of Europe, during the time of Napoleon, including Germany, Italy and Spain. On top of that, during the french revolution heads were literally rolling on public streets and dead bodies were impaled like BBQ sticks.
@redundantstudios thats there tactic surrender at the first sign of trouble, italians try to side with who they think will win (but there not very good at choosing, and spain kind of just watches
@redundantstudios america says let's start later when everybodys half dead so we look good, england drinks their tea, australia decides not to defend themselves, but to go halfway across the world to fight an enemy not threatening them. And germany goes "Ahhhhh nein schnell nurblewerfer
@therealGLAD Norway almost kicks the crap out of Germany but then it got bored. Korea and Poland become best friends with Japan and Germany. Like in Prison Showers.
@KarmicAnarchist Welsh is what you get when your scrabble set is missing its vowels but has double the amount of C's, and W's. And I've got a few welsh friends who would agree!
I appreciate the up loader's disclaimer. it is very PC of him, and yes, there is a place for being PC, unless you're too bone headed to understand we all live on earth and we may not all agree on things yet we aught to have respect for one-another.
Sometimes I wonder whether he first read some of his first Shakespeare books in French copies. Perhaps, we're just listening to the accent and spoken in English made by the alien translating system for us audience to hear. For all we know, he could be speaking in French this whole time! :O :O
@Classicwinter Hey, that's quite an interesting point. Actually, people could just learn the easiest language on Earth and then let the universal translator to do the work. :-)
@CaptainFluttershy I do remember an episode where he criticized "red white and blue" stating that it should be "blue white and red." Heh... well, I thought it was funny.
Speaking french in the Trek universe is considered archaic and there you have it if the EU bit their stubborn lip and united the churches under one pope and spoke english then the unification may work until then its a flawed idea!
Yes all have deplorable histories, Britain raped and pillaged the cultures of the Aborigines & the Maori. Even up to very recently institutional discrimination was practiced against these people. Not to metion Britain made Australia a prison colony.So not exactly what I would call a 'good' thing, now is it?
@Calcubite i believe it is the first tng episode and he's trying to escape from Q but decides to surrender to save the other half of his ship with the crew, civilians etc onboard.
@HindsightPOV I don't know what that means but either way sod off I wasn't if you look at Jean-Luc Picards profile on Memory-Alpha the Star Trek Wiki it tells you canon material and that in the Trek universe the french languae is Archaic and secondly speaking as a Star Trek fan who believes it as an ideal universe even if fictitous our governments could learn a thing or two from Gene so again Sod Off!
I'll paraphrase. When I said, "Don't be a douche," I was telling you not to be a pompous ass. Do you know what that means?
When a nation is colonized, the people are brutalized by raping and pillaging. You think that's something to be proud of. What a horrible person you are. If you were subjected to colonization, you wouldn't be so in favor of it and view any admonishments of it being "rediculous".
The Star Trek universe isn't fond of colonization, unless if you're a Cardassian.
@bravepercennius are you insane? As someone who actually does live on a tiny island (i.e. the 227 square mile Isle of Man), i find your suggestion that the UK is a tiny island laughable.
@bravepercennius Indeed my understanding is that English isn't the official American fist language, in spite of the fact many individuals and states (28) wish it were, so feel free to shrug off the oppression of the English language. Speak the free tongue of the French, German or Hebrew people, because they're never been know for committing any oppressive acts or forcing institutions onto their people.
@bravepercennius Wow, I'd be rude too but then I'd just be stooping down to your level. Let's just say Americans often sound funny to us to.
I decided to independently check my facts as the vote I was referring to was something I was told in school by my German teacher. Turns out the vote he was probably referencing was a vote against bilingual publication on January 13, 1795 where the House of Representatives defeated an bill to print 3,000 federal laws into German.
I'm reminded of the two French peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia back in the 90s. They awoke to find their position surrounded by Serbian forces, who announced through a megaphone that the Frenchmen were to be taken prisoner, and that terms would be dictated for their release, which they should now relay to HQ via their field radio.
After a short conversation, they demolished the radio with their rifle butts and threw the pieces out for the Serbs to see. They'll fight a sensible war.
@SuperJuliusC Actually if you knew a bit more about the war then you'd say, 'without Russia you'd now speak German'. If you haven't done so already I suggest you read up about the 'eastern front' the campaign between German and Russia. It's a little taught subject (particularly in US) but that was the decisive conflict of the war.
Oh and that's beside the point that Germany actually wanted to sue for peace after conquering France and it was only Britain's belligerence that kept us in the war.
@TheFlashman Well you could say that Hitler was obesessed with England.
That`s why he spared the english expedition corps at Dunkerque and allowed them to escape - Big mistake but better than living in a Nazi reigned Germany!
@SuperJuliusC You can certainly say he admired Britain and envied the Empire. He probably saw it as proof of his racist ideals.
No one really knows why they didn't crush the BEF on the beaches of Dunkirk. It's generally accepted as a colossal f'ck up by the Nazis. Not an act of mercy. From what I've read about it there's the suggestion that the Germans had plunged deeper into France than expected and didn't know what to do. They also never expected the English to do what they did to escape.
@TheFlashman Well there is that story that during WW I Hitler`s life was spared by a british soldier - He even had a fantasy drawing of this man in his office.
