Give Peace A Chance

[W. Niederhut]

3 hours ago, Jean Ceulemans said:

I can tell you if I would address one of the generation of my parents or grandparents as "Herr".... o boy, I´d be in trouble!!! It´s the same in a bunch of other european countries (e.g. the Netherlands, France,...) outside Germany that is...  It also has also been ridiculed in English comedy shows, films, etc e.g. "Herr Flick, officer of the gestapo." 

In general, addressing someone in/like/as German in Belgium still raises eyebrows, especially the older generation.  

During WW2 often Belgians did not know the names of German military rangs, now... it´s better to be safe than sorry..., so they would call them "Herr".  Well, that´s what my parents told me.

I know it has been a long time, but it´s still very sensative to call someone German whe he/she isn´t, or outside a normal context.  

No problem in addressing one in a formal way in Germany.  Just not in some neighbouring countries outside Germany.

 

Thanks for the info, Jean.

My father spent the prime of his youth with Antifa--fighting the Nazis, (in the U.S. 753rd Tank Battalion) from North Africa to Italy, France, and Bavaria, but I don't think he had an opportunity to learn some of these neighborly Belgian niceties.

The Third Reich surrendered exactly four days after my father's 23rd birthday.

Below: The U.S. 753rd Tank Battalion lands in southern France in Operation Dragoon (August 1, 1944)

 

Edited Tuesday at 02:30 PM by W. Niederhut

[Mark Ulrik]

3 hours ago, Sandy Larsen said:

You know, you might be the only person in all of Denmark named Mark Ulrik!  (The website says "less than 3.")

Ulrik is very rare, with only 117 in Denmark.

I'm the only "pure" MU as far as I know. The others only have Ulrik as middle name (as in Mark Ulrik Jensen).

[Mark Ulrik]

15 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

My father spent the prime of his youth with Antifa--fighting the Nazis, (in the U.S. 753rd Tank Battalion) from North Africa to Italy, France, and Bavaria, but I don't think he had an opportunity to learn some of these neighborly Belgian niceties.

One can only hope that he had the good sense not to address the non-Germans with "Herr ..."

[W. Niederhut]

Mark,

     On this ad hominem note, what was your father's role in WWII?

     Was he also Antifa?

[Robert Burrows]

Give peace a chance? Laughable. Man himself is incapable of achieving peace. It's not in his wheelhouse.

"Our problems are manmade--therefore, they can be solved by man." 

How's that proved out?

Good luck finding peace. Here comes the iceberg. 

 

https://youtu.be/BDSkoYfNrwg?si=MyCyfbdPVsAW_4QF

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 04:29 PM by Robert Burrows

[Mark Ulrik]

43 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

Mark,

     On this ad hominem note, what was your father's role in WWII?

     Was he also Antifa?

Danish resistance.

Oh no, did I hurt your feelings? I thought you enjoyed lighthearted banter.

[W. Niederhut]

11 minutes ago, Mark Ulrik said:

Danish resistance.

Oh no, did I hurt your feelings? I thought you enjoyed lighthearted banter.

Hurt?  Don't flatter yourself, Mark. 

I never left a football game in my life, even after cracking my helmet once while tackling a big, fat fullback.

But, getting back to the subject of peace and the JFKA, are you still in the LN camp?

If so, that would, certainly, explain your efforts to downplay the evidence of murdered JFKA witnesses.

No need to murder witnesses if Oswald was a Lone Nut, eh?

[Mark Ulrik]

19 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

But, getting back to the subject of peace and the JFKA, are you still in the LN camp?

If so, that would, certainly, explain your efforts to downplay the evidence of murdered JFKA witnesses.

No need to murder witnesses if Oswald was a Lone Nut, eh?

Well, maybe some people are just better at processing certain information than others. It's not my impression that susceptibility to confirmation bias (and similar mental shortcuts) is a particular LN trait.

[W. Niederhut]

5 hours ago, Mark Ulrik said:

Well, maybe some people are just better at processing certain information than others. It's not my impression that susceptibility to confirmation bias (and similar mental shortcuts) is a particular LN trait.

     So, Mark, how do you "process the information" about JFK's head being slammed violently backward and to the left by the fatal head shot?

     Do you, perchance, have a confirmation bias against Newton's Laws of Motion?

[Mark Ulrik]

14 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

     So, Mark, how do you "process the information" about JFK's head being slammed violently backward and to the left by the fatal head shot?

     Do you, perchance, have a confirmation bias against Newton's Laws of Motion?

For once in your life, will you please try to focus? This thread is not even about the JFKA.

[W. Niederhut]

29 minutes ago, Mark Ulrik said:

For once in your life, will you please try to focus? This thread is not even about the JFKA.

Well, it did somehow devolve into a discussion of the fact that you "ended up in the LN camp," didn't it?

I was merely asking about your LN confirmation bias against Newtonian physics.

As for "focus," my lifelong problem has always been a tendency to hyper-focus.

I even published a book on the subject.

 

[Bill Brown]

1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:

Well, it did somehow devolve into a discussion of the fact that you "ended up in the LN camp," didn't it?

I was merely asking about your LN confirmation bias against Newtonian physics.

As for "focus," my lifelong problem has always been a tendency to hyper-focus.

I even published a book on the subject.

 

 

But please don't attempt to publish anything related to a bullet's transfer of energy upon striking it's target.

No bullet striking the head from the right front would cause the violent back and to the left motion.

You're confusing bullets with baseball bats.

 

[W. Niederhut]

17 minutes ago, Bill Brown said:

 

But please don't attempt to publish anything related to a bullet's transfer of energy upon striking it's target.

No bullet striking the head from the right front would cause the violent back and to the left motion.

You're confusing bullets with baseball bats.

 

Dead wrong.

Did you flunk physics, Bill?

What was the momentum (mv) of the system before and after impact?

Edited Wednesday at 10:14 PM by W. Niederhut

[Jean Ceulemans]

There has been an interesting conversation on this on the physics forum a few years ago, well... it only gets interesting a  little over half-way  :

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/question-about-transfer-of-energy-and-momentum-in-ballistics.1014644/

[W. Niederhut]

27 minutes ago, Jean Ceulemans said:

There has been an interesting conversation on this on the physics forum a few years ago, well... it only gets interesting a  little over half-way  :

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/question-about-transfer-of-energy-and-momentum-in-ballistics.1014644/

I used to teach physics, Jean.

This isn't rocket science.

If M1 is the mass of JFK's head and M2 is the mass of the bullet, and

V1 is the velocity of JFK's head before impact, and V2 is the velocity of the bullet before impact, and

V1' is the velocity of JFK's head after impact, and V2' is the velocity of the bullet after impact, then,

M1V1 + M2V2 = M1V1' + M2V2' (+M3V3)

(Where M3 and V3 are the mass and velocity of the displaced skull and brain matter)

Ergo, he was hit by a fatal bullet fired from the front and right of the limo.

Newton's Law of Conservation of Momentum.

Edited Wednesday at 10:42 PM by W. Niederhut