Electricfox5

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An electric sheep dreaming of androids. He/Him.

The Sopwith Pup, a lovely aircraft, much less likely to brutally murder the pilot unlike the Camel, it was restricted by only having Vickers machine gun to the Camels two, but it made up for that by being a very forgiving aircraft to fly, so much so that in 1917 it became the first aircraft to land on a moving aircraft ship, the converted HMS Furious. Eventually outclassed by newer German and Austrian designs, it nevertheless served a sterling role in the Fleet Air Arm and for Home Defence duties against enemy bombers and Zeppelins. I first fell in love with the Pup while playing Wings Over Flanders Fields back when it was a free mod.
The 'I guess we're doing x now' meme, but it's Mitsubishi, which switches frrom making A6M Zeros, to Air conditioners, to racing cars and then back to making fighter aircraft in the shape of the F-2.
The tarot card of 'The Fool' in reverse, which basically means that whatever you're doing, you should probably stop doing it and think about it a bit more.
How to talk to Nazis: On the left is a man crouching down to speak, underneath him is a red X with the word Wrong next to it On the right is a Lancaster bomber dropping a 4000 lb 'Cookie' bomb, and a string of incendiary bombs. There is a green tick underneath and the word Correct next to it.
The (infamous) Gérard Depardieu as Marin Marais in 'All the mornings of the world' conducting La Marche pour les ceremonie des Turqs by Jean-Baptiste Lully, which is a fantastic bit of baroque music. A servant approaches with a letter on a silver tray, Depardieu briefly scans the letter and replies with a curt 'Non!' in the way that only Depardieu can. He continues to conduct the orchestra with a conducting staff, making sure not to be too accurate to Lullys work by stabbing himself in the foot with it.
Two Herring Gull juveniles, one with wings out stretched. They hop up and down the dividing wall there quite handily now, worries me at the start since last year one got stuck on one side and the parent wouldn't feed it, I suspect it was the runt anyway so it wouldn't take much for the parent to ignore it but it was heartbreaking to see it get so far and then die just before becoming independent enough to feed itself.
A mosquito dining out on my leg blood.
A small bit of fence along the city wall in York, there is no fence around it, or next to it, but if you were going to fall off at that one particular point, you're not going to any more, you'll have to move a couple of feet to the left or right instead.
Two Herring Gull chicks, now fully fledged and ready to fly whenever the wind takes them.
The last paragraph of the 1972 novel 'The Sheep Look Up' by John Brunner, in which a lady in Ireland mistakes smoke drifting over from the collapsed USA for a nearby fire.
A tabby polydactyl cat looking very regal on top of a (rather wobbly) garden fence.
Two Herring Gull chicks, their fluff now replaced with the typical juvenile mottled grey plumage.
The eponymous Viking Berserker gets a spear up between his legs during the battle of Stamford Bridge
A viking re-enactor drinking from a horn with the caption 'Hydration Break' in the bottom right corner.
Two Herring Gull chicks peck at the floor, picking up food that their parent, who is standing next to them, has just regurgitated.
Chevy Chase during one of his Francisco Franco is still dead news sketches on SNL.
Two Herring Gull chicks, not fledged yet but starting to show signs of feathers replacing down.
Bruce Forsyth on 'Play your cards right'.
A photograph of the brilliant actor Terry-Thomas
Two Herring Gull chicks on a messy rooftop.
An adult Herring Gull sits on a wall dividing two sections of roof, below them and under their watchful eye, are two chicks, probably no more than a week or two old.
Loading screen in HOI4 from La Resistance, featuring a woman resistance fighter with a red beret, and a Cafe Rene in the background.
The aptly named Dutch general Jan Willem de Winter leading French revolutionary hussar cavalry in capturing the Dutch fleet stuck in ice at Den Helder in 1795, becoming the first, and to date only, cavalry forces to capture a naval fleet.
A clip from Not the Nine o Clock news, a British Rail Advanced Passenger Train passes through a station showing off its experimental tilting mechanism, then it cuts to Soviet cosmonauts in zero G during a 'Vomit Comet' air flight.
"Our helicopter was once again doing our spotting and correcting our fall of shot, not an easy job at night and in the face of intense ground fire. The observer provided one of the high spots of the day. We had just plastered one target with ten rounds of high explosive and he was in the middle of telling us to shift target when he paused, and in a voice that was a mixture of alarm and indignation said, "The bastards have just fired at me, give 'em another ten rounds"."
