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Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Malaki's out. Or maybe not if he has enough support from the Army and the militias to be Saddam II.

Yeah don't be so sure about that. Troops deployed in Baghdad

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Victor Vermis
Dec 21, 2004


WOKE UP IN THE DESERT AGAIN
Found one in the Lcpl Vermis archives.



We always assumed this was from the Brits. The Iraqis still used some of the Queen's old buildings, why not also some of that pasty ginger DNA?

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

Obama Africanus posted:

You've got to be loving kidding me, right?

Look I love America so much even my Herpes sings the national anthem, but even I can't delude myself into thinking this is the firs time we've just sorta let things go to poo poo when we were tired of burying young johnnies in Arlington.

You're a goddamned fool if you think otherwise.

You done got Poe'd

The Kurds certainly have the Arab bad habit of saying two contradicting things simultaneously, but I've never met or heard one that claimed he had divine command to take over the world and wipe me off of it, so they've got that going for them

Fucitol
May 8, 2005

Ceterum autem censeo mundum esse delendam



Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris

Whip Slagcheek posted:

Guys, they saved the one white looking kid in Iraq:


Mission Accomplished, bitches.




he took his chopper over a couple hundred miles west just after Operation Herrick

:britain:

e - lmbo socialite 4 lyfe

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.
On the other hand, have you ever heard someone say, "Honey let's stay in and order some Kurdish food..."

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
I had Moroccan food one time and all I got for it was a horrible case of rear end vomit.

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
Seems like a lot of those Iranic ethnic groups have people with red hair. The ancient Scythian/Sarmatian tribes were also supposed to be full of people with red hair.

Kurds also generally tolerate other religions and when someone converts they don't sentence them to death.

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Snowdens Secret posted:

On the other hand, have you ever heard someone say, "Honey let's stay in and order some Kurdish food..."

There's a couple of kurdish run kebab shops down the road and they're legit

Force de Fappe
Nov 7, 2008

holocaust bloopers posted:

My limited knowledge about the Kurds makes them out to be a progressive, decent group of people who absolutely have no qualms about fighting like hell to anyone who fucks with them. They don't seem to go looking for a fight.

The less domesticated Kurds practice a fair bit of honour killing if one of their little girls, say, looks a couple of miliseconds too long at the guy walking down the street. Makes people talk. The old aunts and grand-aunts start spreading the rumour. Father is basically told, bitch has got to go or you're a nobody to us. Gangs up on her with some of his sons and plain old kills her. Note: does not apply to all of them, like I said, but, y'know, you can't be in Shitfuckistan for more than a couple of decades, let alone millennia, before it starts getting to you. It's in the soil and air. It's like some old Sumerian curse that lurks under the sand.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldlN1Zo--6c

Coulda saved like three more kids if they'd thrown that smug press gently caress out the window

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd

holocaust bloopers posted:

I had Moroccan food one time and all I got for it was a horrible case of rear end vomit.

Must've been the wrong kind of Moroccan then because Moroccan food is delicious.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Morocco has always been the only place in Africa I want to visit/that seems worth visiting

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
LOL
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/world/middleeast/suicide-bomb-instructor-accidentally-kills-iraqi-pupils.html?referrer=&_r=1

Fister Ardennes
Apr 25, 2008

War is not the answer but it sure is fun
Suicide Bomb Trainer in Iraq Accidentally Blows Up His Class

:ironicat:

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:

Morocco has always been the only place in Africa I want to visit/that seems worth visiting

The Seychelles is pretty cool. Like there is no reason for an American to choose to go there instead of a quiet Caribbean island, but if you're in the area it's fun.

Whip Slagcheek
Sep 21, 2008

Finally
The Gasoline And Dynamite
Will Light The Sky
For The Night


ManMythLegend posted:

The Seychelles is pretty cool. Like there is no reason for an American to choose to go there instead of a quiet Caribbean island, but if you're in the area it's fun.

False, the scuba diving in the Seychelles blows away 95% of what the Caribbean has to offer.

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Whip Slagcheek posted:

False, the scuba diving in the Seychelles blows away 95% of what the Caribbean has to offer.

I am not a SCUBAer so that wasn't really entering into my calculus, but I'll take your word for it.

The water there is amazingly beautiful though. It's so clear I could see the ship's anchor on the bottom. I could see it being a blast to dive in.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.
If you're going deeper into the water than you can freedive, you really should be doing it the way god intended, in a steel canister of misery filled with your own farts, utter self-loathing, and unbridled buggery

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Snowdens Secret posted:

If you're going deeper into the water than you can freedive, you really should be doing it the way god intended, in a steel canister of misery filled with your own farts, utter self-loathing, and unbridled buggery

Be honest, how old was the oldest hand-me-down porn your boats had? Like any sweet Regan era poo poo?