No wonder that they left France - If I would have been captured by those SS scumbags I really wouldn`t have fraternized with those brainwashed pigs...
The myth - that without America we'd all be speaking German. We all needed each other just as much in the Second World War, but if you want to split hairs about it, the Soviets did far more damage to both Germany and Japan than the US could ever have done alone.
So don't talk to me about cheap insults when you propagate such a moronic idea. It just makes you look like a jerk.
pointless rattling of sabre antics...one must love youtube for all the waste that gets spewed cock fighting over who has the biggest political/social/military (DICK) ... me I LIKE STAR TREK!!! thats why we all came here right :)
@bravepercennius As in, the US alone has blame for the atrocities committed in the US itself during the 19th century, the only ones that fit in the definition of Manifest Destiny. That's not meaning that nobody else wronged the natives, but Manifest Destiny has too specific a meaning for them to count in that.
I can see why that caused confusion, I didn't have enough characters to elaborate. Indeed, debates on semantics are utterly boring, it was though rather a terminology issue from the start.
@bravepercennius When did I say that the British never committed heinous atrocities against the Native Americans? They sure did!
What I said however, and will say again, is that 'Manifest Destiny' strictly refers to the American idea that the United States should span the entirety of North America. Ergo, Manifest Destiny is the fault of the US alone.
If you think the British abuse of the natives is something they should be ashamed of, fair enough, but you can't call that 'Manifest Destiny'.
@JunkAndMusic Well, it was divided, 15 native tribes were on the British side and 3 were on the American. That predates, and is unrelated to, Manifest Destiny, though.
@bravepercennius I wouldn't say that Manifest Destiny is rooted in Divine Right of Kings as such, I'd say that they were both independently derived from the idea of Divine Providence.
Whichever derivation you prefer, speaking as an independent party, I still don't see why Britain is to blame for that. I suppose you could argue that the ideology was rooted in English culture, maybe true, but only the US itself is responsible for the atrocities against the native people during the 19th century.
@bravepercennius It's interesting that people who slag off the British ALWAYS speak the language of Britain - English. Why? Doesn't this make them hypocrites?
@bravepercennius Manifest Destiny originates in the 19th century, after American independence, and came to encompass the belief that the United States should span the entire North American continent, to the detriment of the natives. It had nothing to do with Britain whatsoever.
Hey, all you Euros. France and Britain both can suck America balls! AHAHAHAHAHA! AMERICA AMERICA MY HOME AND NATIVE LAND (Sorry, just my attempt bring people together against a common ememy.)
@bravepercennius: No need to resort to abuse. Where have I done that to you that warrants these insults? Also as a matter of fact we still own 16 countries.
@TheSmithersy well as much as i like england they did try to erase America and subjugate the US but regardless that is the past and england aint the ally it used to be to america
@smitto21: Of course you do have to bear in mind that England created america. Without Britain there would be no USA today so by all means they were entitled to it.
@TheSmithersy no i understand that i ment as far as the war of 1812 goes america was independent and had been for a while and england tried to destroy us
@smitto21 not true; america was english, all the people were english........ the american war of independence was english people fighting english people.
@TheSmithersy Not when you include the territories of the Iberian Union (Portuguese) then it is comparable, and the % of population under it is also comparable in relativity to the world populations during the different empire's eras. In any case I don't condone wars between between different kinds of Europeans, at least not the West and the free Slavs (Poles). I admire the HRE & EU and the fact that both Germanics and Latins played major roles in protecting us from Muslims & spreading civility.
Why would you be proud of an empire that has some of the worst human rights abuses in history? None of which are entirely in the ancient past either e.g 'Britain's gulags' is a great book on the matter.
Civilisation and democracy, wow how deluded you are, where was the 'spreading' of democracy and Civilisation in Britain's Slave trade, the Sino Opium wars, the Penal laws, the Amritsar massacre, the two Bloody Sunday's, Britain's Gulags and etcetera etcetera. Furthermore provide some evidence to back up this often touted, but never substantiated, claim that Britain spread 'civilisation', I'm all ears!
@marmaladekamikaze DEMOCRACY abso-bloody-lutley YES. How? Simple, the USA was born out of the brightest and best of British democratic ideals and without doubt the single biggest influence on the modern world is The good ol' US of A. Tell me you don't drink Coke or watch US telivison or benefit from US involvement in WW2 and the Cold War???? Also technology, medical advances and promoting rights which other people in shit places led by fucking animals hope to live by and rise up to gain!
@dogma01011951 you stupid kent america was built to make war for the cash how can you sleep at night oh thats right your govenment keeps you all brainwashed so they can do as they please
@SkullMaster64 I sleep fine because I've never done anything to hurt anyone seriously. I think I landed a couple of punches at school and thats about it. Since then I've given to charity both inside this country and to outside this country on an annual basis. Come and visit my country and I hope you'll be surprised to see a lot of average people who just want to do the best for their families.
You do know that the largest ethnic group in the USA is German right? so even if I were to concede to your flawed argument, we would have to really give props to Germany. Is this really how you try to legitimize Britains deplorable actions? Furthermore the USA was born out of those that read Voltaire, and the French Revolution just have a look at the US constitution and the similarities in the writings.
@marmaladekamikaze You don't need to concede anything. My argument is based on historical fact. I also don't have to legitimize anything Britain has done before my opportunity to vote at the age of 18, and even then the majority of British people don't vote. I'm glad the US took their revolutionary furver from France because for the most part France had it right during their revolution. Thier King was a joke, but the problem was they then got a bloodthirsty dictator in Napoleon.
