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Edits: links to sources
NachoPete
#5
Corynthos
Only the Navy could build a ship designed to sink.
HamaraCS
#4 French people say it's Chinese, not Hebrew!
Doyourecycle
thekeyislost
More!!!
urHAIness
Til what the abbreviation is for today I learned.
GuessWho7197
#9 Oh shit, I see my great grandfather's sub (the USS Pompano) on that plaque.
moadofficialband2
Is he on patrol with it?
DontAskMeAboutMyUsernameOkay
Sources would be nice.
entropyk
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/samuel-whittemore
darxide
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/
Drfilip
The conversion of blood is from Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0548-9
Longtimewatcherfirsttimewritingblahblahblahblah
https://www.discogs.com/Metallica-Better-Than-You/release/3889112
Longtimewatcherfirsttimewritingblahblahblahblah
https://youtu.be/PMu26L-XQJk
Trassation
I say sir, could I borrow some of your ammo? Don't worry, you'll have it back shortly.
FailedCrate
[citations needed]
Rasdwatrium
#9 Same here in Germany. Additionally, the family members that died at the Eastern Front are referred to as "stayed in the east". And then-
Rasdwatrium
-there is an uncle of mine, that went to the british isles and just stayed there after meeting a girl.
muggybonehead
In Argentina, unintelligible language is ‘griego’ (greek) and that’s supposedly the root of “gringo”.
Definol
#4 never anyone say "it's Hebrew" in french always heard "it's Chinese".
WelcomeToMy
WHAT DO MARTIANS SAY??
moadofficialband2
[unintelligible]
HunglikeaHamster
#12: In the Eighty years war (1568-1648) the Dutch sold guns, muskets and ammo to the Spanish to finance the armies they fought them with.
Denim777
why is no one mentioning the blood types change? that's by far the most important one here and its like 2 years old. TIL
DukeDarkwood
#4 You can't end it there! What do the Martians say!? Oh, and @OP, in answer to your question: yes.
PoliticalWanderer
As the son of a sailor, here's one for all those still on patrol.
sdoking
I respect hierarchy in the military, but it doesn’t sit right with me that, among the dead, there are men, but then there are.. *officers*
secretdpp
I remember a green text on /x/ that told the continuing tale of what the crews are up to.
Gooooodmoooorrrningmuchwow
Got a link for that read? I'd love to read that one
AniThari
Allow me to assist - it was probably built from this tumblr thread: https://darthstitch.tumblr.com/post/157808554546/still-on-patrol
secretdpp
It looks pretty Similar so yeah probably
cartdogg11
Isn’t that a Jimmy Buffett song?
ohio311
That's "Son of a Son of a Sailor". Missed a generation. Super dope song tho
cartdogg11
One of my favorites! Great use of a ships bell.
BaldBandit
#2 reminds me of a locomotive. A power company in the US (PEPCO) built "fireless" locomotives which could be filled with spent steam [+]
BaldBandit
[-] from the turbines and run for hours at a time. They were used to shunt coal hoppers to the boilers. PEPCO built them to stay within [+]
BaldBandit
[-] Washington D.C.'s emission laws of the time.
HeraldOfTheBadger
Isn't spent steam just water again?
GrandProtectorDark
Spend steam prolly is just steam that has already passed the power turbine, but would have if not collected, be lost in form if clouds
TiroDvD
In general is reminds of the electric car fad in general. Unless you are in New England of the SW your electricity comes from fossil fuels.
GrandProtectorDark
Electrics powered by fossile is still better than ICE cars. Stationery plants are vastly more efficient than any car could ever be 1/
GrandProtectorDark
2/ ot also moves the co2 output away from the streets. A localised coal/gas/oil plant away from people us better than thousands of tiny 2/
GrandProtectorDark
Inefficient ICEs literally next to were people walk and work. Also E-cars don't care where electricity comes from. Switching the source 3/
GrandProtectorDark
4/is rather easy and already happens passifly. An ICE only accepts certain types of fuels from specific sources. Switching fossiles to bio
iamyourhuckleberry
I am relevant
moadofficialband2
I’m youre huckleberry
ILikeFugu
The submarine one is weird, for example, Darter was safely scuttled with no hands lost
Locolarue
PoliticalWanderer
1) I'm guessing that it has to do with somehow stripping antigens from the cells. (Antigens are basically like ID badges stuck on cells.)
