Comments on: My Picks for Top Tweets: 12 September 2017

By: nicky

nicky — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:45:01 +0000

I seem to remember that these guards indeed have the instruction not to react when one is fainting.
I guess that is a remnant of traditional warfare in closed ranks, where soldiers felled should not be a reason to break the line, the latter being a capital offense. (And in that kind of warfare probably for good reasons).

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:14:49 +0000

In reply to Robert Ladley. Good to know. :-)

By: Yakaru

Yakaru — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:46:33 +0000

In reply to Robert Ladley. That's funny.

By: Mark R.

Mark R. — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:02:35 +0000

The bread making and domino fall were spectacular. Esp. the domino fall. Dominoes are an optimal tool for Rube Goldberg machines, and I like the mini one utilized here.

Have you seen any of the world records? Here’s 3 and other domino feats that are amaze-balls. Lots of domino art and RG machines. 12+ minutes, but very mesmerizing. The sound of all those falling dominoes is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAqGcLaE5II

By: Mark R.

Mark R. — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:51:44 +0000

In reply to Robert Ladley. Now that would be an awesome tweet!

By: nwalsh

nwalsh — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:02:52 +0000

Some good news: An Ontario dog rescue organization has picked up some 30 dogs and returned to Toronto to be put up for adoption – These were only surrendered pooches.

By: Robert Ladley

Robert Ladley — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:07:43 +0000

In reply to Heather Hastie. Fortunately he did come around fairly promptly and the first thing he did to his credit was to calm his best friend.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:36:34 +0000

In reply to Robert Ladley. That must have been hilarious! The mind boggles as to how they helped the guy while his dog was in protection mode too.

By: Robert Ladley

Robert Ladley — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:27:37 +0000

Heather great tweets as always.
Wrt the fainting guardsman.
I remember being on a parade at RAF Finningley in the late 1960s ( No. 230 Vulcan B2 OCU) when an RAF Policeman complete with his guard dog fainted on the side of the Dias containing the reviewing senior officer. One of the junior officers went to the assistance of the fainting policeman and the dog perceiving the assistance as an assault on his handler promptly attacked the junior officer and ripped his trousers almost completely off from the waist down. You can well imagine the reaction of the assembled personnel, even the reviewing officer almost laughed out loud!
Moral of the story, fainters best left alone, although in the case of fainting guardsmen I often thought it could be quite dangerous to just leave someone like that even though instructions were to the contrary.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 03:04:22 +0000

In reply to Jenny Haniver. Thanks "Jenny". I too feel desperately sorry for Bolling. I don't know how you would be able to live with something like this. I hope they find that it wasn't suicide. He would still have the lifelong pain, and the knowledge that his son was suffering because of his situation, but the guilt of maybe causing his son's death at least wouldn't be there. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.