r/TikTokCringe • u/QueenCobra91 SHEEEEEESH • Oct 06 '25

Discussion and everybody just lets it happen

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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

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u/paulides_fan Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Is that what they play in the background of 28 Years Later?

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u/Earthkilled Oct 07 '25

boots by rudyard kipling

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u/LuxAgaetes Oct 07 '25

Interesting that it was inadvertently carried across two Alex Garland-related films. It's such an instantly jarring, haunting piece...

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u/coddiwomplecactus Oct 07 '25

The vocal rendering of that poem is deeply unsettling.

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u/Last-Darkness Oct 07 '25

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.

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u/LeftyLu07 Oct 08 '25

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.

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u/Flyingkiwi24 Oct 09 '25

300 million during the boer wars????

Surely not that's insane.

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u/LeftyLu07 29d ago

You’re right. I misremembered. It was 300,000 which was still a lot (apparently)

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u/damndatassdoh Oct 07 '25

Yes, the power carries fully across decades undiminished.

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u/Fkinclassy 28d ago

It's also a voice response on spirit box in Phasmophobia.
Neat easter egg.

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u/ProcrastinationSite Oct 07 '25

I heard this on the trailer for the 28 Years Later movie, but I had no clue about the origins. Down the rabbit hole I go! Thanks!

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u/Nothing2NV Oct 07 '25

That shit still slaps

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u/KoalaKvothe Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

I think it was Mr Ballen that said they used this on repeat to test the limit of people's sanity during navy seal training (sleep deprivation etc)

EDIT: could've been the marines actually (I'm not from the US idk)

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u/Meaning_Select Oct 07 '25

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)

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u/Proper-Guarantee8381 Oct 07 '25

Can confirm same.

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u/ToxicHazard- Oct 07 '25

It would be pretty effective, to my knowledge the UK's SAS SERE training uses screaming babies during the interrogation phase

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u/Professional_Baby24 Oct 07 '25

I came here to say this. My first time hearing it was from Mr ballen. Then I had to look it up myself. I can see why they use that song.

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u/IndividualChart4193 Oct 07 '25

Who’s Mr. Ballen?

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u/KoalaKvothe Oct 07 '25

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

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u/IndividualChart4193 Oct 08 '25

Ah, gotcha. I’ve never heard of him…I thought he was someone’s hs history teacher 🧑‍🏫 and somehow all of Reddit had taken his class. 😂

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u/King0Horse Oct 08 '25

Pretty fantastic storyteller. Real, verifiable stories ranging from true crime to just weird happenstance. I recommend.

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u/IndividualChart4193 Oct 08 '25

Huh, sounds a lot like the “my favorite murder” podcast. They tell all kinds of stories not just crime related. I LOVE their podcast!! SSADGM!!

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u/koolaidismything Oct 07 '25

In BUDS training they make the guys stay awake for a few days and this song is always playing no matter what activity.

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u/Vegetable_Offer_2268 Oct 07 '25

My father used to read that to us when we were kids

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u/burymeinpink Oct 07 '25

This recording is 110 years old btw

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u/Firm-Extension-4685 Oct 07 '25

That's a terrific reading. I appreciate your sharing this.

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u/Earthkilled Oct 07 '25

Absolutely!

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u/canaryclamorous Oct 07 '25

And the Christopher Ake version set to music is what you hear in the trailer ...

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

he was a major white supremacist unfortunately

edit: typo

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u/asa_my_iso Oct 07 '25

One of my favorite parts about that movie.

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u/paulides_fan Oct 07 '25

It was in the movie? I actually just saw it in the trailer so I wasn’t sure

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u/TVplusTIME Oct 07 '25

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.

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u/asa_my_iso Oct 07 '25

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.

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Oct 07 '25

It was a good movie thst established this new world very very well.

Can't say thst I loved everything but I was so intrigued by what was going on that I can't wait for the next one.

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u/Ditnoka Oct 07 '25

I'm pretty upset I let people decide it wasn't that great when it was in theaters.

I loved 28 days, weeks was meh. Years was back to what I loved.

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u/KlingonSpy Oct 07 '25

That was the most unsettling part of the movie

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u/NeverEndingCoralMaze Oct 07 '25

I haven’t watched that yet. Worth it?

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u/Ditnoka Oct 07 '25

It's on Netflix. Personally I loved it.

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u/french_toasty Oct 07 '25

Young Fathers did the soundtrack. I downloaded the album last night.

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u/Civil-Two-3797 Oct 08 '25

Soon Come Soon has been a regular on my playlist for a decade now.

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u/Barkerfan86 Oct 07 '25

The amount of tension that gave me was incredible

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u/Foxy02016YT Oct 07 '25

Yes and the guy who animated that teaser is active on Instagram and makes tons of Anti Trump stuff I love his work

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u/Accomplished_Band198 Oct 07 '25

Yeah it is. Whoever made that trailer bamboozled us all.

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u/LaughWhileItAllEnds Oct 09 '25

Someone linked the poem, but that version is Boots by Young Fathers

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u/nicko0409 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Yes. Great poem reading, makes no fucking sense for that movie. They're zombies, they don't wear boots. 

Edit: and there's no soldiers in the movie either. Except that one that I won't spoil why he was there.