Good choice Martin--I especially like the Spitfire MK VI myself. Why? it has cool and sleek lines and--I have a ballcap with a picture of one on it. Stevin--why do you want the steak knife? to shave the mustache with?
OK OK, spitfires for everyone at 100,00 posts. Either that or a FW Ta152, take your pick. I just glanced at the stats again just now (1:30am Thursday the 19th of June), we have as of this moment 51,026 posts. We hit 50,000 posts at around 12:15am on Friday the 13th of June. That means we all added 1,000 posts in the last six days. Roughly 1,000 posts a week are generated here, meaning we will reach 100,000 posts in less than 1 year. You all better start taking your flying lessons. [ 28. June 2003, 03:41 PM: Message edited by: Otto ]
Hey well maybe I can come in on this "competition". Not really. Well all I can say is I can relate to what Munken says about the "superiority complex" thing. I don't know jack squat compared to what everyone here knows but hey, that's why I'm here. Being that you guys know so much more than I do helps me want to learn more and to research new stuff. It "spurs me on" to know more about the details of battles and weapons and men. Thanks for your guys sharing your wisdom with me, it helps alot. Hey Kai, almost there man.
Same with me, but don't be so modest. Everybody knows a little details here and there which no one else in here knows, if not about WWII, maybe other wars. You're Spanish, maybe you can feed us with details about the Spanish civil war? There is little good info you can find about it, especially the ideological fragmentation on the Republican side.
ww2buff I'd like to give out a prize for post number 100,000, but I honestly can't tell with any accuracy who exactly made a specific post number. Kai As of this posting we have a grand total of 61,358 posts, not too shabby at all. I'm glad a lot of people are putting these boards to good use. Onthefield I agree with you, there are a large number of knowledgeable members, and all have a humble disposition. This is certainly a good atmosphere for learning and sharing information.
It's just a little weird that top 6 posters have written half of these 61k. Well, I only can do my part to change this relation.
Go for it Knightmove! It's going to take awhile but I think some of us "newbies" given a certain amount of years here talking are going to get our numbers way up there and get our brains alot more educated. Just give us time and we'll be there. PS-I'm not Spanish, no offense taken but I'm just in Spain right now for the next year to two years. I'm actually American, born and raised in NY about an hour outside the city. I've only been here for probably two and a half months so yeah. I could tell you about the Revolutionary War of America or somewhat of the Civil War but that's about it. My passion is definetly the Second World War.
Well I'm back. I also am on another forum, so I didn't had much time to hang around on this forum. But I'l try to live better in the futur.
Another forum?!?!?! Looks like someone's going to be woken up at 3 a.m. with rifle-butts thumping on his front door....
Indeed Martin. But it's a Belgian site abot politics and stuff. Maybe you should take a look at www.politics.be
the statement about the top 6 posters posting huge numbers does not surprise me in the least. I can name you quite a few Luftwaffe-type sites that the same occurs and why I ask ? Seems many sign up just to lurk or pose but the web-master(s) and forum members desire any type of questions. How do we then learn from one another ? maybe these folk need to be probed ?
I took a look, de Vlaamse, but was defeated by the language ! In this country, we are almost totally ignorant of Belgian politics and, indeed, many things about Belgium. During my recent holiday in the Ardennes I was fascinated by the experience of visiting Vielsalm ( where everyone seemed quite friendly and the atmosphere and language seemed rather er, French ), and then driving just a few minutes further to St Vith. Still in Belgium but the entire atmosphere was different, the shops are full of German things and everyone was speaking German. And, one has to say, the inhabitants were distinctly un friendly ! We later visited ( Belgian ) friends in Brussels and commented on the German-speaking area of the Ardennes and they said 'Oh - we've never been there'. But it did give an interesting insight into how, in the 1940s, German 'invaders' may have been received differently from one town to the next....
Congratulations to everyone in here for those 60.000 plus posts!!! Indeed, Martin. Brits don't know about Belgium but they DO get involved in WWs because of Belgium...
Actually, Friedrich, Poland or Belgium are actually an excuse for another punch-up with the Germans....
Well, went to the Ardennes - with a friend of mine - to take pictures of al lot of tanks that are still there because of the "Ardennenoffensief". I'd like to put them here on the site, but I don't know how. And indeed, there are three - even four - different kind of people in Belgium: - the Flemmish - the people from Brussels - the Walloons - the people from the "Oostkantons" (German speaking people)
