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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The tank was well designed, it’s the world that was badly designed with all these pesky hills and rivers, and bridges and mud

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Not to mention the gravity being set to such outragious levels!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Here, a capital ß: ẞ

[–] Sylvartas 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

TIL

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was introduced in 2017.

Without it the correct spelling is 'SCHEISSE'

[–] Sylvartas 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I did 7 years of German but I didn't know there was a capital eszett.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Lots of Germans don't know it either actually

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I had a HMMWV like that. Fucking thing would fall to the back of the formation on every hill. God i hated that thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never thought about lemons in the context of military hardware but they clearly must exist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I think that particular vehicle was shitty due to lack of maintenance prior to it being assigned to me. It was pretty old and beat up.