It's a long way to Tipperary and you're in a shell crater with the last of your division

[@stevenyourke7901]

There is something truly insane about the juxtaposition of these joyful popular songs and the bloody slaughter of an entire generation of young men in the trenches.

[@shinsekai101]

Well there is only one last sane thing in a war and that is a song. If it gets gloomy, in which some is gloomy, then what is it but a living hell on earth?

[@ryanpruner1853]

not really. its not as if the men dying were the ones who popularized it. i would guess the governments tried to get cheery songs into the heads of the men, as much as possible

[@truewalter4193]

Not the soldiers were the one popularising war, but the plague called Politicians (or monarchs in that timeline). They glorified war and propagandized it like the most honourable thing on earth. And the poor fools in the trenches believed that propaganda. Whats most sad is: Militaries around the globe still do it...Just watch a recruitment video of the military. War is shown almost as a fun time activity, like going on a party with your friends...But i guess if they would show a soldier who stepped on a landmine and whos guts are spilled all over, that wouldn't be got for "buisness". It makes me sick...War is bad, there is no heroism or honour in it. You die physicaly (get shot, etc.) or you die mentally (get PTSD/ traumatized).

[@nochpo4230]

A cheery song is sometimes all you have to keep you sane when you're in a hellscape.

[@stevenyourke7901]

@@truewalter4193 True. The military recruiters appeal to young men by emphasizing that the military “serves the country” and by noticing them with help for job training and education. Basically, appeals to their sense of pride and duty. It’s absurd and tragic how many fall victim to this false advertisement. They had to abandon the draft back in 1971 because there was so much resistance to it during the War in Vietnam. Now they mostly rely on poor kids without prospects. Join the Army! Learn a skill! Get finance for your college education! And serve your country”. What a load of BS. Meanwhile, the military industrial complex gets rich off the endless wars while innocent people in foreign countries are killed by the thousands.

[@mordapl1641]

POV: your company leader had his head blown off by a sniper and you are now being led by a 16yo corporal

[@liampett1313]

Oh it's good bloody fun. I think this is the real reason the Hobbit did not want to go on an "adventure"

[@tomaskanka6223]

@@liampett1313 This is...true...and cursed

[@Bacony_Cakes]

when the trees start speaking bismarck

[@Boredandscrolling]

The funny part is that the company commander was probably only 19 and you're probably only 17 in this situation.

[@jwadaow]

@Jacob Wilson @Bacony Cakes as if there would be any remaining foliage outside of Mametz...

[@grimgrahamch.4157]

"I died in Hell. They called it Passchendaele."

[@Rickolioo24]

@AAFamily99 99 the French front was worse because most Germans actually wanted the French and not the English

[@jakobming4831]

Please I ask of you What is the price of a Mile?

[@gnas1897]

@@jakobming4831 "6 miles of ground have been won, half a million men are gone" sadly, my math skills went kaput while trying to figure this out and now I can't do the equation

[@PhoenixT70]

It's a direct quote, you actual walnuts.

[@grimgrahamch.4157]

@@PhoenixT70 Yeah, literally no idea what these fucks are arguing about. OP was a phrase from British soldiers who survived Passechendale.

[@panzerkamf1237]

I think there was a battalion in the somme that had 800 men, by the next morning only 68 showed up for role call

[@greydivisiongaming8316]

sounds like the Newfoundland division. They went through hell

[@greydivisiongaming8316]

@@bigmoniesponge wouldn't surprise me at all, those men had balls of steel

[@EmbeddedWithin]

@@bigmoniesponge a normal US company at the time would have 170-200 ppl.

[@hellhoundactual8201]

My great great Grandfather was a Lt for them. 1060 men went over the night of July 1st 1916 65 came back the next morning, him included.

[@nikolakaravida9670]

There was a French captain who went to the frontline in Verdun with around 200 men. He returned with around 20, most of them turned insane. There's also a Verdun account of a German soldier looking at the men leaving the frontline (the men that his unit is supposed to replace). They looked like ghosts more than humans, with intense, gaping eyes.

[@cam4636]

Somebody started setting off fireworks as I was listening to this and I got real confused why the sound didn't stop when the video stopped lol

[@jrmungandr]

_Artillery doesn't stop_

[@l-nolazck-rn24]

I was once on a beach and some rich dumbasses began sending fireworks like if it was a Katyusha rocket launcher (probably not their fault and it was a fail on the mechanism). Thing is we were at night with the lights out and for the first minute it was scary as hell, the sound was heard in all the coast line and then we laughed at it, just before a rain of proyectile rests falling upon us. Cool experience if you think about it, but imagine how a german soldier on ww2 might have felt about the Katyusha rockets blasting their lines.

[@cam4636]

@@l-nolazck-rn24 Don't worry, I imagine they didn't feel for very long.

[@25thturtle48]

You can't switch the channel anymore

[@fsdds1488]

@UC9HwXwBaRxrlLWOPHuXTfig Earlier this year some stupid asshole fired a bunch of fireworks while driving in town, and it sounds exactly like a gunfight, luckily that they didn't get the big one.

