Sanya, not the brightest of the bunch?

[Sparx]

Not as much fun as when Scotland beat France last week. Ah that was a good day to be in the office....

are you one of us?

It was indeed a good day i found out about it the next day due to being at a music festival, i almsot fell out the car when i put the radio on

 

[Gamah]

are you one of us?

It was indeed a good day i found out about it the next day due to being at a music festival, i almsot fell out the car when i put the radio on

this made me laugh

 

[judas]

are you one of us?

It was indeed a good day i found out about it the next day due to being at a music festival, i almsot fell out the car when i put the radio on

and i thought this thread was getting booring...
Now i can sleep knowing i leart something usefull today.

 

[Coldbeard]

dude.. doubt the "historians" here know the true meaning of that phrase

It's actually not so rarely used as you might think, heck I've even seen media use "Phyrric victory"

 

[censi]

its like one of the george W bush fook ups.

 

[Sparx]

this made me laugh

lol

 

[Gahn]

Guys ... erm ... me thinks it's some sort of quote from Animal House.
Actually i'm 99,9% sure about it, it was from John Belushi when they discuss about Neidermeyer.

 

[Hawkwind]

Yeah 'cos everyone in the world has seen some shit film.

Yeah 'cos everyone can make silly comments about a film they have never seen. A John Belushi classic and by far the best frat comedy film ever made :worthy: . Still remember his Spiderman style stealthy approach to girls frat house and the impression of zit. All other frat movies are just cheap rip offs.

LOL at the self owning. Take it on the chin and laugh it off, easy mistake if you did not know

 

[Rhana]

What do they teach in schools about Soviet Union vs Finland in WW2 btw?

That the Finland fighted with the germans... untill the germans sort of just evaced finland and left them to fight the russians on there own... and when that sort of looked bad, the finnish (is that spelled that way... looks funkey..) secretservice (what ever it is/was called in finland) tried to buy there way into sweden for them self and there families with the brunt of records, codes ect they had... We, the swedes where the perfect neutral country ... ... and kept the best and the brightes of the intel personal, rounded the rest up and sent them back to the russians (and ofcoz, kept all the records and codes)... Sort of the same what we did with some jews that managed to escape to sweden.. them we sent back to the germans...

Well... Sometimes I wish I didnt like history... sometimes you just wants to uke: ower what your country have done.

By the way, Finland managed to hold the russians off.. not half badly done, I say.

 

[Phantomby]

Nope, Russia did win, but Finland finished a close second .
Soviet Russia never managed to occupy Finland though and if you look at its losses it was really what defines a Pyrrhic victory.
In any case: pearls can be cultured in so many places, so why would anyone care about Pearl Harbour?

heheh i thought Pyrrhus was the defining aspect of a pyrrhic victory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

pedantic hat off

 

[Levin]

heheh i thought Pyrrhus was the defining aspect of a pyrrhic victory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

pedantic hat off

Sorry for taking this opportunity to derail this thread further, but... i have to do some shameless plugging here.

If you're even a little interested in this ancient history stuff, you guys should try out RTR (Rome: Total Realism, which is a mod for the great game - Rome: Total War) They added in Pyrrhus and his armies in southern Italy as a part of the Greek faction. The mod is just awesome and has kept me playing the game since it came out and i can't recommend warmly enough. They're currently working on a final version 7.0 for RTR. I don't know if it's allowed to post a link to their site here, but if you google it, make sure you go to the .net site and not to .org or .com.. those are older, now defunct sites.

 

[SkarIronfist]

Latest Grab Bag ...

http://www.camelotherald.com/more/2776.shtml (Down the bottom)

"The Germans at Pearl Harbor thing (in the grab bag on 10/13) was a joke from a movie called Animal House. Belushi as a frat boy. It was funny. But I gather from my email that this movie was not the universal viewing experience I had thought it was. For the record, I in no way have ever for a moment actually believed that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor in World War Two."

Sanya, has never come across as stupido, so for her to make such an obvious mistake was unlikely. We have to remember not all Americans are dopey.

 

[Gamah]

Latest Grab Bag ...

http://www.camelotherald.com/more/2776.shtml (Down the bottom)

"The Germans at Pearl Harbor thing (in the grab bag on 10/13) was a joke from a movie called Animal House. Belushi as a frat boy. It was funny. But I gather from my email that this movie was not the universal viewing experience I had thought it was. For the record, I in no way have ever for a moment actually believed that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor in World War Two."

Sanya, has never come across as stupido, so for her to make such an obvious mistake was unlikely. We have to remember not all Americans are dopey.

^^ I was wrong world rejoice!

 

[Krakatau]

^^ I was wrong world rejoice!

 

[Kaomond]

The school(s) I went to never covered Pearl Harbour; it was mainly World War/Plague. - Didn't stick around long enough to learn about Russians.

Erm, i always thought Pearl Harbor was a pivotal moment in World War Two, it was the attack by the Japanese in an atempt to scare America to stay out of the war that actually had the reverse effect and brought the yanks kicking and screaming into World War 2. So if you were never tought about it then your history classes were severely lacking.

 

[Pirkel]

Erm, i always thought Pearl Harbor was a pivotal moment in World War Two, it was the attack by the Japanese in an atempt to scare America to stay out of the war that actually had the reverse effect and brought the yanks kicking and screaming into World War 2. So if you were never tought about it then your history classes were severely lacking.

Of course others will say that America was well aware of the strike before it happened but had minimal defences up so that they'd have a way to convince the American people it was time to join the war. Some other people will even draw a connection between that and 9/11.

But you'd have to have a pretty funky history teacher if he'd be telling you that already but I wouldn't be surprised if my grandchildren read that in their history books.

 

[Rothzak]

Everyday must be a good day to be in the office for you, the amount of work you don't do; it must be a breeze getting payed that sort of money.

maybe you should apply as an english GM? oh wait - you didn't write paid correctly

 

[Zenith]

1941:

December 5th - Germans halt attack on Moscow.
December 6th - The United Kingdom declare war on Finland.
December 7th - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.

Underlined part to correct that list The only war between two democratic countries up to date iirc. UK never participated actively on that war though

The war between Russia and Finland... The russian wanted a harbour closer to England, Germany etc, so they invaded Finland, won after MUCH struggle. Got their harbour etc. When the germans attacked Russia, Finland started to take back the piece of land the russians took, ie invaded Russia. Thats why the UK declared war with em, becouse it made the war harder for the russians, ie, the war versus the german became harder. This is what I have been taught, Im not 100% I remember it all tho

 

[Samaroon|Terracotta]

lol I laughed at this

This thread reminds me of the overused forum piktar:

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Dukat again.

Fuck sake, best image ever xD

 

[Z^^]

picture of sanya
http://chickencrap.com/c.php?c=51