PoliticalWanderer
2) Type A and B blood have antigens all over them that say "I'm Type A!" or "I'm Type B!" When your blood sees a sign that doesn't belong,
PoliticalWanderer
3) it attacks it. Type O, meanwhile has no antigens at all on it, so when someone with Type A or B blood gets Type O donated, their blood
PoliticalWanderer
4) does the equivalent of saying "Well, technically there's no sign that they're the wrong kind of blood, so let them in."
PoliticalWanderer
5) Now, antigens are just made up of sugars and/or proteins. Disrupt how those sugars and proteins stick to the cell membrane, cause them to
TheVegetable
"This looks like it's from earth." - people from mars, probably
kiefpant
#12 He should have promised to return the borrowed ammo very soon and at great speed
TheyCallMeCaptainObvious
I usually don’t read long ones like this. But this was good. Very educational and fun
moadofficialband2
Would you recommend this be a weekly sort of thing?
Slimilly260
Yes
Mythis
I mistook the I and II for explanation marks. Still on patrol are the submarines Shark! and Shark!!
moadofficialband2
Shark!!!!!!
Lobuttomize
A "series" of rips from reddit
moadofficialband2
My favorites from this week
AnythingMuchShorter
#5 was momentarily like "aren't they all mass farmers? If you just grow a few you're a gardener at best"
spongebobmingepants
#5 I have questions.someone being 78 in 1700s is dubious enough and then to survive those injuries at that time and to live to 96? Yeah.
AsperonThorn
I'm actually related to this guy. I think he even had another kid after this event.
AnythingMuchShorter
But a lot of the low life expectancy numbers from pre-1900 were heavily brought down by 0-5 year old mortality. There were 80 year olds.
AnythingMuchShorter
I'm not saying it's likely, but it's possible. Even in medieval times you had people in their 70s. But mean was 35 due to infant mortality.
TheDudeOrHisDudeness
#4 in czech republic, we say "this is spanish village to me"
TheEternalLordofDarkness2
In Danish when something is rubbish or unknown to you we say "it's like a city in Russia"
neznanec007
Same in Slovenia, cheers
lurkylurklurklurky
Funny, in German you can say "these are Bohemian villages to me"
WhyTryHarder
I wonder what Bohemian villagers would say...
BitchButcher
Didn't you read it? They say "this is spanish village to me" since "Böhmen/Bohemian" is part of Czech Republic.
WhyTryHarder
D'oh, thanks. I keep mixing up Bohemia and Silesia and thought I was referring to Poland. Hope this'll teach me :D
TheDudeOrHisDudeness
Well small part of Silesia is in czech republic, too (and even smaller part is in germany), but yeah, most of it is in Poland.
EwgB
Or "I only understand 'train station'"
TisIChenoir
In France we don't say "it's Hebrew" but "It's Chinese"... So they got it wong.
perhapsthisusernameisnottakenyet
Hebrew does exist though, it's just much much much less used than Chinese
Phormio
In Greece we also say "It's Chinese to me",did they get anything right?
phelian
In sweden i would say Chinese also, but I don't know if that's because my Portuguese father said so in Portuguese. Help me out fellow swedes
doesntmatter
Swedes say "That's Danish to me", if course ;)
nattfilm
Det är rena grekiskan
phelian
Thank you! This is what most people say in sweden I belive. (It's like Greek to me)
PedestrianElectrobastard
Detta
Chrixzy
#12 was Norwegian captain Peter Wessel Tordenskjold and was in the great Northern war. He was court martialed for contact with the enemy
Eikre
"gentlemen, I ran out of cannonballs. All I had left were my ones made of brass."
Chrixzy
He not only managed to talk himself out of it, and also talked himself into a promotion :)
Drakhma
i like this guy.
Chrixzy
I'm actually related to him, so technically you like me too.
laiskamato
Classic Tordenskjold!
Efreeti
For those unfamiliar, his name means "Thundershield" :)
GoddammitMrNoodle
Of course it does! Do you think we'd believe it meant "Wet noodle" or something of that ilk? Pshaw.