Wasn't sure which thread this would be best in.

[jeager]

Thank you for the corrections. :>)

Churchill was very worried, especially because it wasn’t just guns that the Atlantic fleet was bringing to Britain. It was butter. The rationing was so bad that at one point the Brits were rationed one egg a week. They stood in queues for hours just to get a piece of fruit. They were literally starving because food could not be brought in fast enough to feed their people, and fleet transports were being sunk faster than they could be replaced. Churchill quipped “The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. I was even more anxious about this battle than I had been about the glorious air fight called the Battle of Britain.”
https://civilianmilitaryintelligenc...almost-brought-britain-to-the-brink-of-defeat

Pick your history.

 

[Silent Earth]

Thank you for the corrections. :>)

Churchill was very worried, especially because it wasn’t just guns that the Atlantic fleet was bringing to Britain. It was butter. The rationing was so bad that at one point the Brits were rationed one egg a week. They stood in queues for hours just to get a piece of fruit. They were literally starving because food could not be brought in fast enough to feed their people, and fleet transports were being sunk faster than they could be replaced. Churchill quipped “The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. I was even more anxious about this battle than I had been about the glorious air fight called the Battle of Britain.”
https://civilianmilitaryintelligenc...almost-brought-britain-to-the-brink-of-defeat

Pick your history.

Oddly enough it was SPAM and CORNED BEEF that was the biggest help, We adapted from butter to lard .

Yup may like this piece on how we ended up HEALTHIER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/...-British-table-and-made-us-all-healthier.html

 

[jeager]

Great article and thank you for adding to increasing my understanding of British
history.
I grew up with a poor view on the English.
Dad was a WWII vet and stationed in England 'till he shipped
out on D-day .
Brits on the American military:
"Over paid, over sexed, and over here."
Rationing was common in the U.S. during WWII.
Gasoline, smokes, meat, and butter became oleo that today is margarine.

 

[Maverick]

Oddly enough it was SPAM and CORNED BEEF that was the biggest help, We adapted from butter to lard .

Yup may like this piece on how we ended up HEALTHIER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/...-British-table-and-made-us-all-healthier.html

Good read. I would like to see fast food chains go way of the DoDo, people really should get back to making food from scratch, much isn't taught anymore in this fast pace world of push button food.

An interesting article I read the other day, It changed the historical perception I had and learned in school not counting movies and literature;

Food at sea in the age of fighting sail (18th/19th century)
http://www.britishfoodinamerica.com...ical/Food-at-sea-in-the-age-of-fighting-sail/

 

[Silent Earth]

Great article and thank you for adding to increasing my understanding of British
history.
I grew up with a poor view on the English.
Dad was a WWII vet and stationed in England 'till he shipped
out on D-day .
Brits on the American military:
"Over paid, over sexed, and over here."
Rationing was common in the U.S. during WWII.
Gasoline, smokes, meat, and butter became oleo that today is margarine.

No mon ami you misunderstand the over paid thing was typical British tongue in cheek humour, The Brits loved and welcomed both the Canadians and American and TWO of the reasons are thus (1) Within days of WW2 starting Americans started arriving in the UK and at our embassys claiming to be Canadian and wanting to join our forces, Indeed often many American merchant sailors signed off US flagged vessels in the UK and immediately volunteers for our Merchant Marine. American pilots started turning up in the UK telling all sorts of lil white lies to get into our forces to help us. Seriously the chances are if someone bad mouthed a US serviceman in the UK in the 1940s chances are the loud mouth would have got seven colours of **** kicked out of him by other Brits. (2) The Americans generosity, unfookable believable US servicemen (draftees and volunteers -- there were are LOT more volunteers from the US than your govt would admit A LOT MORE, all claiming to be Canadian but with intimate knowledge of places in the US) they were so generous with everything from gifts, organising supplies from the US for our kids, helping British communities.

The Americans in the 1940s did something they could not do in 1812 the Yanks defeated us Brits with love, kindness, bravery, friendship and other good things. Same with the Canucks. And we did not forget that friendship see how the British forces fought to help the struggling forces in the early days of the Korean war.

If us Brits hated the Yanks so much then why are surviving US and Canadian war veterans idolised and welcomed into our communities and homes when they come back after 70 years?

 

[jeager]

FANTASTIC POST.

Thank you.

My f.i.l. crewed as ball turret gunner in a B-17 flying out of bases in England.
He was on his 25th mission and due to be rotated home upon completion.
He didn't make it.
Three hits with German 88 mm cannon.
One in the nose, midships, tail.
Only three of the ten got out.
He was caught by German troops as soon as he hit the ground.
Lucky to not be shot.
7 months as a p.o.w. and weighed only 75 pounds when liberated
by advancing British armor and infantry.
Dad was in 3rd Armored, light tank, 37 mm cannon that was useless
against German tanks.
It was good for infantry support.
Dad was gunner/driver, lost 5 tanks, twice the only survivor.
He refused purple heart and other medals.
He just wanted to go home.
It was a year after he was mustered out before he could use his right
hand again.
****y trap in a house in Belgium got him.
His discharge papers only say "Drove light tank in Europe".
He does have a ribbon with 5 star indicating he took part in
5 major battles.
He was in the Spearhead division so out front of the main forces all
the time.
He was caught behind Germans lines in the Battle of the Bulge.
His tank ran out of gas so under cover of nightfall they abandoned
the tank and crawled all night to friendly lines.
He hated the Army and the war.
I recall very few times he'd talk about the fighting.
Once and only once he talked of machine gunning children.
Germans would wire the kids with explosives and send them
running to G.I.'s yelling "chocolate, G.I.!" then when close enough
the German S.S. would detonate the kids and take out the allied
soldiers.
Nasty.
Who said war was fair?
The Japanese were horrible to captured allied troops.
IF THEY CAPTURED ANY! Surrendering allies were often just shot.
Number one the Japs thought surrender was a sign of cowardice.
Number two they did sign the Geneva accords but it was never ratified
by the Japanese Gov't, therefore void.
Yet snowflakes still condemn the U.S. for using the Atomic bomb.
We only had two bombs and used them.
That saved an estimated one million casualties on all sides.
Now the Japanese beat us the the retail market.
Right behind China.

