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Someone made a flag mashup bot on Twitter. It's had some controversial political moments and some wonderful wonkiness https://twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot/status/1167497223128662017 https://twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot/status/1168667431239344128 https://twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot/status/1168425837558935552 
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Sep 3, 2019 22:11
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It's not a bot
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zoux posted:Not in a million years, so tell me what the movie says a ship lain down in 1940 brings to the fight that a modern carrier group can't You haven't seen the movie so I mean, the plot is basically about justifying that cool set piece moment. It's pretty much all they got on hand basically and its main purpose is to shell the alien comms site.
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zoux posted:Not in a million years, so tell me what the movie says a ship lain down in 1940 brings to the fight that a modern carrier group can't It’s a movie loosely based on a board game (as in they took the title of a board game and added aliens). Also it has Rihanna teaming up with ww2 vets. I’ll admit I respect the movie for including the double amputee dude
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Sep 3, 2019 22:36
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Yes and everyone itt is saying it’s good and I think I’m being gaslit
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Sep 3, 2019 22:44
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Sometimes movies are so bad they’re good, or at least fun to watch.
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zoux posted:Yes and everyone itt is saying it’s good and I think I’m being gaslit I'm not sure good is the right word. It was enjoyable. I enjoyed it.
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Sep 3, 2019 23:03
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Nenonen posted:Mussolini called Leros the "Corregidor of the Mediterranean", meanwhile Americans called Corregidor the "Gibraltar of the East". I think this type of thing needs to spread more, I want to know who is the Montgomery of Russia or Göring of America!
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Sep 3, 2019 23:07
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I enjoyed it the same way I enjoyed Independence Day, really.
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HEY GUNS posted:the guy who wrote gunpowder and galleys called the caribbean the mediterrenean of the western atlantic He’s not the only one.
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Sep 3, 2019 23:15
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I've often referred to the Med as "the Euribbian"
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Sep 3, 2019 23:27
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aphid_licker posted:Someone made a flag mashup bot on Twitter. It's had some controversial political moments and some wonderful wonkiness https://twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot/status/1168992094096113665
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Sep 4, 2019 00:15
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Some Paradox developer right now is feverishly mopping his brow and so tempted to save those images...
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Sep 4, 2019 00:35
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Are you sure that isn't a flag for Xbox?
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Nebakenezzer posted:(I know gazetted means "made" and this has something to do with some tradition where, I don't know, their name is written down, possibly in The Gazette, but it still throws me slightly.) Raenir Salazar posted:IIRC they are hostile, but they happened to have a fairly well developed rules of engagement. They absolutely struck first at military stuff and we're clearly preparing for an invasion, but might have not been like war crimey about it. Jobbo_Fett posted:Dunkirk: FrangibleCover fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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O my god how did I forget that that the aliens shoot projectiles shaped like pegs from the game. I'm dying right now. Y'all can talk about how silly the drifting boat is or anything else, but that's the funniest thing. Just that one tiny sad attempt at being "true" to the game of loving Battleship as they made it a movie. loving peg-missiles.
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Battleship cost half as much as a space shuttle launch and it's climax involves the USS Missouri doing its best Initial D impression at an alien communication station, it's a completely stupid movie that is like MST3K fodder except for the massive budget and I love every stupid second of that action. The dialogue and acting is cringeworthy but I nearly died laughing when all the old vets go right back to their battlestations like nothing changed at all, it's the second best use of the USS Missouri in media. Number One is still the Mighty Mo dueling Mt. Snakemore at the end of MGS4.
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Battleship is one of those movies that makes me think about the 30rock bit where the writers say ‘I LOVE THAT WE CAN WORK ON COCAINE!’
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zoux posted:Yes and everyone itt is saying it’s good and I think I’m being gaslit Now hold on there buddy I never once said it was "good"
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Hi I think somebody in this thread once recommended Locating Privacy in Tudor London by Lena Cowen Orlin (HEY GUNS maybe?), and it somehow made it onto my reading list. I finally read it, and it was excellent! So thanks to whichever that was, it's a great read.
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Sep 4, 2019 02:34
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If you don't enjoy Battleship you hate fun
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MORE TAXES WHEN posted:Hi I think somebody in this thread once recommended Locating Privacy in Tudor London by Lena Cowen Orlin (HEY GUNS maybe?), and it somehow made it onto my reading list. I finally read it, and it was excellent! So thanks to whichever that was, it's a great read.
