Maybe the swine flu will kill off the media.

Frazzled wrote:2,000 confirmed cases in Mexico. 169 deaths. Thats 9% mortality rate. Thats higher than the Spanish flu outbreak.

169 dead? Okay, that is nothing. I'm sure that sucked for the families that happened to, but really, come on. More people have died from a single plane crash. Hell, a really bad Memorial Day weekend, and you'll have well over half of that many dead from drinking accidents. Damn media blowing crap out of proportion to get people to watch them out of fear. Fear is the great motivator. They'll use it to sell anything. STOP BUYING THE BS!!! Trust me, if it gets bad enough, we'll all know. Just look at AIDS. Now there is a serious problem. The only bad thing about this is the loss of all that bacon. That deserves a moment of silence.

JD21290 wrote:yea orke, all mcdonalds burgers look like that, until you get it and it looks like some fat bastard sat on it.

Well, you just need to watch where you're sitting then.

BA-ZING!

(Also, that is a photoshopped version of the almighty Baconator. Delicious sandwich. Expensive though, I usually go for the JBCs myself.)

I do believe thats wendys, because the burger is square.

i do believe that burger is round, just a flat pic

Yea Hippy! Can't even tell your burgers any more

Hippy!

(remind me I have something to PM you if I can get it to work tomorrow AM)

sorry if i offend the burger capital of the world
but a burger is a burger, most taste like gak unless its done proper BBQ style (half burned)

usually you only PM me warnings about my language and attitude, not about those is it?

Actually, it is square.

It's Wendy's!

Anyone who doesn't recognise Wendy's is a total chav.

ouch, that hurts comming from a crown
sorry, im not a lardass who can recognise each type of burger at a glance
+ i dont think they have that thing over here

Wendy's isn't as good as Burger King, but both are better than Mcdonalds, but Wendy's has 2 redeeming factors, the Frosty and the Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger for a dollar...BUT-Mcdonalds has Mcflurrys and really good fries, but Burger King has the BEST burgers of all 3.
However, KFC is still made of winsauce.

EDIT:: I totally forgot Chick-Fil-A!!!
They win at everything. Hands down. Best burger, fries, and drink, cause they have icedreams and icedream milkshakes.

JD21290 wrote:ouch, that hurts comming from a crown

You're being quite the bengal here, mate.

sorry, im not a lardass who can recognise each type of burger at a glance

It's okay, not everyone's parents can afford a decent education.

+ i dont think they have that thing over here

Don't worry, we'll bring civilization to your country soon enough. We even have something called "electricity". It's very cool, it can make pictures move!

You're being quite the bengal here, mate.

wow, a yank that can learn, we have a breakthrough

It's okay, not everyone's parents can afford a decent education.

and what kind of education is that? your mum is so fat she cant be bothered to cook, so she throws you some money to eat gakky food each night and learn about it?

Don't worry, we'll bring civilization to your country soon enough. We even have something called "electricity". It's very cool, it can make pictures move!

hey, we know the difference between an iraqi troop and a US troop, your still learning that one
electricity doesent make pics move numbnuts, that would be the pixels that are moving.

Orkeosaurus wrote:

I loves me a good burger!!!

Hey JD21290,

You know what the difference between a British Soldier and a French Soldier are?

At least the French Show up to the show before they run away screaming like schoolgirls!
You just hide in subways and get the snot bombed out of you and pray that the enemy cant cross a small body of water.

JD21290 wrote:wow, a yank that can learn, we have a breakthrough

WE'RE NUMBER ONE!

and what kind of education is that?

A decent one.

your mum is so fat she cant be bothered to cook, so she throws you some money to eat gakky food each night and learn about it?

Your mum is so fat when she wears a red shirt everyone yells "Hey Koo-Aid!"

Hey, we know the difference between an Iraqi troop and a US troop, you're still learning that one.

