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@AaronMk  
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That’s a misconception, they did managed to turn the guns around to aim at the Japanese, but they weren’t supposed to be used at land targets(they were meant to fire at ships) and so were pretty ineffective  
Plus the Japanese also hid out at the Sultan’s palace at Johor and the British didn’t want to destroy that place so that through a further wrench
 
Plus having your main battleships get owned probably didn’t help
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@AaronMk
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That’s a misconception, they did managed to turn the guns around to aim at the Japanese, but they weren’t supposed to be used at land targets(they were meant to fire at ships) and so were pretty ineffective
Plus the Japanese also hid out at the Sultan’s palace at Johor and the British didn’t want to destroy that place so that through a further wrench
Plus having your main battleships get owned probably didn’t help
 
to be honest forcing your enemy to use their weapons in a less effective way is pretty much a part of outmaneuvering them. I’m sure Sun Tzu said something about that, attack like the water if they’re expecting like the mountain; and the mountain if they’re expecting like the water. Or some such.
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@TheMagpulPone
He looks like someone who could stand to spend some time riding a bike.
 
@Mikey
 
Imagine, if you can, a show that is half “Now Get Out Of That” and half “Jackass”, but purely British, and filmed in the back lot of Junkyard Wars, set in the Sahara or deep in Botswana, which focuses on reviews of supercars like the Bugatti Veyron and spends most of its time getting one million dollar cars stuck in traffic because they wanted to see how handy they would be for picking up the kids after school, but the super cars don’t have enough clearance to get up the curb to the gas station, or shred their own tires on the first roundabout they find.
 
Oh, and they tried to launch a Robin Reliant into space on a home made rocket because it “looked a little like it might fly, and also they succeeded in launching a mini down a ski jump. Also with home made rockets. Because rockets.
 
Their best bit though, in my opinion, was when they’d be flown to some far off country and given just shy of enough money to by a car from a scrap yard, and told to “get home”. Invariably, they turned it into a love letter to whatever piece of crap they found that was still drivable, and then spent most of the rest of the show getting lost, sabotaging each other’s cars, infuriating the locals, and randomly exploring some of the most beautiful incredible unbelievable (or utterly lethal and incredibly dangerous) places on earth.
 
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Rocket cars: serious business.
 
The show’s been recreated several times, and several places, but the “quintessential” hosts have their own show, which is only on Amazon (because reasons), and all the attempts to recreate it in America just resulted in a Car Talk show.
 
In its prime, it was fucking amazing.
 
3 rich blokes, cocking about with million dollar cars, sometimes driving them properly on proper tracks, and sometimes seeing if they can get one across a desert, or through a jungle or down a river, or through a literal war zone, and taking the task of seeing if a car could fly completely seriously, because it could be England’s chance for a real space program to show those colonists What For.
 
To get back on topic, they found they couldn’t kill a Toyota Hilux pickup. So they bought one and raced it, used it to tow impossible things (like a building), then drove it THROUGH the building and parked it down on the beach at low tide and let the high tide of the North Sea on it for a day, dropped a camping trailer on it, and then gave up and set it on fire. And every time it only needed a new battery and fresh spark plus and it started right up on the first or second try.
 
So they put it on top of a 30-something floor building on the day it was to be demolished and blew it the fuck up and let it fall with all the rubble. And when the dust cleared and some back hoes and a steam shovel had found it in the debris and dragged it upright, they put a new battery in it, hit a couple of the more bent parts with a hammer, gave it a fresh set spark plugs (which is the only maintenance any car ever really needs aside from better bigger brakes), and it started and they drove it off the top of the rubble pile.
 
So they built a plinth for the truck and immortalized it as the indestructible god that it is.
 
Then they bought another one and raced dog sleds to the North Pole with it. Then they drove it to the open mouth of a volcano to collect lava samples with it.
 
The hosts were a cock, a pillock, and a hamster. They never agreed about anything, and they never stopped making it a race with silly and stupid rules like “last one to be eaten by alligators” or “first one to get your cohost murdered” or “whoever’s mother hates the car the least” wins!
 
Good times.
 
It you’d like a sample, it’s basically this, for an hour.
 
