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Sobatchja Morda posted:In my mind, the motorbike was midair after a sweet jump. I don't think I like this director's cut of the Great Escape.
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Samovar posted:I don't think I like this director's cut of the Great Escape. Catch-22 also has a pretty brutal death by airplane 
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Rappaport posted:Catch-22 also has a pretty brutal death by airplane So it goes
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I feel like the ending of M*A*S*H was definitely inspired by this kind of thing.
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When the germans drafted my grandpa, his first captain apparently died by riding his motorcycle drunk and crashing into a russian farmhouse trying to do tricks. This after surviving months of combat as an infantry officer in the eastern front. gently caress him for being a nazi officer but also, respect to a real one E: hey, come to think of it he did kill one more nazi than my grandfather. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 11:39 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:When the germans drafted my grandpa, his first captain apparently died by riding his motorcycle drunk and crashing into a russian farmhouse trying to do tricks. This after surviving months of combat as an infantry officer in the eastern front. gently caress the captain, what tricks did the farmhouse try to do? I'm guessing it was one of these models? (Known in Russian as Джонуик.) 
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Sobatchja Morda posted:In my mind, the motorbike was midair after a sweet jump. same, in my head it’s an Evel Knievel stunt gone horribly awry
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:When the germans drafted my grandpa, his first captain apparently died by riding his motorcycle drunk and crashing into a russian farmhouse trying to do tricks. This after surviving months of combat as an infantry officer in the eastern front. I think combining millions of young men who already have death defying jobs as soldiers in a massive war plus access to machinery and weaponry and general macho atmosphere probably led to all sorts of wild risky madness. When Grandpa surrendered, he did so as a whole unit of anti-tank gunners with a lot of their hardware. He said the Allied soldiers got ahold of the AT guns and shot off the ammo for kicks at a bunch of abandoned vehicles. Hollywood movies cast them so old in WW2 flicks that it is easy to forget how a lot of these guys are basically poorly supervised teenagers. As for the Plane vs Motorcycle, I imagine the plane was basically gonna crash anyway if the pilot was going low enough, the bike just may have been the first thing it ran into. Grandpa told me this story at an air show when I saw the fighter planes buzzing over us and asked how low they could really fly. Mr. Grapes! has a new favorite as of 19:00 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Mr. Grapes! posted:[...] general ripper dot gif https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl-aUbN3b5c&t=65s E. There's ones lower but, first better-than-potato one i found ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 21:21 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Robert Leckie recorded that 25 men were killed away from the front lines at Cape Gloucester by collapsing trees caused by a prior artillery barrage. That always seemed like a bastard of a thing to happen to you.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:gently caress the captain, what tricks did the farmhouse try to do? I'm guessing it was one of these models? (Known in Russian as Джонуик.) Picture me yelling at the kid on the porch like Linda Hamilton in the playground in T2
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Alas, war cannot be like that British troop who were filmed off their tits on LSD for research purposes.
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Samovar posted:Alas, war cannot be like that British troop who were filmed off their tits on LSD for research purposes. Commanded by those Czech generals, off their tits for similar reasons
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Phy posted:Picture me yelling at the kid on the porch like Linda Hamilton in the playground in T2 
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HopperUK posted:Hell yeah get him What do you have against Tykylevits?
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Mr. Grapes! posted:I think combining millions of young men who already have death defying jobs as soldiers in a massive war plus access to machinery and weaponry and general macho atmosphere probably led to all sorts of wild risky madness. 
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Milo and POTUS posted:Hard to spell 
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I always think of this picture of American marine Eugene Sledge fighting in the Pacific to remind myself that most of them were basically little boys. 
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Kenning posted:I always think of this picture of American marine Eugene Sledge fighting in the Pacific to remind myself that most of them were basically little boys. I find this one ironic because you’re not wrong but Eugene Sledge is such an action movie protagonist name Also, I figure ever since one human came up with the idea of hitting another with a stick, soldiers have been blowing off steam by using phallic-shaped weapons to stand in for ginormous weiners
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Joe Mazzello was still good casting there, honestly.
