If I’m gonna say something nice about using Tumblr for social media it’s that Tumblr doesn’t make you aspire to something and that’s a positive.
The big draws of Instagram/Tiktok/Facebook seem to be about proving you have a perfect life and a perfect face and a perfect body and then getting really sad when you don’t stack up. Tumblr is a bunch of anime profile pictures loitering at a gas station.
As with all military history, the actual answer is long and complicated, and this video is obviously a little comically glib. But the shortest explanation is:
The Royal Navy had not been very well maintained after WWI for a variety of reasons. The Brits started scrambling to catch up in military production after Hitler invaded Poland, but it took a lot time to roll out new ships
By the time the Brits finished the new classes of ships (and improved the old ones), the Germans had invented this fun little thing called a U-Boat
The German U-Boats decommissioned a large chunk of the Royal Navy in the early part of the war, shocking the world by essentially bringing the British naval force to its knees. This is the “do not get me started on the fucking navy” bit of the video.
(Though eventually they figured out how to track down U-Boats and the British Navy did okay in the latter part of the war)
U-Boats and German battleclass ships effectively blockaded most of the English Channel when the British and ally soldiers retreated to Dunkirk beach.
Despite all of the above, the Royal Navy did actually manage at least half of the Dunkirk evacuation (estimates vary based on a number of factors) – but they were also certainly not as “in play” as they should have been, due to German coverage.
Women are getting rid of their Trump supporting partners while they still legally can since they clearly don’t give a shit about them or any other woman.
If you’re thinking about getting a divorce, you should do it while you still can.
Trump supporting men: “I voted in favor of my wife losing basic human rights even though she told me that this decision would hurt her and many other people and I don’t understand why she’s reacting negatively to that :(”
I fucking love it when I have the opportunity to turn an implied insult into a compliment and thoroughly disarm the person trying to insult me.
I’m very much a “bare minimum” person when it comes to make up. I wear as little as I can get away with while working in an office.
One of the women i work with is one of those people never left her high school bitchiness behind. Someone who looks at Regina George and goes “what a role model.” She loves nothing more than to hand out insults framed in a cheerful, bright manner. She sounds like she’s being So Nice but actually she’s being awful – that kind of thing.
So one day she’s talking about how she was going out after work, but forgot her make up bag – so thank God for the pharmacy downstairs, where she could go and grab some replacement make-up.
I was like oh, yeah, having that there is so great– I do my make-up in the car most mornings, so my make-up bag lives in the car, so if I’ve ever taken it out over the weekend and forgotten to put it back, then I’m kinda screwed make-up-wise – but at least I can duck in downstairs and grab some mascara.
And she gives me this faux-sympathetic face, and goes, “is that what happened this morning? You forgot your make-up and haven’t had time to go down and buy some yet?”
And it was very clearly a “I know full well that you’re wearing make up right now, but I’m trying to make you feel self-concious about how you look” kinda thing – but all couched in a faux-friendly, sympathetic way.
But instead of getting offended or self concious or whatever she was aiming for, I gave her a laughed in a flattered way, and went, “You think I just naturally look this good? Aw, thanks!”
And her face was hilarious. She did NOT know what to do with that response. She tries to insult me by implying I’m not wearing any make up and thus look like shit, but I’m like you think I wake up in the morning looking like this? That’s so lovely of you!
Hilarious. Also comes with the added benefit of her not bothering me with her bitchy faux-compliments anymore. 10/10 outcome.
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