Affentitten
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Damn. Don't complain Kettles. Try living in Australia!
And I think I missed the summer sale.
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Kudos for going through the list, but Corsair, Unicorn, Cutlass, Paddle, Barb, and Permit are all types of fish. The US Navy certainly did dig up a heck of a lot of fish names, including some weird ones. Who knew a Sea Robin was a fish? There are probably more non-fish names in the Tenches than in the Gatos, and of course the S class only had alpha-numeric designators.
Fark. I think we should actually be criticising the people who name fish. It seems to be their imaginations that are limited if they are stealing so many names.
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Dead Iraqi's are, of course, blase
You mean dead insurgents.
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Corsair, Unicorn, Walrus, Cutlass, Paddle, Caiman, Narwhal, Nautilus, Bang, Barb, Permit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_submarines_of_the_United_States
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HMS Pansy you can kind of forgive, seeing how many Flower class corvettes were actually built. I think it's almost preferable to many of the bizarre sister ships of that class like HMS Polyanthus or HMS Sweetbriar. I note that one of the USN Flower class was called Saucy. A fine match up for Pansy in a Carry on Sailor film or something.
The sheer numbers of ships they had to name in those days boggles the mind. It's no wonder there were a few amusing ones.
Ships crests and mottoes were also a source of amusement. The great majority of ships received no crest or motto and it was up to the initiative of the individual captain to apply for the warrant and granting of the arms. Those skilled in Latin or French were sometimes able to pull the wool over the eys of their superiors and create some jolly public school amusment for their chums with smutty double entendres.
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But then whenever you read about ground operations you find the Yanks are prone to using a limited palette of macho call signs for their units or misison types. Tiger, cobra, viper, anaconda, eagle and the like.
No amusement in that.
There was of course a rough system of naming conventions for British aircraft in the first half of this century. Fighters had to be given names that "symbolise agression", heavy bombers were named after cathedral towns, torpedo aircraft after fish, maritime aircraft after sea birds and so on. But this system broke down pretty quickly especially with the influx of American aircraft and where aricraft developed for one role/service were deemed unsuitable and transferred to another.
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But you still decline to name what YOU consider a reliable source. Basically anything that supports your worldview I would guess.
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I submit that bias is not the same as inaccuracy. Bias is of course in the eye of the beholder, but facts are facts. They may not always be comfortable facts though.
For the record, here in good old Australia, we have an even tighter rein on the media in terms of their access to defence stories. Almost nothing gets out that the miltary-political axis doesn't want said.
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You're post was way to LONG to be of interest
Nick
Now we know his real problem with the NYT. Too many words.
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New York Times...are you serious? That rag lays so far left the only worthwhile use for it is the guys on park benches that use it for cover, same league as the National Enquirer.
Just out of interest, what DO you consider as a good print media source?
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What's amazing is that if you loook at the stats http://stats.rugbyheaven.com.au/rugbyheaven/rugbygame4.aspx the ABs are ahead in virtually everything except points.
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30 turnovers from NZ. Unprecedented. Every time the Blacks got the ball we just had to wait 10 seconds to get it back again. What a hardcore game though. Some great attacking from everybody and a ref who was judicious in his application of the whistle and prepared to let the game flow. But how those players can walk the next day is beyond me, given the constant battering they get.
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Gee guys, you should get a better coach!
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Journalists being disenfranchised because they don't report exactly the line that the US government wants?
Bit late to start complaining now.
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Nothing in this story has changed my opinions of Wiccans.
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Anyone else got the gorilla add for Cadbury Chocolate playing on their TV these days?
It's pushed the old Phil Collins song to #1 in NZ - it's on You Tube somewhere but I can't access it from work so you'll have to provide yor own link sorry.
IRC the guy in the suit also did gorilla stuff for King Kong.....talk about type cast!!
Sure, blame it on the ad. We all know that the song has gone #1 in NZ because you guys are that far lagged in popular culture. You all still enjoying that new M*A*S*H show?
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Yes probably that as well. But they do seem to be heavily pushing it in their recruitment ads. Tech/engineering professions are also in major shortage. Not surprising when someone with say an electrical engineering qualification could be working in an iron ore project for maybe quadruple what they'd get in the Navy. We're at the point where we can barely scrape skeleton crews together for the frigates.
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What? Are Australians giving up flying en masse? Or do you not have any trainers to train new ones in?
Michael
Defence force recruiting is down across the board. But I know they do have a particular problem getting people to sign up for pilot training. We have a massive shortage of civil pilots too, so they're are recruiting more aggresively and pulling in exisiting air force pilots and those who were considering pilot training via the RAAF. I think the RAAF is also looking at 'relaxing standards' in what they require for entry, but that's obviously a bit of a minefield.
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In Australia we're slowly lessening our dependence on the US aerospace providers. Boeing has treated us very badly over the Wedgetail AWACs and so we've gone with the Airbus tankers. We've also opted for the Eurocopter after badly managed experiences with the Blackhawk and Seapsrite.
But the politicans are still slavering over the F-35, which is the really juicy contract. We'll have no pilots to fly them, of course...
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How many options will there be? Several?
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No it was the Lifeline bookfair up at Wahroonga.
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Yeah looking around on the web seems that the volumes covering 1940 and 41 are much more common. And from my set they seem to have published more prolifically about the early years of the war. For example, there are about 9 volumes covering 1940, but only 2 for 1944 (though they're thicker).
It also seems as if the volumes are compilations of what was likely a weekly magazine at one stage.
Anyway it seems I have made a tidy profit. Single volumes are selling for about GBP10 or US$20 on ebay and the like. I have a complete set of 26 volumes and I paid AUS$50 for it.
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Well, it seems that the author is wrong then, and quite badly too. I wonder how many other such gems the book contains
I hadn't known before that RAF had such capability (H-P V/1500) in late 1918. Interesting!
It's all part of historiography. Every single one of us forms different impressions and assumptions when we don't have eaxct data. You never know, Lenin may have been told by a German that Bombs had fallen on Berlin and he was just repeating that. You just need to read a balance of sources and try to assess the correct picture.
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Don't knock it. I had a win in the AU$40 million OzLotto draw on Tuesday night.
Now I have just got to figure out how to spend my $12.85.
Was going to get a couple of games but lost track of time.
All Blacks humiliation
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Fixed things up?? It's like they just swapped scripts. Or jumpers or something. Christ. I've never seen a more aimless effort by the Wallabies. Just keep bombing the ball straight up the middle of the field and hope something comes of it.
How about that Fijian linesman? He certainly wasn't ready for the big league.