"How will you celebrate 5 May, 2021?" Topic

dibble

'you seeing me as God' I think you'll find I never said that. It is all in your imagination. But that wouldn't surprise me. And besides, you're more of a sheep as you know! LOL

You obviously do sound hurt, although you try so hard to cover it up with insults. But like I said, your posts make me laugh. The only hurt is from the constant laughing when I read them.

I'm interested in the Napoleonic period and all it involved, and I admire quite a lot about Napoleon. You don't. That's all there is to it. Get over it.

Perhaps it hurts you because Napoleon will always be remembered and there will always be an historical period with the title 'Napoleonic'.

In terms of 'like to counter all his fawners'. Well then, stop complaining. The posts you object to are just countering the Nappy haters. Get it? Not to get it or accept that is basically admitting to being a hypocrite. You wouldn't want to be accused of that now, would you?

So, now that is all clear, here's to more debates and discussions on that wonderful period and the wonderful historical characters it produced. Without it, we wouldn't be here now.

But you did post this Gaz'

God your posts make me laugh.

So l am all things…:)

All the rest of your very inaccurate post above is just a rubbish attempt at the last word.

There was Georgian period 1714–1837, which neatly wrapped up the Nappy 11 year one, popped into a nice neat parcel, tied with a pretty Union jack patterned bow and posted to an Island somewhere off the west coast of Africa.

Right! Would you like to try for the last word again? If you could, please make it with a tad more wit. I promise not to post a reply as your response thus far (Apart from calling me God) are rather boring, even for a Nappy Fawner…:)

All the best Gaz.

Perhaps one day you could learn to quote? All you need is a left-pointing < and a q and right-pointing > at the beginning of the sentence to be quoted. Another left-pointing < a forward / another q and another right-pointing > at the end.

which neatly wrapped up the Nappy 11 year one…'

More accurately, the period lasted fifteen years, beginning with Napoleon as head of state.

I went from the crown grabbing oik and his delusions of grandeur, to his 'boot up arse' retirement to his little Island.

And that is incorrect because whether First Consul or Emperor, Napoleon was still head of state for fifteen years…

dibble

I thought my last sentence would indicate our next posts should perhaps be connected to something military, something Napoleonic, rather than continued insulting. Obviously it was over your head. Never mind.

Your attempt to suggest I called you God is also rather amusing. I don't think anyone here has ever addressed any post to God. And certainly God wouldn't be so biased and defensive. LOL

'Try for last word?' Er, aren't you doing that? LOL

But you carry on your insulting, if it makes you feel better? It says more about you than anything else. Very revealing in fact.

Anyway, have a nice day. I suggest you try reading a good book, something NAPOLEONIC perhaps?

@Gazzola

Gazzola said: God your posts make me laugh.

His posts make me laugh too. Our dibble is quite frisky and imaginative with his RPG-esque passions towards Napoleon. It is good for someone to have a hobby but it is also a warning that even a hobby needs to be stepped away from to take a clear breath and avoid it becoming all consuming.

MiniPigs

Quite right. Talking of stepping away, well, actually not stepping away in a sense, did you see how much the key to Napoleon's room on St, Helena went for? £81,900.00 GBP! I wonder what dibble will think of that? LOL

Brechtel.

Like I posted:
"I went from the crown grabbing oik and his delusions of grandeur…" But if you insist on going earlier, you should also include his (a trait strong with old Nappy) legging it to France and abandoning his Army. So Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugsy" Siegel, Machine-Gun Kelly and Legs Diamond hopped aboard a ship and 'snuck' away, leaving their hoard of patsies behind them…:D

MiniPigs:

His posts make me laugh too. Our dibble is quite frisky and imaginative with his RPG-esque passions towards Napoleon. It is good for someone to have a hobby but it is also a warning that even a hobby needs to be stepped away from to take a clear breath and avoid it becoming all consuming.

Me taking a few minutes out to reply about Nappy the tyrant is no hobby. It's just my way of filling in a few minutes of spare time to 'wind the clock'… ;)

RPG-esque

What? Do you mean 'Role Playing Game'? 'Rocket Propelled Grenade'? Or do you mean 'Right Pukka Geezer'?

Well dibble, you're nothing if not consistent. Don't ever change, you're perfect just the way you are :)

MiniPigs:

Well, according to another on here

God your posts make me laugh.

I am God. To get another, observation on similar lines

you're perfect just the way you are

tells me not to fly in the face of said opinions…:D

dibble

I think you need to leave off with the God bit, don't you? A bit of banter and even funny at first but come on, you really are desperate to milk it, aren't you? And you do know you are asking for a lightning strike to yer bonce from the Mighty One. (In this case, just in case you might get further confused, I was not referring to Napoleon when I said Mighty One, although he is close.

