Ah Yes, One Of Those South Canadian Euphemisms
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Sorry, I spilled tea and put my digital camera on the keyboard whilst I mopped up. Don't worry, it only counts as a single word.
Picking up my trusty 'Collins Concise English Dictionary' - for I am fluent only in English and sarcasm - this term is defined as 'Unintentional damage to civil property and infrastructure and civilian casualties, caused as a by-product of military operations.' Art!
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| He inflicts damage |
It's in my DVD Hill of films to watch. Nice to see Cruise playing against type as a ruthless, amoral killer, and also a tad worrying that he pulls it off so well.
In 1917 the Teutons moved from the highly vulnerable Zeppelins to the Gotha long-range bomber, which was far faster, more manoeuvrable and less prone to weather conditions. Thanks to a shortage of anti-aircraft guns and aircraft - most of them being in France and Flanders - the government rushed in spare naval artillery to defend London from air attack. The problem with this solution was that these guns fired shells without a timed clockwork fuse to detonate at a set height. Art!
This meant that any shell missing it's target - such as the 2,000 shells fired on June 17th 1917 - carried on in a parabola until it hit the ground and detonated, killing 10 civilians on that same date. Shells that did detonate mid-air created spall that then fell to ground, causing further damage and injuries. In total, 668 civilians were killed by falling shells or spall, frankly unsporting, one feels. Eventually dedicated anti-aircraft guns were diverted from France, and squadrons of interceptor 'scout' aircraft were brought back to carry out interceptions. The whole defence system was revised with observers, radio and telephone linkage for greater efficiency. Art!
The port of Ferrol, north-east Spain, which has been a major naval base for centuries. Please note the close proximity of domestic housing to the harbour itself.
Say 'Buenos Dias!' to the Spanish battleship 'España', which had been re-named from it's original 'Alphonso XIII' when they became a republic and cast off the trappings of monarchy. It was berthed in Ferrol when war broke out. Note that it carried 8 x 12' guns and 20 x 4' guns, so packing a lot of firepower. Also present was the cruiser 'Almirante Cervera'. Art!
Here is where things get complicated. The port garrison, including crews of shore artillery batteries, were pro-Nationalist, whilst the crews of the two ships above were avowed Republicans. There was also a destroyer in harbour, the 'Velasco', which was crewed by Nationalists. Cue a battle in the port of Ferrol between three warships and shore batteries, which the Velasco lost, badly. Anthony Beevor states:
Conrad is going to skip the Second Unpleasantness altogether, it's been done to death already and I have more modern topics to introduce. Art!
Cast your mind's eye back to 2023, when the Ukrainians made a series of small attacks via drone on Barad-Duh (Moscow if we're being formal). The drones themselves did very little damage; what caused most destruction was flaming intercepted drone debris falling from the skies onto domestic property - an excuse the orcs now trot out every single day - and air-defence missiles failing to intercept drones but successfully hitting skyscrapers and government buildings - see above as confirmation.
Let me quote from a CNBC article about this attack.
More recently, the Kozaky launched their biggest strike on Barad-Duh in over two years, saturating the orc SAM defences and causing them to expend million-dollar missiles on $50,000 drones. That was on Thursday 18th June, and they returned on Friday to resume pleasantries, to a profound silence from Putinpot and Ruffian media. Art!
This flight of the 100-ton bumble bee is the image of 2026, and has already spawned a thousand memes across teh Interwebz, going so viral it's more a pandemic. That's not the whole story - Art!
The second before launch
Ruffian SAM is launched. Firing missiles in the built-up heart of a major metropolis - what can possibly go wrong! Art?
We are about to find out. Art!
Conrad is anything but an expert in SAM systems and interceptions but that missile looks to be flying rather low. Art!
VERY low. Art!
Ooo-err Matron! That looks to be an oil storage depot, not an Ukrainian drone; you can just see the tops of oil tanks in the background. Art!
Ooops. Someone is either going to be falling out of a window or volunteering for the next meat-wave assault on on the contact line.
It's not just the Pantsir systems that are throwing errors. Art!
An orc shortly due to fall out of a window or volunteer for the next meat-wave assault on on the contact line. The sequence here shows him acquiring the drone as a target, firing the missile, the missile being 'popped' out of the launch tube - and then swerving 90º to go intercept a civilian building. Way to go Ivan.
Hmm that took up a lot more than I anticipated. Bring on a few short items!
More Not-So-Gentle Shoeing
Yes, we are targeting Mopey Dick The Orange Land Whale, since he's very definitely low-hanging fruit when it comes to poking malicious fun. Art!
Thanks to Tweeter 'Spencer Hakimian' for posting this with the rubric 'Least woke President ever' and he's got a point. In the near future they're going to have to appoint an official White House Is He Alive Or Dead minion, armed with a bamboo skewer, just in case.
What It Says On The Label?
South Canadian adverts are a law unto themselves. They regularly air drug advertisements about various snake oil remedies, or online gambling, which seems to Conrad to be a method of losing lots of money very, very quickly. And why did the algorithm come up with this one? Art!
It's great if you want and need a tree that grows fast, but why tell me? Of late we've had to cut down an enormous branch from our backyard tree, not plant more of them. On the other hand, not a bad name for a band.
Old Dog Learning New Tricks
I have been working on the Ukrainian Meatballs, Tomato Sauce and Home-Made Pasta recipe for a couple of days now, principally by making the meatballs, which have been 'resting' in the fridge for three days now. The pasta? O I thought you'd never ask! Art?
You have to roll the dough out as thinly as possible, then roll it up - not too tightly or the centre of the spiral won't cook - and chuck into boiling water for 5 minutes.
Talking Of Food -
I was having strawberries on sugar-free digestive biscuits with cream cheese yesteryon, the biscuits being about 5 years out of date.
Well, I have given up after eating six of them, as they had an unpleasant acidic aftertaste and smelled like a chemical cocktail in a test-tube. Sweet chili rice crackers for the win! Can't hang around with the strawberries, either, as they were bought remaindered on Friday and will go off pretty darn quick in these summer temperatures.
Finally -
Going out with a Biercism.
"Un-American, adj: Wicked, intolerable, heathenish."
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