[@thehillshaveaviators]

"War gave young men a sense of purpose and brotherhood" War:

[@alperaugustus4605]

whose quato is this

[@kiuremneitor5425]

Trauma bonding galore

[@Shoegazebasedgenre0.]

it really is though

[@BR0984]

It did and it does

[@someguy198]

And PTSD

[@fodge5395]

"Who would've noticed another mad man around here?"

[@Lo-tf6qt]

"Good luck, everyone."

[@ilikemyself1026]

"I have a cunning plan"

[@TheOtherguy-bs4ru]

“Wibble”

[@FalonGrey]

@@ilikemyself1026 "it'll have to wait I'm afraid."

[@RoofKoreanInTheWild]

​@@TheOtherguy-bs4ru London, a small town just outside the capitol city, Wibble

[@zeterman470]

"why are you men lying down? are you all bloody cowards?" asked the Lieutenant. The Platoon Sargent ,Groaning with a broken Shoulder, said "They're brave enough Sir, but their all fucking dead" -Poorly Paraphrased from Martin Gilberts book The First World War

[@jrmungandr]

Pointless to argue which world war was "worse" but I stand by my conviction that ww1 was the more miserable one combat-wise.

[@luizmatthew1019]

@@jrmungandr WW1 was worse for soldiers (unless you're Soviet), WW2 was worse for civilians

[@Ozymandias1]

@@luizmatthew1019 It was even more miserable for German soldiers cordoned off in Stalingrad.

[@Smile4theKillCam456]

they're*

[@mchagnon7]

They may be dead, but they're not dismissed!

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

*whistles blow* "Good luck, everyone."

[@0rurin]

still makes me cry, watching it

[@jrmungandr]

"I rather hoped I'd get through the whole show"

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

@@jrmungandr Tim McInnerny I think just about steals that scene with those few seconds of dialogue. Turns Darling from this petty villain, who we'd seen handed his comeuppance by Melchett turned into a sympathetic character.

[@jrmungandr]

Yeah it really fully humanizes all the characters, I think about the line "That's a nasty splinter on that ladder, a bloke could hurt himself on that!" every so often, it awesomely exemplifies the human tendency to compartmentalise our problems and to repress the reality of a hopeless situation. (Yes I know this comment is massively gay)

[@timtamthemememan5094]

I'd figured that he saw the splinter and would try to cut his trigger hand with it so he wouldn't have to go over.

[@thestonedabbot9551]

"I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who sent us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, rather than organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder." - Harry Patch (1898-2009), last surviving combat veteran of WW1

[@BoneSoldier0]

He said it best

[@elipetrou9308]

Rest easy Harry

[@hst615]

At least left of the Social-Democrats like Rosa or Lenin warned about this long before the massacre kicked off......

[@АлексейШле]

​@@hst615 ... and then they killed more Russians than Germans in WWI did

[@afailureofaanimator6744]

@@АлексейШле We comrades don’t talk about the last part. >3>

[@thesenate5913]

"please don't take me up there anymore sir i can't handle it, please sergeant" "dad the war's over"

[@cmcphotography1]

@Enclave Officer Z324 Yeah, I always feel pure dread and sadness realizing that we can't really do anything about it

[@banksp4]

These spellings of sergeant is killing me

[@GijsTheDog]

Worst part is that it's probably true.

[@thotarojoestar3045]

>sir >sergeant Pick one

[@thesenate5913]

@@thotarojoestar3045 both because i'm stupid

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

“Where is everyone?” “Right there, sir” “Are they cowards, tell them to get up” “They are quite brave, sir, but the problem is they’re dead” “Where are the reinforcements” “Dead, sir” “Who is alive” “You”

[@postponemalondry7622]

where is this from?

[@curtisreed4577]

@@postponemalondry7622 Martin Gilberts book The First World War

[@Clementinewoofwoof]

He’s talking to a body of a private would be the scariest twist...

[@pinhe1350]

*fade into dust*

[@Wyn_Wins]

The first Guy Is You And The Second Guy Is Your Teammate Spectating You

[@dominiquepemberton3935]

Alright lads!..... OVER THE TOP!

[@confusedaxolotl7833]

A good soldier always follows orders.

[@seanowens6888]

* whistle sounds above the noise of the shot and shell

[@Will-cm9dq]

Bag pipes start playing

[@dominiquepemberton3935]

(charges into no man's land fueled by Dutch courage)

[@inquisitionagent9052]

*Happy Krieg noises*

[@williamlydon2554]

“Just blow your nose, dry your tears, we’ll all be back in a few short years.”

[@mcsmash4905]

in the end everyone called it long rather than short

[@hirocheeto7795]

@@mcsmash4905 By "back in a few short years," he means back to war in World War 2.

[@plebisMaximus]

It'll be over by Christmas.

[@derpnugget3656]

damn that hit home

[@SStupendous]

@@hirocheeto7795 Yep, near to 30 years is a few short years

[@pyroshilov8474]

POV: You just witnessing your teammates get fragged by a 220mm round in Verdun

[@StrikeFromTheSkies]

POV: A level 100 squad joins the enemy team

[@shaggybottomtext8363]

POV: the enemy gets an airship with all the mark level players on it

[@williamszy2827]

**You just got ganked by some rando's over-levelled freinds**

[@realone4993]

The enemy called in a gunship

[@gilchrist8909]

Oh god imagine the smell and the body parts just there

[@Anonymous-uw6rj]

Do one for "I wanna be in the Cavalry"

[@jrmungandr]

Will look into it

[@rhyangautreaux4499]

@@jrmungandr I think specifically the reprise version would be best for something like this, since its more emotional.

