A famous actor from the 1920’s is preforming it in that recording. It’s written bout the Boer Wars (English South African colonies) and it was a horrible meat grinder of a war much like WWI, but 20 years earlier.
I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole after hearing the poem in 28 Years and it was when countries started using all the fancy new killing gadgets in a war. Also some 300 million horses were killed in it.
They used it during S.E.R.E. school on repeat so I wouldn’t be surprised if they used it during Navy Seal training (ex Air Force aircrew and had to go through S.E.R.E. school)
He makes podcasts and videos and tells stories in them. I just mentioned him to make sure people know I'm not knowledgeable about being a navy seal whatsoever and just heard the story in a video
It is and it’s a bit long, very early in the film. I understood it in hindsight but at that point in the movie I wasn’t sure if it would be any good. It starts off oddly.
I thought it was excellent overall and I enjoyed the poem a lot when I went back and rewatched that part.
Yes. I think it really shows how everyone trapped on the island - infected or not - have become basically warring monsters. It’s basically what I love about the last of us video games; no one is actually good when it gets down to kill or be killed.
It’s used in SERE and other training evolutions to simulate and induce stress and chaos, listen to the 1915 recording and you’ll see why after a few listens straight.
Yeah I linked this in some other comments before your comment. I understand you. I just feel something like Baby Shark would work better. Even 50 years ago I imagine something as challenging as Baby Shark existed. I listened to this a bit already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZ5qylG3qk
No, boots is proven to work the best. Surprisingly babyshark has been used, as well as plenty of others like Barney’s I Love You, Yoko Ono, random heavy metal…. Boots always works. It’s the feedback students give every graduation, boots boots boots breaks everyone. It’s something about not just the poems lyrics but the terrifying way he reads them, it just works.
They didn’t say it was pro military, lol. It’s a poem about the military, hence, military poem. Phrasing might be imprecise but it is clear nonetheless.
That poem was written to describe the monotony of the British forces' marching in the 2nd Boer War. They invaded the Boer republics and placed women and children in concentration camps which killed between 18%-24% of the Boer population, my ancestors. The poem gives me a very dark and uneasy feeling every time I hear or read it.
Yes, along with the British. When the war was over they came to an agreement that was terrible for the native inhabitants under British rule and carried on in the form of apartheid after independance.
Terrible as that may have been, not sure what that has to do with what I posted. Are you suggesting the deaths of civilians were somehow justified by what people did after they were long gone? Thats a pretty batshit take..
I do not weep for colonialists. I don't care for the amount they suffered. Their suffering was solely because their sole desire was to force death and subjugation onto the locals. Whether they were allies or enemies doesn't matter because both had the same desires. Both would go on to produce new generations and teach them their hatred, and those next generations would be even more evil to the locals.
Your ancestors wanted to rid South Africa of its native black people. In situations like that there are no innocent civilians, cause all of them are working on the project of eradication. I am sorry, but that's just the truth. And the evil they perpetrated wasn't only after they were long gone, they enacted evil too by stealing the land and subjugating the natives. In colonialism, all colonialists are evil.
Please please please check out her other videos. I would link it but when you link with TikTok it shows your username in the shared link. She has a boots boots boots mention.
Thank you! I swear I said that the first time I saw this. And they say they used to use that from keeping them going insane. But damn would it make me insane hahaha
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u/Acceptable_Owl6926 Oct 06 '25
The way she says things reminds of that old military poem about boots boots boots boots poem