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I'm listening to the Serial podcast about Bo Bergdahl after reading this thread, and man, that guy was a class A idiot. You can be a know-nothing civilian like me and still recognize that the Dwight Schrute-esque guy aping Lawrence of Arabia is a moron. Fun facts I learned: He used to sleep with a tomahawk in his bed while on deployment (so he's ready for battle at a moment's notice) Was home schooled and barely literate Didn't smoke but didn't want to be left out, so took up smoking a pipe (he explains "there's a longer military history tradition of smoking pipes than that of cigarettes") After surviving an ambush somewhat miraculously with nobody being hit, he was all huffy and bothered that they fled rather than stay in the ambush zone and shoot back.
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Pipes are pretty dope.
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Derek Dominoe posted:Have you considered politics?  She's pretty much the Aryan ideal.
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LingcodKilla posted:Pipes are pretty dope. They are but anyone under 50 smoking one looks like a tool. I own a few dozen pipes
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An idiot I work with smokes a pipe. Pipes make me think of his stupid hipster face.
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Casimir Radon posted:An idiot I work with smokes a pipe. Pipes make me think of his stupid hipster face. My dad used to smoke a pipe but he was born in 1952 so he always got a break for it. If you were born past 1960 and smoke a pipe then you're a loving dumb butt.
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I smoke the occasional cigar. Maybe pipes when I'm older.
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Godholio posted:I smoke the occasional cigar. Maybe pipes when I'm older. Pipes taste and smell about a million times better with decent tobacco. Grandpa taught us how to smoke them when we were kids helping down on the plantation. So whenever I smoke one it always reminds me of that
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Man I missed race chat  I know the people from my grandmother from my mother's side came from Canary island, also my grandfather from my mom side was black or at least half-black. My father side has been more iffy to find their story, but apparently I'm descendant from the sister of Captain Cofresi who is a small time pirate but its a Legend in my hometown. Speaking of my hometown people from there are known as the "Mata Con Hachas" (people that kill with axes or Axe murderer) because of an old folk-tale that people from my hometown defended their salt-flats from the neighboring town by murdering the gently caress out of them with axes. canyoneer posted:I'm listening to the Serial podcast about Bo Bergdahl after reading this thread, and man, that guy was a class A idiot. Bergdahl didn't finish Coast Guard boot camp I did finish Coast Guard boot camp So that means I am smarter than one person.
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Godholio posted:I smoke the occasional cigar. Maybe pipes when I'm older. I've said it before but taking a corncob on a camping or fishing trip is awesome.
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Just tell people you're pan-racial and meet any response with screaming you're being persecuted
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excuse me but the proper term is 'racial-fluid'
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ded posted:excuse me but the proper term is 'racial-fluid' your mothers favorite drink
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ded posted:excuse me but the proper term is 'racial-fluid' trans-ethnic
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I lurk here and read cool posts but since idiots (being in the armed forces) is ancestry I thought i'd post. Both were the shitmix Irish/scottish/british types that never thought twice about it and got on with their lives, but both served in the RCAF during WW2. West Coast Grampa enlisted, and became a pilot trainer somewhere around the Calgary area. Never left the country. Got a mechanic's ticket from the forces then moved to Dawson Creek, BC, married and became a farmer. Lived in a tin sided two story house that he built himself (WARBLE CONTROL AREA) would buy bulldozers at auction just to park it, take a spark plug out of the engine and let the thing rust to poo poo in his museum of other farm vehicles. East Coast Grampa enlisted just before the allied invasion of Normandy and flew as (I don't know the term) the guy who sighted the ground to drop the bombs on. He was very tight lipped about what he did over there. The most I know from my mother is that he had flown over Dresden. After the war he joined the Fisheries Service in Nova Scotia and raised a massive family, got free eels all the time and stopped drinking after he fell of a ladder painting their house in Antigonish.
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Crack pipes best pipes Stuffy idjits itt. If people smoke someplace other than in your face who gives a gently caress? Finishing coastguard boot camp means you're a tard malingo, just like every other limp dick motorboat navy wannbee FTN
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Idiot thread material: I witnessed an 18 wheeler almost rear end a convoy of humvees last night I was driving down 95 on my way back from my home away from home near Indian Springs late at night when I saw an 18 wheeler abruptly swerve from the outside lane to the inside lane....turns out he was avoiding a convoy of 4 humvees. They were traveling down a divided four-lane (not controlled access but still) rural highway, at night, in a traffic lane (i.e. not on the shoulder), going about 15 mph, at night, without any sort of additional reflective or flashing anything. They were just trucking along with the rear vehicle only having its normal (half burnt out) tail lights displayed....at night.....going 15 mph on a four lane rural divided highway where most traffic is cruising at 80+ mph. I'm honestly surprised I didn't see a story in the local news about "military convoy suffered tragic traffic accident" from their idiocy.
