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Wipfmetz posted:There is some dark humour in that post, I can't help it. It sure is refreshing to see an Italian aerial daredevil who wasn’t a fascist, I didn’t know there were any. The constructor of Norge eventually sat in the Italian parliament as a communist MP for Lazio.
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Alhazred posted:One of my ancestors was called the Herring Throttler. As the story goes he was an officer and when one of his soldiers didn't do as he said he stuck a herring down his throat. In swedish at least, "sillstrypare" or herring strangler, is apparently a disparaging term for a grocer.
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Alhazred posted:One of my ancestors was called the Herring Throttler. As the story goes he was an officer and when one of his soldiers didn't do as he said he stuck a herring down his throat.
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Wipfmetz posted:There is some dark humour in that post, I can't help it. Umberto Mobile actually tried again, in 1928, he piloted another airship, Italia, to the North Pole. This time it didn't turn out well. Italia crashed and Mobile disappeared. Roald Amundsen got on a rescue plane to try and find him and was also lost. Parts of the plane was found but remains of Amundsen has never been found.
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quote:The Miracle of 1511 (Dutch: De sneeuwpoppen van 1511) was a festival in Brussels in which the locals built approximately 110 satirical snowmen. It is estimated that more than half of the snowmen portrayed pornographic or sexual characters.[1] Examples of snowmen built included a snownun that was seducing a man, a snowman and a snowwoman having sex in front of the town fountain and a naked snowboy urinating into the mouth of a drunken snowman. There were also snow unicorns, snow mermaids, a snow dentist, and snow prostitutes enticing people into the city's red light district.[2] Among the political snowmen created were "a snow virgin with a unicorn in her lap", that was built in front of the ducal palace in Coudenberg, the home of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. This was in protest to him being absent and instead living with his aunt Margaret of Austria in Malines.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miracle_of_1511
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The original « Calvin peeing on my political enemies » bumper sticker
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The original « Calvin peeing on my political enemies » bumper sticker More like "Calvin building a bunch of gagging snowpeople when his mum cooks eggplant casserole."
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The Snow Incident of 1511
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Alhazred posted:Umberto Mobile actually tried again, in 1928, he piloted another airship, Italia, to the North Pole. This time it didn't turn out well. Italia crashed and Mobile disappeared. Roald Amundsen got on a rescue plane to try and find him and was also lost. Parts of the plane was found but remains of Amundsen has never been found. Nobile died at 93 apparently. The whole story is weird and funny and sad going from the wikipedia page
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Umberto Mobile wrote a good story about a convent where theyre all just sitting there and turning in place in their seats, everyone i think Borges mentions it in the babel
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It was called La sedia mobile
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Those northpole expeditions were actually just elaborade suicide tricks. So if you arrive at the northpole without sacrificing yourself or other humans, you actually failed and must try again. Kudos for succeeding the second time, though.
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Somehow despite having a grandma from Alsace that spent 41-45 in a camp I never knew that Kristallnacht was inspired by a jew assassinating a german diplomat in Paris after a deportation campaign that included his family (which was very nasty because they were ungermaned and also extremely antisemitic Poland had recently revoked all their citizenship, leaving them trapped on the border relying on Red Cross aid)quote:The clerk on duty asked Ernst vom Rath, the junior of the two embassy officials available, to see him. When Grynszpan entered Rath's office, Rath asked to see the "most important document". Grynszpan pulled out his gun, and shot him five times in the abdomen. According to the French police account, he shouted right before pulling out his gun: "You're a filthy boche! In the name of 12,000 persecuted Jews, here is the document!" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Grynszpan The Poland part doesn’t surprise me because even post war the Red Army had to slap down multiple pogroms when jews started returning and saying « uh, this is my house » Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 00:43 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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In 1877 Crazy Horse and a group of Lakota surrendered at Fort Robinson. As a final act of defiance a lot of them gave up obscene and funny name when they were registered: Imitation Iroquois, One Brings poo poo From Far Away, Shits On His Hand, Pisses In The Horn, Soft Prick, Singing Prick, Stinking Tie, Snatch Stealer, Tanned Nuts and Makes Widows Cry.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Somehow despite having a grandma from Alsace that spent 41-45 in a camp I never knew that Kristallnacht was inspired by a jew assassinating a german diplomat in Paris after a deportation campaign that included his family (which was very nasty because they were ungermaned and also extremely antisemitic Poland had recently revoked all their citizenship, leaving them trapped on the border relying on Red Cross aid) Eh, not so much "inspired" as it gave Nazi leadership the perfect opportunity to orchestrate actions against Jews. It's generally accepted that this was not an organic response, just that the Nazi propaganda machine wanted to make it appear as one. Of course there were also plenty of people who were happy to join in once poo poo got going...
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One thing that respectability politics misses (probably on purpose) is that the actual existence of any stereotypical traits or behaviours is entirely optional to justify violent reaction against them. Someone did say that if the Jews didn't exist, the Nazis would just invent them. Pizzagate poo poo isn't new.
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The Reichstag fire was staged by the SA six days before an election, to give the Nazis a pretext to terrorize left-wing voters, and then to pass the Enabling Act in the weeks afterward. After the war, some SA members testified that the building was already on fire when they dragged some young communist into it and then arrested him. The Nazis had been planning Kristallnacht for a while when Grynszpan shot Ernst vom Rath. If that hadn't happened, Goebbels would have invented some other crime to blame on the Jews.
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Posted this in another thread but it fits here: https://i.imgur.com/GK8utnq.mp4
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It's just a prank bro!
