"They Are British and We're NOT Allowed to Kill Them!" | SAS Rogue Heroes

[@officercat7907]

Seekings and Kershaw are two of my favorites oh my days

[@Spudtron98]

Most polite English-Scottish interaction

[@ChristineInNornia]

😅

[@backinblack03]

i'd say par for the course

[@cesaralarcon5228]

It’s funnier when the rest arrive and the only response is “They made fun of our berets!”

[@Apollo890]

Think the funniest bit was when he looks at himself in a mirror after the fight and say "they do have a point about the colour".

[@rhannay39]

@@Apollo890 That's why it was changed.

[@cambs0181]

Would imagine the Scotsman forty years later watching the Iranian embassy raid on TV, telling his grandkids how he had a fight with some SAS lads in the war and that he gave them a good pasting.

[@lewissparrow7417]

Reg Seekings was a one-eyed boxer and early member of the S.A.S and he was present when Bergen-Belsen was liberated. Apparently when they arrived the guards were shooting the prisoners and Seekings commander made it quite clear that if it didn't stop immediately his men would make sure that "bad things" would happen to the guards. If that didn't quite get the guards to comply then what Reg Seekings did next most certainly did because being a boxer he floored one of the guards with a single punch, the guard got up again upon which Reg hit him again- the guard didn't get up this time and funnily enough the guards started behaving after that...

[@tamhederson]

my grandfather was probably there then. He was there when they found that awful place. he was a captain in a tank regiment of the infamous black bulls, he also later in life became SAS. A true gent as most of them were back in those days

[@smnbee75]

For those who live across the pond who might be confused as to why English and Scottish are being 'mean' to eachother. This is just how we are, but make no mistake, we are Brother countries, anyone of you yanks start on either one of us (English or Scottish), then the other will come to their defence. We can pick on eachother, you can't. And don't even think about starting shit with Wales either. We (England and Scotland) may pick on Wales mercilessly, but we'll stand up for them if anyone else takes a pop at them. Its just how we are.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

"But you were kicking the shit out of him" "Oh yes, friend, _but he's my brother to kick the shite out of, not yours"_

[@smnbee75]

@@MostlyPennyCat Pretty much... Brothers fight eachother, brothers fight together when outsiders start shit with us.

[@fredericksaxton3991]

In a nut shell, old boy.

[@unclehulka8363]

Makes perfect sense. I'm a Yank and I respect that position. You are brothers! We are mere cousins...

[@Jennifer-dk1ni]

We Scots may call England pricks on the regular, but if anyone attacked them we’d be standing right there with the Welsh cheering them on when they kick you in the nuts 😂

[@thomasbootham2707]

Typical English and Scot’s having a good old quarrel they may fight like siblings but if either a Scot or an Englishman was attacked the other would help them out I say this as an Irish man who lives in Britain.

[@MrLaizard]

Not really fully checked in reality....Argie here, long ago I have been involved in a quite chaotic street fight outside a sports bar in Australia between english and argentine fans and I can perfectly remember a number of scotsmen taking sides with us argies helping to reduce the ingerlunders to soft flesh, by the way this happened several years before the South Atlantic conflict

[@duncbee]

@@MrLaizard Ah but that's football

[@dionjaywoollaston1349]

@@duncbeeyeah when it comes to football all bets are off, Manchester is one city with two teams that absolutely loathe each and would happily murder the other if the law allowed it, the funny thing is both sides also hate Liverpool

[@duncbee]

@@dionjaywoollaston1349 we all hate the scousers lol

[@jasalexander-hain2601]

would not defend any english if they are attacked by any other UK country including ireland but would defend all british isles if attacked by any foregn country or group

[@davidneal6920]

Must have been pretty rough in the early 40’s out on the town in Cairo. I generally found soldiers from all of the commonwealth countries tend to fight quite a bit when drinking . Or used to anyway. Particularly teeth arm units . The Australian infantry battalions were quite feisty but I also worked with a couple of English battalions who used to start punching each other after 3 beers

[@ceresbane]

I mean they were literally asking for it.

[@totrigo6834]

Lol, the English guy looks a lot like and reminds me of Begbie from Trainspotting 🥸😂, who's Scottish ironically.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@AlexMc13x]

It’s the madman that plays Richard in the inbetweeners movie. Still, not quite as mental as Begbie😂😂😂

[@richardfenner6096]

Reg Seekings was a training officer in the Rhodesian Bush War. Total respect and Salute, Sir! Lala Kahle, madoda. Rest in Peace....

[@haydenbretton2990]

One of the best dvd's if not the best, Part 1 & Part 2 all on the same disc.

