Battle of the Somme

[SuburbanFarmer]

Amazing footage from the British army, of the lead-up and initial phase of the battle. I had no idea that this even existed...

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/ ... 1060008206

I highly recommend listening to this while you watch (it's all silent film, of course)

[ssu]

Amazing footage from the British army, of the lead-up and initial phase of the battle. I had no idea that this even existed...

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/ ... 1060008206

I highly recommend listening to this while you watch (it's all silent film, of course)

Ummm... did they really all die in vain as the song tells us?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Amazing footage from the British army, of the lead-up and initial phase of the battle. I had no idea that this even existed...

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/ ... 1060008206

I highly recommend listening to this while you watch (it's all silent film, of course)

Ummm... did they really all die in vain as the song tells us?

Yes.



Unless you believe that national pride was worth a few million kids dead..
Regardless, it's pretty stunning stuff.

[Speaker to Animals]

I'd say our men died in vain in both wars, though I personally consider them really the same conflict with an interbellum period.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I'd say our men died in vain in both wars, though I personally consider them really the same conflict with an interbellum period.

Agreed on that point.

[ssu]

Amazing footage from the British army, of the lead-up and initial phase of the battle. I had no idea that this even existed...

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/ ... 1060008206

I highly recommend listening to this while you watch (it's all silent film, of course)

Ummm... did they really all die in vain as the song tells us?

Yes.



Unless you believe that national pride was worth a few million kids dead..
Regardless, it's pretty stunning stuff.

Don't treat the sequel separately.

Lets start from the fact that I and other Europeans talk ENGLISH when talking to foreigners.
Not German. Now earlier a lot of Finns would speake German than now.

Wir können Deutsch sprechen, könten wir? In unser global Heimat.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Ummm... did they really all die in vain as the song tells us?

Yes.



Unless you believe that national pride was worth a few million kids dead..
Regardless, it's pretty stunning stuff.

Don't treat the sequel separately.

Lets start from the fact that I and other Europeans talk ENGLISH when talking to foreigners.
Not German. Now earlier a lot of Finns would speake German than now.

Wir können Deutsch sprechen, könten wir? In unser global Heimat.

More recently, you'd be speaking Russian. Soon, you'll be speaking Chinese.

I don't think you can really measure the value of dead soldiers by linguistic demographics, but do carry on with your very confusing point?

[Speaker to Animals]

German is a great language. It would have worked just as well as English for a lingua franca.

[ssu]

More recently, you'd be speaking Russian. Soon, you'll be speaking Chinese.

Didn't end up like the Balts, who took things "rationally". And during the time we were part of Russia, we actually weren't speaking Russian. We were an autonomous Grand Duchy, with it's own laws and own government basically. Russia was never taught in schools until very late time just before WW1, hence the Russification of Finns was done far too late with not much zeal. My grandparents generation, children at the age of our independence, were taught Russian. It was a joke. Nobody wanted to learn it and their teachers didn't want the children to learn it. So no, they didn't speak at all Russian. Few Finns do even now.

Chinese? Really? Who the fuck talks Chinese than the Chinese?

You get along quite well with english with the Chinese

I don't think you can really measure the value of dead soldiers by linguistic demographics, but do carry on with your very confusing point?

My point is that WW1 is viewed as totally meaningless war, were as it's sequel, it's second act, is acknowledged to be extremely important. I disagree with that.

Because that way we can say that nearly any war is meaningless, that doesn't result in absolute victory of one side. Yet that's not the case, it isn't as simple as that.

[Speaker to Animals]

I doubt the Russians speak gypsy either, so I suppose you guys both have language barriers.