Paradoxes (Things That Contradict Themselves) Of WWII

[R Pope]

You want a paradox, how about the fact that Italy, Germany and Japan lost the war but are in better shape now than most of the winners? Certainly far better off than they'd have been if they'd won.

[GermansRGeniuses]

Originally Posted by bronzewhaler82

But some of you guys CAN'T be trusted - theres a few spoiling it for everyone else (i won't name names blah blah blah ) - these people are trying to make the mods and admin out to be the 'bad guys' when in fact its the same 'few' who are ruining it for everyone else with TOO MUCH spam

anyway - now I'M spamming too - paradoxes of WW2....hmmm...

Isn't it funny how the Brits made a car called a Triumph 'Spitfire' and we have a beer (well, ale) called 'Spitfire' and yet there aren't any German beers called 'Me109' or cars called a 'FW190'...didn't the Germans have bloody boring names for their planes...?

The Americans, Brits, French and even the Japs gave their planes interesting names but the Germans and Italians just gave them dull serial numbers....

ok c.c lost 200+ posts which is a lot but you can probably trace 200+ posts that were pure spam to him, but i have at the most, 60 messages of pure spam and the japs had worse names than the germans m8 they needed america to come up with nicknames like "Kate" and Betty and Zero (after we were having recog probs in dfs we captured some jap planes and decided, boys names for fighters (Zero, Claude, Tony) and girls names for bombers (Kate, Betty, Helen) and so on and so forth)

Reichsmarschall Batista

[kiwimac]

Had the Germans won WW2, there almost certainly would have been cars called the 'Emil' or 'Franz' or...

Kiwimac

[bronzewhaler82]

Originally Posted by GermansRGeniuses

ok c.c lost 200+ posts which is a lot but you can probably trace 200+ posts that were pure spam to him, but i have at the most, 60 messages of pure spam and the japs had worse names than the germans m8 they needed america to come up with nicknames like "Kate" and Betty and Zero (after we were having recog probs in dfs we captured some jap planes and decided, boys names for fighters (Zero, Claude, Tony) and girls names for bombers (Kate, Betty, Helen) and so on and so forth)

Reichsmarschall Batista

Its sad that you can quote figures like that did you count them all yourself or did C.C give you a hand?

And as far as Japanese plane names go...Magnificent Lightning, Flying Dragon, Milky Way, Storm Dragon, Shooting Star...thats just a handful of the beautiful names the Japanese gave their aircraft..the best the yanks could come up with was 'flying fortress' ahhhh how poetic

[cheddar cheese]

[plan_D]

Mustang, Mohawk, Skytrain, Thunderbolt, Lightning, Warhawk, Kittyhawk...they aren't very inventive are they...

[cheddar cheese]

nope, but then again our planes names, such as lancaster, sunderland and halifax were just the names of places, no so inventive either

[plan_D]

Well I don't know..Mosquito, Spitfire, Hurricane, Typhoon...We had a love with City names, annoying bugs, some kind of dragon and storms that we don't encounter...

[cheddar cheese]

and the wellington.......... that speaks for itself as does the windsor

[bronzewhaler82]

My point is: Germansrgeniouses clearly thinks Japanese names were non-existant and i'm saying not only did they exist...but they were the best names given to planes during WW2 - anything the Japanese produced was modelled on their way of life - hence the way their planes looked, sounded and functioned - right down to the suicidal kamikaze bombers

[cheddar cheese]

My point is:........ not worth making cos i dont have one

[GermansRGeniuses]

Originally Posted by bronzewhaler82

My point is: Germansrgeniouses clearly thinks Japanese names were non-existant and i'm saying not only did they exist...but they were the best names given to planes during WW2 - anything the Japanese produced was modelled on their way of life - hence the way their planes looked, sounded and functioned - right down to the suicidal kamikaze bombers

first of all, its GermansRGeniuses and i thought you meant zero and such, i had forgotten about those and what good is "magnificent lighting" if the plane isnt too good (although im pretty sure it was, but again if i cant remember the names how should i remember the planes?) oh, well my point is: I made a mistake. and those spam figures are an estimate guessed by me, and if you dont believe check out c.c's last posts in this thread so to you bronze!

Reichsmarschall Batista

[cheddar cheese]

hey hey germans, remember the yellow card system

[bronzewhaler82]

Originally Posted by GermansRGeniuses

first of all, its GermansRGeniuses and i thought you meant zero and such, i had forgotten about those and what good is "magnificent lighting" if the plane isnt too good (although im pretty sure it was, but again if i cant remember the names how should i remember the planes?) oh, well my point is: I made a mistake. and those spam figures are an estimate guessed by me, and if you dont believe check out c.c's last posts in this thread so to you bronze!

Reichsmarschall Batista

calm down mate - You made a mistake - thats cool (and very cool that you admitted it - thankyou )
As for the posts I'm sorry all those posts have been deleted and there really is not much point in getting heated up about it because they can't come back - however i would say that if you don't want to lose any more in future (and theres no reason why you should) just keep your heavy-duty spamming off the site and you (or anyone else) won't have any more problems with it...surely you can accept that there has to be some sort of limit on the amount of spam we can allow

By the way the 'Magnificent Lighting' WAS a good plane... on paper because it had its first flight a few days before the war ended so it didn't get a chance to prove itself in combat...but on paper it looked good but as we all know on this site...that doesn't mean it was a good plane!

p.s sorry i spelt your name wrong - i was in a hurry and my spelling isn't very good -even when iam taking my time

[the lancaster kicks ass]

right, with the Brit. names, the general pattern was that hawker used some form of storm, fairy used fish/birds and everyone else just used place names...........................