…we’re still without power (20 hours at time of writing this) and are keeping battery use to a minimum, but it’s still Caturday, so here goes.

beckaaay:

lordkevington:

orwellsunderpants:

jdillustratesnonsense:

gallusrostromegalus:

For those of you that are wondering, please have one of the fiest pieces of radio comedy ever:

the first time i watched this i laughed so hard i nearly puked

THIRD BASE

Since I was 8 and found out about this for the first time my family has always followed up on someone saying “I don’t know,” with shouting “THIRD BASE”

Who Shall Be First, or, The Comedie of the Base Ball, wherein is found Misunderstanding, Confusion, Impatience, Wrath and divers other Sins.

As play’d by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men before the Queen’s Majestie at Greenwich.

Claimed writ by ye Earle of Oxenford, altho’ Master Shaksbere sayeth that ye De Veres know not Witte and Humour though it were push’d into them - he sayeth not where - wyth an Bargepole.

allthedesiredusernamesaretaken:

… mosaic …

Roman mosaic, Detail of floor, 1 century BC, National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia, Italy

Yet again I look at the shading, the colour graduation and the 3-D modelling that some Roman mosaic artist achieved on a flat surface with tiny tiles, and I wonder how qualified archaeologists and historians can look at something like these…

…and accept them as accurate reconstructions of how Roman statues would have been painted.

m-a-salter:

cryoverkiltmilk:

demonicae:

nicolethered:

FYI iPhone users!

Oh… oh that’s disgusting.

For emphasis - YOU HAVE TO TURN THIS OFF FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL APP

You can get to all these faster (marginally) by going to Settings > Siri > Apps.

Very sneaky.

Apps with default ON rather than default OFF is a pet peeve of mine (Android do it too).

I don’t use an iPhone but lots do, so reblog & signal boost.

millenniallust4death:

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

There are some posts I’ll reblog Every Single Time.

This is one of them. :->

dduane:

Looks like we’re in for an interesting day tomorrow

Storm Êowyn is inbound.

(For those interested, storm naming over this way is a joint effort of Met Êireann, the UK Met Office and the Royal Netherlands Weather Service. Everybody submits a group of names for a given storm season, and then some of those are chosen. “Éowyn” was one of the UK’s submissions for thee 2024/2025 tranche.) (We had “Arwen” in 2021/2022.)

The Met Éireann HARMONIE-AROME wind prediction models suggest that the west is going to get clobbered worst… but those of us in and near the midlands can still expect to catch some of this action. (A tip of the prospectively-windblown hat to Alan O"Reilly at @CarlowWeather on Bluesky for the animation.)

So… we’re battening down the hatches, charging everything up, and bottling some drinking water just in case.

We’ve been lucky before in that our near area has some terrain that’s protected us from the worst of some of these big blows. We’ll see if that protection holds up this time…

@dduane has said it all.

We’re braced and ready, and have already seen some amusing snark about “united Ireland”…

See you, as they say, on The Other Side.

If our power goes down, my Caturday posts will be a lot shorter than usual. Just so you know.

Thinking of (also showing my age a bit, I was eight) the “Stingray” opening title where Marineville’s main buildings could drop into the ground.

Doing that here would need a bit more shovel-work than I’m up for… :-P

sometiktoksarevalid:

Reblogging this one again after agreeing wholeheartedly last time with the impassioned video complaint about armour being represented as ineffective, which it most certainly wasn’t (or why bother?)

Also, re. that comment about Game of Thrones showing Mormont’s armour working properly in an early ep, and cliché not working in a later one. A show as casual about showing graphic violence could have shown how to defeat an opponent in full plate, though IIRC Mormont wore nothing as complete.

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Side-rant: It would have been hard to make out regardless - and still is, the clip’s on Youtube - because it happened during that battle scene with the crap minimal light.

I still haven’t forgotten what I think was the lighting cameraman responding to criticism of “Too dark to see anything” with “Your TVs Were Badly Tuned”. Well, bub, my TV was just fine with the programmes before, the programmes after, and the other scenes in that very GoT episode. The ones that weren’t incompetently lit…

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So how to discomfit a plate-armoured man? First, use weapons designed to attack the armour, not the man. Impact weapons like maces and warhammers work…

…because bones break, joints separate and brains concuss even without getting through the metal.

Or use polearms such as halberds, bills, etc., again, attacking the armour as much as the man, and at a longer, potentially safer distance.

Though don’t bet on that, because a man in well-fitted plate is, after a lifetime of getting used to moving in it, scary fast - and a gauntlet-punch even with no weapon in it will spoil any number of days.

They were often fitted with knuckle-spikes called “gadlings” for that very purpose.

Finally, dog-pile him with several attackers (expect to lose a couple) so that at least one has a chance to use a dagger on unarmoured or weakly armoured places.

Raise the visor then go for eyes, face or throat (didn’t someone get a dagger in the eye in another early GoT ep?) Reduce the graphic visuals by keeping the visor down with a blade shoved through one eye-slot, while the actor’s response shows that this Was Not Fun.

