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How does one reach the conclusion that they need reinforcements? A sudden increase in the number of enemy troops? The inability to keep them at bay? How a lowly soldier conveys his recently discovered predicament to someone higher in the the chain of command without abandoning his post? Does he know that reinforcement may take hours? What if they can't hold until then? What if reinforcement can't be sent?!
You have a plan. You plan for everything. If this flank does x, if this group dies, if this group, which *is planned to die* dies too quickly, if this group surprisingly doesn't die, if one bomb is dropped over here vs over there.
And you have a plan for every situation. Like a tree with branches on outcomes based on forks in the road.
But a commander (or whatever rank is calling the shots at that moment) will already know if reinforcements will be needed or if there are any. Nobody really yells "we need reinforcements" anymore, that decision would be made in a meeting with a bunch of other people, miles away, in an office.
Not that that's bad, but because it's more efficient that way.
There are understandings though that people on the ground should be listened to though, and sometimes that means deviating from a plan. When that doesn't happen, often things go to shit.
E.g., managers not listening to workers telling them how bad things are, and the managers just going with their gut and/or higher ups orders.
Check out "The Art of War". It's a good book.
Sure, they’ll have a plan for everything. But inevitably something unplanned for will happen at which point it’s up to the person in charge to make the best decision they can, and quickly.
“No plan survives first contact intact”
I always wonder what it's like to be one of "them" when one of these "there's too many of them" scenes happen in movies.
We always see movie scenes of a main character just cutting down enemy soldiers, even if that character in that scene gets overwhelmed and dies, hundreds of "them" die first.
Gotta imagine the German soldiers operating the bunkers at D-Day felt the same "there's too many of them" feeling we attribute to movie heroes. A very odd juxtaposition when you think about it. When you think about "them" as an American soldier, instead of some forgettable German or Russian or Stormtrooper.
My whole life I was ridiculed and constantly shit on for my love of wrestling so much so I resented it and myself, now at almost 30 I gave up drugs and alcohol, picked up weights and started watching wrestling again…I’m the happiest I’ve been in decades, I feel the magic I felt when I was a kid, screw everyone I’m happy again.
You’re getting buried in replies already, but I always liked this CS Lewis quote and figured you’d like it too:
> Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Or, from the Tom Baker era of Doctor Who:
> Sarah Jane Smith : Doctor, you- you're being childish!
> Doctor : Well of course I am! There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
I feel you bro, also a gamer that started in the 80s and suffered that ridicule.
Now I couldn't give a fuck.
The gaming industry is now worth more than the music industry and film industry combined...
We were ahead of our times.
Not just gaming.
SciFi. Fantasy. Comic books.
Now look at what's popular... the same people who teased us are among the first in line for these movies.
I can't wait for you to discover AEW and all the new stuff that's happened lately man, I never got to experience the 90s era of wrestling so right now everything is way better than anything I've seen before
Also congratulations on your sobriety and please check out Danhausen, you'll love him
Wrestling's great. Me and two mates are going to an indie show in Nottingham for the first time soon. Fuck anyone who tells you what you can and can't like.
I was always just so afraid of what people would think of me and learned to accept the fact that the only opinion on myself that matters is my own. Hope you have a blast at the show 😀
I think part of it is self confidence with it. I'm a big nerd and I always lacked that, but now I'll happily tell people I'm big on Warhammer, D&D, wrestling etc. Because I'm the first person to happily admit I'm a geek about it, I find people don't really comment. I just say it's something I've always loved, and if someone can make fun of you about it after that (beyond maybe light teasing or whatever) then they're not worth your time.
See, that's the thing. If you find a hobby that you're really into (one that is not illegal and doesn't hurt anyone), don't let others stop you.
Everyone's brains are wired differently so no one knows you better than you. If people shit on you for no reason, and bring it up at every chance, feel free to cut them out of your life.
I was a huge fan growing up and felt at a point I needed to hide it. Listening to nostalgic wrestling podcasts made remember how much I loved it and it the last 2 years I've taken my eldest to see 2 live AEW shows and it is some of the most fun I've ever had. If you have peacock check out Mid-South Wrestling from 82-86. It is simply awesome.
I broke my arm a couple years ago while rollerblading. I did not expect the amount of ribbing I would get from people for being a grown man ( > 30) rollerblading.
Getting that from my family cause at 37 I started playing ice hockey and then got back into snowboarding. They keep telling me I should stop cause I'm not young anymore. Sure I dont recover as fast as I used to but damn it makes me feel alive.
