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Rob Ross

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  1. All Christmas songs should be Finnished. Period.
  2. I assume this is some kind of sex aid for those of the single persuasion? Bzzzt!
  3. Oh that's just lazy. If you're going to make an effort to build a Tiger to 3/4 scale, why not do it properly and make it a proper Tiger? Can't be doing with the final 1/4? Wanted to make it up Everest, but thought that 3/4 was close enough? Feeble, truly feeble. C'mon Whermacht Heavy Armour Fanboyz (WHAFs)... Hitler didn't conquer Russia with 3/4 built Tigers you know!
  4. Thought I'd check out what the GF on BF is up to these days. Didn't expect to spend 6,693 years scrolling though sticky PT boat threads before I got there! So. Are sticky PT boats worth the hassle? Is it easier to attack the enemy with sticky PT boats, or does it not give the torpedoes time enough to arm if you are clamped to their hull?
  5. You're right of course. Anything in the Daily 'Oh My God We're All Gonna Die' Mail could hardly be believed. Not by any rational person anyway.
  6. While idling away a few hours playing the rather good Diablo clone 'Titan Quest' the other day, I found myself surrounded by 'Gibbering Peng'. These turned out to be baboon-faced flying goblin type creatures. The main goal in their artificial life seemed to be to screech out an unintelligable racket whenever someone got within earshot. Their other goal was to retardedly run head first onto any sharp pointy objects in my characters possesion. It all somehow seemed so appropriate.
  7. After comparatively heavy casualties in July the recruitment figures for the British Army jumped by 25%. I think the motivation you're looking for is: F**K'EM.
  8. Superb. An enjoyable read and good pictures Kuniworth. Thanks for posting!
  9. Well I'm hard put to think of anyone who is forced to fight. There is always a choice involved, not everyone had to pull a trigger even if they joined the forces. And bad news m8, AFAIK soldiers don't give a stuff about you or me. They fight for their buddy who is next to them in the hole, to avoid letting him down. They certainly don't go through hell for 'us'. Isn't it funny how when the cost of war is being driven home the 'hero' volume is ramped up by Governments. I'm remain convinced that politicians, some businesses, and clueless or war-loving civvies are the main 'hero' worshippers. Soldiers themselves aren't interested.
  10. But why does 'society' need to believe that war in particular is heroic when those have been there insist it is not? Surely there are enough alternatives nowadays from reality TV 'stars' to charity workers for needy people to latch on to?
  11. Well, if they don't like it (they don't), maybe out of respect 'culture' should stop pigeonholing and offending them? It says a lot about modern society though
  12. Hmm, that word - heroes. I have seen, and have interviewed some myself, many veterans speaking about their experience in war. I never found a common denominator except in one regard. Every single one, without exception, insisted that they were not heroes. For veterans 'hero' is a word used by a bunch of civvies who have no direct experience of war. It implies that war is somehow 'heroic'. They know otherwise.
  13. Wishful thinking but: is this a flame war over flames of war?
  14. Oooh! Kewl leather bondage gear and vaguely Nazi symbology in the background! Where do I sign?!
  15. Hah! Well you're responding to a guy who walked out of that Kate Winslet Enigma film shortly after she was shown wandering around in a field of oil seed rape. England was still a green and pleasant land in the 1940s, not scarred by omniprescent day-glo yellow splodges as it is today. So yeah, I'm most definitely a whiny biatch when it comes to immersion in 'historical' films Still, if they're 'just mucking about' then fingers crossed that they go somewhere more appropriate. As someone who was born and raised in the Sherwood Forest area, I give myself probably 10 minutes max before walking out of the upcoming Russel Crowe film. I remember that in that Costner travesty Sherwood Forest was apparently next door to Dover...
  16. Yeah, the RAF were well known for building their bomber bases right in amongst pretty hills. Ah well, there goes my immersion before the film is actually started. Unless maybe they somehow never show any hills when filming...
  17. You mentioned that issuing orders while paused appears to no longer work - be grateful if that can be confirmed, as that will be a deal breaker for me unless the game can be slowed much more than MTW2. Clickfests distract from graphics and enjoyment for this old fart.
  18. There has been a feeble attempt at revisionism by British right-wing historians in the last ten years or so on Churchill, and Corrigan is one of the worst. Their thinly veiled beef is that Churchill reduced his country into a second rate power in an all-out attempt to break Nazism. They miss their godforsaken Empire, and probably can't forgive him for being a political loose cannon and crossing the floor. I've even seen a couple of them advocate that he should have made peace in 1940. Of course the irony is that Churchill was in many ways more right wing than most. In reality Churchill was indeed a 'dabbler' in military affairs, but almost never maintained his ideas against any reasoned rebbutal. To say he hated intellectuals is utter codswallop, as is his supposed 'lack of trust' in his military leaders. He gave them all a chance and his support, let them get on with it if his ideas didn't fit, and only dismissed them after they had had a fair crack of the whip. He was an ideas man, almost a force of nature. Some of his ideas were nonsense but that's what the professionals were there for. I could not imagine how many times Alanbrooke shot Churchill down, but he was never sacked because of it. Churchill was quite prepared to be shown to be wrong.
  19. Kewl! If tanks are being included 'cos they're sexy then we just gotta have Fireflies too. Pretty please? They is waaay sexy.
  20. Were there actually any Tigers in the American sector of Normandy?
  21. In 'Sniper One' the author recounts the prescence of two Spectre gunships in support of a British battlegroup that assaulted the HQ of the Mehdi Army in Al-Amrah Iraq in mid-2004. They were much appreciated by the British squaddies. I think he summed them up as 'like having the Gods on our side'. IIRC they were particularly effective at splatting various pick-ups carrying mortars and HMGs that were racing to the scene.
  22. For info - saw a news report from the Beit Lahiya UN school in the WP photo in this thread. 1,800 refugees were there when it took two WP shells and an artillery round leaving 2 dead 14 injured. The 2 dead were kids and their 19 year old cousin had his legs blown off apparently. Grim stuff. Link to report: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/gaza+the+scale+of+destruction+emerges/2906712
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