Kangaroo Gun Show Cafe

Elephants of Namibia, by
Bernabe Photo

Old vid, but nice: Elephant thanks motorist for stopping while his herd crosses the road.

Cat gets the best seat in the house for the symphony.

Rescuing a dog.

The shoebill stork makes a machine-gun-like noise by rapidly clacking its beak shut.

A one armed clean and jerk. It doesn't seem possible.

Dude's getting some air.

Young dog jumps all over older dog, who just wants to sleep. While a little kid hums the "Ghana Funeral Dance" tune, signalling that the older dog's patience might be at its end.

High school in 1987, when almost everyone was physically and psychologically healthy.

Sick volleyball rally.

This guy is really "pleasing the pangolin," if you know what I'm sayin'.

Beautiful mother dog struggling to get her puppies out of the rubble pic.twitter.com/PE7I2idrYD
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Wait for it🐐

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1 I'll get em

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2023 07:59 PM (xhxe8)

2 Dutifully called, was about to start resting my eyes waiting

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2023 08:00 PM (xhxe8)

3 Content?

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at February 15, 2023 08:01 PM (Eeb9P)

4 Fourth-ish

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 15, 2023 08:02 PM (gryET)

5 yeah, kangaroos are weird

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 08:02 PM (V13WU)

6 Don't mess with a kangaroo...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 15, 2023 08:03 PM (S7une)

7 Elephant herd leader was neat but one handed clean and jerk is just outstanding

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2023 08:03 PM (xhxe8)

8 Kangaroos buy guns? Close the kangaroo loophole!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 15, 2023 08:03 PM (u73oe)

9 Kangaroos are just possums that learned to bench press

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2023 08:03 PM (xhaym)

10 That roo at the bottom is ripped and wants you to know it.

NOT a roo to be messed with!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 08:04 PM (BpYfr)

11 I hate penguins.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 15, 2023 08:04 PM (uNylN)

12 Yay, happy things!

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 15, 2023 08:04 PM (DTX3h)

13 What do kangaroos taste like? Chicken ?

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:05 PM (OY44N)

14 Elephant herd leader was neat but one handed clean and jerk is just outstanding
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2023 08:03 PM (xhxe

The one handed jerk was more unbelievable because the dude wasn't that big.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:06 PM (OY44N)

15 >>>3 What do kangaroos taste like? Chicken ?

why don't you come and get a taste, bitch?

Posted by: Jacked Kangaroo with a toothpick in its mouth at February 15, 2023 08:06 PM (C1Zwz)

16 The dog is a cat

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 15, 2023 08:06 PM (63Dwl)

17 Watched a kangaroo video where a skydiver makes a landing. A kangaroo races in an kicks/punches the skydiver and then takes off hopping away.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 15, 2023 08:07 PM (N52dd)

18 High school in 1970 had better music.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 08:07 PM (anj39)

19 well, i'm'a still gettin' a laff from that ont joak where the elefant sez "can you really breathe through that" to the naked man.

what can I say? simple pleasures are the best, amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 15, 2023 08:08 PM (XzIdt)

20 Another old one: Dog gets the best seat in the house for they symphony.
_________

Dog?

That seems to be taking the trans thing a bit far.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 15, 2023 08:08 PM (TgBWG)

21 Evening.

Raquel Welch tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/279ywvtb

Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 08:08 PM (k+0PL)

22 >The one handed jerk was more unbelievable because the dude wasn't that big.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:06 PM (OY44N)

Impressive. Hard to tell how much weight is on the bar because of the bumper plates, but his balance is astounding. I'm guessing at least 135lbs.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (gryET)

23 Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't look at the menu.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (Vwz3I)

24 >>>20 Another old one: Dog gets the best seat in the house for they symphony.
_________

Dog?

is it a cat?

my eyes are bleary and the computer has its dim, yellow night light on. I can't see dick.

Posted by: ace at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (C1Zwz)

25 Kangaroos are just prison gang rabbits.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (3CCua)

26 look liked a elephant flip off to me

Posted by: REDACTED at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (us2H3)

27 Watched a kangaroo video where a skydiver makes a landing. A kangaroo races in an kicks/punches the skydiver and then takes off hopping away.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 15, 2023 08:07 PM (N52dd)
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Who knew they were dicks?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (BpYfr)

28 I graduated from high school in 89. Wow.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

29 CDR Salamander: We Should be Brave Enough to Say Hard Things

none of our problems are accidental, nor surprising

https://tinyurl.com/bdexbfyw

Via Insty.

Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 08:10 PM (k+0PL)

30 The India puppy rescue was good

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2023 08:10 PM (xhxe8)

31 My daughter graduated from HS in 87.

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 08:10 PM (MF3yS)

32 High school in 1970 had better music.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 08:07 PM (anj39)

Did they have high schools back in 1970?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM (QBaJw)

33 No rainbow hair or missing noses in 1987. Refreshing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM (Xrfse)

34 Watched a kangaroo video where a skydiver makes a landing. A kangaroo races in an kicks/punches the skydiver and then takes off hopping away.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 15, 2023 08:07 PM (N52dd)
---
Who knew they were dicks?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (BpYfr)

Didn't we learn this when that one kangaroo would kick Sylvester The Cat's ass all the time?

Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM (k+0PL)

35 32 in huts, as I understand it.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

36 kangarrooze wanna get theyselves in order b4 they meet up with sumbuddy gotsa 629 snubby inneair armpit noimsain?

so to "speak" ... lol ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM (XzIdt)

37 >28 I graduated from high school in 89. Wow.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

'82 - graduated college in '86.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 15, 2023 08:12 PM (gryET)

38 @TheInsiderPaper
ALERT - Panic as 8 lions seen roaming on the streets of the village in Gujarat, India

https://tinyurl.com/ysmdvnvj

Lions? In India??

[no violence]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:12 PM (Vwz3I)

39 High school in 1970 had better music.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 08:07 PM (anj39)

Did they have high schools back in 1970?
Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM (QBaJw)

Damn right we did!
And none of this buying a hundred bucks worth of crap for school either. Just a slate and chalk.
Oh.
And a slide rule.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 08:13 PM (anj39)

40 I graduated from high school in 89. Wow.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

'82 - graduated college in '86.
Posted by: Heavy Meta

My yard. Remove yourself from it!

LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 08:13 PM (qoGsy)

41 That mama dog!

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

42 Kangaroos were sent to Australia from England when the other criminals were in the late 1700s

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2023 08:14 PM (xhxe8)

43 >My yard. Remove yourself from it!

LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 08:13 PM (qoGsy)

Come down off your front porch and make me old man.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 15, 2023 08:14 PM (gryET)

44 & on that dialectical note, g'night everyone!

seeya inna mornin'!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 15, 2023 08:14 PM (XzIdt)

45 >>>This guy is really "pleasing the pangolin," if you know what I'm sayin'.

Is that what that nasty little thing is. Did you see the tongue on it?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 15, 2023 08:15 PM (gv7Yb)

46 Said barely was keeping my eyes open.
Everyone I hope has a great evening

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2023 08:15 PM (xhxe8)

47 I excepted that goat to give that man a colonoscopy.

I am disappoint.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 15, 2023 08:15 PM (XtkZj)

48 is it a cat?

my eyes are bleary and the computer has its dim, yellow night light on. I can't see dick.
Posted by: ace at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM (C1Zwz)
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Just from observing the behavior of the animal, it's a cat. Rubbing up against people and things, the way the tail moves, all catlike.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 08:15 PM (BpYfr)

49 35 32 in huts, as I understand it.
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

Oh, nice. I wasn't sure if huts were invented yet.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2023 08:15 PM (QBaJw)

50 A word of advice to the regular Commentariat, please do not oppugn Ace's shelving. In case you missed it, shelving padawan J.J. Sefton showed off the skills he's starting to learn from the Master in last weekend's hobby thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 15, 2023 08:15 PM (a3Q+t)

51 Come down off your front porch and make me old man.
Posted by: Heavy Meta

*shakes cane at that handsome trespasser*

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 08:16 PM (qoGsy)

52 33 No rainbow hair or missing noses in 1987. Refreshing.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM (Xrfse)

I graduated in the 80s as well. Simpler times.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 15, 2023 08:16 PM (XtkZj)

53 Tucker is sadly reviewing what may well be the end of East Palestine, Ohio right now. The waste expert he is speaking with appears to blame the EPA (for actions after the derailment) for most of the damage.

