29 reasons why skippering a fleet boat...

[Rockin Robbins]

I'm sure a corresponding list could be made for skippering a u-boat. Let's see:

1. The Kriegmarine, where growing a beard is an art form! Our appearance alone is enough to sink ships. Arrrrrrrrr! American wimps!

2. Togetherness: tightly integrated doesn't even begin to describe 46 men in a little Type VII.

3. Lots of enemy to fight. We don't have to deadhead 3000 miles and then come up empty.

4. Can you say 20 knot acoustic homing torpedo?

5. Ziz-zag and ladder pattern anti-convoy and anti-escort torpedoes.

6. On a U-Boat, we don't waste time estimating AoB by eye. Somebody fill in the blank for the device in the OLC GUI.

Hey, I can't do ALL your work for you. Get to work on your own list. A list of fleet boat characteristics doesn't have to be threatening, although if the Germans had a fleet of fleet boats instead of Type VII's they would have been better served. But they could not have known that at the beginning of the war or they would have produced more Type IX's. Just thought of another one.

7. You don't have to worry about what you're going to do after the war.

8. When you sink an enemy warship or infiltrate Scapa Flow you are a hero of the fatherland, known the world over.

Look! I can't count to two. That must discredit my entire post if we follow earlier attempted reasoning. U-Boat guys: it's a GAME. You're supposed to have FUN. Sheesh!

[Kapitan_Phillips]

2 reasons why skippering both Fleet Boats and U-Boats isnt as great as it seems:

1) Wives
2) Girlfriends

[John Channing]

One reason why people should keep things in perspective.


1) They're games.





JCC

[Alex]

2) The war is over. :p



Alex

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by John Channing

One reason why people should keep things in perspective.


1) They're games.





JCC

Precisely

Looks like more movement in the peanut gallery again.

[Rockin Robbins]

Hey, I'm the author of a few of the fleet boat and now the entire u-boat list! I like both boats. But that doesn't mean that there aren't advantages and disadvantages of both. I haven't heard one person talk about Donitz' tenure as Fuhrer and how he discharged that responsibility. He focused exclusively at bringing the war to a close as soon as possible, with the fewest number of German casualties. He was NOT a Nazi.

All I see from the U-Boat crowd is grousing, not participating in something that should be fun and informative. Accusing Luke of being counting challenged is not a substitute for successfully advocating your favorite boat. Get to it! I gave you a decent start, which I give you license to edit as you please.

Or you can continue to confuse a light-hearted advocacy of fleet boats as an attack on your manhood. They say you can always tell a German, but you can't tell him much. Don't identify with your favorite boat to the extent that you exemplify this "only accurate enough to be funny" characature of the German mindset.

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

All I see from the U-Boat crowd is grousing, not participating in something that should be fun and informative. Accusing Luke of being counting challenged is not a substitute for successfully advocating your favorite boat.

Or you can continue to confuse a light-hearted advocacy of fleet boats as an attack on your manhood.

I'll take the bait because that's what it is.

Nobody called LukeFF numerically challenged.

What I am accusing him of is baiting.

You, LukeFF & I know (as do others) where this list originated from, who was involved in it's creation and the subsequent comments about said list. His statement of not knowing where it came from is a blatant lie and then his continuing post is nothing more than his usual caliber of post. The nature of this thread was summed up in post #3.

Quite frankly RR, you can pad your argument out as much as you like and try to convince people that this was meant in jest but it doesn't wash anymore, especially if (as I have) you have seen & read the original thread. Further & similar comments on other topics, are public record for all to see and I grow tired of seeing the two faced posting nature of many members here (I don't single you out in this statement, there are many others).

If people don't have the balls to truthfully post their thoughts and continue attempting to play on both sides of the fence, they shouldn't speak up. That, if I may mention him here without malice, is something I admire about Ducimus. He has the stones to post truthfully, I may not like everything he posts but I appreciate people who are honest.

Your attempt to convince me that this was posted by LukeFF as a legitimate discussion topic and to try to pass this off as humorous is an affront to my and others intelligence.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by danlisa

Your attempt to convince me that this was posted by LukeFF as a legitimate discussion topic and to try to pass this off as humorous is an affront to my and others intelligence.

Ditto. Good grief if some uboat-guy starts a topic even hinting that uboats are better than fleet boats, he'd have half the fleet boat guys on his throat, no matter how he'd say. LukeFF being one of them I'm sure.

Havent we already seen how threads like this will end?

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by John Channing

One reason why people should keep things in perspective.


1) They're games.





JCC

:rotfl:

[AVGWarhawk]

My addition are #27,#28 and #29. I thought them quite clever Back to reality and reality check....enter John Channing and I quote....."It is a game"

[Mikhayl]

One reason why sailing a u-boot is better than sex :

-you can do it with 50 stinky and sweaty men without anybody looking at you funny

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

One reason why sailing a u-boot is better than sex :

-you can do it with 50 stinky and sweaty men without anybody looking at you funny

Oh my, the imagery here..... I believe I will skip this movie:rotfl: