War thunder sucks. Wish they would show a real trailer that only has WWI vehicles in it. Y'know, the vehicles you'll actually be using until you unlock WWII vehicles which you'll be stuck with for months.
I’m Australian and this is the first I’ve heard about a national internet beef. I view the US like I view the UK, NZ, Canada etc. we pull the piss out of each other but when it’s time to get serious, we are all very close allies.
Nah, he's been bribed by Kiwiland agents to make this video. I can't believe Sandboxx would destroy his credibility like this and slander the glorious nation of Emutopia!
This smells like an Emu psyop. First they get us to let our guard down, then they break the containment on the Australian landmass, then it's "Bow to your Feathered Overlords"
oh i guess the generational trauma suffered on both sides is funny.... we must have a different sense of humour. My grandfather was a Wing Commander in 1st can't get airborne division of the Emu Army. He'd wake up screaming EVERY NIGHT about fosters beer. But I guess that's all just a big joke to you.
This is a pretty racist generalisation - the fact that it's accurate and i'm currently drunk is irrelevant. The real advantage the Emu's have over us Aussies is their superior intellect.
This should be good. Edit after watch: I'm still hearing the Australian military lost the Emu war and had to rely on civilian Guerillas to keep up the fight, and ended up coming to cease-fire. Emu's are Australia's Vietnam/Afghanistan. The meme lives on.
The obvious conclusion should be to keep Government out of it. Kangaroo and Emu control is still a thing - along with a bunch of non-native species like camels, donkeys, pigs and deer - and is most effectively handled by the locals if government regulation is not allowed to get in the way. Bureaucracy sucks, as always.
Don't worry about the emus, the Cassowaries are bigger and nastier. They are full on aggressive. Locals call them murder chickens. They can kick your guts out with out bothering to think. Emus are fast, they usually run.
Yes they are bigger but AFAIK they don't have herds like emus. Yes the .303 will stop emus but those feathers are like armour for light bullets nomatter the velocity. BTW great job Alex. I enjoy your material.
The Canada Goose is smaller than an emu, but is found in greater numbers and is far more intelligent. They are also the only one capable of full land-sea-air integrated attack.
Yes; and that was embarrassing bs…the person who did it was a pc nutter and the selection process corrupted…and break dancing in the Olympics - might as well have marbles in it
@@maleprincess62agreed. It’s just hyperbole. To beat the best, you simply have to be the best, and the yanks have some of the best athletes, training facilities and training methods (including psychology) to hold that title for decades.
Yea was ust children on tiktok, also most were just playing around but Yanks take it serious instead of understanding how we like to have a bit of fun, no way would Australia ever beat USA in Olympics..
Not anti-US sentiment. It was normal Aussie ribbing on everyone. It doesn't get any airtime because it's what we do every single day. Not just to the yanks either. Anytime the ashes are on, the poms get a bucket full too. It's just a sign of respect for us. If you take yourself too seriously, you're the one getting the burnt sausage.
I'm an Aussie (pronounced Ozzy by the way, not Ossy) and was not even aware of any beef other Aussies had with the US. I think everyone takes for granted that the US, China and Russia (when they are in the Olympics) are going to be the top 3 with usually the US at the top. I think we're pretty happy to come in at 4th with 18 gold behind Japan's 20 gold, or 5th on the overall medal tally. For a population of 26 million, I don't mind if we come behind countries with a population of 333 million, 1.4 billion, and 125 million. And New Zealand with only a population of 5 million came in 11th place with 10 gold. Proportionately impressive.
If there is one thing that we aussies excell at its laughing at ourselves. If someone does even the smallest of stupid things they will never hear the end of it. The rest of the world needs to learn this skill instead of being offended by everything, it simply makes life easier
Alex, I'm an Aussie, and I was well aware of the "Emu War" and what it entailed! I'm also a West Aussie so I'm familiar with the history! 😁 The ex-diggers were very capable of handling the situation, but like you elucidated, they didn't have sufficient ammunition. The trouble the "Army" had with the Lewis Guns was the fact that a large proportion of the Emus body is feathers, so you aim for the largest part, the body, and bullets pass through without hitting any of the vitals! The diggers, when they had sufficient ammunition, were able to put their training, and experience, into action and drop an impressive number of birds! On a personal note, I'm happy you pronounced Emu correctly. It saves me the effort of denigrating the American propensity to mangle Australian words! 😁😁 As a side note, the Australian Light Horse regiments wear an Emu feather in their slouch hats, and berets. This goes back to before the Boer War when Queensland mounted infantry had to show their horsemanship by ridding up alongside an Emu and plucking a wing feather! During the Great War in the Middle East, all the Light Horse regiments adopted the Emu feather as a sign of who they were, and it's followed on to today. If you see an Aussie serviceman with an Emu feather in his hat, or his beret, he's a Light Horseman! 😄😄 To the PC crowd, don't jump in and denigrate me for using male pronouns, it's a lot easier using the words I did and not some neutral pronouns! Besides it reads better the way it's written and not the way you'd like it to be written! 😝
And also to be fair, y'all are the ones who live on an island where everything can easily kill you without noticing, plus they are huge ass dinosaurs... Worst bird we have to contend with in the states is when Canada sends their geese.
But does anybody actually dislike australia that much to want to insult them? Let alone even consider believing something like that? I feel like everyone is well aware it’s a joke, and a damn funny one at that obviously humans with machine guns aren’t losing a war to any animal
@@Bitparto Drop drop bears are less known to the outside world. Even less known are the mutant up bears that live on a large hostile Far North Queensland island. They are not good swimmers so we believe they are still confined to the island. We think some of the original drop drop bear genome was washed onto the island during annual floods (Likely clinging to a fallen tree as they are not good swimmers). We are not sure what happened, but suspect that inbreeding occurred due to the low numbers that washed over causing a mutation that disabled their ability to climb. They have managed to make use of there camouflage ability and attack up from the ground. Some people have witnessed both genomes competing for targets to attack. It's not a safe place to visit.
@@Bitparto P.S. The mutant variety were first encountered in the early late eighties, about 30 years after the first known encounters. The island is about 200 km from the first know encounters of the drop drop bear. Although separated by water the island is part of the the mountainous ranges that is the drop bears traditional habitat. We are not sure what caused the drop bear to bread so profusely and spreed across Australia but suspect it had something to do with the locals feeding them camping scraps in the hope they would not attack.
