|
zoux posted:Yes and Slavic peoples have never been hosed over by governments and thus have a deep abiding trust in states and treaties. Hey, now! It's not like any such treaty was recently thrown away because one signatory completely overlooked it and the other two just stood around rolling their eyes and whistling, or anything.
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 05:46
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 02:47 |
|
|
To be fair, Poland did kick Russia's rear end in WW1, their military record is not completely full of defeat.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 06:09
|
|
|
I'm not doggin Poland, not a lot you can do when you are sandwiched between Europes two most belligerent powers.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 06:11
|
|
|
Gail Wynand posted:To be fair, Poland did kick Russia's rear end in WW1, their military record is not completely full of defeat. During WW1 Poland was partially in Germany, partially in Austria-Hungary and partially in Russia, and the Germans had already driven the Russians to collapse before the Polish state formed. The short lived Kingdom of Poland was a puppet state for Germany within the Polish-ethnic areas of conquered Russia during the war. And it had a ton of forced Polish labor and seizure of property goin' on.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 06:14
|
|
|
I don't think I'll ever stop enjoying think pieces on how boring baseball is
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 06:54
|
|
|
I didn't know the blindingly obvious inspired think pieces. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 07:04
|
|
|
I've got good friends and business partners in Poland and, yeah, they're not thrilled. In classic Polish fashion they have a dark sense of humor about the whole deal, though. The punchline to the latest joke was something like, "If the Germans invade, don't resist this time."
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 08:08
|
|
|
paragon1 posted:I didn't know the blindingly obvious inspired think pieces. The one I read decided baseball was in decline because no one knows what Mike Trout looks like (tbf, I did not know what Mike Trout looked like) In reality it's because a game can be halfway over at 10 pm and no one has time for that poo poo
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 08:14
|
|
|
Nintendo Kid posted:During WW1 Poland was partially in Germany, partially in Austria-Hungary and partially in Russia, and the Germans had already driven the Russians to collapse before the Polish state formed.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 08:19
|
|
|
Nintendo Kid posted:During WW1 Poland was partially in Germany, partially in Austria-Hungary and partially in Russia, and the Germans had already driven the Russians to collapse before the Polish state formed. I think we should just stop talking about european wars, like everyone should agree to do this. Unless it is pre-gunpowder european war because massed pikes are crazy
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 08:32
|
|
|
They still did the massed pikes thing for a few centuries after gunpowder came along, actually. Everything post-Maxim gun maybe?
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 08:33
|
|
|
OH gently caress HERE IT IS IT'S HERE PUSH YOUR STICKS INTO THE OTHER MEN  DIE OF SEPSIS
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 08:34
|
|
|
Some weirdly detailed faces in that picture.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 09:04
|
|
|
There were endless hand-drawn versions of what we think of today as Powerpoints depicting massed pike tactics for gaining superiority in a confrontation with the enemy by the massed pike industrial complex.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 09:12
|
|
|
From what I gather a pushing match between massed formations of pike men was usually such a poo poo show a fair amount of the time they just stood around and shouted ineffectually at each other while the gunners and cavalry dueled each other.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 09:16
|
|
|
Throw in some dudes with arquebuses and you've got a good look at the future of Early Modern Warfare.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 09:24
|
|
|
I've just noticed something- in The Divide, Taibbi seems to like adding asides in parentheses, followed by a "more on this later".
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 10:15
|
|
|
Gail Wynand posted:Sorry, I meant after WW1. honestly though the ww1 German/Austrian Polish puppet state was an interesting entity, being as it was a fairly good model for the kind of stuff the Nazis would later get up to in Poland in WWII. they definitely didn't get as far as the death camps and mass executions, but the massive forced labor was there in force, as well as beginnings of plans to fully germanize the polish ethnic sections already within Germany/Austria and force the poles there to move into the subject "Polish Kingdom".
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 16:52
|
|
|
Nintendo Kid posted:honestly though the ww1 German/Austrian Polish puppet state was an interesting entity, being as it was a fairly good model for the kind of stuff the Nazis would later get up to in Poland in WWII. they definitely didn't get as far as the death camps and mass executions, but the massive forced labor was there in force, as well as beginnings of plans to fully germanize the polish ethnic sections already within Germany/Austria and force the poles there to move into the subject "Polish Kingdom". drat you fishmech what did I just say? A european gunwar is the heart of boredom
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 16:57
|
|
|
ReindeerF posted:I've got good friends and business partners in Poland and, yeah, they're not thrilled. In classic Polish fashion they have a dark sense of humor about the whole deal, though. The punchline to the latest joke was something like, "If the Germans invade, don't resist this time." My Polish friends are from Poznan, they're good at collaborating with Germans.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 17:31
|
|
|
Yeah, anytime I hear about them working on something with the Germans I make sure to use various forms of the word collaborate. It's endlessly entertaining. Worse jokes follow, of course.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 17:33
|
|
|
ReindeerF posted:Yeah, anytime I hear about them working on something with the Germans I make sure to use various forms of the word collaborate. It's endlessly entertaining. Worse jokes follow, of course. How bad are they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0geS_JbCIKk
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 17:38
|
|
|
Haha, that was pretty Goddamn awful. I mean it's Jones hamming it up, so I couldn't resist, of course. EDIT: West Wing trivia. My name is ReindeerF and I work at the White House. I'm up to the start of Season 4 now, two of my favorite episodes in the series, Twenty Hours In America (Parts I & II). Anyway, the trivia is that I hadn't remembered that the farmer's daughter is Amy Adams, the first time I recall seeing her (I'm sure she acted previously), and it's also the first time, in retrospect, I recall seeing John Gallagher. #BartletChat #WhatsNext ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Aug 30, 2014 |
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 17:53
|
|
|
Baseball owns. Mike Trout looks just like a giant trout wielding a hunk of wood would look like.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 18:53
|
|
|
A goon made up Mike Trout's nickname (the millville meteor) because people were comparing him to Mickey Mantle (the commerce comet) early on during his rookie season, edited his wikipedia page with some bullshit links as a reference for the name and then replaced them with references to articles that used the wikipedia page as sources for his nickname when journalists started using it
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 19:00
|
|
|
i love dicks death to israel
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 20:10
|
|
|
TenementFunster posted:i love dicks You're the probation version of IWC... 
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 20:17
|
|
|
ReindeerF posted:Haha, that was pretty Goddamn awful. I mean it's Jones hamming it up, so I couldn't resist, of course. Wow that's a hell of a choice for favorite episodes of the series. Josh, Toby, and Donna wandering around Indiana is great for the interplay between them but eh on the rest of it. Toby and Josh's whole authenticity exchange is great, though. (The best episode is Celestial Navigation.)
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 21:17
|
|
|
I'm sorry bad moon rising is the best episode if only for the opener in Babish's office with the tape recorder.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 21:23
|
|
|
How SHOCKING that Celestial Navigation is your favorite. It is a great episode, but you people are so predictable. By you people I mean Lawyers with a strong interest in the Supreme Court, of course. Anyway, the interplay is great, but so are all the time zone gimmicks and the people who couldn't care less about who they are. And Matt, the dad at the bar at the end. Come on, that's great stuff. "Didn't vote for him the first time, don't plan to the second." It's not my favorite episode, though. That's actually In The Shadow of Two Gunmen Parts I & II for personal reasons. 17 People is maybe the best dramatically. EDIT: Raskolnikov38 posted:I'm sorry bad moon rising is the best episode if only for the opener in Babish's office with the tape recorder.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 21:26
|
|
|
I think as long as your favorite episode isn't Isaac and Ishmael you're probably okay.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 21:43
|
|
|
Pope Guilty posted:I think as long as your favorite episode isn't Isaac and Ishmael you're probably okay.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 21:48
|
|
|
20 Hours in America is the correct best episode.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 21:59
|
|
|
I prefer listening to the Nixon tapes over watching the West Wing. The humor is much more subtle and less intended, and quite sharp at times.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 22:06
|
|
|
i've yet to see any evidence to the contrary that aaron sorkin is the sole conservative in america who actually understands satire
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 22:13
|
|
|
My Imaginary GF posted:I prefer listening to the Nixon tapes over watching the West Wing. The humor is much more subtle and less intended, and quite sharp at times. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 22:29
|
|
|
comes along bort posted:i've yet to see any evidence to the contrary that aaron sorkin is the sole conservative in america who actually understands satire Isnt he responsible for that HBO show, Network or something? E: Counterpoint: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TivVcfSBVSM My Imaginary GF fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Aug 30, 2014 |
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 22:33
|
|
|
Bob James posted:Christians infect themselves by consuming the blood of Christ. It's really unsanitary. Transubstantiation is strictly a Catholic/Orthodox deal, so Protestants are in the clear disease-wise. Except possibly the Anglicans.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 22:41
|
|
|
If you go back in time a number of years I'm like the original forum quoter of that section. It's hysterical. Still, it's one of a few funny tidbits. When Nixon was on his soapbox and his aides were riling him up he was hilarious, but most of the time he was just craven and depressing.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 22:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 02:47 |
|
|
Nixon: I mean, you’ve got to stop at a certain point. Why is it that the girls don’t swear? Because a man, when he swears, people can’t tolerate a girl who is a— Haldeman: Girls do swear. Nixon: Huh? Haldeman: They do now.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2014 22:50
|
|