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Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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The Brits referred to American GIs in the UK as "Overfed, oversexed, and over here" (some versions have 'overpaid' instead of 'overfed')

To which Americans developed a response - that Brits were underfed, undersexed, and under Eisenhower!

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Trading ration cards was actually very common! I imagine the only Brit who didn't like tea or sugar was living like the king.

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Yeah, these are just the rationed goods. Bread wasn't rationed during WW2 for the Brits. Vegetables and the like also weren't rationed.

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Yeah, rationing was easily one of the most hated things on the British home front. Rationing continued several years after the war and more or less directly led to the Labour government losing to the Conservatives over the issue of continuing rationing.

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Bread wasn’t rationed but the only bread you could get your hands on was “the national loaf”, which my grandmother informed me was “saltier than unwashed seaweed”.

lmao

Makes one grateful to live in a more plentiful age!

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The Hoover Dam project was one of the first (the first?) where hard hats were mandatory for workers on-site!

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My favorite modern example is 'Marxist corporations'

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Damn, here I thought I was living in a capitalist dystopia. Truly, the race mixers pulled one over on me. Must be the mixed blood in me making me vulnerable to communist brainwashing.

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Hot damn

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Mind mentioning where I said this was the first test?

I think OP is just grabbing posts from “fakehistoryporn” off Reddit and not understanding the difference…

You do realize that's not the kind of material "fakehistoryporn" posts, right? It would be labeled something more like "Experimental worm-removal by shockwave, 1865"

Just another of the (probably hundreds) of shitty meme communities OP mods or posts too. At this point I’m just blocking their whole account.

That's what the block button is there for.

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Damn Nordic countries and their high life expectancy

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https://www.rferl.org/a/czechoslovakia-prague-velvet-revolution-communism/30217717.html

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Aren't they? The sponson mounted gun is so weird, but I love it.

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Nowadays they don't have to do that. The dogs outrank the humans, so they can just give orders directly. o7

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He looks like he's leaning forward a bit, but his proportions seem normal to me. Might just be the angle of the camera.

Also, gotta consider that the uniforms of the period are often a bit baggy.

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Don't think so. Minimum height for US conscripts was 5'2. Guy on the right is probably a tall fella.

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M3 Grant/Lee, the tank that came before the M4 Sherman. They couldn't engineer a solution for the heavy main gun to get on the turret and they needed a tank for North Africa as quick as possible, so they just slapped it on the hull and called it a day as they moved on to the M4 Sherman.

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Positively medieval!

(might suggest HistoryDrawings for this kind of thing in the future though)

PugJesus,
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"s-should the need arise"

Yes, Shadowheart, I am sure that's why you were considering that. Necessity.

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CIA try not to be the most ridiculous and amoral agency known to the US government challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

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