As an Australian I have never heard of this one sided beef no Australian I have talked to is ever salty about not topping the Olympics medal we are only ever proud we do so well per capita. I also appreciate the dispelling of myths people love taking about Australia and dangerous animals but the animal that kills the most people in Australia is horses, spiders and snakes basically never kill people, we have no wolves, lions, tigers, bears, jaguars, cheetahs or whatever else. Another one is that Australia is just a desert or is like Florida, there is a small sliver that is like Florida but Australia is about the same size as the contiguous United states and as such is just as diverse in biomes it has every thing from temperate and tropical rainforests to snowy mountain, go look up some videos of kangaroos hopping in the snow. 🇦🇺♥️🇺🇲
'Drop Bear' education especially for backpackers is essential. We do our part at our backpackers with full on training and repellent application. It's important it's applied correctly.
Our Drop Bear overlords have been profoundly generous to us less furry beasts IMO. Eg, they keep Germanic tourists on their toes at all times (well, except for when said tourists are busy being taking by salties) 😂
The name is just a joke. It was a failed culling attempt so bad even the military couldn't cull them. So we made a joke of it by calling it the great emu war. It was just a emu culling attempt that failed because fire power back then didn't fire at a fast enough rate to hit the emus, they rarely killed any lol they even tried to mount a gun to the back of a car but the bumps as they were driving made aiming even more difficult 😂
Hi, Australian here. while I appreciate the overall message regarding digital media, few point's I'd like to add 1.Yes the employment of machine gunners to deal with the emus very much was a propaganda tool, but one that was somewhat supported by public sentiment and farmers who had been asking for government intervention, and specifically millitary intervention. I actually have documents from the Australian archives circa 1933-34 from Western Australian politicians claiming that their local constituents wanted the Army to try again at dealing with the problem, and the subsequent internal discussions of the WA Government about why they didn't think it was a viable choice. 2.Regarding why the use of the Army was considered to be a failure, and why it wasn't tried again. It basically comes down to the excessive expenditure of ammunition, or rather the excessive cost related to that usage of ammunition. Again the archival documents make it very clear that while the media ridicule was considered politically inconvenient, the real crux of the issue was that they were just using too many bullets per emu. While as you said it doesn't seem like a lot of ammunition considering the usual expenditure of automatic weapons, Its important to remember that Australia at the time did not have a standing Army per sey (the modern Aus army would not exist until 1947, prior to that was a militia system) and the already small defence budget was being stretched even thinner due to the great depression. 3.Arguably the 'Emu war' only refers specifically to the involvement of the millitary in the issue, and having failed their objectives of sufficiently culling the emu population it can be said that they did indeed lose that war, even if the media hyperbole and online discourse obscures the truth of the matter. Also its worth noting that Australian sense of humour is very big on self deprecation, we're probably some of the biggest propagators of Emu war memes because its not something that embarrasses us or damages the national pride, we think its funny. So again, while I agree with the overall message of the video, please continue with the Emu war memes because we love a good laugh. overall a good video and a well presented take on the topic
The reason that most Aussies agree we lost this "WAR" is that the government did so little to help didnt listen to the people on the ground and then called it off when it got embarrassing and left it up to the farmers in the end to sort it out and the farmers would have wiped out the entire Emu and in other places Roo populations for the same reasons that they damage crops and such but these are nothing to a good old Locust plauge that will wipe out hundreds of square miles of crops in a week and go on for months.
Saying thanks from down under... I'm an Aussie veteran that did two tours of Afghanistan.. You uploaded this video for a great start to my day. I've heard this story pop up from time to time, and it has to be told with a straight face, like the story of the Australian drop bear "A mythical vampire Koala" It's all a case of the way Australian's "spinning a yarn" for humour.. none of the stories written back in the 30's or the 40's would have been taken seriously except the exception of how we view our marksmanship.. Which is what the story is really poking fun at.. As, It would've been expected that every emu should've only taken one bullet to kill by an Australian digger as we do pride ourselves on our shooting abilities. So for such a failed PR exercise. It was funny to say the emu's were 6 foot tall and bullet proof 🤣 Ps sorry about the few who run there mouths on the internet. But as for comparing our medal tallies just devide each by the countries populations and see who come out on top 😅
my grandad would tell me tales of his time in the emu war. the boys would be eating their vegemite on toast and drinking their milo and bundaberg ginger beer when the enemy would descend upon them like... well, like a pack of emus, and peck at the doors and windows, hammering and drilling with their ghastly beaks until they broke them down and gained access. my grandad barely escaped with his life while seeing his comrades eviscerated before his eyes. the fosters was practically overflowing down the pub that night. the expression on his face while recounting these battles was too horrible to describe.
17:48 Honestly, I expected you to go into a Ground News ad read and linking your promo code for it when you read this part... Would've been a perfect segue!
As an Aussie, Thank you for learning to pronounce emu properly. You would be the first American I have ever heard that has gotten that right. I Love your work.
Wasn't the Olympic beef more the rest of the world against America. Because America shows total medal tally's whereas everyone else does gold medal tallies for nation rankings. So Australia started doing gold medals per capita, which put Australia miles in front.
Isn't there only so many Gold medals you can win and a limited amount of athletes you can have competing? So wouldn't that make per capita a dumb way to measure it since each country can only win x amount of medals in x amount of events with x amount of atheletes? Or am I just failing at math? Idk per capita seems like dumb cope given that Australia sent quite a lot of athletes to the Olympics as well, the third highest number of athletes behind the U.S and France.
@@HoneyLaw1 Nah, per capita is very valid because a vastly wider pool to draw on for athletic talent means the individual athletes should have a higher potential than a smaller pool. If you can have 5 athletes but are drawing from a pool of 1,000,000 you will absolutely have better options than a country that has 5 athletes drawn from a pool of 10 potential candidates. AUS kicks ass here, and per capita medals should be the metric the world judges success from. The main problem is this would rightfully embarrass Da Gweat Chynah! I'm not seeing any downside.
@DTex.45ACP I think per capita neglects factors that have a much larger impact on a countries olympic performance such as the culture surrounding sports, and how highly regarded athletics are in any given society, also how much money a country invest into its Olympic athletes. If your country doesn't place an emphasis on athletics then it's performance isn't going to be good regardless of how large the talent pool is. Example: India I think per capita neglects more important factors such as the domestic sports culture of each country. For example basketball is huge in the U.S so of course lots of our 300 million people play the sport thus giving us more talent to pull from and allowing us to do good. Meanwhile mens soccer isn't really that popular in the U.S so less of our 300 million people are interested in playing it at a high level and thus our men's soccer has a much smaller talent pool for soccer players than countries that have a huge soccer culture. Not to diminish Australia at all because it its clear from its Olympic performance that it is a powerhouse of athletic talent and deserves respect/ recognition.
Speaking as a guy proudly of Melbourne, Australia. New Zealand respectfully *dominates* us regarding "Medals per Capita (M/C)". **New Zealand** Gold Med: 10 Gold M/C: 533,890 Total Med: 20 Total M/C: 266,945 Population: 5,388,900 ~~~ **Australia** Gold Med: 18 Gold M/C: 1,520,256 Total Med: 53 Total M/C: 516,313 Population: 27,364,621
@@HoneyLaw1 the implication is the larger the population the larger your Talent pool. If exceptional is let's say 0.01% of the population. Then that pool will be a lot bigger in a country with a large population. But obviously that's over simplifying it as poor countries can't invest in sports like wealthy countries do, nutrition education play a part, ect
Wry appreciation for this Australian farmer - part of whose farm is one of those Soldier-Settler blocks. We’ve been talking up the dangers of our wildlife to immigrants and foreigners for 200 years now, while either disregarding or dealing with them at home. It’s good for a chuckle at times, and it’s long been said amongst ourselves that Australia is the only country in the world to put its two biggest pests on their Coat of Arms. The triumph of image over substance yet again. More examples? Yeah, the world second “most venomous “ snake is the common local species . I’ve never been bitten. Never had a close call…. and the number of people who die after being given proper treatment is close to zero. In my experience, they are pretty non-aggressive. I’ve given up on the Olympics as being over-hyped and over-commercialised, so I wasn’t even aware that there was any tension over the issues. I suspect that we have our share of leftie-loonies, just as you do, and hatred of America is as much a religious dogma for them here as it is for leftie-loons amongst your own countrymen. The rest of us sometimes roll our eyes at American politics, but America is still a good ally, many Americans are still decent people….. and our own politics isn’t anything to crow about. Thanks again….. Peter.
Alex, for the next episode of "Mythpower", please consider another story that the world still believes - the one about the Polish cavalry attacking German tanks with sabers. Cheers!
But who won between Emutopia and Kiwiland 😊 With apologies to @PerunAU (For those who haven’t come across him, Perun’s defence, military industrial and geopolitical (and more) related diatribes are a wonder to behold. An essential channel. With apologies to both Alex and Perun.)
Is it April again already? 😂 Great video Alex. I'm glad you allow yourself to kick your heels up occasionally. Recently, I've gone back to listen to some of your very first reports. Wow! What a differance. While there's absolutely nothing wrong with those early efforts, (in fact, it's interesting to notice just how similar many of the hallmarks - like your sign-off - are), it's also easy to see that you've really found you voice (not sure that a pun but no pun intended). Keep up the good work! [EDIT] Eem-yous and Ferengis in the same video!? I think I swooned at that point!
I haven't paid any attention to the olympics apart from Raygun ensuring Breakdance never returns as an olympic sport, so i didnt even know we were beefing.
Australian here, interesting though your video is, it misses the philosophy many of us follow, which is described by the saying "Why wreck a good story by sticking to the facts". Love your channel!
We’re all good, we have a tiny population and we came 4th in the world. I believe this all started when the US media was caught out doctoring the medal tally earlier on in the games to Jerry rig the USA to the top of the medal tally. We found it hilarious 😂
It's a little known fact that this all started over the Australian Light Horsemen stalking and stealing feathers from Emus while they slept. The Emus found this outrageous, so they started sneaking into Australian troop barracks, while the Light Horse Men slept, and stole them back, while also leaving hideous bite marks on their necks. This whole thing eventually escalated, and, as usual, things got out of hand. Hence, the Great Emu war began....
I think the great emu war is the best example of foreigners not getting our sense of humour. I speaks to how the imperialists viewed us and how we basically “owned it” before “owning it” was a thing. “Digger” was a derogative term, saying all we are good for is digging trenches & tunnels, not fighting etc etc. “Having a dig” is a great Australian tradition, we aren’t “attacking” you … just a bit of light hearted humour that Yanks seem to take way too seriously.
Never, Emus still out there stealing kids sandwiches and not paying taxes, they obviously won in the end. also its way to funny to leave alone. Edit: we're just grateful it wasn't the "Great Cassowary War"
To be fair we are the ones who originally joked about losing it because our opposition leader at the time brought up the point that we pretty much lost it by spending so many resources and killed so few birds.
Pity breakdancing won’t be at the LA Olympics, Raygun would have pulled out the killer move the ‘Drop Bear’. For non- Aussies you’ll need to google that…
Raygun was actually an Emu in disguise, sent from Emu intellegence in part of a propaganda war to demoralize the Ozzy public and discredit us on the world stage. 😅
You are the first seppo I have ever heard correctly pronounce emu. I have been bitten by an emu. All good, no wucking furries, mate. Ps we only tease those we like, so take the jokes as a compliment, my yanky cousins.
1st, With your start, how is this not sponsored by Ground news? 2nd, as a 'merican born Aussie, thanks for the piece on the great Australian war. I had heard of it but never looked into it. Should I move to Australia I now know what to expect (on top of all the poisonous creatures, invasive rabbit and camels). Interesting. Thanks for all the interesting, balanced and informative videos.
As an Aussie, I find the Emu War to be a bit of hilarious internet banter. I never cease to be amused whenever it crops up in random internet discourse.
@@rohanhayes613 nah, he's absolutely correct. AUS was part of the coalition that *forced* North Vietnam to sign a peace treaty and end the war and then the military pulled out after TWO YEARS. Exactly how long are troops supposed to stick around after a peace treaty is signed? 10 years? 50 years? Iraq and Afghanistan didn't have anyone to sign a peace treaty with and were completely different situations. North Vietnam was an independent *sovereign* *country* and signed a peace treaty, which they immediately broke after the military left after two years. But yeah, keep parroting mindless leftist media talking points and don't bother learning actual history.
