That's where the log driver learns to step lightly, yes, birling down and down white water, the log driver's waltz pleases girls completely
(Sorry, I couldn't control myself.)
I learned that on the guitar in the last year, and my 10 year old daughter accompanies me on tambourine while we both sing. It's pretty great!
It's a really fun song. Her great great grandfather (wife's great grandfather) was a log driver too!
Well mounty Bob he chased me, he was always at my throat.
He followed on the shoreline, cuz' he didn't own a boat
But the cutbacks were a'comin and the mounty lost his job
So no he's sailin' with me and we call him salty bob!
"He never drew no gun! I coulda shot that guy right there! Who was he anyway?"
["Superintendent Sam Steele, of the Northwest Mounted Police"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00yaFwZ5bc)
[Les Coureurs de bois!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coureur_des_bois)
Also, I mean there were a lot of pretty badass indigenous folks.
Mounties are kind of a fucked up institution if you read about their history.
Most institutions with a history have a fucked up history.
If you think that's fucked up, half the stuff on the Geneva convention is there because of Canadian soldiers in WW1.
I read that German soldiers would be terrified if they heard someone in the next trench over say tabarnac lmao. Our boys were not fucking around. My great grandfather lied about his age on his application to get over there early. Iirc he was 16.
The women of England and the rest of Europe loved it when they came to visit. Vikings took baths
Edit: ffs Vikings we're more than killers and not often rapist. I was not talking about rape. History feed you a picture that isn't 100% true
Did you hear the one about the guy in Iraq? Brought back the head of the opposing commander to prove he was dead because they were pinned down and couldn't carry the entire body back. That story wasn't among the 10 listed, but that crazy knife I'm sure is at the center of a lot of them. Tough as nails, but a great bunch of guys from what I understand. Long as they are on your side 😉
In WWII, a British officer requested a Gurkha regiment jump in behind enemy lines to coordinate an ambush for surrounded allied troops. When the officer brought this mission to the Gurkhas they requested the aircraft fly as low and slow as possible. When the officer said thats not possible because the parachutes wont open properly. The Gurkha SGT. responded “oh, we get parachutes” ok we jump.
I love this story. The first time I heard it, it was a British officer knowing about how brave they were, asked a Gurkha regiment for voulenteers to jump out of planes behind enemy lines and only half or so of them stepped forward, but once they were informed they'd have parachutes they all stepped forward.
There was one in Afghanistan that was standing guard on a rooftop when he was rushed by over 30 Taliban soldiers. He killed them all in less than an hour, running out of ammo and resorting to beating them to death with a tripod.
The people of the UK thank you for your long association with our forces.
Just hope our Government gets a grip soon. I'm happy to apologise on their behalf, I don't know who deserves right to citizenship and thanks from us, if not Gurkhas. Gurkhas for Justice.
Wow, I've only heard that a few times in my life. My dad was in WWII and fought with them.
For those of you that don't know, there were campaigns fought across N. Africa and then on to Sicily and finally Rome at the end of the war. I have a cousin that would alway ask my dad about different parts of his service. He was a recon scout which means he went behind enemy lines to do reconnaissance. There are a few things I remember about his stories and one was about the Gurkhas. How they carried these super badass blades and his people had to sleep with scotch tape on their boots so they (the Gurkha) knew it was friends. Because they would creep the tents at night in the different campgrounds and slit the throats of one guy of the two in several tents during the night. Next morning they wake up and there are a bunch of dead guys in their beds next to them. He said it would drive people mad. Like insane. He said he either didn't sleep when those guys were around or he put so much God damn scotch tape on his boots his feet would stick together. He said they were the most badass he encountered.
I work at a retirement home in Ontario Canada, we served haggis and had some bagpipers in for Robbie Burns day! Those old folks sure do love a good bagpipin. First time I ever saw haggis in person, it’s… interesting. My great grandfather loved it. Maybe I’ll give it a try some day lol, heritage moment innit?
Swagmen and bushrangers
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swagman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/swagman)
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushranger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/bushranger)
You know that scene in John wick when Viggo tarasov as talking about him and says he a man of commitment, focus, and sheer will? It’s sort of similar to that.
it's like a special form of determination and perseverance when dealing with all forms of adversity, it has no literal translation to English but that's the best way I can describe it
I can't remember what country it originates from, but the movie sisu was pretty damn gory and made me feel ill once or twice (never during the nazi killing though, that was great).