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^Sounds like SEALS, except they'd be smashing against the engine's governor or mechanical ability to not explosively vent the block.Water777 posted:
Bombardier.
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merci
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Soulex posted:Born in a German hospital so I think yes. Also yes This is about as clear as it gets without talking to a German jurist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationality_law#Birth_in_Germany You can probably call the German immigration authorities and ask, too.
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Water777 posted:.... stopped drinking after he fell of a ladder painting their house in Antigonish.  Is that what it takes to quit drinking?I guess I'm safe, as no free eels and never going to afford a house in this country.
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Irish be drinkin. I'm reading an article on blockade runners during the Civil War and one part mentions a Confederate ambush on a river that smoked a group of Federals and killed everyone in two small boats. An Irish dude with the Confederates volunteered to swim out and bring the boats in, but "in one of the boats the lucky Irishman found a keg of whiskey and it was reported that it was a long time before he could be induced to bring in the captured boats." Chill rear end motherfucker was just floating around getting lit up while his bros watched from the shore being super bummed.
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just chillin on a pile of corpses sippin some whisky
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Dmaonk posted:This is about as clear as it gets without talking to a German jurist. Thanks. It's an avenue the wife and I are entertaining. After I get out of college and have both degrees, I should be able to either get a federal job easier or just move the gently caress over there.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:just chillin on a pile of corpses sippin some whisky Nahh, take their boots then tip'em over the side. Fish gotta eat.
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Memento posted:Nahh, take their boots then tip'em over the side. Fish gotta eat. no way, floating around with a bunch of dead bodies probably made him all nostalgic for his boat ride from the emerald isle
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lol they had to eat peat
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Nuke Ireland. I'll be there too to get rid of my tainted blood since my great grandma came from there to live in Virginia in the most backwoods place in Appalachia.
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Mike-o posted:Nuke Ireland. I'll be there too to get rid of my tainted blood since my great grandma came from there to live in Virginia in the most backwoods place in Appalachia. It her made her feel at home you big meanie.
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If Fallout has taught me anything it's that potatoes do even better in a radioactive wasteland than they do in a clean one. Do it, prevent any more potato famines, be the hero of (what's left of) Ireland.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:If Fallout has taught me anything it's that potatoes do even better in a radioactive wasteland than they do in a clean one.   Atomic Gardening
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That's really cool! Gamma and X-ray mutagenesis is still commonly used in plant breeding today. It's a little more sophisticated than what's shown in the article but I'm not sure why the author describes it as discredited.
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The soviets had the idea of using radiation to force seed to go dormant so their useful lifespan would be increased by a few seasons. They built a bunch of devices and distributed them around the nation but quickly lost track of them in the chaos after the end of the Cold War. We had to make a concerted effort to help the Russians find them before they either got dismantled by scrappers and caused an environmental crisis or were used to make a terrorist dirty bomb
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iyaayas01 posted:Idiot thread material: I witnessed an 18 wheeler almost rear end a convoy of humvees last night I bet we're neighbors
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thesurlyspringKAA posted:I bet we're neighbors Not for much longer, I'm PCSing and escaping this clown show of an enterprise! yeah assuming you live in NW Vegas we're neighbors
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iyaayas01 posted:Not for much longer, I'm PCSing and escaping this clown show of an enterprise! What's your next shitshow going to be?
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edit - wrong thread.
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Godholio posted:What's your next shitshow going to be? Back to Ammo but it'll be AFMC, managing the global distribution/allocation of explodey things. I'm allegedly going to the APF side of things but we'll see if that actually happens. To say I'm looking forward to it is an understatement. AFMC Bankers' hours, being one of the infamous "they" who never returns emails or answers phone calls (instead of being on the opposite end of that like I am now)...it's going to be great.
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iyaayas01 posted:Back to Ammo but it'll be AFMC, managing the global distribution/allocation of explodey things. I'm allegedly going to the APF side of things but we'll see if that actually happens. how long before you resign your commission sir?
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iyaayas01 posted:Back to Ammo but it'll be AFMC, managing the global distribution/allocation of explodey things. I'm allegedly going to the APF side of things but we'll see if that actually happens. You should probably sign your functional's office up for a wine/beer of the month club right now so they "forget" to put you on the VML to become an ADO at Minot or something in three years.
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