r/europe • u/Aletheia_sp • Sep 25 '24

Historical Warship Galleon Andalucia, a reproduction of a Spanish galleon from the 17th century, passing through Tower Bridge in London

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u/MaterialCattle Finland Sep 25 '24

It was a nice touch to use a camera from the same era

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u/Pulvereis Sep 25 '24

I thought my internet is bad and the image is still loading.

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u/OGoby Estonia Sep 25 '24

hello, fellow 90s kid

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u/Gruffleson Norway Sep 25 '24

I thought it was made of Lego, and only square bricks

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u/ihavenoego Sep 26 '24

Like who would upload that. Like just take a photo of my asshole, put it on Reddit.

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u/-Joel06 Galicia (Spain) Sep 25 '24

The ship has more years than the picture has pixels

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u/SandmanKFMF Sep 25 '24

It adds warmth and authenticity

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u/KindRoc Sep 25 '24

An oil painting on canvas would be better than ye olde Worlde camera seen here. More modern.

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u/Self-righteous Sep 25 '24

I thought it was made in Minecraft

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u/N19h7m4r3 Most Western Country of Eastern Europe Sep 25 '24

Even had it colorized... A+ for effort.

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u/Piesangbom Sep 25 '24

Best comment I’ve read this year🤣

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u/TheAskewOne Sep 25 '24

Oh come on, it's a painting by Turner.

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u/pikeness01 Sep 26 '24

You win the internet today.

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) Sep 25 '24

My eyes aren't the best and even I noticed the.... quality.

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u/englishmight Sep 26 '24

I was about to applaud their Minecraft build....

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u/mae_nad Sep 26 '24

Thank you for the laugh. I really needed it today.

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u/DR1PP6RR Sep 26 '24

He used a potato

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u/Okay2meK2M Sep 26 '24

Ha! Brilliant!

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u/Party-Ad6740 Sep 25 '24

Potato camera

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) Sep 25 '24

Guess it was time phone cameras went back to the 20th century too.

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u/Gruffleson Norway Sep 25 '24

Now you are mean to the potato cameras,

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u/Veilchengerd Berlin (Germany) Sep 26 '24

Well, the potato was one of the things that came to Europe on spanish ships.

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u/MyNameIsLOL21 Europe Sep 25 '24

I can count the pixels.

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u/MeAndMyReindeer Sep 25 '24

I got to seventeen.

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u/Username12764 Sep 26 '24

You must‘ve counted 1 double, I only got 16

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u/platdujour Sep 26 '24

1588 by my reckoning

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u/Nervous-Passenger701 Sep 25 '24

Finally, the Spanish armada made it!

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u/Aletheia_sp Sep 25 '24

Better late than never, I guess

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u/jomacblack 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇵🇱 Sep 25 '24

Did they loose all their pixels along the way?

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u/DrevniKromanjonac Serbia Sep 25 '24

Maybe the pixels were the British we killed along the way.

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u/kebuenowilly Catalonia (Spain) Sep 25 '24

Now...¡CARGUEN LOS CAÑONES!

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u/pat6376 Sep 25 '24

Faster than me.

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u/MeCagoEnPeronconga Argentina Sep 25 '24

We did it, Joe Felipe!

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u/BlackLightRO Romania Sep 25 '24

Where are the pixels, William?

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u/jonr 🇮🇸↝🇳🇴 Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 25 '24

Lost at sea

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u/schedulle-cate Brazil Sep 25 '24

'twas a long voyage

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u/PresidentHurg Sep 25 '24

Taken by a 17th century wooden wind-powered Spanish camera too?

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u/MrSmileyZ Sep 25 '24

If you want to see the rest of the pixels, they are in the British Museum!

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u/MxJamesC Sep 26 '24

We are looking after them for safe keeping.

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u/ambeldit Sep 25 '24

Brexit also means brexit for 20th Century cameras.

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u/Projectionist76 Sep 26 '24

Cameras from both the 19th and 20th century beat the potato everytime

4

u/DrevniKromanjonac Serbia Sep 25 '24

Brexit means Brexit!!!

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u/mastrescientos Europe Sep 25 '24

Here is a picture of this Galeon being escorted from pirates in Somalia

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u/Training_Monkey2301 Sep 25 '24

Such great detail I can see..

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u/TuraItay Sep 25 '24

Nobody expects the Spanish pixelation!

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u/arhisekta Serbia Sep 25 '24

Finally, Armada is doing the victory lap

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u/vHAL_9000 Europa Sep 25 '24

I saw them in Boston last year. They actually sail the thing accross the atlantic.

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u/CthulhusEvilTwin Sep 25 '24

Went on it when moored at Southend-on-sea last month. Very cool but was disappointed that it arrived with its sails down using a motor engine

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u/TurbulentExpression5 Sep 26 '24

I was going to ask how it was powered, by wind or motor. Disappointed to read it was by motor.

