[QUOTE=Mr Shadyface;36751231]And Irony.
You forgot Irony.[/QUOTE]
I had a bad day yesterday, and that came off way more aggressive than I intended. Sorry.
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[QUOTE=Killer900;36759655][IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/1zx84cg.jpg[/IMG]
What the hell is up with this disrespectful shit? Fucking stupid Youtubers..[/QUOTE]
what. how was he a. am I missing something?
[QUOTE=Zambies!;36748564]
I'd like to update my statement that I never made.
[b]Pictures that shook the world.[/b] Terrible posts, shining moments of human stupidity, people making useless posts, and CONTENTLESS POSTS![/QUOTE]
If we're not allowed to discuss the photos presented, just post photos, then this is a thread for Fast Threads section.
I got nothing for page king; deal.
[QUOTE=The Castro;36761962][img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/195/c/4/unhistorical_moment_by_scarabix-d5789kn.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I tried to find that video, but didn't find anything about that FPer asking him about Facepunch.
[QUOTE=Killer900;36759655][IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/1zx84cg.jpg[/IMG]
What the hell is up with this disrespectful shit? Fucking stupid Youtubers..[/QUOTE]
Since when the hell was steve irwin a paedophile?
[QUOTE=The Castro;36761962][img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/195/c/4/unhistorical_moment_by_scarabix-d5789kn.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
For the love of god post the source.
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nvm, found it?
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1197738[/url]
[QUOTE=Rusty100;36762611]Since when the hell was steve irwin a paedophile?[/QUOTE]
I Googled it and all I got was "Steve Irwin was a pedo for animals"
[QUOTE=Rusty100;36762611]Since when the hell was steve irwin a paedophile?[/QUOTE]Exactly, just stupid people trying to start rumors.
[QUOTE=areolop;36762785]For the love of god post the source.
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nvm, found it?
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1197738[/url][/QUOTE]
It's in the same section as this thread for christ's sake
[img]http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDcubanmissile.JPG[/img]
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure if you're well-versed in American History, you're all well aware of what this image is, and what it represents.
Now THIS, this is a lesser-known part of the story. THIS is Soviet Submarine B-59:
[img]http://www.comtourist.com/images/large/kaliningrad-b-413-07/b-59-29-10-1962-01.jpg[/img]
and this is her Captain, Mr. Vasili Arkhipov. This is a name that everyone should rightfully know. Why, you ask?
[img]http://www.hotonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vasili-arkhipov.jpg[/img]
This is the face of a man that [b]prevented a nuclear war[/b]. He is the reason there is still a United States, why there is still a Russia, and why there is still an [b]ANYTHING[/b]. He is the reason why your parents and grandparents are not nuclear dust floating in the wind.
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I would say those qualify as pictures that shook the world, considering we were T-minus 5 seconds away from utter annihilation.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;36764090][img]http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDcubanmissile.JPG[/img]
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure if you're well-versed in American History, you're all well aware of what this image is, and what it represents.
Now THIS, this is a lesser-known part of the story. THIS is Soviet Submarine B-59:
[img]http://www.comtourist.com/images/large/kaliningrad-b-413-07/b-59-29-10-1962-01.jpg[/img]
and this is her Captain, Mr. Vasili Arkhipov. This is a name that everyone should rightfully know. Why, you ask?
[img]http://www.hotonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vasili-arkhipov.jpg[/img]
This is the face of a man that [b]prevented a nuclear war[/b]. He is the reason there is still a United States, why there is still a Russia, and why there is still an [b]ANYTHING[/b]. He is the reason why your parents and grandparents are not nuclear dust floating in the wind.[/QUOTE]
Can you explain what the top image is?
I'm Aussie and don't know too much about US history.
[QUOTE=Araknid;36764104]Can you explain what the top image is?
I'm Aussie and don't know too much about US history.[/QUOTE]
Aerial photographs of Cuba, showing evidence of nuclear weapons, I believe.
Right!
So essentially, the Soviet Union thought it would be a good idea to station ICBM's in Cuba in response to our bases in Turkey. We caught some U2 Spy plane/satellite images of all of the equipment they were setting up and... well, we essentially freaked out about the fact that nuclear missiles were being assembled a couple hundred miles off the coast of Florida. Things escalated, and the United States effectively decided to blockade Cuba from receiving supplies and gear from the Soviet Union. We raised things up to Defcon 2 (near nuclear/fullscale total war, scary shit).
Several Soviet submarines attempted to run the blockade with orders to fire nuclear-tipped torpedoes preemptively or if fired upon. Captain Valentin Savitsky almost fired on the American ships, but Arkhipov managed to calm him down, and instead of firing on the ships, decided to surface the submarine and fly the colors.
Thus preventing full-scale nuclear war.
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[url]http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/[/url]
This explains it better than I could ever.
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So basically we all owe him our lives
v:v:v
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Savitsky roared "We're going to blast them now! We will die, but we will sink them all."
Keep in mind that these were [b]nuclear-tipped[/b] torpedoes, which basically means they would have sunk everything within a half-mile/mile area.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;36764168]Right!
So essentially, the Soviet Union thought it would be a good idea to station ICBM's in Cuba in response to our bases in Turkey. We caught some U2 Spy plane/satellite images of all of the equipment they were setting up and... well, we essentially freaked out about the fact that nuclear missiles were being assembled a couple hundred miles off the coast of Florida. Things escalated, and the United States effectively decided to blockade Cuba from receiving supplies and gear from the Soviet Union. We raised things up to Defcon 2 (near nuclear/fullscale total war, scary shit).
Several Soviet submarines attempted to run the blockade with orders to fire nuclear-tipped torpedoes preemptively or if fired upon. Captain Valentin Savitsky almost fired on the American ships, but Arkhipov managed to calm him down, and instead of firing on the ships, decided to surface the submarine and fly the colors.
Thus preventing full-scale nuclear war.
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[url]http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/[/url]
This explains it better than I could ever.[/QUOTE]
That's pretty badass. It's sad that he doesn't receive the recognition he deserves.
I believe he lost his job actually, for disobeying orders.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;36764168]Right!
So essentially, the Soviet Union thought it would be a good idea to station ICBM's in Cuba in response to our bases in Turkey. We caught some U2 Spy plane/satellite images of all of the equipment they were setting up and... well, we essentially freaked out about the fact that nuclear missiles were being assembled a couple hundred miles off the coast of Florida. Things escalated, and the United States effectively decided to blockade Cuba from receiving supplies and gear from the Soviet Union. We raised things up to Defcon 2 (near nuclear/fullscale total war, scary shit).
Several Soviet submarines attempted to run the blockade with orders to fire nuclear-tipped torpedoes preemptively or if fired upon. Captain Valentin Savitsky almost fired on the American ships, but Arkhipov managed to calm him down, and instead of firing on the ships, decided to surface the submarine and fly the colors.
Thus preventing full-scale nuclear war.
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[url]http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/[/url]
This explains it better than I could ever.
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So basically we all owe him our lives
v:v:v
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Savitsky roared "We're going to blast them now! We will die, but we will sink them all."
Keep in mind that these were [b]nuclear-tipped[/b] torpedoes, which basically means they would have sunk everything within a half-mile/mile area.[/QUOTE]
So, like Red October?
[QUOTE=LordLoss;36765555]I believe he lost his job actually, for disobeying orders.[/QUOTE]
Wiki says he continued on in the navy.
