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Disco
30-09-2015, 07:41 PM
Do we have one of these yet? If not, now we do.

This is a guide given to American troops being stationed in Blighty during WW2 that I've shamelessly nicked from Reddit.

http://www.hardscrabblefarm.com/ww2/britain.htm

John
30-09-2015, 07:46 PM
It's a fucking tragedy that the term 'panty-waist' has fallen out of use.

Boydy
30-09-2015, 07:48 PM
Another difference. The British have phrases and colloquialisms of their own that may sound funny to you. You can make just as many boners in their eyes.
:D

I wonder if that was intended.


It isn't a good idea, for instance, to say "bloody" in mixed company in Britain-it is one of their worst swear words.
Was that ever true?

Magic
30-09-2015, 07:58 PM
The British Library are digitising over 6.5m bites and recording of audio. Some of them are on really weird format like metal cylinders (!) etc. Apparently it's at risk of being lost because the equipment being used to play them is too expensive or rare to find/use.

It's really a fascinating project and you can listen to some of the stuff they've recovered here: http://sounds.bl.uk/

It's like a look back to a particular point in time. The guy who's heading it described it much better. It's like re-living that moment in time through sound. Pretty neat.

Cord
30-09-2015, 07:58 PM
Was that ever true?

A colleague of mine queried my use of 'bloody' the other day, reasoning it was as bad if not worse than 'shit', so it seems there is at least one person left who still thinks like that. He's quite posh, and thus extremely childlike, so that probably explains it.

Disco
30-09-2015, 07:58 PM
You wouldn't think so would you. I also like the use of 'painty waists'.

Magic
30-09-2015, 08:01 PM
http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Early-spoken-word-recordings

Coooooooooooooooooooooool.

Yevrah
30-09-2015, 08:03 PM
Is that US army thing real?

phonics
30-09-2015, 08:08 PM
The great "midland" manufacturing cities of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Coventry (sometimes called "the Detroit of Britain") are located in the central part of England.

Well this is still the same.

phonics
30-09-2015, 08:19 PM
The more and more I read of this, the more I enjoy it. Absolutely wonderful. Thanks Disco.

Boydy
30-09-2015, 08:20 PM
Well this is still the same.

:D

7om
30-09-2015, 08:27 PM
Birmingham is better than Detroit.

Magic
30-09-2015, 08:27 PM
Nobody likes my sounds. :(

Disco
30-09-2015, 08:28 PM
Takes a while to get to the truly important stuff.

"The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."

Lewis
30-09-2015, 08:28 PM
That should be the town motto.

Smiffy
30-09-2015, 08:37 PM
.....

John
30-09-2015, 09:18 PM
Nobody likes my sounds. :(

Bit late to be advertising your band.

"If British civilians look dowdy and badly dressed, it is not because they do not like good clothes or know how to wear them"

They're really sticking to the essentials there.

Adam
01-10-2015, 06:32 AM
Birmingham is better than Detroit.

You couldn't be more wrong.

I fucking love the term panty-waists though haha

Davgooner
01-10-2015, 07:31 AM
Is that US army thing real?

Yep. The various guides produced for soldiers throughout WW2 are fucking brilliant.

Mazuuurk
01-10-2015, 07:59 AM
I feel like they ought to hand that thing out in Airplanes even today (bar the war-related stuff) to any American person that crosses the Atlantic.



Takes a while to get to the truly important stuff.

"The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."

This is a fucking preposterous claim. While The British certainly know their tea, Americans have never, and I suspect will never, know how to make coffee. Their pot coffee is fucking more watery than their beer, which says a lot and some more.

Disco
01-10-2015, 08:19 AM
To be enormously pedantic it doesn't actually say they do know how to make coffee. :baz:

Mazuuurk
01-10-2015, 08:28 AM
I found it was implied.

7om
01-10-2015, 01:53 PM
You couldn't be more wrong.


Have you been to Detroit?

Most of eastern Michigan looks like a nuclear bomb has been dropped on it.

Disco
18-12-2015, 06:10 PM
Speaking of nuclear bombs, I've been reading this today:

https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00329010.pdf

It's a hastily written report from the Manhattan project on whether the detonation of nuclear bombs would ignite the entire atmosphere, probably best that they double checked that one.

Disco
16-01-2016, 12:51 PM
I got linked to this by some email newsletter that's normally about far more mundane things, I think it's the quite horrific stories of such powerful athletes who were utterly destroyed and abandoned by their sport. The whitewashing and denial from the NFL is utterly shameful.

http://www.gq.com/story/nfl-players-brain-dementia-study-memory-concussions

Disco
16-01-2016, 01:43 PM
Something of a follow up here: http://www.gq.com/story/jeanne-marie-laskas-nfl-concussions-fred-mcneill

Baz
16-01-2016, 02:30 PM
I got linked to this by some email newsletter that's normally about far more mundane things, I think it's the quite horrific stories of such powerful athletes who were utterly destroyed and abandoned by their sport. The whitewashing and denial from the NFL is utterly shameful.

http://www.gq.com/story/nfl-players-brain-dementia-study-memory-concussions
Have you seen the Will Smith film about it?

Disco
16-01-2016, 02:38 PM
I haven't, I might have a look and see if it's any good.

Lewis
16-01-2016, 03:35 PM
This 'NFL'. Generates a lot of money does it?

Disco
16-01-2016, 04:30 PM
Thick end of $10 billion.

Toby
05-02-2016, 07:43 PM
Bit morbid but just saw a GIF of the impact of the second 9/11 plane from ground level, for I think the first time. Looks even more crazy than the usual footage.


http://i.imgur.com/kbuuxdv.gifv

Dquincy
05-02-2016, 08:20 PM
Bit haunting that. But i get the morbid curiosity.

Disco
06-02-2016, 12:51 PM
I don't know how accurate or up to date this is but it looks lovely.

https://www.windyty.com/?45.583,15.381,4

Magic
06-02-2016, 01:21 PM
A weather report?

Disco
06-02-2016, 02:07 PM
Think of it as a global representation of how much of your roof is going to fall off.

igor_balis
10-02-2016, 12:00 PM
https://tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl/en

Interactive guide of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch. It is fucking mega.

