My wife's grandfather was in the Merchant Navy and did the Murmansk run. A bit chilly, apparently.shoutinghorse wrote:snip
Russia indeed paid a terrible price in lives lost and ruined during WW2 but to say they won the war is laughable, the only way Stalin could fight back was with allied supplies delivered by the British in the Arctic convoys.
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I think the color was added in the late 60's to impress the Soviets.MarcusAu wrote:It's seems weird that those pictures are in colour.
But I'm sure it's nothing like as weird as being there in person.
I've been reading on the assassination since my teens, so it was a bit weird to be standing there. It's a familiar intellectual playground I visit to avoid reality. It's not supposed to show up in the real world.
I made it a point to drive slowly over the X marks on the way home, reflexively hearing "bang" in my head as I went over them. Kinda depressing. It was all sorta distant for years but at some point Jack became a real person to me. I remember tearing up while reading about Jackie cradling his head at the hospital, resisting the agents's efforts to take him. I became a huge Jack Ruby fan that day.
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The Germans clearly didn't get the "negotiation is futile" memo. The July plot right through to Himmler's treachery in '45 were predicated on Western recalibration against Russia. Futile? Maybe. But this was the German perceived reality.Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Bomber Command attacked targets in East Prussia, but their tactics involved setting city centers on fire, not pinpoint strikes on huts in the woods. A damn-buster type raid might have been considered, but was likely impractical.Brive1987 wrote: I watched a doco last night that claimed the allies never bombed the Wolfs Lair because they wanted to keep Hitler alive as their best tool to help win the war.
I turned it off.
I wonder where the turn around point was for British based B17 / Lancasters? Though I recall they couldn't get to Warsaw and back when it mattered in 'black '44".
The Amis were getting their asses kicked whenever they ventured deep into German airspace, and for the first half of '44, were concentrating on prepping for OVERLORD and hitting V-sites. They tried one of two shuttle raids to Russia, (Marienberg target?) but the Soviets treated their crews as PoWs after landing, so end of that.
In any case, they'd never know when Hitler was at the Wolf's Lair. They took out Yamamoto only because they had solid intel.
Ignorant lay enthusiasts always imagine it's so easy to make things happen with military technology and forget the logistics, planning, diplomatic repercussions, chance, etc.
OTOH, FDR for one was never going to negotiate with a military coup, as he'd gotten stuck in his head this fantasy of a "Prussian Elite" responsible for everything bad ever, that needed to be excised from German consciousness like a tumor. (He was likely projecting from his own patrician upbringing on the Hudson.) The reckless Casablanca "unconditional surrender" decree would still have been in force following a successful coup, so why bother taking out Hitler for them?
The Allies had also good form with Tall Boy and Grand Slam strikes against hardened and/or well protected targets. With regards to the Wolf's Lair, here the truculent Russian position on using their airfields for the common good would have kicked in. The Soviets wanted western engagement - just not on their terf. Up goes the red flag. Dicks.
Even a carpet bombing raid would have placed a fragile Hitler under extreme stress. He spent 1944 turning the Lair into a concrete wonderland and was paranoid about a parachute drop. Hell you could have triggered him with left-over D-Day parachute dummies. Command interdiction is a legitimate strategy.
But the reality was that none of this was ever seemingly considered. I suspect the Allies wanted to physically crush Germany, Carthage style, given the post 1919 experience and the need to de-nazify. Negotiation and handwaving were never going to be options. Consequently logistically difficult strategies, thus orientated, were a distraction.
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Just delete your links to The Guardian. If they had an honest comments section then fine, you'd get to hone your debating skills, but they don't.Guest_6d745865 wrote:The Guardian made very clear when they closed down Comment Is Free and replaced it with the Opinion section (in which not all of the articles have comments open) that they found it problematic when people below the line keep coming with inconvenient data refuting the article. They outright said that they would not open comments on a lot of articles in future specifically because those pesky commenters keep fucking up the narrative.
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He fought for a good cause - imagine if the contemporary West had to take WWII seriously?KiwiInOz wrote:My wife's grandfather was in the Merchant Navy and did the Murmansk run. A bit chilly, apparently.shoutinghorse wrote:snip
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You guys aren't really into this question ... you're just baiting Aneris to come back.Brive1987 wrote:The Germans clearly didn't get the "negotiation is futile" memo.
