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Quoting these for the new page Phanatic posted:I love the Latvian jokes. I have no idea why Latvia was chosen as the butt of them, but they're great. And dumb. Are you going to post any of the good ones?
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 22:54 |
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After the Six Day War, Leonid Brezhnev asked Nasser, “How could you possibly lose the war so quickly? Didn’t you listen to your Soviet advisors?” Nasser said, “We did exactly what your advisors told us to do: retreat and wait for the winter!” ------------- On July 21, 1969, Brezhnev called his leading cosmonauts into his office. He said, “The Americans have landed on the moon. We will do better: you are going to fly on a mission to land on the sun.” The cosmonauts said, “But Comrade, we will burn!” Brezhnev said, “Don’t be ridiculous! You will fly at night!”
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 23:24 |
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That Jewish dudes mother is loving insane, god drat.
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 23:58 |
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Telsa Cola posted:That Jewish dudes mother is loving insane, god drat. Like two inches from Jerusalem, man. He was right loving there.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 00:00 |
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That's all awesome, what's the book I desperately want to read it.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 00:14 |
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When the guy in the story "Fourteen and a Half" says he lost his "fork", which body part does that correspond to? Just curious.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 02:51 |
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Major Major Major posted:When the guy in the story "Fourteen and a Half" says he lost his "fork", which body part does that correspond to? Just curious. You know what it is.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 03:45 |
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echopapa posted:After the Six Day War, Leonid Brezhnev asked Nasser, “How could you possibly lose the war so quickly? Didn’t you listen to your Soviet advisors?” Coincidentally I just heard an interesting ancedote about Egypt and Russian advisors. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rimon_20 quote:The Egyptians themselves reacted with ill-concealed delight at the outcome of the engagement. They had previously suffered intense criticism of their own performance and boasts of superior Soviet skills, when in fact the Soviets had fallen for tactics the Egyptians were already familiar with. It got so bad that the Egyptians were laughing at the advisors and the pilot’s death, and Nasser had to give them orders to stop
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 06:48 |
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knock knock who's there please let in, is cold and children froze to death Rocko Bonaparte posted:Yeah I kind of want to make one with the "my children like to hear about the time their father was exposed to atomic radiation" and have it just kind of scrolling through the faces. or focus on the horribly mutated dwarf-child at their feet.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 07:22 |
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Chopstix posted:Coincidentally I just heard an interesting ancedote about Egypt and Russian advisors. the PVO: https://twitter.com/mikefossey/status/479779134366056448
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 07:32 |
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My family is Latvian and yeah apparently it's pretty much like that.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 10:09 |
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Hazzard posted:I've heard similar things in the US Civil War. But the impression I got was the soldier is under so much stress that they're only thinking about loading and aren't even thinking to fire. Why would you assume this? Here's a manual for Texas, for instance - https://archive.org/details/manualofinstructtxgilh
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 10:56 |
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Hexyflexy posted:That's all awesome, what's the book I desperately want to read it. It's called Six War Years by David Broadfoot. I found a copy in a trunk of a dead relative; it still smells faintly of mothballs. It is a collection of Canadian stories about World War 2, and after reading a few I thought "wow, I should scan a few of these for the milhist thread", knowing how much we all like diaries/personal accounts. Now the plan is to scan and post a chapter every few days. e: just trying to find out what a 'zombie' is in this context and: quote:A sign of King's true feeling about the war came in April 1943, when the mass grave of the Polish officers massacred by the NKVD in Katyn Wood was discovered, which lead King to write in his diary that it was the Poles who caused the outbreak of the war in 1939 by refusing to give in to Hitler's demand that the Free City of Danzig be allowed to rejoin Germany, and as such it was the Poles' own fault for the Katyn Wood massacre and everything else they had suffered since 1939.[7] The British historian Victor Rothwell wrote that King's "spiteful" remarks about the Poles causing the war reflected his own resentment at having to declare war on Germany because of public pressure despite his own inclinations towards neutrality. e2: Zombies quote:In June 1940, the government adopted conscription for home service in The National Resources Mobilization Act, 1940 (NRMA), which allowed the government to register men and women and move them into jobs considered necessary for wartime production, and allowed for conscription for the defence of Canada, but did not allow conscripts to be deployed for overseas service.[16] The French-Canadian nationalist mayor of Montreal Camillien Houde in a speech urged all French-Canadian men not to register under the NRMA, which led the Dominion government to use the suspension of habeas corpus under the War Measures Act to send the RCMP in to arrest Houde, who was held without charge until 1944.[17] From 1940 onward, the Defense Minister James Ralston and the Navy minister Angus MacDonald were seen as the advocates of the armored forces in the cabinet, favoring winning the war even at the price of domestic disunity vs. King who argued that domestic unity could not be fractured as the price for victory.[18] e3: so much spiciness in one wiki article quote:Acceptance of French-speaking units was greater in Canada from the start of the Second World War in comparison to the first. While the creation of the 22nd Infantry Battalion (French-Canadian) required large rallies of French-Canadians in 1914 accompanied by political pressure to overcome Minister Sam Hughes' abhorrence of the idea, this greater acceptance of French-Canadian units as well as informal use of their language diminished the ferocity of Quebec's resistance to the war effort.[citation needed] Opposition to conscription was not limited to Quebec. In British Columbia, where the fear of the "Yellow Peril" was a major issue, many were opposed to conscription as conscripting Chinese-Canadians and Japanese-Canadians would lead to the demand for Asian-Canadians to be given the right to vote, which the white population of British Columbia were adamantly opposed to. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Sep 25, 2018 |
# ? Sep 25, 2018 13:47 |
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People are real upset that historically, women existed.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 14:10 |
Who knew a studio called Creative Assembly would do things that make games interesting right?