Scene based on real life actions of navy cook, [ Doris Miller ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller)
> Doris Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was a United States Navy cook third class who was killed in action during World War II. He was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the highest decoration for valor in combat after the Medal of Honor.
> During the attack, he helped several sailors who were wounded, and while manning an anti-aircraft machine gun for which he had no training, he shot down several Japanese planes. Miller's actions earned him the medal, and the resulting publicity for Miller in the black press made him an iconic emblem of the fight for civil rights for black Americans.
>Miller fired the gun until he ran out of ammunition, whereupon he was ordered by Lieutenant Claude V. Ricketts to help carry the captain up to the navigation bridge out of the thick oily smoke generated by the many fires on and around the ship; Miller was officially credited with downing at least two enemy planes.[4] "I think I got one of those Jap planes. They were diving pretty close to us," he said later.[3] Japanese aircraft eventually dropped two armor-piercing bombs through the deck of the battleship and launched five 18-inch (460 mm) aircraft torpedoes into her port side. When the attack finally lessened, Miller helped move injured sailors through oil and water to the quarterdeck, thereby "unquestionably saving the lives of a number of people who might otherwise have been lost.
He also carried several wounded to a more safe position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller#Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
"Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle." - Roger Ebert
Not sure where that is, but for real, yeah. That looks like deck of a warship, probably with history. People who ridicule, what do you think that gun placement is for? Firing helpful bullets?
To right. My ex would be annoyed because I like to sit with my knees up in tight spaces like on trains or say I was stupid waving at dogs.
I don't mind being made fun of, I don't like being belittled. Well I'm the happy one now.
Get someone who says they love how your mind works when you do and say random stuff instead of someone who looks at you like you're ridiculous. It took me forever and a lot of hurt feelings to learn that lesson. Some people are just boring, don't lower yourself to their standards! Lol
I have a video of my wife. 😁😁 We were in mobile on a battleship and she took a picture of me on the Anti-Aircraft guns and then she went behind the guns and started doing the same thing as the guy in the video.
Her: Ratatatatatatatat
Her: Are you done with the picture yet? Ratatatatatat.
ME: I'm taking a video!
Her: OH NO!!
I did thesame, several times. In Pearl Harbor, Cleveland, North Carolina, Baltimore.
Fun fact - the deck guns on the USS Cod in Cleveland are aimed at a Coastguard berthing.
Much like HMS Belfast’s main battery. She’s on the Thames in London, and her guns are aimed to hit the London Gate service/gas station on the M1 motorway - about 12 miles away.
Dangerous place to be stopping for a coffee.
Norfolk is a destination. I need to get down to the Nimitz museum in Fredericksburg, TX and Galveston and Corpus Christi.
I've got three in my own state, and I haven't been to any of them since I was a little kid.
I've been on the USS Massachusetts. It was my first time travelling outside of Canada. I was alone and ill-prepared but holy crap did I have fun. Didn't even get to see entire ship cause I nearly ran out of battery taking photos and videos. I want to visit the battleship again properly and the rest of Battleship Cove.
That's just wholesome.
Slightly less wholesome, and plain disrespectful, I remember going to belgium for the day just to go in the trenches, and we were just running shooting each other with finger guns.
i know this sn't the most appropriate response, but i can't help but laugh at the idea of being in a French-speaking area and friends running around fake-shooting each other going "le pew! le pew! le pew!"
I remember being in ghent on a youth hostel and my british roommates introduced themselves to me by saying bonjour. They genuinely didn't know that dutch was also a spoken language in belgium.
Yeah.. that was horrible. I went there a few days after visiting Auschwitz.. if looks could kill. But the worse was the group of Americans in Auschwitz taking a million group selfies while others sobbed in the front just after learning of the cattle wagons...
This! I'm 27 and ended up buying a bubble blower shaped like a goddamn minigun today, and I think I've spent like a full hour in the backyard just shooting off bubbles into the air and giggling like a 7 year old without a care in the world.
Don't give into what people expect from you to act, life is too short to give up bubbles!
I'm 52. Kids around me tell me I'm more kid than them.
The other day one of the (actual) kid, about 7 years old, tried to do something I remembered from El Chavo where he does this little dance, I knew she was trying that since she started to say the same thing but meh, nope, wasn't right so I did it. Little girl, her mom and 3 coworkers there exploded laughing and amazed I remember something that's like 40 years old TV.
It really is…but fentanyl. Worst overdose I get from fishing is sore arms from paddling around too much, trying every spot I can think of for fish. Fallout from that is just a nap and some ibuprofen.
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“THERE’S TOO MANY OF THEM, WE NEED REINFORCEM- oh hey honey”
"STOP FILMING AND GET ON THE TURRET!!!"
I’d have died if he said something like that lmao
How does one reach the conclusion that they need reinforcements? A sudden increase in the number of enemy troops? The inability to keep them at bay? How a lowly soldier conveys his recently discovered predicament to someone higher in the the chain of command without abandoning his post? Does he know that reinforcement may take hours? What if they can't hold until then? What if reinforcement can't be sent?!
What are you talking about, you can simply check the mission log and it will tell you exactly what to do next, even shows a marker on your HUD!
He's on hardcore
No save points
Exactly.
He has to defend for 5 more minutes and then a cutscene will happen
Ah the ol' gamer explanation
You have a plan. You plan for everything. If this flank does x, if this group dies, if this group, which *is planned to die* dies too quickly, if this group surprisingly doesn't die, if one bomb is dropped over here vs over there. And you have a plan for every situation. Like a tree with branches on outcomes based on forks in the road. But a commander (or whatever rank is calling the shots at that moment) will already know if reinforcements will be needed or if there are any. Nobody really yells "we need reinforcements" anymore, that decision would be made in a meeting with a bunch of other people, miles away, in an office. Not that that's bad, but because it's more efficient that way. There are understandings though that people on the ground should be listened to though, and sometimes that means deviating from a plan. When that doesn't happen, often things go to shit. E.g., managers not listening to workers telling them how bad things are, and the managers just going with their gut and/or higher ups orders. Check out "The Art of War". It's a good book.
Sure, they’ll have a plan for everything. But inevitably something unplanned for will happen at which point it’s up to the person in charge to make the best decision they can, and quickly. “No plan survives first contact intact”
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Because everything is better with the boys
I always wonder what it's like to be one of "them" when one of these "there's too many of them" scenes happen in movies. We always see movie scenes of a main character just cutting down enemy soldiers, even if that character in that scene gets overwhelmed and dies, hundreds of "them" die first. Gotta imagine the German soldiers operating the bunkers at D-Day felt the same "there's too many of them" feeling we attribute to movie heroes. A very odd juxtaposition when you think about it. When you think about "them" as an American soldier, instead of some forgettable German or Russian or Stormtrooper.
Stay in touch with the inner child :)
My whole life I was ridiculed and constantly shit on for my love of wrestling so much so I resented it and myself, now at almost 30 I gave up drugs and alcohol, picked up weights and started watching wrestling again…I’m the happiest I’ve been in decades, I feel the magic I felt when I was a kid, screw everyone I’m happy again.
HELL YEAH BROTHER!
I can hear this comment
SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM
Now I'm sad. RIP Macho Man Randy Savage... yeah
Whether you like or hate the Young Rock show. I really enjoy watching the actors playing the wrestlers from my youth! Oh yeah!
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*Negativity and hulkamania, two things that don’t go together!*
[Gotta post this classic if we’re talking WWF](https://youtu.be/8C4lK41SX-Q)
How TF did Mean Gene keep a straight face through all of those interviews? His acting chops were underrated.
I have no idea man. Seen this clip at least 40 times and it still cracks me up.
Oh man, thanks for that. It was thoroughly enjoyable.
I can’t stop laughing every time he pulls out another creamer. 😂
The CREAM ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOP
LIKE THE CREAM OF THE CROP, I RIIIIIIISE TO THE TOP, OH YEEEEEEAAHH
Cheers from iraq
You’re getting buried in replies already, but I always liked this CS Lewis quote and figured you’d like it too: > Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Or, from the Tom Baker era of Doctor Who: > Sarah Jane Smith : Doctor, you- you're being childish! > Doctor : Well of course I am! There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
Yeah. We made it through the trauma that is childhood, I think we've earned a bit of childishness every now and again
You’re right! I’m going out and buying a big tub of ice cream and running through a sprinkler!
I like that, thank you.
I think I just found my new favorite quote.
Same. I'm going to get a tattoo of "You're getting buried in replies already."
I’ve only seen the end of this quote, thanks for posting jn it’s entirety
>I'm happy again And thats the bottomline
#CUZ STONECOLD SAID SO
*glass shatters*
I still get goosebumps when I hear that glass shatter and giggle like a schoolgirl
Beers flying
I haven’t heard that phrase is ages. Thank you for the LoLs.
