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Marmaduke! posted:Hey now, she never named names, you're just projecting about who you find sexy. I used to go out with a lass who really had a thing for Stalin, always found it weird how much she emphasised it! She specifically mentioned Eichmann and Ribbentrop as being particularly handsome!
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Marmaduke! posted:I used to go out with a lass who really had a thing for Stalin, always found it weird how much she emphasised it!  Probably second only to  Most of the senior Nazis either looked like failed Dominic Cummings clones or people who get professionally outraged on question time.
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Necrothatcher posted:I wish my grandfather would have shut up about the war. He spent it as a Royal Navy VD specialist touring ships to inject diseased cocks with penicillin - kept getting lectures as a teenager about the importance of strapping up and making sure my partners were clean. My granddad never really spoke about the war, but he spent most of it on anti U-boat corvettes
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Necrothatcher posted:I wish my grandfather would have shut up about the war. He spent it as a Royal Navy VD specialist touring ships to inject diseased cocks with penicillin - kept getting lectures as a teenager about the importance of strapping up and making sure my partners were clean. You don't actually have to inject the cock, op Guavanaut posted:
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Mine was in the Merchant Navy, but did get to be there at the sack of Berlin.
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Failed Imagineer posted:You don't actually have to inject the cock, op I'm sure cock's are attached to bigger cocks...
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Failed Imagineer posted:Other way round surely?
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One of my grandads was a royal navy attache on a free french ship and his job was to blow it up if they ever looked like they were going to defect. He didn't talk much about the war because I think most of it was getting strafed and witnessing the aftermath of japanese war crimes in south east asia. After the war he had a job intergrating free polish soldier who couldn't go home back into british society. The other grandad broke his leg dicking around on motorcycles during training and spent most of the war being a postman in east anglia. He briefly went to italy and got to drive one of those amphibious-trucks behind the lines. He would never shut up about the war.
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Z the IVth posted:I'm sure cock's are attached to bigger cocks... Cocks full of semen attached to seamen who are cocks inside of submarines which are essentially just metal cocks full of seamen. Sorry I've gone all Chuck Tingle
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Failed Imagineer posted:You don't actually have to inject the cock, op Great way to encourage your sailors to be a bit more careful though.
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Marmaduke! posted:Hey now, she never named names, you're just projecting about who you find sexy. I used to go out with a lass who really had a thing for Stalin, always found it weird how much she emphasised it! Young Stalin was a babe. Anyway, my paternal grandad was on a mine sweeper that I believe was a former fishing vessel, no idea what he did on it. But I do know he was in Malta for a while and then ended up in a convoy escort that went to Murmansk. There was a photo of one of the boats he served on at his house, kind of wish I claimed it after my gran died. Should've spoken about it with him more but there you go. Maternal grandad was a shepherd on Skye and wanted to join the RAF, he passed some first evaluation and was going to do flight training until someone decided his profession was too important. Which I find hard to imagine because the image of RAF pilots is they are pretty posh and well, he was very much from a poor farming background on an island backwater.
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One grandfather spent the war commanding a 4” gun battery at Skegness and boffing the hell out of my grandmother, though he did get sent to Kenya post war. I was too young to realise this meant he probably was involved in shady post-colonial poo poo, and never asked him about it before he died- apparently he hated the place the entire time he was there, and nearly died of measles. He got that war posting because my great grandfather was an admiral (iirc he was responsible for Coastal Defence) and pulled some strings. My other was in the Far Eastern Air Force as an engineer and spent most of the war as a Japanese pow, being starved, beaten and forced to work in the mines. Apparently the Japanese navy were okay to the prisoners- the most common story he would tell was how they had a rugby game against the prisoners and got thrashed. Then he was handed over to army custody and poo poo got bad. Apparently quite a few of the more brutal guards got lynched after liberation, and he’d always get this weird smile when talking about it. Camrath fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Cocks full of semen attached to seamen who are cocks inside of submarines which are essentially just metal cocks full of seamen.