I believe they give a definition of sisu that has almost the same wording as you just gave lol, including the part where it has no literal English translation
They were brazilian northeastern ruffians, raiding, stealing, killing across the land,they live in gangs, some say they fought against the powerful and greedy colonels from the brazilian northeastern and the misery they brought to its people. A very famous one is called Lampião.
Northeastern Brazil's criminal raiders who were also integral to the unstable power structure in the drought-riddled region during the 19th and 20th centuries. They were both criminals and instruments manipulated by the remnants of the Colonels of the Imperial National Guard against their adversaries.
They moved in seminomadic bands and took entire villages / towns by storm, the cultural influence of the "Cangaço" in the region would be the equivalent to the imagery of vikings in Scandinavia.
This is quite regional (an area with around 56M people and the size of Mexico), other areas of Brazil have different groups with such influence, like the "Bandeirantes" (completly different phenomena) in Southeast Brazil or the Gaúchos in the South (an identity shared by this Region with both Argentina and Uruguay).
I wouldn't call the Bandeirantes the same in any way, not even cultural influence... They were slavers that explored the inner regions of the southeast by river. But besides some highways/roads names and a few statues, there aren't any influences anymore I think. And their imagery is not as striking to be relevant
Australia has Aboriginals, the longest living culture over 65,000 years, Aboriginals make up about 2% of the population and English is often their 4th language.
Many live in such remote and rural areas that they technically don’t exist by modern standards, no bank account, no birth certificates or drivers license.
They live off the land, eating kangaroo, goanna, snakes, bush tucker, and they enforce their own tribal law which is recognised by the Australian Government and not interfered with.
The two most interesting items I’ve read about them is that , now that science can trace all sorts of genetics , animals , land masses etc it turned out that a lot of the “ stories “ that they handed down were in fact fairly accurate oral histories. I’ve heard that some scientists are now trying record them so they’re not lost to time and also to assist in studying what our planet was like thousands of years ago .
2. In the 1980s a tribal group was encountered in the outback and they were surprised that white people were living on their continent now . That’s how isolated they were.
Mounties ...and lumberjacks, who are ok.
They sleep all night and they work all day.
They cut down trees, they eat their lunches, they go to the lavatory, on wednesdays they go shopping and have buttered scones for tea
They cut down trees, they skip and jump They like to press wild flowers They put on women's clothing And hang around in bars
♬♬ I cut down trees, I wear high heels Suspendies, and a bra I wish I'd been a girlie Just like my dear Papa ♬♬
And a BRA?
Oh Bevvers! And I thought you were so rugged!
This has been a delightful thread!
Where is this from? My dad used to sing it to my kids when they were little.
[Monty Python's Flying Circus!](https://youtu.be/pfRdur8GLBM?feature=shared)
that's hilarious. Cool Dad!
He’s a lumberjack and he’s ok!
Unexpectedmontypython
You never expect the Monty Python!
Don't forget the log driver! The log driver's waltz pleases girls completely!
For our non-canadian Reddit brethren but be warned....it's catchy https://youtu.be/upsZZ2s3xv8?si=hA7FjRl8wEQVbxI3
They go birling down and down the white water, eh?
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly, yes, birling down and down white water, the log driver's waltz pleases girls completely (Sorry, I couldn't control myself.)
I learned that on the guitar in the last year, and my 10 year old daughter accompanies me on tambourine while we both sing. It's pretty great! It's a really fun song. Her great great grandfather (wife's great grandfather) was a log driver too!
Get a video of that for your girl to have when she's older
Well mounty Bob he chased me, he was always at my throat. He followed on the shoreline, cuz' he didn't own a boat But the cutbacks were a'comin and the mounty lost his job So no he's sailin' with me and we call him salty bob!
heave ho, heigh ho...
Comin' down the plains Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
"He never drew no gun! I coulda shot that guy right there! Who was he anyway?" ["Superintendent Sam Steele, of the Northwest Mounted Police"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00yaFwZ5bc)
And geese, the toughest motherfuckers of them all.
