h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

that was the plan after world war I the war to end wars... hmmm... then the seconmd world war was then supposed to not...

*sighs* I agree war isn't one bit good... Video games seem to glamourise it... bad idea me thinks...

Do you know 1968 was the only year since WW1 that no British servicemen were killed

No, no I didn't...

I was selling poppies for Rememberence Day, and I was really annoyed cause I was sposed to go with the other people who entered the ANZAC comp to the Shrine, except that they scheduled the Significant People thingy on the same day, and my couldn't come on a different day, so I couldn't go And then they were on the news, but I wasn't home...


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Still war is a nessacary evil... Fighting unjust wars is wrong but I have seen the remains of the concentration camps in Germany and the pictures there and that was the worst evil I have seen... So sometimes because of inequality, because people are willing to follow charasmatic men, because people are scared to speak out against what is wrong, to allow there minds to be twisted to do things that unthinkable war is the final resort to change them... Maybe if mankind could learn to solve it problems before it gets that far then maybe war would no longer be nessacary....

I've seen the torture cells at Gestaop HQ in Berlin, not a pretty thought

War isn't a nessesary evil as such.

It is only nessesary because abosolute power currupts absolute, if that wasn't true then we wouldn't end up with wars.


War is to glamourised, since decision to Join the armed forces I have been picking up on more of the negative factors of it all, and putting the questions through my head.

The only jsut war is one of self defence, and if the only wars were those taken in self defence there would be no war, as to defend you need to have an attacker.



I will be selling poppies tommorrow, and standing in a squad on one of the coldest corners in aberdeen on sunday.

walk past the memorial the other day, sort of built into side of the art gallery (there is another one actully in side) the main bit is out side htough, and the ground around it is coverd in chewing gum. for that to happen people have to spit it out for it to hit the floor?

is that the respect that they have for the war dead that they spit on their memorial!

In fact I think that sums up most peoples respect for almostany kind of history....

Shame really because we could do with learning from it....

I read somewhere that more young people react to the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth than to any amount of documentry programmes on WW1, it also made it into the top ten of top 100 TV moments, the only thing that wasn't a news clip, when I first saw it when it was shown on remeberance sunday the first time it was shown I had tears in my eye's when it was over, it was such a moving epitaph to those who gave their lives for freedom, even today Ben Elton still gets congratulations from people on what he did in that episode, we live in a strange world when it takes a comedien to point out the pointlesness of war and get's it to stick in peoples minds

but then isn't that the role of that sort of satriacal comedy.... look at prachett

I guess, it was still a great piece of writing on Ben Elton's part considering it was a dodgey subject to make a comedy out of anyway

why - it worked for dads army... this was a refinement....

Dad's Army wasn't exactly about war tho, I'm surprised 'Allo 'Allo was as popular as it was, especially in France

because it was funny... I loved that show...

We've got them all on tape, my daughter likes Officer Crabtree she goes around saying Good Moaning when we watch them, she likes Madam Fanny too

Crabtree is the best...

Especilly when he slipped down the back pi$$age

Always had me in stitches.... crude but funny

Hey it's what we Brits are best at

true we are

The Carry On's are legendary