A rough side on drawing of a Spitfire Mk 1, complete with the cockpit being too far forward, the tail the wrong shape, and the exhausts all wrong. Still, I remembered the RT wire and got the air intake in the right place (for all the good the air intake ever did with the Spitfire Mk I!)
Two Herring Gull chicks with their parents on a flat roof.
Digit, a nearly ten years old domestic shorthaired polydactyl tabby cat is looking at the camera.
The title screen of the ninth and tenth doctor with the words "Oh shit, how do we wrap up all these threads Russell?!" on it
Panel one: Bart Simpson saying "This is the hottest day of my life." Panel two: Homer Simpson correcting him: "The hottest day of you life SO FAR."
A battle damaged view of the Enterprise NX-01 with the title "This could have been a subspace message."
Lower Decks episode intro with the title 'Vulcan as a motherfucker'.
A deep space nine title card with "Jeffrey Combs is coming to town" written on it
Richard O'Brien from The Crystal Maze saying "Will you start the fans, please!"
A tabby cat (Oz) lying on my hand
The Ancient Aliens guy meme, but he has a Roman helmet and instead of aliens the text is 'Gallia'.
A newspaper headline reading "State pension triple lock under threat if UK goes to war with Putin"
A 'Warning, Limited clearance' sign, usually found on the railway where the track goes underneath bridges and there's usually not much if any space between the train and the bridge. Indicates to railway workers and any idiots on the track that standing there when there's a train coming is a very bad idea.
Two European swallows perched on the cross beam of a shelter.
An RAF P-8 Poseidon circling around a contact in the English Channel, most like the Amur class repair ship PM82 which appeared off the coast of Suffolk on Monday morning, most likely trying to act as a deterrant for British troops boarding ships of the Russian shadow fleet.
Joe Pesci going "What the fuck is this piece of shit" to a green screen.
Kenny Everett as General Cheeseburger,
The skeleton warriors scene from Jason and the Argonauts, considering the technology used, it's an absolute legend of a scene, stop motion miniature models blended almost seamlessly with live action actors. Ray Harryhausen was a master of his craft.
Neville Chamberlain with the infamous 'Munich Agreement'. Still, on the up side, that extra year did allow the RAF to finish the Dowding System which saved a lot of RAF lives in 1940, so that's something. Didn't do a lot for Czechoslovakia though...
A Vaporeon being cute while Blanche scolds it with "Don't give me that face, you soggy croissant." from https://www.facebook.com/groups/347269265856033/posts/624673428115614/
One of Boltons most famous sons, Fred Dibnah, legendary steeplejack, steam afficiando, and TV personality.
The War Wolf, or Loup-de-Guerre, or Ludgar if you prefer. The worlds biggest trebuchet, built over three months at the siege of Stirling Castle by master carpenters and labourers working for English King Edward 'Longshanks' I in 1304. Some sources state that the Scots in Stirling castle surrendered before the trebuchet was complete, but Longshanks refused the surrender until he had a chance to fire the weapon he'd waited three months to have completed. For a good dramatisation of this moment see 'The Outlaw King' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wx8X0yDD38
The Hidden Movement screen from the original X-com, the screen that you'd often see shortly before a Sectoid sniped your entire squad from out of the dark.
Oz, a tabby cat, looking around for the final Yummy treat...which has landed on his back...
Pool's closed meme
The wreck of the U-1206, the infamous uboat that was sunk when the onboard toilet was operated incorrectly, causing a flood which got into the batteries, salt water and batteries don't mix too well and tend to create chlorine gas, thus forcing the submarine to surface whereupon it was promptly spotted by RAF Coastal Command and bombed until the captain was forced to scuttle the boat.
Anti drone technology was deployed near El Paso, Texas to intercept what appeared to be foreign drones, but turned out to be party balloons. NENA was unavailable for comment at this time...
The radiation detector on board one of the Concorde test aircraft as preserved at Duxford.
The 'Absolutely Barbaric' meme, with a Roman soldier looking in peril with the words 'Absolutely Barbaric' written underneath. By the way, did you know that the saying 'Blah blah blah', as a dismissive term comes from the ancient Greeks who would use the words 'bar' instead of 'blah' to dismissively mimic how those strange and disgusting foreigners spoke, which gave way to the term Barbarus to describe these people, and from that eventually via the Romans stealing everything they liked from the Greeks and making it their own, came the word Barbarian.
Hitler yelling Nein at the computer screen
A can of Pepsi Max Cherry with Moose playing Pepsi Man on twitch.
Daffy Duck in 'The Duxcorcist', checking the oven for the fire and finding an igloo and inuit instead, still 'nothing a bit of Oozy-off couldn't fix'.