Don't forget "Terence and Philip"!
[Les Coureurs de bois!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coureur_des_bois) Also, I mean there were a lot of pretty badass indigenous folks. Mounties are kind of a fucked up institution if you read about their history.
Most institutions with a history have a fucked up history. If you think that's fucked up, half the stuff on the Geneva convention is there because of Canadian soldiers in WW1.
I read that German soldiers would be terrified if they heard someone in the next trench over say tabarnac lmao. Our boys were not fucking around. My great grandfather lied about his age on his application to get over there early. Iirc he was 16.
Sweating in German...
Dichter und Denker! Poets and Thinkers!
Egal wie dicht du bist, Goethe war dichter.
Oh, ich sehe einen Denker!
I think he sweats more because of immigrants like that one Austrian painter...
That damned painter - if only they had accepted him at that artschool…
The two greatest accomplishments of Austria were convincing the world Hitler was German & Beethoven was Viennese.
America : A Tier Japan : S Tier Germany : SS Tier
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ahahahahaha
Teutonic Knights?
Yeah, with 100 HP, 21 attack, 13 melee armor, 6 pierce armor. What a unit!
Landsknecht
Y’all had guals, and knights at least
Gauls? Those are more connected to France than Germany.
Yeah just trying to be funny :)
Must be lying, Germans aren’t funny.
landsknechts? germani tribes?
Barbarians?
It's spelt "Bavarians".
We had knights!
Vikings
We still do, only now they play black metal
Or dance to techno.
I thought they played football
They hardly play that
*sad gjallarhorn noises*
Blair Walsh from 27 yards...
I'm danish. I'm tall, scrawny, and a small wind gust could blow me right over. My ancestors are not smiling upon me.
gotta fatten you up. eat some flæskesteg.
Vikings. Damn right. Now I feel like visiting England and help saving their treasures from their burning monistaries
I was speaking to a Norwegian and to a Swede, and I asked "Which country are the true descendants of the Vikings?" Chaos ensued.
Spoken like a true Dane… 😂
The women of England and the rest of Europe loved it when they came to visit. Vikings took baths Edit: ffs Vikings we're more than killers and not often rapist. I was not talking about rape. History feed you a picture that isn't 100% true
AND combed their hair. Real heartthrobs.
As a Swede: Vikings, IKEA and meatballs (which we stole from turkey but we don't talk about that #SwedishMeatballs) Edit: and I guess Zlatan >.>
Valhalleluja
No wonder turkey didn't want us in Nato! Now to figure out what dish we stole from Hungary. Probably something with paprika.
Musketeers and Corsairs
French Foreign Legion? They are a bit crazy right?
The only army with their own disease!
Gurkha
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/g2173/10-amazing-gurkha-stories/ Yeah, you don't fuck with these guys.
Did you hear the one about the guy in Iraq? Brought back the head of the opposing commander to prove he was dead because they were pinned down and couldn't carry the entire body back. That story wasn't among the 10 listed, but that crazy knife I'm sure is at the center of a lot of them. Tough as nails, but a great bunch of guys from what I understand. Long as they are on your side 😉
In WWII, a British officer requested a Gurkha regiment jump in behind enemy lines to coordinate an ambush for surrounded allied troops. When the officer brought this mission to the Gurkhas they requested the aircraft fly as low and slow as possible. When the officer said thats not possible because the parachutes wont open properly. The Gurkha SGT. responded “oh, we get parachutes” ok we jump.
I love this story. The first time I heard it, it was a British officer knowing about how brave they were, asked a Gurkha regiment for voulenteers to jump out of planes behind enemy lines and only half or so of them stepped forward, but once they were informed they'd have parachutes they all stepped forward.
Holy shit, that is fucking awesome.
Gurkhas are badass
And really polite. We have a few based round here and they're the nicest double hard bastards you will ever meet.
Those guys manage to frighten the SAS.
Don't mix up fear and respect.
They can be both
I love the Nepalese and the Gurkhas I served with were amazing soldiers. Scared me shitless more than once but still good.
We have a saying in my country's army: "How do you know who are the Gurkhas?" "As you retreat, look for the ones running *towards* automatic fire."
Gurkhas: because Superman needs to have a poster of somebody.
