*Scientist:* _there has been a radical new discovery!_ _to become immune to disease we simply need to expose ourselves to it! its called immunization!_ *General:* _i have a plan...soon our army shall be immune to death!_
"King Goujian's army is known for a common misconception: scaring its enemies before battle with a front line formed by criminals sentenced to death who committed suicide by decapitating themselves.[2] However, in the passage, "越王勾踐使死士挑戰，三行，至吳陳，呼而自剄。", the literal translation of "死士" is "soldiers (who are) willing to die", not "criminals sentenced to death". "自剄" means to "commit suicide by cutting one's throat," which was a common way to end one's own life in Ancient China.[3]" I know this is correct because there are numbers in brackets.
@@andrewdriver3318 Correct. Sean Lock doesn't do contentment... He was more of a contemptment kinda man. He was happy but angrilg and pissed off while he did it.
Nonsense! After 17 failures of this strategy the very last thing the enemy would expect is for them to attempt it an 18th time. That's why it is so utterly brilliant!
@@daxriley8195 however, there’s one small problem: everyone always get slaughtered the first ten seconds, and Field Marshal Haig is worried that this may be depressing the men a tadge.
I imagine it probably worked quite well. Especially on the less experienced soldiers. It's hard to even imagine seeing something like that. Imagine seeing that just before you run into battle. Can you? Your head would be swimming with thoughts of how much braver they are, and fearless of death, and how much more devoted than you. At the very least you have an expectation of what facing your enemy would be like, given that you're both humans, but this would rattle your expectations to pieces.
On the other hand you way well think - good, there's a few less enemy to kill. Also, it was common for the bravest, strongest fighters to be front and centre. If you are thinking that the enemy have the same brave, strong fighters kill themselves in such a manner then you are likely to think the battle is in your favour before its already begun
A good officer might be able to turn that around "Look at how terrified they are of us. They'd rather kill themselves than face us!" Of course it is easier to say that on a TH-cam video than do it in real life.
@@diamon999 it depends which particular army you're talking about. The Roman Triarii was held in reserve for almost every battle despite their almost unparalleled combat ability. Many commanders put their best troops on the wings to deny flanking opportunities.
@@mirjanbouma that's literally why they designed it that way. They couldn't get the projectile to clear its own blast radius. So as a last last resort it was designed for area denial against Soviet armor and troops.
@@JamesGrim08 that sounds weird, since when do weapon designers care about the ethical issues of using said weapons? It seems doubly weird when applied to nuclear weapons. But I'll admit that my knowledge on this topic is next to nonexistent. And I tend to forget the military tactic of self sacrifice.
King Goujian of Yue is a Chinese king not a Vietnamese one, and he's famous for his sword, which has withstood the test of time and has showed little signs of tarnish for 2000+ years.
"Yue" was once a general word in Chinese for "foreigner," the same word (in fact same character) used both for the State of Yue and today in the name of Vietnam (including the Vietnamese name), which is where the confusion comes from. Looking it up, in fact, Yue was based in the Zhejiang province, just south of Shanghai, 99% Han, so very much what we would call "China proper."
@@IoEstasCedonta Agree! The character for Yue is the same as the Chinese for the “Viet” part of “Viet-nam”. And because of the general location of the kingdom of Yue, to this day it is also used as one of the ways to abbreviate Zhejiang into one character, similar to how the kingdom of Lu (among other things, the birthplace of Confucius) is used to abbreviate Shandong.
@@IoEstasCedonta Also, it’s 99% now in the 20th and 21st century, but back in 5th venture BCE there were a lot of “savages and heathens” living around the Yangtsi river.
@@patrickrowan6001 "Bruh". (What language is that?! Neanderthal?!) You're absolutely right. It's extremely rude to expect any millennial to get off their arse and find information for themselves. They'll just wait until YT brings it to them. (Maybe it will be reliable, maybe not. But they'll never know.) I despair for the future of the world.
