British Squaddie humour - making the best of a sh*tty situation & laughing like drains in a thunderstorm. A lot of seriously wounded Troops were placed in an induced coma in Afghanistan to stabilise them for the flight back to the UK were they would be shipped to the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, about thirty miles away from me as the Crow flies. Apparently it was a regular occurrence that a Squaddie would be brought round & ask "Where's my weapon? Where's the rest of my unit?" When told he was in the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham he would invariably reply "Birmingham? Sh*t! Can you send me back to Helmland please?"
I stand corrected. I had to shuttle my Dad to & from Heartlands so many times my brain does a 'Hospital in Birmingham = Heartlands' thing. @@Tykewarrior
After i got blown up and shot in Afghanistan i fell asleep in the hospital and woke up in birmingham and could not tell the differance when i finally realised where i was i had asked to be sent back aswell
Normal behaviour for Brit squaddies. Couple of American mates years ago who served in afghan said they were close to the Brits and said they were the funniest guys they’d ever met,and the pisstaking was relentless. Sounds about right,we find the funny in anything.
I had a chat once with a soldier from Porton Down, he said to me one time he had a big wig general visiting he asked him about all the piss taking the squaddies did and the general said: "Nobody takes the piss or complains as much as a British soldier, and I'd only ever be terrified if they stopped".
I know what you mean as I lived in Folkestone, Kent and we were just 23 miles away from them. Before we joined the common market you could smell that the French people had been in the supermarket not B.O. but their cigarettes. On one occasion when in a day trip to Calais we shouted "but British Lamb" as we walked along the harbour because a few weeks before, French farmers stopped the lorries with British lamb torr them out the lorries and then burnt the whole lot. To this day I never eat French apples
This lad is from my home town, Pen-Y-Bont ar Ogwr, Bridgend in South Wales, you’ll see plenty of his sort out in the town on a weekend, getting tanked up and having a laugh. Love the channel and much respect.
The way he said 'bi-nocu-lars' reminded me of Windsor Davies in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, which by the way, is worth looking up. I recommend "Sergeant Major Williams - Poofs" as a starter.
@@dave_h_8742 It was taken off air long before the woke thing, ironically due to the racist elements despite the fact that the Indian Char Wallers were literally the smartest, most funniest, most piss taking and most sarcastic characters in the show.
@@darthwiizius the problem was one of the Indian Char wallahs was a white guy, Micheal Bates was born in India and spoke Hindi and was liked by the real Indian actors who worked with him on the show, many people of Indian Heritage liked the show at the time, the main reason the shows not shown now is not just racism but the way that Gay men are spoken about, but that was all historically accurate and in both cases was never really over the top, there was no hate towards the Indian people in the show, they got treated the same as the enlisted men, yelled at to move and shut up and calling people Poofs was not great but of the time
I haven’t seen this video for a long time. He’s not hyped up, he’s a British squaddie. A sense of humour like that is standard issue for us. The lad is a legend.
I was watching a show the other day and they were interviewing a US DEVGRU operator that had worked alongside the SAS on several missions. When asked what he thought about the SAS, the first thing he brought up was how they would have everybody in hysterics during down-time.
They're based in Wales. Some shrinks sussed I have no beta-phase sleep worth talking about, which makes me very fast on the uptake, my mind runs that analysis live-time. The Army calls it intelligent anticipation, but some of us take it to a whole new level, months ahead.
I think he was just delivering his considered opinion on how thoughtful his employers had been with the resources they provided for the various tasks that he was charged with performing.
Watched a video by a Navy seal. Said that he worked a few missions with the SAS. He thought they were amazing great guys give you the shirt off their backs until he made a joke about the Queen. He said they went from laughing to ready to rip my head off in a second. I’ve never apologised so quickly 😂. Also Navy seals put outside their door notice saying second to none. SAS put notice saying None lol Being Welsh I couldn’t be prouder of this boy ❤
Only a SEAL could survive making fun of the Queen, or her mum, in front of the SAS. They must have really respected him if they waited for the apology!