[@dominiquepemberton3935]

I'm a former Cav Scout and would love this.

[@bradystead7480]

@@dominiquepemberton3935 Respect from your allies in the south, Aussie Cav Scout here.

[@jrmungandr]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fam6goV3ocp6p7s Sorry for the wait lads

[@myusername3689]

WWII may be more bloody, but WWI is much more disturbing.

[@CMCSS-to3to]

Yeah more people may have died but WW1 was a literal meat grinder. I don't think humanity has seen anything that terrific since then. And everyone went to war again in a few years. I guess we never learn lol

[@hershkrukover7846]

oh believe me... it wasn't... it's just the difference that soldiers on the both sides had realized that and didn't really have anything against the soldiers fighting for the other side while in ww2 the reality was completely different where soldiers and civilians from both sides wished the worst and would happily kill the enemy with their own hands

[@jackspital]

WW2 definitely was more mobile, and was less attrition based (unless you're talking about the Eastern front that is) and took many more millions of Civilian casualties compared to WW1

[@bobsjepanzerkampfwagen4150]

Have to disagree with that eastern front was brutal and let alone the fighting in the pacific

[@faithnfire4769]

Really it was just that trench warfare was so stagnant and cruel. On the eastern front there was massive casualties, large battles and atrocities abounding. But never much focus due to the fact that someone won and then lost and such. On the western front, the two sides merely blead each other out for years on end, until the Americans joined the war and the situation changed. Having the possibility of victory (or the ideologies required to ignore certain defeat) changed the emotional impact of the second world war I think.

[@ieatmice751]

It’s funny that I can recognise the sounds in the background from Bf1 I think I can hear a selbslader at some point

[@mariahmayers8869]

I think the audio is actually from another video

[@frostwolf1907]

The hellriegel at the end gave me flashbacks lol

[@Prodrentjet]

Lmao you can hear squad mates spawning in

[@neptune3569]

Must be 2:37

[@tomaskanka6223]

Yeah, and a Hellriegel too Note : Well, I just read the reply from Frostwolf.....ANYWAY, THE HELLRIEGEL...

[@FelipeJaquez]

WW1 and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[@sumvs5992]

Yes and no. WW1 definitely set in motion WW2, the cold war (and consequently the proxy wars), but we went from the biplanes of 1914 that weren't that great to the the giant bombers of 1918 that could be used for a far greater purpose like delivering goods.

[@IMP_ROM]

@@sumvs5992 The comment was a reference to the book, “Industrial Society and its Future,” in which the book starts with, “The Industrial Revolution and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race.”

[@sumvs5992]

@@IMP_ROM oh, damn

[@5000mahmud]

@@sumvs5992 you basically agreed with him

[@sumvs5992]

@Zhong Xi Na deliverance of goods is insignificant? Bro you aren't talking to me in person. You're stalking to me over the internet. That takes a lot of deliverance of raw goods delivered to factories, and the finished products delivered across the world. Not all delivered by plane, but people aren't transporting them by hand drawn cart. We now use engines, and engines have been developed so much since ww1 started to the point that you can now deliver thousands of liters of liquids with a truck and specialised container. Our quality of life has improved significantly to the point that people now basically possess magic items to people even 50 years ago. Even weapons developing so much has technically made war slightly more unlikely through nuclear weapons. Please, take a look at the world today. It is far better than that of a hundred years ago.

[@Bastion0211]

One of my Great Grandfathers fought in the First World War, he was responsibly for supplying the front trenches until he was resting and an artillery shell landed in front of him. Both of his horses were killed immediately, he received 40 shrapnel wounds of which one would’ve pierced his heart if it weren’t for his pocket book. He left that field without an eye, leg and good chunk of his chin along with 30 other wounds. In his words ‘I stood up, walked two feet and fell like a wet sack’, he went on to survive his injuries miraculously and lived a long life.

[@Bastion0211]

He did receive medals for his service but unfortunately they were stolen. All we have now is the pocket book, but knowing that saved his life makes it far more valuable

[@redlord1660]

@@Bastion0211 who the fuck out here is stealing war service medals? makes me angry

[@MrTh3archangel]

@@Bastion0211 Hang onto that Pocketbook, thats a very powerful/meaningful talisman.

[@nayten0324]

Respect to him man. I had two great great grandfathers in the military in WW1 but one served in southern England in the Air Force away from combat and the other was discharged on health conditions after over a decade of serving as a professional soldier in 1915 before he could he shipped off luckily. I did family history though and found so many distant uncles who died during this war.

[@alastor8091]

@@MrTh3archangel not even spiritual like that, but yeah, thats gotta be imbued with some kind of luck boost at this point. Fuckin legendary item with passive stat boost or something.

