"Green Beret vs Spetsnaz" Topic

Ok, I've tried to give this hsow the benefit of the doubt, but after tonight, I have to ask-What have these guys been smoking. Green Beret vs Spetsnaz- You know, Green Berets losing is one thing- but bcause of the Ballistic Knife?? C'mon that thing was a joke when it first came out in the 70's. Maybe I should have put this under Rants,, but I'm done with that show. Thanks for listening.

What show?

How about Diora Baird vs. Malin Akerman?

Apparently it is "Deadliest Warrior" on Spike.

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Regards, the Gorb

Sorry, the Gorb was right, Deadliest Warrior.

I've been done with the show for awhile… but I still watch it for the train wreck that it is… :P :)

What I am curious about is if the Slitherine software expert that programs and runs the simulation is from the same Slitherine that is behind FoG? If so, how does this reflect on FoG? :)

Ah-hem…

S.A.S.

Preceded this evening by Mafioso vs Yakuza – warriors????? Next perhaps SD vs NKVD or Brownshirts vs Khmer Rouge re-education camp guards???

Nah, it'll be Mods vs. Rockers.
-Kle.

Or perhaps schoolgirls vs granmas in a which warrior can cry the hardest contest?!

Jets versus Sharks.

Ok, I'm glad that I'm not the only one thinking, "What a stupid concept for a TV show".

As if all there is to being a Viking is swinging a large battle axe!

Ralph

As if all there is to being a Viking is swinging a large battle axe!

What? You mean there's more?

(Puts down axe and walks away, head drooping.)

What? You mean there's more?

Don't be dishearted, the 'more' in this case is an almost mandatory requirement to drink your own bodyweight in Mead every night and fratenise with any good looking wench who pleases your eye!

Future episodes ?? ….

JAG vs Finance Corps?
69th Messkit Repair Co vs 115th Typewriter Maintence Co?
Cheeleaders vs pep squad ?
Playmates vs Pets?
D&D club vs debate team?

The possibilities are endless

Dave

I'll watch it when they do
Chuck Norris vs. anything and everything

I just couldn't bear to watch that. The ballistic knife has been pretty well discredited. But I am curious: did they give the Spetsnaz trooper an entrenching tool? That's one thing they've always trained with quite extensively.

Allen

Allen, they gave the entrenching tool to the Green Beret. Versus the Ballistic knife. Rated the Makarov pistol higher than the Beretta, also.

I see. I believe I chose wisely.

Hi

I saw part of the viking versus samurai. And oddly, the viking loses in the first round because his thrown spear is outranged by the samurai long bow.

Ignoring that the Viking introduced the longbow to England.

Rocky

I wanna see SCA vs LARP!!!

Dave

I'll watch it when they get around to Landsknecht vs. Flying Monkey.

Oprah Winfrey vs. Richard Simmons

Not sure which is worse – this drek or that crapfest on the History Channel where the guy comes on and says "I'm a Green Beret". Most of the guys in the SF Teams I know refer to themselves as soldiers and point out the green beret is just a felt hat. whether that tool was actually in one of the teams he is a jerk who grandstands and takes stupid risks to prove nothing. More like a REMF with a wannabe complex than a true soldier

I find the show deeply inspirational and wonderful… what, does no one believe me?

ok nothing seems to make sense on this show. Not to mention I remember Slitherine as making simplitic games that are not very good, and behind the times. So do I trust their programmer? no. Plus nothing makes sense. its like the whole series, would Santa Anna win if his army shows up to the Alamo and the Texans time warp in a sherman tank?

As if all there is to being a Viking is swinging a large battle axe!

It's impossible to be a Viking, viking is a verb.

Repeat after me: "Norsemen go a-viking".
-Kle.

Kids vs. old geezers. The battlefield: the geezers lawn…

*snort* Good one DontFearDareaper!

Oprah vs. Michele Obama?

