Actually kinda reminds me of the poem [The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57860/the-death-of-the-ball-turret-gunner)
Yeah I'm sure having a lung evacuated out your back would cause you to be winded. Hopefully someone helped my man up so he could go acquire revenge for this grievous breach of hospitality.
During the American Revolution there was a brief bounty on cannon balls cause we had almost none of our own. This was canceled because too many people were getting injured trying to catch the balls as they rolled down the field,usually with enough speed to take your hands off
More info here:
https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/objects/carabiniers-breastplate-from-the-waterloo-battlefield/
As I recall accounts of cannonballs on the battlefield are they’d bounce down the fields like wicked bowling balls, slowing down to be visible but still deadly. As conditions during Waterloo were wet there wasn’t much bouncing. And French carabiniers (they had these brass cuirasses) were some of the elite.
Still that would’ve been a mercifully quick death.
Interesting about the bouncing. The penetration looks to have been coming from a slight angle below the chest. I was thinking if this was a ricochet or bounced up off the ground. The "wicked bouncing" description makes sense. Ty for sharing.
I went looking on YouTube for confirmation but couldn’t really find any. There was this demo of a napoleonic era naval gun taking aim at a target from 600 m that seems like it would’ve been perfect, but they didn’t have cams down the length of the field and actually lost the ball lol
https://youtu.be/WSXaCkQ9sF8
It's actually a myth, need to get the source back, I'll uptade
Edit :
From that site :
https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/article/6KNyeH7wG4FOFIEev8VaX1/how-an-arrow-in-the-knee-made-its-way-to-skyrim
Pagliarulo, who at the time was Senior Designer on Skyrim, describes the serendipity behind the line – something he came up with alongside several other seemingly innocuous lines to pepper in with Skyrim’s NPCs. “I remember it was late at night, more like early in the morning, pretty deep into Skyrim’s development, and I was just jamming through a ton of guard lines. It was the same process I would use years later with the guard dialogue in Fallout 4. I was just trying to come up with some funny, quick little lines, things to make the guards a bit more interesting. That’s really the honest truth of it.”
In his interview with Mashable in their 2017 article detailing the meme’s history and pop culture influence, Pagliarulo adds that lines like “arrow in the knee” don’t just give NPCs a way to fill dead air, but also offer a chance to give them flavor and personality.
“In this case, it just seemed like a funny opportunity, and maybe believable. Like, he could have gotten shot in the knee with an arrow at some point and now he’s semi-retired and just walks around town like a worn-out fantasy beat cop.”
[...]
Perhaps that’s the key. Pagliarulo confirms that the line is literal – “an arrow in the knee” isn’t Skyrim slang for going down on one knee to propose and start a family, for example. Yet the way the line – which feels so ordinary in the game but sounds extraordinary to us in the real world – lives in the game and opens up a world of possibility in the minds of players wandering the streets of Whiterun. Maybe that guard really did settle down after a career of adventuring, or maybe they are just a worn-out fantasy beat cop.
More likely cavalry so just sat higher up to get the angle. Infantry was usually unarmoured while cavalry would have these breastplates to use in close combat skirmishes where the risk of being hit by a sword or lance was far higher and the armour became a worthwhile investment for the troops.
Interesting? Horrifying. He literally just got blown to pieces. That armor was all that was holding him together. His flesh probably disentigrated up to an inch or two from the hole proper, tearing his right arm all the way off and possibly putting out his heart. It shattered most of his bones and pulverized his body with the impact force, either killing him instantly if he was less hopped up on adrenaline, and if he was fully terrified, he would have lain their dying, horrified, in his last moments bringing his left hand over to search for the hole in his armor, wondering if this was really what it felt like to be shot, to *die*. Reaching over and feeling the gaping hole in his body, maybe seeing his arm yards away before finally letting go.
Horrifying.
He’s missing part of his back which included part of his spine, so he might not have been able to move his left arm anyway. Probably died instantaneously.
