USS Roosevelt Visits the UK. Brits In Awe

[Zipperfish]

And BTW, the Lincoln would have no trouble making a lighthouse change its course. Or cease to exist.

Your call.

It's not so much the lighthouse that's the problem so much as the several million tonnes of granite it sits on.

 

[EagleSmack]

Reminds me of when we had the USS Lincoln visit Canada.

This is the transcript of a radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.

Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a Collision.
Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.
Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States' Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that YOU change your course 15 degrees north, that's one five degrees north, or countermeasures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.
Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

lmao... it was a great joke though. I bet it made you feel good eh?


Spain has that story too!


www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvRYd8U7qGY


And the Irish!


www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsdUgEgJrY

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

It's not so much the lighthouse that's the problem so much as the several million tonnes of granite it sits on.

That's not a problem. That's what nukes are FOR.

 

[Zipperfish]

Right, now you just have to apologise for Guess Who, Celine Dion, Justin Beaver, Nickelback, Due South, Bob and Doug McKenzie, Peter Jennings, Michael J. Fox, Red Green, John Diefenbaker, Molson-brewed Foster's, and the Alberta Clipper, and I think you'll be caught up.

Peter Jennings is Canadian? Who'd a thunk it. yeah sorry about that one.

...and the Trailer Park Boys.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Oh, yeah, forgot that retarded Newfie doing what Newfies call a "dance" in the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Olympics.

Though I suppose it was all egalitarian and enlightened and sh*t of y'all to include the developmental disability community in your opening ceremony.

 

[Zipperfish]

That's not a problem. That's what nukes are FOR.

Ah, Americans. They always things blowing things up is the answer.

"Blowed up real good." (John Candy. Not apologizing for him)

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Ah, Americans. They always things blowing things up is the answer.

"Blowed up real good." (John Candy. Not apologizing for him)

Ask the good folk of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

[EagleSmack]

As the saying goes, first time I heard that joke, I laughed so hard I fell off my dinosaur.

Sadly... a host of nations believes they are the ones who actually had the lighthouse that made the Lincoln (Or Nimitz, or the America, or the Montana, or the Enterprise, or any other ship of the day) when it was simply an urban legend that goes WAAAAAY BACK.


snopes.com: Lighthouse and Aircraft Carrier


From 1939...


The fog was very thick, and the Chief Officer of the tramp steamer was peering over the side of the bridge. Suddenly, to his intense surprise, he saw a man leaning over a rail, only a few yards away.

"You confounded fool!" he roared. "Where the devil do you think your ship's going? Don't you know I've got the right of way?"

Out of the gloom came a sardonic voice:

"This ain't no blinkin' ship, guv'nor. This 'ere's a light'ouse!"

 

[Zipperfish]

Oh, yeah, forgot that retarded Newfie doing what Newfies call a "dance" in the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Olympics.

Though I suppose it was all egalitarian and enlightened and sh*t of y'all to include the developmental disability community in your opening ceremony.

Yes it was quite the retard fest. No argument from me. Although I still play k.d. lang singing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."

 

[EagleSmack]

Feeling a bit cheated Zip?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Yes it was quite the retard fest. No argument from me. Although I still play k.d. lang singing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."

OK, no apologies needed for k.d.

 

[Zipperfish]

Feeling a bit cheated Zip?

yes, deep down I'm miserable.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

yes, deep down I'm miserable.

Everywhere else you seem pretty chipper.

 

[EagleSmack]

yes, deep down I'm miserable.

lol... you are a little bit if you actually thought the USS Lincoln almost ran into a Canadian lighthouse.

 

[Zipperfish]

lol... you are a little bit if you actually thought the USS Lincoln almost ran into a Canadian lighthouse.

Not apologizing for him neither. ha ha ha

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Better apologise for Taylor Kitsch, though.

 

[Zipperfish]

Better apologise for Taylor Kitsch, though.

Deal. I was going to say apologize for Taylor Swift, but my daughter loves her, so maybe just a note of regret vis-a-vis Kanye the D-bag.

 

[BaalsTears]

How would an aircraft carrier defend itself against a simultaneous onslaught of dozens of cruise missiles and an anti-ship ballistic missile?

 

[petros]

How would an aircraft carrier defend itself against a simultaneous onslaught of dozens of cruise missiles and an anti-ship ballistic missile?

Phalanx, sparrows and air cover

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...jg5OzTAHSn6M_21ZY-AMjmA&bvm=bv.89184060,d.eXY

 

[Cannuck]

You still mad about 1812. I believe our government has offically apologized. Of course, we apologize for pretty much anything, so...

No need to apologize. We are awesome. Folks from the U.S. come to a Canadian forum just to talk to us.