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Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
Everyone's heard jokes about lost LTs and a SSG that was brand new to my platoon loved to make them.

We were doing squad lanes and the whole platoon was heading to the field in our Strykers. Since he was the first one to be evaluated I had him lead us out and once we got into the training area it became apparent that we were going in the complete opposite direction we were supposed to go. Despite his jokes I decided I would allow him to save some face so over the net I told him to make a map check. He comes back that everything is good and we're heading the right way. Ultimately had to explain to him over the net in front of the whole platoon that we're going the wrong way and he needs to turn us around.

We eventually get to our dismount point and I stand there facing the direction we need to take and this dumb son of bitch has his squad walking past me in the opposite direction AGAIN!

"SSG Dumbass, where are you going?"
"uh, to the OP...?"
"You know it's in the opposite direction right?"
"Are you sure?"
"Positive"

Him and his team leader check their map and sure enough they were headed in the wrong direction.

A scout that can't use a map is useless, he's one of two NCOs I ever made sure to enumerate that they were the worst of their peers on their NCO evaluation.

I always enjoyed the irony of the lost LT stereotype being both true and the fact that few people get as much land nav training as officers, especially maneuver branch officers. They're definitely "lost" but they could probably find their way with a map, protractor and a compass.

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Cenen
Apr 7, 2011
Pretty sure this is a fresh one for y’all. So basically we were doing an amnesty hour in Airman Leadership School but it wasn’t even for ALS infractions it was for stuff in our careers which right off the bat set off alarms in my head. A few flight line people go and it’s all smooth until another medical guy went and I forgot what his story was exactly but our instructor who was medical (and who had been railed out by my supervisor even though both were married but she pretty much auto passed me which was cool) told him that his story wasn’t acceptable and straight up stopped the session to call the hospital to narc on him. She then proceeds to actually try and get “amnesty” hour back on track but yeah everyone clammed the gently caress up after that.

Lead out in cuffs
Sep 18, 2012

"That's right. We've evolved."

"I can see that. Cool mutations."




What'd he do? Was it pilfering opioids?

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

https://twitter.com/MsLisaHendricks/status/1302064472081670146?s=20

Looks like the epitome of a self-correcting problem right there

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
It would be slightly more effective on the left side, but that’ll do, pig. That’ll do.

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

Personally i thought the dick gun thing giving people an inadvertent vasectomy was the epitome of a self correcting problem but I was wrong

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
That would be a very effective ND.

Like, that would hit a lot of important things.

TK-42-1
Oct 30, 2013

looks like we have a bad transmitter



I like how they’re so in your face and against common decency but they can’t put gently caress on a shirt without trying to obscure it because that’s just a bridge too far

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://twitter.com/MsLisaHendricks/status/1302064472081670146?s=20

Looks like the epitome of a self-correcting problem right there
How the gently caress do you even draw from that?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

evil_bunnY posted:

How the gently caress do you even draw from that?

Walk up, headlock the idiot, draw, tap tap.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

evil_bunnY posted:

How the gently caress do you even draw from that?

Have orangutang arms.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
Are we 100% sure that isn't Sacha Baron Cohen?

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


mlmp08 posted:

Walk up, headlock the idiot, draw, tap tap.

lol :sbahj:

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


thr first few times i saw that picture, i assumed it was arranged like a side-holster tilted forward a bit, so the barrel was pointing back past your ear, but i guess that would be too easy to fall out.

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Doc Hawkins posted:

thr first few times i saw that picture, i assumed it was arranged like a side-holster tilted forward a bit, so the barrel was pointing back past your ear, but i guess that would be too easy to fall out.

gunter_skul_gun.jpg

Dick Burglar
Mar 6, 2006

Cenen posted:

Pretty sure this is a fresh one for y’all. So basically we were doing an amnesty hour in Airman Leadership School but it wasn’t even for ALS infractions it was for stuff in our careers which right off the bat set off alarms in my head. A few flight line people go and it’s all smooth until another medical guy went and I forgot what his story was exactly but our instructor who was medical (and who had been railed out by my supervisor even though both were married but she pretty much auto passed me which was cool) told him that his story wasn’t acceptable and straight up stopped the session to call the hospital to narc on him. She then proceeds to actually try and get “amnesty” hour back on track but yeah everyone clammed the gently caress up after that.

