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Twitchy
11-30-05, 09:28 PM
What the hell was with the gratuitous references? "Maybe we should raise little duckies in the bilge...and feed the GREEN BOOGERS" "We lube up the torpedoes with vasaline AND RAM THEN BACK IN THE WOMAN!"...."WE WILL NEED VASILINE TO GET THROUGH GILBRALTAR!"
WTF. Please don't tell me REAL uboaters talked like this or Ima hang myself here and now
Ducimus
11-30-05, 09:30 PM
Bad english translations im guessing.
It's acutaly a bit more articulate if you watch the german version with engish subtitles.
That said, the engish version is close. but not quite on the money.
Sailor Steve
11-30-05, 10:37 PM
I was an American destroyer sailor, and believe me, the language, jokes and references can get pretty wild sometimes.
Ducimus
11-30-05, 11:01 PM
I was an American destroyer sailor, and believe me, the language, jokes and references can get pretty wild sometimes.
well the old phrase, "curse like a sailor" didnt come from nowhere.
Acutaly most military can get pretty wild with their jokes, regardless of branch.
Etienne
11-30-05, 11:11 PM
I'm a Merchant Marine cadet and I can yell insult or profanity for two minutes straight without repeating myself, in two languages.
Believe me, these jokes are mild. These guys spend months without much feminine contact, if at all. And when you do see a woman, she's usually a... Professional, y'know? Manners and taste degrade. Vaseline jokes? Totally.
I mean, how else can you get a salty up the Seaway?
I'd say Das Boot turned it down a notch. Or ten.
"Number 1 crane is between hatch #1 and #2, number 2 is between #3 and #4, number three is between #5 and #6, and number four is between my legs!" - Unnamed Bosun.
kiwi_2005
11-30-05, 11:27 PM
The movie was made in the 80's corny is the word.
supersloth
12-01-05, 01:57 AM
i think anyhwere you have a bunch of guys hanging around (ie sub, basketball court, parking lot...) pervert jokes are a given.
Marhkimov
12-01-05, 01:59 AM
i think anyhwere you have a bunch of guys hanging around (ie sub, basketball court, parking lot...) pervert jokes are a given.
Haha, I agree. You don't have to be a sailor to get all perverted and wacky. Ha, we do it in english class all the time. :D
Kapitän Cremer
12-01-05, 02:54 AM
And when you think about it....
Those german sailors were around our age....They were the flower of their generation and they were just as energetic then as we are now....
So why should we be disgusted with their language....we are not any better.... :up:
CptGrayWolf
12-01-05, 04:59 AM
:rotfl:
Twitchy, get the rope out.
And yes the movie was made in the 80s, Kiwi_2005, but it was all taken from a book written in the 70s, by a man who was on real u-boats in the 40s.
What the hell was with the gratuitous references? "Maybe we should raise little duckies in the bilge...and feed the GREEN BOOGERS" "We lube up the torpedoes with vasaline AND RAM THEN BACK IN THE WOMAN!"...."WE WILL NEED VASILINE TO GET THROUGH GILBRALTAR!"
huh?. Please don't tell me REAL uboaters talked like this or Ima hang myself here and now
LOL!
You're kidding right? :rotfl:
:rotfl:
Twitchy, get the rope out.
And yes the movie was made in the 80s, Kiwi_2005, but it was all taken from a book written in the 70s, by a man who was on real u-boats in the 40s.
In the real U96 aswell. :) There was a thread on ubi.com forums, where some guy posted photos aboard the U96 taken by the Buchheim.
Too bad I couldn´t find the thread, those photos were amazing!
Edit: Here´s the link to that thread: http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/857101043/m/8631071743/r/8631071743#8631071743
Every photo expect that big explosion is taken aboard the U-96
Ps. Before someone will start the "That´s not the U96! Theres no laughing swordfish"- thing:
The high command feared that enemy spys could use the conning tower pictures to identify specific u-boats, so all u-boats had to replace their personal markings with the one from their flotillas or to remove them completely. :up:
CptGrayWolf
12-01-05, 08:49 AM
Nice link Dowly! :rock:
Yeah, Frenssen and Pilgrim with their dirty talking and disgusting habits are my absolute favourite characters in the movie :up: Miles away from the stereotypical Hollywood German.
Seeadler
12-01-05, 01:46 PM
I served 8 years in the German navy and the language from the "Das Boot" is still harmless in comparison to the reality. We have still conversed more rougher, particularly at sea after the daily evening beer. :arrgh!:
Carolus Rex
12-01-05, 02:55 PM
What the hell was with the gratuitous references? "Maybe we should raise little duckies in the bilge...and feed the GREEN BOOGERS" "We lube up the torpedoes with vasaline AND RAM THEN BACK IN THE WOMAN!"...."WE WILL NEED VASILINE TO GET THROUGH GILBRALTAR!"
huh?. Please don't tell me REAL uboaters talked like this or Ima hang myself here and now
What is the fuss about? Nothing spectaular with those jokes. Any guy have heard worse jokes than that countless of times.