And yes, you are right, your comical posts are not a hobby – they are more of an obsession! I'm sure you'll get over it one day. LOL

MiniPigs

You've gone and done it now! It's bad enough the poor guy thinks he is God. Calling him 'perfect' will just further inflate his head. LOL

MiniPigs:

It isn't what I think, It's that others think I'm God, but I don't mind. I know my station and mortality in life but if a poster wishes to be kind in a grandiose way by addressing me as "God" then I'll take it and use it. That they have regret is all theirs.

And as for the person replying to your posting with "desperate to milk it" I say. No need to because I may use it as a matter of fact 'till the cows come home'…:)

dibble

'Others think I'm God' Oh dear. What have we done? Of course, he is just joking, I suppose, a bit of provocative banter. I'm sure dibble knows that when someone says God in the way it was posted, refers to their frustration of the person mentioned and their inability to consider other people's viewpoints, and that I was clearly not calling him God. His membership name would confirm this unless he is not telling the truth about who he is? LOL

I would not call any mortal God or relate them to God in anyway, and certainly not dibble. Then again…what if he really believes what he is posting? Oh dear, the poor man!

But if it keeps him happy and smiling and not wasting time insulting anyone with a different viewpoint, God he is then! LOL
I can see him changing his membership name as soon as he reads this post! LOL

If anyone can add some things suitable to these proposals, I'd be glad to learn of them:

Dinner-Party & Commemoration, including:

Ambience supplied by pre-recorded contemporary music, with decided martial emphasis but including Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. For those not overly concerned with strict historical accuracy, Tchiakowski's "1812" Overture is permissible, as is Puccini's "Tosca". For those not concerned about introducing political controversy, Beethoven again ("Fidelio"). For those not concerned about politics at all, "La Marseillaise" is allowed.

Chambertin wine and Napoleon Brandy available throughout.

Chicken Marengo, of course.
(vegetarian option, some small, frozen potatoes, badly burnt on the outside, ice-cold and ice-hard inside: Les Pommes de Terre a la Bourgogne)

Readings from either "Le Souper de Beaucaire" or "Clisson et Eugenie"; for real devotees, we could have both.

Ladies withdraw. Coffee, Brandy, Tobacco, etc. supplied.

Lengthy account of Napoleon's career from an acknowledged expert.
Lengthy account of Napoleon's achievements and legacy, from another.
Protracted discussion followed eventually by heated argument.

Martial Music concludes evening with "On va leur percer le flanc" or "Chant du Depart", with closing homily and response, "Le petit Caporal a donne au monde la Paix et la Liberte", "Ah, ce que nous allons rire".

Peace Negotiations commence some months later.

Any contributions welcome, including suggestions about reciting some verses to the devoted Chicken or addressing the Ladies with all the Machismo appropriate to a Corsican with an exaggerated sense of Honour.

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Robert le Diable

Sounds fine to me. But I think we could just as easily relax, remember and be thankful for such a short but extraordinary period of history with some incredibly interesting events and characters on all sides. That doesn't mean anyone should ignore the horror side of war and the suffering and deaths that any war causes pre or post the Napoleonic Wars. It is remembering the bravery, courage, endurance and determination of the people that lived through the various battles and campaigns. Could we have done what they did? And wargaming is a way of remembering them and the period itself.

Yes, Gazzola, agreed in all points, not least with regard to "could we have done…"&c.; the same might be said of many other aspects of life at the time (anyone fancy reefing a sail, or ploughing a field even, let alone facing some surgical procedure with contemporary technology?). I've read several times over the years contributors' worries about a pastime which, obviously, is centred upon warfare and at the same time focused only on some of its aspects. In a manner which I, at least, find comparable, a certain disquiet might be felt about the casual way in which so many popular detective dramas have, as the problem to be solved, some fascinating murder. Compelling stuff. If Life's cheap, fictional existence is free. Then there's the well rehearsed issue of some Video Games and the effects these might have on that perennially problematic thing, The Younger Generation. I'm surprised, and relieved, that Wargaming hasn't – as far as I know – received unwelcome attention because of this inescapable matter of aggression and violence, however carefully planned and directed these might be on the table, gaming-mat, sand-table or indeed "on the ground". Art of all kinds reflects Reality (admittedly, not many Wargamers or Re-enactors look the part…). Nevertheless, I think that canons of Literature and Tradition, the World over, violent as much of this may be, will survive more or less intact; we, on the other hand, might in a few years be forced to confine ourselves to Chess and the like.

Actually, why anyone who spends a significant amount of time on activities connected in some ways to a collection of tiny, little, minuscule, military miniature models in their scaled-down units should be expected to be sensible is a matter of some curiosity. Anyway, Vive l'Empereur!

Good Luck.

Latino friends I have in California have told me that the US celebrates Cinco de Mayo more than they do in Mexico!

I think Mexicans are hoping for a "Liberation from Drug Cartels" ….

Robert le Diable

In way, wargaming is like Chess without the squares and with obstacles blocking movements, along with more rules and a more variety of pieces able to move about in more ways. So you could say we're way ahead in that sense.