Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

[sirhrmechanic]

I was only kidding with my comment being aware that the German language does not leave much to guess at.

"Leder" leather? Right. "Hosen" = pants.

Any nation that can only take the time to name something as cool as a submarine an "Unterseebooten" needs more humor.

95% of the shit you said over there must have gone over people heads.

Whats the name for Subway?

Isnt its literal translation something like "Train that runs under the ground on tracks through a tunnel using electricity"

Their word for Hydrogen is epic... "Wasserstuf." Water Stuff.

Used in a sentence... "Let's build the Hindenberg and fill it with Wasserstuf, because that's a great plan!"

It's why German is actually a fairly easy language to learn. Limited vocabulary, but endless word combinations. I actually love the language, vs. some others that are insanely convoluted and have "committees" voting on words. Hear that Frog-boys?

Guten tag!

Sirhr

 

[TexPatriot]

I didnt think there was a verified picture of Crazy Horse in existence....I wonder if those pics are correctly used.

Crazy Horse refused to be photographed, saying he didn't want the white man to steal his shadow.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Germany explained in one video:



Sirhr

 

[pmclaine]

U Bahn

What is that short for?

even Germans think the language gets a little long winded.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

What is that short for?

even Germans think the language gets a little long winded.

Subway. Under-street.

Sirhr

 

[BullGear]

Nope, don't miss it at all.

 

[pmclaine]

Subway. Under-street.

Sirhr

Untergrundbahn.

 

[UKDslayer]

My brother had a Road Runner in that color. I miss both.

 

[BullGear]

Having proof why you were 20 minutes late for work.

 

[BullGear]

Maybe a rabbit wasn't the best choice for a mascot.

 

[pmclaine]

Maybe a rabbit wasn't the best choice for a mascot.

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City folk need you to explain this.

 

[BullGear]

My idea of eating properly.

 

[BullGear]

Your mom's so fat...

 

[BullGear]

 

[BullGear]

City folk need you to explain this.

It looks like rabbit droppings.

 

[4065HW]

Little 4 pnt. He was the baby last year

 

[MrSmith]

It looks like rabbit droppings.

About 5 years old, walking back from the pond with Dad, bit of snow on the ground. Looked down and there was a little cluster of small brown pellets laying on the fresh snow. I ask Dad what it was. He answered "Those are smart pills". Quick, like a 5 year old, I grabbed one and bit off half. Dad knocked the other half out of my hand and said "Spit it out, that's rabbit do do"! Guess I had a funny look on my face, cause he then said "Don't you feel smarter" True story.

Thank you,
MrSmith

 

[LeftyJason]

U-bahn (Unntergrundbahn)
Street cars are S-bahn (Strassenbahn)

And the longest word in German (42 letters) is (drumroll please) - Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän, "Danube steamship company captain.)

 

[UKDslayer]

 

[UKDslayer]

 

[Mr.BR]

 

[LeftyJason]

Awesome photography and videography.

 

[7.62willdo]

Not sure about the Zulus, but the Plains Indians could either acquire steel arrow heads from trading posts like in Taos, from Mexican traders or Comancheros; the same place they got highly coveted junk plastic beads to wear and combs to comb the lice out of their hair. But most of the time, as in the case of the Comanche, they made their steel arrow heads themselves, filed out of barrel hoops, which made for vicious projectiles that were prone to cause blood poisoning and tetanus.

The Plains Indian, particularly the elite Comanches, were the the greatest light cavalry in the world, better than the Cossacks, Mongols and the Huns. For the 7th Calvary to allow them to get to their horses and get mounted played a major factor in Custer's defeat.

I’m with you on everything except where you say they were better light Cavalry then then Genghis Khan, Sorry but I disagree khan conquered most of Europe and Asia, The Comanche Concord part of the southwest.

 

[n2ishun]

Little 4 pnt. He was the baby last yearView attachment 7900063

Jeezus, that thing needs a sammich or something.
Maybe put out some grain for it ?

