I was listening to the #LionsLedByDonkeys episode on the wooden Nazi jet for kids and the part where Nate says "Nein! Mine flutzoig itz a fallen... Jesus catgirl ge traud!" made me laugh so hard it hurt since I strained all my abdominal muscles at an exercise class on Friday.

(I don't speak German, so that's probably not remotely accurate, I was just going phonetically)

And the entire digression comparing to a girl in a cat suit on a scooter to Hitler.

I'm listening to the #LionsLedByDonkeys episode about the Yamato, and one of my favorite stories is how her sister ship, the Musashi, was so goddamn big when it launched it flooded Nagasaki harbor. The entire thing was a hilariously accurate metaphor for what Imperial Japan was prioritizing.

#Navalhistory

“Led by Donkeys” or “Dirigée par des ânes” finally ends up as a popular meme and appears on T-shirts, and the original meaning slips away into the distant past.

If you’ve got the T-shirt, that’s all that matters… 🙂

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#Asstodon #lionsledbydonkeys

In the anti-Brexit campaign, the imaginative protest group “Led By Donkeys” was formed to put up posters challenging the Brexiters and the Conservative lies about Brexit benefits.

Now the whole British nation was characterised as #lionsledbydonkeys which is a very clever re-marketing of the motto.

Get your book of Led By Donkeys posters: pigeonbooks.co.uk/products/led-by-donkeys

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The origin of the phrase goes back to 1855 when The Daily Journal, an American newspaper, quoted a Russian source at the siege of Sebastapol describing their British enemies as “an army of lions led by donkeys”.

A variation of this was then used in 1871 to describe the French troops defeated by the Prussians in the Paris siege.

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#donkeyoftheday 61:

A book with the title “Lions Led by Donkeys” appeared in 1927, by Captain P.A.Thompson, but the phrase gained popular currency when re-used by military historian Alan Clark.

Since his influential 1961 book “The Donkeys” it has been commonly used to caricature General Haigh and an incompetent British high command whose mistakes cost the lives of brave infantry soldiers in World War 1.

That is not the origin of #lionsledbydonkeys however.

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@ClaireCopperman @johnharris1969

Oddly enough, I just finished writing a short thread about the English class system and #lionsledbydonkeys just as the Zahawi news broke. I think the corrupt appointment of the BBC chair is by far the biggest story.

“Wings” main character, Alan is a sergeant pilot, fighting an arrogant English upper class officer establishment. My father Barry Thomas created the series, and he was an RAF sergeant navigator in WW2. His class battles came from a career in the BBC: the arrogance of the officers in the “Wings” series is modeled on his everyday experience of BBC television controllers and top brass.

#lionsledbydonkeys is a view he held more about the BBC in the 1970s than the 1914-18 war.

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"We try and shovel shit with spoons, whilst they drop it in dump trucks".
This is a harrowing read from an ED doctor in the UK.
I don't quite grasp, how the UK hasn't gone out on a general strike or actually revolted yet given Tory bollox.
#LionsLedByDonkeys
#SaveTheNHS
#TorysOut

this episode of #LionsLedByDonkeys where joe has a guy who did his whole thesis on this exact period of Japanese history to talk about the historical in/accuracy of Shogun II is just. a perfect gem of nerdery.