This is the response I wrote to a thread on a music forum. The thread had started out discussing Morrissey and how outspoken he was and developed into the PC types on the thread criticising Morrissey and anyone else who had a pair and were prepared to say exactly what they bloody well felt like, and...

I'll see your octopus and raise you cuttlefish!

harry hackedoff wrote:OK I give up, Herr Doktor

What`s a tintenfisch, is it what I think it is

If my German's still any good, it's a squid!

off at a slight tangent: What's the average Booties view on the historical novels of Douglas Reeman? I've read a couple & thought they were quite good, especially First to Land about the Boxer Rebellion. And is my memory working properly when it tells me that Douglas Reeman is the pen name of an...

:o KINNELL So that`s what happened to Buster Gonad! :o PFFnawrr :P Talking of which I had a drink and a chat with Buster Bloodvessel in August 2006 at the annual Augustibuller festival here in Sweden. It's a skinhead and punk festival playing ska,punk,reggae originally, but now it's also added hard...

Oh for F..... sake.

Another bit of trivia I remember is that WWII German paras were the first troops EVER to use DPM camouflage. And it soon spread to the uniforms of other German units. And it was this first German camo para smock of 1940 that the British copied for the first Denison smock in 41. The bit about the ca...

Congratulations, now go and buy yourself a dictionary to celebrate with!

It's I'll not ill, that means sick. And it's thoroughly.

And it's "and" not "an". You write an in every single post.

Tab wrote:How many times do you need to ask the same question

Tab, is this the same fella that asked a couple of weeks ago too?

Blimey matt,you've asked 4 times on four different forums already.

Another bit of trivia I remember is that WWII German paras were the first troops EVER to use DPM camouflage. And it soon spread to the uniforms of other German units. And it was this first German camo para smock of 1940 that the British copied for the first Denison smock in 41.

matt2008 wrote:Why would a british trained, british paratrooper in the 8th battalion wear his wings on his breast rather than on his shoulder, second world war. thanks, matt.

see my reply to your other thread.

Matt, this was discussed just a short while ago. From what I can remember from the discussion, in the early days of the paras wings were worn in various places on the jacket it being a new form of badge for a new unit, before finally coming to rest on the upper arm. I don't think there's any more si...

The Eagle Has Landed film clearly demonstrates the "different" nature of the German Paras at the beginning of the film when the officer played by Michael Caine rescues a young Jewish girl from the pursuing SS and puts her on the train, for her only to be shot by a Waffen SS soldier. The en...

Working as I do for the Swedish MoD, I thought some of you might be interested in some info about Swedish elite units The ranks in the Swedish armed forces are still conscripts, who usually only serve between 8 and 15 months.But this is due to change in the next couple of years because the vast majo...

Fallschirmjäger is still the German word for paratrooper. In Swedish the word is similar, Fallskärmsjägare Interesting fact is that the German paras of WWII belonged to the Luftwaffe not the army. Fallschirm in German and Fällskärm in Swedish simply mean parachute Jäger (German) Jägare (Swedish) lit...