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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

ASAPI posted:

The messaging coming out of Belarus is wild right now.

I am hearing everything from, "we are ready to invade!" to "the military is threatening to mutiny if they are told to invade"

Yeah. I saw a couple of mixed message articles the past week in the news. Obviously I'm rooting for a mutiny, whether or not they receive orders to invade.

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bees everywhere
Nov 19, 2002

There's another pic in the replies:
https://twitter.com/Kama_Kamilia/status/1507047751242199044?s=20&t=qlq8IvpGqGw7tzDmxatUHg

Why would you try to drive a tank over a bridge like that :stare:

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Wasabi the J posted:

I forgot I had this playlist bookmarked from when I went overseas to Africa and wanted to learn about the countries I'd be touring through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eicrsq6K85I

"Ukraine lies on ... an area that has historically served as an invasion superhighway."

Polish buddy had funny fake plans to build a coffee/whorehouse chain on the route from east to west and have the sign change from German and Russian.

highme
May 25, 2001


I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



new cope cage

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

bees everywhere posted:

There's another pic in the replies:
https://twitter.com/Kama_Kamilia/status/1507047751242199044?s=20&t=qlq8IvpGqGw7tzDmxatUHg

Why would you try to drive a tank over a bridge like that :stare:

Stupid is as stupid does.

Cimber
Feb 3, 2014

Wasabi the J posted:

I forgot I had this playlist bookmarked from when I went overseas to Africa and wanted to learn about the countries I'd be touring through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eicrsq6K85I

"Ukraine lies on ... an area that has historically served as an invasion superhighway."

They are the Belgium of eastern Europe!

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



highme posted:

new cope cage

Javelins are top-attack missile, not torpedo!

head_tap.gif

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
So hold up, was Moscow Russia's anchor baby to the west?

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Tanks have belly hatches right

Right!?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Tiny Timbs posted:

Tanks have belly hatches right

Right!?

Yes, there's one behind the driver's seat.

Valtonen
May 13, 2014

Tanks still suck but you don't gotta hand it to the Axis either.

Tiny Timbs posted:

Tanks have belly hatches right

Right!?

Some tanks do.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


IT WAS DRAFTY SO I WELDED IT SHUT

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Casimir Radon posted:

IT WAS DRAFTY SO I WELDED IT SHUT

Gee thanks, now it's wet

Valtonen
May 13, 2014

Tanks still suck but you don't gotta hand it to the Axis either.
T-72 apparently does. Was the crew able to use it, open question. Roaming around tank is cranky to begin with, roaming around pitch black tank rapidly filling with water after getting bumped upside down with no whatsoever speed belts or harnesses…

A horrible way to die.

highme
May 25, 2001


I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!


A swift panicked kick might be all it takes to break that weld though.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


bees everywhere posted:

There's another pic in the replies:
https://twitter.com/Kama_Kamilia/status/1507047751242199044?s=20&t=qlq8IvpGqGw7tzDmxatUHg

Why would you try to drive a tank over a bridge like that :stare:

To get to the other side, obviously

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Valtonen posted:

T-72 apparently does. Was the crew able to use it, open question. Roaming around tank is cranky to begin with, roaming around pitch black tank rapidly filling with water after getting bumped upside down with no whatsoever speed belts or harnesses…

A horrible way to die.

https://twitter.com/Cloudy_Aperture/status/1507050346979504142?s=20&t=N8rLYgunjPTa6XSn50hN6g

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
If you do the same thing with four or five more tanks and get them lined up right that's your new bridge right there.

bees everywhere
Nov 19, 2002

Mozi posted:

If you do the same thing with four or five more tanks and get them lined up right that's your new bridge right there.

Reminds me of this pic I took somewhere north of Kabul, the locals took an old blown-up Soviet tank and turned it into a bridge:

Ajaxify
May 6, 2009
Anyone remember Hysteria? It was a cartoon that aired while kids were eating breakfast before school in the morning, and it tried to teach history.

It succeeded at teaching me history, but the only thing I remember is this bit about Poland's grand history of being invaded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UL8MCgwTlk

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009


Guys its not one of the lost vehicles. Russia knows EXACTLY what lake its in so it's still in the fight

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

highme posted:

new cope cage

Cope bridge

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Ajaxify posted:

Anyone remember Hysteria? It was a cartoon that aired while kids were eating breakfast before school in the morning, and it tried to teach history.

It succeeded at teaching me history, but the only thing I remember is this bit about Poland's grand history of being invaded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UL8MCgwTlk
Lol, “Even the Swedes” “Ja ja ja”.

There was a short lived Kelsey Grammer sitcom called Back to You in the late 2000s that stirred up some controversy when Grammer’s character tried to convince a Polish coworker to o bowling by telling him “It’s in your blood, like Kielbasa and collaborating with the Nazis”.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Stravag posted:

Guys its not one of the lost vehicles. Russia knows EXACTLY what lake its in so it's still in the fight

I have seen this argument in earnest on these very forums. Russia does lose equipment, it merely stops using the equipment temporarily.

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

Goddammit :smithicide:

Fragrag
Aug 3, 2007
The Worst Admin Ever bashes You in the head with his banhammer. It is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass! You have been struck down.
France24 has been releasing some really good reports from Kyiv the past few days. This one covers the Ukrainian volunteers. I'm only five minutes in but so far I've seen a performance artist dance in a warzone, his Russian artist colleague prepare molotov cocktails with styrofoam thickener while talking how his little brother is serving in the Russian army and Ukrainian security forces hand a grenade to the journalist before he crosses the bridge into Irpin.

:nms: for blurred imagery of corpses
The battle of Irpin: Meeting the Ukrainian resistance

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
Ukraine is launching MLRS strikes against Kherson Airport:

https://twitter.com/aldin_ww/status/1507100258433748992?s=20&t=1cQp1G6X7kjUn8AjvBvQ1g

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Iirc it was like, 190k amassed but only so many pushed in at first, leaving reserves to the north and east. Now all but like 5% of the reserves have moved in and are promptly loving up like those that cut the trail.

And Belarus is still mulling over entry.

Nice title. Who'd you piss off? Cspam?

This is at least the second title someone bought for me. The first was a redtext. I like this one, though.

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006
Those photos are heartening. The tank of the lake has returned to dispense its wisdom. Nature is healing.

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA
First time Ukraine strike idle aircraft on tarmac, shame on you(-kraine). Second time Ukraine strike idle aircraft on tarmac, shame on me. Tenth time Ukraine strike idle aircraft on tarmac??? BLYAT BLYAT BLYAT

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010


https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1507056018135597056?s=20&t=IgRYWJp8YmeztK9fLgEZjw

old man murray crossover with ukraine war? I almost posted this tweet in the GiP gaming thread instead, haha

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/41.html

Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009
Ooh my god the whitewood pallet industry is so loving cool

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


pmchem posted:

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1507056018135597056?s=20&t=IgRYWJp8YmeztK9fLgEZjw

old man murray crossover with ukraine war? I almost posted this tweet in the GiP gaming thread instead, haha

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/41.html


Old man Murray... Jfc that's nostalgic

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Pallet: Noun; Those things that one idiot you know made a baby crib out of.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Casimir Radon posted:

Pallet: Noun; Those things that one idiot you know made a baby crib out of.

On the other hand...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S74J0XXk39o

But mostly bad couch frames and coffee tables.

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

pmchem posted:

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1507056018135597056?s=20&t=IgRYWJp8YmeztK9fLgEZjw

old man murray crossover with ukraine war? I almost posted this tweet in the GiP gaming thread instead, haha

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/41.html


Holy gently caress that can't be real. Is he really saying boxes don't make it much further than the ports?? How do they move anything at all?????

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


There used to be a furniture chain called "This End Up" that specialized in furniture made from pallets. There's still a company by that name, but they don't use recycled wood any more.

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

lightpole posted:

Holy gently caress that can't be real. Is he really saying boxes don't make it much further than the ports?? How do they move anything at all?????

Welcome to the wonderful world of break-bulk shipping. Pick up box, move box, ad infinitum. No, not there you ape! Use your legs, not your back! Whose cousin did you gently caress to get this job? Get the gently caress off my dock!

There's a reason stevedore's and teamster's unions are so strong. Without a bunch of folks moving crates around, nothing moves. Even at it's best, break-bulk is horrendously inefficient, dangerous, and expensive.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

lightpole posted:

Holy gently caress that can't be real. Is he really saying boxes don't make it much further than the ports?? How do they move anything at all?????

That’s the thing

They don’t!

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shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005


what's with all the air bursts, do the russians have some kind of CIWS or Iron Dome style point defense?

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