The song was banned by the BBC, which considered it well nigh treasonous, completely not getting it, despite the wonderful and hilariously ironic refrain line, "Don't let's be beastly to the Hun."
Actually, Germany didn't start World War I. Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, started it when he assassinated heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and caused an Austro-Hungarian retaliation, provoking continental war. Germany was obligated to go to war and aid it's ally.
@mij194 The British started WW1 by deliberately letting it happen, as we wanted a fragmented central Europe, as other powers over the centuries had also done, especially the French - and Bismark was changing that. We were the ones who thought we had the most to lose from Bismark's unification of Germany.
@andarai24 Right, and behind it all was the nefarious Professor Moriarty. To place the blame for World War I on a single nation in that time is oversimplification to a fault. And to think that Britain alone could have prevented the war is likewise.
@scienceatheism Nietzsche loathed Prussian militarism and anti-semitism and warned that German dreams of expansionism were going to be the death of European culture. Not wrong there. NB you did have someone a bit like Nietzsche, he was called H L Mencken. But read Nietzsche again, I think you might have got him a little wrong. Ecce Homo is his funniest because he was quite mad when he wrote it. But, to re-iterate, he would have hated the Nazis who took his name in vain.
It's eventually going to be revealed that Anglo-American bankers started both world wars with provocations and false flag operations. They are gearing up
for WWIII now. Noel Coward was a clever fellow, but he wasn't in the loop so
he was just reiterating the propaganda that had propelled Britain into a second conflict with "the Hun" that Hitler tried to avoid.
@KiwiTomCrawford He is being sarcastic, he hated the Germans. After the war people were saying dont be horrible to the Germans and hold grudges and he was saying DONT FORGET WHAT THEY HAD DONE.
@yesthatmitch Hey, play civil. Besides, YOU missed the point that KiwiTomCrawford was merely refuting MrGrevy's mistaken statement that Noel Coward was "Supporting the holocaust".
A wonderful propaganda song for the new rapprochement with Germany that had to come about after the war. It's saying "Look they're a horrible lot, but we have to get along with them."
@venomx2 do you know what time is? that is that thing that makes things beeing long ago - that changes the status quo, that changes generations - there are some more countries which do things like the germans did 60 years ago. stop blaming germans for things that have nothing to do with theire "now".
@sinetravel "the English also are basically Germans"
and french, dutch, italian & danes... and if Mary I had her own way spanish.... those old english are now welsh and irish. Now that should explain a lot...
@sinetravel How are we all Germans mate. We have Roman, Norman and Saxon, and quite a lot of new blood coming into the country over the past 50 years. BUT HOW DOES THAT MAKE US GERMAN. Does that mean cos the President of the USA is half African , all the Americans are African.
I removed my comment because it fostered miscommunication. As replacement, I offer: (1.) this song is clearly satire and I didn't mean to suggest otherwise; (2.) probably (a.) N. Coward's experience as a homosexual was often difficult and (b.) he might have called the difficulty a type of persecution in his own life; (3.) I didn't mean to suggest he or the song was "actually" pro-Germany. I wrote my first comment too poorly to defend it. I'll just delete it. :)
Coward was a conservative. Just cuz he was gay doesn't mean he was a love-everyone-and-everything hippie liberal. Don't suppose he was against giving someone a good wack for bein out of line.
The Treaty of Versailles paved the way for WWII, so maybe they were just trying to throw the Germans a few bones so that there wouldn't be another war right away.
@moleman9000 I don't think it's really ironic. He is arguing against an overly lenient approach. Quite in keeping to their hypothetical approach to him.
This is satire and the target is soft-headed people who think we must focus on why humans are weak - murdering millions of Jews, invading Poland, France etc. being examples. The idea is that we should not tolerate such behaviour! Introduction "This is a satire directed at a small minority of excessive humanitarians who, in my opinion, were taking a rather too tolerant view of our enemies." End, "lets soften their defeat again, and build up their bloody fleet again!".
@cliff1prince Well, he does say very clearly, it was written as a satire against excessive humanitarians. As his sexuality was then punishable by imprisonment, it seems a bit off to say he'd never experienced persecution. And actually, he does say "don't let's be beastly to the Hun" - which is a mass noun, btw, and doesn't admit of a plural.
@MZ0007 Noel Coward was theoretically subject to the laws agaisnt homosexuality. He was also a patriotic Englishman, who served in both World Wars (as a common soldier in the Artists Rifles in WWI and a spy in WWII.) .
"Forty years ago he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since. No private considerations have been allowed to deflect the drive of his career; like Gielgud and Rattigan, like the late Ivor Novello..." Not very far in the closet!
@cliff1prince Huh?? What are you on about? Noel Coward was an arch-satirist, he explains in the intro that this song is a satire of pacifists; he was employed by the BBC propaganda department during the war for goodness sake. Do some research before you start asking stupid questions and bringing his sexuality into it,
Cohzaku .. the aparity bit is "let's give them full air parity", that is, let them have equal power with the British in the strength of their air defences. In that war, as in many others after it, who had air supremacy was a crucial factor in determining who won.
can anyone tell me what word he says at 1:49. It sounds like Aparatee. I'm thinking Opportunity, since Noel typically muddled a word to fit in the flow of his lyrics, but I want to make sure.
It's very hard to find Noel Coward's lyrics online, so I've pretty much be limited to just typing them out myself. I still miss the odd word here and there, so thanks for the help. ^.^
Oh what a sting in the tail there is in this typical Noel Coward song! He wrote it and sang it at a time when the Germans were being very beastly to us in Britain, now we are all the best of friends...well, except on Sunday afternoon 27 June.
To me as a german this song is funny and poignant at the same time. I don't know what the hell happened to my ancestors to start these wars. The german culture, science, music. writers, thinkers and art are totally opposed to that nazi bullshit.
Today we are a nation that isn't very proud of itself, and we get mixed feelings when we sing our anthem. It's all a fucking mess and it's not easy for germans to face the past, so don't be too beastly to us.
I think uncertainty and humility are the first two steps toward wisdom. The U.S. certainly has a great deal to be humble about and uncertain about. And not just in the recent past. In the distant past as well.
I know where you're coming from. There are a lot of Americans who think they have nothing to be proud of other than being white and American. For them, criticizing anything America does is a personal attack and they get very defensive and nasty and jingoistic.
But I still believe that America's greatest strength is all those in positions of power who have a great deal of optimism about America's future who see all of America's flaws as things that can and must be corrected.
The ability to criticize oneself is at the same time a sign of humility and a sign of tremendous self-confidence.
I apologize on behalf of all those idiot Americans on YouTube who think that the rest of the world shouldn't even be allowed to -comment- about the U.S. in an international forum such as YouTube. They are idiots. And they're extremely insecure. They are the Ugly Americans.
I sort of see America as a kind of United Nations. Every nation has sent their citizens here. Every religion. Every culture. America is sort of like a reduplication, in miniature, of the world.
Even TheHill88 is here for now.
And what's beautiful is that, here, everybody pretty much gets along.
