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Sigourney Weaver's yearbook photograph [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mILiqPn.jpg[/IMG]
[t]http://s3.amazonaws.com/mtv-main-assets/files/resources/visitingtomb_6.jpg[/t] [QUOTE]Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Chiang, and FDR. Note FDR's cane[/QUOTE] [t]http://s3.amazonaws.com/mtv-main-assets/files/resources/large_visitingtomb_5.jpg[/t] [QUOTE]Churchill and FDR, note the cane again[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Pigbear;46205970]why would you even make a radio controlled flying witch[/QUOTE] Live action Mortal Kombat
[QUOTE=racerfan;46210945]Did the source you got this from tell you where this is? I could almost swear I've been to this [I]exact[/I] village. [sp]Engelberg?[/sp][/QUOTE] Zermatt, Switzerland. (Reverse image search)
[QUOTE=Griffster26;46209505][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Ethiopian_Soldiers_Korean_War.jpg[/t] [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Ethiopian_soldiers_Korea1951.JPG[/t][/QUOTE] It's ridiculous. The Ethiopian soldiers had better weapons than Australian forces in Korea.
[QUOTE=download;46212048]It's ridiculous. The Ethiopian soldiers had better weapons than Australian forces in Korea.[/QUOTE] i know right!?!?!?!?! them aussies deserved that gear more then them blacks ever did
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;46212053]i know right!?!?!?!?! them aussies deserved that gear more then them blacks ever did[/QUOTE] I'm criticising the Australian Government, moron.
[QUOTE=download;46212058]I'm criticising the Australian Government, moron.[/QUOTE] Oh? it sounded to me as if you were to say that, somehow, these Ethiopians ought to be worse off then the Australians. Like it would have been less ridiculous if the Aussies were better off or the Ethiopians worse off. The trouble is also when you compare Emperor Haile Selassie I's personal retinue of elite bodyguards (numbering a mere 6,000) to the military force of Australia present in Korea at the time (roughly 17,000 men).
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;46212103]Oh? it sounded to me as if you were to say that, somehow, these Ethiopians ought to be worse off then the Australians. Like it would have been less ridiculous if the Aussies were better off or the Ethiopians worse off.[/quote] He's actually not saying that at all and you'd have to be an idiot to think he is. [QUOTE=StickyWicket;46212103] The trouble is also when you compare Emperor Haile Selassie I's personal retinue of elite bodyguards (numbering a mere 6,000) to the military force of Australia present in Korea at the time (roughly 17,000 men).[/QUOTE] The amount of infantry that were there is not at all relevant when you're simply comparing their equipment.
[QUOTE=Fosax;46207982]It's really ironic how in a couple of years they'd be at each other's throats.[/QUOTE] Not really. History is full of allies turning on each other as soon as a mutual enemy is gone or changes position themselves. England was allied with Austria for the longest time against France, then England switched to Prussia and Austria switched to France almost instantly just prior to the Seven Years War.
What I was saying is that the Australian Government should have purchased modern semi-automatic weapons back as far at the early parts of WW2. I have to wonder how many Commonwealth soldiers would be alive if they had modernised.
[QUOTE=Fosax;46207982]It's really ironic how in a couple of years they'd be at each other's throats.[/QUOTE] There was still a lot of conflicting interest between the US and USSR during world war 2, but it was downplayed because we where busy fighting the Germans. There where problems near immediately after the forces finally met.
[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;46212152]There was still a lot of conflicting interest between the US and USSR during world war 2, but it was downplayed because we where busy fighting the Germans. There where problems near immediately after the forces finally met.[/QUOTE] I know for a fact that quite a few members of the Western Allies (Churchill and Patton for example) wanted to plough though Germany and take on the Soviets at the end of the war. They hated each other's guts but at the time none of them shared a border with each other so it really didn't matter.
I just don't think the comparison of the UK's Australian combat support levies to Ethiopia's household elite royal guard is that fair in the first place.
