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christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

when will bernie release hbis fucknin g tax refcords fcuk

I bet his 3 MANSIONS stack inside each other like RUSSIAN NESTING DOLLS!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 #Resist

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Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

Glen Beck's Utopian communist Rapture city he once pitched for donations

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

Feldegast42 posted:

Glen Beck's Utopian communist Rapture city he once pitched for donations

the excellent terra malorta esque thread we had about it

Stunning Honky
Sep 7, 2004

" . . . "

Tulip posted:

The USS Tang sunk 34 ships during WW2, the last one being the USS Tang, by firing a torpedo in a circle.

this here is what i'm talkin about lmao

hallebarrysoetoro
Jun 14, 2003

Tulip posted:

The USS Tang sunk 34 ships during WW2, the last one being the USS Tang, by firing a torpedo in a circle.

sort of political but very lol the whole mk14 torpedo was great, extremely american in every facet of design, testing, and use

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

hallebarrysoetoro posted:

sort of political but very lol the whole mk14 torpedo was great, extremely american in every facet of design, testing, and use

Everyone who uses the mk14: These things loving suck.
Bureau of Ordinance: They work just fine you're using them wrong.
Everyone else: Okay, let's do some tests.
Bureau of Ordinance: Nope, that costs too much. No testing allowed.

...
*continues in this way for a couple years*
...

Everyone: Here's a stack of hundreds of reports from some of the most decorated folks in the military saying it doesn't work.
Bureau of Ordinance: fuk u, ur not my real dad

...
*someone who used them finally gets to a position to order some testing*
...

Bureau of Ordinance: Huh, turns out these things really suck. Too bad we didn't know this earlier.

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007
In 2013 the former chairman of the Swedish Left Party published a picture on instagram that was supposed to show off his Liverpool F.C. tatoo. He didn't notice that his dick was visible in the picture.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Azathoth posted:

Everyone who uses the mk14: These things loving suck.
Bureau of Ordinance: They work just fine you're using them wrong.
Everyone else: Okay, let's do some tests.
Bureau of Ordinance: Nope, that costs too much. No testing allowed.

...
*continues in this way for a couple years*
...

Everyone: Here's a stack of hundreds of reports from some of the most decorated folks in the military saying it doesn't work.
Bureau of Ordinance: fuk u, ur not my real dad

...
*someone who used them finally gets to a position to order some testing*
...

Bureau of Ordinance: Huh, turns out these things really suck. Too bad we didn't know this earlier.

And IIRC the test was conducted by dropping the torpedo 100 feet from a crane into the concrete sidewalk a few feet in front of the main bureaucrats.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
oh no, the amerikan torpedo didn't work properly? what a shame

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese
A German U-boat sank in WWII because they flushed the toilet wrong

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

"Superiority" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. It depicts an arms race during an interstellar war. It shows the side which is more technologically advanced being defeated, despite its apparent superiority, because of its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new. Meanwhile, the enemy steadily built up a far larger arsenal of weapons that while more primitive were also more reliable.

(I always thought this story was far fetched.)

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Also a US Congressman gave an interview during the war where he mentioned that the Japanese depth charges were ineffective since they were set to the wrong depth.

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Hedenius posted:

In 2013 the former chairman of the Swedish Left Party published a picture on instagram that was supposed to show off his Liverpool F.C. tatoo. He didn't notice that his dick was visible in the picture.



Lmao sure he didn't

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
IJN oxygen torpedoes had a bad habit of blowing up their own ships, but when they worked properly they made a big boom, so they did a cost-benefit analysis, tweaked the chemistry a bit and kept using them.

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

"Superiority" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. It depicts an arms race during an interstellar war. It shows the side which is more technologically advanced being defeated, despite its apparent superiority, because of its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new. Meanwhile, the enemy steadily built up a far larger arsenal of weapons that while more primitive were also more reliable.

(I always thought this story was far fetched.)

