Bomber boys - bbc one

[robtek]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Stern.....a little insight as to why I might get miffed by your statements.


episode 1) The Battle of Britain thread, it set the benchmark for all of your subsequent anti British contributions, because it was the first one I saw myself, the may have been many more previously.

Your points:

1. Not really a battle
2. Not really a victory for Britain (wording you used: not a defeat for LW) either way it was underplaying any achievement by the British.
3. not really very signifficant event in WWII
4. some other generic pap some others spout about how the LW were so terribly disadvantaged it was easy for the Brits anyway.
5. the Americans really won it for us because they SOLD us food and fuel and ammo.
6.History is written by the winners so everything we know about it is a lie but only you know the real truth.
7. you somehow needed to bring Op Market garden into the question to highlight general British incompetency.
8. Britain is nothing but a bunch of colonialist and nationalist pigs with a sense of self righteousness which is why we keep resisting your version of the truth.

episode 2) North Africa, I forget which thread it was involved in.

your points:

1. Not really a battle because it was easy for the Brits with a numerical advantage (see points 1,2,3,4 above and merge them)
2. The Americans won it for us by SELLING us food, ammo and eventually getting involved.
3. somehow Op Market garden was brought up again to highlight British incompetency and in particular Montgommery's.
4. History is written by the winners so everything everyone else know is just a lie but only you know the real truth.
5. Britain is just a bunch of colonialist and Nationalist pigs with a sense of self righteousness which is why we keep resisting your version of the truth.

episode 3) this thread, an innocent link to a bbc programme about bomber command which you even agreed was objective and unbiassed, yet somehow you managed to drag us down another one of these roads because you couldn't help trying to remind everyone the British are just war criminals.

your points:

1. Britain are war criminals.
2. We built a statue to prove it.
3. History is written by the winners so everything we know about it is a lie but only you know the real truth.
4. Britain is just a bunch of colonialist and Nationalist pigs with a sense of self righteousness which is why we keep resisting your version of the truth.
5. Britain should hand over the Falklands?

what it shows me:

you don't really think very highly of us......but that's ok because you said you like the UK and you live here.


can you see 'MY' point now? so forgive me if I get a little sensitive, it's just you seem ever prepared to take anything dear to the Brits and rip it to shreds at any given opportunity.
you can tell me I've exaggerated it and twisted your words all you like but everything I mentioned 'is' something you said and I am just telling you what it sounds like to me.

You are really a word twister!

But i really believe your conception of the written information is garbled somehow.

For example: NEVER in this thread was written that "Britain are war criminals" except by you.

If you really say, that there weren't any war crimes by done by british citizen, you've already made everything written by you here worthless.

But the rest of your interpretation isn't any better and only proves Sternjaeger (whose posts i usually detest ) right.

Imo, of course.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by robtek

You are really a word twister!

But i really believe your conception of the written information is garbled somehow.

For example: NEVER in this thread was written that "Britain are war criminals" except by you..

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

..you should seriously consider changing your nickname to "word-twister". The whole point is that you can ONLY see this topic with a self-righteous point of view, and as soon as somebody makes a valid point and questions how Area Bombing was against the Geneva convention and morally awful (other than useless), you cry "but they did it too!!!". SO?! We all know what the Nazis did, we're not questioning that, we're wondering why the crimes that YOU committed are more tolerable than the ones of the enemy, so much that you feel entitled to erect a statue as memory of it. Don't you REALLY see the twisted logic in this?! ..

Originally Posted by robtek

If you really say, that there weren't any war crimes by done by british citizen, you've already made everything written by you here worthless..

can you remind me where I said that?

Originally Posted by robtek

But the rest of your interpretation isn't any better and only proves Sternjaeger (whose posts i usually detest ) right.

Imo, of course.

Thank you for it.......

[robtek]

[QUOTE=bongodriver;393432]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

..you should seriously consider changing your nickname to "word-twister". The whole point is that you can ONLY see this topic with a self-righteous point of view, and as soon as somebody makes a valid point and questions how Area Bombing was against the Geneva convention and morally awful (other than useless), you cry "but they did it too!!!". SO?! We all know what the Nazis did, we're not questioning that, we're wondering why the crimes that YOU committed are more tolerable than the ones of the enemy, so much that you feel entitled to erect a statue as memory of it. Don't you REALLY see the twisted logic in this?!




can you remind me where I said that?



Thank you for it.......

Well, you objected to the allegedly expressed opinion from Sternjaeger "Britain are war criminals", which could be interpreted as "British citizens weren't war criminals", which is in this form wrong.

Further you interpreted Sternjaegers sentence': we're wondering why the crimes that YOU committed are more tolerable than the ones of the enemy as a slight to all britains, which is not correct as that a nation was adressed, not people.

But you decided to refer it to the people, which is wrong in this context.

I'll leave it at that, cause im on the way to become, intoxicated and therefore inable to write meaningful sentences

[bongodriver]

[QUOTE=robtek;393444]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Well, you objected to the allegedly expressed opinion from Sternjaeger "Britain are war criminals", which could be interpreted as "British citizens weren't war criminals", which is in this form wrong.

Further you interpreted Sternjaegers sentence': we're wondering why the crimes that YOU committed are more tolerable than the ones of the enemy as a slight to all britains, which is not correct as that a nation was adressed, not people.

But you decided to refer it to the people, which is wrong in this context.

I'll leave it at that, cause im on the way to become, intoxicated and therefore inable to write meaningful sentences

No what I'm really objecting to is Sterns constant belittleing of the British at every given opportunity, if you bothered to process what I wrote you might undestand that.

the issue over Harris is just a small part of Sterns overall disdain for the British but he brandishes it like a trump card.

Prost!

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

No what I'm really objecting to is Sterns constant belittleing of the British at every given opportunity, if you bothered to process what I wrote you might undestand that.

the issue over Harris is just a small part of Sterns overall disdain for the British but he brandishes it like a trump card.

Prost!

that's your huge chip on the shoulder mate, not mine. I just find it surprising that some of you are so naive to think that your own country only dispersed daisies during its glorious history, and what's funny is that some get all wound up only when it's a foreigner who makes such remarks. The idea one gets is that despite your age you don't seem to be mature enough to take a critique constructively, you have to take everything down to a personal attack, deforming and blowing things out of proportion to then counterattack with further nonsense, and believe me, most of us sit on the side and look at you relentlessly charging at windmills..

And Robtek, thanks for your posts, even if you normally detest my posts

[bongodriver]

Classic.....the old wind people up to boiling point and then arrogantly declare how how right you must be because they have the chip on their shoulder.