20 photos that will leave you speechless

[davmat787]

Only one I really didn't get was the diner one. Ignorance is bliss? I went to Atlantic City with the GF and happily munched on breakfast with homeless people in plain view. Not my fault they're homeless, and there's nothing I can do to make them not-homeless, so why should I feel responsible?

I think it's the whole juxtaposition of the photo that is supposed to be "powerful". Who knows, those ladies could work in soup kitchens for all we know, or they brought out leftovers afterword. Or just a bunch of mean bitches, who knows?

There will always be homeless, I know one very tangentially and he flat out admits that he enjoys it and prefers the lifestyle. :hmm:

 

[davmat787]

That Regina Walters one gives me chills

It is now pulled, can someone give those of us who missed it a quick synopsis of it? Or even better an MSPaint reproduction?

 

[Sho'Nuff]

So sad, the lone Russian WW2 solider waiting for his comrade's to come, he was probably the only one left alive in his old unit..

Yeah that got me too. My father grew up in the Czechosolvakia during WWII. He recently told me that he is the only person from his school that is still alive.

 

[davmat787]

Photos I have been enthralled with lately are close up macros of snowflakes. Apparently that old adage "no two snow flakes are the same" is true due to the fact simple math provides more ways to make a snowflake than their are atoms in the universe. This is according to experts in the field.

A few, they are easy to find if you want more. The appearance depends on the temperature it is formed in, and all starts with a grain of dust in the atmosphere that water vapor starts freezing to. The last one is of the type dendrite, formed in very low temperatures. This first type is called a capped column, which I was blown away by personally.

 

[Svnla]

Good job OP. I missed #6 picture. <sad panda>

 

[Zee]

those pictures did nothing for me.

I guess that makes me dead inside..

I felt nothing either viewing through the photos until i saw the one with the boy pulling his alcoholic father.

I felt for the boy. Some people shouldnt have children

 

[Arcadio]

It is now pulled, can someone give those of us who missed it a quick synopsis of it? Or even better an MSPaint reproduction?

It was probably the first one in this list Some pictures are NSFW.

 

[davmat787]

Yeah that got me too. My father grew up in the Czechosolvakia during WWII. He recently told me that he is the only person from his school that is still alive.

My father is what Hungarians refer to as a "56'er", those who took up arms against the then small Soviet occupation. The fighting was tense, but he is fairly certain he at least dropped one or two of those fuckers. Within a week overwhelming Soviet military force was brought in to quell the uprising.

At that point, manhunts were on for those who took up arms. The story of how my Dad escaped is a great and clever one, sometime I will spend the time it deserves and post it.

After the iron curtain fell, my father and brothers all went back. We were able to stay in the same house he was born in, which still has a nice vineyard and producing wine. And we met some relatives, and Dad caught up with those still around. His town is about 2 hours by train from Budapest, and in a beautiful area. Only downside is it becomes overran with Germans and others on holiday during the summer.

 

[John Connor]

It was probably the first one in this list Some pictures are NSFW.

It wasn't the first it was the 6th!

 

[davmat787]

It was probably the first one in this list Some pictures are NSFW.

😱D:

Probably wise to remove it, does not seem inline with the other photos. I could only look at a few others on the link you provided, so sad and creepy.

Nevertheless, thank you for providing it, I asked for it and one should never ask a question that they aren't prepared to handle the answer.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

The story of how my Dad escaped is a great and clever one, sometime I will spend the time it deserves and post it.

We should trade "How dad escaped" stories sometime. My father's escape from Czechoslovakia is pretty cool too. Involved sneaking into east Germany (in the 50's), then sneaking across the east German/west German border in Berlin while posing as a German border guard.

 

[who?]

The Regina Walters photo was the first one in that new link.

 

[jumpncrash]

So sad, the lone Russian WW2 solider waiting for his comrade's to come, he was probably the only one left alive in his old unit..

that's the one that got me too

 

[cyclohexane]

Respects to the soldier in the first picture.
Most shocking for me was the turkish teasing with starving children and a Jewish person moments before being shot.

yet the Turkish government won't even recognize that the Armenian genocide occurred.

 

[Wyndru]

I'm surprised Kevin Carter's pulitzer prize photo of that baby dying in Sudan while a vulture stood by wasn't on there.

 

[unixwizzard]

You may grow out of being so self-centered and devoid of empathy, though, as you get older.

I doubt it. I recently turned 47 years old. I have seen my share of the shit. I had my two wars, witnessed 9/11 in person and on top of that there are the countless times have seen first hand the depravity of what one human or group of humans are capable of inflicting on one another. In the past I have been diagnosed with PTSD and I wouldn't be surprised if it came back.

Whatever. It's not that I don't care, while in many cases that is true, the simple truth is that I don't get worked up with the kind of outrage and or indignity that so many people these days seem to do.

Maybe it's because there is so much to be outraged over and that every time I turn on the TV news or go to some news site on the web there is some new outrage being discussed, and all that outrage simply has me burned out to the point that I am numb to it. *shrug*

 

[Sea Moose]

Regina Walters photo

 

[Perknose]

Only one I really didn't get was the diner one. Ignorance is bliss? I went to Atlantic City with the GF and happily munched on breakfast with homeless people in plain view. Not my fault they're homeless, and there's nothing I can do to make them not-homeless, so why should I feel responsible?

Your ignorance, your bliss, your life and your outlook on it. Watch out, though, karma can be a royal bitch.

 

[irishScott]

Your ignorance, your bliss, your life and your outlook on it. Watch out, though, karma can be a royal bitch.

The photo implies that if either of those women were visually aware of said homeless dude they wouldn't have enjoyed themselves. I doubt that would be the case, and karma has nothing to do with it.

You want to talk karma, ask the homeless man how he became homeless, and why he still is. I hope you support compulsory institutionalization, because a lot of them aren't going to seek help themselves.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

The Nuremberg rally picture is incredible

 

[killster1]

Boring as hell not shocked at any thrm,,, clouds nice tho bumpy clouds woho

 

[ThinClient]

As to the photo with the wind turbine on fire. On know they infil/exfil via the tubular structure rising from the ground that supports the machinery at top. The access panel is towards the rear, so the fire was blocking access to it.

I wonder if they know have some sort of climbing rigging gear that they could easily hook up in the front in case of an emergency and make a manual descent. The blades aren't spinning when they are up there anyway.

Considering these Wind Turbines kill some 440,000 birds, often birds of prey which is important, maybe they are fighting back.

Powerful pictures all the way around, thanks for sharing OP.

No, they do not.

 

[mrrman]

Powerful.... thank you for sharing

amazing

 

[NetWareHead]

Regina Walters photo

I don't get it. 😕

edit: OK, nevermind. Looked up the name and read about the crime.

 

[BertolomeoDiaz]

@ davmat:

i thought the hungarian people earning money from tourism at the balaton lake were happy that the german tourists came when i was there as a german tourist

then again, many of those can be quite embarassing
i had the misfortune of witnessing other german tourists sitting in the best restaurant in town in bathing pants and funny hats and flip flop sandals
the restaurant was playing classic music, the waitors were in tuxedos and bow ties
it was really embarassing
(i was wearing proper clothes, of course, long trousers and such)