Fixed your errors.

electricity doesent make pics move numbnuts, that would be the pixels that are moving.

wat

all fear the moving pixels

Last time around the image in the TV 24h a day was of guys in HazMat suits throwing sacks of dead (or in some cases still alive) birds in hastly dug mass graves around the world. This time we´ll have guys wearing masks, dead pigs might be to gross for the daily News.

But I swear that the big labs are sponsoring this mess, in Japan the health minister already told everyone that millions of Tamiflu doses will be available. IIRC at 100$ a pop somebody is very happy.

M.

We're actually not allowed to call it Swine Flu anymore. It's now been renamed Mexican flu, so as not to offend Israel. It seems stupid, but at least now there won't be any whining.

i dont think that it will be a big prob were i live
the only reason lots of people died in mexico is because of poor health care

Wait, what? Since when was naming a deadly pathogen after a nation of 109 million people less offensive than naming it after an animal some people believe to be bad because their personal iteration of an invisible man said so? Especially when you can't actually get the flu virus from eating the meat of an infected pig.

Because apparently the rest of the world doesn't like Mexico much. Let's be fair, it wouldn't exactly be a great place to live... it's stinking hot, the drug cartels are after your blood, and your backyard is full of pigs and children.

Although the resorts are nice...and EDIT_____...

WAIT!!!! Pictures can MOVE now? Great just as soon as we get these camera things you all have to go and step us up by one more notch!!!



Nah jokes lol



-Orkishly

when i first read this threads title, my first thought was of an old cartoon network short about some guy who had to help organize a mad scientists collection'o'horrible diseases and illnesses while said scientist went off to battle the local PTA

Cheese Elemental wrote:We're actually not allowed to call it Swine Flu anymore. It's now been renamed Mexican flu, so as not to offend Israel. It seems stupid, but at least now there won't be any whining.

Why would it matter either way?

It's a disease, if a someone thinks pigs are unclean it should make more sense to name it after them.

The PC politicians strike again! Next in News at 9 "Why you need to use biological challenged instead of the ugly mineral word"

M.

BTW back in the 70s (76 perhaps?) there was another swine flu scare, after 40 million US guys were vaccinated and 32 deaths due to allergies the scare never came to be, it was another episode of fear mongering.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8020552.stm

Swine flu hits the UK and Spain

Yeah, feth you guys, I'm moving to Madagascar before the Port closes

but Gwar!, wouldn't it be cooler to use this time to invest in an island stronghold, super villain style

Yeah, feth you guys, I'm moving to Madagascar before the Port closes

On a more serious note...

Here in Sunny Queensland the health beuracrats are going bananas blasting my general practice and the hospital I'm working in with updates and protocols every couple of hours.

To a town of 1800 with the nearest airport 80km away and the state capital (where the international flights land) 500 or so km away).

There was a huge beat up in the state newspaper today about Swine Flu being detected, acctual reading of the story revealed a couple of paragraphs in that the 5 people had tested positive to the influenza A virus.... sigh.

We had no Bird Flu, and no SARS here in Australia and they must have spent tens of millions in that beat up.

It would be nice it the media would stop the beat up. They are just craving a pandemic as every time it looks like one is to kick off they go bananas, but it invariably ends up less than the regular influenza virus...

"...and now I cast upon you...every disease that starts with S!"
"Oh no...not swine flu! NOOOO!"
"So, you're not worried about Superridiculousheadexplosionitis?"
"I've got that disease everyone is scared of! I might die, or worse, be a social pariah!!"
"Nutter."

I'm sorry, I'm kind of numb to diseases in general right now, as I had a friend contract a kind of cancer that roughly 50 or so people in the States come down with each year, and was given three months to live. Her tumor has since gone down 90% and is in full remission over the course of those three months, and her doctors are calling it nothing short of a miracle. Merely having her nearby gives my friends and I at least a 3+ invulnerable save versus illness.

And if this swine flu mutates into a rampant disease that turns people into swine (or, at least, with four stubby hooves and curly tail and all that rot as I know a good many people in my town that could optimistically be described as swine) then I might worry a tad. 'Til then...Media Earplugs. Take two and call me when it all blows over.

Aparantly the UK next to france is the best set up for a pandemic in the world, with a better drug stckpile than the us. + my mother works in infection control. So I aint woried.

I might or might not have it,my body aches I have a sore throat and a runny nose then again I might just have flu,the latter is what I'm going for.

At least the French Show up to the show before they run away screaming like schoolgirls!
You just hide in subways and get the snot bombed out of you and pray that the enemy cant cross a small body of water.

very good JP, now wasnt it the french that actually managed to get lost on the way to a war?
and i guess we are just in iraq too for the fun of it, nothing about the fact you started a war that you couldnt handle and needed help.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:I might or might not have it,my body aches I have a sore throat and a runny nose then again I might just have flu,the latter is what I'm going for.

Yeh, maybe. Stop posting so close to me!

This will probably be just like the time we all died from SARs..


...oh wai

Well I really think we can blame the media,even though people died in Mexico I think the media has overhyped it.The darn media,and whats up with CNN reminding us that we can twitter(or whatever its called)them every freakin five minutes.

jp400 wrote:You just hide in subways and get the snot bombed out of you and pray that the enemy cant cross a small body of water.

Whilst you rely on two oceans...

Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

Well, you have a point, but then you gave us Neighbours and Fosters pisswater so that counterbalanced all the good will.
If you'd exported VB instead I might have given you credit.

And I ammended my reply, to avoid the off-topics.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

QFT. WHO saved/regained/invaded North Africa? Besides, Australia and New Zealand are just meatshield to the brits. See "Gallipoli"

JUST RELEASED: New set of symptoms:

1) Coughing
2) Sneezing
3) Sore Throat
4) Runny Eyes
5) The overwhelming urge to roll in your own excrement

AIEEEEEE! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

And yet, part of me feels that humanity is well overdue a good, old fashioned thinning of the numbers.

I'm sure this will wreak the same levels of devastation as the Burd Flu, Sars, Mad Cows Disease and Salmonella epidemics that the tabloids all insisted were going to be the end of civilization.

You'll excuse me if I opt not to lapse into a fear induced coma.

On the subject of Drug Companies and their charges, I wonder how Doctors, who swear the Hypocratic Oath upon completion of training, reconcile said oath with the blatant money grubbing the Drug Companies so often indulge in? Surely the two ethos are diametrically opposed.

The Doctor swears to ease suffering and cure people wherever they can, refusing no one, to which the Drug Companies reply....

'Only if you've got the readies matey'

LuciusAR wrote:

You'll excuse me if I opt not to lapse into a fear induced coma.

But those are the best kind!

I loves me a good epidemic!!!

LuciusAR wrote:

You'll excuse me if I opt to lapse into a chocolate induced coma.

Fixed your typo.

Woop woop, chocolate!!!!!
My mom is actually allergic to chocolate, she can die from eating it...

I would kill myself, or more precisely others.

ShumaGorath wrote:This thing is hardly an epidemic. It's less fatal than bird flu was and far less widespread. Hows bird flu anyway, I stopped paying attention after nothing happened.

It's just another international scare scheme to drum up news profits.

They're probably waiting for an actual emergency. Or danger. This is neither.

i agree with this, i mean c'mon, there are 2-10 people in England with it right now, and they are all in quarantine, we have nothing to fear until man-flu comes about

plus, i believe scientists have a 'basic' flu vaccine that can be modified to suit another strain of it.

Nurgle must not be allowed to take our bacon!

NEVER!

Thats both funny and sad,but really the one reporter on CNN said he got a twitter(I think they are called twits,Im not really one for social networking sites.)from a guy saying he is thinking of buying and oxygen tank and wearing it on a plane flight he is going on.

There is only one important question to ask in the midst of all this:

"Are the people who have died of Swine Flu coming back as zombies?"

If no, then I'm not too worried.

If yes, then I need to make an S-Mart run.