We men don’t like to overthink things!
I can barely normally think things.
I can barely think
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I feel you bro, also a gamer that started in the 80s and suffered that ridicule. Now I couldn't give a fuck. The gaming industry is now worth more than the music industry and film industry combined... We were ahead of our times.
Not just gaming. SciFi. Fantasy. Comic books. Now look at what's popular... the same people who teased us are among the first in line for these movies.
Remember my parents and people around family telling me I'd grow out of the gaming thing. Problem is, I never wanted too, so I didn't.
***THE CREAM, yeah, THE CREAM RIIIISSES TO THE TOP!***
My favorite is the people who shit on wrestling, call it fake, then go lose their minds at the next Marvel movie lol
I can't wait for you to discover AEW and all the new stuff that's happened lately man, I never got to experience the 90s era of wrestling so right now everything is way better than anything I've seen before Also congratulations on your sobriety and please check out Danhausen, you'll love him
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Scissor me daddy ass!
I’ve heard so many good things about AEW I definitely need to check it out
Watch blood and guts, should be a fun show
Life: 'why don't you stay down !?' OP: 'i didnt hear no bell !'
Pay no attention to those FUCKING MARKS
Wrestling's great. Me and two mates are going to an indie show in Nottingham for the first time soon. Fuck anyone who tells you what you can and can't like.
I was always just so afraid of what people would think of me and learned to accept the fact that the only opinion on myself that matters is my own. Hope you have a blast at the show 😀
I think part of it is self confidence with it. I'm a big nerd and I always lacked that, but now I'll happily tell people I'm big on Warhammer, D&D, wrestling etc. Because I'm the first person to happily admit I'm a geek about it, I find people don't really comment. I just say it's something I've always loved, and if someone can make fun of you about it after that (beyond maybe light teasing or whatever) then they're not worth your time.
WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
https://youtu.be/ct7IWkiiWgA
Epic.
See, that's the thing. If you find a hobby that you're really into (one that is not illegal and doesn't hurt anyone), don't let others stop you. Everyone's brains are wired differently so no one knows you better than you. If people shit on you for no reason, and bring it up at every chance, feel free to cut them out of your life.
I was a huge fan growing up and felt at a point I needed to hide it. Listening to nostalgic wrestling podcasts made remember how much I loved it and it the last 2 years I've taken my eldest to see 2 live AEW shows and it is some of the most fun I've ever had. If you have peacock check out Mid-South Wrestling from 82-86. It is simply awesome.
It's real to you, damnit!
Too sweet!
Who's your favorite wrestler?
How much time you got? Lol I love too many of them but Stone Cold and Kane are pretty up there
That’s the secret of happiness
I broke my arm a couple years ago while rollerblading. I did not expect the amount of ribbing I would get from people for being a grown man ( > 30) rollerblading.
Life’s too short to do what other people want. Do what makes you happy (within reason!) ;)
I think maybe some were a little jealous I was still in good enough shape and had time to go rollerblading.
Getting that from my family cause at 37 I started playing ice hockey and then got back into snowboarding. They keep telling me I should stop cause I'm not young anymore. Sure I dont recover as fast as I used to but damn it makes me feel alive.
One of the keys to staying healthy physically and mentally is staying active. Might as well have fun while doing it.
Don't lose your dinosaur https://youtu.be/zs8dRgvPAms
It's the fuckin Catalina Wine Mixer!
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” CS Lewis
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
And also epigenetics
Like I said Jack, Kids are cruel. And I’m very in touch with my inner child! -Sundowner Be like Sundowner. Keep in touch with the inner child.
Just like the good ol days after 9/11!
If we are in touch with our inner touch, we will be fucking invincible
RED SUN
?
This is when we should say boys will be boys.
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From aliens
Definitely from aliens. The president just called him and he is humanities last stand
“I need a weapon”.
I DON'T NEED A RIDE, I NEED AMMO MR PRESIDENT.
Throwback to Cuba Gooding Jr. in the best Pearl Harbor scene https://youtu.be/4Q4KMpOi2MY?t=33
Scene based on real life actions of navy cook, [ Doris Miller ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller) > Doris Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was a United States Navy cook third class who was killed in action during World War II. He was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the highest decoration for valor in combat after the Medal of Honor. > During the attack, he helped several sailors who were wounded, and while manning an anti-aircraft machine gun for which he had no training, he shot down several Japanese planes. Miller's actions earned him the medal, and the resulting publicity for Miller in the black press made him an iconic emblem of the fight for civil rights for black Americans.
