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12 Addicts And Former Addicts Reveal The Worst Thing They Ever Did To Get A Fix

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1. I was using pretty heavy at the time and was desperate for some quick cash so I met a guy on craigslist who was really into scat. I shit on him and let him shit on me for $100. He was pretty well off so it was a reoccurring thing that probably happened about 2 times a week for almost 8 months.

 

2. A friend’s mom had a brain aneurysm about a year ago. She and her husband had about 300k in a safe in their basement (don’t know why they had that much). She was in a coma and wasn’t given long to live and her husband had been putting off the hospital bills or paying the minimum out of their bank account until she was out of there. Unfortunately she passed away 6 months later. When it came time for the funeral, the dad went to open the safe to find no money in it. The heroin addict daughter had gotten into the safe around the time when her mom went into the coma and spent the 300k that was going to be used for the bills and funeral on heroin. They couldn’t afford to have a funeral and could barely afford to get her cremated because of this. The dad got laid off and now has to sell his wife’s dream house because of addict daughter..

 

3. I stole from my family; antiques from my grandma and money from my mom and dad. Stole pills from my mom. Beat the shit out a close friend for not paying me when she was due to (I’m a girl too). I would pop any ppl anyone would give me.

The worst has got to be the sexual stuff. I was dating my dealer for a while and even after we broke up I basically gave him sexual rights to me anytime, anywhere as long as I still got oxy. After I moved I started hooking up with a new guy who sold, but not oxy. He ended up fucking me and paying for my drugs which led to me fucking for drugs pretty often. He would let his friends fuck me and I participated in multiple threesomes and orgies with the promise of money or drugs at the end.

I vividly remember being sandwiched between two guys both fucking me in a hole and broke down crying because of how disgusting I found myself.

 

4. When my boyfriend was out of the country for two weeks, I pawned literally everything of worth in his house, including the vacuum cleaner. My thought was that two weeks was more than enough time to make enough money blowing guys from Craigslist to get all the stuff out of pawn by the time he got back. I spent it all on heroin and coke. It was the night before he was arriving and I, of course, was unable to get any of his stuff out of pawn. So I staged a robbery by breaking one of his windows and leaving the door ajar. I picked him up at the airport, arrived at the house and acted as surprised as him when we discovered all his stuff was gone. Made a false police report and even gave a fake interview to the local paper. I blamed it on a nonexistent gardener who I said I saw snooping around the place. The worst part is that this was right before Christmas, so I told my boyfriend “they” had also stolen $200 in Christmas gifts I had bought. He gave me $200 cash because he felt bad. I was a total piece of shit. Bright side? Rehab finally worked and I just celebrated 3 years of sobriety yesterday! I’m not with the guy anymore. Also, I’m a guy.

 

5. Several years back, my uncle passed away. He was a self made man; built his own fishing company, and started raising oysters. He was like the jolly lumberjack of the ocean. He lived in the water, for fishing, and was just one of the funniest and happy fishermen I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. The oyster business got big, and they were happy. Tragically there was a freak accident with the air supply when he was underwater and he died.

Now his son, has been in and out of trouble with the law since he was a teenager, and had been getting into heroin. By the time his father died, it had come to dominate his life. Most of the family never knew where he was, what he was up to. Well, my uncle decided to leave his company, and the incredibly valuable oyster beds, to his two kids (a son, and a daughter who at the time had just been married, with one kid and another on the way). Needless to say the daughter had every intention of taking over her fathers business. However, the son, needing more money and seeing an opportunity, sold the company to one of his father’s rival fishing/oyster companies after forging his sister’s name on the deed/docs. For, I think, around ~$30,000, which is WAY undervalued. The sister and aunt found out from the folks who bought the company. They still have all the property.

My aunt and sister never pressed charges because they didn’t want anything bad to happen to the son, and I they were still deep in mourning.

He’s clean now, and living in a sober house. Still an unimaginable blow to the family though, and from what I understand, financially crippling.

 

6. There was this gross fat guy who owned a music venue/club in my home city who paid young indie-rock looking guys $500 a pop to jerk off in front of him. Did that a couple of times. At least I didn’t have to touch him or have him touch me.

 

7. My favorite drug always has been and always will be meth. I have been clean for 10 years, but I still want it.

When I spent all the money I had on it, I started stealing from my friends and family. Pretty soon, I didn’t have those people around either. I needed new income, so I started selling cocaine. I saw what my product did to people that was taking it. I didn’t care.

I learned how to make crack and sold that too. I saw an high school friend and I gave him a sample. He came back the next day and the next and the next. I got him hooked and I ruined his life. He dropped out of college and started stealing from his parents. I still got paid and was able to get more meth.

I saw him this summer, he switched to heroin a few years ago. He is nothing but skin and bones and is a repeat offender. He actually thanked me for introducing him to drugs. He said without me, his mind wouldn’t be free like it is now. His parents cut of all contact after he stole everything that wasn’t bolted down.

I destroyed an entire family. All because I wanted the next high.

8. I’ve been creeping on reddit for almost a year now and recently decided to make an account but I never comment on anything and I feel like this is the most appropriate first comment for me. I’m 23 and have been using iv heroin since my 17th birthday. I’ve gone to multiple rehabs, halfway houses and different states to get clean. I’ve done some extremely bad things I’m not proud of but its my truth, my reality that I have to remind myself of on a daily basis. Ive pawned every piece of gold or jewelry in my parents house, the majority of it during my mom’s open heart surgery which had devastated her when she was well enough to see what was missing. A lot of it was her mother’s who died almost 20 years ago and really all she had left of her. I live near a lot ofy family and used to unlock windows and later break in and steal anything of importance. I had written many fraudulent checks that belonged to my parents which the bank had caught up with. I didn’t even try hard to match the signature, it was so sloppy and desperate now looking back. Now I’ve done every type of prostitution that could ever be imagined.

