A quick google search gives misleading numbers on this topic

This is from the official US Army Times site link which covers it fully

American forces weren’t alone in launching assaults on the last day. The British high command, still stinging from its retreat at Mons during the first days of the war in August 1914, judged that nothing could be more appropriate than to retake the city on the war’s final day. British Empire losses on November 11 totaled some twenty-four hundred. The French commander of the 80th Régiment d’Infanterie received two simultaneous orders that morning: one to launch an attack at 9 a.m., the other to cease fire at 11. Total French losses on the final day amounted to an estimated 1,170.
The Germans, in the always-perilous posture of retreat, suffered some 4,120 casualties. Losses on all sides that day approached eleven thousand dead, wounded, and missing.

Indeed, Armistice Day exceeded the ten thousand casualties suffered by all sides on D-Day

note: this doesn’t cover American deaths of about 300

Yeah, it does have a sepultura vibe

I think he got the feeling of the song right

Here’s the trippiest Motorhead cover I know. A traditional Mongolian throat singer covering Orgasmatron

On the final day everybody knew that the war was going to end at 11 am, but some commanders (mostly US) wanted to be the person who won the last victory of the war, and also to have good strategic positions if the armistice collapsed. So they attacked German positions even though they knew the war was ending in a couple of hours.
more soldiers were killed that day then on the D-day landings

I remember hearing that they execute prisoners on certain dates that are significant to the regime. I guess when you don’t have to worry about things like fair trials or legal due process then it’s easier to organise 😒

Yeah but I guess they approach it like a used car dealership. If The model out front isn’t suitable for you then we’ve probably got something else that is.
I also imagine that this kind of thing would go through Chinese doctors etc.
I mean it sounds awful but if it saves some kids life when the prisoner is going to be executed anyway?
Although that’s the type of argument the Nazi doctors at Auschwitz used so I’m Lost in a moral quagmire at the moment

Iirc China executes condemned prisoners on certain dates during the year, and they sell their organs on the world market.
I heard this some years ago, so I don’t know how true it is however if they bill your family for the cost of the bullet they shoot you with (which is true) I can’t see them passing up the revenue

This seems appropriate

Epic Clickbait

They weren’t going TO uluṟu, they were flying reconnaissance and got that far inland before turning around, I assume because they needed fuel

It does. I imagine it’s a slight exaggeration or maybe that family just didn’t visit them. I do recall hearing most people living in the cities spend almost all their time within a very small area, something like a square kilometre. They live that close to where they work etc

Nearly 2000 km. They very probably could have got lost and died. Their vehicle was empty.
I told them not to attempted, and to ask about it at the tourism office.
I told my mother about this and she told me about her friend her in Japan whose child didn’t walk on grass until they were about 10.
She said it’s not standard like that but they would have expected a level of population density like Japan, with fuel stations and good roads all the way there. This was before smart phones as well.
I used to drive to roxby downs from Adelaide, which is much closer and it’s still scary to think of being lost out there and running out of fuel

there’s a cool documentary on the black propaganda (sexual propaganda) unit the British very reluctantly ran during World War II. There is a female artist on it who tells a story about creating an image of Hitler with his penis out. She said the rather stuffy British offices directed her to draw it, then after a pause added ‘ don’t make it too large‘

oh yeah… Are you a fan of Mark felton’s channel?

I’m in aus too. Did you know that during the war Japanese reconnaissance planes flew in land as far as Uluru/Ayers Rock, and it was suppressed from the papers to avoid public panic?

The reason I mentioned it is I can’t help but laugh because the pilots must have thought they were going crazy, there’s just miles and miles of absolutely nothing and even today Japanese people who visit are stunned by the scale of distance out there.

I’m in Adelaide and one morning in the city a Japanese couple in a Toyota Camry wagon stopped next to me and asked ‘ excuse me please which way is it to Ayers Rock?’. I swear on my life this is a true story.

When I first read the title I thought this was a breakdown of one of the Ironman movies 😄

Also some were shipped to Canada where they were model prisoners and were allowed out to help on farms and they even obtained university degrees via correspondence. A lot emigrated to Canada and I remember once saying that being taken POW was the best thing that ever happened to him in his life.

What was funny though was that the Germans created their own stricter camp rules

This guy made a montage of how Fortunate Son is the perfect ending song for any video game that’s pretty cool