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Press-ganging prisoners who refused to join up the first time might be a really bad idea (beyond the obvious military, tactical issues) - you're giving a bunch of people who already don't like you guns and ammunition. I'd bet it wouldn't take long for Wagner commanders to be "accidentally"...

You mean like the creepy butler dude we saw at Vader's place in Rogue One?

I'm less inclined to say it's an honest error corrected ASAP thanks to this bit: "[Pence] asked for help "after it became public that documents with classified markings were found in President Joe Biden's Wilmington residence", the letter read." Sounds like he knew of them but wa...

This whole thing does rather bring to mind a SW quote from Thrawn that I really like: "The difference between an error and a mistake? An error becomes a mistake when it's not corrected."

Not a complete rehash, granted, but the basic elements are all the same - the outsider has to learn completely new skills to fit in "and avoid being useless" as the water chief dude said. Combine that with teenage angst and urgh, no thank you.

Fair points. Though on the whole "jake leaves" thing, I'm gonna chalk it up to "oh shit, people I actually like might get hurt, fuck it I'm out." Especially since nothing was said about the rest of the resistance stopping , and Jake's military training seemed to be why they were ...

So I got around to seeing this over the weekend and...eh. I honestly don't know what I think about it except that it's a barely-passable excuse of a plot stretched waaaay too long as cover for an (admittedly amazing) CGI nature documentary. When the space whales turned up I was half-expecting David ...

Either way it's good to see you around again. I was re-reading those SCRAMming Up and BARIS LP's of PeZook's over Christmas.

I miss Thanas. Not my favorite person, we didn't really like each other much, but I had respect for his knowledge and he often made me think or re-think topics. What happened to Thanas? Iron Man snapped his fingers. Holy fuckballs you're back! On a more relevant note, I wasn't around at the same ti...

Today I learned of another really awesome-sounding job title to add to my list. Specifically from the UK's Royal Armouries, the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery . Other examples include the Master Power Engineers working at UK powerplants (and possibly elsewhere) and the Head of Solar System Operati...

Isn't this also what happened to the Wehrmacht in WW2? Not bringing winter clothing and provisions because it was "a short war?"

Solauren wrote: ↑2022-12-19 11:57am Gamer Words to live by:
"Rip and Tear, until it is done"

Nice

I always opted for "don't start it, finish it."

Or, the NSFW comment from a colleague: "The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed."

TIL that Americans get shot at often enough that they have to specify the "first time" rather than "the time."

This concerns me.

Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2022-10-22 04:34pm May fired her. Boris hired again. She resigned at the end of his (first) premiership

Ahhh. To be honest I lost track of what the fuckers were doing half the time.

Really? Didn't Boris fire her?

Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2022-10-22 11:18am Boris supposedly has enough backers.

FFS we're getting him back aren't we?

I suspect a lot of the Tory MP's are looking at the Truss shitshow and thinking "Better the devil we know, at least he managed to win an election for us."

One of the tabloids (if memory serves) had a bet over which would last longer - Liz Truss or the shelf-life of a freshly bought lettuce.

The lettuce has won.

The Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany's reply is possibly the funniest diplomatic message I have ever seen. “Fuck off is my very diplomatic reply to you,” tweeted Andrij Melnyk, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany. “The only outcome is that now no Ukrainian will EVER buy your f…ing Tesla crap. So good...

"rail strike causes early exodus from Tory party conference, with many mp's skipping the PM's key speech". Lol. RMT plans a rail strike specifically on dates for the Tory conference, then says "nope, this definitely isn't political." Dude, I've heard better liars at the Tory par...

As a Deadpool teaser that is both WTF and totally in-character.

Fair enough. So half-breeds are possible but quarter-breeds are not? (wasn't very attentive in biology class). If memory serves, to have fertile offspring two creatures need to be the same species. To have viable offspring (as is, they'll live to adulthood but be infertile) you need to be in the sa...

Fair enough. So half-breeds are possible but quarter-breeds are not? (wasn't very attentive in biology class). If memory serves, to have fertile offspring two creatures need to be the same species. To have viable offspring (as is, they'll live to adulthood but be infertile) you need to be in the sa...

Does that make him the Royal Family's official dogsbody?

That was my thinking on reading it as well - seems to be the kind of remarks that you can slant to whatever viewpoint you want. It does seems pretty naive though - as a non-combatant country, I'm struggling to see what more we could be doing to bring about peace, especially since the RUssians don't...

That was my thinking on reading it as well - seems to be the kind of remarks that you can slant to whatever viewpoint you want. It does seems pretty naive though - as a non-combatant country, I'm struggling to see what more we could be doing to bring about peace, especially since the RUssians don't ...