 

[Thorny]

Subway. Under-street.

Sirhr

Rental cars = Mietautos
Exit = Ausfahrt

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I’m with you on everything except where you say they were better light Cavalry then then Genghis Khan, Sorry but I disagree khan conquered most of Europe and Asia, The Comanche Concord part of the southwest.

Only problem is that we have little surviving evidence of Kahn's cavalry, etc. With a ton of evidence of the Injuns.

I am not disagreeing with you. Genghis Khan and the horse armies conquered huge swaths. But conflict archaeologists, historians and even sociologists/anthropologists are still trying to figure out their tactics and technology and organization.

So I'd be happy calling it a 'draw' at this point. With the odds being that Khan probably had the edge... we just have to prove it!

Sirhr

 

[Ramius]

 

[7.62willdo]

Only problem is that we have little surviving evidence of Kahn's cavalry, etc. With a ton of evidence of the Injuns.

I am not disagreeing with you. Genghis Khan and the horse armies conquered huge swaths. But conflict archaeologists, historians and even sociologists/anthropologists are still trying to figure out their tactics and technology and organization.

So I'd be happy calling it a 'draw' at this point. With the odds being that Khan probably had the edge... we just have to prove it!

Sirhr

I’ll agree with this one caveat the US war College today is still teaching some of Genghis Khan’s tactics

 

[babyguppy]

Only problem is that we have little surviving evidence of Kahn's cavalry, etc. With a ton of evidence of the Injuns.

I am not disagreeing with you. Genghis Khan and the horse armies conquered huge swaths. But conflict archaeologists, historians and even sociologists/anthropologists are still trying to figure out their tactics and technology and organization.

So I'd be happy calling it a 'draw' at this point. With the odds being that Khan probably had the edge... we just have to prove it!

Sirhr

Kahan's cavalry was pretty well know with what they carried and how they fought.
Heck, even Russia (Ivan the terrible) had to build a quick temp wall to stop and corner Khan's cavalry (not Genghis but one of his kids) war tactics.
Horses that could run forever and a CRAP ton of arrows with bows that could sling them farther then the enemy they were fighting.

Genghis Khan War Tactics – How he Built the Mongol Empire - Documentarytube.com

In 25 short years, Genghis Khan and his army conquered more lands and people than the Roman Empire did during 400-year rule

www.documentarytube.com

This video is embeded in the above link


edit - interesting tidbit, in the above video, Genghis left an opening for the Hungarians to retreat (which is a fake opening); the same idea that Syun Tzu teaches in "The Art of War'. Interesting to note - Russia has been doing the same in Ukraine.

Military of the Mongol Empire - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Lawless]

Kahan's calvary cavalry

FIFY

 

[Flintdog2011]

Kid doesnt like it he can always leave.

Kid needs to be bounced off that green screen for ten or twelve minutes and have his sense of self recalibrated.

 

[cas6969]

I’ll agree with this one caveat the US war College today is still teaching some of Genghis Khan’s tactics

Always fighting the last war.

 

[kass]

Rental cars = Mietautos
Exit = Ausfahrt

All roads lead to Ausfahrt!

 

[TexPatriot]

I’m with you on everything except where you say they were better light Cavalry then then Genghis Khan, Sorry but I disagree khan conquered most of Europe and Asia, The Comanche Concord part of the southwest.

Yes, but look at the numbers and ratio. The Comanches, at their most numerous periods, hardly exceeded more than 1000. Yet they controlled an area bigger than Great Britain. They raided into Central Mexico and spoke of little men in trees with tails . They would have claimed more land to the north as part of Comancheria but they didn't want it.

They ran the Apache out of the Southern Plains, something I doubt the Mongols could have done based on their horsemanship. If 100 Mongols rode out on the Great Plains and challenged 100 Comanches, I know who I'd put my money on. It wouldn't even be close.

 

[TexPatriot]

I’ll agree with this one caveat the US war College today is still teaching some of Genghis Khan’s tactics

They're also studied Sitting Bull's tactics from the Battle of Little Bighorn.

 

[Lawless]

 

[37L1]

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That's great! Your little muddy buddy!

 

[TexPatriot]

Only problem is that we have little surviving evidence of Kahn's cavalry, etc. With a ton of evidence of the Injuns.

I am not disagreeing with you. Genghis Khan and the horse armies conquered huge swaths. But conflict archaeologists, historians and even sociologists/anthropologists are still trying to figure out their tactics and technology and organization.

So I'd be happy calling it a 'draw' at this point. With the odds being that Khan probably had the edge... we just have to prove it!

Sirhr

I would consider Khan's army a heavy cavalry, replete with siege engines and elephants. Not light cavalry.

 

[Lawless]

That's great! You're little muddy buddy!

Nobody told me that being Babaw was so much more fun than being Dad

 

[4065HW]

Jeezus, that thing needs a sammich or something.
Maybe put out some grain for it ?

We are in a drought. I throw corn out every day, 2 or 3 times a day when not working. They are making the rounds

 

[Maser]

No wonder all you pervs used to be in Scouts!

 

[eflyguy]

 

[roostercogburn98]

Nobody told me that being Babaw was so much more fun than being Dad

I’m not in a hurry to find out, but I can imagine it will be tons of fun

 

[ZiaHunter]

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He had a match in this bar in Durango, Colorado. My bad photo of the mural on the wall outside the bar.

Knocked a few few back in that bar.

 

[hlee]

Yes, but look at the numbers and ratio. The Comanches, at their most numerous periods, hardly exceeded more than 1000. Yet they controlled an area bigger than Great Britain. They raided into Central Mexico and spoke of little men in trees with tails . They would have claimed more land to the north as part of Comancheria but they didn't want it.

They ran the Apache out of the Southern Plains, something I doubt the Mongols could have done based on their horsemanship. If 100 Mongols rode out on the Great Plains and challenged 100 Comanches, I know who I'd put my money on. It wouldn't even be close.

And, I'll go ahead and say it. Contrary to what one may have learned from "Dances with Wolves," the Comanche made the Sioux look like amateurs when it came to horsemanship...

 

[BullGear]

 

[BullGear]

 

[Conaso]

I don't remember if it was from a movie or book but it was stated that the Sioux once attempted to invade either Apache or Comananche territory. You could follow the Sioux's return trail by the dead they left behind.

 

[Cowpokey]

I don't remember if it was from a movie or book but it was stated that the Sioux once attempted to invade either Apache or Comananche territory. You could follow the Sioux's return trail by the dead they left behind.

Probably Crow, Sioux Nation is in the Dakotas and slightly into Wyoming. Crow Nation is Montana and Wyoming. Apache and Comanche are Oklahoma and Texas...IIRC. I grew up next to the eastern edge of Sioux Nation in South Dakota, the different Sioux tribes there still hate each other. I was TDY to North Dakota back in 1994, talking with a guy, he asked me where I was from and what tribe, I told him Crow Creek, and he said you're lucky, if you said Lower Brule (across the Missouri River on the west river side, Crow Creek is on the east river side), I would stab you to death right now...he was hopped up on fire water.

 

[7.62willdo]

Probably Crow, Sioux Nation is in the Dakotas and slightly into Wyoming. Crow Nation is Montana and Wyoming. Apache and Comanche are Oklahoma and Texas...IIRC. I grew up next to the eastern edge of Sioux Nation in South Dakota, the different Sioux tribes there still hate each other. I was TDY to North Dakota back in 1994, talking with a guy, he asked me where I was from and what tribe, I told him Crow Creek, and he said you're lucky, if you said Lower Brule (across the Missouri River on the west river side, Crow Creek is on the east river side), I would stab you to death right now...he was hopped up on fire water.

What about turtle mountain…?