Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Germans Could Take Them Now

If the Wehrmacht were to set foot on one of the Channel beaches now, they could conquer the country with a battalion of men armed with rusty Mausers.[1]
LONDON (AP) -- Officials will ban drinking contests in bars and force pub owners to offer patrons tap water in a bid to help tackle Britain's boozy culture, the government said Tuesday.
I gather that a ban on solid food is not too far in the future for the Great Nanny State.
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[1] OK, that was terribly unfair. No self-respecting German soldier would have a rusty Mauser. They'd all be nicely blued with mirror-bright bores.

6 comments:

  1. Churchill's line: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few," was about their bar bill.

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  2. Given the state of affairs in Formerly Great Britan, you'd think the last thing they'd want would be a sober populous.

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  3. Bob, you'd think so. The Russians have known for centuries that a drunken population is a more easily controllable population.

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  5. Nah, if the Germans turned up on our beaches today they would have to fight their way through our defensive lines of used condoms, litter and sewage :)

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  6. Hell, the way some of the Brits I know have complained about the current nanny state, the Germans would probably be welcomed as liberators these days.

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