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 14:12 |
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zoux posted:
Huh, cool. I didn't play that much Rome II; I never noticed if any of the generals were women. I wonder if this is also the case in Attila? I liked that one better than Rome II, I may have to try it again and see who ends up leading my armies.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 14:17 |
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zoux posted:
What are some good examples of female roman generals? Never heard of this before, it sounds cool as hell
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 14:20 |
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The thing says Rome doesn't have female generals.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 14:25 |
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i do not understand what the issue is there
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 14:27 |
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Sorry for putting this in your brainquote:Creative Assembly's historical strategy game Total War: Rome 2 came out in September 2013, and in the five years since it's notched more than 21,000 user reviews on Steam adding up to a "mostly positive" overall rating. Yet over the past couple of days, more than 660 reviews have rated it "overwhelmingly negative." What could have so suddenly and dramatically reversed the fortunes of a five-year-old strategy game that's still in the thick of the Steam Top 100?
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 14:32 |
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bewbies posted:i do not understand what the issue is there "Icky girls getting all over my clubhouse."
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 14:37 |
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These are the same people who review-bombed Battletech down to "Mixed reviews" at launch because in a game set in the year 3025, in which you command fusion powered giant robots to punch each other, there's an option in the pilot customisation screen to choose "pronoun" instead of "gender", and it includes "they" in addition to "he" and "she" This is an option which allegedly exists purely to make minor event flavour text correctly refer to custom pilots but these geniuses correctly recognised it for the cultural Marxist postmodern SJW conspiracy it truly was.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 14:57 |
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Take video game chat to some other place. Nothing good comes from it.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 15:20 |
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Worth it to annoy CHUDs :facepalm: quote:In an "off-the-record" interview with two journalists from The Winnipeg Free Press in February 1942, King stated that the purpose of the Canadian expeditionary force then training in the United Kingdom was only to defend Britain in the event of a German invasion, and he would not sending the five divisions of the expeditionary force to the Middle East as the British were requesting.[30] King told Grant Dexter of The Winnipeg Free Press on 28 February 1942 stated the purpose of the Canadian Army in Britain was "to defend the heart of the Empire", and criticized Ralston for saying in the House of Commons that he wanted "to build up a strong striking force in Britain because we would ultimately use Britain as the springboard for our thrust on the continent".[30] King told Dexter "the trouble was with Ralston and the general staff. Ralston stood up for the generals, fought the cabinet on their behalf".[30] King expressed the view that Ralson was too much under the influence of the generals and that "Generals are almost invariably wrong".[30] In the same interview, King stated his belief that Japanese would invade British Columbia "just as soon as the Japs could muster the men and material".[31]
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 15:59 |
Cessna posted:"Icky girls getting all over my clubhouse." Can't they just be bitter and lonely about this quietly? we get they got issues with women.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 16:15 |
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Huh, that's kind of cool. Guess I got to buy it next time a sale rolls through. Isn't Rome II the one with the catapult that shoots bees at people? And scorpions, and snakes, and spiders, depending on faction? Was that ever a thing?
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 16:29 |
Rockopolis posted:Huh, that's kind of cool. Guess I got to buy it next time a sale rolls through. CA's approach is essentially 'this novelty thing looks/is cool lets put it in a game!' which is pretty much had been a theme since 2002 and these weird nerds are a bit late to yell and shake fists at them.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 16:39 |
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https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1044611211130679296
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 16:46 |
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feedmegin posted:Why would you assume this? Here's a manual for Texas, for instance - I assumed it because of the majority of soldiers being conscripts or otherwise newly raised and trained very quickly. Even if the goal was something more complex than freefire, that doesn't mean the men were trained well enough to actually do it.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 17:08 |
Don't want to lose your standards? either protect it better or hilariously quietly try and hire a tailor to make new ones to cover up missing ones while still on campaign.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 17:09 |
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austria only gave gustavus adolphus's buff coat back to sweden in the late nineteen-teens/early twenties as thanks for sweden's efforts to feed their population when they were all starving after the war. this poo poo is still a big deal
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 17:14 |
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is this descended from the 1st minnesota? because that would be absolutely bad rear end edit - it sure as gently caress is. that is their goddamn flag, they earned that the hard way
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 17:16 |
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bewbies posted:is this descended from the 1st minnesota? because that would be absolutely bad rear end Holy poo poo, 82% casualties in 5 minutes, in a single action, and they held the ground. Yeah, they get to keep that flag.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 18:25 |
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The flag should he shown in it's original context, being pried from the dead hands of some dumb slave owner officer haha eat poo poo virginia
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 18:33 |
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Agean90 posted:The flag should he shown in it's original context, being pried from the dead hands of some dumb slave owner officer haha eat poo poo virginia It also pleases me greatly that Minnesota is telling them to get hosed.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 18:37 |
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They should tell them molon labe Oh, you want your standard back? Better raise some motherfucking legions then you reb pieces of poo poo.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 18:39 |
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Ice Fist posted:It also pleases me greatly that Minnesota is telling them to get hosed.
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 19:57 |
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jesse the body ventura had his issues but i'm 100% on board with that poo poo
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 21:43 |
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Midwesterners are fuckin insane when it gets down to brass tacks
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 21:52 |
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# ? Jun 13, 2024 06:39 |
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virginia is the worst and i cannot wait until NoVA, as terrible as it is, completely subsumes RoVA and all these faux confederates die
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# ? Sep 25, 2018 21:58 |