[@zeterman470]

"Private Hugh McWhirther mounted no gallant attack. He uttered no brave last words. He had simply been standing, deafened by the screech and explosion of artillery- a terrified boy in an ill fitting uniform in a Frontline trench near the ridge of Karakol dogh. Then, out of nowhere he had been blasted to red bits of khaki and flesh by a Turkish shell. Suddenly he was gone, and those beside him in the shallow firing trench were stunned. Sprayed by bits of shrapnel, dirt, and intestine they knew just as suddenly what this was was going too be about" - Hugh McFarlane on the first newfoundlander too die in The Great War

[@azkyoutube8708]

Jesus the way he described that makes it easy to just visualize the whole thing..

[@thomasa.anderson7121]

As a Turkish Battle of Gallipoli was horrific for both sides. RIP all who died for their country.

[@passgo8507]

And here we are on the precipice of another one.

[@doublepegleg9755]

Joyfully depressing. Stellar work.

[@jrmungandr]

Thanks brotendo

[@jrmungandr]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5rMc2SaYp52qKs you might like this too

[@NamorleCanarky]

actually on the HMS Tipperary, where 150 of its 197 crew was killed in wwi, the survivors were found when search ships heard them singing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"

[@nautilus6434]

really?

[@judelycan4973]

A similar thing happened in the Falkland's war with HMS Sheffield. It had been hit by a missile and was sinking and the crew, while waiting to be evacuated, all sang Eric Idle's "always look on the bright side of life"

[@robertcurry389]

When you, an Indian man, are sent to Ypres in Belgium to fight the Germans because a Serbian man shot the Austrian Archduke. 👁 👄 👁

[@vizaloron9242]

Mr. Worldwide

[@kyleterry5190]

Sent by the british

[@vaxcucksbelongintheovens7991]

Though luck. Next time don't get conquered by the bri'ish

[@tiddyfard4517]

This is probably the craziest thing of the past, I can't believe we now even have nukes involved in the mix for ww3

[@evryatis9231]

Pretty sure it was voluntary, as the economy of british india was so weak a village's economy could collapse if a single needed man was sent away

[@Alex-mv6yp]

"For God's sake where are the bloody reinforcements" "Sir... we're the reinforcements sir" "What?" "We are supposed to relief the previous division sir" "And where are those bastards?" "Scattered in pieces all over the battlefield....sir"

[@postponemalondry7622]

where is this from

[@Alex-mv6yp]

@@postponemalondry7622 IDK, I just made it up, except the las dialogue, that's from Jurassic Park 2 the lost world

[@cmcphotography1]

"I've been waiting for too long, where are those idiots?" "Who, sir?" "Our reinforcements" "Oh, I know where they are" "You do?" "Yes" "Where?" *Points all over the battlefield*

[@kobra3846]

Those bastards are all over the place

[@jokerarjuna8378]

"Over there, there, and down there."

[@JacF6734]

"My whole damned division believed in the glory of England so much, that - without orders - they marched halfway across Europe and into no man's land just to find that glory. And when we got there... all we found was mud, and blood."

[@colesontaylor1231]

HEY O'CONNEL! IT IS LOOKING TO ME LIKE WE GOT ALL OF THE HORSES!

[@97Snakeman]

@@colesontaylor1231 HEY BENNY ! LOOKS TO ME LIKE YOUR ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE SOOOOOOOOMME !!!

[@user-uc4vg4rg9e]

The mummy

[@drunkenleaf7854]

"These days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our head shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the front behind us:- against whom? Against whom?" Erich Maria Remarque

[@stephenlancedennee513]

against war that could easily be avoided

[@phoenix-xj2hl]

I would like to point out how great this comments section is by god

[@jrmungandr]

We have fun

[@beninthehills8155]

"He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why"-Glen Cook

[@jadedteevee]

What follows is frontline combat. You are not expected to survive.

[@Elster-512]

As a great man once said "The Young and naïve are sent to their deaths by the old and bitter"

[@ARandomTrooper]

I'll add on to this by making my own quote "the young and naive become the old and bitter then send more young and naive men to repeat the cycle

[@Elster-512]

@@ARandomTrooper amen nice one bro

[@me0101001000]

@@ARandomTrooper how depressingly true. What's it going to take to break the cycle?

[@bonfist1252]

army high ranks: there is no such thing as a ptsd, you’re just lousy soldiers

[@blackwoodsecurity531]

French high command after being forced to execute nearly entire divisions for "cowardice" when they organize and refuse to walk into killzones, "aight maybe they might be onto something there"

[@quantavious2721]

@@blackwoodsecurity531 Also France, complaining why they are running low.on man power

[@shaggybottomtext8363]

France when 3/5 of their army is in mutiny “bro just go fight the Germans 👁💧👄💧👁

[@samlosco8441]

@Communist Memer I think he's referencing the French mutinies toward the end of WW1. I believe either in 1917 or 1918 (maybe both) there began to be very serious issues with desertion and mutiny from sections of the French army, to the point where army command had to crack down even harder than before to discourage any dissension. Could very easily have turned into a Russian Revolution type situation tbh, but it didn't of course

[@00.28.]

yup your just shell shocked have some rum you'll be better

[@governorhampton911]

To enhance the immersion you should lower the quality of the music, maybe find an old radio or record or gramophone recording, and mess with the reverb. Pretty good tho

[@jrmungandr]

Agreed, I'm playing around more with stuff like this in some of my later videos

[@joesmith457]

Will we ever get a remaster of this video?