Britains Kings & Queens were jokes. In fact all kings and queens are jokes, the divine right of kings & Queens is about the dumbest thing humanity every subscribed to. But you are quite right, you don't have to legitmize anything Britain did before your opportunity to vote, but what about the crimes it is doing right now? Like the refusal to compensate the Kenyan men & women who were forceably castrated and tortured in Britain's gulags by British 'soldiers'.
@marmaladekamikaze If this crime is true then the soldiers should be prosecuted and punished. Take it up with the BBC who fail to report on anything that doesn't involve celebrities or politicians who are basically the same thing.
I don't live in Britain therefore can't take it up with the BBC. Further crimes that go unmentioned is that Derek Wilford still retains his OBE award when the Saville inquiry has dispelled any shadow of a doubt to the contrary, The para regiment he commanded did indeed open fire on unarmed civilians.Chagos people of Diego Garcia are being refused to return to their homeland because the British government want the Island as a military staging post.Wikileaks revealed
@marmaladekamikaze Moan about the British, but politely forget about all the evil other Empires did. I guess the Spanish, French, Portuguese get let off as their slavery and conquering must have been nice. But oh no, the British are pure evil. Wish people would approach it from a wider perspective rather than with the British are evil frame of mind. Just rather pathetic, and ill informed. The Africans sold Africans as slaves. Portuguese started the African slave trade by the way.
That argument is pretty shakey, its the equivalent to saying- well gang warhead in my hood is pretty bad, peeps dying all the time, so I'm goin ring up the USSR and get em to nuke this place, afterall what's the difference between 1 death and a million? I can just imagine the British Empire as the kid in a school yard who brings in an sten gun, because there are bullies at the school,massacres everyone and then whining- ''they started it''.Grow up and take responsibilty
@yonumpty I see, so put another way your argument is akin to a Soviet or Nazi 300 years from now trying to gloss over the nazi's or Soviet's use of concentration camps by saying- 'well the British invented the Concentration camp'' so we didn't start it or anything-, as a way of trying to divert attention and deluding himself by not facing up to the responsibilty of killing millions. The British empire was immoral and evil, largest slave trader in history. Accept it. No 'but..but'.
The only reason the French surrendered to the Nazis is because of the heavy damage they took during WWI. France is like a guy who ran 25 miles in a marathon before giving up while Britain and America are like the fat guys taunting them on the sidelines.
@TheSmithersy The blitz was a fast moving armored vehicle rush. The Channel spared Britain in the early part of the war. No country was prepared to deal with that kind of assault in 1939-1940.
the french always catch flak (so to speak) for surrendering to the german army in the early 40s... EVERYONE surrendered to them in the early 40s... well except for the british, the russians and the americans... the ones who 'won' the war bytheby. but we must not forget all of the brave frenchies who fought and died as partisans to help destabilize the german war effort... they helped 'win'... oh and i'm not french, but i love french girls and the vino is great...
@cwross1976 That's just one example. The french earned the slur nickname "surrender monkeys" by doing it repeatedly and then always blaming others and being bailed out by others.
How funny that Americans entertain the idea was France was on the losing side during WW2! France's army, under the command of Charles de Gaulle, won over Italy (French army entered Rome BEFORE the Americans), liberated Paris, invaded and occupied nazi Germany. Meanwhile we all know that the US has had clear and evident victories in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Irak, Afghanistan...
@YesWeCantaloupe Unless I am wrong, I believe general Eisenhower's plans were to avoid Paris altogether and race toward Germany. He also understood how important it was for the French to liberate Paris by themselves. So yes, there is a PR reasoning behind letting general Leclerc 2e DB to enter Paris first. What is annoying is this anglosaxon attitude to portray the French as cowards eager to surrender. This Picard video is another example of such an unfair portrayal.
@WebVManReturns Or when Americans surrendered during the battle of Detroit in the War of 1812. When Americans surrendered Fort Sumter at the start of the civil war (granted, it was a surrender to other Americans, but it was a surrender). Or when American forces in the Phillipines surrendered to the Japanese during World War II?
I think NZ was the 1st country to give women the vote?
MrStGeorgeIllawarra 3 days ago
lol, found it funny, and the debating just as amusing. I came to watch a silly vid, and read even sillier debates in a comment section for a star trek vid. Only on youtube. XD
zorekungasa 1 week ago
You push frenchies to the edge and you will see heads rolling...Vive La France!
MrLiteBear 1 week ago
@MrLiteBear More like: "Run away, run away, run away" Agincourt. XD
MrRobertSama 1 day ago
@MrRobertSama France owned almost all countries of Europe, during the time of Napoleon, including Germany, Italy and Spain. On top of that, during the french revolution heads were literally rolling on public streets and dead bodies were impaled like BBQ sticks.
MrLiteBear 1 day ago
@MrLiteBear And yet they kept losing wars to Britain. :)
MrRobertSama 1 day ago
@MrRobertSama Britain is much easier to defend, because it's an island.
MrLiteBear 1 day ago
@MrLiteBear It's also more difficult to go offensive from Britain...
WilfredIvanhoe 20 hours ago
*Le sigh*...
dissentrix 1 week ago
le roflmao.
