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Aliens/Predators V IRA/Black And Tans
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12-08-2010 7:59pm#1I watched all the DVD's of all the Alien and Predator movies the other weekend before I went out to see the latest Predator flick in the cinema.
I am a real history buff especially the Irish Revolution and I consider the best movie about that period to be The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
So I was wondering if a Predator or an Alien pod turned up in Ireland circa 1920 - how would the local IRA and the Black and Tans have reacted to their comrades being skinned alive and beheaded by a mysterious figure who can appear and disapper at will or acid spitting monsters who burst from the chests of their human victims?
Would the IRA and the Tans have put their differences aside for a while to take care of the blood thirsty intruders?
More importantly. Who would have won?;)
IRA flying column
Black and Tans
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jurgenscarl wrote: »I watched all the DVD's of all the Alien and Predator movies the other weekend before I went out to see the latest Predator flick in the cinema.
I am a real history buff especially the Irish Revolution and I consider the best movie about that period to be The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
So I was wondering if a Predator or an Alien pod turned up in Ireland circa 1920 - how would the local IRA and the Black and Tans have reacted to their comrades being skinned alive and beheaded by a mysterious figure who can appear and disapper at will or acid spitting monsters who burst from the chests of their human victims?
Would the IRA and the Tans have put their differences aside for a while to take care of the blood thirsty intruders?
More importantly. Who would have won?;)
IRA flying column
Black and Tans
You really need to get out more.
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According to accounts that I have read about the Black and Tans in Tom Barry's Guerilla Days in Ireland, Dan Breen's My Fight for Irish Freedom etc, militarily, the Tans were actually a bunch of cowards. I suppose it was typical of the bully syndrome, i.e. the tough guy who likes throwing his weight around until he meets someone who can put it up to him and he instantly becomes the sniveling coward. And quite often they were little more than a drunken rabble due to looting and robbing pubs of drink and money in the towns and villages around the country. However their swagger and bravdo wasn't long disappearing when ambushed by a column of IRA men etc
The Auxillary Regiment were a different kettle of fish, as found of torture as the Tans ( pulling out fingernails, slashing with knives etc ), they were however militarily formidable. Hand picked officers with experience of fighting at the front in WW1, armed to the teeth with the latest weapons and best armoured military vehicles at the time, they were the SAS of thier day. But just like the SAS, they often met more than their match in the IRA.
Lets say that the IRA and the Auxiliary's ( Auxies as the IRA called them ), were to join forces against Alien/Predator, well I reckon they'd only have a chance of winning only if Arnie Schwarznegger was leading them
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PatsytheNazi wrote: »According to accounts that I have read about the Black and Tans in Tom Barry's Guerilla Days in Ireland, Dan Breen's My Fight for Irish Freedom etc, militarily, the Tans were actually a bunch of cowards. I suppose it was typical of the bully syndrome, i.e. the tough guy who likes throwing his weight around until he meets someone who can put it up to him and he instantly becomes the sniveling coward. And quite often they were little more than a drunken rabble due to looting and robbing pubs of drink and money in the towns and villages around the country. However their swagger and bravdo wasn't long disappearing when ambushed by a column of IRA men etc
The Auxillary Regiment were a different kettle of fish, as found of torture as the Tans ( pulling out fingernails, slashing with knives etc ), they were however militarily formidable. Hand picked officers with experience of fighting at the front in WW1, armed to the teeth with the latest weapons and best armoured military vehicles at the time, they were the SAS of thier day. But just like the SAS, they often met more than their match in the IRA.
Lets say that the IRA and the Auxiliary's ( Auxies as the IRA called them ), were to join forces against Alien/Predator, well I reckon they'd only have a chance of winning only if Arnie Schwarznegger was leading them
Is it possible that a Predator was on the loose in Cork?
Much of the city centre was burnt to the ground which suggests that there might have been a fight, the alien hunter was dying or facing capture and initiated his self-destruct device?
