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can, in Trey Parker and Matt Stone, high on acid at the 2000 Oscars.

Such a magical night

Bob_Robertson_IX, in Michael Dukakis tanks his presidential campaign, 1988

Similar to John Kerry’s bunny suit photo… In the US you can be an absolute shit of a person, but don’t you dare let someone take an unflattering of you or the American people won’t vote for you.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c0af8d4b-fe46-4bef-b3f1-228e5aa4e739.jpeg

Kalkaline, in Michael Dukakis tanks his presidential campaign, 1988
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

Potatoe

Everythingispenguins, in Michael Dukakis tanks his presidential campaign, 1988

Seeing I clearly remember the Dukakis administration this must have worked wonders.

Wahots, in American-made M3 tank used by the British in the Burma Campaign, WW2, 1945
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

The Tank Museum channel on YT has really good information on tanks like this one. They explain each tank in depth with dry British humor. I fell madly in love with one of their 70-80 year old curators who was adorably frank about everything.

deanimate, in WW2 weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese for an adult in the UK, WW2, 1942

I don’t get anywhere close to that in a week apart from the egg so I would have been trading the excess for some playstation games

HeyJoe, in British civilians taking shelter in the London Underground, WW2, 1940

Even with everything going on, you can see a bunch of people smiling.

ramenshaman, in Docked US Navy Dirigible upended after a strong wind, 1926

Reminds me of when the super star destroyer crashed into the death star

niktemadur,

I don’t think I’ll ever understand why Lucas kept that crappy special effect intact in the special edition while hyper-fixating on the singer’s tonsils at Jabba’s palace. Or making Luke scream “NOOOOO…!” as he willingly let go of that Cloud City vane thingamajig. Or putting R2D2 behind rocks he couldn’t fit through in the Tatooine desert while Luke gets attacked by Tusken Raiders.
Talk about having the wrong priorities every step of the way.

ramenshaman,

We don’t talk about the singers in Jabba’s palace.

JudahBenHur,

he’s not a good director, niktemadur.

he’s also a bit dumb.

niktemadur,

American Graffiti is a very good and extremely well-directed movie, and got him his first Best Director nomination at the Oscars. The second being, obviously, for the original Star Wars.

I think he got lost in a maze of mirrors, a prisoner of his own massive success, considering his spectrum-ish profile and reclusive tendencies.

JudahBenHur,

i should give american grafitti a shot.

starwars was good. empire was the best of the first three, but lucas didnt direct or even write the screenplay for it. he didnt direct jedi either, and only wrote half of the screenplay, which I believe was mostly ewoks (maybe not entirely).

the prequels would have bombed at the first one if they were made in isolation imo. alas, this really isnt important to think about. the asd angle makes more sense than anything else I had thought of

342345, in Messenger dog with a spool for laying out telephone cable, WW1, 1917

The ground acts as the second wire?

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

What do you mean?

342345, (edited )

The spool seems to contain cable with just one wire. To form a circuit two wires are needed.

I assumed that maybe the ground is the second wire.

Edit: exactly what setsneedtofeed said. I just read it afterwards.

jaybone,

Can you hear me now?

setsneedtofeed, (edited )
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qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Thanks, I had no idea that was how that worked, that’s fascinating.

toast, in Russian Cossack firing from behind a dead horse, WW1, 1915

Shoot the man, not the horse. Dead horse is cover, live horse a great pile of panic

Skua, in Punt gun for mass-hunting waterfowl in a, uh, punt, Britain, 1900-1912

If you had an Irishman in Eritrea paying another to kick his boat out on to the water so he could go hunting with one of these guns, you'd have a man in Punt with a punt paying punts for a punt at his punt

Mr_Blott,

Richard-Osman-level pun

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Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

Bravo

rhythmisaprancer, in Punt gun for mass-hunting waterfowl in a, uh, punt, Britain, 1900-1912
@rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social avatar

Nothing about this looks safe ☠️ but I guess it was really about the load, not about the velocity.

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

Looks like paper shells loaded with lots of shot were the default ammunition.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3ab44063-b570-43ac-92f9-e9e10f1dd81d.jpeg

I’m going to guess that chamber pressure would be quite low. It seems no more dangerous than firing a normal shotgun really.

Delphia,

youtu.be/bTQQfKxkZpk?si=qmulJVPNfha6JET0

IIRC they banned them in the US because they were too good at “hunting” waterfowl.

LillyPip, (edited )

Oh wow, that’s like a cannon! I thought you’d have to get your ducks in a row, but nope.

e: I can’t spell

peopleproblems,

Damm yo

Pratai, in Pro-segregation rally in Arkansas, USA, 1960s

Colorize that and it could pass as a trump rally from just yesterday.

Bondrewd, in Docked US Navy Dirigible upended after a strong wind, 1926

Aand thats it. Cant really imagine anything scarier than staying on there.

Chainweasel,

IDK, falling out would probably be scarier

remotelove,
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How about imagining that it is also filled with hydrogen and covered in thermite? That is probably a bit scarier.

misophist,

This was a US dirigible. By 1926, the dangers were known and the US had already transitioned from Hydrogen to Helium. This one was built in Germany, flown to the US, then immediately had its gas changed from H to He several years before this incident occurred.

sbv, in Elephant conscripted by the Imperial German Army to move logs, WW1, 1915

“conscripted” is an interesting choice of words. Why’d you go with that one?

PugJesus,
@PugJesus@kbin.social avatar

Because he's part of the war effort now o7

The elephant was taken from a civilian zoo and pressed into service. 'Conscripted' seemed appropriate.

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