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Kiros posted:
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Continuing the derail: Witold Pilecki volunteered at 17 to defend Poland in World War I. That's enough to earn anyone an entry in the badass books, but it was later in his life that he set the badass bar impossibly high. In 1940, he came up with a plan to find out what was going on inside Auschwitz by intentionally having an intelligence agent be captured by the Nazis and VOLUNTEERED TO DO IT HIMSELF. After providing information about what was actually happening in the concentration camp, his superiors decided not to mount a rescue effort. Pilecki's response was to BREAK OUT OF AUSCHWITZ to convince them in person. In a time when most thought Auschwitz was just a large prison camp, his eyewitness accounts of the inside of Auschwitz were the best intelligence the Allies had regarding Nazi concentration camps. Not badass enough for you? Pilecki continued to fight the Nazis after escaping Auschwitz, was eventually captured, and spent the last year of the war in a Nazi POW camp. Still not badass enough? After spending most of a decade getting the poo poo beat out of it by Nazis, Poland then spent the next 30 years or so getting the poo poo beat out of it by the Soviets. Almost without a break, Pilecki went from underground resistance of the Nazi occupation of Poland to underground resistance of the Communist occupation of Poland. Even after being warned that his cover was broken and having an opportunity--actually being ordered--to flee Poland before the Communists got him, Pilecki continued to do anything he could to defend his country. The story doesn't have a happy ending, unfortunately. Pilecki was captured by the Communists and executed in 1947. Edit: Writing is hard. Sexual Lorax has a new favorite as of 22:54 on Jan 5, 2011 |
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Pumpking posted:Heres a vid of endurance hunting, which is till practiced to this day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpo_mA5RP8 I watched this video with my seven year old boy this morning. He didn't really care about it until I told him that this was how people got meat so far back in time that knives weren't even invented yet. Then he started paying attention. gently caress, those hand signals are cool. Everything about this is badass, in a living history sort of way. Thanks for posting it.
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homerlaw posted:Pros Pros *Violent Femmes will write a song about you
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dinozombiesgoRARR posted:Needs a patch over one eye and a tiny pirate on its shoulder for a pet.
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dinozombiesgoRARR posted:Bonus: the most awesome cat in the world.  Not particularly badass, unless you have a thing for plastic surgery, but the cat reminded me of it. Edit: Needs more Brazil badass. Have some Harry Tuttle: 
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DarkCrawler posted:Jesus, the last of those medals must have "Killed God in a drinking contest" as criteria.
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