Not to be pedantic, but nerve gas was not developed for another 20 years...the troops came back from the misery of trench foot and poison gases, not nerve gas
Skip to 13:00 if you just want to get the part about the Emu war. This dude spends 6 minutes on the intro and sponsors, then another 7 minutes describing the world war.
Great story mate. I'm from the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. A rural region just 100km to the north east of Perth. There's always been some latent interest in this story. John Cleese of Monty Python fame, recently expressed his interest in making a movie about it. Fair to say the emus would comment that the injuries they sustained, were "Just a flesh wound."
So the first 3 guys didn't do the impossible with the resources they had, but the thousands of farmers/former soldiers that joined in utterly slaughtered the Emu threat.
My great great grandfather witnessed the war. He never spoke of it, but we all knew the atrocities committed by the emus changed him. The only reference he ever made to the war was a slow, shaky salute to the kangaroos outside his bedroom window in his final moments
I feel for your great grandfather. I have experienced the atrocities of the Emu first hand. I still wake up with sweets in the middle of the night :( Bless his soul and may he rest in peace now.
Thank you. You got a chance to vent, set the story straight, make an important point, AND entertain... Plus, you added a relevant Star Trek reference!!❤
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So the Australian army did lose, they lost economically spending 10 bullets an emu and losing a car. The army lost the citizens won.
War thunder sucks. Wish they would show a real trailer that only has WWI vehicles in it. Y'know, the vehicles you'll actually be using until you unlock WWII vehicles which you'll be stuck with for months.
Does WarThunder have Emus though?
So how'd the Emus get to you...
@@jackwilson5780 Thank you. I gave up on the video when he started to lecture me about a joke instead of getting to the point.
You missed a perfect opportunity to call this one "Featherpower" and I have never been more disappointed in journalism.
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😂 I suspect you've started a meme here!
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Alex Hollings will be absolutely punching air when he reads this comment.
I’m Australian and this is the first I’ve heard about a national internet beef. I view the US like I view the UK, NZ, Canada etc. we pull the piss out of each other but when it’s time to get serious, we are all very close allies.
Same here. All I picked up was something about breakdancing
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Close allies who take the piss out of each other while kicking asses.
Same luv u from the US❤️🩹
Dude underestimates how annoying the whole planet finds yanks annoying. It's not an Aussie thing.
Did the emu's put you up to this? Blink if you're in danger.
Nah, he's been bribed by Kiwiland agents to make this video. I can't believe Sandboxx would destroy his credibility like this and slander the glorious nation of Emutopia!
@@dx-ek4vrKiwiland will rise again!
@@dx-ek4vr another victim of the Big Emu Consortium.
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Emutopia is in full cope mode
This smells like an Emu psyop. First they get us to let our guard down, then they break the containment on the Australian landmass, then it's "Bow to your Feathered Overlords"
I bet a Kiwi is involved somewhere in all of this.
It's a power grab by the Emu Mafia.
Avian Intelligence.
Some essential insight into Australians for our closest allies. If an Aussie gives you s**t it almost always means that we like you. 🇦🇺🤝🏻🇺🇸
All I hear is "Pine Gap" boo hoo. Not realising without partnerships Australia would be a Chinese outpost
100% true.
If you aren't the butt of the joke we aren't mates
So wait, does that make australia a tsundere?
Fair Dinkum
Straight up!
As an Aussie, honestly, it's too great a running joke to stop now.
oh i guess the generational trauma suffered on both sides is funny.... we must have a different sense of humour. My grandfather was a Wing Commander in 1st can't get airborne division of the Emu Army. He'd wake up screaming EVERY NIGHT about fosters beer. But I guess that's all just a big joke to you.
Well, the drop bears helping the Emu was what really won it for them.
Always got to have some foreigner wowser mess up a good yarn.
I know right.
@@zigjib If you're Aussie you're taking the piss, if you're not Aussie, you ruined this whole joke with by the mention of Fosters.
The "Great Emu War" had less firepower that a Texan BBQ.
To be fair, quite a few small nations too...
Yeah, two WW1 era Lewis guns and three guys is not exactly a lot.
Well, emus don't drink, so they had a huge advantage over the Aussies
We may drink but we can handle our drink unlike our closest allies! 😁
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Could you imagine a bunch of emus after an arvo on the Bundy Rum?
You do NOT want to train emus to drink!
Don’t do it
Don’t
This is a pretty racist generalisation - the fact that it's accurate and i'm currently drunk is irrelevant. The real advantage the Emu's have over us Aussies is their superior intellect.
This is True!
22:22 "Three guys, Two machine guns and 10,000 rounds, or as known to some of you in the US, a friday night" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This should be good.
Edit after watch: I'm still hearing the Australian military lost the Emu war and had to rely on civilian Guerillas to keep up the fight, and ended up coming to cease-fire.
Emu's are Australia's Vietnam/Afghanistan. The meme lives on.
when nuclear weapons were tested in austrailia they were done in fields that had a shit load of emus
The obvious conclusion should be to keep Government out of it.
Kangaroo and Emu control is still a thing - along with a bunch of non-native species like camels, donkeys, pigs and deer - and is most effectively handled by the locals if government regulation is not allowed to get in the way.
Bureaucracy sucks, as always.
Vietnam and Afghanistan WAS our Vietnam and Afghanistan 😂
I think Vietnam and Afghanistan were Australia’s versions of Vietnam and Afghanistan…
Australia fought in both Vietnam and Afghanistan alongside US troops.
FFS Alex, you're not meant to tell anyone! The threat of our emu's being great at war is all that was stopping countries from invading us.......
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Don't you mean they requested more "emunition"?
I actually thought that's what he said and was laughing about it
I was wondering the same thing
Comment of the day 😂
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Don't worry about the emus, the Cassowaries are bigger and nastier. They are full on aggressive. Locals call them murder chickens. They can kick your guts out with out bothering to think. Emus are fast, they usually run.
Yes they are bigger but AFAIK they don't have herds like emus. Yes the .303 will stop emus but those feathers are like armour for light bullets nomatter the velocity. BTW great job Alex. I enjoy your material.