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Guavanaut posted:New Heart of Oak lyrics coming along nicely. Well now I have the mental image of Cpt Picard leading the crew in a jaunty chorus of this in Ten-Forward
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Filboid Studge posted:Is that unusual? Is it that all these folks’ grandads were too young to get sent off, and are passing on folk myths? As a kid growing up in the 80s, my great-uncles were full of wild, vivid and bloody war stories and were gleeful and expressive narrators of said tales- "ah, we told him not to cross that gap but an '88 got him and it was such a mess" etc My grandad had stories too, but never of anything approaching combat. Stories about friends getting in trouble with military police (or managing to run away), maybe some fun adventure- distinct from the war, about the italian man he befriended afterwards while waiting to demob. My great uncles worked in supply and catering, likely didn't see much of any combat and came back from the war with lots of black market derived cash and bravado. My grandad was infantry at monte cassino and came back with more scars than you could count, and ptsd that had him jumping behind garden walls if a car backfired. From what my dad could find from records, most of his original platoon didn't come back. The narrative of the conflict was almost entirely written after the fact by folk with mindsets like my great-uncles and it quickly became a vast industry of films, comics, toys and models etc that continued for decades. It became a national myth, sanitised for mass consumption and normalised beyond context until we have generations of people that get turgid and misty-eyed at the sheer sight of some union jacks and a poppy and oooo look a spitfire too, but are utterly and wilfully blind to the resurrection of open fascism. They dote on poppies much like nazis treat the swastika- performative display of a revered symbol that is now entirely removed from the original meaning, more a statement about compliance and tacit agreement with the established narrative. The boomer generation were raised entirely in this fog of leaded petrol fumes and constant appeals to live up to the jingoistic national myth- and they assumed the role and regalia of a fictional "greatest generation" by some hosed up mental osmosis process, and, well, here we are now, with politicians openly talking about how and where new concentration camps should be set up and ensuring the state security services have the power to rape, torture and murder without risk of prosecution. Just so long as no-one puts on a swastika arm band or speaks in a horrendously bad german accent like in the war films, it can't possibly be fascism. Pretty hosed up imo
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Necrothatcher posted:She specifically mentioned Eichmann and Ribbentrop as being particularly handsome! Oh sorry, I must've missed that post, I take it back! Posting about sexy Nazis once is bad, actually naming multiple names is just spectacular.
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I have a suitcase of letters and other documents belonging to my great grandparents including letters between them when my great grandad was in Africa. In one he talks about how nice it was to see a white woman around the camp - "not to say the people here aren't fine folk, but it was good to see a bit of civilisation around the place" was close to how he wrote it iirc.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:My granddad never really spoke about the war, but he spent most of it on anti U-boat corvettes So did mine, and he didn't talk about it either, apart from one late-night heart-to-heart talk with my Dad just before he (my Dad...) got married, so that would be in the early 80s, getting on for 40 years after the events. That's the only reason I know about it. That grandfather's brother was in the Army in WW2 and spent a large part of the war as PoW in an Italian camp - the one where the commanding officer was later convicted of war crimes. He would also have been involved in the gently caress-up where the advancing Allies instructed the Senior Allied Officer at the camp to keep all the PoWs on-site to be liberated - the SAO carried that out to the letter, even placing armed guards to stop prisoners attempting to escape back to the Allied line themselves. Except the Germans swooped in and recaptured the camp and most of the PoWs. My great-uncle would have either of been one of the 30,000 who were taken to camps in Germany or one of the 11,500 who escaped and crossed the Alps to Switzerland. We don't know because he never talked about it. All we have is a portrait of him painted by a fellow PoW while in the camp (painted with home-made paints on a square of linen cut out of the back of an Army uniform shirt). Further back, my mum's side of the family had several men who were in WW1, including one who had long-term lung problems after being gassed who likewise kept resolutely quiet about his experience, and one who was killed in the Ypres Salient and who was simply never mentioned by those left at home - we only learnt of his existence when my Mum's mum began researching family history. So I think the idea of Boomers sitting on their parents' knee listening to heart-rousing stories of war is - like most of their worldview - either fantasy or getting reality crossed with their childhood pop culture. I think the majority of the WW1/WW2 generation absolutely kept quiet because it wasn't a glorious yarn, it was something they were glad to see the back of and didn't want to keep reliving. I think they'd be appalled at War Christmas.