Are you a woman by any chance? I can understand your reaction then, in these days of feminism.
John Pancoast
12-01-05, 04:31 PM
:rotfl:
Twitchy, get the rope out.
And yes the movie was made in the 80s, Kiwi_2005, but it was all taken from a book written in the 70s, by a man who was on real u-boats in the 40s.
In the real U96 aswell. :) There was a thread on ubi.com forums, where some guy posted photos aboard the U96 taken by the Buchheim.
Too bad I couldn´t find the thread, those photos were amazing!
Edit: Here´s the link to that thread: http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/857101043/m/8631071743/r/8631071743#8631071743
Every photo expect that big explosion is taken aboard the U-96
Ps. Before someone will start the "That´s not the U96! Theres no laughing swordfish"- thing:
The high command feared that enemy spys could use the conning tower pictures to identify specific u-boats, so all u-boats had to replace their personal markings with the one from their flotillas or to remove them completely. :up:
And just think; in his pictorial book "U-Boat War", it's said he took *5000* photos.......unfortunately, only a fraction survived the war, afterwards, etc.
That's what we're seeing; that fraction.
Twitchy
12-02-05, 01:12 AM
I AM watching it in german with english subtitles btw. And it's not that I'm offended, its just that I wanted to watch this movie with my old man and I dont think he will appreciate the language. :nope:
I talk like that around the house all the time. Anyone ever heard of "word salad"?
kiwi_2005
12-02-05, 09:08 AM
And yes the movie was made in the 80s, Kiwi_2005, but it was all taken from a book written in the 70s, by a man who was on real u-boats in the 40s.
Thats what i mean. The 80's! the era of corny movies. Im not mocking DAS BOOT it would be one of my best movies. I found nothing wrong with the language compare to movies today. Anyone remeber Saturday Night Fever? I actually use to dance like that at discos :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :88) :oops:
And yes the movie was made in the 80s, Kiwi_2005, but it was all taken from a book written in the 70s, by a man who was on real u-boats in the 40s.
Thats what i mean. The 80's! the era of corny movies. Im not mocking DAS BOOT it would be one of my best movies. I found nothing wrong with the language compare to movies today. Anyone remeber Saturday Night Fever? I actually use to dance like that at discos :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :88) :oops:
Me and my friends dance like that too! After many many many beers. Usually you couldn´t get me to dancefloor even if you threat me with a shotgun. :)
Deimos01
12-02-05, 09:14 AM
Ive been a military fire fighter fot the past 18 years. One thing I can tell you is when you stick a bunch of guys together for any extended period of time we start to de-evolve into our primitive barbarous states. Some of the things we say around here could curdle milk. Maturity level goes way down too. I mean, come on, We're a bunch of grown men that still get a laugh out of a good fart. :roll:
Ive been a military fire fighter fot the past 18 years. One thing I can tell you is when you stick a bunch of guys together for any extended period of time we start to de-evolve into our primitive barbarous states. Some of the things we say around here could curdle milk. Maturity level goes way down too. I mean, come on, We're a bunch of grown men that still get a laugh out of a good fart. :roll:
Well said! :)
CptGrayWolf
12-02-05, 11:09 AM
Is the expulsion of accumulated gas really so funny?
capt-jones
12-02-05, 01:22 PM
:huh: Is the expulsion of accumulated gas really so funny? :hmm: er no
:yep: but a fart is :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
:rock: does anybody remmember the scene with peter sellers when he was with a load of guys in a elevator and one of them let rip :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: that was a classic
:|\ he was the man (im sure if it was one of the pink panther series) im not sure if it was an out-take ;) i bet somebody can come up with a better one :smug:
:huh: Is the expulsion of accumulated gas really so funny? :hmm: er no
:yep: but a fart is :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
:rock: does anybody remmember the scene with peter sellers when he was with a load of guys in a elevator and one of them let rip :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: that was a classic
:|\ he was the man (im sure if it was one of the pink panther series) im not sure if it was an out-take ;) i bet somebody can come up with a better one :smug:
I saw a bloopers show once that featured that scene..it "was" one of the Pink Panther movies. Anyway...they had to do about 50 takes to do that scene...everyone in the elevator cracked up whenever they did the fart sound. They then tried to do something to warn the actors it was coming so that they wouldn't laugh....didn't work. They then did it without any sounds at all. They still all cracked up at the thought of it...and Peter Seller's face looking around the elevator.
Classic.
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