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Spitfire at Warbirds Over Wanaka 2024

which side are you on by natalie merchant

original: florence reece

It’s Mad Dog Monday everyone

in the dark corners of our world, secrets wars are waged by forgotten legions…

Second Lieutenant Harold Hemming on selecting NCOs from the recruits of the 12th West Yorkshire Regiment:

“There was no use picking out a few bright-looking chaps and telling them that they were corporals, for there was no way of indicating their rank. We did not even have brassards with stripes on them that they could wear over their coat sleeves. So I counted the men who had moustaches and found that I had just enough, so I made them all lance-corporals there and then …"

The British Army in WW1, a wonder of modern organisation.

HELP i was watching off the hook perform and the angle i was at makes it look like pearl is being repeatedly set on fire 😭

couldnt stay off the hook.... got cooked

a superior mirage caused by warm air resting on patches of colder air in an atmospheric duct that acts like a refracting lens. Objects on the horizon could appear to be mirrored, distorted, or float. This form of mirage could be the reason for the Flying Dutchman Legend.

my biggest pet peeve in the world is when landlubbers design cool fantasy pirate cabins but completely forget that they’re on a fucking boat. yeah here’s a loose shelf with 50 glass bottles of rum on the top shelf. no there isn’t any sort of guard on the edge. “yeah sorry cap’n we hit One Wave a little weird and every single glass item you own crashed into the ground at once”

I love ship interior design specifically because it has to deal with its particular environment. The bed nooks and hammocks, the stoves that hang on gimbals, the space efficiency, the low ceilings, the creative natural lighting, it's like living in a burrow high up inside the trunk of a tree

I never understood why "Sucks dick" means "Thing nobody likes" should be the polar opposite "This meal is so good, it sucks dick!" You know? OH SHIT

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2003-2008 Lexus RX 330

me: hey guys how have you been how's the cartoon dimension?

my 3 friends who live in a dark room together: 👀 👀 👀

you arent a real gamer until you played this

Water is pretty nice to drink despite how horribly it treated the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald