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Very simple, really.
On Sept 5th each year, everyone walks with the rigid-leg gait
of Douglas Bader. It would be particularly nice if everyone
could smoke a pipe for the day too, but there are sufficient
overtones of political incorrectness with this idea as it is.
Who ?
https://www.youtube...watch?v=8yaPiTrHAL8
This guy. [popbottle, Feb 24 2015]
My hero
http://www.abroadin...w2-wounded-9-times/
Carton de Wiart [EnochLives, Feb 24 2015]
Major-General Sir Millis Rowland Jefferis KBE MC
http://en.wikipedia...iki/Millis_Jefferis
One of the finest complete and total nutters the British Empire has ever produced. [8th of 7, Feb 24 2015]
[link]
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Would simply calling it “Mock the Handicapped Day” have
been too forthright? |
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Well, yes, there is that interpretation of it by those
of a low mind. However, I prefer to think of it more
as a "Celebrating Douglas Bader Day". After all, if
you can lose twice as many legs as are necessary for
monopedalism, go on to become an ace fighter pilot,
get shot down and still make enough escape attempts
to get sent to Colditz, I think it's fair to assume that
any emulation is celebratory rather than mocking. |
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Yes, but we'd be allowed to rename it. |
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//After all, if you can lose twice as many legs as are
necessary
for monopedalism, go on to become an ace fighter pilot, get
shot down and still make enough escape attempts to get sent
to Colditz, I think it's fair to assume that any emulation is
celebratory rather than mocking.// |
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I dunno, I'm not sure why'd you want everyone to think you're
a useless gimp. |
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D.B. definitely wasn't useless. |
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It would be wonderful to have a Sir Arthur Harris day ; February 13th would be appropriate. Participants could stand round large bonfires, cooking wurst on skewers, while chanting "Fry, you Hun bastards,fry! " |
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The principal event should of course be held in Coventry. |
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For vegetarians, "Mr Potato Head" caricatures of senior nazis would be shoved into scale model crematorium ovens, and when cooked, hung up on piano wire to cool in the breeze. |
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+ And have a dog called???? (unless I'm mixing him up with Barnes Wallis) |
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The dog called ?????? belonged to Guy Gibson (of
Dambusters fame). |
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No, no, no, you misunderstand: ?????? is the name of my dog. |
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One wonders how this category escapes a [let's all]. |
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Can we imitate Bader's tendency to be a completely annoying git too? |
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Can we have a Franz Stigler day when everyone's just a
generally nice chap? |
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Well, yes, but we can't see that being very popular. |
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// One wonders how this category escapes a [let's
all]// |
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(a) It's under "culture:celebration" (which, by
definition, has to be a let's all or there's very little
point). And |
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(b) It's digging a tunnel starting from underneath the
wood-stove in Hut B. When it gets 50 yards beyond
the wire it's going to disguise itself as a bush and inch
away. |
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That wood stove could have been a much better source of
ventilation than the whole cobbled-together pump thing. All
they had to do was attach the pipe that went to the end of
the tunnel to the fire inlet and it takes care of itself. That's
what happens when you let the RAF do tunneling. We should
have put Royal Engineers on Lancasters, it would have been
a point of national pride to have tunneled out leaving
behind a perfect model of Embankment station. |
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// We should have put Royal Engineers on Lancasters // |
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What an excellent idea. Rather than dropping bombs, teams of Royal Engineers could have been parachuted into Germany. Inevitably they would have been recruited to assist in construction and repair projects. |
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And that would have been the end of the German war effort, within weeks. |
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// leaving behind a perfect model of Embankment station // |
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Kensington (Olympia) would have been better. Once the Germans had gone through the tunnel, they would have been stranded for hours on a windy platform with no toilets, no food or water, and the prospect of a 12 hour wait before the next overcrowded sheep-wagon rattles in, stinking of sweat, spilt fast food, and doubtful electrical circuits running at too high a load. |
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(a): exactly. The whole category is a let's all. |
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(b): including some Americans in the escape plan would've concluded in success, wherein they would've all escaped to the French Riviera. |
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Whilst we're walking like Douglas Bader can we adopt the
general piratical demeanour of Adrian Carton de Wiart?
[link]? |
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Oh yes ... although Millis Jefferis is also worthy of emulation. |
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//Douglas Bader Day// Is he related to Daniel Day Lewis? |
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I would also like there to be a Douglas Bad Ass Day! |
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