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Shuttlecraft

Shuttlecraft

.Navigator
Perhaps yanks today are not as patriotic and tough as they used to be, I dunno.
For example in one episode of Dr Who, Matt Smith said "Two of the Founding Fathers fancied me", thereby implying they were gay, but as far as I know the yanks let him get away with it without a peep of protest!
 
Shuttlecraft

Shuttlecraft

.Navigator
'mud said:
I guess something is lost in the trip across the pond..
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In England, if you say somebody "fancies" somebody, it means they've got the hots for somebody.
For example I fancy the woman in the bookshop and am trying to pluck up courage to ask if she'd care for a stroll on the seafront with me..:)

PS- are there any men of the world in this forum who can give me any advice on how to find out if a woman smokes before you ask her out?
I only date non-smokers and I don't want to ask somebody out only to find later that she starts puffing away like a chimney!
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

Polymathematician
Shuttlecraft said:
Perhaps yanks today are not as patriotic and tough as they used to be, I dunno.
For example in one episode of Dr Who, Matt Smith said "Two of the Founding Fathers fancied me", thereby implying they were gay, but as far as I know the yanks let him get away with it without a peep of protest!
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Tough enough to kick your *** twice and then pull your chestnuts out of the fire twice, if it weren't for us ... you'd be speaking German. As far as Patriotism is concerned, was it not a Brit back in 1775 name Samuel Johnson, who suggested that, "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"?
 
Shuttlecraft

Shuttlecraft

.Navigator
Sapiens said:
Tough enough to kick your *** twice and then pull your chestnuts out of the fire twice, if it weren't for us ... you'd be speaking German...
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We had to voluntarily pull out of the colonies because the French in Europe were threatening to stab England in the back!
And Kaiser Bill was stopped dead in his tracks in WW1 long before the US joined the party.
And Hitler was blown out of the English sky in the famous 'Battle of the Great Iron Birds' in 1940..:)
And if America hadn't joined WW2 to finish off Hitler, he'd have had elbow room to develop the atom bomb to plaster America..:)
 
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Katzpur

Katzpur

Not your average Mormon
Shuttlecraft said:
PS- are there any men of the world in this forum who can give me any advice on how to find out if a woman smokes before you ask her out?
I only date non-smokers and I don't want to ask somebody out only to find later that she starts puffing away like a chimney!
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Well, you could always hang around outside a Mormon Church on Sundays, and ask out any woman who walks out the door without a man at her side. Chances are pretty good that she won't be a smoker. :D
 
Wirey

Wirey

Fartist
Sapiens said:
... 1812
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Sorry, no dice. You invaded Canada, gained exactly zero territory, had your government flee while a bunch of boys from Halifax burned your capital to the ground, and sued for peace the minute a professional like Napolean wasn't keeping the A team busy. By that logic, Vietnam was a win, too.
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

Polymathematician
Shuttlecraft said:
We had to voluntarily pull out of the colonies because the French in Europe were threatening to stab England in the back!
And Kaiser Bill was stopped dead in his tracks in WW1 long before the US joined the party.
And Hitler was blown out of the English sky in the famous 'Battle of the Great Iron Birds' in 1940..:)
And if America hadn't joined WW2 to finish off Hitler, he'd have had elbow room to develop the atom bomb to plaster America..:)
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Your historical acumen in mainly jingoistic claptrap.

Yes, we had help from the French, but the reality remains the Brits went bye bye.

Yes, the USA was late to put troops in Europe ... but we paid most of the British and French bills.

The Battle of Britain was a sideshow, glorious and all that, what with Churchill quotes and all, but still a sideshow. Britain was saved by US Convoys then lend-lease.

The truth is that Nazi Germany was not interested in and did not really try to build a bomb. They made other research choices, jets, rockets, cruise missiles, but no bombs. Combined with the Norwegian heavy water sabotage and the Allies decision to bomb both the Nazi heavy water supply and their heavy water plant, a German bomb was not even on the horizon.
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Shuttlecraft said:
PS- are there any men of the world in this forum who can give me any advice on how to find out if a woman smokes before you ask her out?
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Use an on-line site (My kids did this, not me.) and screen potential; dates with this and other limitations you may have. Just say 'no smokers!!!!!!' in your 'what I'm looking for' section.
 
Draka

Draka

Wonder Woman
Wirey said:
BTW, avionics isn't science! My uncle is an AME and he probably doesn't know who Sir Isaac Newton is. I hoot at your transparent attempt to seize the scientific high ground. Hoot! Hoot!
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"Hoot"? Shouldn't there be a "snort of derision" in there too now Sheldon? ;)
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Complimenting Rev. Ew.
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Aww, you feel left out?





How you doin?
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Wirey said:
Twice?
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We only kicked your butt in the sense that we beat the Brits in 2 wars.
But it's complicated by Canuckistan being part of the empire, while not
defeating Canuckistan itself. All in all, it worked out for both of us.

Dang...I just finished an article in Smithsonian on the war, & I've already
forgotten the details. I'm also reading a book on technological innovation's
role in winning the 1812 war, & I'm forget'n those details too. But I'll be
re-reading this one to cull research.
 
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Sapiens

Sapiens

Polymathematician
BIg changes in ships as well as naval guns, shore batteries and standard artillery as I recall ... and the popular introduction of the rifle.
 
4consideration

4consideration

*
Premium Member
Shuttlecraft said:
PS- are there any men of the world in this forum who can give me any advice on how to find out if a woman smokes before you ask her out?
I only date non-smokers and I don't want to ask somebody out only to find later that she starts puffing away like a chimney!
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I'm not a man, but I have some input. Why not just ask her if she smokes?

If you ask her, and she asks you why you are asking that question, you could tell her that you are particular about not dating women that smoke, and that you'd like to ask her out, but wanted to be upfront that it's important to you to only date non-smokers.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
4consideration said:
I'm not a man, but I have some input. Why not just ask her if she smokes?
If you ask her, and she asks you why you are asking that question, you could tell her that you are particular about not dating women that smoke, and that you'd like to ask her out, but wanted to be upfront that it's important to you to only date non-smokers.
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You recommend candor & directness?
You're weird.
 
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