A Polish destroyer

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by PavelKirilovich

One of my favourite photos of the Blyskawica.



Quite. Disturbingly, many of my countrymen forget that Canada was assigned its own beach during the D-day landings, and practically none of them know the role that Canadian troops played in preventing the 21. Panzer Lehr and 12 SS "Hitlerjugend" divisions from sweeping the Americans off their beachheads. This is just the single most famous example, we're not going to go into the book-long list of other actions.

There are kids over here who probably don't know a thing about the somme yet in all likelihood some member of their family fought and died there.
I came close to throttling some kids a few years back when they were giving abuse to an old man in town, this guy had fought in WWII, he was busy shouting at them that he wasn't afraid of the ities 60 years ago and he wasn't afraid of them now.
I wanted to pull their heads clean off, in hindsight I probably should have done, now they're older and still scum, but scum with a criminal record now, never amount to anything. The old man must have wondered what he and his friends fought for, paid for freedom in blood for people who don't know or just don't care.

[PavelKirilovich]

You're far more patient than I am mate, I would have done some damage to the little subhuman bastards. The key thing is just not to leave any evidence that connects you to the assault "victims" behind, and get in hard and fast; do the damage, then walk away calmly. For some reason, when this happens, nobody notes your face.

Not that I have personal experience with this sort of thing.

Here's an example that drives me ****ing mental. In the province I'm in now, a lot of "islanders" are in the Forces. And they've got a pretty strong history of serving in either the British or Canadian militaries since the Boer War. But despite this, the bayonet has to be taken off the statue of a trooper kneeling on the War Memorial with his Enfield No.4 SMLE or these grotty little bastards will simply vandalize the memorial by stealing or breaking the bayonet. Only reason they don't do it to other parts of the memorial is because someone would (quite rightly) beat them and throw them in the Harbour, as the other pieces are too hard to reach quickly.

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by PavelKirilovich

You're far more patient than I am mate, I would have done some damage to the little subhuman bastards. The key thing is just not to leave any evidence that connects you to the assault "victims" behind, and get in hard and fast; do the damage, then walk away calmly. For some reason, when this happens, nobody notes your face.

Not that I have personal experience with this sort of thing.

Here's an example that drives me ****ing mental. In the province I'm in now, a lot of "islanders" are in the Forces. And they've got a pretty strong history of serving in either the British or Canadian militaries since the Boer War. But despite this, the bayonet has to be taken off the statue of a trooper kneeling on the War Memorial with his Enfield No.4 SMLE or these grotty little bastards will simply vandalize the memorial by stealing or breaking the bayonet. Only reason they don't do it to other parts of the memorial is because someone would (quite rightly) beat them and throw them in the Harbour, as the other pieces are too hard to reach quickly.

It wasn't patience which saved them but the fact that there were at least 2 CCTV cameras watching the area it happened in, I knew where all the blackspots were as it was at my work place but unfortunately they didn't go near any of them.

I lived for a time in northern norway, up where the russian crabs have made a new home, so if anything happened, the offending person became crab meat....
It was abit "special" up there, some of the islands don't even have a perminant police force. They have to come in via ferry, so there's a phonecall made to the island first to cease anything illegal. Such as producing their 96% proof moonshine "Kvæfjord water" I've heard it called. If you're ever patrolling that way and sink any small vessels and they happen to go up well, you know what they were carrying :P

[PavelKirilovich]

I think out of honour of this "go tickle a crab" behaviour, I'll be careful not to torpedo any small vessels in those areas. I had a Norwegian friend who brought something like this "Kvæfjord water" in for supper one night.

I can safely say that's the only time I've drunk something and actually thought I would die as a result of it.

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by PavelKirilovich

I think out of honour of this "go tickle a crab" behaviour, I'll be careful not to torpedo any small vessels in those areas. I had a Norwegian friend who brought something like this "Kvæfjord water" in for supper one night.

I can safely say that's the only time I've drunk something and actually thought I would die as a result of it.

It fetches the enamel off your teeth! horrid stuff to be sure.