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Who needs an army when you have this guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogendra_Singh_Yadav
Scaled a 16,500 foot high vertical snowy cliff face. Check.
Went first to secure the ropes. Check.
Halfway up lost two platoon mates and his commander to machine gun and rocket fire. Check.
Get shot shot three times on the ascent. Check.
Got to the top and kicked some ass. Check.
Has huge balls. Check.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogendra_Singh_Yadav
Scaled a 16,500 foot high vertical snowy cliff face. Check.
Went first to secure the ropes. Check.
Halfway up lost two platoon mates and his commander to machine gun and rocket fire. Check.
Get shot shot three times on the ascent. Check.
Got to the top and kicked some ass. Check.
Has huge balls. Check.
In 1956 some of the US Air Force's new fighter jets outfoxed by an unmanned drone based on a 1940's era propeller riven plane.. causing a shed load of damage to stuff on the ground in the process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Palmdale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Palmdale
omgus said:
mrtwisty said:
The most English man in history?
That life story should be made into a television series. They do not make them like that anymore. Digby Tatham-Warter said:
Don't worry about the bullets, I've got an umbrella
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-WarterWiki about Digby said:
He later disabled a German armoured car with his umbrella
The hailstorm that ended a war(*):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1360)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1360)
- well managed to get a few of years peace.
Get a load of this hero. World Champion finswimmer - rescued 20 people from a bus 30 metres under a lake! One by one! Ended up in a coma that finished his sporting career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavarsh_Karapetyan
In later life he settled for just pulling people out of burning buildings!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavarsh_Karapetyan
In later life he settled for just pulling people out of burning buildings!
Edited by slybynight on Thursday 29th September 17:32
Mass Transit Incident - 17 year old with no training bluffs his way into a hardcore wrestling match, ends up with two severed arteries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Transit_inciden...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Transit_inciden...
Kids for Cash scandal in America. Judge recieved bribes from owners of a private youth detention centre and in exchange made sure they were well stocked with prisoners:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scan...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scan...
Taken from another thread on here I found this very amusing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax
"Order a pizza to someone else's address" done in proper 19th Century British style
"Order a pizza to someone else's address" done in proper 19th Century British style
Another quintessentially English eccentric, Alfred Wintle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wintle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wintle
Alfred said:
I get down on my knees every night and thank God for making me an Englishman. It is the greatest honour He could bestow. After all, he might have made me a chimpanzee, or a flea, a Frenchman or a German!
The list of his quotes at the end of the article is fantastic.Tank survives and is driven away from a Nuclear blast, and goes on to be used in the Vietnam war where it survied an RPG attack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_(tank)#Nuc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_(tank)#Nuc...
mrtwisty said:
Another quintessentially English eccentric, Alfred Wintle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wintle
thanks for sharing, that was utterly wonderful ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wintle
Alfred said:
I get down on my knees every night and thank God for making me an Englishman. It is the greatest honour He could bestow. After all, he might have made me a chimpanzee, or a flea, a Frenchman or a German!
The list of his quotes at the end of the article is fantastic.austinsmirk said:
mrtwisty said:
Another quintessentially English eccentric, Alfred Wintle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wintle
thanks for sharing, that was utterly wonderful ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wintle
Alfred said:
I get down on my knees every night and thank God for making me an Englishman. It is the greatest honour He could bestow. After all, he might have made me a chimpanzee, or a flea, a Frenchman or a German!
The list of his quotes at the end of the article is fantastic."Great War peace signed at last." (diary, 19 June 1919)
"I declare private war on Germany." (diary, 20 June 1919)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wintle
just read the whole article, what a man.
life lived at full throttle and zero F's given.
just read the whole article, what a man.
life lived at full throttle and zero F's given.
cirian75 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wintle
just read the whole article, what a man.
life lived at full throttle and zero F's given.
Wherever did you find that link??just read the whole article, what a man.
life lived at full throttle and zero F's given.
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