Disco
10-02-2016, 10:30 PM
I was looking through a box of my grandad's old photos and stuff today and found this. He was a gunner in the Royal Artillery, captured after Singapore fell and held as a POW in Thailand. No idea how they came to be given cards like this to fill out and he definitely soft-balled the second question because I don't think being starved half to death and forced to build a railway equates to 'usual'. Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to others as well.


http://i.imgur.com/xbzBC7H.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ON9iZME.jpg

Lewis
10-02-2016, 10:32 PM
I got one of those off Floyd the other week.

The Merse
10-02-2016, 10:43 PM
Good grief, that must be a hell of a thing to see.

Recently regaled my cousins that know little of the wider family with some of the more 'interesting' characters our family, from my great grandfathers war stories (he liked to embellish somewhat), to the great uncle that escaped from prison to Ireland, having already had my great, great grandfather do time for him beforehand so that he wouldn't miss his wedding day, to the mad uncle in the TA who came across from Belfast on the Ferry in the early 90's with a mortar that he really shouldn't have taken as a present for me which some years later (having been passed from myself to other kids in the family) had to be detonated by controlled explosion by the bomb squad when my auntie contacted the TA to ask if they'd want it back.

We've a real lack of documentation, and a lot of stories died with my great aunt last year, but a lot of the most 'interesting stuff' I've come across have been my family history, I guess because you're invested by birth.

The Merse
10-02-2016, 10:43 PM
Lewis :D

John
10-02-2016, 10:47 PM
How did someone with that family history end up with that moustache you had?

The Merse
10-02-2016, 11:11 PM
It's amazing really, especially as the women get quality 'taches around the 40 mark.

Giggles
13-02-2016, 09:11 PM
In fairness this will only be interesting to me, but I was listening to a podcast earlier looking back over Irish managers due to it being 30 years since Charlton was appointed. I never knew the stories about both Charlton and McCarthy after him never being meant to get the jobs at all.

Danny
13-02-2016, 09:13 PM
Whats that pod? Might be worth a listen.

Giggles
13-02-2016, 09:18 PM
Whats that pod? Might be worth a listen.

Two separate parts of the same Off the Ball one really. One with a journalist and the usual John Giles section (who was also in for it when Charlton was hired). I'd never even heard Bob Paisley was even a candidate.


www.newstalk.com/player/embed.php?mediaType=podcast&id=125069


www.newstalk.com/player/embed.php?mediaType=podcast&id=125074

Danny
13-02-2016, 11:47 PM
Cheers.

John Arne
15-02-2016, 08:12 AM
I'm really interested by the many autonomous regions within countries that have very different cultures to the 'host' country.

I give you Yanbian, an autonomous prefecture in north-eastern Jilin province, China. The area is inhabited by ethnic Koreans and borders North Korea to the south. The population is around 2.2m, with an estimated 35% of those being ethnic Koreans. Chinese and Korean are the official languages.

https://drbenjaminhabib.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/imgp26851.jpg

Pepe
15-02-2016, 01:58 PM
Is that Times Square?

John Arne
20-02-2016, 09:28 AM
Buckingham Palace lies in the second lowest council tax band in Britain.

John Arne
20-02-2016, 09:29 AM
Liverpool went seven years, 145 games, not losing a game that Ian Rush scored in.

SEVEN YEARS.

John
20-02-2016, 09:52 AM
Just post a link to the Twitter feed you're reading.

John Arne
20-02-2016, 09:58 AM
I'm not reading a Twitter feed. Just read the Buckingham Palace thing, and it reminded me of the Ian Rush thing.

Giggles
20-02-2016, 10:02 AM
Yeah JA. Stop posting interesting things in the interesting things thread you cunt.

John Arne
20-02-2016, 10:05 AM
Sorry :(

I'll make sure that there are at least 3 other posts between mine, next time.

Giggles
20-02-2016, 10:14 AM
Sorry :(

I'll make sure that there are at least 3 other posts between mine, next time.

I just think you're a fucking disgrace that you may have read them somewhere and just didn't know them off the top of your head. What sort of a prick are you?

Boydy
22-02-2016, 10:43 PM
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is the second largest political party in Russia with 92 of 450 seats in the Duma.

Toby
22-02-2016, 10:47 PM
I feel like there's probably an inverse bell chart for how much you know about Russian politics and how surprising that is to you. I'm definitely towards the left side of the horizontal axis.

Boydy
22-02-2016, 11:06 PM
Which axis is which?

Toby
22-02-2016, 11:15 PM
Horizontal being knowledge of Russian politics and vertical being surprise*. So I am relatively unknowledgable and therefore relatively unsurprised.

*That's the only way it can work, shirley.

Boydy
22-02-2016, 11:35 PM
I don't know. I've always been terrible at visualising graphs.

Although is that shape ot a regular bell curve rather than an inverse one? It's an 'n' shape rather than a 'u' shape, right?

I don't know much about Russian politics but I still found it surprising. You'd think after the Soviet Union failed they'd have given up on it, or at least the brand.

Toby
22-02-2016, 11:39 PM
No I meant a U shape, in that people who know nothing would think "Russia = Communism", and people who know a lot would know already, leaving only those who know Russia isn't so into communism any more and perhaps thought the Communist Party would have died out a bit more.

Sorry for taking your point of interest and turning it into rambling nonsense.

John Arne
24-02-2016, 04:31 AM
China has over 100 cities with a population of over 1,000,000. Depending on sources, the next highest is India with 46, then Indonesia with 18. The US has 10 and the UK and Vietnam have 2 each.

In the top 20, China have...

