Lindybeige

>>2223647

Idiot with a bizarrely annoying fanbase. They're like marxists, in a way. If you think a video is crap, you must not have watched it, and if you did watch it, you must not have understood it. And then if you can prove that too, why the hell are you wasting time watching someone whose videos you don't like?

They're completely incapable of admitting that his videos contain a lot of speculation and shit that is quite simply wrong.

>>2223647

Interesting and smart guy, makes good videos. There is always one lindy thread on this board, sometimes 2. Fuck off with this inane, useless thread.

Stop making these fucking threads

>>2223671
That's pretty much the case with the fanbase of any media or entertainment. Those argumentative points are used by everyone who can't take criticism about the things they like.

>>2223671
Non-argument.

>>2223647
Too Biased
That Bren vs Spandau video was abysmal

>>2223647
Pretty sure a French youngster stole his girlfriend and called him a nerd when he was a kid. Would explain a lot.

>>2223726

Where was an argument called for?

>>2223647
>what does /his/ think about Lindybeige?
utter "rule britannia" goon

Look he's fun to watch and that's all I know.

>>2223647
Would be cool if he gave sources instead of speculations.

>>2223944

You know what would also be cool? If his speculations made sense.

>>2223647
Dummy who let's his nationalism get in the way of his objectivity.

>England won the Hundred Years War
>Market Garden was a victory
>Brodie helm better than Stahlhelm
>Bren better than the MG42
>Longbows were unstoppable

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>>2223647

>>2224054
>Brodie helm better than Stahlhelm
The brodie was actually a better design for the era it got introduced. The stahlhelm had serious flaws which are also found in contemporary stahlhelm-based helmet designs (i.e. 90° angles, limited field of view and hearing, blocking your view while prone).

>>2223647
Fuck off and stop posting every day, Lindy. You're a cunt.

>>2224054
But he's correct.

>England won the Hundred Years War
We may have lost our lands in France but that lead us to have the greatest and most powerful navy of the world and consequently become a great power.

>Market Garden was a victory
The operation Market Garden was 90% successful and we re-captured what we've lost soon afterwords not to mention we were outnumbered.

>Brodie helm better than Stahlhelm
The Stahlhelm may have offered slightly more protection in WWI but the Brodie was very easy to mass produce (you just needed a sheet of metal) and offered adequate protection. That added little bit of protection the Stahlhelm had didn't matter in trench warfare so I would say it was worse than the Brodie.

>Bren better than the MG42
It was better and he made two long videos explaining why.

>Longbows were unstoppable
I don't think he said that but they were indeed very powerful weapons when used en masse.

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>>2224313
try to make it less obvious next time

>>2224313
>The operation Market Garden was 90% successful
>goal is to capture bridges to cross the Rhine
>completely fail to do exactly that
>successful in any percentage
Yeah, nah.

>>2224313
>t. lindybeige

>>2224313

Nah.

>>2224313

I think this man has presented a compelling defense of Lloyd's stances.

You'd all do well to consider this perspective.

>>2224071

>trying this hard

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Eurocucks BTFO

>>2223647
contrarian assburger

>>2223647
>late-antiquity throwing weapons were meant to bounce on the ground unpredictably to scare people, rather than actually hit them and injure/kill them

he's mental

>>2223726
non-rebuttal

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>>2226626
This triggers me.

>>2224530
>goal is to capture bridges to cross the Rhine
>completely fail to do exactly that

The goal was to capture the bridges across the Meuse, the Waal and the Lower Rhine, they accomplished 2 of the 3 still making it a failure, just not a complete failure

>>2223647
He makes some good points, but he also says a lot of trash.

>>2226626
Sounds like he is a total moron - or uneducated, or miseducated, or he is totally delusional.

Maybe all four or any other combination of those.

But it leads to one thing being sure: Stop posting threads about him.
A thread literally got bumped off for this crap.

SAGE.

>>2227331
he's just an inveterate contrarian

>>2227331
Because having 9 threads about John Green is much better...

