A thread for random and miscellaneous musings

[Hindsight was 2020]

The Lord of the Rings books did openly explain why they don’t use the eagles to fly to Modor (the Eye would see them and the eagles are only friends of Gandalf they don’t care about the plight of middle earth) and thanks to PJ cutting it out of the movies we’ve now had almost 2 decades of the same dumb joke made by people who only saw the movies

[Hindsight was 2020]

Why do girls have gay friends but guys don’t have lesbian friends?

[Hindsight was 2020]

Stalin: pathologically paranoid and Machiavellian to the point where he and his minions invented conspiracies within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which resulted in tons of people being executed, including most of his top military officers
 
Also Stalin: didn’t believe that Hitler would invade the Soviet Union right up until when it happened

God I hate to be the one to technically defend Stalin on a topic but by all accounts the reason he was so blindsided by Barbarossa was he couldn’t believe Hitler would open a second front while Britain was still in the fight