@ReliableInsider "Readiness to criticise itself". I think not! Americans are by and large so self-confident as to be deluded regarding their own ability and popularity - both as individuals and nationally. Just watch American Idol. Fools who cannot sing at all are devastated and break down when told that they cannot sing. It takes a British judge to have the guts to say this. Americans have spent so many years tellings each other how great they are that they have lost touch with reality.
germany had some of the greatest contributions to science, music, writing and the thinkers that came from there are just oh man if we americans would ever have someone like Friedrich Nietszche i think our whole nation will melt in his arms as his writing has gotten me through some shit dude. Odd though, out of all people for Nietszche to be my "guide" in my time of need.
Cherie...Sure...of course a country doesn't need to prove herself in a sport.... but we have a prob which will never be forgotten..i was called here, a "Hitl.r...bit..h "or a "Nazi ...wh..e" ... i was also blocked coz of such prejudices and when i told muslime religion is fanatic i was abused extremly,typical for a german to tell such dopey crap... arrogant..( but i can tell my fee opinion, a human right )....and much more i could tell ...LOL
@gfks11 - Germans are much sophisticated in various topics, my dear... Your country does not need to prove herself in soccer... I fail to understand all the fuss.. You have plenty of reasons to be pround of Deutschland...
Germans learned well to hide their Nazism.If you want a proof that Germans are still Nazis then just tell them they look 1/8 Polish or British or Slawic or Greek. Just 1/8 th.And then watch their reaction.They are still crazy to be a pure blooded superior Race. The worst thing is that they see 1/8 th other European Blood as a Danger for their Race.They would fight it down much more if these Persons are Intelligent civilized persons.Disgusting Nazis still hide their intention.
Noel Coward first and foremost was an Entertainer, he was also a loyal Englishman. He made as much parody of England as he did Germany, but he was English. He was loyal to England. Regardless of his procilivities he was a gentleman and that in these feckless tiimes makes him a rather unique man.
This is easily the most sarcastic song I've ever heard. Noel Coward really did have wit and tact- having watched Blitz Street on tele recently I find the lyrics, particularly the closing ones very poignant...
Reliableinsider, Clarification necessary for Reliableinsider...Noel Coward was talking about a small group of people, NOT ❝minorities❞ in the sense of nationalities, but rather, he was referring to just a few people who had a certain view! DUH!
too the people who rather talk about his sexuality and pc etc. this is a form of humour it does involve the use of your brain, on which on the comments (some) this kind of humour is watsed on you so here a word that may register to your very limited intelect. poo poo there all better for you retards
Listen to the beginning description Noel Coward explains why he wrote the song. Some missed his point TOTALLY.
He said... ‶The song I am now going to sing you was written during the war years as a SATIRE directed AGAINST a small minority of EXCESSIVE humanitarians who, IN MY OPINION, were taking a rather TOO TOLERANT VIEW of OUR enemies″
Yes, except the "PC" part. Minorities are not "our enemies". They are our friends. They are our relatives. They're us.
In fact, the biggest minority group in America are the Germans. An even bigger minority group than the English. And they helped us BEAT the Nazi rotters. So . . .
No.
We're all minorities now. So not insulting minorities is not insulting ourselves.
@ReliableInsider Actually if you consider all British Isles (Scottish Irish (North and South) English and Welsh origin citizens of the USA as one ethnic group then they outnumber the German speaking origin citizens. And German American soldiers were almost entirely & intentionally deployed against the Japanese in the Pacific rather than against the Germans in Europe.
I was surprised that there were so many Germans but I'm quite pleased to hear that British-Americans still outnumber them, being Scots-Irish American myself.
Well except that German Americans DO actually outnumber British Americans because Irish aren't British, any more than Swedish and Dutch Americans are German.
the song is very interesting and funny, due to the fact that the british actually behaved like he mentioned. they reinstated germany and it was a good thing for both countries.
But perhaps, just perhaps - you should ask people in Prague, Warsaw, Denmark or Norway if it was such a good idea to "...help the scum to rise again".
I actually wish at times I had a posh accent, for the reason I think it helps over here in picking up women. No offense, but a guy could be as dumb as a box of bricks and if he had an English accent, he could pick up women in America. You guys should erect a shrine to James Bond. No telling how many of you he's helped to get laid.
magistr88: With respect, I encourage you to consider adopting a gentleman's attitude toward women. Think, speak, and act respectful toward all women. That includes women in your own family. This probably will give the you the best chance of having fulfilling friendships with women, and I believe men will respect you for it as well. Good luck.
@magistr88 I have a rather posh English accent, but I hate it at times because people laugh at me for pronouncing glass as 'glarse' or enunciating correctly. However, it does get you noticed, that's true. Also, while I'm not terribly fond of a London accent, cockney is bloody sexy.
That being said, I believe that private citizens ought to have guns because many people hunt here but more importantly, criminals have them. You can call the police, but by time they get here your whole family can be massacred. Even if firearms were outlawed, criminals would still get them. Oddly enough, criminals don't mind breaking the law. lol
I only drink Tequila in a margarita. I have had it straight, but don't recommend it. It's too potent. I do like a good margarita. Patron is the best quality here.
sorry guys as an Englishman i apologize for the comments made by this offensive creep called warrenhob- this weirdo is just an embarrasment to all English people. please dont think we are all like this bigoted fool. why should anyone have to put up with such comments from this nasty evil piece of work ? he spends hours on an AMERICAN website-youtube then abuses its comment facility with nasty remarks ,i wouldnt even trade comments with the loser - just report him and get him banned
But I suspect you are a supporter of the IRA and are stalking, so perhpas you should watch your mouth you obscene piece of filth and scum! You knwo the only sites I normally get to and it is not American sites, you gobshite!
So is that the big insult you guys have for each other in Britain. When we get mad at somebody over here we call them a motherfucker, you call them an IRA supporter. Too funny!
No son, he is IRA. He stlaks me because he cannot accpet that the IRA are no more and are beat! If we get mad at another Brit, we will quite simply invite them to go away in short, sharp, jerky movements. The Irish IRA supporters need robust handling, like dogs, thats what they react to best!
Americans are more direct, maybe you'd say even crude. You Brits would call someone a cad, dolt, knave or some like term of endearment. We find words like m-effer and sob to be more effective and time saving.
No actually we dont mess around with those sort of words, we would call someone a wanker,tosser,fuckwit,nonce. Then we have rhyming slang, so Americans become septics, Septic tank = yank. Shirt lifter = gay. etc.
I don't know; motherfucker, son of a bitch and asshole and shit heap just seem to have more of a bite to them. Over here if I called someone a wanker, tosser, fuckwit or nonce they'd laugh. I guess its just a difference of culture. I think it's good to have these kinds of expressions to fall back on. Like a park my car by a tree and a large limb falls on it and crashes my windshield, golly gee whiz just doesn't seem to adequately convey my feeling!
Your last scenario would probably get the "oh bollocks" quote, or fucking shitbag! Two states we seem to have affinity for more than any others are strangley California and Texas! It is the straight talking we Brits like.
