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He's posturing on the ground. Sign of a serious brain injury. One kid's going to hospital for a long time and will have permenant long term issues , the other is getting charged with a serious assault.

Two lives fucked up over words.

F’dA. F’dO.

Sirhr
 
Stupid Japanese. I'm reading a history of the IJN.

The plant that made the Zero used oxen to haul the planes to the nearest airfield 20+ miles away. When the oxen got old, they used percherons. Building an airfield at the plant never occurred to them.

Their original naval aviators were basically kids on the PHD track in high school. Over 90% washed out because training was so harsh. They would literally beat them.

The aviators would be put on the front lines forever. Never rotated back to train others or allowed to get rest. And no plan to replace lost pilots. The aviators were not systematically interviewed on how to make things better.

The Navy had both officers and enlisted flying planes. The enlisted would come back after flying then made to stand watch, do KP, shine the officers shoes, etc. The officers were arrogant pricks who could not fly yet made all the decisions.

Every time senior IJN leadership would plan an operation but not validate their assumptions. Senior leaders were not visiting every base constantly.

The IJN had a habit of not focusing on the goal of the operation. They did it over and over and over again. At Pearl Harbor, they did not follow ups with a third or fourth strike or bombard Pearl and the US installations. As a result the dry docks, harbor facilities, runways, construction equipment, fuel depot, and stores were all intact. The IJN always got cold feet. The Indian Ocean raids, Guadalcanal, Battle of Philippines - and many others - the IJN did not go for the jugular.

A lot of other Americans when war-gamed Pearl, would have had the heavy battleships empty their magazines into Pearl with the planes flying CAP. Pearl was the main base of the US in the Pacific - I would have landed a Division and taken it. Razed it.
When was that book written - the 50s.

There is some truth in your statement but there is an equal or an extra amount of BS.
 
He's posturing on the ground. Sign of a serious brain injury. One kid's going to hospital for a long time and will have permenant long term issues , the other is getting charged with a serious assault.

Two lives fucked up over words.

Yeah.
Don't give a shit.
Certain folks need to start realizing they aren't "special".
 
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Did you know there is a piece of fossilized Viking poop so well-preserved, one paleoscatologist called it as “precious as the crown jewels.” Archaeologists have dated the dung back to the ninth century, when what’s now York, England, was ruled by Norse warrior-kings.
This coprolite (fossilized feces) was discovered in 1972 in York under what was to become a local bank. It has been named the Lloyds Bank coprolite, or more colloquially, the Lloyds Bank turd.
Paleoscatologists determined that the human who deposited this now-renowned, seven-inch specimen had a diet of meat and bread.
The poop is on display in the museum section of the Jorvik Viking Centre inside a glass box.
 
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Did you know there is a piece of fossilized Viking poop so well-preserved, one paleoscatologist called it as “precious as the crown jewels.” Archaeologists have dated the dung back to the ninth century, when what’s now York, England, was ruled by Norse warrior-kings.
This coprolite (fossilized feces) was discovered in 1972 in York under what was to become a local bank. It has been named the Lloyds Bank coprolite, or more colloquially, the Lloyds Bank turd.
Paleoscatologists determined that the human who deposited this now-renowned, seven-inch specimen had a diet of meat and bread.
The poop is on display in the museum section of the Jorvik Viking Centre inside a glass box.
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I would respectfully disagree with historians who believe that Midway and Coral Sea were turning points.

IMHO, Doolittle's Tokyo raid was the turning point. The raid scared the Japanese to death. After the raid, Yamamoto's plans for Midway were accelerated and for good reason. Midway could be used as a staging base for future raids.

After learning that post strike bases were in China, the Japanese increased their war effort in that theater and diverted a couple of aircraft carriers from operations in the Aleutian Islands.

Even though the raid had little immediate military effect the psychological effect it had on the Japanese military leadership and their decision making served to be a force-multiplier.
+/- but good thoughts. the best the IJN could do was yamamoto and he was marginal at best. constantly dividing his forces and setting these complicated coordinated ops that 40s comm tech couldn't do. not close to a match for spruance,turner,mitcher.
 
Probably.

But was only counting good guys.

Though I guess by that standard, the Red army gets the dubious honor. But they were only temporary good guys.

So I’ll clarify with “any American MOS…” so to speak! And it may be as a percentage. Because we lost a ton of aircrews over Europe, too.

