As Posted By Prof. Caddick-Adams
You know, the military history chap, of whom I already possess 4 works with the danger of another popping up at any moment. Art!
His caption is: "Breaking.It seems #OperationSealion succeeded after all."
Operation Sealion being the amphibious invasion of the Allotment Of Eden by the Nazis, which famously never happened.
I don't have any context for this image, and you can't do a reverse-image search on it either, so it will have to stand on it's own. The resonance does rather chime, though, as the Daleks are essentially Nazis wearing an armoured pepperpot. Plus early-war Teuton tanks were painted a uniform slate grey.
ANYWAY this Intro is going to be a bit of a miscellany, as I'm getting rid of Bookmarks on Twitter that have accumulated over time. Art!
Your Humble Scribe has been labouring under a misapprehension for about a year. You see - or rather hear - this book was mentioned by the author on the 'We Have Ways -' podcast that long ago, and I thought it was already a done deal. What should have alerted me that I was treeing up the wrong bark was that it had NIL presence on 'Abebooks'. Because -
Ah. That would explain why I couldn't find it. Conrad unsure what the timetable for publication is once an MSS has been accepted; available by Christmas this year? Art!
The face of future warfare. That unlovely-looking entity is a Ruffian 'Kuryer' Unmanned Ground Vehicle, caught in the camera of an Ukrainian FPV drone. The orcses* sent this beast out into No Man's Land - the unoccupied area between the lines - in order to shell Ukrainian positions. Art!
The Ukrainians were quicker on the draw and blew it up. Oooops. $100,000 up the spout.
Rather than gloat about an expensive bit of kit being rendered unto iron filings, see this for what it is, how conflicts are going to be fought in the future, with machines used when it gets too dangerous for Hom. Sap. Philip K. Dick would have felt validated and vindicated. Art!
More a rictus than a smile, one feels
This is Putinpot admitting, reluctantly, that Ruffia is in economic trouble and the unadmitted subtext here is that he's blown $650 billion with very little to show for it, and that the population of Mordorvia are just going to have to put up with increasing taxes, poverty and squalor because he's the Tsar. $25 billion per month or $300 billion per year. Art!
<wallet squeaks in anguish>
This picture is from 'AfricanStalingrad' whose monomania is with the campaign in Tunisia during the Second Unpleasantness. I have two of these works already - "Together We Stand"and "An Army At Dawn" - but BUT the temptation to go on Abebooks and peruse is always there. I recall having one of Saul David's works already, can't quite recall the name.
Ooops, actually three - "The Mediterranean and Middle East" as well. Art!
"On the morning of the 27th, a drone hit an oil pumping station, forcing it to shut down. The governor of Chuvashia reported the event, saying it took place near the village of Konar, where the Tinkhovatovo-2 station is located. Konar lies about 1,000 km from the Ukrainian border"
For Your Information, pumping stations are as vulnerable as oil refineries, being large, static and full of stuff itching to explode. Destroy one and you shut off the whole pipeline until it gets repaired, so that's one pipeline to the Black Sea that no longer functions. Amended to add If it can be repaired; spare parts are sanctioned and even on the grey market are liable to cost x10 what they used to. Another Ooops moment. It's almost as if: base your economy on stuff that is itching to explode, and there will be severe consequences should you go to war. Art!
'a phone'? of them? One suspects this person's first language is not English nor even in the Roman alphabet. The 'NAFO' she - if it is a she and not a bot - refers to is not the North Atlantic Fisheries Organisation - Art!
Nor is it a reference to the National Association of Forest Owners. Art!
NAFO is a loosely-organised collective whom have taken on Ruffian disinformation and propaganda on teh Interwebz. Said Ruffian bots, shills and others pimping Ruffian propaganda are not happy with being challenged, which is why I Bookmarked the Tweet. That was two months ago, and not so much a sniff of a class action lawsuit. None whatsoever. Gosh what a surprise!
Not Recommended
See what you did, 'Blair Witch Project'? Shaky camera work, low light levels, and lots of selfies. Guess who copied that model? Art!
A group of 7 internet celebrities intend to spend the night in a creepy abandoned hospital in Taiwan, streaming the whole thing live for shizzles and giggles.
Of course - obviously! - the whole thing goes horribly wrong from the start. For the cast and we, the viewers.
MISTAKE ONE: Splitting up. This is the cardinal sin of horror films. If you split up you will die one by one. Which is exactly what happens. Sorry to spoil it for you. I suffered so that you don't have to. Art!
MISTAKE TWO: Doing this at night. What's to stop them exploring in DAYLIGHT?
MISTAKE THREE: Lack of proper film equipment. The only illumination is from their mobiles, which is frankly pathetic. Then, too, all their phones are set up to take selfies, so we miss 90% of what's going on around them.
MISTAKE FOUR: No maps or floorplans. Thus they all get utterly lost and resort to shouting loudly, which stirs up the unpleasant spirits. Great planning, chaps, great planning. Art!
I think one of them survived. The editing is so choppy and disjointed - one supposes to be more 'realistic' - it's hard to tell and harder to care.
Thoroughly Recommended
At the other end of the creative spectrum we have 'Charley's War', two volumes of which Conrad got at Bovvie. I understand there's a third volume, which will have to join the queue of wallet-squeakers to date. Art!
Charley has joined up just before 'The Big Push' - the Somme, which I feel is going to be rather a trial by fire and suffering.
Terrific stuff!
Here's One Conrad Can Get Behind
Coming from the most ham-fisted and incapable person imaginable, I can only doff my cap in awed respect. Art!
Every man needs a hobby, hmmm? I doubt he has enough lawn to give him room to take off, though, and the neighbours cannot he happy when he fires up that Merlin engine, not to mention synchronising the eight machine guns to converge at two-hundred and fifty yards.
AND WITH THAT WE ARE EVER SO DONE!
* As you may have noticed, I've been using Gollum's description as it feels even more mocking.
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