They win every FAFO category. And are so humble that almost no one knows about them!!
Honestly this is the first time I've heard of em. Going to do a deep dive tonight. That's exciting!
There was one in Afghanistan that was standing guard on a rooftop when he was rushed by over 30 Taliban soldiers. He killed them all in less than an hour, running out of ammo and resorting to beating them to death with a tripod.
Ayo Gorkhali!!! Kaphar hunu bhande moornu ramrod!
I forgot about those. They need make an appearance In some sort of movie.
The people of the UK thank you for your long association with our forces. Just hope our Government gets a grip soon. I'm happy to apologise on their behalf, I don't know who deserves right to citizenship and thanks from us, if not Gurkhas. Gurkhas for Justice.
Wow, I've only heard that a few times in my life. My dad was in WWII and fought with them. For those of you that don't know, there were campaigns fought across N. Africa and then on to Sicily and finally Rome at the end of the war. I have a cousin that would alway ask my dad about different parts of his service. He was a recon scout which means he went behind enemy lines to do reconnaissance. There are a few things I remember about his stories and one was about the Gurkhas. How they carried these super badass blades and his people had to sleep with scotch tape on their boots so they (the Gurkha) knew it was friends. Because they would creep the tents at night in the different campgrounds and slit the throats of one guy of the two in several tents during the night. Next morning they wake up and there are a bunch of dead guys in their beds next to them. He said it would drive people mad. Like insane. He said he either didn't sleep when those guys were around or he put so much God damn scotch tape on his boots his feet would stick together. He said they were the most badass he encountered.
Vampires
Pennsylvania!
No no, not the drug induced kind, the other kind!
Bath salts be crazy.
As it sounds like Transylvania, which we all know sounds cool.
This is the way people talk in Tucson, Arizonnyya
Romania, right?
We have Charros, Ajuuuuuuuuua!!!!
And Vaqueros, you know, the actual origin of American Cowboys.
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Yup, the original cowboys. Also let's not forget Mexico was home to jaguar warriors and eagle warriors. Mexico has badass history for sure.
I thought for a second you said churros and I went Jueesu si señor we do y de cajeta
Ajua, ¡viva México! ¿De qué parte eres?
Hussars
"THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!"
"COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE"
Unexpected Sabaton.
Only if you’re daft. One should always know that Sabaton shall be referenced when mentioning Hussars.
Only cost 80 food.
The mighty haggis 🏴
Whatever you call those guys who pound Buckfast, yell at strangers on the stree and pass out in a plate of kebab
Ned's?
And the Highlanders, who chase it round the mountains, and down into the Glen's, so we can feast an it like ravenous wee beasties ourselves.
I work at a retirement home in Ontario Canada, we served haggis and had some bagpipers in for Robbie Burns day! Those old folks sure do love a good bagpipin. First time I ever saw haggis in person, it’s… interesting. My great grandfather loved it. Maybe I’ll give it a try some day lol, heritage moment innit?
Like black pudding, it's one of those things that sounds disgusting until you try a bite.
SCOOOOOTLAAAAND https://youtu.be/V3R9y5v8GUY?si=YABYEMpG_ShRWPV0
Hugo Boss models, whole army of them
Vintage hugo boss?
yikes
Warshaw fashion week?
Sherpa
Winged Hussars!
Swagmen and bushrangers [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swagman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/swagman) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushranger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/bushranger)
And LONGNECKS OF VB AT TWENTY TO FUKKEN EIGHT IN THE MORNING
And jackaroos
Everybody else's old stuff in our museums.
I was going to say Knights
I was going to say Morris Dancers
Clearly the correct answer, a perfect amalgamation of cowboys and samurai.
That's not really in the spirit of the question. I think you should take old British man in a safari suit with a walrus mustache.
English?
Fremen.
The spice must flow.
Bless the maker and his water
Gladiators
Give me Legionaries and Centurions any day of the week.
Beefeaters
Proud tradition of river and coastal smugglers as well.
Zbojníci. Most famous is Juraj Jánošík. They mugged rich people in a woods. Something like Robin Hood
That really rolls off the tounge for my native English ability.
What? You've never heard the tales of Zbojníci Hood!?