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Are you of the opinion, then, that action against the Wolf's Lair was ruled out based on grand strategy? Consciously, or perhaps never even considered because of outlook?Brive1987 wrote: The Germans clearly didn't get the "negotiation is futile" memo. The July plot right through to Himmler's treachery in '45 were predicated on Western recalibration against Russia. Futile? Maybe. But this was the German perceived reality.
The Allies had also good form with Tall Boy and Grand Slam strikes against hardened and/or well protected targets. With regards to the Wolf's Lair, here the truculent Russian position on using their airfields for the common good would have kicked in. The Soviets wanted western engagement - just not on their terf. Up goes the red flag. Dicks.
Even a carpet bombing raid would have placed a fragile Hitler under extreme stress. He spent 1944 turning the Lair into a concrete wonderland and was paranoid about a parachute drop. Hell you could have triggered him with left-over D-Day parachute dummies. Command interdiction is a legitimate strategy.
But the reality was that none of this was ever seemingly considered. I suspect the Allies wanted to physically crush Germany, Carthage style, given the post 1919 experience and the need to de-nazify. Negotiation and handwaving were never going to be options. Consequently logistically difficult strategies, thus orientated, were a distraction.
Both Harris' Bomber Command and the 'Bomber Mafia' of the USAAF were so fixated on Douhetian theory they developed extreme tunnel vision. They couldn't even manage to provide the invasion of Sicily with air support, so a raid like this was probably inconceivable for them.
The OSS guys were constantly urging to support the anti-Hitler conspiracy but were rebuffed by Washington.
The unconditional surrender decree directly hindered efforts to get some of the more stodgy and cautious senior officers on board with the coup.
As for the need to de-nazify, the conspiracy's post-coup government was going to handle that.
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She's got a face fit for a Surly Amy portait, for sure.shoutinghorse wrote:
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Comment is (NOT) Free went down the shitter at least 5 years ago. So many ATL (above the line) articles were getting ripped to shreds by facts and mockery (mortal enemies of SJWs) from commentators BTL (below the line), they had to do what ALL regressive media have done - restrict commenting, censor comments, or not open comments at all.Guest_6d745865 wrote:The Guardian made very clear when they closed down Comment Is Free and replaced it with the Opinion section (in which not all of the articles have comments open) that they found it problematic when people below the line keep coming with inconvenient data refuting the article. They outright said that they would not open comments on a lot of articles in future specifically because those pesky commenters keep fucking up the narrative.
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Exactly. There was not to be a shred of doubt about who lost, no scapegoating of fifth columns, and the experience was to be made too traumatic for any thoughts of a re-match to be entertained. It couldn't have been any other way given the enormity of the crime. Hitler wanted Total War and he got it. The Allies suppressed knowledge of the Nazi death camps precisely because they were after complete victory and did not want to get pressured into squandering time and resources on futile raids against the camps.Brive1987 wrote:The Germans clearly didn't get the "negotiation is futile" memo. The July plot right through to Himmler's treachery in '45 were predicated on Western recalibration against Russia. Futile? Maybe. But this was the German perceived reality.Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Bomber Command attacked targets in East Prussia, but their tactics involved setting city centers on fire, not pinpoint strikes on huts in the woods. A damn-buster type raid might have been considered, but was likely impractical.Brive1987 wrote: I watched a doco last night that claimed the allies never bombed the Wolfs Lair because they wanted to keep Hitler alive as their best tool to help win the war.
I turned it off.
I wonder where the turn around point was for British based B17 / Lancasters? Though I recall they couldn't get to Warsaw and back when it mattered in 'black '44".
The Amis were getting their asses kicked whenever they ventured deep into German airspace, and for the first half of '44, were concentrating on prepping for OVERLORD and hitting V-sites. They tried one of two shuttle raids to Russia, (Marienberg target?) but the Soviets treated their crews as PoWs after landing, so end of that.
In any case, they'd never know when Hitler was at the Wolf's Lair. They took out Yamamoto only because they had solid intel.