[@randalllloyd9679]

@@jrmungandr damn fine work soldier

[@jrmungandr]

Might be fun to do

[@Momo_Kawashima]

the cinema owner: are you still watching? Someone's son:

[@jrmungandr]

class comment lmao

[@archie6996]

Yeah, sir. Just to be sure

[@THEROOKIE6666]

a family member of mine that served in wwi died in october... on 1918... less then 20 days before the war ended

[@jrmungandr]

War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left.

[@THEROOKIE6666]

they didnt die in combat they died from an infection...

[@itshenry8977]

@@THEROOKIE6666 oh damn

[@SunTzuSeeYou]

I remember a professor giving a lecture on the interwar period saying he believed the world descended into a second war because all the capable, smart men who could have prevented it were lying dead under Verdun, the Somme, and Passchendaele.

[@elipetrou9308]

Huh, that’s a fair point to make

[@flickcentergaming680]

Makes sense to me.

[@sclice8680]

Imagine living an amazing life, full of happiness, then get drafted to WW1. You, a British soldier, are at the Somme as your first day on the front. The Second the commander blows his whistle, you charge up over the Trench and are instantly shot down and killed.

[@bosseshang8479]

don't think i'd care all that much after being shot and killed tbf

[@garybrown2039]

Old men are like that when it comes to needing fresh recruits for their wars.

[@Masukutonkatsu]

A runner would enter the General's command post "Sir! The east flank has fallen!" "The right flank?" "It has fallen aswell sir! The center has fallen too!" "But arent we the center?" "Aye sir, I came to say my prayers."

[@gtbest5417]

They position got overruned?

[@Jedssski]

@@gtbest5417 it got destroyed by artillery brigade.

[@spacetechempire510]

@@Jedssski you hear just out side “GAS!! MASKS ON”

[@harryroughan9426]

Very underrated comment love it

[@tomaskanka6223]

@@Jedssski I allways hated artillery

[@Stgpop]

My grandfather would whistle this song in his old rocking chair come every may.. many memories but few he shared with me

[@komradscera2222]

POV : Some british genius told you to walk slowly towards the german machineguns because they thought it would make you harder to hit, and now you hide as most of the british professional army is getting slaughtered mercilessly.

[@blackwoodsecurity531]

French trying to utilize cavalry when there is no side to flank and everywhere is a killzone. "Mon diue zis is nil bon! Bertier save meh!"

[@komradscera2222]

@@blackwoodsecurity531 ... Ok ?

[@gilchrist8909]

They were lions led by donkeys

[@daanstrik4293]

@@gilchrist8909 Not donkeys, humans. All sides of the war adapted remarkably quickly. Technology, strategy and sociology had some of the quickest changes in human history. They were simply very human. Cocky, arrogant, lacking vision on the true scale of things, and wholly unprepared for what was coming. Not much has changed in that regard. When most people imagine a modern war they imagine tanks and infantry, mayby some missles doing the fighting. But the new wars will be nothing like the old. And our strategy's will look outdated to future historians.

[@carrott36]

@@blackwoodsecurity531Cavalry had an important use in WW1, Lindybeige and The Great War both covered the topic extremely well.

[@L_mattox]

"My father said I would be as an honorable crusader of the modern age, but now I think about it. Did the knights of Richard the Lionheart feel like this? Did they listen to the fever gripped cries of their childhood friends' in their diseased death throes, as they sat in a dank, muddy trench? Did they have to look at the enemy as they bled out, only to see a face that was barely more than a boy. What is this nightmare? Could this be war, that thing which old, drunken men speak so fondly of, as if it were a game?" KZbin comment section fiction.

[@elipetrou9308]

They went looking for glory, all they found was death and mud

[@jackwhite573]

“To redraw lines on a map, the blood of soldiers must be the ink”

[@long_chin_man]

my great grandad was in this war in the elite cameron highlanders regiment of scotland. truly hardcore blokes with a reputation of being fearless my great grandad however had a reputation for being the most ruthless and unforgiving parent to his children. my grandfather hated him and remembered the beatings he got daily. he still gave me the medals and cameron hat badge my great grandad earned in that war. tldr: war bad

[@thatone846]

The war had nought to do with your great-grandad being a scumbag at home. I reckon I'm a bit younger than you, as my Great-Grandad fought in WW2 in Italy, but my Grandfather remembers him fondly, and despite dying decades ago I don't think my Grandfather ever got over his death. I'm told he was stern and distant as a result of the war, but honest and fair, as all fathers should be. tl:dr war bad but not an excuse to beat your kids.

[@zajagter2888]

@@thatone846 Nothing wrong with beating kids, as long as it's done with good intentions (disciplining). Going overboard with it and doing it for no apparent reason or just for the sake of it is where it gets f*cked up.

[@rattatouilletherat]

@@zajagter2888 Unless a child attacks you, or does something absolutely vile, beating a child isn’t right. There are other methods of addressing problems with kids, that don’t involve leaving imprints and scars.

[@samuellambe1568]

"Sir, Sir, we have advanced 100 metres" "Very good, casualty report?" "Don't think you want to know sir"

[@tomaskanka6223]

" Well, allright then...also why are you the only one that showed up? "

[@happy_turtle1270]

“Oh it’s fine I had sent 300,000 men to their deaths let me see”

[@hsfox2792]

"Fate decides whats going to happen after that whistle."

[@Mehmet_Ergin]

If I were a 1. World soldier, I would instantly have a hole in my head because I was stupid, and in August 1914

[@gallowdance3721]

“You can't win because of the guns," said Adam with a sigh. "Machine guns, mortars, field guns, howitzers: it doesn't matter how much courage soldiers have, how much will; flesh and blood can't pass through bullets and shells, or at least not in sufficient numbers to have any effect. The guns win in the end and they always will. Not us, not the Germans - the guns.” - No Man’s land by Simon Tolkien.

[@Nkrlz]

The damage of industrial society, only the machine rules.

[@dusk6159]

@@Nkrlz Spoken with his industrial phone on his industrial couch in his industrial house with a stuffed belly.

[@jrmungandr]

65k views? This is getting truly rhombus at this point.

[@sowow9575]

damn bro

[@theredtechnician]

Don't worry lads we'll have a million views by Christmas

[@FishLord413]

So did you piss take in Russia? :D

[@themiddleman1929]

Its the KZbin algorithm at work again I assume your going to get even more views soon.

[@jrmungandr]

Insanity lmao

[@morsalisk4649]

"We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - Chapter 5 of All Quiet On The Western Front

[@giovannib7388]

My favourite book

[@Alex-lt9hl]

Finished it for the first time last night, and watched the 1930 movie today. It's lost none of its impact. A masterpiece

[@cutler_beckett]

WWI Generals after losing 400,000 men to gain a mile of ground: “Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts!”

[@arnantphongsatha7906]

Audio recording of a British battalion counter-charging a German attack after they've ran out of ammunition.

[@leone.6190]

Meanwhile german ww1 songs: "A red flower might stand lonely in the forest , but I'll be dead soon..." (roughly translated)

[@randomperson8379]

Or "Wo alle Straßen enden"

[@leone.6190]

@@randomperson8379 allthough a great Song, it is sadly post ww1.

[@kenken8765]

* Drinks gasoline tasting tea brewed from machine gun cooling jacket.

[@seamushogan9668]

Since I live near Tipperary it certainly is not a long way to Tipperary for me. The end.

[@scottydu81]

It is for me, but my heart’s right there

[@trajanfidelis1532]

the tune reminds me of "It's a long way to Mukumbura"

[@belka_standard1185]

Mukumbura is the Rhodie Version of this song, unless your making a joke and my 1 AM brain didn't see it.

[@jrmungandr]

I might be making one of these for Mukumbura as well

[@maddoxlacy9072]

[Insert Bismarck quote about it being easy to call for war from the sidelines here]

[@scottydu81]

Bismarck is a fucking legend

[@mateot-qi4ey]

Those soldiers had nothing personal against each other, and yet their leaders commanded them to slaughter each other in the most brutal ways imaginable

[@jrmungandr]

World War 1 will forever stand as an example and above all a warning of what hell can be conjured when the old meets the new, in this case new technology meeting old strategy.

[@yeetmcskeet6872]

@@jrmungandr the sad thing is that by the end of the war the french and british armies were some of the largest and most strategically advanced armies in the world. They used combined arms tactics in conjunction with fresh american troops to push back the germans towards the middle of 1918. Then they threw all that knowledge away and ended up getting kicked around during the first quarter of ww2.

[@mateot-qi4ey]

@@jrmungandr Dude i have a suggeeston for you, can you make Blood Upon the Risers

[@jrmungandr]

Getting tons of requests for blood upon the risers, might have to fast-track it

[@cheeto4027]

@@jrmungandr old strategies were used initially but were quickly abandoned in favor of trench warfare after military leaders saw how ineffective they were

[@RPM.0102]

The whole experience of this and the thought of being in a trench being told to run towards gunfire is truly a chilling thought. The upbeat music in the back would give you confidence but not a better chance of making it. It really was a horrific war

[@MRMcLean98]

"It looks like Field Marshal Haig is making another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin."

[@baseg815]

Their sacrifice musn't be forgotten.

[@Unboxning]

agree, but for what did they sacrifice themselves? a bunch of aristocrats who had too big a ego lol

[@dolphinerofachero3159]

@@Unboxning they died for the yugoslavs

[@dailydavid1858]

They all died for absolutely nothing

[@wanamingo4961]

Like almost every war, a great many poor people died because a politician or aristocrat told them they had to fight a different group of poor people. War is a racket, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

[@sauceyeti4381]

"The war will end in just a few hours. So you better get your head do-" **BANG**

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar9296]

I think what I love most about this channel is how it doesn't attempt to humorize or fetishize war. All these videos juxtapose hubristic war songs with the horrific reality of war. Truly amazing stuff.

[@tommyscott8511]

I’m sure I recognise the sound of a BF1 SMLE

[@thomasabruzzese7092]

Q: Were are they sending us? A: Verdun.

