Stalins Organ
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Of course tehy could have prepared beter - another year plannign and developing woudl have helped...somewhat (diminishing returns on training, etc).....perhaps the difference would be more significant if they'd delayed until 1950 ....except they'd be invading the Peoples Socialist Soviet Repubic of France so there'd be no need....
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The Russians were actually surprised that the Germans were surprised by the T34 - remember these Russians were designing their heavy tanks in 1941 to have a 107mm gun because they expected the Germans to field something that could take out the KV-1!!
Those tank plans were quickly shelved when nothing bigger than a Mk-IV rolled across the border.
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....... so more likely a hysterectomy or tubal ligation.
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Australia still has some taxi drivers that can trace back their origins to the first convict deported there?
"Do you have a criminal record?" is a question common on immigration cards the world wide.
But in Australia you used to have to answer "yes" to get in.
I hear they've changed that recently tho......
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Him being grumpy takes nothing away from yourself's well justified reputation.
And you're stringy too.
Just in case you forgot.
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Not just over there - in these parts there are small memorials in every town & "locality" initially put up in the 1920's mostly - the WW1 names are often on the front the WW2 ones added later!
I while back I was driving along & noticed a small "bridge to nowhere" just off the side of the road - it was named "ANZAC Bridge", might once have been part of the highway before it changes path. It listed 5 or 6 names of farmers from the area killed in WW1 - it was obviously still maintained - painted and with a little bit of old road maintained as access and a picnic area.
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He obviously copied and pasted it lock, stock, and barrel including formatting from some website or other.
From an email actualy
How vapid.Michael
Better than being a humourless old goat
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It seems the Brits & Australians can relax.
Press Release: Union Negotiations
Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike
on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to
in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda management have so far
failed to produce an agreement.
The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number
of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after his death will be cut
by 25% next January from 72 to only 60. The rationale for the cut was
the increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings and a
subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife.
The suicide bombers' union, the British Organization of Occupational
Martyrs (or B.O.O.M.) responded with a statement that this was
unacceptable to its members and immediately balloted for strike action.
General secretary Abdullah Amir told the press, "Our members are
literally working themselves to death in the cause of Jihad. We don't
ask for much in return but to be treated like this by management is a
kick in the teeth."
Mr. Amir accepted the limited availability of virgins but pointed out
that the cutbacks were expected to be borne entirely by the workforce
and not by management. "Last Christmas Abu Hamza alone was awarded an
annual bonus of 250,000 virgins," complains Amir. "And you can be sure
they'll all be pretty ones too. How can Al Qaeda afford that for
members of the management but not 72 for the people who do the real
work?"
Speaking from the shed in the West Midlands where he currently resides,
Al Qaeda chief executive Osama bin Laden explained, "We sympathize with
our workers' concerns but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet
their demands. They are simply not accepting the realities of modern-
day jihad, in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to Western depravity,
there is now a chronic shortage of virgins in the afterlife. It's a
straight choice between reducing expenditure and laying people off. I
don't like cutting wages but I'd hate to have to tell 3,000 of my staff
that they won't be able to blow themselves up." He defended management
bonuses by claiming these were necessary to attract good fanatical
clerics. "How am I supposed to attract the best people if I can't
compete with the private sector?" asked Mr. Bin-Laden.
Talks broke down this morning after management's last-ditch proposal of
a virgin-sharing scheme was rejected outright after a failure to agree
on orifice allocation quotas. One virgin, who refused to be named, was
quoted as saying "I'll be buggered if I'm agreeing to anything like
that........it's too much of a mouthful to swallow".
Unless some sort of agreement is reached over the weekend, suicide
bombers will down explosives at midday on Monday. Most branches are
supporting the strike. Only the North London branch, which has a
different union, is likely to continue working. However, some members
of that branch will only be using waist-down explosives in order to
express solidarity with their striking brethren.
Spokespersons in the North of England , Essex and the entire Australian
continent stated that this would not affect their operations as "There
are no virgins in their areas anyway".
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As for myself, women have always been pleased with my meat :cool:
As is everyone who avoids it.
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No...but then it's you being discussed, not good meat.
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funny thread
I was diagnosed with gout 30 yrs ago as a 20 yr old!
The only thing I knew about it at the time was it happened to fat old Englishmen who drank too much Madeira and ate too much rare beef so they had to sit in big armchairs with their feet swathed in bandages!!
Not being one of those (then...) it actually went away for reasons I don't recall....but certainly had little or nothing to do with cutting back alcohol consumption!!
I have a slightly arthritic toe every now and then these days still and that's all the remnant of it.
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The survivors would be us.......so I guess you're right
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Dances with Wolves with tall blue Indians and a happy ending
I saw it 2D first, then 3D a few days later, and honestly the 3D probably wasn't worth the effort.
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Maybe you misheard "funnel an/the attack"?
That's something you'd be trying to do as a defence - funnel/channel it into killing zones.
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If it's a free country can I have a dozen please?
Honestly.....what do you expect? It happens everywhere that "regulators" get employed by hte regulated, and vice versa - that is how expertise gets into the regulatory agencies, and how industry attempts to ensure they have contacts, influence and understanding in/of the regulator.
do you have any actual evidence of wrongdoing, or are you just paranoid?
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There's lots of other body parts that could make contact with that lovely little looney.....
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If you only spotted 1 logic flaw then you're possessed by the aliens already.......
However the one you think you spotted seems perfectly reasonable to me ...well in their terms that is.... of course they will know where you think you hid it well.....they can read your thoughts dummy!
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And if you think you don't need one..well...you're a casualty already....
Aliens will try to stop you from wearing the helmet both mentally and physically. Remember that they can read your mind. Before you make one they may try to influence you that you don’t need one.Wow - how prescient is that?! :eek:
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No - more likely confucianism is to blame, not Islam, which barely made a scratch.
And china was behind long before communism was an itch in Engel's beard
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If you are having trouble getting the earth to move, for yourself or anyone else, then here is where you need to be.
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For a realistic depiction of ancient war you need to live without flush toilets and antibiotics for your whole life, get a bunch of people to do likewaise, then have at each otehr with sharp bits of metal.
Everything else is simulation - better or worse only according to personal taste.
As a long time ancient wargamer & reader of the classic histories I found RTW's tactical battles up to par with most sets of figure rules I have played & I enjoyed them immensly.
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Wargaming is gaming about war - sorry if the TW series isn't your cup of tea, but to say it's not a wargame (or at least the battle aspects of it are not) is being prissy.
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Grenadiers with grenades is a trivial problem - fan modders have done much more than change such things in the other TW games & I see no reason why they wouldn't here.
Other than that the TW engine(s) does a very creditably wargame IMO.
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Nore likely to get done by the Shogun/Rome/Medieval War ppl - I hear the latest one is Napoleonic so I'dxepect an AWI mod from fans at some stage if it's not included in the original.
Could the Allies have prepared better for Normandy
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Some allied units were almsot completely fought out - the British 7th armoured, for example, got a reputation for being combat shy that was attributed to "veterans" in it having been in action since the early days of the Desert campaign & not wanting to cop a bullet this late in the war.
On the flip side it's combined arms tactics were much better than other British armoured divisions for a while until they learned better - also attributable to its extensive combat experience!
so having veterans is not an adequate explaination for supposed german superiority - the 7th had plenty of veterans!
IMO the ease of conducting a defence against the difficulty of conducting an attack is sufficent explaination - that there was also good defensive terrain in the bocage just amplifies the gap.