107th Obsequious Banter Thread: Ugly Sweaters Edition

[ellja3]

Apologies if this starts to go way off topic, but I have actually been going down a huge WWII rabbit hole lately. I forget exactly what kicked it off (it might've actually been someone on here mentioning USS Texas), but it is still mind blowing to try and understand just how brutal things were then.

I think it's so difficult to imagine because of just how different things are these days, but life seemed almost meaningless during that time. I've been watching countless veteran accounts from DDay and other battles, rewatched Band of Brothers and now on the Pacific. Netflix shows, etc. What the world went through back then almost feels like fiction

Back in uni days I wrote a paper on whether Hiroshima bombing was ethically justified and some stuff I read while doing a rather deep research was... Yes, mind blowing is indeed a precise description,

 

[Chinatown88]

Apologies if this starts to go way off topic, but I have actually been going down a huge WWII rabbit hole lately. I forget exactly what kicked it off (it might've actually been someone on here mentioning USS Texas), but it is still mind blowing to try and understand just how brutal things were then.

I think it's so difficult to imagine because of just how different things are these days, but life seemed almost meaningless during that time. I've been watching countless veteran accounts from DDay and other battles, rewatched Band of Brothers and now on the Pacific. Netflix shows, etc. What the world went through back then almost feels like fiction

I know that feel, I do it at least once a day.

 

[landsbergfan]

Back in uni days I wrote a paper on whether Hiroshima bombing was ethically justified and some stuff I read while doing a rather deep research was... Yes, mind blowing is indeed a precise description,

It is a bit odd (and I understand the deadliness of the weapons are different now) that we sit here fearing nuclear war with Russia as the only country to ever use them.

The blatant disregard for civilian life during the war was something else

 

[Lord Defect]

That is awesome. Similar deal for my kid, but his younger brother is just a dick to him and it always becomes a fight so we dont want to deal with it. Otherwise Legos are great babysitters

Magnetiles are elite too. We bought like 10 of the starter sets when they were on sale one time and always give them out as birthday gifts

Magnet tiles are legit, until you step on one and it goes sliding out from underneath you and you either just catch yourself or you go down hard.

 

[ajgoal]

Magnet tiles are legit, until you step on one and it goes sliding out from underneath you and you either just catch yourself or you go down hard.

Just land on your head. You'll be fine.

 

[Embiid]

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Looks like I actually did Movember for the first time in my life. Haven't shaved since mid-October and made it this far, so I said f*** it, why not go the whole way.

 

[ybnvs]

Dammit dude.

Sarah McLachlan's SPCA commercial is flooding into my head now and hitting me in the feels.

"In the arms of an angel"

 

[VladDrag]

Apologies if this starts to go way off topic, but I have actually been going down a huge WWII rabbit hole lately. I forget exactly what kicked it off (it might've actually been someone on here mentioning USS Texas), but it is still mind blowing to try and understand just how brutal things were then.

I think it's so difficult to imagine because of just how different things are these days, but life seemed almost meaningless during that time. I've been watching countless veteran accounts from DDay and other battles, rewatched Band of Brothers and now on the Pacific. Netflix shows, etc. What the world went through back then almost feels like fiction

I want to be clear, I think all war is brutal; however, I feel like WWI was a bit worse to be honest. That was civil war tactics with modern day weaponry. There were generals who still thought that calvary charges into multiple machine guns worked - they did this throughout the war, mustard gas attacks, trench warfare...just f***ing brutal.

Looks like I actually did Movember for the first time in my life. Haven't shaved since mid-October and made it this far, so I said f*** it, why not go the whole way.

 

[Starat327]

@Starat327 where's my future daughter-in-law?

Tucked into my wife's pelvis still, unfortunately

Someone already adopted him -- my wife knows the girl who did. He has his own twitter and instagram already.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

OMG that face. Poor buddy.

 

[FLYguy3911]

I'd like to adopt Molly.

Someone already adopted him -- my wife knows the girl who did. He has his own twitter and instagram already.

What's the @?

 

[Lord Defect]

I'd like to adopt Molly.


What's the @?

Just on a limb, @fistopher.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Just on a limb, @fistopher.

No I meant the girl.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Meet Poppy. She's the black one cuddling with Quintus Fabius Maximus. We named her Poppy because she is tiny and black like a poppy seed. This allows us to call her crate The Opium Den, and also allows us to nickname her "The Seed." She's incredibly loving and cuddly, was already housebroken, and loves The Child. Also loves to play. She was dumped in a shelter down in backwater SW VA after her owner died.

She is desperate to befriend QFM, but he's been a grumpy old man. He's slowly coming around though. Much faster than our dead dog came around to him when he was in Poppy's situation.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

Tucked into my wife's pelvis still, unfortunately



Someone already adopted him -- my wife knows the girl who did. He has his own twitter and instagram already.

I guess I'm not surprised that's a thing now. I hate social media, but I'd consider an IG for our younger cat. She's such a ham.

I have better pics, but here is one with a friend she brought home.

 

[Jack Straw]

I had never heard this story before, pretty amazing. Werner Herzog made a documentary about her years later, he was actually supposed to be on the plane but had to change his plans at the last minute. At the time he was scouting locations for "Aguirre, the Wrath of God".



Juliane Koepcke - Wikipedia

 

[Runner77]

“And I’m losing control …
You’re the wall that I want
Ooh, ooh, ooh!”

 

[ybnvs]

I freaking love all the animal posts. Keep 'em coming!

Sibby did her first naughty thing yesterday...



Of course I wasn't even the slightest upset. She showed so much remorse herself and this behavior is able to be corrected (had to work through it with my ex's dog who loved to go for bloody tampons and all the nastiness from the bathroom trash). I wouldn't have adopted her if I wasn't prepared to take on the training.

She has taken to me hard. The separation anxiety is real for her. All I did was go upstairs to shower for 15 minutes and I came down to that little mess. She's shown me she is really good with other animals and people, even had her around my small nephew. Such a naturally gentle disposition and temperament. She doesn't give a damn about Zigmund Freud either (my kitty), just looks at him and kinda disengages/walks away, or sits down and remains calm. Zero signs of aggression. Hopefully the Zigmeister will stop hiding under my bed in the next few weeks. My poor buddy.

 

[landsbergfan]

I want to be clear, I think all war is brutal; however, I feel like WWI was a bit worse to be honest. That was civil war tactics with modern day weaponry. There were generals who still thought that calvary charges into multiple machine guns worked - they did this throughout the war, mustard gas attacks, trench warfare...just f***ing brutal.

i think that's actually where my rabbit hole started. I watched All Quiet on the Western Front and then started going more and more into it. I think WWI for a solider may have been more brutal, youre right. However, I am speaking more to the overall state of the world. You could make the case Vietnam was worse than WWI from a soldiers perspective.

In the end, yes, all war is brutal. Not really worth debating what degree. It seems like humans just had a higher threshold for what they were willing to do to someone else during WWII.

 

[Starat327]

I'd like to adopt Molly.


What's the @?

Instagrm:

mister.fishtopher​

 

[landsbergfan]

Just on a limb, @fistopher.

DO NOT GOOGLE

 

[Starat327]

I guess I'm not surprised that's a thing now. I hate social media, but I'd consider an IG for our younger cat. She's such a ham.
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I have better pics, but here is one with a friend she brought home.

Hey bud. Theres a snake on your deck.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

Hey bud. Theres a snake on your deck.

Our other cat.

Both snakes (maybe the same?) were still alive. I put him in the woods out back. I've had cats catch mice, and even birds, but snakes are a first lol.

 

[Lord Defect]

Hey bud. Theres a snake on your deck.