From being homeless and literally tricking on the street to seeing sugar daddies to ‘highclass hooking’ as an escort on backpage ads and was a stripper off and on for years. I’ve been paid from $20 to $3000, pretty obvious which paid which. I actually had no problem with the sugar daddies because they were always kind and respectable or were paying me enough to do whatever insane fetish they were into. I’ve gotten paid thousands for three somes with other hot chicks and a grand to have olive oil rubbed all over me. The hardest blow to the diminished ego that was somewhat left was when I started tricking. I was living in abandoned houses or with different johns or drug dealers that I would hope and pray weren’t going to rape me that night. Sometimes I wasn’t so lucky.

I’ve done lots of other terrible things that I could list for hours, literally. I’ve been raped, stabbed, jumped, abused by so many people before and during active addiction, overdosed, committed and been in many programs. By some miracle I have never, ever had an std or any type of infection, last time around I swore I had to have gotten HIV because of how low I had gone and the disgusting men I was sleeping with. I have no kids as well.

I don’t blame anyone but myself for my actions and today take full responsibility for everything I’ve done and have slowly been trying to financially reimburse those I hurt so very deeply, back. I was a complete monster back then and used to accept my fate dying a junkie on the street and used to almost be comfortable with that. I am not the person I was a year and a half ago. It took me getting raped, a gun to my head, getting stabbed and a trip to jail. All of these events occurring in a few hours and were done to me by a dopeboy I was staying with. I had been arrested many times but never actually did time until that. My parents reluctantly bailed me out and sent me back to Florida for rehab.

I haven’t touched dope since. Today I’m a decently productive member of society, I have a great job, I’m super close with my family, have my own apartment, car and cat. I pay all my bills myself and am super independent, after everyone I’ve used or taken money from this is a huge thing for me.

 

9. My white-trash west virginia cousin used to go to gay clubs, let some guy pick him up, and then beat them up rob them when he got back to the guys house. He eventually had his picture up on all the gay bars in his town, and almost got shot by a guy he was trying to rob. Meth is a hulluva drug.

 

10. Alcoholic checking in here, I used to wait for my wife to get in the shower at night and them stumble down my unlit half paved street in my sweatpants and slippers in the rain to the corner liquor store, buy a bottle of cheap rot gut vodka, and then down the whole thing before she was done. She never knew I left the house. I know it’s not sucking dick or anything but I did it a lot and it was pretty low.

 

11. When I was in heavy addiction/drinking I stole both of my young daughters money from their piggy banks to spend on dope. Some of the money was even their “first money” given to them as mementos from their grandparents. Holy shit did I feel awful about that, especially during the times of when I was still using .

I can still feel the guilt and pain of sneaking into each of their rooms whole they slept, and very slowly and carefully, grabbing their piggy bank and holding it really tight so as to muffle the sound of clanging change shuffling against the sides of the piggy bank with each step as I exited the room. Then slowly and methodically going into another room and retrieving the paper money. Then, once again, going to the other daughters room and repeating the process, All the while nervous that my wife(ex wife now) would hear me. It is in moments like those when you realize just how quiet your house is. It’s an awful feeling. But the following day(s) when I wasn’t using felt even worse.

I’ve since gotten clean. Its taken a while, but I have forgiven myself. I was entitled to the full amount of emotional retribution that followed, however, I eventually stopped beating myself up over it. I’ve made my peace with myself, but especially with them. I will always be making a “living amends” to them to be the best dad I can be, a clean and sober dad, and a dad they deserve to have. That is my sentence. They are being repaid with more than just the money I stole. They’ve been given a responsible dad in return. And I’ve been given a new life.

 

12. A buddy of mine robbed a bank for drug money, and used his bike as a getaway vehicle. He’ll be in prison for another 8 years at least.

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The Story Of Omayra Sanchez And Her Final 60 Hours Of Agony After Being Trapped Beneath A Volcanic Mudflow

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On November 13, 1985, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted. Pyroclastic flows exploding from the crater melted the mountain’s icecap, forming lahars (volcanic mudflows and debris flows) which cascaded into river valleys below. One lahar, consisting of three pulses, did most of the damage. Traveling at 6 meters (20 ft) per second, the first pulse enveloped most of the town of Armero, killing up to 20,000 people; the two later pulses weakened buildings. Another lahar killed 1,800 people in nearby Chinchiná. In total 23,000 people were killed and 13 villages in addition to Armero were destroyed.

Omayra Sánchez was a little 13 year old girl who lived in Armero when the “Nevado del Ruíz” erupted. When the lahar destroyed her house, her father and aunt died inside. She was able to survive the lahar, but when rescue teams tried to help her, they realized that her legs were trapped under her house’s roof. Once the girl was freed from the waist up, her rescuers attempted to pull her out, but found the task impossible without breaking her legs in the process. Rescue workers placed a tire around her body to avoid her to drown. Divers discovered that Sánchez’s legs were caught under a door made of bricks, with her aunt’s body under her feet.