@RugbyPass81 brilliant Proud of you for all you’ve done. Proud of that soldier too lol Do you know the story about what the Welsh did in the 800s? King Alfred was being battered by the Vikings. They’d taken Ireland Scotland etc and king Alfred knew he didn’t have enough men to go into big battle He took a small group and hid in bushes etc etc and every time a group of Vikings came along they be killed. This carried on until they came to a river. There was a bridge Trouble was the bridge was only wide enough for one person at a time to cross in a single file The other side of the river were the Viking The King didnt know what to do. Obviously if they tried to cross the bridge to fight they’d be slaughtered Along come a small group of Welsh men who’d been fighting with the King but couldn’t speak English. They waited until dark and then the Welsh put knife in mouth sword in hand and walked UNDER the water to the other side not making a sound. Had the element of surprise and obviously defeated the Vikings This attic is STILL used by the SAS and SBS and the Navy seals today !!! Boyo isn’t it bloody great to be Welsh!!!!! 🏴🏴🏴❤️
These guys need to be on a constant adrenalin rush because they need to be switched on at all times, things can go very badly, very quickly. If they had suddenly come under fire you would have seen this guys demeanour change in a millisecond, from joker to fighter in the blink of an eye.
Brits take the piss at all times, at all times. Nuclear bomb goes off, squaddie stands up and applies sun tan lotion. Remember, with great sarcasm comes great responsibility [to be sarcastic].
Being a British Army Veteran I can tell you that civvies (general public) and other countries armed forces will never understand British squaddie humor. At times it seems to others that it goes to far or it disgusts them, but it's just the way it's always been in the British Army. It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't served as they will never understand it. I've served alongside many countries and one thing they can never get is how we would get a brew on (cup of tea) even when there was hell going on around us. Lost a few good mates over the years too and there'd be words within the squadron/regiment about who's having his spare kit. Would come across as disrespectful to most but it was usually to do with who was willing to pay more for the kit, or who was to tight to pay for certain things as all the money would go to the family, especially if there were children left without a father. It's extremely hard to explain why we are the way we are but I could meet a serving or ex British Squaddie who I've never met before and it would be like we had know each other for years by the way we would be talking to each other.
Helmand. Fun place. Tell you something funnier. Those drainpipe toilets are sometimes under tent coverings. With two doors - one for officers, and one for everyone else. But when you go in its one room with two lines of pipes running down the middle of the room - separating officers from men. Sometimes youd end up having a whizz into a pipe in the ground while awkwardly face to face with an officer doing exactly the same on the other side of the two lines of pipes (general rule: no saluting required).
I served with these type of men for over 30 years, their humour is staggering, particularly in difficult times. When the shit hits the fan, they are 100% reliable, their humour relives stress and boredom !!
Wearing his Welshness with glee. The Welsh lads I spent time with out there were all like that. Also, the weather in Helmand Prov does things to you, but it's always the Welsh lads being Welsh that takes the edge off the brutal environment. Bless 'em.
Just another Squadie video that is being filmed for the fun of it, taking the piss is one way of coping with the boredom and fear factor, a type humorous skit that the British 🇬🇧 military do so well, we laugh and giggle in a way only the military can, and it is a relief valve for when the SHTF or the stress of the Sh1t NOT hitting the fan. Good for them.
I’m ex-British military and this is standard behaviour. When you said a lot of boredom punctuated by moments of terror, the terror is experienced by those we fight. As the Duke of Wellington famously said ‘I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.’
I had a chat once with a soldier from Porton Down, he said to me one time he had a big wig general visiting he asked him about all the piss taking the squaddies did and the general said: "Nobody takes the piss or complains as much as a British soldier, and I'd only ever be terrified if they stopped".
