Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

[mdc_1957]

Originally Posted by stateless_englishman

Hope this hasn't been posted before:



In the 1970s BP made this boardgame; players take control of deep sea oil rigs. Hazard cards include: "Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million."

Yeah. The Gulf of Mexico Special Edition definitely turned out well.

[charl]

Originally Posted by Orioes

Ah yes, but you are forgetting the North Atlantic Current which moderates Europe. Scotland at it's coldest is zone 7 with most of it being 8 with a little bit of 9. Sweden goes from 8 (Gotland) to 6 (Stockholm) to 3 (Kiruna). Minnesota on the other hand is 1/3 Zone 4 2/3 Zone 3 with a touch of Zone 2 for flavor. To put it another way the average annual temperature in Murmansk is 10-20 degrees higher then in the majority of Minnesota and most of Scotland doesn't freeze as hard as the Carolinas. Basically the climate in North America is like a 3 year old playing with the thermostat. Icebox, Oven, Icebox, Oven.

All numbers are USDA Hardiness zones that rate climates based on their Annual Average Minimum Temperature.

I am well aware of the current and how it warms the climate up here. It's still weird that we can grow wine. Alcohol industry wise that's not nearly the weirdest thing we've got though. Ask me about Gotlandian rum sometime.

[wilcoxchar]

Recently Hugo Chavez announced he was breaking off relations with Colombia, while Maradona was visiting the country. Which gives awesome AH opportunities.

Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Diego Maradona of Argentina having a discussion during an OAS meeting in Caracas, perhaps?

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by Polish Eagle

Argh! Kill it with fire!

But seriously, it seems the continental Europeans are in a competition against each other and Japan for "Most Weird." Remember Germany's Safe-sex campaign? With Hitler, Stalin, and Hussein?

Note to self, avoid page 98.

Where's the brain soap? Ya know what's worse than unsafe sex? Rape, and they just did that to my brain.

[Nivek]

Originally Posted by wilcoxchar

This flag. This horrible, horrible flag. It's the flag of the department of Magdalena in Colombia.

hEY What happen with the Flag of my Departament/Departamento/Lander, in fact is so ugly like another ones...

Here a true flag who like like alternative history:

The Tropical Union Jack,in fact the 'proposal' flag for the 'commonwealth' (to use a english name), of Caribe, a semi independant Region in Colombia, in fact that is the diferent. the most use is ripoff of the Romanian flag

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Payscaribe.png

[JJDXB]

Those flags still don't beat the flag of Cuzco for ... interpretations.

See what you think:

[Torn but Flying]

Lloyd George and Hitler, interesting possibilities.

[Fenrir_Angerboda]

Originally Posted by Torn but Flying

Lloyd George and Hitler, interesting possibilities.

Hitler looks rather Dandy in this pic.

[Torn but Flying]

I think it's the suit.

Here's another:


Churchill leads a ragtag team of shotgun-armed London policemen against the 1914 German invasion of Britain.

[JJDXB]

Originally Posted by JJDXB

Those flags still don't beat the flag of Cuzco for ... interpretations.

See what you think:

Oh, and this

[charl]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

Note to self, avoid page 98.

Where's the brain soap? Ya know what's worse than unsafe sex? Rape, and they just did that to my brain.

You must be extremely squeemish. It wasn't even explicitly graphic or all that bad. I thought it looked quite art-like to be honest. Not even close to mind-raping.

[Petike]

Originally Posted by Torn but Flying

I think it's the suit.

Here's another:
Churchill leads a ragtag team of shotgun-armed London policemen against the 1914 German invasion of Britain.

What in the...
That's an actual photo with some Churchill namesake, right ? British volunteers in Ireland during WWI, right ?

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by charl

You must be extremely squeemish. It wasn't even explicitly graphic or all that bad. I thought it looked quite art-like to be honest. Not even close to mind-raping.

I don't wanna fuck bugs, nor do I like the idea to mull over.

[Petike]

This :

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...e-we-thinking/

[trekchu]

Originally Posted by Petike

What in the...
That's an actual photo with some Churchill namesake, right ? British volunteers in Ireland during WWI, right ?

No. That's the actual Winston S. Churchill before WW1 when the Police besieged a house where some Anarchist Bankrobbers had holed up in.


There ya go, the Siege of Sydney Street, 1911.

[Torn but Flying]

Originally Posted by Petike

What in the...
That's an actual photo with some Churchill namesake, right ? British volunteers in Ireland during WWI, right ?

It is actually Winston Churchill The police were trying to arrest a gang of Latvian criminals in the east end, Churchill was Home Secretary at the time (1911), hearing about the trouble the police were having he ordered a battalion of the Scots Guards to attack the street and went to watch - he got into quite a lot of trouble for it!

[trekchu]

Originally Posted by Torn but Flying

It is actually Winston Churchill The police were trying to arrest a gang of Latvian criminals in the east end, Churchill was Home Secretary at the time (1911), hearing about the trouble the police were having he ordered a battalion of the Scots Guards to attack the street and went to watch - he got into quite a lot of trouble for it!

IIRC he was almost shot on the occasion. Hmm. Possible PoD for a TL?

[Torn but Flying]

Originally Posted by trekchu

IIRC he was almost shot on the occasion. Hmm. Possible PoD for a TL?

I saw in one source that someone shot a hole in his top hat, but that hasn't been confirmed in anything else I've read - it'd definitely be a possibility though with all the bullets that were flying around. Could make for interesting developments in the first world war, let alone the second.

[Petike]

Originally Posted by trekchu

No. That's the actual Winston S. Churchill before WW1 when the Police besieged a house where some Anarchist Bankrobbers had holed up in.

There ya go, the Siege of Sydney Street, 1911.

Badass, badass, badass !

I didn't notice him in the background first. He's really there.

[Thande]

I remember reading about that story for the first time, it's brilliant, as with the stories about Teddy Roosevelt etc it sounds like made-up cracked fiction done using madlibs. "A young Winston Churchill in a top hat in a shoot-out with Latvian anarchists!"