Watch out for the Drop Bears.
The Canada Goose is smaller than an emu, but is found in greater numbers and is far more intelligent. They are also the only one capable of full land-sea-air integrated attack.
@@lemerdtool They're especially good in the anti air role too.
Cassowaries are definitely more dangerous.
Do you think the emus would have done a better job at break dancing though?
😂 great one!!
They definitely do
Touche
Yes; and that was embarrassing bs…the person who did it was a pc nutter and the selection process corrupted…and break dancing in the Olympics - might as well have marbles in it
They would have lost to the great State of Kiwiland.
Aussie here. The US rocks. I’m surprised to hear there was anti-US sentiment that got any reasonable amount of airtime.
I wouldn't call it any reasonable amount of anything. From what I can tell it was just TikTokers and video comments.
@@maleprincess62agreed. It’s just hyperbole. To beat the best, you simply have to be the best, and the yanks have some of the best athletes, training facilities and training methods (including psychology) to hold that title for decades.
Yea was ust children on tiktok, also most were just playing around but Yanks take it serious instead of understanding how we like to have a bit of fun, no way would Australia ever beat USA in Olympics..
@@micksmith-vt5yi : The statistics disagree with you.
Not anti-US sentiment. It was normal Aussie ribbing on everyone. It doesn't get any airtime because it's what we do every single day. Not just to the yanks either. Anytime the ashes are on, the poms get a bucket full too. It's just a sign of respect for us. If you take yourself too seriously, you're the one getting the burnt sausage.
I'm an Aussie (pronounced Ozzy by the way, not Ossy) and was not even aware of any beef other Aussies had with the US. I think everyone takes for granted that the US, China and Russia (when they are in the Olympics) are going to be the top 3 with usually the US at the top. I think we're pretty happy to come in at 4th with 18 gold behind Japan's 20 gold, or 5th on the overall medal tally. For a population of 26 million, I don't mind if we come behind countries with a population of 333 million, 1.4 billion, and 125 million. And New Zealand with only a population of 5 million came in 11th place with 10 gold. Proportionately impressive.
If there is one thing that we aussies excell at its laughing at ourselves. If someone does even the smallest of stupid things they will never hear the end of it. The rest of the world needs to learn this skill instead of being offended by everything, it simply makes life easier
That's is so true. The logies were a perfect example of it, with Sam Pang taking the mickey out of everyone and them not caring.
...except this whole video was predicated by aussies whining about the US.
Did I miss something?
Alex, I'm an Aussie, and I was well aware of the "Emu War" and what it entailed! I'm also a West Aussie so I'm familiar with the history! 😁
The ex-diggers were very capable of handling the situation, but like you elucidated, they didn't have sufficient ammunition.
The trouble the "Army" had with the Lewis Guns was the fact that a large proportion of the Emus body is feathers, so you aim for the largest part, the body, and bullets pass through without hitting any of the vitals!
The diggers, when they had sufficient ammunition, were able to put their training, and experience, into action and drop an impressive number of birds!
On a personal note, I'm happy you pronounced Emu correctly. It saves me the effort of denigrating the American propensity to mangle Australian words! 😁😁
As a side note, the Australian Light Horse regiments wear an Emu feather in their slouch hats, and berets. This goes back to before the Boer War when Queensland mounted infantry had to show their horsemanship by ridding up alongside an Emu and plucking a wing feather!
During the Great War in the Middle East, all the Light Horse regiments adopted the Emu feather as a sign of who they were, and it's followed on to today. If you see an Aussie serviceman with an Emu feather in his hat, or his beret, he's a Light Horseman! 😄😄
To the PC crowd, don't jump in and denigrate me for using male pronouns, it's a lot easier using the words I did and not some neutral pronouns! Besides it reads better the way it's written and not the way you'd like it to be written! 😝
Well put mate, i concur. Thank you
Bro, do not show obeisance to the pronoun dictatorate. Don't apologize. Don't even acknowledge the clown world.
the fact that people unironically think that saying we lost to emus is an insult is hilarious. we came up with that joke, be original
You spent 2.5 bullets an emu. Killed about 1000. And lost a jeep and still thousands remained you lost economically bozo.
And also to be fair, y'all are the ones who live on an island where everything can easily kill you without noticing, plus they are huge ass dinosaurs...
Worst bird we have to contend with in the states is when Canada sends their geese.
We are possibly the only country in the world that put two of our biggest pests on our coat of arms…
Partly explains our sense of irony.
The fact that people unironically fall for this kind of rage bate is hilarious.
But does anybody actually dislike australia that much to want to insult them? Let alone even consider believing something like that?
I feel like everyone is well aware it’s a joke, and a damn funny one at that obviously humans with machine guns aren’t losing a war to any animal
Was expecting a lighthearted post but was an important message about media distortion.
Not media distortion. It was, and still is a great Aussie yarn.
At least he didn't tell them about drop bears
@@Bitparto Drop drop bears are less known to the outside world. Even less known are the mutant up bears that live on a large hostile Far North Queensland island. They are not good swimmers so we believe they are still confined to the island. We think some of the original drop drop bear genome was washed onto the island during annual floods (Likely clinging to a fallen tree as they are not good swimmers).
We are not sure what happened, but suspect that inbreeding occurred due to the low numbers that washed over causing a mutation that disabled their ability to climb. They have managed to make use of there camouflage ability and attack up from the ground. Some people have witnessed both genomes competing for targets to attack.
It's not a safe place to visit.
@@Bitparto P.S. The mutant variety were first encountered in the early late eighties, about 30 years after the first known encounters. The island is about 200 km from the first know encounters of the drop drop bear. Although separated by water the island is part of the the mountainous ranges that is the drop bears traditional habitat.
We are not sure what caused the drop bear to bread so profusely and spreed across Australia but suspect it had something to do with the locals feeding them camping scraps in the hope they would not attack.
@@axle.australian.patriot It wasn't an issue till they started feeding on campers..Now they have the taste for blood
As an Australian I have never heard of this one sided beef no Australian I have talked to is ever salty about not topping the Olympics medal we are only ever proud we do so well per capita.
