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Yeah it's infuriating, but honestly I haven't played the game long enough is what I figure. So I'm shifting gears and focusing on getting the rest of my poo poo in order. Extra funny is the fact that my "not being ready" most likely stems from the fact I've made it no secret I have 0 desire to get Coxswain or Patrol Lead qualled here. Because this command has a history of sending PLs and Coxswains up for poo poo that was beyond their control. But cool. 18 months and I'm outta here. So for now I'll focus on getting my pins, quals, and schooling.
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Thanks for the Yokosuka tips, I'll try my best to restrain all stabby and rapey impulses. Where's the best udon in town?
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Gray Matter posted:Thanks for the Yokosuka tips, I'll try my best to restrain all stabby and rapey impulses. Where's the best udon in town? You're in Japan. Get far enough away from base and every place will have udon better than most places anywhere else in the world.
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Gray Matter posted:Thanks for the Yokosuka tips, I'll try my best to restrain all stabby and rapey impulses. Where's the best udon in town? I agree with Mr. Nice! Just walk around town and you'll find something. Talking with a friend that knows the area really well; his recommendations are the place in Moore's City (mall on blue street), and a place called Sanuke. Sanuke is standing room only. He said he'd speak with his wife and get back to me if he had anything else. I've been to the Moore's City place and it's not bad. It's pretty easy to find, and has English menus there.
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Alternatively, it is fun to point at things on the Japanese menu with no pictures for an adventure eating surprise 
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maffew buildings posted:Alternatively, it is fun to point at things on the Japanese menu with no pictures for an adventure eating surprise This leads to culinary adventures for sure That said, download Google translate on your phone, it has a sign/text translate function that can translate signs and other poo poo into whatever language simply by pointing the phone camera at it. orange juche fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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When you buy coffee from the machine, red button means it's hot, blue means cool. Because if you're like me (dumb) you won't intuit that
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maffew buildings posted:When you buy coffee from the machine, red button means it's hot, blue means cool. Because if you're like me (dumb) you won't intuit that There *shouldn't* be any hot coffee in vending machines July but you never know. That poo poo was the absolute bomb in December through early April though.
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At least on base there were. I would pick up hot lattes from the machines all the time last summer.
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maffew buildings posted:Alternatively, it is fun to point at things on the Japanese menu with no pictures for an adventure eating surprise I did this in Yokohama one time with the old ticket machines that didn't have pictures. I thought it was a beef bowl type place but it was actually a fish eggs on rice type place. That was not as enjoyable as beef bowl.
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The Atsugi train station had hot coffee in them in summer as well. And beef bowl next to the station. Yeah, that place is better than Seabee Dirt Lot Station CA
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Google Translate is for sure a life saver for it's ability to recognize kanji via the camera.
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orange juche posted:This leads to culinary adventures for sure Hot travel tip: Make sure you predownload the language pack you want so the live translation feature works properly.
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Apparently my base (Iwakuni) is flooded enough that at least one person has had a car float around their parking lot, the local highway is closed and the trains from Fukuoka are out presumably both due to landslides. Another Typhoon is hitting the area basically in the next few days (Or now?) too. Guess we're gonna come back on our break and pick up the pieces.
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Well I must have picked the right billet, my shop is completely civilian except for 1 other reservist O, workin civilian hours. That said, the weather here is miserable as poo poo and I'm ready to go home after 2 days. Food's good though, and those melon shakes from vending machines are the nectar of the gods.
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Gray Matter posted:Well I must have picked the right billet, my shop is completely civilian except for 1 other reservist O, workin civilian hours. That said, the weather here is miserable as poo poo and I'm ready to go home after 2 days. Food's good though, and those melon shakes from vending machines are the nectar of the gods. Sounds like the USNO minus the shakes.
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A solid dunk is a solid dunk, much respect.
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PneumonicBook posted:I hear females can wear ponytails and many males are incredibly upset at this. When all sailors can wear a ponytail we will truly be the worlds best Navy.
