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grumpy_cat to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months ago

“Sir HMS Invincible has exploded.”

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“Sir HMS Invincible has exploded.”

grumpy_cat to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months ago
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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    If I were naming a ship, I would name it the HMS Completely Vulnerable.

    • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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      The SS Ready to Blow.

      • Chais@sh.itjust.works
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        Thar she blows up?

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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      HMS Target Practice

      HMS Leaky Bucket

      HMS Smoke on the Water

      • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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        These ships will be around forever.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    UNSINKABLE!

    • Quote about ship that sank
    • Kenny2999@lemmy.world
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      • Song about how your heart will go on.
  • nialv7@lemmy.world
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    guess i’ll just name my ship vincible then. saves me the embarrassment if it explodes. and if it doesn’t, hey, i’m not complaining. win-win

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    Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

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  • DonGirses@lemmy.world
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    If the ship is called Invincible

    then why can I see it?

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      Because it’s not called invisible. That’s hard to spot.

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    Most people (I bet), when they read the word Jutland:

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      It is pretty impressive that they apparently managed to get the ship moved into Jutland.

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      Jut means good in my local dialect so I think it’s a good place

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      Jutland wastes?

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      As someone who live in Jutland, I was more like

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    See also the HMS Dreadnaught. A ship named “fear nothing” who spent most of her career relegated to coastal defence because she was outdated and would’ve been an easy target.

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      Dreadnought’s one score was ramming and sinking a U-boat. It gets more interesting because that U-boat was commanded by Otto Weddingen, who had previously commanded a really obsolete old U-boat named “U-9” when she sank three armored cruisers in one attack while submerged, a feat that shocked everyone into realizing the actual threat posed by submarines.

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    I’m kind of lost. Isn’t this meme for causing your own demise and blaming others?

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    Brutalizing this poor template.

  • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
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    HMS Invincible: gets sunk

    HMS Lame Dog: survives 18 torpedo strikes, 3 bombings, 2 fires, and an iceberg

  • jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world
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    Next ship: Invincible 2

    Our enemies will tremble.

    • TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone
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      One of my favourite ship names to use in FTL

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    See, the United States named our battleships after things like North Carolina and New Jersey, and they’re currently on display in North Carolina and New Jersey.

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