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Previously on "Belgium invades France"

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    You would have thought a draft dodger would understand?
    He's Russian they didn't have time to do reverse as most were just cannon fodder...

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post

    ftfy

    You would have thought a draft dodger would understand?

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    The point of the joke went so far over his empty little head that it left a vapour trail!
    ftfy

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post

    Turning your tank 180 degrees would mean exposing the most vulnerable part...
    The point of the joke was that the reverse gears are factory fitted for quick retreat in the Italian Army.

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  • Lost It
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    The wine bottles on the back?

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    They were testing the 5 reverse gears on their tanks?
    Turning your tank 180 degrees would mean exposing the most vulnerable part...

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Mordac View Post

    Is anyone else surprised the Italians even noticed they'd been "invaded"?
    They were testing the 5 reverse gears on their tanks?

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  • Mordac
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    Reminds me of the time Switzerland invaded Italy. Some lads on military service decided to take a train that cut across Italy to get to the south canton on Ticino. Caused quite a diplomatic incident - armed foreign troups invading!
    Is anyone else surprised the Italians even noticed they'd been "invaded"?

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  • vetran
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    In other news white flags out of stock on Amazon.fr

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  • NotAllThere
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    Reminds me of the time Switzerland invaded Italy. Some lads on military service decided to take a train that cut across Italy to get to the south canton on Ticino. Caused quite a diplomatic incident - armed foreign troups invading!

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  • OwlHoot
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    Cursed be he that moveth his neighbour's landmark!

    -- Deuteronomy ch 27 v 17

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  • SueEllen
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    This is the story for all those who are scared to click on a linky -

    The boundary between France and Belgium is believed to have been inadvertently redrawn by a farmer who found the 200-year-old border stone marking the divide in an inconvenient location for his tractor.

    The Belgian farmer could theoretically face criminal charges after making Belgium bigger by moving the stone that has marked the border since after the defeat of Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo.



    A local amateur historian taking a walk in forest near to the Belgian village of Erquelinnes discovered two weeks ago that the stone dating back to 1819 had been moved 2.29 metres (7.5ft). The farmer’s perimeter fence had also been shifted.

    The Franco-Belgian border, stretching 390 miles (620km), was formally established under the Treaty of Kortrijk of 1820.

    While amused by the enlargement of his town, David Lavaux, the mayor of Erquelinnes, gently pointed out that the farmer was legally obliged to move the border stone back – and that it would be best not “to create a diplomatic incident”.

    “We have no interest in expanding the town, or the country.He made Belgium bigger and France smaller. It’s not a good idea,” Lavaux told the French TV channel TF1. “I was happy, my town was bigger. But the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc didn’t agree.

    “If [the farmer] shows goodwill, he won’t have a problem, we will settle this issue amicably,” Lavaux added with a smile.

    If the farmer fails to comply, the issue could be referred to the Belgian foreign ministry, which might have to summon a Franco-Belgian border commission, dormant since 1930, to settle the exact delimitation of the border.

    “We should be able to avoid a new border war,” Aurélie Welonek, the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc, told La Voix du Nord.

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  • Mordac
    started a topic Belgium invades France

    Belgium invades France

    Well, sort of...

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...belgium-bigger

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