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Was Winston Churchill flame?
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 12:22 PM Author: purple hissy fit We are to believe that this dude was basically half in the bag for 90% of the day, slept 5 hrs a night, took naps, wrote 100 books, was a prisoner of war in South Africa, smoked a million cigars, saved the entire British Empire, painted and gardened.
I call flame. There is no way he wrote those books himself or did half that shit. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:20 PM Author: multi-colored twisted police squad mad-dog skullcap He did write his books, but it's worth noting that Churchill was one of the top-paid writers in the world and had an entire staff of researchers and assistants who helped him out, which made his job simpler. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675020) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 3:04 PM Author: disturbing location faggotry Lol, so its like how law professors write their articles. He had underlings do all of the heavy lifting, and he threw in a little color here and there to give it character. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675365) |
Date: September 2nd, 2015 12:23 PM Author: Rebellious National Security Agency howd that british empire work out again? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674248) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 12:26 PM Author: purple hissy fit I should've said the British Isles, fair point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674274) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 12:24 PM Author: balding sweet tailpipe AND got monumentally pwned in a big election and had to basically grow a beard before coming back to save everyone during ww2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674257) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 12:26 PM Author: purple hissy fit Yes, but that makes him even more legendary in my opinion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674276) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:48 PM Author: balding sweet tailpipe Yeah I thought we were naming crazy stuff he did as evidence for him being a sim glitch or something (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675214) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 12:25 PM Author: Walnut Site lmao, true. seems like a lot of mythology attached to Churchill. pathetic Brits still think they single-handedly won WW2. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 1:27 PM Author: purple hissy fit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674716) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 3:06 PM Author: disturbing location faggotry LOL, I refuse to believe there is a single reasonable, intelligent Brit who thinks GB single-handedly won WWII. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675387) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 12:25 PM Author: Impertinent dysfunction TBF...he wasn't a drunk at all. He drank a little whiskey mixed with mainly water all day. Apparently it was something they used to do in the British Army in shit countries to help kill bacteria in water and he just kept on doing it. But it was hardly getting him drunk. Think barely lining the bottom of a tumbler with whiskey and then filling it with water.
Also he chewed on cigars alot without always lighting them. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 12:27 PM Author: purple hissy fit You know your Churchill. He also wrapped the ends of the cigars in paper to cut down on the nicotine exposure. He also hated cigarettes which his dad used to wolf down.
You really cant be a big drinker and do well in politics. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:05 PM Author: Primrose angry forum (Two bros who read The Last Lion) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674922) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:10 PM Author: multi-colored twisted police squad mad-dog skullcap It's a pretty incredible book.
Interestingly the third volume (by the new author) reaches a totally different opinion on Churchill's drinking. I might be reversing their attitudes, but I think Manchester's view was that Churchill drank a lot and simply handled it well while the new guy argues that he just drank a lot less than people thought. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:25 PM Author: purple hissy fit Was not a fan of the third book. Makes me worried about what could happen if Caro dies before finishing the 5th LBJ book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675050) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:27 PM Author: ruby hospital gunner Third book was SPS. That guy was a terrible writer compared to Manchester and went on completely bullshit tangents that had nothing to do with Churchill and forced you to plod along reading in the hopes you'd find an enjoyable passage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675060) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:30 PM Author: purple hissy fit Fully agree. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675077) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:09 PM Author: ruby hospital gunner His greatest personal friend F.E. Smith was a mammoth drinker in politics but eventually the hard living probably did him in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674946) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:12 PM Author: Motley sound barrier Tell that to Nixon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674961) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:12 PM Author: Motley sound barrier Tell that to Ted Kennedy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674964) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:12 PM Author: Motley sound barrier Tell that to John Boehner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674966) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:26 PM Author: purple hissy fit Is he a hard drinker? I know he crushes cigs and is a man's man but does he drink a lot? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675053) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:48 PM Author: multi-colored twisted police squad mad-dog skullcap Boehner being a heavy drinker is sort of an open secret among journalists. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675220) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:48 PM Author: balding sweet tailpipe He drinks a lot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675221) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 3:02 PM Author: multi-colored twisted police squad mad-dog skullcap Tell that to William Pitt the Younger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675341) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 3:04 PM Author: purple hissy fit THAT dude was a fucking boss. Holy fuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675369) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:13 PM Author: stirring lake business firm This is flame. He wasn't a drunk but he absolutely drank to take the edge off, not for some weird bacterial reason. He wrote letters to people about how it cured him of depression to drink a lot and keep his mood up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674971) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 3:35 PM Author: disturbing location faggotry I can relate. This is exactly how I feel when I get into a drinking funk. Smooth, steady, and substantial amounts of alcohol works just as well as SSRIs, but with worse side-effects. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675636) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:11 PM Author: lime nubile persian Woman to Chruchill: If I was your wife, I'd posion your drink.
Churchill to woman: If I was your husband, I would gladly drink it. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:14 PM Author: multi-colored twisted police squad mad-dog skullcap Probably apocryphal.
Sadly like half of Churchill's famous quotes are not real, which is the case with an awful lot of famous wordsmiths. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:15 PM Author: stirring lake business firm One of the many benefits of working yourself into public favor is they attribute to you a bunch of stuff that you have no business taking credit for (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674992) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:26 PM Author: purple hissy fit TCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675054) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:29 PM Author: lime nubile persian Who cares. It is still hilarious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675069) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2015 1:19 AM Author: exciting painfully honest private investor abode My favourite one:
Churchill enters the House of Commons, visibly worse for wear.
Woman MP: Mr Churchill, you are drunk!
Churchill: Yes I am and you Mrs X are ugly. But I shall be sober tomorrow. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:12 PM Author: abnormal beady-eyed mediation About as unflame as it gets. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28674965) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:19 PM Author: Big-titted Floppy Son Of Senegal completely kick ass guy not flame
listened to a whole CD college class about him. He was an amazing dude. His whole family was amazing. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:27 PM Author: purple hissy fit Agreed. Potentially the most 180 life in the 20th century if not the last 250 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675059) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:53 PM Author: balding sweet tailpipe Yeah 20th century maybe. Last 250 years though you gotta compete with Lincoln, Bismarck, Napoleon, the founding fathers, etc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675264) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 2:33 PM Author: Rebellious National Security Agency churchhill was a gigaqueer who was directly responsible for senseless deaths in WWI, pathetically and myopically bleated about the british empire while losing it, and simply blustered about english courage while getting GAKKED UP by nazi germany
begging BIG AMERICAN COCK to save his pathetic island nation was his only accomplishment. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2015 3:09 PM Author: Thirsty Gas Station predicted the rise of nazi germany..PWNED weak ass chamberlain....PWNED nazis in the battle of britain...PWNED that shitlib roosevelt, and did a jiggy dance when japan bombed pearl harbor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28675430) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2015 1:36 AM Author: unholy sneaky criminal http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/A-Gentleman-of-History_6006
My favorite Churchill article. |
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Date: September 3rd, 2015 1:14 PM Author: purple hissy fit Agreed, love this one, brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2979113&forum_id=2#28681297) |