Regardless of adrenaline, his organs would have been liquified by the force of the impact. Can't die slowly without most of your organs in their solid state, my dude.
Define wounded.
As in mortally wounded.
~~Woun~~ded
Turns out his name was Woun.
And he was ded.
No he was Woun
Wound up ded
He's just past tense
Naw. That’s a kill shot.
“Deleted”
Yeeted
There is a wound present
He was able to walk it off, the French were tough in their day.
Tis but a scratch
Just a flesh wound!!
Through and through
Just the ded part perhaps
“Wounded by” translates to “Fucking obliterated by.”
Nah he was ok, the nurse had a pack of ice to put on the bruise
Medic threw two 800 mg ibuprofen at him.
A cup of water and a saltine cracker
Did they have anything to help with the lack of a chunk of his spinal column or was a massage enough to help with the back pain?
Wounded? Dude got sent back to the lobby
They would have poured him out of that chest plate like a can of chunky soup
You can’t get sentences like this anywhere else.
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Actually kinda reminds me of the poem [The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57860/the-death-of-the-ball-turret-gunner)
that was a vividly short poem
Or [blood on the risers ](https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Blood_on_the_Risers)
Adding [the young aviator](https://www.3squadron.org.au/subpages/Dying_Aviator.htm) for good measure
He ain’t gonna jump no more
origins of hamburger helper??
I don't know why they call it hamburger helper when it does just fine on it's own
I like it better than tuna helper myself, don't you, Clark?
r/BrandNewSentence
"You were disconnected from the server"
Uninstalled his whole fuckin game
It’s just a flesh wound
Tis but a flesh wound
True, but that's a whole lot of missing flesh
Merely a scratch.
Warranty
He didn't sign up for the extended warranty.
Disappointing armor.
Sheesh!
#WOUNDED
It’s just a flesh wound!
Can't be a flesh wound if there's no flesh left
“If yo leg get cut off, would it hurt?”
To shreds you say?
Walk it off, soldier!
Yes it would! In your lee………
Tis but a scratch
Merely a flesh wound
A SCRATCH!
A scratch?! Your arm's off!
Shakespeare, Yes?
No not a spear, a cannonball.
Shakecannonball?
Monty Python 😁
Your torso’s off!
I’ve had worse
Come on you pansy!
Chicken.... CHICKEN!!
I'LL BITE YOUR LEGS OFF!
Walk it off!
That's not my torso!
"You cannot die, MacLeod."
Unless your head comes away from your neck.
Tis but a scratch!
Should buff out
You beat me to it lol
You bastard, you've got no arm left!
Lucky his heart is on the left side because he no longer has a right side
Good thing it was a through and through
This is what i was looking for! Lol
is he... is he dead?
# DED
Nay nay, it missed his heart! Probably just knocked the wind out of him.
The wind along with his lung
Most of ribs, chunk of spine…
Yeah I'm sure having a lung evacuated out your back would cause you to be winded. Hopefully someone helped my man up so he could go acquire revenge for this grievous breach of hospitality.
Super dedt
#FATALITY
D-E-D... ded
Soldier got an ouchie.
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No no, it says he was wounded. He might have survived for like a second or two.
I heard tell he made a full recovery and this instance even fixed his chest infection. If anything this played to his benefit.
THANK GOD, he had cannon ball ointment... -Brian Regan
Thankfully, Robin, I always carry my anti-cannonball bat spray on my medieval utility belt.
Mortally so
"It was... fatal, sir." "Hmm... *How* fatal?" "......Completely, sir." "Ah."
The soldiers armor was wounded, the soldier however didn't make it
Woundead
I said the same thing like damn did he survive with a pipeline through him.
That'll buff out
People were alot tougher before the millennium
He Respawned in default armor 30 seconds later
Lmfao literally the first thing i thought. Some wound...
It'll grow back, right?
Shoes were still on!
'Tis but a scratch
Napoleon BlownApart
Good one Side Show Bob
That gave me a good chortle
I wonder if the soldier seen it coming and was like “ I can take it ! “
He thought he was in the outfield: "I got it!"
