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There is such a thing as military surplus, offloaded military gear, and so forth, but no such thing as "ex-military gear." Equipment does not retire from the armed forces. 
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Lycus posted:So DbD fans believe that Obama has militarized the USPS? This is a real thing in their world? These questions are funny 
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MisterBadIdea posted:But of course in Muirworld, this means that the government is so wastefully militarized that citizens are under threat of suppression by loving census takers. People get so drat scared of census workers. If you ever have the chance to talk to a census worker in the flesh, please be kind to them. I used to work with someone who worked for the census and the last time I talked to him about it he had to go to court for doing his job. He was arrested by a cop who got calls from someone in the boonies that he forged his government identification and was stalking people in the area. The cop believed him wholesale, demised everything that he brought up, and arrested him for trespassing, providing falsified information to a cop, among other charges that I can't remember.  He was also the nicest guy I ever worked with and always baked pastries for us when we had to work on holidays 
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CURATOR OF ANIME posted:These questions are funny First names to distrust the most: Wayne, Wayne, Rick, Milton, Kevan, Chris
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Feb 6, 2014 01:46
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Spiffster posted:People get so drat scared of census workers. If you ever have the chance to talk to a census worker in the flesh, please be kind to them. I used to work with someone who worked for the census and the last time I talked to him about it he had to go to court for doing his job. He was arrested by a cop who got calls from someone in the boonies that he forged his government identification and was stalking people in the area. The cop believed him wholesale, demised everything that he brought up, and arrested him for trespassing, providing falsified information to a cop, among other charges that I can't remember. I can say from experience that there are weird people both in the deep, deep countryside and in the middle of metropolises who are deeply afraid of: 1) Census takers 2) The delivery person from the place they just ordered food from. Both whacked out paranoid cases respond with: "Y-yeah ... wh-whaddya want?"
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Feb 6, 2014 01:55
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Had a friend that used to work for the Iowa DOT setting up traffic counters in remote places (little tubes that count how many cars drive over them) and he said they were routinely sabotaged. Wouldn't be surprised if it was just aimless vandalism, though.
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Post 9-11 User posted:I can say from experience that there are weird people both in the deep, deep countryside and in the middle of metropolises who are deeply afraid of: How would you know this? It sounds like these people were probably aware you were stalking them.
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Feb 6, 2014 02:02
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As dumb as this is, I'm glad it's at least intelligible. Usually I have to re-read a DbD strip about five times before I can make it through Muir's gibberish and figure out what the characters are actually saying.
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Feb 6, 2014 02:12
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Spiffster posted:People get so drat scared of census workers. If you ever have the chance to talk to a census worker in the flesh, please be kind to them. I used to work with someone who worked for the census and the last time I talked to him about it he had to go to court for doing his job. He was arrested by a cop who got calls from someone in the boonies that he forged his government identification and was stalking people in the area. The cop believed him wholesale, demised everything that he brought up, and arrested him for trespassing, providing falsified information to a cop, among other charges that I can't remember.  I worked on the 2010 census for a couple months before I got another job, but I never had ANYTHING that bad. Granted, most of my area was suburbs, but I still got harassed by by a guy who kept asking me about how much money I made and a woman cussed me out because I left our little "Census wuz here" note in her door.Mostly people were really pleasant though, even a few who were pretty belligerent until they realized who I was and this wasn't a sales thing. It's funny when people think you're some kind of sinister government agent, since safety training consisted almost entirely of "if you ever feel threatened or in danger, get the gently caress outta there."
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BENGHAZI ATTACK CAUSED VIDEO. CAUSED FOX NEWS COVERAGE. Ramirez's weird rear end lettering is trying to send us some kind of hidden message. quote:
I know this is just an 'a thing happened', but it made me giggle.
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Ugh, those arms. Bok is such a bad loving artist.
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Feb 6, 2014 02:36
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My brother is a Postal Inspector, he is also armed. He is also conservative as gently caress, so he is an Obama thug? 
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muike posted:Thank Catholic God Catholic God loves booze, he made drinking wine the main part of Church.
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Air is lava! posted:Can you explain to me how that could be racist? I know it's Mississippi so it might well be. Anyway, your beer laws are really weird. You can get your drivers license with 16 but can't buy a drink until five years later? That's just stupid. Alcohol and guns are kind of reversed in Canada. The feds can come to your house and take your guns away (in an evacuation), but the police can't raid a private party to check for underage drinkers.
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Randler posted:I'm not sure I agree with Bors' very black and white attitude here. While the factory might be on territory illegaly occupied by Israel, the SodaStream factory is privately owned and from what I've heard they are treating their Palestinian workers very well. Also, Oxfam, for whom Scarlet is "good-will ambassador" is somewhat known for both opposing private wrongdoing, such as profiting from crimes against mankind and opposing apartheid. Therefore them being indirectly associated with said activity through Scarlet meant she had to pick either one. Funnily enough she went with SodaStream, who pay her large sums of money, rather than Oxfam. Sad to see folks abandon their humanitarian status. Missed chance for a toilet joke there.
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Feb 6, 2014 03:05
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Gee, I wonder why the mailman would be wearing body armor and stuff in an area where some trailer trash psychos have been constantly harassing every federal employee who comes near them? It was probably the mailman who got the short straw who had to do that route, and he got the armor himself because all the crazy stories about the place had him sure that he'd need it. I genuinely can't tell if Ramirez thinks this is some kind of clever satire or if he's so dumb he actually believes that Obama said something like this. It's not if he's wrong, but how.
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Feb 6, 2014 03:45
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Deceitful Penguin posted:It's good to see a moderate and reasoned voice how the whole matter of colonialism might be mite unpleasant but at least they aren't also mistreating their workers, just building on land stolen from them and legitimizing the theft. I do not believe that a private company can legitimize territorial claims in any meaningful, i.e. actually affecting international law and politics, way. The state of Israel and Sodastream are totally different entities. Israel's settlement policy in the occupied West Bank results in significant economic hardships for the Palestinian people. An Israeli company actually giving some Palestinians an opportunity to support their family is beneficial. The actions of one private soda company will not affect whether Israel can establish legitimacy to their territorial claims but it does affect the people living in the area there. Considering that there is no short-term expectation of the settlements disappearing I think that a company that actually has Palestinian workers and treats them well is desirable, due to realistic alternatives being worse. As for Oxfam, they do not appear to have problems taking money from Sodastream's competitor Coke, who also has premises in territory not recognized by international law.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Catholic God loves booze, he made drinking wine the main part of Church. And there's the Italians and Irish.
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ElMaligno posted:My brother is a Postal Inspector, he is also armed. Often times these agencies are dealing with some form of criminality or another, in the case of a Postal Inspector it's mail fraud and the like, so the fact that they might require personal protect when dealing with, you know, potentially hostile individuals shouldn't be surprising at all.
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Randler posted:I do not believe that a private company can legitimize territorial claims in any meaningful, i.e. actually affecting international law and politics, way. Randler posted:The state of Israel and Sodastream are totally different entities. Israel's settlement policy in the occupied West Bank results in significant economic hardships for the Palestinian people. Randler posted:An Israeli company actually giving some Palestinians an opportunity to support their family is beneficial. Randler posted:The actions of one private soda company will not affect whether Israel can establish legitimacy to their territorial claims but it does affect the people living in the area there. Randler posted:Considering that there is no short-term expectation of the settlements disappearing I think that a company that actually has Palestinian workers and treats them well is desirable, due to realistic alternatives being worse. Randler posted:As for Oxfam, they do not appear to have problems taking money from Sodastream's competitor Coke, who also has premises in territory not recognized by international law.  Didn't see this Latuff posted. Was gonna say it reminded me of Breaking Bad and then I saw that bike, jeez. VVV Money, most likely. She did the usual: "I'm for peace between both Israel and Palestine" tripe, which isn't the usual path for the serious anti-Palestinians. The right is still claiming this as a victory though. Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Feb 6, 2014 |
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So is Scarlett Johansson becoming a Zionist and possibly a right-winger, or does she just like money? This is important because if it's the former, my uncle and my grandpa, who get 50% of their Fox News viewing pleasure from the short skirts they make the female hosts wear, will never ever EVER shut the gently caress up about it.
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Mahuum Aqoha posted:So is Scarlett Johansson becoming a Zionist and possibly a right-winger, or does she just like money? This is important because if it's the former, my uncle and my grandpa, who get 50% of their Fox News viewing pleasure from the short skirts they make the female hosts wear, will never ever EVER shut the gently caress up about it. Money, most likely.
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Mahuum Aqoha posted:So is Scarlett Johansson becoming a Zionist and possibly a right-winger, or does she just like money? This is important because if it's the former, my uncle and my grandpa, who get 50% of their Fox News viewing pleasure from the short skirts they make the female hosts wear, will never ever EVER shut the gently caress up about it. I really needed to know about your weird uncle and grandpa, dude. Thanks for telling me all that.
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Livingtrope posted:I really needed to know about your weird uncle and grandpa, dude. Thanks for telling me all that. Sorry about that, it was kind of a crass way to try and derail an I/P derail. Have a relevant McCoy which I couldn't find a better copy of: 
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Plutonis posted:What, me worry? just a reminder that the AR-15 Renee Elmers left leaning against a counter in her open garage has still not been recovered from whoever stole it. Mahuum Aqoha posted:So is Scarlett Johansson becoming a Zionist and possibly a right-winger, or does she just like money? This is important because if it's the former, my uncle and my grandpa, who get 50% of their Fox News viewing pleasure from the short skirts they make the female hosts wear, will never ever EVER shut the gently caress up about it. SodaStream employs 900 Palestinians at the plant in question and pays them a pretty substantial wage for the area, so it's not quite as awful for her to defend them as some people treat it. Rev. Bleech_ fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Feb 6, 2014 |
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Deceitful Penguin posted:
That was a real thing that happened btw. A lynch mob beat out the poo poo out of a kid and chained him to a pole in Rio.
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Plutonis posted:That was a real thing that happened btw. A lynch mob beat out the poo poo out of a kid and chained him to a pole in Rio. What the hell prompted that?
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Deceitful Penguin posted:
Criminality led shitheads to justify making vigilante groups that brutalize drug users, homeless people and even gay people. E: In Portuguese but there is a pic of the kid... http://noticias.r7.com/rio-de-janeiro/apos-linchamento-de-suspeito-jovens-confirmam-em-depoimento-patrulha-para-proteger-aterro-04022014
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Deceitful Penguin posted:
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Plutonis posted:Criminality led shitheads to justify making vigilante groups that brutalize drug users, homeless people and even gay people. frajaq posted:I think he mugged someone.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:And of course the vigilantes seem to be a bunch of young white middle class folks. Is this sort of thing common in Rio? There were always cases where young high/middle class shitheads wander around and beat/kill people for the hell of it. 20 years ago there was even an infamous case where they set an indian native on fire. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/13546
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CURATOR OF ANIME posted:These questions are funny This from the people who want to arm the teachers.
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frajaq posted:I think he mugged someone. That's... generally one of the problems with lynch mobs, yes.
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Having lived in Pennsylvania, I too concur its a buzzkill to live there. The alcohol laws/regulations are pretty archaic. The comic's dig at how the state handles the sale of controlled substance, specifically alcohol, is pretty spot on for what you have to go through.
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