Cooliest/Uglest Weapons v10 - FAL Pride World Wide
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The last straw for me was when he trash-talked the CZ P10 C.
Never forgive, never forget.
He also talks over Ian a lot. I haven't heard the racist stuff though, source?
On his Instagram he posted pics of his Rhodie FAL with the captions "respect and remember" and "time to slot floppies" (Rhodesian slang for shoot blacks, pretty sure it's considered a slur). He also made videos jerking off Donald Trump.
And for some reason he still calls Beijing Peking. He's just such a stereotype.
Yeah, for an English-speaker that's a pretty big sign that they hate and fear change in all its forms.
Ironically, if he were a Chinese speaker, it would just mark him as a southerner. "Peking" is still more or less how people in Guangzhou pronounce it (the romanization these days is more like Pet-kîn but that's just the mapping to our alphabet, the actual pronunciation hasn't changed). Nor is "Beijing" newer - that's been the Mandarin pronunciation of the city's name for like six hundred years. It only seems newer to us westerners because most of our earlier trade was with the southern coast, speaking the Hakka and Cantonese topolects, so we learned it as "Peking" first, and only when we started directly interacting with the north did we hear "Beijing".
Interesting, I was under the impression that it was just a poor romanization, guess it's only fitting that backwards southerners sound like southerners in Chinese too.
It's really a shame that Larry's such an assbag, because he does get his hands on some interesting an unusual firearms, oh well at least he takes decent pictures.
Uhh that's what the traditional name of Beijing is called
Another fun Chinese romanization fact: Taipei (as in the capital of Taiwan) is commonly accepted and pronounced as ending with "pei" despite that character (北, literally just "north") being the exact same character pronounced (and spelled) "bei" at the beginning of Beijing.
Romanization is wack.
We say Peking in Swedish. Makes English and geography hella confusing at first because there's two cities at the same spot but with different names.
Romanization is indeed "wack". It's kind of an unsolveable problem, at least in the context of East Asian languages - their phonemes just don't map perfectly into Latin characters.
The Taipei thing is political. The Republic of China used Wade-Giles romanization up until 2002, while the People's Republic almost immediately switched to Pinyin (under which Taipei is, indeed, "Táiběi").
But really, both of those are wrong. While English (and most every European language) distinguish consonant pairs (p/b, f/v, t/d, k/g) by voiced/unvoiced, most East Asian languages distinguish them by aspirated/unaspirated, that little puff of air that's in the p in "pack" but not the p in "apple". In both systems, both voicing and aspiration occur, and there is a right way to decide if an unvoiced consonant in English should be aspirated or not, but it's not a functional feature of the phoneme in our language - just as there is a right way to decide if an unaspirated consonant is voiced or unvoiced in Mandarin.
So a "p" in "Taipei" may or may not be voiced - I don't actually speak any Chinese languages, and like any language, the rules for little details like that are ridiculously complicated unless you grew up with them. I gather it changes by regional dialect, even within a topolect like Cantonese or Mandarin?
How does Reddit work? Is this supposed to be a picture? I click on the link and I don't see anything. I try to dig through the html, I don't see anything. I try to find the post in the subreddit, but I can't find it. How do I see this post?
Relatedly, I have family in a district of Taipei called Danshui, which is simultaneously also called Dansui and Tamsui on official documents and posters with no consistency between them. All three are correct, they all just represent different accents and dialects in mandarin.
To segue back onto topic though, my father did his military service in ordnance R&D, and was one of the chief computer engineers for the avionics of this:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1895/0f0f1e68-fc1a-4e4c-8384-59a8643fb336/image.png
We even found some old schematics for the cockpit electrical logic while we were cleaning out our old garden shed. I didn't grab any pics of it though, sadly.
Never knew this thing even existed, it's pretty cool. Looks like the lovechild of a F16 and a Rafale.
Escape from Tarkov (2018)
I like how snug the missile in the center is with the plane.
Asian squat is on point (joint SK/Russia/China exercise)
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Is there an MP5 under there somewhere?
All cool fuckin' pics, tho. Where's the squatting MP5 guy from, South Korea?
Aye:
https://www.reddit.com/r/policeporn/comments/9gdbz3/south_korean_police_special_operations_unit_sou/
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Which is definitely uncomfortable to watch by the end cause Larry goes pretty pro-Rhodesian and Ian just kind of goes along with it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i7sQL9Rx4io
That North Korean thing looks suspiciously like a Type 88 AK mocked up to resemble a Daewoo K11.
From a purely practical and probably uninformed point of view, Rhodesia was a better place than Zimbabwe. The racism obviously sucks but it had an economy. I understand why they wanted to expel all the white people, but due to the previous racism white people were most of their professionals in most of their fields, so kicking them out was a very bad move that ruined the country.
Can we please go back to stealing pictures from r/MilitaryPorn instead of hotlinking them so we can pretend we're not a reddit-knockoff?
right click > copy image address
ctrl+v
no need to have reddit embeds.
a "passive exoskeleton"? what does that mean?
Probably it shoulders weight from whatever he might be carrying but doesn’t make the wearer any stronger?
iirc that's the case, EOD gear can be really fucking heavy so having an exoskeleton to basically remove most of the shouldered weight allows them to keep working for much longer
Very interesting that PAW-20s are finally showing up in the wild. Curious to see how they perform.
i hope this wasn't posted already
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Cooliest/Uglest Weapons v10 - FAL Pride World Wide
