"Greece" is the Word in 2004…..

What 2004 have to do with Alexander the Great, Somebody claims he was even Serbian 😀 😀 😀

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One more thing about Brave heart with an historical bent. Edward the first did not like to take English or Welsh troops on campaign because they had a nasty streak about them. They disobeyed orders and very often defected to the other side. Why? Old Eddy regarded everybody on this island as his slave type subjects because he was a Plantagenet and to the early Plantagenets England was under occupation. Which is okay because thats the way the English of the time felt. Eddy didn’t know the first word of English because he was French and so too was most of his army (ironic isn’t it?).

The only English and recently invaded Welsh troops he used were slave soldiers who fought hard because if they didn’t their families had a tendency to die horribly if they didn’t (at the hands of Eddy’s hired European mercenaries.) Eddy would march the English soldiers families along with the rest of the army for this very purpose. It is ‘rumoured’ that after the battle of Sterling Bridge, the families of the dead English and Welsh soldiers were slaughtered not because their menfolk didn’t fight but because William Wallace won the battle. 1) He (Eddy) was feeling brutally annoyed and wanted to take it out on somebody 2) He couldn’t afford to ‘keep’ them. So He ordered his rather camp son who was leading the army at the time, to have them killed before the return ‘journey’ or more accurately the retreat home was completed.

1066 was a bad day for the whole of Britain not just for England and it left open the French ability to do an awful lot of invading, killing, enslaving and general piracy in the name of the English. To this day this crime has never been accurately reported but what I find most ironic is the way that France regards Scotland as an old ally when they had caused the animosity between the English and the Scots in the first place (and the Irish and Welsh for that matter). IMO they put back ‘Inter-British’ relations a thousand years in 1066 and we are only now beginning to sort it all out.

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Just for the record it can be assumed that my family were fighting for Wallace.

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Yeah, we got it here. But it must have been ages ago – i remember actually thinking it was funny. Apologies for calling Balki Bartokomus a Greek when he was actually Myposian, but i do think that Myposions are Hellenists by heart (but hey, aren’t we all according to some 😉 ).

You indeed triggered my signature. I’ve been waiting for inspiration for a new one for quite some time now, but unfortunately i can’t seem to get in decent, inspiring fights anymore :p

Serb, don’t be stupid. Alexander was Macedonian like Pericles was Athenian etc.

Arthur, firstly, you knob, Balki (Bartokomos) was from the mythical island of Mypos, and not Greece. 🙂

Seriously I can’t believe you guys got that show in Holland. By the way, I just noticed the sig under your handle. Didn’t I use to say you have/had an axe to grind?

Cheers

You really need to sort out that complex of yours Arthur, its beginning to be an obsession.

Well, if 2004 is going to be the year in which we’ll all be reminded about that little country somewhere between the Balkans and the Aegean…

How about re-running Perfect Strangers? It’s been too long since i’ve been bored by the stupid jokes of cousin Balki, cousin Larry and of course the missed sheep Dimitri!

Did some ancient Greek a couple of years ago. But found Latin more interresting 😀

I enjoyed “sniper”, the movie, but just saw sniper 2 and couldn’t contain myself.

Won’t bother outlining the plot, but Tom Berenger ends up in a certain region of Europe where there has recently been some fighting and is short of a rifle. The locals offer him a Mosin Nagant 1891/30 with a turned down bolt and scope (ie the sniper version).
“Ahhh,” He says” A Mauser 7.92mm… one of the best rifles ever made”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I laughed.

Watch the film lads I promise you it was a Jaguar. We had this argument about the bike Tom Cruise rode in Top Gun. This was before I got into bikes so I didn’t know. Me and this other bloke who knew less about bike than I did swore blind it was a Norton! A Norton I ask you but as I said it was before I got into bikes.

Anyway turns out it was a Kawasaki GPZ***R Ninja (naff name that. ‘Ninja’. Just pants.) There is some argument though as to wether it was a GPZ900R or the GPZ750R which to the extent of my knowledge was never officially imported into the UK. The 900R was a top bike though. First of the real Superbikes. You can have your 1969 Honda CB750.

SerbPVO

Alexanders mum was greek!! its like saying Attila the Hun was the ancestor of all Turks..

Alexander the Great was a Macedonian, hence, he was Serbian:)

Originally posted by Dazza
I thought the jet at the end of Highlander was a Tornado from 617 sqn?, top film, mega soundtrack though regardless!

Regards, Dazza.

I’m almost certain it was a Harrier ?

“Alexander the Great” with Leo Di Cap , “Troja” with Brad Pitt , then there is another ALEXANDER movie in 2004 with C.FARELL and the spartians GATES OF FIRE 2004 GEORGE CLOONEY maybe BRUCE WILLIS too…….

Happy days

I thought the jet at the end of Highlander was a Tornado from 617 sqn?, top film, mega soundtrack though regardless!

Regards, Dazza.

Everything you say Ren is right and true but Highlander still rocks. Highlander 2 and 3 are pants but the original is just fantastic if only for the Jag screaming down the valley at the end of the film.

And for anybody interested in the locations of the afformentioned Higlander, the castle at the beginning is Eileen Donan Castle in Durnie about 2 hours up the road from Glen Finnan which is just up the road from Fort William. You will find the Jacobite Memorial and one of Concrete Bob’s bridges but you won’t find any castle.

What about all those Charlton Heston biblical epic style films. Roman centurions with Texan accents always make me laugh.

“Leonidis was one hell of a guy” 😎

Of course there’s a certain film called Highlander which features a Frenchman playing a Scotsman and a Scotsman playing a Portugese swashbuckler. Sean Connery of course being the Scotsman who also attempted and murdered the notion of being a feisty New York-Irish cop in The Untouchables.

Anyone looking for an authentic “Brit” accent done by Americans in a movie should see Spinal Tap though. Also the current “Pirates of the Carribean” is ace for Johnny Depp’s “Keith Richards” mocking role as a rock star pirate 😀

If Hollywood is doing a Greek blockbuster mate I guarantee you will be spitting your popcorn at the screen within the first 10 minutes of the movie. Then you will spend the rest of the time tearing it to shreds because the Americans know less about Greece than the do Britain.

One or two quotes:

“This is English courage” Kevin Costner in a broad American accent, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

“No country would be stupid enough to take your lot on” Words uttered by some sycophantic barely working Brit actor to Ben Afleck as our hero single handedly wins the Battle of Britain for us. Pearl Harbour.

U571 anyone?

Braveheart?

The Patriot?

Bloody hell I do wish our Mel would just get on with his job.

Anybody else got any examples?

If you want a good honest film Hollywood isn’t really the place to go. Action? Yes. Honesty? Forget it.

Now one film worth watching is a little known Czech film called Deep Blue World (or is it Dark Blue World). Low budget but well written, well acted and above all honest.

Arthur that’s quiet an inferiority complex your developing bud!! 🙂

I have to listen to my Greek student neighbours downstairs teaching me the language, through the medium of song until 2 or 3am most nights. Can’t wait til they get back to studying and complaining about me dropping pins on the floor.:D

Then wake me up by the time it’s 2005 😀 !