Remembrance Sunday 1918-2018

 

 

They shall grow not old
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning,
We shall remember them.

Credits: Laurence Binyon, askIdeas

The current political situation in Iraq and Syria

 

A French-language GIF based on an animation showing the various players in the political landscape of Iraq and Syria between 2014-15.

Credits: ISW and Thomas van Linge via GIFER

Vijay’s classic GIFs 2007-2011 – 381

 

The War of the Clowns soon takes over the streets of France, and a fearsome new weapon of cream and mirth makes its entrance: the double-layered wide dish custard pie. The German clowns won’t know what hit them.

GIF: clownwar                                                                                                            DATE: 25/06/2010

Credits: CHEEZburger Memebase Señor GIF via Ratedesi Forums

Vijay’s classic GIFs 2007-2011 – 342

 

This GIF of a jet fighter on fire gives me goosebumps. It comes from the Transformers franchise and features the character Starscream, who was an Air Commander of the Energon Seekers and a ‘Decepticon’.

GIF: starscreamjudo                                                                                                                            DATE: 28/07/2009

Credit: Ratedesi Forums

 

Vijay’s classic GIFs 2007-2011 – 326

 

Handbags at dawn?…. choke on your dentures, ya old hag!

GIF: fightj                                                                                                                                              DATE: 18/06/2009

Credits: Ratedesi Forums

Pillow fight!

A fun prank. Surprised someone didn’t try to smother him with a pillow though.

Credits: Giphy via Al Heden Chrism‎, Awesome GIF’s and Facebook

VJ Day 2015

 

In honour of those who made the ultimate sacrifice on today, the 70th anniversary of VJ (Victory in Japan) Day, not only those who fought in the battles of the Far East, but those who were killed in the nuclear attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945.

Credits: Gifsoup via M0302774 and emaze

Traffic lights

 

It is the 101st anniversary since the installation of the world’s first set of traffic lights, and internet search engine Google has released a special doodle to mark the occasion. Meanwhile to celebrate, those little lit-up dudes you see at pedestrian crossings decided to have a big ruckus.

The first red and green lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio in the United States, on August 5, 1914. The original design though came from a Salt Lake City, Utah policeman named Lester Wire. He came up with the idea in 1912.

Credits: joyreactor.com and TwoHobosOneBox via imgur, Heavy