Go between the legs at the groin (always good for a knee-clench and Oooh! from the male audience) or inner upper thighs, where opened femoral arteries will bleed out in a matter of minutes.

Go through the armpits - they’re usually protected by mail, but full body weight behind the upper rondel of one of these…

…should get through, next stop trachea or lungs, aorta or heart.

NB - The ballpoint pen included for scale shows how big medieval daggers were, with many even bigger - which should also make it clear why nobody ate their dinner using one. They had proper small knives for that, also spoons, picks, eventually forks and always fingers (with napkins and finger-bowls to keep them clean).

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Why reblog so soon?

Well, it’s an articulate bitching session about a stupidity which vexes me, also these tags (though not about armour) made me chuckle and need seen, because they too are oh so right.

#he’s right

#what drives me the craziest is unstripped pens and showing people writing on paper and parchment as if it’s cheap

#WHERE ARE ALL THE WAX TABLETS

#also incorrect storage of books (eg early medieval type setting but the books are upright in shelves–WRONGO)

#showing monks writing and no penknife to be seen

#incorrectly dressed monks and nuns

barghest-land:

ALT

a new little star shines brightly above the Siberian horizon.

a little Homotherium latidens, that seems to be just a few weeks old, was found in Yakutia: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1

I saw that cross my dash and was reminded instantly of this:

From Stardust to Stardust - Smilodon

Prints: https://www.etsy.com/ArtofMaquenda/listing/714985107

Tattoos: https://www.etsy.com/ArtofMaquenda/listing/715007189

bookgirlfan:

airandangels:

I can’t remember if I’ve said this before but I think that if you make a Batman 1920s AU then you have to take into account that Bertie Wooster often spent time living in New York and Gotham City is just New York Noir and Bruce Wayne would probably cultivate the acquaintance of Bertie Wooster because Bertie is exactly the sort of person Bruce wants people to think he is, so it’s both birds of a feather camouflage and because he wants to observe Bertie for behavioural ideas.

Bertie, ray of sunshine that he is, thinks Bruce is jolly good fun and really quite barmy, but he already has a friend called Barmy and he can’t manage two Barmies so he affectionately dubs him Batty.

Consequently Bruce exists in a state of nagging uncertainty as to whether Bertie is the golden-hearted silly ass he so transparently appears to be, or is in fact one of his villains, knowing who he is and taunting him.

“Batty? Some kind of avenger of the night - is avenger the word I mean there, Jeeves?” 

“I do believe so, sir.” 

“Avenger of the night? Fighting with the Justice League?” 

“Just so, sir.” 

“Absolute rot. No, Jeeves, I’m afraid you’ve missed the mark on this one. Old Batty’s not much of the fighting kind. Between you and I, his will is less iron and more one of those thingummys with the chocolate and crackers.” 

“S’mores, sir?” 

“That’s the bean! No, Jeeves, put that idea right out of your head. Batty’s no more a superhero than I am. Why, next you’d be saying Miss Kyle is some sort of jewel thief!” 

“The prospect is unimaginable, sir.” 

I’ve never been a comics fan, and - despite co-writing an episode of “Batman: The Animated Series” with @dduane - know far more about Bertie than about Batman.

Yet this suggested AU makes so much sense, perhaps because it has so much potential for FUN.

Batman, slightly peculiar and paranoid individual that he seems to be, probably suspects Jeeves is a wily villain and Bertie his obfuscating smokescreen of affable imbecility, since nobody could be quite that serenely clever or inoffensively daffy without both of them putting in a lot of time on getting the act just right.

Alternately, that Jeeves is Bertie’s version of Alfred, while Bertie is a British form of Clark Kent concealing Superchap, perhaps? whose main superpower (the others include such necessities as Drinking Tea With Style) is the eminently British one of muddling through a crisis and having it all come out right in the end.

Also, introducing Bruce Wayne to the Drones Club would be something to see… :->

worldheritageposts-official:

tyrannosarcophagous:

not-used-to-being-normal:

danandphan:

danandphan:

gigglygamer:

allnaturaltrashfruit:

sigmatique:

pebbles5ever:

hypno-angex:

suklaaaa:

bunnyinafez:

iwantfitbody:

madamedepompador:

winchesterwolves:

moniker-padacklyte:

zillystring:

wasereborworthit:

mellowminty:

pizzaforpresident:

petition to rename the usa ‘south canada’

what about alaska

are we then normal canada

canada a bit to the left

What about South America? Is that just America? Or South South Canada?

i cried my ass of laughing

WARM CANADA

i caN’T BREATHE OH MY GOD

I’m not even from Canada but I approve this change of names

M ILKY E H

IT HAS RETURNED

FOUND IT

IT IS AN HONOUR TO HAVE THIS GRACE MY DASH

reblogging from myself bc i found this when scrolling through my blog

Reblogging again because this is too god for not reblog

this is one of the few posts you have to reblog or else you’ll never see it in a million years besides screenshots

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