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# Ah, it's 9/11 already?
nicely; I used to love those games
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:01, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
It really is :D

Do you celebrate Remembrance day out in Dutchland?
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:02, archived)
# doesnt look like it!
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:04, archived)
# Of WWII?
Yes, it's the 4th of May, the 5th being Liberation Day
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:04, archived)
# learn something new everyday!
every b3ta day is a school day
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:05, archived)
# Ah I see.
You don't have a day for all soldiers who have died then?
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:06, archived)
# These last years, they use the 4th for that purpose
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:09, archived)
# Every day is a school day :)
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:10, archived)
# i fucking hope not :(
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:12, archived)
# man I've been so fucking bored and I only finished on friday.
it is awful.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:13, archived)
# YOU WON'T BE BORED IF YOU DO SOMETHING
ONLY BORING PEOPLE GET BORED ANYWAY.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:17, archived)
# I KNOW I'M BORING AND I'M NOT IMAGINATIVE ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:18, archived)
# That last one is my belief also.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:19, archived)
# Bless her, my mum owns a square centimetre of the Dam Square.
they sold the square off one sq cm at a time to pay for the monument just after the war.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:32, archived)
# Really?
Oh, those ever trade-minded dutchmen eh?
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:35, archived)
# Quite so.
She still has the certificate for it!
I suggested she build a very thin skyscrpaer on her bit. She wasn't very impressed.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:37, archived)
# ha ha ha!!
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 12:00, archived)
# arf!
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 12:09, archived)
# i legitimately forgot it was rememberance day
until 5 minutes ago
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:05, archived)
# Meh.
As long as you don't forget on Tuesday :D
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:06, archived)
# ok rememberance SUNday
all well is it?
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:08, archived)
# Aye, not too bad.
But I woke up too late to go to the remembrance service for my mate :S

But hey ho, I shall go and see his parents later :D
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:09, archived)
# Are you a Chelsea pensioner?
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:07, archived)
# ALZHEIMERSLOL!
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:08, archived)
# i am all the chelsea pensioners, all the arsenal pensioners, all the spurs pensioners and most of the west ham pensioners
all rolled into one convenient package

so there :P
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:11, archived)
# Lemonparty? :o)
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:11, archived)
# It's a shame you weren't around for
4damparty!
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:13, archived)
# what was that?
maybe i shouldnt ask
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:20, archived)
# 4dam held a party, there's pictures of sushi and someone else, a glass coffee table and I'll let you guess the rest
btw where's dixon? haven't seen him for a while...
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:22, archived)
# sushi? thats enough for me
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:24, archived)
# he's a b3tard
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:36, archived)
# I wonder if England will ever stop for ANZAC day.
You know, that time when you sent out a bunch of Australians to charge over a field to their death to "create a diversion", and then you fuckers forgot you'd sent the order so they all died in vain.

Excuse me if I don't shed a tear for your incompetent fuckwits.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:16, archived)
# ^this
although it isn't just Aussies that British tactical incompetence has killed.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:18, archived)
# FUCK YOU KINGSUPERSPECIAL I HAD A BRILLIANTLY WITTY REPLY THAT MADE IT LOOK LIKE YOU SHAT YOURSELF AND YOU DELETED IT!! YOU BASTARD
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:20, archived)
# today remembers all those that died in battle
in vain or otherwise
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:18, archived)
# Tell me if anyone mentions the battle of gallipoli.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:21, archived)
# i love their pasta sauces
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:23, archived)
#
i won't be watching the full march past, but the Australian ambassador is there laying a wreath along with all the other commonwealth representatives, and in past years veterans of most campaigns have been in the march past depending on survival rates and respective ages.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:25, archived)
# Oh, you're all more interested in who sunk the belgrano.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:30, archived)
# It's not about glory
simply the remembrance of those who fell or went through it, whatever your political views

"War is terrible, but not as terrible as loosing the will to fight"

Some conflicts must be fought

(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:49, archived)
# The only reason war is necessary is because it exists.
It'd actually be pretty sweet if everyone lost the will to fight at the same time.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:51, archived)
# Aye
but i'm not holding my breath

(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 12:03, archived)
# Neither am I, but I'd still say it's a damn sight less terrible than war.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 12:06, archived)
# the incompent fuckwits aren't the ones who died on the front line
but you probably knew that
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:18, archived)
# Wow.
Quite the chip you've got on your shoulder.

They didn't just fuck it up for your lot.
My Grandad didn't particularly enjoy it either. His brothers certainly didn't. They're still in Belgium.
:(
 
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:45, archived)
# Let's all stand together and celebrate this.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:50, archived)
# It isn't a celebration.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:55, archived)
# It's a glorification at the very least
Sure, a lot of innocent people were just following orders, but the people that gave the orders are validated by this kind of shit.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:58, archived)
# It's a reminder to make the effort not to do it again
or at least to try not to.

If you think it glorifies it you're missing the point.

*click*
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 12:28, archived)
# Christ
calm geezer; of course we remember those men, and that "raging lion that turned out to be a stranded whale." The first world war was full of fuck ups like that, and whatever your misgivings about the tactics and the squandering of human life, the commonwealth tore the heart out of the German army in the end, and won

that 'diversion' was appalling though

(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 11:56, archived)
# "Tore the heart out of the German Army"
Not so sure about that, but they did cause mass starvation among the German civilian population by preventing food supplies getting in to the country.

Spiffing.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 15:27, archived)