Ignorant lay enthusiasts always imagine it's so easy to make things happen with military technology and forget the logistics, planning, diplomatic repercussions, chance, etc.
OTOH, FDR for one was never going to negotiate with a military coup, as he'd gotten stuck in his head this fantasy of a "Prussian Elite" responsible for everything bad ever, that needed to be excised from German consciousness like a tumor. (He was likely projecting from his own patrician upbringing on the Hudson.) The reckless Casablanca "unconditional surrender" decree would still have been in force following a successful coup, so why bother taking out Hitler for them?
The Allies had also good form with Tall Boy and Grand Slam strikes against hardened and/or well protected targets. With regards to the Wolf's Lair, here the truculent Russian position on using their airfields for the common good would have kicked in. The Soviets wanted western engagement - just not on their terf. Up goes the red flag. Dicks.
Even a carpet bombing raid would have placed a fragile Hitler under extreme stress. He spent 1944 turning the Lair into a concrete wonderland and was paranoid about a parachute drop. Hell you could have triggered him with left-over D-Day parachute dummies. Command interdiction is a legitimate strategy.
But the reality was that none of this was ever seemingly considered. I suspect the Allies wanted to physically crush Germany, Carthage style, given the post 1919 experience and the need to de-nazify. Negotiation and handwaving were never going to be options. Consequently logistically difficult strategies, thus orientated, were a distraction.
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Pointy tits elevate any moviehttp://www.nudography.com/photos/news/2 ... 80p-01.jpg.deLurch wrote:Agreed. Hilarious movie. Stacked full of over the top heavily stylized characters. Ruby Rhod fit in that universe.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:the Fifth Element was an excellent movie, and it would have been diminished if not for Ruby Rhod.
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So anyone else looking forward to Luc Besson's return to science fiction?
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That looks awesome! Tempted to buy some of the graphic novels.Shatterface wrote:So anyone else looking forward to Luc Besson's return to science fiction?
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From the BBC:
A vehicle has struck pedestrians "leaving a number of casualties" in north London, police said.
One person has been arrested following the incident on Seven Sisters Road in Finsbury Park.
A vehicle has struck pedestrians "leaving a number of casualties" in north London, police said.
One person has been arrested following the incident on Seven Sisters Road in Finsbury Park.
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Finsbury Park: 'Several hurt' as vehicle hits pedestrians
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Gak. Niggered....
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Twitter is outraged because the press isn't instantly labelling this terrorism.Lsuoma wrote:From the BBC:
A vehicle has struck pedestrians "leaving a number of casualties" in north London, police said.
One person has been arrested following the incident on Seven Sisters Road in Finsbury Park.
Could just be part and parcel of living in a big city.
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According to twitter, the muslims were killed by a racist white guy and Tommy Robinson is to blame.
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Hmm. :think:Shatterface wrote:So anyone else looking forward to Luc Besson's return to science fiction?
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Jabba the Hutt appears to make a cameo, and there also appear to be white-faced Navii.
The galaxy is too small for another Guardians of the Galaxy team.
I'll control my anticipation in the interim.
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This kind of thing never happened before Brexit.Tigzy wrote:According to twitter, the muslims were killed by a racist white guy and Tommy Robinson is to blame.
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I'm a little confused. To my knowledge, they haven't released the name of the guy they arrested. (And the guy was walking, so seems perfectly lucid.) I am assuming that we would know the name instantly if it were Archibald Spencer Englishwhite or something.Shatterface wrote:Finsbury Park: 'Several hurt' as vehicle hits pedestrians
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It was near a Muslim place so my feels on this one is that it's a retaliatory attack from someone who's fucking sick of Muslims.
Which is really the same kind of fucking terrorism problem, given it has the same root cause.
Which is really the same kind of fucking terrorism problem, given it has the same root cause.
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Indeed. Though you could also blame Trump. Or the Russians. Sure a lot of unhinged people floating about, swinging in the breeze (so to speak); religion poisons everything and all that, although ideology in general seems the general culprit:Shatterface wrote:This kind of thing never happened before Brexit.Tigzy wrote:According to twitter, the muslims were killed by a racist white guy and Tommy Robinson is to blame.
