Those Pesky Germans

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  1. man

    mansfield_red Well-Known Member

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    Really? 3200 seems far too much - that's apparently around what the average daily intake is today and we're a nation of fatties
     
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    red24/7 Well-Known Member

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    might have been lots of lard involved
     
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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Saw it first when I was about 14. Should be rerun so folk can weigh that up again every 'heroic' war film they watch. Laurence Oliviers' voice over enough to chill you on it's own.
     
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    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    Yeah I watched it when first screened early 70s
    So must have been 15 or 16 myself.
    It certainly left a lasting memory
     
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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Yep. Round about 3000 -3200. Bear in mind there was a lot of stuff off the ration like potatoes and bread as well.

    Our calories come from too much processed crap. Ages ago some food scientist said that if you were born after 1970 you're part of a food experiment that no one knows the outcome of - although obesity is probably one outcome.

    Just checked this calorie business. Wartime 3000. Today it's 2500 for a man, 2000 for a woman. A Big Mac meal has 1080 calories. Reckon most are well overdoing it
     
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    Simon De Montforte Well-Known Member

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    It's on just about every day on the "Yesterday" channel 26.
     
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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Thought it would be on somewhere. I'll have a look.
     
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    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    Of course you’d really want to watch it in chronological order
     
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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Yes. Not summat you can pick up half way through.
     
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    Watched it several times (the entire series). You hope that it could never happen again. Reading about the Eastern Front, Stalin would think nothing of sending a million troops into battle regardless of the losses so long as the enemy was defeated.
     
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    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    Wasn’t that the general’s thinking in WW1?
    Absolute madness
     
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