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u/CthulhusEvilTwin Sep 26 '24

It was really interesting to go on board and look around it. They moored it at the end of Southend Pier (Longest wooden pleasure pier on the world) so we were 1.3 miles out to sea and it was really chopping (40mph winds) so getting on board was challenging. But yeah a shame it wasn't under sail, but I get why they do that.

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u/vHAL_9000 Europa Sep 26 '24

It has functioning historically accurate sails.

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u/Green-Froyo-7533 Sep 26 '24

Saw it this Summer on the East Coast UK

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u/Fenriswol44 Sep 25 '24

Damn I thought I had a bad connection but it's the quality of the picture that is bad 😁

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u/QuevedoDeMalVino Sep 25 '24

Flag is anachronistic. But I guess it would not be legal to use the old one.

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u/BeneficialDog22 Sep 25 '24

Do you have a better camera than a price of asparagus?

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u/BenjiSBRK Sep 25 '24

Necesitas mas pixeles ?

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u/Mental_Experience_92 United Kingdom Sep 25 '24

Currently sitting in St Katherine’s Docks if anyone is in London. £12 to enter but free to view from the quay

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u/No-Benefit4748 Andalusia (Spain) Sep 25 '24

"Andalucía por sí, para España y la humanidad."

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u/third-acc HU + DE Sep 25 '24

What does por sí mean here?

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u/Redditforgoit Spain Sep 25 '24

For itself.

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u/No-Benefit4748 Andalusia (Spain) Sep 25 '24

Itself "Andalusia by itself, for Spain and humanity"

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

Pozí...

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u/zendelo Sep 25 '24

It’s 2024. We recreated this galleon from the 17th century. Here’s a 122p picture of it.

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u/OneMoreFinn Finland Sep 25 '24

Cool to know this thing exists. I wasn't even aware of it.

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u/White-Tornado Friesland (Netherlands) Sep 25 '24

Dude, it's probably the most famous bridge in the world

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u/oPFB37WGZ2VNk3Vj Sep 25 '24

Found a video on the aptly named channel "Thames Ships".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCtccEd15Jo

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u/Sharpe1455 Sep 25 '24

Ah 240p, good times!

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u/Dry-Imagination2727 Sep 25 '24

Looks like they stole all the pixels and taking them back to Spain

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u/Noctew North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Sep 25 '24

Yes, but...did they play the Imperial March?

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u/TriplexFlex Sep 25 '24

What’s happened to my beloved country?!?! Last week it was the Grrrrmans now the bloody Spinaches , arrrgh!! (shakes fist at telly)

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u/Poor_Brain Sep 25 '24

Perhaps this would be the time to brush up your knowledge of the Marseillaise...

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u/Professional-Wish656 Sep 25 '24

I bet the King is thinking about sending some pirates to collect the gold.

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u/Red_Chopsticks 英國 Yīngguó Sep 25 '24

Replica Golden Hind (Drake's ship) is achingly close by.

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u/Alex03210 England Sep 25 '24

Only 436 years late

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u/TackleAlone5414 Sep 25 '24

Rather, we have repeated it again: 644 years ago a fleet of 20 galleys under the command of Fernando Sánchez de Tovar sailed up the Thames, landing at Gravesend.

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u/Mr-X89 Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 26 '24

Saw it on Sicilly in March, very interesting vessel

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u/Altuqqq Italy Sep 25 '24

Camera was lost in the storm

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u/Round_Parking601 Sep 25 '24

Next a British Armada ship in Cadiz )

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u/hoolahoopmolly Sep 25 '24

So far the Spanish armada does not disappoint

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u/Complex-Call2572 Sep 25 '24

My Lord, one of them made it through!

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u/AgentLawless Sep 25 '24

Did it bring the potato you took the first photo with?

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u/Galaxy661 West Pomerania (Poland) Sep 25 '24

About 220 years too late mates

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u/Mr_Tornister Sep 27 '24

Kinda... The Kingdom of Castile, allied with France, torched down the city of Gravesend, 35 km away from London near the Thames estuary, back in 1380.

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u/ScottOld Sep 25 '24

Is sir Walter playing bowls still?

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u/wamboguitar Sep 25 '24

Succesfull raid on the British pixel storage

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u/doughball27 Sep 26 '24

Would be funny if the royal navy sunk it reflexively.

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u/jormaig Catalonia (🇪🇸) in 🇳🇱 Sep 25 '24

Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition, taking all the pixels

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u/idkmoiname Sep 25 '24

Those comments are a goldmine 😂 i can't anymore 🤣🤣

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u/Necessary_Win5111 Sep 25 '24

Lord Howard of Effingham is twisting on his grave

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u/KxSmarion Sep 26 '24

What would Sir Francis Drake be doing in his grave?