@Clarice007 well, they shouldn't because the correct spelling in english english is with the "Z"...(according to the OED, which is not an ill-considered publication)... because, literally, it means "make an apology"...similarly "theorize" or "summarize" etc etc... :)
@1971matteo Well they should, actually, because I am talking about modern English, not archaic older forms from the days before spelling was standardised, and not incorrect forms from the days after education was dumbed down, or American forms leaking through via cultural imperialism. :-)
@1971matteo Well they should, actually, because I am talking about modern English, not archaic older forms from the days before spelling was standardised, and not incorrect forms from the days after education was dumbed down, or American forms leaking through via cultural imperialism. :-)
Why do you feel the need to plagiarize my insults? {Actually I'll help you with this one. You've never been able to keep pace with American ingenuity.) Why do you take yourselves so seriously when the rest of the world looks at how far and fast you've fallen and have a good, hard, long laugh at you? Why don't you excuse yourself while you've got a shred of dignity?
Plagiarise you insults? I dont think an educated Brit has any need to copy any elmer. You see we educate our people at a younger age! And the Commonwelath is the biggest club of nations in the world, even none members of teh Empire are joining, who knows, we may even allow the yankee chap in sometime, not yet though, still not good enough!
You lying shit sack. You called me shit for brains. Come on that's funny, too funny for any Brit to come up with it. You people are about as scitillating as chewing on a piece of cardboard.
Too funny for a Brit. Well then elmer, we invented the language and our Humour is developed way beyond what you hicks could even comprehend. Look, it is quite clear what keeps your brains apart...bollocks! Apart from that, you are just the broken handle on teh carrier bag of life, so fuck off sonny or I will get real nasty!
You already are nasty. I can smell you all the way over here. It's getting to be the New Year. Why don't you take your once a year bath early. You Brits are tough around the lips, nowhere else. Don't break off more than you can carry bitch! No, it's not the your humor is sophisticated, it's just that Brits just lack the humor gene. You people burst out laughing at shit that makes Americans scfratch their heads. You people are funny, just not intentionally!
Well elmer, the British use twice as nuch bathroom soap products as the whole of the rest of europe put together. Oh and that also means we use twice as much per head than the US, now you could say thats because we are dirty, but no..we are clean. You see the Royal Navy understood cleanliness back in the 1700s and it is inbuilt in a Brit! We lead, the rest follow! And yes we laugh at humour, the US are still laughing at Benny Hill and we think it history!
Most of the people who are old enough to think Benny Hill funny are senile and in retirement homes. The same people laugh at their own shadows or water dripping out of a faucet. Speaking of your annual bath, do you get sandblasted for leap year? For a goof, why don't you try washing your crack too this year?
Ah, personal insult, the last bastion of the small mind! Only in america can it happen that a man of 18 is sent to war but cannot buy a glass of beer at home. But as for cleanliness, again I speak fact. Lets look at what you like in the US, Chowder is a good start, a soup imported from Plymouth(Cornish). But you have yet to comment about being trounced by the Vietnamese! Come on gobshite, run your gums over that one.
Sure, I'll talk about Vietnam, a jungle, if we can talk about how you've been the world's most militarily agressive nation since 1066 and have absolutely nothing to show for it. Geez, talk about spinning your wheels and going nowhere in a hurry!
I hate chowder. I prefer a bowl of chili. That's something you don't have over there. As for personal insults, you seem to rely on those yourself. Sadly for you, most never hit the mark.
Chili? Of course we do numbnuts! Oh and THE favourite food of the Brit is Indian, hot Indian is our national dish and the US has nothing to compare with that! Personal insults? you do that very well all by yourself!
Your idea of chili is as inconsitent with ours as your version of football. There is no way in hell you have chili over there. See we've both been insulting each other but then all of a sudden you started moralizing about it. Kind of like we both do the same things for a while, you stop doing them and point the finger at us. Weak, very weak!
I seriously doubt you ate any habeneros. Hell, I used to live in Florida, where were alot of British tourists and the restarants had to make the food bland to make it tolerable to the British palate. I truly hope you are not trying to accuse me of being involved with the IRA. That would just be too damn ridiculous. For producing people like Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, it seems many of you buy into innuendo and urban myth far to easily over there.
Er no sonny, we eat habeneros, jalapeno and and scothch bonnet. Ever tried to eat Indian food? It si way hotter than your bland palate could ever imagine. By the way, this guy proper twat is IRA, he is sore that I rub his nose in it so he stalks me! And as for making food bland for Englsih tourists, hahahahaha, that is the daftest thing you have said!
No, Kingfisher or Carlsberg or Cobra, first and latter are specifically designed by Indians to compliment very hot food and are the king of piss coloured beers. You dont have anything to touch the Indian beers in the USA.
So you haven't drank Sam Adams or Fat Tire. Screw the kid stuff, let's see you hold down whiskey or tequila. You do have rum though, but I don't know if you guys drink it so much anymore.
Sam Adams is fine, I prefer the San Franciscan Anchor Steam, that is a very fine brew! Depends on the age group here, whisky(Scotch) is excellent and Gin of all denomintions is popular. Tequila is popular with the youngsters(you can drink here at 18). White rum is more popular though spiced rum is drunk by mainly women. I personally am a malt man, Balvenie is my tipple.
Well, what kind of whiskey do you have over there? Jack Daniels is a perennial favorite over here followed closely by Southern Comfort. I have disagreed with much of what you have said, but when you said the drinking age ought to be 18, you were right on (high five, do you guys do that?). I mean it's 21 over here but it's not like people mature a whole hell of alot in those 3 years. If a person can join the military & be tried as an adult, they should be able to drink.
It is warm by comparison to how Americans drink beer but this is Ale we are tlaking about and it is cold, just not ice cold. It would be like serving Red wine out of a freezer. Almost all Americans who try ale love it and believe it or not, most regular US visitors love the Indian food as well! By the way, whatever you think about the British, we love the USA. Look at a vid post called Changing of the Guard-Wake of September 11. 10,000 americans starnded here and the Queen ordered a special!
If I want to get shit faced fast, I like the American Wild Turkey, its tastes evil but gets you on your back quick! There is a mico brewery in Saratoga(Bay Area) that serves the best "lager" beer in the World! As for wine, Sonoma and Napa are World Class! I lived in California for a while!!
Yeah, my friend is into wine. He knows alot about wine, but he's not one of those weird connisseur types that tastes "hints of licorice and minced ground beef" in it. He can pick up on the oak notes though. As far as I'm concerned that's too much damn work. I drink to get shit faced. I don't drink all the time, but when I do I like to get shit faced. Occasional escapism can be healthy I think. Reality is such a bitch at times.
We do it too often here, our nanny government is trying to stop us drinking. No US Government would have the audacity to try that one. We have pubs which are very unique and are social centres and great fun!
