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@bcjams1962 @DefiantLs it would be cool if roadmen reinvented archery from base principles. it could completely redefine the stabbing game

@Tallowtwins i hate this cheap social media trend of putting footballers against each other in virtue. they play sports man, they're not politicians. go critique the politicians

Haaland practices true masculinity.

@Mirs_____ -guy who is 16

this is bad btw. 15 year olds are perfectly capable of intelligent thought, no one has bad opinion "because they're 15"

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@Dr_TheHistories it does sound silly when you consider the alternative - fighting to death with your hands - is much cooler.

In an 1806 duel, Andrew Jackson (the 7th American president) knew he couldn't outdraw master marksman Charles Dickinson. His survival strategy was brutal: he deliberately let Dickinson shoot him first. Under the rules of dueling, once a man fired, he was required to stand motionless on his mark and await his opponent's return fire. If Jackson rushed his shot to beat Dickinson, he might miss. By absorbing the bullet, Jackson bought himself the time to aim with absolute precision. Dickinson fired. A cloud of dust puffed from Jackson’s coat as the bullet struck him squarely in the chest. But Jackson did not fall. He simply raised his left hand to his chest, stood perfectly still, and leveled his pistol. Jackson survived the immediate impact because of a wardrobe trick and his gaunt physique. Standing 6-foot-1 and weighing only about 145 pounds, Jackson wore a loose, oversized dark blue frock coat. When he took his mark, he turned sideways in a bladed stance. Dickinson aimed exactly where a man's heart should be based on the drape of the coat. The bullet hit the precise spot Dickinson intended, but Jackson's actual heart was an inch or two away. The ball shattered two ribs and lodged deep in his chest cavity. Despite the massive trauma, Jackson masked his pain through sheer willpower and spite. He despised Dickinson—who had publicly insulted his wife—and was determined not to give the marksman the satisfaction of knowing he had landed a successful shot before dying. Jackson later said, 'I should have hit him, if he had shot me through the brain.' Jackson pulled his trigger, but the pistol stopped at half-cock. He calmly pulled the hammer all the way back, took aim again, and shot Dickinson in the abdomen. Dickinson fell and bled to death hours later. Jackson casually walked away from the dueling ground with his surgeon, hiding his wound until they were out of sight of Dickinson's seconds. It was only when the surgeon noticed blood sloshing inside Jackson's left boot that he realized the future president had been hit. The bullet was too close to the heart to be safely removed, and Jackson carried it inside his chest for the remaining 39 years of his life. #drthehistories

@DarkSoulz449AD i'm pretty racist by lib standards but being brown doesn't make you non-english to me. stop the immigration, preserve our demographics. but those who are already well-settled may call this home.

Jude Bellingham is not English. To pretend otherwise is an insult to the English people and our Anglo-Saxon ancestors.

@shriverist sure. but then india is at the heart of the indian ocean. large. fertile. 1.5b population. but they're geopolitically and culturally middling, if not worse.

@strufsturf How influential you'd expect it to be broadly mixing population, location, economy, a bit history etc

This is an extremely difficult and highly subjective task, but here's my attempt to map countries based on whether they punch above or below their weight when it comes to global culture

@theawayfans we have no backline champion, and that is what ferdinand was. might be the boring but correct option of best historical replacement.

@theawayfans rooney has no place in a squad with kane. i'm not old enough to know gascoigne's role but i assume it's at odds with bellingham's. gerrard was solid and could probably replace a midfielder. if not a defender, beckham could fit nicely into our midfield.

If you could bring back one former England player for Wednesday’s semi-final against Argentina, who would you choose?

That’s like saying you can deadlift 600 pounds and still be weak as hell. Makes no sense.

@GeoffNorcott my real take is that having existed and lived in the real world, putting your hand around your mouth is something you do in a loud environment like a club to make sure the person you're speaking to can hear you. it's not an indication of 'hiding slurs', that's ridiculous.

@GeoffNorcott i'm english and support england til the end. i have to say, when i saw pickford do this, i was worried since a paraguay player got sent off for that same thing. the threads OP isn't wrong, if refereeing was balanced either pickford gets sent off or the paraguayan doesn't.

Meanwhile on Threads, people watching their first World Cup are spending a lot of time hating England and coming up with hot-takes like this.

@shriverist i think the geopolitical element- falklands, argentina care more than us about it. but the football element- hand of god, we care more about it in england than the argies do.

@shriverist it's kind of ignorant to suggest england-argentina is one sided. many of our football fans weren't alive when the hand-of-god happened, but the bitterness has been passed down through our fathers. (cont.)

It's so funny how many one sided rivalries there are in international football Scotland hate England, England don't care England hate Germany, Germans don't care Germany hate Italy, Italy don't care Argentina hate England, England don't care etc etc

@SandyofCthulhu i watched my brother playing first and memorised what buttons he pressed and then it was just pattern recognition. i'm sure i either treated it as a chilled city builder before the npc hordes wiped me out, and eventually found difficulty settings

@strufsturf What? You couldn’t even read!

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@SandyofCthulhu thanks for your work dude, aoe2 was maybe the first strategy game i played at 4 years old.

In one playtest at Ensemble Studios (we all tested in the same room) one of the programmers got a friend (not me) to sneak under the table and unplug the monitor of his opponent just as his attack reached its peak. His screen went black, then he had to figure out what happened, and crawl down there himself and replug it. In the meantime the programmer was able to fend off the attack and get his act together. I do NOT recommend this tactic.

@Vfynn_ btw the british broadcast didn't even mention the camera thing. twitter is the first i've heard of it

🚨🗣️New: Erling Haaland on why England’s equalizer through Bellingham against Norway should not have stood: “I don’t care how big the moment was, that goal should never have counted. The Laws of the Game are there for everyone. If the ball hits a camera cable and it changes the flight, that’s outside interference. Play stops. It’s a dropped ball. Simple.” “Instead, England score, the whole momentum changes, and suddenly Norway are chasing a completely different game. Moments like that decide international tournaments.” “Now imagine the exact same thing happened in a match involving Argentina and Messi. Be honest with yourselves, football wouldn’t hear the end of it. Every TV show, every podcast and every social media account would be calling it one of the biggest refereeing scandals of the tournament. But because it’s England, somehow people are expected to move on.” “Consistency is all players ask for. Either the Laws apply every game, or they don’t.”

@Sammyy666666 @JamesTate121 i only saved this img earlier today, it proved so useful, so quick

@strufsturf @JamesTate121 😂😂😂😂Funny but so relevant in this case

The more you know.

@JamesTate121 do americans actually call it overtime?

Headed to overtime.