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CRUSTY MINGE posted:gently caress it, they should put a dna test lab in the entrances to the PXs/BXs right next to those family crest shield and sword assholes. Oh you want a Wallace bloodline crest on your English broadsword? Let's just see if that lines up with your bloodwork. I just want to say that I read this descriptio in these forums many, many times before, but the first time I set foot in a PX as a dirty contractor and found these vendors precisely as described, lined up in their little kiosks outside of the Subway (our destination) it made me laugh my rear end off
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Super big the closer your get to basic training units. Fuckers get out flush with more cash than they've ever had in their life and these sword people make serious money from idiots.
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Dec 24, 2019 02:36
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:why do they even allow those snake oil fuckers onto bases There is no level of the military that isn't open to bribes
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not caring here posted:Super big the closer your get to basic training units. Fuckers get out flush with more cash than they've ever had in their life and these sword people make serious money from idiots.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:gently caress it, they should put a dna test lab in the entrances to the PXs/BXs right next to those family crest shield and sword assholes. Oh you want a Wallace bloodline crest on your English broadsword? Let's just see if that lines up with your bloodwork. I somehow missed every other bullshit boot trap but the goddamn Irish sword and shield sellers. I’ve had a lovely faux crackled shield that I paid like five hundred dollars too much for for almost 20 years now and my wife won’t let me get rid of it because we use it to remind us of how shameful impulse buying things can turn out.
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I got got in boot by the ring salesman and the video yearbook bullshit. I was dumb. Still am!Casimir Radon posted:Just cause you come from a shitload of incest doesn't mean you're royalty. Part manx here, can confirm.
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Hekk posted:I somehow missed every other bullshit boot trap but the goddamn Irish sword and shield sellers. I’ve had a lovely faux crackled shield that I paid like five hundred dollars too much for for almost 20 years now and my wife won’t let me get rid of it because we use it to remind us of how shameful impulse buying things can turn out. My name is literally derived from the Gaelic word for gravedigger (or grave robber), so I know drat well my ancestors never actually had their own heraldry. That was for English-descended nobility, not just any peasants. E: also, European heraldry varied from generation to generation. By its very nature, your own heraldic crest would be somewhat different from any of your ancestors,' because you would take your some combination of your parents' crests and modify it with an addition that you felt represented you personally. Even if the kiosk salesmen found heraldry that was really associated with your family (unlikely!) it wouldn't be valid for the new generation. You may as well just make your own crest. Do you like lions? Cool. Maybe make one rampant. With the earth and sky in the background. Badass. The College of Arms won't recognize it, but gently caress em you're not a British colonial subject anymore. Unless you are (TF, HS, Jaguars! etc) Double edit: why yes, my dorky teenage self did, in fact, develop my own heraldry. iirc it was a wolf and maybe some fleur-de-lis? Arc Light fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Dec 24, 2019 |
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I’m gonna develop my own. It’s gonna be a KFC failure bowl and a bottle of tapatio. Maybe add a trubbish in the background and a motto of “you gonna eat that?”.
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My name is a variation of a heretical sect so I can guarantee there’s not heraldry associated with that after the Catholics hunted them for a few hundred years
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i never bought a ring or yearbook or sword or poo poo i have a AIT shirt still but besides that nothin
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Don’t have my 326 TRS boot camp sweater any more.
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I have the yearbook and that was too much since I hate half of the people in it. My dumbass tech school roommate bought a ring which wasn't sized correctly so he was wearing it on his middle finger. He still had the jacket order form and intended to send it in except he kept blowing his pathetic E-2 paycheck on other stupid poo poo and couldn't scrape together whatever stupid amount of money it cost. He got himself kicked out for who knows what within about a year of enlisting. I'd believe just about anything. He kept buying lighters and was burning plastic bags and other junk in the room. He left them laying around so I kept throwing them awaym
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Arc Light posted:You may as well just make your own crest. Do you like lions? Cool. Maybe make one rampant. With the earth and sky in the background. Badass. The College of Arms won't recognize it, but gently caress em you're not a British colonial subject anymore. My parents did something like this when they got married - they commissioned a design with a crossed stethoscope and rock hammer as the symbols of their professions. It's not exactly a traditional coat of arms but it's a pretty cool piece of artwork.