Also Rowan Atkinson in a reasonably priced car
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To be clear, I don’t necessarily mind some kind of green reurbanization and increase in public transportation, especially if it includes rewilding and reforestation, but there needs to still be a place for the highway, the car, and low-density living. Some people need solitude.
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@Ciaran
Huh.
 
That is, precisely, the right response. In fact, it is the ONLY right response. You are now ready to experience the horror and wonder that is Utter Twats Cocking About With Cars.
 
Please click that link - I’m not trolling you. This is the best of Top Gear. It is what god created cars for.
 
If this were truly a civilized world, Rocket Car Ski Jump Into A Pile Of Giant Marshmallows would be an official olympic sport.
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Looks like Bibi might have shot himself in the foot.
 
Exit polls out of Israel show the Likud projected to win between 31 and 33 seats, with the rival Blue and Whites netting between 32 and 34. Less close than the first round, and it’ll likely be on the leaders of the Blue and Whites to form the coalition instead of Netanyahu. The closest possible party to form said government with favors the BnW to the Likud.
 
Bibi Bitch might be sans a job come Wednesday.
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@SD50-2  
Why the vagueposting? We’re all friends here - rip that bandaid off and say what you mean.
 
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I mean, do it politely without personally attacking others … but what’s the worse that will happen? Someone on a My Little Pony fan site on the internet will disagree with you? Your post might get deleted for breaking Rule #0?
 

 
@Background Pony #C078  
I was driving a British coworker around in the states, carpooling with them to work and back, and he said, and I quote;
 
“I get it. You Americans fucking live on roads. You just have houses to sleep in, but you have sex, eat your meals, and are birthed and die in these things. No wonder they all have to be so fucking huge. You have to be able to seat a family of six for dinner in them.”
 
And he was right.
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In Vino Veritas
Wells in Arizona are going dry due to corporate megafarms.
 
One solution put forth to prevent that was to require metering on any well that used more than 35 gallons a minute. The (predictably republican) chair of the resources committee blocked on the will of big lobbyists. With one lobbyist giving this dumbass gem.
 
“We don’t think wells should be metered at all,” Gaither Martin, executive vice president of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, said. “Our point of view is once it starts, where does it stop? It becomes like every other policy issue that becomes a slippery slope.”
 
They are not even shying away from out and out just saying the fallacy in their fucking speeches.
 
Republicans defend the farms saying that they’re bringing jobs…except they’re not. These megafarms are increasingly automated, and many residents in the area are being forced to abandon their homes when the water runs out. Small farms and businesses are being displaced, and few if any of those workers get hired at these big farms.
 
So, republicans are all for the “working class” ea?
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Moscow Mitch’s wife is now officially under investigation for abusing her position as secretary of transportation for enriching herself and her husband.
 
Now if only these things ever amount to something I’d would be very ecstatic.
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Borrowing rates shot up heavy last night, forcing the NY arm of the feds to dole out 53 billion to keep the rates from jumping over 5%. The last time this happened as a few months from when Fannie and Feddie went tits up and crashed the market.
 
Of note, however, is that banks are doing way better now, so a bank collapse is unlikely. It is, however, another major sign that a big slowdown is incoming.
 
With oil surging, and home selling slowing, things are looking scarily like they did in 2008.
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Saudi Arabia is taking a cautious approach and is asking for the UN’s help in determining who was responsible for the attack on their oil fields.
 
Even the Saudis are being more reasonable than the Trump administration here.
 
Edit: Wait I forgot that even Democratic senator Chris Coon is beating the drums for war with Iran. So the Saudis are being more reasonable than the US government here.
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@Dustcan  
So the saudis couldn’t even track or detect unidentified aircraft entering their own air space? This is why the US has NORAD. Saudi Arabia needs to up their game or this will happen again now that the world sees how easy it is to penetrate their defenses.
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@TheMagpulPone  
Someone from the RAND Corporation was talking about that on Twitter. The Saudis’ air defense is split among multiple agencies, like our counter-terrorism was before 9/11, and most of the equipment they’ve bought from the US has gone to the military, which isn’t responsible for oil infrastructure. That means their refineries are very vulnerable, especially since drones and cruise missiles are easier to sneak past conventional air defenses.
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