Boards in 1939

knucklehead6 · 25-05-2021 11:51am

Prefab Sprouter wrote: »

Funny though, since the Belgians have declared themselves neutral the French have suddenly realised that there is a rather large gap in their defences. The Maginot Line only goes to the Belgian Border. To be fair though, the impenetrable Ardennes should keep the German Army bottled up in time for the French army to mobilise.

Hitler is an honourable man, he is NOT going to invade France. As for Poland, all he is requesting is a small bit of land to reunite Prussia with the rest of the Fatherland. AND i've heard that the Poles are persecuting Germans in the Danzig Corridor

Kermit.de.frog · 25-05-2021 10:03pm

Speaks the truth. I've seen tik toks from the region. Grim.

branie2 · 25-05-2021 10:09pm

I think there will be trouble between Hitler and Stalin in a couple of years time

saabsaab · 25-05-2021 10:19pm

branie2 wrote: »

I think there will be trouble between Hitler and Stalin in a couple of years time

After France and Germany finish each other he will have little to stop him.

Badly Drunk Boy · 25-05-2021 10:35pm

branie2 wrote: »

I think there will be trouble between Hitler and Stalin in a couple of years time

I hear some boyo in the 'avant garde' hit parade has a song about them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHrcN8JcnJY

branie2 · 25-05-2021 11:27pm

There's a film coming out called The Wizard of Oz. I think it's going to be a big hit.

Capt'n Midnight · 25-05-2021 11:34pm

Stalin has a tough job considering how many of his closest aides have just disappeared off and left hm short handed.

Capt'n Midnight · 25-05-2021 11:40pm

saabsaab wrote: »

After France and Germany finish each other he will have little to stop him.

Both the US and Japan hate communism.

If Stalin tries anything they'll kick him from behind you mark my words.

sunbeam · 25-05-2021 11:58pm

Eddie and Wallis: Did you see the state of that brazen American hussy in the latest newsreel? Just who do the think they are jetting around the world like minor film stars? Will this be the end of the royal family and is it all her fault?

The Emergency Thread I-XXV. Later to be followed by The Emergency Forum, which will bring us such highly debated threads as:

To Gas Mask or Not to Gas Mask?
Can we please have some fcuking control on fighter jets from high risk countries invading our airspace?
Will the Brits ever piss off and stop asking for the use of our ports?
Do ration coupon cheats cheat us all?

Charles Babbage · 26-05-2021 1:01am

Has anyone got the new Glenn Miller record? That guy is going to be big in the next decade or two.

Raphael Picard · 26-05-2021 1:10am

Just started reading Finnegans Wake ... anyone else lost?

knucklehead6 · 26-05-2021 4:50am

sunbeam wrote: »

Eddie and Wallis: Did you see the state of that brazen American hussy in the latest newsreel? Just who do the think they are jetting around the world like minor film stars? Will this be the end of the royal family and is it all her fault?

The Emergency Thread I-XXV. Later to be followed by The Emergency Forum, which will bring us such highly debated threads as:

To Gas Mask or Not to Gas Mask?
Can we please have some fcuking control on fighter jets from high risk countries invading our airspace?
Will the Brits ever piss off and stop asking for the use of our ports?
Do ration coupon cheats cheat us all?

What’s a jet?

Rawr · 26-05-2021 7:46am

knucklehead6 wrote: »

What’s a jet?

It's what happens if you have too much water pressure and the water just "jets" out of the fosset like mad.

Those can be pretty powerful, I can understand why someone might call that a "Fighter Jet"...loads of Fight in that Jet. Not sure how foreign jets could enter our airspace...unless you're up North with a hose pointed at us...

Capt'n Midnight · 26-05-2021 12:09pm

knucklehead6 wrote: »

What’s a jet?

Given the context it's a dark black colour. If they are really dark then searchlights won't pick them up.

But the neighbours have the latest detector technology so they should be OK.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8cbKCMBdDvw/V8jmRC7_WPI/AAAAAAAAK4s/mW24UNfiYZcMz_MAEjZnnWwzoHK_VsXfwCLcB/s1600/acoustic_locator_12.jpg

From https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/aircraft-detection-radar-1917-1940/

knucklehead6 · 26-05-2021 1:59pm

I didn't get a paper today. Anyone know what date it is?

RandomViewer · 26-05-2021 3:54pm

knucklehead6 wrote: »

What’s a jet?