>>2223647
I like his videos, especially the stuff that isn't necessary history related, his video on sterling engines was really interesting
Although he's a Geordie and for that reason he can go rot in a hole

>>2223647
He is retarded and dare i say, /ourguy/

>>2227641
The only thing his stirling engine video showed was his complete lack of knowledge about thermodynamics

>>2227641
>Although he's a Geordie and for that reason he can go rot in a hole

sounds southern

>>2227955
I think he went to uni in London hence why he doesn't sound it but I'm 99% certain he's from Newcastle, he's living there at the moment at any rate

>>2222222

>>2224090
brodie a shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYsbDAWRC5g

>>2227988
Praise Lindy for that glorious get

reminder that Lindybeige claims:

>no one used swords, axes
>no one used horses
>no one used throwing knives
>no one used double strap arm shields
>no one used scythes
>no one used mail coifs
>no one used torches
>Pikemen didn't fight each other
>no one spoke French during the French revolution
>no one spoke Latin during the Roman Republic
>battle of Zama didn't happen
>Romans carried one pilum
>Vikings weren't real
>berserkers weren't real
>climate change isn't real
>stagnant social mobility isn't real
>castles were defended by three soldiers
>butted mail is better than riveted mail
>operation market garden was a success
>Napoleon was literally Hitler
>The Churchill was the best tank in WWII
>The English won the Hundreds Years' War

>>2228024
Is this true? Does he really claim all that?

>>2228024
>>no one used horses
You missed the point of the video, he was saying that the first people trying cavalry might have been nuts
>>no one used throwing knives
>>no one used scythes
True though
>>Vikings weren't real
>>berserkers weren't real
Again you've missed the point of the video, he was explaining the common mistakes people make when thinking about them
>>climate change isn't real
You've wildly misunderstood what he was saying, he was pointing out that the Earth goes through periods of warming and heating which is true
>>The Churchill was the best tank in WWII
At least give him a chance to explain himself, I think he's going to point out that the Churchill had hundred of variants based on it and to date is one of the longest serving tanks which is also true

>>2228061
If we're going by postwar use and number of variants Sherman would probably still be a better choice.

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>>2228051
yes

>>2228121
Was he joking or did he really forget England used to own a lot very rich of land in France?

>>2228147
considering he actually believes the British are God's chosen people probably not

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>>2224054
You forgot that Napoleon was literally Hitler

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>>2227331
>or he is totally delusional.

Well, he's a Brit, so...

>>2227963
He went to Newcastle Uni, and as far as I know has lived there for most of his life. He got his accent because his parents were rich and he went to public school.

>>2228971
Ah right, I just knew he got his accent from his education and assumed it was from uni

How long until he makes a video claiming Gallipoli as a Britshit victory?

>>2228984
I can here it now.
>But hold on a minute...
>Ottomans used up vital resources and...
>also it was psychological and...
>so was it RALLY a defeat?

>>2228984
>Aussies died
>Anything other than a British victory

>>2226626
>>2227194
>>2227331
It's an obvious fake. Zoom in and you'll see that nothing aligns consistently.

>>2229008
Well actually it drained Ottoman's power so much that their state failed.

>>2226626
>European
>Uses Imperial instead of metric

That's it, he's an edgelord.

>>2229095
t. lindy

>>2229026
Like 65% of the Allied dead were UKucks.

>>2229095
The Ottomans lost way more in Sinai-Palestine-Syria than Gallipoli.
Then there is the centuries of losing wars with Russia (including the Caucasus campaign in WWI).

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>>2227165
WAT?

>>2229113
>The Ottomans lost way more in Sinai-Palestine-Syria than Gallipoli

Mesopotamia too for that matter. Some 325,000 casualties there vs 241,000 at Gallipoli. They also lost several major cities.

>Then there is the centuries of losing wars with Russia (including the Caucasus campaign in WWI).

Eh, that campaign didn't come close to a conclusion before the Russian Empire collapsed (after which the understaffed but well-equipped Russian forces in disarray were swept aside by an Ottoman counteroffensive). Plus the Ottoman-Russian fighting wasn't limited to the Caucasus. In addition to Persia, the Ottomans sent two Corps to the Eastern Front which did rather well, inflicting several times the casualties they took on the Russians.

At least he he doesn't post videos like Skallagrim's recent "My Problems with Archaeology" video, where he spent ten minutes acting superior while basically saying "I tried studying archaeology, and it was too hard for me, so I gave it up; the field should really just be about looking at cool stuff in museums."

