World War 2

[orpheum]

In fairness to Hitler!What a joke i just wish some of the 30 million dead from WW2 could hear that.

[Moor Larkin]

Originally Posted by Aaryk Noctivagus I think a pretty big crime was that we entered the War because Hitler invaded Poland, and then after the war were a party to giving that nation over to Stalin. Doing that made our morality somewhat suspect.

I think there does come a point where there is just no more that you are capable of doing. It may not have been that much fun in Poland during the Soviet era but another ten years of slaughter was perhaps not likely to have been preferable...... We seem to be trying to making up for it at the moment....

[batman]

Originally Posted by Aaryk Noctivagus I think Marky is only being objective rather than objectionable.

I think Marky was actually being ironic rather than serious.

Bats.

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Moor Larkin I think there does come a point where there is just no more that you are capable of doing. It may not have been that much fun in Poland during the Soviet era but another ten years of slaughter was perhaps not likely to have been preferable...... We seem to be trying to making up for it at the moment....

Mmmm, yum yum. We have an East European food shop (and a South African one) in the little town of Morden in SW London

Steve

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

Originally Posted by Moor Larkin

Yum yum... except for the Flaki. I think I'd have to go quite Flakey before I'd try eating Flaki!!!

Crumbs, how bad can Sos be if they don't give the ingedients for that one! Perhaps there is a clue in the name?

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

Originally Posted by batman I think Marky was actually being ironic rather than serious.

I agree. I initially wanted to say 'ironic' but at the time the word just would not come to mind.

[orpheum]

Offensive is more like.I am a secular Jew and on this holiest of days in our calender i am not about to allow such claptrap to go without comment.

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

Originally Posted by orpheum Offensive is more like.I am a secular Jew and on this holiest of days in our calender i am not about to allow such claptrap to go without comment.

All my life I wished I was Jewish. I adore the Jews... I'm proud that my Paternal great Grandfather was a Jew - though I know it doesn't mean much as far as my blood line goes.

However, I think this is making a bit of a mountain out of a mole hill... I refer to Marky's opening phrase rather than the Holocaust which could not be a larger nor more terrible thing.

The most offensive thing in this thread is the Flaki!!! If Marky spoke out of turn, have patience with him since I doubt he ever meant to offend.

Is it Rosh Hashanah? I'm not 100% sure when it falls this year... but its near, I think.

[Moor Larkin]

Originally Posted by Aaryk Noctivagus Crumbs, how bad can Sos be if they don't give the ingedients for that one! Perhaps there is a clue in the name?

Oh, i don't know..... peering closely at the label it appears to promise wanton sex.....

Come on you Poles!!........

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by orpheum Offensive is more like.I am a secular Jew and on this holiest of days in our calender i am not about to allow such claptrap to go without comment.

In what way is this the "holiest of days" in the Jewish calendar?

Steve

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Aaryk Noctivagus Is it Rosh Hashanah? I'm not 100% sure when it falls this year... but its near, I think.

That's not until the 23rd (by our calendar)

Steve

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

Originally Posted by Steve Crook That's not until the 23rd (by our calendar) Steve

It varies from year to year... I took a look around the internet and I think it may have started on the 12th of this month this particular year (at sun set). I may be mistaken... I only know very little about Jewish festivals.

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Aaryk Noctivagus It varies from year to year... I took a look around the internet and I think it may have started on the 12th of this month this particular year (at sun set). I may be mistaken... I only know very little about Jewish festivals.

I looked it up. The Wikipedia says Rosh HaShanah is on the 23rd this year

Steve

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

Originally Posted by Steve Crook I looked it up. The Wikipedia says Rosh HaShanah is on the 23rd this year...

I think you were looking at last year (2767 - 2006-2007), Steve. I think that this year is 5768 (2007-2008) which says Thursday 13th September.

The 23rd is on a Sunday this year... whereas in 2767 it was a Saturday as stated in Wikipedia.

So Thursday 13th September is the start of Rosh HaShanah, I think. (Applogies if I got the capital letters in the name wrong last time, Orpheum).

[dylan]

Originally Posted by orpheum It is generally acknowledged that the main turning point of the war was the big tank battle between the Germans and the Russians in 1943 i think it was Kursk.The Germans were heavily defeated and were never to regain the initiative again.

Kursk was the largest tank battle in history and the end of the German blitzkrieg tactics. However, the real turning point was a few months earlier at Stalingrad when the Germans sufferered their first major defeat in the war. Ironically it was the name of the place that made Hitler determined to capture the city. Stalin was prepared to sacrifice thousands to protect the city he'd named after himself instead of falling back to a defensible position on the other side of the Volga.

D.