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Tommy Moo
2012-02-07 12:40:39 PM
My, what a lovely ghoti she had.
 
chopit
2012-02-07 12:40:40 PM
That old lady has a beard!
 
GnuUzir
2012-02-07 12:42:32 PM
Well at least she styled it, too many old ladies just let their facial hair go wild...
 
awooga [TotalFark]
2012-02-07 12:43:11 PM
..and the band played Waltzing Mathilda...
 
LockeOak
2012-02-07 12:46:24 PM
To be fair, the beard does give her a proud military bearing.
 
rkiller1
2012-02-07 12:46:37 PM
FTA: She added she "learned a lot of different things" and had a "good time" there

That's what she said.
 
xen0blue
2012-02-07 12:48:12 PM
1) she wasn't a veteran, she was a mess hall attendent
2) good god...her chin
 
GuyCaballero
2012-02-07 12:48:20 PM
If she "had a good time" at WWI, she was doin it wrong.
 
blutendesherz
2012-02-07 12:51:09 PM
xen0blue: 1) she wasn't a veteran, she was a mess hall attendent
2) good god...her chin

1) Tell that to all the paper pushers who call themselves vets from Vietnam and Iraq. I guarantee you this woman saw far more "action" than they did.

2) Agreed
 
Molavian
2012-02-07 12:51:31 PM
Too bad, she'd be a perfect spokesman for Gillette.
 
numbone
2012-02-07 12:51:47 PM
That beard is known as a "half-dyke" but some call it a "ball-sacker".
 
Morpheses
2012-02-07 12:52:58 PM
Did anyone notice her facial hair? Golly gee!
 
blackheart666
2012-02-07 12:54:31 PM
GuyCaballero: If she "had a good time" at WWI, she was doin it wrong.

If I was able to spray chemical weapons all over France, I would have had the time of my life.
 
Freakin Rican
2012-02-07 12:55:42 PM
did anyone notice that chair. yuk how ugly.

did you guys happen to notice her chin?
 
Pert
2012-02-07 12:55:44 PM
Is it just me?

static.guim.co.uk

news.bbcimg.co.uk

/bless her. She did more for my country than I have.
 
Cybernetic [TotalFark]
2012-02-07 12:57:27 PM
Hey, has anyone mentioned that the lady in the pic has a beard?

Somebody really should mention that.
 
natmar_76
2012-02-07 01:01:26 PM
God damn, she looks tough. I'd be scared to fight her.
 
rkiller1
2012-02-07 01:02:45 PM
Separated At Birth

www.onlinedegrees.org

/Eat more chickin.
 
Langdon Alger
2012-02-07 01:03:31 PM
My older brother hates me because I can grow a beard and he can't. Now I think he hates this woman too. The war may have ended, but her beard grows on.
 
Daddy's Big Pink Man-Squirrel [TotalFark]
2012-02-07 01:03:37 PM
So the war on terror will end when the last scary person dies?
 
khanathor
2012-02-07 01:04:07 PM
What facial hair?
 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark]
2012-02-07 01:07:28 PM
Listen, there's nothing cushy about the Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps!
 
lenfromak
2012-02-07 01:08:02 PM
RIP Mrs Doubtfire.
 
Captain Steroid [TotalFark]
2012-02-07 01:09:06 PM
She... ENJOYED... World War I?!

I guess it's true what they say: Only the good die young.
 
Alien Robot
2012-02-07 01:10:27 PM
And with that WWI passes from living memory into written history. We can never learn any more facts about what happened from the people who were there other than that which has already been written down. In a way it's sad.
 
Miss Cellania
2012-02-07 01:13:47 PM
She was 110 years old. Shaving, waxing, or depilitating her facial hair would have ripped right through her skin. You should look so good at that age.
 
ObscureNameHere
2012-02-07 01:14:59 PM
*brushes out mutton-chops, grabs parchment and quill, straightens monocle*

Dear Sirs:

I am vexed -- considerably vexed! -- at the apparent maligning of facial that seems to have wholly permeated the Lower Classes and whose degenerate worldview is now dangerously rising higher into discussion amongst the Gentlemen Class. It is a full mark of distinction for Men of the Empire to carry a full array of folic stylings with them. Without such marks of distinction, we might be mistook by the near-sighted for a common Yeoman. I, for one, shudder at the thought! Now, in this particular case, if a woman should be so enamoured with marks of nobility then she should by all means feel free to pursue such follies -- assuming she is long past marriageable age, of course.

Warmest Regards,
William J. Starchshirt, Esq.
 
ODDwhun
2012-02-07 01:18:39 PM
Wait... Brian Cox was in WWI?

images.mirror.co.uk
 
Suede head
2012-02-07 01:23:10 PM
She had a good time in WWI? Hmmm. I'm guessing she didn't have to climb out of a trench and walk slowly through a storm of machine-gun and artillery fire towards intact barbed-wire.
 
Knara
2012-02-07 01:25:29 PM
xen0blue: 1) she wasn't a veteran, she was a mess hall attendent

So, in your view, you can't be considered a veteran of anything unless you are shooting or being shot at?
 