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:why do they even allow those snake oil fuckers onto bases Vendors offering poorly-designed "weapons" that are better off as showpieces than actually being used? Gee, I dunno. LingcodKilla posted:I’m gonna develop my own. It’s gonna be a KFC failure bowl and a bottle of tapatio. Maybe add a trubbish in the background and a motto of “you gonna eat that?”. Inside a crab pot, obviously. Godholio fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Dec 24, 2019 |
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Godholio posted:Vendors offering poorly-designed "weapons" that are better off as showpieces than actually being used? It's a false economy, it'll break the first time you use it
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:It's a false economy, it'll break the first time you use it Exactly. I was also trying to tie it to other things:   
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bulletsponge13 posted:I figured it was something like if 70% of troops find out their kid is actually a squadmate's, they'd have a pretty interesting mutiny. Elite warfighters train together
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new psyops campaign: just give every enlisted enemy combatant a dna test for their kids
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Godholio posted:Exactly. I was also trying to tie it to other things: Those things all have a very important purpose. To get Marines killed.
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If ur about to burst a vein thinking about Donald Trump, just remember the months he spent savagely owning Chris Christie and know there are at least a few motes of dust on the "good things" side of the scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-3w_aDAxg
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LingcodKilla posted:I’m gonna develop my own. It’s gonna be a KFC failure bowl and a bottle of tapatio. Maybe add a trubbish in the background and a motto of “you gonna eat that?”. "θα το φάτε" You want that poo poo to be legit, so the motto has to be in an ancient language, poorly translated
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shame on an IGA posted:If ur about to burst a vein thinking about Donald Trump, just remember the months he spent savagely owning Chris Christie and know there are at least a few motes of dust on the "good things" side of the scale. https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576?s=20
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https://www.wwno.org/post/6-year-old-finds-message-alleging-chinese-prison-labor-box-christmas-cards London girl makes unexpected pen pal connection quote:Six-year-old Florence Widdicombe was writing notes on Christmas cards to her school friends in South London when she discovered that one card had already been written on.
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Conspiracy time! https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-joy-covey-killed-company-delivery-van-report-2019-12 quote:The former Amazon executive Joy Covey was killed after colliding with a van delivering Amazon packages, according to an explosive investigation into the company's logistics network by BuzzFeed News and ProPublica. What did she know and why did Bezos want her gone? CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Dec 24, 2019 |
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Are they going to be charged with rape and/or sexual assault? They should be.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Are they going to be charged with rape and/or sexual assault? They should be. Of course not. Cops don’t consider sex workers people.
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hobbesmaster posted:Of course not. Cops don’t consider non-cops to be people.
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hobbesmaster posted:Of course not. Cops don’t consider sex workers people. I knew the answer. I meant that a lot more bitter and sarcastic than came across.
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Wait, we have call centers in prisons now? The gently caress? That's honestly some circle of hell. Not the first, not seventh, but definitely in the middle somewhere.
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Oh boy another hosed up layer to felony disenfranchisement, telling people to do the thing you're not allowed to do any more.
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bloomberg dared the prisoner to eat 50 eggs
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Prison call centers have been a thing for a while now. One of the many, many hosed up things about our system of freedom, democracy, and liberty.
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"What the gently caress prisoner, you want to talk to your family? Yeah that'll be five dollars a minute, payable only by this "debit card" we graciously allow your family to set up for you that will have 2.7 gazillion pages of legalese and microscopic print outlining surprise fees and charges added to it. Now get back to your unpaid labor job at the call center." It's just so wildly monstrous I start from the point of not wanting to believe it and end at the point of wanting to drink the hate away.
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