Sirhr
have heard it said that if 1 was in a waffen ss tank unit in russia had a better chance to survive the war than flying in defense of the reich.
US marine in pacific landings had better chance of surviving the war than flying in 8th AF during bomber offensive.
not sure if true,have read that somewhere.
 
Good news for the future: Most of the gas giants in our solar system alone and their satellites like Titan and Io, are FULL of the same compositions as crude oil or are entirely made of hydrocarbons. Once we begin slowly expanding through the solar system, entire industries dedicated to making products from hydrocarbons can be built to orbit or placed directly on the surfaces of these worlds for an infinite supply of raw material. In the farther future when the Solar System has been fully opened to human development and settlement, the worlds of Titan, Io, Ganymede, Europa, etc., might become the flagship homes and operating bases of entire corporations with names like "Ganymede Enterprises" producing goods based on the composition of the worlds that they chose to settle. Mercury, on it's side permanently facing away from the Sun, would very likely be host to a variety of companies producing weaponry from small arms to planetary defense railguns and spacecraft armament, as that planet is very rich in iron and other metals. Further up in orbit and carefully shielded from the Sun's brutal output at that distance, in the Mercurian night, might be shipyards, city and even country sized facilities building the leviathian freighters, exploration vessels, and military cruisers that would open the gateway to nearby stars...
Mercury isn't tidally locked to the sun. It takes Mercury about 59 Earth days to spin once on its axis (the rotation period), and about 88 Earth days to complete one orbit about the Sun.Mercury orbits the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, meaning that relative to the background stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.[a][21] Counterintuitively, due to Mercury's slow rotation, an observer on the planet would see only one Mercurian solar day (176 Earth days) every two Mercurian solar years (88 Earth days each).
My Google Fu is strong.
 
Mercury isn't tidally locked to the sun. It takes Mercury about 59 Earth days to spin once on its axis (the rotation period), and about 88 Earth days to complete one orbit about the Sun.Mercury orbits the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, meaning that relative to the background stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.[a][21] Counterintuitively, due to Mercury's slow rotation, an observer on the planet would see only one Mercurian solar day (176 Earth days) every two Mercurian solar years (88 Earth days each).
My Google Fu is strong.
Stupid mercury
 

A little twist on Kipling in the morning...

The Young British Soldier​

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When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,
An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased
Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

Now all you recruities what's drafted to-day,
You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay,
An' I'll sing you a soldier as far as I may:
A soldier what's fit for a soldier.
Fit, fit, fit for a soldier . . .

First mind you steer clear o' the grog-sellers' huts,
For they sell you Fixed Bay'nets that rots out your guts -
Ay, drink that 'ud eat the live steel from your butts -
An' it's bad for the young British soldier.
Bad, bad, bad for the soldier . . .

When the cholera comes - as it will past a doubt -
Keep out of the wet and don't go on the shout,
For the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out,
An' it crumples the young British soldier.
Crum-, crum-, crumples the soldier . . .

But the worst o' your foes is the sun over'ead:
You must wear your 'elmet for all that is said:
If 'e finds you uncovered 'e'll knock you down dead,
An' you'll die like a fool of a soldier.
Fool, fool, fool of a soldier . . .

If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
Don't grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind;
Be handy and civil, and then you will find
That it's beer for the young British soldier.
Beer, beer, beer for the soldier . . .

Now, if you must marry, take care she is old -
A troop-sergeant's widow's the nicest I'm told,
For beauty won't help if your rations is cold,
Nor love ain't enough for a soldier.
'Nough, 'nough, 'nough for a soldier . . .

If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch 'em - you'll swing, on my oath! -
Make 'im take 'er and keep 'er: that's Hell for them both,
An' you're shut o' the curse of a soldier.
Curse, curse, curse of a soldier . . .

When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier . . .

When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,
Don't call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch;
She's human as you are - you treat her as sich,
An' she'll fight for the young British soldier.
Fight, fight, fight for the soldier . . .

When shakin' their bustles like ladies so fine,
The guns o' the enemy wheel into line,
Shoot low at the limbers an' don't mind the shine,
For noise never startles the soldier.
Start-, start-, startles the soldier . . .

If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
 
Ok just a suggestion….don’t do a Detroit in anything you’re gonna drive on slick roads. Do a Tru-Trac. Carry on “carrier of dreams”.
But I like the way they clunk-around when you let off the accelerator and get back on the accelerator.
Definitely not a piece of gear for an inexperienced driver.


















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