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Platystemon posted:Petition to rename Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America” Just wait until we get to the All-Inclusive Resort Wars
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Aug 14, 2021 15:22
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Platystemon posted:Petition to rename Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America” I'd accept "Gulf of the Americas". I wonder why it's Gulf of Mexico rather than the Mexican Gulf? I'd guess to denote the geographical area instead of ownership. Sea of Japan as well. South China Sea. But then we have the Indian Ocean. Someone had to figure this poo poo out, at least in one language.
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Aug 14, 2021 15:26
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I'm not going to look it up, but my gut feeling is blame the British.
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Aug 14, 2021 15:38
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The country gets its name from its capital region, and then the gulf gets it from there, and that bothers me. I mean, the Valley of Mexico is well inland. It’s not as bad as the state of Wyoming being named after a valley in eastern Pennsylvania or Idaho’s name being a total fraud, but it’s up there.
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Aug 14, 2021 15:45
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Beats being a state named for a slave owner
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Aug 14, 2021 17:07
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Beats being a country named after “the village over there”.
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Aug 14, 2021 17:08
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Platystemon posted:Petition to rename Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America” Jesus, don't say that out loud. Edit: The USG preferred to name the Utah Territory after the natives instead of cooperating with the LDS settlers and using "Deseret." Godholio fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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Aug 14, 2021 17:13
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Godholio posted:Jesus, don't say that out loud. Warm deseret. Waaarm des-ser-et. Warm.
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Aug 14, 2021 17:18
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Mr. Nice! posted:The logic, for the gulf at least, is that calling it the persian gulf implies that it was historically persian and therefore strengthens iran’s claim to full ownership of the gulf and SoH. In Israeli Hebrew it's called the Persian Gulf. 
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Aug 14, 2021 18:16
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FrozenVent posted:Beats being a country named after “the village over there”. I'm stumped, what is this
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Aug 14, 2021 21:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKr-D5VDBU
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Aug 14, 2021 22:14
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Platystemon posted:O.K. but “Arabian” is not itself neutral. but they're our allies!
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Aug 14, 2021 23:31
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Absurd Alhazred posted:In Israeli Hebrew it's called the Persian Gulf. I'm just saying what they told me when I asked the question. But go bust out any chart or anything the US military uses. It'll be called the arabian gulf. All the briefings talk about the NAG or the SAG etc.
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Aug 14, 2021 23:33
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Fair enough, then.
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Aug 14, 2021 23:39
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Godholio posted:Jesus, don't say that out loud. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/09/146643464/call-it-gulf-of-america-not-gulf-of-mexico-mississippi-lawmaker-says
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Aug 15, 2021 00:20
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Mr. Nice! posted:The USA government and military do not refer to anything as persian except rugs. E.g. Arabian Gulf. This seemed so implausible to me that I had to look it up. Here's an example of them doing so. https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/desert-storm/index.html
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Aug 15, 2021 00:37
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Weka posted:This seemed so implausible to me that I had to look it up. Here's an example of them doing so. Persian Gulf was the terminology used during Gulf War 1, but it's definitely all Arabian Gulf these days. I'm honestly a little surprised even a historical site officially hosted by the Army hasn't changed it. Even weirder is how the USAF Museum has sections for World War 1 and 2, the Korean War, the Cold War, and... the "War in Southeast Asia". Certainly not the Vietnam War, never heard of that.
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Aug 15, 2021 01:34
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Even weirder is how the USAF Museum has sections for World War 1 and 2, the Korean War, the Cold War, and... the "War in Southeast Asia". Certainly not the Vietnam War, never heard of that. Wouldn’t want to leave out the USAF’s proud history in Laos and Cambodia.
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Aug 15, 2021 01:37
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Persian Gulf was the terminology used during Gulf War 1, but it's definitely all Arabian Gulf these days. I'm honestly a little surprised even a historical site officially hosted by the Army hasn't changed it. It's a more honest name for it what with it involving bombings of Laos and Cambodia, as well. e: fb
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Aug 15, 2021 01:38
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Absurd Alhazred posted:It's a more honest name for it what with it involving bombings of Laos and Cambodia, as well. And ground invasions
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Aug 15, 2021 01:41
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Platystemon posted:Wouldn’t want to leave out the USAF’s proud history in Laos and Cambodia. Oh, I totally agree, it just seems weird for the official Air Force museum, of all places, to be the one to acknowledge that. I've literally never seen it referred to that way anywhere else. Especially given the aforementioned political fuckery with "Arabian Gulf".
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Aug 15, 2021 01:46
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https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1426838284915798016
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Aug 15, 2021 17:50
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I’m amazed at the ingenuity of this idiot.
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Aug 17, 2021 16:15
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https://twitter.com/BurgerPilled/status/1427547500773322767?s=20
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Aug 17, 2021 19:43
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TAKBIR!
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Aug 17, 2021 19:47
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So how many new John Walker Lindhs copycats do we guess this is going to spawn? Speaking of which, he's been out of the clink for over two years now.
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Aug 17, 2021 20:02
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Putting money down on proudly owning anime body pillows being the new fad to Own the Taliban. We live in a dumb enough timeline for that to happen, please let it happen.
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Aug 17, 2021 20:11
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"Hey guys look at this body pillow that I totally just bought just now to show those terrorists what's what!"
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Aug 17, 2021 20:14
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Wrr posted:Putting money down on proudly owning anime body pillows being the new fad to Own the Taliban. We live in a dumb enough timeline for that to happen, please let it happen. It was a edgelord joke on a war game at mil sim west, the original video has been long removed from oxide channel.
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Aug 17, 2021 20:25
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I want to believe, but the doughy pale fingers and badly mastered gunshots sounds give it away. Digging the soundtrack though.
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Aug 17, 2021 21:29
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madeintaipei posted:Warm deseret. Waaarm des-ser-et. Warm. Just wanted you to know that someone got this and appreciated it. Hear the crushing steel Feel the steering wheel
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Aug 17, 2021 21:30
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It's fake and a year old to boot. Still as funny as ever though
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Aug 17, 2021 21:42
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"of the ten bolts that are supposed to hold the bed onto the frame on this M923, six were missing and the other four were this" For reference this is what they're supposed to look like: 
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Aug 18, 2021 00:06
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Vengarr posted:It's fake and a year old to boot. Still as funny as ever though Worth it.
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Aug 18, 2021 00:32
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Memento posted:"of the ten bolts that are supposed to hold the bed onto the frame on this M923, six were missing and the other four were this" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnvGwFegbC8
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Aug 18, 2021 10:39
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As far as I know, one of the few incidents that actually involved someone being referred to the Board for disciplinary action.
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Aug 18, 2021 12:53
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https://twitter.com/UticaEric/status/1428874717281374211?s=20 Ok, is this the infamous "lost pistol" story we've seen here before? How the gently caress did the Bachelorette end up being the coda to this sordid affair?
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Aug 21, 2021 01:44
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no if it was the story from here he'd have mentioned the body count
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Aug 21, 2021 01:54
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Was the story from here not from Iraq? My apologies if I’ve misremembered IVFW lore.
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Aug 21, 2021 02:09
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/UticaEric/status/1428874717281374211?s=20 That actually the least hazardous thing I’ve hear about falling off a Chinook.
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