[@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565]

Estos miembros de los SAS siempre fueron objeto de toda clase de bromas que debieron responder de manera muy expedita. Para poder hacerse respetar en el resto de las unidades del real ejército británico.

[@erdnusse277]

Just British Army, no Royal. The British Army draws its origins from the New Model Army, founded by Parliament during the English Civil War. It exists by the consent of Parliament, they have to pass a law every year or technically, it isn't allowed to exist.

[@jazzingpanda3190]

This show was legit so good

[@sid35gb]

Just a bit of banter

[@Jamhael1]

Just a wee bit o' trolling...

[@AndyPass1976]

Handbags

[@Qashack]

0:52 Couldn't they, for the role of the most enthusiastic smoker, find a guy with an idea of what it looks like when you smoke?

[@olliephelan]

The fact is that different regiments of the British Army were indoctrinated into having contempt for other regiments. Thats a fact ; it helped create competition in who was meaner. So, in the end, they had more respect for the Germans than they had for each other. Worst of all, they had contempt for British civilians.

[@Harry-uq1qn]

Anywhere I can read up on this more? Very interesting

[@williamjohnson5229]

​@Harry-uq1qn regimental rivalries have always been encouraged by British high command. It's partly because of the way regiments were recruited. It was based on geographical location. So the men had an immense pride in their regiments as they were representing their home town or county. Nobody from Yorkshire is gojbg to allow some one from Lancashire to embarrass them, so they will fight harder to prove themselves. This is a great statergy on the battlefield, but when out on the drink it does lead to alot of brawls.

[@olliephelan]

@@williamjohnson5229 And what about contempt for civilians ? Supposedly the people they are supposed to protect but often die in far greater numbers. No one in the military has to worry about what they should do next. Its all based on orders and drill. Civilians must make their own choices, choose their own bosses, make their own orders and stick by them with their own will power. Its why so many soldiers find it hard to adapt to civilian life ,because theres no one giving them clear orders anymore. Its also why so many troubled people go for the Army. And why courts can give someone a choice between jail or the army. The first thing the Royal Marines and Paras teach their recruits is how to brush their teeth and how to shower. They actually DEMONSTRATE IT Then how to make their beds.

[@williamjohnson5229]

@@olliephelan what do you mean by contempt for civilians? I'm ex army and I have no idea what you mean by that be use neither or anyone I knew in the army had any strong negative feelings towards civvies? The vast majority of our family and friends are civvies? So what exactly are you referring to? I was in the parachute regiment and yes you get taught how to make a bed, because they don't want you to just make it however you want, it has to be done exactly as they demonstrate it, not because they actually care how you make your bed but because they want to see your ability to follow simple instructions, before moving on to more complicated tasks. The showering thing is because personal hygiene is incredibly important when you have large groups of people living on close quarters together, poor hygiene leads to poor health. Being given a choice between the military or prison isn't a thing anymore and hasn't been for decades.

[@olliephelan]

@@williamjohnson5229 Parachute regiment of all people ? Contempt for civilians ? Did you go to Northern Ireland ? Of all the regiments in Ireland they were the most hated. If you dont believe me , maybe you,ll believe your own government.

[@thomaspavelko9412]

I don't know a whole lot about the early days of the SAS but I'm pretty sure most of those guys were not the spit and polish listen to rules type of soldiers, probably shouldn't be messing with the guy that shanked his first man in juvenile jail.

[@mr.tobacco1708]

First SAS recruits were basically the crazy ones in the British Army in Egypt. Criminals, unruly ones, soldiers that loves chaos etc.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@mr.tobacco1708 That is not true. That is, they followed "orders" however they often made the orders up in the first place.

[@cardboardbox191]

@@johnnotrealname8168 My understanding with special forces all together is you can trust them when you need to trust them but when you'd like to trust them you can't.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@cardboardbox191 They are not disloyal.

[@cardboardbox191]

@@johnnotrealname8168 My understanding is it tends to be things like faking compliance with uniform, pulling pranks and maybe brawling. So basically a pain in the arse but they do their job on the battlefield.

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

A guy wearing a bonnet is making fun of the guy wearing a beret

[@jasalexander-hain2601]

scots guy is wearing a Tam o Shanter head dress

[@JaEDLanc]

@@jasalexander-hain2601 yes a TOS or as we used to call it. A Tub Of Shit!

[@him050]

A *white* beret!

[@michaelmclaren7373]

Interested to see where they take this series based on the book, history.

[@Kitiwake]

Mayne had to go to Britain to realize that he was Irish.

