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Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Buca di Bepis posted:

most of them didn't run over civilians and gave up as soon as they found out what was really going on because they'd been told it was a training exercise lol

That explains a hell of a lot

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OMFG PTSD LOL PBUH
Sep 9, 2001

holocaust bloopers posted:

First week of February for me.

Nooooope no thanks.

beanieson
Sep 25, 2008

I had the opportunity to change literally anything about the world and I used it to get a new av

Buca di Bepis posted:

most of them didn't run over civilians and gave up as soon as they found out what was really going on because they'd been told it was a training exercise lol

Is this for real

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

go3 posted:

is anyone shocked?

I'm sure that's one of the methods they're using, yes.

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd

Rad Lieutenant posted:

Is this for real

a Turkish newspaper is reporting it, but it was just one group of guys who were securing the airport. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing was used for some of the other groups, like the guys that were securing the bridge over the Bosporus...........but I'm pretty sure dudes running over civilians in tanks and shooting up police stations from helos were well aware of what they were doing.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Fister Roboto posted:

I'm sure that's one of the methods they're using, yes.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Rad Lieutenant posted:

Is this for real

it's being reported in a couple places and would totally explain why some groups gave up as soon as civilians started threatening them and other groups mowed them down

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Nostalgia4Dicks posted:

Has Turkey pretty much always been a shithole or what

I know a bunch of Turks emigrated to Dayton, Ohio in the 90s, and while I can't speak for Turkey, generally speaking if Dayton looks good to you, the place you left was probably a real shithole.

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Blind Rasputin posted:

Buncha badasses itt while I'm just treating sepsis and intubating druggies.

TBF, your risk of contracting C.diff, hepatitis, or MRSA are a lot higher than a SERE student's.

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

Blind Rasputin posted:

Buncha badasses itt while I'm just sippin rum and cokes and enjoying a stogie.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

holocaust bloopers posted:

First week of February for me.

May or June for me. Muggy as gently caress and it rained every day we were in the field. :black101:

vains
May 26, 2004

A Big Ten institution offering distance education catering to adult learners

BigDave posted:

I know a bunch of Turks emigrated to Dayton, Ohio in the 90s, and while I can't speak for Turkey, generally speaking if Dayton looks good to you, the place you left was probably a real shithole.

consider the following: michigan, much less deerborn, mi, has a huge arab population.

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

That Turkey coup :flaccid:

Why are they in Nato again?

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd

Nuclear Tourist posted:

That Turkey coup :flaccid:

Why are they in Nato again?

protect the southern flank (same reason we let the swarthy Greeks in) and prevent the Black Sea fleet from breaking out

followed by 25 years of inertia

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Some enlisted guys are getting the rawest deal you can possibly get dealt in life.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Reverand maynard posted:

Some enlisted guys are getting the rawest deal you can possibly get dealt in life.
Most of them might get to skip the torture part and just go straight to the execution. Unless you're the unlucky guy chosen to confess that Col. Habib Soandso told you how Gulen masterminded the whole thing while you engaged in marathon gay porn watching and colluding with the Kurds.

Mr. Mambold
Feb 13, 2011

Aha. Nice post.



Casimir Radon posted:

Most of them might get to skip the torture part and just go straight to the execution. Unless you're the unlucky guy chosen to confess that Col. Habib Soandso told you how Gulen masterminded the whole thing while you engaged in marathon gay porn watching and colluding with the Kurds.

That's not very Koranic.

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd

Mr. Mambold posted:

That's not very Koranic.

I believe that's the point

LostCosmonaut
Feb 15, 2014

CST at the Air Force Academy was pretty chill, basically walk around in the woods for a week while being hungry as poo poo. Totally prepared me for being captured by Iranians or whoever.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
Yeah, survival is the legit fun part of SERE.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

MassivelyBuckNegro posted:

consider the following: michigan, much less deerborn, mi, has a huge arab population.

So Dearborn sucks less than Yemen or Lebanon, and Dearborn is much crappier then Dayton.

Ergo, Turkey is not as bad as Southeast Michigan. :pseudo:

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

Blind Rasputin posted:

Wait, I'm a civvie doctor goon and not in the military, but do you guys really carry a suicide round on you? Like holy poo poo. Isn't the SEAR training supposed to prepare you for some such terrible eventuality?

