CunningCanuk
Well-Known Member
I’m getting tired of shovelling snow, for fuck sakes.
The Junk Drawer
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Jimdamick
Well-Known Member
Groucho Marx told the truth (or was it Karl?) when he said
"Fentanyl is the Religion of the Masses"
Truer words have never been spoken
Same as how today's republicans aren't yesterdays republicans. This is just what it is what it is now.
That looks like some really dry snow.
Jimdamick
Well-Known Member
I envy you, those are the nicest models I've ever seen.
Works of Art
I liked war models, like planes/tanks/ships.
This was my favorite plane, the P-51 Mustang (then a Spit)
and tank (German Tiger 1)
and yes, I did build a Bismark & it survived many a battle in my tub
Definitely the hardest model I ever made, fucking hundreds of pieces
You know what?
Fuck it
I'm gonna get some glue & a model.
Why not?
Get a nice chair & table setup/some tunes & a little herb & this
I think I shall
CunningCanuk
Well-Known Member
When I was a kid I built model war planes too. This was my favourite:I envy you, those are the nicest models I've ever seen.
Works of Art
I liked war models, like planes/tanks/ships.
This was my favorite plane, the P-51 Mustang (then a Spit)
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and tank (German Tiger 1)
View attachment 5087858
and yes, I did build a Bismark & it survived many a battle in my tub
Definitely the hardest model I ever made, fucking hundreds of pieces
View attachment 5087861
You know what?
Fuck it
I'm gonna get some glue & a model.
Why not?
Get a nice chair & table setup/some tunes & a little herb & this
View attachment 5087883
I think I shall
Jimdamick
Well-Known Member
You're living in the wrong place then, pussy.
This where you want to be & I'm sure you'd love it
Jimdamick
Well-Known Member
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Paul Drake
Well-Known Member
NooooYou're living in the wrong place then, pussy.
This where you want to be & I'm sure you'd love it
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CunningCanuk
Well-Known Member
Remember this show?Cosair was a very cool plane with the folding wings.
It ate many a Zero
topcat
Well-Known Member
I built the cars, planes, ships, too. I put together a guillotine that I later used as a prop for a class assignment.
Say, does anyone know where I can buy a Willy's model. I've looked, and all I can find are hot rod versions of the coupe. I want the pickup, or wagon. I'd really like a model of a Jeep Comanche.
xtsho
Well-Known Member
The show was fiction but there actually was a real life "Pappy" and he was actually an adviser for the show. I never missed an episode.
Actually the Child Tax Credit paid monthly at $300 for each child was a symbol under The American Rescue Act.Did you ever feel like sharing something interesting, but you felt it wasn't worthy of a thread of its own or didn't fit the other threads?
I know I do, like every day actually
.
So, I thought this could fit the ticket/work, a "Junk Drawer", a thread to toss stuff in that you think is cool/has merit.
Political stuff is nice but not absolutely necessary
So, until the mods pull it (I hope not
Basically anything your luvly hearts/corrupt minds desires
This is my 1st piece of junk.
It's very good but rather long, but I broke it up when I watched it.
They make good points as to why the Dems are getting shredded not only in the South but throughout the Midwestern states.
These communities feel/felt forgotten/abandoned by mostly everyone, especially the Dems & except for Donald J Trump they were alone.
And unfortunately, they were.
He heard them alright and brought his Carnival act with him to his rallies throughout the country.
And they loved it
What more can one ask for?
NOTHING!!!!
Corn dogs/fried butter/popcorn & a few Longhorns or PBA's & Trump, live & in person!
Heaven has come to Bum-Fuck
Believe it or not, they bonded with that Motherfucker from Queens, NY.
Figure that the fuck out.
Conman that he is, he saw the suckers flaying they're arms screaming Help Me & he answered & now we exist in this pile of shit left by Trump.
And that will be another legacy of Trump & that is turning the rural voter Republican
Fuck the Oath Keepers/Proud Boys. as far as a danger is concerned
They ain't shit, but millions of disaffected Dems in those Red states are/could be a problem
Combined with those Republican Trump freaks, they definitely are a force that badly needs attention
It's on the horizon & I'm glad it's being noticed now
I hope it's not too late.
The non-renewal of same due to Democratic obstruction by the Senator of the poorest state in the nation is yet another symbol.
smokinrav
Well-Known Member
The F-4U was my favorite plane of the war, probably because Pappy Boyington was a childhood hero of mine. Right behind that is the P-40 Warhawk, Because Col.Claire Chennault was another boyhood hero, and he and a ragtag group of aviators (AVG) used inferior planes with superior tactics to beat the Japanese years before we entered the war
From inside? Hang em high..they're not scared of anything because there's no accountability. I'd start there..accountability.
