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IGGY & THE STOOGES Drummer SCOTT ASHETON Dead At 64
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Mick Jagger's girlfriend and designer, L'Wren Scott killed herself by hanging with a scarf.
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Fashionable until the end. RIP.
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Fashionable until the end. RIP.
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Certainly Nagasaki and Berlin were probably not super cheerful places to be when the surrender was announced. But in, London VE Day was declared a national holiday, and the streets were completely full with people celebrating the end of a near decade-long entanglement. I've even read some stories that the Princess Elizabeth (the current Queen) and her sister, Princess Margaret, mingled in amongst the crowd anonymously up and down the Mall and going as far as Trafalgar Square. The celebrations only came to a close because a thunderstorm rolled in around midnight.dodint wrote:Yeah, I get that. But I doubt they were standing in the street throwing their hats in the air and making out with nurses. Folks in London, Nagasaki, and Berlin standing among their ruins would probably be feeling a quiet relief that borders closer to grieving than euphoria. The US was perhaps the only country in the world to come out of WWII better than it went in.
Two views of Picadilly Circus on May 8, 1945
More revelry
No doubt the U.S. emerged better off then when it entered the conflict. But by all accounts, London was a pretty bonkers place to be when the surrender announcement was made.
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I think dodint was strictly referring to defeated nations. Or liberated, I should say, at least in most cases.
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Gaucho wrote:I think dodint was strictly referring to defeated nations. Or liberated, I should say, at least in most cases.
Folks in London, Nagasaki, and Berlin standing among their ruins would probably be feeling a quiet relief that borders closer to grieving than euphoria
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I picked those places because they would have a fair amount of ruins in their city. Safe to say that applies to nowhere in mainland America.
Happy to wrong about the Londoners. Cheers to them.
Happy to wrong about the Londoners. Cheers to them.
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I stand corrected. My reading skills leave something to be desired lately ...
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Fred Phelps is no longer around
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God hates Freds!
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I lold.....but my dad's name was Fred so its not totally coolblackjack68 wrote:God hates Freds!
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RIP James Rebhorn, one of my favorite character actors
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[/quote]dodint wrote:Yeah, I get that. But I doubt they were standing in the street throwing their hats in the air and making out with nurses. Folks in London, Nagasaki, and Berlin standing among their ruins would probably be feeling a quiet relief that borders closer to grieving than euphoria. The US was perhaps the only country in the world to come out of WWII better than it went in.
Excluding the American families who lost sons , husbands etc. The vets who spent the rest of their lives blind, paralyzed, or missing limbs may not have considered themselves better off than before the war.
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Sure, but outside of some tokenism are veterans really revered/mourned in this country? Hardly. WWII was the last time that homeland Americans sacrificed anything tangible for a war effort. America is not at war, the military is at war, America is at the mall.
To break it down to raw, crude numbers. The percentage of Americans killed in WWII represents 0.32% of the population. For Germany? Estimates put it at 8.0-10.5%.
As for the veterans that survived but were maimed and how that affects their families? Honestly, it's such a different time that I couldn't even dream of quantifying that. The main difference between then and now is that they had a draft, whereas I volunteered. I bet if we had a draft or compulsory service in this day and age people would start to pay attention real quick. I don't advocate for that but it illustrates my point. Besides, you took a statement made about the economic health of one of the largest nations on earth and applied it to a very, very small subsection of that population and their mental well being. Not exactly a fair comparison.
I respect your disagreement but I think it's misapplied.
To break it down to raw, crude numbers. The percentage of Americans killed in WWII represents 0.32% of the population. For Germany? Estimates put it at 8.0-10.5%.
As for the veterans that survived but were maimed and how that affects their families? Honestly, it's such a different time that I couldn't even dream of quantifying that. The main difference between then and now is that they had a draft, whereas I volunteered. I bet if we had a draft or compulsory service in this day and age people would start to pay attention real quick. I don't advocate for that but it illustrates my point. Besides, you took a statement made about the economic health of one of the largest nations on earth and applied it to a very, very small subsection of that population and their mental well being. Not exactly a fair comparison.
I respect your disagreement but I think it's misapplied.
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Great actor. RIP...shafnutz05 wrote:RIP James Rebhorn, one of my favorite character actors
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David Brenner passed away last week from cancer at the age of 78.
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Can't remember any specific bits he did, but I remember hearing his name on Carson's version of the Tonight Show a lot.
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Can't remember any specific bits he did, but I remember hearing his name on Carson's version of the Tonight Show a lot.
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Yeah, was mentioned on the prior page. Howard Stern show played some of their old moments as he was pretty regular with the show for a while.
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RIP Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus, lead singer of GWAR.
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wow, did not see that coming. Only 50 years old.
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nooooshafnutz05 wrote:RIP James Rebhorn, one of my favorite character actors
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Beavis and Butthead = stunnedJS© wrote:wow, did not see that coming. Only 50 years old.
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Omg I used to love Gwar. This is very sad.Froggy wrote:RIP Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus, lead singer of GWAR.
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didnt know what gwar was. they look odd
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Gwar put on one hell of a live show, sadly im guessing it was drugs. Shocking im sure....but he was such a funny nice dude. As a younger nerd, I spent a lot of cash on Gwar and I talked with members of the band when in pgh. Poor guy...
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[youtube][/youtube]shafnutz05 wrote:Beavis and Butthead = stunnedJS© wrote:wow, did not see that coming. Only 50 years old.
Almost posted their cover of "Carry On Wayward Son" but I didn't know if it would pass board rules.
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I first heard of GWAR when I watched Empire Records.