Tazraz8 1 week ago
lol
Marinealver 2 weeks ago
French do surrender yes. But they have the best resistance armies Bitch.
redundantstudios 2 weeks ago
@redundantstudios thats there tactic surrender at the first sign of trouble, italians try to side with who they think will win (but there not very good at choosing, and spain kind of just watches
therealGLAD 2 weeks ago
@therealGLAD Russia says "lets ally with this questionable guy so we can betray him lat- NO HE BETRAYED US FIRST GRRR"
redundantstudios 1 week ago
@redundantstudios america says let's start later when everybodys half dead so we look good, england drinks their tea, australia decides not to defend themselves, but to go halfway across the world to fight an enemy not threatening them. And germany goes "Ahhhhh nein schnell nurblewerfer
therealGLAD 1 week ago
@therealGLAD Japan says "I'm tired of you America and your embargoes, here, I'm a bombin your harbor."
redundantstudios 1 week ago
@redundantstudios and then Canada get's flowers from denmark yay, and china is just kind of standing there awkwardly
therealGLAD 1 week ago
@therealGLAD Norway almost kicks the crap out of Germany but then it got bored. Korea and Poland become best friends with Japan and Germany. Like in Prison Showers.
redundantstudios 1 week ago
@redundantstudios New Zealand does something but no one remembers what
therealGLAD 1 week ago
@therealGLAD Germany : "U mad Belgium?"
redundantstudios 6 days ago
Keep in mind: this is the same guy who said "Fire All Weapons".
Idazmi7 2 weeks ago
I laughed. Thanks.
Foxstab 3 weeks ago
I just loled when I just discovered the guy pulling the face was in con air. true story
TheFlinglish 3 weeks ago
What Would Joan of Arc Do?
dianaAthemiscyra 4 weeks ago
@dianaAthemiscyra she would be assimilated
Sharpee2006 2 weeks ago
WHo is that singing?
Smithburg01 1 month ago
LMAO!!!
MrOpinion1971 1 month ago
Haha...loved it!
Sorayn 1 month ago
The French, the cowards of the European union.
shadowedge69 1 month ago
I just wish that just once whenever they say 'in all languages and frequencies' it would be followed by 'including welsh'.
382eddie 1 month ago 38
@382eddie Welsh isn't a language!
KarmicAnarchist 1 month ago
@KarmicAnarchist Welsh is what you get when your scrabble set is missing its vowels but has double the amount of C's, and W's. And I've got a few welsh friends who would agree!
382eddie 1 month ago
@382eddie Red Dwarf reference. Well played.
DisturbedAidan2 1 month ago
@382eddie Never seen Red Dwarf? XD
DTFlammabubble 1 day ago
@DTFlammabubble hell yes, where do think I got it from? And Rimmer's line from RD was followed by 'we surrender'.
382eddie 20 hours ago
Considering that Picard is a regional language of France and Belgium...
floridianwolf1029 1 month ago
I appreciate the up loader's disclaimer. it is very PC of him, and yes, there is a place for being PC, unless you're too bone headed to understand we all live on earth and we may not all agree on things yet we aught to have respect for one-another.
johnniefive80 1 month ago
99 People are French
yoda2287 1 month ago
@yoda2287 And that's 99 excess to requirement.
KarmicAnarchist 1 month ago
@KarmicAnarchist Quiet you!
yoda2287 1 month ago
@yoda2287 Moi? Le plume de moi Tante at dans la jardin.
KarmicAnarchist 1 month ago
Sometimes I wonder whether he first read some of his first Shakespeare books in French copies. Perhaps, we're just listening to the accent and spoken in English made by the alien translating system for us audience to hear. For all we know, he could be speaking in French this whole time! :O :O
Classicwinter 1 month ago
@Classicwinter Hey, that's quite an interesting point. Actually, people could just learn the easiest language on Earth and then let the universal translator to do the work. :-)
Ceberuss 1 month ago
jean-luc wasnt a good enough clue? patrick stewart is british but picard iz de french... well as french as one can get in the 24th century.
maddogwisconsin 1 month ago
Thought he was British. He seemed to have the accent, and I think he meantioned in one episode where in his childhood he was moved to France.
Whiskersthecycat7 1 month ago
@Whiskersthecycat7 He was born in France, but his accent isn't french. Hmmm...
CaptainFluttershy 1 month ago
@CaptainFluttershy I do remember an episode where he criticized "red white and blue" stating that it should be "blue white and red." Heh... well, I thought it was funny.
Vegabond13 1 month ago
Speaking french in the Trek universe is considered archaic and there you have it if the EU bit their stubborn lip and united the churches under one pope and spoke english then the unification may work until then its a flawed idea!
2490debrick 1 month ago
As opposed to America, who can't win a war unless they drop nukes or severely outguns their opponents.
MrSlaide 1 month ago
Hey, don't be so hard on the French, its not easy being next to the Germans.
The French generally fought successfully against everyone else... except the Germans....
Ex3B 1 month ago
@Ex3B: ...and the British for that matter.
TheSmithersy 1 month ago
@Ex3B And the British. And you said "hard on".
KarmicAnarchist 1 month ago
surrender 250,000 british turd cowards shit it and ran away imagine that biggest cowards in history a quartewr million ran away........
mrlogicalman1 2 months ago
Funny thing is he is french in the show.
