Hitler ordered Luftwaffe to spare Blackpool
Anonymous Coward
I can see the souvenirs now... #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:03 GMT

"Kiss me qvick - or I vil have you shot!"
Andrew
Everybody loves Blackpool #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:03 GMT

It wasn't just Hitler, Soviet Russia intended to invade via Blackpool as well. It turns out the Golden Mile is just what's needed for a sea-bourne assault and all those B&B would be ideal for garrisoning the invading soldiers.
Frankly I think they're all welcome to it.
fifi
paris? #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:03 GMT

so Hitler wanted to destroy the Parisien bridges, but spare Blackpool? He was way more unhinged than we thought!
Paris, cos if he'd destroyed her, he might have redeemed himself somewhat.
Anonymous Coward
The end of his last supporters #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:03 GMT

Well this will be the final blow to all those out there who were in two minds about Hitler - good/evil.
Anonymous Coward
Bah #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:03 GMT

Blackpool is probably the one place in this country I could quite happily see bombed.
Mark_T
Egad ! #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:03 GMT
Adolf was one of the knotted hanky types who wanted "kiss me quick" hats and shorts with plastic buttocks on the back ?
Thank god we won.
How long before some yank claims national credit for saving us from this fate? ;o)
Pete James
Schwarzelache #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:18 GMT

So, these plans. Will they be serialised in The Times like Hitler's Diaries?
Paris, I bet she'd like a donkey ride.
Anonymous Coward
The Golden Mile #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:18 GMT
The reason it's called the Golden Mile is because it's streaming with piss!
Anonymous Coward
Blimey! #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:18 GMT
I can only assume this was at a time before they started pumping raw sewage into the sea, and started building row-upon-row or oh so delightful trinket shops? I can how it could work though - the place is like a concentration camp anyway.
And to all those people from Blackpool who are going to complain - It's a dump. Accept it.
Anonymous Coward
If only they'd flattened it #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:18 GMT

....as the home of the All Day English Breakfast that has spread like a virus across continents, I feel we must blame someone!
Mine's the goose-stepping jacket with inbuilt bratwurst holder!
Maverick
@ AC13:54 #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:18 GMT

"Blackpool is probably the one place in this country I could quite happily see bombed"
erm, Cardiff?
Damn Yank
@Mark_T #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:18 GMT
Sorry, we had nothing to do with that one...
Andrew Moore
It's possible- #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:55 GMT
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Mr H was a fan of the English seaside saucy postcards.
James
Nope .... #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:55 GMT
... it's not 1st April...
alain williams
Brighton - surely #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:55 GMT
I cannot believe that Monty Python got it wrong when they had Hitler retired in Brighton and not Blackpool.
Anonymous Coward
@Mark_T #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:55 GMT

Of course not. Everyone knows it was the Soviets who really won the war. (G,R&D)
Jesthar
@Maverick #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:56 GMT
Cardiff has some way to go before it plumbs the same depths as Slough...
Or Wolverhampton. Jumped up dump of a town pretentiously calling itself a City when it doesn't even have a cathedral! OK, so the church where the Wolves started out is nice enough, but a cathedral it isn't...
Pinkerton
Daily Mail #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 14:56 GMT

Anyone else notice how the Daily Mail paints Hitler as almost eccentric and cuddly?
While I'm here:
Q: Does anyone know how to confuse a Daily Mail reader?
A: Tell them immigrants kill paedophiles!
Robert Synnott
The horrible consequence #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 15:04 GMT
Coming soon to the West End - "Summertime for Hitler"
Anonymous Coward
@Damn Yank #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:21 GMT
Yeah right. The way these Brits go on it sounds like they won the war. Dunkirk spirit, you can keep it.
Simon Williams
Seaside/Seig Heil... masterful #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:21 GMT
What an excellent strap line. Well done Lester.
Yorkshirepudding
@ AC13:54 #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:21 GMT

"Blackpool is probably the one place in this country I could quite happily see bombed"
id see anywhere below Watford happily slide into the sea :-) luckily thanks to the rebound after the last ice age its happening mwuahahhaaa
Tony Hoyle
@Pinkeron #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:21 GMT
"Q: Does anyone know how to confuse a Daily Mail reader?
A: Tell them immigrants kill paedophiles!"
Coming over here, taking our jobs...
Ian Halstead
Mammoth Playmobil opportunity? #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:21 GMT

Go on - let the imagination run amok.
dan russell
That Hitler eh! #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

Must be top ten in Daily Mail favourite headline words.
In all seriousness, Lest we forget...
Maverick
@ Jesthar #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

OK, I'll see your Wolverhampton and raise you a Norwich
Smallbrainfield
Apparently he wanted Rochdale town hall... #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

...taken apart and shipped back to Germany. as well. He was a closet pie-eater basically.
Blackpool isn't irredeemably shit, it just attracts a lot of people who think they can behave like arseholes just because it's Blackpool. You could say that about anywhere where they allow lots of British people to get horribly drunk.
Gerhardt
Seaside for Hitler, and Germany #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