It was claimed that after Tom Barry and his men famously ambushed and annihilated a column of British that the bodies had axe wounds and other mulitations? Could it be the case that a Predator actually killed them and the IRA took the credit?????:eek:
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THE GENTLE BLACK AND TAN by Breandán Ó hEithir which lampoons John A Murphy, Ruth Dudley Edwards and Eoghan Harris (Yer Man) and co. for their whitewashing of this notorious regiment. Bit off topic but since this is the Walter Mitty forum it's very witty and a good chuckle
Come all you staunch revisionists
And listen to my song,
It’s short and it’s unusual
And it won’t detain you long.
It’s all about a soldier
Who has carried history’s can,
Who dodged Tom Barry and Dan Breen
The gentle Black and Tan.
‘Twas the curse of unemployment
That drove him to our shore.
His jacket black and trousers tan
Like a badge of shame he wore.
“Subdue the rebel Irish
And shoot them when you can!”
“May God forgive me if I do,”
Prayed the gentle Black and Tan.
The burning of Cork city
Was indeed a mighty blaze.
The jewellers’ shops were gutted
Not before the spoils were shared.
Gold and silver ornaments,
Rings and watches for each man,
“But I only struck the matches,”
Said the gentle Black and Tan.
Croke Park and Bloody Sunday
Was our hero’s greatest test.
The spectators on the terraces
Nigh impossible to miss.
With salt tears his eyes were blinded
And down his cheeks they ran,
So he only shot Mick Hogan
The gentle Black and Tan.
So take heed you blinkered Nationalists
Fair warning take from me.
If you want to live in safety
And keep this land at sea.
Take heed of our three heroes
Murphy, Edwards and Yer Man,
Who will sing the fame and clear the name
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PatsytheNazi wrote: »THE GENTLE BLACK AND TAN by Breandán Ó hEithir which lampoons John A Murphy, Ruth Dudley Edwards and Eoghan Harris (Yer Man) and co. for their whitewashing of this notorious regiment. Bit off topic but since this is the Walter Mitty forum it's very witty and a good chuckle
Come all you staunch revisionists
And listen to my song,
It’s short and it’s unusual
And it won’t detain you long.
It’s all about a soldier
Who has carried history’s can,
Who dodged Tom Barry and Dan Breen
The gentle Black and Tan.
‘Twas the curse of unemployment
That drove him to our shore.
His jacket black and trousers tan
Like a badge of shame he wore.
“Subdue the rebel Irish
And shoot them when you can!”
“May God forgive me if I do,”
Prayed the gentle Black and Tan.
The burning of Cork city
Was indeed a mighty blaze.
The jewellers’ shops were gutted
Not before the spoils were shared.
Gold and silver ornaments,
Rings and watches for each man,
“But I only struck the matches,”
Said the gentle Black and Tan.
Croke Park and Bloody Sunday
Was our hero’s greatest test.
The spectators on the terraces
Nigh impossible to miss.
With salt tears his eyes were blinded
And down his cheeks they ran,
So he only shot Mick Hogan
The gentle Black and Tan.
So take heed you blinkered Nationalists
Fair warning take from me.
If you want to live in safety
And keep this land at sea.
Take heed of our three heroes
Murphy, Edwards and Yer Man,
Who will sing the fame and clear the name
Of the gentle Black and Tan.
This piece of crap has nothing to do with this thread.
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jurgenscarl wrote: »Is it possible that a Predator was on the loose in Cork?
Much of the city centre was burnt to the ground which suggests that there might have been a fight, the alien hunter was dying or facing capture and initiated his self-destruct device?
It was claimed that after Tom Barry and his men famously ambushed and annihilated a column of British that the bodies had axe wounds and other mulitations? Could it be the case that a Predator actually killed them and the IRA took the credit?????:eek:
This piece of crap has nothing to do with this thread.
Can we stick to the topic please?0 -
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