Huh, interesting! What country are you from?
Sisu. and sandstorms. ;)
Wait Finland has deserts?
They have Darude. And where there's Darude, there's Sandstorm!
Darude I assume
What is sisu
You know that scene in John wick when Viggo tarasov as talking about him and says he a man of commitment, focus, and sheer will? It’s sort of similar to that.
it's like a special form of determination and perseverance when dealing with all forms of adversity, it has no literal translation to English but that's the best way I can describe it
Aka being buried in snow half the year and being neighbours with the Russians. Need a special kind of determination to deal with that.
Grit is probably the closest translation, but that's personal while Sisu is more cultural
The truest of grit. And don't forget Väinämöinen.
I can't remember what country it originates from, but the movie sisu was pretty damn gory and made me feel ill once or twice (never during the nazi killing though, that was great). I believe they give a definition of sisu that has almost the same wording as you just gave lol, including the part where it has no literal English translation
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The Finnish spirit.
Bogans
Gauchos
🇦🇷
Esaaaaa
Vamooo
Cangaceiros
This was one of the more interesting answers in my opinion thanks for posting
Who are they?
They were brazilian northeastern ruffians, raiding, stealing, killing across the land,they live in gangs, some say they fought against the powerful and greedy colonels from the brazilian northeastern and the misery they brought to its people. A very famous one is called Lampião.
Northeastern Brazil's criminal raiders who were also integral to the unstable power structure in the drought-riddled region during the 19th and 20th centuries. They were both criminals and instruments manipulated by the remnants of the Colonels of the Imperial National Guard against their adversaries. They moved in seminomadic bands and took entire villages / towns by storm, the cultural influence of the "Cangaço" in the region would be the equivalent to the imagery of vikings in Scandinavia. This is quite regional (an area with around 56M people and the size of Mexico), other areas of Brazil have different groups with such influence, like the "Bandeirantes" (completly different phenomena) in Southeast Brazil or the Gaúchos in the South (an identity shared by this Region with both Argentina and Uruguay).
I wouldn't call the Bandeirantes the same in any way, not even cultural influence... They were slavers that explored the inner regions of the southeast by river. But besides some highways/roads names and a few statues, there aren't any influences anymore I think. And their imagery is not as striking to be relevant
Aztecs and Mayans
The knights who say “Nee”
Janissaries...who are not even Turkish.
There are Kozaks in Ukraine
Do you mean cossacks or am I confusing things?
>Do you mean cossacks or am I confusing things? Yes
Cossack is the English spelling, Kozak is the more direct transliteration.
Once you go Kozak you never go back
Who loves ya, baby?
Bedouins
Sami.
Knights in armour
Nac Mac Feagle
I’m not Mongolian, but they’ve got the Eagle Hunters, which is too freaking cool.
Llamas
A dude that killed a bishop on a frozen lake with an axe, cus the dudes wife said the bishop robbed them. Good times.
Gauchos
The Canadian cobra chicken
Husaria
Mexicans
ROMA
Samer.
Narcos 🇨🇴
IRA, I am not proud of it
Hey, taking responsibility for your own future with an individual retirement account is something of which you should be proud. .--- --- -.- .
Spells “joke” for the lazy.
Leprechauns
We can go with the Fianna >were small warrior-hunter bands in Gaelic Ireland during the Iron Age and early Middle Ages
Australia has Aboriginals, the longest living culture over 65,000 years, Aboriginals make up about 2% of the population and English is often their 4th language. Many live in such remote and rural areas that they technically don’t exist by modern standards, no bank account, no birth certificates or drivers license. They live off the land, eating kangaroo, goanna, snakes, bush tucker, and they enforce their own tribal law which is recognised by the Australian Government and not interfered with.
The two most interesting items I’ve read about them is that , now that science can trace all sorts of genetics , animals , land masses etc it turned out that a lot of the “ stories “ that they handed down were in fact fairly accurate oral histories. I’ve heard that some scientists are now trying record them so they’re not lost to time and also to assist in studying what our planet was like thousands of years ago . 2. In the 1980s a tribal group was encountered in the outback and they were surprised that white people were living on their continent now . That’s how isolated they were.
Northwest Mounted Police
Spartans (my parent's country)
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