He was pissing about, and who can blame him? Whatever the surrounding circumstances, whether it be Forces, school, Scouts or whatever, you always have a guy who will give you great laughs. I just hope he wasn't like that before the Queen. Incidentally, Margaret Thatcher was present at a tv broadcast of the SAS raid on the Iranian embassy at a gathering where the SAS had attended. She was stood in front of the telly and one of the guys said "I can't see a fuckin' thing now!" Immediately, she stepped back and said "Oh I'm so sorry" No airs. No graces. She had utter respect.
I've seen footage of her with the SAS before the embassy raid. I got the impression that there was a lot of mutual respect. It is one of the key moments that changed my opinion of her. (There is a cool rumour that she clearly told them off the record, without actually using the words, not to take prisoners.)
@@thomasmount7388 Men politicians would be imagining they're somehow part of the raid, Maggie would have been thinking about the widows and orphans if it had gone wrong.
We have lots of chaps like these. My by is an RM Cdo and on the weekends, my house if full of them, they are huge and take lots of time grooming going out. I cook lots of food that barely touches the plates before getting devoured. All call me mum and I love everyone of them. Sadly, a few are now missing, others have life changing injuries.
Look at a map of current British territories. You will see we are still spread across the world. The British empire is not finished. We are just talking a rest. Kindly letting others take a shot at the world title 😂😂😉
There was a film doing the the rounds of a Scottish Regiment I believe it was possibly the Black Watch (tough little mothers) in Afghanistan under fire and one lad got shot in the foot and the rest were taking the piss out of him even though they were still under fire and the casualty laughing too. Kind of sums it up and worth a watch.
Boredom?! It's worse on a ship. Hour upon hour sitting on the floor in a section of corridor that is closed off at both ends. With minimal ventilation, dressed in full anti-flash gear... can't even play cards because of the damn gloves. No idea what is going on around you and AND on top of all that... they still expect you to polish the bloody deck!
The sunshine drives the lads bonkers. You see in England it's always raining. Too much Sun is not good for the average Brit. We don't know how to handle it... Scary.
Yeah this is fairly normal behaviour for our armed forces I think. One small point of order though - we didn't lose our empire through war, we gave it up willingly because it was the right thing to do. Or because the rich stopped seeing any point in it when they can make more money using corporations than empires, you decide!
He is aj joker he is making his comrades in arms laugh to relieve the boredom. What you said about the army is perfectly true. Long periods of boredom punctuated by short frenzied bouts of terror stricken activiity.
You should look at "Amarillo (army version)" for another take of bored British soldiers, far from home and passing the time 😁If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined!
If you guys joined the war earlier, instead of charging us for the help. I think that would've kept the 'Empire'. The commonwealth is a great evolution of it though
The US didn't want the British empire to continue, they wanted the end of colonialism and used WWII to force it. Leaving the UK in debt to them for the next 70 years. The US came out of WWII as a super power while the UK was broke.
The Welsh are always forgotten about. yet they have been involved in some of the most fierce battles in history. Some of the best soldiers to serve along side of.
non military people think its like the trenches where you are in combat 24 7. when in relaity you will do a 3 month detatchment at a fob in helmond and probably only see 2 maybe 3 hours of actual combat unless you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The worst part is worrying about ruinning out of sun lotion or stepping on an IED. you literally have to make your own fun to pass the time
I had a chat once with a soldier from Porton Down, he said to me one time he had a big wig general visiting he asked him about all the piss taking the squaddies did and the general said: "Nobody takes the piss or complains as much as a British soldier, and I'd only ever be terrified if they stopped".
3:32 "yo if y'all had a dozen more of these guys um years back y'all would still have an Empire!" We don't have a dozen, we have hundreds! Standard squaddie British humour I believe. For a good example of the banter and often dark humour ('spot on' I've been told by acquaintances who have served in HM Forces) KB needs to have a gander at 'Bluestone 42'.A BBC comedy series about Bomb Disposal in Afghanistan. ruclips.net/video/n2znQP5RQEM/видео.html
I'm ex-serving British Armed Forces. And the "Jimpy" as we call it the 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Gun. I remember we always named it the GMGP, "I'm the general using this machine gun, with fuckin' purpose". Oh this brought back good memories. And bad but still the banter and humour is what I miss the most! Great video. Would sooner clean an L85A2 than this thing though! Think we use an L403A1 (KS-1) now though according to my squaddie mates still in?
