Watching documentaries about the last unpleasantness on NHK

[zeitghost]

Caught a couple of these as I was flicking through the endless selection of crap on the Murdoch satellite.

One was about the invasion of Okinawa.

One of the residents was wondering why the US Marines were so nasty to them.

Obviously hadn't head of Corregidor:

Battle of Corregidor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Or Guam.

Or the other Pacific Islands, including Iwo Jima.

The other docu was about Nagasaki.

I worked with someone who was a POW at Nagasaki.

He reckoned that another half dozen or so nukes would have been a good idea.

[MarillionFan]

Pirates and the Japanese.

Anyone else you wish to add to your list of hate today?

[Spacecadet]

Britain didn't get Great by being nice to pirates.

Some of the greatest pirates were British!

[DaveB]

Some of the greatest pirates were British!

Make that *most* of them.

Henry Morgan - Welsh
John Morris - English
Thomas Paine - English
Richard Sawkins - English
Bartholomew Sharp - English
Black Bart (Bartholomew Roberts) - Welsh
George Booth - English Pirate
John Bowen - English Pirate
Black Bellamy (Samuel Bellamy) - English
Edward Teach or Thatch, known as Blackbeard - English
Edward England - English
Henry Every (Avery) - English
Benjamin Hornigold - English
Calico Jack (Jack Rackham) - English
James Kelly - English
Captain William Kidd - Scottish
Mary Read - English
Bartholomew Roberts - English
Thomas Tew - English
Charles Vane - English
Richard Worley - English
John Morris - English

[Spacecadet]

Most of them were privateers.

Who did a bit of pirating in their spare time

[MarillionFan]

Who did a bit of pirating in their spare time

So really, they were like contractors.

[Spacecadet]

So really, they were like contractors.

Indeed - even down to trying to bring offshore assets into the country without HMRC getting suspicious

[MarillionFan]

Indeed - even down to trying to bring offshore assets into the country without HMRC getting suspicious

Happens a lot in Cornwall. See you at the Old Sea Shanty pub in Penzence at dusk.

[TimberWolf]

Hmm...

Golden Age of Piracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...Golden Age of Piracy spans from the 1650s to the 1730s...

Which was about Newton's lifetime:
Sir Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 [NS: 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727]

[Sysman]

Indeed - even down to trying to bring offshore assets into the country without HMRC getting suspicious

I think HMQE was mighty pleased with the booty that Francis Drake brought into the country.