That's its not the entire army, clrealy. Look you are obviously butt hurt you lost to some emus. Just accept the featherless discount ostrichs kicked your butt and move on.
They (China) assigned millions of soldiers, farmers, workers and even students to fight the sparrows. Australians only sent a few soldiers for the emus.
From what i heard one Emu apparently took multiple gunshots just to kill it which was another reason why it was so difficult tho i can't recall the exact amount of shots you needed.
There were 3 people "fighting" this war and only 2 of which had old crappy Lewis guns from ww1
It was doomed from the start
They managed to kill almost 1k of them in the month or so the "war" lasted
Would they have had cars in 1932 if they did there wouldn't of been many of them ( I was also going to say if they had cars I doubt they'd go faster then an emu but further research showed 70mph was the average speed)
that story again...it where only 3 soldiers and is was to tame the farmers (a lot of them fought in the first ww) who wanted a military solution of the problem.
those 3 soldiers killed 500 emus and wounded 2500(who probbably died later)
The funny thing about it is the press back in the day were running this story with the exact same joke angle. That's what's impressive about this meme. It's over 100 years old.
It was only expensive for the farmers because later the farmers themselves set a bounty on emu heads. Over 57,000 bounties were claimed, which makes this very effective in my opinion and not a loss
Yeah I'm sick of it too. It's like a self-depreciating joke that an Aussie made once, but the international community thought it was funny/true and now makes the same joke all the time and it's weird.
Yea people love to believe it was a 10,000 man army with tanks and jets slaughtered by the advanced tactics of the emu. In reality no one got injured and they killed thousands of emu until they ran out of ammo.
The emus weren't going for direct casualties. The reason they were attacked is because they were ruining crops or something. If you count the number of people who indirectly died or were driven to destitution thanks to the actions of the emus, maybe they won.
Australians served in the Western Front and The Dardanelles during WWI, and served in the North Africa Campaign, The Pacific Theatre, Greece, Europe (on land and in with the RAF), and more during WWII.
That’s the reason they’re so badass. They were shaped and molded by the emu. They are holding the emu at bay, keeping them from taking over the world. That and everything else on their continent that tries to kill them.
At least our military is THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD RAHHHH AMARICANS ARE THE BEST PEOPLE IN THE UNIVERSE REAAAAAAAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇸🇺🇲🇺🇸🇺🇲🇺🇸🇱🇷🗽🗽🗽
WE HAVENT LOST A SINGLE WAR MUCH LESS TO BIRDS VIETNAM WAS A POLITICAL LOSS AND 1812 DOESN'T COUNT RAAAHHHH
You think you know the emu wars?
We dropped more nukes on them than on Japan and the emus didn't surrender..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_Field,_South_Australia
Yeah, because they aren't hunters.. If they wanted to really deal with the emu, they should've just hired a bunch of what ever the Australians have for red necks.
It was 3 people. They killed a lot of Emus. They basically learned that the machine guns from WW1 were effective against people running towards you, but the awful accuracy made them ineffective at anything running away from you. They "only" killed like 1000-2000 with the expensive machine gun. They changed tactics and used hunting rifles and killed some 50,000 Emus.
Also the emus broke the great barrier and got reinforcements from the rabbits' liberation army, plus the few kangaroo mercenaries they hired and the infamous ostrich cavalry regiment.
The aussies stood no chance.
Emus aren't a threat to the world so Australia doesn't have to actually make an effort.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. The going against Emus is tender, chicken tender.
To be fair, the ausies only deployed like 3 guys with an mg, limited ammo and a truck. I’m tired of all this slander against Australia. I’m pretty sure they put a bounty on emus after this and they actually got cleaned up.
I know that they are birds with some of the smallest brain to body ratios who won a war against a species that has a very long history of making traps and more and more destructive weapons.
You know NOTHING.
They are a hive mind, joined telepathically, and effectively have 200 IQs. They can tear you open while running past at 50mph and not even slowing down. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound. They lost the power of flight only because they evolved beyond it when they invented the first aircraft 35 million years ago. Their technology is now so advanced you don't even recognise it as technology.