Heat Street article on story:
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While not minimizing the attack on the horse, which I deplore, horses are incredibly robust where superficial wounds are concerned. As someone who has had to give IM injections to horses, you REALLY have to slam the needle into the neck to get through the hide.Steersman wrote:Indeed. Though you could also blame Trump. Or the Russians. Sure a lot of unhinged people floating about, swinging in the breeze (so to speak); religion poisons everything and all that, although ideology in general seems the general culprit:Shatterface wrote:This kind of thing never happened before Brexit.Tigzy wrote:According to twitter, the muslims were killed by a racist white guy and Tommy Robinson is to blame.
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Also, if you are not TOO squeamish, look at pictures of horses injured in WW1 and see what sort of injuries they sustained and survived. Broken bones are really bad news, and they are not at all resistant to starvation, but soft-tissue wounds heal incredibly quickly and without debilitating the horse, in most cases.
Now, what we need to see if a few hoof prints on Antifa cunts. Or more than a few, if they continue to target animals.
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Atheism? ;-)rayshul wrote:It was near a Muslim place so my feels on this one is that it's a retaliatory attack from someone who's fucking sick of Muslims.
Which is really the same kind of fucking terrorism problem, given it has the same root cause.
A passage from Niall Shanks' God, The Devil, and Darwin (highly recommended) on the "Intelligent Design Movement":
Rather depressing though, the extent to which so many people insist on promoting ideologies, and religions in particular, that haven't hardly a patch of cloth to cover their & its naked ignorance, savagery, and barbarism - so to speak.Shanks wrote:In [Harun Yahya's] book, Evolution Deceit: The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism and Its Ideological Background ..., he argues, in curious ecumenical tones, that Darwinism is as the root of religious terrorism, be it done in the name of Christianity, Islam, or Judaism:[pg 10]Yahya wrote:For this reason, if some people commit terrorism using the concepts and symbols of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the name of those religions, you can be sure that those people are not Muslims. They are real Social Darwinists. They hide under the cloak of relgion, but they are not genuine belivers. ... That is because they are ruthlessly committing a crime that religion forbids, and in such a way as to blacken religion in peoples' eyes.
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These cunts probably see themselves as modern day Emily Davisons, bravely stabbing horses the way she did. Next, they'll hijack a bus and run over children just like Rosa Parks.Lsuoma wrote:Now, what we need to see if a few hoof prints on Antifa cunts. Or more than a few, if they continue to target animals.
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The police should put somebody undercover in that mosque. You know, for their own security.rayshul wrote:It was near a Muslim place so my feels on this one is that it's a retaliatory attack from someone who's fucking sick of Muslims.
Which is really the same kind of fucking terrorism problem, given it has the same root cause.
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Read the comments on his GLBT videos. He gets push back from his black radical fans.Ape+lust wrote:I think that's why Gazi Kodzo is always hooting and gibbering like an off-the-leash Chris Tucker. If he dialed his antics down, his own beloved race will "notice" he's gay and treat him like he wants whites treated. It'd be a sad day for a black gay boy.Shatterface wrote:Where intersectionality breaks down is that where being black and gay may multiply the prejudice a gay black person might face from straight white people it ignores the fact that prejudice against homosexuals is higher among black people, so a gay black person might face quantatively more prejudice from a straight black person than a straight white person.
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Hardly a term I've coined as Wikipedia has an article of the same title. Although I like to think that I've contributed substantially, with my many tweets of the link to it, to increasing the Google rank of the term. ;-) Given that the individual largely responsible for the case in 1923 garnered a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts, you might consider that the terms, both "ethnic cleansing" and "population transfer" aren't quite as odious, or unjustified - at least in their non-genocidal forms, as you imply.Kirbmarc wrote:John D wrote:Kirbmarc wrote:To put it bluntly, that's never going to happen. The Jews don't want to become a minority religion in Israel. They're already struggling with the demographic rise of the Israeli Muslims.
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If, on the other hand, the US and the EU decide that enough is enough and they've had it with all muslim militias then Israel might enjoy more support and force the Palestinians to all leave. Of course there's also Russia. The Russians have close ties to Iran and would probably react badly to a Western-approved Palestinian ethnic cleansing/"population transfer" (to borrow a Steersman-ism). ...
