The off topic thread 4.0

[Fwoy]

Anyone see the gentleman?

‘yep, loved it

 

[glenferry23]

Gone but never forgotten. 75 years to the day since Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians.

One of the best yet utterly saddening and depressing accounts to follow on twitter. Helps a lot putting everyday problems back into perspective

Thanks for sharing this account, have scrolled through this evening. Quite extraordinary the lengths humans have plunged in order to destroy each other. Have read a few accounts of the first Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp, it would be harrowing.

The footage of the crash looks terrifying, knowing what was about happen and being helpless to do anything.

Have heard it’s fake however dont want to see it regardless. It would be beyond words what the final few moments would be like, especially having your child next to you and unable to protect them. Devastating.

Has been a long time since I’ve been in a helicopter and this is a stark reminder how fickle they can be. Many variables to contend with, the height you fly at, the wind gusts or pockets of air circulating in different directions. Was never really a fan and had some bad moments in the air, I understandably earned the nickname ‘the chunder from down under’ many years ago.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Thanks for sharing this account, have scrolled through this evening. Quite extraordinary the lengths humans have plunged in order to destroy each other. Have read a few accounts of the first Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp, it would be harrowing.



Have heard it’s fake however dont want to see it regardless. It would be beyond words what the final few moments would be like, especially having your child next to you and unable to protect them. Devastating.

Has been a long time since I’ve been in a helicopter and this is a stark reminder how fickle they can be. Many variables to contend with, the height you fly at, the wind gusts or pockets of air circulating in different directions. Was never really a fan and had some bad moments in the air, I understandably earned the nickname ‘the chunder from down under’ many years ago.

I will make sure that one day I go there, and take the tour.

It's the tweets about the kids that gets you teary eyed.
The adults you notice quite often survived many months or even over a year and either were gassed or perished (imo that means in the camp from disease or malnutrition)... but the kids. They barely ever stayed there more than days before being murdered.

Might give Schindlers List a re-watch before bed.

 

[Zidane98]

I will make sure that one day I go there, and take the tour.

It's the tweets about the kids that gets you teary eyed.
The adults you notice quite often survived many months or even over a year and either were gassed or perished (imo that means in the camp from disease or malnutrition)... but the kids. They barely ever stayed there more than days before being murdered.

Might give Schindlers List a re-watch before bed.

Check out "the accountant" on Netflix. Very powerful.

 

[SM]

Check out "the accountant" on Netflix. Very powerful.

You mean the Ben Affleck action flick? How?

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

You mean the Ben Affleck action flick? How?

Nah, The Accountant of Auschwitz, a semi-biography about Oskar Goring who was one of the last surviving members of the SS.

 

[SM]

Nah, The Accountant of Auschwitz, a semi-biography about Oskar Goring who was one of the last surviving members of the SS.

Yeah thought he must have meant something else, otherwise I was very confused.

 

[Bradesmaen]

I will make sure that one day I go there, and take the tour.

It's the tweets about the kids that gets you teary eyed.
The adults you notice quite often survived many months or even over a year and either were gassed or perished (imo that means in the camp from disease or malnutrition)... but the kids. They barely ever stayed there more than days before being murdered.

Might give Schindlers List a re-watch before bed.

Go in the depths of winter and you'll get an experience. I went in December 2016 and it was 0 or there abouts. I could barely survive it in my coat and thermals.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

In Austria:

The rock quarry in Mauthausen was at the base of the "Stairs of Death". Prisoners were forced to carry roughly-hewn blocks of stone – often weighing as much as 50 kilograms (110 lb) – up the 186 stairs, one prisoner behind the other. As a result, many exhausted prisoners collapsed in front of the other prisoners in the line, and then fell on top of the other prisoners, creating a domino effect; the first prisoner falling onto the next, and so on, all the way down the stairs.

Such brutality was not accidental. The SS guards would often force prisoners – exhausted from hours of hard labour without sufficient food and water – to race up the stairs carrying blocks of stone. Those who survived the ordeal would often be placed in a line-up at the edge of a cliff known as "The Parachutists Wall" .

