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Solice Kirsk posted:Just like cops, if you ask a spy if they are a spy they have to tell you. Otherwise it's entrapment and all the secrets they've gathered can't be used. So the easiest way to determine if someone is a spy is to simply ask them. It's like how they tried to train the British Home Guard to catch Nazi spies in disguise by approaching someone they expected of being a spy and shouting, "HEIL HITLER!" because no Nazi would be able to resist snapping to attention, doing a Nazi salute and replying in kind.
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bike tory posted:You don't have to be homophobic or hate the arts to recognise the incredible cheesiness in the aesthetics of that moment. Yeah it was cheesy because of the context. I agree with that.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's like how they tried to train the British Home Guard to catch Nazi spies in disguise by approaching someone they expected of being a spy and shouting, "HEIL HITLER!" because no Nazi would be able to resist snapping to attention, doing a Nazi salute and replying in kind. Probably would have worked: quote:The Nazi spies arrived on the shores of Britain under the cover of night, by parachute, by rowing boat and by rubber dinghy. In their suitcases each carried a morse code transmitter, a map of the UK, a handgun and some invisible ink. Their mission: to pave the way for an invasion.
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When the British had to flee Malta in WW2, it all happened so fast that a lot of Brtisih troops got left behind. The rural Maltans were on their side, and took care of them and hid them in places the Nazis couldn't find. The Nazis started dressing their English speaking soldiers as British soldiers, and sending them into those rural villages, being all "Hello, I am also an Englishman! Please take me to where you are hiding all my British friends!" It never worked because the Maltans could tell the difference between an Englishman and a German who had taken English in high school The Maltans quickly realized that the best way to deal with the fake British nazis was to immediately jump them, beat them up, tie them up, and haul them off to the nearest nazi outpost and say "Look, we found a Englishman!". The nazis, rather than thinking that maybe their ruse had been seen through, would say, "welp, they thought he was English and they turned him in, guess that village isn't hiding any Englishmen"
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It says something certainly about me when i instantly recognize what this little dance is from e: Im wrong but yeah i thought it was gachimuchi for some reason Rigged Death Trap has a new favorite as of 00:49 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Take On Me (Take on me) Take Me On...(Take on me)
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I'm not doubting that some elements of that story might be true but Malta was never occupied
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Captain Splendid posted:I'm not doubting that some elements of that story might be true but Malta was never occupied poo poo, it was Crete not Malta.
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spog posted:Probably would have worked: There's a story that an elderly woman locked a man from the electricity board in her cupboard and called the police on him when he came to read the meter. Why did she think he was a German spy? Because he had a little moustache that looked like Hitler's.
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's a story that an elderly woman locked a man from the electricity board in her cupboard and called the police on him when he came to read the meter. Why did she think he was a German spy? Because he had a little moustache that looked like Hitler's. In a bizarre twist of circumstance, that would be the appropriate response today.
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I smell the plot to the new Space Jam movie.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I smell the plot to the new Space Jam movie. This works as a response to most posts.
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Biplane posted:lol if you wouldn't betray the US government for almost no reason would betray it in a second for literally free but thats probably why i didnt get a job working on military servers and instead got one with a credit union. Son of Rodney posted:idgi, what's funny about this? The guy who flys in when he says can you take me higher. visual pun(?) snergle has a new favorite as of 06:45 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's like how they tried to train the British Home Guard to catch Nazi spies in disguise by approaching someone they expected of being a spy and shouting, "HEIL HITLER!" because no Nazi would be able to resist snapping to attention, doing a Nazi salute and replying in kind. When Captain Sigismund Best was duped and captured by the SD he talked about how well he was treated. He said he wasn't surprised by this because Germans (and Europeans in general) just have an inherent sense of the superiority of the English and can't help being deferential toward them. "The simple fact was that in their hearts these people regarded me as their superior; as a representative of a nation which they could not hope to equal. How often was I not to hear the statement that the English were a 'Herrnvolk' a race of masters. An inferiority complex is, I think, the most marked German characteristic. All the military pomp and martial posturing, the shouting and stamping, are just a smokescreen put up to conceal it. [...] Natural leaders, rare everywhere, are in Germany almost non-existent." Surprisingly he doesn't mention the fact that him and his pal were carrying around a PLAIN TEXT list of SIS agents in Europe when they got nabbed and the Gestapo got everything else they wanted to know out of them without having to turn any thumbscrews or anything.