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I just had another instructor tell me that one of my students complained to them that I used the word "retarded" in class. They have a special needs sibling, I guess. Some of these kids are in for a culture shock Edit: in before "disassembled weapon on watch = retarded"
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:I just had another instructor tell me that one of my students complained to them that I used the word "retarded" in class. They have a special needs sibling, I guess. I actually kind of agree that you shouldn't use the word retarded when teaching and also agree that using it to describe disassembling your weapon on watch is a good use of the word.
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I hope that the A-School curriculum has gotten much more advanced and you were teaching about retarded potential. When I was a kid, it was totally okay to use "gay" or "human being" as a pejorative to describe anything you didn't like. That's no longer the case, and in most professional environments would be catastrophic to one's career. Think of this as an opportunity to practice your professionalism. Try to avoid using any protected class (i.e., ethnic groups, religions, or disabilities) as an insult. This might be one of the few areas where some of your students might be further along than you, so struggle to be better than you are. You can do it.
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I would take the tact that he’s just being Presidential and telling it like it is. (Don’t do this)
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I've switched to ding dong and some derivation of stupid to replace those words. Retarded no longer carries the emphasis, just use loving stupid if you must.
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maffew buildings posted:You're going to mast again
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:I just had another instructor tell me that one of my students complained to them that I used the word "retarded" in class. They have a special needs sibling, I guess. You dumbshit, did you murder someone for their 9502? I had guys like you when I was at FC a and they all ended up with p's helping the maintenance guys. Like we had to fire retired master chief's for saying things similar, if that student puts it on a critique and the co sees it you're hosed lmao.
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PneumonicBook posted:You dumbshit, did you murder someone for their 9502? I had guys like you when I was at FC a and they all ended up with p's helping the maintenance guys. Like we had to fire retired master chief's for saying things similar, if that student puts it on a critique and the co sees it you're hosed lmao. When I went through FC "A" a couple years back, I thought the kid gloves were on the whole time. I had to tell students in the smoke pit that it's not hazing when you get room inspections every day because you keep failing room inspections. If a behaviour shows a pattern, that's one thing. Slipping up and calling something "retarded" and being asked not to then never doing it again? Yeah, people make mistakes and (theoretically) learn from them. Maybe the armed services wouldn't have such a manning problem if they stopped kicking out people who are actually doing their jobs and making mistakes thereby destroying motivation and morale and encouraging bare-minimum compliance and keep-your-head-down mentality. Note specifically that I want tolerance for on-the-job human errors. If you get a DUI? Yeah, that's still a thing you should get ruined for, as well as drug stuff.
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I had typed up the whole context of it, which wasn't meant to be insulting, I just dropped an R instead of saying slow or challenged when talking about my own kid's development (he's not, btw) but at the end of the day, as an instructor and E-6 I should be more aware of the language I use in front of people, which is what I told my class once it was brought to my attention that my cavalier manner of speech likely offended some people. And of course even though I'm trying to handle it in a low key way without naming names or anything, acknowledging my mistake, half the class immediately rallies to my side and declares that calling people retards is ok you guys, it's a medical term.
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You idiot. Oops. You ding-dong.
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Wow some really hurtful thing being said to me right now. Better go tell the CO that I can't do my job now because nothing unpleasant ever happened to me before I joined the actual literal military.
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What if you described a student as "weapons-grade retarded"?
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Wow some really hurtful thing being said to me right now. Better go tell the CO that I can't do my job now because nothing unpleasant ever happened to me before I joined the actual literal military. I’m laughing at you not with you. No wait. Your student are certainly over sensitive but that’s the way it goes right now. Give it a few years and a second term and I’m sure we will go back to the Wilson era military.
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I mean they're not really wrong. Like I wish I could have got my nephew in the navy. Instead he's going to be a prison guard.
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A guy in my class was a corrections officer before he joined. He figured the military was safer after one of the prisoners sliced his face open in a failed attempt to cut his throat. I hope you've told your nephew he makes poor life choices.
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I dont want my tirade to be misconstrued as some kind of kindler gentler navy bullshit, but that's absolutely the mentality at the training commands for better or for worse since little Johnny's dad will absolutely call the command. The command will probably look at this plus the gun thing and be all kinds of pissed.
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