Facebook fails Vol. 2

Facebook fails Vol. 2

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captain_cynic

11,876 posts

94 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Tallow said:
Well this Spitfire debate has certainly derailed a perfectly enjoyable thread!
You mean the Hurricane debate

/runs and hides.

Tallow

1,624 posts

160 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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captain_cynic said:
You mean the Hurricane debate

/runs and hides.
hehe Or perhaps Avro Lancaster debate?

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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I didn't have a clue, had to Google. I don't think not knowing is a bad thing really, now I know. People get a bit too antsy about stuff like this.

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Thesprucegoose said:
I didn't have a clue, had to Google. I don't think not knowing is a bad thing really, now I know. People get a bit too antsy about stuff like this.
The Spruce Goose didn't even know! Yeesh...

Benni

3,510 posts

210 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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SpeckledJim said:
The Spruce Goose didn't even know! Yeesh...
This is even more funny/sad as he has an airplane nickname.

Hi

1,362 posts

177 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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I was at the 'dig for victory' show this year and eagerly awaited the flyover from a spitfire - it was amazing to see it so low and hear it BUT it didn't have the famously shaped wings that a spitfire has.

The wings were quite square, from what I gather it turns out only certain 'mk' spitfire have the famously shaped wings.

Ginetta G15 Girl

3,220 posts

183 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Hi said:
The wings were quite square, from what I gather it turns out only certain 'mk' spitfire have the famously shaped wings.
That will be one of the 'clipped wing' LF variants, probably the BBMF LF XVIe. The wing tips were removed to increase the roll rate at low level.

silverfoxcc

7,683 posts

144 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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havoc said:
yes

Spitfire has one of the most iconic shapes in British history. It's akin to not knowing when we won the (football) World Cup...except a little bit more important. wink
And when on the ground....the undercarriage

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Benni said:
This is even more funny/sad as he has an airplane nickname.
yes i know about the SG but not 2nd WW planes differences, but now I do...

Fun Bus

17,911 posts

217 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Meanwhile, back on the subject matter of thread...

CanAm

9,115 posts

271 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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havoc said:
The Dangerous Elk said:
They will be "young".

As such WW2 is of passing interest...
Which has got to be a problem, surely?

(Not just WW2, but significant events in history in general: "those who forget history...")

Totally O/T, but there do seem to be a LOT of young people who are proud of their ignorance. A lot of them are now unfortunately of voting age...
There are so many on TV quiz shows whose get-out for lack of knowledge is " I don't know - I wasn't born then"!

As if the Spitfire/Hurricane isn't bad enough, someone recently posted a picture of a Triumph Spitfire on here and called it an MGB GT.

Ginetta G15 Girl

3,220 posts

183 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Fun Bus said:
Meanwhile, back on the subject matter of thread...
Aye, aye. All Hail the King of the Internet. rolleyes

Fun Bus

17,911 posts

217 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Fun Bus said:
Meanwhile, back on the subject matter of thread...
Aye, aye. All Hail the King of the Internet. rolleyes
Glad you realise it.

Ginetta G15 Girl

3,220 posts

183 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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You obviously don't understand irony.

Matt Hew

135 posts

75 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Tallow said:
Well this Spitfire debate has certainly derailed a perfectly enjoyable thread!
Whoops what have I started! My point was who the guff was made by and how it passed through their Facebook QC department but it would appear that I've unintentionally caused a fracas.

wst

3,494 posts

160 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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captain_cynic said:
This, and spare a thought for the poor souls manning (or womanning, lets not be biased) the phones at the IWM that day. They would have received several hour long lectures from nasally voiced anoraks of the fine detailed differences between a Spitfire MK IA and a Spitfire MK IIA before getting to the heinous crime of mistaking any of them for a Hurricane.
It's alright, at least one of those is a mongrel made of bitsa Hurricane from across the whole of Canada.

Also.



I wish all caps posts were illegal. They make me shout in my head and are tiring to read.

Kermit power

28,635 posts

212 months

Wednesday 26th September 2018
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anonymous said:
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Whilst I'm inclined to agree with you to a large extent, the Spitfire and Hurricane and were without any shadow of a doubt iconic as far more than simple weaponry in WW2. They were a symbol of everything which kept us free and ultimately won the war. There is no comparison with tanks and rifles.

Kermit power

28,635 posts

212 months

Wednesday 26th September 2018
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havoc said:
I went to school >20 years ago and I think the 'chronological' comment above may be correct - nothing 20th century (and very little 19th century) was studied until A-Level...where the curriculum was "Europe in the last 200 years".
(how ethno-centric is that? Because of course nothing interesting outside of Europe has happened anytime since 1800...)

Conversely my 6y.o. lad has just done the Pharonic Egyptians at school...
My daughter is currently studying GCSE History. I can't off hand remember everything they're doing, but I know one large module is medical history, so they're looking at advances in medical treatment right through history, the social changes that accompanied that and so on. It struck me as a really sensible and useful way to approach the teaching of history, and far more valuable than something like learning the Kings and Queens of England in order.

Fast and Spurious

1,295 posts

87 months

Wednesday 26th September 2018
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Kermit power said:
Whilst I'm inclined to agree with you to a large extent, the Spitfire and Hurricane and were without any shadow of a doubt iconic as far more than simple weaponry in WW2. They were a symbol of everything which kept us free and ultimately won the war. There is no comparison with tanks and rifles.
Err if you want a single icon of what won the war it's a T34, plain and simple.

Kermit power

28,635 posts

212 months

Wednesday 26th September 2018
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Fast and Spurious said:
Kermit power said:
Whilst I'm inclined to agree with you to a large extent, the Spitfire and Hurricane and were without any shadow of a doubt iconic as far more than simple weaponry in WW2. They were a symbol of everything which kept us free and ultimately won the war. There is no comparison with tanks and rifles.
Err if you want a single icon of what won the war it's a T34, plain and simple.
Possibly for the Russians, but certainly not for the British.

Besides, if we'd lost the Battle of Britain (and I understand we need to thank Polish pilots for that even more than the Spit, doubtless much to the apoplexy of many a UKIP voter), we would've almost certainly been successfully invaded, removing the British Isles as a staging post for the Normandy landings, and quite probably ending the conflict in North Africa as well, removing that as a staging post for the invasion of Italy.

Do you think the Soviet Union would've won against Germany fighting on a single front with all of Western and Central Europe's natural resources and forced labour to call on? I'm not convinced they would.