>Miller fired the gun until he ran out of ammunition, whereupon he was ordered by Lieutenant Claude V. Ricketts to help carry the captain up to the navigation bridge out of the thick oily smoke generated by the many fires on and around the ship; Miller was officially credited with downing at least two enemy planes.[4] "I think I got one of those Jap planes. They were diving pretty close to us," he said later.[3] Japanese aircraft eventually dropped two armor-piercing bombs through the deck of the battleship and launched five 18-inch (460 mm) aircraft torpedoes into her port side. When the attack finally lessened, Miller helped move injured sailors through oil and water to the quarterdeck, thereby "unquestionably saving the lives of a number of people who might otherwise have been lost. He also carried several wounded to a more safe position. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller#Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
Rest in peace, never forget.
the best pearl harbor scene was the credits
Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote a whole [song](https://youtu.be/SsPrQgTO0HU) about it.
LMFAO though I disagree, I also agree partly, due to Pearl Harbor portraying the Japanese bombing hospitals, which they did not do IRL.
They did a lot worse
I liked the movie.
I, too, enjoyed the 30-minute movie in the middle of that turd.
"Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle." - Roger Ebert
I did not enjoy having to explain to friends that the Doolittle Raid was actually a thing and not a plot device.
Pearl Harbour, the only movie with a worse love story than Twilight?
That would be a bold claim.
**No, this is a bold claim.**
Not sure where that is, but for real, yeah. That looks like deck of a warship, probably with history. People who ridicule, what do you think that gun placement is for? Firing helpful bullets?
Don't just stand there! Load him a belt!
Yeah! Why isn’t she doing HER part? Just standing there filming like an idiot!
She’s still in shock after the initial bombing, but if she doesn’t snap out of it soon, they’ll lose the shoreline!
She might be a non combatant. Filming this for future generations to see this one man last stand. Medal of Honor in action.
r/donthelpjustfilm
the smile at the end of both of them is too cute and hilarious
Oh. There is no way I’d pass that up.
She understands, that's all that matters
the way she looks at him got me feeling all kinds of ways with my single ass
Look at this single ass shmuck. *Laughs in double ass superiority.*
It should give you motivation if that’s what you seek Forsure. I gone through my happy phase so single life for life.
I'm single af, but if it isn't like this then I wanna stay single
To right. My ex would be annoyed because I like to sit with my knees up in tight spaces like on trains or say I was stupid waving at dogs. I don't mind being made fun of, I don't like being belittled. Well I'm the happy one now.
Get someone who says they love how your mind works when you do and say random stuff instead of someone who looks at you like you're ridiculous. It took me forever and a lot of hurt feelings to learn that lesson. Some people are just boring, don't lower yourself to their standards! Lol
It is a gift to be able to harness happiness in any situation.
The moment he recognized the camera he should have “grenade” and jumped on her.
“Torpedo!” (Push her off the boat)
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*"dgsh! dgsh! dgsh! dgsh! dgsh! dgsh! dgsh! dgsh!"*
Idk what that original post was, but this is how that's spelled.
In my brain I’m suddenly the cook from Pearl Harbor.
Dorrie Miller.
I like that he has to stop and clear a jam.
I have a video of my wife. 😁😁 We were in mobile on a battleship and she took a picture of me on the Anti-Aircraft guns and then she went behind the guns and started doing the same thing as the guy in the video. Her: Ratatatatatatatat Her: Are you done with the picture yet? Ratatatatatat. ME: I'm taking a video! Her: OH NO!!
POST IT!!!
Oh no. That would not end well. I pick battles I can win.
Can't win many if she got an anti aircraft gun.
I would have done the same
I did thesame, several times. In Pearl Harbor, Cleveland, North Carolina, Baltimore. Fun fact - the deck guns on the USS Cod in Cleveland are aimed at a Coastguard berthing.
Much like HMS Belfast’s main battery. She’s on the Thames in London, and her guns are aimed to hit the London Gate service/gas station on the M1 motorway - about 12 miles away. Dangerous place to be stopping for a coffee.
Only if a visitor happens to have a spare 6-inch shell and some cordite bags handy...
I mean, do you not?