Shanghai
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/PudongSkyline-pjt_%28cropped%29.jpg/188px-PudongSkyline-pjt_%28cropped%29.jpg

Beijing
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/View_of_Beijing.jpg/188px-View_of_Beijing.jpg

Tianjin
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/%E7%82%AB%E5%BD%A9%E6%B4%A5%E9%97%A899%E6%B5%B7%E6 %B2%B3%E5%A4%9C%E6%99%AF.jpg/188px-%E7%82%AB%E5%BD%A9%E6%B4%A5%E9%97%A899%E6%B5%B7%E6 %B2%B3%E5%A4%9C%E6%99%AF.jpg

Guangzhou
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Guangzhou_skyline.jpg/188px-Guangzhou_skyline.jpg

Shenzhen
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Shenzhen_CBD_and_River.jpg/188px-Shenzhen_CBD_and_River.jpg

Dquincy
27-02-2016, 09:20 PM
Not particularly interesting, but Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed in 1986 when the pilot claimed he could land the plane 'blindfolded', so he drew the curtains before landing the plane, which subsequently crashed and killed a lot of people. Insane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_6502

Giggles
02-03-2016, 12:48 PM
Read these while doing a bit of waiting around in work and, as the thread title would imply, I found them interesting.

http://www.thejournal.ie/cso-easter-rising-statistics-2637261-Mar2016/

http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-1916/1916irl/introduction/

John Arne
02-03-2016, 01:15 PM
That was interesting. Surprised by the relatively low population growth.

John Arne
02-03-2016, 01:22 PM
For comparisons, a similar sized country such as Sri Lanka had a population of 4.2 in 2016, and now has 20.5m.

Actually, having check against a more developed country, Czech Rep., the growth is pretty similar.

Toby
02-03-2016, 01:32 PM
You can't really compare Ireland to Sri Lanka. Asian population growth in the past century has been enormous, whereas Europe has been slowing for decades now.

John Arne
02-03-2016, 01:47 PM
You can't really compare Ireland to Sri Lanka. Asian population growth in the past century has been enormous, whereas Europe has been slowing for decades now.

That's why I then compared it to Czech Republic. You did see that very next line, right?

Giggles
02-03-2016, 03:43 PM
I still thought it was pretty low, especially with all the EU immigration. Emigration has been rather large too though I suppose.

Toby
02-03-2016, 03:49 PM
I still thought it was pretty low, especially with all the EU immigration. Emigration has been rather large too though I suppose.

It's very similar to Scotland - perhaps even larger growth - which is probably the most comparable country (inverted commas there if you wish). Both are pretty low by even European standards though.

Boydy
02-03-2016, 06:28 PM
I remember some lecturer of mine talking about some study that compared Ireland and Finland for something. Can't exactly remember what for now but it was seen as the most similar country.

Raoul Duke
02-03-2016, 08:05 PM
Incest per capita

hfswjyr
02-03-2016, 08:27 PM
You can't really compare Ireland to Sri Lanka. Asian population growth in the past century has been enormous, whereas Europe has been slowing for decades now.

Why is that though? Religion? Contraception? Wealth? Vicious cycle of poverty? Fertility?

Magic
02-03-2016, 08:29 PM
Just in case the Japs invade Asia again they can all do a Russia and keep coming until they run out of ammo.

John Arne
02-03-2016, 08:31 PM
Why is that though? Religion? Contraception? Wealth? Vicious cycle of poverty? Fertility?

"In a nation without guarantees on health, safety, and opportunity, children are the best form of social security available."

Less developed nations relay more in children as future household income, as well as lack of health education.

Toby
03-03-2016, 01:51 PM
Don't want to start a thread for this, as I know exactly how that will pan out, so this seems as good a place as any to share it:

An Unbelievable Story of Rape: An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins. (https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story)

A long and at times uncomfortable read but definitely worth reading.

Disco
03-03-2016, 05:58 PM
That was interesting (although I'm not sure I want to listen to her own account), a good insight into the nuts and bolts of an investigation like that.

Giggles
06-03-2016, 11:23 AM
Not so much the subject, though I seen it linked in a tweet and decided to have a read as I know nothing about Corbyn, but I have never came across an article as long on a news site. I got 10% into it and had to give up. I know it's called a 'Sunday long read' but that's a fucking novel.

http://www.thejournal.ie/jeremy-corbyn-labour-2641205-Mar2016/

Toby
06-03-2016, 10:05 PM
Extraordinarily strong aurora right now for anybody interested in the northern lights. Six on the KP index, which means visibility in south of England if it's particularly clear.

igor_balis
07-03-2016, 12:06 AM
steamed hams

Lewis
09-03-2016, 10:54 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/matrera-castle-cadiz-spain-restoration-mocked

I think that looks quite good.

phonics
09-03-2016, 10:59 PM
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02316/painting-fresco_2316720b.jpg

John
09-03-2016, 10:59 PM
"They’ve got builders in rather than restorers and, like we say round here, they’ve cocked it up.”

:D

Proper Spaniard.

phonics
15-03-2016, 01:05 PM
If we all lived in the same density housing as Hong Kong, you could fit the entire human race in Egypt.

Disco
15-03-2016, 01:40 PM
Given the state of most Spanish building sites that castle is probably less sturdy than before.

leedsrevolution
15-03-2016, 02:21 PM
steamed hams

Someone's been on Simpsons shit posting to much.

igor_balis
15-03-2016, 02:28 PM
Someone's been on Simpsons shit posting to much.

delet this

Spoonsky
15-03-2016, 04:41 PM
If we all lived in the same density housing as Hong Kong, you could fit the entire human race in Egypt.

That doesn't seem so surprising, Egypt is just a load of empty desert. If anything what's interesting about that is that it shows just how large the human population is (and maybe that's the point).

Toby
15-03-2016, 04:50 PM
It being a load of empty desert isn't really relevant, given I don't think it's a suggestion that we actually implement that change.

leedsrevolution
15-03-2016, 06:23 PM
delet this

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IcORh0lJx4E/hqdefault.jpg

Giggles
21-03-2016, 03:17 PM
http://publin.ie/2015/a-telephone-on-every-table-heres-a-bizarre-gimmick-from-a-90s-dublin-bar/

hfswjyr
21-03-2016, 07:46 PM
On the topic of interesting things in Dublin, what's with the mop people in Copper Face Jacks? They're everywhere. Is it a gimmick?

Giggles
21-03-2016, 07:47 PM
On the topic of interesting things in Dublin, what's with the mop people in Copper Face Jacks? They're everywhere. Is it a gimmick?

Mop people?

Though in fairness, it's a few years since I've been to Coppers.

Giggles
08-04-2016, 10:34 AM
http://adn.blam.be/springfield/springmap.swf

niko_cee
08-04-2016, 12:33 PM
GTA Springfield.

:cool:

phonics
15-04-2016, 09:01 AM
I'm having to build a map of certain Eastern European nations and found this. Someone explain

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgEmPz3WEAAtwWq.jpg:large

Magic
15-04-2016, 09:04 AM
That's part of old prussia isn't it? The Russians land grabbed it or something from Poland.

John Arne
15-04-2016, 09:19 AM
Kalingrad - Russia's easy access to the Baltic.

niko_cee
15-04-2016, 09:26 AM
Königsberg.

phonics
15-04-2016, 09:29 AM
So if you're born there, you're Russian? So weird.

John Arne
15-04-2016, 09:53 AM
Have a look at the enclaves and exclaves on the India-Bangladesh border... there are something like 150.

GS
15-04-2016, 06:28 PM
It's Kaliningrad - the Russians took it for military purposes after the Allies booted the Germans back over the Oder as part of the post-WWII settlement. There was a view that Prussia ceasing to exist was the only way of finally breaking German militarism. That and the Russians undertook land grabs in eastern Poland and thus the decision was taken to provide compensatory territory to the Poles on their western borders.

Lewis
15-04-2016, 06:55 PM
So if you're born there, you're Russian? So weird.

They kicked all of the remaining Germans out (two million bailed before they got there) and filled it with commie stooges, if that is what you're thinking.

GS
15-04-2016, 06:58 PM
Quite right too. Fuck the Germans.

John Arne
24-04-2016, 05:15 PM
Jodie Foster started acting 1yr after England won the World Cup.

phonics
24-04-2016, 05:26 PM
I was thinking of Jodie Marsh.

John Arne
24-04-2016, 05:32 PM
Urgh. I haven't thought of her for a long time.

Also, just read that James Brady, who was shot during the attempted assignation of Reagan died, and his death was ruled a homocide.
The interesting fact is that Brady died 33 years after being shot. He suffered partial paralysis and memory loss, but lived a further 33 years.

John Arne
27-04-2016, 06:22 PM
America didn't have a history of slavery museum until 2015.

2015.

GS
27-04-2016, 06:28 PM
Why are you so surprised?

John Arne
27-04-2016, 06:54 PM
Yeah, I really shouldn't be.

Lewis
27-04-2016, 07:07 PM
We got one in 2007. When did Vietnam get its museum of forced labour and mass murder?

Magic
27-04-2016, 07:07 PM
They should be celebrating the glory years.

Ian
27-04-2016, 07:10 PM
I didn't realise that being an Australian (rather than being a 'Briton' who happened to be born in Australia, possibly from a couple of hundred years of people who were also born there) wasn't technically a thing until the 40s.

John Arne
27-04-2016, 07:23 PM
We got one in 2007. When did Vietnam get its museum of forced labour and mass murder?

1975.

Jimmy Floyd
27-04-2016, 08:00 PM
The main thing I took away from visiting a lot of American museums etc in 2011/12 was that they do not give a single solitary fuck about either slavery or the massacre of native Americans. In fact, they're pretty proud of both and quite openly so.

GS
27-04-2016, 08:51 PM
It is somewhat hypocritical for a nation which deliberately set about dispossessing and killing its native population to lecture the rest of us on how to run things. American exceptionalism indeed.

bruhnaldo
27-04-2016, 09:07 PM
I mean if we're being technical, wasn't slavery in America and the slaughtering of the Native American people primarily done by people whose cultural and educational upbringing were almost entirely and exclusively British/European?


Slaves exported to the thirteen colonies/United States by time period:

1619-1700 - 21,000
1701-1760 - 189,000
1761-1770 - 63,000
1771-1790 - 56,000
1791-1800 - 79,000
1801-1810 - 124,000
1810-1865 - 51,000



The total slave trade to islands in the Caribbean, Brazil, Mexico and to the United States is estimated to have involved 12 million Africans.[23][24] The vast majority of these slaves went to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil, where life expectancy was short and the numbers had to be continually replenished. At most about 600,000 African slaves were imported into the U.S., or 5% of the 12 million slaves brought across from Africa.[25] Life expectancy was much higher in the U.S. (because of better food, less disease, lighter work loads, and better medical care) so the numbers grew rapidly by excesses of births over deaths, reaching 4 million by the 1860 Census.

I'd also surmise that no one really knew what being an "American" even actually meant until after the Civil War and on through to World War I and the Great Depression. There was no real "American identity" to speak of. Just a bunch of immigrants who wanted to escape various persecutions or try to make a better life for themselves in "the New World".

I'm not saying "America" of itself is somehow absolved of any wrongdoing or that we don't have a race problem in this country but I always found it interesting "slavery" seems to be skewed as a dark spot in only American culture when, in all actuality, it was rampant throughout the western world.

I could also be well off in this but I find discussion the best way to learn :)

Jimmy Floyd
27-04-2016, 09:08 PM
It's not a question of what happened then, everyone in the world was butchering people then. It's a question of attitudes towards it now.

Lewis
27-04-2016, 09:15 PM
Omelettes, eggs. The United States (as a thing) is brilliant.

mikem
27-04-2016, 09:16 PM
Monticello (Jefferson's Home) has an exhibit asking questions about his legacy:
https://www.monticello.org/slavery-at-monticello

The Smithsonian has exhibits on slavery:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/changing-america-emancipation-proclamation-1863-and-march-washington-1963/1863/slavery-america

So perhaps you were not looking because all Americans are automatically racist? It is not like we are the only ones. Or did you not say that Levy was too busy running down a flight of stairs to chase 2p?

Magic
27-04-2016, 09:18 PM
Doubt it, there's no way he'd be complacent enough to drop it.

bruhnaldo
27-04-2016, 09:20 PM
Well I'm certainly sorry you encountered people who were "openly proud" of slaughtering Native Americans and enslaving Africans. I really hate that you did. I don't necessarily believe that's representative of the majority of my countrymen, but I certainly believe it entirely possible you did encounter some of our less savory folks.