Imagine that, the federal government cannot be trusted.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 15, 2023 08:17 PM (E3gRs)

54 Graduated HS 1978 at 17 years old. Because there is no math allowed at aos I'm not worried people will know my age.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:17 PM (OY44N)

55 Didn't we learn this when that one kangaroo would kick Sylvester The Cat's ass all the time?
Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM (k+0PL)
---
To be fair, Sylvester was trying to catch and kill the "giant mouse" while teaching his son how to hunt.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 08:17 PM (BpYfr)

56
Busy day. HM and I took Ruth and Diana to handling class, which is a complete waste of my time regardless of how much the babies need the practice. Work stuff this afternoon.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2023 08:18 PM (MoZTd)

57 I ask all my teachers if they knew anything about antiques

none did

so, I left HS at 15 in 1966

Posted by: REDACTED at February 15, 2023 08:19 PM (us2H3)

58 >54 Graduated HS 1978 at 17 years old. Because there is no math allowed at aos I'm not worried people will know my age.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:17 PM (OY44N)

*takes of shoes and socks*

...divide by 3...carry the two...calculate square root...

Answer is...yer old.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 15, 2023 08:19 PM (gryET)

59 I had no idea how freaky storks look.

Posted by: 496 at February 15, 2023 08:19 PM (yt7Yo)

60 Did they have high schools back in 1970?
Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM

Yes, but your Permanent Record was written in cuniform.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 15, 2023 08:19 PM (a3Q+t)

61 Found this in the replies to the cat/orchestra video.

https://tinyurl.com/ycbrwb4c

Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 08:19 PM (waw68)

62 >>>Wait for it

I thought the goat was going to give him a headbutt, to his butt.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 15, 2023 08:19 PM (gv7Yb)

63 Saved a copy of my high school yearbook and paged through it a while back. While we certainly were no angels, we were semi-normal.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:19 PM (Xrfse)

64 Graduated HS 1978 at 17 years old. Because there is no math allowed at aos I'm not worried people will know my age.

Subtract the hypotenuse, carry the banana, 29?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 15, 2023 08:20 PM (Bd6X8)

65
Graduated HS 1978 at 17 years old.

__________

That makes you...

*scribble, scribble*

... 29

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2023 08:20 PM (MoZTd)

66 Graduated HS in 87.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 15, 2023 08:20 PM (sAmhv)

67 ALERT - Panic as 8 lions seen roaming on the streets of the village in Gujarat, India

https://tinyurl.com/ysmdvnvj

Lions? In India??

[no violence]
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:12 PM (Vwz3I)

8 of them? They had better grid their lions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2023 08:21 PM (tkR6S)

68 I'm not worried people will know my age.
------------
29

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:21 PM (Vwz3I)

69 actually, cuneiform on clay tablets does make a pretty permanent record. Just sayin'

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2023 08:21 PM (xhaym)

70 Oppugn is a word from middle French, but y'all knew that.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 15, 2023 08:21 PM (a3Q+t)

71 "Graduated HS 1978 at 17 years old. Because there is no math allowed at aos I'm not worried people will know my age. "

Just a youngster

Posted by: Tuna at February 15, 2023 08:21 PM (gLRfa)

72 An elephant herd crossed in front of us one day (in South Africa). But they didn't wave; the Oldest Female ran toward us followed by a young bull. We backed up at high speed, and she kept coming. Finally she turned back, but not before dropping a big pile of dung in our path forward. She was obviously not having a good day, and I blame feminism.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 15, 2023 08:21 PM (E3gRs)

73 80s.

Mullets, sideless shirts, vans, ripped jeans, leather jackets, bandanas tied around girls ankles, swatches.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 15, 2023 08:21 PM (XtkZj)

74
Buncha young whippersnappers on this thread!

*waves cane angrily*

*sits down exhausted*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2023 08:22 PM (MoZTd)

75 I'm not as old as Vic, but I did graduate H.S. in 1976.

Signed up (delayed enlistment) for the USAF in my Jr. year, 1975.

*traverses tripod mounted belt fed crew served weapon across field barren of fucks left to give*

My lawn is a dirt field. Shows every footprint, capiche?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 08:23 PM (e6UQI)

76 Cat gets the best seat in the house for the symphony.

"Why does this cello smell like Mom?"

