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Im also one of these people. We can fall into a routine that gives the semblance of not messy but left to our own devices it quickly goes off the rails. My spouse is a saint and stays on me, but when they’re not up to it I slip back almost instantly. But I’m not like that when I travel, or otherwise limited. Maybe a path towards success would be to limit the things that can cause clutter. Shed clothing or books or paper or whatever. Fewer things means more experiences, etc. But realize that deep down they’re probably not going to be better alone. You’re always going to need to maintain a low level of bitching about the mess to keep it contained.
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Yeah exactly I'm anal about putting poo poo away in its defined place at work because no one will be able to find it if it's not in exactly the defined and numbered bin but have a complete inability to initiate or even maintain such a system at home. I actually remember where everything is in all the clutter, do y'all as well? Is that why we deprioritize organization, because it doesn't offer tangible benefits to a userbase of one?
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Sep 7, 2020 23:39
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I like to think of a nicely organized tool cage as a demonstration of chaos in action. The weeks and months that follow are entropy destroying organization, bringing the universe down to a lower level of giving a gently caress.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:02
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shame on an IGA posted:Yeah exactly I'm anal about putting poo poo away in its defined place at work because no one will be able to find it if it's not in exactly the defined and numbered bin but have a complete inability to initiate or even maintain such a system at home. Yeah, my desks at various jobs have been messes but when I clean it up I can’t find a goddamn thing. When it’s just wherever I always remember what I was doing the last time I had it and can find it in a snap. I usually remember stuff by associations, too, so I can put together weird connections in a snap but trying to sit down and memorize is a bad time.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:10
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Yeah, my desks at various jobs have been messes but when I clean it up I can’t find a goddamn thing. When it’s just wherever I always remember what I was doing the last time I had it and can find it in a snap. I usually remember stuff by associations, too, so I can put together weird connections in a snap but trying to sit down and memorize is a bad time. Same. I can give you a sheet of paper from 3 months ago in a stack of nothing but oddball papers, but God help you if i clean and organize everything. You'll be waiting hours. Or rather forever because I will give up entirely, until my desk goes back to its natural state. I love a clean, super organized tool cabinet at work but every attempt at home lasts about as long as the first time I need more than one tool at a time.
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Sep 8, 2020 10:41
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I would say a solid quarter of the pieces in my toolchest at home arr sitting in the top tray under the foldout lid instead of nestled in their neat foam cutout trays in the individual draws.
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Sep 8, 2020 12:10
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Yeah, my desks at various jobs have been messes but when I clean it up I can’t find a goddamn thing. When it’s just wherever I always remember what I was doing the last time I had it and can find it in a snap. I usually remember stuff by associations, too, so I can put together weird connections in a snap but trying to sit down and memorize is a bad time. Same. "Hot desks" or shared cubes due to COVID is my nightmare.
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We had a Lt earn* the callsign 'Sparky' when I was working with TACPs. We were doing nighttime Humvee driving and he hadn't had much experience driving them. I gave him a few pointers on do's and don'ts, including making sure to release the parking brake before getting into gear. Sparky gets in his vehicle, I ride shotgun in another with our prior-E firefighter Major, and we go driving off to the start of the course that we're going to be navigating. The Major pulls neatly into the area where we're parking, and another vehicle pulls in next to us. Suddenly I hear one of the normally super chill JTAC Captains screaming his head off. "Get the gently caress out of the vehicle!" I'm looking around like, Jesus, Captain, what the gently caress has got you so spun up? I climb out to see the Lt's Humvee merrily bouncing toward us with the entire undercarriage on fire. Everyone got out, we put the fire out and the Major begins poking around under the vehicle while we all make Fire Marshall Bill jokes and prepare to grab his legs and pull him out if it catches on fire again. Turns out the Lt indeed forgot to disengage the parking brake, and at a certain point the brake line ruptured and began leaking hydraulic fluid onto the hot undercarriage, which ignited. We cancelled the night driving and went and got drunk instead. The guys who checked the vehicle out said it wasn't his fault, the brakes on that particular vehicle were crazy worn out and they shouldn't have let anyone use it anyhow. *In classic TACP tradition, the callsign of 'Sparky' was misleading and had nothing to do with the humvee. The Lt was fairly effeminate and metrosexual. So despite being (as far as I know) straight as an arrow he earned the callsign thanks to the South Park episode with Stan's gay dog. He'd walk down the hallway and random guys would chime in "Sparky! Don't be gay, Sparks!". Wild T fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Sep 8, 2020 15:17
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There’s a commander in my reserve unit who was a prior pilot before going intel. He’s still an airline pilot. He’s this tiny really boring analytical talking wall flower. Anyways apparently his mil call sign was “sex panther” or just “panther”. Who knows, it’s not like I can go check logs.