And there was me thinking it was when Stalin decided to conduct a battle at night, under the light of a thousand headlights (or whatever the big military lights are called).
Pretty sure thhere was some ancient Greek or Roman army where the general gave them torches to see by and thus were ruthlessly massacred for their visibility ( as well as...)
Or maybe just dont 100% trust literary sources from 2500 years ago? Nobody takes seriously Herodotus' claim that the Persians invaded with an army many millions strong.
On the opposite. The best of those strategies is just singing. As Czech Hussites did in 1431 before the Battle of Domažlice/Taus. When a times larger Crusader army heard them, they simply panicked, fled the battle and many were captured or killed.
I don't know much about this, but how would the decapitated head be able to bite? Wouldn't that action rely pretty heavily on muscles in your neck that were severed?
I'm pretty sure that the muscles for biting go on the side of the skull. I've also read that the diminishing of those muscles compared with other primates meant that we humans could evolve bigger brains because there's more room for it when not hampered by giant jaw muscles. It also helped us survive because our creativity could offset the disadvantage of the jaw strength. By going on that logic in absurdum we could have even bigger brains if we didn't have to move the jaw at all. But if we can't tell people about our great intellect, the giant brain may be useless in the end.
@@jmalmsten If I remember right there's a discontinuity in our DNA that appears to correspond to the development of those temple/head/jaw muscles. Every human has this discontinuity whiel it's intact in many of the other primates. So it looks like what could normally be interpreted as an undesirable mutation is ultimately an advantageous part of what led to us being us.
It always cracks me up when I think about how when the US revolted against the Brits, the Brits were like "bro you're doing it wrong, you're shooting out of turn. You can't run towards us, how uncivilized these Americans are!" Meanwhile they're dying.
There is an account from the French Revolution of an executioner grabbing a decapitated head by the hair and slapping its face. The face of the “dead” man grimaced in response. It might have been coincidental, or just an autonomic reaction, buuut….
Yue was not a Vietnamese state, it was located in modern day Zhejiang Province with its capital in Shaoxing. It had a Chinese ruling class and a Baiyue population, however the Baiyue in this area were probably not Vietnamese, instead they were probably related to the modern day She people. The war Stephen is talking about was part of the bitter rivalry between the states of Wu and Yue during the late Spring and Autumn period during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which was a real life Chinese Game of Thrones.
I'd say MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction, is the most brainless strategy. Unfortunately, given the vast nuclear reserves of the US and Russia, still an option.
It's more sensible than the original American policy which was a set sequence of escalating destruction. Once started, there was no way of stopping it. Each phase would attack more targets, many if not most (depending on which phase) were civilian cities. The attack plan would only end when America used up its the entire arsenal of weapons.
If the plan does not have to be executed. Just seriously considered.... I would actually go for Operation Blue Peacock when asked I mean burying 3 nuclear mines with live chickens to keep em warm. Sounds like a horrible strategy
I fail to see what decapitating prisoners in front of the enemy will do that is positive. If anything, seeing how brutal they are would just make people fight harder in fear of losing.
The Zulu would walk their oldest warriors toward the front line. They were standing targets in order to assess the firing range (distance) of the British guns.
Na I still think the guy who tried to pick an argument with the god of the sea and made his men walk in and flail their swords at the waves was pretty fucking dumb!
My understanding is that, in general, Lee's strategy of "fight a conventional war against a numerically and economically superior foe using an army more suited to guerilla warfare" probably wouldn't have been the MOST brainless thing, but it's certainly not the smartest.