>>2229102
Metric is French so it sux while imperial is british and therefore superior

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>>2224313
now now lloyd get back in your box

>>2227165
He didn't say that.

He said that on top of hitting and injuring/killing enemies they (throwing axes) can also bounce unpredictably meaning very careful aiming and direct hits might not be necessary, especially when used en masse.

And it wasn't him saying that's how it was done, it was him throwing ideas around to try and figure out why anyone would use something as apparently impractical as a throwing axe on the battlefield, since there are sources saying various Germanics did just that.

>>2228548
All five of those polls are wrong though.

>>2229223
The British one is still the wrongest

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>>2229238
In terms of the comparative contribution of the Soviets vs the United States it's the closest to correctness.

>>2229238
The US one is the wrongest.

Looking at the European theater(s) only (as the poll explicitly does), it should go 1. Soviets, 2. UK, 3. US.

>>2229273
Do Britbongs actually believe this?

>>2223647
/his/ hates him because he is /his/ personified, and lays bare the autism for all to see

>>2229277
I can't see how anyone who gets his WW2 history from sources other than Hollywood movies can believe otherwise.

>>2229277
It's the truth.

t. dutch man

>>2229277
Yes I remember in one episode of doctor who where the doctor basically said that.
British still think that Britannia rules the waves, you just need to watch post-brexit interview, when a journalist asked them how they will do without the EU help a lot of them just said "We are Great Britain" like it was actually an argument.

>>2229329
By comparing even the most basic numbers about the war in Europe. The Brits did little.

>>2223647
He jerks off to and is very biased for Britain
And most of his ideas about antiquity and old weapons are really out there

He isn't the worst out there, though.

>>2229355
Guess that they're still in denial over the fact that nowadays UK is just US' western airstrip.

>>2229341
Nog steeds incorrect

>>2228536
Hitler and Napoleon did nothing wrong

the funny thing about Hitler that you can find similarities with almost any popular warmongering leader
especially when
>campaign in Russia ended up identically for the invaders
>only navy saved Britain from otherwise inevitably successful conquest
>allies did all the heavy lifting for Brits

a britbong who likes to make videos about his hobby
which is reading historical books

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>>2224313
>We won the war because we lost the war and that loss eventually lead to us becoming a great power

>>2230944
But we're number one.

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England dindu nuffin. France a shit.

>>2227297
The goal was to cross the Rhine so they could get into Germany. They failed at that. Thus Operation Market Garden was a complete failure. This isn't a debate, this is common historiography.

>>2231714
t. every dumb nationalist ever

>tfw you think you are landed gentry but actually you are just a coal dusted plebe subhuman

>>2223647

Doing god's work.Can't wait for his ''Why the Enfield was the best rifle of WW2'' video.

>>2232748
I'm legit excited for his Churchill video

>>2232748
Did he do one on the Sten yet? I'd like to see him try to make it out to be anything other than a finicky piece of shit that happened to be quiet.

Is this the "hey atheists" thread of /his/?

>>2224313
enable trip lindy

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>>2228061
>>>no one used scythes

>>2233040
For fucks sake how many times do we have to say it. He meant agricultural scythes not war scythes.

>>2231898
Kek

>>2233059
>gee I wonder where those "war"scythes came from

>>2233103
Maybe they came from agricultural scythes but that doesn't prove they were used in combat. Honestly how can the scythe in the image be useful. If a farmer had to fight for whatever reason he would use a sword or at the very least an axe. Perhaps at some point in history a peasant defended himself from a wolf or whatever with scythe because there was nothing else you could use. But no one ever looked at the agricultural scythe and said "that would be a great weapon to use'.

>>2233144
>how can the scythe in the image be useful
Trust me m8, they a very useful. Chopping man in half kind of useful.

Scythe conversion was very popular eastern-euro weapon.

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he is /ourguy/

>>2229207
lmfao

>>2223647
Let's brainstorm some new topics for Lindy to bait /his/, /k/ and /tg/ with. I'll start:

>The L85 was a good weapon ruined by NATO choosing the wrong caliber
>The L85 was actually fixed by the British because they owned HK at the time.

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>>2223647
Why doesn't he shave or wash his disgusting greasy hair and beard? Why does he only wear old man sweaters with disheveled collars? He looks like he smells of sour milk.