Posted by: the cat at February 15, 2023 08:23 PM (P1f+c)

77 I went to my 40th HS reunion . I was disappointed but not really surprised that all the girls apparently became plus sized models.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:24 PM (OY44N)

78 *sits down exhausted*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2023 08:22 PM

* puts an afghan over HtS's legs *

Would you like some pudding, or a snort?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 15, 2023 08:24 PM (a3Q+t)

79 While you are looking at that kangaroo's guns he's leaning back on his tail and getting ready to disembowel you with the ginormous claws on his hind paws.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2023 08:24 PM (ZLI7S)

80 73 remember parachute pants? And tying the bandana around your thigh a la Adam Ant? I was in middle school, but remember it well.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

81 No wonder the 'ettes are so gorgeous. They're so young!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 15, 2023 08:26 PM (a3Q+t)

82 80 73 remember parachute pants? And tying the bandana around your thigh a la Adam Ant? I was in middle school, but remember it well.
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

Yup. What were those rubber bands that everyone wore on their wrists? Like fifty of them?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 15, 2023 08:27 PM (XtkZj)

83 "one day this is all going to end and Karine Jean-Pierre is going to end up back at the DMV, where she belongs"

~~ Tucker Carlson
------------------
Uh-oh. The lefties are going to go crazy. How dare he! She's a lesbian, first generation, proud black woman!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 15, 2023 08:27 PM (E3gRs)

84 77 this made me laugh, and it so mean. I shouldn’t laugh.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

85 Bellbottom pants
The Beatles
Vietnam
Three Dog Night
Woodstock
Tie dyed shirts

Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 08:27 PM (anj39)

86 For what it's worth, my goal is to make it to 29, as many of you already have.

I've seen plenty of people who will be lucky to make it to my version of 29.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2023 08:27 PM (M2qSa)

87 Cat gets the best seat in the house for the symphony.

"Why does this cello smell like Mom?"
Posted by: the cat at February 15, 2023 08:23 PM (P1f+c)

Deep snark. The Cello strings right?

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:28 PM (OY44N)

88 High school in 1987, when almost everyone was physically and psychologically healthy.

..

Nothing truer has been written today.

Awesome. And very sad.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at February 15, 2023 08:28 PM (HKxGY)

89 I went to my 40th HS reunion . I was disappointed but not really surprised that all the girls apparently became plus sized models.

Hopefully there was a good buffet. And an open bar.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:28 PM (Xrfse)

90 Now I see why kangaroo is on the menu down under.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 15, 2023 08:28 PM (R/m4+)

91 82 jelly bracelets!

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

92 I think I am going to have to buy this Hogwarts game, even though I don't game, or even own a player.

"For that reason alone, I can't in good conscience recommend spending your money on it. Combined with who this game helps and who it harms, well, it's definitely not worth it unless your goal is to cause harm."

Stop stop, take my money.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 15, 2023 08:29 PM (yQpMk)

93 Mountain goat is awesome. Thanks, boss.

Posted by: creeper at February 15, 2023 08:29 PM (cTCuP)

94 Bellbottom pants
The Beatles
Vietnam
Three Dog Night
Woodstock
Tie dyed shirts

Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes

155mm nukes

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 08:30 PM (3CCua)

95 Hopefully there was a good buffet. And an open bar.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:28 PM (Xrfse)

Were you there?

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:30 PM (OY44N)

96 look liked a elephant flip off to me
Posted by: REDACTED

It's hard not to raise your middle digit when you've only got the one.

Posted by: the elephant at February 15, 2023 08:30 PM (P1f+c)

97 91 82 jelly bracelets!
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

That's right!

I forgot popped shirt collars and wearing multiple izods.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 15, 2023 08:31 PM (XtkZj)

98 ..Hopefully there was a good buffet. And an open bar.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:28 PM (Xrfse)

You've not SEEN an Open Bar, till you've been to the TxMoMeet.

It's enough to drive a teetotaler to drink, I tellya!

Can I get an Amen?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 08:31 PM (e6UQI)

99 155mm nukes
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 08:30 PM (3CCua)

Ahhh!
And 8 inch!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 08:31 PM (anj39)

100 Funny Raquel Welch meme.
https://tinyurl.com/yk6prneu

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:31 PM (Vwz3I)

101 80s.
swatches.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Yes. Swatches, plural. 3 or 4, on the same arm.

Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2023 08:32 PM (P1f+c)

102 60 Did they have high schools back in 1970?
Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2023 08:11 PM

Yes, but your Permanent Record was written in cuniform.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 15, 2023 08:19 PM (a3Q+t)

Plus side - they taught students far more than anyone gets out of a baccalaureate degree today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2023 08:32 PM (r46W7)

103 The mom dog is inspiring.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 15, 2023 08:33 PM (U4pE/)

104 High school wasn't a freakshow in 1992 when I got out of there. Sure, the majority of my peers were insufferable twats but they weren't freaks.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 15, 2023 08:33 PM (DTX3h)

105 101 I had quite the swatch collection. And Benetton sweaters.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

106 Were you there?

No, but I've been to a few reunions. Very strange to run into classmates that you wouldn't recognize in a million years if not for the name tag.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:34 PM (Xrfse)

107
Tucker is sadly reviewing what may well be the end of East Palestine, Ohio right now. The waste expert he is speaking with appears to blame the EPA (for actions after the derailment) for most of the damage.

