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“A stinker like Hitler” lmfao I mean yes Dahl is clearly prejudiced and that’s the understatement of the century re: Hitler but that was hysterical to read.
That ol’ rascal Hitler!
This is just British way of speaking.
“I’m in a spot of trouble”
“Off, that was a nasty business”
A lot of times the mild language is used for stuff that would get kicked off Liveleak for being too extreme
It's not just the British, the Irish indulge in this too.
30-year civil war at the end of four centuries of sectarian violence: "The Troubles".
The deadliest conflict in human history (WWII): "The Emergency"
It’s also just kind of a dated way of talking, I understand the context and all of that. Doesn’t make it any less funny to say out loud
In “The Ballad of Bill Hubbard,” Roger Waters plays a clip from a World War 1 veteran talking about some of his trauma from the war. He talks about finding a friend of his who’d been lying alone in a trench for days and nights with a probably-fatal wound, and then trying to get him out. How did the guy summarize his situation when the speaker first found him?
“Cor, hello Razz, I'm glad to see you. This is my second night here. I’m feeling bad.”
I understood some of that what is Liveleak?
An old video site known for having some stuff that was too extreme for YouTube (people dying or etc)
I completely agree, I did chuckle out loud in bewilderment when I read that wholly incommensurate epithet.
"A stinker like Hitler".
Absurd.
Watch out for that rapscallion Mussolini! He’ll give you a real walloping!
"You be careful or you might run into that upstart Zodiac Killer!"
"Pol Pot, amirite? That li'l ragamuffin, huh? Such a character."
It definitely stands out, maybe as our vernacular has shifted so far to hyperbole, that every statement is "slamming, blasting, annihilating".
I could certainly see that