Recent content by james31

Weird! But this is exactly what I wanted to read.

Also less obesity. But I doubt that ventilators were as advanced or as plentiful. Supply chains were less flexible but manufacturing wasn't completely centralised in China back then so could continue on. And whilst China has seemingly lied about the epidemic, at least countries like Italy...

In Covid-88, would the Soviet Union still fall in the same way? Monetarist policies were not as widespread in 1988. Companies didn't leverage themselves as much because cheap credit wasn't as easily available so they would be more capable of weathering the storm. Early systems like minitel or...

One of the few pieces of good luck about this entire crisis is that we can do things as normally as we can because we have online services now. But imagine if it was 30+ years ago. Even as recently as 2015, I doubt that kids could be educated online. There's no working from home without IP...

How certain are you of this? Hitler's popularity had been establishing itself since the putsch and this made him a credible alternative to the government. How many of his supporters were committed fascists and how many were just angry young men from the street who saw how badly things were going...

Apologies for posting what's probably an old concept (the search function is timing out for me) but has anyone ever discussed a TL where Weimar Germany falls to communism in the 1930s. Was playing devil's advocate (literally) for Hitler yesterday and the only decent thing I could think of was...

Three Men and a Babe (2002) was one cluster fuck of a romantic comedy. Saw this on TV just now - Danson, Guttenberg and Selleck all try to help 3 suitors identical to their characters win the heart of their "daughter" Jessica Alba to break her up from her new boyfriend, played by Kenan Thompson...

Was thinking about a draft system recently (been watching Manchester United's US tour). Now such a system is ASB for soccer since club's very much like their current arrangements, i.e. managing things in-house - and you also have a league with promotion and relegation. Could you really send your...

Bit worried about your POD date - you're pretty much going to be dealing with "future history". Are you going to try and break up the Glasgow dominance?

Had a thought about doing a "soccer" timeline when I posted https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=198718 about a unified Welsh/English (perhaps British) team with game by game breakdowns of each tournament (Euro 92, USA 94, France 96*, Italy 98, Japan/Korea 2002, Portugal...

Friend read this book and was telling me about it. Total let down in his opinion. The whole "build up to war" between the Russian Empire and the USA goes on for several chapters with the stakes rising every year. Then it just fizzles out without much happening. From a literary POV, you'd have...

In a recent interview, Ryan Giggs once said that he hasn't full-out sprinted since he was in his early 20s - because of his problems with his hamstring. This is why he took up yoga. Ferguson will obviously have been aware of this and will have specifically held back Giggs for...

Popular pub topic over the years... and he's in the news again. Ryan Joseph Wilson, or as he was later known after adopting his mother's maiden name... Ryan Giggs. Born in Cardiff, Wales 1973, Ryan Giggs would later go on to become one of the most decorated footballers of all time - winning 2...

Never seen a football thread get many replies on this board - guess "soccer's" not widely followed on these boards. There's a "World Cup winners" thread but it's just mindless posting of a random country like "the People's Republic of Umbongo". The thought of Billy Bremner at Manchester...

Gosh EricM, if someone had said to me in 1980 that the EU would move away from the US without the breakup of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany, I'd have said they were talking absolute shit. West Germany distancing itself from its key military ally sounds like the sort of policy...