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Being half Czech and half Slovakian my family had two wildly different experiences of the war. On the Czech side my grandfather was in a labour camp and then later concentration camp, though he did get to see the aftermath of the Dresden bombing (as part of a work gang cleaning up the rubble). Meanwhile his wife was a forced labourer in an aircraft part factory getting abused by her German supervisors without any contact with my grandfather for many years. Not a great time. My other side of family being lukewarm fascist allies mostly just chilled at home, though my grandfather got involved with communists which could have gotten him killed, so I guess there was that. Also my grandmother had seen one of her classmates raped by soviet soldiers when they reached them, but on the whole it was a much better time than the other side of the family. e: As for WWI both sides of the family fought against the Entente (which is to say on the other side than Britain) in Italy, though mostly as support personnel like cooks and battlefield messengers. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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DesperateDan posted:My grandad was infantry at monte cassino and came back with more scars than you could count, and ptsd that had him jumping behind garden walls if a car backfired. From what my dad could find from records, most of his original platoon didn't come back. Doesn't surprise me one bit. My grandfather was a driver with the artillery at Monte Cassino. He maintained that he saw the American deployment charts and they had them upside down, which led to them shelling Allied troops.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Wales is shut. Hey come on now, Wales is alright. e: misread
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My dad's dad was a welder's mate so he spent the war building ships in Portsmouth as far as I know, and manning an AA gun in his off time, though he didn't talk about it much. My mum's dad was in the merchant navy and I assume saw some poo poo, but he died long before I was born (led a horrifically unhealthy drinking/gambling/smoking lifestyle and keeled over at the age of like 45 of a heart attack).
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Z the IVth posted:This is "we won't have any cases if we don't test" levels of mental gymnastics. Actually if the objective is to "maintain public trust in police tactics" then not showing evidence of them brutalizing people for shits and giggles that might contradict the erroneous belief a lot of people seem to have that they're upstanding members of society is actually a perfectly good idea. It's just whether or not you care about maintaining the illusion or actually stopping them doing it.
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The new Kerry has a couple of characters who make good candidates for joining 'Sicko'. I hope to see a UKMT version of Jesus/Santa soon. 
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Hezzy posted:I got banned trying to auth? ACAB (And don't import off-site poo poo to the thread)
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Ratjaculation posted:How much toilet roll hoarding is too much? Depends how much you need! I have read that the average adult uses 2 bog rolls a week. Things would get pretty dire round here if I only had 2 bogrolls a week. My internal systems require an average of 1 bogroll a day. Yes I do 'go' more in a day than some people go in a month. I have built up a 3 month stash over the past 6 months. And don't forget if you are/share a home with a menstruating woman - esp if they are peri-menopausal and flooding heavily - or daughter over the age of 9 (periods often start young these days) you might need considerably more some weeks! Other stockpiling chat: I was thinking of getting in a box or two of those bird food 'fat balls' for the most dire emergency. There is no chance on this planet I will consume those unless utterly desperate! Tinned foods: these last years, no need to eat them all in a 3 month binge! My Y2K stash of 6 months worth of supplies lasted me over 3 years - a couple of tins a week - and I was extremely grateful for them when I got quite ill (not having nearby family or friends to do shopping for me and it was pre-internet ordering back then). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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Me and my partner get through a roll a day easily, possibly more. We currently make sure we have two full 9 packs in reserve at all times, but that's probably not enough.
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Just jumping in to mention that the Naked Sprout bamboo toilet roll is pretty good, saves trees, and you can order it posted to you in boxes of 48 rolls.
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More on the subject of post-Grenfell inspections uncovering spectacularly awful standards of construction in... just about everything. This time, they've found such a lethal mess that almost 900 people have been immediately evacuated from an apartment building:quote:Almost 900 people living in a six-block development in London are being moved out immediately because of serious safety concerns relating to the construction of the buildings. Bad luck for the 105 leaseholders, who'll have paid enormous sums for a now unmortgagable shoebox made out of cardboard and kindling. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/19/residents-evacuated-london-paragon-site-brentford
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Ballots for the labour NEC elections have started going out - I got mine a few hours ago. Since it's SLV momentum are recommending different orders if you live in difference places to maximise chances of lower ranked candidates getting in - check where here. If you're eligable to vote for youth/disabled rep the names for that are at here. There's also a treasurer election slot, which I'm unsure who we're supposed to vote for. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Other stockpiling chat: If you don't want bird food and can spend a bit more, then just wait for a sale and pick up whatever meal replacement shake powder is cheapest in supermarkets/health store/online protein&supplements type store (or Huel if you want the latest one that's throwing ads at redditors, they're all the same thing just with different branding for different target markets). That stuff keeps for a year, usually, if sealed. It also has super clear nutritional information on it so you could see what would be missing from your diet if you were going to rely on it for a period. If you're wanting something that'll keep much longer though, it's not ideally since I think it does deteriorate over time.
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Maugrim posted:Naked Sprout bamboo toilet roll
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Reminder to anyone stockpiling- start a spreadsheet and enter in what you buy and when it expires and maybe what box/shelf it occupies That way if you don't end up using it, you know what needs using/donating first without having to go through a fuckload of groceries tin by tin It turned topping up my previous brexit stash into an absolute breeze
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