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12-07-2006, 04:04 PM
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I've wondered this for some time and perhaps the forum can answer it for me.
Why are some NATO aircraft marked with NATO spelled both forward and backward.
Example: NATO [NATO Roundel] OTAN
Any insight?
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12-07-2006, 04:07 PM
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#2 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | Something like this in French "organisation treaty atlantique nord"
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12-07-2006, 04:10 PM
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#4 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | why the hell are the French such twats about everything more countries than any other speak English yet they still insist everything be done in french or they'll start throwing their toys out of the pram!
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12-07-2006, 04:10 PM
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12-07-2006, 04:13 PM
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12-07-2006, 04:15 PM
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12-07-2006, 04:22 PM
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12-07-2006, 04:52 PM
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12-08-2006, 09:18 AM
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Well they are about as irrelevent now as they have been in any war since 1939...
| Here here....Anyway, some of my favorite quotes deal with the French. And, no, I am not a racist bigot, I just find some of these quotes telling/funny.
"If we're angering the French, we must be doing something right..."
"Right... next time France gets invaded and controlled by another party, like...the Bahamas, the world leaders are staying out of it..."
As per the NATO OTAN thing, thats just silly of them...its like teaching a special forces team the workings of Chinese, just to send them to Iraq. | |
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12-09-2006, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by MacArther  "Right... next time France gets invaded and controlled by another party, like...the Bahamas, the world leaders are staying out of it..." |
We used to joke around about that in the hanger over here in Germany. We would say that the next German chancelor was going to invade and take France but the rest of the world was going to be like "Oh well its for the better, besides let them breed them out!" 
All French People it is a joke, that were were all saying that.
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12-09-2006, 02:14 PM
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because the Euros including the UK let them
| Yep, because if countries aren't nice to them, who knows what kind of hissy fit they would throw. | |
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