I also appreciate the dispelling of myths people love taking about Australia and dangerous animals but the animal that kills the most people in Australia is horses, spiders and snakes basically never kill people, we have no wolves, lions, tigers, bears, jaguars, cheetahs or whatever else. Another one is that Australia is just a desert or is like Florida, there is a small sliver that is like Florida but Australia is about the same size as the contiguous United states and as such is just as diverse in biomes it has every thing from temperate and tropical rainforests to snowy mountain, go look up some videos of kangaroos hopping in the snow.
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TBH I've long wondered if the whole 'Emu War' thing was just a psyop orchestrated by 'straya's real apex predator... the Drop Bears.
'Drop Bear' education especially for backpackers is essential. We do our part at our backpackers with full on training and repellent application. It's important it's applied correctly.
Our Drop Bear overlords have been profoundly generous to us less furry beasts IMO.
Eg, they keep Germanic tourists on their toes at all times (well, except for when said tourists are busy being taking by salties) 😂
The name is just a joke. It was a failed culling attempt so bad even the military couldn't cull them. So we made a joke of it by calling it the great emu war. It was just a emu culling attempt that failed because fire power back then didn't fire at a fast enough rate to hit the emus, they rarely killed any lol they even tried to mount a gun to the back of a car but the bumps as they were driving made aiming even more difficult 😂
10/10 for correctly pronouncing emu!
The Aussies punched WAY ABOVE their weight these past Olympics!!!
They kicked some serious ass for their population size!
The general population are far more concerned about sport than education or health and hence, the result
@@shaunsandow2073 ridiculous comment.
We do at every olympics it’s not like this was a one off mate
We make up a rather large portion of Movie stars in Hollywood also
Only because the emus made their life miserable 100 years ago and they had to evolve to adapt to the emu threat)))
1:00 I was not aware we were having a blue with the Seppos at the moment, but thanks for reaching out across the aisle, I guess
The birds chickened out and didn't try to hold their territory.
Actually the town of campion is abandoned and emus are still there so we definitely lost the territory
Have not watched video yet. But you are wrong. The Emus won.
Source? My grandpa, who said never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Someone gets it. We have collectively had that yarn running for near 100 years :P
Hi, Australian here. while I appreciate the overall message regarding digital media, few point's I'd like to add
1.Yes the employment of machine gunners to deal with the emus very much was a propaganda tool, but one that was somewhat supported by public sentiment and farmers who had been asking for government intervention, and specifically millitary intervention. I actually have documents from the Australian archives circa 1933-34 from Western Australian politicians claiming that their local constituents wanted the Army to try again at dealing with the problem, and the subsequent internal discussions of the WA Government about why they didn't think it was a viable choice.
2.Regarding why the use of the Army was considered to be a failure, and why it wasn't tried again. It basically comes down to the excessive expenditure of ammunition, or rather the excessive cost related to that usage of ammunition. Again the archival documents make it very clear that while the media ridicule was considered politically inconvenient, the real crux of the issue was that they were just using too many bullets per emu. While as you said it doesn't seem like a lot of ammunition considering the usual expenditure of automatic weapons, Its important to remember that Australia at the time did not have a standing Army per sey (the modern Aus army would not exist until 1947, prior to that was a militia system) and the already small defence budget was being stretched even thinner due to the great depression.
3.Arguably the 'Emu war' only refers specifically to the involvement of the millitary in the issue, and having failed their objectives of sufficiently culling the emu population it can be said that they did indeed lose that war, even if the media hyperbole and online discourse obscures the truth of the matter. Also its worth noting that Australian sense of humour is very big on self deprecation, we're probably some of the biggest propagators of Emu war memes because its not something that embarrasses us or damages the national pride, we think its funny. So again, while I agree with the overall message of the video, please continue with the Emu war memes because we love a good laugh.
overall a good video and a well presented take on the topic
As an Australian and English speaker, I appreciate you pronouncing Emu correctly.
The reason that most Aussies agree we lost this "WAR" is that the government did so little to help didnt listen to the people on the ground and then called it off when it got embarrassing and left it up to the farmers in the end to sort it out and the farmers would have wiped out the entire Emu and in other places Roo populations for the same reasons that they damage crops and such but these are nothing to a good old Locust plauge that will wipe out hundreds of square miles of crops in a week and go on for months.
Saying thanks from down under...
I'm an Aussie veteran that did two tours of Afghanistan.. You uploaded this video for a great start to my day.
I've heard this story pop up from time to time, and it has to be told with a straight face, like the story of the Australian drop bear "A mythical vampire Koala"
It's all a case of the way Australian's "spinning a yarn" for humour.. none of the stories written back in the 30's or the 40's would have been taken seriously except the exception of how we view our marksmanship..
Which is what the story is really poking fun at.. As, It would've been expected that every emu should've only taken one bullet to kill by an Australian digger as we do pride ourselves on our shooting abilities. So for such a failed PR exercise. It was funny to say the emu's were 6 foot tall and bullet proof 🤣
Ps sorry about the few who run there mouths on the internet. But as for comparing our medal tallies just devide each by the countries populations and see who come out on top 😅
ThAnKyOu FoR YouR SeRvIcE....
Just so you know, the true drop drop bear has nothing to do with Koalas :) It's a kind of later urban twist on the yarn ;)
my grandad would tell me tales of his time in the emu war. the boys would be eating their vegemite on toast and drinking their milo and bundaberg ginger beer when the enemy would descend upon them like... well, like a pack of emus, and peck at the doors and windows, hammering and drilling with their ghastly beaks until they broke them down and gained access. my grandad barely escaped with his life while seeing his comrades eviscerated before his eyes. the fosters was practically overflowing down the pub that night. the expression on his face while recounting these battles was too horrible to describe.
17:48 Honestly, I expected you to go into a Ground News ad read and linking your promo code for it when you read this part... Would've been a perfect segue!
I totally expected them to sponsor. It was a perfect fit. Lol
As an Aussie, Thank you for learning to pronounce emu properly. You would be the first American I have ever heard that has gotten that right. I Love your work.
Saw a Emu with a helmet on...had to click😂😂😂
That's how they get you
1st class documentary. As an Aussie I had heard of this story but you have filled in all of the blanks. Well done sir, well done
is alex about to drop some lore? LETS GO
Wasn't the Olympic beef more the rest of the world against America. Because America shows total medal tally's whereas everyone else does gold medal tallies for nation rankings. So Australia started doing gold medals per capita, which put Australia miles in front.
