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A Bad Poster posted:The raven population at JBER ate very well from the dumpsters and pickup truck beds. I once saw a bald eagle fly off with a Burger King bag in its beak. I saluted it. o7
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 happy 44th birthday ebb
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Feb 28, 2019 19:56
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Everyone on this forum is so loving old Jesus Christ
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Feb 28, 2019 21:08
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I got to do TCN escort at Manas right before they shut down and the Kyrgyz had amazing schemes to steal everything that wasn't bolted down. The local dump had armed guards with AKs and was pretty much their preferred laundering method. Several times we found unopened boxes of frozen steaks and lobster tails, tossed into a green dumpster in 100+ degree heat. The trash guys would pick them up, take them to the dump and resell them to local restaurants. Everyone always wanted to order sushi from the joint near the dump, in a land-locked central Asian country. I wonder how many trash lobsters my friends ate. Edit: Worth noting the hero of that TDY. They started locking down the run trail that went through the woods (AKA 'Handjob Forest') because they kept catching people getting frisky in the woods. So a guy I knew paid one of the Kyrgyz drivers that takes you downtown to pick up him and his girlfriend, close the blinds on the bus and drive around for a half hour while they bang-bussed it out in the back. Wild T fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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Feb 28, 2019 21:20
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Things got awkward after he tossed her out of the van naked in downtown Bishkek.
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Feb 28, 2019 21:28
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Casimir Radon posted:Things got awkward after he tossed her out of the van naked in downtown Bishkek. Nah, though this is probably how Jill got knocked up in the first place.
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Feb 28, 2019 21:33
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Handjob forest was cool because I got a handjob in it. Like I know I wasn’t the first HJ she gave on the trail and I know I wasn’t the last but the camraderie built around you and your bros hanging around the smoke deck of Pete’s with the girl who jerked all of you off while, taking in some hookah. The silent understanding, a brotherhood of jizz.
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Feb 28, 2019 21:58
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Cenen posted:Handjob forest was cool because I got a handjob in it. Like I know I wasn’t the first HJ she gave on the trail and I know I wasn’t the last but the camraderie built around you and your bros hanging around the smoke deck of Pete’s with the girl who jerked all of you off while, taking in some hookah. The silent understanding, a brotherhood of jizz. And then the next step happens https://www.gq.com/story/why-straig...vHVRE-9F0_rHDE0
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Feb 28, 2019 22:02
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I couldn’t finish the first paragraph without nearly suffocating from laughter and I refuse to read further or believe it isn’t some satire or a homoerotic editorial piece.
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Wild T posted:I got to do TCN escort at Manas right before they shut down and the Kyrgyz had amazing schemes to steal everything that wasn't bolted down. The local dump had armed guards with AKs and was pretty much their preferred laundering method. Several times we found unopened boxes of frozen steaks and lobster tails, tossed into a green dumpster in 100+ degree heat. The trash guys would pick them up, take them to the dump and resell them to local restaurants. When I worked in the INTERNATIONAL OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION BUSINESS as an INTERNATIONAL TROUBLE SHOOTER travelling alcoholic my first place to work overseas from the UK was Papua New Guinea. Yeah, nothing like breaking yourself in easy. Anyway, we worked for BP up in the Highlands of PNG, our rig was about 40km from the main BP base which was serviced by 1 food supply truck a week, which was a 30 foot reefer container on a small semi. I was the chief electrician on the rig and as such I looked after all the AC and refrigeration and one day I got a visit from the BP guy who did the same job on the BP base, an Aussi called Bob, looking for parts for a reefer unit for a truck. Turns out the weekly food truck set off for it's 5 day journey to the highlands and about 30 minutes into the journey it hit a tree branch and broke a pipe off the reefer unit and dumped all the refrigerant. For 5 days. In 30+ [90+ for you heathens] heat. It had been picked up by the guys at the camp as basically this square steel box looked like it was alive and Bob the BP guy swore he saw it pulsing. We fixed the reefer unit and ran it flat out for 2 days and we could never get the internal temp to get below about 20 degrees, the food rotting was giving out more heat than we could get rid of. Anyway, a couple of nights later Bob came and got me for a secret mission to dump this truck. We drove to the dump, donned breathing apparatus, popped the doors and dumped the whole mess into the pit, immediately dropping a couple of bucketfuls of soil on it with big digger. Bob said that we had to do this as it would get scavenged by the local population with dire predictions of what would happen. We came back the next day and everything had been dug up and taken and we never heard or said another word about this. I'm a bit drunk right now but trust me, this is a good story for a bar, as are all my PNG stories, I'm just crap at writing stuff down. I worked there for a year and came back with 12 years of utter WTF stories.
