Defend the Indefensible: James Blunt

http://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/28536211731648512

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Singer James Blunt 'prevented World War III'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050

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Singer James Blunt has told the BBC how he refused an order to attack Russian troops when he was a British soldier in Kosovo. Blunt said he was willing to risk a court martial by rejecting the order from a US General.

But he was backed by British Gen Sir Mike Jackson, who said: "I'm not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III."

Blunt was ordered to seize an airfield, but the Russians had got there first.

In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, broadcast on Sunday, he said: "I was given the direct command to overpower the 200 or so Russians who were there.

"I was the lead officer with my troop of men behind us...

"The soldiers directly behind me were from the Parachute Regiment, so they're obviously game for the fight.

"The direct command [that] came in from Gen Wesley Clark was to overpower them. Various words were used that seemed unusual to us. Words such as 'destroy' came down the radio."

That's an old story

So it is. Apols.

So, why is it in the "Top 20 news stories of Today" ?

Yeah, I wondered that myself. Something to do with Syria or, more horrifically, he has a new album coming out?

i bet its in Top 20 news stories of Today because people keep visiting it esp after its posted on messageboards and that

He has got a new album coming out, can't Obama do something about that too?

This is weird tho, from Wikipedia:

Blunt has just finished[58] recording his fourth studio album, entitled Moon Landing, as revealed by the singer in an email to fans.[59] It was released in October 2013 and featured production from Back to Bedlam producer Tom Rothrock. The lead single, "Bonfire Heart", was released on 7 October 2013.[60]

we don't think about this enough but at this point wikipedia literally knows everything about everything, obv including the future

Oh, it doesn't matter what I'm loking for, it just knows.

e.g. I was looking for "Clinic"

top google search gives me "Clinic (group)" yep, that's the exact Clinic I wanted.

ymmv, obv.

Strange - it's actually an old story with an old date. I'd assumed it was being trotted out as a new story to coincide with a new album. Still, if true, I can't really begrudge him his music making anymore.

https://twitter.com/JamesBlunt/status/753618984659025920

@JamesBlunt
If you thought 2016 was bad - I'm releasing an album in 2017.
https://twitter.com/JamesBlunt/status/808599054989070336

He really is terrible.

A public service announcement:

During lockdown, while many other artists are doing mini-concerts from their homes, I thought I’d do you all a favour and not.

— James Blunt (@JamesBlunt) March 25, 2020

When you laugh about people thinking you're shit to show what a good sport you are, but you're still shit

Just overheard this song at the supermarket after years of not thinking about it, but this year has turned to dogshit so yeah why not?

Anyways... is the false start with “my life is brilliant” an accident? I had never noticed it before but it seems like he starts singing it by accident, stops and then starts again and I don’t understand why they didn’t edit that part out.

why didn't they edit the entire song out

Forget it I just checked the wikipedia article and it’s in fact an accident left on the album but not on the radio version guess that’s why I didn’t notice it before.

Apparently Weird Al even references it in his parody.

Male Adult Contemporary Artist Is Amusingly Self-Aware On Social Media

^ richard marx has been similar on twitter occasionally iirc, there may also be others i'm not remembering atm

Ah, of course.

James Blunt developed scurvy after adopting an all-meat diet to assert his masculinity https://t.co/n6m9dNwSqc pic.twitter.com/zarV44uH9v

— Jezebel (@Jezebel) August 20, 2020

Not a fan of this guy's music, but I love his sense of self irony.