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(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So 69 years since D-day
www.history.com/topics/d-day/photos
Both of my grandfathers were involved in it, my Canadian one was towing gliders and my English one was in the 7th Armoured, the second world war has had a major impact on my life, was any of your relatives involved in D-day, if so what was their part?

Alt: What’s had a major impact in your life to make you turn out the way you did?

Alt:alt: What one thing could you not live without*?
*awaits the inevitable oxygen type gags
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:04, 132 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Please accept the answer 'Your mum' to the relevant questions.

(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:06, Reply)
oi you cheeky cunt

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:08, Reply)
My Dad's Dad was a sapper and went in on the gliders
My Mam's Dad was in the Navy and was positioned offshore blowing shit up

Alt:
Beer

AltAlt:
See above
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:06, Reply)
So your grandfather was in the Navy.

(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:07, Reply)

blowing shit up aiming wildly and missing all the targets
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:08, Reply)
So, blowing shit up
Not necessarily the right shit, just shit
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:23, Reply)
All right Eric calm down

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:31, Reply)
this is a hilarious
Morecambe and Wise joke... Mr Preview
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:31, Reply)
Or should that be an rather than a
Kids today eh
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:32, Reply)
OK Sunshine

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:36, Reply)

shit up Taiwanese transvestites
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:09, Reply)
Office lol

(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:10, Reply)
Well that too

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:22, Reply)
Alt: Turning down a place at Winchester College, and discovering the illicit delights of LSD and hashish.
Altalt: LSD and hashish.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:08, Reply)
haha

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:10, Reply)
No idea. Not really interested in old people and/or war.
Alt.Alt. Probably music
(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:09, Reply)
Think My Dad's Dad was all warry and that.
He died when I was young so never really quizzed him about war.
(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:11, Reply)
Good alt:alt answer
First answer SHIT
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:11, Reply)
YM?

(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:17, Reply)
Now you're getting it

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:18, Reply)
Just like YM

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:24, Reply)
haha
I knew something along these lines would follow that statement
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:25, Reply)
My grandfather was an engineer who, along with a colleague, adapted
the Boulton-Paul turret to take Browning machine guns instead of the larger Vickers. This turret was eventually installed in the Lancaster bombers.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:09, Reply)
^ This Guy Gets It ^

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:12, Reply)
I may, in fact, mean Frazer Nash.
Edit: Yes, he adapted the turret when he worked for Bristol on their Beaufighter. The turrent was later used almost exactly as he adapted it on the Lancaster.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:12, Reply)
The Beaufighter was a massive faliure

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:17, Reply)
That's not even slightly true.
It was the primary nightfighter of the RAF before the Mosquito came in. Heaviest guns of any fighter of its time.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:18, Reply)
I'm only going of what the History channel tells me
The Mosquito however was really, really good
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:22, Reply)
The Mosquito was faster, and therefore better able to keep up with faster bombers
but the Beaufighter moved into anti-shipping and was in use until the end of the war. It was a bit slow and heavy, but it certainly wasn't a failure.

Pretty thing, too.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:24, Reply)
The main problem with the Beaufighter
was that they had reallly shit, gay turrets on them. The prick who designed those should have been shot as a traitor, the bent cunt.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:27, Reply)
Fucking hell
haha
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:31, Reply)
They had two armholes in the roof

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:32, Reply)

armholes white flags
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:47, Reply)
Thanks, Dido

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:51, Reply)
+ L

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:53, Reply)
Textbook

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:55, Reply)
I'm all about the Stukas myself

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:24, Reply)
Stukas are like your face SHIT
now the 109 was a good German plane
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:26, Reply)
Turn it in Joe Dolcie.

(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:28, Reply)
Stukas were a vital part of Blitzkrieg
One of the major reasons Rommel eventually lost in North Africa (other than the Navy intercepting his supply ships using Ultra decrypts) is that the Jadgstaffel were more concerned with getting high fighter kill scores than providing ground support for tanks etc.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:38, Reply)
They worked very well when they had air supremacy, such as is Spain

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:44, Reply)
Well Spain mainly had the plane

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:53, Reply)
LTI
FOR YOU ZE INTERNET IS OVER
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:10, Reply)
I like Bristols

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:33, Reply)
MMMmmmmmmm Bristols

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:48, Reply)
In a bizzarre twist,
you spend every Sunday afternoon round the back of your local church taking larger vicars in your 'browning'.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:13, Reply)
*golf clap*

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:23, Reply)
doffs cap

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:34, Reply)
My parental grandfather was a general. He was involved in the (disastrous) Dieppe Raid.
My maternal grandfather was an academic and must have been excused service I think - I must ask my mother if this is correct.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:11, Reply)
I kinda thought he was a Field Marshall

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:13, Reply)
Well his actual title was Obergruppenfuhrer but people don't know what that is so I make it simpler.

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:14, Reply)
He really shouldn't have gone to Berlin that day
for a birthday party
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:16, Reply)
He loved a Party that guy.

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:17, Reply)
HH's grandfather is Russ Abbott?

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:24, Reply)
He loved a shower with a gassy atmosphere.

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:27, Reply)
officelol + click

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:31, Reply)
That the one with the Crossword?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:06, Reply)
My grandfather died in a bunker. Apparently.
The stupid side parting favouring, moustache sporting, single bollocked old fool that he was.
(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:16, Reply)
People often forget the heroic role golfers played in the war.

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:17, Reply)
You are en FUEGO today!

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:19, Reply)
U NO DAT BRUV

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:28, Reply)
The Eagle has landed

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:22, Reply)
Bravo*


*two zero
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:25, Reply)
My English one died on hells highway during operation Market garden

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:17, Reply)
I don't think I have that ac/dc album, is it a bootleg?

(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:22, Reply)
*lifts pint*

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:23, Reply)
My grandparents were all children during the war
Alt: a blend of death and neglect
Altalt: My guitars. Or a guitar. Maybe the ability to play the guitar.
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:19, Reply)
They plumbed in the showers at Auschwitz.
Alt: Hard to tell until I get a go at playing out the alternatives.
Altalt: Music.
(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:24, Reply)
I love the idea that the gassing of the jews was all down to sub-standard plumbing
"Mein Gott! Not another hilarious mix up!"
That's Our Adolf!
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:28, Reply)
wa-wa-wa-waaaaaaahhhhh
*canned laughter*
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:31, Reply)
This can


The gift that keeps giving
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:34, Reply)
Not even in my top ten robots

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:35, Reply)
Zyklon sounds like two wheeled enginless vehicle that CQ would ride

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:38, Reply)
Lithium powered

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:40, Reply)
CQ is yes

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:41, Reply)
My dad was a driver in the Royal Engineers
He went over on D+12 but still got mortared and shelled. It was the high point of his life.
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:25, Reply)
He was into Dungeons and Dragons?

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:29, Reply)
I get this.

(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:31, Reply)
I wish I didn't.
In truth I never played it, my brother gave it a go and it looked bent.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:32, Reply)
the old
"not me but a friend of a friend need some advice" Line
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:34, Reply)
I'm still looking after those B&Hs and Razzles for someone at school, 25 years on.

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:36, Reply)
One of my grandads was chasing the future president of Egypt around what was then Palestine
Whenever he appeared on TV in the 70s he would mutter under his breath and turn the TV off.
The other one was being bombed frequently whilst driving a train in and out of the docks.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:30, Reply)
A Sadat story

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:35, Reply)
My Grandfather was in the Sherwood Foresters and spent most of his time in North Africa
During WW2 it was a quirk of fate that he ended up in 7th Armoured and not building a bridge over the river Kwai like some of his old unit
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:37, Reply)
Robbed from the Reich to give to the poor eh?

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:37, Reply)
Very good

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:39, Reply)
*groan*
You've been waiting the whole thread to get that joke in, haven't you?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:40, Reply)
Honestly, no
Just popped into my head when I read it
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:41, Reply)
I knew you were Goering to use that excuse

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:43, Reply)
What are you Waffen on about?

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:54, Reply)
Heil leave you two to it

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:05, Reply)
I might have Hessed you'd be Stukan your nose into something that Doenitz concern you.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:08, Reply)
You're getting a bit Göring now

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:32, Reply)
You mean Bormann

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:37, Reply)
Wearing green tights?

(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:38, Reply)
Yes
Yes I am
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:38, Reply)
Hello sexy.

(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:39, Reply)
*lifts skirt hem*

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:39, Reply)
*bites ankle*

(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:40, Reply)
My father in law was in No 4 Commando
and was in the whole beach landings malarkey. Never met him though. He died quite a few years before I met mr b3th.

I had one grandfather in North Africa, getting shot by Germans, and one down the mines in Yorkshire.

Alt: boarding school, probably.

Alt Alt: Diet Pepsi.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:54, Reply)
Your father-in-law served under Nelson, didn't he?

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:55, Reply)
mr b3th does like to tell people he was born during the war.
He's getting dangerously close to that "I'm 83, you know" stage.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:59, Reply)
My mum was born in 1944
Her dad was the Canadian airman, so you can all blame Hitler* for the hartley hare Poster

The man’s evil is still going strong
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:04, Reply)
I think you are saying that your maternal grandmother was a slag.
Is that what you are saying?
(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:37, Reply)
At that time.......YES......that's exactly what people must have thought of her

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:38, Reply)
It's what I think of her now
And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:40, Reply)
oh-OH

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:42, Reply)
I'm saying half of Juno beach went through her on D-Day-1

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:39, Reply)
She was famously called "The Longest Lay"

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:42, Reply)
She was the good time that was had by all

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:43, Reply)
VJJ Day was a right old laugh
She ran thicker than Birds custard that day
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:44, Reply)
From both sides.....in more ways than one
ifyouknowwhatimean
(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:42, Reply)
"Dig For Victory"

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:45, Reply)
I met a guy who spent two weeks on and around the D-Day landings making corned beef sandwiches on a ship.
14 hour days buttering bread.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:57, Reply)
Bully for him

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:58, Reply)
Someone had to do it i suppose,
must have been a bit embarrassing when he came back after the war and met up with his mates.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:59, Reply)
They will have discrust it at great length

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:17, Reply)
I get this joke!

(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 6 Jun 2013, 13:59, Reply)
I ignored it because it didn't class as a joke in my opinion.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:00, Reply)
I'm just trying to sound cool.

(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:01, Reply)
IT'S WORKING!!!*


*It isn't working
(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:37, Reply)
superb

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:01, Reply)
My grandfather died at Auschwitz
He fell out of his guard tower.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:22, Reply)
"Flügel Macht Frei"

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:25, Reply)
I was killed in Desert Storm

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:26, Reply)
No, you were killed by a dessert spoon.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:31, Reply)
Yes....DURING Desert Storm

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:35, Reply)
No, with a knife!!!

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:35, Reply)
Hey that thread you was thinking about doing earlier.....................

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:37, Reply)
Oh man, I got on the first page for last weeks /qotw
LIFE=COMPLETE
(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:26, Reply)
Fuck, I didn't even get to vote

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:27, Reply)
POO THREAD

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:51, Reply)

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