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From: Bill Sloman on 4 Aug 2006 08:04 "Phat Bytestard" <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> schreef in bericht news:dhk5d29vhnp3tove6lck23c381582n62v8(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:28:31 +0200, "Bill Sloman" > <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> Gave us: > >>You were fighting on your own behalf, and you didn't start fighting until >>it >>became clear that the Axis powers were as much of threat to you as they >>were >>to the U.K. and its colonies. > > > You're an idiot. We were involved in the war for three years before > we rolled a single tank. If you were less Phat-headed, you'd know that that rather gnomic statement needs to be backed up with something that looks at least vaguely like a fact. Pearl Harbour brought you into WW2 on the 7th December 1941. What were you doing on the 7th December 1938 that counts as involvement? Are you perhaps referring to Chennaults "Flying Tigers"? http://www.flyingtigersavg.com/tiger1.htm They seem to have been independent mercenaries. The U.S. administration may have been covertly sympathetic, but did nothing that the Japanese might have seen as a provocation. -- Bil Sloman, Nijmegen
From: John Woodgate on 4 Aug 2006 07:58 In message <44D32FCF.21FB5C99(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes >Just seen on Channel 4 news. A poll indicates that a mere 16% of the UK >population backs His Blairness's pro-Israel stance. That doesn't mean that he is wrong. I expect 84% of people believe something that you KNOW is wrong. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
From: joseph2k on 4 Aug 2006 08:18 John Larkin wrote: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:29:31 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>John Larkin wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:05:45 +0100, Eeyore >>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >You guys wouldn't understand real news untainted by US bias if you were >>> >slapped round the face with it. >>> >>> Hey, we get an hour of BBC news on TV every night, and sometimes I >>> manage to stay awake for a lot of it. And there's the always >>> thought-provoking Page 3. >> >>The Sun is more comic than newspaper tbh :~) and I'm sure you have your >>equivalents. >> >>What channel do you see the BBC news on btw ? I dare say you're hardly >>typical though. I for my part often catch ABC's news headlines on BBC News >>24. >> > > We get three different PBS (the non-commercial Public Broadcasting > System) stations here. They run lots of BBC stuff, actually: > Masterpiece Theater, the Mystery series (Morse, Dalgliesh, Linley, > Miss Marple), BBC news and documentaries, Monte Python, and some > stunningly bad British situation comedies. > > Really, you seem to believe that all Americans are fat idiots who only > listen to Rush Limbaugh and never leave their home towns. If you'll > excuse the criticism, that seems awfully provincial of you. > > John IIRC masterpiece theater was originally American and regular commercial TV. For one season. Like Twilight Zone and many other really creative programs, corporate executives could not understand their popularity. They canceled them prematurely. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: Frank Bemelman on 4 Aug 2006 08:20 "John Woodgate" <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> schreef in bericht news:pWKspSaCaz0EFw+x(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk... > In message <44D32FCF.21FB5C99(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Fri, 4 Aug > 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes > >>Just seen on Channel 4 news. A poll indicates that a mere 16% of the UK >>population backs His Blairness's pro-Israel stance. > > That doesn't mean that he is wrong. I expect 84% of people believe > something that you KNOW is wrong. It also wouldn't mean he is right, when the figures were backwards. -- Thanks, Frank. (remove 'q' and '.invalid' when replying by email)
From: John Woodgate on 4 Aug 2006 08:34
In message <44d337dd$0$2022$ba620dc5(a)text.nova.planet.nl>, dated Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> writes >Pearl Harbour brought you into WW2 on the 7th December 1941. What were >you doing on the 7th December 1938 that counts as involvement? It would be a unique military feat indeed; to be involved in a war that began nine months in the future. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |