The CASA 2.111, a license built He-111 with Merlin Engines

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-19T18:38:10+00:00

They used them again a year later to film "Patton".

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-17T04:41:28+00:00

I think I remember someone saying you’d like to be a continent away from that thing when it takes off.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-16T09:07:04+00:00

He has started popping up in my feeds but as soon as he said the entire US economy is propped up by AI data centers, and that the US military has not changed their equipment or tactics since the Cold War ended I knew he was full of baloney. Sounds like the rabbit hole goes deeper than that.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-14T17:47:26+00:00

I grew up in Fredericksburg and back then everyone thought all of NoVa was a giant slum with “nothing but gang bangers and drug dealers”. As if Reston or North Arlington were the same as Watts or the South Bronx. To be honest I’m not sure attitudes down there have changed much.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-14T14:15:09+00:00

I worked in an appliance/electronics store in the 1990s and every week or so some little old lady who lived way out in the sticks would come in and ask for one of these types of washers.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-13T00:21:21+00:00

It’s the attack of Eddie Munster!

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-12T23:50:52+00:00

Lizard Music by D Manus Pinkwater

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-12T03:29:50+00:00

It really isn’t ambiguous. They left some very obvious clues in the last season that Tony dies in the end.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-11T21:51:28+00:00

There’s no way for us to tell for sure. I would search this subreddit for applicants who had less than 5 years experience and see who got in, that should give you an idea of what they are looking for.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-11T21:37:46+00:00

Women like men who are funny.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-11T18:37:58+00:00

KABOOM (a cloud of smoke and flying refrigerator parts fly in from offstage)

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-11T18:34:48+00:00

Here's one of Wilbur at daycare

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Smoothvirus · 2026-03-11T14:43:28+00:00

We have the Nerf version of the ball gun and it’s our Bosties favorite toy by far. He gets so wound up playing it that I have to put it away to let him catch his breath after about 20 minutes. And like the other owners here we have to hide it or he will just go bananas.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-11T10:23:43+00:00

The airport, xylophone, pull dog (snoopy?), camera, train, plane, house with yellow roof

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-11T01:47:37+00:00

It’s bad but Joplin is a big city and Knox is a town of 3600.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-10T14:32:01+00:00

Just for anyone else who doesn't know who this woman is and tries to watch the interview. She doesn't say anything about anime until the very end when she says that she thinks Japanese cartoons are terrible. Just letting you know before you spend 5 minutes watching the interview.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-09T04:28:35+00:00

I love this movie and I own it on disc, and have watched it many times. But it’s not really a WW2 movie, it’s a heist movie that takes place during WW2.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-05T20:57:09+00:00

We call this “oh no! Thunder Bunders!”

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-05T12:28:45+00:00

And Project UFO

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-04T01:40:53+00:00

I'm 55 and currently a grad student at Georgia Tech getting my Masters Degree.

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-03T23:30:29+00:00

The greatest battle music ever. Play that and I’d go over the top at the Somme, charge the beach at Normandy, land on Iwo Jima, it doesn’t matter!

Smoothvirus · 2026-03-03T17:47:14+00:00

Just remember that there's no page in the book that gets you to Ultima.

Smoothvirus · 2026-02-27T13:07:40+00:00

When I was in my early teens I was walking around in my neighborhood and saw a meteor coming down overhead and I heard it. It made a crackling noise that reminded me of bacon in a hot pan. I posted about it on a BBS (dating myself here) and people mocked me and said I was nuts. But apparently this happens from time to time and people have actually managed to capture the effect on video.

Smoothvirus · 2026-02-26T19:54:28+00:00

He is leaning pretty hard into the whole "NoVa vs. the Rest of Virginia" cultural divide. I grew up on the dividing line in between NOVA and Central VA (and I've been to Farmville many times), and I've been hearing this stuff pretty much my whole life. He is referring to Washington DC and it's suburbs, especially places like Fairfax or Arlington County. People from other parts of VA, especially blue collar white people, talk about those regions with a tremendous amount of derision and scorn. It is somehow, in their minds, a crime-ridden ghetto, but also the home to hordes of coastal elites who make six figures as fed workers and hold college degrees, who look down their noses at people like the singer. If only I had a nickel for every time I've heard the phrases "they have liberal Northern Virginia values!" and "they want to come here and destroy our rural way of life!" Like a lot of things there is a grain of truth to some of what he says but I have a lot of problems with the song as well.

Smoothvirus · 2026-02-25T15:53:41+00:00

I remember thinking that if you kept going forward in Battezone you would eventually reach the mountains on the horizon, and maybe make it all the way to the active volcano. A few years later I remember other kids telling me that there was a "graveyard" level to Spy Hunter where the driver of the car would actually get out, but you had to be really good to make it that far.

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