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(, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 21:42, archived)
It's a wonder we don't go to mental institutionsto get solutions to problems.
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xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c.,
Thu 8 Jan 2009, 21:46,
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The Lusitania was recently found by divers to be carrying a very large cargo of munitionssent from America to fight Germany with. Which makes it a valid target according to whichever rule book of war everyone was following then.
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HappyToast Groat froth,
Thu 8 Jan 2009, 21:47,
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so, does that mean we have to make Germany winners of the war?
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the RAND corporation a.k.a. Kevin Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,
Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:08,
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Archduke Ferdinandwould have fathered Hitler (despite Hitler already being alive when Archduke Ferdinand was shot) and that's why the CIA had to send Jean Claude Van Damme back in time to track him down and engage him in deadly combat.
Coming to cinemas in Summer 2009.
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Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:24,
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Coming to cinemas in Summer 2009.
I'm down with your logicThe Belgrano, for instance, was also a heavily armed cruiser capable of sinking our aircraft carriers from 13 miles away - not a troop transport ship (she just happened to have troops on her as well). About here is where you have stopped reading this post. It's these sorts of things that people need to know to have proper context.
There is an argument that, if one were cynical enough to believe it, suggests that the Lusitania was not only a legitimate target, but that she was deliberately presented on a plate for the Germans in order to give the USA an excuse to enter the war.
The same has also been said about the Belgrano - that it was laid out for us to sink and thus be used as a public relations tool for Argentina to get sympathy from the international community. It has been remarked that, as the Belgrano was escorted by two type-42 anti-submarine destroyers (the crews for which had been trained by the Royal Navy before the war), then HMS Conqueror should not have been able to close with her so easily.
I'm not saying I neccessarily hold to this argument in either case, but there is a certain logic there. War is a complicated business.
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Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:13,
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There is an argument that, if one were cynical enough to believe it, suggests that the Lusitania was not only a legitimate target, but that she was deliberately presented on a plate for the Germans in order to give the USA an excuse to enter the war.
The same has also been said about the Belgrano - that it was laid out for us to sink and thus be used as a public relations tool for Argentina to get sympathy from the international community. It has been remarked that, as the Belgrano was escorted by two type-42 anti-submarine destroyers (the crews for which had been trained by the Royal Navy before the war), then HMS Conqueror should not have been able to close with her so easily.
I'm not saying I neccessarily hold to this argument in either case, but there is a certain logic there. War is a complicated business.
I'm afraid I am cynical enough to believe it,as well as the attack on Pearl Harbor being known in advance
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M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!,
Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:28,
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The Japanese attacked the Russians at Port Arthur in a simillar mannerand the Americans thought it was great. Japanese students at Harvard University were invited, in the wake of the attack on Port Arthur, to give speeches on the inherent virtues of Japenese manhood, and Japanese culture was celebrated throughout the USA for months afterwards. It was, in short, a very popular move at the time.
They don't like it when the shoe's on the other foot, mind.
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Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:39,
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They don't like it when the shoe's on the other foot, mind.
nope, then it's internment camps andgruel for tea
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Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:46,
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My grandad was employed as a chef on the Lusitaniabut he got blind drunk and missed the sailing. Good job really else I wouldn't be here!
(the merits or otherwise of this are of course debatable)
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Ptolemy the man with the silent pea,
Thu 8 Jan 2009, 21:48,
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quite soI'm sure lots of folk have stories like that
I wouldn't exist if it wasn't for a Ghurka saving my grandfather's life in ww1
(I wouldn't exist if it wasn't for a Ghurka saving my grandfather's life in ww1
discomeats This canoe,
Thu 8 Jan 2009, 21:57,
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and also the japanese not being effective enough in burma in ww2 I guess too:)
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Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:03,
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wow, well, here's to oversleeping! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!,
Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:00,
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Crap!Forgot to enter as image challenge. Any way to correct that flub-up?
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Thu 8 Jan 2009, 21:51,
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Edit - select from the drop down - profit M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!,
Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:01,
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Has nobody remembered that the Titanic sank 3 years before the Luisitania?Just checking, and good effort!
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setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred,
Thu 8 Jan 2009, 22:18,
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