As much as he hates (or indifferent) to the Royals, John is British to the core. Doing the "Keep Calm and Carry On" when under fire thing with aplomb, no shtick!

Is it luck though? The chute, the GPS with SOS, keeping calm and with the plane, creating a smoke signal? I give him mad props for doing everything he could to be saved. You don't need luck if you do it right.

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We already have had a case of it. American and British television are like chalk and cheese - we don't have televised spelling bees (and they would seem crazy to us), we don't have angry talking heads telling us what to think like bill oreilly.. we're actually pretty good when it comes to this sort of thing. Might be because we're a relatively old nation, we've absorbed a bunch of different invasions into our populace, wars, fires, famines and plagues.. there's something called the spirit of the blitz; brits don't like to panic, we're not good at outrage and yelling. Keep calm and carry on!

I like how at 2:20, the helicopter cam pans over a building that has posted on the side " Keep calm...(it's) no bubble"---presumably referring to Dubai real estate market.
Only---it sort was/is.

Even his t-shirt is obnoxious. "Keep calm and" needs to die.

@budzos - I think it's all part of the ego trip that this sort of video is. Not just everything wrong with internet soapboxes but everything wrong with atheism too. This guy's nothing to do with me!

You say; "Oh yeah, and I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore, Hail Satan, Hail Eris, Jesus Saves."
Hmmm. o....k, keep calm, and take your meds.
Seriously though, it's desk top fatalists like you, who envisage dystopia, and gleefully await Armageddon, that the security services are right to monitor. I'm done.

According to that report:

"The pilot reported that while climbing through about 5,800 feet mean sea level (msl), the engine lost power. Despite multiple attempts, he was unable to restart the engine. The pilot initiated a forced landing to an open snow covered field."

Congrats to them for keeping calm, on the first watch I thought it was all going normal until they crash landed.

not to mention growing FOOD with WATER to feed ANOTHER FOOD which is watered... then transported (FUEL) and frozen (ENERGY) until i forget I defrosted it and throw it right in the trash because hey, I can order more from Amazon Fresh and they will drive it to me.


we will barely escape the end times from drought due almost solely to mismanagement and greed. im torn between doing the right thing and conserving, and just having a heck of a time burning out. The white mans burden indeed! i feel like a captain going down with a ship i never realized i was piloting... but ill keep calm and respawn in my videogames until im numb

When they can't use deadly force and tasers, this is how it's usually done. It's a lot more work but in the end no one was hurt. And to think his friends even shouted directions for him all the time helping him and the cops didn't react to that... They didn't lose temper at any point, gave him countless opportunities to start acting like a grownup. I would give them 8+, drunkards have the same amount of power as solber people, they just are so uncoordinated, in my days as a bouncer i was amazed how much larger and stronger guys i could throw out but it takes buttload of patience and in the heat of the moment it's very hard to keep calm. Mostly it's prioritizing and controlling the situation, relocating the problem to more sparse populated area and try to talk some reason or subdue. What i see is happening here too, they did let him walk surprisingly far but there was room to manouver.

>> ^dannym3141:

I want to grab these tory fucking scumbags by the scruff of the neck and scream into their faces "SHAME ON YOU, REPRESENT THE PEOPLE!"
What fucking happened to my britain? What happened to the highest privilege to be born british? Keep calm and carry on spirit?
How can the CUNT tory scumbags expect the least privileged in this country to care for each other and take part in fucking "big community" when our fucking government is LITERALLY selling our nation from under us to line their cronies pockets? How can they act dishonestly and expect honesty from the rest of the country?
They're rushing all these fucking policies in as quickly as they can because they know they're not gonna get in next time, so there's nothing to lose. At least the other fucking parties pretend to be doing it in our best interest.


Oh hear hear, love. Just sit back and watch it crumble. Because even protests and petitions won't make a dent anymore. Fucks sake, even The House of Lords hold no sway. There is LITERALLY nothing we can do and fuck all to cling onto. I feel like the voice of doom, but I know I'm not exaggerating. Still, if anything is going to change, we have to hit rock bottom... and I think we're getting there.

I want to grab these tory fucking scumbags by the scruff of the neck and scream into their faces "SHAME ON YOU, REPRESENT THE PEOPLE!"

What fucking happened to my britain? What happened to the highest privilege to be born british? Keep calm and carry on spirit?

How can the CUNT tory scumbags expect the least privileged in this country to care for each other and take part in fucking "big community" when our fucking government is LITERALLY selling our nation from under us to line their cronies pockets? How can they act dishonestly and expect honesty from the rest of the country?

They're rushing all these fucking policies in as quickly as they can because they know they're not gonna get in next time, so there's nothing to lose. At least the other fucking parties pretend to be doing it in our best interest.

What a great sentiment and truly of its time and location. Keep calm and carry on. It says so little and so much. It's not about keeping your head down and ignoring things and being a good little peon. It's the wise words of an aging, warring nation.

So everything's terrible and you're worried it's all steps away from falling apart, but if you panic, and everyone else is panicking as well, and before you know it everything really has fallen apart. But if you persevered and instead of worrying about things you can't change, fix the things you can, and everyone else does too, you may just do enough to reach the next milestone.

I wouldn't be surprised if the sentiment has its roots in military.. it has a militaristic feel to me - something i could easily fit some swearwords into or yell. It's also a great way of combating a rout in a battle. Ok, everything looks like shit, but if you panic you may as well lay down and die, so keep calm and carry on doing what you're supposed to do and if everyone else does you might all live. For your own life, for the life of your squad, for your family back home: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON!

Perhaps i'm romanticising it? I blame the good video.

>> ^Reefie:

>> ^Jinx:
>> ^Reefie:
Ideal slogan for those who want to pretend their world is ideal.

What?
Its not about pretending that your world is ideal, its about understanding that sometimes you can't control where the bombs land and all you can reasonably do is keep your head and try to keep living your life. "Panic and stop everything" doesn't exactly seem like sage advice. In fact, its the very opposite of what one could consider sage - a person of wisdom, who in the stoic sense does not allow destructive emotions to rule their decision making.

Okay first up we haven't had bombs dropped on us in over 65 years. Your reasoning might stand up if we were still subject to the terror of bombs landing on us every night, knowing that the following morning we could be missing friends and that everyone remaining would have the hollow gaunt look of someone who hasn't had a decent night's sleep in years.
Second, this was a propaganda poster. It was intended to encourage people to just accept what was happening around them and to get on with their lives regardless. Nowadays the media has popularised the same propaganda poster so as to encourage people to just ignore what's going on around them on this planet, to just accept it and carry on, don't let it get to us or otherwise we'll question why things are so bad to begin with.
I did not state the opposite should be encouraged. Why is it when someone posts something you disagree with that you immediately presume that person is encouraging the complete opposite? We're a lot more accommodating of varied viewpoints than you might be expecting!
PS If you're in a country where bombs are still being dropped on you regularly either by British or American troops then I can only apologise. Maybe, just maybe, that propaganda poster is helping people cope in such a country.


It's about continuing to do what you do best in difficult circumstances. There's nothing about pretending or accepting anything.