Hell no! Prohibition is dead here and good riddance to it as far as I'm concerned. I've been to a pub before, but it was in the day time when I guess people were working, so I didn't get a true flavor for it. The closest thing we have here are sports bars where people go to drink beer, watch TV, hang out with the guys and try to pick up on the ladies. I believe you guys go there to talk, like you used to in the coffee houses. Starbucks is big here too, though!
No further offence intended, but I've heard that your government is not sensitive to the will of the British people. I have heard that many of you are not happy about belonging to the EU. Let me follow up on that by saying that the American gov't sucks and will continue to suck for four more years. Feel free to trash our GOVERNMENT to your heart's content. I can't stand our gov't no matter how much I love this country & its people.
If you said to a Brit, would you have one choice, to become a US state or join the EU, the US would be the way. I am sorry that all of the work to put the US on the World stage is going to be as you would say, FUBAR. And it looks like your lot want the NRA to be put down as well, fucking cheek of the sods! The nicest and warmest people of the planet are you Americans(apart from the imigration control at the gateway airports). Though I do tease the older ladies in the states!
If when you are talking about the NRA, you mean the National Rifle Association, then I can assure you that people where I live are against it. We're not exactly the wild west anymore, but many of us do like to hunt. The way I look at it a gun is a tool. Taking guns away from people IMHO doesn't cut down on crime necessarily. If a person wants to hurt other people there is a whole plethora of ways to do it. Knives, fire, poison, tire irons etc. It's no the gun its the person holding it,
your blase aceptance of guns is shocking. you have regular psychotic shoot ups where dozens of people die. that never happens with knives, etc. you need a clam down on criminals carrying guns, rather than arming civilians.
thumbs up if you think he sounds like stewie griffin
Zoe4631 4 weeks ago
@Zoe4631 Thumbs up if stewie griffin actually sounds like Noel Coward.
TheInnocence111 1 week ago
The song was banned by the BBC, which considered it well nigh treasonous, completely not getting it, despite the wonderful and hilariously ironic refrain line, "Don't let's be beastly to the Hun."
salamanca1954 1 month ago
This song was mentioned on NPR today. Had to come look it up. :)
saxquiz 1 month ago
@saxquiz same here :D
WunderWaffleman 1 month ago
Great piece of work by Mr Coward. Think that too many amateur intellectuals have too much time on their hands!
aroprop02 2 months ago
On a lighter note, try Coward's "Could you please oblige us with a Brenn gun". To my mind, the best line is "We'd almost be ashamed of it in Rome".
andarai24 3 months ago
Actually, Germany didn't start World War I. Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, started it when he assassinated heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and caused an Austro-Hungarian retaliation, provoking continental war. Germany was obligated to go to war and aid it's ally.
mij194 4 months ago 2
@mij194 The British started WW1 by deliberately letting it happen, as we wanted a fragmented central Europe, as other powers over the centuries had also done, especially the French - and Bismark was changing that. We were the ones who thought we had the most to lose from Bismark's unification of Germany.
andarai24 3 months ago
@andarai24 Right, and behind it all was the nefarious Professor Moriarty. To place the blame for World War I on a single nation in that time is oversimplification to a fault. And to think that Britain alone could have prevented the war is likewise.
salamanca1954 1 month ago
QI Brought me hear
Primus2X 4 months ago
@scienceatheism Nietzsche loathed Prussian militarism and anti-semitism and warned that German dreams of expansionism were going to be the death of European culture. Not wrong there. NB you did have someone a bit like Nietzsche, he was called H L Mencken. But read Nietzsche again, I think you might have got him a little wrong. Ecce Homo is his funniest because he was quite mad when he wrote it. But, to re-iterate, he would have hated the Nazis who took his name in vain.
laurederives 4 months ago
It's eventually going to be revealed that Anglo-American bankers started both world wars with provocations and false flag operations. They are gearing up
for WWIII now. Noel Coward was a clever fellow, but he wasn't in the loop so
he was just reiterating the propaganda that had propelled Britain into a second conflict with "the Hun" that Hitler tried to avoid.
whodareswings 5 months ago
@whodareswings Nice try, but that's a steaming heap of malarky.
salamanca1954 1 month ago
'Dont mention the War !' ;)
Animatrixx 5 months ago 6
bs'd
Thanks Craig Ferguson :o)
mamamitzvah 6 months ago 2
@mamamitzvah and thank you Alice Eve :P
lwrncc 5 months ago
Supporting the holocaust? Wow this guy was disgusting.
MrGrevy 7 months ago
@MrGrevy how is this guy supporting the holocaust?
KiwiTomCrawford 7 months ago
@KiwiTomCrawford He is being sarcastic, he hated the Germans. After the war people were saying dont be horrible to the Germans and hold grudges and he was saying DONT FORGET WHAT THEY HAD DONE.
ibbiwho 6 months ago 3
@KiwiTomCrawford Look! Over there! It's The Point! Quickly! There it goes! Ah, you missed it. never mind.
yesthatmitch 6 months ago 3
@yesthatmitch Hey, play civil. Besides, YOU missed the point that KiwiTomCrawford was merely refuting MrGrevy's mistaken statement that Noel Coward was "Supporting the holocaust".
happychef229 5 months ago
@yesthatmitch Lovely post, well played! One really does, well, despair, what?
nuf294w 2 weeks ago
@MrGrevy Clearly you have never encountered satire in your entire life...
CharlieHuang 5 months ago
A wonderful propaganda song for the new rapprochement with Germany that had to come about after the war. It's saying "Look they're a horrible lot, but we have to get along with them."
kevinastraw 7 months ago
@kevinastraw The jews were worse.
MrGrevy 7 months ago
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@MrGrevy *points and laughs at you.*
venomx2 5 months ago
@venomx2 Laugh all you want. Look at the US and the UK to see the results of multiculturalism and the culture of critique.
MrGrevy 5 months ago
@MrGrevy You keep telling your self that kid. *sniggers at the poor little nazi*
venomx2 5 months ago
@venomx2 Wow you're really clueless. Sad. Have fun at the Wisconsin fair, and riding the bus in Philly my open minded friend!
MrGrevy 5 months ago
@MrGrevy *pats your head* grow up boy.
venomx2 5 months ago
@venomx2 Good lord do you even know what I'm referring to? Lane Price indeed.
MrGrevy 5 months ago
@MrGrevy I know you think you do. *shrugs* whatever helps you sleep at night.
venomx2 5 months ago
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@venomx2 You're not even making sense now.
MrGrevy 5 months ago
@venomx2 do you know what time is? that is that thing that makes things beeing long ago - that changes the status quo, that changes generations - there are some more countries which do things like the germans did 60 years ago. stop blaming germans for things that have nothing to do with theire "now".
robsn20k 5 months ago
@robsn20k Now you're putting words in my mouth, I never said anything about the germans.
venomx2 5 months ago
British Royal family are Germans, the English also are basically Germans. Explains a lot.
sinetravel 7 months ago
@sinetravel "the English also are basically Germans"
and french, dutch, italian & danes... and if Mary I had her own way spanish.... those old english are now welsh and irish. Now that should explain a lot...
BaroqueJazzPlays 7 months ago
@sinetravel How are we all Germans mate. We have Roman, Norman and Saxon, and quite a lot of new blood coming into the country over the past 50 years. BUT HOW DOES THAT MAKE US GERMAN. Does that mean cos the President of the USA is half African , all the Americans are African.
ibbiwho 6 months ago
I removed my comment because it fostered miscommunication. As replacement, I offer: (1.) this song is clearly satire and I didn't mean to suggest otherwise; (2.) probably (a.) N. Coward's experience as a homosexual was often difficult and (b.) he might have called the difficulty a type of persecution in his own life; (3.) I didn't mean to suggest he or the song was "actually" pro-Germany. I wrote my first comment too poorly to defend it. I'll just delete it. :)
cliff1prince 8 months ago 2
It's bleedin' irony, innit?
borisinborough 8 months ago
Don't let's be beastly to Osama.
belili 9 months ago
Brilliant song. Brilliant man. :)
Quarryman99 9 months ago 2
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean
But that couldn't happen again
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bothered us since then...
MLF Lullaby
Tom Lehrer
1965
RA59 10 months ago 2
Rudolf Hess wasn't a doctor. Just sayin'.
I love the song though.
threemillionrivets 10 months ago
ha ha i love this its a toatl piss take
MissMazzaaMusic 10 months ago
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Perrygodmother 10 months ago
Coward was a conservative. Just cuz he was gay doesn't mean he was a love-everyone-and-everything hippie liberal. Don't suppose he was against giving someone a good wack for bein out of line.
fraysherkrane 10 months ago
The Treaty of Versailles paved the way for WWII, so maybe they were just trying to throw the Germans a few bones so that there wouldn't be another war right away.
4lx123 11 months ago
@amsoemq Um, well my humble guess is that they're either thick as pigsh8t, or the concept of irony is beyond them. Or a combination of both.
It's You Tubne, the place where videos and archives enchant, and comments drive one to welcoming The Reaper with open arms.
Rumpelstiltskinsky 11 months ago
What's slightly ironic is that Noel was on the list of people that the Nazis would have sent prison if they had managed to invade England.
moleman9000 1 year ago
@moleman9000 I don't think it's really ironic. He is arguing against an overly lenient approach. Quite in keeping to their hypothetical approach to him.
Elaine101able 1 year ago
Brilliant - how un-PC and it would nevermake it anywhere in todays Britain. You had the best years Noel !!!
MsEla62 1 year ago
This is satire and the target is soft-headed people who think we must focus on why humans are weak - murdering millions of Jews, invading Poland, France etc. being examples. The idea is that we should not tolerate such behaviour! Introduction "This is a satire directed at a small minority of excessive humanitarians who, in my opinion, were taking a rather too tolerant view of our enemies." End, "lets soften their defeat again, and build up their bloody fleet again!".
laug66 1 year ago
Great song, I remember when this played on the menu music in Darkest Hour back in it's early beta days.
EricToTheScionti 1 year ago
Great video. but not as good as the Astonished Heart, released on DVD for the first time on January 24th 2011
filmbuff48 1 year ago
comprehensible point of view and extremely funny.
although it did us a lot of good that the western governments didnt follow coward (what a lamentable name) in his opinion
ultiochristi 1 year ago
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cliff1prince 1 year ago
@cliff1prince Well, he does say very clearly, it was written as a satire against excessive humanitarians. As his sexuality was then punishable by imprisonment, it seems a bit off to say he'd never experienced persecution. And actually, he does say "don't let's be beastly to the Hun" - which is a mass noun, btw, and doesn't admit of a plural.
MZ0007 1 year ago 2
@MZ0007 Noel Coward was theoretically subject to the laws agaisnt homosexuality. He was also a patriotic Englishman, who served in both World Wars (as a common soldier in the Artists Rifles in WWI and a spy in WWII.) .
"Forty years ago he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since. No private considerations have been allowed to deflect the drive of his career; like Gielgud and Rattigan, like the late Ivor Novello..." Not very far in the closet!
ajferet 9 months ago
@cliff1prince Huh?? What are you on about? Noel Coward was an arch-satirist, he explains in the intro that this song is a satire of pacifists; he was employed by the BBC propaganda department during the war for goodness sake. Do some research before you start asking stupid questions and bringing his sexuality into it,
disamjisa 11 months ago
@cliff1prince It is satire.
He means exactly the opposite of what he sings here.
southernlight6 10 months ago
@cliff1prince It is satire.
He means exactly the opposite of what he sings here. They were an awful enemy at the time.
southernlight6 10 months ago
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@cliff1prince It is satire.
He means exactly the opposite of what he sings here. He is mocking those who wanted appeasement
southernlight6 10 months ago
Cohzaku .. the aparity bit is "let's give them full air parity", that is, let them have equal power with the British in the strength of their air defences. In that war, as in many others after it, who had air supremacy was a crucial factor in determining who won.
TheAndarai 1 year ago
let's BE beastly!!!
andrea000x 1 year ago
can anyone tell me what word he says at 1:49. It sounds like Aparatee. I'm thinking Opportunity, since Noel typically muddled a word to fit in the flow of his lyrics, but I want to make sure.
Cohzaku 1 year ago
@Cohzaku Let's give them fuller parity and treat the rats with charity. Is that what you mean?
Clarice007 1 year ago
YES!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
It's very hard to find Noel Coward's lyrics online, so I've pretty much be limited to just typing them out myself. I still miss the odd word here and there, so thanks for the help. ^.^
Cohzaku 1 year ago
@Cohzaku, it sounds like "full out parity" to me.
gilliberable 1 year ago
Малко ретро...и остроумия :?!
NobleBrightS 1 year ago
hahaha who says sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
markstar777 1 year ago
Do me a favour and SHOOT every last one of em - Failing that do not allow them to pro-create and let nature take its course. Thanks in advance.
2JAMMY 1 year ago
Oh what a sting in the tail there is in this typical Noel Coward song! He wrote it and sang it at a time when the Germans were being very beastly to us in Britain, now we are all the best of friends...well, except on Sunday afternoon 27 June.
Gavestonful 1 year ago
lets be extremely beastly to the b' s
abcdefgOhplease 1 year ago
Well let's see come sunday !
tk421ify 1 year ago
To me as a german this song is funny and poignant at the same time. I don't know what the hell happened to my ancestors to start these wars. The german culture, science, music. writers, thinkers and art are totally opposed to that nazi bullshit.
Today we are a nation that isn't very proud of itself, and we get mixed feelings when we sing our anthem. It's all a fucking mess and it's not easy for germans to face the past, so don't be too beastly to us.
Lintflas 1 year ago 24
@Lintflas On Sunday... we are going to be seriously beastly to you !
abcdefgOhplease 1 year ago
@abcdefgOhplease I hope so! You'll need all the beastliness you can get to win that match! :)
Lintflas 1 year ago
@Lintflas
I think uncertainty and humility are the first two steps toward wisdom. The U.S. certainly has a great deal to be humble about and uncertain about. And not just in the recent past. In the distant past as well.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@Lintflas
I could be wrong. What do I know? I'm just a humble student of political science.
