NavyDawg's First Unit Lottery

[Wyrmshadow]

Let's just leave it up to NavyDawg to flip a coin to see what sort of RPG soldier will be made.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Well... a generic Eastern Bloc soldier or a generic Middle Eastern militant... heck, those decisions...

I guess it's hard to decide. Just make both.

j/k

 

[Steph]

Well... a generic Eastern Bloc soldier or a generic Middle Eastern militant... heck, those decisions...

I guess it's hard to decide. Just make both.

j/k

It was also used in Vietnam... So we need 3 versions..

 

[aaglo]

And we also need a futuristic one too... and a sort of alien one wouldn't be too bad either

Yeah right. An alien with a role-playing game. Or is it Rudimentary Picnic Gear?

 

[Plotinus]

Actually, the little dose of humour the British have comes from good ol' French blood they were lucky to get after they were invaded in 1066.

Invaded by the Normans, you mean, who were good Scandinavians eager to get out of France, and who can blame them...?

 

[Steph]

Ah the Normans... Always unable to decide between England and France, or anything else for that matte "p't'et ben qu'oui, p't'et ben qu'non"
At least, the English nobles of the time were speaking a civilized language.

 

[Plotinus]

Yes, Anglo-Norman, which sounds like French to the uneducated but is really a far superior language...

(Note to non-English/French people: we can keep this up all day you know...)

 

[Commodore]

Post #18 takes it.

Aw man, just two posts away! Man that stings. I guess it's not so bad, seeing as I might have a use for the RPG soldier in my scenario.

Anyway, thanks for holding the lottery Navy. If you ever do it again, you can bet I'll try my luck once more.

 

[Steph]

(Note to non-English/French people: we can keep this up all day you know...)

Well, the French can, the English have to stop at 5 pm for their tea.
And they also stop fighting every end of week.

 

[TopGun]

Well, the French can, the English have to stop at 5 pm for their tea.
And they also stop fighting every end of week.

You've been reading Asterix, haven't you?

 

[Mirc]

Actually, the little dose of humour the British have comes from good ol' French blood they were lucky to get after they were invaded in 1066.

No, it's from your grandmother.

 

[Ozymandias]

Yes, Anglo-Norman, which sounds like French to the uneducated but is really a far superior language...

(Note to non-English/French people: we can keep this up all day you know...)

... And we shall

Note the words English words "pork" & "pig"; likewise "beef" and "cow". The first of each pair are Norman French and refer to the end-product of much labor; "pig" and "cow" are Anglo-Saxon in root and of course refer to those beasts which upon which labor is lavished to get said end-products.

Etymologically Yours,

Oz

 

[Steph]

You've been reading Asterix, haven't you?

All of them and several times. A good part of the jokes I make everyday need some Asterix knowledge to be fully understood.

 

[Steph]

... And we shall
Note the words English words "pork" & "pig"; likewise "beef" and "cow". The first of each pair are Norman French and refer to the end-product of much labor; "pig" and "cow" are Anglo-Saxon in root and of course refer to those beasts which upon which labor is lavished to get said end-products.
Oz

Indeed. There is also a distinction in Anglo Saxon culture where they don't really like to link what they eat with living animals: the meat in the plate is "abstracted", while for the French, the relationship is important.

And so the words used to design the meal is not the same as the living animal. The meal = French origin, as the French speaking nobility enjoyed it in their castle, while the English peasant used the Anglo-Saxon words for the animals they were living in the muck with, in the place that should be rightfully theirs. And I'm not speaking of the animals, but the English of course

 

[Keroro]

Well, the French can, the English have to stop at 5 pm for their tea.
And they also stop fighting every end of week.

Tea is an essential part of any civilized culture, thus the French prefer coffee. Anyway, while the English stop fighting for tea, the French stop fighting as soon as anyone declares war.

 

[Steph]

Anyway, while the English stop fighting for tea, the French stop fighting as soon as anyone declares war.

That's untrue and totally uncalled for. We usually wait at lest a few days after the declaration of wars. It wouldn't be polite to at least lost lose a few hundreds thousands soldiers fighting. The opposite side could think we are just being arrogant and ignore them.

 

[Ozymandias]

Tea is an essential part of any civilized culture, thus the French prefer coffee. Anyway, while the English stop fighting for tea, the French stop fighting as soon as anyone declares war.

Even better, when I lived in London in the 1980s, at the BBC the champagne cart was wheeled about around that time. (Nope, not joking )

-Oz

 

[Ozymandias]

That's untrue and totally uncalled for. We usually wait at lest a few days after the declaration of wars. It wouldn't be polite to at least lost lose a few hundreds thousands soldiers fighting. The opposite side could think we are just being arrogant and ignore them.

One date: 732 CE, when Charles Martel and his French army stopped the Islamic invasion of Europe during a week-long battle at Poitiers. IMHO that alone makes up for all the rest and then some (no offense to Islam intended; let's just say I'm a fan of cultural diversity).

-Oz

 

[Plotinus]

That's just because the Spanish have an even worse history of successful invasions than the French do.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Well, the French can, the English have to stop at 5 pm for their tea.
And they also stop fighting every end of week.

It's because they can lean back then and watch the French being mopped up by the Germans during the tea break?

Sometimes I love stereotypes