• angrystego@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    When men hear a helicopter, they all look up, and so it happens they cannot see all the women do the same.

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      23 hours ago

      I have some surface-level understanding, but the complexity and forces involved are crazy and I’m sure it has to do with magic too

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    1 day ago

    Bro can’t stop posting pointlessly gendered bullshit. Bro men just love machines bro they’re so technical so STEM bro big strong men love big strong engineering haha girls probably not looking at heli but looking down at their painted nails bro classic women would never like helicopter

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      14 hours ago

      I mean the meme caption doesn’t say “a street full of grown men AND a bunch of women who aren’t looking”

      I think you can point out that one gender typically enjoys something without automatically implying another gender doesn’t. Or at least we should be able to

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    1 day ago

    M.A.S.H theme song plays in my head whenever I see one.

    Ride of the Valkyrie plays if there are two or more.

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    1 day ago

    I get excited every time I hear a helicopter, but I work right next to a hospital, so it’s immediately tainted by the knowledge that someone in that helicopter is probably experiencing the worst day ot their life.

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      Same here. At first I hated the helicopters waking me up at weird hours, but eventually I started reminding myself every time I hear one it means someone’s life is being saved. A lot easier to tolerate with that in mind.

      Also sometimes if I’m playing Battlefield one will fly by at the perfect moment and take in game immersion up a notch.

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    2 days ago

    The engineering that goes into making those things work is fukkin rad, and anyone who takes 3 seconds to think about it agrees.

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      1 day ago

      *me resisting the urge to create a 10 page long paper on helicopter engineering*

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    I have some wild helicopter watching stories. Best would probably be when there was a small wildfire a few miles away from my college. I was watching the flight tracker and saw them pull in a Huey and Blackhawk, and tracked down exactly where they were collecting water. Ditched class and went to watch them. They let us get like 100ft away from these ridiculous massive machines as they were taking on water. At one point, the Blackhawk pilot started playing chicken with us, trying to see if he could knock us off the hillside, LOL. Even still I will go out and watch most helicopters.