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re: Sir Winston Churchill was a BOSS.
Posted on 7/9/24 at 10:49 am to Lonnie Utah
Posted on 7/9/24 at 10:49 am to Lonnie Utah
Weird that our own Sir Winny has yet to make an appearance
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Posted on 7/9/24 at 11:25 am to Jcorye1
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A great but flawed man
in the history of the world only one man has NOT been flawed and He was crucified for it
...and still they couldn't keep Him down, he rose 3 days later
This post was edited on 7/9/24 at 11:27 am
Posted on 7/9/24 at 11:38 am to Green Chili Tiger
There's one historical figure I'd have liked to have had a few beers with.... The stories you'd have heard....One of the all-time greats. 
Posted on 7/9/24 at 11:39 am to Lonnie Utah
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Sir Winston Churchill was a BOSS.
and bowed to America.
Posted on 7/9/24 at 11:45 am to RoyalAir
My oh my at the superficial glance at history you have partaken.
Lord Halifax was after power for himself. He was short sighted and the world would be an entirely different place if his "peace" agreement had ever taken place.
Even the link you posted states this...
You might want to do a little more research before you opine.
Lord Halifax was after power for himself. He was short sighted and the world would be an entirely different place if his "peace" agreement had ever taken place.
Even the link you posted states this...
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Britain might retain its freedom for the cost of a few former German colonies and Nazi dominance over central Europe.
You might want to do a little more research before you opine.
Posted on 7/9/24 at 12:18 pm to deathvalleytiger10
He was also part of almost every significant historical event from the 1890's to the 1950's. He was in NYC on the day Wall Street crashed!
Posted on 7/9/24 at 12:25 pm to Trout34
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Churchill is hated in Australia and New Zealand
The Pogues- The Band played Waltzing Matilda
We sailed off to Gallipoli
How well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He chased us with bullets, he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again
Now those that were left, well we tried to survive
In a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
But around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit
And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying
Posted on 7/9/24 at 1:23 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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Up drew an empty limousine and out stepped Clement Attlee.
Posted on 7/9/24 at 2:07 pm to Lonnie Utah
My pug is named Winston after this baw
Posted on 7/9/24 at 2:14 pm to Lonnie Utah
I regret honouring him with my dogs name and my TD name. I was a naive lad at the time and still believed that we (the Brits and the US) were the "good guys"
This post was edited on 7/9/24 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 7/9/24 at 3:53 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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George Bernard Shaw once sent Churchill a note with an invitation to see Shaw's opening night performance of Saint Joan. The playwright enclosed two tickets, "One for yourself and one for a friend _ if you have one." Expressing sorrow at not being able to attend, Churchill wrote back and asked for tickets for the second night _ "if there is one."
Both Churchill and Shaw denied that this exchange occurred.
Posted on 7/9/24 at 4:54 pm to Lonnie Utah
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He also rode on horseback with the British Calvary in the Battle of Omdurman in 1898
Winston Churchill was the First Lord of the Admiralty in WW1. He devised a brilliant plan to outflank the Germans by breaching the Dardanelles near Istanbul. It failed due to an incompetent Captain. Churchill took the blame, resigned, grabbed a friggin rifle, and went to the front lines to fight!
THAT’s leadership!
I met his grandson about five years ago. He is an MP and a prick.
Posted on 7/9/24 at 5:15 pm to TigerHornII
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Because peace worked so well the first time Chamberlain tried it just a year or two earlier? The Poles were loving it I'm sure. What is your point? You're doing a horrible job of getting it across. By 1940, there was no other viable path forward with Germany and Japan.
Hitler didn't really have a beef with the English. If Churchill would have agreed to peace Germany would have been able to focus solely on Russia.
Posted on 7/9/24 at 6:13 pm to Lonnie Utah
Not our sirwinston that’s for sure
Posted on 7/9/24 at 7:25 pm to RoyalAir
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This isn't controversial history. Nor is it revisionist history. The Germans were very open to peace settlement with the English. Pat Buchanan wrote an entire book about it.
Look around, boss. Our common history of this conflict is dangerously misconstrued
How'd that work out for Chamberlain IYO?
Posted on 7/9/24 at 7:27 pm to SirWinston
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I regret honouring him with my dogs name and my TD name. I was a naive lad at the time and still believed that we (the Brits and the US) were the "good guys"
Posted on 7/9/24 at 7:28 pm to BuckyCheese
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Hitler didn't really have a beef with the English
While this was true at the time, he still would have broken any peace agreement that was agreed upon.
Posted on 7/9/24 at 8:28 pm to SirWinston
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SirWinston
Anti-American fig
Posted on 7/9/24 at 8:37 pm to Fat and Happy
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I remember watching a couple gun shows and for the most part, it is extremely inaccurate but it’s more intimidating than anything and can fire lots of rounds quickly.
It was sorta compare to firing an AK on full auto. You ain’t hitting shite but it is intimidating
The Thompson gets a bad rap of being “inaccurate” due to the centerline of the barrel being higher than the stock, which causes barrel climb. In layman’s terms, the gun automatically raises as it’s fired, causing each bullet to impact higher on the target than the previous bullet. A proficient shooter can overcome this by leaning into the weapon and firing in short bursts.
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