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I won't quibble as to whether it was "heroic" or not. (It is.) But it was most definitely badass, and this thread is for "These Badasses Right Here."
And how about another he...badass:
http://www.conscript-heroes.com/Art13-Johnny-Hopper-960.html
During those years Hopper discovered that he had another calling: he was a killer. For two years before he was caught he roamed the roads of German-occupied Normandy and the streets of German-occupied Paris, committing acts of armed robbery, arson, forgery and murder. He derailed trains, he blew up oil and ammunition depots, he assassinated French policemen and German Army officers, he shot his way out of ambushes laid for him by the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst and the French Gendarmerie.
Once a friend asked him, as they hid in a hedge by a roadside in Normandy, "Look, Johnny, suppose the Shleuhs (a Moroccan tribe, a French slang name for Germans) win this bloody war. What will we do then?" "We'll go on doing then what we are doing now," said Hopper, and pressed down a plunger to set off a mine that blew up a German staff car imprudently keeping to its strict daily schedule.
I learned a great deal the first time I ever shot a man, a French policeman named Bernard. He had stopped my car and ordered me to drive him to police headquarters, and when he saw that I was heading for open country, he pulled out his gun. I was quicker, I shot him in the head. It was a small gun, a 7-millimetre, and it only wounded him. I dropped him off at a hospital with a word of advice about keeping his month shut."
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French girl fucks up Nazi fucks.
"It happened all very quickly," she told AFP. "I didn't want to shoot him in the back... I wanted him to see me, so he would have time to get his weapon out.
"He turned and I put two bullets in his head. He dropped like a stone. He didn't suffer.
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16 hours ago, BabaYaga said:
Same. Far from being proficient, but I roll a little when I can. They are chill because they test themselves every day. Against their peers. They have nothing to prove to anyone. Best way to get rid of bullying and fighting is to teach everyone how to fight. You're a lot less apt to start swinging when you've been on the receiving end of someone who knows how to throw a punch.
Get your toxic masculinity out of here!
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Asking this question because of a work associate. He's been put on "administrative leave" for general assholisness caused by what I would call heavy drinking. Work has been rough and he recently went through a rough custody battle with his ex wife. No excuse there, of course, but it seems to have been the trigger. Was taking half-day vacations to go to the bar and complain about work. (He's a manager.) Missed a few work meetings. New general manager had enough and suspended him. Took his phone and laptop. There's talk he'll get the opportunity for rehab, comped by his employer.
My question is this: Is he an alcoholic? Definitely has a drinking problem, but is everyone with a "problem" also an alcoholic? And if there IS a distinction between the two, how will that affect his treatment? Apologies if these are simplistic questions. I just have no experience with this at all. TIA
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My sentiment is the same. I don't recall where the "THEE" thing started, but so what. Big deal.
Regarding the trademark, the University has always had a Nazi Gestapo in our trademark department. Several years ago we sued Ohio University for the exclusive right to put "Ohio" on a t shirt. (We may have won that fight too. Not sure.) I do not endorse that. -
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2019/08/13/michigan-football-jim-harbaugh-james-hudson-transfer-waiver/2004423001/
This goes back to a comment Harbaugh made at B1G media days about players using mental health as an excuse to transfer. He has a player, James Hudson, do just that and the Media latched on to it. Hudson's mom followed up by saying he had worked to block the transfer.
Cincy coach Luke Fickell yesterday lit him up over the whole deal; for trying to block it. Fick is a good guy and not prone to blowing his top in public. For him to call out a coach like this is a big deal.
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2019/08/13/michigan-football-jim-harbaugh-james-hudson-transfer-waiver/2004423001/
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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29380/evidence-grows-that-russians-nuclear-powered-doomsday-missile-was-what-blew-up-last-weekDetails remain scarce about Burevestnik and how it works, but the most prominent working theory is that its main propulsion source is a nuclear ramjet. A weapon in this configuration would use rocket motors – potentially liquid-fueled, which would explain the source of the explosion in this accident – to boost it to the optimal speed for the ramjet to work. After that, air would pass over the nuclear reactor and get heated before passing through an exhaust nozzle at the rear to produce thrust.
This, in principle, would give the weapon virtually unlimited range and a maximum flying time measured in days or weeks. Another possibility might be that it uses a nuclear thermal rocket, which uses a liquid fuel source instead of air, but this would have a more limited flight time compared to an air-breathing design given its use of a more finite fuel source. Reports of "liquid fuel" may also point to a liquid fuel reactor design.
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China Sucks
in Cloak Room
When you're mad at Canada, you're on the wrong side of history.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-canada-hong-kong-embassy-meddling-1.5251663