Is it odd or uncommon?

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It depends what you're going to take onto the plane. Back in November, I managed to take a pair of scissors, a disposable razor, and a 3 inch hunting blade onto a plane in my carry on luggage.

Thanks, now I will feel much more safe when I fly

I was going to say we would all be speaking japaneseInteresting thought. I'd have guessed German, which would mean no more circumcisions, but I wonder if the Germans and the Japanese could have coexisted, had the Axis had won. I doubt it. Maybe they'd have fought over us, with a population of men having larger-than-average penises. It reminds me of a South Park episode.

Yes, that is an interesting question, and it would be interesting to see what a computer generated scenerio would show. I can see several outcomes, or dominating themes.

The Japanese would take over America or part of it, and direct some cash to the Germans, who really didn't want to mess with the U.S. or England. Hitler also had much in the way of raw material there in Europe, so would have been contented.

It also could have been that neither of the two (dismissing the Italian military as irrelevent. My apologieze to any Italians here) would have occupied the US, but we would have been rendered militarily a eunich, paying tribute to both powers but having no military force to call our own. I can't imagine Hitler buying into a colonizing scheme regarding America. It just doesn't seem to fit into the plans he had that I am aware of, but plans change with the situation, and the passing of power from the hands of Hitler at his death into, say, the hands of a military man.

Honestly, there are too many variables to take into concideration, but it is a neat thing to contemplate, and the resulting changes that we would be dealing with at present. Had the two axis forces met on the battlefield, I think it is pretty clear that Germany would have won. Japan had been loosing men in military engagements since their fight with Russia, up through thier attacks on China, and on into WWII. There were few ready repalcements to draw from, a drawback for an isolated, largely "racially" homogenous society. Germany had the whole or would have had the whole of eastern Europe from which to draw recruits, and der Faterland and its satellites had the greater supplies of raw resources.

WWIII, anyone??

I'm sure that you are correct, that Gemany's armed forces would have dominated the Japanese.I suspect, if Germany won, they would have had their hands full dealing with their new conquests, and would have just wanted to contain the U.S., and probably the U.K. as well. But Hitler was so screwed up...he kept doing irrational things. His generals couldn't force him to do the "right" thing. Who knows what he would have done. But he would surely have been succeeded by a military dictator.There was a made-for-TV movie on the what-if-Germany-had-won scenario...I don't remember the plot, so I guess we'll never have the answer.

unsuretherapist, are you the same person as mywordsRweapons of Fairbanks, Alaska?It looks like flame wars weren't invented this month.