We have loads of those Boomer. You know well enough our humour and this is one side of it - slapstick and slightly mad. There are quite a lot of British Army clips of silliness. Have you seen them doing ‘Amarillo’?
He’s not had too much coffee, he’s just Welsh…😂
They cam talk?? I imagined the whole of Wales were being singing as it's was one single, huge and long musical.. 😳
And his friend is a “paddy” I.e. Irish
Yeah happy he isn't living in Wales any more :p
back off butt!
OMG I swear I said the exact same thing!! lmao!
British Squaddie humour - making the best of a sh*tty situation & laughing like drains in a thunderstorm. A lot of seriously wounded Troops were placed in an induced coma in Afghanistan to stabilise them for the flight back to the UK were they would be shipped to the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, about thirty miles away from me as the Crow flies. Apparently it was a regular occurrence that a Squaddie would be brought round & ask "Where's my weapon? Where's the rest of my unit?" When told he was in the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham he would invariably reply "Birmingham? Sh*t! Can you send me back to Helmland please?"
Heartlands? It was Selly Oak.
I stand corrected. I had to shuttle my Dad to & from Heartlands so many times my brain does a 'Hospital in Birmingham = Heartlands' thing. @@Tykewarrior
After i got blown up and shot in Afghanistan i fell asleep in the hospital and woke up in birmingham and could not tell the differance when i finally realised where i was i had asked to be sent back aswell
He's not bored he's British, this is normal.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 hooray!
Normal behaviour for Brit squaddies.
Couple of American mates years ago who served in afghan said they were close to the Brits and said they were the funniest guys they’d ever met,and the pisstaking was relentless.
Sounds about right,we find the funny in anything.
I had a chat once with a soldier from Porton Down, he said to me one time he had a big wig general visiting he asked him about all the piss taking the squaddies did and the general said: "Nobody takes the piss or complains as much as a British soldier, and I'd only ever be terrified if they stopped".
As a 52yr old Disabled British Army Veteran. He's a younger mellower version of us older loons. But he definitely got the banter of a true Squaddie.
Our soldiers have the driest, cleverest, most twisted, funniest sense of humour anywhere, you can’t imitate it you have to be one of them
“Bullet proof windows” very underrated joke
As an Englishman i love our close neighbours.
NO, NOT THE FU@#KING FRENCH!😂
😂😂😂
No one likes the french 🇬🇧
I know what you mean as I lived in Folkestone, Kent and we were just 23 miles away from them. Before we joined the common market you could smell that the French people had been in the supermarket not B.O. but their cigarettes. On one occasion when in a day trip to Calais we shouted "but British Lamb" as we walked along the harbour because a few weeks before, French farmers stopped the lorries with British lamb torr them out the lorries and then burnt the whole lot. To this day I never eat French apples
Never lost the empire,it was given back 🇬🇧
Indeed. Boomer needs to watch the film 'Zulu'. That was this guy's great grandfathers...
@@wessexdruid7598 He has, on Patreon.
That worked out rather well didn't it? 🤔🙈😂🇬🇧👋
It’s loosing now with all the refugee immigrants and Pakistani’s spreading their ☪️ancer
It jist became a bank instead
And people wonder how this tiny little Island conquered a 3rd of the globe. Now you get an idea.
Exactly 3:30 ... they're all like that, and always have been :-) We civilians have just never seen it before.
His F word rate is actually way below the U.K. average.
Too f*ucking right, mate! 🇬🇧😂🇬🇧
@@ned_1963we fucking know how to communicate like proper cunts we do.
This is our humour!!!!
Making the best and taking the piss!!!!
A sense of humour is treatment against catching ptsd. It’s a natural cure.
This lad is from my home town, Pen-Y-Bont ar Ogwr, Bridgend in South Wales, you’ll see plenty of his sort out in the town on a weekend, getting tanked up and having a laugh. Love the channel and much respect.
Love the Welsh ! From Ireland
Army humour, makes me proud to be British! 🇬🇧🫡🇬🇧
The way he said 'bi-nocu-lars' reminded me of Windsor Davies in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, which by the way, is worth looking up. I recommend "Sergeant Major Williams - Poofs" as a starter.
That is the only way that word should be pronounced lol
Brilliant series shame the woke got at it.
Snatch too, in more modern times.
@@dave_h_8742
It was taken off air long before the woke thing, ironically due to the racist elements despite the fact that the Indian Char Wallers were literally the smartest, most funniest, most piss taking and most sarcastic characters in the show.
@@darthwiizius the problem was one of the Indian Char wallahs was a white guy, Micheal Bates was born in India and spoke Hindi and was liked by the real Indian actors who worked with him on the show, many people of Indian Heritage liked the show at the time, the main reason the shows not shown now is not just racism but the way that Gay men are spoken about, but that was all historically accurate and in both cases was never really over the top, there was no hate towards the Indian people in the show, they got treated the same as the enlisted men, yelled at to move and shut up and calling people Poofs was not great but of the time
I haven’t seen this video for a long time. He’s not hyped up, he’s a British squaddie. A sense of humour like that is standard issue for us. The lad is a legend.
I was watching a show the other day and they were interviewing a US DEVGRU operator that had worked alongside the SAS on several missions. When asked what he thought about the SAS, the first thing he brought up was how they would have everybody in hysterics during down-time.
They're based in Wales. Some shrinks sussed I have no beta-phase sleep worth talking about, which makes me very fast on the uptake, my mind runs that analysis live-time. The Army calls it intelligent anticipation, but some of us take it to a whole new level, months ahead.
He’s not high he’s just bloody Welsh. Love the Welsh
The only thing he was p*ssed off about, there was no sheep 🤣
@@ianjenkins1905 Any port in a storm: No sheep, but if you close your eyes a goat is close enough to 'the real thing'
He didn't need coffee, he's Welsh 🙂
I think he was just delivering his considered opinion on how thoughtful his employers had been with the resources they provided for the various tasks that he was charged with performing.
Brilliantly put.
Having been one, there is something about a british squadies sense of humour that will never be matched
Watched a video by a Navy seal. Said that he worked a few missions with the SAS. He thought they were amazing great guys give you the shirt off their backs until he made a joke about the Queen. He said they went from laughing to ready to rip my head off in a second. I’ve never apologised so quickly 😂. Also Navy seals put outside their door notice saying second to none. SAS put notice saying None lol
Being Welsh I couldn’t be prouder of this boy ❤
Only a SEAL could survive making fun of the Queen, or her mum, in front of the SAS. They must have really respected him if they waited for the apology!
@@thomasmount7388 true very true 😂🏴🏴
@RugbyPass81 brilliant Proud of you for all you’ve done. Proud of that soldier too lol
Do you know the story about what the Welsh did in the 800s?
King Alfred was being battered by the Vikings. They’d taken Ireland Scotland etc and king Alfred knew he didn’t have enough men to go into big battle
He took a small group and hid in bushes etc etc and every time a group of Vikings came along they be killed. This carried on until they came to a river. There was a bridge Trouble was the bridge was only wide enough for one person at a time to cross in a single file The other side of the river were the Viking
The King didnt know what to do. Obviously if they tried to cross the bridge to fight they’d be slaughtered
Along come a small group of Welsh men who’d been fighting with the King but couldn’t speak English. They waited until dark and then the Welsh put knife in mouth sword in hand and walked UNDER the water to the other side not making a sound. Had the element of surprise and obviously defeated the Vikings
This attic is STILL used by the SAS and SBS and the Navy seals today !!!
Boyo isn’t it bloody great to be Welsh!!!!! 🏴🏴🏴❤️
We gave the empire back thanks. Nothing was taken from us. This is what we do, we the best from a bad situation
That's the Welsh for you,great sense of humour even in the most dangerous of places 👍
These guys need to be on a constant adrenalin rush because they need to be switched on at all times, things can go very badly, very quickly. If they had suddenly come under fire you would have seen this guys demeanour change in a millisecond, from joker to fighter in the blink of an eye.
Might have been an idea to keep his kit on then.
Brits take the piss at all times, at all times. Nuclear bomb goes off, squaddie stands up and applies sun tan lotion. Remember, with great sarcasm comes great responsibility [to be sarcastic].
@@station-7 The kit is only worn to give the enemy a fighting chance ;)
Bare chested this Welshman would wreck the desert.
@@FortisConscius - Yeah him and the might of the military…
Being a British Army Veteran I can tell you that civvies (general public) and other countries armed forces will never understand British squaddie humor. At times it seems to others that it goes to far or it disgusts them, but it's just the way it's always been in the British Army. It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't served as they will never understand it. I've served alongside many countries and one thing they can never get is how we would get a brew on (cup of tea) even when there was hell going on around us. Lost a few good mates over the years too and there'd be words within the squadron/regiment about who's having his spare kit. Would come across as disrespectful to most but it was usually to do with who was willing to pay more for the kit, or who was to tight to pay for certain things as all the money would go to the family, especially if there were children left without a father. It's extremely hard to explain why we are the way we are but I could meet a serving or ex British Squaddie who I've never met before and it would be like we had know each other for years by the way we would be talking to each other.
GMGP "im the General and im going to use this Machine Gun with f##king Purpose " is a play on GPMG , General Purpose Machine Gun
This is what happens, when you take a sheep away from a Welsh man 🤭
He ain't even got his wellies....
@@darthwiizius or his Velcro gloves
@@rayne2714Bit of velcro to hold the tail up and an edge of a cliff so they push back harder
Helmand. Fun place.
Tell you something funnier. Those drainpipe toilets are sometimes under tent coverings. With two doors - one for officers, and one for everyone else. But when you go in its one room with two lines of pipes running down the middle of the room - separating officers from men. Sometimes youd end up having a whizz into a pipe in the ground while awkwardly face to face with an officer doing exactly the same on the other side of the two lines of pipes (general rule: no saluting required).
I served with these type of men for over 30 years, their humour is staggering, particularly in difficult times. When the shit hits the fan, they are 100% reliable, their humour relives stress and boredom !!
Too much coffee King Boomer, these bases were lucky to get water.
Yeah, but I guarantee you they had tea. Not good tea, but a basic brew, a very basic brew.
3:33 harsh to savage😊reality is all the squaddies were like him but led by dandies and fops 😊😊
You have Brits on your side, that's what you get.
You can't easily pick up your rifle when you're crying with laughter.
Oh, hang on a minute...
Wearing his Welshness with glee.
The Welsh lads I spent time with out there were all like that.
Also, the weather in Helmand Prov does things to you, but it's always the Welsh lads being Welsh that takes the edge off the brutal environment. Bless 'em.
Just another Squadie video that is being filmed for the fun of it, taking the piss is one way of coping with the boredom and fear factor, a type humorous skit that the British 🇬🇧 military do so well, we laugh and giggle in a way only the military can, and it is a relief valve for when the SHTF or the stress of the Sh1t NOT hitting the fan. Good for them.
I’m ex-British military and this is standard behaviour. When you said a lot of boredom punctuated by moments of terror, the terror is experienced by those we fight.
As the Duke of Wellington famously said ‘I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.’
I had a chat once with a soldier from Porton Down, he said to me one time he had a big wig general visiting he asked him about all the piss taking the squaddies did and the general said: "Nobody takes the piss or complains as much as a British soldier, and I'd only ever be terrified if they stopped".
