Comments by "Mike O\x27Neill" (@EllieMaes-Grandad) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

  1. Was it green?
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  2. * whisky drinker, (Irish) * You'd be drinking 'whiskey' then . . .
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  3. Thank you. I was referring to the washing incident which [allegedly] put water into the tube which stayed after take-off and froze.  @djgeorgetsagkadopoulos 
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  4. Tom Bower's books, "Blind Eye to Murder" [post-war cover-up of widespread, generalised atrocities in Europe, done mostly by Nazis] and another, "Paperclip Conspiracy", examined selection of those guilty of war crimes but not prosecuted, being deemed useful to the USA.
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  5. Are those tubes horizontal for the entire length, or do they have an upward kink along their length which would allow such water to drain out. Should I suspect the former . . . ?
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  6. The A2 in UK takes you to the s/e coast and in France the RN1 goes to Paris, allowing a continuous journey. Many RN routes follow Roman alignments.
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  7. Britain was fighting elsewhere and the British Pacific fleet was lining up to join the invasion of Japan. We all contributed to the defeat of Germany [Germany first was the agreed policy] and then we set about fighting elsewhere in Asia. Your ignorance insults all who fought - and died - from all countries. Take a hike with your bigotry. PS That 'Manhattan Project' built on the British work in the project "Tube Alloys" - go look it up.
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  8. Russkies had cannon-fodder conscripts, Allies had citizens (who wanted to go home).
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  9. British soldiers fought in that rear-guard - later to spent five years of their youth in prison camps . . .
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  10. Embedded in cement, or, more correctly, concrete . . .
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  11. I have seen little reference to, and even less information about, Allied vs Axis fuel quality ratings for aircraft engines. There must have been basic performance differences and knock-on effects on operational and maintenance issues, yet no detailed analysis to be found . . .
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  12. Have your throat blessed in an RC church on St.Blaize's day - forget about sore throats, for ever.
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  13. Neville Chamberlain gets a bad press, because doing his best wasn't enough at the time, or barely enough. Twenty years after the Great War memories were still raw; nobody wanted another one. Economic times were not conducive to high levels of defence spending, but much else had 'gone to seed' in those days. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, before becoming PM, he made scarce funds available for essential re-armament. To confront Hitler, the support of France was essential; it was not forthcoming. They too had suffered and lost massively in the Great War and were beset by socialism. Who today remembers WW2, particularly the period of uncertainty before it? Chamberlain was perhaps naïve, as were more than a few of his contemporaries, but there were many (including royalty) who thought Adolph a grand bloke.
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  14. You have to know and understand the mindset of the time, a widely-held aversion to war. Europeans had been fighting for a few years before U.S. personnel arrived in WW1 (and the same happened in WW2 as well). We were happy to welcome you both times . . .  @AM2prunejuice 
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  15. 'Expansive' . . . . or 'extensive' . . . ?
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  16. Be wary of using BCE and CE . . . . continue with what we know and trust, BC and AD.
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  17. They went round it . . .  @pontifixmax 
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  18. Italy doesn't 'do' roads or governments. Pizzas and churches, they're top notch . . .
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  19. Denying climate change as natural is one thing; thinking that the present bunch wanting to tax and restrict us all are correct is quite another. "Everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven." Matthew 10:32/3
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  20. There was no "Allied navy", only the navies of the various allies.
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  21. There's a movie out there, a good one. Phillips was off work for over a year after the accident, but that fact is in small print right at the end.
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  22. I noticed that too - at times, Simon has no idea of what he's saying - a regular 'reality check' would not go amiss! PS The Bismarck episode was 1941, not 1940.
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  23. Let's stick with BC and AD shall we? Trendy use of BCE and CE are intended to erode 'western' [aka Christian] culture; don't go there . . .
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