ME262, might have only existed on paper but the threat of its existence was probably enough

knucklehead6 · 26-05-2021 4:08pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

ME262, might have only existed on paper but the threat of its existence was probably enough

[pedant alert] Frank Whittle had a working turbojet in 1937, but considering I don’t know what date it is cos I didn’t buy a paper today it’s possible I don’t know about these magnificent men in their flying machines
[/pedant alert]

Rawr · 26-05-2021 4:31pm

knucklehead6 wrote: »

I didn't get a paper today. Anyone know what date it is?

The twenty sixth day of May, in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen, Nine and Thirty.

knucklehead6 · 26-05-2021 4:42pm

Rawr wrote: »

The twenty sixth day of May, in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen, Nine and Thirty.

Thanks. I’ve been meaning to find out what happened to those poor American sailors on the submarine Squalus.

It seemed to be lost in all the news the other day about Mr Hitler looking to reunite Prussia and Danzig with Germany.

gigantic09 · 26-05-2021 5:41pm

Love this thread. It's all that's keeping me going at the minute. Collen I'm supposed to Wed next week has just informed me she wants a small family of no more than 6 kids. I'm devastated as there's 34 in my family including 12 priests and 9 nuns and 6 St. Bridgets Cross technician's.

saabsaab · 26-05-2021 5:50pm

Charles Babbage wrote: »

Has anyone got the new Glenn Miller record? That guy is going to be big in the next decade or two.

Nah, Tommy Dorsey or Artie Shaw for me.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-05-2021 12:09am

knucklehead6 wrote: »

Thanks. I’ve been meaning to find out what happened to those poor American sailors on the submarine Squalus.

I hope they did better than the sailors on HMS Thetis

Long read https://janmeecham.wordpress.com/2016/09/24/the-thetis-submarine-disaster/

Kermit.de.frog · 27-05-2021 3:58am

1939 summed up in 9 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxuIeRA6S8

saabsaab · 28-05-2021 10:01pm

New housing is being built and it is much needed. Mind you you'd need the best part of a thousand pounds to buy a large house in a good area of Dublin. Can prices rise more?

RandomViewer · 28-05-2021 10:05pm

saabsaab wrote: »

New housing is being built and it is much needed. Mind you you'd need the best part of a thousand pounds to buy a large house in a good area of Dublin. Can prices rise more?

These concrete blocks are quicker than stone, plenty of farm labourers laid off because of Mr Ferguson will slap up new buildings quickly,

Ash.J.Williams · 28-05-2021 10:57pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

These concrete blocks are quicker than stone, plenty of farm labourers laid off because of Mr Ferguson will slap up new buildings quickly,

Lazy mans mortar, it’ll never catch on

Charles Babbage · 28-05-2021 11:44pm

Them unionists, they are full of it. This Lord Craigavon wants conscription in the 6 counties, even though the British reckon it is too much trouble.
He made a speech "Nothing would cause so much resentment in Ulster as the suggestion that they wished to be relieved of the sacrifices which were being borne by their fellow-citizens".
I'll tell you, I know a few lads round Forkhill and Dromintee and they are doing well smuggling cows, and they'll not be joining the British Army!

Ash.J.Williams · 29-05-2021 12:36am

Noooooooooooooo my youngest is quite taken by a Protestant girl up the road, any one know the ramifications if he goes ahead ? Don’t think she’s even intact

Kermit.de.frog · 29-05-2021 5:45am

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Noooooooooooooo my youngest is quite taken by a Protestant girl up the road, any one know the ramifications if he goes ahead ? Don’t think she’s even intact

Ex-communication

May his sole rest in HELL

RandomViewer · 30-05-2021 12:23pm

The post office wants to put the price of a stamp up to 3d ,nobody will posting letters soon

branie2 · 30-05-2021 10:36pm

I have a feeling that in a few years time, we will have a bomb so destructive, it will put other bombs in the shade

RandomViewer · 30-05-2021 10:39pm

branie2 wrote: »

I have a feeling that in a few years time, we will have a bomb so destructive, it will put other bombs in the shade

You'd need tons and tons of TNT , no aeroplane could carry it,

saabsaab · 30-05-2021 10:57pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

You'd need tons and tons of TNT , no aeroplane could carry it,

Might need a large airship?

RandomViewer · 30-05-2021 11:04pm

saabsaab wrote: »

Might need a large airship?