SharkTrager
2012-02-07 01:31:55 PM
Knara: xen0blue: 1) she wasn't a veteran, she was a mess hall attendent

So, in your view, you can't be considered a veteran of anything unless you are shooting or being shot at?

I'd say to be a war vet you should have at least served in the same country where people are shooting, yes.
 
rhondajeremy
2012-02-07 01:33:23 PM
Miss Cellania: She was 110 years old. Shaving, waxing, or depilitating her facial hair would have ripped right through her skin. You should look so good at that age.

Agreed but I still think I would have someone go in with scissors and trim it close to my face. But being 110, she probably didn't care.

//I care now though and plan to tell all my family NOT to let me grow a beard in my advanced years.
 
you_idiot
2012-02-07 01:36:20 PM
So WWI really was a fight to the death then.
 
sasiem2
2012-02-07 01:37:57 PM
YIKES!!!!
 
mr lawson
2012-02-07 01:41:09 PM
SharkTrager: Knara: xen0blue: 1) she wasn't a veteran, she was a mess hall attendent

So, in your view, you can't be considered a veteran of anything unless you are shooting or being shot at?

I'd say to be a war vet you should have at least served in the same country where people are shooting, yes.

you have never been in the military have you?
 
xxmedium
2012-02-07 01:41:50 PM
Imma throw my candidate's name in the ring thread.

lh6.googleusercontent.com
 
bv2112
2012-02-07 01:43:07 PM
i614.photobucket.com
 
bunner
2012-02-07 01:46:48 PM
www.dromo.info

Begs to differ.
 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark]
2012-02-07 01:49:45 PM
lifeasahuman.com

These guys had climbed out of their trenches just so they could run at Turkish machine guns at Gallipoli.

www.historylearningsite.co.uk

These guys were blinded victims of a German gas attack.

www.aef-doughboys.com

This is a Model 1917 trench knife. The blade is triangular so that it would create a non-closing wound. The knob on the end of the handle was used to crack skulls open.

upload.wikimedia.org

This is the hospital ship SS Britannic, a sister ship to the Titanic. She was sunk by a German mine.

www.heritage.nf.ca

This is the Newfoundland Regiment. After its first battle at the Somme, 68 men answered role call; 710 were dead, wounded or missing. Most of the casualties were caused in the first half hour of action before the men even reached their attack positions.

www.vickersgun.com

This is the British Vickers water cooled machine gun. Ian V. Hogg, in Weapons & War Machines, describes an action that took place in August 1916, during which the British Army's 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns continuously for twelve hours. Using 100 new barrels, they fired a million rounds without a single breakdown.

Goodbye. RIP.
 
Mikeyworld
2012-02-07 01:53:08 PM
blutendesherz: xen0blue: 1) she wasn't a veteran, she was a mess hall attendent
2) good god...her chin

1) Tell that to all the paper pushers who call themselves vets from Vietnam and Iraq. I guarantee you this woman saw far more "action" than they did.

2) Agreed

I know of one so-called 'Vet' who served two months and was outed because of alcoholism. He gets a VA pension today. Post-Vietnam, but still brags about his service and goes to Vet functions to tell stories.

/I served four years in the navy -circa 1970
//still ticks me off... I had a career going
///My retirement was cut $350/mo because of my military time.
 
one of Ripley's Bad Guys
2012-02-07 01:53:48 PM
1 July 1916.

not a good day for the British Empire.
 
popesballs
2012-02-07 01:55:59 PM
Isn't unexploded ordinance like dud artillery shells still rising up from the soil every spring, killing and maiming French farmers to this day? By the standards here, that means there are still more veterans of the Great War.
 
dittybopper
2012-02-07 01:56:50 PM
Pert: She did more for my country than I have.

She did less for her country than I did for mine, and we both faced the same risks.
 
dittybopper
2012-02-07 01:58:27 PM
popesballs: Isn't unexploded ordinance like dud artillery shells still rising up from the soil every spring, killing and maiming French farmers to this day?

That's a feature, not a bug.
 
xxmedium
2012-02-07 02:01:07 PM
TheShavingofOccam123: This is the hospital ship SS Britannic, a sister ship to the Titanic. She was sunk by a German mine.

and this is Violet Jessup who was on both ships when they sank and also aboard the other sister ship RMS Olympic when it collided with HMS Hawke.

upload.wikimedia.org

//and no she was not driving
 
enricofermi
2012-02-07 02:07:41 PM
That's a MAN baby
 
lostinspace1978
2012-02-07 02:31:39 PM
I bet that pussy is out of control
 
Mog32Kupo [TotalFark]
2012-02-07 02:32:38 PM
xxmedium: and this is Violet Jessup

I'd hit it, patriotically.
 
gibbon1
2012-02-07 02:42:55 PM
xen0blue: 1) she wasn't a veteran, she was a mess hall attendent

If you ever talk to veterans of WWII you'd find a lot of them did stuff like that. Okay most of them.
 
dittybopper
2012-02-07 03:00:31 PM
lostinspace1978: I bet that pussy is out of control

Most pussy is.
 
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