Despite her predicament, Sánchez remained relatively positive: she sang to Germán Santa María Barragán, a journalist who was working as a volunteer, asked for sweet food, drank soda, and agreed to be interviewed. At times, she was scared, and prayed or cried. On the third night, Sánchez began hallucinating, saying that she did not want to be late for school, and mentioned a math exam. Near the end of her life, Sánchez’s eyes reddened, her face swelled, and her hands whitened.

At one point she asked the people to leave her so they could rest. Hours later the workers returned with a pump and tried to save her, but her legs were bent under the concrete as if she was kneeling, and it was impossible to free her without severing her legs. Lacking the surgical equipment to save her from the effects of an amputation, the doctors present agreed that it would be more humane to let her die. In all, Sánchez suffered for nearly three nights (roughly 60 hours) before she died at approximately 10:05 AM on November 16 from exposure, most likely from gangrene or hypothermia. A short video clip here.

 

Frank Fournier, a French reporter, took a photograph of Sánchez in her final hours, titled “The Agony of Omayra Sánchez”. In an interview he recalled:

I reached the town of Armero at dawn about three days after the explosion. I met a farmer who told me of this young girl who needed help. He took me to her, she was almost on her own at the time, just a few people around and some rescuers helping someone else a bit further away…

I could hear people screaming for help and then silence – an eerie silence. It was very haunting. There were a few helicopters, some that had been loaned by an oil company, trying to rescue people. Then there was this little girl and people were powerless to help her. The rescuers kept coming back to her, local farmers and some people who had some medical aid. They tried to comfort her.

When I took the pictures I felt totally powerless in front of this little girl, who was facing death with courage and dignity. She could sense that her life was going. By this stage, Omayra was drifting in and out of consciousness. She even asked me if I could take her to school because she was worried that she would be late. I gave my film to some photographers who were going back to the airport and had them shipped back to my agent in Paris. Omayra died about three hours after I got there.

The picture was published six months after her death, and later won the World Press Photo of the Year for 1985. Omayra’s face became worldwide known. Today, she remains as the symbol of the Armero tragedy. Her tomb is visited by local and tourists to offer her a prayer and ask to never repeat this tragedy.

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The Dumping Grounds

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Avengers: Infinity War Official Trailer

 

Guy documents his first fart in front of girlfriend

 

Slobodan Praljak commits suicide by drinking poison during International Criminal Tribunal

 

Footage of a Man Who Spent Forty-One Hours Trapped in an Elevator

 

Homeless dog shrieks itself to sleep every night from PTSD

 

Mastering the Bazooka Rocket Launcher – 1943

 

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Linkage

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8 Harvard University Courses You Can Take Right Now, for Free – Big Think

BMW Engines Are Gigantic Pieces Of Shit – Jalopnik

Instagram Hottie Meghan Gilbert Used To Be 190 Pounds! – Maxim

How to build a startup while having a full-time job — according to people who did it – The Next Web

The Most Hellish Marathon In The World – Esquire

This Belt Forces You To Have Better Posture And Is A Fraction Of What Ergonomic Chairs Cost – Amazon

Research shows there is a connection between nutrition and dementia – Nutriton

Everything I know about a good death I learned from my cat – The Verge

The World’s Most Wealthy Soccer Players and the Women Behind Them – Burst Daily

Kendall Jenner – Bikini Selfie – of the Day – Drunken Stpefather

Help for the Shy Guy: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Your Shyness – The Art Of Manliness

Hot Instagram Pictures Of Katie Daly – Lurk And Perv

13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married – NY Times

5 Persuasion Tricks To Get People To Do What You Want – Curiosity

A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest – Open Culture

Prison-produced podcast lets you listen to real stories of incarcerated life – Ear Hustle

15 life hacks from the world’s richest man – Tech Crunch

Smile, It’s Hump Day! (37 Photos) – Radass

New York Pizza Styles: A Complete Guide – Eater

Jessica Biel, Emily-Ratajkowski, and Other Random Ladies – G-Celeb

The Best Hot Sauces, Ranked – Thrillist

Video emerges of FSU’s Ricky Aguayo squaring up in a frat house brawl – Fan Buzz

10 Things That Lead To A Sexless Marriage – Grumpy Sloth

What Really Happened At The School Where Every Graduate Got Into College – NPR

Ariel Winter Pumps It Up – Hollywood Tuna

Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal – ARS Technica

Emmy Rossum’s Bikini Body Is A Banging 10/10! – Popoholic

40 Albums Baby Boomers Loved That Millennials Don’t Know – Rolling Stone

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Hot Girls Of The Israeli Defense Forces

The Daily Man-Up

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“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.”

― Timothy Ferriss

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You’ve Been Pooping Wrong Your Entire Life

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you've been pooping wrong your entire life

How many of you actually think about how you’re sitting on the toilet when you take a crap? Turns out, it’s something you should consider.

According to Daniel Lametti, who examined the best position for pooping in a piece for Slate, “bathroom posture” can actually have a big effect on your health.

Our bodies hold in feces with the help of a bend between our rectums and anuses. When we stand, the bend is at a 90-degree angle, which helps keep everything, um, inside. But when we squat, Lametti wrote, “the bend straightens out, like a kink ringed out of a garden hose, and defecation becomes easier.” 

Theoretically, that means that the closer you are to a squatting position, the easier it should be to poop. A 2003 study seemed to argue this is, indeed, the case; the participants who pooped in a squatting position needed less time and less straining to achieve a “sensation of satisfactory bowel emptying” compared to their toilet-sitting counterparts.

you've been pooping wrong your entire life

Giulia Enders, the author of Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ, explains that there is a right way to position yourself on the potty, and it’s all about squatting.  

