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Forgot to say good luck to Calax.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/25/sunil_tripathi_reddit_suspect_dead/ The article linked points the finger at crowdsourcing as the guilty party for the accusation. I think that is ludicrous. All the 'crowd' did was review material. The failure lies squarely with media sources using the output as newsworthy fact. ~~ Full disclosure, I am a fan of 'old' journalism conducted by professionals in a 1in24hr atmosphere. The news the public needs in order to be informed and engaged in the democratic system is (I believe) on this pattern. A rolling blanket of sensation 24hr 'news' is just noise. It is worse than no news.

That reminds me, I saw the Liverpool Newcastle game yesterday on the TV. Dear God that was embarassing.

Only two hours sleep after a night's drinking. I've just been zombied out, drinking tea and cooking all day. I feel as if I _ought_ to die from booze abuse at some stage soon. LOL That's what old age feels like, at first. I reckon.

Perhaps more pertinently: I originally knew this through the Pogues, but frankly I think Shane McGowan knows about as much about war as my sock drawer. Give the song a go.

Lady, you need to check out Susmans so badly it's not even funny.

You're right. That is a neat idea. Might have to copy that one.

Sounds like a great idea if you happen to be a manufacturer of bullet proof vests. EDIT: To prove I'm not a naysaying ninny, my concept for child defence is to have them trained at an early age to combine like Voltron, leaping on each others' shoulders. Every classroom would contain a suit of 9 ft tall samurai style armour and a 12 ft halberd. In this way they would be harmless unless motivated to act as one. Any children deemed too weak to form the collective warrior will be assigned to playing drums and synthesisers.

Agree with Rostere. The battleships and battlecruisers were a grotesque folly from Herr Funny Moustache. But like I say, if he hadn't been given to stupid grandiose gestures would we have had a war at all?

Don't knock working in an adult store, old boy. I learned a lot. For starters, I had no idea that many people seem to find dolphins sexy. True story. I'm sitting with coffee and rehashing my CV for the bazillionth time. Today's watchword is brevity. I am hugely amused at the irony that people reading my CV don't want my life story.

One for another thread, maybe. As far as the ANZACs go, perhaps the last thing to point out that once Japan joined the war they were in danger of invasion, yet they stuck to their guns in Europe and Africa. Of course not all were sterling buggers. Some were bludgers.

For my money the real gimping was the Nazi party. Corrupt, bonkers, and evil. You could posit removing them, but remove them and you don't get a war. Plus - recognising this is a touch revisionist - the British Empire was really something back in the day. Germany just couldn't compete in the long term. The British Isles had the biggest arms industry in the world, a higher per capita spending power, and ready access to every perquisite of war fighting... ...including (on topic) the fighting men of the Dominions.

Actually if you talk to the critters concerned, don't BOTH parents instantly become pure evil?

LOL. I was just going to post that! I recognised (I think) all of them from STALKER.

Agreed with Amentep, with the emphasis on malcontent fethtards. Thanks to a small percentage of angry halfwits everyone has to be on their guard. EDIT: On topic I was supposed to revamp my CV from the ground up to make it more comprehensible to agency and HR staff. I was about to remark that it's as if my CV is reluctant to die and is snarling at me. However, it's just occurred to me how stupid it is that as a culture we allow recruitment to be done by people who don't have the first goddamned clue about the industry they're recruiting for, and certainly don't care about it. Is it any wonder so many industries get things so badly wrong? If I ever lose all my self respect and morals I'm going to join HR. ...Which is something to look forward to.

Liked, then unliked this. Cats are evil, disease ridden arse obsessives, covered in spikes.

I love how you paint this picture of the kleptocrats pwning the West. They pwn Russia three times worse. But then I go and spoil it by remembering you're an alt. :heartbrpkwned:

Paper trail. They have lots of formal programs and certifications, and can prove how much value they add to employees etc. Plus they very likely do their payroll straight with HMRC/ local tax goons.

Blame also goes to the higher ups who believed the abbey at Monte Cassino was being used as an artillery spotting position. despite Kesselrings communications to Allied forces to the contrary (as a great admirer of the arts, he did in fact issue specific orders to his troops that it not be garrisoned lest it be targeted). Nonetheless, it got bumped up on the USAAF's strike list and it got bombed to rubble, which had the effect of making it an even more fortifiable position for elite German Fallschirmjagers who were now free to use the rubble as cover. Fair play for knowing the issues, but if you go and actually look at the thing the first thing you notice is that it's on a mountain. Jerry had plenty of other observation posts to use either way. It's just that it started to loom large in the minds of the ordinary soldiers as High Command putting their lives at risk for abstract values. They've rebuilt the monastery now, and it's quite fun to troll the monks by apologising for blowing it up.

Next playthrough you will graduate to doing the same with Deathclaws Wait, are we talking Lonesome Road? I stil rate Dead Money as best, but the more times I play Lonesome Road the more I like it.

I agree with Zor's analysis on Crete. Strategic nonsense from the start .The tactics of moving tanks up to the airfields etc is pure wargaming fodder. However, I'd completely disagree with the analysis of Monte Cassino. I've been to Cassino and it's about as hard a fight as I can imagine. For those who don't know, picture the Somme UPHILL ON A MOUNTAIN. Cassino the battle was lost because of (to use the moniker the troops gave him) General 'F***ing' Clark. For the sake of him getting a photo on some steps in Rome he turned another Stalingrad for the Axis into a meatgrinder for the Allies. Actually, if youare going to check out any battlefield I totally rate a tour of Cassino. I'd also recommend sparing time to visit the Axis cemetery. It'ss almost more sad, because the silly bastards died for no goddamn reason worth spitting on.

ANZAC day on wikipedia I don't want to be all gushing, especially on a day for Aussies and Kiwis, but my British family made a point of teaching me as a kid about the sacrifice their grandparents made alongside ours. Gallipoli in particular being a fight they could easily have stayed out of, WW1 being a European affair. Prof. Richard Holmes said to me that the thing to remember about the ANZACs is that they were almost a family affair. People back in their home countries knew precisely where they were fighting, and watched their (almost ) every move in the press. Their home countries were tough, hard working, and tolerated little bull****. The men of the ANZACs fought and died accordingly. In WW2 a rather starchy British staff officer complained that the ANZACs weren't keen on saluting. Gen. Freyberg replied "You should try waving. They always wave back."

I must be getting cynical. My first thought was "I wonder how much go missing from a dump just before it 'all' gets destroyed in a detonation."

To be fair, the last time i was in New York, some of the locals wondered if "Finland" was a suburb in Paris, France. Yeah, you wish, frostback.

Although of course you wouldn't care about the shots if you got kicked in the balls.