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Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by Rete
(Post 5312979)
I have to say you Brits meet up with the strangest people in the States. I'm 59 years old and no one I know of has talked about WW2 other than my husband and my father and then only because of a movie they were watching.
Wonder if it isn't something that you Brits are saying or projecting about yourselves that make these Americans want to on your nerves like you apparently have gotten on theirs ;-) |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by Triumphrob
(Post 5312249)
Hey Guys
I am getting so fed up with the "If it wasnt for the US you would all be speaking German" brigade at work. I need some comebacks that will make them look like the propergander believing twats they are! Rob by the way, it started in 1939. |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by Rete
(Post 5312979)
I have to say you Brits meet up with the strangest people in the States. I'm 59 years old and no one I know of has talked about WW2 other than my husband and my father and then only because of a movie they were watching.
Wonder if it isn't something that you Brits are saying or projecting about yourselves that make these Americans want to on your nerves like you apparently have gotten on theirs ;-) |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
or piss back on their chips.
The Russians lost more people at Stalingrad than you guys did in the entire war..and they still beat you to Berlin....... The Americans didn't win the war, the Commies did. |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
Remind them that they did not rescue us from an invasion. We went to war to help our allies, we declared war on Germany (not the other way round). In fact Germany initially wanted England to be their allies.
Russia sacrificed far more lives to end the war than either England or the USA ever did. Many Americans seem to forget that they were invaded during WW2 in the battle of the Aleutian Islands. Alaska was a US Territory (statehood was granted in 1959). The battle marked the only time since the war of 1812 that a US territory in North America has been occupied by a foreign power. With the help of the Canadians they got it back a year later. |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
Ask them how the Battle of Los Angeles played out :ohmy: -
Initially the target of the barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but it was later suggested to be a lost weather balloon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...a_air_raid.gif |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
Do people talk to you in general? :eek:
Originally Posted by Rete
(Post 5312979)
I have to say you Brits meet up with the strangest people in the States. I'm 59 years old and no one I know of has talked about WW2 other than my husband and my father and then only because of a movie they were watching.
Wonder if it isn't something that you Brits are saying or projecting about yourselves that make these Americans want to on your nerves like you apparently have gotten on theirs ;-) |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by Pony
(Post 5313075)
Do people talk to you in general? :eek:
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by Pony
(Post 5313075)
Do people talk to you in general? :eek:
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by elfman
(Post 5312823)
Those SEVEN American pilots who took part in the battle of Britain must have been pretty special.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/roll.html |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by Triumphrob
(Post 5312617)
Let me turn this back to mt original question. I need some smart one liners to get them to shut up.....
Come on, were meant to be the witty Brits :o Rob |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
(Post 5313095)
Admit defeat...your thread's already been hijacked. :lol:
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by Pony
(Post 5313112)
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by Pony
(Post 5313112)
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hddjDyYdI0 |
Re: Help wanted WW2!
Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts
(Post 5313085)
Actually, yes. There was more to the battle of Britain than just the roll call. Over the course of 3 months or so, a few can contribute more than you might expect especially when you consider how the skies were patrolled and how many of the dead were kids on their first real flight. I forget but I believe that there were a few more than 7 but they were listed on the official roll with other citizenships because of the neutrality laws. I hear that there is a movie about one of the American pilots it coming out next year but it is pretty factually incorrect so yet another thing to piss people off and mask what really happened.
Edit: wikipedia seems to suggest that the figure of seven includes those who lied about their nationality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Bri...s_contribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fiske |
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