Isn't there only so many Gold medals you can win and a limited amount of athletes you can have competing? So wouldn't that make per capita a dumb way to measure it since each country can only win x amount of medals in x amount of events with x amount of atheletes? Or am I just failing at math? Idk per capita seems like dumb cope given that Australia sent quite a lot of athletes to the Olympics as well, the third highest number of athletes behind the U.S and France.
@@HoneyLaw1 Nah, per capita is very valid because a vastly wider pool to draw on for athletic talent means the individual athletes should have a higher potential than a smaller pool.
If you can have 5 athletes but are drawing from a pool of 1,000,000 you will absolutely have better options than a country that has 5 athletes drawn from a pool of 10 potential candidates.
AUS kicks ass here, and per capita medals should be the metric the world judges success from. The main problem is this would rightfully embarrass Da Gweat Chynah! I'm not seeing any downside.
@DTex.45ACP I think per capita neglects factors that have a much larger impact on a countries olympic performance such as the culture surrounding sports, and how highly regarded athletics are in any given society, also how much money a country invest into its Olympic athletes. If your country doesn't place an emphasis on athletics then it's performance isn't going to be good regardless of how large the talent pool is. Example: India
I think per capita neglects more important factors such as the domestic sports culture of each country. For example basketball is huge in the U.S so of course lots of our 300 million people play the sport thus giving us more talent to pull from and allowing us to do good. Meanwhile mens soccer isn't really that popular in the U.S so less of our 300 million people are interested in playing it at a high level and thus our men's soccer has a much smaller talent pool for soccer players than countries that have a huge soccer culture.
Not to diminish Australia at all because it its clear from its Olympic performance that it is a powerhouse of athletic talent and deserves respect/ recognition.
Speaking as a guy proudly of Melbourne, Australia. New Zealand respectfully *dominates* us regarding "Medals per Capita (M/C)".
**New Zealand**
Gold Med: 10
Gold M/C: 533,890
Total Med: 20
Total M/C: 266,945
Population: 5,388,900
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**Australia**
Gold Med: 18
Gold M/C: 1,520,256
Total Med: 53
Total M/C: 516,313
Population: 27,364,621
@@HoneyLaw1 the implication is the larger the population the larger your Talent pool. If exceptional is let's say 0.01% of the population. Then that pool will be a lot bigger in a country with a large population. But obviously that's over simplifying it as poor countries can't invest in sports like wealthy countries do, nutrition education play a part, ect
Informative and funny (loved the Ferengi reference).
So, what are you trying to tell me? I've been paying protection money to the Emu's for nothing?
Shhh, be careful. They (I dare not mention the U word) have ears everywhere.
Especially when they allied wiith the dropbears.
Wry appreciation for this Australian farmer - part of whose farm is one of those Soldier-Settler blocks.
We’ve been talking up the dangers of our wildlife to immigrants and foreigners for 200 years now, while either disregarding or dealing with them at home. It’s good for a chuckle at times, and it’s long been said amongst ourselves that Australia is the only country in the world to put its two biggest pests on their Coat of Arms.
The triumph of image over substance yet again.
More examples? Yeah, the world second “most venomous “ snake is the common local species . I’ve never been bitten. Never had a close call…. and the number of people who die after being given proper treatment is close to zero. In my experience, they are pretty non-aggressive.
I’ve given up on the Olympics as being over-hyped and over-commercialised, so I wasn’t even aware that there was any tension over the issues. I suspect that we have our share of leftie-loonies, just as you do, and hatred of America is as much a religious dogma for them here as it is for leftie-loons amongst your own countrymen.
The rest of us sometimes roll our eyes at American politics, but America is still a good ally, many Americans are still decent people….. and our own politics isn’t anything to crow about.
Thanks again….. Peter.
Well said Peter.
😂😂😂 that was a thoroughly enjoyable episode, Alex. Thanks!
Alex, for the next episode of "Mythpower", please consider another story that the world still believes - the one about the Polish cavalry attacking German tanks with sabers. Cheers!
But who won between Emutopia and Kiwiland 😊 With apologies to @PerunAU (For those who haven’t come across him, Perun’s defence, military industrial and geopolitical (and more) related diatribes are a wonder to behold. An essential channel. With apologies to both Alex and Perun.)
I for one salute our emu overlords!
Thankyou for using the correct pronunciation of Emu 😃
As an Australian who watches your videos, I saw the title & was like wtf
Convicts and emus and now raygun
Never trust a flightless bird.
Penguins dont like your post.
@@hanshuber1875 they are the least trustworthy.
@@terranempire2 I'd say watch the Kiwi's as well, but they ain't coming any time soon
@@zigjib the Kiwis are stealthy and move at night, they are already here and pulling strings to take over.
Is it April again already? 😂
Great video Alex. I'm glad you allow yourself to kick your heels up occasionally.
Recently, I've gone back to listen to some of your very first reports. Wow! What a differance. While there's absolutely nothing wrong with those early efforts, (in fact, it's interesting to notice just how similar many of the hallmarks - like your sign-off - are), it's also easy to see that you've really found you voice (not sure that a pun but no pun intended). Keep up the good work!
[EDIT] Eem-yous and Ferengis in the same video!? I think I swooned at that point!
I haven't paid any attention to the olympics apart from Raygun ensuring Breakdance never returns as an olympic sport, so i didnt even know we were beefing.
I can’t wait to hear his take after watching the fat electrician’s dive into this one!
Australian news was having a blast with this
Australian here, interesting though your video is, it misses the philosophy many of us follow, which is described by the saying "Why wreck a good story by sticking to the facts". Love your channel!
Got no problem with my brothers down under. Wish them the best haha
Back at ya, mate..
Cheers! 🍻
Well done on pronouncing emu correctly
Somehow I'm thinking of Mel Gibson in Gallipoli. 😂
WWII Japanese admiral: "Now, we invade Australia."
Aussies: "You do and we'll unleash the emus."
Admiral: "Perhaps we should reconsider."
Hey Australia, don't feel bad, you still got more medals than Russia...
We’re all good, we have a tiny population and we came 4th in the world. I believe this all started when the US media was caught out doctoring the medal tally earlier on in the games to Jerry rig the USA to the top of the medal tally. We found it hilarious 😂
LOVED the pic of emus in military gear. I am a history buff, and really enjoyed the entire program. Sandboxx never disappoints.
