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Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




Yeah, but even when it goes off without a hitch, you’re still losing some wine with that stunt.

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Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
https://i.imgur.com/DyiRMLD.gifv

Oriental Hugs
Jun 15, 2001

Nothin' about hugs, though

How can this not be fake. lol.

dog nougat
Apr 8, 2009
It's plausible-ish, if incredibly unlikely. The gun is probably fake and even if not, just used as a threat with no actual intent behind it besides getting money or whatever. I want to belive that a basic corner store burglar wouldn't shoot a dog, but then again I want to belive nobody wants to harm a dog intentionally.

Faking a roberry is really loving stupid anyway. Anecdotally, I used to work at a little corner grocery in San Francisco and somebody wanted to film a robbery for their movie there during normal business hours. Nobody was really notified about it and it just sorta went down. Needless to say the cops were called by some neighbor/patron and while the people involved weren't arrested, they were given a hefty fine and had to spend the better part of a day dealing with the cops. Guess everyone's lucky that they were all white.

e: edited for clarity

dog nougat fucked around with this message at 10:24 on May 1, 2021

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

I dunno how well maypoles and the theft of maypoles are known, but the local one here has been stolen on day one, with the police watching, as the thieves just pretended there was a "severe weather warning", took it down, and made off with it.

If context is needed: cities and villages will put up maypoles on May 1, other cities and villages will try to steal them and ransom them for (usually) alcohol. The bigger the city, the more coveted the prize. The one here hasn't been stolen since 2009.

https://www.german-way.com/history-and-culture/holidays-and-celebrations/may-day-and-maypoles-in-german-speaking-europe/

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
No wonder Germany invaded Pole-Land. They thought they had hit the motherlode.

Ak Gara
Jul 29, 2005

That's just the way he rolls.

Jesus how many dogs does this guy have??

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

gschmidl posted:

I dunno how well maypoles and the theft of maypoles are known, but the local one here has been stolen on day one, with the police watching, as the thieves just pretended there was a "severe weather warning", took it down, and made off with it.

If context is needed: cities and villages will put up maypoles on May 1, other cities and villages will try to steal them and ransom them for (usually) alcohol. The bigger the city, the more coveted the prize. The one here hasn't been stolen since 2009.

https://www.german-way.com/history-and-culture/holidays-and-celebrations/may-day-and-maypoles-in-german-speaking-europe/

I love social engineering poo poo like this.

A story I heard from when the US Army had bases and did exercises in West Germany was that some dudes were maneuvering through the German countryside and a farmer walked up to them, 12 gauge shotgun over his shoulder, and started yelling at them (in German) about someone destroying his fences. He was super mad, and being soldiers they didn't want to deal with it, so they passed him up the chain of command. He ended up being in a room with a lieutenant and the Brigadier General who was in charge of one side of the forces that were doing the exercise. He took the shotgun off his shoulder, pointed it at the General and yelled BANG, "assassinating" the commanding officer and taking him out of the wargame. He was a US Army Sergeant who spoke decent German, and they got him some farmer clothes and a civilian gun, and he managed to talk his way into an audience with the CO and bump him off. Many questions were asked afterwards about how he got a gun into the command room, but the damage was done.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Inceltown posted:

cspam buttons and you haven't posted there recently enough. Given my meteoric rise though I'll be a mod shortly though if you want to wait a bit.

how 'bout now

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Memento posted:

I love social engineering poo poo like this.

A story I heard from when the US Army had bases and did exercises in West Germany was that some dudes were maneuvering through the German countryside and a farmer walked up to them, 12 gauge shotgun over his shoulder, and started yelling at them (in German) about someone destroying his fences. He was super mad, and being soldiers they didn't want to deal with it, so they passed him up the chain of command. He ended up being in a room with a lieutenant and the Brigadier General who was in charge of one side of the forces that were doing the exercise. He took the shotgun off his shoulder, pointed it at the General and yelled BANG, "assassinating" the commanding officer and taking him out of the wargame. He was a US Army Sergeant who spoke decent German, and they got him some farmer clothes and a civilian gun, and he managed to talk his way into an audience with the CO and bump him off. Many questions were asked afterwards about how he got a gun into the command room, but the damage was done.

But did they get hotdogs from Wolfgangs on the way?

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Memento posted:

how 'bout now

It looks like mp4's don't embed nicely on probes.

schmug
May 20, 2007

Inceltown posted:

It looks like mp4's don't embed nicely on probes.



lol

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Inceltown posted:

It looks like mp4's don't embed nicely on probes.



:discourse: and furthermore :five:

cnut
May 3, 2016

2 for 1

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1388432660566052866

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
https://i.imgur.com/VX1X45b.mp4

This is some crossfit thing, isn't it

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


Scratch Monkey posted:

https://i.imgur.com/VX1X45b.mp4

This is some crossfit thing, isn't it

My fitness is... unconventional.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat

Scratch Monkey posted:

https://i.imgur.com/VX1X45b.mp4

This is some crossfit thing, isn't it

Nah you can tell from how it doesn't cause long term damage.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
Something like that is a decent lower body workout if you don’t do it like a moron.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander
Mar 14, 2007

Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?
Grimey Drawer
Well, that's one way to discover you don't have a fetish. There's probably easier ways though, and definitely less painful ones.

old bean factory
Nov 18, 2006

Will ya close the fucking doors?!
What's the point of doing truck pulls without a truck

redgubbinz
May 1, 2007

jet sanchEz posted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56922517

Stephen Karanja: Kenyan anti-vaccine doctor dies from Covid-19

Dr Stephen Karanja, chairman of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, advocated steam inhalation and hydroxychloroquine tablets.

lol, of course, every single time

thekeeshman
Feb 21, 2007

SwissDonkey posted:

Beautiful post. Gun owners in first world countries are loving differently abled, and no excuses beyond "i like how it goes bang and pushes me a little bit" is reasonable. Come at me TFR you bunch of mongos

I like how the R-word started out as the more polite medical term for severe mental issues, became a slur, and now we have people using the new PC term as an insult (along with an actual slur, as a treat). Schadenfreude on the language police I guess.

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

thekeeshman posted:

I like how the R-word started out as the more polite medical term for severe mental issues, became a slur, and now we have people using the new PC term as an insult (along with an actual slur, as a treat). Schadenfreude on the language police I guess.

If you wait long enough it'll lose the sting like idiot, moron, cretin, etc.

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007

GotLag posted:

If you wait long enough it'll lose the sting like idiot, moron, cretin, etc.

Laaaame.

ZombieLenin
Sep 6, 2009

"Democracy for the insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society." VI Lenin


[/quote]

thekeeshman posted:

I like how the R-word started out as the more polite medical term for severe mental issues, became a slur, and now we have people using the new PC term as an insult (along with an actual slur, as a treat). Schadenfreude on the language police I guess.

Correct, this is the problem with changing language, and what makes this different than the N word is that the real insult is for ‘normal’ people to be compared to people who have some sort of mental deficiency or handicap; whereas the N word is almost exclusively used to remind a whole class of people of their position as it relates to the power of the person using it.

So, you can call the R word a slur and try to exercise it from the language, while replacing it with something else; however, when people finally internalize there is now a strong norm to not use the R word anymore, they just switch to the new ‘acceptable’ term and weaponize it as an insult in the very same way the R word was weaponized as an insult in the first place.

Given that, in this case, the problem really is not changing the words people use, but rather instilling into society a strong norm against insulting people’s intelligence in the first place. Until this happens, you will just be going through a series of words or phrases every decade or so at infinitum.

And, not to be a cynic of the highest order, good loving luck creating a norm against insulting someone’s intelligence.

ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 16:45 on May 1, 2021

Stupid_Sexy_Flander
Mar 14, 2007

Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?
Grimey Drawer
That happens with pretty much any descriptive word over time, regardless of it being an insult or not. Like the word "awesome", used to be strictly for life changing, awe inspiring events that shook you to the core (i.e. being filled with awe), and now it just means "good thing or feeling". Same with "neat", used to just mean uncluttered, now means "interesting" for the most part.

poo poo, we managed to change literally from meaning literally to meaning the complete opposite, and it still retains the original usage as well.

Language is weird.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

That happens with pretty much any descriptive word over time, regardless of it being an insult or not. Like the word "awesome", used to be strictly for life changing, awe inspiring events that shook you to the core (i.e. being filled with awe), and now it just means "good thing or feeling". Same with "neat", used to just mean uncluttered, now means "interesting" for the most part.

poo poo, we managed to change literally from meaning literally to meaning the complete opposite, and it still retains the original usage as well.

Language is weird.

Unironically agree

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

boop the snoot posted:

Unironically agree

I could care less

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat
He'll never be the head of a major corporation.

BallerBallerDillz
Jun 11, 2009

Cock, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
Scratchmo

AFewBricksShy posted:

Edit:
For the record, Nola pitched 7 of the 9 innings scheduled.
The Phillies Pitcher Hector Neris came in during the 9th inning to pitch and hit Arenado (cardinals star) with a 94 mph pitch. The Cardinals manager got mad and yelled at the umpire for not suspending Neris, and got himself thrown out of the game. :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOynzIAgm_A

:laffo:

Great translation.

I'm just glad the Cardinals series is over and everyone can get back to focusing on the game. I didn't see the Phillies game last night but the score looks like it was a thriller. I'm sure fans were happy to see a close game and not be distracted by all this faux macho tough guy bullshit.

Chemtrailologist
Jul 8, 2007

Memento posted:

I love social engineering poo poo like this.

A story I heard from when the US Army had bases and did exercises in West Germany was that some dudes were maneuvering through the German countryside and a farmer walked up to them, 12 gauge shotgun over his shoulder, and started yelling at them (in German) about someone destroying his fences. He was super mad, and being soldiers they didn't want to deal with it, so they passed him up the chain of command. He ended up being in a room with a lieutenant and the Brigadier General who was in charge of one side of the forces that were doing the exercise. He took the shotgun off his shoulder, pointed it at the General and yelled BANG, "assassinating" the commanding officer and taking him out of the wargame. He was a US Army Sergeant who spoke decent German, and they got him some farmer clothes and a civilian gun, and he managed to talk his way into an audience with the CO and bump him off. Many questions were asked afterwards about how he got a gun into the command room, but the damage was done.

This reminds me of this event from 1906:

quote:

Wilhelm Voigt, a 57-year-old German shoemaker, impersonates an army officer and leads an entire squad of soldiers to help him steal 4,000 marks. Voigt, who had a long criminal record, humiliated the German army by exploiting their blind obedience to authority and getting them to assist in his audacious robbery.

Wearing a captain’s uniform, Voigt approached a troop of soldiers in Tegel, Germany, just outside Berlin and ordered the unit to follow him 20 miles to the town of Kopenik. After lunch, he put the men in position and stormed into the mayor’s office. Declaring that the mayor was under arrest, Voigt commanded the troops to take him into custody. He then demanded to see the cash box and confiscated the 4,000 marks inside. The mayor was put in a car, and Voigt ordered that he be delivered to the police in Berlin.

On the way to Berlin, Voigt managed to disappear with the money. Still, it took more than a few hours at the police station before everyone realized that it was all a hoax. Although the Kaiser thought the story was funny, the German army didn’t find it so amusing, and a massive campaign to find Voigt was instituted. Days later, Voigt was caught in Berlin. He received a four-year sentence for his caper, but the Kaiser himself pulled some strings to get him out in less than two.

Voigt wound up a folk hero for the rest of his days. Wearing the captain’s uniform, he posed for pictures for years.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-shoemaker-leads-german-soldiers-in-a-robbery

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde

Agents are GO! posted:

It took me loving forever to find it, but the onion has a pretty great article about that.
Once again The Onion is 100% accurate.

Regalingualius posted:

For real, though, sabering and all of the other party tricks just seems wasteful

You paid good money to have how much of it wind up on the floor?
I've done sabering a few times. One of the things you should do is to get the bottle really cold. Like put in an ice bath for an hour or the freezer for 30 minutes. The cold makes the glass more brittle so it's easier to do. When champagne is that cold it doesn't bubble/foam as much so there's very little spillage. Also hold it at an angle, not flat. You want some spray to keep any bits of glass from getting in the bottle (and you should still check a filled glass or pour it through a tea towel/cheesecloth to be sure). Most importantly, do not saber really expensive champagne. Accidents happen and you don't want your $300 Dom Perignon to end up a puddle on the floor before it has a chance to pass through your kidneys.

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Inceltown posted:

It looks like mp4's don't embed nicely on probes.



*sniffing and wafting over this post* ahhhh homegrown low-grade schad, just like mama used to make

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/bymjrI5.mp4

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless

Placing those scooters everywhere is like a scheme that Charles Darwin would come up with if he were a Bond villain.

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Everyone fails in their own special way:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qsed75Jev91s1ddrj.mp4

mrfart
May 26, 2004

Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Why do Americans always act like them have healthcare.

TaurusTorus
Mar 27, 2010

Grab the bullshit by the horns

mrfart posted:

Why do Americans always act like them have healthcare.

Because bad things happen to other people and minorities.

Darth Brooks
Jan 15, 2005

I do not wear this mask to protect me. I wear it to protect you from me.

Military schadenfreude for page 1066, but don't race down from one battle at the north end of England before fighting a battle at the south end of England.

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Shishkahuben
Mar 5, 2009





Taste vengeance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6MX7nKrkrI

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