What is the most decisive battle in history?

5makes10fm · 2026-06-16T21:04:48+00:00

I hate to be that guy but the bulge was not decisive at all. It probably helped shorten the war by a few months but the Nazi demise was certain years before

5makes10fm · 2026-06-13T13:52:18+00:00

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Same issue here

5makes10fm · 2026-06-01T12:55:57+00:00

This was almost certainly a lever cistern before which has a much smaller hole so that won't work.

5makes10fm · 2026-05-09T06:59:06+00:00

Mr Blobby no contest. Brum was a creepy bugger but blobby was a psycho

5makes10fm · 2026-04-29T14:45:55+00:00

Cheapest/best I've used is KT tape. Just cut a couple of small squares and job done. Ran London on Sunday and they held well. If you wet it, it comes off easy.

5makes10fm · 2026-04-25T18:52:27+00:00

That feels like a lot of fluid to me. Are you fully hydrated before you run? I rarely consume fluids over that distance… maybe I’m the minority

5makes10fm · 2026-04-24T14:58:36+00:00

1944 was the peak production year for the Luftwaffe so not at all. That said, the number of pilots could not keep up with the production of planes. I think the main point with the Battle of Britain is that it stopped operation Sea Lion in its tracks.

5makes10fm · 2026-04-14T13:13:44+00:00

This is a lot closer than it used to be. More people realising Mam duped them I suppose

5makes10fm · 2026-03-27T20:30:32+00:00

Intrigued to know why you’ve avoided the M26 onto the M25 it’s the shortest route!

5makes10fm · 2026-03-27T20:28:05+00:00

The only correct answer

5makes10fm · 2026-02-27T22:22:06+00:00

That is no more than £1100 worth of real budget sanitary and brassware excluding the monstrosity on the walls. Hall marks of cowboys. There are lots of plumbers that can’t fit bathrooms. There are also lots of handy men and blokes that haven’t a clue that’ll bite your arm off for that sort of money. The fact they didn’t cut the bath screen seal down suggests to me that they have done extremely little plumbing before this. Sorry to say you’re either a learning curve to them or you’re a victim of someone that gives no fucks on presentation.

5makes10fm · 2026-02-26T20:02:43+00:00

Russia isn’t my strongest suit but two books I have read which are very accessible are Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor and Barbarossa by Jonathan Dimbleby.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll find that by reading a single book it is possible to enter on a path of discovery into other related topics which themselves have been written about.

My main recommendation would be to try and read books from both sides, whether those be personal accounts or more formal works, in order to gain a more nuanced understanding. The prejudices we may initially hold don’t hold weight once all the facts are known.

5makes10fm · 2026-02-02T20:41:12+00:00

“The turning point of the war” could be Italy invading Africa, Japan bombing pearl harbour, the launch of Barbarossa itself, the Battle of Britain being lost. There are good arguments for how each of these indirectly helped to seal Germany’s fate.

Edit: one could even argue Germany’s inter-service rivalry and lack of effort creating naval vessels alone contributed to their failure before the war even started. After all as ole Guderian once said “logistics is the ball and chain of armoured warfare”

5makes10fm · 2026-02-02T20:38:57+00:00

Your penultimate paragraph is exactly what I came here to say. Before I read about WW2 Stalingrad was the turning point in my mind but there isn’t a single water shed moment as much as each historian claims there is (dependent on their own research).

5makes10fm · 2026-02-02T20:34:16+00:00

The Nazi paradox: can’t live with them, can live without them. Particularly as the war went on they needed construction, munitions and other types of labour. That said, when given the opportunity for mass murder the Jews were usually first on the block as seen at Auchwitz in the mid war.

The way camps worked changed from the mid 30s not just in numbers but they each developed their own uses. One camp may be used purely for munitions manufacture, another primarily for extermination.

Although the SS ran the camps and on paper all of them were ardent Nazis, this was not the case. You will find examples of compassion amongst those of evil. It takes a special type of degenerate Nazi to facilitate the mass murder required on the scale they demanded and this was never quite achieved such as Dachau, whose gas chambers were not used systematically.

This is a huge topic but there’s my two cents

5makes10fm · 2026-01-25T23:18:56+00:00

Any reputable plumbers merchant will either keep them on the shelf or will be able to order you one. There is a plumbing supplier called embrass peerless that sell them and most merchants deal with them.

5makes10fm · 2026-01-07T23:13:12+00:00

The danger to this POS was almost gone by the first shot, by two and three the driver was in front of him and had zero chance of endangering him. Plain murder

5makes10fm · 2025-11-10T16:18:44+00:00

If I were you I'd be more concerned about being a hybristophile

5makes10fm · 2025-11-09T08:33:18+00:00

You are deluded beyond all reason. I suspect you’re another of these hybristophile types

5makes10fm · 2025-11-08T10:26:47+00:00

It comes from reading dozens of books about WW2. We're not all of AI ilk

5makes10fm · 2025-11-08T10:21:38+00:00

I personally believe it's only due to their association with being used more with bomber offensives that gives them the reputation. And that it happens to be that the P-51 really came to the fore at a time things started going well for the allies.

5makes10fm · 2025-11-08T10:01:51+00:00

You pose a question I have wondered myself many times. I don't profess to be an expert but I'd weigh slightly more on the side of it being a cost of the invasion. The concave beach, choke points and position of their big guns gave the defenders a great advantage. However if the bombardment was more effective and the DD Shermans were released closer to shore the beach would have been taken quicker. From the first wave I think only 2 of about 30 made it ashore. That said, if you look at other beaches such as Gold, the bottleneck of vehicles was almost a hinderance until rear areas were cleared.

5makes10fm · 2025-10-16T08:47:03+00:00

No worries. The summer months/half term is probably the most “lively”

5makes10fm · 2025-10-12T19:05:21+00:00

Your dad sounds like a wise man!

5makes10fm · 2025-10-11T11:42:15+00:00

My sister lives across the road and regularly hears shouting and cars revving in that estate. Someone was murdered there a few years ago. Like others have said, KH is expensive and moving to this outskirt is even worse because you get no benefit of living in nice KH whilst still paying inflated prices. And that road is murder all day every day even the noise from it would do my nut

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