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Namarrgon: Dec 23, 2008; Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

OregonDonor posted:

Jack Churchill was a badass.

A bow. In World War 2.

His whole war history is full of badass moments.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2010 19:17

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 14:06

Namarrgon: Dec 23, 2008; Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

While a terrible human being, you have to admire this shot. The stupid clothes with the stupid facial expression and the stupid sunglasses standing there all baddass excreting "I can barely loving dress myself and I control all these fuckers."

# ¿ Oct 24, 2010 19:40

Namarrgon: Dec 23, 2008; Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

As long as we are going in the direction of military fetishes...

Leo Major single-handidly liberated my home town (roughly 120k inhabitants now, so your guess is as good as mine how big it was then) from Nazi occupation in 1945. I could paraphrase it all but why bother when wikipedia has a good summary;

wikipedia posted:

In the beginning of April, the R�giment de la Chaudi�re were approaching the city of Zwolle, which presented strong German resistance. The Commanding Officer asked for two volunteers to recon the German force before the artillery began firing at the city. Major and his friend Willie Arseneault stepped forward to accept the task. In order to keep the city intact, the pair decided to try to capture Zwolle alone, though they were only supposed to recon the German numbers and attempt contact with the Dutch Resistance.
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Around midnight Arseneault was killed by German fire after accidentally giving away the team's position. Enraged, Major killed two of the Germans, but the rest of the group fled in a vehicle. He decided to continue his mission alone. He entered Zwolle near Sassenport and came upon a staff car. He ambushed and captured the German driver, and then led him to a bar where an officer was taking a drink. Inside he found that they could both speak French (the officer was from Alsace), and Major told him that at 6:00 am Canadian artillery would begin firing at the city, causing numerous casualties among both the German troops and the civilians. As a sign of good faith, he gave the German his gun back.

Major then proceeded to run throughout the city firing his machine gun, throwing grenades and making so much noise that he fooled the Germans into thinking that the Canadian Army was storming the city in earnest. As he was doing this, he would attack and capture German troops. About 10 times during the night he captured groups of 8 to 10 German soldiers, escorted them out of the city and gave them to the French-Canadian troops that were waiting in the vicinity. After transferring his prisoners to the troops, he would return to Zwolle to continue his assault. However, four times during the night he had to force his way into civilian's houses to get some rest. He eventually located the Gestapo HQ and set the building on fire. Later stumbling upon the SS HQ, he got into a quick but deadly fight with eight ranking Nazi officers: four were killed, and the other half fled. He noticed that two of the SS he just killed were disguised as resistance members. The Zwolle resistance had been (or were going to be) infiltrated by the Nazis.

By 4:30 am, the exhausted Major found out that the Germans had retreated, Zwolle had been liberated, and the Resistance contacted. Walking in the street he met four members of Dutch Resistance. He informed them that the city was now free of Germans. Major found out later that morning that the Germans had fled to the west of the River IJssel and, perhaps more importantly, that the planned shelling of the city would be called off and his R�giment de la Chaudi�re could enter the city unopposed.. Major then took his dead friend back to the Van Gerner farm until regimental reinforcements could carry him away. He was back at camp by 9:00 am. For his actions, he received the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

All of this was after he escaped from a hospital (from the Allied side) because they wanted to send him back home. Also not pictured but he his eye got hosed and he wore an eye patch during all this. I have a friend who met him and said he was a nice guy.

After that, in the Korean war, he held of 14k Chinese troops with just 20 men for 3 days.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2011 16:17

Namarrgon: Dec 23, 2008; Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

Alain Robert climbes big buildings without safety gears.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2011 18:28

Namarrgon: Dec 23, 2008; Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

Jibo posted:

He actually just recently climbed that gently caress off big building in Dubai but he did it with a harness.

Yeah that's how I got the inspiration.

I can only imagine what it must feel like to hang so high by those loving grooves.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2011 19:33

Namarrgon: Dec 23, 2008; Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

Ninja_Orca posted:

Eh, you'd be surprised. They've been known to kill and eat their own kind on occasion. Plus there's that whole "Oh he's so slow I can get close-AAAAH HE'S loving FAST OVER SHORT DISTANCES" thing that most animals like this tend to have going for them.

Yeah most animals have that. In fact, if anything humans are the exception, we're extremely good at long distances but pitifully weak and slow in sprints.

Moacher posted:

Oh neat, what game is this from?

That would be Age of Empires 2.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2011 17:54

Namarrgon: Dec 23, 2008; Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

Suddenly Tentacles posted:

No, that's statutory rape, and thanks to the confining mores of a patriarchal society that defines masculinity as being hypersexual it would be virtually impossible to get a completely honest answer out of him as to whether he actually enjoyed it or not.

The more you know!

While I probably enjoy raging about gender inequalities nearly as much as you do, you really should rage the other way; it is wrong to demonize the hypothetical case of a 14 year old banging those two cute 18 year old studs she's been having her eyes on for a while now.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2011 15:40

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 14:06

Namarrgon: Dec 23, 2008; Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

Nevergirls posted:

Our asteroids will blot out the sun!!

Then we will fight in the cenozoic!

vvv Yeah it is

Namarrgon has a new favorite as of 15:13 on May 19, 2011

# ¿ May 19, 2011 12:11

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