On the Path to Day X: The Return of Germany’s Far Right (Published 2021)
A timeline of key moments for understanding the far right in modern Germany.www.nytimes.com
There is a version of Germany known around the world.
A liberal democracy, an economic powerhouse in Europe and a country that atones for the Holocaust with memorials and history lessons in every public school.
It’s the Germany that elected Angela Merkel and admitted over a million refugees.
But in the shadows of this national image, far-right extremism lurks. Over the past few years, the country has suffered a series of deadly far-right terror attacks and uncovered what prosecutors say was an assassination plot intended to bring down the German government.
On the Path to Day X: The Return of Germany’s Far Right
In 2017, a German soldier was discovered living an elaborate double life. First Lt. Franco A., whose surname is abbreviated in keeping with German privacy laws, faked a Syrian identity and posed as a refugee, only to be arrested 16 months later while retrieving a loaded gun in an airport bathroom. The mysterious case cracked the door open to a network of far-right extremists inside the German military and the police. They are preparing for the collapse of democracy — a coming apocalypse they call Day X.
In our new audio series, Day X, we explore the recent resurgence of the far right in Germany. It’s a story about a changing national identity — and the backlash against it — raising a question that democracies across the world are waking up to: What happens when the threat is coming from within?
While the series is focused on Germany’s present, it’s also a story inseparable from Germany’s past. Below, we set out some key moments for the far right in modern Germany, and highlight some earlier events that may help to understand the threat is poses.
The article starts off with historical background.
Too bad about Dresden, BTW. Maybe Hitler's Nazis should have just stuck to hanging paper instead of people.
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It's a good article and a good read. Thanks, @Kassiopeija for showing us your true colors.
Unclebaldrick
Well-Known Member
Thank you Tamiya.I envy you, those are the nicest models I've ever seen.
Works of Art
I liked war models, like planes/tanks/ships.
This was my favorite plane, the P-51 Mustang (then a Spit)
View attachment 5087856
and tank (German Tiger 1)
View attachment 5087858
and yes, I did build a Bismark & it survived many a battle in my tub
Definitely the hardest model I ever made, fucking hundreds of pieces
View attachment 5087861
You know what?
Fuck it
I'm gonna get some glue & a model.
Why not?
Get a nice chair & table setup/some tunes & a little herb & this
View attachment 5087883
I think I shall
Now Jim you could've chosen any one of the hundred you've already started.Did you ever feel like sharing something interesting, but you felt it wasn't worthy of a thread of its own or didn't fit the other threads?
I know I do, like every day actually
.
So, I thought this could fit the ticket/work, a "Junk Drawer", a thread to toss stuff in that you think is cool/has merit.
Political stuff is nice but not absolutely necessary
So, until the mods pull it (I hope not
Basically anything your luvly hearts/corrupt minds desires
This is my 1st piece of junk.
It's very good but rather long, but I broke it up when I watched it.
They make good points as to why the Dems are getting shredded not only in the South but throughout the Midwestern states.
These communities feel/felt forgotten/abandoned by mostly everyone, especially the Dems & except for Donald J Trump they were alone.
And unfortunately, they were.
He heard them alright and brought his Carnival act with him to his rallies throughout the country.
And they loved it
What more can one ask for?
NOTHING!!!!
Corn dogs/fried butter/popcorn & a few Longhorns or PBA's & Trump, live & in person!
Heaven has come to Bum-Fuck
Believe it or not, they bonded with that Motherfucker from Queens, NY.
Figure that the fuck out.
Conman that he is, he saw the suckers flaying they're arms screaming Help Me & he answered & now we exist in this pile of shit left by Trump.
And that will be another legacy of Trump & that is turning the rural voter Republican
Fuck the Oath Keepers/Proud Boys. as far as a danger is concerned
They ain't shit, but millions of disaffected Dems in those Red states are/could be a problem
Combined with those Republican Trump freaks, they definitely are a force that badly needs attention
It's on the horizon & I'm glad it's being noticed now
I hope it's not too late.
Unclebaldrick
Well-Known Member
Regarding P.J. O'Rourke:
The Last Funny Conservative
Opinion
Guest Essay
The Last Funny Conservative
Feb. 18, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET
P.J.O'RourkeCredit... David Howells/Corbis, via Getty Images
By Christopher Buckley
Mr. Buckley is a novelist and humorist.
“How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?” my friend P.J. O’Rourke asked me one less-than-sober evening years ago. The answer was “One — and that’s not funny!”
He was a fellow of infinite jest. I can scarcely recall, over the 40 years we were friends, P.J. saying anything that wasn’t funny.
Of all human failings, he found humorlessness the funniest. Back then, the political left was so earnest about saving the world that there was no room for laughter, which denoted a lack of earnestness. Self-deprecating humor, P.J.’s trademark, wasn’t allowed because it could undermine the mission. Saving the world was no laughing matter. One titter and the whole edifice could come crashing down.