[@shaggybottomtext8363]

Aw shit

[@toyotacorollamerchant]

They're lucky that they were'nt sent to the Somme

[@chrismanaloe3507]

Not enough gunfire Edit: I take it back

[@jrmungandr]

Sneaks up on ya

[@chrismanaloe3507]

@@jrmungandr just like those godless Huns

[@destrylett1619]

Had the exact same thought

[@Mrkabrat]

-Field Marshall Haig has come up with a brilliant plan, you see we... +Go over the trenches and advance slowly towards the enemy? -How could you know that? That's classified information! -Well, we did that before, and the time before that, and the previous 47 times... +Which is exactly why the enemy won't expect it!

[@jrmungandr]

Still GOAT

[@OutrightRegent4]

I will never forget nor forgive the fact that "walking fire" was considered a good strategy years into the way"

[@EdgyDabs47]

@@OutrightRegent4 because it was effective, during ww1. Machineguns were inaccurate and often misfired. If you advanced while firing, the enemy would think twice before sticking his head above a trench.

[@ambustio9807]

POV: youre in shell shock and are about to get executed for being a coward

[@thetau4866]

Me playing battlefield 1. I'm not British, I'm Irish, but all creeds gave their Two Cents to WW1

[@corneliuscapitalinus845]

Didn't see those bloody Sealanders there

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

This song is basically me just trying to farm some kills while the team is losing 0-200 and im dead inside

[@ahopefor]

Well I mean Tipperary's in Ireland and the original singer was Irish so yeah.

[@Hela03]

The Irish were plenty active in ww1, sure 80000 irishmen died in ww1, on the 1st day of the somme the 36th Ulster Division along with the inniskillen rifles and other Irish units were the only troops in the british line to take their objective suffered 2000 deaths and 5000 casualties however terrible loss of life

[@ahopefor]

@@Hela03 Yeah two uncles of my Nan died in the tenches and her granddad survived but came back with shellshock or what we would now call PTSD.

[@project22-ab88]

"So sir, what's the strategy to take out that machine gun nest? Are we gonna flank them? Call in an artillery strike? Or perhaps some mustard gas should do the trick!" "Well Corporal I can sum up our plan in one sentence: They cant stop all of us." Edit: Narrator: "As it turns out they could, in fact, stop all of them."

[@spaceemperorspar4791]

Narrator: “As it turns out, they could, in fact, stop all of them.”

[@project22-ab88]

@@spaceemperorspar4791 Holy shit imma edit that into my comment

[@Pantology_Enthusiast]

German Gunner: "Guten Tag!" German Gun: "BRRRRRRRRRR"

[@project22-ab88]

@@Pantology_Enthusiast The irony is that the Germans are gonna do the exact same thing after the British get repelled.

[@Pantology_Enthusiast]

@@project22-ab88 painfully true

[@blin-cz]

Plot twist: the music is in the head of a soldier that has gone insane

[@theoreticalphysics3644]

"War never changes." Well... This was when war changed.

[@daanstrik4293]

The change had already happend. It was at this point that the world *realised* it had changed.

[@demp8665]

"what's the use of worrying" *Man screaming in pain*

[@andrewdeem5454]

Highly recommend reading “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, it highlights the brutality of WW1 very well.

[@flavourruling2162]

Only 30 seconds in and I’m already fearing a PTSD attack coming on during a fireworks celebration on home soil, and all I see is the shell crater I imagine I’m hiding in. Can’t even imagine the fireworks at all. Respect to all soldiers, no matter what country, war must suck. That’s an understatement

[@gabespiro8902]

The thing is, Ypres is flat. The “Ridge” overlooking the salient is more of a gentle slope The result is when either side went over the top, the troops could be seen clearly silhouetted against the horizon The entire region was a massive shooting gallery with excellent sight lines

[@MrPear40]

We're here because we're here because We're here because we're here; We're here because we're here because We're here because we're here. We're here because we're here because We're here because we're here; We're here because we're here because We're here because we're here.

[@itshenry8977]

@TURANICAN MAPPING lol

[@Riamoka]

My great great grandfather was the youngest Irishman to fight in ww1. From Kilkenny, he knew the recruiters and was sent to war at only 14 years old. We still have his letters, showing a slow descent into madness, framed on my grandparents wall in the hallway. He died while coming home from the war, there was a statue commemorated in his honour, now sitting in the middle of town. Kilkenny isn't a long way from Tipperary, but Germany sure was.

[@hugonobody3352]

Wow, that's incredible.

[@starliner2498]

descent into madness? Would you elaborate (if you dont mind that is)?

[@Riamoka]

@@starliner2498 There are some situations that young teens just shouldn't be in. I don't know exactly what happened to him, but the first letter he wrote was optimistic about fighting for his country and coming home a hero. In the second last letter he said "if I die in my sleep, I won't even be sure if it was the rats that ate me or the gas over the trenches". Not exactly fun

[@starliner2498]

@@Riamoka Oh, i'm sorry for that man. Hopefully he has found his peace now

[@Riamoka]

@@starliner2498 he did, he's a hero in the eyes of our county, country and family. I'm proud to be part of his bloodline

[@amazingalex7439YT]

"Thank god, another soilder! I've received word that reinforcements are on the way. Do you know when are they arriving? "They just arrived" "Where, I don't see anybody." "Your looking at them." "B-But it's only you..." "Sorry, should've been more specific, what was *left* of the reinforcements"

[@greenweapon888ns3]

Just when the song starts, the supposed moment of "joy", sounds even more depressing than the gunshots and your friends dying to the German bullets.