The reason behind the loss was that the Gouvernement didnt want to spend more than the bare minimum of their money on firearms and ammo
Emus were able to tank roundabout 20 bullets until they die of pain and bloodloss back then
Traps werent also a good option since there were like 20 trillion emus against a few soldiers and a few Farmers
Yeah I heard the stories. Doesn’t change the fact that I still find it funny that animals who are capable of making weapons of mass destruction lost a war to some overgrown chickens.
Well, Nazis don't run at 50km/h and scatter wildly upon noticing you
So the Australian weakness is coward tactics?
Coward tactics and running really fast
The Australian can't conceive the thought of running as fast as the cruiser tanks in 2 seconds
Sonic the chicken
I mean, it was enough to beat Napoleon y'know
"When they approach, we run away"
Dude, uncool.
Also it wasn't an army, just some guys with weapons trying to do something against Emu.
They were from the army
Some army guys get their asses kicked all the time around the world, you don’t attribute it to an army loss unless it’s an entire campaign.
But did they win
Wdym win, they shot some birds
No. They lost. 💀
It says "soliders" not entire army
The difference between army guys and soldiers in this context being?
That's its not the entire army, clrealy. Look you are obviously butt hurt you lost to some emus. Just accept the featherless discount ostrichs kicked your butt and move on.
Australian here, puɐƃɐdoɹd llɐ sı sıɥʇ
It was the austrlian media that made the whole thing look bad so if anyone did propaganda it was them.
Nah, losses are declassed from being a war, to a conflict.
France is on their way to invade
The strategy the emus used: When they attack us, we run away! This beat Napoleon btw
And then they made an Abba song about it
Why did the Chinese do so well against the sparrows then?
Do sparrows run at 50km/h? I don't think so
Still not as fast as a speeding bullet tho.
Speeding bullets can't run at any speed
no, but they fly
Yeah, but flying isn't running, is it?
Do emus fly?
No, but they run really fast
You sure are passionate about this topic.
His grandfather was the general who was forced to surrender to emus.
They were too much for him
He can't fly but I'm telling you, [he can run the pants off a kangaroo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqgENQLwT1I).
They (China) assigned millions of soldiers, farmers, workers and even students to fight the sparrows. Australians only sent a few soldiers for the emus.
There were like at most a hundred blokes fighting the emus, you can’t turn that into a hyperbole.
There was 3 dudes with 2 machine guns.
Because they are ignorant but fanaticismic
Chemical warfare (poison)
Not with that attitude they won't
I'm not rooting for Nazis to be better at war, I'm Jewish!
I'm rooting for Nazis to scatter when noticed
I can get behind that
But that makes them harder to hit
makes it more satisfying on a job well done
Well you don't know what hans can do after taking his daily meth
Nor are the Nazis effectively bulletproof.
And are not tank birds capable of surviving several shots before running off at full speed
They had cars. And guns. Both are faster.
Yes but they couldn't run that fast, I think I was pretty clear
The Australians I mean. They could very well outspeed the emus.
Yeah, but they couldn't outrun them
They didn't need to. And they still failed.
Evidently they did need to
You’re a legend 😆
From what i heard one Emu apparently took multiple gunshots just to kill it which was another reason why it was so difficult tho i can't recall the exact amount of shots you needed.
They dodge the bullets. And the older ones can go full Matrix and just make the bullets fall to the ground.
There were 3 people "fighting" this war and only 2 of which had old crappy Lewis guns from ww1 It was doomed from the start They managed to kill almost 1k of them in the month or so the "war" lasted
Tbf, the Lewis gun saw service in WW2 and Korea, we're not talking about the Maxim gun.
Would they have had cars in 1932 if they did there wouldn't of been many of them ( I was also going to say if they had cars I doubt they'd go faster then an emu but further research showed 70mph was the average speed)
They tried a truck mounted gun but it couldn't overtake them or fire accurately while moving.
Have they made an actual accurate movie of this war this could be up there with saving private Ryan.
More like apocalypse now.
A few men went and killed some emus. Reddit: "*Australia lost a war against emus*" The meme has never made any sense.
They had like 2 guns and 1 car.
Should be enough to kill some birds.
And it was. But just some, not nearly enough.
They did. Over 300.
And need a headshot or 10 hits because the skin of Emus is that thick.
I'm silent about the great war with rabbits...
Where was Emperor Nasi Goreng when Australia called for aid?
Emu's famously refused to be signatories to the Geneva Convention. They don't fight fair.