We have 36,000 deaths each year from the normal flu in the US alone. How many have died from the swine flu worldwide??? Yeah come back to me when the numbers get up there.

"Never let a good crisis go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel


Check out this history lesson on the 1976 swine flu pandemic that never was.

http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/04/28/1976_swine_flu/

Gwar! wrote:
Yeah, feth you guys, I'm moving to Madagascar before the Port closes

Dude, that's exactly what I was thinking! See you there!

And actually it's kind of creepy, at my dad's work, this one guy's girlfriend was in a class, and there was this mexican girl who started to cough and was removed from the class by campus security.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

Yeah, a mostly barren island with just under 3700 residents WON WWII.

Being stuck way down in the corner of the map, you're just lucky the rest of the world even remembers you exist. You're like a 27 hour plane ride from anything. It's not like there's any reason to visit, other than to see weird wildlife. And we have zoos for that.

Vladsimpaler wrote:

Gwar! wrote:
Yeah, feth you guys, I'm moving to Madagascar before the Port closes

Dude, that's exactly what I was thinking! See you there!

And actually it's kind of creepy, at my dad's work, this one guy's girlfriend was in a class, and there was this mexican girl who started to cough and was removed from the class by campus security.

I would follow you both but damn air fair is so much!!!

Gitkikka wrote:There is only one important question to ask in the midst of all this:

"Are the people who have died of Swine Flu coming back as zombies?"

If no, then I'm not too worried.

If yes, then I need to make an S-Mart run.

True dat. But I can't help wondering if these increasingly frequent cycles are a coverup for something bigger.

Umm, this is mad cow, that's why the brains were bad. Yes, it spreads by eating brains. No, they weren't eating brains, the ummmm, cows were. Crud, I mean they were fed brains. Yeah, that's it.
Oh, that,? Just, ummm bird flu. that's it. Nothing suspicious about that. We just had to cut off the heads for testing. Rumors of quarantined villages being eradicated are blatant lies.
Mexico? Yeah, swine flu. No, I'm sure. Of course the victims didn't bite anyone. It's just the flu. Burning the bodies if perfectly normal. And people often moan and wander around when sick.


Nah, probably just a scare scam to make pharma business more money. Thank you corporate media!

Don't none of you worry if Mexico goes undead, Texas has got this. MINUTEMEN HOOOO!

Seriously though send help, we only fire the guns to make noise.

Ahhh Pandemic, don't know why you're all panicing really, theres nothing to great about it apart from mexico getting it rough, maybe this is the start of the chaos nurgle as we know it in the 40k world ?

Meh either way i'm not worried yet if im dead from swine flu then, i might start worrying but we'll see haha

All the best
Wolf

You're OK as long unless the wanderers are moaning "¡Cerebros! ¡Más cerebros!

I guess now is a good time to make one of these!

Flu can be a killer, the last real outbreak was in 1918 and it killed about as many people as WW1, so there is room for concern.

However times have changed, world health is more prepared even in the developing world. This is Swine Flu, not Italian Flu (cookie to the first to recognise the source).

And I see there are cases in Israel.

I'm expecting an epidemic in the Palestinian Territories any day now.

Not that it would be a convenient coincidence or cheaper than guns and men or owt.

gorgon wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

Yeah, a mostly barren island with just under 3700 residents WON WWII.

Being stuck way down in the corner of the map, you're just lucky the rest of the world even remembers you exist. You're like a 27 hour plane ride from anything. It's not like there's any reason to visit, other than to see weird wildlife. And we have zoos for that.

There's no need to insult my country for me pointing out an historical fact. And our population, by the way, is 21 million plus. Even in the present day, you can't deny Australia's importance; we're the closest 'western' neighbour to Asia.

On-topic: This probably isn't anything serious. We have had loads of 'ultimate killer diseases' like SARS and Avian flu, and I doubt that this is any different. If you look at the number of deaths in pandemics since 1918, they have decreased greatly thanks to a modernised health system.