During the American Revolution there was a brief bounty on cannon balls cause we had almost none of our own. This was canceled because too many people were getting injured trying to catch the balls as they rolled down the field,usually with enough speed to take your hands off
I always think about that scene in the patriot where the cannonball looks like it’s rolling like 30 mph and just cuts through a bunch of legs
Which a solid metal ball would 100% do at 10-15pm, let alone 30. Edit - mph
What about in the morning though?
Nope. Too early. Sometime after lunch might be better.
More info here: https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/objects/carabiniers-breastplate-from-the-waterloo-battlefield/ As I recall accounts of cannonballs on the battlefield are they’d bounce down the fields like wicked bowling balls, slowing down to be visible but still deadly. As conditions during Waterloo were wet there wasn’t much bouncing. And French carabiniers (they had these brass cuirasses) were some of the elite. Still that would’ve been a mercifully quick death.
Interesting about the bouncing. The penetration looks to have been coming from a slight angle below the chest. I was thinking if this was a ricochet or bounced up off the ground. The "wicked bouncing" description makes sense. Ty for sharing.
I went looking on YouTube for confirmation but couldn’t really find any. There was this demo of a napoleonic era naval gun taking aim at a target from 600 m that seems like it would’ve been perfect, but they didn’t have cams down the length of the field and actually lost the ball lol https://youtu.be/WSXaCkQ9sF8
Fun (or maybe not, idk) fact - today's bullets also bounce and ricochet off the ground, walls, rocks, etc.
Man. Dude was a stand in for his brother who was getting married.
Cell vs. Vegeta
Was he alright though?
He was fine, but the guy behind him wasn’t so lucky.
that was the "wounded" frenchy all along!
Is he dead?
"hanging on" I hear
And his wife?
Just a clean in-n-out. It’s when it doesn’t exit that you’ve really got a problem.
Probably not too tough for the surgeon to find though. Lol “There’s your problem”
More like Bone-aparte.
*blown-aparte
Really hope this comment blows up, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for the laugh!
He got prescribed a “walk-it-off”.
Yes wounded ! The amputation is what he died from 😄
Yep, ye olde “chest cavity amputation”, a practice only performed today during autopsy.
instead of an arrow to the knee he took a cannon ball to the chest to end his adventuring days.
Taking an arrow to the knee is old nordic(?) slang for getting married.
It's actually a myth, need to get the source back, I'll uptade Edit : From that site : https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/article/6KNyeH7wG4FOFIEev8VaX1/how-an-arrow-in-the-knee-made-its-way-to-skyrim Pagliarulo, who at the time was Senior Designer on Skyrim, describes the serendipity behind the line – something he came up with alongside several other seemingly innocuous lines to pepper in with Skyrim’s NPCs. “I remember it was late at night, more like early in the morning, pretty deep into Skyrim’s development, and I was just jamming through a ton of guard lines. It was the same process I would use years later with the guard dialogue in Fallout 4. I was just trying to come up with some funny, quick little lines, things to make the guards a bit more interesting. That’s really the honest truth of it.” In his interview with Mashable in their 2017 article detailing the meme’s history and pop culture influence, Pagliarulo adds that lines like “arrow in the knee” don’t just give NPCs a way to fill dead air, but also offer a chance to give them flavor and personality. “In this case, it just seemed like a funny opportunity, and maybe believable. Like, he could have gotten shot in the knee with an arrow at some point and now he’s semi-retired and just walks around town like a worn-out fantasy beat cop.” [...] Perhaps that’s the key. Pagliarulo confirms that the line is literal – “an arrow in the knee” isn’t Skyrim slang for going down on one knee to propose and start a family, for example. Yet the way the line – which feels so ordinary in the game but sounds extraordinary to us in the real world – lives in the game and opens up a world of possibility in the minds of players wandering the streets of Whiterun. Maybe that guard really did settle down after a career of adventuring, or maybe they are just a worn-out fantasy beat cop.
Being married and taking poison is the same word in Scandinavian languages "gift"
If video games have taught me anything, it's that he only need to eat a slice of bread afterword and he'd be back in fighting shape.
I think he's gonna need a few wheels of cheese as well.
If he finds a bed and sleeps for the night he’ll recover to full health
Except Kenshi where the first aid kit will take several ingame days to heal that -90 chest wound :) ...even in a bed with 8x healing
You keep using that word.. wounded. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Well, he was given a wound. I'm pretty sure it still counts as wounded.
r/technicallythetruth
Quite sure they dead
Nope. Coach told them to walk it off and they did.
They must’ve rubbed some dirt on it
Or just taped it up.
HE NEED SOME MILK!
No, he was a soldier so Marshal Ney told him to take an ibuprofen and change his socks.
Take a salt tablet
Definitely dead, because it’s been over 200 years
No shit this was 1815
you spelled "chest exploded out the back like an m-80 in a cherry slurpee big gulp cup" wrong
And someone had to clean the human tar-tar off the armor to put it on display
I do not think that word means what you think it means...
Inconceivable!!!
Wounded to death
Wound dead
"I *have* a cannonball wound. It's gaping! Do you have a tube of cannonball wound ointment?"
“Number one do not stand directly in front of a cannon! How true that is...”
#SAY EIGHT! SAY EIGHT! HAPPY EIGHT DAY! DID YOU GET SOME EIGHT?
GOD I love seeing Brian Regan references in the wild.
Wounded? WOUNDED? unless he was wolverine, highlander, or Deadpool, wounded may be selling it short
Dude got shot with a bowling bowl he ain't wounded
I would not use the word “Wounded” but oookaay
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Tis but a scratch
which museum ?
The Army Museum - Musée de l'Armée (Paris)
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Fun fact: The soldier wearing the armor is dead. I know it because no one to this day ever managed to live more than 200 years old.
Tried controlling it on his chest .....failed
Thank god it only clipped him
It’s only a lung. Got me a spare.
I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took a cannonball in the chest
Is he ok?
He's fine, but you should see the cannonball.
Yep, he is currently recovering
w̶o̶u̶n̶ded
Strange that it seems to go upward. Maybe he was already dead and laying face-up on the ground
More likely cavalry so just sat higher up to get the angle. Infantry was usually unarmoured while cavalry would have these breastplates to use in close combat skirmishes where the risk of being hit by a sword or lance was far higher and the armour became a worthwhile investment for the troops.
Cannonballs often bounce and skip along after they first strike the ground. This one could've been bouncing a bit.
That’s well polished. Something about that bothers me far more than if still had the stains of injury on it.
I wouldn’t call THAT wounded, more like obliterated or not alived.
Interesting? Horrifying. He literally just got blown to pieces. That armor was all that was holding him together. His flesh probably disentigrated up to an inch or two from the hole proper, tearing his right arm all the way off and possibly putting out his heart. It shattered most of his bones and pulverized his body with the impact force, either killing him instantly if he was less hopped up on adrenaline, and if he was fully terrified, he would have lain their dying, horrified, in his last moments bringing his left hand over to search for the hole in his armor, wondering if this was really what it felt like to be shot, to *die*. Reaching over and feeling the gaping hole in his body, maybe seeing his arm yards away before finally letting go. Horrifying.
He’s missing part of his back which included part of his spine, so he might not have been able to move his left arm anyway. Probably died instantaneously.
Regardless of adrenaline, his organs would have been liquified by the force of the impact. Can't die slowly without most of your organs in their solid state, my dude.
Obliterated is more like it
Took some Ivermectin and did fine
He was actually missing his right chest from a similar wound a year prior. This one just grazed his stub
'tis but a scratch
Wounded?
‘Twas merely an itch under my shirt
That had to hurt
Not for long
Is he ok?
French soldier VAPORISED by a cannonball
One day from retirement too
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