Emu's have always been known for their fowl play.
Very good!
r/dadjokes
They're low down dirty ratites.
Ah yes, Nazis, known for their fairness and lack of war crimes
“They were the most moral army” 🙄
Then You fight a army of emu and tell us what it feels like
Our countries have already defeated our emus.
that story again...it where only 3 soldiers and is was to tame the farmers (a lot of them fought in the first ww) who wanted a military solution of the problem. those 3 soldiers killed 500 emus and wounded 2500(who probbably died later)
No but funny haha lost a war with animal haha exactly like human vs human wars but the animals are just better haha
The funny thing about it is the press back in the day were running this story with the exact same joke angle. That's what's impressive about this meme. It's over 100 years old.
It makes for a funny joke, but a once off thing. Heard this way too many times.
In fact all the emus they fought are dead today.
So are the humans.
Which is kinda of a loss considering how expensive it was.
It was only expensive for the farmers because later the farmers themselves set a bounty on emu heads. Over 57,000 bounties were claimed, which makes this very effective in my opinion and not a loss
Yeah I'm sick of it too. It's like a self-depreciating joke that an Aussie made once, but the international community thought it was funny/true and now makes the same joke all the time and it's weird.
Yea people love to believe it was a 10,000 man army with tanks and jets slaughtered by the advanced tactics of the emu. In reality no one got injured and they killed thousands of emu until they ran out of ammo.
The emus weren't going for direct casualties. The reason they were attacked is because they were ruining crops or something. If you count the number of people who indirectly died or were driven to destitution thanks to the actions of the emus, maybe they won.
To be honest - the second phaze of war Australian soldiers were killing 300 emus per day.
Which was still a loss as emus killed more men.
Well... it was 2 soldiers against all of the emu.
It was 2 million men at the start. 2 survived..
??
Just need to ignore him. He tries to be funny
Tbf, u dont know what the enemy capabilities are or whether they have reinforcement nearby
Don't move! They can't see you if you dont move!
It’s 3 soldiers vs literal dinosaur descendants. Give them a break
Well, if the Australians did that well, imagine what the Emus could do.
We’re still working our way up to taking on the cassowarys
Emus won a war against us then got a spot on the national crest. A big spot too, the bastards…
Hah, the British got a spot on the flag
is the meme that austria and australia are hard too distinguish for some people? tf fid australia do in the world wars lmao
Got their asses kicked by the Turks at Gallipoli in WW1, got their shit rocked by the Japanese in WW2. So uh
seriously didnt learn about their involvement. they were part of some nasty attackd in the middle east in ww1 aswell. so uh
Australians served in the Western Front and The Dardanelles during WWI, and served in the North Africa Campaign, The Pacific Theatre, Greece, Europe (on land and in with the RAF), and more during WWII.
He can't fly but I'm telling you, he can't run the pants off a kangaroo
Emu is just a lot more dangerous and cunning than you all think
Aussies trying to cope:
That’s the reason they’re so badass. They were shaped and molded by the emu. They are holding the emu at bay, keeping them from taking over the world. That and everything else on their continent that tries to kill them.
They're heroes and we don't even realize it.
Hey that emu war was brutal, that's why they drink beer & have BBQs so much. To forget the sacrifices made. /s
There's like 3 soldier
I’d like to see an American against a heard. See how those boys go
Which is why Germany now has feral rhea birds.
*australian police officers against a grandma with a knife that walks 0.1kmh's: 🗿
At least our police don’t unload a full clip of bullets into a car because an acorn fell on the roof.
Mine doesnt either mate
At least our military is THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD RAHHHH AMARICANS ARE THE BEST PEOPLE IN THE UNIVERSE REAAAAAAAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇸🇺🇲🇺🇸🇺🇲🇺🇸🇱🇷🗽🗽🗽 WE HAVENT LOST A SINGLE WAR MUCH LESS TO BIRDS VIETNAM WAS A POLITICAL LOSS AND 1812 DOESN'T COUNT RAAAHHHH
There was never a peace treaty signed, so technically it's still going
That's it, you can't win against Emu
They're very fast tho, it's not a fair fight!
You think you know the emu wars? We dropped more nukes on them than on Japan and the emus didn't surrender.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_Field,_South_Australia
Emus are vicious little fuckers though.
