The Dreamer, Casper Friedrich, 1840
It’s almost hilarious that Sir Robert Menzies’s Liberal Party (what was he thinking when he came up with that?) is…
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At 12, Jaiswal moved from rural Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai for cricket. He slept in tents and sold pani puri to earn…
It’s not commonly known, but Teslas use Righteous Electrickery (RE), so all is balanced with Gaia. Namaste.
Who’s a racist now ?
New fred.
Min:
How about a family of five who are removed from the mother, because ‘Post Natal Depression’, put into an institution and abused for years?
Only allowed to see the mum once a year?
Think they might be damaged too?
(Not a go at you, min. In fact I gave you 88 upticks. 🙂 )
Roger:
You’d think these idiots, hating Australia as much as they do, would just piss off to one of the Woke Nations at the very first chance.
Buy no, they have to keep bloody nagging at out multi hued failures across the entire spectrum of human behaviour.
Even if they didn’t piss off, you’d expect they might just shut up for a couple of weeks, but no.
Every frigging chance they get, they nag nag nag.
mem:
That settles it.
I’m spraying the inside of my recyclables bin with Mortein.
Dover Beach:
Where on Earth did you get 80% figure from DB?
I’ve occasionally said that Germany handled its reserves badly from the very first day it started mobilising, and continued mishandling them right up until the end of the war. OKH never once said ‘we don’t need to conduct this or that offensive” and just flogged their troops, the Luftwaffe, and the civilian workforce into the ground. The Kriegsmarine was a joke from the very start. It would never effectively resist the RN, and realistically excluding the submarine arm, was only ever of value in keeping the Baltic free of threats to iron ore shipments from Sweden and Norway.
Hitler’s exhortations to ‘resist with a fanatical will’ just burnt the best of his units out for stuff all gain.
Makka:
The kick off on 22nd June had been delayed by several weeks already because the airfields were not ready for the support necessary. That was the major reason for the late start. Yugoslavia was very much a side issue.
1941 was also one of the coldest winters in decades, and delayed Operation Taifun (Typhoon) – the advance on Moscow. The Rzevh pocket was a waste of troops, air transport, and supply capacity.
But most of all, the railways and supporting the front line troops was the biggest hindrance. Had the plan been to take 3 years with consolidation before each winter in phase lines, the USSR may have been defeated. Running full tilt at the enemy and collapsing on his barbed wire is not the way to do it.
Something for a Sunday:
Rods from God.
Pretty much the definitive KO of the idea.
Several months ago someone asked about this method of cutting lumber. ?Alaskan sawmill?
Simple as Hell, and easy to get timber from places where access is difficult.
More detail. with subtitles.
Grey Ranga:
Is there such a thing in Australia any more?
Whatever happened to our timber industry? I’ll tell you – insatiable Greens, gutless politicians, and a bureaucracy that wants to get invited to the ‘right’ parties.
HBBear:
It needs a lot of work, but you wouldn’t trust this lot of arseholes to manage anything.