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:

Morocco has always been the only place in Africa I want to visit/that seems worth visiting

I'd like to go to Carthage Tunis.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

ManMythLegend posted:

Be honest, how old was the oldest hand-me-down porn your boats had? Like any sweet Regan era poo poo?

The oldest stuff had been hidden underneath the battery and was several years older than the hull itself. Most of it wasn't properly bagged up though, so it got ruined by water/acid drips.

Always seal up your batterywell time-capsule porn securely, young sailors

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.
I was bummed that we didn't get a chance to go to Kenya on my last cruise. I really wanted to hire a driver and go do donuts in the savannah chasing lions and giraffes and poo poo.

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Snowdens Secret posted:

The oldest stuff had been hidden underneath the battery and was several years older than the hull itself. Most of it wasn't properly bagged up though, so it got ruined by water/acid drips.

Always seal up your batterywell time-capsule porn securely, young sailors

That is worse then the Taliban blowing up all of those ancient Buddhist statues.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.
The real crime was when we got a new E-div LPO and he went through the entire EPCP, thoroughly and meticulously removing each and every label plate and scraping off the porn clips glued to the back of each one. Quite a bit of that also dated back to pre-con. A travesty

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Snowdens Secret posted:

The real crime was when we got a new E-div LPO and he went through the entire EPCP, thoroughly and meticulously removing each and every label plate and scraping off the porn clips glued to the back of each one. Quite a bit of that also dated back to pre-con. A travesty

What a fucker.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Snowdens Secret posted:

The real crime was when we got a new E-div LPO and he went through the entire EPCP, thoroughly and meticulously removing each and every label plate and scraping off the porn clips glued to the back of each one. Quite a bit of that also dated back to pre-con. A travesty

The gently caress does this even mean?

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Godholio posted:

I'd like to go to Carthage Tunis.

loving nerd

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!

Snowdens Secret posted:

The real crime was when we got a new E-div LPO and he went through the entire EPCP, thoroughly and meticulously removing each and every label plate and scraping off the porn clips glued to the back of each one. Quite a bit of that also dated back to pre-con. A travesty
Can we get please get a terp in here for this?

Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

Godholio posted:

The gently caress does this even mean?
Electrical poo poo has sheet metal label plates on it. Nukes, being good sailors, glue or tape porn behind them. There was hidden porn everywhere on the boat, fore and aft. I'm sure most of it was removed during overhaul.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

Godholio posted:

The gently caress does this even mean?

E-div = electrical division

LPO = lead petty officer = PO in charge of the division, usually E-6, under the division chief

EPCP = electric plant control panel, shown below, it's the cabinet on the right



See how all those switches and knobs have label plates behind / around them? They would have girls cut out of porno mags cut out and stuck to the back of them. To see them, you would have to remove the knob or switch, which was a very delicate maneuver even in the best of times, depending on what the ship was doing, and what snitches were floating around that would rat you out. Scrubbing the panel and removing the rewards of such exploration was an unforgiveable sin

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
That's brilliant and I never would've thought to put/look for porn there.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Godholio posted:

That's brilliant and I never would've thought to put/look for porn there.

Exactly what they wanted the officers to think

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

http://www.theonion.com/articles/ar...eview:1:Default

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.
I'm actually kind of surprised that you guys actually hid porn. I kinda always thought reactor control was wallpapered with centerfolds plastered to the bulkhead with cum.

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!

Godholio posted:

That's brilliant and I never would've thought to put/look for porn there.

Dude. We kept poo poo behind the removable panels up in flightdeck. That's where we'd poo poo talk back enders and flightdeck guys.

Some of that stuff was back from 70s.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

ManMythLegend posted:

I'm actually kind of surprised that you guys actually hid porn. I kinda always thought reactor control was wallpapered with centerfolds plastered to the bulkhead with cum.

You do not want the pain of Naval Reactors finding any unauthorized reading material back aft. Reading your official boat email on watch was pushing it.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
There were some 90s mags in the aft o country head. They lasted all the way through a deployment but disappeared around INSURV.

Sauer
Sep 13, 2005

Socialize Everything!
So just how many CBUs can be stuffed into a B-52?

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Flight engineer desks have two uses. Performance tables, emergency checklists, and other assorted operational data go under the clear leaf, facing up, for ease of use. The storage area under the solid leaf should be filled to overflowing with porn. The leaf should close all the way, but only just barely. Bonus points if you can get one to stick to the underside of the leaf, so the centerfold opens like a pop-up book when you go looking for spare lamps.

The really raunchy stuff gets shoved in between the flight deck bulkhead and the FE control panel. Concorde crews stuff their hats there. All other airframes: porn.

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Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

holocaust bloopers posted:

Dude. We kept poo poo behind the removable panels up in flightdeck. That's where we'd poo poo talk back enders and flightdeck guys.

Some of that stuff was back from 70s.

In the back it occasionally showed up under the carpet on the console-tops. Pretty rare though.

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