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glad to see the cold-war era lesson of "don't use alcohol-based coolant because troops will drink it" really paid off
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I would have gone with expedient field grade purple jesus. Air Defense Artillery is little 'r' away from being an anagram of 'Nearer Fear Distillery', make your own joke with that.
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Jan 29, 2021 21:13
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It takes a special dumb to pour perfectly good hooch into antifreeze bottles. Hell, the moonshine business in central Alabama was practically destroyed 10 years ago after a shitload of people got sick off a batch that turned out to be distilled in an old truck radiator. Practically everything's bootlegged over from Mississippi now.
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Jan 29, 2021 21:14
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GD_American posted:It takes a special dumb to pour perfectly good hooch into antifreeze bottles. These are the kind of juicy facts I come to the thread for.
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Jan 29, 2021 21:19
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GD_American posted:It takes a special dumb to pour perfectly good hooch into antifreeze bottles. They do know they can just buy nonlethal alcohol for drinking, right?
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Jan 29, 2021 21:28
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bulletsponge13 posted:I would like to know more details. The Mig-25 had about 300 liters of ethanol on it, used as either anti-freeze, cooling the radar, or injected into the engines for coolant or extra thrust depending on what sources you read. Supposedly maintenance crews would "siphon excess coolant" for recreational purposes.
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Jan 29, 2021 21:43
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Absurd Alhazred posted:They do know they can just buy nonlethal alcohol for drinking, right? Yeah but you gotta pay tax on that bullshit man let me get my lean on without the fed's involvement
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Jan 29, 2021 21:48
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Midjack posted:The Mig-25 had about 300 liters of ethanol on it, used as either anti-freeze, cooling the radar, or injected into the engines for coolant or extra thrust depending on what sources you read. Supposedly maintenance crews would "siphon excess coolant" for recreational purposes. No, I meant what the gently caress those ADA were doing.
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Jan 29, 2021 21:55
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Absurd Alhazred posted:They do know they can just buy nonlethal alcohol for drinking, right? Dudes used to bring gallon jugs of moonshine from their families for post patrol parties in King's Bay. Tasted better than the $10/bottle vodka at the NEX.
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Jan 29, 2021 22:36
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is it Alabama where they say at least we aren't Mississippi or vice versa, or more likely does that go both ways
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Jan 29, 2021 23:47
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Alabama kentucky tennessee mississippi missouri all do it pretty much everystate around there thinks theyre the shining jewel of the south east
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Jan 30, 2021 00:04
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Stravag posted:Alabama kentucky tennessee mississippi missouri all do it pretty much everystate around there thinks theyre the shining jewel of the south east Stupid because the jewel is the city state of Atlanta, the rest are playing for a distant second place
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Jan 30, 2021 00:16
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EBB posted:Yeah but you gotta pay tax on that bullshit man let me get my lean on without the fed's involvement Aka gently caress dem revenooers
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Jan 30, 2021 00:39
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Defenestrategy posted:Stupid because the jewel is the city state of Atlanta, the rest are playing for a distant second place I was going to make a joke about the jewel state being cuba or puerto rico but it wasn't coming together for me
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Jan 30, 2021 00:58
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Stravag posted:I was going to make a joke about the jewel state being cuba or puerto rico but it wasn't coming together for me It's for the best, Puerto Ricos probably cool, but I'm not so sure about Cuba, Guantanamo Bay probably doesn't have a lot good reviews from a lot of people.
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Jan 30, 2021 01:21
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The military can make even cuba suck
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Jan 30, 2021 01:57
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relevant xpostWITCHCRAFT posted:This reminds me of Torpedo Juice, in which US Navy torpedoes were drained of their 180 proof ethanol fuel to make a mixed drink with pineapple juice. The authorities that be quickly caught on, and added various unpleasant things to the fuel mixture. People still drank the torpedo juice anyway and tried to find ways of removing the alterants.
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Jan 30, 2021 02:01
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Absurd Alhazred posted:They do know they can just buy nonlethal alcohol for drinking, right? If you don't understand the appeal of good moonshine, I'm not sure I can explain it. Half of it is the "this is still actually illegal" thrill. Half of it is that if you get some really good stuff, it is....really good. maffew buildings posted:is it Alabama where they say at least we aren't Mississippi or vice versa, or more likely does that go both ways Southern states are all about crab logic. As long as Mississippi is 50th in education, we're ok with being 49th.
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Jan 30, 2021 02:27
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GD_American posted:If you don't understand the appeal of good moonshine, I'm not sure I can explain it. Half of it is the "this is still actually illegal" thrill. Half of it is that if you get some really good stuff, it is....really good. Its the same logic i use with ecstasy basically
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Jan 30, 2021 02:32
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today I learned the Georgia legislature very controversially sold what became Alabama and Mississippi for $500k in 1795. IMO the buyers got screwed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazoo_land_scandal
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Jan 30, 2021 02:38
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Stravag posted:Its the same logic i use with ecstasy basically God do I miss ecstasy. Or cocaine. I hate being old with square friends.
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Jan 30, 2021 02:54
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I met a dude a few weeks ago, friend of a friend, and we were chatting and having a beer and he's like "hey I'm going to go outside and smoke a joint, not sure if you're interested at all...?" And all of a sudden, boom, a smoking buddy with a good contact for buying falls into my lap and I'm 21 and chilling again. Never take it for granted if you can walk downtown and buy high quality weed from a legitimate business. Australia needs to get with the loving program.
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Jan 30, 2021 03:36
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There are anecdotal accounts of Russian Tankers taking brake fluid and doing the same, but I believe they are apocryphal.
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Jan 30, 2021 03:47
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Guest2553 posted:relevant xpost Add to the OP of the navy thread, please.
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Jan 30, 2021 04:48
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shame on an IGA posted:today I learned the Georgia legislature very controversially sold what became Alabama and Mississippi for $500k in 1795. Lucky for loving Georgia though, eh? Oglethorpe must have a woodie in the grave right now.
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Jan 30, 2021 04:52
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bulletsponge13 posted:There are anecdotal accounts of Russian Tankers taking brake fluid and doing the same, but I believe they are apocryphal. If it was in The Beast, it was truth. I will fight over this
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Jan 30, 2021 06:34
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bulletsponge13 posted:There are anecdotal accounts of Russian Tankers taking brake fluid and doing the same, but I believe they are apocryphal. I think the torpedo one may be too, in Dick O'Kane's biography they talk about Doc just having a big cabinet of liquor they refer to as "depth charge medicine" the Captain would authorize to boost moral, or after a particularly nasty depth charging by a Japanese destroyer.
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Jan 30, 2021 07:20
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My father did one of his 2 Vietnam tours on a sub, and he said that by that time the only people that still remembered that poo poo happening were crusty old WWII holdovers. Electric torpedoes ended the need for the stuff.
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Jan 30, 2021 08:49
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The fuel ADCAPS use is not something I would want to drink or even smell.
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Jan 30, 2021 08:59
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GD_American posted:If it was in The Beast, it was truth. I will fight over this The Beast stole it from various anecdotal reports. And that movie is so underrated.
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Jan 30, 2021 15:57
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Elviscat posted:I think the torpedo one may be too, in Dick O'Kane's biography they talk about Doc just having a big cabinet of liquor they refer to as "depth charge medicine" the Captain would authorize to boost moral, or after a particularly nasty depth charging by a Japanese destroyer. So your argument is that Joe wouldn’t stoop to making his own hooch so he could get drunk whenever he wanted because limited amounts of alcohol were given out sometimes?
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Jan 30, 2021 21:58
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I am the idiot and I'm sorry I couldn't reply sooner the landlord did a super short notice walkthrough this morning and I spent a good chunk of the day cleaning and the rest getting my organic chemistry lab and lecture homework squared away. I am sorry if I offended anyone on the GiP Discord but I have not will NEVER use hurtful language or slurs against anyone in the GiP Discord. Everyone there has treated me with nothing but kindness and respect and I only wish to be able to do the same in return. It is a very different environment than some of the other Discords I am in, in that the GiP Discord is much less confrontational.
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Jan 30, 2021 23:46
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McNally posted:So your argument is that Joe wouldn’t stoop to making his own hooch so he could get drunk whenever he wanted because limited amounts of alcohol were given out sometimes? poo poo man, I knew guys who made their own mead on a boring rear end airfield security pump.
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Jan 31, 2021 04:32
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Cenen posted:I am the idiot and I'm sorry I couldn't reply sooner the landlord did a super short notice walkthrough this morning and I spent a good chunk of the day cleaning and the rest getting my organic chemistry lab and lecture homework squared away. I am sorry if I offended anyone on the GiP Discord but I have not will NEVER use hurtful language or slurs against anyone in the GiP Discord. Everyone there has treated me with nothing but kindness and respect and I only wish to be able to do the same in return. It is a very different environment than some of the other Discords I am in, in that the GiP Discord is much less confrontational. There's a GiP discord?
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Thump! posted:There's a GiP discord? Yes, it started as a way to reach out to people on the Get help thread.
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Jan 31, 2021 04:52
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Cenen posted:I have not will NEVER use hurtful language or slurs against anyone in the GiP Discord Maybe don't apply qualifiers to "I won't use slurs."
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Jan 31, 2021 05:50
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McNally posted:Maybe don't apply qualifiers to "I won't use slurs." That's kind of at the heart of the issue, yes.
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Jan 31, 2021 06:28
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This post stolen from the GBS OSHA thread, who in turn stole it from Reddit:quote:[Ejection Systems] "What does this thing actually do?!"
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Absolutely believe it. Fun F-16 story: In the two seat fighters (specifically the training versions, I don't know how the Strike Eagle is set up), there are a couple of ejection settings...it depends on whether you want both people to have the ability to eject both seats or not. You can understand why you wouldn't want Local Reporter on a PR ride to get freaked out and send both of you rocketing out, letting a jet worth tens of millions of dollars crash into god knows what for no good reason. But in the event that both seats need to leave the aircraft expeditiously, the backseat is supposed to go first. Some time in the 90s, at Hill AFB, I think. It didn't happen that way. Dude in the front seat launches first, rockets burn the gently caress out of the backseater who then gets launched. Turns out someone had taken the plugs for the backseat and plugged them into the front, and vice versa. Because the connections were identical. The entire F-16 fleet was grounded for inspections, and an absurd number, like 1/4 or something, were connected like this. The plugs were redesigned so it couldn't happen again.
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Godholio posted:Absolutely believe it. Aside from the lucky contractor who made the redesigned plugs, who exactly had fun here?
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