The WWII Thread
 

Anyone interested in discussing? I've been fascinated by World War II since I was little. Back then, the only comics you could graduate to after the "funnies" dealt with either soccer or war. I was never much into football, so I ended up reading about Nazis and Tommies and Japs. In recent times, I've gotten into watching more and more documentaries on the war, and it's quite interesting how the view espoused in publications like War Picture Library, Warlord and Battle Picture Weekly were, obviously, heavily slanted in favour of the Allies (though Battle I think it was did a story based on a German hero, Hellmann of Hammer Force - was very good if I remember) and now I get to hear about the other side, to an extent anyway.

So, anyone up for talking about the Second World War, here I am. And I have a question to pose: was it not a superbly naive move of Hitler to declare war on the USA after Pearl Harbor? If he had left the Americans fighting the Japs, would that not have a) kept them out of the war in Europe and b) given him a chance to consolidate his power? Surely D-Day would never have worked without the American involvement? And the British didn't fight, did they, in the Pacific Theatre? Or am I wrong? I don't remember ever hearing that they did. So surely then he made a massive blunder by declaring war on the US?

As far as I know not in the Pacific, but in Indochina they certainly did. Of course there's probably a reason those assumedly British comics didn't want to cover that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Campaign

Oh **** yeah, of course: Burma. I forgot all about that. Gurkhas and all that. Still, if he had just left the Americans to deal with the Japs it should have been a godsend for him.

On another subject: the Aryan ideal? Did Hitler look even slightly Aryan? And Himmler? He looked more like he should be in command of a Japanese battalion or something! ****ing gob****es.

Did you read about the Jewish revenge plot?

When I was living in Japan it was on the news that these old British dudes were burning the Japanese flag. This was like 50 years later and they were still pissed about the horrors they suffered serving in the British Pacific Fleet. A lot of Brits were killed by Japanese kamikaze attacks while giving naval support in the Battle of Okinawa. They blasted the **** out of the underground bunkers the Japanese were hunkered down in.

All of modern history is a Jewish revenge plot.

And thankfully Okinawa was such a cakewalk because of it. Bang up job, ya limey ****s!

Lol @ old man TH putting this in the Current Events forum.

Yeah I've realised I was wrong there. Still, the Americans outnumbered the Brits out there.
Yeah but this was a plot to poison German cities. Scary ****.

All the political stuff goes here so I guessed this was the best place for it. Anyway, to a vampire like me 1945 is curr - ah, I mean, forgot you heard that.
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Changing the subject completely: your avvy ever going to find what she's looking around for, or what?
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Hindsight is 20/20 but Japan was a bad ass ally. They controlled Korea, chunks of China, and the fuel and other resources in Southeast Asia. They had also humiliated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.

Does it give Chula the battle of the bulge when people talk about it?

Are you going to dare to wet your feet in some conversation about it or just safely throw stones from the sidelines?

Was it the one where Hitler takes mountains of meth? Because that’s all you really need.

You're the Led Zep of punkers.

The French were dancing in the streets until round two started up.

Your post has been reported for racism.
Please refrain from such scandalous comments in the futures.
We will be watching you closely, kiddo.

I think what he’s saying is you’re a cliche.

Elph isn't punk anymore.. He's a trustfundian rebel without a trustfund.

Never forget the timeshares.

That's a very good point. But he could always have declared his support for the Empire later, when it suited him, as he did (in reverse) with Russia and as Italy did, and then undid, as the course of the war changed.
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The fact that you're German makes this even more chilling.
https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_..._330/image.jpg
Again: :clap:

Still not German.
And his post really was reported, although jokingly.

Reported to whom?

Your the mod...

Reported for dissing Elph with a line I ripped from Sage Francis?

Imagine that.

Reported to the mod team.

He=elphenor

Not everything is about you, you know.

I don't think I have a 'the mod', whatever that is.

Yeah I know, but you're the closest we have. Shrug.
Nearly everything is, though.

Well he quoted THs response to me.. I thought each line was a respective response. As in telling TH he was clapping at my post which was reported... :finger:

I wish I was day drunk right now

*were

Another addition to the fake grammar rule list.

I don't make more grammar mistakes than native English speakers. This fact pleases me.

You and all the non natives on here write and speak better English than many of the actual English people I know and went to school with.

It's amazing.

It weren't none mistake, American grammar is full of arbitrary rules derived from upper class writing conventions developed when there wasn't any kind of standard. See "or less," ending a sentence with a preposition, order of subjects, etc.

this thread sucks infinitely more than nazi germany

English language media is so omnipresent here that people of my age and younger grow up with the English language in movies, music, texts and especially games (which are almost never translated to Danish). Germany and some other European countries dub movies in their own language, but in Denmark, we fortunately just go with subtitling instead. I ****ing hate dubbing.

Just accept that you got busted bitch

I theorize that that arbitrary rule was conceived by someone trying to avoid just that.

"Man I wish I were drunk."
"Uh...it's was since you're using the first person singular."
"No! Not when it hasn't happened yet because that person doesn't exist so it's someone else!"
"Yes My Lord." *cowers in fear of being executed*

That little story was a cute way to let everyone know you’re smart enough to understand the rule but the truth is you missed it, got caught, and now you’re trying to pull a Chula.