Never understood why females scream so easily.

Maybe this?

1 : a piece of equipment that produces a loud, high-pitched warning sound
an ambulance siren
the wailing of air-raid sirens
We heard police sirens. [=sirens on police cars]

2 : a woman who is very attractive but also dangerous : temptress
a Hollywood siren

3 Siren : one of a group of female creatures in Greek mythology whose singing attracted sailors and caused them to sail into dangerous water or toward rocks

I feel angry about the British people placing their poor little babies up on poles during air raids. It's not like they could sample and playback in the 40s.

I'll never hear an air raid siren again the same way. LOL.

Al Jazeera has a terrific visualisation of the Saudi war in Jemen:
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2018/Saudi-Arabia-air-raids-on-Yemen/index.html

And to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, the supreme crime for which none of those reponsible have been hanged yet, Jeremy Scahill outlines how the US have been piling up Iraqi corpses for 55 years:
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/us-war-iraq-legacy-of-blood/

Yes. In our schools in N.J. they had 3 types of drills.
Fire drill, atomic bomb and air raid.

Atomic bomb we would stand in the hall facing the wall with our arms crossed up in front of our face. For the air raids we would stay in the classroom and get on the floor under our desks.

I'm not sure any of us were really afraid at the time. We just did whatever they told us to do. I was in 5th grade in 1965-66.

The father-in-law of a fellow Toastmaster actually participated in the Great Escape. He was a penguin... responsible for distributing the dirt dug from the tunnels throughout the prison yard via pockets built into their pants. Fortunately, he was NOT one of the ones chosen to escape. Aside from the fact there were no Americans at the POW camp, he said the movie was reasonably accurate, i.e. three tunnels, the one used came up short of the treeline...
The camp commander was imprisoned after the war. Some of his POWs went to visit him to let him know that they bore him no ill will. They were all soldiers and they considered the base commander to be a fair man who treated them well under the circumstances.
He refused to see them. Via an intermediary he relayed to them that he simply couldn't face them. He said that he never felt more ashamed to be a Nazi as when he heard that the SS had executed the 50 escapees from his camp.
The most fascinating part of Jim Lang's story though was the story BEFORE he arrived at the POW camp. Too long to relay here but he was shot out of the sky when returning from an air raid. Spent a few weeks on the run in the Belgium countryside.
He has since died but I fortunately recorded his presentation... just a great slice of history.

>> ^bobknight33:

No, I'm not joking, Back in the Day when Al Gore was VP he implied that he had a great deal to do with the invention of the internet. For real.
Inventing the Internet

>> ^ant:
>> ^bobknight33:
I remember that sound.. I was a kid in Murrysville PA and every Saturday at noon it would go off as a test. .. I just Google mapped and at street view it is still there.
3213 North Hills Road, Murrysville, Pennsylvania, United States.
Oh the fun of the internet-- Thank you Al Gore for this great invention.

I hope you're joking. He didn't invent the Internet.



He only helped push the Internet (aka super information highway he kept using). He did NOT invent it.

No, I'm not joking, Back in the Day when Al Gore was VP he implied that he had a great deal to do with the invention of the internet. For real.

Al Gore words on Inventing the Internet


>> ^ant:

>> ^bobknight33:
I remember that sound.. I was a kid in Murrysville PA and every Saturday at noon it would go off as a test. .. I just Google mapped and at street view it is still there.
3213 North Hills Road, Murrysville, Pennsylvania, United States.
Oh the fun of the internet-- Thank you Al Gore for this great invention.

I hope you're joking. He didn't invent the Internet.

>> ^Sagemind:

That's right, listen to it with the headphones on - I'm such a dumb ass!


LOL. I had my speakers off.

>> ^bobknight33:

I remember that sound.. I was a kid in Murrysville PA and every Saturday at noon it would go off as a test. .. I just Google mapped and at street view it is still there.
3213 North Hills Road, Murrysville, Pennsylvania, United States.
Oh the fun of the internet-- Thank you Al Gore for this great invention.


I hope you're joking. He didn't invent the Internet.

>> ^probie:

One of these used to sound about every 4-6 months when I was growing up in L.A. in the 70's. Never knew where it was located but man was that fucking thing loud. If the guy wants to take it apart to see how it works, more power to him, but I really don't see the use of buying something like this other than to be a complete dick to your neighbors.


Did someone say complete dick to your neighbours ? ?

http://videosift.com/video/Best-Wake-UP-call-evar-Leslie-Tyfon-425-Fog-Horn

>> ^entr0py:

So... is this a response to the demonstrably false propaganda about the Libyan regime bombing people? If they did carry out air raids on unarmed protesters, we should consider stepping in. But there's no good reason to think that will happen. Unless you take your news from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


History can repeat itself as it has elsewhere. Never hurts to be prepared. But like KP points out, being ready for something we can't afford to finish might just be a case of posturing.

So... is this a response to the demonstrably false propaganda about the Libyan regime bombing people? If they did carry out air raids on unarmed protesters, we should consider stepping in. But there's no good reason to think that will happen. Unless you take your news from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

>> ^bremnet:

"Air raids on non-military targets that claim large numbers of civilian casualties are prohibited under international law". I guess the International Police were busy that day. For people to be shocked by such practices or debate it in the context of whether it is civil or not during war are delusional. It's war after all. (Should the Allies have stopped carpet bombing Germany while millions of other civilians are taken to the death camps because, you know, it's the proper thing to do? My ancestors would have voted no).


How is it better to try to kill everyone in the city--including innocent civilians, Jews, and POWs (like Kurt Vonnegot, who was in Dresden during that attack) than to do a targeted bombing campaign that specifically targets infrastructure, communications, and factories?

"It's war, after all."

You could justify just about anything with that statement, including the indiscriminate use of nuclear and chemical weapons, the execution of POWs, or the flying of jet planes into skyscrapers. It's not delusional to do as much as possible to prevent atrocities from occurring (or re-occurring as the case may be). You may not be able to wage a war without the possibility of an atrocity occurring but that certainly doesn't mean you shouldn't try to limit that possibility as much as possible.

"Air raids on non-military targets that claim large numbers of civilian casualties are prohibited under international law". I guess the International Police were busy that day. For people to be shocked by such practices or debate it in the context of whether it is civil or not during war are delusional. It's war after all. (Should the Allies have stopped carpet bombing Germany while millions of other civilians are taken to the death camps because, you know, it's the proper thing to do? My ancestors would have voted no).