[@TurdFerguson-td9nx]

Season 2 when?

[@rhadooxxl]

14th of January I think

[@stephengrimmer35]

Except David Stirling was Scottish

[@testing-nj2ne]

It's a state of mind

[@Guiscardr]

And Stirling’s accent in the show is upper class, not this more traditional lower class Scottish accent.

[@erdnusse277]

Born there, perhaps. He was educated in England and was barely in Scotland. The upper class of the time, to which Stirling belonged, are more their own separate group.

[@laurencefox5884]

Stirling spoke with a very English accent...like most of the Scots upper classes still do.

[@DocumentaryDetectiveV]

This makes no sense to me. The rest of them, especially the scot have the most appalling looking caps in history, even for the 40s. Balmorals look like a deflated basketball with a puffy ball on top of it. SAS Berets were neat and clean cut. Not only that, theyre all similar colours. Khaki, tan, sand. I doubt this ever happened.

[@seanmorris]

The first SAS berets were hideous oversized white beret ('chaseur beret') that apparently weren't that popular with the troops who tended to get abuse thrown at them from other soldiers in the streets and bars of Cairo when they wore them leading to fights hence this scene After a short while they changed to a more standard army tan beret until the SAS returned to the UK and came under umbrella of Airbourne forces and had to wear maroon berets (said to be an unpopular change for the SAS troopers). When the Regiment was reformed after the war they changed back to the classic sand beret.

[@jasalexander-hain2601]

scots had cool historic interesting head dress...Tam o Shanters, Glen garry caps depending if lowland or highland troops

[@DocumentaryDetectiveV]

@@jasalexander-hain2601 Yeah and they look shite, even today. A beret is meant to be a tight fitting head dress.

[@jasalexander-hain2601]

@@DocumentaryDetectiveV during conflict pristine head dress not a big deal..look at falklands footage

[@somenobody5099]

UK history summarized.

[@ragetobe]

This scene seems funny until you know this "David Stirling, the Scot known as the founder of the SAS”

[@francescxavierbulto9848]

You didn’t watch the series then. He created an idea the Spook in the secret intelligence service created the name and badge.

[@ragetobe]

@@francescxavierbulto9848 Oh you are basing your information on a tv series 🤣 A bbc tv series at that! What I said is a fact, what you said was entertainment.

[@Jesse-m7l2f]

Why does this make the scene not funny? Paddy is northern irish too whats your point?

[@ragetobe]

@ Because a “British” person is inferring that the Scottish guy hasn’t got what it takes to be in the SAS when the SAS was invented by a Scottish guy. It doesn’t take much to figure it out.

[@cgavin1]

@@ragetobe Anglo Scottish guy ..

[@Ghost-of-a-man]

The only thing I take from this scene is that the fucking music was appalling back then

[@Mark-op7hd]

even that song is better then the dross served up today lol

[@charlesbaer9971]

@@Mark-op7hd Go find a cloud to yell at, old man.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@charlesbaer9971 He did not start it.

[@fus149hammer5]

Leave George Formby out of this.......

[@freebornjohn2687]

Its what you are use to, I like as it reminds me of my parents. Also, my dad was in the Desert Rats and hung about in drinking in Cairo for RandR. He even had his finger bitten off in altercation with an Arab taxi driver who was attempting to stove his head in with a starting handle - a thing that happened to his mate in the weeks before.

[@calpal6249]

They fucked around and found out.

[@Mattherat15]

Unfortunately I haha.

[@ylovaht2097]

Do not mess with scots indeed ❤

[@ftroop2000]

Shame it's a BBC production

[@speleokeir]

That's because they make the best dramas. And that's what we want for telling the story of the SAS. Nobody better.

[@oorhusky]

It was a Scotsman who founded the SAS mainly from Scots battalions, but lets pretend the toughest soldiers in the British army are all English

[@homersimpson1183]

where youre from doesnt make you hard pal

[@ChrisCrossClash]

You are seriously full of B.S, the only thing you got right was a Scotsman founded the SAS.

[@thebigmanonscene]

if you watch the show, youll see it was 3 men, an english a scot and an irishman. scots were no doubt incredible but the english made up for 80-90% of the army in the uk home army (not colonies) so i would say you would see better englishmen on average.

[@Ben-Downlow.]

The English always send in the Scots to do the real fighting, then they send in the Irish, then the Welsh. The English job is to stroll up afterwards and plant their flag in whatevers left. If an enemy power is ever stupid/unfortunate to find themselves facing a Highland, Irish, or Welsh regement, theyre alreaddy fcuked. Lets hope for a world where no one has to find out.

