On 5/21/2018 11:53 PM, android wrote:
On 2018-05-22 01:54:19 +0000, PeterN said:

On 5/21/2018 3:39 PM, android wrote:
On 2018-05-21 18:19:04 +0000, PeterN said:

On 5/21/2018 12:09 PM, android wrote:
On 2018-05-21 14:40:16 +0000, Dense Dave AKA Whisky-dave said:

On Monday, 21 May 2018 14:11:07 UTC+1, androidÂ* wrote:
On 2018-05-21 09:22:13 +0000, Whisky-dave said:

On Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:30:50 UTC+1, nospamÂ* wrote:
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Whisky-dave wrote:


Although maybe the term backup camera needs changign to
something like
reversing camera which is what we seem to call them in the UK.

you also drive on the wrong side of the road, so no.

We drive on the correct side you lot just followed the Napolonic
French, something to do with which side you drew your swords on,
that's
before you were all handed guns at birth obviously ;-P

France used to drive on the left side. Napoleon changed that to
humour
the Germans, transit traffic to Russia 'n all that!

where did you get that from sounds rubbish to me. Before Napoleon
people didn't drive. So I really don't know when France drove on
the left, care to explain ?

It was to do with most people being right handed, so for fighting
with your right hand needed traveling on the left hand side.

So you think that the French trops used sherpas to get stuff to the
Russian front?


If you've seen
"One Bridge Too Far" you'd have a better understanding of the
problems
involved...

nothing to do with a bridge to far, it was hundreds of years before.

You've never done service, right?

He probably thinks the movie was about a dentist who made a mistake.

Yeahh well, we might inform DD that the alaies drove towards Arnhem
New York style... :-))

Sadly, Monty wasn't the only General who sacrificed troops to satisfy
his ego. In the past he had been rather careful and conservative. I
have often wondered whether he had bad intelligence, or ignored the
reports.

I know that there are people in thisÂ* with first hand experience, that I
don't have that could confirm that things can happen and change very
fast in a war zone and that sometimes you just got to stick with what
you think is right and your gutfeeling.

True. I also understand that in those days, sudden troop movements were
not always easy to spot. But to my way of thinking the condition, and
location of the roads is basic information that one should know, prior
to moving tanks. I also cannot understand why no attempt was made to
secure the bridges on the the planned route.


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PeterN