Anyone else up watching things unfold?

Fuggin 'ell Des!

 

Yeah, but if he'd quoted it in French at least less people would have known
he was a sad delusional fuckwit.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Des twisted further:

SNIP verbiage

Oh, you do so have a tack - there's a word for it - "Anglophobe".
You've tried various ways to try to support your postion, none of which
have stood up to any scrutiny, at all. For example, you "didn't
Google" for the reference to the WTR Fox book, but you are apparently
ignorant of it's content which completely undermines you. Amazing.

The OED disagrees with you, WTR Fox disagrees with you, pretty much
every dictionary reference available disagrees with you, but no, DC is
still "right" and everyone else is "wrong".
Great stuff Des. Way to go.

 

Are you that witty,brainy guy who posts to UKRM?

 

Desmond Coughlan says...

Shocka? Understatement I would thought.

 

Not even that. 300,000-350,000.

 

They did this a lot, to begin with, when men were plentiful and weapons
not.

By 1944/45, they were better equipped and beat the Germans as much with
weight of materiel as men. But yes, manpower was always cheap and
infinitely expendable.

 

Militarily, the most powerful, too.

Germany was crushed, Russia bled white by WW1 and the Revolution, and
France exhausted. Britain still had a massive navy, which hadn't been
decommissioned.

 

Fuggin 'ell Des![/QUOTE]

iBikes, iFriends and now iGroupies......

 

He's never read it, is why.

 

(The Older Gentleman) struggled
to ejaculate:

I know that that practice had largely ceased certainly by the time
that the tide on the Eastern Front had turned, but felt the need to
post it in any case, relevant or not, as an example of modern
inhumanity.

 

Just "humanity" would be a fair description.....

 

The Older Gentleman wrote:
muttered

Indeed. You were right. He's an ignorant feckwitted troll.

 

Finally the penny drops.

Now stop propagating his shite, please.

 

The Older Gentleman muttered

The Ruskies were also far more brutal in their prosecution of the war
than any other nation, and even amazed the Germans in their methods.
One of the most ingenius/appalling was to train dogs to run underneath
tanks. The, so trained, they were equipped with a charge set off by a
contact sticking up. Dog is set off for the German lines, runs under
tank, BANG. Even the Germans found that hard to deal with.

 

Pip muttered

< Finally the penny drops.

Oh the penny was down a long time ago. But never say never and all
that.

<shite>

Gladly. I'm done with him.

 

Lovely.

 

There was a slight snag with this, apparently - they had only Russian tanks
to train the dogs with, so when they set the dogs loose, the dogs rather
inconveniently went for what they recognised... T34-kaboom!

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

I recall some Merkin who observed the quality of supplies that were
unloaded on the French coast after D-Day (guns, ammo, rations, dentist
chairs, officers' huts, all sorts of luxury goods for the staff, loads
of stuff that a fighting army doesn't actually need).

He compared this with the typical shipment to the fighting front on the
Russian side. Guns and ammo... lots of ammo and more ammo and a few more
guns and some more ammo. Rations, some, but they were expected to live
off the land a lot and plunder where necessary from dead enemy supplies.

No wonder they made such progress, they were desperate for a decent
meal.

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