From: mower man on
Beav wrote:
>
>
> "Alister" <alister.ware(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:xYNVn.30962$U%7.30457(a)hurricane...
>> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:17:35 -0700, Lclawitcx wrote:
>>
>>> On 27 June, 19:58, Tosspot <Frank.Le...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 27/06/10 19:12, Lclawitcx wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Oh dear, we destroyed you English racists. Thousands of you started
>>>> > off spouting your xenopobic chants about black people and the war
>>>> > outside the stadium, then it finished with you crying. This brings to
>>>> > an end the months of embarrassing English flag waving nationalism
>>>> > that even made Americans cringe.
>>>>
>>>> > A video summing up the English limeys world cup.
>>>> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kvpm_bTk4
>>>>
>>>> > "The English are a nation of cowards"
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, but we're still 2:0 on World Wars.
>>>
>>> The English contribution to WW2(which was laughably) consisted of
>>> running away like cowards and diving in to the sea at Dunkirk. Then
>>> waiting 4 years while the Americans and Russians won the actual war.
>>
>> The Russians almost certainly won the war which would have been very bad
>> for the USA if we had not Won the battle of Britain ( which was fought
>> before the USA even entered the war).
>> There would have been no staging post for the 'D' day landings which
>> would almost certainly handed the whole of Europe to the USSR.
>>
>> So far from saving our bacon in truth we saved yours.
>>
>>
>>> 1 on 1 against Germany the English would have been annihilated.
>>
>> Did you check the score line for the Battle or Britain? I though not.
>
> Maybe he should check the score line for Vietnam while he's at it.
>

Vietnam was not a war.

--

Chris

I am not young enough to know everything.
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From: Andrew Dunford on


"Two Dogs" <nzrebel(a)verizon.net> wrote in message
news:b7c08416-77da-428c-a6d6-ecf3dc39facb(a)z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 28, 1:05 pm, "ian field" <gangprobing.al...(a)ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
>> "Alister" <alister.w...(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:xYNVn.30962$U%7.30457(a)hurricane...
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:17:35 -0700, Lclawitcx wrote:
>>
>> >> On 27 June, 19:58, Tosspot <Frank.Le...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> On 27/06/10 19:12, Lclawitcx wrote:
>>
>> >>> > Oh dear, we destroyed you English racists. Thousands of you started
>> >>> > off spouting your xenopobic chants about black people and the war
>> >>> > outside the stadium, then it finished with you crying. This brings
>> >>> > to
>> >>> > an end the months of embarrassing English flag waving nationalism
>> >>> > that even made Americans cringe.
>>
>> >>> > A video summing up the English limeys world cup.
>> >>> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kvpm_bTk4
>>
>> >>> > "The English are a nation of cowards"
>>
>> >>> Yeah, but we're still 2:0 on World Wars.
>>
>> >> The English contribution to WW2(which was laughably) consisted of
>> >> running away like cowards and diving in to the sea at Dunkirk. Then
>> >> waiting 4 years while the Americans and Russians won the actual war.
>>
>> > The Russians almost certainly won the war which would have been very
>> > bad
>> > for the USA if we had not Won the battle of Britain ( which was fought
>> > before the USA even entered the war).
>> > There would have been no staging post for the 'D' day landings which
>> > would almost certainly handed the whole of Europe to the USSR.
>>
>> > So far from saving our bacon in truth we saved yours.
>>
>> >> 1 on 1 against Germany the English would have been annihilated.
>>
>> > Did you check the score line for the Battle or Britain? I though not.
>>
>> The Stuka was a shinning example of German efficiency - the only fighter
>> in
>> WW2 that needed a fighter escort and every time our lads shot one down
>> they
>> got 2 Nazis for the price of one.
>>
>> And if the Yanks start on about saving our bacon, remind them that Hitler
>> had his boffins working on dirty nukes (the best they could do without
>> all
>> their Jewish scientists) and the means to drop them on the USA.
>>
>> There were several versions of the "Amerikabomber" on the drawing board
>> along with plans for a long range booster stage for the V2 rocket.
>>
>> And the Yanks weren't doing us any favours, Hitler formally declared war
>> on
>> the US a few days after the Japs hit Pearl Harbour - from that point on
>> we
>> were basically running up a lend-lease debt to fight their war for them.
>
> Oh dear Ian, get your facts from war comics, do you? Or from reading
> Rainer Karlsh? Next you'll be quoting from the Hitler Dairies.

Mine's a banana milkshake, with an egg in it.

<snip>

Andrew

From: Andrew Dunford on


"Klitty" <mitticus(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:i0amhb$eug$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> "SIRPip" <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Klitty wrote:
>>
>>> CS <crmstone(a)googlemail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > Lclawitcx - you clearly have a problem with simple primary school
>>> > comprehension. If you had not guessed from the title this group is
>>> > about F1, not football. However, I do accept that as both sports
>>> > start with an "F", you small brain is probably confused. Best you
>>> > lie down, take the ADHD pill and think it through slowly and calmly.
>>>
>>> It's always funny to see someone take the intellectual high ground and
>>> come crashing down with his panties around his ankles and Mature
>>> hoving into view ...
>>>
>>> Hint : Look at the Newsgroups line. There is no "this group".
>>
>> I take your first point, because it's a good one and it is amusing.
>> Check his truncated 'follow-up' line though - he'd cut it to one group,
>> presumably his own.
>
> Immaterial. The OP was not.

And he replied to a post other than the one he was addressing, and didn't
bother to quote in his reply, both of which cause unnecessary confusion.
Apart from that, great post.

Andrew

From: Lozzo on
mower man wrote:

> Beav wrote:
> >
> >
> >"Alister" <alister.ware(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:xYNVn.30962$U%7.30457(a)hurricane...
> > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:17:35 -0700, Lclawitcx wrote:
> > >
> >>>On 27 June, 19:58, Tosspot <Frank.Le...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On 27/06/10 19:12, Lclawitcx wrote:
> > > > >
> >>>>> Oh dear, we destroyed you English racists. Thousands of you
> started >>>>> off spouting your xenopobic chants about black people
> and the war >>>>> outside the stadium, then it finished with you
> crying. This brings to >>>>> an end the months of embarrassing
> English flag waving nationalism >>>>> that even made Americans cringe.
> > > > >
> >>>>> A video summing up the English limeys world cup.
> > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kvpm_bTk4
> > > > >
> >>>>> "The English are a nation of cowards"
> > > > >
> > > > > Yeah, but we're still 2:0 on World Wars.
> > > >
> > > > The English contribution to WW2(which was laughably) consisted
> > > > of running away like cowards and diving in to the sea at
> > > > Dunkirk. Then waiting 4 years while the Americans and Russians
> > > > won the actual war.
> > >
> > > The Russians almost certainly won the war which would have been
> > > very bad for the USA if we had not Won the battle of Britain (
> > > which was fought before the USA even entered the war).
> > > There would have been no staging post for the 'D' day landings
> > > which would almost certainly handed the whole of Europe to the
> > > USSR.
> > >
> > > So far from saving our bacon in truth we saved yours.
> > >
> > >
> > > > 1 on 1 against Germany the English would have been annihilated.
> > >
> > > Did you check the score line for the Battle or Britain? I though
> > > not.
> >
> > Maybe he should check the score line for Vietnam while he's at it.
> >
>
> Vietnam was not a war.

Every mention of the conflict calls it a war. The Wiki etymology
specifically calls it a war.

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