The threat comes from where it's developing. In Mexico City, in one day alone, Hospitals dealt with 7,000 people with Flu like symptoms.

Now granted, not all will have the disease, but given Mexicos poor health service, the virus has a lot of potential hosts to mature and adapt in. Given that number, it's entirely possible it will develop into a drug resistant strain in a relatively short time, then my friends, we are boned.

The drugs being administered right now are apparently only effective in the early stages, which is not a good thing.

So no panic right now, sure. But give it a few months.....

That's what they said about SARS and bird flu.

I'm going to go up to a farm and make out with pigs just to spite you pandemic people.

(Only female pigs though, otherwise it would be the gey.)

Cheese Elemental wrote:
There's no need to insult my country for me pointing out an historical fact. And our population, by the way, is 21 million plus. Even in the present day, you can't deny Australia's importance; we're the closest 'western' neighbour to Asia.

c,mon your only export is some slowed guy who likes to stick his thump up a croc gak hole(get the reference)
and he aint even that great really i laghed when he died.
ot: we need to get started on that 100 ft wall on the border soon then
To home depot!!!!!!!!!

Orkeosaurus wrote:I'm going to go up to a farm and make out with pigs just to spite you pandemic people.

(Only female pigs though, otherwise it would be the gey.)

Only if the balls touch

garret wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:
There's no need to insult my country for me pointing out an historical fact. And our population, by the way, is 21 million plus. Even in the present day, you can't deny Australia's importance; we're the closest 'western' neighbour to Asia.

c,mon your only export is some slowed guy who likes to stick his thump up a croc gak hole(get the reference)
and he aint even that great really i laghed when he died.
ot: we need to get started on that 100 ft wall on the border soon then
To home depot!!!!!!!!!

Have you taken an english class in your life?

sure insult the special ed student must make you fell good.
before you say stuff like that think what might be the guy is like before you say stuff like that

And where's your proof of that hm?

Maybe you should think twice before saying Australia is a gak country.

let me say this bout irwin
you dont touch nature you only observe
how do you think those crocs felt when he suddenly jumped him
and he held his yooung son while feeding a croc
there fore slowed

garret wrote:sure insult the special ed student must make you fell good.
before you say stuff like that think what might be the guy is like before you say stuff like that

What gives you trouble? Is it the transposition of letters, word recognition, inference,
word sequence?

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malfred wrote:

garret wrote:sure insult the special ed student must make you fell good.
before you say stuff like that think what might be the guy is like before you say stuff like that

What gives you trouble? Is it the transposition of letters, word recognition, inference,
word sequence?

Maybe a short guide will help you with the self-editing process:

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6. Read over your post.
   
7. When you have to choose between a long and a short sentence, choose the short one (helps you avoid odd constructions and comma stuff)
   
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Well done. You've just been awarded most pretentious post of 2009.

Oz is bonzer.

I have no problem with australia besides the odd bit of crack which generally brits and ausies have with eachother (roll on the ashes this summer ). But the claim "the war would have been lost without our country" can be made by a fair few countries.

Indeed. Battle of Britain anyone? Opening up of the Eastern Front? USSR making it to Berlin first?

Operation Chastise? Pegasus Bridge? Midway? ..that list goes on a fair while.

+ commenwealth forces operated under british leadership lest you forget. The victories in north africa for example which jimi nemesis mentioned were Monties doing.

whatwhat wrote: But the claim "the war would have been lost without our country" can be made by a fair few countries.

I´m going to add another one but with a twist. Japan, the war could have stagnated in Europe without Japan opening a new front that, once the 41-mid 42 naval campaign was stopped, allowed FDR to fully jump in with the might of the US economy behind. You can add that although the japanese soldier was the equivalent of the allied one (training, valor, etc) the higher echelons of the IJA and the IJN where filled with hubris and a lack of a clear strategy. Sometimes, towards the end of the war, I just think the Tokyo HQ was fighting the war more like a school fight than the fight for their lives that it was.

