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Cojawfee posted:What is it about motorcycles? I don't want a motorcycle because I know I'll be unsafe on it. I know how I drive my car, I'm going to ride a bike the same way and end up dead, so I don't want one. Yet every time someone around me hears "motorcycle" they go crazy and think they need to get one. A friend of mine just had a baby and decided that he now has to buy a motorcycle because it will be so cool. I don't know if he's ever ridden one. Mil types are obviously going to have a stronger element of thrill-seeking in their personality, motorcycling can appeal to that. It's fairly inexpensive to get into compared to many other thrill-oriented hobbies, and is fairly mil-friendly in that you don't need to take leave, travel, etc to enjoy it. There is also a non-trivial practical aspect - if you're in Cali, watch bike guys show up in the morning, blow past the car line at the gates, and snag the good parking spots. They're also good on gas, fairly cheap to operate, etc. If you operate them responsibly, take safety classes, wear safety gear etc, the risks can be mitigated extensively, just like the military shows and tells you to do with everything. Ask in Cycle Asylum if you're genuinely curious. That said, there's a lot of idiocy about "gotta have a bike" in the same manner as dudes thinking they've gotta get moto tats and wear Tapout everywhere. Or they think they're not real 'murrica if they don't have a noisy Harley. The guy with a baby just got hit in the face with the hot urine stream of adulthood and is grasping at something to make him feel young, that happens too.
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Yeah, there are multiple points of abject stupidity in that story. "Wear proper gear" is good advice that would have literally saved his rear end, but when you're dealing with someone dumb enough to be popping wheelies on the highway, and someone hooning around without the situational awareness to be alert for road dangers (like cops) they're going to end up a smear sooner or later. If they didn't have a bike they'd probably be dumb and hurt themselves another way. People like that also tend to be full of excuses as to why it wasn't their fault, instead of owning up to it and being a lesson for other people to learn from.
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Jun 10, 2013 00:41
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If you're marrying someone from your own unit, you're the idiot. Marry someone with a completely different exercise / deployment schedule, so most of the time you have the apartment to yourself. Carpooling isn't worth it. Plus if you're in completely separate groups, you can go up to your boss and tell him your mwife is sick or has an appointment or something you need to skate out of work to take care of. That's obviously not going to work if he's right down the hall.
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Jun 27, 2013 03:26
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Hernandez's defense, that guy I killed was hitting on my girl, also he's really just a clump of cells
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Jun 28, 2013 04:32
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Unironic use of 'the 1%', usually as an attempt to not sound crazy while meaning 'the Illuminati'
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Jun 29, 2013 22:37
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mokhtar belmokhtar posted:i know people will defend you but No, no, no, a better response would be Laranzu posted:I'm a fairly raging socialist They prescribe topical creams for that, you know
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Jun 30, 2013 10:43
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Midjack posted:"Neo" got turned into "10 times as bad" at the moment the term "neo-Nazi" was coined. 
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Jun 30, 2013 22:05
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Frosted Flake posted:Were there a lot of fatal accidents over in Europe? Total military casualties in the ten years preceding the Iraq War were higher than the ten years of the Iraq War, because the mil was so much bigger, and people kept doing dumb poo poo, flipping trucks, crashing helos etc
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Sep 17, 2013 05:22
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It depends a lot too on if you have to do sentry watch or something like that while everyone else is sleeping.
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Sep 17, 2013 22:24
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The only thing I remember about Three Kings is that the boat's MWR-issued 8mm copy was an obvious camrip and we couldn't tell what was special effects to look dark, gritty and shaky, and what was a side effect of the awful rip job. Chronicles Of Riddick was even worse to the point of making people sick, especially if we were near the surface
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Sep 18, 2013 21:13
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Mr. Nice! posted:Crimson Tide. This one immediately sprung to mind. That Last Resort show struggled to be less accurate than this dreck.
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Godholio posted:That's one of the stories techs tell to gently caress with people, so now I'm actually convinced that dude was actually an ART. Speaking of climbing in domes and stories to gently caress with people  This is the D1G ball. It's the second largest freestanding sphere on the planet, behind Epcot. When the Navy was first developing nuclear reactors, they really didn't know if they'd work, melt or just explode - especially the early liquid sodium cooled ones. So, as the Navy is wont to do, they brute forced the gently caress out of it by building the entire back half of a missile cruiser in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. They built it inside this fuckoff huge ball, big and thick enough that any imaginable explosion would be contained completely. This is the kind of overengineering that let the Navy be the only major branch to have never had a reactor meltdown. Now that's the real story. But the thing is, you have this hugeass ball out in the forest, at a super sketchy base that not only isn't Navy, not even DoD, it's not even government run at all. The locals could see the ball, they saw the weirdos who worked on site, but they never saw the ship. So they just made up wild conjectures as to what was going on there. Eventually it became mostly a training facility, and got somewhat less hush-hush, and then this particular site was retired, but the ball remains. You can tell people what it was and why, but they won't believe you (it's on Wikipedia.) The best local-generated idea I heard was that it was a submarine refueling facility; the subs would presumably transit underground, hundreds of miles, to surface inside the dome, their fission cores kept hidden from the prying eyes of enemy satellites. Tales of working at a reactor refueling facility make for poor pillow talk, though. My friends and I decided that we would have the best luck with the students of the local all-girls college if we instead pretended to be naval aviators. Young test pilots for the R-114, a stealth spy jet so secret we could only fly it inside the dome. This tale had surprising success, possibly just from the sheer chutzpah of telling it, but also in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 where we embellished with details on how we were heading straight into harm's way, a little scared, but so proud to serve our country. R-114 is gas for an air conditioner.
