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takashi0:

pochowek:

Things you can bully america for without mentioning guns

• Fahrenheit
  
• inches, feet and miles
  
• california valley girl speak
• kraft singles
• corn dogs
• shoes indoors
• making grilled cheese in a pan
• the existence of the 4kids sings national anthem video

>Shoes indoors

Tennessean here, What kind of fuckin’ Barbarian does that?

>making grilled cheese in a pan

What… other way is there to make grilled cheese? Besides Alton Brown’s “grill the bread and melt the cheese on a grill and then combine them into a holy combination”

switch-up-snowfox:

ivan-fyodorovich:

czechs-and-holdings:

cerastes:

Look, I haven’t much interest in airplanes or warships aside from historical and anecdotal purposes, but firearms? Those wholly fall in my interest, and I can tell you exactly how ineffective “Nazi Supertechnology” was.

This is the MG 42.

This idiot gun, man.

As a firearm, it’s a good piece. Low cost, easy to produce, easy to disassemble and reassemble, easy to maintain, easy to operate, and reliable. What was the problem? It’s firing rate.

This idiot shoots around 1200 rounds per minute. Compared to other machine guns of its time, that’s about double to 1.5 times more rounds. The M1919 Browning was something like 450 rounds per minute, the Bren shoots roughly half at an approximate 600 rounds per minute. This was bad, because the Nazis weren’t exactly rich and lush with resources, ammunition included. Lightly squeezing the trigger of this thing shot from 4 to 7 rounds, which is a waste when you just want to do some light tapping instead of full on suppression fire or, you know, when you wanna conserve ammo because you don’t have a lot of it to begin with.

They called this thing “Hitler’s Buzzsaw” because of the sound it made when shooting. This wasn’t a compliment. Even when Mauser had produced a firearm that is, by all means, not bad at all, it still wasn’t what they needed. It’s a gun that didn’t take logistics into account, and hey hey, logistics kind of make or break a war. So there you had some Nazi shitheads, in their pillbox or their sundry fortification, trying to secure an area or perhaps a escape route, shooting small bursts to keep Allied soldiers from fuckrushing their position or flanking them, when SWOOSH they were out of ammo earlier than predicted, because the idiot buzzsaw ate so much ammo that it was just a liability rather than an advantage. You don’t need extreme firing rates in the first place. What was the point? Looking impressive. Seeming impressive. That’s all Nazis ever managed: Looking dangerous. I am not saying they weren’t a threat in World War II, I am saying that they weren’t the Ultra Mega Broly Superscience Megaentity some people love trying to make them out to be (”Nazis would’ve put people on Mars by the 70s!” haha choke on dick and die, dude), they were just really good at looking in control but otherwise were winging it, like that kid we all knew in school or college that clearly prepared his Powerpoint presentation at 2:30 AM and would just grab a paragraph summary from Wikipedia to recite it by memory and was really, really hoping no one would make questions.

So going back to ground zero of this post, I can tell you, with all certainty, that they didn’t know what the fuck they were doing with the firearms. They produced, like, a good assault rifle on the tail end of the war, mind you (StG44), but, haha, yeah, too little, too late. I don’t know about navy and air force enough to tell you with detail how bad they were at those, too, but I can tell you they were bad at those, too. Others can explain boats and planes better than I can. The point here is: “Nazi Supertechnology” is a dumb meme, and you’re dumb if you believe it.

“Look at you! You have HORSES! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!”

The STG actually smashes itself apart after extended use, but the Nazis didn’t get to field them long enough to discover that design flaw

the most i can say is that even in wolfeinstein the only way that the evil german scientist was able to make actual nazi supertech was by raiding the vaults of secret jewish supertech scientists.

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dirtylevi:

I feel the need to warn those of you that use Kissanime that they are now apparently mass perma-banning anyone who uses adblock on their site. Any adblock too, it doesn’t matter which one. I just got permanently banned for going onto their homepage ONCE to see their popularity list for all of five seconds, and I don’t have an account so they’re full on banning IP’s.

If you use Kissanime, at this point, I’d highly recommend you move to another site. The fact that they are now forcing their malware ridden ads on people and banning anyone who attempts to protect their pc is outright absurd. Especially since it’s an illegal streaming site to begin with. I’d suggest you move to 9anime or another site altogether at this point. But If you simply want to take the risk, be sure to turn off adblock or face being perma-banned.

In my opinion, their site isn’t worth the hassle or the popups and shit rapidvideo player at this point.

Use masteranime. Better interface, no bullshit.

(via takashi0)

orteil42:

orteil42:

*at obscure fetish party* anyway here’s wonder bread

been getting threats of violence over this one and honestly? that’s fair

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