The most brainless military strategy is the concept of war itself. We inflict damage, they inflict damage. We lose lives, they lose lives. Our infrastructure is destroyed, their infrastructure is destroyed. We waste tons of money, they waste tons of money. It's just loss after loss after loss. And the definition of "victory" in a war is just tolerating this attrition the longest. You don't strictly "win" wars, rather you "least lose" them. Because everyone will lose lives, lose money, lose infrastructure. "Win" implies gain, but it's all just loss. And the "victor" is just the one who tolerated longest to still be standing, while their enemy has either lost too much to continue, or lost too much to tolerate and surrenders. All wars are Pyrrhic Victories, somewhat by definition. Don't get me wrong, though. If a genocidal idiot like Hitler attacks you, then you might simply have no other choice. Through resistance, you might be able to lessen those losses and bring the war to an end. We might be regrettably forced to war as "damage limitation". But war is basically perpetual loss, until one side or the other simply can't tolerate it anymore. "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake" - Agatha Christie
Consciousness after separation is almost certain but that story about one head biting another is ridiculous and they probably shouldn't have just offhandedly mentioned it like it was true.
The video is incorrectly titled. The actual question is "dangerous" not "brainless". I'd agree that if it's guaranteed to kill you it's pretty dangerous.
Before I see the answer, I’m guessing it’s the time when the Chinese had 100 criminals slit their necks…? It would be a funny joke because “brainless”(HAHA,GETIT)and I heard about it recently
The entirety of the first world war 😂 "alright men, march slowly, the Germans can only see you if you move" Machine gun procedes to mow people down in their thousands
An army that beheads itself when starting a battle sounds like a Monty Python sketch
Pretty sure that happened in life of brian.... The Judean peoples front Suicide squad
@@danielwilson5102 yes they stab themselves
Splitters
*Scientist:* _there has been a radical new discovery!_
_to become immune to disease we simply need to expose ourselves to it! its called immunization!_
*General:* _i have a plan...soon our army shall be immune to death!_
"King Goujian's army is known for a common misconception: scaring its enemies before battle with a front line formed by criminals sentenced to death who committed suicide by decapitating themselves.[2] However, in the passage, "越王勾踐使死士挑戰，三行，至吳陳，呼而自剄。", the literal translation of "死士" is "soldiers (who are) willing to die", not "criminals sentenced to death". "自剄" means to "commit suicide by cutting one's throat," which was a common way to end one's own life in Ancient China.[3]"
I know this is correct because there are numbers in brackets.
It's still a pretty daft way to win a battle. David Mitchell should have been on this one.
Ah yes.
If you're ever concerned about the veracity of some text, look for numbers in brackets.
@@trueaussie9230 You didn't put numbers in brackets, so I don't believe you.
@@mickavoidant4780
Very wise [1]
Cite your sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goujian#War_between_Wu_and_Yue
seeing Sean Lock once more, happy and yet so contempt made me so happy
🫂
contempt?
@@andrewdriver3318 Correct. Sean Lock doesn't do contentment... He was more of a contemptment kinda man. He was happy but angrilg and pissed off while he did it.
Content
@@jocomfiresin6982 “Angrilg”?
I think the most brainless strategy ever is one Fry himself invented.
Getting out of the trenches, and walking very slowly towards the enemy.
Nonsense! After 17 failures of this strategy the very last thing the enemy would expect is for them to attempt it an 18th time. That's why it is so utterly brilliant!
@@daxriley8195 however, there’s one small problem: everyone always get slaughtered the first ten seconds, and Field Marshal Haig is worried that this may be depressing the men a tadge.
@@longlethanh7780 I'm sure his resignation and suicide would cheer them up.
You mean a real WWI British strategy?
@@wabbo the same strategy that the enemy had as well.
I imagine it probably worked quite well.
Especially on the less experienced soldiers.
It's hard to even imagine seeing something like that. Imagine seeing that just before you run into battle. Can you?
Your head would be swimming with thoughts of how much braver they are, and fearless of death, and how much more devoted than you.
At the very least you have an expectation of what facing your enemy would be like, given that you're both humans, but this would rattle your expectations to pieces.
On the other hand you way well think - good, there's a few less enemy to kill.
