• Erasmus
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    7128 days ago

    ‘The warship’s commander “is a big ‘Star Wars’ fan’

    Lmao the commander is a top tier troll. I mean who wouldn’t love to float a giant grey warship down the Thames blasting the Imperial March??

  • @[email protected]
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    28 days ago

    ‘No deeper message,’ navy says

    I was just watching a video from Drachinifel on the Royal Navy’s extensive history of trolling other navies and responding to trolling. They are going to do something wacky.

    • FuglyDuck
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      2428 days ago

      no deeper message

      I don’t believe them. there’s a message there and it’s funny as hell.

  • @[email protected]
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    828 days ago

    I misread that as “German worship blasts Darth Vader anthem in heart of London,” then realized how similarly spelled warship and worship are.

  • @[email protected]
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    728 days ago

    weird how 70 years later german military is glorifying the empire in star wars, which borrowed a lot from nazis but then became its own cultural thing

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      Borrowed? Heh. Nicked whole-cloth, more like: General Hux, addressing troops arranged in the “Nuremberg” pattern; the battle of Mimban = WWI Western front, in space; stormtroopers in Stirnpanzer; Soontir Fel = Red Baron — to say nothing of Baron Valen Rudor, and Vault Skerris; etc.

      Hell, if you’d like a fun rabbit hole, look into the Twi’leks’ Ryloth liberation as French Revolution, OG Sith as ancient Egypt/Aztec civs, Empire expansionism as HRE/Spain/US, etc. 🤓

      The man’s not known for ingenuity. Then again, neither is GRRM. 🤷🏽‍♂️

  • lnxtx
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    126 days ago

    Better blast an anthem than shells.