Imagine that, the federal government cannot be trusted.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Heck of a job, Brownie!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 15, 2023 08:34 PM (63Dwl)

108 Deep snark. The Cello strings right?
Posted by: polynikes

Gut it in one guess.

Got it. Got it in one guess.

Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2023 08:34 PM (P1f+c)

109 >Imagine that, the federal government cannot be trusted.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Heck of a job, Brownie!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 15, 2023 08:34 PM (63Dwl)

'We're from the government, and we're here to help'

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 15, 2023 08:35 PM (gryET)

110 Graduated in 88.

Loved the 80s. So much fun.

Music and movies were the best.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at February 15, 2023 08:35 PM (HKxGY)

111 I forgot popped shirt collars and wearing multiple izods.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 15, 2023 08:31 PM (XtkZj)

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No madras shorts?

Posted by: 496 at February 15, 2023 08:35 PM (NS3Vc)

112 Moms used to be so pissed. We'd take a perfectly good pair of jeans and cut them up.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 15, 2023 08:36 PM (XtkZj)

113 Cafe at casa Ben Had. Wine,cheeses and bowls of beef/barley soup and watching the sunset with good conversation

Posted by: Ben Had at February 15, 2023 08:36 PM (DdSzF)

114 Out of HS in '80, professionally working in '83, retired in '20.

I've seen things.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2023 08:37 PM (Q4IgG)

115 I still have the swatch and box I bought in the 80's. Recently looked up its value. More than I paid for it but didn't keep up with inflation.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:37 PM (OY44N)

116 That one handed clean and jerk...

Well done mate!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 15, 2023 08:37 PM (CCSxw)

117 Saved a copy of my high school yearbook and paged through it a while back. While we certainly were no angels, we were semi-normal.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:19 PM (Xrfse)

Ran across my Jr and Sr high school year books a couple of years ago. I was reading the scrawled messages that were written by friends in the books. I noticed one girl had written in all 6 yearbooks. From her writing it was apparent she had a crush on me [insert laugh track here].

I certainly liked the girl but being an idiot teenager I never realized this until 29 years old. Now I have regrets that I probably hurt her feelings and also what might have been. I think I'll go make an old fashion.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 15, 2023 08:37 PM (1cmtE)

118 No, but I've been to a few reunions. Very strange to run into classmates that you wouldn't recognize in a million years if not for the name tag.

It's amazing. They're all wrinkled and fat, and have gray hair. I, OTOH, hadn't changed a bit.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2023 08:38 PM (eOEVl)

119 98 ..Hopefully there was a good buffet. And an open bar.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:28 PM (Xrfse)

You've not SEEN an Open Bar, till you've been to the TxMoMeet.

It's enough to drive a teetotaler to drink, I tellya!

Can I get an Amen?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 08:31 PM
And cigar humidor full of cigars, amen?

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 08:38 PM (MF3yS)

120 Tucker is sadly reviewing what may well be the end of East Palestine, Ohio

Ghost towns became a thing back in the late 1800s. Deja vu, for different reasons. Very sad.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:38 PM (Xrfse)

121 haven't seen that many mullets since my last fishing trip

Posted by: REDACTED at February 15, 2023 08:39 PM (us2H3)

122 113 sounds awesome. It’s still just the kiddo and me, so we did soup tonight, too.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

123 Cafe at casa Ben Had. Wine,cheeses and bowls of beef/barley soup and watching the sunset with good conversation
Posted by: Ben Had at February 15, 2023 08:36 PM

Any Purple Martins or yaks?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 15, 2023 08:39 PM (a3Q+t)

124 Lord, my oldest graduated High School in '82.

So that makes me... 29?

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 08:39 PM (cPGH3)

125
I got annoyed by comments from Eurotrash anti-religious hate bigots saying how awful religion is. Between the near-complete dechristianization of Europe and that they've driven the population of Jews from 9.5 million in 1939 to 1.4 million today, it's not surprising that Europe is a hopeless, doomed backwater today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2023 08:39 PM (MoZTd)

126 Loved the 80s. The Age of AquaNet.

Posted by: screaming in digital, class of '91 at February 15, 2023 08:40 PM (aBJcM)

127 incredible speed of mountain goat

His nickname is "GTO."

Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2023 08:40 PM (P1f+c)

128 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts · 57m
🚨#BREAKING: Active shooter reported at Cielo Vista Mall with multiple people injured
📌#ElPaso l #Texas
Currently Multiple law enforcement agencies are responding to a active shooter reported at Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso Texas with Reports of multiple people injured following shooting police are asking everyone to immediately avoid the area

🚨#UPDATE: Video shows a chaotic scene inside of the mall as people run and take cover. Police have just issued a Mass casualty incident declared with additional ambulance dispatched to the scene. 3-4 people have been shot inside the food court with one reported dead.

https://tinyurl.com/3x68kxn5
gang related??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:40 PM (Vwz3I)

129 The EPA

The Environmental Perdition Agency

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 15, 2023 08:41 PM (TXFi7)

130
I noticed one girl had written in all 6 yearbooks. From her writing it was apparent she had a crush on me

___________

*laughs sardonically*

Never had that problem myself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2023 08:42 PM (MoZTd)

131 Kangaroo Gun Show Cafe

Why are kangaroos so ripped?

Watch the one behind him, eating and hopping away. They don't use their arms for anything. They're basically T-Rex deer.

Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2023 08:42 PM (P1f+c)

132 I graduated college in 1982 and went to grad school afterwards. Luckily for me and my friends there was no Me Too organization looking for scalps.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:42 PM (OY44N)

133 Graduated in 88.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic

Applied for ADA warhead warrant MOS in '86, was selected in '87, and pinned on WO1 in '88. Would've been pinned in '87 in my original Nike Herc MOS, but nooooo. Army had to retread my ass into Patriot so I spent 18 fooking months as a damned WOC. Bastards changed that reg the mother fucking month I got pinned. Cheated me out of 18 months of time in grade. Chaps my ass to this day.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 08:42 PM (3CCua)

134 BIDEN is getting closer to the N-word in public:

President Biden on Wednesday referred to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, who is Black, as "boy" during his opening remarks to an audience of IBEW union workers.

"You got a hell of a new governor in Wes Moore, I tell ya," Biden said, eliciting applause. "He’s the real deal, and the boy looked like he could still play. He got some guns on him."

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at February 15, 2023 08:43 PM (geLO8)

135 75 I'm not as old as Vic, but I did graduate H.S. in 1976.

Signed up (delayed enlistment) for the USAF in my Jr. year, 1975.

*traverses tripod mounted belt fed crew served weapon across field barren of fucks left to give*

My lawn is a dirt field. Shows every footprint, capiche?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 08:23 PM (e6UQI)

I've got three years on you...

By your looks, I thought I was 10-15 years older.

You're well preserved...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 15, 2023 08:43 PM (CCSxw)

136 My youngest was born in '82.

You must be quite a gentleman.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 15, 2023 08:43 PM (TXFi7)

137 125 People are comfortable with Christians because they're assumed to be non-threatening.

And Christians are shit on in our own countries for the same reason.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 15, 2023 08:44 PM (U4pE/)

138 You must be quite a gentleman.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

I don't know how you inferred that, but yes!
And a scholar.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 08:45 PM (cPGH3)

139 If its El Paso, what are the chances this is a cartel shooter who no longer worries which side of the border he's on?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 15, 2023 08:45 PM (443jQ)

140 BIDEN is getting closer to the N-word in public:

President Biden on Wednesday referred to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, who is Black, as "boy" during his opening remarks to an audience of IBEW union workers.

"You got a hell of a new governor in Wes Moore, I tell ya," Biden said, eliciting applause. "He’s the real deal, and the boy looked like he could still play. He got some guns on him."
Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at February 15, 2023 08:43 PM (geLO

A Republican would have been raked over the coals until he not only resigned but hanged himself from the bathroom shower head.

Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 08:45 PM (7Euc3)

141 ..And cigar humidor full of cigars, amen?
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 08:38 PM (MF3yS)

A definite Amen, there, amigo!

Light 'em iffn' y'got 'em!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 08:46 PM (e6UQI)

142 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts · 3h
🚨#BREAKING: Multiple law enforcement agencies are responding to a US Military helicopter crash
📌#Burwell | #Alabama

Currently Multiple law enforcement agencies are responding to a us military helicopter crash that happened on in the area of Highway 53 and Burwell Road in Madison County, Alabama. Multiple people are reporting seeing of thick smoke with large flames shooting out of the helicopter reports are saying no one likely survived the helicopter crash.