Unfortunately for us, the ignorant do tend to be the loudest and easiest of targets for others.

John
27-04-2016, 09:22 PM
:D

Levy is famously tight in his own right, so even if that was said it would be offense seeking nonsense to assume it was a dig at his Jewishness. He wasn't chasing anything anyway, he dropped fifty pence and went to pick it up but was knocked unconscious when it bounced off the back of his head.

Jimmy Floyd
27-04-2016, 09:25 PM
You all seem to have taken these revelations well. All the things I'm speaking of were in New York (Ellis Island being the worst offender) so you can fact check it there.

Boydy
30-04-2016, 12:04 PM
Diary of a somebody: could I solve the mystery of 148 lost notebooks?

http://gu.com/p/4tjka?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

This is a good read.

Baz
15-05-2016, 07:55 AM
30 Untranslatable Words From Other Languages Illustrated By Anjana Iyer (http://www.boredpanda.com/untranslatable-words-found-in-translation-anjana-iyer/)

Some of the translations are great.

Komorebi (Japanese):
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/found-in-translation-untranslatable-words-illustrations-anjana-iyer-13.jpg

Tingo (Pascuense):
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/found-in-translation-untranslatable-words-illustrations-anjana-iyer-18.jpg

Bakku-shan (Japanese) :D :
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/found-in-translation-untranslatable-words-illustrations-anjana-iyer-2.jpg

Rire dans sa barbe (French) :wtf: :
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/found-in-translation-untranslatable-words-illustrations-anjana-iyer-16.jpg

etc.

I enjoyed them.

#15 is clearly "1 bell" though.

Boydy
15-05-2016, 01:49 PM
Bakku-shan translates as BOBFOC.

Magic
27-05-2016, 07:43 PM
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=42733&sid=bbae84443f4994c8364ef6607958eeba

:|

Spikey M
27-05-2016, 07:46 PM
My bum probably stinks and I had a shower this morning.

Boydy
27-05-2016, 07:57 PM
What is that? I just get errors when I click the link.

Magic
27-05-2016, 08:00 PM
Girls talking about anal hygiene.

Also the AMA with the eFukt editor is great.

Manc
27-05-2016, 08:10 PM
Not one mention of scat. Timewasters.

Shindig
19-06-2016, 08:31 PM
I've recently fallen down a wiki rabbit hole for oldest surviving veterans of wars. Mainly because I thought centenarians were a relatively new achievement for mankind. Turns out people have been managing that quite well. And fought (allegedly) in wars. Seeing photographs of Revolutionary War vets is something I'm surprised by.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Cronk

Military pension at 14. Made for life.

Yevrah
19-06-2016, 08:44 PM
I'd have thought that too Shinners. How odd.

Is there any record as to when the first (recorded) person to live to 100 lived?

John
19-06-2016, 09:06 PM
They're still paying a pension to someone from the American Civil War. Not a veteran, obviously, but still mental that a pension that started a hundred and fifty years ago is ongoing.

Having thought about it it might actually have been in this thread on the old board I read that, along with that mental fact about the tenth President having living grandchildren.

Shindig
19-06-2016, 09:09 PM
I'm not sure. Census records can only really go back so far and then you're in the realm of best guesses. A handful of Greek philosophers got past 90 with one claiming to have been beyond hundred. And the oldest person who may have lived has had some doubt over his 126 year lifespan.

And apparently there's a 200 year old tortoise rolling around somewhere.

Ian
19-06-2016, 09:16 PM
Wasn't there that one that died recently that was Clive of India's and was 250 or something when it died?


They're still paying a pension to someone from the American Civil War. Not a veteran, obviously, but still mental that a pension that started a hundred and fifty years ago is ongoing.

Having thought about it it might actually have been in this thread on the old board I read that, along with that mental fact about the tenth President having living grandchildren.

Yep, John Tyler died in the 1860s and still has at least one living grandchild. He knocked out his last sprog at 70 or something and then that child did the same thing.

Disco
19-06-2016, 09:27 PM
A tortoise was the last surviving 'veteran' of the Crimean War.

Shindig
21-06-2016, 08:11 PM
Oh, another thing during that wiki dig was that the Japanese pilots that attacked Pearl Harbour weren't kamikaze pilots. They were allowed to refuel for further runs. That woman still claiming a Civil War pension is 78, by the way. Her dad fought in the war so she was entitled to it.

Spikey M
21-06-2016, 08:13 PM
Didn't the Japanese only resort to that shit when they knew they were fucked?

Sir Andy Mahowry
21-06-2016, 08:17 PM
Oh, another thing during that wiki dig was that the Japanese pilots that attacked Pearl Harbour weren't kamikaze pilots. They were allowed to refuel for further runs. That woman still claiming a Civil War pension is 78, by the way. Her dad fought in the war so she was entitled to it.

http://time.com/95195/civil-war-pensioner/

http://blog.theveteranssite.com/cs-irene-triplett-pension-nc/

86 now.

Shindig
21-06-2016, 08:22 PM
Aye, their naval fleet was getting battered so they loaded them up with fuel and explosives. I'm onto pilot suicides now which is a fun read til you get to September 11th onwards.

Magic
19-07-2016, 03:52 PM
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45b_1468899362

Images from plastic surgery performed on some WW1 soldiers, the horrors of war. I'm amazed at how well some of the blokes look to be honest. Fair play. Must have been fucking horrific and gives a glimpse in to such horrors.

Magic
20-07-2016, 09:09 PM
I watched a guy set himself on fire earlier, doused himself in petrol and lit up. He just sat down and burned for 1m 54s occasionally moving slowly until he slowly rolled back. It fucked me up. So I decided to see what the most painful ways to die are. On a TOP TEN thing and one said eaten by animals. This is probably true. Specifically it listed The Hyena. So I Googled eaten by hyena and some of the shit is truly morbid. They just tuck in no matter how alive whatever it is they are eating is. Strangely, the animal just seems to sit there and chill whilst it's disemboweled or ripped to shreds.