But I think America's greatest strength has -always- been its readiness, and even eagerness to criticize itself, and to grow.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@ReliableInsider readiness, and even eagerness to criticize itself????
You must be joking...right?
All you have to do is mention a minor flaw of America to an America, and you get accused of being anti-American or a terrorist!
The only eagerness I see is to criticize your current President, and to instill a false sense of superiority.
gramophoneshane 1 year ago
@gramophoneshane
Don't let's be beastly to the Americans.
lol
I know where you're coming from. There are a lot of Americans who think they have nothing to be proud of other than being white and American. For them, criticizing anything America does is a personal attack and they get very defensive and nasty and jingoistic.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@gramophoneshane
But I still believe that America's greatest strength is all those in positions of power who have a great deal of optimism about America's future who see all of America's flaws as things that can and must be corrected.
The ability to criticize oneself is at the same time a sign of humility and a sign of tremendous self-confidence.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@gramophoneshane
I apologize on behalf of all those idiot Americans on YouTube who think that the rest of the world shouldn't even be allowed to -comment- about the U.S. in an international forum such as YouTube. They are idiots. And they're extremely insecure. They are the Ugly Americans.
But not all Americans are that way.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago 10
@ReliableInsider Not all, but unfortunately far too many.
royalcourtier 1 year ago
@gramophoneshane
I sort of see America as a kind of United Nations. Every nation has sent their citizens here. Every religion. Every culture. America is sort of like a reduplication, in miniature, of the world.
Even TheHill88 is here for now.
And what's beautiful is that, here, everybody pretty much gets along.
Harmony is possible.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@ReliableInsider "Readiness to criticise itself". I think not! Americans are by and large so self-confident as to be deluded regarding their own ability and popularity - both as individuals and nationally. Just watch American Idol. Fools who cannot sing at all are devastated and break down when told that they cannot sing. It takes a British judge to have the guts to say this. Americans have spent so many years tellings each other how great they are that they have lost touch with reality.
royalcourtier 1 year ago
germany had some of the greatest contributions to science, music, writing and the thinkers that came from there are just oh man if we americans would ever have someone like Friedrich Nietszche i think our whole nation will melt in his arms as his writing has gotten me through some shit dude. Odd though, out of all people for Nietszche to be my "guide" in my time of need.
scienceatheism 5 months ago
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@AugustusAurelianus1
Cherie...Sure...of course a country doesn't need to prove herself in a sport.... but we have a prob which will never be forgotten..i was called here, a "Hitl.r...bit..h "or a "Nazi ...wh..e" ... i was also blocked coz of such prejudices and when i told muslime religion is fanatic i was abused extremly,typical for a german to tell such dopey crap... arrogant..( but i can tell my fee opinion, a human right )....and much more i could tell ...LOL
However....Kiss....Judie:-)
gfks11 1 year ago
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Hahaha...right...please be nice...WHEN WE ARE SOCCER WORLDMASTER....Hahahaha!!!!
gfks11 1 year ago
@gfks11 - Germans are much sophisticated in various topics, my dear... Your country does not need to prove herself in soccer... I fail to understand all the fuss.. You have plenty of reasons to be pround of Deutschland...
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Germans learned well to hide their Nazism.If you want a proof that Germans are still Nazis then just tell them they look 1/8 Polish or British or Slawic or Greek. Just 1/8 th.And then watch their reaction.They are still crazy to be a pure blooded superior Race. The worst thing is that they see 1/8 th other European Blood as a Danger for their Race.They would fight it down much more if these Persons are Intelligent civilized persons.Disgusting Nazis still hide their intention.
Verfassungsschutzer 1 year ago
Noel Coward first and foremost was an Entertainer, he was also a loyal Englishman. He made as much parody of England as he did Germany, but he was English. He was loyal to England. Regardless of his procilivities he was a gentleman and that in these feckless tiimes makes him a rather unique man.
SquadronCommander007 1 year ago 2
dont be beastly to the Germans,especially the ones in Windsor castle.
pilgim 1 year ago 21
coward! nuff said
pilgim 1 year ago
This is easily the most sarcastic song I've ever heard. Noel Coward really did have wit and tact- having watched Blitz Street on tele recently I find the lyrics, particularly the closing ones very poignant...
jeaniebthe1 1 year ago
Top-hole Mr.Coward! absolutely capitol!
alhellbound 1 year ago
coward??? what a name
1100101zero1 1 year ago
Reliableinsider, Clarification necessary for Reliableinsider...Noel Coward was talking about a small group of people, NOT ❝minorities❞ in the sense of nationalities, but rather, he was referring to just a few people who had a certain view! DUH!
adayinthelife54 1 year ago
too the people who rather talk about his sexuality and pc etc. this is a form of humour it does involve the use of your brain, on which on the comments (some) this kind of humour is watsed on you so here a word that may register to your very limited intelect. poo poo there all better for you retards
snemore 1 year ago 12
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fucking irland monkeys.
MegaWehrmacht 2 years ago
Listen to the beginning description Noel Coward explains why he wrote the song. Some missed his point TOTALLY.
He said... ‶The song I am now going to sing you was written during the war years as a SATIRE directed AGAINST a small minority of EXCESSIVE humanitarians who, IN MY OPINION, were taking a rather TOO TOLERANT VIEW of OUR enemies″
Still happening today―It is called PC.
adayinthelife54 2 years ago 14
@adayinthelife54
Yes, except the "PC" part. Minorities are not "our enemies". They are our friends. They are our relatives. They're us.
In fact, the biggest minority group in America are the Germans. An even bigger minority group than the English. And they helped us BEAT the Nazi rotters. So . . .
No.
We're all minorities now. So not insulting minorities is not insulting ourselves.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@ReliableInsider Actually if you consider all British Isles (Scottish Irish (North and South) English and Welsh origin citizens of the USA as one ethnic group then they outnumber the German speaking origin citizens. And German American soldiers were almost entirely & intentionally deployed against the Japanese in the Pacific rather than against the Germans in Europe.
Norvik1602 1 year ago
@Norvik1602
That's actually very interesting.
I was surprised that there were so many Germans but I'm quite pleased to hear that British-Americans still outnumber them, being Scots-Irish American myself.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@ReliableInsider
Well except that German Americans DO actually outnumber British Americans because Irish aren't British, any more than Swedish and Dutch Americans are German.
gunninlinguist 1 year ago
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actually, don't lets be beastly to anyone. lets just be nice for a change.
floppetylove 2 years ago 43
Would be a good idea if everyone followed it.
MZ0007 2 years ago 2
@floppetylove
You haven't understood a thing. Too pious I suppose. It gets in the way of enjoying someone like Noel.
TheGwenda 1 year ago
the song is very interesting and funny, due to the fact that the british actually behaved like he mentioned. they reinstated germany and it was a good thing for both countries.
peterpansen23 2 years ago 18
I don't think that makes it funny, I think it makes it poignant.