But in other news, since you seem fairly well versed in the topic and have commented on the story, you might check out, if you haven't seen it yet, a Bloomberg article on the "Qatar Incident":
Muslim Brotherhood Is at the Heart of Gulf Standoff With Qatar
As you suggested or argued earlier, Trump - with his frequent volte-faces or wearing egg on his own as a result of his own comments/tweets about Qatar, is looking more and more like the proverbial loose cannon. Although that might be a reflection of the fact that American society, or the American military at least, is "riding off in all directions". But I still think he is or was decidely the lesser of two evils, at least at the time of the election; moot whether that still holds.
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Found her on a Facebook dating group. I don't like to stereotype or draw too many inferences, but I'm just gonna watch from the sidelines for a round or two:
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Yeah. I bungled that on the right.
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Suspicious camera angle. But, to be completely fair, tits.Easy J wrote:Found her on a Facebook dating group. I don't like to stereotype or draw too many inferences, but I'm just gonna watch from the sidelines for a round or two:
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You contradict yourself. First, you say the punic destruction of Germany was necessary "given the enormity of the crime", by which I assume you mean the holocaust. But then you say the Allies "suppressed knowledge" of the holocaust to allow them to drag out the war.ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:Exactly. There was not to be a shred of doubt about who lost, no scapegoating of fifth columns, and the experience was to be made too traumatic for any thoughts of a re-match to be entertained. It couldn't have been any other way given the enormity of the crime. Hitler wanted Total War and he got it. The Allies suppressed knowledge of the Nazi death camps precisely because they were after complete victory and did not want to get pressured into squandering time and resources on futile raids against the camps.Brive1987 wrote:I suspect the Allies wanted to physically crush Germany, Carthage style, given the post 1919 experience and the need to de-nazify. Negotiation and handwaving were never going to be options. Consequently logistically difficult strategies, thus orientated, were a distraction.
It was incredibly stupid to wipe out Germany, incredibly stupid to think the Soviets could be managed or even trusted. Sound Realpolitik would've been to encourage the establishment of a post-nazi Germany that was democratic, peaceful, friendly to the West -- and strong enough to serve as a counter-balance to the USSR. The anti-Hitler conspiracy offered all of that.
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Also, biopsyche & no mention of sociology or related degrees. Hopefully optomistic?
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THE GLASSES! Beware.Easy J wrote:Also, biopsyche & no mention of sociology or related degrees. Hopefully optomistic?
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Has anyone seen the film dramatization Anthropoid yet? I enjoyed it, even though the ending was foregone.TheMudbrooker wrote:You've just now noticed?Brive1987 wrote:
I see I am dealing with fools.
Wiseassery aside, the operation to take out Heydrich and the fact that he, of all the possible Nazis, was the only one targeted for assassination is one of the most fascinating episodes of the war.
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On the one hand the allies had no issue with assassination. Heydrich and Yamamoto' deaths broke that taboo and there were numerous real plans directed against Rommel.Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Both Harris' Bomber Command and the 'Bomber Mafia' of the USAAF were so fixated on Douhetian theory they developed extreme tunnel vision. They couldn't even manage to provide the invasion of Sicily with air support, so a raid like this was probably inconceivable for them.
The OSS guys were constantly urging to support the anti-Hitler conspiracy but were rebuffed by Washington.
The unconditional surrender decree directly hindered efforts to get some of the more stodgy and cautious senior officers on board with the coup.
As for the need to de-nazify, the conspiracy's post-coup government was going to handle that.
And the Allies managed to overcome their 1000 bomber tunnel vision with ops against the Tirpitz and various special interest bridges. True, anything bigger was an issue, witness the tears over the use of heavy bombers for D-Day. So I'd agree "Let's kill Hitler" would not have sprung from RAF/USAAF circles.
I think the real political reticence was implicit and unconscious. The German people (as Churchill put it) had to be defeated. And be seen to be defeated. The Allies needed full flexibility to chain up the repeat mad-dog nation in whatever manner they deemed fit. As part of this, Nazism had to be put to the sword by its external foes. And this humiliation was a precondition for denazification.
Further, by 1944 it was too late to try and establish some form of moral distinction between NSDAP and High Command. Kill Hitler and get .... Keitel? fan-boy Rommel?
So killing Hitler while German armies were (once again) still standing everywhere on foreign soil would simply be a major complication. You only achieve peas in a pod with leverage.
That said there was no excuse for not even trying to bomb the auschwitz railheads. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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So Matt, no victors justice at Nuremberg? What of all the Nazis who suddenly had no cause to kill themselves? How does a negotiated peace with honour work for a nation which celebrated the fall of France with such abandonment? What of the Wehrmacht / SS Venn diagram?
Germany had to go to the naughty corner and have the finger of shame pointed its way for any sense to be made of the previous 12 years or so.
Further, where would the German borders go back to in 1945'if you couldnt evict 5 million krauts from "Poland" and march the dotted line westwards?
In any case the neutered FRG provided a pretty good bulwark against the east didn't it? While the east / west divide was an ongoing demonstration of the fruits to be reaped from aggressive war.
Bah humbug. It's not like Germany didn't eventually get to own Europe. And they can have it.
Germany had to go to the naughty corner and have the finger of shame pointed its way for any sense to be made of the previous 12 years or so.
Further, where would the German borders go back to in 1945'if you couldnt evict 5 million krauts from "Poland" and march the dotted line westwards?
In any case the neutered FRG provided a pretty good bulwark against the east didn't it? While the east / west divide was an ongoing demonstration of the fruits to be reaped from aggressive war.
Bah humbug. It's not like Germany didn't eventually get to own Europe. And they can have it.
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I'd watch it if I could find it.d4m10n wrote:Has anyone seen the film dramatization Anthropoid yet? I enjoyed it, even though the ending was foregone.TheMudbrooker wrote:You've just now noticed?Brive1987 wrote:
I see I am dealing with fools.
Wiseassery aside, the operation to take out Heydrich and the fact that he, of all the possible Nazis, was the only one targeted for assassination is one of the most fascinating episodes of the war.
The 1964 version was shot on sight :rimshot: - before the roads were remade.
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Ooohhhh I wonder if we got a bona fide RACE WAR on our hands
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Why do you shitlords always call her beckybooze?
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Do I really have to bring up tits again? Because I honestly don't mind. Tits.free thoughtpolice wrote:THE GLASSES! Beware.Easy J wrote:Also, biopsyche & no mention of sociology or related degrees. Hopefully optomistic?
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Terrible-istan? Islamophobia! :lol:dog puke wrote: Why do you shitlords always call her beckybooze?
To be fair, though, I think that given her love for alcohol she's not too much of an Islamophile, not to HuffPo levels anyway. She could care less about the "muslimas", but don't you dare take her drinks away!
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Probably. There surely is a disconnect between the US intelligence community and the Pentagon about their operations in Syria. Trump, however, simply doesn't understand that tweeting whatever brainfart passes through his mind is not a sound foreign policy. SOmebody should get him off twitter.Steersman wrote: <snip>
As you suggested or argued earlier, Trump - with his frequent volte-faces or wearing egg on his own as a result of his own comments/tweets about Qatar, is looking more and more like the proverbial loose cannon. Although that might be a reflection of the fact that American society, or the American military at least, is "riding off in all directions".
It's a moot point by now. He WON, he's the Goddamn President, there's no point in wondering whether he was the lesser of the evils.But I still think he is or was decidely the lesser of two evils, at least at the time of the election; moot whether that still holds.
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Wild guess: The mosque van driver attack was the father of one of the girls either killed or significantly injured in the Manchester bombing.
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Wait, can you make a diagram of this?free thoughtpolice wrote:US just shot down a Syrian plane:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/us-sh ... le/2626344
Syrian ground forces attacked US supported rebels, American planes buzzed the Syrians, forcing them back without firing on them or bombing them, and the Syrians sent in a plane to bomb the pro US rebels. That got shot down.
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Just an addition to the statistics for murder and mayhem on the roads - so says the Mayor of London:rayshul wrote:Ooohhhh I wonder if we got a bona fide RACE WAR on our hands
Though of course Islam not really a race but a rather barbaric and savage if not psychotic political & religious political ideology; hard to imagine - short of the "religion" of the Aztecs - a worse manifestation. Wonder how many more attacks by Muslims it will take before we realize that we have the proverbial "clash of civilizations", although it's rather moot whether term really applies to Islamic cultures.
