Greatest Blunders in History

[Zsilot]

Rosie Live.

 

[Nobody]

russian navy attacking english boats during the russo-japanese war, and the french not proctecting the boarder with holland during ww2

 

[Sharwood]

russian navy attacking english boats during the russo-japanese war, and the french not proctecting the boarder with holland during ww2

It'd be a little difficult for France to defend its border with Holland.

 

[TheLastOne36]

The Germans had no real steady supply of fuel, and many of thier actions were indeed to secure a permanent supply. Look at the middle eastern nations they funded to fight off the British for independence. That was not because Hitler like muslims. If he helped them gain thier independence, they could help out with the fuel problem.

Actually i read a book detailing the big 'what if Germany invaded the middle East before Russia'. Appearentally it would've been a very easy and fast invasion with not much resistance besides the weak resistince in Turkey and Iran. The invasion of Russia would've been pushed back to more favorable weather for the Germans, and they would have the oil and supplies to do so.

 

[Sharwood]

Actually i read a book detailing the big 'what if Germany invaded the middle East before Russia'. Appearentally it would've been a very easy and fast invasion with not much resistance besides the weak resistince in Turkey and Iran. The invasion of Russia would've been pushed back to more favorable weather for the Germans, and they would have the oil and supplies to do so.

And Russia would have calmly stood by and watched while its mortal enemy secured the majority of the world's oil supply. As would the US.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Of course, the problem of refineries was equal to the problem of oil; allied bombing campaigns as much targeted refineries as they did oil fields.

 

[Dachs]

And Russia would have calmly stood by and watched while its mortal enemy secured the majority of the world's oil supply. As would the US.

Yeah. Besides, the Allies were already worried about that particular sector of the world.

 

[Godwynn]

russian navy attacking english boats during the russo-japanese war, and the french not proctecting the boarder with holland during ww2

It'd be a little difficult for France to defend its border with Holland.

France would have to invade Belgium, thus triggering Belgium's alliance with Great Britain. Germany + Great Britain = pwnage

 

[Sharwood]

France would have to invade Belgium, thus triggering Belgium's alliance with Great Britain. Germany + Great Britain = pwnage

Considering France's tactical brilliance in WWII, Belgium could probably have handled them on its own.

 

[Steph]

It'd be a little difficult for France to defend its border with Holland.

France HAS a border with Netherlands, but the Germans were not a direct threat to Saint Martin

 

[Godwynn]

France HAS a border with Netherlands, but the Germans were not a direct threat to Saint Martin

Good one!

 

[philippe]

russian navy attacking english boats during the russo-japanese war, and the french not proctecting the boarder with holland during ww2

expect Belgian terrorists when you touch yourself at night.

 

[Dachs]

Blunder: putting Andronicus Ducas in charge of anything other than a small space six feet underground.

 

[Brohz]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ambidexter
I realize this is from the first page but I can't let this urban legend go unchallenged. snopes calls it false for several reasons:
Nova means "new" in Spanish. It's one word, pronounced differently than no va.
No va would not be how a Spanish speaker would describe a non-functional car. No marcha or no camina would be much more likely.
Pemex, the Mexican government's oil company, sold (and still sells) a brand of gasoline called Nova. If Mexicans were to associate anything to the name Nova, it would probably be this gasoline.
The Chevy Nova sold quite well in its two major Latin American markets, Venezuela and Mexico. Venezuelan sales actually exceeded General Motor's expectations.

This myth just isn't true. Sorry.

Thanks Ambidexter. I stand corrected. I should do a better job of checking the facts before posting.

This reminds me something:
The Mitsubishi Pajero was renamed Montero in Chile (I don't know if this was done in other countries also) because the word "Pajero" is how we call the people that masturbate too much, and is usually used as a synonim of lazy, lame, slow, etc., so it wasn't going to be very apealling to the potential buyers.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Blunder: putting Andronicus Ducas in charge of anything other than a small space six feet underground.

Nothing like claiming a man is dead who is not!

 

[North King]

Blunder: putting Andronicus Ducas in charge of anything other than a small space six feet underground.

Actually, in retrospect, he'd be a particularly bad gravesite manager. >_>

 

[Agent327]

France HAS a border with Netherlands

Not since 1830. (Belgians wanted their own border with France.) Although technically the Dutch border was shrunk to the Luxemburg duchy until its independence.

 

[Steph]

Not since 1830. (Belgians wanted their own border with France.) Although technically the Dutch border was shrunk to the Luxemburg duchy until its independence.

France HAS a border with Netherlands, on the shared island of St Martin.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

France also borders Brazil. In fact, France is a South American nation (and unlike Russia, actually is a two-continent nation - don't tell me Europe gets to be its own continent . . . )

 

[Steph]

France also borders Brazil. In fact, France is a South American nation (and unlike Russia, actually is a two-continent nation - don't tell me Europe gets to be its own continent . . . )

Two continents?
You forgot St Piette et Miquelon in North America, Tahiti in Polynesia, New Caledonia in Oceania, Reunion in Ocean Indian...