jawajames posted:i'm gonna write up some mandalorian valentines for next february!
Eyrezer posted:It is 'Lord' Brakiss's thoughts on seeing the Emperor's guards. Doesn't make much sense to me, but hey, it's a reference.
KarenTraviss posted:Well, I might not give you the exact translation, and then if you use the line on some badass Mando gal and she gets the wrong idea, don't blame me if you end up chewing on a virbroblade...
Quiet_Mandalorian posted: Oh, no wait, I forgot. What rhymes with "flechette"?
Quiet_Mandalorian posted: Oh, no wait, I forgot. What rhymes with "flechette"? Sounds as though you know one. Would you mind introducing me to her?
CeiranHarmony posted:Maybe she meant herself?
KarenTraviss posted:A friend pointed out to me that one reason why I have embraced the Mandalorians with such enthusiasm might be because I come from Portsmouth, where Mando behaviour would pass unnoticed as normal Pompey culture. We don't speak the same English as the rest of the UK. We're ferociously militaristic - we're a naval city (and an army garrison city until very recently) and we're proud of it. You don't spill our beer. Okay? We're an island city, very insular in every sense and very, very tribal.
KarenTraviss posted:I've certainly found the Mando mindset very easy to construct and it feels perfectly reasonable to me. And that might worry some people, but what the hell - they're all targets anyway.
Quiet_Mandalorian posted:I'm from Alberta, a province that the rest of Canada seems to regard as being inhabited by gun-wielding savages, and which, incidentally, posseses the very last garrison city in the country. Albertans are generally thought of as being too backward and aggressive to fit in with this new, "more civilized age" our Eastern compatriots seem hell-bent on erecting, and to be frank, we don't really care.
jawajames posted: Don't buy used British submarines! They're a fire hazard!
KarenTraviss posted:Yes, that was awful. Canada's had problems with all the ex-Upholder class boats, and I'm embarrassed by that. I went over Upholder when she was new in service and even then the MoD was trying to offload them to the RCN. I remember cornering the Defence Secretary about it on a visit and getting the usual "can neither confirm nor deny" garbage.
Quiet_Mandalorian posted: At least we have CADPAT.
KarenTraviss posted:jawajames posted: Don't buy used British submarines! They're a fire hazard! Yes, that was awful. Canada's had problems with all the ex-Upholder class boats, and I'm embarrassed by that. I went over Upholder when she was new in service and even then the MoD was trying to offload them to the RCN. I remember cornering the Defence Secretary about it on a visit and getting the usual "can neither confirm nor deny" garbage.