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Commander Wallace 03-01-25 02:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Ostfriese (Post 2946125)
It seems many Americans don't even know that there are other countries than the US, Mexico and Canada. Many Americans don't seem to know that the English speak English.

Where do you come up with your stupid Bs ?

Reece 03-01-25 02:31 AM
Yeh!! The English speak American! :yeah:

ET2SN 03-01-25 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen (Post 2945895)
The above is copied from a post I made today on Facebook - and just now I was sent this by a US friend of ours -

(Quote)
"Know this; I personally think of all of you as a treasure to have as friends. A strength. Like your precious poet has penned, not a clod of dirt falls into the
ocean without the whole of England [insert "everyone", as we are actually talking about humanity] suffering. You are extremely precious to me and my
friends"
Geez, were they trying to sell you an insurance policy or an extended warranty for the car? :haha::haha::haha:

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen (Post 2945986)
I'm not, mate - I'm safely in the blue zone - "Apparently not the north" :Kaleun_Salute:

https://i.imgur.com/MjOBwln.jpeg X marks the squirrel
BTW, just in case- WHACK!

:Kaleun_Smile:

Ostfriese 03-01-25 02:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace (Post 2946133)
Where do you come up with your stupid Bs ?

Experience. Met more than enough of those.

Commander Wallace 03-01-25 04:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Ostfriese (Post 2946136)
Experience. Met more than enough of those.

I would put what I know and the understanding of Geography and History by the kids I grew up with against you any day.

And your experience tells you that no one knows Geography like perhaps-you ? A number of us spent time in Germany protecting you. Remember that. We know where Germany is, that's for sure.

Eichhörnchen 03-01-25 05:23 AM
Hey, guys - please! My fault all this - the tenor of my OP was meant to question whether GB is quite as prominent or important as our press seem so needy to hear about in dealings with the US. Perhaps clumsy of me to attempt to illustrate this with the anecdote as I did :timeout:

Platapus 03-01-25 06:54 AM
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin

mapuc 03-01-25 09:51 AM
We have to go back to the beginning of the 80's where the Swedish King and Queen was on an official visit in USA.

Each day there were news report from this visit. One day(I'll never forget it)the reporter was visiting a bar/pub and there he asked the quest if they knew Sweden and where it could be found on the map.

Those he asked didn't know there was a country named Sweden...Until he came to this man who was pretty sure Sweden was an island and it could be found north of Japan

Markus

Platapus 03-01-25 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 2946195)
Until he came to this man who was pretty sure Sweden was an island and it could be found north of Japan

Markus



Well... if you go enough North from Japan....:D

Catfish 03-01-25 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 2946196)
Well... if you go enough North from Japan....:D
Not true, you will fall off the map. Also the map in the video further north in this thread is unfair, everyone knows that America is left on the map, and Asia is right. Strict geographically of(f) course.

Commander Wallace 03-01-25 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen (Post 2946149)
Hey, guys - please! My fault all this - the tenor of my OP was meant to question whether GB is quite as prominent or important as our press seem so needy to hear about in dealings with the US. Perhaps clumsy of me to attempt to illustrate this with the anecdote as I did :timeout:

You have nothing to apologize for, Eichhörnchen. :) I was being facetious when I posted the funny map of England. Of course, you, Jim and others took it as the joke it was meant to be. I know you, Jim and others have a sense of humor here in the Forum's. Some decided to highjack the thread in pursuit of their own agenda. As far as England being Important, rest assured, it is. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
You understand the Importance of having a sense of humor in these difficult and uncertain times. Unfortunately, some people don't. It's all good, Eichhörnchen. :)

Aktungbby 03-01-25 12:20 PM
.../\ let's be honest here CW :D your's and my knowledge of geography does not extend much beyond a hockey rink or a Rugby pitch:shucks:....and, this being a :subsim: forum based on WWII, the only geographical primary factotum is: "the Atlantic is an English speaking Lake;" as Donitiz conceded in May of 1943 when he withdrew his lost-cause submersibles from action! That said, my favorite places on the spinning mudball are Moorea, (CubMed-French), Bonaire,(SKUBA-Dutch), and Islay(peat-fired Scotch whisky-Gaelic)! :yeah::arrgh!:

Commander Wallace 03-01-25 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2946223)
.../\ let's be honest here CW :D your's and my knowledge of geography does not extend much beyond a hockey rink or a Rugby pitch:shucks:....and, this being a :subsim: forum based on WWII, the only geographical primary factotum is: "the Atlantic is an English speaking Lake;" as Donitiz conceded in May of 1943 when he withdrew his lost-cause submersibles from action! That said, my favorite places on the spinning mudball are Moorea, (CubMed), Bonaire,(SKUBA), and Islay(peat-fired Scotch whisky) :yeah::arrgh!:

I must disagree. I barely knew my way around the Hockey rink either. :haha: Although, I knew the way to the Penalty box. :D :yep: I suspect, you may well have been the same. :D That being said, Geography and History was a big deal in my Primary School. The other kids and I learned well. I used to help an older family friend with his oversized Garden. He had served in WW2 and unbeknownst to me at the time, taught me Geography and History as well. He was a good man. :yep:

Aktungbby 03-01-25 12:53 PM
That shines. My sixth-grade teacher, and TBD aerial rear-gunner on was on the USS Lexington in WWII when she was sunk at Coral Sea; and my drafting instructor was captured on the beach at Dieppe on the practice raid for D-day! Their war-stories and Homer's Illiad/Odessey probably prompted my interest enroute to a '73 History degree BA. :timeout:

Commander Wallace 03-01-25 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2946228)
That shines. My sixth-grade teacher, and TBD aerial rear-gunner on was on the USS Lexington in WWII when she was sunk at Coral Sea; and my drafting instructor was captured on the beach at Dieppe on the practice raid for D-day! Their war-stories and Homer's Illiad/Odessey probably prompted my interest in history and a '73 History degree BA. :timeout:
They were called the Greatest Generation for good reason. :Kaleun_Salute:
I'm sure the men you knew were exceptional men of character in their own right. :yep: Good on you for not only following their exemplary examples but also for being a font of knowledge regarding treatises and other subjects of a Historical nature here.

I knew we had a bit in Common other than being a couple of Scots Miscreants and Scamps. :yep: :haha:

Jimbuna 03-01-25 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace (Post 2946217)
You have nothing to apologize for, Eichhörnchen. :) I was being facetious when I posted the funny map of England. Of course, you, Jim and others took it as the joke it was meant to be. I know you, Jim and others have a sense of humor here in the Forum's. Some decided to highjack the thread in pursuit of their own agenda. As far as England being Important, rest assured, it is. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
You understand the Importance of having a sense of humor in these difficult and uncertain times. Unfortunately, some people don't. It's all good, Eichhörnchen. :)
Top man :salute:


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