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OffTheBackAdam
OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
edited December 2012 in The bottom bracket
DUCK!

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Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.

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  • DrKJM
    DrKJM Posts: 271
    In somewhat poor taste.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    :D:lol::D:lol::D:lol::D:lol:
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    DrKJM wrote:
    In somewhat poor taste.

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  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    What PS3 game is that then?
  • Escadrille Ecosse
    Escadrille Ecosse Posts: 164
    Didn't the Americans win at Pearl Harbour?
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,091
    Christ. Imagine if an American had posted something similar on remembrance day a few weeks back. It would be about as funny as this post is. Ie. Not at all.
  • Escadrille Ecosse
    Escadrille Ecosse Posts: 164
    On the contrary. Memorial Day in the US, on the last Monday in May is the when the Americans remember the sacrifice of their war dead. They also have Veterans Day which is more for all those who served alive or dead, this is on the same day as our Armistice Day, 11th November and is quite a nice idea really and something that at long last we have taken up with Armed Forces Day.

    This post is a bit more like all those jokes about the Germans, Poland and Basil Fawlty.
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  • Escadrille Ecosse
    Escadrille Ecosse Posts: 164
    Anyway, I think the Americans already trivialised the whole thing more than BR forumites could ever do when Obama compared the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour.
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  • fevmeister
    fevmeister Posts: 353
    Poor taste!!!
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,091
    It's not the poor taste i object to so much. It's just not funny. Like hale and pace.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I thought it was funny - builds up expectation with polite grammar then shatters it with a DUCK.

    Also funny, my niece was by me when I was reading this today and she though OTBA was Anthony Wiggle of the Wiggles :lol:
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  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    Nobody replied so found out I can 'play' with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on my Xbox....
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7J9TkttPkI

    now what was that again about 'taste'?
  • DrKJM
    DrKJM Posts: 271
    JGSI wrote:
    Nobody replied so found out I can 'play' with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on my Xbox....
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7J9TkttPkI

    now what was that again about 'taste'?

    Nobody said that every computer game was in the best taste did they? Let's remember they are mainly aimed at adolescent boys.
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    I know.. but behind the game and the profit motive are not adolescent boys, so I really cannot see how OTBA overstepped the mark here to 'upset' you...anyways enough is enough on this.
  • Hoopdriver
    Hoopdriver Posts: 2,023
    Very poor taste and, as noted above, neither funny nor clever
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  • crankycrank
    crankycrank Posts: 1,830
    edited December 2012
    What a wonderful post. I'm American. Complete tasteless drivel. With as many as 20 million killed by the Japanese and only a hundred thousand being Americans perhaps you'de get a bigger laugh addressing the Chinese forumites or show this post to a British Vet who fought the Japanese in WW2.
  • secretsqizz
    secretsqizz Posts: 424
    Well, it's been a week for bad taste aint it..? oi any Aussies care to make a call --- ring ring ring ..??
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Escadrille Ecosse wrote:
    Didn't the Americans win at Pearl Harbour?

    Battle of Britain.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Escadrille Ecosse wrote:
    Didn't the Americans win at Pearl Harbour?

    Battle of Britain.
    Nah.
    That was the Poles.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Hoopdriver
    Hoopdriver Posts: 2,023
    daviesee wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Escadrille Ecosse wrote:
    Didn't the Americans win at Pearl Harbour?

    Battle of Britain.
    Nah.
    That was the Poles.
    North Pole or South Pole?
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  • Lycra-Byka
    Lycra-Byka Posts: 292
    OffTheBackAdam wrote:
    DUCK!

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    Not a Duck-they are planes although they both are able to fly.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    The thing about a Mitsubishi Zero on a pond is you never get the impression as to how hard the wheels are working under the surface.
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  • Blacktemplar
    Blacktemplar Posts: 713
    As a friend of mine remarked this morning, "it's a bit Pearl Harbour" - when I looked baffled (a common expression on my part) he elaborated: "there's a Nip in the air" :roll:

    I agree with our Colonial Cousin - bad form old boy. Perhaps you could post something equally tasteful - maybe some Heinkel 111's cheerily overflying a big bonfire.
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  • Akirasho
    Akirasho Posts: 1,892
    ... it's all good... I've even owned a Japanese and German car and have one of the weirdiest forum names here... :roll: :mrgreen:
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Akirasho wrote:
    ... it's all good... I've even owned a Japanese and German car and have one of the weirdiest forum names here... :roll: :mrgreen:

    That makes you a fifth corrumist. :lol:
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    my german teacher used to fly Junkers 88's in the war. His concession to post war peace in the 1970's was to fly gliders only. I s'pose its because the had a reduced bomb payload.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,383
    Mitsubishi's marketing boys didn't seem to be too worried about re-using the brand name on one of their cars a few years back.
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    Unsurprisingly it wasn't sold in the US :)
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    A post in The Bottom Bracket criticised for lack of taste? :shock: :shock: :shock:
    So, by special request!
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    DUCK
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    The thing about a Mitsubishi Zero on a pond is you never get the impression as to how hard the wheels are working under the surface.

    Err...aren't the planes depicted the Aichi dive bomber (Allies reporting name "Val")?

    I'm ashamed I know this. I would get out more but it's so flipping cold. :oops:
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Correct! The front two are "Harvards/Texans" converted to resembled the Aichi D3A "Val". Mitsubishi A6M Zeros are the ones in the background.
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