Flash, nice piece on the History Channel about our Royal Family, the Kennedy's.  When patriach Joe Kennedy was admitted to Harvard he was outcast by the effete proddy WASPS because he was an R.C. & an outsider. Even if he had the money it was not the right "old" money of the eastern elite & he was denied entrance to the fraternities & clubs where they networked. He made up his mind then to make em pay for their snobbery.  FDR appointed him as ambassador to GB to get him out of Washington because he had aspirations politically & this was a good place to hide him out away from the action. Of course old memories die hard & Joe was very outspoken re: GB's starting WWII, & the rest is history.

 

T-Dog

I have an Aussie friend who sees Gallipoli quite differently than you limeys.  Something about Churchill withdrawing the English regiments while sending the Aussies & Kiwis as cannon fire & then withdrawing naval support. He does not think much of Churchill but I suppose he is wrong eh?

 

T-Dog

 

p.s. Not found on Google

Yes history like booze running and gangsters? Gangsters kill police, i beleieve If that is what you call class no wonder HARVARD REJECTED HIM.

 

BUT I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU GB HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HARVARD.

 

WHAT HE DID WAS HAVE SERVICEMEN KILLED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE Atlantic and argue whatever you want that was wrong . SOCIAL GRUDGE OR NOT.

 

DENY THAT

 

SO T-DOG SAYS THAT GANGSTER CONTACT KENNEDY WAS SOCIALLY PUT DOWN BY PRODDIES ETC SO IT'S OK HE GOT SOLDIERS AND SAILORS KILLED. IT EVENS THE SCORE.

And remember the big joke? Kennedy always first in the shelters? Typical  coward.

 

 have an Aussie friend who sees Gallipoli quite differently than you limeys.

 

Yes and i've got a Lithuanian friend who believes thewre are ice creatures So it must be right.

 

Sod off T-dog and learn about TRUTH

Flash, no just an opinion & you know what "they" say about opinions.  Seemed to fit your prior post to one of our departed members re: life experience being more important rather than book learning eh?

 

T-Dog

So your 110 year old pal saw it all. eh?

#56 I seem to remember i quoted that on behalf of your back-stabbing little self for payment of $1,000

Tom, re 53... your friend sees it as his prejudice dictates he should. Is he of Irish decent? As I have told you, Australians were commanded by Australians, a fact that they have singualy failed to get their heads around. I have spoken to just two Australians about it in my time and both carried the same view, yet none had read a single book on it, they just regurgitated the same old blather. If Galipoli had been a success, it would have all been down to them. Claim the glory, deny the gory.

#59

 

Tom only has friends of Irish descent.  Male friends. Small squeaking Catholic ones.

 

Sean exempted.

Flash is right again major, there are no decent Irishmen. 

 

T-Dog

 

p.s. He was an Aussie & I am an American

major, they may have been commanded by Aussies but Churchill was calling the shots eh?

 

T-Dog

Flash, ref #57 - I never posted my Aussie friend was there, similar to you repeating tales of daring do by your father. Just an opinion that differs from yours & draws the usual vitriol from you.

 

T-Dog

"never aplogise it's all cyber land"

 

No derring do, just a job

Very simple Tommy

 

you want to drag every anti British observation into every unrelated post, then you get vitriol. Your choice and I know which way you prefer to choose.

 

Because your hatred of the British, not Mark or Major or Jimbert but our nation is far more pervasive than you pretend.