If Goebbels had opened up a greasy spoon on the promenade, he'd have called it
"The Master Taste"
(Coat, hat, leaving.)
Mike Richards
Seaside landladies #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT
Are you sure they would have fought on our side?
No noise, no coming back late, regulation breakfasts, no running baths outside of hours - sounds like a bunch of fascistic fifth columnists to me.
Evil Graham
Hi-de-heil! #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

Sorry.
Mine's the long leather one.
Anonymous Coward
Hitler gets blamed for a lot of things... #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

Almost all of them justified, But I never knew that blackpool being such a sh!thole was one of them.
Maybe mulitple 1000lb, air dropped regeneration projects are needed there now more than ever.
Ron Eve
Oh who do you think you're kidding Mr Hilter... #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

Obviously the cnut never went there.
But I started thinking, there's that whole range of Hitler spoofs on YouTube like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXnt8_okeRA
Maybe someone could create a new one with Blackpool as the theme....
Anonymous Coward
B&B in Blackpool #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

Having been on holiday there once, I think Hitler would have been entirely at home in Blackpool. Very good idea of his to settle there, though he may have found the views of some of the B&B proprietors a bit extreme
GrahamT
@Daily Mail #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

It is not surprising that the Mail paints Hitler as "almost eccentric and cuddly"; they supported Hitler right up until the 1938 invasion of Prague by the Nazis. Rothermire (the owner) expressing the hope that 'Adolf the Great' would become a popular figure in Britain, (from Wikipedia) and wrote an article entitled: "Hurrah for the Blackshirts," in January, 1934.
Vlad The Impugner
Daily Mail #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT
He was just a big softy really. Misunderstood. Unfair persecution of a probably daily mail reader by the nasty guardianistas.
Funky Dennis
Steven says #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

"In the seaside town
...that they forgot to bomb
Come, Come, Come - nuclear bomb"
Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
Oh we do like to be beside the Sieg Heil! #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:26 GMT

Love it. Can I come and work with you lot? It would make my days everso more interesting.
I'm good at making tea and everything... I'll even buy the biscuits. My only demand would be that you seat me well away from that "Ms Bee" as she's just a bit odd and I wouldn't want, by process of osmosis - to catch whatever mental disease she has.
Thanks.
Sarah Bee
Re: Oh we do like to be beside the Sieg Heil! #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:29 GMT

Balls to you, apostrophe deficit boy, I wrote that subhead.
We'll have some of those Fox's crinkle crunch jobbies, and you may sit in the corner. The corner of the basement. And don't spill the tea coming up the seven flights of stairs.
wayne tavitt
Inverse Godwins Law #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:53 GMT
First one to mention the Daily Mail loses.
Clint Sharp
Perhaps... #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:53 GMT

It could explain why the owners of Blackpool pleasure beach tried to call a new coaster 'The Zyklon Loop' a few years ago...
Oh, Ms Bee, most disappointed,although I can see the attraction of Fox's crinkle thingies I had you down as a chocolate hob nob kind of girl.
Paris, I bet she likes a hobnob with her cuppa.
Stevie
Bah #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 20:21 GMT
I can see it now: Post invasion Blackpool thrills to the latest illuminated tram in the shape of a Tiger Ausf E.
Chris W
Just about on topic #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 20:21 GMT
Took a while to find 'cause I thought it was a Mike Harding sketch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elmfnHHs8Yg
Gerhardt
Eats shoots and leaves #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 20:21 GMT

@SB: Lambasting misogyny is one thing, but having a crack at someone's mispunctuation just isn't funny. Period.
Alex Barwell
Bastard #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 20:21 GMT

The guy really was trying to f**k us up
Anonymous Coward
Re: Oh we do like to be beside the Sieg Heil! #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 20:21 GMT

And you give very good subhead too, Ms Bee. Sehr gut. I, for one, celebrate the Register as an environment where punerasts and double-entendrists are permitted, nay encouraged, to express themselves without shame and free from the discrimination and abuse they suffer in the rest of society.
I can't help thinking that a donkey ride on the beach might have seemed a bit tame after waging blitzkrieg across Europe.
Geoffrey W
Worst town in Britain? #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 20:21 GMT
Oh do shut up. The worst bit of Britain is that bit where Brits have gathered in any numbers to live. The rest is OK. I was always happiest sitting on top of Bleaklow with not a human being anywhere in sight.
j
England has the coolest names... #
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 20:27 GMT

For our wastelands, we only have boring names like Surrey, East Hastings, and Ottawa.
Mycho
There were a few places he wanted #
Posted Tuesday 24th February 2009 01:29 GMT
Willow Hall near Peterborough was another one reportedly.
Anonymous Coward
surrey #
Posted Tuesday 24th February 2009 01:29 GMT
Don't fancy visiting surrey in England or Vancouver - even worse they both have a Guildford
Though I suppose the chance of being shot in the Vancouver version is slightly higher at the moment
Anonymous Coward
@Geoffrey W #
Posted Tuesday 24th February 2009 01:29 GMT
>Oh do shut up. The worst bit of Britain is that bit where Brits have gathered in any numbers to live
Hell is other people ?
Have to agree a little tho, peace is only attained at 11pm on a summers evening above 2000ft in the Lake district mountains in my case. If only I could ship the bloody noisy sheep off to Blackpool where they belong ....