The previous 2nd engineer on this ship left me a handle of Absolut and a box of Franzia in my fridge, does that count? There's also some cases of beer hanging around but I think that's just to drink.

The MSC guys that went to Turkey said it was awesome, great beaches and some cool towns. I kinda wanted to go check it out but I might put that on hold.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

LostCosmonaut posted:

CST at the Air Force Academy was pretty chill, basically walk around in the woods for a week while being hungry as poo poo. Totally prepared me for being captured by Iranians or whoever.

Just a week-long backpacking trip with your bros. Build a fire, eat grasshoppers, get giardia and poo poo your guts out good times all around.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
Is it me or are liberals out woking each other hard lately?

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/754515709019852800


edit: also looks like Bahrain dissolved the opposition party who happened to also be Shia.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36818610

Hot Karl Marx fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Jul 17, 2016

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Hot Karl Marx posted:

Is it me or are liberals out woking each other hard lately?

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/754515709019852800

More like no one wants to have sex with me.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
What is the polar opposite of the KKK because that's basically what the extreme left is becoming

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

gfanikf posted:

More like no one wants to have sex with me.

i also just noticed that article is from 2015 also, but point still stands

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

Hot Karl Marx posted:

i also just noticed that article is from 2015 also, but point still stands

The headline is misleading as well because that's how she felt in her 20s and she is embarrassed about it, but it's still off the rails a little bit.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Still less nuts than deaf people jumping through hoops to intentionally have deaf children.

Mr. Mambold
Feb 13, 2011

Aha. Nice post.



Informative Turkey article. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ataturk-versus-erdogan-turkeys-long-struggle?intcid=mod-latest

Here's a quote you all probably know it already Atatürk himself was a former regimental commander who fought in the Gallipoli campaign and was famously quoted as telling his troops, “I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die.”....Mr. Bond

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Still less nuts than deaf people jumping through hoops to intentionally have deaf children.

That is the weirdest poo poo to me.

Excuse me, you're deaf not mentally handicapped, so you should understand why it's ok if your kids aren't hearing disabled.

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Still less nuts than deaf people jumping through hoops to intentionally have deaf children.

I got in to a shouting match with a community college art professor about that. She took offense that I called it "Retard Eugenics" because she had a niece that was deaf and really in to deaf culture and herself had a daughter with downs.

My response of "So then you should know better than any of us how dumb that really is"

Because when you've already crossed the line with someone you don't care about, you should always just double down on it

beanieson
Sep 25, 2008

I had the opportunity to change literally anything about the world and I used it to get a new av

Rad Lieutenant posted:

Multiple BRPD officers shot, possibly 3 dead & a manhunt underway :smith:

RoyKeen
Jul 24, 2007

Grimey Drawer

Didn't they just arrest 3 people plotting to attack police in Baton Rouge?

E: Yeah. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/us/baton-rouge-police-threats/

Richard Bong
Dec 11, 2008

Booblord Zagats posted:

I got in to a shouting match with a community college art professor about that. She took offense that I called it "Retard Eugenics" because she had a niece that was deaf and really in to deaf culture and herself had a daughter with downs.

My response of "So then you should know better than any of us how dumb that really is"

Because when you've already crossed the line with someone you don't care about, you should always just double down on it

Making your kids deaf on purpose is so loving selfish I don't know how to process it.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

TBeats posted:

What is the polar opposite of the KKK because that's basically what the extreme left is becoming

Red Army Faction?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

Also yeah looks like BRPD has possible causalities. Nothing confirmed yet.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Booblord Zagats posted:

I got in to a shouting match with a community college art professor about that. She took offense that I called it "Retard Eugenics" because she had a niece that was deaf and really in to deaf culture and herself had a daughter with downs.

My response of "So then you should know better than any of us how dumb that really is"

Because when you've already crossed the line with someone you don't care about, you should always just double down on it

This must have been a combination of insufferable and amusing to those around the two of you. :yikes:

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

mlmp08 posted:

This must have been a combination of insufferable and amusing to those around the two of you. :yikes:

I would've definitely exploited the two of them on social media.

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro

TBeats posted:

I would've definitely exploited the two of them on social media.

You can exploit me any day bb :-*

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Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.
Updated to 7 officers shot, 3 dead in Baton Rouge, per CNN.

Jesus loving Christ.

Burn it all down, Pookie. Burn the Motherfucker down.

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