Humorlessness has crept in its petty pace to the right, where it is conducted with North Korean-level solemnity by the bellowing myrmidons of MAGAdom. A sense of humor, much less self-awareness, are not traits found in cults of personality. If Tucker Carlson has said anything advertently funny, witty or self-knowing from his bully pulpit, I missed it. Maybe you had to be there.
P.J. O’Rourke’s death marks the end of a particular and an essential sensibility. He found humor everywhere and in everything, especially in his fellow Republicans. We’ve lost more than the man The Wall Street Journal called “the funniest writer in America.” We’ve lost the last funny conservative.
The boomer gen’s H.L. Mencken, P.J. was summa contra everything, but joyously. If you weren’t laughing, you weren’t listening. Along with his peers Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker, he was hyperaphoristic.
“The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.”
“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.”
“Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly, and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.”
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free.”
P.J. was a Serious Man — in the sense of what his forebear Mencken might call an ernst mann — who declined to take himself seriously. That’s not to say he lacked ego. (An egoless writer is the very definition of oxymoron.) But he reveled in his various poses — the entitled, whiny boomer; the stoner high school student; the uncultured bumpkin from Toledo, Ohio; the annoyed boozer who joins DAMM, Drunks Against Mad Mothers — as much as he did in the preposterousness of his targets. He was hugely erudite and deeply read. Like another of his paradigms, Tom Wolfe, he had no illusions that he was anything more than just another player in la comédie humaine. A firm belief in human fallibility is an essential element of the conservative temperament.
P.J. wasn’t the only conservative pundit to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but he didn’t try to spray Febreze on his ballot. He voted with clothespin firmly affixed to his nose. Mrs. Clinton, he said, was wrong “about absolutely everything,” except in one regard: She wasn’t Donald Trump. “Politics,” as he’d written, “is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, or a necessary conundrum.”
The Trump era could have been one great big enormous sandbox for P.J. to play in. Instead, he found it dispiriting, a pageant of stupidity, boorishness and coarseness.
His last book, “A Cry From the Far Middle: Dispatches From a Divided Land,” published in 2021, shows him in top form, but in it there’s a note of wistfulness. The last time I visited with him, he told me, “You know, I’ve been doing this for a [expletive] half century. I’m tired.”
The weariness didn’t show. Now that he’s gone, the proverbial baton is passed to a new generation of conservative satirists, specifically Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene. And that isn’t funny.
The Last Funny Conservative
Opinion
Guest Essay
The Last Funny Conservative
Feb. 18, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET
P.J.O'RourkeCredit... David Howells/Corbis, via Getty Images
By Christopher Buckley
Mr. Buckley is a novelist and humorist.
“How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?” my friend P.J. O’Rourke asked me one less-than-sober evening years ago. The answer was “One — and that’s not funny!”
He was a fellow of infinite jest. I can scarcely recall, over the 40 years we were friends, P.J. saying anything that wasn’t funny.
Of all human failings, he found humorlessness the funniest. Back then, the political left was so earnest about saving the world that there was no room for laughter, which denoted a lack of earnestness. Self-deprecating humor, P.J.’s trademark, wasn’t allowed because it could undermine the mission. Saving the world was no laughing matter. One titter and the whole edifice could come crashing down.
Humorlessness has crept in its petty pace to the right, where it is conducted with North Korean-level solemnity by the bellowing myrmidons of MAGAdom. A sense of humor, much less self-awareness, are not traits found in cults of personality. If Tucker Carlson has said anything advertently funny, witty or self-knowing from his bully pulpit, I missed it. Maybe you had to be there.
P.J. O’Rourke’s death marks the end of a particular and an essential sensibility. He found humor everywhere and in everything, especially in his fellow Republicans. We’ve lost more than the man The Wall Street Journal called “the funniest writer in America.” We’ve lost the last funny conservative.
The boomer gen’s H.L. Mencken, P.J. was summa contra everything, but joyously. If you weren’t laughing, you weren’t listening. Along with his peers Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker, he was hyperaphoristic.
“The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.”
“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.”
“Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly, and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.”
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free.”
P.J. was a Serious Man — in the sense of what his forebear Mencken might call an ernst mann — who declined to take himself seriously. That’s not to say he lacked ego. (An egoless writer is the very definition of oxymoron.) But he reveled in his various poses — the entitled, whiny boomer; the stoner high school student; the uncultured bumpkin from Toledo, Ohio; the annoyed boozer who joins DAMM, Drunks Against Mad Mothers — as much as he did in the preposterousness of his targets. He was hugely erudite and deeply read. Like another of his paradigms, Tom Wolfe, he had no illusions that he was anything more than just another player in la comédie humaine. A firm belief in human fallibility is an essential element of the conservative temperament.
