(((Simon TORIES ARE SCUM Hales)))

@Render1ng1898 England is big enough to split into federal states. Bring back Mercia, Wessex and Northumbria 😀

Imagine if: 🇮🇪United Irish Republic - Capital: Dublin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish Republic - Capital: Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Welsh Republic - Capital: Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿English Republic - Capital: Birmingham 👑Kingdom of London - Capital: London

@iamAtheistGirl Far right protesters usually start drinking well in advance of their demos and get hammered. Left wing protesters go to the pub afterwards 😀

why do i keep seeing pictures of men and women peeing on the streets of the UK? seems fairly disrespectful 😬

@crusade_enjoyer Same with the Lancaster and Vulcan.

The same guy designed the P-38 and the SR-71.

@Oct7NeverForget Isn't this known as "Perfidity"? Germans who dressed as US troops during the Battle of the Bulge were shot (legally) on capture rather than treated as POWs.

During one operation, Ukrainian forces quickly captured a column of Russian armored vehicles. But instead of simply blowing up the tanks and IFVs, Ukrainian crews did something the Russians never expected. They climbed into the captured Russian tanks, switched on the Russian radios, and calmly drove deep into enemy territory pretending to be Russian forces. The Russian convoy had been moving in tight formation. Ukrainian soldiers rapidly neutralized the crews, seized the vehicles, and within minutes were driving along the very road the occupiers had just used. They spoke Russian over the radio, used Russian call signs, and even copied the style of Russian communications. At checkpoints, Russian troops simply waved them through, believing they were friendly units returning from a mission. The Ukrainians then drove straight onto the grounds of a Russian brigade headquarters. Once the tanks were inside the base, Ukrainian crews suddenly turned their turrets and opened fire. Headquarters buildings, ammunition depots, and vehicle parks instantly descended into chaos. Russian troops ran between tents in panic, shouting and firing in every direction — but it was already too late. They had allowed a “Trojan horse” directly into their own base. The entire operation lasted only minutes. Ukrainian forces captured the headquarters, took Russian officers prisoner, destroyed key military targets, and withdrew without losses.

@DrNeilStone Vaccines have had some side effects for me. Such as degrading vision, hair loss and the odd random ache and pain. This is because I have lived to >50 (so far) and not died of preventable childhood diseases 😀

Would you rather have the polio vaccine or polio? Yes it's an IQ test

@iamAtheistGirl Depends on the religion. Cats were once worshipped as gods, and they make everything better 😀

do you think religion makes people better or worse?

@mike_slugs The original meaning of "Parole". A sworn promise not to take up arms again when let go, until formally "exchanged" by their side for a prisoner of equal value (i.e rank) held (or who had been released under Parole) by your side. Common in the Napoleonic era and before.

You’ll read Civil War history and there’ll be battles where the Union captures a bunch of confederates and they’ll make them swear an oath not to take arms against them again and let them go. And you’re like. You can’t be serious.

@luv1bun Are you a Klingon? 😀

When I was 11, I got my period on vacation with my grandma. I was scared, embarrassed, and convinced I was doing something wrong because no matter what I did… there was still blood in my underwear. So I asked my grandma, completely serious: “Is it possible to have two vaginas?” Being very old-school, she immediately said no, that was impossible, and some girls just can’t use tampons. Fair enough. So for the next 8 years, I just assumed my body was being… creatively designed. Then at 19, during my first full physical, I jokingly asked the nurse the same question. She smiled and said, “Actually… yes, that’s possible. We can check.” Turns out 11-year-old me wasn’t being dramatic… I was apparently just out here doing my own gynecological detective work.

@strumminsimon @ron_eisele I see what you did there 😀

@ron_eisele Any idea which plane this photo was taken from?

Canberra WJ874 painted to represent the first prototype, VN799 during its first flight on 13 May 1949 at Warton airfield. A total of 1347 Canberra's were produced and of the 925 built in the UK 773 were delivered to the RAF.

@FridoKala Sterilise a sewing needle (e.g. briefly hold in a flame)? Then a mirror and steady hands 😀

I have a spot on the bridge of my nose that looks like a prosthetic. I have never had a spot that looked so comically like an angry red pus filled spot. It's in such an awkward place I can't squeeze it. And I can't wear my glasses.

@TrashPandaGirll There are people who still don't believe in Germ Theory either 😀

In science, a "theory" is a body of study where all the evidence over time has supported said theory and we have yet to find any evidence debunking it. Germs are a theory. It's called the germ theory of disease. A scientific theory is not the same thing as a daily theory.

@ron_eisele Impressive to survive 100 missions!

467 Australian Squadron Lancaster crew celebrate their aeroplane's 100th successful operation, conducted during the night of 11th/12th May 1944.

@Hantsprints There was also a Gay Archer in the same class of boats. Moored in Watchet harbour for a while, gone now.

HMS Gay Bombardier (P1042) Fast patrol boat in 1953 - despite her name she was in fact part of the Royal navy and not the Army 😂 ⚓️

@iamAtheistGirl You cut off my WHAT?!!!

“they did what?!?”

@MsPocketRocket Their two husbands were in for armed robbery. Dorien's was in for fraud.

Birds of a Feather, what were their husbands inside for?

@Sarahjdublin Had to look at the context there. Was initially hoping you had an Irish Citizen Army uniform stashed somewhere 😀

Creepy old men can’t even hold a conversation without making it weird

@nxt888 The Marxist answer is that only in Europe did bourgeios revolutions succeed in changing the social mode of production to keep up with technological advancement. Failure to change the social mode of production would lead to stagnation and decay.

I need you to explain the timeline to me. For most of recorded history, China led the world in technological innovation. Papermaking. Printing. Gunpowder. The compass. Cast iron. Mechanical clocks. Porcelain. Centuries ahead of Europe. The Islamic world preserved and advanced Greek mathematics, developed algebra, made foundational contributions to astronomy, medicine, and optics while Europe was in its medieval period. India had sophisticated metallurgy, textile production, and mathematical systems including the numeral system you do your accounting in right now. If Western wealth comes from science and technology as a cultural attribute, explain why the technology leaders of the 10th century were not the industrial leaders of the 19th. What changed? I'll wait.

@iamAtheistGirl @mattvanswol Foundations were laid long before that. Most of society's problems are caused fundamentally by neoliberal capitalism. That kicked in when Reagan (US) and Thatcher (UK) came in at the start of the 1980s

@mattvanswol when the orange troll came down the escalator

Can anyone pinpoint the exact moment where everything became both: a) worse b) and more expensive When did this happen?

@zoester73 @LynnBraben Chester.

Where am I? 🤔

@UntoldWarFacts Another solution that was tried was having the pilot laying horizontally in the aircraft rather than seated. Still a few of these prototypes in museums.

By 1942 American pilots were flying fighter planes their own bodies could not survive. P-51s pulling out of high speed dives so violently that gravity drained the blood from pilots' brains. They lost consciousness at the controls. They crashed. Then a Canadian doctor invented a suit that saved them. This is the story of the WW2 G-suit..🧵1/4