JordoF6 2 months ago
LMAO!! This is hilarious...and true. Well done. ;-D
Credithelper75 2 months ago
Why you must be American.
DoJaenin 2 months ago
Thank you for making me laugh!
Grubnar 2 months ago
Haha love it
misfit1978 2 months ago
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@TheSmithersy
Yes all have deplorable histories, Britain raped and pillaged the cultures of the Aborigines & the Maori. Even up to very recently institutional discrimination was practiced against these people. Not to metion Britain made Australia a prison colony.So not exactly what I would call a 'good' thing, now is it?
marmaladekamikaze 2 months ago
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marmaladekamikaze 2 months ago
LOL.
But seriously, french fought in the most battles out of all countries in Europe and won a lot of them.
GROOV3ST3R 2 months ago
Hi.
Just wanted to remind you all that you're debating international politics in the comments section of a Star Trek video on Youtube.
Bye.
Izayoiaki24 2 months ago 114
@Izayoiaki24 If you think this is strange, you probably don't know much about Trekkies or Youtube.
evercharmer 1 month ago
@Izayoiaki24 Best Youtube comment ever.
cotss2012 1 month ago
I did not see that coming.
sharperguy 2 months ago
they surrender just like the british 250,000 of them ran away can you imagine 250,000 uk and usa cowards
mrlogicalman1 2 months ago
Flagged and dislike. The French military is too great, if not the greatest, to be belittled like this.
TemplarX2 2 months ago
Wait, O'brian from DS9 is there? ;O
Colp2 2 months ago
@Colp2 He was originally a TNG character and transferred to DS9 when that series started.
DropkickLar 2 months ago
@DropkickLar if ur talkin about Worf.. he joined DS9 in season 4
JonBT 2 months ago
@JonBT No, talking about O' Brien..
DropkickLar 2 months ago
ROFL!
jedispy 2 months ago
It's not a false perception.
WW2: surrender
Vietnam: surrender
Algeria: surrender
aluisious 2 months ago
@aluisious In other news, there were only 3 wars in the history of humanity.
Lioyd1rving 2 months ago
@Lioyd1rving
Lol you got him lovely!
marmaladekamikaze 2 months ago
-and now a break from historical arguments-
Which episode is this from and what,briefly, was the context of Picard's surrender?
Calcubite 2 months ago
@Calcubite i believe it is the first tng episode and he's trying to escape from Q but decides to surrender to save the other half of his ship with the crew, civilians etc onboard.
goofytickle 2 months ago
Colonization is nothing to be proud of.
HindsightPOV 2 months ago 10
@HindsightPOV Why isn't it? Thats such a rediculous thing to say!
2490debrick 1 month ago
@2490debrick
Don't be a douche.
HindsightPOV 1 month ago
@HindsightPOV I don't know what that means but either way sod off I wasn't if you look at Jean-Luc Picards profile on Memory-Alpha the Star Trek Wiki it tells you canon material and that in the Trek universe the french languae is Archaic and secondly speaking as a Star Trek fan who believes it as an ideal universe even if fictitous our governments could learn a thing or two from Gene so again Sod Off!
2490debrick 1 month ago
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@2490debrick
I'll paraphrase. When I said, "Don't be a douche," I was telling you not to be a pompous ass. Do you know what that means?
When a nation is colonized, the people are brutalized by raping and pillaging. You think that's something to be proud of. What a horrible person you are. If you were subjected to colonization, you wouldn't be so in favor of it and view any admonishments of it being "rediculous".
The Star Trek universe isn't fond of colonization, unless if you're a Cardassian.
HindsightPOV 1 month ago
@bravepercennius are you insane? As someone who actually does live on a tiny island (i.e. the 227 square mile Isle of Man), i find your suggestion that the UK is a tiny island laughable.
thorkyll 2 months ago
I absolutely HATE these Youtube Star Trek Mash-up Videos... But I have to admit... this one was funny!
deepatel123 2 months ago
@deepatel123 Then you've obviously never seen "Dayjob orchestra". Check them out.
KarmicAnarchist 1 month ago
Oh, haha. Very funny.
xTsukiTsuki 3 months ago
Oh my god. I can't stop laughing xD
whohie 3 months ago
@bravepercennius Indeed my understanding is that English isn't the official American fist language, in spite of the fact many individuals and states (28) wish it were, so feel free to shrug off the oppression of the English language. Speak the free tongue of the French, German or Hebrew people, because they're never been know for committing any oppressive acts or forcing institutions onto their people.
TheFlashman 3 months ago
@bravepercennius Wow, I'd be rude too but then I'd just be stooping down to your level. Let's just say Americans often sound funny to us to.
I decided to independently check my facts as the vote I was referring to was something I was told in school by my German teacher. Turns out the vote he was probably referencing was a vote against bilingual publication on January 13, 1795 where the House of Representatives defeated an bill to print 3,000 federal laws into German.
TheFlashman 3 months ago
I'm reminded of the two French peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia back in the 90s. They awoke to find their position surrounded by Serbian forces, who announced through a megaphone that the Frenchmen were to be taken prisoner, and that terms would be dictated for their release, which they should now relay to HQ via their field radio.
After a short conversation, they demolished the radio with their rifle butts and threw the pieces out for the Serbs to see. They'll fight a sensible war.