P.J. wasn’t the only conservative pundit to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but he didn’t try to spray Febreze on his ballot. He voted with clothespin firmly affixed to his nose. Mrs. Clinton, he said, was wrong “about absolutely everything,” except in one regard: She wasn’t Donald Trump. “Politics,” as he’d written, “is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, or a necessary conundrum.”
The Trump era could have been one great big enormous sandbox for P.J. to play in. Instead, he found it dispiriting, a pageant of stupidity, boorishness and coarseness.
His last book, “A Cry From the Far Middle: Dispatches From a Divided Land,” published in 2021, shows him in top form, but in it there’s a note of wistfulness. The last time I visited with him, he told me, “You know, I’ve been doing this for a [expletive] half century. I’m tired.”
The weariness didn’t show. Now that he’s gone, the proverbial baton is passed to a new generation of conservative satirists, specifically Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene. And that isn’t funny.
injinji
Well-Known Member
I've read some Chris Buckley. He's pretty funny.Regarding P.J. O'Rourke:
The Last Funny Conservative
Opinion
Guest Essay
The Last Funny Conservative
Feb. 18, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET
P.J.O'RourkeCredit... David Howells/Corbis, via Getty Images
By Christopher Buckley
Mr. Buckley is a novelist and humorist.
“How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?” my friend P.J. O’Rourke asked me one less-than-sober evening years ago. The answer was “One — and that’s not funny!”
He was a fellow of infinite jest. I can scarcely recall, over the 40 years we were friends, P.J. saying anything that wasn’t funny.
Of all human failings, he found humorlessness the funniest. Back then, the political left was so earnest about saving the world that there was no room for laughter, which denoted a lack of earnestness. Self-deprecating humor, P.J.’s trademark, wasn’t allowed because it could undermine the mission. Saving the world was no laughing matter. One titter and the whole edifice could come crashing down.
Humorlessness has crept in its petty pace to the right, where it is conducted with North Korean-level solemnity by the bellowing myrmidons of MAGAdom. A sense of humor, much less self-awareness, are not traits found in cults of personality. If Tucker Carlson has said anything advertently funny, witty or self-knowing from his bully pulpit, I missed it. Maybe you had to be there.
P.J. O’Rourke’s death marks the end of a particular and an essential sensibility. He found humor everywhere and in everything, especially in his fellow Republicans. We’ve lost more than the man The Wall Street Journal called “the funniest writer in America.” We’ve lost the last funny conservative.
The boomer gen’s H.L. Mencken, P.J. was summa contra everything, but joyously. If you weren’t laughing, you weren’t listening. Along with his peers Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker, he was hyperaphoristic.
“The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.”
“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.”
“Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly, and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.”
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free.”
P.J. was a Serious Man — in the sense of what his forebear Mencken might call an ernst mann — who declined to take himself seriously. That’s not to say he lacked ego. (An egoless writer is the very definition of oxymoron.) But he reveled in his various poses — the entitled, whiny boomer; the stoner high school student; the uncultured bumpkin from Toledo, Ohio; the annoyed boozer who joins DAMM, Drunks Against Mad Mothers — as much as he did in the preposterousness of his targets. He was hugely erudite and deeply read. Like another of his paradigms, Tom Wolfe, he had no illusions that he was anything more than just another player in la comédie humaine. A firm belief in human fallibility is an essential element of the conservative temperament.
P.J. wasn’t the only conservative pundit to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but he didn’t try to spray Febreze on his ballot. He voted with clothespin firmly affixed to his nose. Mrs. Clinton, he said, was wrong “about absolutely everything,” except in one regard: She wasn’t Donald Trump. “Politics,” as he’d written, “is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, or a necessary conundrum.”
The Trump era could have been one great big enormous sandbox for P.J. to play in. Instead, he found it dispiriting, a pageant of stupidity, boorishness and coarseness.
His last book, “A Cry From the Far Middle: Dispatches From a Divided Land,” published in 2021, shows him in top form, but in it there’s a note of wistfulness. The last time I visited with him, he told me, “You know, I’ve been doing this for a [expletive] half century. I’m tired.”
The weariness didn’t show. Now that he’s gone, the proverbial baton is passed to a new generation of conservative satirists, specifically Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene. And that isn’t funny.
injinji
Well-Known Member
War themed TV shows are a big part of the reality gap folks have regarding war. My dad spent 6 months in a German POW camp. Needless to say, Hogan's Heroes was not watched at our house. (an example of the real thing. . . . When Allied bombing raids were going on, they would put all the prisoners in boxcars on the train tracks hoping for a pr win if a bunch of them got killed by their own side)