Also, it was common for the bravest, strongest fighters to be front and centre. If you are thinking that the enemy have the same brave, strong fighters kill themselves in such a manner then you are likely to think the battle is in your favour before its already begun
I’d be standing with my arms crossed, looking at the remaining enemy soldiers, saying: “well, go on.. keep it going, you were doing so well”
A good officer might be able to turn that around "Look at how terrified they are of us. They'd rather kill themselves than face us!" Of course it is easier to say that on a TH-cam video than do it in real life.
@@diamon999 it depends which particular army you're talking about.
The Roman Triarii was held in reserve for almost every battle despite their almost unparalleled combat ability.
Many commanders put their best troops on the wings to deny flanking opportunities.
Read about banzai charges in ww2. Not really effective.
RIP and long live Sean Lock (April 22, 1963 - August 16, 2021), aged 58
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Can't believe that the wonderful Sean Lock is no longer with us. Wonderful dark and intelligent wit 🥀🥀🥀
Really?
@@Peter_Riis_DK yes, really
@@glennbateman4483
Well, I just never saw the intelligence, much less the wit.
@@Peter_Riis_DK there's always one I suppose
@@glennbateman4483
Sure. But he's dead now, so if you don't mind let's leave it at that.
I know it’s the Vietnam flag but the T-shirt makes him look like Steven Universe
😓
For some reason I think of Rugrats
I think of Homestar Runner though I know Homestar's star is white
I am here for live-action Steven Universe starring Alan.
Either that or Steven Universe is a HUGE fan of Vietnam
The Americans had a battlefield nuclear weapon. Range 1 mile, blast radius 2 miles. Genius.
"If you see me running, try to keep up."
When you are facing down a Soviet armored advance it makes sense. Damned if you do damned if you don't.
@@JamesGrim08 lol, no
@@mirjanbouma that's literally why they designed it that way. They couldn't get the projectile to clear its own blast radius. So as a last last resort it was designed for area denial against Soviet armor and troops.
@@JamesGrim08 that sounds weird, since when do weapon designers care about the ethical issues of using said weapons? It seems doubly weird when applied to nuclear weapons.
But I'll admit that my knowledge on this topic is next to nonexistent. And I tend to forget the military tactic of self sacrifice.
The first row of the enemy self-decapitates. "Alrigthy... that's one less row to deal with, thank you!"
Oi Bill, do you reckon they're ALL gonna do that? Might be home early today mate, in time for tea.
Already miss you Sean 💙
Put a wing up for a sail...I love the way Alan's mind works lol
Imagine coming home from war and being asked did you kill anyone? And replying no they killed themselves
It'd be pretty worrisome if they came home to report back *at all* in this scenario...
@@Sandrylene I might have misunderstood that, but only one sides front row of soldiers comminted suicide, their opposition didn't.
Yeah, yeah, of course. I was just being silly. :)
Same kinda thing happens now, just with suicide vests
Sitting on the bench in the afterlife and the biggest toughest guy asks you how many people you killed in battle.
"Just one ..."
You know if you’ve watched too much QI if you can tell how literal the question is before the answer is read
Hmm, killing themselves in combat, sounds like the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad.
King Goujian of Yue is a Chinese king not a Vietnamese one, and he's famous for his sword, which has withstood the test of time and has showed little signs of tarnish for 2000+ years.
If he's so smart, how come he's dead?
Still no idea how Stephen got it in his head that Goujian and the Kingdom of Yue had anything to do with Vietnam
probably mixing up the flags of vietnam and china.
I thought he said kingdom of Hue, which is a place in Vietnam.
"Yue" was once a general word in Chinese for "foreigner," the same word (in fact same character) used both for the State of Yue and today in the name of Vietnam (including the Vietnamese name), which is where the confusion comes from. Looking it up, in fact, Yue was based in the Zhejiang province, just south of Shanghai, 99% Han, so very much what we would call "China proper."
@@IoEstasCedonta
Agree!
The character for Yue is the same as the Chinese for the “Viet” part of “Viet-nam”.
