| Tango01 | 24 Jun 2015 12:37 p.m. PST |
WAF?? … (smile) link Amicalement
Armand |
| imdone | 24 Jun 2015 12:52 p.m. PST |
A little WWII resentment sarcasm I imagine…maybe should stop showing up… |
| wingnut | 24 Jun 2015 1:05 p.m. PST |
See if only. I wouldn't mind paying taxes if they were spent bombing other nations in imaginary conflicts we had no real stake in…..Wait a minute. ALRIGHT GO AIR-FORCE! |
| Brian Smaller | 24 Jun 2015 1:25 p.m. PST |
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| vtsaogames | 24 Jun 2015 1:41 p.m. PST |
Right, Zoltar, we should just not show up in the first place. |
 McKinstry   | 24 Jun 2015 2:21 p.m. PST |
In 1815 wouldn't the US have been on the French side? |
| Bellbottom | 24 Jun 2015 2:57 p.m. PST |
Stupid article, (little, or no, relevance to wargaming), similar response, all calculated to 'stir the pot' You find some good stuff Tango01, but you also find some dross, please be more selective.
regards P |
| Brian Smaller | 24 Jun 2015 3:03 p.m. PST |
Good satire hits a nerve – I think it might have got you Jarrovian :) As to no relevance to wargaming. Not so. I have played games where my American army has fought alongside the British against the French in a campaign game. Not a strong link I admit – but a link :) PS – if I remember correctly my Armericans were supposed to come on the table in Turn 4 but showed up on Turn 7. I blamed the dice. |
| Mrkev506 | 24 Jun 2015 3:04 p.m. PST |
It's a fake news site, guys. Even says at the top that it's satire. |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 24 Jun 2015 3:04 p.m. PST |
I think some people have no sense of humour. Actually I believe there was an American on the British side at Waterloo. William Howe De Lancey. He died. |
| Bellbottom | 24 Jun 2015 3:31 p.m. PST |
Not my nerve Brian, I'm a Brit, not a Yank. As to 'Good Satire' – doubtful, it's not exactly 'Private Eye'.
(If they wanted to be really wicked, they could have intimated our colonial cousins turned up late, then strafed the British troops – not uncommon, but I would never say that) |
| gamershs | 24 Jun 2015 3:48 p.m. PST |
If jet fighters and drones had showed up at Waterloo then whoever side they were on won. Does this mean that Canada was conquered by the US in 1815? |
| Glengarry5 | 24 Jun 2015 4:56 p.m. PST |
I thought it was funny! Actually, by the time of Waterloo the War of 1812 was over so the United States was not an issue (except for the Penisular veterans who were still overseas and thus unavailable for the British army at Waterloo). |
| Nick Bowler | 24 Jun 2015 6:31 p.m. PST |
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| Tankrider | 24 Jun 2015 7:01 p.m. PST |
No need for the US to claim victory at Waterloo.. we'd already done our bit at New Orleans. :) |
 ochoin | 24 Jun 2015 8:33 p.m. PST |
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| Guthroth | 24 Jun 2015 11:13 p.m. PST |
As a Private Eye subscriber, I thought it was an entertaining piece, but I wouldn't have posted the link here. Some people are just too touchy ….. (See above) |
| Tango01 | 24 Jun 2015 11:43 p.m. PST |
"I think some people have no sense of humour." Totally agree!. Please! It's only for fun!. This is not a Military School! (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Supercilius Maximus | 25 Jun 2015 2:59 a.m. PST |
To be fair, our colonial cousins were early for one "world war" having started the SYW two years before the rest of us. That said, I would agree with those posters who suggest that the wit in this "satire" is more bludgeon than rapier. |
| ochoin | 25 Jun 2015 4:15 a.m. PST |
If you want to be picky, I'd define the piece as parody rather than satire. Thus it exaggerates, to the point of being ludicrous, a serious news story, though I think there are satiric elements. Again, it amused me….but I should add I like slapstick & think (sadly) a pie in the face is a scream.
(and the surest way of making something not funny is to analyse it).
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| Murvihill | 25 Jun 2015 9:12 a.m. PST |
'A spokesman for the US State Department was jubilant as he told the American people in a TV broadcast last night:…"Hell, we even won The Battle Of Britain for 'em. Anybody who's seen Ben Affleck kick Luftwaffe ass in Pearl Harbour knows that."' I knew it was a fake as soon as I saw this guy mispronounce "Harbor". |
