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ded posted:can i use my grandpas? he was in ww2 at Guadalcanal, as a seabee who pulled stevedore duty running the cranes o7 thank him for his service Can I use my grandpa's and great uncle's service? Grandpa fought in Korea and played dead under his best friend body, great uncle supposedly got the clap from a French hooker and may or may not have killed German POWs as a reprisal after the battle of the bulge.
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My dad may or may have not helped his squad in Vietnam get their officer killed by incompetence
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-whistleblower-ice-denied-healthcare-migrants-67746887quote:HOUSTON -- A whistleblower report provided to BuzzFeed News alleges U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has “systematically provided inadequate medical and mental health care” to detained migrants, leading to complications that included the removal of part of an 8-year-old boy's forehead.
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Dec 16, 2019 15:16
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Casimir Radon posted:The movie was watered down by the studio to try and appease dumb Christians, as the books have an atheistic message. It fell flat ended on a cliffhanger, and never got its sequels. Shame because they had an amazing cast assembled. The show has been very good so far. Lol it was more than an atheistic message, the third book is nearly incoherent because of how much time is spent ranting about the evils of the Definitely Not The Catholic Church. Including stealing the flagellant assassin idea from Da Vinci Code. Really got in the way of the good parts (armored polar bears fighting)
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Internet Wizard posted:Lol it was more than an atheistic message, the third book is nearly incoherent because of how much time is spent ranting about the evils of the Definitely Not The Catholic Church. Including stealing the flagellant assassin idea from Da Vinci Code. Though saying something in 1999 or whatever at this point “teenagers use their daemons, witch friends and loving bears to kill the church” is just a JRPG or anime series pitch.
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Dec 16, 2019 15:58
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My dad dodged Australia's draft for Vietnam.
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ded posted:can i use my grandpas? he was in ww2 at Guadalcanal, as a seabee who pulled stevedore duty running the cranes My God the Bees are failing our forebearers so bad 
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Dec 16, 2019 16:31
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Me, drunkenly trying to explain the cool premise behind HDM to Dr. FAUXTON: "the shapeshifting ferret weasel is symbolic of childlike curiosity and optimism, later on in life they settle in on a form and it's like a kid deciding what to pursue in life, but those freaks with the church want to take it away and the process fucks the kids up just like Catholicism" Dr FAUXTON, ignoring me and the show, focused more on Pokemon: "is the weasel cute though?"
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Dec 16, 2019 17:03
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ElMaligno posted:My dad may or may have not helped his squad in Vietnam get their officer killed by incompetence Was the officer that bad? If c, tell him I said good job fam. I'll send him a coffee mug next christmas.
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Dec 16, 2019 17:08
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One of my dad's closest friends got murdered by a grenade in his office after discovering a heroin trafficking ring run out of Vietnam in the 70s. Go army. He only ever mentioned it once, at his college 25th reunion.
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FAUXTON posted:Me, drunkenly trying to explain the cool premise behind HDM to Dr. FAUXTON: "the shapeshifting ferret weasel is symbolic of childlike curiosity and optimism, later on in life they settle in on a form and it's like a kid deciding what to pursue in life, but those freaks with the church want to take it away and the process fucks the kids up just like Catholicism" Pan is adorable in every form and I will not hear otherwise.  The monkey is probably overall the best implemented daemon so far though, followed by Lee Scorseby's. Its deeply disappointed all the birds were changed to falcons or other easily trained birds, we're missing out on a combat goose. 
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Dec 16, 2019 17:25
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hobbesmaster posted:Pan is adorable in every form and I will not hear otherwise. Oh I definitely told her it was a cute weasel ferret and I think I saw Pan as a bird and a butterfly at a couple points too? I wonder who Sam Elliot's old cowboy is played by this time. I'll admit I know nothing about the books and only barely recall names from the movie, but iirc he was an old grizzled western lawman type and had a jackrabbit named Hester, which was rad as hell.
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FAUXTON posted:Oh I definitely told her it was a cute weasel ferret and I think I saw Pan as a bird and a butterfly at a couple points too? The Aeronaut? He's played by Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Smiling Jack posted:One of my dad's closest friends got murdered by a grenade in his office after discovering a heroin trafficking ring run out of Vietnam in the 70s. Go army. Jesus
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Immanentized posted:The Aeronaut? He's played by Lin-Manuel Miranda Are you loving kidding me
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His rabbit exists to dunk on all Lin-Manuel Miranda bullshit so it works.
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grandpa chat? Mom's dad did ROTC in college, graduated with a biochem degree, then dropped his nobility to enlist as a lab tech with a hospital in the europe. Family scuttlebutt is he didn't want to shoot at family, as we still had a sizable group of german cousins at the time. Landed d-day+6 and was in belgium during the bulge. Had a story about shermans rolling up to his guard post in Liege. dad's dad was a chem-e professor specializing in gases and cryogenics. Did some work in oak ridge and rochester (i think) when he wasn't teaching. After the war he spent summers working for NIST in Boulder. All his papers are somewhere in the basement.