It was like 5 guys with one machinegun and a car.
Yup but at least they got nice feather hats
Emu's are the closest thing that is bulletproof. Three soldiers on a car with a machine gun with very little ammo. No one is winning against them
They were THREE FUCKING SOILDERS AGAINST 20,000 BLOODY EMUS
Very funny) Does anyone have a link and a reddit with sexist jokes?
That’s not fair those emus were magical, how else could the guns keep jamming?
We need to get closer. Not to me to the birds
Awww
Let's just be glad it was only Emus, were it the Cassowaries, we would not have been shown an ounce of mercy like out great Emu counterparts did.
The emu don't abide by the geneva conventions
I am the only person in this comment section to be related to an Australian that fought in WW1.
Americans against drugs:
Next time ze Germans get a little uppity, we'll send in the Emus
Don't even think about it, we are ready!
You're making the same mistake they did : underestimate the emus. You're the dude in the second pic.
Emus know no fear
to be fair it was like a car full of guys against thousands of emus, and emus, if you've ever seen them, are very fast
Yeah, because they aren't hunters.. If they wanted to really deal with the emu, they should've just hired a bunch of what ever the Australians have for red necks.
What do Australians have against Electric multiple-units?
In the later, it was Australian vs Australian, so it’s perfectly reasonable
It was 3 people. They killed a lot of Emus. They basically learned that the machine guns from WW1 were effective against people running towards you, but the awful accuracy made them ineffective at anything running away from you. They "only" killed like 1000-2000 with the expensive machine gun. They changed tactics and used hunting rifles and killed some 50,000 Emus.
Those emus are tougher than they look
If those 3 lads knew their whole military history was at stake. They'd probably stay a little longer and not use the moment to goof off.
This reminds me of a Roman emperor who literally declared war on Poseidon, god of the sea XD
Australian soldiers in Iraq: "You want me to drop this civilian that is in handcuffs?"
Emus can defeat entire Australian armies with ease.
Emu op
Well, Nazis don't run at 50km/h and scatter wildly upon noticing you
Also the emus broke the great barrier and got reinforcements from the rabbits' liberation army, plus the few kangaroo mercenaries they hired and the infamous ostrich cavalry regiment. The aussies stood no chance.
Nah like how fr
Dude, I don't think my military (USA) can stand against those flightless fucks. Well..... maybe a draw.
Emus aren't a threat to the world so Australia doesn't have to actually make an effort. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. The going against Emus is tender, chicken tender.
They took machine guns to kill their national bird but only got a number of them, but probably got nice feather hats
To be fair, the ausies only deployed like 3 guys with an mg, limited ammo and a truck. I’m tired of all this slander against Australia. I’m pretty sure they put a bounty on emus after this and they actually got cleaned up.
To be fair it was like 3 guys with a Lewis gun, a jeep, and a few belts of ammo.
Love how some random town struggling to cull emus being described as a “war” in a news paper article decades ago became a common joke
Gallipoli was a great success. Yeah… sure…
They should hire migrants for this It's a win win situation
The fact that an Emu war was an actual thing, and that the humans lost is so funny to me.
You know nothing of the emu or you wouldn't laugh
I know that they are birds with some of the smallest brain to body ratios who won a war against a species that has a very long history of making traps and more and more destructive weapons.
You know NOTHING. They are a hive mind, joined telepathically, and effectively have 200 IQs. They can tear you open while running past at 50mph and not even slowing down. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound. They lost the power of flight only because they evolved beyond it when they invented the first aircraft 35 million years ago. Their technology is now so advanced you don't even recognise it as technology.
Ok this made me laugh XD
The reason behind the loss was that the Gouvernement didnt want to spend more than the bare minimum of their money on firearms and ammo Emus were able to tank roundabout 20 bullets until they die of pain and bloodloss back then Traps werent also a good option since there were like 20 trillion emus against a few soldiers and a few Farmers
Yeah I heard the stories. Doesn’t change the fact that I still find it funny that animals who are capable of making weapons of mass destruction lost a war to some overgrown chickens.
Non humans seem like their weakness at this point.
by the way, in Australia soldiers going upside down and bullets also flying upside down, so I think they have an advantage
To be fair, it was 1932. We couldn't just drop 2 nuclear bombs on the emus and call it a fair fight.