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    #152
    zanador
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭zanador


    Kylta wrote: »
    Just had a shave, was thinkin maybe it might be safer for you to get rid of unwanted/wanted hair. If your mask falls people might think you big foot or little foot depending on how big you are

    It will be a relief from the constant attention my beauty gets normally.


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    #153
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    zanador wrote: »
    It will be a relief from the constant attention my beauty gets normally.

    So the hair is to keep unwanted admirers away. Interesting, now and its peaking my curiosity to see such beauty.


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    #154
    zanador
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭zanador


    Kylta wrote: »
    So the hair is to keep unwanted admirers away. Interesting, now and its peaking my curiosity to see such beauty.

    Do you know Chewbacca?


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    #155
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    zanador wrote: »
    Do you know Chewbacca?

    Is that before or after the shave?


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    #156
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Various Germans tried to assassinate Hitler over 20 times down the years.
    The Allies never even tried to knock him off once.


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    #157
    Jaysus Christ.
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Jaysus Christ.


    Hitlers favourite assassin and all round SS bad guy bought and lived on a farm in Kildare for many years. Otto Skorzeny


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    #158
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Jaysus Christ. wrote: »
    Hitlers favourite assassin and all round SS bad guy bought and lived on a farm in Kildare for many years. Otto Skorzeny
    Hell of a soldier though. There were two Irish men who served in the SS during WWII. very interesting story about how it all came about.
    https://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/hitlers_irishmen/


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    #159
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    main-qimg-4a776c16962c705758743a90a9ae2281.webp
    The first meeting of US and Russian troops on the River Elbe in Germany as the two armies converged towards the end of WWII.

    Stalin later had the Russian soldiers executed for fraternising with the enemy.


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    #160
    Jaysus Christ.
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Jaysus Christ.


    Fed up with Stalin sending people to kill him and failing 22 times. Tito president of Yugoslavia sent a letter to Stalin saying “Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.”

    Stalin never sent another.


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    #161
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,449 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    At the age of 47 and 3/4, today I ate my first doughnut, and I learned that they are completely overrated and not particularly nice.


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    #162
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    I learnt yesterday I was uncivil


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    #163
    Conway635
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭Conway635


    iamstop wrote: »
    There is a tick-borne disease you can contract that makes you allergic to red meat!

    https://www.popsci.com/alpha-gal-tick-borne-disease/


    There was an episode of RadioLab all about that.

    https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/alpha-gal


    C635


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    #164
    Conway635
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭Conway635


    I learned that the reason I'm having misfires is that my points have closed up. Tomorrow I'm planning to learn about "dwell angle".

    C635


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    #165
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Conway635 wrote: »
    I learned that the reason I'm having misfires is that my points have closed up. Tomorrow I'm planning to learn about "dwell angle".

    C635

    Is this in relation to 3D printing?

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #166
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,355 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Jaysus Christ. wrote: »
    Hitlers favourite assassin and all round SS bad guy bought and lived on a farm in Kildare for many years. Otto Skorzeny

    I’d never heard of him before you posted.
    Bit of a James Bond character!


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    #167
    Conway635
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭Conway635


    iamstop wrote: »
    Is this in relation to 3D printing?


    No, it's a much older technology (troubleshooting an issue on 1957 Ford sidevalve engine).

    C635


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    #168
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Been a long time fan of funk music. Only found out today that Dayton, Ohio is considered by many to be the capital of funk!

    https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/how-the-capital-of-funk-is-fighting-to-keep-its-legacy-alive/94512/

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #169
    Jaysus Christ.
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Jaysus Christ.


    Average life expectancy of a radio operator in a firefight in Vietnam war was 30 seconds.


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    #170
    rdwight
    Registered Users Posts: 527 ✭✭✭rdwight


    I learned that "ensemble forecasting" is a thing

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=114984918


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    #171
    Faze11
    Registered Users Posts: 218 ✭✭Faze11


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Funny how your post doesn't indicate intelligence but does indicate a lack of knowledge and education. You didn't even actually say what people are brainwashed about. Your inability to make a valid point may indicate not that other people are stupid but you cannot understand them. Most people have varying opinions neither stupid nor smart but just a different view. If I don't agree with you it doesn't make me stupid. If I know more than you it doesn't make you stupid however if you are unable to grasp a principle or concept whether you agree or not you would be stupid.

    That reminded me of the last verse in 8 mile 😂


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    #172
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    The humble Twinkie is not as invincible as we all once thought!

    https://www.npr.org/2020/10/15/923411578/a-disturbing-twinkie-that-has-so-far-defied-science

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #173
    seagull
    Registered Users Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭seagull


    Jaysus Christ. wrote: »
    Average life expectancy of a radio operator in a firefight in Vietnam war was 30 seconds.

    First target was the radio operator, second was the medic. Then move on to the officers and NCOs if you can identify them. I'm not sure when it started, but that's still standard procedure.


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    #174
    bertiebomber
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭bertiebomber


    there are real idiots in our community just read a personal issue about a girl who is lonely and an idiot told her to have a child by a sperm donor FFS


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    #175
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Today I learned where the name Porter come from for the style of beer.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_(beer)

    I also learned that Baltic Porter was names because brewers in places like Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland and Russia adopted the style but were brewing in colder conditions using German bottom fermentation which is suited for colder brewing.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #176
    Stihl waters
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Stihl waters


    seagull wrote: »
    First target was the radio operator, second was the medic. Then move on to the officers and NCOs if you can identify them. I'm not sure when it started, but that's still standard procedure.

    I thought, medics would be off limits for obvious reasons, do they still wear the red cross on the sleeve or is that just Hollywood films, imagine hearing you're the one doing the radio for the day, poor cnuts


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    #177
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Stihl waters wrote: »
    I thought, medics would be off limits for obvious reasons, do they still wear the red cross on the sleeve or is that just Hollywood films, imagine hearing you're the one doing the radio for the day, poor cnuts
    I think it was a full time post, radio man.
    Those radio packs used to put out a lot of radiation and still do. There are still radio men in the US who come back from Iraq, Afghanistan etc. with really bad permanent alopecia or a white 'skunk stripe' in their hair like a mohican.


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    #178
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Johnny Cash joined the Air Force at 18 and was stationed in Bavaria. His job was to intercept morse code messages and he was so good at it that he was promoted to the top man intercepting chatter from the Soviet Union.
    When news of Stalin's death began to break, Johnny was on duty and became the first American to hear about it.


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    #179
    Nexytus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭Nexytus


    seagull wrote: »
    First target was the radio operator, second was the medic. Then move on to the officers and NCOs if you can identify them. I'm not sure when it started, but that's still standard procedure.

    That's a very old tactic.
    At the battle of waterloo for example english skirmishers equipped with rifles(a cutting edge technology) were to specifically snipe for officers, despatch riders, signal men, and did so to good effect.


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    #180
    Four Phucs Ache
    Registered Users Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    Making batter with 7up is the only way to go.

    Unreal level of fluffy and crispy at same time.


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    #181
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    the purple tin wrote: »
    I think it was a full time post, radio man.
    Those radio packs used to put out a lot of radiation and still do. There are still radio men in the US who come back from Iraq, Afghanistan etc. with really bad permanent alopecia or a white 'skunk stripe' in their hair like a mohican.
    They were battery operated so not much power.


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