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| cokehabit wrote: | | Ha1f wrote: | France.
I'm trying to think of one impressive military happening in England besides Ultra (which doesn't really count, because the French figured it out too), and radar development (which was kind of on accident...) and I just can't. British military is lulz, always has been, always will be. |
almost everything you can think of in modern warfare is based on stuff the british started, from tactics to equipment |
lol
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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| wswartzendruber wrote: | | Well from what I hear, the Royal Marines are badder than the U.S. Marines, so yeah, you guys (the French) would probably get cooked. Also, are we giving England the F-35? |
your forget the French Forgein Legion.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Ha1f wrote: | | cokehabit wrote: | | Ha1f wrote: | France.
I'm trying to think of one impressive military happening in England besides Ultra (which doesn't really count, because the French figured it out too), and radar development (which was kind of on accident...) and I just can't. British military is lulz, always has been, always will be. |
almost everything you can think of in modern warfare is based on stuff the british started, from tactics to equipment |
Without the French there would be no modern military... |
because the germans wouldn't have had so many targets to develop their machine guns with.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| runningwithscissors wrote: | | LaserGuidedBunnyRabbit wrote: | | Have you all forgotten that the French never win any wars... EVER? |
They won you your independence. |
Yeah, and we won WWII.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| djlosch wrote: | | Ha1f wrote: | | cokehabit wrote: | | Ha1f wrote: | France.
I'm trying to think of one impressive military happening in England besides Ultra (which doesn't really count, because the French figured it out too), and radar development (which was kind of on accident...) and I just can't. British military is lulz, always has been, always will be. |
almost everything you can think of in modern warfare is based on stuff the british started, from tactics to equipment |
Without the French there would be no modern military... |
because the germans wouldn't have had so many targets to develop their machine guns with. |
Well, that and people would still care enough about their lives to not march mindlessly into obvious death traps.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| wswartzendruber wrote: | | Well from what I hear, the Royal Marines are badder than the U.S. Marines, so yeah, you guys (the French) would probably get cooked. Also, are we giving England the F-35? |
depends, have you yanks got it flying yet 
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Dralnu wrote: | | While France was preoccupied with England, Germany would invade while France had its back turned. |
nah, france would know because Germany always goes via Poland 
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| wswartzendruber wrote: | | Well from what I hear, the Royal Marines are badder than the U.S. Marines, so yeah, you guys (the French) would probably get cooked. Also, are we giving England the F-35? |
no, we're helping to make it
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | wswartzendruber wrote: | | Well from what I hear, the Royal Marines are badder than the U.S. Marines, so yeah, you guys (the French) would probably get cooked. Also, are we giving England the F-35? |
no, we're helping to make it |
That's why asked if it would be counted in the war, since you all are part of the engineering effort, but it's not finalized yet.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| energyman76b wrote: | | wswartzendruber wrote: | | Well from what I hear, the Royal Marines are badder than the U.S. Marines, so yeah, you guys (the French) would probably get cooked. Also, are we giving England the F-35? |
your forget the French Forgein Legion. |
Okay, fine. The U.K. still has the SAS. What've you got to say to that? Not. A. Damn. Thing. 
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | Dralnu wrote: | | While France was preoccupied with England, Germany would invade while France had its back turned. |
nah, france would know because Germany always goes via Poland |
The last time that happened, though, Germany still caught them with their pants down.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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The French are actually military badasses. They've got the surrender-monkey rep because of some unfortunate events, but they can be fucking scary.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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And who teaches the French special forces? The SAS/SBS.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | And who teaches the French special forces? The SAS/SBS. |
Dude! we taught them all (every last special forces, regular army). The SAS/SBS are self-financed due to these kinda things
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Ha1f wrote: | | The French are actually military badasses. They've got the surrender-monkey rep because of some unfortunate events, but they can be fucking scary. |
most wars between France and Germany (afair 3 douzend) were started by France.... they ARE bad asses. Except in the 20th century. And the later half of the 19th. And some parts of the 18th. ...
| cokehabit wrote: | | And who teaches the French special forces? The SAS/SBS. |
and after 'learning' from you, they improved it.
btw have you learnt to build non-exploding war ships?
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | and after 'learning' from you, they improved it.
btw have you learnt to build non-exploding war ships? |
have you "learned" to speak english?
haha kidding energyman, don't kill me =P
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If Germany has such bad ass units, why are you guys afraid to take on the Taliban?
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| Maliwik wrote: | | Quote: | and after 'learning' from you, they improved it.
btw have you learnt to build non-exploding war ships? |
have you "learned" to speak english?
haha kidding energyman, don't kill me =P |
to late. I am on my way. Please go outside and knee down. We don't want to accidentally hurt somebody.
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| old school wrote: | | If Germany has such bad ass units, why are you guys afraid to take on the Taliban? |
who talks about Germany? These are french units.
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| energyman76b wrote: | | Maliwik wrote: | | Quote: | and after 'learning' from you, they improved it.
btw have you learnt to build non-exploding war ships? |
have you "learned" to speak english?
haha kidding energyman, don't kill me =P |
to late. I am on my way. Please go outside and knee down. We don't want to accidentally hurt somebody. |
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| energyman76b wrote: | | old school wrote: | | If Germany has such bad ass units, why are you guys afraid to take on the Taliban? |
who talks about Germany? These are french units. |
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Three words: William the Conqueror.
The French beat England 1,000 years ago and founded your silly country. |
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| old school wrote: | | runningwithscissors wrote: | | LaserGuidedBunnyRabbit wrote: | | Have you all forgotten that the French never win any wars... EVER? |
They won you your independence. |
Yeah, and we won WWII. |
What does that have to do with the ignorant and wrong American assertion that the French never win any wars?
EDIT: I get it. You're checking to see if it's still big, eh?
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