He was pissing about, and who can blame him? Whatever the surrounding circumstances, whether it be Forces, school, Scouts or whatever, you always have a guy who will give you great laughs. I just hope he wasn't like that before the Queen. Incidentally, Margaret Thatcher was present at a tv broadcast of the SAS raid on the Iranian embassy at a gathering where the SAS had attended. She was stood in front of the telly and one of the guys said "I can't see a fuckin' thing now!" Immediately, she stepped back and said "Oh I'm so sorry" No airs. No graces. She had utter respect.
I've seen footage of her with the SAS before the embassy raid. I got the impression that there was a lot of mutual respect. It is one of the key moments that changed my opinion of her. (There is a cool rumour that she clearly told them off the record, without actually using the words, not to take prisoners.)
@@thomasmount7388 Men politicians would be imagining they're somehow part of the raid, Maggie would have been thinking about the widows and orphans if it had gone wrong.
I built his house in Camp Bastion, Helmand Province. God bless the boys ❤
We have lots of chaps like these. My by is an RM Cdo and on the weekends, my house if full of them, they are huge and take lots of time grooming going out. I cook lots of food that barely touches the plates before getting devoured. All call me mum and I love everyone of them. Sadly, a few are now missing, others have life changing injuries.
You should try to find the comedy clip with the shoulder launched missile, can't say to much would spoil it ,redheadfury.
This one ruclips.net/video/edesXKGwK3I/видео.html
Normal British guy. I work with this sort of thing everyday. 😁
A Valleys boy (South Wales valleys) by the sound of him. Probably like this x 10 when he gets home and can have a drink or three.
What we got up to when there were no Ruperts around lol
Look at a map of current British territories.
You will see we are still spread across the world.
The British empire is not finished.
We are just talking a rest.
Kindly letting others take a shot at the world title 😂😂😉
He's just one wired Welshman!
There’s no such thing as a weird Welshman by the standards of the welsh. He’s “an enthusiastic Welshman!”
@@robinsanders5541he said wired not weird mate
In Wales the word fucking is a warning that a noune is on it's way
When I left the RAF the one thing I missed was the humour there is nothing like it
There was a film doing the the rounds of a Scottish Regiment I believe it was possibly the Black Watch (tough little mothers) in Afghanistan under fire and one lad got shot in the foot and the rest were taking the piss out of him even though they were still under fire and the casualty laughing too. Kind of sums it up and worth a watch.
Boredom?! It's worse on a ship. Hour upon hour sitting on the floor in a section of corridor that is closed off at both ends. With minimal ventilation, dressed in full anti-flash gear... can't even play cards because of the damn gloves. No idea what is going on around you and AND on top of all that... they still expect you to polish the bloody deck!
If you can try watching some 'Bluestone 42' a UK comedy of army life in Afghanistan
Good call, I'd forgotten that.
It is a good show
The sunshine drives the lads bonkers. You see in England it's always raining. Too much Sun is not good for the average Brit. We don't know how to handle it... Scary.
Eastern England is a drought zone, shocked? Me too, I've lived here all me life and it's always pissing down.
The Welsh accent just makes it
Yeah this is fairly normal behaviour for our armed forces I think. One small point of order though - we didn't lose our empire through war, we gave it up willingly because it was the right thing to do. Or because the rich stopped seeing any point in it when they can make more money using corporations than empires, you decide!
He is aj joker he is making his comrades in arms laugh to relieve the boredom. What you said about the army is perfectly true. Long periods of boredom punctuated by short frenzied bouts of terror stricken activiity.
🏴 Legend in his own lunchtime. 🇬🇧
You should look at "Amarillo (army version)" for another take of bored British soldiers, far from home and passing the time 😁If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined!