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Oct 10, 2013 08:44
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Woah now, cool those jets, bowels o' mine
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Oct 17, 2013 08:53
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Sacrilage posted:Like all things in the military, I have a feeling manning levels play a big deal in this. We had 4 guys do something very, very hosed up on our sub; three got the immediate boot, because their rating was overmanned, and one just got shuffled into another sub that needed the billet filled. Bullshit, per usual. There were boats on the waterfront that lost whole divisions to drug busts. And, reportedly, boats that should have, but didn't. The reasoning was very opaque.
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Oct 23, 2013 04:53
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Stultus Maximus posted:The more I hear about the Guard, the less I want to be anywhere near them. Clearly the answer is to ban all firearms from the armory. When will people finally wake up and realize our entire bases need to be gun free?
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Oct 25, 2013 01:44
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A million dollar house is still worth a million dollars, though. An older exotic car can get amazingly worthless, especially if you let it get run down. You can very easily end with a car with minor problems that cost more to fix than the car is worth. That dude's still very much an idiot.
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Godholio posted:One of my peers paid off his house in 5 loving years doing the same thing. He was still driving a piece of poo poo 1980-gently caress K-car the whole time. One of my old roommates sent every penny he could back home, to his folks in Colombia. Someone noticed near the end of his six-year term that his very ratty underwear still had the stencils from boot camp. Apparently his family had an impressive estate with the earnings. Snowdens Secret fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Fixed, thanks
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Oct 25, 2013 17:43
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I too did not purchase an airborne tab
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Dec 20, 2013 03:42
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Rent-A-Cop posted:In a hundred years if we don't have Space Marines yet none of this was worth it. Airborne training will be vital on Klendathu
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Dec 21, 2013 05:28
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Thump! posted:Didn't the all-or-nothing airborne attack lead to hundreds of thousands of casualties and the resignation of the Sky Marshal though? Oh sure but all that was the fault of the clowns in Intel I mean Games and Theory
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Dec 21, 2013 08:21
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Thump! posted:But we may have to assault an enemy beach one day!!! Need to retrain the entire Corps for cyberwarfare so they can storm ~virtual beachheads~ You know if you put it that way you could get some generals seriously wet
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Dec 23, 2013 02:04
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In boot camp (yes, a boot camp story) we were always told to line up 'nut to butt' and in a coed division this wasn't always unpleasant. We had a girl from Sudan or somewhere around there roll back into our divison and get made the AROC (the person who shouts cadence when you march) and whenever we started lining up or she noticed a girl leaning back a little too obviously she would start this screaming hissy fit about 'males respecting the females' in her thick accent. In nuke school we had a Russian national; Lord knows how he got there but he sailed through his clearance check faster than most everyone else. The guy sounded like loving Boris from Rocky and Bullwinkle and loved to goosestep around shouting 'I AM RUSSIAN SPY' and laughing.
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BexGu posted:I feel like the Russian version of this thread would be stories of people drinking the fluid. They usually did. And being Russians, they also ran a black market on it. Someone (MrChips?) made a big effortpost in the AI Planes thread about it.
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Found itMrChips posted:Instead of a conventional hydraulic fluid, the MiG-25 used pure grain alcohol as hydraulic fluid. Being Russian at heart, pilots and ground crews alike in MiG-25 squadrons formed miniature black-market bootlegging rings to sell this free, state-supplied nectar, skimming off a bit of fluid every now and again and selling it in makeshift market stands outside the gates of their fighter bases! It was such a popular thing to do that the MiG-25 quickly earned the nickname “Massandra”, which is a backronym in Russian for “Mikoyan Aviation equips alcohol, people happy with decision of aircraft designer”. Famously (and perhaps apocryphally), the wives of these bootlegger-pilots began a letter-writing campaign, sending letters to both the MiG design bureau and the Air Ministry, demanding that a change be made to the MiG-25 to rid the aircraft of its boozy hydraulic fluid. Artem Mikoyan bristled at the suggestion, stating that “If aircraft system performance demands we fill it with the finest Armenian cognac, then that’s what we’ll use drat it!” Ultimately, later versions of the MiG-25 switched to a more conventional hydraulic fluid; certainly not because of the endemic bootlegging either.
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If only we had some sort of Congressionally mandated transition program for these people to address these exact issues
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Jan 9, 2014 22:09
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At least draw a penis on the cat
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Jan 30, 2014 02:18
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My googly eyes don't point in the same direction. Generally not an issue except I get wicked double vision looking at closely spaced lines. Ask me about answering high bells with all-analog reactor dials
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Feb 6, 2014 19:06
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What the hell, Air Force. I thought Coast Guard girls were the only ones willing to agree to that kind of poo poo
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Feb 7, 2014 21:59
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He pled guilty to a whole mess of stuff. He then appealed the charge of indecency related to pressuring his fellow airman to put live sea creatures in her hoohoo, claiming that Lawrence v Texas means as long as she was willing, he was in the clear. The judge disagreed, saying they were both too nasty for LvT to apply. All the other crap he pled to wasn't up for appeal, just the snatchcrabs part.
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Feb 7, 2014 22:07
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I'd never heard of this and when you guys said 'dad beat her with a belt' I just assumed it meant spanked a kid, not beat a worthless freeloading twentysomething
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Feb 10, 2014 05:13
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I coulda sworn I knew someone with a story of a nub getting hazed by being duck-taped to the shaft, with predictable results. There's more clearance so simple interference isn't an issue. That's one of those stories everyone has a third-hand version of.
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May 12, 2014 01:56
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Mad Dragon posted:ORSE And you wish it was only a broomstick. The shaft is aft, indeed
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Mike-o posted:most people probably don't even know wtf an inert gas is, or that there are non-flammable gasses. An enlisted man might have an excuse, a noble has almost assuredly taken a chemistry class at some point
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Reverand maynard posted:In eve online I That's pretty much enough
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