It's 1984...

There's only one way to find out...

 

Is she the Twilight woman? I've avoided that nonsense.

 

That's some stiff competition you're up against there.

Not sure i'd go that far.

I think we should start the Harry Potter Jihad back up. Book(s)
suitable for adults, or a childrens book ?

Paul.

 

It's really good.

Ah I was wondering who had it.

No idea, I've still got half a shelf full of yours. I've designated
one shelf for 'books I've borrowed', that way it is easier to keep
track. There's <counts> at least 4 different UKRMers books sat on it.

 

<adds to list>

 

I haven't, because I've been watching Off Kilter on catch up. It's
top quality Meades, extremely enjoyable and visually delightful.

 

After the actions of the Japs and the Nazis the Yank and Brit peoples were
pretty happy to see them incinerated.

After the war everyone got a bit self concious about Dresden et all and
Harris was no National Hero. I don't know if there was ther same in the US.

Nuking two civilian cities, even though they had military installations
really was out of order but the nips really were being fucking awkward about
losing.

I shall try and see some of the sites of the hugely successful Mindanao
campaign next month.

 

That's a tough one. I assume the SS Religious Order was trying to prevent
the Coming of Des.
We went in a bit too early.

 

I don't think he was a NH there either.

I do wonder if we will ever kow if it was cost-effective in terms of
human lives and suffering. It probably was from the Allies' POV.

Would a demonstration drop on some less-populous but still significant
part of Japan (say the region of a remote but important temple, palace
or military target) have had the desired effect, or would it simply
have indicated to the Japanese High Command that the Allies were
"weak" and weren't prepared to use them on serious targets? Would it
have demonstrated the destructive power as effectively?

There are probably books about this somewhere.

 

I know that after the war my grandparents didn't give a flying ****
about civilians dying in Dresden, all they cared about was the fact
that their son had died fighting the Germans and if another million
German civilians had died and he'd lived it would have been a better
result.

Now we can look back on it this attitude seems wrong but at the time
I'd have been exactly the same.

Surely the theory is that a large number of allied troops would have
died if they'd had to invade Japan to defeat the Japanese army so the
decision was justified?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Andy Bonwick

A big, whole-hearted *DING*, from here.

And I, for one, think it's a fucking disgrace that there was never a
Bomber Command campaign medal.

That was an utterly spineless decision that could and should be reversed
tomorrow it any contemporary politician ever grew a pair one thousandth
the size of the those on the poor bastards who climbed into aircraft
night after night in the sure and certain knowledge that they were every
unlikely to make it all the way through a tour.

Much easier to hope they all just die first, isn't it?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Abso-fucking-lutely, if we'd have got rid of a few more fucking Jews we
wouldn't have the problems we have now.

Yep, that's why we kill civvies, easy targets and makes governments
think about voters.

I really mustn't post after the pub

 

*DING DANG DINGLIE KLING KLANG BOING DONG DING*

Grant me fucking patience.....

 

You what?

I think you're right on that one.

 

Well this week /is/ the anniversary of the Sabra & Shatila massacres...

 

HSB, the devils brew, I have no idea what I was thinking of. I now hav
a headache and the remains of a chicken madrass to deal with[1]. Still,
on the plus side, some spokes and spoke key arrived, so this afternoon
will be spent with a bit of therapeutic bicycle wheel bilding


[1] Why is it, when you are totally cunted, a chicken madrass seems like
a good idea. I mean, you can hardly fucking walk so you think "I know!
I'll pop down the Indian for a Chicken Madrass I can wear tomorrow".
I'll be finding bits of it for days.

 

Count yourself lucky, I've got a huge pile of cat puke to deal with. I
can't get within 10 feet of it without retching :-/

 

heheh - the fucking thing made me ask the wife to get her picture of the
last supper out to see if the person really did look like a burd

(she's a catholic, the wife, not the burd)

--


Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

No... My suggestion would've been

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
(I'm assuming you're familiar with TV Burp here)

 

I watched that the first time round - many years ago - and thought it
was excellent. Spotted it on DVD a few months ago, for very few quids,
so had to have it. We sat down and watched the first ep, followed by
the second - and then made time to finish it very shortly afterwards.
One of those rare things that stands the test of time.