“1.2 billion people around the world who squat have almost no incidence of diverticulosis [a condition that occurs when pouches in the bowel become inflamed, leading to abdonimal pain, constipation, and rectal bleeding] and fewer problems with piles [hemorrhoids],” says Enders in the interview. “We in the west, on the other hand, squeeze our gut tissue until it comes out of our bottoms.” Enders, who is studying for a microbiology degree in Frankfurt, Germany, also claims that there are various studies showing that people can poop more efficiently if they squat. One 2012 study published in the Digestive Diseases and Sciences journal, for instance, found that people who squatted on a 12-inch toilet while pooping took 51 seconds, while those who sat without squatting on a 16-inch toilet took 130 seconds. 

squatty potty

Can’t picture what squatting on the toilet looks like? Enders tells The Guardian that you can use a little stool to place your feet on while you’re sitting. Voila—it’s as simple as that. You can also buy what’s called a “Squatty Potty” to make things even easier. 

Try this technique yourself the next time you’ve gotta go. Your bowels will thank you

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Questions And Answers From World War 2

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How did the British manage to turn all the German spies in WWII? 

Once the British/Polish/French/allies had broken Enigma they knew of every single spy that landed in the UK. This allowed them to ‘meet’ them as they landed. The entire operation was called Operation Double Cross and was probably the most successful counterintelligence operations ever undertaken. There were 138 German spies sent to the UK and of them 40 (ish) were successfully recruited by the British as double agents. Most were taken to Camp 020 where they were given a choice: be a double agent or die. However, not all of them were executed, only those deemed useful and who refused. The rest were imprisoned.

There are a number of reasons why it was successful: Canaris had previously been prohibited from sending agents in to the UK but as soon as Operation Sea Lion was developed Hitler wanted a maximum effort put in to espionage in the UK. This left Canaris with little choice but to recruit from wherever he could. A lot of the agents were not necessarily loyal to Germany and definitely not to Hitler. Many were profiteers, adventurers, etc. None of them had much more than a basic course in espionage.

So, you have a bunch of people with little to no experience, and little to no loyalties, who are met at their landing points by people who knew everything about them (code names, objectives, etc), and who were skilled in turning agents. They were offered money and relative safety and all they had to do (simplified of course) was transmit cooked information to the Germans. Seems like a pretty good deal!

One of the most famous of these agents was TATE. He was the most successful of the German double agents and spent the war sending cooked information. The Germans thought he was a valuable asset and had no idea what was going on. Getting TATE turned also helped with learning the landing points of newer spies being flown in as most of them went through him seeing as Germany believed they had a solid spy ring sitting in the UK. Other agents included: BRUTUS (Polish), TREASURE (a French woman who was probably in it for the adventure), GARBO (Spanish entrepreneur), and TRICYCLE (Ukranian).

It really was a brilliant course of action but it could not have been done so successfully had it not been for a few blunders on the part of the Germans (to be honest, the Abwehr, for all of their work, were pretty keystone cop when it came to espionage): lax training, not being picky about who they sent over to spy for them, and, of course, their refusal to even entertain the idea that anyone could break Enigma. That really was their downfall. On the other side we have the skill of the British at turning agents, the promise of safety and a pretty good life considering that these turned spies were given well above and beyond basic UK rations and were wined and dined to keep them keen.

Sources and further reading:

Crowdy, T (2011) Deceiving Hitler: Double Cross and Deception in World War II

Jonason, T. and Olsson, S., (2012) Agent TATE: The Wartime Story of Harry Williamson

MacIntyre, B. (2012) Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

McKay, S. (2010) The Secret Lives of Codebreakers: The Men and Women Who Cracked the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park

Shulsky, A (2002), Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence

Talty, S. (2012) Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day

Volkman, E., (1996) Espionage: The Greatest Spy Operations of the Twentieth Century.

Volkman, E., (1994) Spies: The Secret Agents Who Changed the Course of History

 

 

Was there a universal code of conduct in ww2 regarding firing upon medics?

No, not particularly. In some situations they were protected, but hardly enough to call it a “universal code”. I will note that there are numerous fronts and participants in the war, and I only concentrate on two here, so plenty to expand on, but yeah, the general answer is that respect was mixed at best. Even on the Western Front, where there was some degree of respect for the role that medics played, there was far from a guarantee of safety. In situations where medical personnel were clearly marked, and not impeding fields of fire, there was often a cessation of fire in their direction, and occasional ceasefires to allow for personnel from both sides to see to wounded men caught between the lines. Nevertheless though, putting aside the effects of impersonnel weaponry such as artillery, it was a very dangerous job, and when running out to tend to a wounded man, there was no guarantee that they wouldn’t be joining them as well. Looking at the American campaign from ’44-45, initially identification as a medic was by a brassard on the upper-arm with the ubiquitous Red Cross, but hard to see, and also easily dirtied, this mean that identification by the enemy was often dependent on simple recognition of what a soldier was going about doing, rather than more blatant visual cues. It wasn’t until November of ’44 that marking on the helmet became official – many personnel had already begun to do so informally – and the improved visuals did have a noticeable effect on the casualties suffered by the medical personnel themselves, indicating the general respect accorded by the Germans.

