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Cannibal_MoshpitV3, in More Imperial German cavalry with lances, WW1, 1914-1918

“In life, war. In death, peace. In life, shame. In death, atonement.”

Potatisen, in More Imperial German cavalry with lances, WW1, 1914-1918

Are the lances metal?

Some parts look like metal, some look like wood.

Either way, looks super cool! Looks like something from a videogame or a movie. Must e been absolutely terrible in real life tho.

Hubi,

These look like late model Stahlrohrlanzen so they were most likely made out of steel with a leather handle.

Anticorp,

They’re long wooden sticks with metal spear tips.

PugJesus,
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Normally, yes, but these ones are all metal - hollow steel tubes. First and last of their kind!

PugJesus,
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"Hans, you know how the modern battlefield has machine guns, quick-firing rifles, chemical gas, and long-range artillery? We're going to need you to charge into the guys firing those. On a horse. With a pointy bit of metal. While half-blind from your mask."

phoneymouse, in Weimar-era German dogs in gas masks during military exercises, 1920s

What are the dogs for?

espentan,

Messenger dogs, probably. They typically carried messages from command to trenches on the front line, and vice versa.

Akasazh, in Rail passengers listening to the radio through personal headphones, 1930
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In the back the waiter is going around offering people phone books for some reason.

roguetrick,

Sears catalogues or something like it.

espentan,

“Geeet your free phone books here! Keep those numbers ready for later! Geeet your free phone books here!”

ForestOrca, in Ordinary car crash, Boston, USA, 1938
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I guess it's always been difficult to drive in Boston.

hakunawazo, (edited ) in Multi-cigarette holder, for rapid cancer acquisition, 1954

C.G.B. Spender would be proud.

sab, in Ordinary car crash, Boston, USA, 1938
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Reminds me of this classic from Montparnasse, 1895!

muse,
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Hope everyone in that photo is doing okay!

ivanafterall,
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I'm happy to inform you everyone survived and they're all alive and well. It looked worse than it was.

Buddahriffic, in Multi-cigarette holder, for rapid cancer acquisition, 1954

I don’t think smoking 20 cigarettes at once through that will result in 20x the effect of one smoke (even ignoring the fact that one isn’t lit). You can only pull in so much from your mouth, and with the resistance a single cigarette gives to pulling air through it, you’d probably get to no extra resistance after just a few of them, after which everything is just burning a bit slower when you take a drag unless you suck harder. But they all remain lit (except for the one), so they are burning up at their normal idle rate.

In effect, after maybe 3 or 4 of them, you’re just wasting cigarettes and creating more second hand smoke.

I suggest instead to take a little bit of tobacco from one of the cigarettes and put it at the bottom of a bowl of weed. You’ll get that smoker head rush the first few times you do it, but eventually you get used to it, so save it for special occasions. Or just throw out the cigarettes because that smoker head rush isn’t that big of a deal.

m0darn,

I don’t know how much resistance there is in a cigarette, but this contraption would reduce the resistance.

Buddahriffic,

The pressure would be spead out among them all, but you still need to suck to create that pressure. If you take a normal drag, it just takes a tiny bit from each of them. You could suck in more with the same force, or increase the force to get even more, so I guess it’s not like it’s doing nothing at all. But I realize now my first post was based on the premise of “why would you want to get more smoke, one cigarette is enough or too much”, which is the whole point of that thing, so maybe I’m the idiot for thinking too much about it.

Track_Shovel, in Giraffe Panther tank-destroyer prototype, Germany, 1970s?
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This is amazing. Cant wait for it in world of tanks

thanks_shakey_snake, in Log bridge for a train, Oregon, USA, 1905

Yo lawg, etc.

Diprount_Tomato, in Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, hungarian multiagent spy, as the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama
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What? We could have had this guy instead of the current Dalai Lama?

Bondrewd, (edited )

Yeah, if the Japanese ever got to Tibet, he was the officially supported candicate.

Drusas, in People sitting on the front of a logging train as it crosses a bridge, Oregon, USA, late 19th century

I love how happy they look. And it sure does look like Oregon.

BilboBargains, in People sitting on the front of a logging train as it crosses a bridge, Oregon, USA, late 19th century

OSHA, mf

bernieecclestoned, in People sitting on the front of a logging train as it crosses a bridge, Oregon, USA, late 19th century

Why is the chimney thing that shape?

saguaro,
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Potatisen,

A spark arrester (sometimes spark arrestor) is any devices which prevents the emission of flammable debris from combustion sources, such as internal combustion engines, fireplaces, and wood burning stoves.

Spark arresters play a critical role in the prevention of wildland fire and ignition of explosive atmospheres. Consequently, their use is required by law in many jurisdictions worldwide.

bernieecclestoned,

Thanks

moistclump, in Porter practicing for basket head-carrying championships (no, really!), London, 1925

Them trusting people are standing mighty close.

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