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There's an unsigned ship's log from 1715 in the Danish Royal Library, and they've now by comparing with other ship's logs identified it as one from Løvendals Galej captained by Dano-Norwegian hero Tordenskjold during the Great Northern War. Here's a fun anecdote from 1714 about his exploits on that very ship: quote:In 1714, Wessel was court-martialled after an indecisive sea battle with a Swedish frigate. The account of the incident is verified by the legal proceedings from November 1714. On 26 July 1714, he encountered a frigate under British flag near Lindesnes, while flying a Dutch flag on the Løvendals Gallej himself. The other frigate was De Olbing Galley carrying 28 guns, which had been equipped in Great Britain for the Swedes and was on its way to Gothenburg under the command of a British captain named Bactmann. De Olbing Galley signalled for Løvendals Gallej to come closer, and as Wessel raised the Danish flag, Bactmann fired a broadside at him.[5] In the British captain, Wessel met a tough match.[4] The combat lasted all day, and when De Olbing Galley tried to escape in the evening, Wessel set more sails and continued the duel.[5] The fight was interrupted by nightfall, and renewed again indecisively the following morning.[4] Both ships were badly damaged after around 14 hours of fighting, when Wessel was running out of ammunition. He then sent an envoy to the British ship, cordially thanking the British for a good duel, and asked if he could borrow some of their ammunition in order to continue the fight. His request was denied, and the captains drank to each other's health, before the ships dispersed.[5][6] Anyway, the log has sheet music in it, which the National Archives commissioned a neat recording of: https://dreambroker.com/channel/4tdqf6mb/20yjyg04/get/normal.mp4  https://www.rigsarkivet.dk/nyheder/300-aar-gamle-noder-kan-foeres-tilbage-til-tordenskiolds-skib/ e: the text in the image appears to be someone practicing different ways of writing Psalms 23 (the lord is my shepherd) but i dont think theyre lyrics. melody is way too upbeat imo Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 14:40 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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There's a Norwegian saying "Tordenskjold's soldiers" which is based on a story about him. According to the story Tordenskjold didn't have enough soldiers to take a swedish fortress in 1719. So he got the governor of a nearby Town drink and marched his soldiers up and down the streetsko. The governor then reporter to the commander of the fortress how big Tordenskjold's army was. The commander then surrendered. So when someone in Norway calls a group "Tordenskjold's soldiers" it means that it's smaller/less important thsn they seem.
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Alhazred posted:streetsko OK I hate this Babylonian poo poo. Either write gatusko or street shoe, thank you.
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Alhazred posted:There's a Norwegian saying "Tordenskjold's soldiers" which is based on a story about him. According to the story Tordenskjold didn't have enough soldiers to take a swedish fortress in 1719. So he got the governor of a nearby Town drink and marched his soldiers up and down the streetsko. The governor then reporter to the commander of the fortress how big Tordenskjold's army was. The commander then surrendered. So when someone in Norway calls a group "Tordenskjold's soldiers" it means that it's smaller/less important thsn they seem. The way I heard it was he walked the governor by his soldiers who were standing at attention, but when they passed a unit or company, they ran up by side streets to the front of the line so it seemed like he had 10x the troops he actually had. Whatever works lol
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Carthag Tuek posted:There's an unsigned ship's log from 1715 in the Danish Royal Library, and they've now by comparing with other ship's logs identified it as one from Løvendals Galej captained by Dano-Norwegian hero Tordenskjold during the Great Northern War. Being mentioned by name in the national anthems of two countries is quite an achievement.
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Zopotantor posted:Being mentioned by name in the national anthems of two countries is quite an achievement. thats how badass he was
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So the discussion from a few pages ago that inspired the current thread subtitle reminded me of the interesting history of halos of light in religious iconography and how much interpretations have differed and evolved over the ages, e.g. Moses being depicted as having horns during the Renaissance or modern pop culture halos being golden donuts above people's heads. A particularly funny example of the evolution of Christian halos away from rays of light behind someone's head into some sort of abstract quasi-headpiece.
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Another name for that golden disk around saints' heads is "areola".
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So what's the relation between halos around people's heads and Jesus's foreskin ascending to Heaven with him to become the rings of Saturn? Round things are cool, says God?
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I don't think there's much of a overlap. The halos becoming disks is an art thing (medieval art loved simplifying things and putting gold leaf on important art elements), and the divine prepuce was associated with the rings of Saturn in the 17th century. Before then it was just another relic, like the true cross and whatnot.
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Zopotantor posted:Being mentioned by name in the national anthems of two countries is quite an achievement. And he did it all before he was thirty. In 1720 Jacob Axel Staël von Holstein challenged him to a duell with rapiers after an argument. Tordenskiold had little experience with rapiers and after a few seconds he was killed by von Holstein. In his pocket was a portrait of a Ms. Norris and a note saying she was worth 80 000 pounds, no one has been able to figure out who she was. He was buried at night and his coffin put in the church cellar, the church refused to perform the last rites. In 1816 king Frederik 6th decided that his remains should be moved from the cellar to a marble sarcophagus. Again the church refused to perform the last rites. In 1995, 275 years after his death, the church finally gave up and performed his last rites.
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It took me some time to realise that you are talking about "the really smug guy on matchboxes" that I always chuckled at when I lived in Denmark. I had no idea he was a national hero, lmao
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Philippe posted:Another name for that golden disk around saints' heads is "areola". Isn't it aureola?
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Yeah it is. I made a mistake.
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barbecue at the folks posted:It took me some time to realise that you are talking about "the really smug guy on matchboxes" that I always chuckled at when I lived in Denmark. I had no idea he was a national hero, lmao Tordenskiold was a really smug guy though. He once captured a ship called Vita Örn (the White Eagle in swedish) and renamed it Hvide Ørn (the White Eagle in danish) to make sure the swede realized how good he was every time they saw his ship. It was onboard Hvide Ørn that he encountered the swedish ship Øsel. He hailed the ship pretending to be swedish and the captain of the ship said he didn't know who he was. Tordenskjold's answer was "if you don't know who I am, i'm drat sure going to show you now" and fired his ship's canons.
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