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***Motors Chat Thread Round 2***
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Do you consider that we were pro Hitler or pro Churchill?Ardennes1944 wrote: »We weren't really neutral at all at all
Supergurrier wrote: »Your OH sounds strange :pac:guttenberg wrote: »Nah, he sounds cheap!
I think to be fair he was worried something nasty had happened when he was using the car for the 1000 or so miles he drove it when I was away, and I was going to explode.
He should have said nothing, I'd have seen the light, checked the oil, coolant and fuel, topped them up if necessary and if not gone to the mechanic to check it out, that light occasionally comes on and goes off, like the way the interior lights come sometimes when I use the indicators.
He does have a fear of breaking my car and my losing the rag!Which is why nothing will come out of any initiative ever.
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That's a shame, way too much to be gained by having such a facility than not.0 -
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Ardennes1944 wrote: »Pro Churchill/allies in general
Same here
Do you read much about WW2? My main interest is the concentration camps and their background, and the ghettos.0 -
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Same here
Do you read much about WW2? My main interest is the concentration camps and their background, and the ghettos.
Do I read much about ww2....god yes! I was in Sachsenhausen 3years ago and am going to Auschwitz in January. I'll pick you up some reading
Apart from the obvious sadness they are fantastic places to go to as a learning curve for life.0 -
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Ever visit? Seriously humbling experience.
No, not yet, probably on my list of top three holidays, and close to the top.
I'd like to see Auschwitz think it would help make sense of what I've read, I suspect I'd find it very upsetting.
Weirdly some might think, I'd also like to visit Israel.0 -
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Ardennes1944 wrote: »Do I read much about ww2....god yes! I was in Sachsenhausen 3years ago and am going to Auschwitz in January. I'll pick you up some reading
Apart from the obvious sadness they are fantastic places to go to as a learning curve for life.
I've a couple of books looking for a home and a few I've read that I'd recommend.
One I'm going through at the moment is Hitlers Hangman, and another about the Polish/Warsaw ghettos.
You are welcome to them when I am finished, if the subject interests you?
I'd love to hear how you find Auschwitz, I imagine I would come away very saddened0 -
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I've a couple of books looking for a home and a few I've read that I'd recommend.
One I'm going through at the moment is Hitlers Hangman, and another about the Polish/Warsaw ghettos.
You are welcome to them when I am finished, if the subject interests you?
I'd love to hear how you find Auschwitz, I imagine I would come away very saddened
I actually have Hitlers Hangman just haven't got round to reading it yet. My dad read it and said it was good though.
That area on concentration camps would interest me alright and if you are looking to give them a new home I'm always interested thank you. I would have a much greater overall interest in d day/the breakout , market garden, and other various pockets of intense fighting like in the Ardennes of course
Arnhem is a great city and so easy to get to.
The book I'm reading at the moment is D-Day by Anthony Beevor, it's fantastic.
My best books are a complete set, if you look up Purnells second world war weekly magazine from around 40 years ago I have all 96 magazines in a special edition set of 8bounded folders.
There was a woman on adverts selling the normal 96 separate magazines for €1,000 and I got the whole special set (previously owned by a ww2 veteran in fact) from England for €70 in perfect condition!
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guttenberg wrote: »It's shocking how obvious the rich/poor divide is in Poland, the difference can be extremely obvious when you see some of the "cars" on the road over there!
It's the same in most Eastern European / Ex-Bloc countries I've visisted. Once they got their freedom those 'in-the-know' milked it for all they could and made savage money while the rest just sucked it up and hoped for the best. As a rule people in those areas have a much better life but you'll still see oddities like a mule and cart in the countryside being passed out by a brand new Corvette. In fact you are less likely to see that contrast in Poland than some other neighbouring countries. 0 -
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I've been to Auschwitz, very interesting; bizzare and humbling experience, especially walking through the gas chambers at the end. Scary to think how undivided Europe was only 70 years back yet good to see how far we've come since. Really puts it in to perspective. Not the most pleasant experience but I think everyone should see it at some some stage in their lives.
I do too.
I find it very sad that my generation/the next generation will be the last to have real experience of WW2 as the survivors will be dea.Ardennes1944 wrote: »I actually have Hitlers Hangman just haven't got round to reading it yet. My dad read it and said it was good though.
That area on concentration camps would interest me alright and if you are looking to give them a new home I'm always interested thank you. I would have a much greater overall interest in d day/the breakout , market garden, and other various pockets of intense fighting like in the Ardennes of course
Arnhem is a great city and so easy to get to.
The book I'm reading at the moment is D-Day by Anthony Beevor, it's fantastic.
My best books are a complete set, if you look up Purnells second world war weekly magazine from around 40 years ago I have all 96 magazines in a special edition set of 8bounded folders.
There was a woman on adverts selling the normal 96 separate magazines for €1,000 and I got the whole special set (previously owned by a ww2 veteran in fact) from England for €70 in perfect condition!
I have D day, I'll look up what books I'm thinking of and pm you and if you are interested I'll send them on?guttenberg wrote: »I hated Auschwitz. It started off ok with the context/background of the place, but when I saw the photos/possessions etc. of the inmates - humanising its history, I started feeling sick, and that's before seeing how they died etc.! I went in April and it was freezing cold, so wrap up! It's shocking how obvious the rich/poor divide is in Poland, the difference can be extremely obvious when you see some of the "cars" on the road over there!
If you've read extensively about what went on there then going there should essentially make it real, I've cried with some of what I've read about the camps.Tell me..... The speed camera on the M1 motorway by Dunleer in Louth..... On a long stretch of modern motorway..... How many accidents would you say occured there? Or was it more aptly placed for revenue.....
As for admitting whether you've ever sped or not.... I don't see how admitting it here is an issue.... I've sped.... Who hasn't?
Feck all accidents, I once drove from Belfast city centre this year to Swords in an hour and forty five minutes, and was being overtaken.
I suspect the M1 is the motorway on which the most speeding in the country takes place.0 -
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And I've NEVER made Dublin Dundalk in around twenty minutes! Ever!TestTransmission wrote: »
I've never sped, I was also never caught at 95mph in a 1.25 fiesta on the M1,never.
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Anybody know is vagdrivers.net down???
I registered today, but it won't let me post anywhere, read new posts, or even pm a mod/administrator.
And I get a "failure notice" when I email the admin to try sort out my registration.
I've received the validation email, and validated my account.
Anybody any ideas
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Ardennes1944 wrote: »Do please! youre actually in Cork a fair bit arent you? at least i think so! have you been to any ww2 orientated places with all your travelling?
No, I usually get sent to extremely dull places think of Little Island in Cork and transplant it abroad
Yep when I'm hear I'm in Cork a fair bit at the weekends, I'll have a look and pm you 0 -
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