[8:05
AM]
Failed
to finish "First Spaceship on Venus" but started too late.
Amazing
the laissez faire attitudes major spacefaring operations have in
movies vs the real world.
[8:08
AM] Mr. Blue:
i
know I've seen that
[8:17
AM]
They
started having radio contact problems through open space to the Moon
because of interference from Venus fairly early in the trip and kept
going.
By
day 21, with a week to go, they'd lost all contact.
"Should
we turn around?"
Everyone
votes to go on.
Meanwhile...in
reality...
(CNN
showing newest spaceship on the pad...news voice) "And we're
receiving a last minute decision here, viewers...just a moment. And
NASA has decided to scrub the launch because it's 1 degree too cold
and they don't like that cloud over there that kinda looks like a
duck."
[8:33
AM] Mr. Blue:
A
rescue mission?
[8:56
AM]
No...NASA
in the real world taking no chances at all vs movie experts saying
"What's that? We'll basically be lost in space at least
2-3 weeks? Go for it!"
(icing...they
translated the alien message just before losing final contact and it
said Venus was coming to wipe out the Earth)
[8:58
AM] Mr. Blue:
ah
[9:03
AM]
But
the message was from a ship that crashed in 1908 (Tunguska), and this
is the far future in the 1980s
(scientist)
"We have no idea what their timetable might be like."
80
years from a scouting mission...so far? I'm thinkin' it's scrubbed,
folks.
[3:45
PM] Mr. Blue:
This
client just said his wife is out with her boyfriend
[3:45
PM] Mr. Brown.:
open marriage
lol
[3:45
PM]
Relationships
are changing...
[3:45
PM] Mr. Blue:
he
sounds like an old guy
[3:46
PM] Mr. Brown.:
sometimes
old people say that about close friends
lol
[3:46
PM]
"HAHAHA!
I mean the dog! I call her dog her boyfriend!"
(modern
youth) "...so...is it really her boyfriend, or...?"
[3:47
PM] Mr. Blue:
yeah
i think the wife just might be out with a friend
he's
jokingly now saying that she might not come back
[2:23
PM] Mr. Brown.:
that's the player the Penguins need
lol
[2:27
PM] Mr. Blue:
they
always let him score a bunch
The
videos make Putin look... okay
You
can tell he started playing at a young age
but
you can also tell he doesn't play regularly and he's a creaky old guy
[2:27
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Yep
If
i was the leader and i really liked hockey, i would make them play
for real
and
if they don't then i would kill them
lol
[2:34
PM] Mr. Blue:
harsh
but fair
[note
to self: never vote for Mr. Brown]
[2:34
PM]
Vlad
Tepes Hockey
"Great
game! I scored a lot! ... Impale them all for cheating to
let me win."
[2:35
PM] Mr. Blue:
impaled
on hockey sticks, no doubt
hmm..
wonder if there's ever been a Romanian NHLer
I
do not think so
Back
on Vlad.. i question the historicity of the forest of the impaled
It
woulda been insanely time consuming and even costly to rig up so many
pikes
[3:10
PM]
yes,
that's a lotta posts
[3:10
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Probably
closer to a field worth
[3:10
PM] Mr. Blue:
There
seems little doubt he did it but... 20,000?
Maybe
he just lined a road with a few dozen or hundred
[3:11
PM]
Put
on new ones over a week? Or stacked riders?
Maybe
that's where "Shish KeBab Field" got it's name over there.
(Vlad)
"For God's sake...put a melon or something between each body for
variety."
[3:11
PM] Mr. Blue:
Or
maybe to make it easier the "forest" was pre-prepared...
like they were felling trees already to build stuff and he just said
"make the stumps pointy and about yay high, i have an idea for
later."
But
is there any archaeological evidence? You'd think there would
be. Nobody is going to dismantle 20,000 impaled bodies. You're just
going to leave that as is.
But
each impaled person would need a couple people to impale each one...
a certain amount of time to impale the person correctly, and a hole
deep enough to hold the pike
[3:13
PM]
"Run
as fast as you can towards the point, please."