[@Osprey3109]

@@thebigmanonscenesorry that’s utter rubbish ! Hahahaha 80-90 nah mate

[@mikek4610]

Love the irony…of guys making fun of guys wearing dopie headwear while while wearing dopie headwear themselves 😂😂😂

[@grahamjones3259]

This makes no sense at all, probably because it was written by an Englishman who does know the first thing about the history of the regiment. Like, it was formed by a Scot, and there has been a higher percentage of Scots recruited over the years than any other part of the UK. The BBC should be censured over this piece of cheap stereotyping of tyhe relationship between the Scots and the English, because it’s simply not true, or hasn’t;t been for around seven hundred years, so it’s just lazy writing. It’s a terrible show, to be honest.

[@duncbee]

This whole series is based on first hand accounts given to a historian by the founding members of the SAS. He wrote a book and made a documentary this drama is based on that documentary and book. Inter regiment rivalry is actually very common and overflows to levels that are often not very good for discipline. A former Para I know recounted how 2 and 3 Para had to be sent to different areas in a training exercise in Germany because they were taking pot shots at each other for shits and giggles as he termed it.

[@DonWan47]

Pathetic scene from a pathetic show.

[@patknights1492]

The last time Britain was strong and well respected

[@nycjake3104]

No way! Perhaps you don't know but in the 70s the Brits were the best of NATO. Their SAS trained our military special forces!

[@freebornjohn2687]

That's perhaps true, but which countries are respected now? China - a heavy controlling state with collapsing infrastructure and an economy nose diving into catastrophe, Russia run by a dictator causing chaos and mass death with his stupid war, India with its shocking poverty, pollution, wealth disparity and a divisive leader, or the US perhaps which has an amazing economy but is close to civil war with the real possibility it will abandon democracy and go for a senile criminal. When I look around the world I see a shit show. The UK has many many problems and lots of people are struggling, but its still a relatively good place to live. People from all over the world want to come and live here that's for sure. Where l live there are Japanese, Brazilians, Portuguese, Afro Caribbean, Nigerian, Indian, Pakistani, Polish, French, Irish, Aussies, and Spanish to name but a few. People get on with each other and there is little friction.

[@nycjake3104]

@@freebornjohn2687 We are living in interesting times. Old rocking chair has got me. So, I am not going anywhere - I'm merely watching what is going on. IMHO Trump's objectives remind me of Hitler's rise to power. Trump is promising mass deportation that he cannot deliver without violating both the Constitution and federal law. He will get into power legally and dismantle merit based civil service and replace it with his loyal sycophants. He will surprise and abandon his supporters by abolishing the congress and the Constitution and replacing these with an authority-state. He will first purge his political opponents and then immigrants. In the event, that he does lose the upcoming presidential election his minions will still exist and will work towards to implementing the objectives of project 2025.

[@TukikoTroy]

Strength does not equal respect. I mean, just look at America.

[@nycjake3104]

@@TukikoTroy I call them as I see them. So, as I said in my initial response in the 70s the Brits were NATO's best. Their SAS trained our military special forces. I don't know which country in NATO has the best troops now. Obviously, I'm from across the pond.

[@JaneGalvin]

Sweaty Gobbing off believing the SNP hype. Not seen that Before 😂😂😂😂 Well apart from when they met the English and got Slapped royally. We English have been tanking the jocks for 100s of years. Only reason the Union Exists is because they Begged for it. 😂😂😂😂

[@maconescotland8996]

Behave yourself, this is a public forum !!! For example, the SAS were founded by a Scots officer whose first cousin was Lord Lovat of D-Day fame - and the Jocks have been hugely disproportionate in numbers within the SAS - the incursion into the Iranian Embassy was led by a Jock from the Falkirk area. Not forgetting that the SAS's greatest legend was from the Six Counties. Also the architect of the RAF's Battle of Britain victory was a Scot, aided by a New Zealander. The Jocks have nothing to apologise for.

[@georgedavidson957]

wow ... mouthy, arrogant and unpleasant. total disrespect yet has done nothing to earn the right to mouth off. people like you is why the snp get away with their bigotry .. because they can point at you and say ... see! thats what we're talking about.

[@maconescotland8996]

@@georgedavidson957 Eh ?

[@johnmarshall9604]

​@@maconescotland8996 I believe George was addressing Jane with his comment.

[@maconescotland8996]

@@johnmarshall9604 Explains - thanks.

[@fus149hammer5]

There's been more than one punch up where someones dissed our hackle......👊💥😵🫣