Isn't that everything? Buildings can be constructed for at least a hundred years, only to be demolished in just a hundred seconds.

Some non descript bastard of a civil servants pen can kill a way of life infinitely quicker than any plague or army

We no longer get people walking around with a bucket and shovel to pick up horse manure either. Things change.

unlike USN ships on RN ships the sailors can drink alcohol. it was no longer needed to supply a rum ration in the 1970's ..

That is really something and good video who knows what others to go through next since these days there's so many topics to choose from. Though for a few may want to look into Mi-24 Hind, the old dinosaur T-54/55, Stinger, AK-47, MIG Jets and B-52 bomber are a few parts to look into.

Takes a special kind of idiot to idolize an alcoholic in a melancholic story about a man struggling with addiction. Wild.

@@T3DNR3DTakes a special kind of idiot to randomly accuse people of alcoholism too, from which part of that comment did you see a man struggling with addictions? Wild.

@@imadeanaccounttocomment7800 i mean no disrespect but having something every day kinda hints to addiction to me, at least in some capacity. additionally the part of a gentle mannered man getting angry over something so trivial. also alcohol is bad

@@glizzygulper8948 Hinting to and definitely indicating are very different. And alcohol is only bad if consumed excessively. The body can deal with small quantities just fine. We even have an enzyme that evolved just for that: alcohol dehydrogenase.

@@glizzygulper8948 Three hundred years of tradition cannot be described as trivial and this applies exponentially to the military where the tradition is pretty much the entire identity. Now sure some sailors in the 70’s would have been mad that they are not getting alcohol but most of them are probably just mad that something they are used to and a proud tradition is now gone. And if we use common sense instead of accusing everyone to be idiots like the first guy you will probably realise that you can’t be an alcoholic battling addictions and a sailor in the Royal Navy at the same time. At least not in the 70’s.

I want an ice-cream factory on a barge wtf

i don't drink, so I'd prefer ice cream over alcohol easily

@@smaptey1 "I want an ice-cream factory on a barge wtf" - Unidentified Imperial Japanese Soldier, Okinawa, 1945

Alcohol was prohibited in the US Navy in 1914, 6 years before Prohibition. It's yet another reason to despise Woodrow Wilson.

I bet rum and raisin ice cream would be popular

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How dare he...!!! ...questions will be asked at the highest level...as opposed to low...😅😅😅

Now that's taking the Porter

It had a familiar nose 😉

Blackadder had his own extremely strong ale anyway.

In my early yesr we use to say IPA = I Pee Anywhere.

I used to brew my own version of Indian Pale Ale...slainte...E...😅😅😅

I always wonder, was there any IPA between the Raj and Hipsters? As a non brit I just don't know

@@JGCR59 Good question. I'm not a beer connoisseur, but I first started noticing them here in the US in the 90s. I liked that I could leave a bottle open overnight and a swig in the morning was no better or worse than freshly opened. Great stomach settler, too.

​​​@@JGCR59always been pretty common among ale drinkers in britain and not really a hipster wanker thing, its more a cheap option. I used to drink it as a first pint because its light on the stomach but aley stuff gets a bit too heavy on the taste after a few so changed over to cider after. Can get cans of greene king from the shop for cheap as well which is IPA and certainly not middle class hipster or real ale twat territory

No Sippers was The way you took your rum. You were either a slippers man or a gulpers man.

"In the Royal Navy the daily rum ration was used as a kind of currency on board ship and was termed "sippers and gulpers". If you did a mate on board a favour you could claim sippers and gulpers from the next ration." "In the days when tots of rum were issued, it was commonplace for sailors to pledge a portion of their rum ration to another shipmate, possibly to settle a debt. The donor would indicate how much he was allowing the other to take with one of the following phrases: "Sippers" - Take a Sip. "Gulpers" - Take a Gulp. "Sandy Bottoms" - Drink it all." I remember that the tot was used as currency for favors etc.. you could have “sippers” or “gulpers” depending on the size of the favor It was watered so it could not be saved . I remember having sippers of my brothers neat tot and that it warmed me for some time. Good times!!!" "In addition, many favours could be obtained with the "tot", in so much, that it became a form of currency ie "sippers", "gulpers", "three fingers" and a "tot" all had value in an ad hoc world of bargaining perhaps where someone would cover for someone else at a "muster of hands" or someone would carry out another task in exchange! It was surprising what lengths a "hardened bubbly rat" would go to obtain more than his daily ration of "grog"

Too right friend. Especially if you've completed all your work and dug in. Knowing you're going to be doing nothing but wait for like 10 hours haha.