MZ0007 2 years ago 11
But perhaps, just perhaps - you should ask people in Prague, Warsaw, Denmark or Norway if it was such a good idea to "...help the scum to rise again".
victor190779 1 year ago
I actually wish at times I had a posh accent, for the reason I think it helps over here in picking up women. No offense, but a guy could be as dumb as a box of bricks and if he had an English accent, he could pick up women in America. You guys should erect a shrine to James Bond. No telling how many of you he's helped to get laid.
magistr88 3 years ago 45
magistr88: With respect, I encourage you to consider adopting a gentleman's attitude toward women. Think, speak, and act respectful toward all women. That includes women in your own family. This probably will give the you the best chance of having fulfilling friendships with women, and I believe men will respect you for it as well. Good luck.
AJMora 1 year ago 2
@magistr88
/watch?v=CcP8sVjZ5qg
rick4318 1 year ago
@magistr88 I have a rather posh English accent, but I hate it at times because people laugh at me for pronouncing glass as 'glarse' or enunciating correctly. However, it does get you noticed, that's true. Also, while I'm not terribly fond of a London accent, cockney is bloody sexy.
LuminousCorruption 1 year ago
@magistr88 that comment is as dumb as a box of bricks
bill9786 1 year ago
@magistr88
mate, the english accent doesn't work over here!! Although I don't have a wonderful accent....
Smurchison 1 year ago
That being said, I believe that private citizens ought to have guns because many people hunt here but more importantly, criminals have them. You can call the police, but by time they get here your whole family can be massacred. Even if firearms were outlawed, criminals would still get them. Oddly enough, criminals don't mind breaking the law. lol
magistr88 3 years ago
I only drink Tequila in a margarita. I have had it straight, but don't recommend it. It's too potent. I do like a good margarita. Patron is the best quality here.
magistr88 3 years ago
sorry guys as an Englishman i apologize for the comments made by this offensive creep called warrenhob- this weirdo is just an embarrasment to all English people. please dont think we are all like this bigoted fool. why should anyone have to put up with such comments from this nasty evil piece of work ? he spends hours on an AMERICAN website-youtube then abuses its comment facility with nasty remarks ,i wouldnt even trade comments with the loser - just report him and get him banned
properEnglishman 3 years ago
Er no I dont and if you were a "properEnglishman" you would back off fuck off and be quiet you piece of filth!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
But I suspect you are a supporter of the IRA and are stalking, so perhpas you should watch your mouth you obscene piece of filth and scum! You knwo the only sites I normally get to and it is not American sites, you gobshite!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
So is that the big insult you guys have for each other in Britain. When we get mad at somebody over here we call them a motherfucker, you call them an IRA supporter. Too funny!
magistr88 3 years ago
No son, he is IRA. He stlaks me because he cannot accpet that the IRA are no more and are beat! If we get mad at another Brit, we will quite simply invite them to go away in short, sharp, jerky movements. The Irish IRA supporters need robust handling, like dogs, thats what they react to best!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
Americans are more direct, maybe you'd say even crude. You Brits would call someone a cad, dolt, knave or some like term of endearment. We find words like m-effer and sob to be more effective and time saving.
magistr88 3 years ago
No actually we dont mess around with those sort of words, we would call someone a wanker,tosser,fuckwit,nonce. Then we have rhyming slang, so Americans become septics, Septic tank = yank. Shirt lifter = gay. etc.
warrenhobb 3 years ago
I don't know; motherfucker, son of a bitch and asshole and shit heap just seem to have more of a bite to them. Over here if I called someone a wanker, tosser, fuckwit or nonce they'd laugh. I guess its just a difference of culture. I think it's good to have these kinds of expressions to fall back on. Like a park my car by a tree and a large limb falls on it and crashes my windshield, golly gee whiz just doesn't seem to adequately convey my feeling!
magistr88 3 years ago
Your last scenario would probably get the "oh bollocks" quote, or fucking shitbag! Two states we seem to have affinity for more than any others are strangley California and Texas! It is the straight talking we Brits like.
warrenhobb 3 years ago
im not gay im just british
TheAwnman 2 years ago
So....Americans think terrorists are funny? That's news to me...
Clarice007 1 year ago
English people don't say "gobshite"
Clarice007 1 year ago
English people say "apologise", not "apologize"...
Clarice007 1 year ago 8
@Clarice007 well, they shouldn't because the correct spelling in english english is with the "Z"...(according to the OED, which is not an ill-considered publication)... because, literally, it means "make an apology"...similarly "theorize" or "summarize" etc etc... :)
1971matteo 1 year ago
@1971matteo Well they should, actually, because I am talking about modern English, not archaic older forms from the days before spelling was standardised, and not incorrect forms from the days after education was dumbed down, or American forms leaking through via cultural imperialism. :-)
Clarice007 1 year ago
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@1971matteo Well they should, actually, because I am talking about modern English, not archaic older forms from the days before spelling was standardised, and not incorrect forms from the days after education was dumbed down, or American forms leaking through via cultural imperialism. :-)
Clarice007 1 year ago
Why do you feel the need to plagiarize my insults? {Actually I'll help you with this one. You've never been able to keep pace with American ingenuity.) Why do you take yourselves so seriously when the rest of the world looks at how far and fast you've fallen and have a good, hard, long laugh at you? Why don't you excuse yourself while you've got a shred of dignity?
magistr88 3 years ago
Plagiarise you insults? I dont think an educated Brit has any need to copy any elmer. You see we educate our people at a younger age! And the Commonwelath is the biggest club of nations in the world, even none members of teh Empire are joining, who knows, we may even allow the yankee chap in sometime, not yet though, still not good enough!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
You lying shit sack. You called me shit for brains. Come on that's funny, too funny for any Brit to come up with it. You people are about as scitillating as chewing on a piece of cardboard.
magistr88 3 years ago
Too funny for a Brit. Well then elmer, we invented the language and our Humour is developed way beyond what you hicks could even comprehend. Look, it is quite clear what keeps your brains apart...bollocks! Apart from that, you are just the broken handle on teh carrier bag of life, so fuck off sonny or I will get real nasty!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
You already are nasty. I can smell you all the way over here. It's getting to be the New Year. Why don't you take your once a year bath early. You Brits are tough around the lips, nowhere else. Don't break off more than you can carry bitch! No, it's not the your humor is sophisticated, it's just that Brits just lack the humor gene. You people burst out laughing at shit that makes Americans scfratch their heads. You people are funny, just not intentionally!
magistr88 3 years ago
Well elmer, the British use twice as nuch bathroom soap products as the whole of the rest of europe put together. Oh and that also means we use twice as much per head than the US, now you could say thats because we are dirty, but no..we are clean. You see the Royal Navy understood cleanliness back in the 1700s and it is inbuilt in a Brit! We lead, the rest follow! And yes we laugh at humour, the US are still laughing at Benny Hill and we think it history!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
Most of the people who are old enough to think Benny Hill funny are senile and in retirement homes. The same people laugh at their own shadows or water dripping out of a faucet. Speaking of your annual bath, do you get sandblasted for leap year? For a goof, why don't you try washing your crack too this year?