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It was a good story. Could have used a handjob in it, but it still stands on it's own merits.
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Cenen posted:I couldn’t finish the first paragraph without nearly suffocating from laughter and I refuse to read further or believe it isn’t some satire or a homoerotic editorial piece. quote:Every Sunday and Tuesday, the Rain City Jacks meet at an erotic art gallery in Seattle. The furniture is covered in canvas, and volunteers hand out small plastic cups of lube to guests. (“We try to be environmentally responsible, but people want their own clean lube,” Rain City Jacks founder and organizer Paul Rosenberg told me.) The lights are dimmed slightly and soft music plays while the men gather, either alone or in small clusters, and proceed to jerk off, all the while keeping conversation to a minimum to ensure everyone stays in the moment.
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That is actually less unsettling than some random guy suggesting a bunch of random guys jerk off in a cave in Israel and everyone going along with it. The chick who was giving handies during our rotation was pretty cute but at some point during the rotation her boyfriend who may have been an ex or at least in a rough spot in their relationship was passing through Manas to go to Afghanistan. He actually ends up joint us for a hookah session and it was awkward as gently caress. They actually managed to mend and strengthen their relationship during that couple of days period and have been married for years now. Another story about her was someone wrote some crude message about her in one of the dick covered porta potties, enough to upset her, that the first sergeant ended up hearing about it. First sergeant shows up with some buckets of paint to make people cover up the dicks and offensive messages but the only people on standby when he came in were women so it was all women painting over the dicks and misogynist BS. I think she might have had to paint over the poo poo written about her herself. Kind of like the time in tech school a dude punched a chick and she had to do the same punishment laps around the track we all had to as group punishment. Cenen fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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That  frigate that had a brief and unsuccessful career as a submarine after getting a lovetap from an oil tanker is now perched atop a barge, going to be moved to the main naval base soon. The Navy seems pretty adamant that they're not giving up hope on refitting it for duty until they've done a very thorough inspection, and apart from the dinged up bits, the hull looks remarkably good for having spent 3.5 months partially (mostly  ) submerged.The salvage operators also commented that there were about 600 tonnes of buoyancy in the hull, indicating that there were significant air pockets to be found. When the crew started to evacuate the water from the hull as it was lifted out of the water, they also found this but have of course declined to comment further on which sections remained dry.
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I had to double check a couple other articles to be sure, but there was no loss of life or personnel unaccounted for in the sinking. "Trapped in an air pocket" is a goddamn nightmare of mine.
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Yeah all losses were material/economic no loss of life and I believe no major injuries.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I had to double check a couple other articles to be sure, but there was no loss of life or personnel unaccounted for in the sinking. "Trapped in an air pocket" is a goddamn nightmare of mine. Yeah, though it was sheer dumb luck that lives weren't lost, some of the bunks in the conscript berthing was ripped clear out of the hull by the anchor on the oil tanker, one sailor also got electric shocks while pulling one of his shipmates out of the water. All in all they got really lucky. Shame that the loving Spaniards are loving incompetent ship designers or the ship wouldn't have sunk at all. A hit like that with resulting flooding into those spaces was actually well within the design specs of the ship, and it would normally never have lost stability or sunk in the first place, but when they had water ingress into the main machinery spaces due to the loving prop shafts being designed by aforementioned loving Spaniards, well... that's all she wrote. I watched the ship sink on live television, and I couldn't understand why they abandoned ship and why they "let it sink". The reasons why only surfaced later, when the accident investigation board published their initial report indicating further flooding. The Navy has already notified Navantia that there will be legal action, and I hope they nail the shipyard to the cross. Getting trapped in an air pocket is one of my personal nightmares too. Ugh. We had multiple damage control drills every week, and getting out of berthing via alternative means (escape hatches etc) was part of those drills.