TheEdwardtheBooble 3 months ago
@bravepercennius America voted to use the English language, otherwise you'd be speaking German
TheFlashman 3 months ago
@TheFlashman And without America you would now speak german - How ironic...^^
SuperJuliusC 3 months ago
@SuperJuliusC Actually if you knew a bit more about the war then you'd say, 'without Russia you'd now speak German'. If you haven't done so already I suggest you read up about the 'eastern front' the campaign between German and Russia. It's a little taught subject (particularly in US) but that was the decisive conflict of the war.
Oh and that's beside the point that Germany actually wanted to sue for peace after conquering France and it was only Britain's belligerence that kept us in the war.
TheFlashman 3 months ago
@TheFlashman Well you could say that Hitler was obesessed with England.
That`s why he spared the english expedition corps at Dunkerque and allowed them to escape - Big mistake but better than living in a Nazi reigned Germany!
SuperJuliusC 3 months ago
@SuperJuliusC You can certainly say he admired Britain and envied the Empire. He probably saw it as proof of his racist ideals.
No one really knows why they didn't crush the BEF on the beaches of Dunkirk. It's generally accepted as a colossal f'ck up by the Nazis. Not an act of mercy. From what I've read about it there's the suggestion that the Germans had plunged deeper into France than expected and didn't know what to do. They also never expected the English to do what they did to escape.
TheFlashman 3 months ago
@TheFlashman Well there is that story that during WW I Hitler`s life was spared by a british soldier - He even had a fantasy drawing of this man in his office.
No wonder that they left France - If I would have been captured by those SS scumbags I really wouldn`t have fraternized with those brainwashed pigs...
SuperJuliusC 3 months ago
@TheFlashman Well said.
admiralfilms 3 months ago
@SuperJuliusC
It's frightening that obtuse morons like you believe that myth.
TheDarkFrontier 3 months ago
@TheDarkFrontier Please be more specific - And by the way: Leave your cheap insults at home!
SuperJuliusC 3 months ago
@SuperJuliusC
The myth - that without America we'd all be speaking German. We all needed each other just as much in the Second World War, but if you want to split hairs about it, the Soviets did far more damage to both Germany and Japan than the US could ever have done alone.
So don't talk to me about cheap insults when you propagate such a moronic idea. It just makes you look like a jerk.
TheDarkFrontier 2 months ago
@TheDarkFrontier It was a joke - You jerk!
SuperJuliusC 2 months ago
@TheDarkFrontier
Well said but I think the Japanese were damaged more by the Americans than the Soviets.
trevorwatson 2 months ago
made me lol
MrBoBoTom 3 months ago
pointless rattling of sabre antics...one must love youtube for all the waste that gets spewed cock fighting over who has the biggest political/social/military (DICK) ... me I LIKE STAR TREK!!! thats why we all came here right :)
cmdrkhaine 3 months ago
@bravepercennius As in, the US alone has blame for the atrocities committed in the US itself during the 19th century, the only ones that fit in the definition of Manifest Destiny. That's not meaning that nobody else wronged the natives, but Manifest Destiny has too specific a meaning for them to count in that.
I can see why that caused confusion, I didn't have enough characters to elaborate. Indeed, debates on semantics are utterly boring, it was though rather a terminology issue from the start.
StraitKnopfler 3 months ago
@bravepercennius When did I say that the British never committed heinous atrocities against the Native Americans? They sure did!
What I said however, and will say again, is that 'Manifest Destiny' strictly refers to the American idea that the United States should span the entirety of North America. Ergo, Manifest Destiny is the fault of the US alone.
If you think the British abuse of the natives is something they should be ashamed of, fair enough, but you can't call that 'Manifest Destiny'.
StraitKnopfler 3 months ago
@StraitKnopfler who sided with the natives during the war of 1812 then?
JunkAndMusic 3 months ago
@JunkAndMusic Well, it was divided, 15 native tribes were on the British side and 3 were on the American. That predates, and is unrelated to, Manifest Destiny, though.
StraitKnopfler 3 months ago
@bravepercennius I wouldn't say that Manifest Destiny is rooted in Divine Right of Kings as such, I'd say that they were both independently derived from the idea of Divine Providence.
Whichever derivation you prefer, speaking as an independent party, I still don't see why Britain is to blame for that. I suppose you could argue that the ideology was rooted in English culture, maybe true, but only the US itself is responsible for the atrocities against the native people during the 19th century.
StraitKnopfler 3 months ago
:D
G2097 3 months ago
@bravepercennius It's interesting that people who slag off the British ALWAYS speak the language of Britain - English. Why? Doesn't this make them hypocrites?
masere 3 months ago
@masere and usually base their legal system on the British model.
TheFlashman 3 months ago
as funny as it is stupid : )
DanFrederiksen 3 months ago
@bravepercennius Manifest Destiny originates in the 19th century, after American independence, and came to encompass the belief that the United States should span the entire North American continent, to the detriment of the natives. It had nothing to do with Britain whatsoever.
StraitKnopfler 3 months ago
Hey, all you Euros. France and Britain both can suck America balls! AHAHAHAHAHA! AMERICA AMERICA MY HOME AND NATIVE LAND (Sorry, just my attempt bring people together against a common ememy.)
gtalover2k 3 months ago
hahahaha
r2d2rx 3 months ago
Oh dear jumping jehoshaphat. That was bloody brilliant!
