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[schwarzpanzer]

I understand them fine and they me.

They all seem to be slight Anglophiles though...

What questions? I'm confused is it like "Can't you Limeys live without tea?" etc?


BTW: No, I can't!

 

[plan_D]

They understand the general language but more obscure words, and slang they cannot understand for obvious reasons. And no, the questions about British stereotypes rarely pop-up and are always a joke.

The questions are normally about things in Britain. Things that people from Britain take as normal but are not in America. Like the raised up concrete bumps on the paths either side of the crossing to tell blind people they've crossed the road. All my American friends ask about them.

It's interesting to see Britain from their point of view. All my American friends love Britain and love the British. And I like Americans - all anti-American, and anti-British sentiment in anyone from either nation is bull. We're the two greatest allies in history and always will be. But you'll always have those idiots that go on about Britain's Empire being evil and then British ones going on about America ruining the world ...


Even if they are loud mouth yank bastards! Yeah, you come to the war late and say you won it!

 

[trackend]

Schwarzpanzer made a good point when he mentioned Pre fabs.
When I worked in the smoke the local residents in Maryland who still lived in pre fabs got into a right old two eight when they got told it was time to be rehoused some had been in them for 40 years and loved em,
especially after living in poxy 2 up 2 down slum housing.

 

[plan_D]

They may not be loud, expensive or make a big bang but they're all for the war effort. A lot of people forget the equipment and men "behind the scenes" in war.

 

[102first_hussars]

They understand the general language but more obscure words, and slang they cannot understand for obvious reasons. And no, the questions about British stereotypes rarely pop-up and are always a joke.

The questions are normally about things in Britain. Things that people from Britain take as normal but are not in America. Like the raised up concrete bumps on the paths either side of the crossing to tell blind people they've crossed the road. All my American friends ask about them.

It's interesting to see Britain from their point of view. All my American friends love Britain and love the British. And I like Americans - all anti-American, and anti-British sentiment in anyone from either nation is bull. We're the two greatest allies in history and always will be. But you'll always have those idiots that go on about Britain's Empire being evil and then British ones going on about America ruining the world ...


Even if they are loud mouth yank bastards! Yeah, you come to the war late and say you won it!

For some reason it pisses most Canadians off when Americans call Chocolate Bars-Candy Bars and Pop-Soda, and how they pronounce the letter Z-Zee instead of Zed, really weird it has always naturaly irritated me and people I know

 

[Nonskimmer]

Does it really piss you off? I've never really minded it.
Only when they try to correct me, telling me that I'm saying it wrong. That irks me a bit.

They're clearly the ones who say those things the wrong way.

Then again, can you imagine calling ZZ-Top "Zed, Zed-Top"?

 

[102first_hussars]

You mean you dont call it that?

No it doesnt piss me off persay

 

[Erich]

ZZ-top = the boyz

geez come to the states if you want to hear atmospheric accents

for my halloween buddies, stay warm tonight, arg here comes the little cretins right now

 

[book1182]

1. LST's; couldn't have won the war with out them.
2. Jeep; they are just fun to drive!!!
3. England; the island was made into one big aircraft carrier.
4. T-34; a tank that was a even match if not better than a German tank.
5. MG42; early version of the M-60???
6. Parachutes; saved thousands of airmen lives.
7. Panzer IV; what I think was the first real tank.
8. Rommel; one tough general in the desert.
9. Missouri Battleship; the last of the big guns.
10. U-boat; almost won the war for Germany.

These are mine and I would like to add a lot more.

 

[102first_hussars]

I see what you meen but about number 5, the M-60 has alot of the same features as the MG-42, when I think of the MG42 I think of it as the early version of the FN Mag.

 

[102first_hussars]

Here's my list...

1) The war-built USN Battleships (i.e "North Carolina" onwards)

2) Escort Carriers

3) Churchill tank

4)MG42

5)ASDIC (sonar)

6)U-boats

7)Stg.44 (daddy of all modern infantry assault weapons)

8)Panzerfaust/Panzershreck (daddy of all infantry anti-armour weapons)

9)Guderian (first guy to put the theory of mechanized warfare into practice)

10)The Paras - who else would not only get to Arnhem, but take the objectives then fight off two SS panzer divisions until they simply ran out of people and ammo?!

For #1 you mike like this http://www.StupidVideos.com/?VideoID=1237

and for #10 with all due respect to the Paratroopers they did fail in Arnhem, and a few months after the failure, the canadian army would end up liberating Holland.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that's not all the paras did though...........

 

[trackend]

and a few months after the failure, the canadian army would end up liberating Holland.

Ill tell my old man that 102 he must have dream't being at the Walchrans
in Middleburg with the Poles, no 4 Commando and the Canadians and in the Waal area. Although the largest contingent was Canadian the British Poles had troops involved as well.

 

[plan_D]

And it must be remembered that while Operation Market Garden was a failure, the actual objective list was 90% complete. Meaning, from Eindhoven to Nijmegan the American 101st and 82nd Airborne, along with British XXX Corps had occupied which is all part of Holland.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

They understand the general language but more obscure words, and slang they cannot understand for obvious reasons. And no, the questions about British stereotypes rarely pop-up and are always a joke.

The questions are normally about things in Britain. Things that people from Britain take as normal but are not in America. Like the raised up concrete bumps on the paths either side of the crossing to tell blind people they've crossed the road. All my American friends ask about them.

It's interesting to see Britain from their point of view. All my American friends love Britain and love the British. And I like Americans - all anti-American, and anti-British sentiment in anyone from either nation is bull. We're the two greatest allies in history and always will be. But you'll always have those idiots that go on about Britain's Empire being evil and then British ones going on about America ruining the world ...


Even if they are loud mouth yank bastards! Yeah, you come to the war late and say you won it!

For some reason it pisses most Canadians off when Americans call Chocolate Bars-Candy Bars and Pop-Soda, and how they pronounce the letter Z-Zee instead of Zed, really weird it has always naturaly irritated me and people I know

Does it piss you off when Japanese speak Japanese? Jesus the US speaks a different english than you, who cares. If thats what pisses you guys off up there then you have real problems. Its just like here in Germany, the German that the Bavarians speak is different than the German that Schwabians speak.

 

[trackend]

I like the different forms of English. shit even 250 miles from me if I meet a Gordie from Newcastle I have trouble understanding half of what they say.
Sometime its fun, a US friend of ours thinks discribing something as being a bit of tat or tatty is really weird.

I say lord luv a duck .If you want to call a crisp a chip and we want to call chip a crisp big deal if we where all the same it would be a right bleeding dull old state of affairs, straight up.
So stick that in yer chuff nuts and smoke it.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I agree with you trackened, I really do.

 

[trackend]

Aww Your just saying that Adler cos your promo came through today and alls well in the Adler household

 

[evangilder]

Well, I also agree there, Lee. You have quite a way with words.

 

[trackend]

And I agree with both you Eric, and Adler but I agree more with Adler that I do with you Eric as Adler was the first agree-ee where as if you had agreed before Adler I would have agreed more with you than Adler as you would be the first agree-ee despite Adler having been promoted today his agreement would have been demoted to only a second class agreement as he would be agreeing with you instead of you agreeing with him that said as I was the last to agree both yourself and Adler have improved in the agreement stakes thus requiring me to retract my agreement in order to disagree and restore the agreement equilibrium.

Right now all that agreeing is done with perhaps we can get back to some sensible arguing "SEND FOR LES"