You guys are so "the glass is half empty." Look for some of the positives. Granted, the psuedo scientific comparisons are kind of lame but some of the individual tests are kind of fun. Sort of the same with any of the psuedo science shows; myth busters, sports science, … You have to take them with a grain of salt and enjoy them when they bring out something turly entertaining. For example, did you not get a charge out watching the guy chop the ballistics dummy in half with the big axe? Did you not get a new respect for the samuri armor that withstood the same blow?

My 17 year old actually talks to me during the commercials

As if all there is to being a Viking is swinging a large battle axe!

It's impossible to be a Viking, viking is a verb.

Repeat after me: "Norsemen go a-viking".
-Kle.

Hey, if some guy swinging a large battle axe says he's a Viking, are you really gonna stand there and correct his grammar?

It's impossible to be a Viking, viking is a verb.

Repeat after me: "Norsemen go a-viking".

Hmmm………viking is a verb………vikingr is the actual noun from Old Norse.

But in modern day usage:

Merriam Webster: one of the pirate Norsemen plundering the coasts of Europe in the 8th to 10th centuries

Dictionary.com:
1. any of the Scandinavian pirates who plundered the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries.
2. a sea-roving bandit; pirate.
3. a Scandinavian.

Cambridge Dictionary: a person belonging to a race of Scandinavian people who travelled by sea and attacked parts of northern and southern Europe between the 8th and the 11th centuries, often staying to live in places they travelled to.

Webster Online: Any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries.

Also Norse (not Norseman, which is a modern English word) originally meant Norwegian from the Old German-Friesan-Dutch "noors". Later on it came to describe any Scandinavian………..somewhat like viking does today.

Ralph

Lots of incorrect things become accepted through usage.
-Kle.

And therebye become correct….

Check out the after show they give more insight (if that's what it can be called) to how the choice is made. The show is stupid but fun, just put a towel on the floor in front of the TV… it Oozes testosterone
spike.com

Wait, wait, I got one…

Chav's vs Goth's?

Penguins versus Sharks.
Blue Jays versus Orioles.

Jets jumping the Sharks….

"Lots of incorrect things become accepted through usage."
-Kle.

I think Kle just figured out why this show is still on the air.

My personal ridiculous favorite was Apache Warriors vs. Roman Gladiators. Green Berets vs Spetsnaz was dumb, but potentially possible, which made its interesting factor go way up (too bad they picked four arse openings to represent the two sides). Take Shaolin Monks vs. Maori warriors for instance…WHY IN THE HELL WOULD THEY BE FIGHTING!?

WHY IN THE HELL WOULD THEY BE FIGHTING!?

DBA tournament.

Have you forgotten the Star Gate? Anything can fight anyone….

I thought the ballistic knife was kinda gay too. Silly show.

There is that.

I saw the Taliban vs IRA episode and was surprised they let the IRA win.

Otto
noizehive.blogspot.com

Thats because, sadly, to a lot of Americans the IRA will always be 'the good ole boys from the homeland fighting to escape the imperial shackles' not the 'bunch of murdering cowards that no sensible person actually wanted, or supported'

Maybe…………..

Just seen this link, I liked the demonstrations of the various weapons in the show, and give you a new respect to some of the weapons and the warriors who use to use them, but the pairings were just daft and I always hated the end scene, also all the macho hype that always went on between the sides got a bit tedious to say the least.

Also the "Taliban vs IRA" was never shown in the UK, I wonder why…

"Green Beret vs Spetsnaz"

When is the episode when they double team, and still get their arses kicked by the SAS.

Btw, what IS a "Ballistic Knife"?…

Spike should do a new series on Deadliest Great Captains with e.g. Marlborough and Karl XII of Sweden fighting it out in hand-to-hand combat. [Vat of Jell-O optional.]

I had to look it up, but a ballistic knife is evidently a knife that thinks its a bullet.

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I am a 100% true blooded American, but I would pick the Speztnaz over the Green Berets just for the fact that they could get away with more dirty fighting than our guys. We court martial our Soldiers at the drop of a hat, whereas the Russians would just cover up any unnecessary deaths caused by their Speztnaz. The only thing that matters to the Russians is, "Did you accomplish your mission?" not collateral damage.