This seems to have kinda fallen off the radar since the dipshit holster mask overtook the conversation, but what the gently caress did he do? I refuse to believe a medical-adjacent(?) person would narc on stolen drugs or some other banal poo poo. I have to believe he was abusing patients or something that was actively harming other people. Then again, lol fuckin military fuckin idiots thread lol

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

TK-42-1 posted:

I like how they’re so in your face and against common decency but they can’t put gently caress on a shirt without trying to obscure it because that’s just a bridge too far

swears make baby jesus cry

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit
Guys, it’s me: I’m the idiot

I live with my gf of two years, and she is kind of a slob. I can’t get her to clean up the kitchen at all with the gentlest suggestion, she’s had a pile of clothes in the same corner since last November (because she doesn’t have, and has no intention of purchasing a dresser), and it’s almost impossible to get her to do any chores during the day. I should note that she works from home, and almost never leaves the apartment unless it’s with me.

In a way, she kinda reminds me of myself at 19, except she’s 31 and won’t take responsibility for anything. Whenever I try to suggest some changes, it’s melt with either empty promises or a total meltdown. I feel like a total moron trying to train this grown woman how to live with another person.

GIP, what the gently caress do I do?

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





marry her

Wibla
Feb 16, 2011

Kick her out, marry a stripper instead :v:

(in all seriousness - head on over to E/N and the breakup thread)

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
Living by myself during the pandemic is some almost nirvanaesque peace and tranquility.

The state of the world does leaving me both starting and ending my day with a sigh of exasperation though.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Time Crisis Actor posted:

Guys, it’s me: I’m the idiot

I live with my gf of two years, and she is kind of a slob. I can’t get her to clean up the kitchen at all with the gentlest suggestion, she’s had a pile of clothes in the same corner since last November (because she doesn’t have, and has no intention of purchasing a dresser), and it’s almost impossible to get her to do any chores during the day. I should note that she works from home, and almost never leaves the apartment unless it’s with me.

In a way, she kinda reminds me of myself at 19, except she’s 31 and won’t take responsibility for anything. Whenever I try to suggest some changes, it’s melt with either empty promises or a total meltdown. I feel like a total moron trying to train this grown woman how to live with another person.

GIP, what the gently caress do I do?

Convince her to enlist.

My Spirit Otter
Jun 15, 2006


CANADA DOESN'T GET PENS LIKE THIS

SKILCRAFT KREW Reppin' Quality Blind Made American Products. Bitch.

Wibla posted:

Kick her out, marry a stripper instead :v:

(in all seriousness - head on over to E/N and the breakup thread)

boo and not even boo-urns.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
Real chat - you need to have some conversations about love languages and the way you communicate. You're not communicating with her in the right fashion on this. Be prepared, though, that if this is a make or break type thing, you have to be ready for the break.


Are you wanting to take a further step in the relationship? You could very easily bring this up as a part of the transition to a more serious phase if that's where you want to go.

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER
Don't date children, even if they are 31.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Time Crisis Actor posted:

Guys, it’s me: I’m the idiot

I live with my gf of two years, and she is kind of a slob. I can’t get her to clean up the kitchen at all with the gentlest suggestion, she’s had a pile of clothes in the same corner since last November (because she doesn’t have, and has no intention of purchasing a dresser), and it’s almost impossible to get her to do any chores during the day. I should note that she works from home, and almost never leaves the apartment unless it’s with me.

In a way, she kinda reminds me of myself at 19, except she’s 31 and won’t take responsibility for anything. Whenever I try to suggest some changes, it’s melt with either empty promises or a total meltdown. I feel like a total moron trying to train this grown woman how to live with another person.

GIP, what the gently caress do I do?

real talk: would you marry this person as they are and trust them to raise a kid

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
We only put away laundry we don't want to be wrinkly. Like business wear.

