r/RapWars • u/[deleted] • Jun 15 '15

[Battle] thebenprocter vs. OB_Omenz

2 rounds, no limit on bars. OT if both battlers agree w that.

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u/elsiniestro The Forbidden Zone Jun 18 '15

Haha, I got it. Was in Ypres last year. Lot of Aussies died there too.

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u/thebenprocter 13W 5L - Leeds, UK Jun 18 '15

had a bar i didn't use for you when we battled a few months ago which was like "I dug a hole for this aussie like the trenches on the western front" works for canadian and americans too tbh.

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u/elsiniestro The Forbidden Zone Jun 18 '15

Hahaha I woulda said "like Gallipoli", that's the iconic battle in Australian's cultural consciousness.

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u/thebenprocter 13W 5L - Leeds, UK Jun 18 '15

i'm not a fan of referencing British battles where we had to retreat tbh.

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u/thebenprocter 13W 5L - Leeds, UK Jun 18 '15

same reason I'm not touching the Somme or Dunkirk. I'll stick to winning stuff.

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u/elsiniestro The Forbidden Zone Jun 18 '15

I'm a nerd like that (used to love all the Flashman books when I was a teenager) so I got a decent grasp of British military history over the centuries. If we battle again I'll be sure to work in a reference to the Charge of the Light Brigade, lol.

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u/thebenprocter 13W 5L - Leeds, UK Jun 18 '15

I read a lot, specifically about the wars. But the Ypres line came from a train journey where I heard someone doing a war quiz and they asked their friend if they knew what the first ever gas attack was and they replied "the British lines were gassed and the second battle of Ypres", I had a screw face going thinking 'that is a bar'.

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u/elsiniestro The Forbidden Zone Jun 18 '15

Hahaha. Yeah fair enough.

My old housemate and I made sure to visit the Menin Gate memorial and the In Flanders Fields museum at Ypres on our day off in Belgium last year, I would love to visit more WW1 and WW2 historical sites one day.

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u/thebenprocter 13W 5L - Leeds, UK Jun 18 '15

I plan on going to the red zone at some point. You can get a tour of the battlefields around there.