M.

whatwhat wrote:

malfred wrote:

garret wrote:sure insult the special ed student must make you fell good.
before you say stuff like that think what might be the guy is like before you say stuff like that

What gives you trouble? Is it the transposition of letters, word recognition, inference,
word sequence?

Maybe a short guide will help you with the self-editing process:

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6. Read over your post.
   
7. When you have to choose between a long and a short sentence, choose the short one (helps you avoid odd constructions and comma stuff)
   
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9. Break up large paragraphs into smaller ones (no textwalls!)
   
   
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Well done. You've just been awarded most pretentious post of 2009.

Where's my trophy?

It's no use winning an award without a trophy.

Here's your sock.

i dont think they have that thing over here

QFT, no Wendy's in the UK. You can still find the odd Wimpy's though.

Tek wrote:

i dont think they have that thing over here

QFT, no Wendy's in the UK. You can still find the odd Wimpy's though.

It's true, in fact we only really have about four or so of those fast food chains you lot have...on every street corner. To be fair though we do have pubs on every corner which isn't all too healthy either.

Okay, firtstly I would like to say that the burger is a Wendy's burger. Only Wendy's has a burger made with meat, cheese, and more meat.

You can't get swine flu from eating pork, you can get trichinosis by eating uncooked pork, but not swine flu.

Burger king tastes pretty good, but I would prefer to go to a nice sit down place for a burger. T.G.I Fridays is good.

In London we have several posh burger shop chains such as Hamburger Union and Ultimate Burger.

I went there for lunch yesterday.

The thing is, £13.20 plus tip is really rather a lot to pay for an OK but not especially good burger, some fries, a salad and a small bottle of diet Coke.

I have come to the conclusion that McD's is better value for money. If I go for a proper sit-down meal, I will splash out a bit more and have something more adventurous than just a burger.

Miguelsan wrote:

whatwhat wrote: But the claim "the war would have been lost without our country" can be made by a fair few countries.

I´m going to add another one but with a twist. Japan, the war could have stagnated in Europe without Japan opening a new front that, once the 41-mid 42 naval campaign was stopped, allowed FDR to fully jump in with the might of the US economy behind. You can add that although the japanese soldier was the equivalent of the allied one (training, valor, etc) the higher echelons of the IJA and the IJN where filled with hubris and a lack of a clear strategy. Sometimes, towards the end of the war, I just think the Tokyo HQ was fighting the war more like a school fight than the fight for their lives that it was.

M.

When America entered the war, we adopted a "Europe First" policy. It wasn't till after V-E Day that America truly focused on the pacific theater. Britain was holding its own and if America didn't go to Europe, chances are Britain would still be around. It would be difficult for a transatlantic invasion by the Nazis(Nat Zees) unless they had a place to launch from in the western hemisphere. Thats why the D-Day invasion was launched from Britain. If america focused on Japan, then they would've been beaten and Russia could focus on fighting Germany. The war would get into a constant stalemate between Russia and the Axis allies with some assistance from Britain and some materials from America.

Why did america beat Japan? Tactical genius, training the chinese to fly planes(Flying Tigers), better made planes, and the fact that the BEST japanese pilots were crashing their planes into ships. In terms of Japanese soldiers vs American soldiers, most americans had the thinking of "Don't die for your country, make the other SOB die for his."

Every time I look at this thread I mis-read it as 'Swine-Fu' and think it's a thread about a porcine martial art.

Frazzled wrote:Here's your sock.

Already had yours.

Can I have a sock, I only have one and I have two feet.

Kilkrazy wrote:In London we have several posh burger shop chains such as Hamburger Union and Ultimate Burger.

I went there for lunch yesterday.

The thing is, £13.20 plus tip is really rather a lot to pay for an OK but not especially good burger, some fries, a salad and a small bottle of diet Coke.

I have come to the conclusion that McD's is better value for money. If I go for a proper sit-down meal, I will splash out a bit more and have something more adventurous than just a burger.

