I also stated, twice now, that I thought Josh_UK was behaving just as ignorantly as Steve. While I obviously got that you were responding in kind to his generalizations with your dentistry joke, I was irritated that you failed to read my posts properly and associated me with him. The fact that you just waded into this argument streaming abuse when you are so clearly in the wrong needed to be asserted.

So yeah, I’d take my own advice if I were you. Read first, flame later.

The US sold arms to both the Allies and the Germans. It is widely documented that America is, and has been, a major arms dealer, selling (and supplying) weapons to different sides, in various conflicts (for example the IRA in Northern Ireland, whom they also helped finance). Granted that they openly supported the UK (and China) during WW2, but they were also selling munitions at inflated rates to the Germans.

Both before and after Pearl Harbor, American companies were still trading with Nazis, and many wealthy American businessmen helped finance the fascist regimes in Europe. But on the flip side, there were businessmen in the UK and Australia who also did the same.

Awwww, I’m so sorry that my post was too long for you. Would you prefer bigger letters and colourful pictures next time? If you didn’t even bother to read it, how the fuck can you comment on where I get my information from?

Actually, I’m a historian specialising in 20th century history. I even went to Cambridge University to study. Not everyone who gets kicks out of Lamebook has to do their research on Wikipedia.

Get a clue next time.

attagirl wikipedia copy + paste

also TLDNR

“The Pacific Theater isn’t nothing and was almost entirely fought by the Chinese and the Americans.”

Until Pearl Harbor, it was Australia, the British (including British India forces), the Dutch, the (Free) French, and New Zealand who were the major players in the Pacific War. And China of course. Even after the attack on Pearl Harbor, these countries still played major roles. In places like Timor (Portuguese Timor and Netherlands Timor), the battle was fought almost purely by soldiers from Australia and Netherlands East Indies. I don’t think that you can make such a dismissive comment, disregarding the effort and lives lost by the other nations involved.

“As far as the war in the West is concerned, while their military contribution might have been less than the Russians they were responsible for keeping Britain and to a large extend Russia afloat by provision of armaments and munitions.”

You mean, along with the armaments and munitions the US were also supplying to the Germans? I mean, selling to the Germans?

“Even if we had, for the last 50 years or so we would have been dealing with a continental Europe primarily controlled by the USSR.”

Instead of a continental Europe primarily controlled by the US?

You’re missing the rest. Your anger at Steve was laughable when he was responding to the stupidity of another. Trying to pretend like you’re the classy sort based on a response to a response is laughable.

And really, did you not get the whole part about NOT making generalizations? Which would then lead one to believe that perhaps I was kidding about my dentistry joke? Really?

This is what I was talking about when I said, read. It really isn’t that hard.

Still, the torrent of abuse was unwarranted. Steve needed to be put in his place for his earlier posts. The rest of my remarks still stand.

My stupidity? Please. Ironically you appear to not have read MY post properly. Steve_US specifically called me a ‘doosh’ (sic). The post by someone named doosh was incidental and yes, I was aware of it. You also failed to read the part of my post where I denounced Josh_UK as being an equally culpable offender in this flaming.

Dentistry, that’s another one. Do you genuinely believe that English people all have crooked teeth? Do you get all your world views from The Simpsons?

Next time you want to fling some ignorant abuse at me, do your homework first so you don’t look like such a prick.

@ VillageIdiot: Any country that produced Chaser’s War have to be geniuses! I love that show….

@ Duncan: Agreed in full.

Your epic stupidity is really, very impressive.

Follow the conversation, or don’t post. If you cannot understand that someone is posting under the name “doosh,” then please, for everyone’s sake, leave the internet.

As for the rest, if you don’t like the UK being flamed, tell your simple friend josh not to post generalizations. Or are the eight crooked, rotten teeth sticking too far into your brain to understand that?

The Pacific Theater isn’t nothing and was almost entirely fought by the Chinese and the Americans. As far as the war in the West is concerned, while their military contribution might have been less than the Russians they were responsible for keeping Britain and to a large extend Russia afloat by provision of armaments and munitions. Without the industrial contribution of the Americans it is doubtful that we could have survived the war. Even if we had, for the last 50 years or so we would have been dealing with a continental Europe primarily controlled by the USSR.

@Holden – Way to up the idiot ante there, mate.

@John
As far as I can see, your original post was in response to Claire – I read it that she was British and taking the piss out of Americans…