So why? Humans don't do that? But wrong, we've seen a couple of videos of humans being donned by lions and they just sit there too like a bitch and get eaten, or suffocated. I remember the brown bear and the farmer how it started off by eating his face, he just lay there and took it. Though the bear was pressing down. Just pretty fucked up I guess.

John
20-07-2016, 09:11 PM
You need to see a doctor. Soon.

Magic
20-07-2016, 09:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Sr6nMpIM0

Giggles
20-07-2016, 09:14 PM
Yeah fuck off with that shit you headcase.

Magic
20-07-2016, 09:15 PM
Oh look! Nature! Fucking disgusting right! We shouldn't have to witness stuff like this, oh woe is me! Keep that shit to an abattoir! Fucking lunatic cunts, you're the ones that need to see doctors. Especially you Giggles, but more for your physical well being.

John
20-07-2016, 09:20 PM
You'll see that stuff on any nature documentary, that's not the mad part.

You're seeking out footage of people burning themselves alive. There's a morbid curiosity for that stuff that everyone experiences at some point, but for most people it's when you're about fourteen and first find out such things happen via rotten.com. You're looking for it in your mid to late twenties with your kid in the next room and a job to go to tomorrow. It's bizarre, and I think it's something you should tell someone professional about before you have a break from reality and wind up drinking bleach to see what it tastes like or taking a cat apart to see how the bits work.

Giggles
20-07-2016, 09:25 PM
There's nothing a doctor can do for me. But seriously, talk to someone.

Shindig
20-07-2016, 09:26 PM
Aye, I stopped looking at that stuff at 14. Back in those days, high-quality beheading videos did not exist.

Boydy
20-07-2016, 09:26 PM
Or murdering your family.

Meant that as an addition to John's post.

Magic
20-07-2016, 09:32 PM
I didn't seek it out it was on Liveleak.

niko_cee
20-07-2016, 09:35 PM
:D

There's your epitaph right there.

John Arne
12-10-2016, 06:45 AM
A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.

John
12-10-2016, 07:20 AM
People having kids in their fifties isn't that unusual.

Raoul Duke
12-10-2016, 07:45 PM
Probably safe to do it now her brother's croaked, too

Adamski
12-10-2016, 08:54 PM
:D

Boydy
12-10-2016, 08:57 PM
I don't get what's going on in this thread.

Giggles
12-10-2016, 09:06 PM
Though that shrimp thing is pretty cool.

Adamski
12-10-2016, 09:37 PM
John seems to be talking about Janet Jackson having a baby at 50.

Giggles
12-10-2016, 09:39 PM
Earlier on today that shrimp post was about Pele's grandkid being older than his son and them both playing soccer. One of them for Santos iirc.

Disco
12-10-2016, 09:42 PM
It was fucking tedious but it was definitely there.

Ian
12-10-2016, 09:51 PM
I can't remember how hot it is exactly and I'm apparently too lazy to take the time I've typed this to open a new tab and Google it but the mantis shrimp's fireball punch gets the water up to thousands of degrees celsius, the mental little bastard.

Raoul Duke
12-10-2016, 10:00 PM
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

Lewis
12-10-2016, 10:05 PM
It sounds like a dickhead.

Giggles
12-10-2016, 10:07 PM
:D

igor_balis
12-10-2016, 10:33 PM
"While living in Paris in the 1920s, Peirce "made a gift of a very big turtle to the woman who was the concierge of his building". The woman doted on the turtle and lavished care on it. A few days later Peirce substituted a somewhat larger turtle for the original one. This continued for some time, with larger and larger turtles being surreptitiously introduced into the woman's apartment. The concierge was beside herself with happiness and displayed her miraculous turtle to the entire neighborhood. Peirce then began to sneak in and replace the turtle with smaller and smaller ones, to her bewildered distress."

Baz
21-11-2016, 01:05 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDPv_39j4g

Giggles
30-11-2016, 08:41 AM
I found this mildly interesting.

https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/#

Raoul Duke
30-11-2016, 07:50 PM
Yeah, it's ace that

Disco
02-12-2016, 11:45 PM
Carl Sagan has the best voice and a beautiful way of explaining this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0WjV6MmCyM&app=desktop

Giggles
03-12-2016, 12:02 AM
He is so fucking awesome, could watch him all day.

Offshore Toon
05-12-2016, 09:27 PM
There are two threads asking posters about their weekend plans.

Dquincy
05-12-2016, 09:27 PM
:D

Giggles
20-12-2016, 07:15 PM
Cripes.

http://gizmodo.com/this-deep-sea-fisherman-posts-his-discoveries-on-twitte-1790323479

Boydy
20-12-2016, 07:32 PM
Jesus.

The one before the last looks like a happy fella though.

Boydy
20-12-2016, 07:34 PM
Also from Gizmodo: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/12/sex-robots-may-literally-fuck-us-to-death/

Spoonsky
20-12-2016, 08:17 PM
I fucking love deep sea fish. Did a presentation on the gulper eel in 2nd grade.

mugbull
20-12-2016, 08:20 PM
Stays with you forever, doesn't it? The gulper eel.

Giggles
25-01-2017, 01:54 PM
Not interesting, but seeing as we don't have a 'shit I never knew' thread this will do.

Both the fact that John Giles is Nobby Stiles' brother in law and Dermot Gallagher (the ref) is Irish are two things that escaped me until this week.

Baz
25-01-2017, 02:18 PM
Was reading this for about twenty minutes before: https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?195-Industry-Insight

Offshore Toon
27-01-2017, 02:56 PM
Quite a bit of a stir in Jersey.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=glastonjersey&src=typd

-james-
27-01-2017, 03:09 PM
Spent a good while last night reading about the Pitcairn Islands

Nine mutineers on the HMS Bounty in 1790 forced the rest of the crew overboard in the south Pacific, picked up a bunch of nearby Polynesian women, and settled on this island. Today there are about 50 people living there, descendants of that lot. Very strange place.