Army Vet here, we called the long hours of boredom "Hurry up and wait"
thats how weve won so many wars 😄
If you guys joined the war earlier, instead of charging us for the help. I think that would've kept the 'Empire'. The commonwealth is a great evolution of it though
The US didn't want the British empire to continue, they wanted the end of colonialism and used WWII to force it. Leaving the UK in debt to them for the next 70 years. The US came out of WWII as a super power while the UK was broke.
We didn’t lose the empire we gave it back.
@@booker0110 US got jealous!
I forgot about this video thanks for the throwback lol
You have just found a rabbit hole!
This is basically the average squaddie and his mates, speaking as an ex bunny, bloody marvelous o7
Dude this is every British Sqoody.
Bluestone 42
The Welsh are always forgotten about. yet they have been involved in some of the most fierce battles in history. Some of the best soldiers to serve along side of.
Very odd that you should think in this day and age that Empire building and ransacking half the world should be a desirable thing.
You should watch the British classic series of dads army 😂😂😂
non military people think its like the trenches where you are in combat 24 7. when in relaity you will do a 3 month detatchment at a fob in helmond and probably only see 2 maybe 3 hours of actual combat unless you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The worst part is worrying about ruinning out of sun lotion or stepping on an IED. you literally have to make your own fun to pass the time
We’ve got all the guys, we just haven’t got the leaders to release them
He just Welsh lad, mad as hatters and cool as fcuk! 😎
I had a chat once with a soldier from Porton Down, he said to me one time he had a big wig general visiting he asked him about all the piss taking the squaddies did and the general said: "Nobody takes the piss or complains as much as a British soldier, and I'd only ever be terrified if they stopped".
Welcome to the british army, we have thousands of these lads, theyre all mental as madmen and the very best of us
What is wrong with being Welsh f.....r???.
You should watch the British soldier version of Is this the way to Amarillo!
yep total class video
British squaddies 😂
🐻 dad killed 10 men with his bare hands 🤠 I was camp chef teddy 😂
A good hard rant is the equivalent of 20 cups of coffee to a Brit.
I bet Harry didn't have to do all that.
As bless them all 🙏❤️
You should watch a film called dog soldier's.
3:32
"yo if y'all had a dozen more of these guys um years back y'all would still have an Empire!"
We don't have a dozen, we have hundreds! Standard squaddie British humour I believe.
For a good example of the banter and often dark humour ('spot on' I've been told by acquaintances who have served in HM Forces) KB needs to have a gander at 'Bluestone 42'.A BBC comedy series about Bomb Disposal in Afghanistan.
ruclips.net/video/n2znQP5RQEM/видео.html
100's...? We got millions still and they never went anywhere...
Solid series that, funny as fuck !
You need to look up Læffy now!
Is that a Welsh Monkey D Luffy?
GUM GUM pistol....isn't it!
Classic cabin fever😂
We had and still have got plenty like him, unfortunately we also have politicians!
Has someone been giving him too much screech?
Ah, good ol' screech! Perfect with a handful of boiled sweets!
Glow in the dark refreshment ..
Watch Bluestune 42
+ for the comments below. This is how Brits are. Oddly, you don't need many of us to make a "difference". 👍
As soon as I saw the title I was hoping it would be this one.
This is exactly what I remember 😂😂
I'm ex-serving British Armed Forces. And the "Jimpy" as we call it the 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Gun. I remember we always named it the GMGP, "I'm the general using this machine gun, with fuckin' purpose". Oh this brought back good memories. And bad but still the banter and humour is what I miss the most! Great video. Would sooner clean an L85A2 than this thing though! Think we use an L403A1 (KS-1) now though according to my squaddie mates still in?
Location, location, location: Helmand edition.1
Maybe you should react to 'Gary, Tank Commander'
British is not spelt wrong.
Hes a typical brit!
You could maybe check out some of Spike Milligan's war stories Boomer.
We have loads of those Boomer. You know well enough our humour and this is one side of it - slapstick and slightly mad. There are quite a lot of British Army clips of silliness. Have you seen them doing ‘Amarillo’?
The army runs on energy drinks.
LMAO!