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What EFFIN' pressre!!? Short of the Ungodly Unsaved Heretical Fornicators sending you subliminal signals if you take your tinfoil hat off, try changing the channel or even using the OFF button. It does work IF you are able to exercise some discipline - rather than expecting someone else to do "The Right Thing" for you and remove your choice for your comfort. Then again, it maybe just a cultural thing. For example, the last TaTu video was censored. The British censor cut all the super-real cgi effects of the "Bad-Man" having his brains blown out at point blank range with a Colt M1911! All the blood / brain / hair / skull spatters had to go! The American censor let all that through in it's entirety... But the Lesbian Kiss in the same video!!! I think that Americans have to watch out that the "Religious-Thought-Police" are getting past the point where they can be laughed at like they are in Britain! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

AS far as the "SMOKING" issue went, there was a 'Quite Interesting' thing on an old edition of QI (it's a British TV show) which dealt with the whole Non-Smoking Flights issue. When smoking was allowed on aircraft, the cabin air was changed using bleed engine air, so that you had a complete change of cabin air every 15 minutes. Now that smoking is forbidden, the cabin air is continually recirculated with Co2 levels being far higher and viruses, airborne bacteria, etc... circulated throughout the cabin. In effect... the air yo breath in a commercial aircraft is now far less healthy than it was when folk smoked on planes - BUT - Airlines save around 6% on fuel by recycling cabin air! "For your safety AND OUR PROFIT!!!" Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Hi Y'All, Just wondered if anyone else was watching this? We've just got the first episode in the UK. I'm "guessing" that they DIDN'T get USDoD co-operation in making it! Anyway, what do Y'All think of it? I'm a bit surprised that they're making such a cynical (lions led by donkeys) series of a conflict so quickly! At least with Michael Mann's "Tour of Duty" they waited a few years! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I guess it all depends on how many times cops have seen the same damn bus ticket waved at them at "Legitimate Travel Plans" night after night! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Hmmm... Someone who's seen artillery shells more recently than I have should comment. Looks to me like an old British 5.5" - There's no fuse in it, the thing on the nose is the fuse cap, and no marks on the driving band! To me, it doesn't somehow look like it's ever been fired - & if it was then the reason it never went off is 'cos it wasn't fused! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Heh.Heh... Once again, SATIRE shoots & scores! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Working for Britain's Labour Party & doing Tony Blair's speeches. Sorry. Was that supposed to be a secret? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/balkan/20_260_5.htm Chapter 25, Paragraph 4 (around 2/3 of the way down the page. Whether any committment was made to the Balkans or not... Barbarossa COULDN'T have comenced on 15th May because of the weather! This was something that couldn't be changed by all the strategic decisions in the world. It was a simple fact of the state of the terrain Germany was going to advance over. Barbarossa would have gotten absolute priority and indeed did launch as soon as it was physically possible... Once the ground had dried out sufficiently to allow movement! Consider Fuhrerbefehl 21: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1084/hitler_directives/dir21.htm This was, to all intents & purposes the entire reason for WWII. Viz: Hitler building a land based Greater Germany, or Eurasian Empire based on Professor Haushofer's view of Geopolitics and as given to Hitler when he was Hess's cellmate in Spandau with Haushofer a near daily visitor. Let's not forget that Hitler was an Uneducated, Working-Class man who was believed to have been overpromoted to Corporal by his WWI officers. This was his first, & only significant access to higher education (and it had to be in Geopolitics!) If we're going to quote, then how about: "Our Empire will stretch to The Urals. The Ukraine will be our breadbasket, The Black Sea will be our Riviera, and we will travel there on the autobahns we will build."-AH. In effect, the origins, actions & results of WWII are the result of the motivations & desires of the main protagonists. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

"If Barbarossa had been launched on time..." And if your Auntie had a... Had Barbarossa been launched on time, then it would have bogged down in the marshes of Belorussia! The reason Barbarossa was delayed was primarily because of the wet winter of 1940-41 which left the Pripet Marshes waterlogged & largely impassable in military terms. However, I'm pretty sure that this was irrelevant. Remember that the USSR successfully relocated their strategic industries behind The Urals. The loss or seige of Moscow wouldn't have ended the German-Soviet war - and the traditional Russian military geniusses would inevitably done to hitler just what they did to Napoleon. "Marshall Kilometer" would have held out until "General Winter" struck. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Err... It HAPPENED in America! Actually, over here in what you may like to start calling "CIVILISATION"...! We have "Socialised Vermin Control"! This guy would have just called his local council office & someone would have been out. Given his age, there'd have been no charge!