It's a little known fact that this all started over the Australian Light Horsemen stalking and stealing feathers from Emus while they slept. The Emus found this outrageous, so they started sneaking into Australian troop barracks, while the Light Horse Men slept, and stole them back, while also leaving hideous bite marks on their necks. This whole thing eventually escalated, and, as usual, things got out of hand. Hence, the Great Emu war began....
Best comment and most accurate account of events I have read so far :)
Media literacy mentioned and NOT followed by a ground news sponsorship? What is even happening
My friend's dad was a POW of the Great Emu War. The birds were ruthless.
I can only imagine the sick things they did to him :(
This is the content i was looking for. Sandboxx news talking about australia's emu war.
I think the great emu war is the best example of foreigners not getting our sense of humour.
I speaks to how the imperialists viewed us and how we basically “owned it” before “owning it” was a thing. “Digger” was a derogative term, saying all we are good for is digging trenches & tunnels, not fighting etc etc.
“Having a dig” is a great Australian tradition, we aren’t “attacking” you … just a bit of light hearted humour that Yanks seem to take way too seriously.
or even understanding the truth
Campion is an abandoned settlement and I'm sure there are still emus there so we definitely lost 😂
The emus got killed by the spiders, snakes, jellyfish, kangaroos, sharks, crocs, sea snails and gympie-gympie.
A War Thunder emu campaign would be bonkers
Thank you for taking the time to learn to pronounce emu properly.
I too had no idea the aussies had beef with us
Never, Emus still out there stealing kids sandwiches and not paying taxes, they obviously won in the end.
also its way to funny to leave alone. Edit: we're just grateful it wasn't the "Great Cassowary War"
To be fair we are the ones who originally joked about losing it because our opposition leader at the time brought up the point that we pretty much lost it by spending so many resources and killed so few birds.
Pity breakdancing won’t be at the LA Olympics, Raygun would have pulled out the killer move the ‘Drop Bear’. For non- Aussies you’ll need to google that…
Raygun was actually an Emu in disguise, sent from Emu intellegence in part of a propaganda war to demoralize the Ozzy public and discredit us on the world stage. 😅
Oh, c'mon. Drop Bears aren't a problem as long as tourists, especially backpackers are taught how to apply repellent properly.
You slid that into your narration quite smoothly... "emunition." Nicely done sir!
You are the first seppo I have ever heard correctly pronounce emu. I have been bitten by an emu. All good, no wucking furries, mate. Ps we only tease those we like, so take the jokes as a compliment, my yanky cousins.
I have been bitten by an emu.
12:25-12:27 That's actually pretty cool door seeing it close and lock in place.
1st, With your start, how is this not sponsored by Ground news? 2nd, as a 'merican born Aussie, thanks for the piece on the great Australian war. I had heard of it but never looked into it. Should I move to Australia I now know what to expect (on top of all the poisonous creatures, invasive rabbit and camels). Interesting. Thanks for all the interesting, balanced and informative videos.
Very good. You gave this West Australian farmer a good chuckle. Thank you.
Does Warthunder let me play as an emu? 😂
Captain Zapp Branigan of the Emu Expeditionary Force: "I bravely sent wave after wave of my Emus till the farmers ran out of ammunition."
Don't worry my US friends, we give you shit because we like you
As an Aussie, I find the Emu War to be a bit of hilarious internet banter. I never cease to be amused whenever it crops up in random internet discourse.
Glad you set the record straight .Australia has never lost a War
Uhmmmm. Vietnam?
@@rohanhayes613 Hardly a loss . Battle of Long Tan 100 Australians vs 2000+ VC result 18 Australian dead Viet Cong 1500 dead
@@ElijahHull-z6zthat’s a battle. Not a won war. We ultimately withdrew, Vietnam reunified as communist. We lost the war.
@@rohanhayes613 nah, he's absolutely correct. AUS was part of the coalition that *forced* North Vietnam to sign a peace treaty and end the war and then the military pulled out after TWO YEARS.
Exactly how long are troops supposed to stick around after a peace treaty is signed? 10 years? 50 years? Iraq and Afghanistan didn't have anyone to sign a peace treaty with and were completely different situations. North Vietnam was an independent *sovereign* *country* and signed a peace treaty, which they immediately broke after the military left after two years.
But yeah, keep parroting mindless leftist media talking points and don't bother learning actual history.
And Korea (that was a police action)it's still going ATM
Not to be pedantic, but nerve gas was not developed for another 20 years...the troops came back from the misery of trench foot and poison gases, not nerve gas
Skip to 13:00 if you just want to get the part about the Emu war. This dude spends 6 minutes on the intro and sponsors, then another 7 minutes describing the world war.
Legend
It's called context
The great emu wars was like a meme before memes were a thing lol Great story
4:30 to skip the ad
Great story mate. I'm from the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. A rural region just 100km to the north east of Perth. There's always been some latent interest in this story. John Cleese of Monty Python fame, recently expressed his interest in making a movie about it. Fair to say the emus would comment that the injuries they sustained, were "Just a flesh wound."
Hey it's not April 1st
So the first 3 guys didn't do the impossible with the resources they had, but the thousands of farmers/former soldiers that joined in utterly slaughtered the Emu threat.
Your blatant Human bias is showing! Bird kind will never surrender!
Thank you for not saying E-MOO. We appreciate it.
Great video. Particularly love the images of militarised emus :)
So Sandbox is now an anti-Emu disinfo propaganda channel now.....unsubscribed ;) Free Emutopia! Perun agrees!
Awesome video, excellently narrated!
7:21 Yessir; I remember that video you made.
Good Stuff!
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My great great grandfather witnessed the war. He never spoke of it, but we all knew the atrocities committed by the emus changed him. The only reference he ever made to the war was a slow, shaky salute to the kangaroos outside his bedroom window in his final moments
I feel for your great grandfather. I have experienced the atrocities of the Emu first hand. I still wake up with sweets in the middle of the night :(
Bless his soul and may he rest in peace now.
Amazing vid. Seriously one of your best.
Thank you. You got a chance to vent, set the story straight, make an important point, AND entertain... Plus, you added a relevant Star Trek reference!!❤