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;46212233]I just don't think the comparison of the UK's Australian combat support levies to Ethiopia's household elite royal guard is that fair in the first place.[/QUOTE] It is, because those Ethiopians are using shitty surplus WWII US military equipment that were outdated by the time the Korean war ended. Download's point, which you're still missing, is that the Australian military was still severely outdated by 2 wars by the time the Korean war rolled around; so outdated that a small military using surplus from the last war is still more high tech than a large nation like Australia. Quit trying to play this like it has to do with race. [editline]12th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;46212152]There was still a lot of conflicting interest between the US and USSR during world war 2, but it was downplayed because we where busy fighting the Germans. There where problems near immediately after the forces finally met.[/QUOTE] The US still covered for USSR for a while post war; they helped the Soviets cover up the Katyn Massacre so's the allies wouldn't look bad for teaming up with the Soviets. [editline]12th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=download;46212164]I know for a fact that quite a few members of the Western Allies (Churchill and Patton for example) wanted to plough though Germany and take on the Soviets at the end of the war. They hated each other's guts but at the time none of them shared a border with each other so it really didn't matter.[/QUOTE] There was a reasonably sized coalition in the Nazi Regime that wanted to oust Hitler, then team up with the allies and roll over the Soviet Union hand in hand. That never would have happened but it's an interesting thought and a good basis for some historical fiction.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46212245] There was a reasonably sized coalition in the Nazi Regime that wanted to oust Hitler, then team up with the allies and roll over the Soviet Union hand in hand. That never would have happened but it's an interesting thought and a good basis for some historical fiction.[/QUOTE] An even more interesting thought would be what could have happened if WWI was won by Germany. For one,Hitler would go on to become a painter or w/e because Germany would not be in debt to the winners, or subject to poverty,for one; and nazism/fascism wouldn't have happened. Germany would have gone forward with forming a continental union, simmilar to that we have now, perhaps diplomacy would have taken a course so that France would play a role as a counter-balance. Think about it; long before that, Austro-hungary was build on the [B]same[/B] principle. But it's obvious that throughout history, the germans sought to get central-eastern europe into a big bloc... Oh yeah most of this isn't SF or anything like that, there's a bunch of historic reading that you can do on the subject, Pan-europeanism/ continentalism was sought after ever since Napoleon or heck even earlier perhaps...
[t]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cxUeDstWHW8/US5SUQmIOVI/AAAAAAAAAgY/0x52HVNpIbI/s1600/MedievalWarfare++MontielBattle+b.jpg[/t] [t]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CEQGr5ZByoM/US5STf_FUeI/AAAAAAAAAgU/VUUwyIVnwJ0/s1600/Figure+International+CidInfantry+B.jpg[/t] [t]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7t5a6rNIVUA/US5SVDERjxI/AAAAAAAAAgg/RfTUQT-J0j4/s1600/MedievalWarfare+AssandunBattle+b.jpg[/t] [t]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9h4431Qop8Y/US5SP0nVsHI/AAAAAAAAAgI/FTdVAGddqBM/s1600/AW_Alesia_PF.jpg[/t] Art by Jose Daniel Cabrera Peña
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[QUOTE=Sharker;46212447]medieval art[/QUOTE] Medieval stuff always reminds me of Age of Empires, also: [t]http://i.imgur.com/oUdpixL.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46212587][thumb]http://i.imgur.com/EWiYHqj.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] at first i thought this was pixel art, but then i realized it was just a really low resolution photograph
[QUOTE=Fosax;46207982]It's really ironic how in a couple of years they'd be at each other's throats.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't say so. Russia and America had ideological disagreements on a fundamental level ever since the Bolshevik Revolution. If I recall, they actually funded the White forces during the Civil War. Politically speaking, the US-USSR alliance during World War II was nothing more than convenience- they were both fighting the Nazis and neither had any huge interest in adding another enemy to the list, so they were allies.
[QUOTE=simzboy;46210387]Artistic representation of Jupiter's clouds. Most of these are inaccurate, but they're still cool anyway. -joopter-[/QUOTE] Those would've been perfect as wallpapers, if only they were bigger...
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[QUOTE=godfatherk;46212587][thumb]http://i.imgur.com/EWiYHqj.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] Damn, now I want to play simtower. [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Simtower.gif[/t]
Download yoot tower
So many games about building and managing towers, are there any games about demolishing them? Sorta like a cross between Operation Cleaner and Terrorism Simulator 2014
[QUOTE=kaze4159;46213394]So many games about building and managing towers, are there any games about demolishing them? Sorta like a cross between Operation Cleaner and Terrorism Simulator 2014[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.wildebeestgames.com/detonate.htm]Only one I know of[/url]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46212245] That never would have happened but it's an interesting thought and a good basis for some historical fiction.[/QUOTE] [img]http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110521051121/turtledove/images/a/aa/TheBigSwitch1.jpg[/img][QUOTE=godfatherk;46212346]An even more interesting thought would be what could have happened if WWI was won by Germany. For one,Hitler would go on to become a painter or w/e because Germany would not be in debt to the winners, or subject to poverty,for one; and nazism/fascism wouldn't have happened. Germany would have gone forward with forming a continental union, simmilar to that we have now, perhaps diplomacy would have taken a course so that France would play a role as a counter-balance. Think about it; long before that, Austro-hungary was build on the [B]same[/B] principle. But it's obvious that throughout history, the germans sought to get central-eastern europe into a big bloc... Oh yeah most of this isn't SF or anything like that, there's a bunch of historic reading that you can do on the subject, Pan-europeanism/ continentalism was sought after ever since Napoleon or heck even earlier perhaps...[/QUOTE] [img]https://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/bloodandiron.jpg[/img] [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/f/f8/20071031030024!Timeline-191_map2-5.gif[/t]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;46211279][t]http://s3.amazonaws.com/mtv-main-assets/files/resources/visitingtomb_6.jpg[/t] [quote]Note FDR's cane[/quote] [t]http://s3.amazonaws.com/mtv-main-assets/files/resources/large_visitingtomb_5.jpg[/t] [quote]note the cane again[/quote][/QUOTE] What about the cane?
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