Air force and alcohol sounds like a very bad mix.

@@AdamantLightLP Really depends on what role you occupy in the service. Yeah I wouldn't want to be flying a fighter aircraft and have my copilot be wasted lol

​@@AdamantLightLP You've clearly never spent any time around the Air Force...

It was always painful having a smoke outside the DFAC and watching all the Americans double-fisting Budweisers when all we could get was near-beer...

There's some kind of steel beach party, where if you've been at sea for 45 days straight, they have a bbq picnic on deck, and everyone gets two beers. We had one in the Indian Ocean, USS Midway mid-1970s, but I don't know what the actual regs are, and I expect they change once in a while.

Where did the Russian Vodka stereotype come from?

@@an-animal-lover Who knows, mayhaps it's because vodka was a surplus product that became a primary export from Russia and back, thus giving foreigners the wrong idea. Amusingly, rum is said to be a popular liquor in there and in the Scandinavians.

@@michaelandreipalon359 "rum is said to be a popular liquor there" really? That'd interesting

@@an-animal-lover Again, not exactly sure, but vodka sure isn't likely to be the top brand liquor there, the same way the wine burgundy isn't in France.

Rum can also be a catch all term in the navy and army. Often rum was actually whisky or even gin, especially in ww1 army.

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Supposedly, when the British started refurbishing the 50 destroyers they got from the US at the beginning of WW II, they removed all the ice cream machines as making sailors too soft.

My father served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1945-49. He told me that when the USN and RAN were together in port, the crews would often end up on each other's ships. The American sailors drank on the Australian ships, and the Aussies ate much better on the American ones, especially the icecream

@@ryanelcock948 It was a book on the Battle of the Atlantic that I read twenty or twenty-five years ago, so I can't give you a name.

Hands off my gold!

"Use your dagger Dan"@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq

Google says the RN did it because it might hinder sailors' ability to operate increasingly complex weapon systems. I sure don't want someone blitzed as they work on a trident missile.

@@EGRJ And at this point the drinking culture is so far removed, I bet one ration would have your average member very buzzed if not dangerously intoxicated.

There are massive drink problems on British ships. My dad was in the merchant navy and saw a couple of men die from withdrawal and plenty of accidents caused by it. The royal navy still has a reputation for mad drinking and drugging.

​@@ThommyofThennthe british drinking culture hasnt changed at all, its still terrible.

@@Ukraineaissance2014 that's messed up for any one to see. Makes more sense now that it's frowned upon

They can regulate it all they want it never stopped my father & his unit of marines from drinking. You want to take killers drink away from them as it's not recommended for your health or mental stability. My father out of a twisted sense of humour puts former occupations; among others as (assassin of the crown) as to say it was anything else would be a lie he tells. He was not the patriotic sort seeing it as nothing more then a job & well his job entailed killing people in short. Honestly this idea of militaries being globalized police peace forces is were it all went wrong. A competent professional militaries only purpose is to end the war by direct mean often violent force after negations broke down on the politicians & diplomats end of respective nations. I the leaders that be didn't want a war they should have done their job to avoid it in the 1st place! the often useless opportunist hypocrites in government!

I was actually born in the UK. My dad made Blackadder compulsory viewing. Good man for it too.

Or the old Australian Army joke about the beer ration in the Vietnam War days....Two cans per man perhaps.

@@bigbrowntau a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to get through the day especially during a stressful time like that, no shame at all.

@@ryanh4775 Yeah it was more about the Army's failure at providing the ration at times

I drank it all....hic...!!!

@@eamonnclabby7067 Why’d you drink all the rum?!?

Same during the Falklands....

The torpedo fuel is the thing filtered through the loaf of bread to extract the 180-proof alcohol, which is then watered down to about 75 to 100 proof with pineapple juice. I’ve actually made this recipe myself (using Everclear for the alcohol), it burns like hell but is also surprisingly sweet due to the juice.

@@Shaun_Jones thank you for the clarification

But are they really myths....?

@@eamonnclabby7067 about grog? And limes? Yeah , I use to live in Port Aransas and all the restaurants had a basically pirate theme about "no grog for the kids" But in fairness what's your take?

Well, there was that Shark Team pub on Girls und Panzer das Finale's Oarai schoolship.

Does that rifle is also great ? Besides katana as backups

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