>>2234190
>Why the North Africa Campaign more important than Western Front and Eastern Front combined
>how the Ninth Crusade was more successful than the First Crusade
>why 1 longbowman could defeat 5 mounted knights

>>2224071
i chuckled desu

>>2234198
Proud anglo tradition

>>2234198
Well he cuts his own hair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42N_0UZuKUw

>>2234190
>The battle of Singapore wasn't a British defeat; most soldiers were from the colonies, and even they managed to significantly stall the Japanese advance, shortening the war by a few years.

>>2234198
He pretty obviously grew up rich and probably never had to take care of himself. He also seems to pride himself on being eccentric, so probably dresses that way intentionally because it's kind of strange.

>>2234190
>The L85 was a good weapon ruined by NATO choosing the wrong caliber

That's not entirely wrong. The EM2 was a very promising weapon when it was first being tested.

>>2234278
>EM2
It was. But the L85 is a completely different weapon that shares almost no design features with it besides also being a bullpup.

>>2234292
I thought the L85 was just them dusting off the design and adapting it to 5.56mm. Looks like I was wrong.

>>2223647
he is smart, he isnt just some fucking brainwashed historian either, he knows his stuff.

>>2234304
Nope, it was based mostly on the AR18.

>>2228024
>no one used horses
he never said that
>no one used scythes
true
>no one used mail coifs
he never said that
>no one used torches
never said that
>no one spoke latin during the roman republic
never said that
>battle of Zarma never happened
never said that
>Vikings weren't real
he never said that
>berserkers weren't real
this is true
>climate change isnt real
wasn't this a joke? correct me if im wrong
>castles were defended by three soldiers
never said that
>Napoleon was literally Hitler
I mean i guess he isnt wrong

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>>2234339
Really? Well I'm surprised at how ignorant I was.

For all that the AR-18 short-stroke piston was so influential, it's a damn shame that the AR-18 itself never caught on.

If you ask me, it's the single most "assault rifle" looking assault rifle ever designed.

>>2234348
Sad to see so many of his apologists on /his/.

>>2228024
>no one used mail coifs

I'm not his biggest fan but I watched a video of his at the Visby museum with houses a mail coif. In actual fact, I've watched a video of the tard trying to make a mail coif.

>>2234376
this, despite all the stupid shit some are still defending that guy

>>2234376
>>2234419
>W-why are people calling me out on being wrong?

Pathetic

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>>2234482
see
>>2228121
>>2228536
and pic related you dumb fuck

>>2234507
>tfw hes so cowardly he hides his opinion behind that of Montgomery who was a hack anyway

Anglos and their clever ways with words

>>2234507
>according to monty

>>2234507
>according to monty

You cant make this shit up.

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>>2234507
>according to monty

>>2223647
A pretentious, self assured armchair historian, who would get his shit wrecked if he tried to pull that shit with anyone who has practical experience, professional knowledge and/or a degree.

Also, he makes me want to shove him in a locker.

>>2235304

Don't be absurd. He gets his shit wrecked by total amateurs, even youtube commentators. What you're talking about is enormous overkill.

>>2235313
There is no kill like overkill.

>>2223647
Horsefucker here.
He can go fuck himself.

>>2236248
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT.

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>>2224313
>Bren better than the MG42
>It was better and he made two long videos explaining why.
Yeah that's why the Bren was concept to all modern machine guns and is basically sill used today... wait

How can one be THIS deluded?

>>2236272
So I guess crossbows are pretty rubbish because no one uses them any more...

The Bren was quite exceptional for its time.

>>2236283
>The Bren was quite exceptional for its time
No, it wasn't and that's a nice strawman you built. Every modern machinegun is built on the MG42 platform. None of them are built on the Bren. Take a guess as to why.

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>>2236272

>>2236272
SPANDAU ITS CALLED SPANDAU DONT FORGET TO CALL IT SPANDAU

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>>2238771

>>2228061
>You missed the point of the video, he was saying that the first people trying cavalry might have been nuts

The video is still stupid, since he presents riding on horseback as an idea come up with originally for warfare and makes it look like an alien idea as a result. It's far far more likely that it was developed as a trick for hunting and traveling.