 

[jeager]

American and England.
Allies separated by a common language.
Lorry? ( IT'S A CAR!!!!)
Loo? (toilet)
Bonnet? (car hood)
Boot? ( it's a TRUNK! Boot goes on your feet!)

 

[Silent Earth]

American and England.
Allies separated by a common language.
Lorry? ( IT'S A CAR!!!!)
Loo? (toilet)
Bonnet? (car hood)
Boot? ( it's a TRUNK! Boot goes on your feet!)

Nearly right Brit Merkin

Loo = John

Lorry = Truck
Saloon = Sedan
Estate = Station Wagon
Bonnet = Hood
Bumper = Fender
Boot = Trunk
Pick up = Truck
Petrol = Gas
Gas = Gas
Trunk = Luggage
Artic = Semi Truck (articulated truck)
Diesel = Diesel
Windscreen = Windshield
Aerial = Antenna
Mainbeam = Brights
Indicators = Signals
Brake lights = Stop lights
Sports Cars = Muscle Cars

 

[jeager]

Thanks!
My favorite comedy of all times was "Are you being served?"

Are You Being Served? (originally styled as "Are You Being Served?" in quotation marks) is aBritish sitcom created and written by Jeremy Lloydand David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes), with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman, for the BBC.[1] Set in London, the show follows the misadventures and mishaps of the staff of the retail ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments, in the flagshipdepartment store of a fictional chain called Grace Brothers.

 

[Silent Earth]

Thanks!
My favorite comedy of all times was "Are you being served?"

Are You Being Served? (originally styled as "Are You Being Served?" in quotation marks) is aBritish sitcom created and written by Jeremy Lloydand David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes), with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman, for the BBC.[1] Set in London, the show follows the misadventures and mishaps of the staff of the retail ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments, in the flagshipdepartment store of a fictional chain called Grace Brothers.

Yes Mrs Slocombes p*ssy is world famous and of course Mr Humphies "I'm free" as gay as a Californian Senator

My fav Brit comedy is IT AINT ALF HOT MUM

I'm a massive Big Bang fan.

 

[Silent Earth]

Now there are sports differences as well, in the UK we have a childs game called Rounders in the US its called Baseball.

In the UK Soccer is called football and the ball is round and you kick it, in the US its called Soccer.

Soccer football is played across the world and the global competition is called THE WORLD CUP.

In the UK Rugby is the hard hitting ball game played by men using an ovoid shaped ball, all civilised nations play Rugby and we have the Rugby World Cup.

Rugby players look like this


American Football players look like this



In the US you have American football its like Rugby but for wusses cos all the players need helmet and armour Only the United States plays American football but its called the World Series.

Where as Soccer is about scoring goals American Football is about who has the best Cheer leaders and who can sing the National anthem the worst.
America picks its prettiest bestest and brightest gals to be Cheer leaders

This is what Cheer leaders look like in Texas apparently

And thats what is called British sense of humour life is to short to be miserable and when you live on an over crowded island where its either raining, about to rain or just finished raining you have to learn to laugh .

 

[Silent Earth]

I'm gonna hide for a few hours now, PS Jontte made me do it

 

[WGregMiller]

Uh uh.... World Series is baseball. Football is the super bowl.

And your cheerleader pic... damn.....

 

[Silent Earth]

Uh uh.... World Series is baseball. Football is the super bowl.

And your cheerleader pic... damn.....

I stand gladly and humbly corrected WGM, How many nations are in the World Series Baseball ?

 

[WGregMiller]

Lol! Only one, as you know. I couldn't help myself, nor can I unsee the 'cheerleader' picture.

 

[jeager]

We Americans love football.
Sadly I'm a Cleveland Browns fan.
You know. The team without cheer leaders OR a Super Bowl win.
The team that moved to Baltimore and became the Baltimore
Ravens AND WON THE SUPER BOWL! whaaaaaaaaaaaaa, boooooooooooo
hooooooooooooooo, snivel, cry, blue, depressed.
The Cleveland Browns owner FIRED Bernie Kozar, a beloved
Cleveland native and quarterback.
Dallas Cowboys pick him up the next day and THEY win the Super
Bowl that year!!!!
Me slitting my wrists!

Well I can always root for the nearby Pittsburgh Steelers.
They've won at least SIX Super Bowls.

 

[jeager]

Kozar was a football genius.
Sadly he was a klutz.
He just couldn't move his feet. Hardly a mobile q.b.
However he was quite accurate throwing the ball when not on his back.
He once rushed 6 yards for a t.d.
The announcers joked it took him most of the quarter to do it.

 

[jeager]

There are no fans in the pro football fan clubs more rabid than
the Cleveland Browns Dog Pound people.