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US Berder Patrol posted:Glad to see everyone has a healthy apatite for geology puns I'm a geologist, and this is the first time I can remember hearing this pun. Well done
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Goodpancakes posted:I'm a geologist, and this is the first time I can remember hearing this pun. Well done you breccia
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Jul 10, 2020 04:42
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Orthoclase! thats all I got
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Y’all know I won’t take any language or food recommendations for you guys after I almost killed a Hawaiian teen from laughter trying to order a piece of tender gay meat.
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LingcodKilla posted:Y’all know I won’t take any language or food recommendations for you guys after I almost killed a Hawaiian teen from laughter trying to order a piece of tender gay meat. I remember that happening and just snorted thinking about it.
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LingcodKilla posted:Y’all know I won’t take any language or food recommendations for you guys after I almost killed a Hawaiian teen from laughter trying to order a piece of tender gay meat. Nothing tender about fresh mahu. It's hard as a rock.
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Jul 10, 2020 08:36
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The TR is back in San Diego Imagine having two years in the Navy that went, deployment, viral outbreak, quarantine, continue deployment, finish deployment, homeport shift, PSNS.
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US Berder Patrol posted:you breccia gneiss
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Geonerrrrrrrrrrrrrrds! So, I've been at my MOB command for about two weeks now. Aaaaand, my watchstation has me sitting next to a 26-year O-4 who worships Elon Musk and asked me to prove how a law can be racist.  The silver lining is he's rotating out in a few weeks. Otherwise, this would've been a long 10 months.
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AlternateNu posted:.... asked me to prove how a law can be racist. Has he never taken a US history course in his life?
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Jul 10, 2020 21:19
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There's an entire category of racist laws with a name and everything.
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Godholio posted:There's an entire category of racist laws with a name and everything. The constitution?
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AlternateNu posted:So, I've been at my MOB command for about two weeks now. Aaaaand, my watchstation has me sitting next to a 26-year O-4 who worships Elon Musk and asked me to prove how a law can be racist. Does he not know Jim Crow was a whole thing or is he an asshat whose tries to go "well aktually" when they get called out?
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iwentdoodie posted:The constitution?
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Nick Soapdish posted:How do you make LCDR that young? 4 years to LT and 3-5 to LCDR so they graduated college at 18? Also is he a SWO because that would track for chud I think it's more like a 48 year-old O-4.
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joat mon posted:I think it's more like a 48 year-old O-4. I'm an idiot, reread that and totally missed it
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Nick Soapdish posted:I'm an idiot, reread that and totally missed it Ah the best kind.
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Nick Soapdish posted:I'm an idiot, reread that and totally missed it I totally had the same confusion. "O-4 who has been in for 26 years", not "O-4 who is 26 years old". I think the Musk worship helped with automatically imagining a 20-something rather than a 40-something. Also I guarantee he's going to well actually any examples because they don't literally say "this law only applies to black people because it is specifically racially motivated and for no other reasons".
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I totally had the same confusion. "O-4 who has been in for 26 years", not "O-4 who is 26 years old". I think the Musk worship helped with automatically imagining a 20-something rather than a 40-something. This is what my brain went to. I would like to think older Millennials and Gen Xers wouldn't be taken in by his tomfoolery but this is America
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Nick Soapdish posted:This is what my brain went to. I would like to think older Millennials and Gen Xers wouldn't be taken in by his tomfoolery but this is America Older Millennial here. My tolerance for Elon Musk decreased proportionately as I learned more about him. He went from "that dude who makes the electric cars" to "stupid blood emerald billionaire hair plugs scammer rear end in a top hat" over about a month and a half.
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https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1281733786368172034?s=20 Bring back rigid airships
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I always wondered about that one-winged insignia. Are they supposed to wear it centered, or deliberately off-center
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1281733786368172034?s=20 ...not seen here.
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Ron Jeremy posted:I always wondered about that one-winged insignia. Are they supposed to wear it centered, or deliberately off-center I used to wonder the same thing and eventually found a source that said centered. It's been a long time and I don't remember where I found it though.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Also I guarantee he's going to well actually any examples because they don't literally say "this law only applies to black people because it is specifically racially motivated and for no other reasons". *ding*ding*ding* When I pointed out the mandatory minimum discrepancy in crack vs cocaine laws, he just decided to "ask the question" on whether Blacks just have shittier families. It took the LT sitting behind us and our department head walking up to ask a question to keep me from gouging this dude's eyes out. I'm a bad officer. Then, our Chaps decided to end his part of the weekly breakdown meeting with a quote from Ronald Reagan which he prefaced with "and a quote from who I think was one of the greatest Presidents in the history of our United States of America...". Our loving Chaplain! gently caress me! Edit: Oh yeah. And to clarify, the guy's a mustang; former ICman. He's 43. AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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A lot of people remember Reagan mostly for the end of the Cold War and the recession ending.
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I remember him for shutting down all funding for mental health in california, iran/contra, and not remembering poo poo due to his dementia.
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https://twitter.com/samlagrone/status/1281710993593307141?s=19 Gonna watch this tonight
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/samlagrone/status/1281710993593307141?s=19 I liked it; there was a couple of times when either I lost the bubble or the maneuver didn't make spatial sense but far more accurate than anything I can remember seeing. I dont know whos asking for their naval action films to have plausible conning, but I'm glad they did.
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Only thing about it that I found implausible was them putting him in charge of the escort on his first Atlantic crossing. I mean, I know "everyone's gotta start somewhere," and that it wouldn't be as compelling a movie if Tom Hanks was listening to a more experienced commander over the radio giving him orders, but I also kinda wish that instead of all of the side-eyed stares from the enlisted and JOs when he did something dumb or questionable had gone somewhere, like having them talk to the tragically-underused Stephen Graham XO character who could've done more than spend the entire movie in the CIC. I also feel like they could've spent another ~20 minutes spread out over the course of the movie showing what life was like on the parts of the ship *other* than the bridge and CIC. That's what makes Red October so damned good - it takes the time to 'waste time' to show you that not every waking moment on a warship at war or 'tenuous peacetime' is this ultra-tense spine-tingling experience.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I also feel like they could've spent another ~20 minutes spread out over the course of the movie showing what life was like on the parts of the ship *other* than the bridge and CIC. That's what makes Red October so damned good - it takes the time to 'waste time' to show you that not every waking moment on a warship at war or 'tenuous peacetime' is this ultra-tense spine-tingling experience. I want this movie to exist, but I also don't think it has to be this movie. Edit: More Navy movies please! Edit2: Dear Congress, one less LPD-17, $400 million to Tom Hanks for an 8-part miniseries, put the 1.2 billion leftover somewhere nice. piL fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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piL posted:I want this movie to exist, but I also don't think it has to be this movie. But LPDs are the best Amphibs and now that ARGs are rolling with well deckless LHAs, they need twice as many LPDs to compensate for the lack of in stream offload options.
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Hekk posted:But LPDs are the best Amphibs and now that ARGs are rolling with well deckless LHAs, they need twice as many LPDs to compensate for the lack of in stream offload options. Fine, get Tom hanks $400 million some other way. I'm not picky.
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piL posted:Fine, get Tom hanks $400 million some other way. I'm not picky. Amphibs are the only contribution I can make regarding anything nautical. So I had to take my shot when I saw LPDs mentioned.
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I was very jealous when I visited the independent duty IS on the San Antonio as they had their own intel space shared with the CTs in the back and a massive First Class Mess. On the LHD it was more cramped, the "mess" was a p-way with an extra bulkhead to make a room, and a bipolar ship's company Senior who our N2 deferred all enlisted issues to since I was "just a IS1" Why yes I am still bitter about it a decade on and will occasionally have stress dreams that I'm still in and on that ship. At least that hasn't been in many months
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Hekk posted:Amphibs are the only contribution I can make regarding anything nautical. So I had to take my shot when I saw LPDs mentioned. Nah, I actually like amphibs (though I've never been on an LPD), but even as a surface ship lover, I think it's little consolation for shorting us a boomer--especially if it ends up costing us however much it takes to restaff the yard.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Only thing about it that I found implausible was them putting him in charge of the escort on his first Atlantic crossing. I don't know how the movie portrays it, but in the book it takes place shortly after the US joins the war. Edit: And putting rank in charge rather than experience is 100% accurate.
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The only tech nitpick I could land was that "Greyhound" (never identified by name, but only callsign, a nice touch) had a very 1945 AA fit for 1942. For obvious reasons, of course, since it was shot on a surviving Fletcher-class museum ship. Still, a good night in.
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Having never served on a carrier, I can't confirm. But I've always been told the most accurate portrayal of life on a CVN is the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica. 
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