After finding a Russian submarine in its waters, Sweden installed an underwater neon sign that read, “This Way If You Are Gay,” and called it a military deterrent.
In October 2014, the Swedish military launched the largest underwater search operation since the Cold War after a suspected Russian submarine was spotted in the Stockholm archipelago.
They deployed ships, helicopters, and over 200 personnel for a week. The operation cost 23 million Swedish kronor, roughly £2.2 million. They found nothing.
The Swedish military quietly confirmed it could not identify the vessel. International media mocked Sweden relentlessly.
Six months later, a pacifist group decided to handle things differently.
The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society launched Operation The Singing Sailor, a sonar device placed in the Stockholm archipelago transmitting a Morse code message reading "This way if you are gay."
The device featured an animated neon sign showing a man in a sailor's hat and white underpants thrusting his hips with love hearts flashing behind him.
It read "Welcome to Sweden" in both Russian and English, with "Gay since 1944" added, a reference to the year Sweden legalised homosexuality.
He’s right.
First team to do The Double 🏆 🏆
First British 🇬🇧 team to win a European trophy
First non league team to win the FA Cup 🏆
7th most decorated club in the English leagues with 18 🏆
🍖 Supermarket Steak vs Local Butcher – The Difference is Shocking.
A proper butcher picks up a supermarket-packaged rump steak and says:
“I mean, you can’t even call that piece of steak. Whoever’s put that on a tray, P45 please.”
The supermarket charges £7 for it, with £1.37 of that just for the plastic tray and wrapping.
Meanwhile, the local butcher’s equivalent fresh cut is just £5.75, cut fresh that day, better quality, no nonsense.
This is why supporting your local butcher makes sense.
You get real meat at a better price, not packaging and margins.
Have you switched yet? Worth every penny.
🤦♂️ "This was the moment [for West Ham], you had to turn up!"
👀 "It'll have to be a disaster for Spurs to not stay in the division!"
Simon Jordan reacts to #WHUFC being on the brink of relegation, with #THFC staying in the Premier League! 😳
A humpback whale stunned researchers after rolling onto its back to shield a frightened seal from a pod of hunting whales.
The remarkable encounter took place near Antarctica during a marine expedition led by biologist Robert Pitman. Just moments before, several orcas had been relentlessly chasing the exhausted seal through the freezing water.
Then an enormous humpback whale suddenly appeared.
Witnesses watched as the whale repeatedly moved itself between the seal and the predators. At one point, it flipped onto its back and carefully balanced the seal on its chest, lifting it above the water while the orcas circled underneath attempting to reach it.
Scientists say this behaviour may be far more common than once believed.
Studies examining over 100 recorded interactions across six decades show humpback whales frequently interrupt whale hunts. While they are known to defend their own calves, researchers have also documented them protecting other species, including seals, sea lions, gray whales, and even fish.
Observers have seen humpbacks rush directly at attacking orcas, strike the water with their huge fins and tails, vocalize loudly, and physically block predators from reaching their prey. Some of these dramatic standoffs have reportedly continued for hours.
Researchers believe humpbacks may react to the sounds orcas make during hunts. Killer whales are often quiet while stalking prey, but become increasingly vocal during an attack.
Scientists suspect humpbacks evolved to associate those sounds with threats to their own young, triggering powerful defensive instincts that may unintentionally save other animals as well.
Germany’s 2026 Deer Calling World Championship brings hunters together to use specialized instruments that imitate red deer calls, honoring and preserving a hunting tradition that has endured for more than 800 years.
Exeter Chiefs chairman Tony Rowe talks after an approved takeover by the owners of AFC Bournemouth 💬🏉
If the takeover goes through, the American investors will purchase all shares in the Devon club.
@realMaalouf ISIS: "We have Yazidi women, Kurdish women, Christian women! Come and take what your right hand has the right to possess "
Where is greta thunberg ?
Remember that 19 Yazidi girls were burned alive in iron cages by ISIS for refusing to convert to Islam and become sex slaves.
ISIS paraded them through the streets of Mosul, then burned them in front of hundreds of people.
Not a single Muslim or Palestinian activist protested for the Yazidis!
Was once working on a job where I had a wonderful ex-East End gangster driver called Paul.
He told me that he & all his gangster associates thought that Ben Kingsley’s performance as Don was the best portrayal of a psychopathic criminal they’d ever seen.
Sexy Beast. ‘2000