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spog posted:Probably would have worked: Sounds like you caught all of the insufferable "well ackshually" weaboo spy school flunky red herring pawn sacrifices and absolutely none of the actual spies there champ.
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Karate Bastard posted:Sounds like you caught all of the insufferable "well ackshually" weaboo spy school flunky red herring pawn sacrifices and absolutely none of the actual spies there champ. That sounds like something a spy would say...
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Karate Bastard posted:insufferable "well ackshually" weaboo spy Teaboo
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's like how they tried to train the British Home Guard to catch Nazi spies in disguise by approaching someone they expected of being a spy and shouting, "HEIL HITLER!" because no Nazi would be able to resist snapping to attention, doing a Nazi salute and replying in kind. Well, it may very well have worked, this is a German comedian doing a bit in the 70s in West Germany, well after any kind of Nazi poo poo was even remotely acceptable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJRUDaw8DJE Old habits die hard.
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Karate Bastard posted:Sounds like you caught all of the insufferable "well ackshually" weaboo spy school flunky red herring pawn sacrifices and absolutely none of the actual spies there champ. The British infiltrated the German training program for spies, instructing spies to meet up with a "contact" upon arriving in the country. The contact was of course a British intelligence agent. Basically, German intelligence got owned on a level rarely seen in warfare. Literally every single German spy in the country got turned, isolated, or killed. snergle posted:... You know Creed is a Christian Rock group, right? The song is literally about God elevating your spirit. Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 11:51 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Blue Footed Booby posted:You know Creed is a Christian Rick group, right?
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I still hate trigonometry and cringe whenever someone reminds me of it.
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Samuringa posted:I still hate trigonometry and cringe whenever someone reminds me of it. Do you need a trig warning
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Unkempt posted:Do you need a trig warning please maintain proper trig discipline
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The British infiltrated the German training program for spies, instructing spies to meet up with a "contact" upon arriving in the country. The contact was of course a British intelligence agent. The Abwehr were so completely incompetent that their most prized agent was Garbo, who just made up poo poo based on what he read in British newspapers, and even made up an entire network of informants across the UK (all of whom he drew salaries and bribes for), despite never having set foot on British soil. Eventually he sold the whole "network" to MI5, and is one of the few people to have been honoured by both the Germans and British for their wartime service.
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Unkempt posted:Do you need a trig warning Sulla-Marius 88 posted:please maintain proper trig discipline Don't worry Samuringa, we're just Palin around
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Samuringa are you there Is everything okay Give us some sines of life
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orange sky posted:Samuringa are you there Ok, now you're just going on a tangent
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Who What Now posted:Ok, now you're just going on a tangent Cosined
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Just lol at the idea that most people get past algebra, let alone touch multivariable calculus. I taught HS math in Florida, specifically Algebra 2; I assumed I would be teaching freshmen, based on when I remember taking classes in my day, but 99% of my students were seniors, most of whom failed the course multiple times (and the administration pulled strings to graduate them anyway so the school didn't look bad). A more appropriate graph for the top end of that curve:
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MrUnderbridge posted:When I lived in Germany, the US TV station was run by the armed forces. One commercial I remember is one where kids in a cafe are saying things like "Dad's going to Sicily this week" while a shifty character takes notes. Speaking of the military and spies reminded me of when we found a new-ish looking watch with "Андрей" engraved on the back at the obstacle course.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:
This is absolutely true. The biggest number you use at university is maybe 4.
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loving pi man
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Everyone hates Ohio. /Ohioan
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Captain Splendid posted:This is absolutely true. Literally every time a group of PhD candidates here does an escape room together: "Ok, so we solved that complex cipher in our heads, why isn't this working...." 25 minutes later.... "loving HELL THERE ARE SIX BIRDS ON THAT POSTER, NOT FIVE." Breeze through the hardest poo poo, utterly fail at counting or basic arithmetic.
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I had Algebra, Geometry, Trig, and Basic Calc in high school; I tested out of Calc 1, did pretty good in Calc 2 and Differential Equations (my favorite) in college before flunking out of Topology because I was the only undergrad in the class. Now, I figure out tips and round them up to a whole dollar value in my head. Edit: math was like loving magic to me. I loved that poo poo. Then: Topology. That killed me. Literally. I am dead and a ghost. Aleph Null has a new favorite as of 19:34 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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I just give 2 bucks for every 10 the check is
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