Giggles
27-01-2017, 03:16 PM
They must all be deformed as fuck.

Offshore Toon
27-01-2017, 03:29 PM
I've read about that before. Isn't rape of women practically tradition and almost every bloke was charged not too long ago?

Disco
27-01-2017, 04:24 PM
Is it twinned with Rotherham?

Spammer
27-01-2017, 04:57 PM
I've read about that before. Isn't rape of women practically tradition and almost every bloke was charged not too long ago?

There was a paedo scandal there, I heard. They charged a few people with it and then had to build a prison for them to be locked up in :D

Offshore Toon
27-01-2017, 05:14 PM
I can't remember which northern town/city it was (ended in 'LEHH' but don't think it was Burnley) but some girl spoke for a good fiften minutes about all the paedophiles that lives around here when she was growing up. I thought everything was happy up north?

hfswjyr
28-01-2017, 01:34 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitkern_language

Pitkern English
Whata way yee? How are you?
About yee gwen? Where are you going?
You gwen whihi up supa? Are you going to cook supper?
I nor believe. I don't think so.
Yee like-a sum whettles? Would you like some food?
Do' mine. It doesn't matter. I don't mind.
Wa sing yourley doing? What are you doing? What are you up to?
I se gwen ah big shep. I'm going to the ship.
Humuch shep corl ya? How often do ships come here?
Cum yorley sulluns! Come on all you kids!
I se gwen ah nahweh. I'm going swimming.
Lebbe! Let it be!
Cooshoo! Good!

-james-
07-06-2017, 06:39 PM
The fictional town in The League of Gentlemen, Royston Vasey, is Roy 'Chubby' Brown's real name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royston_Vasey

Shindig
07-06-2017, 09:18 PM
Well, yeah. Why do you think he played the mayor?

Lewis
07-06-2017, 09:34 PM
I've put off re-watching them again in case they're not as brilliant as I thought, but I caught up with Inside No. 9 recently (the episode about splitting the bill was the stand out) and I reckon I'll be fine.

Shindig
07-06-2017, 09:40 PM
It's great. The commentary track on the DVDs are fantastic and confusing. They were going to explain 'Cans of Can't' and then didn't. Wankers.

John
07-06-2017, 10:48 PM
Well, yeah. Why do you think he played the mayor?

It would be odd to assume that the fictional town in a program was named after an actor who turned up for an episode about three years in. It's not mind blowing trivia, but it isn't made obvious by him playing the mayor.

On the topic of old things that may not hold up, I've been considering whizzing through Monkey Dust recently, but I fear it may be very much of its time. I remember thinking one of the 'Timmy' sketches was the bleakest thing I'd ever seen, so hopefully if I do jump in it's as brutal as I remember.

phonics
01-09-2017, 01:33 PM
I just found out King James was pretty much openly gay and the reason for the King James Bible was to get the church off his back about it.

Alan Shearer The 2nd
07-09-2017, 09:05 PM
http://bombsight.org/#12/51.4612/-0.0599

A map of all the known locations where bombs fell on London during the blitz.

Rather sobering, to say the least.

hfswjyr
08-09-2017, 09:22 AM
Incredible.

Raoul Duke
08-09-2017, 09:51 PM
Missed my entire block, the twats :chief:

The Merse
09-09-2017, 12:50 PM
They savaged mine with five of the fuckers.

http://oi66.tinypic.com/xpuhe1.jpg

Giggles
06-08-2018, 06:14 PM
Never knew these existed at all until the gorse fires uncovered #8 in Wicklow last week.

http://eiremarkings.org

niko_cee
06-08-2018, 06:39 PM
I like the idea of that but (a) weren't most bombing raids at night and (b) what was stopping the British putting up such signs on Anglesey (or wherever)?

bruhnaldo
06-08-2018, 06:51 PM
Would they reasonably know they were doing such things? serious question.

Giggles
06-08-2018, 06:58 PM
I like the idea of that but (a) weren't most bombing raids at night and (b) what was stopping the British putting up such signs on Anglesey (or wherever)?

Probably weren't many other options so doing it was better than not doing it.

Shindig
07-08-2018, 05:54 AM
Every country should do that so it looks like a proper Atlas.

phonics
07-08-2018, 08:00 AM
I like the idea of that but (a) weren't most bombing raids at night and (b) what was stopping the British putting up such signs on Anglesey (or wherever)?

I'm pretty sure they did no? I'm feel like I've read stories of certain places pretending to be others so that bombers would get lost.

Disco
07-08-2018, 01:05 PM
Entire towns lighting was re-created in order to try and confuse Jerry during night raids so it's entirely possible that other stuff like this was done.

Disco
23-12-2019, 12:55 PM
US spy takes photos of 50's Soviet Russia then leaves them in a cupboard for 60 years.

https://www.boredpanda.com/unveiled-stalin-era-ussr-pictures-martin-manhoff/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

mo
23-12-2019, 03:51 PM
Cheers for that, very interesting.

John Arne
27-01-2020, 06:34 PM
Nothing particularly new, but interesting nonetheless.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk1CxO9XGyQ

Disco
27-01-2020, 06:52 PM
I never pair my socks and today I randomed into a matching pair. What are the odds.

Shindig
27-01-2020, 07:20 PM
I watched that video a couple of weeks back and was fascinated it by it. Whoever was at the controls knew what they were doing.

SincereTheRebel
27-01-2020, 10:31 PM
Can't beat a good documentary about real-time events

bruhnaldo
28-01-2020, 06:14 PM
I, too, enjoy the daily news.

Kikó
29-01-2020, 10:21 PM
I watched that video a couple of weeks back and was fascinated it by it. Whoever was at the controls knew what they were doing.

I'm sure I read a long article recently about it which basically said the pilot killed the air pressure to knock everyone out then basically flew the plane for hours until he nosed it into the sea. Apparently had practiced it on one of the simulator games.

Unless it's the other Malaysian flight I'm thinking of.