[3:13
PM] Mr. Blue:
All
we know of Vlad was written by his enemies so they could've
exaggerated or fabricated all of it
Apparently
it was mostly done longitudinally (through the anus) which would also
involve pulling their legs apart first
possibly
with horses?
[3:16
PM] Mr. Brown.:
If
you beat them up first you can sit them on a pike
[3:17
PM] Mr. Blue:
If
they're not up in the air it's not a "forest" though
It's
not an auditorium of the impaled
I
think it'd take 2-3 people at least an hour or two to impale 1 person
[3:18
PM]
You
could, as noted, reuse the posts. You can also reuse the post
holes.
That's
what I'd look for
[3:18
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Also
does not have to be live people - just put your dead enemies on the
posts
[3:18
PM]
Lay
e'm on a cart...drive 'er in...Tip it up...drops about a foot...
Move
to the next slot.
[3:18
PM] Mr. Blue:
yes
[3:19
PM]
About
4-5 mins per, not counting several minutes with an auger and
chopping, cleaning and moving suitable saplings. Romania has a
couple tall straight species. An impressive display could be done.
[3:19
PM] Mr. Blue:
it
would've definitely been an undertaking.
I
guess i'm picturing thick spears that need thick holes dug
It
coulda just been poles
i
*want* to believe it's real
it
kicks ass
[3:21
PM] Mr. Brown.:
True
needs to be just big enough to fit in the anus and support weight
lol
[3:22
PM]
Pft...didn't
need to FIT at all.
[3:22
PM] Mr. Blue:
Can't
be too narrow cuz they'll just slide down it to the ground
Can't
be too thick or they won't slide at all
Gotta
support their weight
[3:24
PM] Mr. Brown.:
ah
Small
at top to big at bottom
[3:25
PM] Mr. Blue:
Yes
[3:26
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Pictures of it show just sticking them on a post, no special way
[3:26
PM] Mr. Blue:
Those
pictures were probably made after his death though, and they were
commissioned by the people that hated him, probably just based on 2nd
or 3rd hand word of mouth
The
pictures are woodcuts from Germany commissioned by Transylvanian Saxons, who hated Vlad
[3:26
PM]
As
far as struggle, I imagine it ended with passing out for most of them
and some just had cardiac arrest before they even started started
tilting up
[3:27
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Just
the head on a pike
that
was something
could
do a lot of those
[3:28
PM] Mr. Blue:
yeah
gibbets
seemed popular
many
cities still have them hanging around (but nobody in 'em)
[3:29
PM]
Pity...
I
like the wheel one...
Not
crushed under... Up on top of.
[3:29
PM] Mr. Blue:
breaking
wheel?
[3:29
PM]
Riding
a rail sounds awful
I'll
find a pic of the wheel one.
Hear
we are... Flayed, boiled and broken on a wheel
--
So
creative.
Pooh
pooh to mere Impaling.
ANYone
can put a fellow on a plain old STICK
[3:33
PM] Mr. Blue:
How
about flaying, boiling and braking someone on a wheel and then
attaching that wheel to the carts of your army brigade as you march
into Ottoman territory
[3:33
PM]
Ohhhh
Icing
nice
[8:12
AM] Mr. Blue:
Red
Sonja last night. About what i remembered
It's
fun
[8:16
AM]
Yes
it is fun.
The
Conan who isn't Conan Movie
Were
you here when we were talking about it before?
[8:25
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
[8:27
AM]
"I
can't kill it!"
That
must have been a traumatic thing for Not-Conan, really.
"I
don't understand! I can kill anything and this won't die! (angst)"
[8:29
AM] Mr. Blue:
"How
do you know?"
"It
won't bleed!"
[8:31
AM]
(race
memory...2000 generations forward to Central America)
(Major
“Dutch
(Genus Conan)”
Schaefer) "If...it
bleeds...we...can
kill
it."
"What?"
"If
it bleeds we can kill it."
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