Dynastocles posted:

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Eggn0g posted:

Also, are .gifs OK?

Cluricaun posted:

I never said that I admired the man's politics and attitudes, but it's hard to deny that he's a bad rear end. Dude was a member of the Outlaws MC, a country music star, was in a band with Dimebag from Pantera, and is so loving old and decrepit now that he has a beard with dreadlocks in it and he still performs. He's a foul and mean old racist, but there's still plenty of badassery there.

But I get what you mean, so allow me to redeem that one. I present...

GySgt. Carlos Hathcock. True badass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock

apsouthern posted:

Fighting Jack Churchill (on the right, with sword) - the only British soldier to get a kill in World War 2 using a longbow, and the man quoted as saying �In my opinion, sir, any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed.�

http://www.wwiihistorymagazine.com/2005/july/col-profiles.html

Abbeh posted:

My dad's the best.

OregonDonor posted:

Jack Churchill was a badass.

mt1 posted:

As long as we're posting badass album covers:


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Namarrgon posted:

A bow. In World War 2.



His whole war history is full of badass moments.

Jack the Smack posted:

He definitely was based off Sauron from lord of the rings, but sauron didn't have as well of a fleshed out backstory.

itrorev posted:

Didn't he actually get pissed when the war ended, because that meant he had no more Nazi's to kill?

Guy woulda been a great Inglorious Basterd.

itrorev posted:

Didn't he actually get pissed when the war ended, because that meant he had no more Nazi's to kill?

Dan Didio posted:

I don't know about that.

But as for Mad Jack after the war, I'm pretty sure he was the guy who when riding the train home from work would stand up everyday and throw his briefcase out the window.

Because it would then land in his backyard.

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Churchill himself was far in front of his troopers. Sword in hand, accompanied only by a corporal named Ruffell, he advanced into the town itself. Undiscovered by the enemy, he and Ruffell heard German soldiers digging in all around them in the gloom. The glow of a cigarette in the darkness told them the location of a German sentry post. What followed, even Churchill later admitted, was �a bit Errol Flynn-ish.�

The first German sentry post, manned by two men, was taken in silence. Churchill, his sword blade gleaming in the night, appeared like a demon from the darkness, ordered �haende hoch!� and got results. He gave one German prisoner to Ruffell, then slipped his revolver lanyard around the second sentry�s neck and led him off to make the rounds of the other guards. Each post, lulled into a sense of security by the voice of their captive comrade, surrendered to this fearsome apparition with the ferocious mustache and the naked sword.

Altogether, Churchill and Corporal Ruffell collected 42 prisoners, complete with their personal weapons and a mortar they were manning in the village. Churchill and his claymore took the surrender of ten men in a bunch around the mortar. He and his NCO then marched the whole lot back into the British lines.

As Churchill himself described the event, it all sounded rather routine: �I always bring my prisoners back with their weapons; it weighs them down. I just took their rifle bolts out and put them in a sack, which one of the prisoners carried. [They] also carried the mortar and all the bombs they could carry and also pulled a farm cart with five wounded in it�.I maintain that, as long as you tell a German loudly and clearly what to do, if you are senior to him he will cry �jawohl� and get on with it enthusiastically and efficiently whatever the � situation. That�s why they make such marvelous soldiers...�

d3c0y2 posted:

Someone didnt read Silmarillion or other books.

Real Life posted:

It's tough to post pokemon in this thread, but for posterity this is a much more badass picture of Giovanni.


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Keso.Xorganoff posted:

Soldier got hit by an AK-47 and his iPod saved his life,thats pretty bad-rear end if you ask me.

Backyard Blacksmith posted:

Can I get some more info on this? It doesn't look like it got hit with an AK. Looks more like 9mm or another pistol cartridge.

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Backyard Blacksmith posted:

Can I get some more info on this? It doesn't look like it got hit with an AK. Looks more like 9mm or another pistol cartridge.

Keso.Xorganoff posted:

OregonDonor posted:

I AM CALLED VOLTRON

Keso.Xorganoff posted:

This will give you a bad-rear end (I've got the whole set if anybody wants it)

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- Expelled from three high schools and two colleges: for writing about atheism, refusing a haircut, making a still (which exploded), being elected student body president on a "free marijuana" platform and working on an underground anti-war newspaper.
- Walked into the M.I.T. Center for Advanced Visual Studies uninvited in 1982. Secretary called the cops. Forty-five minutes later, Davis walked out with an appointment as a research fellow.

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Davis put together the vagina compilation to protest Carl Sagan and Frank Drake's curious (and arguably sexist) omission of female genitalia from the images included in the famous Arecibo message, a signal beamed toward the Great Cluster in 1974, and the Pioneer and Voyager plaques

In response, Davis recorded the vaginal contractions of the Boston Ballet (don�t ask how), translated them into the 46 phonemes of English speech and beamed the sounds toward Tau Ceti, Epsilon Eridani, and two other nearby star systems using commandeered radar equipment at MIT.

