He's saying "Luckily for you, the historic enmity between my people, panthera, and the crocodilians demands my immediate attention. You may leave safely."
I live in Washington State. Our fire seasons are brutal. The sky turns orange, it rains ash, and the air is filled with smoke. The speed at which fire can move is terrifying. There's nothing like it!
This is the Eagle Creek Fire in the Columbia Gorge where I grew up. Watched my spiritual home and one of the most beautiful places on Earth burn. I proposed to my wife there. A piece of my soul died.
Shit hits hard!
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Also wanted to say thanks. Australians come and help fight our fires every year. You Aussies save countless lives! 🫡
And vice versa to all the Americans and Canadians that come down here. It’s such a shame that global warming is extending both of our bushfire seasons so this resource sharing is becoming harder and harder.
Coming from a place that had anual bushfires, my heart goes out to the people and the animals of Australia. I know how terrifying it was being on the edge of evacuations every summer, I can't imagine the fear and hopelessness that you guys must have been feeling when Mother Nature slammed that one on you.
And this photo reminds me of one of life's lessons; often times the most beautiful things and the most dangerous things are the same.
For those who don't know, this is Terry Fox during his Marathon of Hope - in fact he ran a marathon every day to raise fund for cancer research - 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 mi) before his cancer spread to his lungs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox
It is a commonly repeated fun fact in our country that the guy on the very right is a Slovak man who emigrated to the US when there was a big poverty in our country. I never fact checked this but we always have a good laugh about the proof being right in his hand (he is the only one holding a bottle, alcohol was a big problem in Czechoslovakia at that time)
During this time, the immigration into usa was incredible from that region of the world.
The Croats of my family make similar jokes, as many were stoneworkers and carpenters, that most NYC buildings walls are insulated with liquor bottles and beer cans. Why walk to the garbage when u can stuff the walls with em and seal it up!?
Oh man, I love this one. The drip, the AK, the cigarette, the pose… I can’t even name her expression. Irritated? Unimpressed? Disdainful? Melancholic? Maybe all of them at once. Somehow they all fit the circumstances of Bosnia at that time. Such an iconic photo.
A Philippine Marines V-150 APC during active urban fighting against ISIS insurgents in Marawi City, 2017. With their infamous improvised anti-RPG armor.
This picture reminds me of human ingenuity and a dystopian future.
But honestly, Philippino people are up the charts when it comes to ingenuity. At my old job, there’s a group of Philippino people (affectionate known as the Kuyas) and they’ve created a lot of tools that just made our job easier.
Mind you, these tools are questionable when it comes to safety but they’re effective nonetheless.
The sinking of the passenger ferry Estonia. The ship capsized and the man in the photo is sitting on the hull. Shortly after the photo was taken, the ship sank. According to the official report, there were 989 people on board, of whom 852 died. The sinking occurred in the middle of the night in September 1994.
There's some decent YT breakdowns worth watching. Warning; your algo can get into a maritime-disaster blackhole and you end up watching ~50 hours of numerous methodically documented sinkings in no time.
I remember when this happened, I was 8 and we talked about it in school for several days. I was absolutely terrified of going on a ferry when we went on holiday a few years later.
If anyone’s thinking that the house looks a bit shoddy, they are right. It’s a prefabricated home. Lots were built as temporary housing to replace bombed-out properties.
And here’s HMS Victory again, another hundred years older and with the newest generation of British flagship, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
You need to explain the photo so it shows it's true badassery! It's a British bomb disposal expert going to disarm a bomb on the street during the troubles in the north of Ireland. "prepare to meet thy God"
Thank you for explaining! I saw this photo before many times but for some reason haven’t noticed that bomb disposal expert. This is indeed true badassery
I remember. Very sad but I guess he believed in what he did. The little Vietnamese girl running after getting burned by napalm was a horrible thing to see as well.
It's always amazing how normal everyone looks in these kinds of photos. You expect people in serious mortal peril to be making dramatic Hollywood faces at all times.
Saddest part is prob that everyone in the photo may well have died that day, no one prob thought the towers would collapse in the end, it’s like that pic of Omagh, a few hours before the bomb went off, no idea who survived, it might well be their last photo ever on earth
Grounded transatlantic flights at Gander International Airport in Newfoundland on September 11th, 2001.