Aettaro 3 months ago
@bravepercennius ouch, sounds like someone's seething with jealousy LOL
TheAtheistFuture 3 months ago
LOL
vintagevideogamegeek 3 months ago
You should have kept the Full line
"Commander, signal the following in all languages and on all frequencies. We surrender. State that we are not asking for any terms or conditions."
Sailorsega 3 months ago
@bravepercennius: No need to resort to abuse. Where have I done that to you that warrants these insults? Also as a matter of fact we still own 16 countries.
TheSmithersy 3 months ago 5
@TheSmithersy well as much as i like england they did try to erase America and subjugate the US but regardless that is the past and england aint the ally it used to be to america
smitto21 3 months ago
@smitto21: Of course you do have to bear in mind that England created america. Without Britain there would be no USA today so by all means they were entitled to it.
TheSmithersy 3 months ago
@TheSmithersy no i understand that i ment as far as the war of 1812 goes america was independent and had been for a while and england tried to destroy us
smitto21 3 months ago
@smitto21: Well actually, the aim of the war of 1812 was for the US to try and take Canada from the British Empire.
TheSmithersy 3 months ago
@smitto21 not true; america was english, all the people were english........ the american war of independence was english people fighting english people.
thorkyll 2 months ago
@thorkyll
That is why in the United Kingdom it is considered a Civil War
collguyjoe99 2 months ago
@bravepercennius: A tiny island that controlled a quarter of the world with the largest empire in history.
TheSmithersy 3 months ago 10
@TheSmithersy It was no larger than the Spanish Empire.
Izoupun 2 months ago
@Izoupun: Not true, the British Empire was a good 13 million square kilometres bigger than the spanish empire.
TheSmithersy 2 months ago
@TheSmithersy Not when you include the territories of the Iberian Union (Portuguese) then it is comparable, and the % of population under it is also comparable in relativity to the world populations during the different empire's eras. In any case I don't condone wars between between different kinds of Europeans, at least not the West and the free Slavs (Poles). I admire the HRE & EU and the fact that both Germanics and Latins played major roles in protecting us from Muslims & spreading civility.
Izoupun 2 months ago
@TheSmithersy
Why would you be proud of an empire that has some of the worst human rights abuses in history? None of which are entirely in the ancient past either e.g 'Britain's gulags' is a great book on the matter.
marmaladekamikaze 2 months ago
@marmaladekamikaze: I'm proud of an empire that spread civilisation and democracy throughout the world.
TheSmithersy 2 months ago
@TheSmithersy
Civilisation and democracy, wow how deluded you are, where was the 'spreading' of democracy and Civilisation in Britain's Slave trade, the Sino Opium wars, the Penal laws, the Amritsar massacre, the two Bloody Sunday's, Britain's Gulags and etcetera etcetera. Furthermore provide some evidence to back up this often touted, but never substantiated, claim that Britain spread 'civilisation', I'm all ears!
marmaladekamikaze 2 months ago
@marmaladekamikaze As the germans said in WW1: Gott strafe England.......for their hypocrisy!
MrHaakwood 2 months ago
@marmaladekamikaze DEMOCRACY abso-bloody-lutley YES. How? Simple, the USA was born out of the brightest and best of British democratic ideals and without doubt the single biggest influence on the modern world is The good ol' US of A. Tell me you don't drink Coke or watch US telivison or benefit from US involvement in WW2 and the Cold War???? Also technology, medical advances and promoting rights which other people in shit places led by fucking animals hope to live by and rise up to gain!
dogma01011951 2 months ago
@dogma01011951 you stupid kent america was built to make war for the cash how can you sleep at night oh thats right your govenment keeps you all brainwashed so they can do as they please
SkullMaster64 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
@SkullMaster64 I sleep fine because I've never done anything to hurt anyone seriously. I think I landed a couple of punches at school and thats about it. Since then I've given to charity both inside this country and to outside this country on an annual basis. Come and visit my country and I hope you'll be surprised to see a lot of average people who just want to do the best for their families.
dogma01011951 2 months ago
@dogma01011951
You do know that the largest ethnic group in the USA is German right? so even if I were to concede to your flawed argument, we would have to really give props to Germany. Is this really how you try to legitimize Britains deplorable actions? Furthermore the USA was born out of those that read Voltaire, and the French Revolution just have a look at the US constitution and the similarities in the writings.
marmaladekamikaze 2 months ago
@marmaladekamikaze You don't need to concede anything. My argument is based on historical fact. I also don't have to legitimize anything Britain has done before my opportunity to vote at the age of 18, and even then the majority of British people don't vote. I'm glad the US took their revolutionary furver from France because for the most part France had it right during their revolution. Thier King was a joke, but the problem was they then got a bloodthirsty dictator in Napoleon.
dogma01011951 2 months ago
@dogma01011951
Britains Kings & Queens were jokes. In fact all kings and queens are jokes, the divine right of kings & Queens is about the dumbest thing humanity every subscribed to. But you are quite right, you don't have to legitmize anything Britain did before your opportunity to vote, but what about the crimes it is doing right now? Like the refusal to compensate the Kenyan men & women who were forceably castrated and tortured in Britain's gulags by British 'soldiers'.
marmaladekamikaze 1 month ago
@marmaladekamikaze If this crime is true then the soldiers should be prosecuted and punished. Take it up with the BBC who fail to report on anything that doesn't involve celebrities or politicians who are basically the same thing.
