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PeterCat posted:Reposting this from the "prehistoric and historic Iowa" FB page. That may be the first good thing ever from Iowa.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:That may be the first good thing ever from Iowa. Bill Bryson posted:By chance, we did have the most erotic statue in the nation in Des Moines. It was part of the state's large Civil War monument on the capitol grounds. Called 'Iowa,' it depicts a seated woman, who is holding her bare breasts in her hands, cupped from beneath in a startlingly provocative manner. The pose, we are told, was intended to represent a symbolic offering of nourishment, but really she is inviting every man who goes by to think hard about clambering up and clamping on. We used to sometimes ride our bikes there on Saturdays to stare at it from below. 'Erected in 1890' said a plaque on the statue. "And causing them ever since," we used to quip. But it was a long way to cycle just to see some copper tits.
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The nation needed healing, who are we to judge?
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Alchenar posted:Replace Confederate statues with tits
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In the centre of Atlanta put a huge nude statue of Sherman tackle out
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Alchenar posted:In the centre of Atlanta put a huge nude statue of Sherman tackle out  
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Alchenar posted:In the centre of Atlanta put a huge nude statue of Sherman tackle out Motorized nude statue. William Tecums-AHYEAH.
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PeterCat posted:Reposting this from the "prehistoric and historic Iowa" FB page. 
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Forgot to post last week, so have a few: Soviet post-war tank building GMC M40/GMC M43 and one of mine: Skink AA tank Big articles queue: T-100Y and SU-14-1, Object 430, Pz.Kpfw.35(t), T-60 tanks in combat, SU-76M modernizations, Panhard 178, 15 cm sFH 13/1 (Sf), 43M Zrínyi, Medium Tank M46, Modernization of the M48 to the M60 standard, German tank building trends at the end of WW2, Pz.Kpfw.III/IV, E-50 and E-75 development, Pre-war and early war British tank building, BT-7M/A-8 trials, Jagdtiger suspension, Light Tank T37, Light Tank T41, T-26-6 (SU-26), Voroshilovets tractor trials, Israeli armour 1948–1982, T-64's composite armour, Evolution of German tank observation devices, Oerlikon and Solothurn anti-tank rifles Available for request (others' articles):  Shashmurin's career T-55 underwater driving equipment T-34 tanks with M-17 engines Wartime and post-war anti-tank hand grenades  King Tigers in Hungary German King Tiger losses in December of 1944 in Hungary Tiger (P) Typ 102 NEW  Gun Motor Carriage T12/M3 NEW Small articles queue: IS-3 pike nose, TOG flamethrower for T-34 and KV-1 tanks Small articles available: linked because the list is too long New small articles Skoda T-15 HMC T18 Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.D Matilda with the F-96 gun 35M Ansaldo First flamethrower KV-1 T-23 tankette Ensign Expendable fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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LatwPIAT posted:There's some bitter joke here about how if WWIII had kicked off in the 50s it'd be the Wehrmacht fighting itself while both sides claim the other are the ones using former Nazis as footsoldiers. If you ever want an interesting low level sidebar, look up the arguments over "denazified" awards in the Bundeswehr. In tl;dr terms, after 1957 the Bundeswehr allowed former Wehrmacht soldiers to wear the combat awards they had been decorated with while fighting for the Third Reich, but in specially made versions with the swastikas left off. For example, here's a "General Assault Badge" (Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen) where normally the eagle would be holding a nasty swastika:  Some awards were never denazified, like the "Anti-partisan badge," more accurately (edit: that is, officially) called the "Bandit Warfare Badge" (Bandenkampfabzeichen). That one's never coming clean. Cessna fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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Cessna posted:If you ever want an interesting low level sidebar, look up the arguments over "denazified" awards in the Bundeswehr. In tl;dr terms, after 1957 the Bundeswehr allowed former Wehrmacht soldiers to wear the combat awards they had been decorated with while fighting for the Third Reich, but in specially made versions with the swastikas left off. For example, here's a "General Assault Badge" (Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen) where normally the eagle would be holding a nasty swastika: Yep. That's a no on this one. Honestly I wonder if John Milius ever saw it, but it has this voyage Conan The Barbarian quality to it. That said I don't know if a greater "kick me in the dick" sign (well besides Ted Cruz's face) ever existed. 
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O my loving god. That is too on the nose even by Nazi standards. loving dweebs.
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Xiahou Dun posted:O my loving god. I can say today I am both bemused and horrified.
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I take back my previous statement, it really doesn't look like the seal of Thulsa Doom. I'm shocked it didn't have a cluster for how many Jews you killed...cause I could totally seem the Nazi's doing that.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Boobs not Bastards Boobs for Busts
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Xiahou Dun posted:That is too on the nose even by Nazi standards. I've read that it was so ludicrously Nazi that a lot of Wehrmacht soldiers wouldn't wear it. Well, that, and the fact that it was thought to be a de-facto death sentence if you were captured wearing it.
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Cessna posted:I've read that it was so ludicrously Nazi that a lot of Wehrmacht soldiers wouldn't wear it. Well, that, and the fact that it was thought to be a de-facto death sentence if you were captured wearing it. Not surprised in the least to hear that. Hell I am pretty sure the squad mates would be tempted to do the job as pretty much any lovely treatment they would receive would be blamed on that monster.
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Cessna posted:I've read that it was so ludicrously Nazi that a lot of Wehrmacht soldiers wouldn't wear it. Well, that, and the fact that it was thought to be a de-facto death sentence if you were captured wearing it. And deservedly so....not that you're claiming otherwise of course. I can't imagine the type of amped up child killer would take pride in wearing that.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:I can't imagine the type of amped up child killer would take pride in wearing that. Sadly, I can. They're called Nazis.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Yep. That's a no on this one. Honestly I wonder if John Milius ever saw it, but it has this voyage Conan The Barbarian quality to it. That said I don't know if a greater "kick me in the dick" sign (well besides Ted Cruz's face) ever existed. Oh, I thought the Nazis being taken over by Hydra was made up
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Cessna posted:Sadly, I can. They're called Nazis. I should have also added Aggressively Stupid too....but yeah that wouldn't change much. zoux posted:Oh, I thought the Nazis being taken over by Hydra was made up That or Crom. lol
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I've just been sort of looking through old editions of NYT today, looking mostly at sunday editions from WWII. Figured maybe there was some interest in this short article since the Patton affair was discussed in passing a little while back. (This is from November 28, 1943) 
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Randarkman posted:I've just been sort of looking through old editions of NYT today, looking mostly at sunday editions from WWII. Figured maybe there was some interest in this short article since the Patton affair was discussed in passing a little while back. Speaking of the NYT Op-ed, for something really bonkers (well today), if you can find it, is the one that advocating the use of chemical weapons against the Japanese. I think it was (and I'm not kidding) "Cook'em with Gas."
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I've always been kind of surprised about the contemporary reaction to the Patton thing, I just wouldn't figure it would have seemed like such a big deal in 1943's America. I mean if that happened now you'd have significant numbers of people calling the slapped soldier a snowflake or whatever.
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Randarkman posted:I've just been sort of looking through old editions of NYT today, looking mostly at sunday editions from WWII. Figured maybe there was some interest in this short article since the Patton affair was discussed in passing a little while back. He just couldn't control himself during a period of great stress ie laying eyes on someone having a breakdown. Toxic masculinity at its finest. The only reason a flag officer is at a hospital is to try and buck people up. If you're not going to support the injured troops there why even go?
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Speaking of the NYT Op-ed, for something really bonkers (well today), if you can find it, is the one that advocating the use of chemical weapons against the Japanese. I think it was (and I'm not kidding) "Cook'em with Gas." I'll see if I can find it.
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Randarkman posted:I'll see if I can find it. Thanks, it was really kind of a  to see with that headline. It's possible that it was a letter vs a regular writer, but I'm not sure.
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I can't find that specific headline in NYT's archives at least. Googling it it references similar ones from other papers "“We Should Gas Japan” from New York Daily News, “We Should Have Used Gas at Tarawa” from Washington Times Herald, and "You Can Cook ’Em Better with Gas." appears to be a quote from that article or letter. Source
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Randarkman posted:I can't find that specific headline in NYT's archives at least. Googling it it references similar ones from other papers "“We Should Gas Japan” from New York Daily News, “We Should Have Used Gas at Tarawa” from Washington Times Herald, and "You Can Cook ’Em Better with Gas." appears to be a quote from that article or letter. Source That's it! That's the exact title. Goddamn it's even more bonkers then I remember. I actually wonder if that AH article is the place I heard of it, but I feel like I saw a scan of it somewhere. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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MazelTovCocktail posted:That's it! That's the exact title. Goddamn it's even more bonkers then I remember. The article itself is from 1985 so it's got some years on it.
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Xiahou Dun posted:O my loving god. One of the many, many, many, many inane things about wehraboos is the belief that the Nazis had style, rather than being this bizarre neo-medieval-but-also-Wagner bullshit. Even the prized uniforms, even if we could somehow strip the nazi connotations don’t scream style they scream here’s an aristocratic gently caress, kick the poo poo out of him.
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Randarkman posted:The article itself is from 1985 so it's got some years on it. I meant of the original source of the quote, my bad I should have been clearer about that. I would have come across this sometime in 1999-2000, so perhaps that's it and I conflated it with some other "inflammatory" headline from the time.
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Alchenar posted:Replace Confederate statues with tits Someone already beat you to that I'm afraid Cessna posted:If you ever want an interesting low level sidebar, look up the arguments over "denazified" awards in the Bundeswehr. In tl;dr terms, after 1957 the Bundeswehr allowed former Wehrmacht soldiers to wear the combat awards they had been decorated with while fighting for the Third Reich, but in specially made versions with the swastikas left off. For example, here's a "General Assault Badge" (Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen) where normally the eagle would be holding a nasty swastika: There is a very strange moment in the second john wick movie where he goes to a "sommelier" (guy who recommends guns and poo poo) and he has on the anti partisan badge and someone pointed it out on these forums and it was weird as poo poo. The guy is way too young for it to be his; I suspect (hope?) someone in wardrobe said this looks kinda cool, we'll toss it on this guy but I have no idea. Randarkman posted:I can't find that specific headline in NYT's archives at least. Googling it it references similar ones from other papers "“We Should Gas Japan” from New York Daily News, “We Should Have Used Gas at Tarawa” from Washington Times Herald, and "You Can Cook ’Em Better with Gas." appears to be a quote from that article or letter. Source Someone did a huge write up years ago about the whole gas program. It included I think stats about the efficacy of it on vernacular japanese architecture.
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zoux posted:I've always been kind of surprised about the contemporary reaction to the Patton thing, I just wouldn't figure it would have seemed like such a big deal in 1943's America. I mean if that happened now you'd have significant numbers of people calling the slapped soldier a snowflake or whatever. I mean, there were a lot of soldiers over there, people's kids, people's husbands, people's dads, and so on. If you're back on the home front, you know their lives are in danger, but you at least want to know that they're as safe as possible, and the military's looking out for them, so for a general to be slapping somebody in the hospital, then physically dragging him out of bed and booting him outside, and then a week later, slapping another one and shoving a pistol in his face and threatening to shoot him. Well, would you want a general to do that to your kid or your spouse?
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Epicurius posted:I mean, there were a lot of soldiers over there, people's kids, people's husbands, people's dads, and so on. If you're back on the home front, you know their lives are in danger, but you at least want to know that they're as safe as possible, and the military's looking out for them, so for a general to be slapping somebody in the hospital, then physically dragging him out of bed and booting him outside, and then a week later, slapping another one and shoving a pistol in his face and threatening to shoot him. Well, would you want a general to do that to your kid or your spouse? No, but I'm a soft millennial who doesn't have the grapes. Not The Greatest Generation of All Time.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Yep. That's a no on this one. Honestly I wonder if John Milius ever saw it, but it has this voyage Conan The Barbarian quality to it. That said I don't know if a greater "kick me in the dick" sign (well besides Ted Cruz's face) ever existed. Yeah, Miliuis' Conan drew a lot from Nietzsche, it looks similar enough. I never realized that Thulsa Doom's helmet was snakes as well. I think Crom would laugh at the snakes crawling beneath his mountain.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Forgot to post last week, so have a few: Do you know anything about the Germans using uranium as a substitute for tungsten in anti-tank munitions? Speer writes a few lines about that in Inside the Third Reich. They had captured about 1200 tons of Belgian uranium ore, but I have no idea how much metallic uranium you can extract from that.
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