Y'ALL KNOW... MEBBE HE SHOULD'A JUS' SHOT IT! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

????? Was???? No idea here, dear .... Hmmm... it may have lost something in the translation... Maybe my German isn't so good after all? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The alliance of Britain, Russia & America (purely in date order!) arose purely out of having a common enemy. Their individual political systems & goals remained disaparate throughout. Had this particular war not been fought at the time, then the Anglo-American (Capitalism) Vs Soviet (Communism) war would have inevitably commenced shortly thereafter. If you were to look for a single significant cause for WWII, then it would be Hitlers absolute & breathtaking incompetence & naivety as an international politician (I suppose this really isn't the time to compare Hitler's & Dubya's international skills!). Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Aber... Es gibt mehr zum Mundgeschlecht als über es nur, sprechend sueß! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

You lot have all banded together and are posting this stuff purely to wind up Kallend & I ... Aren't you!... Aren't you? ... Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be drop from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The problem seems to be that you're under the impression that Britain is awash with illeglly held guns which criminals are using all the time. The reason that gun crimes make the British news but don't make the American news is the same reason that; "Dog Bites Man isn't news. Man Bites Dog is news!" I still don't see the reasoning behind John's initial argument about guns being used in COMMON Assaults. Pray tell how you'd use a gun purely to assault someone to their non-injury!? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

While the victim's views SHOULD be taken into account in sentencing,The increased potential for recidivism in the face of forgiveness largely precludes abandoning prosecution & punishment purely at the request of the immediate victim. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Excuse me while I try & get ma heid around this... As John rightly points out - the draconian restrictions on firearms ownership in England have had no effect on the use of clubs, stones, glasses & bottles in the commission of COMMON assaults in England. Common Assault (occasioning no harm or injury in English Law) with a firearm beggars belief! It suggests someone being shot at with a BB gun & hit on clothing (!!!) to their non-injury. Then Mark suggestsd putting the Welsh in charge!!! Have you ever seen The Welsh Assembly in action!? Shortly thereafter comes the "Conspiracy Theorists" who think Britain wants to take over America!. For the avoidance of doubt; AMERICA has Michael Jackson, George Bush, James Brown, Catherine Zeta Jones, All of Congress & The Senate, not to mention approximately 134% of the world's LAWYERS! America having 80% of the worlds privately held guns is a minor point. It works out at something like 1 American Gun per 12,855 American Lawyers! Y'All c'n Relax. We don't want America! We honestly couldn't be bothered trying to fix it... Not after 230 years of neglect! YOU'SE fix it. If you do a good enough job then (maybe) we'll take over again.

Nuttin' t' do wiff GUNS!!!... Jus' move along there... Otherwise, "mouse-over" the links and look at the bottom left of your browser. Better yet... Take the tests & post your scores! Mike. PS: The pages I linked to are pretty work safe... how far you actually go down this particular slippery slope then depends on you! Now... Gotta go & improve on my "575". I need to catch up on Shotgun's score! Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

THIS ONE maybe isn't work safe... but you'll REALLY want to find out everyone's scores.

Quote..... Now. Oon to Schardenfreude ... Fixed it for you Oh, the joy felt on seeing the ..... Mike. ========================== PS. If Scoop can't keep up with the conversational flow...! Invading Iran will fill the gap between Iraq & Afghanistan nicely. STRICTLY within the reasoning which makes sense of occupying Iraq & Afghanistan, it's the smart and logical thing to do. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Schwerpunkt: Fulcrum. Not only is it almost a literal translation, but it describes that point or action that'll swing the whole campaign. There's no real literal translation that conveys the concept so succinctly. Now. on to Schardenfreude (the joy felt on seeing the discomfort of others). Since we've appropriated these words and adopted them as English (call it War Reparations), WE'LL decide how they're spelled. You'll just have to change YOUR dictionaries! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

5 so far... and counting! I think that "Schwerpunkt conveys so much more than "Focal Point". It's also the "Centre of Gravity", "Pivot", "Fulcrum". It nicely describes a concept that's just not available in less than 19 English words. So... We're stealing "Schwerpunkt"! While we're there, we'll have "Schardenfreude" as well. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Would a bottle of champagne be better then? FOR WHAT!!!? Be careful - a Champagne Cork can come out with a hell of a force!...... Especially if the bottle gets shaken when warm! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.