"People censored all the messages transmitted to extraterrestrials; scientists removed external female genitalia from the messages we sent into space,� Davis told me. �We had textbook female anatomy systematically removed from the record, from [Voyager and Pioneer�s] plaques�it was insane. It was so �man and Barbie doll.� So I put together a project to transmit these vaginal contractions to nearby sun-like stars.�

Called the Poetica Vaginal, the message was broadcast for more than 20 minutes before the US Air Force noticed and shut it down. That�s a full 17 minutes longer than Sagan managed at Arecibo with his more sanctioned stick-figure representation of humanity.

Cracked.com article posted:

One of his latest projects is a memorial for victims of Hurricane Katrina. So is it a tasteful monument to the fallen done up in quiet dignity? A touching sculpture abstractly representing bravery and grief? Does that sound like the kind of hippy bullshit the man who fires pussy at aliens would go for? No! He's building a 10-story tall tower in Mississippi that harnesses the excess molecular nitrogen in the air brought on by lightning storms and fires it back into the storm in the form of a giant laser. The laser, of course, has no tangible effects. It doesn't break up the storm, or signal a warning, or even gather information. It just takes a drunken rage-swing at nature every time it rains.

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Sadly the laser emission is ultraviolet, and therefore invisible to the naked eye. However, if the laser grew enough in intensity, it could be used to push solar sails beyond the inner solar system. �The sun on its own just isn't strong enough,� Davis said, proposing that the solar sail concept be renamed �light sails.� Davis doesn�t stop there: �It might even be able to help deflect asteroids. And because it is using coherent radiation, and is more powerful than the solar output at that same frequency, it is also ideal for optical SETI as a beacon.� It could be used for communicating with extraterrestrials. �For that I would have to get FAA permits, of course.�

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There's also the 25-micron fishhook he created to catch one-celled organisms with full-size deep sea fishing gear. In a taped video segment of an interview on ABC�s Nightline in 2001, Davis outfitted a deep-sea fishing rod with the ultra diminutive hook, connected it to a custom amplifier that made a paramecium feel like a marlin and had an ABC correspondent go fishing. The reporter soon got one on the line, and the servos in the amplifier gave him the tug of his life. I had to remind myself that a single-celled organism was making the guy sweat, and not a 500-lb. fish. The paramecium actually won the battle�Davis had to turn off the machine.

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It was about 15 years ago that Davis first realized that genetic engineering was creating a rich new medium for art--life itself. He convinced molecular biologists at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Berkeley to teach him how to synthesize DNA and insert it into the genomes of living bacteria. That took some persistence: "In the beginning scientists were not comfortable talking to me," Davis recalls. "It took a while for them to trust me with their secrets." That is probably a good thing, he admits. "I still come up with ideas that are dangerous and don't realize that they are dangerous. For example there is a 200-mer [a sequence of 200 amino acids] that folds into a highly geometric capsule. I had this idea of creating Kepler's nested polyhedra [once thought to define the planetary orbits] in these viral capsids." Fortunately, Davis ran the idea by one of his genetics mentors first. "He pointed out that I could inadvertently create a supervirus."

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His "peg leg" was not necessarily the result of an act of God. According to some, Davis lost his leg in a motorcycle accident in Mississippi, but he himself won't talk about it, unless you count where he's said the artificial limb was good for picking up dance partners at local bars.

RedneckwithGuns posted:

Okay so we've got page after page of soldiers and heroes and all that stuff that people usually associate with being a badass, but what about an actual, honest to god mad scientist?

His name is Joe Davis.

Bodnoirbabe posted:

YES! It's terrifying and I will probably be a bit wary going to the bathroom for the next week or so, but poo poo YES.

Keso.Xorganoff posted:

This will give you a bad-rear end (I've got the whole set if anybody wants it)

ASL NIGGA posted:

I do believe his views on segregation and his hatred for the non-whites excludes him from being called bad-rear end.

I mean, Hitler brought Germany out of a recession and led them to be a superpower and then he amassed an army and CONQUERED poo poo!!! Isn't that bad-rear end?


see what I mean?

Keso.Xorganoff posted:

Keso.Xorganoff posted:

Landerig posted:

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I'm seeing a lot of survival TV shows on the Discovery channel nowadays. That's all well and good, but I believe this man started the trend, and unlike his copycats, he actually survived alone while filming the whole thing.

Surviving for a week in some inhospitable places, while filming it to boot makes this guy a true bad rear end in my book.

OregonDonor posted: