The Battle of Britain Was The First Defeat For The German Luftwaffe.

[McFeckit]

All this talk of which country did what etc.....pointless. Humans did things, period. If you like you can hide behind pourous fluctuating boundaries waving flags of identity, but in reality we're just monkeys with elaborate ideas.

The day we cast of these false ideas of Nationhood and simply evolve together is long overdue.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by McFeckit

...... but in reality we're just monkeys with elaborate ideas.

lol

[bongodriver]

Even monkeys still fling poo at each other.......

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Even monkeys still fling poo at each other.......

That's the point of it =)

[ACE-OF-ACES]

So I am standing in line at the auto parts store when this guy walks in carrying a box of candy..

Whoops

Wrong thread.. Or is it?

[NedLynch]

Nah, Ace, it's the right thread.
Are you sure it wasn't a box of donuts?........uhhh, doooonuts....

I may not have the same skincolor as Homer but at least I have the same haircut.

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

It's my opinion that the biggest factor in the outcome of the Battle was the existence of a stretch of water called the 'English Channel'. Were it not for this, Blitzkrieg would have overrun Britain just as it had the largest military power in Europe, which at the time was France.

Er, if it wasn't for the English Channel, England wouldn't have been England, history would be different all together.

[adonys]

actually, the biggest real difference for the outcome of the BoB would have been to delay it for a couple of months in order to wait for the 109's fuel droptank.

[Triggaaar]

Wow, just found this thread and read the first couple of pages. I'm amazed the thread has made it to 64 pages without being closed.

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

guys, there is no need to get aggressive on each other over a matter that was resolved 65 years ago.

immediately followed by:

living in England has taught me that Britons are probably one of the most stubborn populations on this planet (if not the Solar System)
...
Some Britons can't be objective: characters like Dowding, Harris and above all Montgomery (a pompous imbecile, nothing more nothing less) embody a military ineptitude that, again hadn't the Americans joined, would have been fatal to them.

Wow, Pot Kettle.

Originally Posted by Kongo-Otto

You Sir are an asshole! Not more and not less!!

Classy.

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

from Wikipedia

so it must be true

The total cost of these reparations was assessed at 132 billion Marks (then $31.4 billion, £6.6 billion) in 1921 which is roughly equivalent to US $442 billion and UK £217 billion in 2011, a sum that many economists at the time, notably John Maynard Keynes, deemed to be excessive and counterproductive and would have taken Germany until 1988 to pay.

Britain has only recently stopped paying for the wars. If the treaty was unfair, Germany should have concentrated on renegotiating it. Going to war again was hardly the solution was it.

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

it is my opinion that but for the Channel and the existence of the Royal Navy, Germany's land and airforces combined would've stuffed us.

As above, that's a pointless comparison. Were it not for the channel, world history would be completely different.