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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 20, 2022 19:42:25 GMT -5
I'm struggling to figure out how long the shell was inserted there...surely not since before 1918? Unless this photo was taken quite a while ago?
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Dec 20, 2022 20:03:09 GMT -5
I'm struggling to figure out how long the shell was inserted there...surely not since before 1918? Unless this photo was taken quite a while ago? OK. So yes, there are *STILL* active explosives from WWI buried all over Europe. We're talking several hundred thousand shells being fired on each side per battle, sometimes per day. Some percentage didn't explode, sunk in the mud, got covered over some other way, so on... How anyone could mistake such an object for "WooHoo! Free Toy!" I have no idea. I guess it must have happened in this case. Or perhaps the poor gent got knocked backwards off a farm tractor, or something.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 20, 2022 22:07:57 GMT -5
I'm struggling to figure out how long the shell was inserted there...surely not since before 1918? Unless this photo was taken quite a while ago? OK. So yes, there are *STILL* active explosives from WWI buried all over Europe. We're talking several hundred thousand shells being fired on each side per battle, sometimes per day. Some percentage didn't explode, sunk in the mud, got covered over some other way, so on... How anyone could mistake such an object for "WooHoo! Free Toy!" I have no idea. I guess it must have happened in this case. Or perhaps the poor gent got knocked backwards off a farm tractor, or something. Well I know about the unexploded shells all across the old front, but...butt...
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Dec 20, 2022 22:36:54 GMT -5
OK. So yes, there are *STILL* active explosives from WWI buried all over Europe. We're talking several hundred thousand shells being fired on each side per battle, sometimes per day. Some percentage didn't explode, sunk in the mud, got covered over some other way, so on... How anyone could mistake such an object for "WooHoo! Free Toy!" I have no idea. I guess it must have happened in this case. Or perhaps the poor gent got knocked backwards off a farm tractor, or something. Well I know about the unexploded shells all across the old front, but...butt... Again, the "WooHoo! Free Toy!" bit doesn't quite add up. For one thing, it probably doesn't warm up fast, if at all. And it's quite possible you wouldn't really want to try to.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 21, 2022 8:56:44 GMT -5
Well I know about the unexploded shells all across the old front, but...butt... Again, the "WooHoo! Free Toy!" bit doesn't quite add up. For one thing, it probably doesn't warm up fast, if at all. And it's quite possible you wouldn't really want to try to. In a book called AFTERMATH: THE REMNANTS OF WAR the author had a whole chapter on Great War ordnance. There was a cobbler in there who found a shell much like the one above in his backyard. He used it as an anvil when making his shoes. After 40 years of this, he hit it just right and blew himself to kingdom come.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Dec 21, 2022 10:59:37 GMT -5
Again, the "WooHoo! Free Toy!" bit doesn't quite add up. For one thing, it probably doesn't warm up fast, if at all. And it's quite possible you wouldn't really want to try to. In a book called AFTERMATH: THE REMNANTS OF WAR the author had a whole chapter on Great War ordnance. There was a cobbler in there who found a shell much like the one above in his backyard. He used it as an anvil when making his shoes. After 40 years of this, he hit it just right and blew himself to kingdom come. Ouch :(
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Dec 21, 2022 11:32:57 GMT -5
I'm struggling to figure out how long the shell was inserted there...surely not since before 1918? Unless this photo was taken quite a while ago? Weirdly, this news item mimics one reprinted in Adam Parfrey's first Apocalypse Culture book (which I am sorry to say I can't seem to locate at the moment).
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 21, 2022 20:10:43 GMT -5
I'm struggling to figure out how long the shell was inserted there...surely not since before 1918? Unless this photo was taken quite a while ago? Weirdly, this news item mimics one reprinted in Adam Parfrey's first Apocalypse Culture book (which I am sorry to say I can't seem to locate at the moment). Maybe this happens every so often in France, and this one just happened to make Twitter. Gives a whole new layer of meaning to the imperative sentence "blow me."
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 12, 2023 22:53:18 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 16, 2023 8:18:48 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 20, 2023 9:08:29 GMT -5
Limbo Zone? https://www.reddit.com/r/funnysigns/comments/10gai92/not_sure_what_i_am_to_be_wary_of/
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 23, 2023 12:55:52 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 29, 2023 22:08:31 GMT -5
https://www.reddit.com/r/engrish/comments/10oikf7/my_tea_of_questionable_ingredients/
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 31, 2023 11:30:28 GMT -5
I feel like an alien sometimes. Now that word is getting out around work that I'm retiring people are like, "What are you going to do?". To me the answer is simply "Not work". I'm a damn good worker, but it's not something I define my life by or anything.
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Post by El Santo on Feb 2, 2023 15:06:42 GMT -5
I'm a damn good worker, but it's not something I define my life by or anything. A lot of people do, and I can't wrap my head around it either!
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 10, 2023 17:13:18 GMT -5
https://www.reddit.com/r/onejob/comments/10yqp0d/where_are_the_shoes_made/
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 10, 2023 17:14:16 GMT -5
I'm a damn good worker, but it's not something I define my life by or anything. A lot of people do, and I can't wrap my head around it either! Good on both of you. Retirement can be fatal to people who think of themselves only as workers.
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Post by El Santo on Feb 12, 2023 19:57:02 GMT -5
A lot of people do, and I can't wrap my head around it either! Good on both of you. Retirement can be fatal to people who think of themselves only as workers. I've always thought of work as the compromise that I make with life in order to provide me with the financial wherewithal to do the things that I actually want to do.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 12, 2023 23:13:27 GMT -5
Good on both of you. Retirement can be fatal to people who think of themselves only as workers. I've always thought of work as the compromise that I make with life in order to provide me with the financial wherewithal to do the things that I actually want to do. Exactly. I'm just excited about experiencing what I call "limitless days" again. Days with no fixed objectives beyond maybe just heading off walking north or something. I used to feel (well into my thirties) that I needed a day like that a couple of times a month at the very least to maintain my sanity. I know they're selfish as hell on the face of it, but I'm that sort of person who craves that sort of unstructuredness* now and then. Been awhile, too. And I feel like my psyche has suffered for it.
*I know it's not a real word, but it's so perfectly fitting.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 13, 2023 12:19:55 GMT -5
Just something odd I noticed. I've been looking to purchase chocolate coins for the St. Patrick's Day gala coming up next month, and I noticed that all of them, made by at least 2 different manufacturers, all have President Kennedy's face on them. Why Kennedy?
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