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Two poor roommates asphyxiated in their one room shack. Sad!
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Alhazred posted:In 1877 Crazy Horse and a group of Lakota surrendered at Fort Robinson. As a final act of defiance a lot of them gave up obscene and funny name when they were registered: Imitation Iroquois, One Brings poo poo From Far Away, Shits On His Hand, Pisses In The Horn, Soft Prick, Singing Prick, Stinking Tie, Snatch Stealer, Tanned Nuts and Makes Widows Cry. makes widows cry did NOT understand the assignemtn
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Milo and POTUS posted:makes widows cry did NOT understand the assignemtn Depends whose widows they were, really.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The Poland part doesn’t surprise me because even post war the Red Army had to slap down multiple pogroms when jews started returning and saying « uh, this is my house » My maternal grandfather (Jewish) was born in what was then Poland, in 1926. He emigrated to Brasil in 1939 mere months before the invasion began, probably on one of the last boats to leave the country. When he was alive he would waste no time in telling me how much he hated the Poles because they were so insanely anti-Semitic. The other fun fact about WWII and my family is that the only person from my family to die in the war was a cousin on my father’s side (not Jewish). He was arrested for being married to Jewish woman but they let him go on the condition that he separate from her. When he didn’t, they sent him to Auschwitz where he died. The only person with my last name ever known to die in any war was another cousin who was a courier in WWI and had a wall fall on him in France.
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Alhazred posted:In 1877 Crazy Horse and a group of Lakota surrendered at Fort Robinson. As a final act of defiance a lot of them gave up obscene and funny name when they were registered: Imitation Iroquois, One Brings poo poo From Far Away, Shits On His Hand, Pisses In The Horn, Soft Prick, Singing Prick, Stinking Tie, Snatch Stealer, Tanned Nuts and Makes Widows Cry. Tanned Nuts is the best name
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I like the guy who brings poo poo from far away
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Imperador do Brasil posted:The only person with my last name ever known to die in any war was another cousin who was a courier in WWI and had a wall fall on him in France. I'm morbidly fascinated by the stories of the unluckiest people to die in war. There was an American in WWII crushed by an air-dropped crate of food when its parachute failed to deploy. I also know of at least one person hit and wounded by celebratory gunfire on VE Day.
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Chamale posted:I'm morbidly fascinated by the stories of the unluckiest people to die in war. There was an American in WWII crushed by an air-dropped crate of food when its parachute failed to deploy. I also know of at least one person hit and wounded by celebratory gunfire on VE Day. I think all the 10k+ who were killed in the final hours before the armistice that ended WWI count as extremely unlucky.
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Chamale posted:I'm morbidly fascinated by the stories of the unluckiest people to die in war. There was an American in WWII crushed by an air-dropped crate of food when its parachute failed to deploy. I also know of at least one person hit and wounded by celebratory gunfire on VE Day. Wasn't the last vietnam casualty some dude who got rabies or is that an urban legend
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venus de lmao posted:I like the guy who brings poo poo from far away Local poo poo not good enough for you eh?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wasn't the last vietnam casualty some dude who got rabies or is that an urban legend People are still dying of complications from Agent Orange exposure. The last American deaths named on the Vietnam War Memorial are three marines who were executed by the Khmer Rouge after trying to rescue hostages from the SS Mayaguez.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Local poo poo not good enough for you eh?
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Whom's't among us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ-SlTaCFfQ
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Chamale posted:I'm morbidly fascinated by the stories of the unluckiest people to die in war. There was an American in WWII crushed by an air-dropped crate of food when its parachute failed to deploy. I also know of at least one person hit and wounded by celebratory gunfire on VE Day. There were allied POWs in Japan who were crushed by food and aid crates being dropped because they'd run out of parachutes and the POWs were in dire need of any food supplies they could get. This was within a couple of days after Japan had officially surrendered and the occupation forces had landed.
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Rod Serling saw this happen apparently, and it seriously scarred him
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Chamale posted:I'm morbidly fascinated by the stories of the unluckiest people to die in war. There was an American in WWII crushed by an air-dropped crate of food when its parachute failed to deploy. I also know of at least one person hit and wounded by celebratory gunfire on VE Day. Here's one: My grandpa was in the German army, and surrendered at the end to the Allies. After the war was totally over (in Europe at least) his unit was being moved by some Canadians to a port where they'd get shipped off to a camp. The prisoners were almost all on foot but there were some escort trucks carrying sick/wounded guys and a few motorcycles leading the column. The motorcycle guys would usually be clearing obstructions and stuff since the road got bombed out pretty hard and they might have to move fallen trees or wreckage or something. Flying above were some fighter planes which had nothing useful to do so they were showing off and doing tricks and buzzing down super low. Even the prisoners thought it was exciting and everyone was cheering them on. One of them flew so low that he collided with the Canadian motorcycle and the plane crashed, killing the pilot and one of the motorcycle guys. The other dude on the bike survived by some miracle. I imagine they had to make something up to tell the dead soldier's mom because it must sound really bad that some jackass just flew into him on a goddamn motorbike without even a war being on.
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How the gently caress low do you have to fly to hit a motorcycle, god drat
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I hate the ones that are such godawfully unfair. Like the Indian troops captured in Singapore in 42, endure over three years of Japanese captivity as slaves in New Guinea, somehow survive the war then are killed when the plane taking them home crashes. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57483314
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Nessus posted:How the gently caress low do you have to fly to hit a motorcycle, god drat In my mind, the motorbike was midair after a sweet jump.
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