[@alexoft9232]

Imagine listening to this while in Tipperary

[@medkittherapper4536]

*British soldier starts to hum "It's a long way to tipperary"* Captain: Soldier! What are you doing? Soldier: Just day dreaming. Captain: Alright, I hope you're ready to go over the top. Soldier: Sir, I've never been more ready.

[@oceanwithaneithink.6291]

soldiers after being told to run into machine guns and artillery for the 60th time

[@GeoStreber]

My great-grandpa fought at Verdun, bravely defending from the attackers. He got shot in the lung, but survived, and lived to the age of 85. Rest in peace Wilhelm Krevet II.

[@Oliver_Rrode]

“We’ll be able to make 20 yards by the winter”

[@FlagAnthem]

"Stelutis Alpinis" But you are stucked on mount Matajur waiting for the XII battle of the Isonzo (Caporetto). Bonus if "x days since last battle of Isonzo" sign added

[@offdeck8588]

I hear people can do inhuman things when fighting for their life, I can only imagine what people do when both sides are fighting for their lives

[@Scary-Eire]

“We’re are the reinforcements?” “You are the reinforcements. Sir.”

[@douglasparkinson4123]

youve botched your apostrophes mate. what your comment says reads as: "we are are the reinforcements?" "you are the reinforcements. sir."

[@hutyra_509hutyra4]

In the words of Henry Patch a WW1 British survivor, “War is a calculated condoned slaughter of human beings.”

[@pandepanda31]

I just like how this dude just found the perfect music cover formula for these kinds of songs

[@detectivehobsonv2.081]

POV: you win the gallantry cross for single handily taking a section of a trench but all of your friends are dead, you have shell shock and you have lost all self dignity

[@bosphiii]

Forever I shall remain with this thought; WW1 was the most hellish war we have ever seen

[@jrmungandr]

There's a long debate around this on the top comment chain, but I agree.

[@johnnyMcSheep]

@@jrmungandr Even though the young lads in the WW didn't deserve to die, there should be no regret in the death of millions of White people from the WWs, and the modern day gun shootings. The Chinese invented gunpowder yet sealed them away from war as it would be nothing but endless slaughter, and sought to fight war with human might. Cold steels clashing, martial prowess and physical skills proving one's finesse and battle scars. It was the unilateral decisions of the upper authorities of Europe to have used the stolen recipes of gunpowder into weapons even children could use. A click of a finger, 30 dead children in a school. Ezpz

[@NuniaBiznaz]

@@johnnyMcSheep You cannot blame an entire race for the faillings of a few people. Just because someone in power, or anyone at all, with a specific skin colour or from a specific area did something bad doesn't mean everyone with that skin colour is bad. The son is not guilty of the sins of his father.

[@johnnyMcSheep]

@@NuniaBiznaz the son is guilty for the son acts guilty. Also if the son keeps the money that the father stole, and doesnt return said money and use it for himself? The son is pretty guilty

[@OutrightRegent4]

@@johnnyMcSheep oh boy, no one taught you the brutality of medieval warfare did they?

[@GergC]

Literally just finished reading all quiet on the Western front and this is recommended

[@gw8147]

My grandfather William Homan fought through the entire four years of the first world war with the 1st and 2nd Battalions Royal Munster Fusiliers, which was made up of men from Cork Kerry Waterford Limerick Clare and Tipperary!! He was wounded 11 times 5 bullet and 6 shrapnel some how I don't think he was singing " It's a long way to Tipperary " like a happy camper.

[@veteranofbaal8232]

British morale, innit.

[@UriNierer]

Do Goodbye my sweetheart hello vietnam but you are fighting vietcong in the jungle and ghost tape 10 is playing

[@jrmungandr]

This idea fucks hard, I'll get back to you

[@jrmungandr]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5rMc2SaYp52qKs here you go my guy

[@UriNierer]

@@jrmungandr thank you!

[@Airgialla32]

"And though you died back in 1916, to that loyal heart you're forever nineteen."

[@CrimsonFox36]

"Will we have air support?" "You ARE the support, son!"

[@Dylanquinn666]

Ah yes, nothing like a jaunty tune to lift your spirits while you sit in a cold puddle of what used to be your childhood friend's guts.

[@imperialcommisar5279]

SOUNDS LIKE A LACK OF FAITH, GUARDSMAN

[@Jediben001]

It’s a long way to holy terra

[@imperialcommisar5279]

@@Jediben001 it's worth every step!

[@attempt5074]

In Somme, the price of a mile was 110 thousand men. in Verdun it was around 100 thousand, and in passchendaele it was around 160 thousand men. It was not worth it. Truly sorrowful.

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

every hope has gone, the sound of the bullets passing trough our mates, you are the last one. You Have To Survive