dogma01011951 1 month ago
@dogma01011951
I don't live in Britain therefore can't take it up with the BBC. Further crimes that go unmentioned is that Derek Wilford still retains his OBE award when the Saville inquiry has dispelled any shadow of a doubt to the contrary, The para regiment he commanded did indeed open fire on unarmed civilians.Chagos people of Diego Garcia are being refused to return to their homeland because the British government want the Island as a military staging post.Wikileaks revealed
marmaladekamikaze 1 month ago
@dogma01011951 Yeah I was just thinking how much my life has been enriched by watching US TV and drinking coke. lmao!
redplague 2 months ago
@redplague Yeah, not quite the butchering that the anti-english idiot talks about constantly even if you're being sacastic.
dogma01011951 2 months ago
@marmaladekamikaze Moan about the British, but politely forget about all the evil other Empires did. I guess the Spanish, French, Portuguese get let off as their slavery and conquering must have been nice. But oh no, the British are pure evil. Wish people would approach it from a wider perspective rather than with the British are evil frame of mind. Just rather pathetic, and ill informed. The Africans sold Africans as slaves. Portuguese started the African slave trade by the way.
yonumpty 2 months ago
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@yonumpty
That argument is pretty shakey, its the equivalent to saying- well gang warhead in my hood is pretty bad, peeps dying all the time, so I'm goin ring up the USSR and get em to nuke this place, afterall what's the difference between 1 death and a million? I can just imagine the British Empire as the kid in a school yard who brings in an sten gun, because there are bullies at the school,massacres everyone and then whining- ''they started it''.Grow up and take responsibilty
marmaladekamikaze 1 month ago
@yonumpty I see, so put another way your argument is akin to a Soviet or Nazi 300 years from now trying to gloss over the nazi's or Soviet's use of concentration camps by saying- 'well the British invented the Concentration camp'' so we didn't start it or anything-, as a way of trying to divert attention and deluding himself by not facing up to the responsibilty of killing millions. The British empire was immoral and evil, largest slave trader in history. Accept it. No 'but..but'.
marmaladekamikaze 1 month ago
It's funny cuz he actually is loooool
xlntjames 3 months ago
I ROFLd SO HARD!
sniperslayer95 3 months ago
The only reason the French surrendered to the Nazis is because of the heavy damage they took during WWI. France is like a guy who ran 25 miles in a marathon before giving up while Britain and America are like the fat guys taunting them on the sidelines.
Wintermute01001 3 months ago 5
@Wintermute01001: Well the British took heavy damage as well in the Blitz and they didn't surrender.
TheSmithersy 3 months ago
@TheSmithersy The blitz was a fast moving armored vehicle rush. The Channel spared Britain in the early part of the war. No country was prepared to deal with that kind of assault in 1939-1940.
Kariakas 3 months ago
@Kariakas: I said The Blitz, not Blitzkreig.
TheSmithersy 3 months ago
the french always catch flak (so to speak) for surrendering to the german army in the early 40s... EVERYONE surrendered to them in the early 40s... well except for the british, the russians and the americans... the ones who 'won' the war bytheby. but we must not forget all of the brave frenchies who fought and died as partisans to help destabilize the german war effort... they helped 'win'... oh and i'm not french, but i love french girls and the vino is great...
cwross1976 3 months ago 3
@cwross1976 That's just one example. The french earned the slur nickname "surrender monkeys" by doing it repeatedly and then always blaming others and being bailed out by others.
wrjamescom 3 months ago
You're also shit at rugby...
WorldSacred 3 months ago
One of the most hilarious videos I have ever seen! Laugh every time I think of this!
snaptogeek 3 months ago
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with a name like Jean Luc.. is there any doubt?
jeydo 3 months ago
ROFLMAO!
Sorayn 3 months ago
hahaha!
KatrineJakobsen 3 months ago
How funny that Americans entertain the idea was France was on the losing side during WW2! France's army, under the command of Charles de Gaulle, won over Italy (French army entered Rome BEFORE the Americans), liberated Paris, invaded and occupied nazi Germany. Meanwhile we all know that the US has had clear and evident victories in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Irak, Afghanistan...
flownet07 3 months ago
@flownet07 If I recall, the American army let the French walk through Paris first for PR reasons.
YesWeCantaloupe 3 months ago
@YesWeCantaloupe Unless I am wrong, I believe general Eisenhower's plans were to avoid Paris altogether and race toward Germany. He also understood how important it was for the French to liberate Paris by themselves. So yes, there is a PR reasoning behind letting general Leclerc 2e DB to enter Paris first. What is annoying is this anglosaxon attitude to portray the French as cowards eager to surrender. This Picard video is another example of such an unfair portrayal.
flownet07 3 months ago
Funny. French surrendering. Americans don't even surrender when they fight other people's battles. Except 'NAM.
WebVManReturns 4 months ago
@WebVManReturns Or when Americans surrendered during the battle of Detroit in the War of 1812. When Americans surrendered Fort Sumter at the start of the civil war (granted, it was a surrender to other Americans, but it was a surrender). Or when American forces in the Phillipines surrendered to the Japanese during World War II?
GGUBoss 3 months ago
I feel guilty for laughing at that.
Astbruchgefahr 4 months ago
i think he was canadian
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