What the Heck?! Thread (Closed)

[TerraN_EmpirE]

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[Miragedriver]

A spitfire's low pass under a bridge:

[video=youtube;Xf3UtmHLKUU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xf3UtmHLKUU&hd=1[/video]


I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

 

[Miragedriver]

A C-141 towing Delta Dart

I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

A spitfire's low pass under a bridge:

[video=youtube;Xf3UtmHLKUU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xf3UtmHLKUU&hd=1[/video]


I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

That video was real for the record, It was done with a stunt pilot though.

 

[Miragedriver]

A very unique multi-purpose personal firearm

I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

 

[bd popeye]

[video=youtube;Suj2s-UBM6s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suj2s-UBM6s[/video]

Full report and another video in the link..

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An armed man suspected of leading police on a wild pursuit was arrested Monday after he barricaded himself in a North Hollywood home.
Authorities pursued 41-year-old Nolan Perez, who had a warrant out for his arrest on a domestic violence charge, along several Southland freeways after he was spotted in Boyle Heights. The chase continued for more than an hour before he pulled over on a surface street and got out of a maroon Nissan Altima at about 11:30 a.m.

 

[Miragedriver]

In very poor taste!

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin labels used on beer in Italian supermarket

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A Polish tourist has stumbled upon a supermarket in Italy that sells Alcohol with labels of infamous dictators on.
Slawomir Peca spotted the controversial beverages while visiting the town of Bibione in northern Italy on Saturday.
As he perused the drinks available, he was shocked to find rows of beer bottles bearing portraits of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini on their labels.
"It was the strangest thing I've ever seen," commented Peca.
The company responsible for these beers and wines sell most of their product to German and Austrian tourists who see it as a souvenir.
The legal issues, protests and ethical conundrums of putting Hitler on a beer bottle have been ignored by the company behind the beers because the demand is high

 

[joshuatree]

Really clutching at straws here.......

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Allied soldiers liberating France during the second world war raped French women after pushing back the Germans, an outspoken Japanese politician has claimed, as Tokyo comes under pressure over its wartime system of sex slavery.

Toru Hashimoto, the mayor of Japan's second city, Osaka, who was once seen as a future prime minister, argued in a weekend speech that Japan must admit its own historical wrongdoings while also pointing out the mistakes of others, the Mainichi Shimbun said.

"After landing in Normandy, Allied soldiers raped French women. 'Comfort stations' were built after things became too much," he said in the speech, using a euphemism for brothels, according to the newspaper.

"It is a historical fact. It is an unfortunate past. We must never repeat it," he said in the public address.

The comment is the latest instance of a right-wing politician jumping feet first into the sensitive topic of the Japanese use of coerced prostitution during the second world war, which saw thousands of women - mainly Koreans - forced to work in brothels.

Japan has officially apologised for the system and maintains that a treaty normalising ties with South Korea decades ago settled the issue.

Conservatives, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, believe Japan is unfairly singled out for wrongs that were more widespread than their accusers admit.

However, historians agree that while there were rapes by allied soldiers in Normandy, there is no generally accepted evidence of officially sanctioned sex attacks by any military during the second world war other than the Japanese.

"Europeans and Americans say 'Japanese used sex slaves'. We have to educate Japanese who would be able to argue and reply to them, 'We were wrong, but you were wrong as well'," Hashimoto said in the speech, according to the Mainichi.

Hashimoto, whose opposition party has fractured, is well known for stirring controversy.

 

[Doombreed]

"Europeans and Americans say 'Japanese used sex slaves'. We have to educate Japanese who would be able to argue and reply to them, 'We were wrong, but you were wrong as well'," Hashimoto said in the speech, according to the Mainichi.

"But EVERYONE was doing it!"

 

[AssassinsMace]

There's a story posted on Yahoo where the wives of the Japanese far right held a protest in Tokyo against China and South Korea denouncing the lie of comfort women during WWII. There seems to be some PR orchestration by the right wing of Japan when you have what looks like a campaign against the notion that the Japanese soldiers raped women. I wonder if also has to do with the story where Japan bans child pornography now except in manga and animation.