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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: Luddite on 08 November 2013, 05:53:37 PM

Title: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Luddite on 08 November 2013, 05:53:37 PM
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Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: get2grips on 08 November 2013, 06:41:18 PM
If this is a civil war...they aren't on my side >:(
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Techno on 08 November 2013, 06:48:48 PM
Jeeves has obviously been busy with the laundry.
Must keep standards up though.  ;)
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Fenton on 08 November 2013, 06:52:17 PM
I say, is that bounder at the front using a frenchie machine gun?

Not cricket, not cricket at all
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Techno on 08 November 2013, 06:54:32 PM
Damn oik !
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: get2grips on 08 November 2013, 07:13:45 PM
Even the bloody dog looks like a snob ;D
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 08 November 2013, 07:49:37 PM
Dashed unsportsmanlike to shoot peasants pheasants with a belt fed gun.
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Sandinista on 08 November 2013, 10:09:00 PM
It's ok - they are in the middle of the minefield I laid during the night  ;)
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: get2grips on 08 November 2013, 10:39:46 PM
Quote from: Sandinista on 08 November 2013, 10:09:00 PM
It's ok - they are in the middle of the minefield I laid during the night  ;)

Result ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: sunjester on 09 November 2013, 01:59:55 AM
Quote from: Techno on 08 November 2013, 06:48:48 PM
Jeeves has obviously been busy with the laundry.
Must keep standards up though.  ;)
Cheers - Phil

One must ALWAYS keep up standards!
;)
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Orcs on 09 November 2013, 11:49:40 PM
Quote from: sunjester on 09 November 2013, 01:59:55 AM
One must ALWAYS keep up standards!
;)
Well this lot haven't they are using a Damn Frenchie machine gun
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Techno on 10 November 2013, 08:39:08 AM
One just doesn't get the same class of Toffs as one used to..
For shame ! ;) :P
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Ithoriel on 10 November 2013, 08:50:27 AM
Brandy, champagne, cheese, automatic weaponry ... all the classy stuff comes from France :-)
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: fsn on 10 November 2013, 08:55:25 AM
Sir! You're a blackguard!

Malt whisky, Port, Cheddar, and a good solid Bren gun! (Yes I know it's basically a Czech design, but it's been properly Anglicised.)

No need for Johnny Frenchman to enjoy a comfortable life!
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: get2grips on 10 November 2013, 09:04:34 AM
Quote from: fsn on 10 November 2013, 08:55:25 AM
Sir! You're a blackguard!

Malt whisky, Port, Cheddar, and a good solid Bren gun! (Yes I know it's basically a Czech design, but it's been properly Anglicised.)

No need for Johnny Frenchman to enjoy a comfortable life!

Huzzah!  =D> =D> =D>
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: howayman on 10 November 2013, 09:55:48 AM
"Damn the minefield ! Where is my tea?"
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Orcs on 10 November 2013, 07:44:57 PM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 10 November 2013, 08:50:27 AM
Brandy, champagne, cheese, automatic weaponry ... all the classy stuff comes from France :-)

Champagne was actually invented by an Englishman Dr Merret in 1662 some 20 years before the French Monk copied "our " recipe.  (Your right FSN typical blackguard thing to do)   :)
Also the advanced industrialisation of England allowed us to produce bottles that were strong enough for the secondary fermentation process.

So we are now looking for the French to pay us royalties on every bottle thay have produced in the last 340 years  :D
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 07:48:12 PM
 If you follow that  logic after the French have paid then we should pay the Italians who planted the vineyards there in the first place :D
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Orcs on 10 November 2013, 07:55:50 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 07:48:12 PM
If you follow that  logic after the French have paid then we should pay the Italians who planted the vineyards there in the first place :D

The Italians left the vineyards behind when they retreated   , evacuated , Ran away   went home.  And anyway vines are a plant not a patentable product
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 07:57:40 PM
Well I am going to blame you for the whole thing cos while I was looking it up I had to read a Daily Express article and now I will have to go and burn my eyes out
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Orcs on 10 November 2013, 08:05:37 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 07:57:40 PM
Well I am going to blame you for the whole thing cos while I was looking it up I had to read a Daily Express article and now I will have to go and burn my eyes out

Sorry Fenton, It could have been worse though.  I remembered it from the book "A thousand years of annoying the French" that i had read. When I looked it up I had to read a Daily Mail article  ;D
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 08:06:28 PM
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 10 November 2013, 08:05:37 PM
When I looked it up I had to read a Daily Mail article  ;D
You poor b*stard
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: fsn on 10 November 2013, 08:49:45 PM
More to the point, have the French ever made a good automatic weapon?

(http://www.mitrailleuse.fr/France/Chauchat/chauchat.jpg)
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Orcs on 10 November 2013, 09:31:36 PM
Quote from: fsn on 10 November 2013, 08:49:45 PM
More to the point, have the French ever made a good automatic weapon?

(http://www.mitrailleuse.fr/France/Chauchat/chauchat.jpg)


No one knows - all the adds for then say "Droped Once, Never Fired" ;D
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 09:37:53 PM
The Hotchkiss M1914 is a great weapon
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: HPFlashman on 10 November 2013, 09:42:48 PM
Where do the photo in the initial post stems from ? some sort of series ?  :)
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: fsn on 10 November 2013, 09:45:27 PM
I just assumed it was Luddite's staff.
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 09:47:02 PM
The one on the very left looks like Henry Winkler
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: fsn on 10 November 2013, 09:47:09 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 09:37:53 PM
The Hotchkiss M1914 is a great weapon

The one with the strip of ammunition that totally failed to work if it was dropped?
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: fsn on 10 November 2013, 09:48:53 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 09:47:02 PM
The one on the very left looks like Henry Winkler

The one next to him is definitely John Hurt.
Title: Re: Its a Very British Civil War
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 09:53:35 PM
Quote from: fsn on 10 November 2013, 09:47:09 PM
The one with the strip of ammunition that totally failed to work if it was dropped?


Yeah but it was impossible to put together wrong and they introduced a  belt feed in 1915