They are basically a floating bomb anyway

Capt'n Midnight · 30-05-2021 11:21pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

You'd need tons and tons of TNT , no aeroplane could carry it,

No existing aeroplane. They are working on bigger ones all the time. But still not a patch on what an airship can carry.

But you don't need bombs when you can use poison gas. I fear that H.G. Well's book The Shape of Things to Come may be prophetic.

Capt'n Midnight · 30-05-2021 11:25pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

They are basically a floating bomb anyway

That old chestnut.

Only if you use Hydrogen. If you use Helium they are safe as long as you keep away from storms. And they can carry aeroplanes too.

saabsaab · 30-05-2021 11:45pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

That old chestnut.

Only if you use Hydrogen. If you use Helium they are safe as long as you keep away from storms. And they can carry aeroplanes too.

Helium is expensive.

knucklehead6 · 31-05-2021 7:33am

Why is Germany signing all these non aggression pacts? According to those in the know they are signing one with Denmark later on today.

I'm beginning to think Hitler isn't the Volk Loving peace keeper we all hope he is. Maybe he's signing all these pacts as a distraction.

No doubt, some jovial gentleman will direct me to the conspiracy theories pages of this missive for expressing my thoughts

Rawr · 31-05-2021 8:46am

There's a lot of buzz coming out from Norway about Norsk Hydro making this stuff called "Heavy Water". I don't understand the fuss. It's water for crying out loud. If you have loads of it, of course it will be "heavy" :rolleyes:

Kermit.de.frog · 31-05-2021 9:21am

The ice caps are predicted by climate scientists to disappear by 1955. Hopefully any skirmishes are carbon neutral.

Electric tanks are the future and air ships.

Capt'n Midnight · 31-05-2021 10:08am

Rawr wrote: »

There's a lot of buzz coming out from Norway about Norsk Hydro making this stuff called "Heavy Water". I don't understand the fuss. It's water for crying out loud. If you have loads of it, of course it will be "heavy" :rolleyes:

In a word, bombs.

It's because they make lots of hydrogen there for fertilizer which can be made into explosives.

saabsaab · 31-05-2021 7:37pm

No war can last long now. The terrible consequences of destruction from the air will cause demands on the governments to end it quickly unlike the Great War.

Rawr · 31-05-2021 7:55pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In a word, bombs.

It's because they make lots of hydrogen there for fertilizer which can be made into explosives.

Bombs?! Poppycock, my good man! POPPYCOCK!

Next you'll tell me this stuff can be used to split atoms and level whole cities. If you had said that I would presume you have been reading one too many Amazing Stories. That stuff will rot your brain!

saabsaab · 31-05-2021 10:12pm

People will leave cities if they come under air attack. Then airborne troops will take over the capital and take the Government prisoner. A war could be over in a week!

odyssey06 · 31-05-2021 10:20pm

The bomber will always get through.

saabsaab · 31-05-2021 10:22pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

The bomber will always get through.

There is nothing to stop them. By the time a fighter plane gets up there, they will be gone. Modern bombers can fly at near 250mph! Almost the same speed as a modern fighter.

Capt'n Midnight · 31-05-2021 10:56pm

Rawr wrote: »

Bombs?! Poppycock, my good man! POPPYCOCK!

Totally true. Electricity and water gives you hydrogen. Hydrogen and nitrogen from the air gives you ammonia. Ammonia and oxygen and you get nitric acid and that's what the explosives are made from. The war to end all wars would have been over a lot sooner if the Germans hadn't been able to do that.

Next you'll tell me this stuff can be used to split atoms and level whole cities. If you had said that I would presume you have been reading one too many Amazing Stories. That stuff will rot your brain!

What ?

I can only assume you mean radium needles and pitchblende and why would you need a bomb when that stuff is nasty all by itself ?

odyssey06 · 01-06-2021 3:03pm

saabsaab wrote: »

There is nothing to stop them. By the time a fighter plane gets up there, they will be gone. Modern bombers can fly at near 250mph! Almost the same speed as a modern fighter.

Aye, going to be hard to catch the fast twin engine bombers in one of these... what we have in No. 1 Fighter Squadron at Baldonnel.

knucklehead6 · 01-06-2021 4:36pm

i hear a ship was turned away from Cuba the other day, carrying 937 jews from Germany

saabsaab · 01-06-2021 6:41pm

knucklehead6 wrote: »

i hear a ship was turned away from Cuba the other day, carrying 937 jews from Germany

Nobody wants them. Killing Christ is a black mark against their race.

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