Heartbreak Ridge is outstanding
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Improvise,adapt ,overcome.Oooohhhrah.
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Iāve about 550. And I was in the thread yesterday I think.
619 currently but I only had a glance yesterday I think
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
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Iād never even heard of this film before and was so amused by that clip I had to look it up.
A Pacific aircraft carrier enters a time warp and finds itself transported from 1980 to 1941 - just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The captain is forced to decide whether to strike at the approaching Japanese fleet and change the entire course of the World War II.
Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was cominā back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. Weād just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didnāt see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookinā from the dorsal to the tail. What we didnāt know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didnāt even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisinā by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundinā and hollerinā and sometimes that shark he go awayā¦ but sometimes he wouldnāt go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is heās got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a dollās eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesnāt even seem to be livināā¦ ātil he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and thenā¦ ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screaminā. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundinā and your hollerinā those sharks come in andā¦ they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I donāt know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday morninā, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bosonās mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, heād been bitten in half below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big olā fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitinā for my turn. Iāll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.ā
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Ah itās a blast. One you leave your brain at the door for
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Sorry @backinatracksuit I had a post typed out to answer you on the racism thread but while typing and before I was allowed to reply someone had a minor meltdown knickers got twisted and it was shut down.
Mother of God, he is bleeding againā¦
I am more than happy for you to leave the place if you donāt like it. Whinging like a child because you canāt regurtitate the same āopinionā for a few hours. Go and read a book.
If you have an issue with TFK, send me a PM. Iām not justifying myself and my time to you. The Internet is a fine big place.
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You attacked me for no fucking reason yesterday . You should be neutral in all of this
I should be allowed reply to a post before you shut that, selective enough timing. Especially as @backinatracksuit wasnāt one of them asking me the same repetitive questions over and over. I try and answer all questions,I only gave my own opinion twice on that thread Iād say the rest were answers,so take up the repetitiveness with the askers.
I didnāt ask you to justify anything to me, you clearly donāt want to engage with a point of view thatās the opposite of your own,so in future avoid me and Iāll do likewise. Put me on ignore,Iām not gonna say anything libelous and sure bandage can keep an eye on me. But Iām entitled to be here without genuflecting to you.
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Why?
Was I talking to you ?
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Mate, will you shut up or youāll get a 1000 year ban. Let it go.
You seem upset with me but I have brought your comprehension skills on a ton. Itās great to see
A ban for giving my opinion?
Of course, hasnāt that often happened.