I feel like this is topical.(Sound on)

Mar 17, 2022 3:53 PM

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When you know that your life is over and every second you spend fighting is one more second that someone else will not be dying.

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Also this comes to my mind:

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Also Vincent & The Doctor, The Swamp of Sadness, Jurassic Bark, Bing Bong...

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We cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep. They are coming...

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What women doesn't also cry at that

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“Hold up the train. Munitions ship on fire and making for Pier 6 ... Goodbye boys.”- Vincent Coleman minutes before the Halifax explosion.

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Good luck you wonderful bastard...

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Fuck, every time!

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Naoki Urasawa's, Pluto, made me cry over a damn roomba. https://contemplatrix.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/plutoint.jpg

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FYI, "fighting in Hel" - there's no typo here. Hel is a peninsula. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_Peninsula

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The battle is at its height. Beat my war drums. Do not announce my death.

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To save a life in defeat is to earn victory and honor within. Your brother too, was a great fighter.

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Stories of solidarity always choke me up.

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What's inspirational is that Poland never surrendered. The govt. Went underground and surviving troops fought on under allied command.

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Notably squadrod 303 of the RAF and capturing Monte Casino in Italy under US command.

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Monte Casino was a special kind of hell..

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"Calling all, this is our last cry before our eternal silence."

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The last message of the French Navy before they retired Morse code.

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Bless you for splitting this into two comments. I hope plenty of other people go on the same weird emotional rollercoaster I just did

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Yes

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Might want to pay a bit of attention to 4-7Mhz. They say they retired Morse, but the French navy have had occasionally kept that key warm.

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My hearing doesn't go that high.

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Mine's down to about 16khz nowadays.

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Hold the door

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Surely we can find a way to make this solid point without making it an A vs B

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We might be able to, but please don't call me Shirley.

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These memes are utilized by neckbeards who never speak to women, last time i saw a girl get misty over Titanic was in HS over 20+ years ago.

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Ah, neckbeards. Nice. Good to see sexism working both ways. We are making progress!

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"I don't need a ride, I need ammunition "

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?????????????????????

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"Send dudes."

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Best reply ever! How have I never heard this one before.

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Last Morse code message from Corregidor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPFByDvvLSs

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Lindybeige on the sacrifice of 155 battery, Sidi Nsir 1943: https://youtu.be/fXoP8vL5zJY

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The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep. They are coming.

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Stop. Posting. This. Meme. Format. It is sexist garbage.

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Question: what is sexist about it? To my understanding it's just another iteration of the "gender doesn't understand x about other gender(1)

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" joke which is as old as comedy. Is the "I bet he's texting other girls" meme sexist? What about the "I bet she's texting other guys" (2)

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that was on FP earlier today? Would this be sexist if it were reversed and the humorous misconception was on the part of the men?

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Yeah it’d be funnier if the top was two guys being like “real men never cry” or something

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If anything its combatting social norms, am I the dinosaur?

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You ever hear the stranded cosmonaut?

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Legend of the Piorun: https://youtu.be/hLVmqzL-Qyc

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I always used to start titanic on the second VHS so it was just the ship sinking and my favorite part is the guy hitting the propeller

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Similar message from Athens 1941: https://youtu.be/yMYFrEyl-WE

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And they clawed there freedom back, only country to shake of the axis on its own - only to have a ridiculous civil war after that..

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404IeUzGNZ4 love his explanation of the resulting low trust society

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'My battery is low and it's getting dark'

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When Mars is conquered and produces machines for the EMPRAHs Crusade we will rebuild him.

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He shall be the Heart of the first Imperator Titan

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Deafening us all with his mighty war horn

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Yet he will still research the sands of Mars for that is his will.

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feels.

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Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

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All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

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Time... to die.

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Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye, boys.

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https://youtu.be/T_5PHU7vQu4

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Context: A sea-shanty styled song detailing the Halifax disaster

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Man I miss the Herritage Moment commercials

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The CRTC considered Heritage Minutes a dramatic series in its own right, not a commercial. And so technically, you'd be watching one TV 1/2

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show, then you'd go to commercial break where you'd watch a *complete episode of another show*, then go back to your original show. 2/2

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Comically bad acting, though the subject is sombre

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The Halifax boom, right?

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The Port Chicago blast was also incredibly tragic.

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Yup, it's also the origins of our mascot, 'Splodey!

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Fun Fact! CNIB, Cdn Natn'l Institute for the Blind, was formed because of how many Haligonians were blinded by the windows exploding.

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That is not fun.

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Fun fact! Not all fun facts are fun.

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I believe that is verbatim the exact title from my history book.

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I do know my Canadian history.

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Between this and the last SOS code from the Titanic you’re in for a rough night

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I submit Maes Hughes funeral.

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There's also a BBC doc where they used synthesized voices (think Microsoft Sam) to read out the various messages from Titanic/others. Eerie.

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I dono the movie was spoiled for me in my history class. I knew well in advance that boat was going down when I saw the movie.

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Or the messages from sinking of MV Sewol, that Korean Ferry.

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Oy I got one for you. (not a Rick Roll) https://youtu.be/ppAeMWFCqC8?t=29 Watch the whole thing but the worst is 4:50. Instant raised hair

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That’s was awful

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*that

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It was. Which is why it must not be forgotten.

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Have you got a link for the Titanic SOS call? There seems to be a few different ones on YT, wanna know which one you're thinking of

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https://youtu.be/FxRN2nP_9dA

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Told ya

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No - you’re crying!

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Haunting

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Or the Flight 93 last message. Or really any 911 recordings, especially that live interview of someone inside right when it collapses

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“Let’s rock and roll.”

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Close, "Let's roll"

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I didn't know about this one. Not sure I could listen to it.

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I took an aviation safety class once and we listened to a lot of "final" messages from fatal air crashes. They get pretty chilling.

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I can't decide which was sadder - the final words of pilots who know they're about to die, or the ones who don't know they're about to die.

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I think knowing you’re about to die is much, much scarier.

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