@pouduciel.bsky.social
Recovering bass player, historian of C19 Military weapons and enthusiastic haunter of archives.
I hated the original show and the remake isn't much better. The cast is even more low-rent.
October 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I hated the original show and the remake isn't much better. The cast is even more low-rent.
Personally, I'm glad the horses are out of it.
September 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Personally, I'm glad the horses are out of it.
Every time I see someone spewing the old lie that we somehow stood alone and that makes us special I'm reminded of this, drawn by a man who was bloody well there at the time.
August 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Every time I see someone spewing the old lie that we somehow stood alone and that makes us special I'm reminded of this, drawn by a man who was bloody well there at the time.
Not saying that some people should be forced to live in Faraday cages but...
July 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Not saying that some people should be forced to live in Faraday cages but...
Me and my book project.
July 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Me and my book project.
My article on the Vetterli rifle in America had to touch on the mine wars. There is power in a Union kids...
July 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My article on the Vetterli rifle in America had to touch on the mine wars. There is power in a Union kids...
Sir Nigel Gresley says 'Ahem...'
June 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Sir Nigel Gresley says 'Ahem...'
Sorry, did you want finished ones, or how to make them?
June 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Sorry, did you want finished ones, or how to make them?
This will always be my favourite reference to Hastings.
June 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This will always be my favourite reference to Hastings.
Not because it was bad- in fact the very opposite. Scorsese and De Niro created such a brilliant series of vile and cringe inducing characters and events that I wanted to crawl out of the cinema and have a long hot shower and a stiff drink.
May 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Not because it was bad- in fact the very opposite. Scorsese and De Niro created such a brilliant series of vile and cringe inducing characters and events that I wanted to crawl out of the cinema and have a long hot shower and a stiff drink.
Nothing says 'I want to kill you' like the gift of Botha.
May 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Nothing says 'I want to kill you' like the gift of Botha.
There are times when a mixture of a German dictionary, a bit of transcription software, German speaking friends and what little fluency I have gained will help me translate the most challenging document. This is not one of those times.
May 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
There are times when a mixture of a German dictionary, a bit of transcription software, German speaking friends and what little fluency I have gained will help me translate the most challenging document. This is not one of those times.
Comic? 'Robin Dies At Dawn' as reprinted in Batman 80pg Giant 185. If all you knew was the TV series this was mind bending. Book? The script book for the TV series "Quatermass and the Pit'. So terrifying that I hid the book away so I wouldn't accidentally see it and scare myself again.
May 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Comic? 'Robin Dies At Dawn' as reprinted in Batman 80pg Giant 185. If all you knew was the TV series this was mind bending. Book? The script book for the TV series "Quatermass and the Pit'. So terrifying that I hid the book away so I wouldn't accidentally see it and scare myself again.
When I want to imagine what total industrial war really means I turn to this. It’s a shrapnel ball from an 18 pdr Field Gun. Each shell contains 375 of them and there were 72,980,758 of these shells produced between 1914-1918. Imagine the resources involved.
May 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I want to imagine what total industrial war really means I turn to this. It’s a shrapnel ball from an 18 pdr Field Gun. Each shell contains 375 of them and there were 72,980,758 of these shells produced between 1914-1918. Imagine the resources involved.
Indeed it is. Not sure if this is the same species but after much anticipation it finally opened. Sadly we were on holiday at the time and we returned to this flaccid disappointment.
May 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Indeed it is. Not sure if this is the same species but after much anticipation it finally opened. Sadly we were on holiday at the time and we returned to this flaccid disappointment.
If I were a Canadian...
May 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If I were a Canadian...
TBF there is precedent for a tank teapot.
April 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
TBF there is precedent for a tank teapot.
On the whole I think they do a good job of not sugar coating the horror that these damnable objects represent. One curator told me that this was the most important object in the whole WW2 gallery.
April 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
On the whole I think they do a good job of not sugar coating the horror that these damnable objects represent. One curator told me that this was the most important object in the whole WW2 gallery.
I'll just leave this here...
April 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I'll just leave this here...
Hey historians. What's the most undecipherable primary source you've ever encountered. Here's mine. I think it's writing by a human but other than that...(PS this is the most legible of the three pages in the archive)
February 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hey historians. What's the most undecipherable primary source you've ever encountered. Here's mine. I think it's writing by a human but other than that...(PS this is the most legible of the three pages in the archive)
That's nowt. Welcome to Elysium.
February 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
That's nowt. Welcome to Elysium.
I think we all know the solution.
January 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I think we all know the solution.