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https://www.ladbible.com/community/fail-ufc-star-bryce-mitchell-reveals-bloodied-boxers-20180822

Imagine the worst thing that could ever happen while you're doing a bit of DIY on a 20 foot ladder. Now, multiply it by about 15 and we present to you, Bryce Mitchell.

The undefeated UFC fighter has given his account of the disaster he had to contend with after an electric drill got tangled up with his testicles.

The 23-year-old told how he 'ripped his nutsack in half' (NICE IMAGE, thanks Bryce) while carrying out some work on his house.

At least he'll be laying off the DIY for a while. Or at least we'd like to hope, for the sake of his limbs.

The Mirror have reported that he found himself in the danger zone when he popped the drill IN HIS POCKET as he held a board above his head.

Well, there you have it - he was practically asking for the drill to switch on and say hello to his scrotum (to which it definitely obliged).

After getting things a little 'tangled up', he said he had to switch the drill to reverse and hit the button again to 'untangle' them.

That's like being on fire and having to jump in another fire to put yourself out.

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Frank Zappa & Claudia Cardinale, 1967
photo by Richard Avedon

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Personnel of The Canadian Grenadier Guards stacking 75mm. shells near the regiment's positioned Sherman tanks south of Emmerich, Germany, 28 March 1945.


William Frederick Halsey Jr. (October 30, 1882 – August 16, 1959) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. He is one of four individuals to have attained the rank of fleet admiral of the United States Navy, the others being Ernest King, William Leahy, and Chester W. Nimitz.
Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Halsey graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1904. He served in the Great White Fleet and, during World War I, commanded the destroyer USS Shaw. He took command of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga in 1935 after completing a course in naval aviation, and was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in 1938. At the start of the War in the Pacific (1941–1945), Halsey commanded the task force centered on the carrier USS Enterprise in a series of raids against Japanese-held targets.
Halsey was made commander of the South Pacific Area, and led the Allied forces over the course of the Battle for Guadalcanal (1942–1943) and the fighting up the Solomon chain (1942–1945). In 1943 he was made commander of the Third Fleet, the post he held through the rest of the war. He took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle of the Second World War and, by some criteria, the largest naval battle in history. He was promoted to fleet admiral in December 1945 and retired from active service in March 1947.
Halsey died of a heart attack at age 76 on August 16, 1959. After lying in state in the Washington National Cathedral, he was interred on August 20, near his parents in Arlington National Cemetery. His wife, Frances Grandy Halsey, is buried with him.
Photo of Halsey (left) with Vice Admiral John S. McCain Sr.


Drillers working underground in a Butte, Montana mine

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Have you guys noticed the absence of overweight people in in Glen's pix?

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Special Forces Workhorse: SOCOM Is Getting New MH-47G Block II Chinook Helicopters






March 27, 1835, during the Texas Revolution, only a few short weeks after the famous Battle of the Alamo, Mexican troops committed another horrific massacre of Texan soldiers. As the Alamo was being besieged in San Antonio, Mexican Commander Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna sent out another column of 1,400 soldiers under the command of General Jose Urrea to take the key Texan post at Goliad. Goliad was a critical outpost for the Republic of Texas as it protected the supply routes to the Gulf of Mexico. However, it was only defended by a few hundred inexperienced Texans under the command of James Fannin.
These men had been wavering over whether they should go to the assistance of their fellow Texans at the Alamo, but the arrival of General Urrea at their doorstep quickly made that impossible. Fannin wavered now once again, debating whether or not to defend Goliad at the risk of being surrounded or retreat and leave the key city to the Mexicans. Eventually he decided to retreat and join up with General Sam Houston, but this decision was much too late. As Fanin started out, Urrea and his men caught up with the few hundred Texans and surrounded them on a stretch of open prairie.
The Texans repelled an initial assault by the Mexican troops and likely could have lasted a bit longer, but in their frantic retreat from Goliad they left behind the supplies necessary to survive a siege. Fannin had no other recourse but to surrender, and on March 20 he did just that, but on the promise from Urrea that his men would not be harmed. The Mexicans marched their new captives back to Goliad, holding the Texans at the very fort they had resided in. A few days later, General Urrea received a message from his commander Santa Anna that horrified him. It stated that he should not have taken the Texans prisoner in the first place and that he now must execute them. Santa Anna considered them traitors who deserved no quarter.
Not wanting to disobey a direct order from Santa Anna, an act which could make him next in line for execution, Urrea had the Texans marched out of town to be killed. Thinking that they were being released, the Texan troops were blissfully ignorant of their coming fate. The Mexicans then separated the Texans into small groups, formed them into lines, and began firing volleys at the unsuspecting men. Within minutes nearly 350 Texans lay dead, almost double the number killed at the Alamo. After witnessing the slaughter of his men, James Fannin was next in line to be executed. He asked his Mexican captors three things: first that his possessions be sent to his family, second that he not be shot in the face, and third that he be given a Christian burial. Not only did the Mexican troops shoot him in the face, but they took his possessions, and they burned his body along with all the other Texan troops. This massacre, along with that of the Alamo, served not to crush the rebellion as Santa Anna had hoped, but to galvanize it, and within a month the Texans under Sam Houston decisively defeated Santa Anna’s army.