This seems more like it's about WW2 eastern front tanks, where the Germans built 1000 models of Panzer 4 and kept shipping Panzer 4s from the front to the back to get retooled, only to go back to the factory right after getting to the front, while the Soviets just built more T34s than God (and the T34s were better anyway lol).

StashAugustine posted:

Also a US Congressman gave an interview during the war where he mentioned that the Japanese depth charges were ineffective since they were set to the wrong depth.

This is probably the funniest one.

Necrofiliate
Apr 3, 2011

C:\>YOURPOST.EXE
ERROR: 0x0BAD
Abort, Retry, Fail?:ovr:
100% real, actual campaign thing.

Only registered members can see post attachments!

IWW Online Branch
Apr 20, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek3OUay2uWw

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

Tulip posted:

This seems more like it's about WW2 eastern front tanks, where the Germans built 1000 models of Panzer 4 and kept shipping Panzer 4s from the front to the back to get retooled, only to go back to the factory right after getting to the front, while the Soviets just built more T34s than God (and the T34s were better anyway lol).

One of the malfunctioning weapons in the story is literally a space torpedo that blows up their own ships though.

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

One of the malfunctioning weapons in the story is literally a space torpedo that blows up their own ships though.

lol ok owns

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

this poo poo was years ahead of its time

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

On the other side of the war the Japanese army and navy were so violently (literally) opposed to each other that they independently invented radar

IWW Online Branch
Apr 20, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

StashAugustine posted:

On the other side of the war the Japanese army and navy were so violently (literally) opposed to each other that they independently invented radar

To be fair, this was a few years after the period of japanese history known as "Rule by Assassination". Factionalism is to be expected.

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

tja... :thunk:

Stunning Honky
Sep 7, 2004

" . . . "
GEORGE BUSH DOESNT CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE

oh jesus cut to chris tucker

Stunning Honky
Sep 7, 2004

" . . . "
shrek himself without words

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe

StashAugustine posted:

On the other side of the war the Japanese army and navy were so violently (literally) opposed to each other that they independently invented radar

The Navy had its own army and the Army had its own navy (including aircraft carriers), they hated each other that much

Naturally they both had their own exclusive designs for everything

Echo Chamber
Oct 16, 2008

best username/post combo

IWW Online Branch
Apr 20, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

StashAugustine posted:

On the other side of the war the Japanese army and navy were so violently (literally) opposed to each other that they independently invented radar

Skellybones posted:

The Navy had its own army and the Army had its own navy (including aircraft carriers), they hated each other that much

Naturally they both had their own exclusive designs for everything

It's not super unusual to have the military become a state within the state, but Imperial Japan is the only country I've ever heard of where the military managed to become two states within the state.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSS1FIkGOX8

IWW Online Branch
Apr 20, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLqkJnCRhXM

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

Oh man lmfao

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




holy moly

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


:chanpop:

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

Tulip posted:

This seems more like it's about WW2 eastern front tanks, where the Germans built 1000 models of Panzer 4 and kept shipping Panzer 4s from the front to the back to get retooled, only to go back to the factory right after getting to the front, while the Soviets just built more T34s than God (and the T34s were better anyway lol).
hitler was also an overgrown 6th grader who wasted time on puerile fantasies of ever larger tanks, this is a fact i learned from noted history book "my tank is fight" by zack parsons

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


"Pornocracy" is a legitimate term for referring to an actual government that existed (Papal States, 10th century).

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

hitler was also an overgrown 6th grader who wasted time on puerile fantasies of ever larger tanks, this is a fact i learned from noted history book "my tank is fight" by zack parsons

Hitler tried to use WW1 style defenses of "trenches+concentrated bombardments, don't give an inch" during the retreat through the Ukraine, despite the fact that the shelling density they could pull off on that frontage was like 1% as dense as during WW2.

Stunning Honky
Sep 7, 2004

" . . . "
gram the one eyed snake

MaxieSatan
Oct 19, 2017

critical support for anarchists

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Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Just like Obama

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