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ajrimmer42 08-24-11 09:20 AM

U-Boat invades mainland UK
 
http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/15753806

Just seen this on my local news Twitter feed :haha: Certainly different....

"It looks just like one of the feared attack vessels that sank 3,000 Allied ships during the Second World War." Um, have they ever actually seen a U-Boat?

papa_smurf 08-24-11 09:52 AM

Date of story - 2010, bit late there.

Sailor Steve 08-24-11 01:31 PM

Yeah, somebody posted that months ago. :sunny:

ajrimmer42 08-24-11 02:55 PM

roflmao, you know I thought it seemed familiar. But hey, blame Calendar News' Twitter feed not me! :haha:

Anthony W. 08-24-11 03:35 PM

That looks nothing like any U Boat I've seen...

People that don't know their history annoy me.

Sailor Steve 08-24-11 03:55 PM

And that was said all those months ago as well. They guy is nearly 80, he built a real toy submarine and sails it in a canal. That the reporter was obtuse enough to call it a "replica" is just what reporters do. That you're annoyed over pseudo-history is pretty funny.

razark 08-24-11 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1735588)
That you're annoyed over pseudo-history is pretty funny.

Aw, c'mon! This is subsim! Even if he had gotten almost every detail correct, someone would have pointed out that he used the wrong shade of gray, or he used the 3 wheel Enigma machine, but the calendar on the wall shows that it's after 1942.

Sailor Steve 08-24-11 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by razark (Post 1735594)
Aw, c'mon! This is subsim! Even if he had gotten almost every detail correct, someone would have pointed out that he used the wrong shade of gray, or he used the 3 wheel Enigma machine, but the calendar on the wall shows that it's after 1942.

Or that real u-boats weren't powered by hamsters on treadmills. :sunny:

razark 08-24-11 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1735597)
Or that real u-boats weren't powered by hamsters on treadmills. :sunny:

I must have missed that mod. Was that an addon for GWX?

Or SH5?

Jimbuna 08-24-11 04:25 PM

SH5 :O:

Tribesman 08-24-11 04:45 PM

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People that don't know their history annoy me.
Ah yes, the history of Saxon Ireland?:har::har::har::har::har::har::har:


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