Still though, the ‘Red Cross’ painted on the helmet of the American medic and stretcher-bearers was by no means bullet-proof, and at least in some cases, it was reported that the markings only made them more tempting targets. Whether or not rumors were true that is was generally the Waffen-SS – who had a reputation for particular ruthlessness within American circles – that were doing so, every time a dead or wounded medic was found who had been shot in their marked helmet, it helped to fuel the rumor mills of targeting medical personnel.That said, the fears of targeting never reached a crescendo, and medical personnel for the most part continued to remain unarmed while in the field in respect of the strictures of their role, although some did deign to carry a pistol with their kit, although they seem to have been a minority. In any case, it is hard to be sure of the intentions of a bullet, and one that might have been a close miss recalled by a diarist – or a direct hit observed by a compatriot – could have been intentional, or it could have been accidental. It is hard to see just how many incidents go one way or the other, but certainly safe to say that even in the experience of the Americans, were many recollections do point to respect of medic’s inviolability, it wasn’t universal respect.

If anything though, this degree of respect – and it should be understood as a degree, not total – was something of the anomaly. Looking to the Eastern Front, there was a general lack of respect for what protections were meant to be afforded medical personnel, both by treaty and convention. Hospitals, ambulances, and other marked locations were often subject to shelling or bombing, and medical personnel on the frontlines similarly expected little in the way of respect. Expecting no quarter anyways, frontline medics (women, it should be added), thus would often arm themselves with pistols or submachine guns, and although fighting was not their primary role at the front, they nevertheless gave up whatever protections they otherwise would have been accorded as non-combatants by doing so. More than a few of the female medics also recalled after the war having stepped into combat positions briefly when another was felled. Valentina Zhdanova, for instance, related an occasion where a machine-gunner next to her had his hand shot off, and exhorted her to take over, which she did.

Likewise, for the Americans serving in the Pacific had an experience more akin to that of the Soviets than their compatriots in Europe. Ray Duffee recalled on during the battle for Tarawa, for instance, an attempt by a Japanese soldier to infiltrate American lines in a captured USMC uniform, caught by a sentry while making his way towards the medical aid on the beach station with a grenade. And while in Europe medics suspected Red Cross markings were sometimes a target more than a “Don’t Shoot”, medics and corpsmen in the Pacific were much more sure of that fact. Many would simply dispense with it, but their medical pouches still marked them, and stretcher-bearers would sometimes decide who had to up to the front, and certain danger, by drawing straws. Even the wounded found that when close to the front, their bandages made them targets to Japanese snipers, resulting in the need to dye bandages to blend into the surroundings better.

American medical personnel in the Pacific were also more likely to be armed, as the choice was a somewhat simpler one to make when there was a general lack of respect for their role from the enemy (although not all of course did so, as the recent “Hacksaw Ridge” illustrated). During Alaskan operations on Attu, for instance, many picked up arms from the dead and wounded to join the fray, with mixed results, resulting in the recommendation from the command that “that medical troops operating against Japs be armed with a carbine and given adequate instruction in its use and in the use of hand grenades” to better deal with the situation in the future. When landings were conducted on Kiska, most medics were armed and had undergone basic firearms training – for naught, since Kiska had already been evacuated by the Japanese.

So anyways, to again sum it all up, there was certainly no universal code respected with regards to the safety of medics and medical personnel. Some fronts saw them better respected than others, but there was no where in the conflict that it was done with a punctilious correctness.

Sources and further reading:

“The Medical Department: Medical Service in the War Against Japan” by Mary Ellen Condon-Rall

“Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45” by Tracy Shilcutt

“Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs” by Robert Joseph Franklin

“Battlefield Angels” by Scott McGaugh

“Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War by Roger D. Marwick

 

 

Was it ever possible for Germany to win World War II?

Yes.

In fact, in the 1939-40 war against the original allies of France, Poland and Great Britain, Germany did win

Today, we see these victories as inevitabilities. To the world in 1940, they were nothing short of unimaginable. These victories are not just tactical:
-Poland ceases to exist; 
-France’s Third Republic is replaced by the Nazi collaborationist Vichy government; 
-Great Britain’s forces are pushed off the continent, barely clinging to survival. 

By the summer of 1940, Hitler’s stage-by-stage plan (‘Stufenplan’) as dreamed in the 1920’s is coming to fruition:
 – Austria, Bohemia and Poland are now part of Greater Germany.
 – France and the Treaty of Versailles are neutralized.
 – The British, Hitler believes, are finished and will soon negotiate.

But the British don’t act as he thinks they should. They don’t negotiate after Dunkirk. While many of Great Britain’s leaders seek a negotiated agreement–actually, almost all of them— Prime Minister Churchill fights on.*
 
So, it is within this environment in Summer 1940 that Hitler orders the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler orders plans for a lightning quick assault, much like the invasions of France and Poland. Besides, according to Hitler: “you only have to knock down the door [to the Soviet Union] and the whole rotten edifice will come crashing down.”

Hitler long had dreams of colonizing Eastern Europe and providing living space for the German people. But there are greater geopolitical considerations contributing to his decision:

1 – Hitler hopes the USSR’s defeat will force Britain to the negotiating table.  

2 – Hitler’s fear (as expressed in his Zweites Buch) is the threat posed by the ‘American Union’. In multiple table talks, Hitler alludes to the potential danger of a US-UK-USSR coalition. He knows Germany will lose such a fight (even though he fails to realize America’s industrial ability.) 