magistr88 3 years ago
Ah, personal insult, the last bastion of the small mind! Only in america can it happen that a man of 18 is sent to war but cannot buy a glass of beer at home. But as for cleanliness, again I speak fact. Lets look at what you like in the US, Chowder is a good start, a soup imported from Plymouth(Cornish). But you have yet to comment about being trounced by the Vietnamese! Come on gobshite, run your gums over that one.
warrenhobb 3 years ago
Sure, I'll talk about Vietnam, a jungle, if we can talk about how you've been the world's most militarily agressive nation since 1066 and have absolutely nothing to show for it. Geez, talk about spinning your wheels and going nowhere in a hurry!
magistr88 3 years ago
I hate chowder. I prefer a bowl of chili. That's something you don't have over there. As for personal insults, you seem to rely on those yourself. Sadly for you, most never hit the mark.
magistr88 3 years ago
Chili? Of course we do numbnuts! Oh and THE favourite food of the Brit is Indian, hot Indian is our national dish and the US has nothing to compare with that! Personal insults? you do that very well all by yourself!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
Your idea of chili is as inconsitent with ours as your version of football. There is no way in hell you have chili over there. See we've both been insulting each other but then all of a sudden you started moralizing about it. Kind of like we both do the same things for a while, you stop doing them and point the finger at us. Weak, very weak!
magistr88 3 years ago
Oh, and when was the last time you ate a habenero pepper? I'd pay money to see a Brit eat a habenero!
magistr88 3 years ago
Last night actually! And Scotch Bonnet is a favourite!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
I seriously doubt you ate any habeneros. Hell, I used to live in Florida, where were alot of British tourists and the restarants had to make the food bland to make it tolerable to the British palate. I truly hope you are not trying to accuse me of being involved with the IRA. That would just be too damn ridiculous. For producing people like Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, it seems many of you buy into innuendo and urban myth far to easily over there.
magistr88 3 years ago
Er no sonny, we eat habeneros, jalapeno and and scothch bonnet. Ever tried to eat Indian food? It si way hotter than your bland palate could ever imagine. By the way, this guy proper twat is IRA, he is sore that I rub his nose in it so he stalks me! And as for making food bland for Englsih tourists, hahahahaha, that is the daftest thing you have said!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
Bull. Salt and pepper is almost too much for you! You need to come to Texas if you want to learn about eating spicy food!
magistr88 3 years ago
After you eat hot peppers do you wash it down with tea?
magistr88 3 years ago
No, Kingfisher or Carlsberg or Cobra, first and latter are specifically designed by Indians to compliment very hot food and are the king of piss coloured beers. You dont have anything to touch the Indian beers in the USA.
warrenhobb 3 years ago
So you haven't drank Sam Adams or Fat Tire. Screw the kid stuff, let's see you hold down whiskey or tequila. You do have rum though, but I don't know if you guys drink it so much anymore.
magistr88 3 years ago
Sam Adams is fine, I prefer the San Franciscan Anchor Steam, that is a very fine brew! Depends on the age group here, whisky(Scotch) is excellent and Gin of all denomintions is popular. Tequila is popular with the youngsters(you can drink here at 18). White rum is more popular though spiced rum is drunk by mainly women. I personally am a malt man, Balvenie is my tipple.
warrenhobb 3 years ago
Well, what kind of whiskey do you have over there? Jack Daniels is a perennial favorite over here followed closely by Southern Comfort. I have disagreed with much of what you have said, but when you said the drinking age ought to be 18, you were right on (high five, do you guys do that?). I mean it's 21 over here but it's not like people mature a whole hell of alot in those 3 years. If a person can join the military & be tried as an adult, they should be able to drink.
magistr88 3 years ago
Do you drink your beer warm over there. I don't think I'd like that too much honestly.
magistr88 3 years ago
It is warm by comparison to how Americans drink beer but this is Ale we are tlaking about and it is cold, just not ice cold. It would be like serving Red wine out of a freezer. Almost all Americans who try ale love it and believe it or not, most regular US visitors love the Indian food as well! By the way, whatever you think about the British, we love the USA. Look at a vid post called Changing of the Guard-Wake of September 11. 10,000 americans starnded here and the Queen ordered a special!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
If I want to get shit faced fast, I like the American Wild Turkey, its tastes evil but gets you on your back quick! There is a mico brewery in Saratoga(Bay Area) that serves the best "lager" beer in the World! As for wine, Sonoma and Napa are World Class! I lived in California for a while!!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
Yeah, my friend is into wine. He knows alot about wine, but he's not one of those weird connisseur types that tastes "hints of licorice and minced ground beef" in it. He can pick up on the oak notes though. As far as I'm concerned that's too much damn work. I drink to get shit faced. I don't drink all the time, but when I do I like to get shit faced. Occasional escapism can be healthy I think. Reality is such a bitch at times.
magistr88 3 years ago
We do it too often here, our nanny government is trying to stop us drinking. No US Government would have the audacity to try that one. We have pubs which are very unique and are social centres and great fun!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
Hell no! Prohibition is dead here and good riddance to it as far as I'm concerned. I've been to a pub before, but it was in the day time when I guess people were working, so I didn't get a true flavor for it. The closest thing we have here are sports bars where people go to drink beer, watch TV, hang out with the guys and try to pick up on the ladies. I believe you guys go there to talk, like you used to in the coffee houses. Starbucks is big here too, though!
magistr88 3 years ago
No further offence intended, but I've heard that your government is not sensitive to the will of the British people. I have heard that many of you are not happy about belonging to the EU. Let me follow up on that by saying that the American gov't sucks and will continue to suck for four more years. Feel free to trash our GOVERNMENT to your heart's content. I can't stand our gov't no matter how much I love this country & its people.
magistr88 3 years ago 2
If you said to a Brit, would you have one choice, to become a US state or join the EU, the US would be the way. I am sorry that all of the work to put the US on the World stage is going to be as you would say, FUBAR. And it looks like your lot want the NRA to be put down as well, fucking cheek of the sods! The nicest and warmest people of the planet are you Americans(apart from the imigration control at the gateway airports). Though I do tease the older ladies in the states!
warrenhobb 3 years ago
If when you are talking about the NRA, you mean the National Rifle Association, then I can assure you that people where I live are against it. We're not exactly the wild west anymore, but many of us do like to hunt. The way I look at it a gun is a tool. Taking guns away from people IMHO doesn't cut down on crime necessarily. If a person wants to hurt other people there is a whole plethora of ways to do it. Knives, fire, poison, tire irons etc. It's no the gun its the person holding it,
magistr88 3 years ago 3
I meant Texans are NOT against the NRA
magistr88 3 years ago 2
your blase aceptance of guns is shocking. you have regular psychotic shoot ups where dozens of people die. that never happens with knives, etc. you need a clam down on criminals carrying guns, rather than arming civilians.
naughtyboymessiah 2 years ago 2