A good point. It would depend on the sophistication of the sub buff; Churchill made it a big point of WWII propaganda to refer to all German submarines as 'U-boats' somehow conferring a dark penumbra of evil while "referring to 'ours' as submarines". WWI is largely seen as a contest of empires with no particular moral corruption to either side; although the goose-steppin Hun Gerriatrics:huh: of the WWI Imperial Navy did invent unrestricted submarine warfare which we all practice without restraint happily at :subsim:...it should apply to WWII only. On a lesser but important note, I noted in the Huffington notices that an archaeologist was involved with the U168 site off Java, which should assure no desecration to a war gravesite with 27 brave Nazi ubootwafferin covered under the Geneva convention.:up:

my wife will have to Prien the keyboard from my cold dead hands...:ping:

Oh stop being a sauer Kraut.

Was'nt that Frack in the ice follies?
Thank you for your Xmas wish BerbunchBBY:up:: English only- so I can honorably not participate in this prepubescent punditry:yeah:; Mcdonald's? ...Rangel me uppe two cheezy schlyders mit jimmies on the frappe! Und don't let a fang shuss bitte u ein der arsen! :har:

:har:
THAT is to funny!!
:har:

Possibly the best one yet :)

We might need a catagory thing.
:hmmm:
He did the - add here thingy.
Still funny as heck though.
:D

Ubahn having a fein time? You know how to Party like it's 1939.

Thanks guys. :shucks:

I must admit I'm all burnt out after that one, no more nazi/german puns for a while whilst I recuperate (if you can recuperate, why can you not cuperate?).

Hey, we weren't being serious :)

Good question, I'll need to conversate to find out.
:D

Is all this punning german to the discussion or is the panzer found in the human need for fahrvergnügen? :hmmm:

I'm going to object to trying to bring stick figures into the totally off subject discussion.
:hmph:

I'd notify Steve or Jim but I don't want to to hear about them debateing what a stick figure is!

I'd Raeder that we stick to the Speer-it of the discussion.

It really is prussian the limits
Its time to let zyclons be zyclons

Jew really need more Konzentration on the Sub ject.

Oi, Leave Anne Frank alone. Her legacy has become Legen... wait for it... diary.

For WW1/WW2 I identify German subs as Uboats, mainly because in all the books I have read about them they are referred as U99, U505 etc...

For WW1/WW2 I identify British Submarines as ... Submarines. This is because in all the books I have read they are referred to by name as for example the Submarine Sea Tiger etc (Good O'l John MIlls) :arrgh!:

As for modern German boats... I have not really thought about it as I have not read much about them.

Cheers

Gary

thanks for the info, guys.
For those who don't know: post-war German subs follow the same naming scheme as before, starting with U1, and we still call them U-Boote - though this word is used for submarines from all nations.

The rumour however, that it's forbidden to play Yahtzee on them, is not true. :03:

prepubescent pundritry of a hunnish natue
 

We really need to exit this thread before der Überflieger KIELhauls alles uns!:D