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messsssmer

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

fireknightqueelign

thy mother

messsssmer

Art thou for fucking real

obscure-entity

i like the genre of animal photos where you can tell they just dipped their face into a carcass and they dont even care (artistic interpretation)

obscure-entity

sequel as a thank you for all the fucked up images everyone has sent

do you ever find something that is so funny and you want to share it with everyone but it also requires 18 layers of context spanning things like. 90s anime. aviation history. europop. canada. in order to even remotely understand why it is so funny

all-pacas

in the late 90s there was an anime called initial d which was all about street racing and drifting. naturally every single drift was played for great drama and excitement.

in 1999, an italian named giancarlo pasquini released a europop song under the alias dave rogers called Deja Vu. this song was picked up as the theme song for the above anime. it in turn became a meme, a shorthand for drifting and Cool Moves as a concept.

in 1983, air canada flight 143, a full sized 767, ran out of fuel halfway to edmonton, alberta. this is not something you want to have happen to a huge airplane. the flight chose to try and make an emergency landing at a nearby decomissioned airforce base (as they were falling fast and could not make it to a proper airport), where they ran into a second problem: they were falling out of the sky at 500 feet per mile, but reached gimli (the base in question) while still too high to safely land. normally a plane would just do a big loop-de-loop to lose altitude, but they had maybe three minutes of airtime left before they hit the ground: not enough time to make any kind of circle. the pilot, therefore, decided to execute a side slip to lose speed and altitude. this is Not a move you want to do with a massive 767, because airplanes are not built for that and if you screw it up that plane is hitting the ground at a high speed at a weird angle and breaking into a million pieces. nevertheless, the captain tried it... and succeeded. the plane landed perfectly, and there were no major injuries! (a couple of people did get minor injuries when evacuating the plane after.) he did it so well, in fact, that the plane was refueled, flown out of gimli a couple days later, and continued to fly for another 20 years with the nickname "Gimli Glider."

what is a side-slip, you ask?

it's drifting.

the guy goddamn drifted his 767.

in 2008, the tv show Mayday: Air Disaster featured the gimli glider with full reenactments as an episode on season five of their show.

and so, in conclusion, the thing i have been giggling to myself about all weekend:

wigmund

There's another level of the madness that is the Gimli Glider saga.

Unbeknownst to the pilots and the air traffic controller, the decommissioned air base they were going to land at had been converted into a race track complex - Gimili Motorsports Park.

There was a sanctioned sports-car race taking place on what had been the runway along with sizeable crowds. The same runway that Air Canada 143 needed to land on. So it ties back into Initial D again.

#Reference

alphacrone

as a child i assumed that martha’s vineyard was a fancy private vineyard owned by martha stewart and the reason rich people vacationed there was because they were friends with martha

woman-becomer

thanks to lactation efforts

oyunkral34

go on

woman-becomer

I get this feeling I shouldn't

blindcat97

My dash performed a miracle

woman-becomer

that is a genuine honest to god miracle

simplyspider

made by mochimonki on tiktok but i can’t stop thinking about it

#My Brother My Brother and Me #Mob Psycho 100

komakesthings

I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!

#Muppets #The Princess Bride