It’s often said that war is the ultimate motivator for innovation. Judging by the M45 Quadmount, war is also a time for saying “screw this, let’s see what happens when we glue all these things together”.
Tiger and Lion Fans Are Just the Worst
To most people the phrase “tigers are pretty damn rad” is an innocuous, if not slightly unusual comment that cause no real major emotional reaction one way or the other. To some though, that comment is not only offensive, but considered factually incorrect to the point it causes bilious venom to spill from their mouths and onto their keyboard, or it is if the Wikipedia talk page about tigers is to be believed.
The Stupid Reason Furious 7’s Best Stunt was Almost Cut
Furious 7, along with defying every naming convention Hollywood has ever tried to establish, was by all standards of measurement, a pretty fucking good movie with critics lauding the movie for its practical effects and for somehow handling the death of Paul Walker with far more grace and sensitivity than you’d expect from a film where The Rock elbow drops a predator drone using an ambulance. In regards to the former, it turns out that one of the film’s best stunts was almost never filmed for a really stupid reason.
King Frederick Wilhelm Knew How to Motivate People
Motivating people to work is a difficult thing because people will naturally shy away from doing things that are hard (teehee) unless of course you take a leaf out of King Frederick Wilhelm of Prussia’s book and decide to just beat the shit out of them with a cane.
The Sailors Who Held a Funeral For Their Rum
Every year on July 31st, sailors across Great Britain and get crunk in celebration of a time-honoured naval tradition dating back several centuries that the British government sadly put a stop to in the 1970’s. Having a tot of rum as part of their daily rations.