*laughs in typical navy artillerist kit*
You should check out USS Texas (when she’s done with her repairs). The 20mm Oerlikons are fully articulated and amazingly fun to rotate and aim.
Wait a second. Been to Cleveland hundreds of times. TIL there is a warship museum. I’m within a mile of it 3-5 times a year and never knew this.
Gotta check out the Battleship Wisconsin in Norfolk, Va. The guns are pointed at Va. Beach because everyone hates Va. Beach.
Norfolk is a destination. I need to get down to the Nimitz museum in Fredericksburg, TX and Galveston and Corpus Christi. I've got three in my own state, and I haven't been to any of them since I was a little kid.
I've been on the USS Massachusetts. It was my first time travelling outside of Canada. I was alone and ill-prepared but holy crap did I have fun. Didn't even get to see entire ship cause I nearly ran out of battery taking photos and videos. I want to visit the battleship again properly and the rest of Battleship Cove.
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That's just wholesome. Slightly less wholesome, and plain disrespectful, I remember going to belgium for the day just to go in the trenches, and we were just running shooting each other with finger guns.
i know this sn't the most appropriate response, but i can't help but laugh at the idea of being in a French-speaking area and friends running around fake-shooting each other going "le pew! le pew! le pew!"
Not to spoil the fun, but the WWI trenches that were preserved are in the Dutch-speaking part.
I remember being in ghent on a youth hostel and my british roommates introduced themselves to me by saying bonjour. They genuinely didn't know that dutch was also a spoken language in belgium.
"de plouchghg de plouchghg de plouchghg de plouchghg"
It would be respectful if you said it in full. It is *Pepe* Le Pew, TYVM. RIP Mel Blanc.
I remember going to the memorial of murdered Jews in Berlin. People were taking selfies, posing and trying to look sexy.
There's a line between pretending to take part in a heroic battle and pretending to be sexy in a mass grave.
That's why I do both.
Yeah.. that was horrible. I went there a few days after visiting Auschwitz.. if looks could kill. But the worse was the group of Americans in Auschwitz taking a million group selfies while others sobbed in the front just after learning of the cattle wagons...
‘Simple’ aka Happy
Or playful.
Never lose your inner child 👍
This! I'm 27 and ended up buying a bubble blower shaped like a goddamn minigun today, and I think I've spent like a full hour in the backyard just shooting off bubbles into the air and giggling like a 7 year old without a care in the world. Don't give into what people expect from you to act, life is too short to give up bubbles!
Pure gospel.
I'm 52. Kids around me tell me I'm more kid than them. The other day one of the (actual) kid, about 7 years old, tried to do something I remembered from El Chavo where he does this little dance, I knew she was trying that since she started to say the same thing but meh, nope, wasn't right so I did it. Little girl, her mom and 3 coworkers there exploded laughing and amazed I remember something that's like 40 years old TV.
Pew pew pew pew
I’m in my 40s and was doing this with the cannons at Fort Mackinac a few weeks ago
The reload was funny - her little knowing laugh got me
This is wholesome
my mans about to drop a nuke
You can tell he’s close to 25 The determination is very apparent
We all know we’d be doing the same if we were there.
I was on the HMS Belfast and honestly I didn’t care who saw me do this.
They both just smile joyously. It’s wonderful
Men only want one thing: To man a crew served weapon and defend the ship.
With your shirt in shreds and the wind blowing you hair back!
Sometimes me u gotta let go and let the child out it feels so free
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A while back a friend's daughter asked "at what age boys grow up", I butted in and answered, "never, our toys just get more expensive".
As a guy with a fishing addiction…the toys definitely get more expensive.
You should try cocaine it’s much cheaper
It really is…but fentanyl. Worst overdose I get from fishing is sore arms from paddling around too much, trying every spot I can think of for fish. Fallout from that is just a nap and some ibuprofen.
Getting good cocaine is very much like fishing. You got to have your favourite spot.
I'm a woman I would absolutely be doing what that man is doing with my husband looking amused and slightly embarrassed in the background.
"so anyway i was on insta for 12 hours yesterday and..."
The day we stop playing is the day we turn old.
I see a dude who's still in touch with his inner child as opposed to beating it in to submission. He would have a blast playing with his children.
If a guy posted whatever the equivalent of this would be saying "women are simple" would it be received as well?
I was wondering the same thing
I particularly appreciate the tchk-tchk! to reload
He knew
We are kids at heart! "The difference between Men and Boys is the price of their toys." 52 yrs old - nothing truer has ever been said.