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Post by mossie on Jan 25, 2020 19:26:30 GMT
Without him to give the country some backbone we may have lost the war. The US would have stayed out of it and quietly drained all our money before letting us fall into the nazis arms, our colonies would have become theirs.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 25, 2020 21:07:05 GMT
Without him to give the country some backbone we may have lost the war. The US would have stayed out of it and quietly drained all our money before letting us fall into the nazis arms, our colonies would have become theirs. I often wonder what would have happened if Pearl Harbour hadn't happened.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 25, 2020 21:09:03 GMT
I was in France for the funeral -- one of the first live broadcasts on Eurovision. I played football on the day of the funeral. I remember it being very cold and drizzly.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 26, 2020 4:32:41 GMT
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Post by casimira on Jan 27, 2020 18:05:21 GMT
Today marks the 75 year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Shockingly, a survey that was done indicated that 65% of the people who were interviewed had no clue, none, of what Auschwitz was.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2020 18:08:22 GMT
Where did they find these people -- still in grade school?
That really is horrifying.
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Post by casimira on Jan 27, 2020 18:14:51 GMT
It was a report on NPR and they indicated that the persons interviewed were mainly "millennials".
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 27, 2020 18:18:06 GMT
Pretty sad.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2020 18:22:03 GMT
they indicated that the persons interviewed were mainly "millennials" Gawd! Figures.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 27, 2020 18:51:46 GMT
Even in Europe, most high school students don't know anything about it because there are no Snapchat stories to enlighten them.
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Post by casimira on Jan 27, 2020 21:09:07 GMT
I would bet anything that if you were to ask this same group of people what they know about the coronavirus, the first thing that would come into their minds would be something to do with Corona Beer.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 29, 2020 8:17:24 GMT
Didn't know the name for the Ukrainian famine but did know about it - there is a great book called communisme - 100 millions de morts written by several authors that explains it well. Even if Mao did better in terms of death by famine too. I don't find many people of my age knowing about the Kolyma either. I think it is because after WW2 the USSR smelled of roses and having suffered so much were heroes thus absolved from their own crimes.
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Post by questa on Jan 30, 2020 13:26:08 GMT
Without him to give the country some backbone we may have lost the war. The US would have stayed out of it and quietly drained all our money before letting us fall into the nazis arms, our colonies would have become theirs. True, Mossie. but he was not a careful leader of his troops. He treated the soldiers like so much cannon fodder, never took into planning what the death toll might be. Made mistakes (ANZAC cove) and did not acknowledge them and would not allow Oz ships to go home to fight the Japanese.It was troops from the commonwealth who were sent ahead into battle first, later the UK troops. However, he knew the value of a logo and the bulldog scowl, cigar and V for victory sign held the people together.His gift of oratory kept them going.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 30, 2020 16:15:37 GMT
Especially troops from the colonies. We remember Dieppe as people from Oz and NZ remember times ANZAC troops were used as cannon fodder.
Churchill was also a racist, but not nearly as rabid a one as the guy on the other side.
Yes, there were a lot of people in the US who wanted to stay out of the conflict, not to mention industrialist Henry Ford who was an out and out Nazi symp who put out an antisemitic paper and established a points system in the wealthiest Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe: African-American people (including "the help" had to leave town before sundown and doctors of semitic origin (Levantine Arabs as well as Jews) were not allowed to work in his hospital.
Canada was of course already in the conflict, so that could have caused us serious problems.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 30, 2020 16:24:54 GMT
What these people from the past did is always illuminating (and sometimes dreadful as per current norms), but I fear that most of our current leaders are not all that different. They generally have less retrograde ideas, but there is so much pandering to (perceived) public opinion that horrible statements continue to be made.
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 30, 2020 16:39:00 GMT
Churchill was also a racist..... As was Gandhi.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 30, 2020 16:47:53 GMT
True. And I'm not saying that to diss Churchill (or Gandhi). Churchill played a crucial war in the conflict.
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Post by mossie on Jan 30, 2020 20:36:45 GMT
Racism was much more open in those days, perhaps unfeeling, but there was a different approach to life in general without all the touchy feely namby pambyism of today. Hell, we used to give the kids a toy called a golliwog, I'm surprised the keyboard allowed me to type that word.
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Post by casimira on Feb 2, 2020 15:22:35 GMT
I dithered about whether or not to post this in Pet Peeves or in here and settled on here.
Today in the US it is Superbowl Sunday which for those who don't know, it is the final American Football championship.
I positively LOATHE football in all it's forms and aspects.
From the game itself, the obscene amount of money that is spent on salaries, advertisements, the obsessive nature of the fans, etc. It borders on perverse.
The internet, radio, TV, newspapers, are inundated with everything having to do with it. Whether it be what foods and recipes for what to serve, what to wear, you name it, who the musical performers are etc. ad nauseum, It's inescapable.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 2, 2020 15:56:22 GMT
Poor wingless chickens! I read that 1.4 billion chicken wings will be devoured tonight, 27 million more than last year. It has become the #1 Super Bowl food in recent years. (Goodbye, pizza.)
I can't wait for the vegan fad to hit the Super Bowl. People will probably start beating each other up even more than on the football field.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 2, 2020 18:51:42 GMT
I think wings replaced NACHOS which replaced Pizza, K2.
We will watch, even though OUR team - the city-owned Green Bay Packers - was eliminated in the conference championship game.
And we will probably have pizza, but with a salad on the side. At a table with plates and utensils (“eating sticks” as my dear departed sister called ‘em...)
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 2, 2020 19:34:22 GMT
Today the date is 02/02/2020 - i.e 02022020
The same as in the USA with their format and the first time it is a palindrome for 909 years, on 11/11/1111. The next one will be in 101 years on 12/12/2121.
As an added extra, it is the 33rd day of the year and there are 333 days to go, both also palindromes.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 2, 2020 20:07:50 GMT
That is only half the number of the beast, which is why we are only half in hell so far.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 9, 2020 16:38:02 GMT
Today is National Pizza Day in the United States. WTF?
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Post by casimira on Feb 9, 2020 17:12:42 GMT
Well, considering that yesterday or the day before was National Bubble Gum Day, consider this a step up.
WTF indeed.
As my husband stated many year's ago "There's No Hope..."
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 12, 2020 17:33:13 GMT
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on this day 1809.
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Post by casimira on Feb 25, 2020 13:36:35 GMT
HAPPY MARDI GRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 25, 2020 13:46:22 GMT
Thanks. There is barely any mention of mardi gras here in spite of the carnival season in France, Belgium and Germany. The carnival season will continue for awhile here, so people tend to forget that in the past, mardi gras was the last day.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 25, 2020 13:54:50 GMT
I gave a friend who is a Gilles. So i get plenty of pics on fb. Started with the 'soumonces' now the carnival
Now we do oud best in belgium to promote carnival including basyards in Aalst making 'fun' of jews and wearing SS uniforms. Degenerates and f...ing ar.. oles if you ask me.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 25, 2020 14:46:05 GMT
Whatagain, do you need a bigger keyboard?
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