yeah I eat rear end posted:

I prefer light/sugar free syrup to the real stuff. Also I don't like heating up the syrup, and also butter has no place on waffles/pancakes.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Kind of similar to the first bit, I can only drink diet soda/Red Bull/monster if I’m doing one of those (which isn’t often). The sugared ones just taste off to me.

nurmie posted:

all systems of measurements suck inherently and by definition; reality is unknowable and all important things are immesaurable

anyway, phuo: dutch cheeses are the best kinds of cheese by far; french cheese is overrated and so is french cuisine in general, their reputation no more than a product of an insidious century-long advertisement campaign

Zzulu posted:

waht the gently caress is "dutch cheese"

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

The best syrup is real southern molasses kind. Maybe add some chopped pecans. gently caress the overpriced northern tree goop. PS texans are the only people in the world who can pronounce "pecan"

Captain Monkey posted:

The p’khan, which is correct..

Zzulu posted:

waht the gently caress is "dutch cheese"

alexandriao posted:

You uhhh... don't want to know

Gripweed posted:

Veteran's Day and Memorial Day should be removed from the calendar until US troops manage to win a loving war again

veni veni veni posted:

True Crime is absolute trash. It's a crap genre of entertainment that is literally worse than watching some Dateline NBC show every night about some random lady getting raped and murdered, because it's the same drat thing only catered to fart huffing NPR types and it's a bajillion hours long. It's just garbage tier rubber necking masquerading as something more important.

Josef bugman posted:

So is all war literature in this reading, unless it is entirely fictional.

It is sometimes very hard to be able to tell what we want, I think this hurts us more than just not wanting anything.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

I’ve read some absolutely fantastic war literature but it has a level of insight you don’t see in true crime. A war memoir or novel from someone who’s been there can at least present what the subjective experience was like and what it did to the author. True crime rarely goes above “here’s what happened” and speculation and theories.

Josef bugman posted:

Does stuff written down need to be neccesarily insightful as opposed to descriptive?

silence_kit posted:

Gripweed posted:

I'm not joking. American troops were in Afghanistan for 20 years with the mission of defeating the Taliban and training the Afghani security forces. And when the Americans leave, the Taliban instantly effortlessly reconquer the country. The Taliban don't seem very defeated! The Afghani security forces don't seem very trained! 20 loving years and that's the best American soldiers can do.

There's a lot of talk about what would've been a better strategy or should we have stayed in for longer or should we have never gone in at all, but all that misses a blatant truth that's staring us in the face; the American troops failed. They were given a mission and the men and women of the American armed forces completely hosed it up. The failure of the American occupation of Afghanistan rests primarily on American soldiers.

Josef bugman posted:

The mission was impossible. Should I blame you for not being able to piss out the sun if I tell you to do it?

Gripweed posted:

I'm not joking. American troops were in Afghanistan for 20 years with the mission of defeating the Taliban and training the Afghani security forces. And when the Americans leave, the Taliban instantly effortlessly reconquer the country. The Taliban don't seem very defeated! The Afghani security forces don't seem very trained! 20 loving years and that's the best American soldiers can do.

There's a lot of talk about what would've been a better strategy or should we have stayed in for longer or should we have never gone in at all, but all that misses a blatant truth that's staring us in the face; the American troops failed. They were given a mission and the men and women of the American armed forces completely hosed it up. The failure of the American occupation of Afghanistan rests primarily on American soldiers.

Sweevo posted:

Is there a Sun-Pissers Day where people are expected to remember and respect all the people who tried?

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

holy poo poo just saw this and wow

Gripweed posted:

I'm not joking. American troops were in Afghanistan for 20 years with the mission of defeating the Taliban and training the Afghani security forces. And when the Americans leave, the Taliban instantly effortlessly reconquer the country. The Taliban don't seem very defeated! The Afghani security forces don't seem very trained! 20 loving years and that's the best American soldiers can do.

There's a lot of talk about what would've been a better strategy or should we have stayed in for longer or should we have never gone in at all, but all that misses a blatant truth that's staring us in the face; the American troops failed. They were given a mission and the men and women of the American armed forces completely hosed it up. The failure of the American occupation of Afghanistan rests primarily on American soldiers.

Gripweed posted:

I'm not joking. American troops were in Afghanistan for 20 years with the mission of defeating the Taliban and training the Afghani security forces.

Josef bugman posted:

The mission was impossible. Should I blame you for not being able to piss out the sun if I tell you to do it?

Gripweed posted:

Right, the Taliban are invincible and Afghanis can't be trained to tie their shoes. Cmon, listen to yourself, that is such an obvious excuse. The troops failed. We don't need to pretend to respect the troops anymore, they've done nothing to earn respect in the past 70 years.