Probably not as the captain of a submarine though
[video=youtube;tr-BYVeCv6U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr-BYVeCv6U[/video]
[B]The Day the Music Died[/B]
Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and the pilot, Roger Peterson died in a plane crash.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/HollyMonument.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/The_Day_the_Music_Died.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://secretidentity.co.uk/photos/content/bin/images/large/The_Day_The_Music_Died.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/PWCiccone/BuddyHollyClearLakecrash.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://foraslanandvolstate.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the_day_the_music_died.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.musicstack.com/images/articles/the-day-the-music-died-05.jpg[/IMG]
[b]Friends and loved ones gather at the Oslo cathedral to mourn 93 victims killed in twin terror attacks from a bombing in downtown Oslo and a mass shooting on Utoya island on July 22.[/b]
[img]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2011/12/2/17/enhanced-buzz-wide-15696-1322866152-20.jpg[/img]
[b] One day before the accident July 21 [/b]
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/norway072511/s_n12_RTR2P6MK.jpg[/img]
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/norway072511/s_n17_19603348.jpg[/img]
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/norway072511/s_n18_RTR2P6QS.jpg[/img]
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/norway072511/s_n19_RTR2P6O9.jpg[/img]
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/norway072511/s_n13_RTR2P722.jpg[/img]
[quote]The second attack occurred less than two hours later at a summer camp on the island of Utøya in Tyrifjorden, Buskerud. The camp was organized by the AUF, the youth division of the ruling Norwegian Labour Party (AP). A gunman dressed in a homemade police uniform and showing false identification[15][16] gained access to the island and subsequently opened fire at the participants, killing 69 of them,[5][6] and injuring at least 110, 55 of them seriously;[9][10] the 69th victim died in a hospital two days after the massacre.[7] Among the dead were personal friends of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and the stepbrother of Norway's crown princess Mette-Marit.[17]
It was the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II.[18][19] The European Union, NATO and several countries around the world expressed their support for Norway and condemned the attacks.
The Norwegian Police arrested Anders Behring Breivik, a then 32-year-old Norwegian right-wing extremist,[20] on Utøya island[21] and charged him with both attacks.[22] The main court trial began on 16 April 2012, and as at all his remand hearings[2][3] Breivik admitted to having carried out the actions he was accused of, but denied criminal guilt and claimed the defence of necessity (jus necessitatis).[23]
Source: Wikipedia[/quote]
The victims were teens that were pretty young, i believe the youngest was 12+/- 13
Not sure though.
Horrible.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;36765961]So, like Red October?[/QUOTE]
The only thing the plot of Red October has in common with this story is they both had Russian subs in them.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36768938]The only thing the plot of Red October has in common with this story is they both had Russian subs in them.[/QUOTE]
They prevented a nuclear war.
[QUOTE=Siemz;36768930][b]
[b] One day before the accident July 21 [/b][/QUOTE]
So Breivik apparently blew up a building and killed 77 people, most of them teenagers, by accident?
[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;36769313]So Breivik apparently blew up a building and killed 77 people, most of them teenagers, by accident?[/QUOTE]
Yeah I don't get that either.
-snip
Yeah, "oopsies, just killed 77 people!" isn't a defend-able act in court.
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;36754446]Maybe it didnt shake the whole world, but it definetly shook up me and my brother.
On May 23, 1999, Owen Hart fell to his death in Kansas City, Missouri during the Over the Edge pay-per-view event. Hart was in the process of being lowered via harness and rappel line into the ring from the rafters of Kemper Arena for a booked Intercontinental Championship match before the harness snapped, causing him to fall, hitting his neck off the turnbuckle. Referees rushed into the arena, giving him CPR, before he was rushed to hospital. He died later that night. Poor guy.
There are no videos of it happening, but there are pictures of him in the ring, and on the rafters. This is a recording of what people were seeing on TV as it all happened.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXWoYRErgW4[/media]
This is him, just seconds after he fell.
[img]http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f181/116266d1262471536-holy-grail-gore-owen-hart-after-falling-1.jpeg[/img][/QUOTE]
I liked the shoot nature of all the promo's after he fell, even for non wrestling fans this was must watch TV.
[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;36769313]So Breivik apparently blew up a building and killed 77 people, most of them teenagers, by accident?[/QUOTE]
No idea why it's described as an accident -- You don't just slip and kill 77 kids.
[QUOTE=Zero Ziat;36771659]No idea why it's described as an accident -- You don't just slip and kill 77 kids.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure someone'd crack a 'your mother' joke like that.
[QUOTE=Zero Ziat;36771659]No idea why it's described as an accident -- You don't just slip and kill 77 kids.[/QUOTE]
You do by beeing to fat so the island sinks into the water.
like diz if u cry evry tyme :'(
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