Who has time to waste on constantly folding and putting away laundry in this hell verse

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit

PookBear posted:

real talk: would you marry this person as they are and trust them to raise a kid

No. Not without significant improvement

A Festivus Miracle
Dec 19, 2012

I have come to discourse on the profound inequities of the American political system.

Time Crisis Actor posted:

No. Not without significant improvement

Change is a self-motivated thing. You can't save someone from themselves - they are the ones who have to save themselves...from themselves. If not living in garbage is a big deal to you (and it loving well should be) end it.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


I dated someone like that once upon a time and managed to convince them to work on it by sitting them down and asking them directly "why are you like this?". Not in an accusatory way, just genuinely trying to unearth the reason why they chose to live like that. It triggered a dawning of self-realization and they stopped doing that poo poo.

Of course, this doesn't work for everyone, but it can't hurt to at least give that a shot if you only want to break up with them out of necessity.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Some boot at Lejune paid five hundred loving dollars for this:

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
I can't wait to see when it's finished. :lol:

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
I'm the owlshole mouth

Jaguars!
Jul 31, 2012


facialimpediment posted:

One Cali wildfire was confirmed to be caused by a gender reveal party:

https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1302806883409903617

And if you're thinking HEY THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR, you're right!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/us/arizona-gender-reveal-party-sawmill-wildfire-trnd/index.html

This post reminded me of a guy. We were in a contact drill and a smoke genny caused a grass fire. He heard the call FIRE FIRE FIRE and interpreted it to mean "keep firing my rifle", which he did until the enemy party jumped out of their positions and ran past him to help the rest of us put the fire out.

Jaguars! fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Sep 7, 2020

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Hahaha

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


Time Crisis Actor posted:

Guys, it’s me: I’m the idiot

I live with my gf of two years, and she is kind of a slob. I can’t get her to clean up the kitchen at all with the gentlest suggestion, she’s had a pile of clothes in the same corner since last November (because she doesn’t have, and has no intention of purchasing a dresser), and it’s almost impossible to get her to do any chores during the day. I should note that she works from home, and almost never leaves the apartment unless it’s with me.

In a way, she kinda reminds me of myself at 19, except she’s 31 and won’t take responsibility for anything. Whenever I try to suggest some changes, it’s melt with either empty promises or a total meltdown. I feel like a total moron trying to train this grown woman how to live with another person.

GIP, what the gently caress do I do?

Hope you put less time trying to solve this problem than I did.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Time Crisis Actor posted:

Guys, it’s me: I’m the idiot

I live with my gf of two years, and she is kind of a slob. I can’t get her to clean up the kitchen at all with the gentlest suggestion, she’s had a pile of clothes in the same corner since last November (because she doesn’t have, and has no intention of purchasing a dresser), and it’s almost impossible to get her to do any chores during the day. I should note that she works from home, and almost never leaves the apartment unless it’s with me.

In a way, she kinda reminds me of myself at 19, except she’s 31 and won’t take responsibility for anything. Whenever I try to suggest some changes, it’s melt with either empty promises or a total meltdown. I feel like a total moron trying to train this grown woman how to live with another person.

GIP, what the gently caress do I do?

I'm one of these people, we don't change. Focus your energies on one-upping BeatMasterJ's Doom bathroom, maybe go for the Xen aesthetic.

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless

Jaguars! posted:

This post reminded me of a guy. We were in a contact drill and a smoke genny caused a grass fire. He heard the call FIRE FIRE FIRE and interpreted it to mean "keep firing my rifle", which he did until the enemy party jumped out of their positions and ran past him to help the rest of us put the fire out.

I thought that was just a joke in Futurama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsY0PVqTleY&t=17s

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


SquirrelyPSU posted:

Hope you put less time trying to solve this problem than I did.

this hit me hard

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LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

shame on an IGA posted:

I’m one of these people, we don't change. Focus your energies on one-upping BeatMasterJ's Doom bathroom, maybe go for the Xen aesthetic.

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