Ian Kikuchi

Not enough time spent playing flight sims as children.

Anything to declare?

Yes, I'm very sorry.

a black and white video game with a score of 1 and 2 Alt: A game of Space Invaders

We now go live to Kuwaiti anti-aircraft headquarters:

Someone on the battery is already working on the stencil.

Somewhere an anti-aircraft commander is getting a medal and the sack at the same time.

Asakusa Kannon Shrine on a rainy day. A woman walks in the foreground holding a blue umbrella. The temple and tree in the background and a pagoda in the distance beneath a grey sky.

'Asakusa Kannon Temple' - Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1933.
#JapaneseArt #shinhanga

In an interview about his First World War service, Corporal Harry Forrester of the Royal Field Artillery recalled a mule that refused to cross a bridge while pulling an ammunition limber. The driver beat it for stopping. 1/3

📸IWM Q5940 #MuleMonday

Her little boots! ♥️

A few years after that ridiculous fiasco over evacuating animals from Afghanistan, we've now got people sending their pets into warzones by accident.

HMS Belfast always looks cool silhouetted against Tower Bridge.

Feels like Wilson did it better, at the moment.

I'm from neither of those extremes and think this is bonkers.

If that's necessary then defend Cyprus from Cyprus. Piling in to bomb Iran is madness.

Can't help thinking that the UK should leave the US and Israel to their insanely reckless war in the Middle East, and have nothing to do with it.

Love my American friends, but won't be going to see them over there until the government returns to planet Earth.

The US, doing its bit to advance the study of sociology by testing to destruction the claim, sometimes nade, that an armed society is a polite society.

Confused the shit out of me first time I drove in the States. Seems ridiculously dangerous.

He caught something, but it wasn't a cricket ball.

I suspect this person finds black pepper a bit exotic.

One wonders how things might have been different if Churchill had got Gotted on one of his many flights.

Unreal Tournament (1999)

When I heard that bit I assumed he meant some incident with hundreds of casualties, rather than deaths, which would still be very severe but less implausible.

Would we call the Yamamoto shoot-down 'decapitation'? I'd thought the term implied killing political leaders rather than operational commanders.

'Putting a bomb in the wrong pickle barrel from 20,000 feet... '

Replaying a bit of F-Zero GX via the Nintendo Switch Online service. Still a thrilling sense of speed, more than 20 years after its first release. 🎮

A little earlier I wondered how long it would be before we saw footage from the Burj Khalifa of ordnance falling nearby. Probably not long, I'm guessing.

What do we think counts as a quick win for Trump?

Laura Knight (1877-1970) British.

Nuremberg Trial [1946]

Oil on canvas, 182.8 x 152.4 cm, Imperial War Museum, London.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Damned unsporting, Sir!

Did you throw away your shot?