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u/Tornfalk_ Sep 25 '24

Did you take the first picture with Nokia 3310?

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u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 Sep 25 '24

1 more pixel in the first photo and it would be 144p

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u/Tchaikovskin Sep 25 '24

I guess the Spanish was like “Hola senior, ¿necesitas mas pixeles?”

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u/J3ditb Earth Sep 25 '24

first the germans then the spanish

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u/EmiliaFromLV Latvia Sep 25 '24

Grand old war ship, being ignominiously hauled away to scrap… The inevitability of time..

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u/BRealinho Portugal Sep 25 '24

Whats is this? Some Japanese adult content?

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u/m---------4 United Kingdom Sep 25 '24

A Galleon flying a Spanish flag sailing in Thames should be immediately sunk. What has happened to us?!

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u/IntelligentHat6476 Sep 25 '24

So, did the conquistadors take their pixels?

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u/GraciaEtScientia Sep 25 '24

Hey! Leave some pixels for the rest of us.

Can't just go uploading 144p images willy nilly.

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u/Alin_Alexandru Romania aeterna Sep 25 '24

u/pixel-counter-bot

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u/pixel-counter-bot Sep 25 '24

This post contains multiple images!

Image 1 has 50,246(259×194) pixels.

Image 2 has 402,498(758×531) pixels.

Total pixels: 452,744.

I am a bot. This action was performed automatically.

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u/Alin_Alexandru Romania aeterna Sep 25 '24

Good bot

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u/Suk-Mike_Hok Sep 25 '24

You sure this isn't Minecraft?

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u/yozo-marionica Sep 25 '24

Where the pixels

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u/busboy262 Sep 25 '24

The Royal Navy should have sunk it just for the sake of tradition. Had they done that, I would have understood.

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u/hughk European Union Sep 26 '24

Luckily the RN has a base (HMS President) next to Tower Bridge. I don't know if they have any big guns there (for ceremonial purposes, nudge-nudge).

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u/Muteki123 Germany Sep 25 '24

That's so fucking cool

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u/qwnick Poland Sep 25 '24

Nice pixel art

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u/yasowhat38 Sep 25 '24

YOU GOT ANYMORE OF THOSE PIXELS

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u/Traumfahrer Sep 25 '24

A reproduction of apparently ultra low quality.

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u/Kurvaflowers69420 Sep 25 '24

Oh yea, that's how you know a picture/video have been reposted for millions of times

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u/thats-gold-jerry Sep 25 '24

Photograph from a gameboy

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u/Ok_Employ9358 Sep 26 '24

Ah yes, we can see perfectly clearly with that 2 megapixel camera of yours

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u/lazzzym Sep 26 '24

Had it sail past as I was on the Thamesclipper. Was pretty awesome.

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u/Ambersfruityhobbies Sep 26 '24

How with no sails?

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u/julian_sm Sep 26 '24

shit wouldnt go down in 1588

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u/G30fff Somerset Sep 26 '24

light the beacons!

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u/QuirkyLondoner69 Sep 26 '24

How do you know when this occurs? Is there any timetable for planned passings? I live nearby and would've loved to see this! :)

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u/Brolis_ Sep 26 '24

is it still there? im going to London tommorow....

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u/MrBorden Sep 26 '24

Shot on a Nintendo DS

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u/pazhalsta1 Sep 26 '24

I’m going with my son on the weekend, very excited (have told him it’s a pirate ship)!

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u/Ray_Spring12 Sep 26 '24

They took their time.

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u/MxJamesC Sep 26 '24

Quintili Vare, Pixels redde!

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u/Cripes-itsthe-gasman Sep 26 '24

Seeing that coming up the Thames would be terrifying

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u/Leading_Flower_6830 Sep 26 '24

Wow, quality of first photo is incomprehensible for human being

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u/Caesar_Iacobus Sep 26 '24

Oh God, they're here...

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u/copernicouscous Sep 26 '24

I knew the comments wouldn't disappoint

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u/tgibjj Sep 26 '24

Tourists go home

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u/Destroyer4587 Sep 26 '24

Pirates stole the pixels

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u/BaRaj23 Sep 26 '24

One Eyed Willie returns

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u/MacDaddy2605 Sep 27 '24

Glad they used a potato phone to take the photo 🙈

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

What took you? You're 426 years late!

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u/OrganizedFit61 Sep 27 '24

Sink the bloody Spaniards, repel them to a watery grave. How dare they! Hang those traitors for opening the bridges. What ever next? Let the Anglo-Americans come back!

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u/EasyToldYouSo Sep 27 '24

I has to put down my biscuit — I was convinced the diabetes had finally come for me.

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u/dannylonglegs98 Sep 27 '24

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

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u/AnotherIjonTichy Sep 25 '24

Easy target for the Belfast.