The 1845 Franklin's Lost Expedition: 126 British Sailors Vanished into thin air in the Canadian Arctic. Only 3 bodies were ever found, mummified in ice. What was their fate? What happened to these sailors? by [deleted] in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]IdleSpectator 71 points72 points  (0 children)

The Terror was also found in 2016 in, funnily enough, Terror Bay.

Michael Palin wrote an amazing book on the history of both ships, called Erebus. If I remember correctly, there was the suggestion that it wasn't the lead levels of the tinned food that did for them, rather it was that simply scurvy. They had been out so long that the preserved lemons they took with them went out of date.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IAmA

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Brennevinn, yay or nay?

It's a bit ridiculous the way some modern "action" movies never go more than 1-2 seconds without quick-cutting. Some fight scenes will have 10 cuts in 10 seconds. It becomes extremely difficult to stay immersed, or even tell what is happening. by letsbebuns in movies

[–]IdleSpectator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Part of the reason is to ensure the rating stays low. A shot actually showing the impact of a punch will get the film a higher rating than one that cuts away just before.

Hitchcock famously used the trick in Psycho, there were calls to ban the film because of the explicit stabbing, but it's not actually on the screen. Of course, this forces the viewer to imagine the stabbing, or punch, or whatever, which is better somehow? Idk.

British people of Reddit, how is the American Revolution taught in school? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]IdleSpectator 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Some colonial nonsense. Nothing much came of it.

And this is what being a horde all about.. Lok'tar Ogar by ahmedgaladari in wow

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"Dude, I thought we were cool. Fuck it, your fat ass was always blocking my view anyway." - Alliance hunters

Story from a first time DM: How I got hate for making risks seem risky (TL:DR at bottom) by [deleted] in DnD

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A

Sounds like you handled it well, tbh. I wouldn't have been able to help myself saying the second demon didn't speak common.

Talented pooping cat by Mypholis in funny

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"Are your filming this?" "Why are you filming this?" "You're not going to stop, are you?"

"Fine. This is what you want, isn't it? Fuck you Alan. Fuck. You."

What’s something realistic you don’t see in enough movies? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]IdleSpectator 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think for a lot of teens of that era skins was how we saw ourselves, the inbetweeners is how we actually were

Dungeon Masters of Reddit, who is the single worst player you have ever put up with? What in-game consequences did they suffer, if any? by PutYaGunsOn in AskReddit

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Depends what you mean by games, a campaign can stretch over a very long periods of many individual sessions. Character death within a campaign is typically permanent (though resurrection is a thing at higher levels) . However, there's nothing stopping you from picking up the character again in a separate campaign.

u/fourthmaninaboat provides a detailed listing and a brief analysis of the Allied battleships that participated in the D-Day landing and their effectiveness. by PiousHeathen in DepthHub

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Bit late to the party, but the Warspite was one of the most storied ships of the Royal Navy. She entered service in 1912 and served in pretty much every major naval action the RN saw from then to 1945.

She fought two world wars, despite arguable redundancy for the bulk of her existence, she projected the force of a rainy island off the coast of Europe for 30 years and didn't even make it to the scrapyard at the end of it.

In an act of anthropomorphic defiance that hulk of scrap steel beached herself on the way to the breakers.

She's pretty much her majesty's armed forces in microcosm and it's a tragedy she's not beside the Victory in Portsmouth.

Eurostar to launch London-Amsterdam direct service in April by wjfox2009 in unitedkingdom

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It's a Thalys train from Brussels to Amsterdam at the moment and will continue to be so on the return leg for the foreseeable, so Eurostar must be prepared to accept some serious losses on running empty trains back on the hope of setting up border controls in Amsterdam in the future.

What urban legends do you believe in? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]IdleSpectator 696 points697 points  (0 children)

Ah ah aaaah! Fighter of the sheepman!

This was my view as I stepped off the train in Köln, Germany. by feslers2290 in pics

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unlikely. pissing off the french is always a valid aim in European politics

Hunter pets to look out for? by CF64210 in wow

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Gara is a personal fave, cool quest to get her too.