And because of the general location of the kingdom of Yue, to this day it is also used as one of the ways to abbreviate Zhejiang into one character, similar to how the kingdom of Lu (among other things, the birthplace of Confucius) is used to abbreviate Shandong.
@@IoEstasCedonta Also, it’s 99% now in the 20th and 21st century, but back in 5th venture BCE there were a lot of “savages and heathens” living around the Yangtsi river.
Re-watching legend, Sean Lock's "15 stories high" sitcom currently. When I grow up, I want to be just like him.
Well? Did it work? Did it have the desired effect or did the enemies just think they were lunatics?
That's what I want to know. Seems like it could go either way...
Do you know how to do research?!
You've been given the impetus, now do the leg work.
Or do you still rely on mummy to spoon-feed you?!
@@trueaussie9230 bruh don't be rude
@@patrickrowan6001
"Bruh". (What language is that?! Neanderthal?!)
You're absolutely right.
It's extremely rude to expect any millennial to get off their arse and find information for themselves.
They'll just wait until YT brings it to them. (Maybe it will be reliable, maybe not. But they'll never know.)
I despair for the future of the world.
@@trueaussie9230 This might be the saddest, loneliest man I've ever encountered on the internet.
And there was me thinking it was when Stalin decided to conduct a battle at night, under the light of a thousand headlights (or whatever the big military lights are called).
spotlights? floodlights?
Pretty sure thhere was some ancient Greek or Roman army where the general gave them torches to see by and thus were ruthlessly massacred for their visibility ( as well as...)
What song is used at the end of the episodes?
Or maybe just dont 100% trust literary sources from 2500 years ago? Nobody takes seriously Herodotus' claim that the Persians invaded with an army many millions strong.
Omg, I just wasted three minutes typing the same sentiment!
On the opposite. The best of those strategies is just singing. As Czech Hussites did in 1431 before the Battle of Domažlice/Taus. When a times larger Crusader army heard them, they simply panicked, fled the battle and many were captured or killed.
1:14 "yeah, fuck it" -JC
🤣💀
The late great Sean Lock RIP
The Jewish Suicide Squad was so ineffective, they had the whole scene explaining the joke removed.
The one where we set off nukes and then march through the wasteland. I havent watched the video yet, but that's what I'd say.
My troops will be ordered as follows: if the front row of the enemy cuts their own throats you should then look expectantly at the second row.
I don't know much about this, but how would the decapitated head be able to bite? Wouldn't that action rely pretty heavily on muscles in your neck that were severed?
I'm pretty sure that the muscles for biting go on the side of the skull. I've also read that the diminishing of those muscles compared with other primates meant that we humans could evolve bigger brains because there's more room for it when not hampered by giant jaw muscles. It also helped us survive because our creativity could offset the disadvantage of the jaw strength.
By going on that logic in absurdum we could have even bigger brains if we didn't have to move the jaw at all. But if we can't tell people about our great intellect, the giant brain may be useless in the end.
@@jmalmsten If I remember right there's a discontinuity in our DNA that appears to correspond to the development of those temple/head/jaw muscles. Every human has this discontinuity whiel it's intact in many of the other primates. So it looks like what could normally be interpreted as an undesirable mutation is ultimately an advantageous part of what led to us being us.
''Will this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly toward the enemy?" -Blackadder
what about "Nation Building"?
Im always just hanging for the next thing Sean says. Its always the funniest thing.
"We have invented the nuclear hand grenade, now we just need to train our soldiers to throw them ten miles towards the enemy!"
Did it work?
Most dangerous military stratagem ever devised? Well that's easy - Brexit.
I don't question the stupidity, but military???
RIP Sean Lock ;(
How exactly does one self-decapitate?
It's more taking a sharp knife to your own jugular.
If you're using an axe, get it right on the first swing.
So glad Davies mimes things. Like nobody has an imagination.
Is Alan from Vietnam?
I dunno, if i was in the opposite frontline I'd be thinking "well, however many of them there was before, there's a few less now"
"Most brainless military strategy "
Putin: "hold my vodka"
I'd say the old tradition of having lines of musketeers shooting at one another from across an open field is pretty brainless.
It always cracks me up when I think about how when the US revolted against the Brits, the Brits were like "bro you're doing it wrong, you're shooting out of turn. You can't run towards us, how uncivilized these Americans are!" Meanwhile they're dying.
What part of that strategy was brainless?
And the opposing side is thinking...okay so there are fewer guys to fight us now? What am I seeing here, exactly?
The most dangerous military strategy is disarmament. 2nd most dangerous is re-armament. Not much choice in between
RIP, Sean.
You see men. If we all cut off our heads before we go into battle, the enemy can’t do it for us. Therefore, we win the battle by default.
The US has some pretty daft ones too. We tested nuclear weapons and agent orange on ourselves before using it on others.
I don't think that he said if it worked. Did the suicides scare off the other army?
Ok, but did it work? Did their enemies just surrender or what?
Why is Allen Davies dressed as Home Star Runner
If we had more men like that, we'd have fewer men like that.
There is an account from the French Revolution of an executioner grabbing a decapitated head by the hair and slapping its face. The face of the “dead” man grimaced in response. It might have been coincidental, or just an autonomic reaction, buuut….
Going over the top ! WW1.
Standing in a solid line, wearing bright colors, and marching directly towards an enemy who has guns.
No Goujian King of Yue was not Vietnamese. In fact the kingdom was south of modern day Shanghai, nowhere near Vietnam!
Yue was not a Vietnamese state, it was located in modern day Zhejiang Province with its capital in Shaoxing. It had a Chinese ruling class and a Baiyue population, however the Baiyue in this area were probably not Vietnamese, instead they were probably related to the modern day She people. The war Stephen is talking about was part of the bitter rivalry between the states of Wu and Yue during the late Spring and Autumn period during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which was a real life Chinese Game of Thrones.
I didn't know that Steven Universe was wearing the flag of Vietnam.
I’m going with appeasing Russia …
The title is wrong...
I'd say MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction, is the most brainless strategy. Unfortunately, given the vast nuclear reserves of the US and Russia, still an option.
It's more sensible than the original American policy which was a set sequence of escalating destruction. Once started, there was no way of stopping it.
Each phase would attack more targets, many if not most (depending on which phase) were civilian cities.
The attack plan would only end when America used up its the entire arsenal of weapons.
If the plan does not have to be executed. Just seriously considered.... I would actually go for Operation Blue Peacock when asked
I mean burying 3 nuclear mines with live chickens to keep em warm. Sounds like a horrible strategy
RIP Sean Lock. Such a dry wit.
Jimmy Carr looks young and human here...
Why not make new content than share stuff when steven still carried the show
They're still making new episodes. They're on BBC iPlayer right now.
God, they are all so fucking young.
I don't want to be a jerk - because I am far from perfect, but nobody's hair in this clip looks good. Love them all though.
13 years ago was a very different time for sure
It's always good to hear from the style police.
Most dangerous he says, not brainless. 🤔
He also says stratagem, not strategy.
Well, lopping off yer own head would leave you brainless, I suppose.
@@keithmills778 why? Does your head stop being part of your body? What about the rest? It keeps being our body because it's bigger? 😮
@@shramo I actually don't know the difference between the two.
Anywhere the US goes, can you imagine the chuckles from the locals 🤭
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is arguably worse
The 'great USA' has a glorious history of invading smaller countries then running away with its tail between its legs.
Ever heard of duinkerken
Well, the entry wasn't a great start...
@@fisherking7798
As it happens, I have.
It's a family owned Canadian allergy free bakery.
Their products are pretty good.
But, why do you ask?!