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Wibla posted:but when they had water ingress into the main machinery spaces due to the loving prop shafts being designed by aforementioned loving Spaniards, well... that's all she wrote. Can you expand on this? I hadn't heard about that, but then the English-language press hasn't really gone into it beyond "ship hit, ship sunk"
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Cyrano4747 posted:Can you expand on this? I hadn't heard about that, but then the English-language press hasn't really gone into it beyond "ship hit, ship sunk" Here's a video from VG.no (one of the largest newspapers in Norway): https://static.vg.no/spesial/2018/fregattulykke/vannlekkasje.mp4?2 Basically water came in through the propeller shaft tunnel into the main gear room, then spread into the two other main engineering spaces fore and aft of it. This frigate has a pretty advanced CODAG propulsion system, with a gas turbine in the engineering space fore of the gear room, and two diesels in the engineering space behind it. This amount of water inside the ship meant that it was just a matter of time until it would lose stability, capsize and sink. It also explains the progressive flooding of the vessel as watertight seals failed throughout the ship as it settled, after getting pushed on shore.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I had to double check a couple other articles to be sure, but there was no loss of life or personnel unaccounted for in the sinking. "Trapped in an air pocket" is a goddamn nightmare of mine. Sometimes it works out https://youtu.be/um1ym9u8XaA
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Wibla posted:Yeah, though it was sheer dumb luck that lives weren't lost, some of the bunks in the conscript berthing was ripped clear out of the hull by the anchor on the oil tanker, one sailor also got electric shocks while pulling one of his shipmates out of the water. All in all they got really lucky. Shame that the loving Spaniards are loving incompetent ship designers or the ship wouldn't have sunk at all. Instead of blaming Spain, maybe Norway should have bought a submarine: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/spain-military-submarine.html
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karoshi posted:Instead of blaming Spain, maybe Norway should have bought a submarine: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/spain-military-submarine.html  Our new submarines will be built in Germany. Though of course since our politicians are hellbent on repeating all the mistakes of the 1930s, we're ordering something like 50% fewer hulls than we should. 
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On the plus side, maybe they'll dredge up an ancient Roman or Carthaginian ship or something.
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Godholio posted:On the plus side, maybe they'll dredge up an ancient Roman or Carthaginian ship or something. Hopefully whatever they eventually find is valuable enough to pay for the massive bill we're sending them 
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Wibla posted:Here's a video from VG.no (one of the largest newspapers in Norway): https://static.vg.no/spesial/2018/fregattulykke/vannlekkasje.mp4?2 I love the understatement in the Accident Investigation Boards preliminary report: Accident Investigation Board Norway posted:The AIBN has found safety critical issues relating to the vessel's watertight compartments. This must be assumed to also apply to the other four Nansen-class frigates. It cannot be excluded that the same applies to vessels of a similar design delivered by Navantia, or that the design concept continues to be used for similar vessel models.
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Speaking as a marine engineer.... At that entire situation but especially that sentence which is professional for "goddamn poo poo got hosed up"
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gently caress, imagine they found this out as the result of enemy action. I mean, they're probably not going to get in a shooting war with anyone, but a USS Cole situation isn't completely outside the realms of possibility.
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Memento posted:gently caress, imagine they found this out as the result of enemy action. I mean, they're probably not going to get in a shooting war with anyone, but a USS Cole situation isn't completely outside the realms of possibility. Apparently no one needs to bomb Norwegian navy boats. Oil Tankers do just fine.
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CainFortea posted:Apparently no one needs to bomb Norwegian navy boats. Oil Tankers do just fine. 2019 Oil Tanker War is weird.
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Brother worked at shipyards for a while. Everything - e v e r y t h i n g - made by Spanish hands was incompetent poo poo barely disguised as what had been ordered and agreed upon. He's not really too fond of Spanish welders in particular. This in contrast to Polish welders who welded like it was nothing and even cut plates to within spec by eyesight 
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The Rat posted:I once had sushi in Nebraska. AFAIK all sushi fish in the US comes in frozen by law so it shouldn't make a difference beyond the quality of the supplier.
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That's because Eastern Europeans are metal as gently caress.
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Also I just got back from Morocco and have been bloated and having gross shits for the last 2-3 days. My brother has been making GBS threads his brains out. Still, A+ would eat $2 kefta/shawarma/moroccan sausage sandwiches made with definitely questionable food handling practices again.
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DoktorLoken posted:AFAIK all sushi fish in the US comes in frozen by law so it shouldn't make a difference beyond the quality of the supplier. No law against unfrozen sushi AFAIK, but salmon does need to be treated before serving raw. Freezing is the most common method, but it can also be smoked. Sapphire salmon is farmed under clean conditions, so it can be eaten raw without being frozen.
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DoktorLoken posted:AFAIK all sushi fish in the US comes in frozen by law so it shouldn't make a difference beyond the quality of the supplier. Just about all of it in US sushi restaurants comes from the Reverend Moon’s food company anyway.
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Midjack posted:Just about all of it in US sushi restaurants comes from the Reverend Moon’s food company anyway. Wait, really? poo poo.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Wait, really? poo poo. True World Foods. They supply the majority of fish served as sushi in the US.
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Midjack posted:True World Foods. They supply the majority of fish served as sushi in the US. Hahahahaha, I never knew this. That's awesome.
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