connor o'brien

I aspire to live in a mansion where I have the opportunity to remove the toilets to avoid Illinois property taxes

[Tom Bogert @tombogert]

Seattle is hosting a pride match tonight between Egypt and Iran. Outside the stadium they set up a “protest zone” (???) that is in front of two dumpsters.

This looks like an SNL bit.

Photo from my friend @johnhollinger
https://t.co/tOVDQdMpMr

[marty @josephlisgoe]

let rip a fart in the public toilet earlier and some kid went 'daddy im scared of the noise'.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

This gets funnier everytime I watch it. If you don’t see it the first time, watch it again. Funniest thing you’ll watch today

[QBgami @QBgami]

Just realized the Europeans will be present to watch Joey Chestnut inhale 84 pork pistols on live television in honor of our nation’s independence.

That one will break them completely.

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

"Okay, your turn. Convert the doc to a PDF just like I showed you."

[connor o'brien @ob1989]

Seems like the best way to stop Sorsby from playing for Tech is to have Big 12 refuse to send refs to their games. The other Big 12 members are rightfully fuming over this injunction so don’t be surprised if you see some crazy things happen over the next few weeks to Tech.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[Captain Caleb @captaincaleb18]

Alright who made the Hammond Indiana edition

[connor o'brien @ob1989]

@FirstSquawk Seems like this would just become a shahed target whenever Iran wanted to retake control of the oil markets when diplomatic/military conflict breaks out. Also having it be refined products would make said attacks more devastating

[The Pryce Is Right @Hoiballed]

Arkansas fans getting up to do the pig sooie chant

[Midnite @midnite]

Arsenal fans reaction to THAT Gabriel missed penalty crowing PSG as the UCL Champions…

🎥 - @BeanymanSports

[𝔏𝔢𝔫𝔞 🎀 @clusterbitch_]

it’s crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year and almost no one cares about them because the administration has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events

[Jeff Biesinger @JeffBiesinger]

I’m going to be honest. I’m a huge fan of policing your own. MLB does it. NHL does it. NFL does it. The only way to get players to stop acting like idiots, is to let them know when they are. If a team is going to constantly flop and foul bait, then you may as well get your money’s worth. I’d love to see more of this in the NBA. It’s the only way things are going to get cleaned up. Obviously, the league isn’t going to fix it.

[Jordanreviewsittt @jordanreviewsit]

His 3 day weekend is over. Stop the rain and make it sunny for the work week

[alth0u🧶 @alth0u]

smoking on the shit that killed shinzo abe

[connor o'brien @ob1989]

@barstoolclipped This guy looks like he complains about his vape juice not being the same since it got popular

[Justin Herzig @JustinHerzig]

Anyone else close their eyes and play an imaginary full round of golf to fall asleep?

Do you all just play your home course or familiar enough of any of the big ones to "play" it?

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

NEWS: Missouri and Saint Louis are working to finalize an agreement to meet on November 6th at Enterprise Center, according to multiple sources.

https://t.co/UK4ijPe1F0

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Have you guys seen this one yet?