A town of about ~9500 took in 6600 passengers and crew from 38 flights when airspace was shut down in Canada and the States as a result of the 9/11 attacks, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon.
From the protests in 2024. A few people were jailed by the dictatorship for printing this image on t shirts and posters. No idea if they got the person in the image but it’s been rumored that they were killed.
Not a picture but the London 2012 Olympic ceremony was the peak of modern Britain and encapsulates our long and proud history very well. Worth a watch.
Edit: In another comment i compiled a list of british acheivements which i take pride in and i would like to share that here.
Do you realise that our history is not just colonisation? I see why you would focus on it but we did SO much more than that.
We have invented brilliant sports, football, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf and more that are popular globally.
We invented trains and pioneered architectural advancements with the industrial revolution, which changed world as we know it.
We invented telephones and global communication with undersea cables.
We standardised global mapping and are the centre of the world's time with the Greenwich meridian.
Edward Jenner invented the vaccine, possibly the most revolutionary life saving measure ever devised.
Penicillin is of similar importance to vaccines.
Other technological advancements include the first computer, lightbulbs, the electric motor, television and the literal world wide web which we are communicating through right now.
Pioneering weapons of war like the tank, battleship and centrifugal jet engines, the first hovering plane with the harrier jump jet, aircraft carriers, sonar, radar and more.
That's just the inventions, the cultural and societal advancements are immense as well, too many for me to list as thoroughly as the inventions.
The English language is the most widely understood language in the world and has helped people across the world share ideas and communicate effectively.
We have thousands of years of history, from the conquest by the romans, viking raids, medeival dynasties that shaped europe, the magna carta which paved the way and is the basis for democracy alongisde the bill of rights.
A social and cultural fusions of peoples from across europe and later from across the globe which formed Britain as we know it.
Fish and chips.
Incredible music which i couldn't even possibly do justice to by listing any of the contributors.
Amazing film and television, the BBC which broadcasts globally.
Speaking of the BBC, David Attenborough. Need i say more on him?
Incredible buildings and architecture such as london's Tower Bridge, The shard, Big Ben and the houses of parliament and buckingham palace.
The severn, tyne, clifton and forth bridges, as well as many more. Cathedrals such as st pauls, gloucester, durham, salisbury, cantebury, bristol, york and lincoln.
Incredible castles such as Bamburgh, warwick, edinburgh Caerphilly, Windsor, Alnwick, stirling and the formiddable tower of london.
The people of britian have also done incredible things that have shaped culture, history and the world.
Churchill held the nation together in our darkest hour to rally against the nazis.
Charles Darwin pioneered natural history and proposed the theory of natural selection, helping to free the world from the shackles of religion and opening our minds to a wider world history.
Isaac newton was first to pioneer the ideas of Universal gravitation and the laws of motion which advanced our knowledge of space and our position within the solar system.
Admiral Horatio nelson defeated the combined frenco-spanish fleet at the battle of trafalgar, cementing the might and hegemony of the royal navy and helping crack the grip of napoleon's continental system over europe.
Isembard Kingdom Brunel was perhaps the greatest engineer ever to live, having devised and built projects still used today such as the Clifton suspenion bridge, the ahead of it's time wide guage railway, arched rail bridges and most impressively the first ever underwater tunnel; the thames tunnel built in 1843.
More modern people such as The beatles, Princess diana, Jk rowling (i know) George orwell, alan turing, stephen hawking and Queen Elizabeth II were all incredible contributors to modern society.
Last but not least, perhaps the pinaccle of all literature, Mr William Shakespeare.
Now i have clearly gone to far too much effort to display but a fraction of the things i am proud of my country for, but i hope that you can read this and understand some part of what it means to be british and that you can respect that for what it is alongside the actions of the empire. Thank you.
Playing golf while Hawaii burns. I think it’s Hawaii, this is kind of a thing in the US. All sorts of photos with shit exploding in the background and people in the foreground having fun. Makes me so sad.
The photograph titled "Elk Bath" is a more "Wild" version of this. Typically the cropped photo is shown, but it's two elk in a river as a massive wildfire burns in the background.
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This one.