Thats ridiculous. For another twelve quid can get a meal at a one michelin star resteraunt up here.

halonachos wrote:Can I have a sock, I only have one and I have two feet.

Sorry, pal. Your math isn't adding up. One sock and two feet = three socks. Just ask
the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

whatwhat wrote:Well done. You've just been awarded most pretentious post of 2009.

Just thought of something else.

If I can't have a trophy, then I want a monocle.

Ideally it would have a targeting reticule and heads up display,
but I'll settle for "just" a monocle.

malfred wrote:

halonachos wrote:Can I have a sock, I only have one and I have two feet.

Sorry, pal. Your math isn't adding up. One sock and two feet = three socks. Just ask
the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I like even numbers.

halonachos wrote:When America entered the war, we adopted a "Europe First" policy. It wasn't till after V-E Day that America truly focused on the pacific theater. Britain was holding its own and if America didn't go to Europe, chances are Britain would still be around. It would be difficult for a transatlantic invasion by the Nazis(Nat Zees) unless they had a place to launch from in the western hemisphere. Thats why the D-Day invasion was launched from Britain. If america focused on Japan, then they would've been beaten and Russia could focus on fighting Germany. The war would get into a constant stalemate between Russia and the Axis allies with some assistance from Britain and some materials from America.

Why did america beat Japan? Tactical genius, training the chinese to fly planes(Flying Tigers), better made planes, and the fact that the BEST japanese pilots were crashing their planes into ships. In terms of Japanese soldiers vs American soldiers, most americans had the thinking of "Don't die for your country, make the other SOB die for his."

You need to get some facts straight. the "Europe First" policy wasn´t a lack of effort on the Pacific front, Japan was already defeated by V-E day, the problem was that the japanese leadership refused to realise it.
Without the US, Britain would have been defeated by starvation of it´s military machine, the US Navy and Air force contributed to close the Atlantic Gap where the U-boats were having a field day and the additional units released for convoy duty lifted a heavy weight from the Royal Navy. That´s the same strategy that the US Navy used to starve Japan later on.

The chinese air force and the chinese war effort, sorry to be so harsh, were a complete joke. As late as winter 44 when the other theater armies were fighting for their lives the IJA advanced more than 500 km in China to consolidate the front and gain needed rice supplies. The Flying Tigers were effective as a morale unit "taking the fight to those jap bastards" than in interdicting the IJAAF (although until the end of the war the press continued using the name to designate all the air units fighting in China). China was a mess and remained a black hole for supplies until Japan collapsed.
Last, the Kamikaze. Kamikaze were a last ditch effort that started in fall 44 under the auspices of Vice-Admiral Takijiro Onishi , before it was the "samurai" spirit that made pilots to disregard their safety in their attacks after Leyte suicide became policy and until Midway, the japanese were the ones flying with the best planes and the best crews. But the point you are trying to make is better reflected in the cavalier attitude the IJN to to rescue operations. Midway was a disaster not for the flat tops sunk but for the ditching crews the IJN left to die, we are talking about elite crews dying because nobody gave a damn, mean while the US Navy deployed the most efficient plan to rescue air crews, using subs and seaplanes, during one attack on the Ryukyu Islands 21 planes were shot down, only 11 crew members died, all the rest were rescued in less than 24h by seaplanes or submarines. The japanese never bothered going after their crews.

To end my probably uncalled for lecture, tactically the US were not better than Japan, but the US had a clear strategy while Japan was an exercice in hubris. Like going to the local Rogue Trader tournament to spend the weekend. That´s cool to do with miniatures but it´s a horrible way to wage war.

M.

PS: Nemesis. The battle for Japan 1944-45 by Max Hastings is a good book to check some of the things I´m talking about.

first death in america from swine flu

It was an infant though. Infants and the elderly are always more vulnerable. When 23 year old health nuts start dropping like flies, then I'll worry.

garret wrote:first death in america from swine flu

No you're not. You're still posting!

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