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Fucking news outlets throwing the I word around with abandon (Islamphobia). Surely now the best thing is to carry on as normal, right?
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She will never miss an opportunity to talk about herself, usually in the context of drinking (it's what all the cool kids are doing after all).Kirbmarc wrote:Terrible-istan? Islamophobia! :lol:dog puke wrote: Why do you shitlords always call her beckybooze?
To be fair, though, I think that given her love for alcohol she's not too much of an Islamophile, not to HuffPo levels anyway. She could care less about the "muslimas", but don't you dare take her drinks away!
I'm not sure that's quite what they had in mind when they came up with the idea 'the personal is political'.
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Or the invention of the steam engine.Shatterface wrote:This kind of thing never happened before Brexit.Tigzy wrote:According to twitter, the muslims were killed by a racist white guy and Tommy Robinson is to blame.
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Generally of two minds about that. Tend to think of him, as others have styled him, as the proverbial bull in the china shop wrecking all the set pieces of The Establishment and of the Military-Industrial Complex. As the Qatar incident suggests, he highlights the rather odious and self-serving hypocrisy of American foreign policy in particular, to be selling high-tech equipment to a regime that's peddling the most odious and barbaric political and religious ideology imaginable: short-term gain, long-term pain. Impractical I expect but figure that Russia and the US should get together and bomb the whole Middle East back to the Stone Age - short trip for most there.Kirbmarc wrote:Probably. There surely is a disconnect between the US intelligence community and the Pentagon about their operations in Syria. Trump, however, simply doesn't understand that tweeting whatever brainfart passes through his mind is not a sound foreign policy. Somebody should get him off twitter.Steersman wrote: <snip>
As you suggested or argued earlier, Trump - with his frequent volte-faces or wearing egg on his own as a result of his own comments/tweets about Qatar, is looking more and more like the proverbial loose cannon. Although that might be a reflection of the fact that American society, or the American military at least, is "riding off in all directions".
I didn't phrase that very well: not disputing that he's Prez nor really wondering whether he was the lesser of two evils then; just meant to suggest or argue that for all his obvious flaws he may still be less "evil" now than all of the other possibilities on tap, assuming that he might be impeached or forced to resign or forced to bend the knee to "conventional wisdom". Seems that both the Democratic & Republican "Establishments" and their "principles" have been co-opted by big business, by the infamous military-industrial complex; seems only Trump is able to shake things up enough to maybe rein in those groups even if that's a long shot.Kirbmarc wrote:It's a moot point by now. He WON, he's the Goddamn President, there's no point in wondering whether he was the lesser of the evils.Steersman wrote:But I still think he is or was decidely the lesser of two evils, at least at the time of the election; moot whether that still holds.
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Wouldn't this affect her health insurance policy?Kirbmarc wrote:Terrible-istan? Islamophobia! :lol:dog puke wrote: Why do you shitlords always call her beckybooze?
To be fair, though, I think that given her love for alcohol she's not too much of an Islamophile, not to HuffPo levels anyway. She could care less about the "muslimas", but don't you dare take her drinks away!
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I'm not so certain about that. His place would likely have been filled by the other sabre rattlers from the Reichswehr who would have established a military dictatorship sans the international aggression, à la Spain.Matt Cavanaugh wrote:It was incredibly stupid to wipe out Germany, incredibly stupid to think the Soviets could be managed or even trusted. Sound Realpolitik would've been to encourage the establishment of a post-nazi Germany that was democratic, peaceful, friendly to the West -- and strong enough to serve as a counter-balance to the USSR. The anti-Hitler conspiracy offered all of that.
Also, I doubt the Russians would have stopped their onslaught within the sight of Berlin.
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So, chances of the mosque organizing a pop concert to bring communities together in peace and love, vs rioting?
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Becky should show us how cool she is by adding Vicodin to her drug cocktail. For shit-giggles.dog puke wrote: Why do you shitlords always call her beckybooze?
Just do it.
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You know the worst thing about that guy driving a van through a crowd of people at Finsbury Park? #CulturalAppropriation