This well known pic has been wrongly captioned in the past, the aircraft carrier was in fact the USS Santee CVE-29 (not the USS Bataan CVL-29), the crew were; Ensign Earl D Peterson (Pilot), John Paul Armstrong (Gunner) and Charles George Mikoloski (Radioman). According to the ship's diary, at 11.50am on the 29 March 1944, TBF-1C Avenger #92 had crashed into the sea upon an attempted catapult launch.

"From the condition of the prop, no curling, it looks like the engine was not producing power and probably stopped right after launch. The pilot is out on the wing deploying a life raft, the turret gunner is extracting himself from the plane and the radio-operator/belly gunner is already out in the water."

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Aerial view of the Long Beach waterfront, looking north, 1930s. In the foreground is the Rainbow Pier and Municipal Auditorium. Source: USC Digital Library


Neptune's Grotto is a stalactite cave near the town of Alghero on the island of Sardinia, Italy. The cave was discovered by local fishermen in the 18th century and has since developed into a popular tourist attraction. The grotto gets its name from the Roman god of the sea.


A family enjoying a picnic in Springfield, Illinois, circa 1910. I wonder if they ate fried chicken?


In the 1870s and 1880s, fires were a constant threat in frontier Fort Worth, including in its notorious “Hell’s Half-Acre” red light district and stockyards.


The Sylvester Rawding pioneer family living in their sod home north of Sargent in Custer County, Nebraska. While it appears that a cow is standing on the roof, it’s actually on the hillside just behind the house. 1866

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I took this picture in Oxford, England...

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The Zagros mountains run parallel to Iran’s coast on the Persian Gulf. These mountains were formed when the Arabian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate, resulting in a number of ridges and faults for salt domes to form. The structure of the Zagros Mountains is shaped by more than 130 salt domes and it is one of the most significant simple folded systems in the world.
The diapirs (a rising body of salt) break through the surface of the domes to produce flowing glaciers of salt. However, there is not enough rain occuring in this arid region to dissolve the salt and carry it away. Apart from salt domes, there are salt caves, including the longest salt cave in the world at over 6.4 km in the Namakdan Mountain, and also salt glaciers, salt valleys, karst sinkholes, and salt springs.




Here is an excellent aerial view of Grants, New Mexico taken in 1958. You can plainly see Route 66 just above the railroad tracks. The resolution is excellent in this photo. You enlarge it and see the California Hotel to the bottom left along Rt. 66, the Santa Fe Railway station at the bottom left, and numerous cars in the photo.
Grants, NM has experienced many booms, from railway to logging to carrots. But when a local Navajo shepherd named Paddy Martinez discovered uranium ore in nearby Haystack Mesa in 1950, Grants was flooded with uranium prospectors and experienced a mining boom spanning the 1950s to the 1980s.
This photo is courtesy of the Center for Southwest Research, Albuquerque, NM, photographer Lee Marmom, 1958.




Car camping in the 1920s. Or early motorhome living.

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Another Oxford pic:

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Another Oxford pic:

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[masraum]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Years ago, I worked at a retail parts place that was all over FL (Discount Auto Parts).

I've had someone show me a rotor like that before.

You've heard of drilled and slotted, that's the next best thing. They keep really cool and evacuate water really well!

I also had a guy bring back a practically brand new set of pads to complain that they didn't work. I don't have a pic because that was 1994, but, this gives you an idea of what the guy brought in.



And yes, whatever it was the calipers pistons cut a hole in the pads. It looked like someone had used a cookie cutter on the pads.

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Throng of people and wagons jam Front St., Nome, Alaska, July 1, 1900.

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Originally Posted by john70t

THat's going to leave a mark.