Shindig
29-01-2020, 10:32 PM
You're right insofar as they found him practising the first part of the flight on his sim. The investigators didn't see this as a problem as he could've been using it as practice for a return to the airport.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9326169/mh370-zaharie-ahmad-shah-planes-fatal-flight-microsoft-simulator/

This makes it sound like he had the whole thing planned out, though.

SincereTheRebel
29-01-2020, 11:56 PM
What else is worth watching on that level? Ive watched every 911 doc ever created

John Arne
23-03-2020, 02:11 PM
So, not only is Trent Alexander-Arnold's uncle the Man Utd club secretary, but his mum happens to be a yank.

The things you learn.

bruhnaldo
23-03-2020, 02:42 PM
Wow, that is an interesting thing.

Giggles
10-06-2020, 01:59 PM
I'd love to have went down to Shannon today to see that Antonov 225.

Shindig
10-06-2020, 05:24 PM
Same here. It's such a massive bastard and it's not like I'll get to see a ship launch or something equally massive in my life.

Spikey M
10-06-2020, 05:54 PM
1270707147865837569?s=19
:cool:

Shindig
10-06-2020, 05:55 PM
The landing gear on the thing. :D

Spikey M
10-06-2020, 05:59 PM
More wheels than a fucking train.

Shindig
16-08-2020, 09:46 PM
I read Lee Harvey Oswald's wikipedia article for laughs. You can see how the conspiracy theories took off. He's failed at every aspect of his working, military and political life. A complete and utter bombscare that you'd not think was capable of hitting a moving target at 100 yards. Especially given how he failed to hit a stationary one months before.

It's the first time I've really looked at the footage of the assassination in a while. You forget the second shot blows his head apart.

Dquincy
16-08-2020, 10:13 PM
Yeah, proper grim. I remember seeing it at the end of the JFK film with Kevin Costner. Keep rewinding the VHS. Grim but fascinating at that age. I think the grainy'ness helpsed censor it slightly. You wouldn't want to see it in HD.

Lewis
16-08-2020, 10:17 PM
https://i.imgur.com/3sSH2JG.png?1

Shindig
16-08-2020, 10:19 PM
Yeah, proper grim. I remember seeing it at the end of the JFK film with Kevin Costner. Keep rewinding the VHS. Grim but fascinating at that age. I think the grainy'ness helpsed censor it slightly. You wouldn't want to see it in HD.

Jackie got the best view in the house. :|

Boydy
16-08-2020, 10:47 PM
707693495289511944

Baz
17-08-2020, 07:04 AM
Yeah, proper grim. I remember seeing it at the end of the JFK film with Kevin Costner. Keep rewinding the VHS. Grim but fascinating at that age. I think the grainy'ness helpsed censor it slightly. You wouldn't want to see it in HD.

I would.

Ian
17-08-2020, 07:23 AM
Why?

Shindig
17-08-2020, 08:04 AM
707693495289511944

See, that would cast doubt on what watched had I not watched a video from a guy from the coroner's office. He said the body and head arrived separately. But then you also have the photo they released showing Kennedy's head intact with the exit wound from the first bullet through the neck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_autopsy

It looks so much worse on the footage than the top of his head being blown off.

Baz
17-08-2020, 08:28 AM
Why?¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just something I'm into. ISIS really have set the bar high too; amazing for weirdos like me.

SincereTheRebel
18-08-2020, 09:35 PM
I watched a cartoon JFK doc about his shooting and it definitely sounds like a conspiracy. They even killed off Jnr and his plane too

Sir Andy Mahowry
18-08-2020, 09:55 PM
Big fan of Red Dwarf's take on it.

Shindig
18-08-2020, 10:08 PM
I always think of that as well. In reality, I side with Occam's razor. Lee shot him because he was a relentless retard. Jack Ruby shot him because he was a Kennedy's #1 fanboy. The kind of wanker that shuts his strip joint down for 3 days of mourning over this.

Queenslander
18-08-2020, 10:19 PM
Frank Sinatra's heel turn on the Kennedys and his ties to the Mafia is a great yarn.

Shindig
31-08-2020, 10:06 PM
After looking into the videogame crashes of 1977 and 1984, I've wound up on Texas Instruments' wiki entry. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments#Consumer_electronics_and_compute rs)

Y'know, the calculator people. That also made computers until Commodore murdered them. They also made the Speak and Spell. And laser guided missiles. :D Diverse.

phonics
31-08-2020, 10:13 PM
Being from a posh school TI-83 purchases were mandatory.

They were great because they ran better games than the Nokia 3330 at the time and games could be transferred via cable link.

Shindig
31-08-2020, 10:16 PM
I hope there's a point in Cold War history where someone sent out a coded message across the iron curtain using a Speak and Spell. Fuck it, I'll write that movie.

John
20-10-2020, 11:29 AM
Between them Stanley Matthews, Peter Shilton, and Gianluigi Buffon have made a first team appearance every season since 30/31.

Ian
20-10-2020, 11:47 AM
I wonder what the longest stint you could make with just two players is if one of them was that Japanese fella.

Spikey M
20-10-2020, 11:52 AM
We don't need that Italian Sour Puss. We can use Teddy Sheringham to get us to 2015. #Brexit

John
20-10-2020, 01:14 PM
I wonder what the longest stint you could make with just two players is if one of them was that Japanese fella.

Baresi and Paolo Maldini gives you fifty odd years of one club.

Shindig
10-01-2021, 07:26 PM
After hearing about the Indonesian plane crash I've found out the 737-8 Max is just now back in service.

Disco
10-01-2021, 07:33 PM
But we turned off the bit that made it crash.

Giggles
10-01-2021, 07:40 PM
Between them Stanley Matthews, Peter Shilton, and Gianluigi Buffon have made a first team appearance every season since 30/31.

Hi John.

Spikey M
10-01-2021, 07:58 PM
I thought he was back then. :moop:

Shindig
10-01-2021, 08:01 PM
But we turned off the bit that made it crash.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ozRsq-JzQ

It appears so. Although in the 20 months it was out of action, you wouldn't be surprised if they made more than a software update. That stuff must be written on paper somewhere.

Giggles
03-12-2021, 09:43 PM
I always like seeing this. Russia really is so ouny compared to the map.


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