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Sep 8, 2020 18:02
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I think it was on these forums where someone knew a pilot with the callsign Colt, which turned out to stand for "Comb Over Looks Terrible". That always makes me chuckle when I think about it.
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Sep 8, 2020 19:27
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LingcodKilla posted:There’s a commander in my reserve unit who was a prior pilot before going intel. He’s still an airline pilot. He’s this tiny really boring analytical talking wall flower. Anyways apparently his mil call sign was “sex panther” or just “panther”. that's the name of the chemical-warfare-grade cologne in Anchorman, so maybe he smelled real bad one time
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Sep 8, 2020 19:38
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It smells like bigfoot's dick, so he might have had an adventure while camping 
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Sep 8, 2020 20:31
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Missed landnav chat, but it truly staggered me sometimes how bad people were at it. I understand it's a perishable skill, but holy poo poo. The one time I made a really boneheaded move was I mixed up whether to add or subtract when going from magnetic to grid north, which would have been fine if I wasn't in Alaska where the difference was 22° or something. Ended up spending half the allotted time figuring out I was lost and getting myself back to the starting point, shooting the correct azimuth, and heading off in the right direction. Even then I got all 4 of the points with time to spare, and I didn't even have to jog. Some dudes couldn't even find one point on that course. This was prep for EIB, so you can guess how well the leadership reacted to the results.
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Sep 8, 2020 21:26
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I almost never shot an azimuth or kept a pace count if there was easily identifiable terrain features. I usually only check my compass to make sure I'm heading in roughly the right direction. Terrain association makes land nav really easy. I would miss a lot around me if I was constantly checking my azimuth or counting my pace out. In the Army Reconnaissance Course one of the first things they do after the land nav class is put you in a LMTV and drop you off in a random spot in the training areas at Fort Benning with nothing but a map and you have to navigate back.
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Sep 8, 2020 21:36
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A Bad Poster posted:Missed landnav chat, but it truly staggered me sometimes how bad people were at it. I understand it's a perishable skill, but holy poo poo. The one time I made a really boneheaded move was I mixed up whether to add or subtract when going from magnetic to grid north, which would have been fine if I wasn't in Alaska where the difference was 22° or something. Ended up spending half the allotted time figuring out I was lost and getting myself back to the starting point, shooting the correct azimuth, and heading off in the right direction. Even then I got all 4 of the points with time to spare, and I didn't even have to jog. Some dudes couldn't even find one point on that course. modern compasses allow you to dial in the declination, but none of them are lensatic so they aren't as accurate
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Sep 8, 2020 21:57
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:It smells like bigfoot's dick, so he might have had an adventure while camping It almost certainly has something to do with this. Nobody gets a cool callsign for being cool. Every cool sounding callsign has a truly hosed up story or it's an acronym for something horrendous, etc. Pete Mitchell got caught loving a calf or something, for example.
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Sep 8, 2020 23:34
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Godholio posted:It almost certainly has something to do with this. Or it's a play on your name, like "Gasm" Orr.
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Sep 8, 2020 23:39
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Godholio posted:It almost certainly has something to do with this. I know a RAAF fast jet pilot whose callsign is Bung. He hosed up opening a beer keg once in pilot school and everyone yelled at him to put the loving bung in it you idiot as they watched their drunken good time piss out all over the floor.
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Sep 9, 2020 00:41
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Godholio posted:Pete Mitchell got caught loving a calf or something, for example. It's fun to watch the credits for Top Gun and compare the callsigns of the characters to the callsigns of the actual pilots who flew for the flight footage. The characters are all these super cool sounding ones and the real pilots are stuff like "Booger" and "Muffins".
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Sep 9, 2020 00:50
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Mustang posted:In the Army Reconnaissance Course one of the first things they do after the land nav class is put you in a LMTV and drop you off in a random spot in the training areas at Fort Benning with nothing but a map and you have to navigate back. Anyone ever show back up without the truck? "Where's the vehicle? Please tell me you can find your way back to it."
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Sep 9, 2020 00:53
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While mobbing at Dix, my PSG decided that we should come up with cool campaigns for morale. He got really upset when my truck team was Sweet Pea, Panties O'Hoolihan, and The Cheat. He expected us to pick poo poo like Assassin, Hitman, Ravager, and the like. We took the wind out of his sails.
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Sep 9, 2020 03:06
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Wingnut Ninja posted:It's fun to watch the credits for Top Gun and compare the callsigns of the characters to the callsigns of the actual pilots who flew for the flight footage. The characters are all these super cool sounding ones and the real pilots are stuff like "Booger" and "Muffins". Muffins is an insanely cool call sign
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Sep 9, 2020 03:06
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Milo and POTUS posted:Muffins is an insanely cool call sign Then you find out he got it because one day he wore some tight pants and had a muffin top.
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Sep 9, 2020 03:13
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Wingnut Ninja posted:It's fun to watch the credits for Top Gun and compare the callsigns of the characters to the callsigns of the actual pilots who flew for the flight footage. The characters are all these super cool sounding ones and the real pilots are stuff like "Booger" and "Muffins". is "goose" cool?
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Sep 9, 2020 03:15
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iwentdoodie posted:Then you find out he got it because one day he wore some tight pants and had a muffin top. Milo and POTUS posted:Muffins is an insanely cool call sign
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Sep 9, 2020 03:17
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Wingnut Ninja posted:It's fun to watch the credits for Top Gun and compare the callsigns of the characters to the callsigns of the actual pilots who flew for the flight footage. The characters are all these super cool sounding ones and the real pilots are stuff like "Booger" and "Muffins". Some of my favorite real life callsigns: UTAH (UpTight rear end in a top hat) Yak (lots of drinking, and the inevitable result) 2-Ply (got the shits on a run in the middle of the woods...came home with no socks) Sock (answered the door wearing one sock) Zippy (drank more Rip Its and Red Bulls than anyone else I've ever known) Wimpy (neverending hunt for burgers...naturally he married a vegan) None of these would make the cut for an 80s movie. Edit: Somewhere there's a Navy NFO who goes by "Pound Town" or #Town but I don't know the details.
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Sep 9, 2020 04:14
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Doc Hawkins posted:is "goose" cool? 
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Godholio posted:
quote:The story did not come as a complete surprise, according to current and former members who spoke with VTDigger. Jackman, whose call sign was “Snatch,” had a reputation as a ladies man. This is kinda the wrong thread because if you wouldn't joyride a Fighting Falcon across country to get your end away I don't want to know you.
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An okay call sign: Pimp An interesting call sign: P.I.M.P. A wonderful explanation: Pooped in My Pants
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Sep 9, 2020 04:30
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I love a good acronym, and the all-time greatest one I ever heard was a guy who forgot to tuck himself back in after using the relief tube on a flight. He lands, hops out onto the flight deck, and immediately gets christened DOOFUS: Dick Out Of Flightsuit, Unusually Small.
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Sep 9, 2020 04:33
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Doc Hawkins posted:is "goose" cool? IRL Goose would have gotten named at Tailhook or something.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I love a good acronym, and the all-time greatest one I ever heard was a guy who forgot to tuck himself back in after using the relief tube on a flight. He lands, hops out onto the flight deck, and immediately gets christened DOOFUS: Dick Out Of Flightsuit, Unusually Small. loving brutal, and wonderful.
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Sep 9, 2020 05:10
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Doc Hawkins posted:is "goose" cool? Its close to my actual name and i call my wife "Maverik" on ocassion.
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ElMaligno posted:Its close to my actual name and i call my wife "Maverik" on ocassion. Moose?
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Sep 9, 2020 05:28
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It’s weird when a dual-aviator couple calls each other by their callsigns imo. Especially when one of the names is real aggro like “Flame” or “Rage”
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Sep 9, 2020 05:38
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I think ITT or the other iteration, someone shared a story of a dude who got the nickname Blue Eyes, due to a mishap with an AWACS chemical toilet.
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Sep 9, 2020 06:21
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goatsestretchgoals posted:IRL Goose would have gotten named at Tailhook or something. Would have been someone who keeps playing grab-rear end in the barracks all the time.
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mlmp08 posted:It’s weird when a dual-aviator couple calls each other by their callsigns imo. I just call my wife sweetpea, but i started with sweatpea because me am good english.
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ElMaligno posted:I just call my wife sweetpea, but i started with sweatpea because me am good english. Is she diabetic?
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Time Crisis Actor posted:Guys, it’s me: I’m the idiot Barging in a bit here but this seems like a pretty likely standard case of depression (maybe even undiagnosed ADHD),  either way
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