The Off Topic Topic

[Grey Fox]

Total War, it is not a nice affair.

[Razgovory]

Still, the Japanese didn't have to eat American POWs.

[Maladict]

Pearl Harbor really, *really* pissed people off

Yeah, I kept telling people to watch Tora Tora Tora instead but nobody listened. 

[jimmy olsen]

Oh yeah, that was part of a Cracked article: http://www.cracked.com/article_20117_the-5-creepiest-stories-in-history-war.html

#5. The Nazi Baby Factories
#4. The Angel Makers of Nagyrev
#3. American Soldiers Collected Human Body Parts as Trophies
#2. Irma Grese, the Hyena of Auschwitz
#1. The Chichi-jima Incident

#4 is almost funny, in how a Hungarian village for a while decided to solve all their squabbles with arsenic. It's like a dark comedy.

And #2 sounds like the inspiration for Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS:

On the outside, Irma Grese was a teenage Aryan dream -- pretty by Nazi standards, dedicated, beefy. On the inside, Irma Grese was a time bomb waiting for a chance to explode. Picture this ...
[pic]
... but with a bejeweled whip, pistol and a set of half-starved dogs who would attack on her command. Imagine this woman shooting people on a whim, using her belt to whip prisoners, then kicking them when they were down. And getting off on it the whole time.

Irma Grese loved her job like a white woman loves Oprah. She got off on torturing people, like when she used her whip to slash female prisoners' breasts. Then when the cuts became infected and required surgery -- without anesthesia, we should mention -- she watched the procedure in the operating room, enjoying orgasms so intense they "made saliva run down from the corner of her mouth."

That story about ISIS that I posted recently should be on that last. Creepy as hell.

[Syt]

Will, the article is from 2012. But feel free to petition Cracked to update it.

[Liep]

Just won a t-shirt on a radio quiz "Guess the Year". First question had The Smiths, new order and one more I have now forgot, '86, no problem. Next had pulp, oasis and one more, '98, easy. 3rd had arcade fire which is my home base, '04.

Woo!

[Duque de Bragança]

Pearl Harbor really, *really* pissed people off

Yeah, I kept telling people to watch Tora Tora Tora instead but nobody listened. 

[Syt]

Heavy Metal band name generator:

http://p3.no/humor/the-internets-official-heavy-metal-band-name-generator/

Toxic Penis
StrangleFuckers
Venomous Skin
Screaming Bach
Ninja Cancer

Seems legit.

[citizen k]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/britain-resigns-as-a-world-power/2015/05/21/d89606f8-fff1-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html

On Monday, the Right Honorable David Cameron, prime minister of Great Britain, gave his first major speech after being reelected to his high office — once held by Pitt, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher. Confronting a world of challenges — including Greece's possible exit from the euro, a massive migration crisis on Europe's shores, Ukraine's perilous state, Russia's continued intransigence, the advance of the Islamic State and the continuing chaos in the Middle East — Cameron chose to talk about . . . a plan to ensure that hospitals in the United Kingdom will be better staffed on weekends.

Okay, that's a bit unfair. Leaders everywhere, including in the United States, understand that "all politics is local." But spending a few days recently in Britain, I was struck by just how parochial it has become. After an extraordinary 300-year run, Britain has essentially resigned as a global power.

Over the next few years, Britain's army will shrink to about 80,000. A report from the Royal United Services Institute predicts that the number could get as low as 50,000, which, the Daily Telegraph points out, would be smaller than at any point since the 1770s — and, as David Rothkopf of Foreign Policy magazine notes, about the same size as the New York Police Department.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies concludes that over the past five years "the 8 percent to 9 percent decrease in the U.K. military defense budget . . . has led to a 20 percent to 30 percent reduction in conventional capability." No wonder, then, that Britain has been a minor, reluctant ally in the airstrikes against the Islamic State. Britain's 30-year-old Tornado fleet of planes is a generation behind the American F-22s it flies alongside. The Royal Navy, which once ruled the waves, operates without a single aircraft carrier (although two are under construction).

NATO members are supposed to maintain defense spending at 2 percent of their gross domestic product. Britain is hovering around that mark and has refused to commit to maintaining budgets at that level. (It should be said that most other European countries are worse, which means that the United States accounts for more than 70 percent of NATO's military spending.) The same is true of other elements of Britain's global influence. In Cameron's first term, the Foreign Office budget was cut by more than a quarter, and further trims are likely. The BBC World Service, perhaps the most influential arm of the country's global public diplomacy, has shuttered five of its foreign-language broadcasts, and the organization's entire budget has been slashed, with more cuts to come.

The country is suspicious of a robust foreign policy of any kind — including serious sanctions against Russia, getting tough in trade talks with China, the use of force in the Middle East and an engaged relationship with the rest of Europe. During the recent election, as The Post reported, foreign policy barely surfaced.

Why does this matter? Because on almost all global issues, Britain has a voice that is intelligent, engaged and forward-looking. It wants to strengthen and uphold today's international system — one based on the free flow of ideas, goods and services around the world, one that promotes individual rights and the rule of law.

This is not an accident. Britain essentially created the world we live in. In his excellent book "God and Gold," Walter Russell Mead points out that in the 16th century many countries were poised to advance economically and politically — Northern Italy's city-states, the Hanseatic League, the Low Countries, France, Spain. But Britain managed to edge out the others, becoming the first great industrial economy and the modern world's first superpower. It colonized and shaped countries and cultures from Australia to India to Africa to the Western Hemisphere, including of course, its settlements in North America. Had Spain or Germany become the world's leading power, things would look very different today.

It is a paradox, readily apparent to visitors to Britain, that London continues to thrive as a global hub, increasingly cosmopolitan and worldly. More than a third of Londoners were born outside the United Kingdom. And this government has been more than willing to travel around the world petitioning for investment, whether it be Chinese, Russian or Arab. That is fine as a strategy for an aspiring entrepôt or financial haven, but Britain is not Luxembourg. It is, even now, a country with the talent, history and capacity to shape the international order. Which is why the inward turn of the United Kingdom is a tragedy not just for it but for all of us.

[Grey Fox]

About the same size as the Canadian Army. Now, that's gotta hurt.

[MadImmortalMan]

Let's invade England with the NYPD. 

[Caliga]

Heavy Metal band name generator:

http://p3.no/humor/the-internets-official-heavy-metal-band-name-generator/

Toxic Penis
StrangleFuckers
Venomous Skin
Screaming Bach
Ninja Cancer

Seems legit.

I got Everlasting Judas.  I actually think that's pretty good.

[Syt]

Heavy Metal band name generator:

http://p3.no/humor/the-internets-official-heavy-metal-band-name-generator/

Toxic Penis
StrangleFuckers
Venomous Skin
Screaming Bach
Ninja Cancer

Seems legit.

I got Everlasting Judas.  I actually think that's pretty good.

I tried once more and got BeastialityFist. Which may be better than Shitgoat.

[Tonitrus]

Heavy Metal band name generator:

http://p3.no/humor/the-internets-official-heavy-metal-band-name-generator/

Toxic Penis
StrangleFuckers
Venomous Skin
Screaming Bach
Ninja Cancer

Seems legit.

I got Everlasting Judas.  I actually think that's pretty good.

I tried once more and got BeastialityFist. Which may be better than Shitgoat.

I ran it a few times, mostly boring stuff. 

Then I got:  "BoobGun"

[jimmy olsen]

I think 2 and 3 are pretty good.

Everlasting Pain
Meat Fuckers
Murder Gas
Chaotic Grandmother
Burn My Adult
Evil Poop
Mega Brutes
Beware of the Weapons
Ugly Pussy
Tight Dog