By speedily defeating the USSR in a surprise attack, Hitler hopes he can negotiate with Britain then rally his new Europe for the long-term battle against America (the final step of his unwritten ‘Stufenplan’). He may consider the “Judeo-Bolshevik” Soviet Union his most pressing enemy, but he considers America to be Germany’s greatest long-term threat.

But Hitler’s plans are botched because:

1. Hitler wastes time saving Mussolini’s failed campaigns in North Africa and South Europe. Instead of Spring 1941, Barbarossa is launched in late June. Precious time and resources are wasted in what amount to distractions. 

2. Hitler fails to consult the Japanese on the invasion of Russia. The million-man, highly regarded Kwantung Army does nothing in support of Operation Barbarossa. Hitler fails to consult the Japanese, even though Japan has a long history of territorial ambitions in Siberia; even though Japan needs natural resources which Siberia has in abundance; and even though Hitler later declares war on the United States in hope that Japan will return the favor by attacking Russia. 

3. Hitler never solidifies Operation Barbarossa’s strategy for success. Originally, Barbarossa’s central plan is defeating the Red Army. Then, it is the capture of Leningrad. Then, the capture of Moscow. Constantly Hitler’s personal interference foils the Wehrmacht’s operational abilities. Without a real strategy, the military wastes precious time transferring units from one front to another based solely on Hitler’s personal anxiety.

And in 1943, FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet in Tehran. Stalin toasts the occasion: “To American production, without which this war would have been lost”.  

 

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Fascinating Photos Collected From History

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“Into the Valley of Death” Okinawa, 1945

 

16-year-old Hitler Youth member K. Punzeller listens as an American sergeant translates his verdict of life sentence in prison for espionage, 1945

 

The Olympic fire arrives in Berlin during the 1936 games

 

As Soviet troops approached Berlin in 1945, citizens did their best to take care of Berlin Zoo’s animals

 

"Iron Youth. Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk)"

 

Russian Soldiers Preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

 

Yang Kyoungjong, the only known soldier to have fought on three sides of a war, 1944

He was Korean – captured by the Japanese and pressed to fight the Soviets, captured by the Soviets and pressed to fight the Germans, captured by the Germans and pressed to defend Normandy, where he was captured by the Americans.

 

Crowd in Times Square, New York City celebrating the surrender of Germany, May 7th, 1945

 

Homecoming – Vienna, Austria 1946 

 

Signature of Paris Agreements, ending the allied occupation of West Germany, France, 23 October 1954

 

A janitor sweeps the floor of New York Stock Exchange following the Wall Street Crash, 1929

 

Austro-Hungarian tail gunner armed with ten Mauser C96 handguns, WWI

 

German soldier lighting his cigarette with a flamethrower, 1917

The flamethrower, which brought terror to French and British soldiers was used by the German army in the early phases of the First World War in 1914 and 1915 (and which was quickly adopted by both). The Flammenwerfers (flamethrowers) tended to be used in groups of six during battle, each machine worked by two men. They were used mostly to clear forward defenders during the start of a German attack, preceding their infantry colleagues. They were undeniably useful when used at short-range, but were of limited wider effectiveness, especially once the British and French had overcome their initial alarm at their use. The operators of Flammenwerfer equipment also lived a most dangerous existence.

Quite aside from the worries of handling the device – it was entirely feasible that the cylinder carrying the fuel might unexpectedly explode – they were marked men; the British and French poured rifle-fire into the area of attack where Flammenwerfers were used, and their operators could expect no mercy should they be taken prisoner. Their life expectancy was therefore short.

fascinating historical photos

 

The First black girl to attend an All White school in the United States – Dorothy Counts – being teased and taunted by her white male peers, 1957

 

December 1948, Talladega, AL., Klansmen and Santa Claus presented a radio to Jack Riddle, a 107 year old Negro and his wife, Josey, 86, so they could have their wish, to “hear the preachers.” Grand Dragon Samuel Green explained that this demonstrated the true heart of a Klansman.

historical photos

 

Soldiers Shotgunning Marijuana In Vietnam

 

American soldier offers water to a wounded VC. He had been fighting for three days with his entrails been held in place only by a cooking pot tied to his belly. (1968, Vietnam)

GI’s often show a compassion for the enemy that springs from admiration of their dedication and bravery. This VC had a three-day-old stomach wound. He’d picked up his intestines and put them in an enamel cooking bowl (borrowed from a surprised farmer’s wife) and strapped it around his middle. As he was being carried to the headquarters company for interrogation, he indicated he was thirsty. “OK, him VC, him drink dirty water,” said the Vietnamese interpreter, pointing to the brown paddy-field. With real anger a GI told him to keep quiet, then mumbled, “Any soldier who can fight for three days with his insides out can drink from my canteen any time!”

fascinating historical photos

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Daughter’s Touching Photographs Chronicles Her Parents’ Joint Battle With Cancer

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Howie and Laurel get their weekly chemotherapy treatment, in what Howie calls ‘his and hers chairs’. Laurel and Howie Borowick lived out the final year of their 34-year-long marriage fighting cancer together. Laurel had been diagnosed with breast cancer some 17 years earlier, Howie was told he had terminal pancreatic cancer in December 2012. They chose to spend their last months creating new memories, rather than becoming preoccupied with their troubles. Their family used the time they all had left together to the fullest. Howie died on December 7, 2013, a year and a day after his cancer was discovered. After that, Laurel’s cancer worsened and she passed away on December 6, 2014. The photographer is Laurel and Howie’s daughter. She chose to document her parents’ final chapters in order to hold on to their memory, and to capture their essence and strength in a trying time. She wanted to focus on their love, both individually and for each other. She says that everyone wants to find purpose in their lives, and that Laurel and Howie’s final purpose was found in this moment, in the gift they gave her of allowing her to tell their story. This is their legacy.