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Sep 4, 2019 03:47
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I'm watching battleship and what is Rihanna's job Also my lord this movie is racist
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The Iron Rose posted:I'm watching battleship and what is Rihanna's job
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The Iron Rose posted:I'm watching battleship and what is Rihanna's job She's busy being Rihianna.
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HEY GUNS posted:the guy who wrote gunpowder and galleys called the caribbean the mediterrenean of the western atlantic From a literal point of view this makes sense, just like for the Baltic Sea which is also right medi of two terrains. zoux posted:I've often referred to the Med as "the Euribbian" "Eufribbian" or "Afreubbian" would be more inclusive.
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Nenonen posted:From a literal point of view this makes sense, just like for the Baltic Sea which is also right medi of two terrains.
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The Iron Rose posted:I'm watching battleship and what is Rihanna's job https://www.vulture.com/2012/05/read-every-line-rihanna-says-in-battleship.html
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Pontius Pilate posted:https://www.vulture.com/2012/05/read-every-line-rihanna-says-in-battleship.html Rihanna posted:“Yo, Saunders, ever been in a department run by some kind of Donald Trump/Mike Tyson mutant combo?”
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HEY GUNS posted:from the point of view of glorious galley combat, the baltic is a cold med Mare Frostrum
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overmind2000 posted:It's honestly insane to think of the Germans pulling off a triphibious assault in late 1943 and even more so when you consider that they not only won but held the territory gained until the end of the war. It may be the final lasting German victory aside from maybe the Battle of Garfagnana which when you think about was also the only successful Italian offensive of the entire war Italy did conquer Albania and Ethiopia.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:iirc Albania didn't really put up a fight That is correct, Albania simply joined Italy after threats of invasion. I forget what happened to the King (Zog, iirc)
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Jobbo_Fett posted:That is correct, Albania simply joined Italy after threats of invasion. I forget what happened to the King (Zog, iirc) He fled to Greece, then to France and finally to England when France was invaded and ended up settling in France post war (as a lot of disparate monarchs did).
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Sep 4, 2019 11:45
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They should've heeded the warning of Zog the immortal.
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ChubbyChecker posted:Italy did conquer Albania and Ethiopia. Not in World War 2 it didn't. It already occupied the place before the war.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:iirc Albania didn't really put up a fight Albania is a good example of the disaster that was Italian policy before and during WWII. Albania was small, poor, had no real natural resources and was politically and economically dominated by Italy. All the invasion did was replace a friendly Albania with an upset occupied people that the Italians had to suppress Most of the things Italy did was like that. Invading Ethiopia, when the only easy access to it by sea was the British controlled Suez Canal, abandoning the Stesa Front when converted effort was the only thing to stop Germany invading Austria, invading France for...Menton? Nice? Corsica? Djibouti? If the Italian government had stayed neutral, it could have probably survived into the 50s, at least. Instead, it got itself involved in a war it was politically and technologically unable to fight.
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FrangibleCover posted:By my understanding if you are gazetted it's a promotion for the duration of the war and you revert back to your 'real' rank later and for pensions purposes. I could be utterly wrong though. I think you're thinking of 'brevet', which is when you get awarded a higher rank title as an award for gallantry/exceptional conduct etc. but you only get the title, not the authority, pay or pension. As far as the British forces goes it only applied to the Army, and then it was mostly related to the old pre-1871 system of purchasing commissions, whereby a senior officer could hold a much higher brevet rank than their paid-for commission within their regiment. Such officers would (as far as I can make out!) use their substantial rank when on regimental business and their brevet rank when on more general Army staff business. The system was dismantled in the 19th century but the awarding of brevet ranks continued as a form of honours for quite a while. You still see references to Colonel (Bvt. Maj Gen) so-and-so in WW1 records. 'Gazetting' is simply shorthand for 'made/promoted to'. The London Gazette has been the British state's journal of record since the 1660s and is the official channel for announcing royal, parliamentary and military business. All commissions and subsequent officer promotions, mentions-in-dispatches, medals and honours were (and still are) published in the Gazette. Until the rise of mass print-media the Gazette also carried re-prints of dispatches and war reports so a military officer's career could be followed in some detail by reading it. While a commission doesn't have to be printed in the Gazette to be official, it was traditionally the only way that anyone in the wider military and society knew who was being appointed to what ranks so de facto it became that an appointment really only became 'real' when it was 'gazetted'.
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