Railing Kill posted:

Carter. Ford. Hoover. I'll stop there because there's more further back that are less relevant. I won't even count the one-term guys that chose not to run again. But American presidents fail to get reelected for plenty of reasons, like being unpopular (Carter) or being tremendous fuckups (Hoover). Trump is historically unpopular and a huge fuckup, and this is assuming he doesn't just resign mid-term or not run for a second term. I would not be surprised if he puled a Sarah Palin and quit mid-term.

chitoryu12 posted:

Trump is currently doing his best to make Nixon look like a genius politician. Among other things, Nixon had much more positive ratings than Trump at this time period and helped contribute to settling some of the tensions during the Cold War. He wasn't awesome and made some lovely decisions, but at least he had some kind of experience at governing.

He didn't gain his modern reputation until the Watergate scandal broke after he got elected for a second term. Trump, on the other hand, has too many scandals and gaffes to name that begin before he even took the oath of office.

zakharov posted:

Ah yes the good foreign policy, never mind all the dead Vietnamese.

zakharov posted:

Ah yes the good foreign policy, never mind all the dead Vietnamese.

BrianBoitano posted:

http://i.imgur.com/ae7vl9f.mp4

MisterBibs posted:

I put the wrong manual back into the 2DS box I returned the other day, as evidenced by my desk possessing a 3DS and a 2DS manual.

I dunno if it's schadenfreude, though, because the only misfortune here is my own guilt over it, because I doubt someone buying a 2DS is going to be horribly pissed that they got a game manual for a 3DS.

Two Feet From Bread posted:

Go throw a 5lb baseball like a baseball and tell me how that works out. I'll wait.


Edit: wiki says it weighs 14oz and a baseball weighs 5oz. My point still stands, though. Steel balls filled with explosives are significantly heavier than a twine ball bound in leather. As a result, a significantly different delivery method is required to get the 'ball' over 'home plate '.

Jippa posted:

Is it to do with how long it takes to explode? Like if you throw it in an arc it will explode as it hits?

Iron Crowned posted:

I'm not a grenade expert, but I've always figured that grenades don't magically explode on impact.

Jippa posted:

Yeah I know. I mean if you throw it in a looping arc it takes more time to travel and will give the people you are throwing it at less time to react.

"Chicago Commerce, 1918 posted:

The victorious termination of the fighting south of Torcy in the Belleau Wood section and near Chateau‐Thierry, has marked the completion of the first American military operation under American direction on the western front. It was a success and was an offensive that was directed against a vital spot in the line. All France praises the Americans. The forces under Gen. Pershing have proved their worth. In doing so they have adopted a system of warfare that is distinctly their own, and it is one that is brimful of innovations. The Americans do not believe in giving the enemy any rest by day or night. Always they are pounding away at the Boche with their artillery. Their guns are hurling a solid sheet of steel into the enemy lines. The Americans, too, in many instances, have forsaken the old‐time, stiff‐arm fashion of throwing grenades. Now they hurl them as they would throw a baseball. By this system they have shattered no less than seven German divisions in three weeks. The slaughter they have wrought in the enemy lines has been terrific.

Jippa posted:

Yeah I know. I mean if you throw it in a looping arc it takes more time to travel and will give the people you are throwing it at less time to react.

Jose posted:

Theres the bit in band of brothers where the guy throws a grenade like a baseball and kills someone running away. The soldier was a college baseball player though

Jippa posted:

Is it to do with how long it takes to explode? Like if you throw it in an arc it will explode as it hits?

GrandpaPants posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqmgpY35slc

canyoneer posted:

It's a true story. Buck Compton, UCLA catcher and football player, bounced a grenade off a guy's helmet while the other dude was sprinting away the day after D-Day.


Only if you hold down the G key for a bit beforehand

ekuNNN posted:

Wylie posted:

People forget that Ford won exactly 0 presidential elections. He never even ran as VP, he was appointed to Spiro Agnew's spot when he got run out.

Platystemon posted:

You could cast a solid uranium pineapple grenade and it still wouldn’t weight five pounds.

Sloober posted:

If you rebind G to also pay respects you can both kill someone and pay respect for their life ending.

Six-Of-Hearts posted:

Awww, cheer up, pal!
When i'm feeling down, i treat myself to a nice hotdog from Portillos. Picks my spirits right back up again!

Dr. Eldarion posted:

Is the schadenfreude here the fact that you don't get a beef?

Platystemon posted:

It’s not like grenades were never thrown overhand:

mng posted:

Reminds me of how the Germans were aghast over the Americans usage of trench shotguns. They're simply not being gentlemen during war. Have a humorous video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0D6p3w2qgY

mng posted:

Reminds me of how the Germans were aghast over the Americans usage of trench shotguns.

Arms and the Man, 12 October 1918 posted:

It is distinctly to the credit of the United States Government that Germany’s representations seeking to eliminate the use of the military shotgun and her threats of reprisals have been met by a prompt and complete refusal to accede to the Hun’s demand.

Secretary Lansing’s reply to the German note will leave no opportunity for even the oblique methods employed by Teutonic reasoning to misunderstand or to remain longer in ignorance of the fact that America will abandon no justifiable implement of war in the work of conquering the Hun.

Germany is also rapidly learning that American manhood, plus American marksmanship, plus American weapons, is a combination which spells for the Kaiser’s armies complete defeat. Her efforts to take refuge behind the provisions of the Hague convention, which she has so brutally and consistently violated, is one of the strongest bits of evidence that the reports of allied successes from the Western Front are not unfounded propaganda, and that the tactics which are now being employed can be counted upon to ultimately bring the Hun to his knees.

There is a grain of grim humor in the fact that Germany’s protest against the use of the military shotgun should be based upon the Hague provision which especially forbids any belligerent “to employ arms, projections or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering.” There is little likelihood of suffering on the part of any of the Kaiser’s baby‐killers after he has stopped a charge from one of the trench shotguns. The chief suffering occasioned by the new American weapon would seem to be mental anguish on the part of the German military leaders, who know with what wholesome fear the German soldier regards the sawed‐off scattergun. As for the soldier himself, the shotgun puts him as far beyond all suffering as would his own poison vapors, his liquid fire, the death traps which he leaves in abandoned dugouts, and any one of the other core of his last‐ditch methods which he is employing to the limit in his extremity in a vain hope that they will react upon the morale of the Allies.

There is also more than a grain of comfort in the knowledge that hypocritical protestations are not turning the Government of the United States from methods which are not only highly effective in reducing the man‐power of the Kaiser, but also in putting the fear of God into those who for the moment escape. And there is considerably more gratification in the knowledge that if Germany holds out for another year, her depleted divisions will be called upon to face even more terrible lethal weapons than any which have heretofore been employed in warfare, each of which will be mainly the product of American genius and within the limits of weapons which may be employed by civilized nations in conflict with Kultur.