Howie and Laurel embrace in their bedroom at home.

The couple take a quick break to Florida before starting a new round of chemotherapy.

February 19, 2013 Wearing a playful wig, Laurel does the dishes in the family kitchen.

 

February 22, 2013 Laurel is fitted for a new wig at Rodolfo Valentino Salon. She gave away most of her old wigs, from a previous cancer diagnosis.

February 27, 2013 Howie raises a smile from Laurel by breaking into a bouncing dance in the kitchen.

March 8, 2013 Howie speaks on the bathroom telephone to their oncologist, in March 2013. The news is good for both of them: scans reveal that their tumors are shrinking.

March 30, 2013 Laurel and Howie plan for their funerals, to make the process easier for their children.

October 5, 2013 Howie and Laurel walk their daughter Nancy down the aisle on her wedding day.

November 30, 2013 Bracelet identifiers on Howie’s left wrist include notices that he is a fall risk, and a Do Not Resuscitate instruction.

November 28, 2013 Howie, who always had the last word in any conversation, characteristically wrote his own eulogy, which he left in an envelope with his daughter.

December 10, 2013 People attend Howie’s funeral.

December 10, 2013 Laurel spends her last moments with Howie—who is to be laid to rest wearing his favorite sports jersey, baseball cap and jeans—before his casket is closed.

 

March 12, 2014 For her 59th birthday, Laurel spends the day with Nancy at a ceramics studio. Tumors in her hip and pelvic area have made walking difficult.

April 14, 2014 At her first Passover meal since her husband’s death, Laurel sits alone at the head of the table.

 

November 26, 2014 By November 2014, Laurel is no longer in treatment and has begun home hospice care. Her tumors are growing, she struggles to breathe, and uses an oxygen machine.

November 28, 2014 Family friend Judy Fuhrer takes Laurel through some restorative yoga, to help ease her breathing and pain, in the Borowick’s hallway.

December 2, 2014 Laurel rests on the couch, while her elderly mother, Marion, reads to her.

December 3, 2014 Laurel’s son Matthew gives her a kiss on the forehead, but she barely responds. She can hardly get out of bed, and speaks only in a low whisper.

December 6, 2014 The family gathers around Laurel during her last moments.

December 6, 2014 Laurel’s mother and children say their final few words to her, before the room is cleared.

December 8, 2014 Many of the same people gather for Laurel’s funeral as did for Howie’s a year earlier.

 

December 8, 2014 Laurel asked to be buried in a sustainable wooden casket. Her son Matthew looks on before she is removed from the hearse.

February 8, 2015 A lifetime’s worth of photographs piles up, as the family home is cleared. Howie and Laurel’s children plan to sell the house, and close the chapter.

 

February 7, 2015 Clearing the house unearths cherished mementoes, such as the cake topper from Howie and Laurel’s wedding.

August 10, 2015 The Borowick family home stands empty, on the final day of cleaning.

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The Dumping Grounds

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How To Heal A Sex-Starved Relationship

 

TotalBiscuit talks about living with stage-4 cancer

 

Dog Cries Every Time He’s Touched — Until He Meets This Woman

 

A Simple Explanation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War

 

Chrysler Hemi FirePower V8 Engine Rebuild Time-Lapse

 

How To Lift With Your Girlfriend

 

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Linkage

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Brazil is offering prisoners powerful psychedelic Ayahuasca to reduce recidivism – Alternet

There Could Be a $900,000 Hit Out on Conor McGregor After His Bar Brawl With Irish Gangsters – Maxim

Comcast deleted net neutrality pledge the same day FCC announced repeal – ARS Technica

This Book Really Helped Me Change My Mindset And Get My Life On Track – Amazon

5 Myths About Food You Believe Thanks To Jerk Companies – Cracked

Justice League Was Apparently Micromanaged Even More Than We Thought – Vanity Fair

How to Detect When People Are Using the Truth to Lie to You – Life Hacker 

The Most Beautiful Actresses Ever – Ranker

Solar powered smart windows break 11% efficiency – enough to generate more than 80% of US electricity – Elektrek

CNN Refuses To Show This Hillary Video. Click Here To Watch – Health Sciences

What Actually Happens the Day Net Neutrality Is Repealed – Gizmodo

The Daily Picdump – Leenks

How the Truly Successful Make Time for Constant Learning – INC

The New American Way of War – TIME

How to Completely Ignore Distractions and Consistently Enter Flow StatesMedium

How the Popular Game “Cards Against Humanity” Changed The Lives of Hundreds of Chinese Workers – Burst Daily

Inside The Orgasm Lab – Mens Health

Here’s The Best Look Yet At The New Toyota Supra – Jalopnik

Is Introversion an Excuse for Rudeness? Here’s How to Self-Correct and Flourish – Big Think

In Defense of Fist Fighting – Grumpy Sloth

Hot girls who are generous with the cleavage – Radass

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Pretty Girls Make The World Go Round

The Daily Man-Up

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"Never play to the gallery…. Never work for other people in what you do. 

Always remember that the reason that you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself that you felt that if you could manifest in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you co-exist with the rest of society

It’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other peoples’ expectations.

They produce their worst work when they do that

If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area.

Always go a little further into the water than you feel capable of being in.

Go a little bit out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”

– David Bowie

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A Heavy Metal Dose Of AWESOME To Help You Celebrate Friday


Beautiful Story Of A Man Saving A Homeless Dog From Near Death

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A Pit Bull suffering from starvation and a severe injury was rescued from certain death by a man in Brazil. Wilson Coutinho Martins lives in Rio de Janeiro and has dedicated his life to rescuing and protecting animals from extreme conditions. For many animal lovers in Brazil he is a hero. For dogs like Davi, he is their savior.

The large dog with beautiful green eyes was rescued from the woods outside of Rio de Janeiro in September of 2012. He weighed just 28 pounds (13 kg) and had a huge, gaping wound in his rear. His bone was exposed and he could barely walk from the pain. If Wilson had not rescued him when he did, Davi would most certainly have died from infection and blood loss.

Wilson took Davi home and began tending to his wounds. During his recovery, Davi had to receive several blood transfusions and his wounds needed to be cleaned, treated with antibiotics and bandaged regularly. Within one month, his wounds were much better. A few months later, Davi’s wound had healed even more and he had gained back much needed weight. Although his journey back to health was slow, Davi has made a miraculous recovery. He is proof of how dedication and hard work and love can transform animals in even the most desperate of circumstances

Wilson was starving and had a severe wound on his hind leg.

Davi’s wounds were cleaned and bandaged.

He received antibiotics, drugs and blood transfusions.

His wound healed dramatically over a month long period.

He also began to regain weight.

By November, the wound had healed even more.

Davi in January of 2013. A dog transformed.

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Devoted Son With No Arms Spoon-Feeds Paralyzed Mom Using His Teeth

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This is Chen Xinyin, a 48 year old with more than his fair share of troubles. Here he is spoon-feeding his now paralysed mother a meal. As you can see Chen doesn’t have any arms.

Chen takes care of his 91-year-old mother full time, and feeds her with a spoon between his teeth. They live in Chongqing, in south-west China.

Chen lost both his arms after an electric shock at the age of seven, but despite that, worked hard on the family farm.

Tragedy struck again when he was 20 — his father died suddenly, leaving just Chen and his ailing mother to fend for themselves.

As his mother’s health worsened, a friend suggested that Chen start begging, but he angrily replied, “I have no arms but I have good feet. I can’t go make that sort of money.”

Despite not having arms, Chen cooks, farms, and even weaves baskets.

Winters are particularly challenging for Chen since he finds it difficult to put socks on, and he often suffers from frostbite.

Chen’s amazing strength has recently been captured in tear-jerking images that have moved China, and now the world.

What a man.

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A Few Photos To Remind You That Life Is Beautiful

The Dumping Grounds

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Savage AF: Florida Police Officer Taunts Gunman By Displaying Lube In The Courtroom! “You’re Going To Need A Lot Of This”

 

School Bus Converted To Incredible Off-Grid Home

 

A Minigun Firing Tracer Rounds 

 

The Room / The Disaster Artist – Scene Comparisons 

 

When you realize you’re the least attractive of your friends

 

The new Trailer of Batman Ninja animated series

 

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Linkage

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Bitcoin Is a Delusion That Could Conquer the World – The Atlantic

Meet the Totally Outrageous Aria FXE, America’s New 1,150-HP Supercar – Maxim

If you want a super clean ass after taking a dump, you definitely need a bidet… no more sh*t streaks in your underwear! – Amazon

What Marvel Has That Everyone Else Wants – The Ringer

Genetically Engineering Yourself Sounds Like a Horrible Idea—But This Guy Is Doing It Anyway – Gizmodo

The Hottest Female Bodybuilders – Ranker

The Energy Boosting “Trick” Most Adults Don’t Know About – Energy Boost

The Best Phone You Can Buy Right Now – The Verge

The interesting relationship between Conor McGregor and the infamous Irish drug gang known as the Kinahan Cartel – Bloody Elbow

Kati Garnett Is The Hottest Thing You’ll See Today – Yes Bitch

Russian sites call HIV a myth, Western conspiracy—an epidemic is now exploding – ARS Technica

This Sweet Dog’s Rocky Journey From Hardship To Happiness – Burst Daily

The Best Video Games Of 2017 – Nerdist

Cardi B Got Them Ti**ies On – Drunken Stepfather

Battle Royale (2000) The Japanese government introduces a system whereby randomly chosen schoolchildren are taken to an island and forced to fight each other to the death – Netflix

The Daily Picdump – Leenks

Why you’re never really happy with the things you buy anymore – Popular Science

Selena Gomez Busts Out Some Major Braless Cleavage Action! – Popoholic

21 Women Reveal What It Was Like To Have Sex With A Large Or Small Penis – Thought Catalog

Kate Upton Sunbathing at the Beach – G-Celeb

Stray Dog Can’t Stop Smiling After Rescuers Shave Off His Matted Fur – Bored Panda

Jimbo Fisher has reportedly been given the richest deal in “college football history” by Texas A&M – FanBuzz

5 Things Killing Your Sperm Count – Grumpy Sloth

How to Change The Lies That Define Your Life – Nick Notas

Who Gave Magic Johnson HIV? – Deadspin

Elsa Hosk Will Blow Your Pants Off – Hollywood Tuna

This Weapon from North Korea Could Kill Up to 90 percent of Americans, Experts Warn Congress – Big Think

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