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My uncle was a corpsman in Vietnam, my dad guarded submarines, and my other uncle was a pilot. Dad used to be oorah as hell which I now suspect was an inferiority complex that his brothers actually did something of use. There's a thread in gbs where a goon drives a Russian car back to England from Kazahkstan or something. I don't know if it's being updated in real time but his most recent post is having crossed into Afghanistan which seems...ill advised? sharknado slashfic fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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Dec 16, 2019 18:33
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Tie a rag to the stem of the rear wiper and no one will notice or care. You could probably get all the way through on highway one in a day if you're committed. E: guess I don't actually know which road is highway one, but it's an 18 hour drive straight through. I think once you're out of the pakistan border region it's not too bad? Slim Pickens fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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Dec 16, 2019 18:39
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The first goon road trip thread I remember ended with OP getting arrested for desertion or awol or whatever you call it.
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Going UA or AWOL will always be an honorable decision in my book
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Dec 16, 2019 18:49
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sharknado slashfic posted:There's a thread in gbs where a goon drives a Russian car back to England from Kazahkstan or something. I don't know if it's being updated in real time but his most recent post is having crossed into Afghanistan which seems...ill advised? That route doesn't make sense, its the opposite direction?
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A friend of mine’s three worst life decisions according to him: 1. Joining the army 2. Going awol 3. Going back
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Ken Bone Comeback posted:Going UA or AWOL will always be an honorable decision in my book I think it was something dumb like he was done with his contract and someone hosed up his paperwork so he popped a warrant on a traffic stop. Not like he bugged out of Iraq or anything.
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hobbesmaster posted:That route doesn't make sense, its the opposite direction? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3907195 *shrug* Looking at a map maybe he's driving it to China and having it shipped. Or it was explained earlier in the thread and I skimmed over it while I was in the bathroom. sharknado slashfic fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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sharknado slashfic posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3907195 *shrug* I'm skimming it now. "Almaty to issyk Kul to Osh and then the Pamir Highway" I realized its an active thread so I just asked. Maybe getting it shipped from India?
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hobbesmaster posted:His rabbit exists to dunk on all Lin-Manuel Miranda bullshit so it works. The rabbit is Immortal technique?
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I'm old, so my grandpa was in WW1 instead of WW2. is there a statute of limitations for valor theft?
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Madurai posted:I'm old, so my grandpa was in WW1 instead of WW2. is there a statute of limitations for valor theft? No, some idiots still claim civil war valor.
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Dec 16, 2019 19:32
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LingcodKilla posted:No, some idiots still claim civil war valor. Is treason valorous?
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joat mon posted:Is treason valorous? According to my Louisiana middle school education, yes.
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LingcodKilla posted:No, some idiots still claim civil war valor. Hey, don't you dare slander our beloved mod like that!!!
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My dad killed a Viet Cong elephant. Do I get any valor for that?
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Madurai posted:I'm old, so my grandpa was in WW1 instead of WW2. is there a statute of limitations for valor theft? LingcodKilla posted:No, some idiots still claim civil war valor. There’s a guy in DC who has a bumper sticker that says “Proud descendant of a Union soldier” on his pickup truck.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:There’s a guy in DC who has a bumper sticker that says “Proud descendant of a Union soldier” on his pickup truck. Less dumb than daughters of the Confederacy imo
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Smiling Jack posted:The first goon road trip thread I remember ended with OP getting arrested for desertion or awol or whatever you call it. Someone please find this that's amazing.
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My grandfather was a medic during WWII, not much in the way of stories from him. I just know that on the boat to Casablanca they asked for 5 volunteers to become medics, so him and his buddies volunteered and somehow all but 1 survived the war. He said he decided to volunteer because he didnt want to carry a heavy rear end gun around all the time.
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ded posted:can i use my grandpas? he was in ww2 at Guadalcanal, as a seabee who pulled stevedore duty running the cranes My wife’s grandpa did exactly the same thing—Seabee who did a lot of cargo work. Was that common?
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LingcodKilla posted:No, some idiots still claim civil war valor. There are still civil war pensions being paid in 2019.
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Both my granddads were in the USAAF but spent the whole war stateside. My dad's dad ended up a colonel in charge of some ferry base that Bull Halsey breezed through on his way somewhere and got a nice letter from him about it, then he got out but was called back up in the early days of SAC to lug nukes around from Guam for a few years. My mom's dad spent the war at some training base in nowhere, Texas that I think might've been Harlingen where he somehow ended up training Chinese troops for something, then he was in marketing for Aerojet during the Space Race and was acquaintances with Chuck Yeager after he retired.
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