When men hear a helicopter, they all look up, and so it happens they cannot see all the women do the same.
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Bro can't stop posting pointlessly gendered bullshit. Bro men just love machines bro they're so technical so STEM bro big strong men love big strong engineering haha girls probably not looking at heli but looking down at their painted nails bro classic women would never like helicopter
I mean the meme caption doesn't say "a street full of grown men AND a bunch of women who aren't looking"
I think you can point out that one gender typically enjoys something without automatically implying another gender doesn't. Or at least we should be able to
I watched a docu series about mountain rescue and my partner got really annoyed when I constantly muttered "Hell yeah." or something like that when the helicopter made an appearance.
The engineering that goes into making those things work is fukkin rad, and anyone who takes 3 seconds to think about it agrees.
*me resisting the urge to create a 10 page long paper on helicopter engineering*
M.A.S.H theme song plays in my head whenever I see one.
Ride of the Valkyrie plays if there are two or more.
I know how they work, and why they work. But i don't understand why the universe allows them to work.
The helicopter, of course, flies anyways. Because helicopters don't care what humans think is impossible.
I have some surface-level understanding, but the complexity and forces involved are crazy and I'm sure it has to do with magic too
Project Zomboid player:
Well, yes. Helicopters don't fly, they continuously beat the air into submission.
I get excited every time I hear a helicopter, but I work right next to a hospital, so it's immediately tainted by the knowledge that someone in that helicopter is probably experiencing the worst day ot their life.
Same here. At first I hated the helicopters waking me up at weird hours, but eventually I started reminding myself every time I hear one it means someone's life is being saved. A lot easier to tolerate with that in mind.
Also sometimes if I'm playing Battlefield one will fly by at the perfect moment and take in game immersion up a notch.
Sitting ~~ducks~~ cats. At least find a tree
I have some wild helicopter watching stories. Best would probably be when there was a small wildfire a few miles away from my college. I was watching the flight tracker and saw them pull in a Huey and Blackhawk, and tracked down exactly where they were collecting water. Ditched class and went to watch them. They let us get like 100ft away from these ridiculous massive machines as they were taking on water. At one point, the Blackhawk pilot started playing chicken with us, trying to see if he could knock us off the hillside, LOL. Even still I will go out and watch most helicopters.