DEyncourt posted:

Cages used by British miners as late as 1987 had oxygen tanks that would revive canaries affected by carbon monoxide:



In 1987 such cages were replaced by electronic gas detectors.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE NOW-UNEMPLOYED CANARIES!

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Today, the National Mining Museum Scotland has thirteen canaries and they are unsurprisingly very popular with visitors!

Hmm, Seems like it be cheaper to just have a whole bunch of canaries.

christ, 29 years, i remember it like it was yesterday

the first time i visited beijing in the late 90s the paving stones of tian'anmen square still had visible damage left over from the crackdown

muy peligroso

choose your apparel wisely

macnuke posted:

choose your apparel wisely

Having a sympathetic tech crew would help too.

you are not here to "get it"

Despite the I'm Asus thing in the corner, this is a real photograph that has been colorized.

juno beach on d-day, attacked by canadian forces



it's not widely known that while the americans at omaha took the worst casualties (as shown during the insane opening to saving private ryan), juno was a close second

huge numbers of landing craft were sunk by german booby traps, while the beach itself was swept by machine gun and cannon fire ... the day after the landings they managed to fight off an assault by some of the best tank units in the german army (panzer lehr and hitler youth)

we uncouth individual about trump but jesus christ, what that generation faced

TOS posted:

juno beach on d-day, attacked by canadian forces



it's not widely known that while the americans at omaha took the worst casualties (as shown during the insane opening to saving private ryan), juno was a close second

huge numbers of landing craft were sunk by german booby traps, while the beach itself was swept by machine gun and cannon fire ... the day after the landings they managed to fight off an assault by some of the best tank units in the german army (panzer lehr and hitler youth)

we uncouth individual about trump but jesus christ, what that generation faced

I read the excellent book "A War To Be Won" (Murray & Millet) thanks to ribby and the thing that struck me was the sheer numbers of casualties described.

juice posted:

TOS posted:

juno beach on d-day, attacked by canadian forces



it's not widely known that while the americans at omaha took the worst casualties (as shown during the insane opening to saving private ryan), juno was a close second

huge numbers of landing craft were sunk by german booby traps, while the beach itself was swept by machine gun and cannon fire ... the day after the landings they managed to fight off an assault by some of the best tank units in the german army (panzer lehr and hitler youth)

we uncouth individual about trump but jesus christ, what that generation faced

I read the excellent book "A War To Be Won" (Murray & Millet) thanks to ribby and the thing that struck me was the sheer numbers of casualties described.

canada sustained in a single day in normandy about ten times the casualties sustained in many years of fighting in afghanistan

america was key to winning the war, but per capita, canada's sacrifices were severe

TOS posted:

Yeah I think I posted that here in 2015.

user posted:

TOS posted:

Yeah I think I posted that here in 2015.

yeah but i posted it better

TOS posted:

Someone needs to update this meme with a JAVELIN. HELLFIRE is still used for anti-tank purposes, but JAVELIN comes in from the top, and would make for a better visual.

i swear to god the star wars franchise is in danger of dying because of those screech-raging incel uncouth individuals

they're like cultural jihadists for crying out loud

TOS posted:

i swear to god the star wars franchise is in danger of dying because of those screech-raging incel uncouth individuals

they're like cultural jihadists for crying out loud

Hmmm.
Normally I have nothing but disdain for the incel crowd, but if they kill Star Wars…

I'd like to know how that story ends.

full britches?

Is that a cheetah? Looks like it is the size of a leopard.

late 80s/early 90s stereo porn

Séamas posted:

Is that a cheetah? Looks like it is the size of a leopard.

Babu!

damn that's HUGE gif

and it's gorgeous