It probably got translated to military use becaues the majority of ancient warfare was non-professional. When called up for battle most tribes adapted their civilian tools and techniques. Even horses that are too skittish and difficult to control for direct battle are still very useful for strategic mobility. The army that has a bunch of those weird horse tribesmen from out on the plains has a significant advantage against the army made entirely of infantry. They'd be useful as messengers, or for transporting people who then dismounted, or scouting. So by the time they'd be thinking to use people who actually fight on horseback, horses would've already been very common in many armies.

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I miss early racist fringe theorist Lindy

Did you guys know that the Irish are a degenerate slave race bred to serve their Saxon masters? They also didn't exist before the 12th century

>>2240880
>I miss early racist fringe theorist Lindy

Post early lindy facts.

>>2240880

you can't be racist towards the Irish

they aren't a race

>>2233059
>agricultural scythes
ok, now i see that hes a real complete moron. My grandmother has a rather large farm in belarus, she still uses them, as well as her grandmother

>>2240910
no anon, you are the moron here

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>>2236482
just no
that's even more wrong than mr. Spandau himself
stop

almost all light and medium/universal machineguns are GAS OPERATED (generally lighter, but little less fool proof)
and yes, Bren is one of the gas operated ones

MG-42 and 34 were recoil operated, gas assisted (they have a muzzle booster), the main construction diference between those two was locking mechanism
but nobody uses this system (other than MG-3, but that's re-chambered MG-42)

>>2236283
Bren was a very good light machinegun.
it wasn't particularly exceptional in construction or use (almost everyone used some gas operated light MGs, in various quality of design)
but MG-34 was the first universal machinegun.
That makes it exceptional.

>>2241367
The M60, MG36, M2149, etc. are built from the MG-42. This is not up for debate and is admitted by their designers.

>>2241371
not MG-42, FG-42 (!)
those are vastly different guns

>>2240910

Its another "didn't actually watch the video but is commenting on it based on maymays" episode

>>2241385
>The M60 was designed for mass production, just like the MG42 it was based on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M60_machine_gun#Design

>The pawl-type feeding mechanism is modeled on the system used in the MAG general-purpose machine gun, which was originally used in the World War II-era MG 42
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_Minimi#Feeding

> It also spawned the Swiss MG 51, Zastava M53, SIG MG 710-3, Austrian MG 74, and the Spanish 5.56×45mm NATO Ameli light machine gun, and lent many design elements to the American M60 and Belgian MAG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_42

Fuck off, Lindy. Bren didn't spawn shit.

All you fuckers realise that the more you post about him, the more peoplevat have his videos and the more money he gets, right?

>>2240910
>He meant agricultural scythes not war scythes
>grandmother has a rather large farm in belarus, she still uses them, as well as her grandmother
oh anon

>>2241405
Ford T was designed for mass production as well

sure some modern features are influenced by MG-42, just like American Maxim was first to use belt feeding mechanism that infuenced MG-34
the important bit, operating system used on all of those MGs listed >>2241371 here is the same as Bren's

>Zastava M53, SIG MG 710-3, Austrian MG 74, and the Spanish 5.56×45mm NATO Ameli light machine gun
the Swiss ones are different, rest those are (more or less direct) copies, just like MG-3, Italians also have their own copy btw
I suppose it proves it's a really good machinegun as it already is (which I never denied)

but my point was, most (let alone all) machineguns aren't in fact using the same system as somebody claimed itt
funny thing is, Germans themselves are replacing MG-3s with MG-5s (basically FN minimi)

>>2232866
I didn't see unanimous condemnation or disapproval of his points here.

>>2241405
>Bren didn't spawn shit
Bren itself was spawn of vz-26 (or rather was a licenced copy of it)

vz-26 ("Bren") directly spawned or influenced
>Bren
>Japanese Type 96
>Japanese Type 97
>Valmet M62
>Chinese Type 67
>Stg-44 (which later led to G3 family)
>FN FAL family (same locking system)

>>2234201
It was actually pretty important, if it was lost then British oil fields were lost but more importantly if it was lost then the Suez canal would've lost

>>2242341

>if it was lost then British oil fields

There were no British oil fields in the Middle-East in the timeframe of WW2.

> more importantly if it was lost then the Suez canal would've lost

>Implying the Germans ever had a chance to take Suez.

>>2223647
Eternal Anglo, and he's not hiding it.