@@Hysteria98
It was as 'good' and 'worthy' as any other of the plethora of US implemented aggressions.
I fail to see what decapitating prisoners in front of the enemy will do that is positive. If anything, seeing how brutal they are would just make people fight harder in fear of losing.
That would be banzai attack.
The Zulu would walk their oldest warriors toward the front line. They were standing targets in order to assess the firing range (distance) of the British guns.
Leeeeeeeeroy Jennnnnnnkins!
A bit of stumpage . . .
Chubby Jimmy Carr there, he's had a lot of work done since this.
You could say that, yes, he's like the ship of Theseus these days.
@@liamwalsh4008 or Triggers broom
Na I still think the guy who tried to pick an argument with the god of the sea and made his men walk in and flail their swords at the waves was pretty fucking dumb!
Cut Stephen saying “They were french” :(
My first thought: Line Infantry
To be in the Military
pulling out of iraq and leveeing all our equipment
My first thought was Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, but that was tactics, not strategy.
My understanding is that, in general, Lee's strategy of "fight a conventional war against a numerically and economically superior foe using an army more suited to guerilla warfare" probably wouldn't have been the MOST brainless thing, but it's certainly not the smartest.
The Judean People's Front Suicide Squad.
The most brainless military strategy is the concept of war itself.
We inflict damage, they inflict damage. We lose lives, they lose lives. Our infrastructure is destroyed, their infrastructure is destroyed. We waste tons of money, they waste tons of money.
It's just loss after loss after loss.
And the definition of "victory" in a war is just tolerating this attrition the longest. You don't strictly "win" wars, rather you "least lose" them.
Because everyone will lose lives, lose money, lose infrastructure. "Win" implies gain, but it's all just loss. And the "victor" is just the one who tolerated longest to still be standing, while their enemy has either lost too much to continue, or lost too much to tolerate and surrenders.
All wars are Pyrrhic Victories, somewhat by definition.
Don't get me wrong, though. If a genocidal idiot like Hitler attacks you, then you might simply have no other choice. Through resistance, you might be able to lessen those losses and bring the war to an end. We might be regrettably forced to war as "damage limitation".
But war is basically perpetual loss, until one side or the other simply can't tolerate it anymore.
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake"
- Agatha Christie
Very well said. I wish there were more people like you. Historically it seems this is an anomaly :(
Consciousness after separation is almost certain but that story about one head biting another is ridiculous and they probably shouldn't have just offhandedly mentioned it like it was true.
Perhaps the (ear/nose?) happened to be forced into the mouth, then rigor mortus set in.
but why was that brainless? if youre the enemy and you dont realise its just condemmed criminals beaheading themselves then it looks really scary
The video is incorrectly titled. The actual question is "dangerous" not "brainless". I'd agree that if it's guaranteed to kill you it's pretty dangerous.
Before I see the answer, I’m guessing it’s the time when the Chinese had 100 criminals slit their necks…? It would be a funny joke because “brainless”(HAHA,GETIT)and I heard about it recently
The entirety of the first world war 😂 "alright men, march slowly, the Germans can only see you if you move"
Machine gun procedes to mow people down in their thousands
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Putting boris johnson in charge of a pandemic oh wait sorry thats not a military strategy it was just idiotic
War.
Dangerous, not Brainless. Well, kind of.
Pulling out of Afghanistan without a plan.
Disagree, the Volley fire and trench warfare are brainless. Having prisoners execute themselves to terrify the enemy is a sound tactic.
Always a relief to see Stephen Fry on these clips and not Sandi just going " SO..... ERRR _NO_ ??? " and shrugging at the audience over and over.
I think Sandi is doing a fine job.
@@css1173 She was fine when she started now shes JUST sarcastic and patronising. That's it.
Military strategy is brainless in general.
20 seconds at end of short clips is irritating Sandi
Leeroy Jenkins!
Pulling troops out of Afghanistan before civilians and equipment
Loving the Vietnam shirt! Communism will win!