America's Math Skills Doomed A&W's Third-Pound Burger

[Curious Cdn]

A pound can be confused with a ton. EDUCATION I'm thankfull I didn't get enough to ruin me. In my new world order you will enjoy the best education my technocrats can design. Sooner or later it will be perfected. There/s lot's of you so testing will be well done, you can be assured of that, chrck out opur newsletter, Nova Scotia Liberation Army

In a couple of months we will have raised enough to buy our first T72, used of course,

We have budget resstraints and divergent projections, but mif we can get these social problems in the public sphere by bombing the guilty we think we're advanceing humanity, in fact we're nconvinced of it

Maybe, you can get a federal grant to fix it up ...

 

[darkbeaver]

Maybe, you can get a federal grant to fix it up ...

Ive been thinking exactly that. Federal Grant and Fix there's noddin wrong with you're thinking, I think

You of course having a greater command of English should write the report, I insist, and I know the majority of our members will agree, because they want to live, that's a joke,

 

[Curious Cdn]

Ive been thinking exactly that. Federal Grant and Fix there's noddin wrong with you're thinking, I think

You of course having a greater command of English should write the report, I insist, and I know the majority of our members will agree, because they want to live, that's a joke,

I just "Passed Through" Nova Scotia. I left bits of my concieousness behind me in the Misty Moon.

 

[Jinentonix]

That's the spirit.

Also, same difference.

Reminds me of a song my dad sang to me when I was a kid.


Went for a walk with my big brother, Jim,
when somebody threw a tomato at him.
Now tomatoes are soft and they don't hurt the skin.
But this one it did 'cuz it came in a tin.

 

[darkbeaver]

I just "Passed Through" Nova Scotia. I left bits of my concieousness behind me in the Misty Moon.

Is that hole of hell still open? That's a long time ago for me. Multiples of decades, yards of wrinkles, age you cannot bear,

 

[eh1eh]

It is ... how you say ... zeitgeist.

And here's your moment of zen.

 

[EagleSmack]

During WWII my father and his three brothers were in the RCAF. Two became air crew, one ground crew and one started out as a teacher on British Commonwealth Air Training Plan base in Western Canada (He ended up commanding it). He was charged with teaching remedial math to the Yanks.The American "College Boys" in the Air Corps all came here with the equivalent of Grade Nine math in the Canadian system so he had to bring them up to speed, specifically by teaching them all Trigonometry so that they could navigate. Now I grew up in a neighbourhood where every single father was a veteran and oddly, they were almost all pilots or air crew. Neighbours on all sides three houses deep were call fliers. Something that they said quite often (and obviously believed) was that the the USAAF flew in the day time because they couldn't navigate at night. That would be consistent with the lack of high school matriculation level math in their educational system and is very likely true.

Then you fought against NATO's adversaries in the Cold War.

Anyhow... The USAAF wanted their bombing to be more precise so took greater risks bombing in the daytime. The RAF just preferred carpet bombing anything and everything at night.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Then you fought against NATO's adversaries in the Cold War.

Anyhow... The USAAF wanted their bombing to be more precise so took greater risks bombing in the daytime. The RAF just preferred carpet bombing anything and everything at night.

Ah, go easy on 'em. For the RAF, managing to hit the continent of Europe was a major feat of skill.

Not everybody can be brave and competent, Eagle. And when it comes to Engerland, the "everybody" becomes "anybody."

 

[EagleSmack]

Ah, go easy on 'em. For the RAF, managing to hit the continent of Europe was a major feat of skill.

Not everybody can be brave and competent, Eagle. And when it comes to Engerland, the "everybody" becomes "anybody."

Amazing how quickly we learned trig!

 

[Curious Cdn]

Oh,is Eagle **** still on here? I blocked that POS months ago. He's the last of the blocked trolls, still hanging on. He has a vanity thing going, probably.

 

[EagleSmack]

Oh CuriousCDN is having another temper tantrum from being called on on his BS.

The Canadians had to teach USAAF trigonometry. lmao

 

[Jinentonix]

Then you fought against NATO's adversaries in the Cold War.

Anyhow... The USAAF wanted their bombing to be more precise so took greater risks bombing in the daytime. The RAF just preferred carpet bombing anything and everything at night.

And yet, the USAAF pretty much resorted to the same tactics during the day since the weather over Europe is nothing like the clear skies over the American southwest.
Until the delivery of a suitable long range fighter escort, daytime bombing raids deep into German territory were almost suicidal. However, how much greater the risks were is questionable. There's massive risk in forming up bomber streams in pitch blackness with no navigation lights. Also, as opposed to the daytime when some hawkeyed flight crew can spot enemy fighters at a good distance, night missions had to deal with night interceptors that could get within 150-100 yds of a bomber without being seen.


As for the RAF and carpet bombing, it was considered a viable tactic at the time. It went beyond merely looking to demoralize and dehouse the German workers and disrupt city services. It was also a tactic used to help deal with the dispersal of German manufacturing from large factories to several smaller facilities.
The simple fact is, whether USAAF or RAF, your life expectancy as part of a bomber crew wasn't very long.

Ah, go easy on 'em. For the RAF, managing to hit the continent of Europe was a major feat of skill.

As opposed to the Americans who needed someone to point out where Europe was on a map?

 

[Blackleaf]

A third of a pound is (rounded down) 33p.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

As opposed to the Americans who needed someone to point out where Europe was on a map?

So I guess the superiority of American bombing in Europe in WWII is another of your many, many areas of utter ignorance.

 

[lone wolf]

...and yours of Hollywood?

 

[Ludlow]

If it wasn't for John Wayne we wouldn't have even won WW2 in the movies.

 

[EagleSmack]

And yet, the USAAF pretty much resorted to the same tactics during the day since the weather over Europe is nothing like the clear skies over the American southwest.

Who would have thought our bomber groups only practiced over the South West!

Until the delivery of a suitable long range fighter escort, daytime bombing raids deep into German territory were almost suicidal. However, how much greater the risks were is questionable. There's massive risk in forming up bomber streams in pitch blackness with no navigation lights.

Well from one poster on here you'd think you had that the RAF had that all mastered.

Also, as opposed to the daytime when some hawkeyed flight crew can spot enemy fighters at a good distance, night missions had to deal with night interceptors that could get within 150-100 yds of a bomber without being seen.

I think some reading is required so you can catch yourself up on the events of 70+ years ago.

Try this...

As opposed to the Americans who needed someone to point out where Europe was on a map?