Damn funny!
http://imgur.com/gallery/s9x7u
I can't take credit - Wodin posted it at Matrix Games
...i have it seen overthere @Matrix also ;)
A good find indeed :)
Awesome.
Italy picked the wrong side - twice? Not sure I follow that logic.
Also, those losses of Russians look vastly underrated. 1.3 million? Times ten maybe.
Thread title...?
Quote from: LongBlade on November 06, 2012, 05:47:30 PM
Italy picked the wrong side - twice? Not sure I follow that logic.
LOL yeah. Not sure exactly what he was referring to. Couldn't be WWI. :o
Speaking of WWI.. I was tricked into thinking that was the subject of this one! JD has deceived me! :'(
Sorry about that - my fingers seem to be making more and more spelling mistakes recently. :(
Quote from: JudgeDredd on November 07, 2012, 02:04:37 AM
Sorry about that - my fingers seem to be making more and more spelling mistakes recently. :(
I know how it is. Although I can blame some of it on physical injury which has forced me to change my typing style. :D
One alarming thing is that I've occasionally had to check spelling of a word, over the last couple years. It's odd because I was always excellent at spelling in the past and never had to do that. Must be my memory counter being flipped to it's half-strength side. ;)
I just got to the end of this piece and noticed that it was created by College Humor.
Now those guys can be funny, but they clearly didn't graduate at the top of their class if they didn't know which side Italy fought on during the First World War...
^ If they'd read a biography of Rommel at some point then they would have had their memory refreshed. Before he was known as a motorized warfare innovator he was a small unit tactical innovator on the Italian front.
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 07, 2012, 07:14:43 AM
^ If they'd read a biography of Rommel at some point
I think we can stop right there. I seriously doubt the guys at College Humor have read a Rommel bio.
Come to think of it,
I haven't read a bio of Rommel. Guess that's another book or two I need to add to my list...
Well, we can always ease them into the subject with a movie.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.simplyhe.co.uk%2F14977-thickbox%2Fthe-desert-fox-studio-classic.jpg&hash=ce4bdbb20abdc27552afa9635906f9e190719120)
Then they can follow the advice in my sig...
wasnt it Mussolini that personally changed his idealogy twice?
Quote from: undercovergeek on November 07, 2012, 09:52:54 AM
wasnt it Mussolini that personally changed his idealogy twice?
I probably know less about Mussolini than any of the other big power wartime leaders.
he was a socialist, changed his mind and decided to be fascist instead
Quote from: JudgeDredd on November 06, 2012, 03:03:29 PM
Damn funny!
http://imgur.com/gallery/s9x7u
I can't take credit - Wodin posted it at Matrix Games
Heh, funny stuff! I've seen a couple other "WWII on Facebook" sites, but this one is at least good as those others.
Oh yeah, and I too had a "WTH??" moment when the Italians talked about being on the wrong side twice...
Quote from: LongBlade on November 07, 2012, 07:17:27 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 07, 2012, 07:14:43 AM
^ If they'd read a biography of Rommel at some point
I think we can stop right there. I seriously doubt the guys at College Humor have read a Rommel bio.
Come to think of it, I haven't read a bio of Rommel. Guess that's another book or two I need to add to my list...
But didn't Rommel write his own book. Infantry Attacks! or something like that.
After a brief exposure to Karl Juger-Jager, I can no longer imagine Germanic Combat prose in any form other than
the happy-but-dead first person present:
"We attack. Kunstdorfer and Horst are killed but go on fighting. I pick up the slag that remains and my face is shot away.
We storm the next position. We are all dead. Kunstdorfer decides to come back to life. But his arms are akimbo! He is
killed again anyway. Somehow we storm the next position. Fire pours down on us. We are burned down to monkey size.
Kunstdorfer pretends to be a monkey and is killed again. We storm the next position etc."