At gun-point each prisoner would have the option of being shot or pushing the prisoner in front of him off the cliff.Other common methods of extermination of prisoners who were either sick, unfit for further labour or as a means of collective responsibility or after escape attempts included beating the prisoners to death by the SS guards and Kapos, starving to death in bunkers, hangings and mass shootings.

At times the guards or Kapos would either deliberately throw the prisoners on the 380 volt electric barbed wire fence,or force them outside the boundaries of the camp and then shoot them on the pretence that they were attempting to escape. Another method of extermination were icy showers – some 3,000 inmates died of hypothermia after having been forced to take an icy cold shower and then left outside in cold weather. A large number of inmates were drowned in barrels of water at Gusen II.

Utterly evil.

 

[WealstoneRaider]

I will make sure that one day I go there, and take the tour.

It's the tweets about the kids that gets you teary eyed.
The adults you notice quite often survived many months or even over a year and either were gassed or perished (imo that means in the camp from disease or malnutrition)... but the kids. They barely ever stayed there more than days before being murdered.

Might give Schindlers List a re-watch before bed.

This has just been released in two parts. Missed it yesterday but I’ll try and watch it on catchup. Something about colourising photographs brings it More to life - and therefore brings it home to you. Mans brutality to each other knows no bounds

Pictured in colour for the first time, this was Auschwitz 75 years ago

Taken in 1944 by a German photographer billeted to Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern occupied Poland, these images are the only known record of scores of Jewish families.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[WealstoneRaider]

You can’t make this shit up anymore


Employers must crack down on sports chat because it 'excludes women'


https://mol.im/a/7933703

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

You can’t make this shit up anymore


Employers must crack down on sports chat because it 'excludes women'


https://mol.im/a/7933703

She's implying that women aren't interested in sport. That's sexist stereotyping in itself.

 

[Bradesmaen]

She's implying that women aren't interested in sport. That's sexist stereotyping in itself.

"How about that new iron that just came out?"

 

[jd2010]

A AA

I will make sure that one day I go there, and take the tour.

It's the tweets about the kids that gets you teary eyed.
The adults you notice quite often survived many months or even over a year and either were gassed or perished (imo that means in the camp from disease or malnutrition)... but the kids. They barely ever stayed there more than days before being murdered.

Might give Schindlers List a re-watch before bed.

I still struggle to even put into words what it's like going there. Of the whole 3 years travelling around Europe it's the one day I didn't take a single photo and it's something that I remember most. I can't believe locals live so close to it now.

 

[Loonerty]

Got my Tame Impala ticket

 

[Spanish Sahara]

Got my Tame Impala ticket [emoji7]

Sold out right when it opened this morning in Melbourne [emoji35]

 

[jod23]

Still can't wrap my head around this Kobe thing. Watching Shaq talk about it and he's all emotional. It's tough. Just such a shock and such a shame.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Still can't wrap my head around this Kobe thing. Watching Shaq talk about it and he's all emotional. It's tough. Just such a shock and such a shame.

yeah I watched Shaq talking about it just before, it’s really broken him and he’s hurting a lot because the last thing he said to Kobe was get 50.

goes to show, you just never know, check in on your loved ones whenever you can!.

 

[Zidane98]

chef you going to see offspring in Melbourne?

 

[chef]

chef you going to see offspring in Melbourne?

Yeah, if i can get a tickets I'll be there.

 

[jod23]

yeah I watched Shaq talking about it just before, it’s really broken him and he’s hurting a lot because the last thing he said to Kobe was get 50.

goes to show, you just never know, check in on your loved ones whenever you can!.

Yeah and Shaq just lost his sister I think 4-5 months ago. He's going through the wringer at the minute.

Such a tragedy.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez Doesn’t Have the Answers

By floating reckless theories about the ex-NFL player and murderer, Netflix’s true-crime series veers toward the irresponsible.

www.vulture.com

I thought this was a very good article.

 

[chef]

RPCB how good is it Hanks in the new season of Better call saul.

 

[RPCB]

RPCB how good is it Hanks in the new season of Better call saul.

Oh wow. I had no idea. So cool.

 

[chef]

Oh wow. I had no idea. So cool.

Theres a new trailer out, mike being bad ass is the highlight.