u/Roy4Pris

A group of protesters at Golders Green, holding up slickly-produced posters of the PM as antisemitic boogeyman Jeremy Corbyn. These absolute plonkers are so absurdly divorced from reality, they could only come from the crypto-fascist Reform UK Party, or Israel itself.

u/Roy4Pris — 12 days ago

Woah. The Iranians figured out how to avoid Patriot, and carried out the first fixed-wing aircraft attack on a US military base since the Korean war. And they used a tried and true US jet! The balls on that pilot, man... just because I kinda have to root for the underdog, I hope he's still alive.

Article mentioned in video: https://denverriggleman.substack.com/p/how-a-cold-war-relic-f-5-beat-the

Edit: likely a new-build copy of the F-5, rather than an original Shah-purchased F-5.

u/Roy4Pris — 14 days ago

Probably straight from the UK MOD press office to show unity with the US, but IMHO the video is quite interesting showing the UK’s Rapid Sentry air defence system.

u/Roy4Pris — 15 days ago

Pretty sure I’ve seen a taller/longer Great Dane, but he wasn’t built like this monster. Imagine the food bill! Imagine the turds! Oh lawd!

u/Roy4Pris — 18 days ago

'The Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus is a building in Berlin that, at the time of its construction, was the largest office building in Europe. It was constructed between February 1935 and August 1936 to house the German Ministry of Aviation, headed by Hermann Göring.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus

What makes it extra grim is that it's right next door to Berlin's 'Terror Museum' on the site of the headquarters of the SS, Gestapo and various other Nazi intelligence and secret police forces.

https://www.topographie.de/

Can *highly* recommend a visit.

u/Roy4Pris — 21 days ago