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Posted: 10/26/2014 1:39:38 AM EDT
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Pretty sure it was bullshit, but I could be wrong
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Posted: 10/26/2014 1:42:09 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/26/2014 1:42:53 AM EDT
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Bull, but there are Cobras and rat snakes in that part of the world
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Posted: 10/26/2014 1:43:22 AM EDT
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i have not see any snakes.
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Posted: 10/26/2014 1:44:15 AM EDT
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Never seen any, but man did I see some weird looking bugs
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Posted: 10/26/2014 1:52:14 AM EDT
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They should have had the SEALs throw rattlesnakes at the Taliban with closeup shots like the Irish kid getting bit on the face in Lonesome Dove.
All things considered,that wasn't one of the movie's most glaring inaccuracies. |
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Posted: 10/26/2014 1:59:22 AM EDT
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I was in that area six years after Red Wings, and I never saw a snake. Big fucking monitor lizards, spiders, and camel spiders was it.
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Posted: 10/26/2014 2:37:51 AM EDT
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Don't think so. They just sent out a photo of a cobra found on base though.
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Posted: 10/26/2014 3:33:42 AM EDT
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So Hollywood just makes this shit up without doing any research? In the film they mentioned someone getting bit by a rattlesnake and then during the time the SEAL Team was in the hills, they showed a rattlesnake.
ETA: Why would I be surprised?
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Posted: 10/26/2014 10:04:06 AM EDT
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I didn't see the movie, but I read the book. A lot of that didn't pass the smell test, either. Anyone else get that feeling?
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Posted: 10/26/2014 10:24:29 AM EDT
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Movies are always going to sensationalize things.
No matter what the books, what the tech advisers or the people that were there say. They are looking at things from the point of view of the average movie goer. Most of whom couldn't even tell you who the VP of this country is. So I just overlook things like this or what pistol they have and try to enjoy the movie. If I nitpick then I feel I just wasted my money and ruined the experience. |
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Posted: 10/26/2014 10:26:41 AM EDT
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British forces confronted by killer snakes in Afghanistan
Among the species captured at Our Boys and Girls' Kandahar base was a rare diadem that has never before been seen in the wartorn country.
Another find to thrill the experts was a sawscaled viper - one of the deadliest on earth. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/361234/British-forces-confronted-by-killer-snakes-in-Afghanistan Venomous Snakes in AFG http://usaphcapps.amedd.army.mil/HIOShoppingCart/Uploads/DownloadableProds/261_Afghan%20Snake%20Poster.pdf |
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Posted: 10/26/2014 10:30:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
British forces confronted by killer snakes in Afghanistan http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/361234/British-forces-confronted-by-killer-snakes-in-Afghanistan Venomous Snakes in AFG http://usaphcapps.amedd.army.mil/HIOShoppingCart/Uploads/DownloadableProds/261_Afghan%20Snake%20Poster.pdf Quote HistoryQuoted:
British forces confronted by killer snakes in Afghanistan Among the species captured at Our Boys and Girls' Kandahar base was a rare diadem that has never before been seen in the wartorn country.
Another find to thrill the experts was a sawscaled viper - one of the deadliest on earth. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/361234/British-forces-confronted-by-killer-snakes-in-Afghanistan Venomous Snakes in AFG http://usaphcapps.amedd.army.mil/HIOShoppingCart/Uploads/DownloadableProds/261_Afghan%20Snake%20Poster.pdf Sure but finding a rattlesnake in Afghanistan would be like finding a wild penguin in Utah. They simply do not live there. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 10/26/2014 10:35:56 AM EDT
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Sure but finding a rattlesnake in Afghanistan would be like finding a wild penguin in Utah. They simply do not live there. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Pretty sure there is no such thing as a rattler in AFG but there are the world's most dangerous snakes there and they have Zero anti-venom for their bites. |
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Posted: 10/26/2014 10:36:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Sure but finding a rattlesnake in Afghanistan would be like finding a wild penguin in Utah. They simply do not live there. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Quote HistoryQuoted:
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British forces confronted by killer snakes in Afghanistan Among the species captured at Our Boys and Girls' Kandahar base was a rare diadem that has never before been seen in the wartorn country.
Another find to thrill the experts was a sawscaled viper - one of the deadliest on earth. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/361234/British-forces-confronted-by-killer-snakes-in-Afghanistan Venomous Snakes in AFG http://usaphcapps.amedd.army.mil/HIOShoppingCart/Uploads/DownloadableProds/261_Afghan%20Snake%20Poster.pdf Sure but finding a rattlesnake in Afghanistan would be like finding a wild penguin in Utah. They simply do not live there. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile The Sawscaled viper makes a "rattle-snake" like sound when it's threatened. I can see how just saying "rattle snake" for the sake of telling people to be careful is somewhat more economical than saying "a venomous sawcaled viper that makes a sound similar to that of rattle snakes..." I don't see it as a discrepancy in the movie but rather a way that some one would describe a snake with a similar MO as the American rattle snake. |
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Posted: 10/26/2014 10:38:57 AM EDT
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Maybe it was easier to just say rattlesnake than to explain to the audience what a sawscaled viper is?
You say "rattlesnake" and everyone reading/watching gets an immediate image of what you are talking about. Say "sawscaled viper" and they get a vague image of some snake with no relation to size or danger. Not being a smart ass, just something I thought it could be... ETA: Beat... |
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Posted: 10/26/2014 2:55:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I didn't see the movie, but I read the book. A lot of that didn't pass the smell test, either. Anyone else get that feeling? |
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Posted: 10/26/2014 2:57:51 PM EDT
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American audience doesn't know what the hell a viper is, but we know Rattlesnakes.
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Posted: 10/26/2014 2:59:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Maybe it was easier to just say rattlesnake than to explain to the audience what a sawscaled viper is? You say "rattlesnake" and everyone reading/watching gets an immediate image of what you are talking about. Say "sawscaled viper" and they get a vague image of some snake with no relation to size or danger. Not being a smart ass, just something I thought it could be... ETA: Beat... Or you could just call it a snake and leave it at that or never show the thing because it was hardly important. Compared to utter BS like the SEAL pulling a Beretta on an Army aviator it was small potatoes though. |
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Posted: 10/26/2014 3:00:23 PM EDT
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If they had just showed a cobra, they would have been OK.
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