102first_hussars
Tech Sergeant
trackend said:
Yes I forgot to mention that there was a handful of Brits involved didnt know there was poles there.
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trackend said:102first_hussars said: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.
DerAdlerIstGelandet said:102first_hussars said:plan_D said: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 said:Right now all that agreeing is done with perhaps we can get back to some sensible arguing
book1182 said:5. MG42; early version of the M-60???
102first_hussars said: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.
book1182 said:7. Panzer IV; what I think was the first real tank.
102first_hussars said: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.
DerAdler said:Its just like here in Germany, the German that the Bavarians speak is different than the German that Schwabians speak.
trackend said:If you want to call a crisp a chip and we want to call chip a crisp big deal
BombTaxi said:To be honest, I think that Market Garden was a stupid plan... but I have to admire the Paras for thier sheer determination in taking that bridge and clinging on till the very last. Equally, the more successful D-Day drops showed the same determination and fighting qualities. Hard men indeed.
Chips have piss all to do with French bleeding fries a Chip is short for chipped as in wood chips although it has been accepted as the description for strips of potato. Frog fries are piddly thin things like juliens and apart from that fries is not a word in the collins dictionary only fry and its past tense fried.
PlankD said:Operation Market Garden was a late plan, not a stupid one.
schwarzpanzer said:DerAdler said:Its just like here in Germany, the German that the Bavarians speak is different than the German that Schwabians speak.
You're not kidding!
BTW: How is PORSCHE pronounced with a Stuttgart accent?