🚨#BREAKING: New Security Footage video shows the US Military helicopter losing control and falls out the sky near Huntsville, Alabama before crashing into busy highway sadly no one has survived the deadly crash

https://tinyurl.com/39ntxvbe

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:46 PM (Vwz3I)

143 You've not SEEN an Open Bar, till you've been to the TxMoMeet.

It's enough to drive a teetotaler to drink, I tellya!

Can I get an Amen?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 08:31 PM (e6UQI)

Indeed.

Amennnnnn!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 15, 2023 08:46 PM (CCSxw)

144 Shoebill Stork

aka Pre-Historic Monster

There had to have been 12 foot tall versions at some time.

Posted by: DaveA at February 15, 2023 08:46 PM (FhXTo)

145 @TheInsiderPaper · 2h
UPDATE - Alabama authorities reportedly confirms the US military helicopter that crashed near Highway 53 in Madison County was a UH-60 Blackhawk, no survivors

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:48 PM (Vwz3I)

146 I got annoyed by comments from Eurotrash anti-religious hate bigots saying how awful religion is. Between the near-complete dechristianization of Europe and that they've driven the population of Jews from 9.5 million in 1939 to 1.4 million today, it's not surprising that Europe is a hopeless, doomed backwater today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Get rid of the Christians. Get rid of the Jews. See who moves in to replace them. See if being an anti-religious bigot still works.

Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2023 08:48 PM (P1f+c)

147 Loved the 80s. The Age of AquaNet.

Posted by: screaming in digital, class of '91 at February 15, 2023 08:40 PM (aBJcM)

When I moved in 1987 to NYC in attempt to get a job in advertising ( with no success) I ended up taking a manager position with CVS so I could eat. Couldn't keep enough AquaNet on the shelves.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:49 PM (OY44N)

148 gang related??

In El Paso? No way!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 15, 2023 08:49 PM (Bd6X8)

149 Be prepared to see these "active shooter" stories on a regular basis. We all know that the primary root of the problem is that there are legions of nutcases running loose throughout the land, unencumbered. The goldmine for the left in these tragedies is in promoting emotional momentum to to disarm the populace. Not saying anything profound but I usually don't.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 08:50 PM (Xrfse)

150 ..You're well preserved...Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 15, 2023 08:43 PM (CCSxw)

Thanks!

I credit Bourbon. Because it's a bad idea to drink formaldehyde.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 08:50 PM (e6UQI)

151 I graduated from high school in 89. Wow.
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2023 08:50 PM (Wnv9h)

152 I had quite the swatch collection. And Benetton sweaters.
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

Ha! I graduated '79 - HS was Dittos and Chemin-de-fer jeans, with the anti-gropy-boy double crossover buttons.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 15, 2023 08:50 PM (iyVGU)

153 If it's El Paso, what are the chances this is a cartel shooter who no longer worries which side of the border he's on?
------------
One of the cop cars in the video outside the mall had "Gang Unit" written on it.

DEVELOPING: Suspect on the Run After Shooting Inside El Paso Shopping Mall

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:51 PM (Vwz3I)

154 When I moved in 1987 to NYC in attempt to get a job in advertising ( with no success) I ended up taking a manager position with CVS so I could eat. Couldn't keep enough AquaNet on the shelves.
Posted by: polynikes
---
I did my part to put a hole in the ozone layer.

Posted by: screaming in digital, class of '91 at February 15, 2023 08:51 PM (aBJcM)

155 Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso had the shooter a couple of years ago too. Damn.

Posted by: Sassy at February 15, 2023 08:51 PM (xSICi)

156 I graduated from high school in 89. Wow.
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM

*fistbump*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I've got an entire closet of dress clothes older than y'all.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 08:51 PM (cPGH3)

157 TheInsiderPaper · 2h
UPDATE - Alabama authorities reportedly confirms the US military helicopter that crashed near Highway 53 in Madison County was a UH-60 Blackhawk, no survivors
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 08:48 PM (Vwz3I)

We've had way more training fatalities than in the Afghan war during the same period. Doesn't seem right.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:51 PM (OY44N)

158 Good or bad that we didn't have smart phones in the 80s?

Discuss.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at February 15, 2023 08:51 PM (HKxGY)

159 If its El Paso, what are the chances this is a cartel shooter who no longer worries which side of the border he's on?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 15, 2023 08:45 PM (443jQ)

They've carried out hits on our side of the border before but they go after rival cartel members.

I've often wondered about when the cartels do something stupid that results in a mass killing. I'd like to think they're smart enough to avoid something like that but someone's bound to fuck up hardcore, guaranteed.

Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 08:52 PM (dk6SU)

160 Duncanthrax, a customer wanted to give my dogs some rawhide treats and I declined so she said she will bring them some Yak sticks.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 15, 2023 08:53 PM (DdSzF)

161 Posted by: screaming in digital, class of '91 at February 15, 2023 08:51 PM (aBJcM)

We called it Long Island Big Hair. Also we had fair amount of guys buying it too. Big Hair bands .

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 08:53 PM (OY44N)

162 Shoebill Stork
aka Pre-Historic Monster
Posted by: DaveA

They kept their diet from back then. Baby crocodiles are on the menu. Though they mostly eat fish.

Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2023 08:53 PM (P1f+c)

163 I say transmission failure on the UH60,

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 08:54 PM (MF3yS)

164 Good to see you again, Redacted!

Posted by: Brunnhilde at February 15, 2023 08:54 PM (E3FAu)

165 Modern version of Valentine's Day Massacre,

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 15, 2023 08:55 PM (63Dwl)

166 You've not SEEN an Open Bar, till you've been to the TxMoMeet.

It's enough to drive a teetotaler to drink, I tellya!

Can I get an Amen?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 08:31 PM
And cigar humidor full of cigars, amen?
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 08:38 PM

Amen to both!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2023 08:55 PM (Wnv9h)

167 The LA SiL was here last weekend, shooting some footage for a film he wants to do about an old murder case + miscarriage of justice.

Now that I realize it's a "pitch reel" all I can think about is that guy.
Though I guess a documentary would be different...

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at February 15, 2023 08:55 PM (wE246)

168 Class of '84.

Woot, and stuff.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 15, 2023 08:56 PM (UQUAY)

169 I have no idea, but I've heard NG units vary in their attention to maintenance.
If this is a maintenance issue, ... no, I'll leave it there.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 08:57 PM (cPGH3)

170 Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 08:51 PM

*edges off MkY's lawn*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2023 08:57 PM (Wnv9h)

171 Kangaroo was showin some GAINZ!!!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2023 08:57 PM (oHd/0)

172 Go Broncs! And shit.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 15, 2023 08:57 PM (UQUAY)

173 https://youtu.be/7cRdgIZgobs

A very 1987 music video. Lou Gramm's solo effort, Midnight Blue. I have this on CD. Still listen to it now and then. It's solid. Nothing fancy. Just mid 80s rock.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 15, 2023 08:58 PM (sAmhv)

174 151 I graduated from high school in 89. Wow.
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 08:09 PM

*fistbump*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2023 08:50 PM (Wnv9h)

Removeth thyself from my Lawn...

77

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2023 08:59 PM (oHd/0)

175 *edges off MkY's lawn*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

And you never even seen me shoot?
That's being proactive. I CAN hit the broadside of a barn with any weapon you hand me. Maybe not the weather vane on top.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 08:59 PM (cPGH3)

176 The TXMoMe, a Horde event unlike any other

Posted by: Ben Had at February 15, 2023 09:00 PM (DdSzF)

177 We're from the government, and we're here to help'

Help ourselves!!! Hahahahaha losers!

Posted by: Government at February 15, 2023 09:00 PM (fs1hN)

178 Shoebill Stork
... Though they mostly eat fish.
Posted by: mikeski

Saw a zoo keeper trying to feed one lunch being get off my lawned by one on the TV.

Posted by: DaveA at February 15, 2023 09:01 PM (FhXTo)

179 I should have guess this but, shit-a-brick:

Norfolk Southern @nscorp
Aug 10, 2022
Our 2022 ESG report highlights our efforts to develop sustainable solutions for both our customers and our planet, and to invest in our people. Read More:

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2023 09:01 PM (XF9Gj)

180 Alabama authorities reportedly confirms the US military helicopter that crashed near Highway 53 in Madison County

Near Sparkman High School, NW of Huntsville.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2023 09:02 PM (e2onP)

181 get off my lawned
DaveA

Love it. A verb. New style book entry, I predict.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:02 PM (cPGH3)

182 >>> 179 I should have guess this but, shit-a-brick:

Norfolk Southern @nscorp
Aug 10, 2022
Our 2022 ESG report highlights our efforts to develop sustainable solutions for both our customers and our planet, and to invest in our people. Read More:
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2023 09:01 PM (XF9Gj)

Odds their score increases after this clusterfck?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 15, 2023 09:03 PM (llON8)

183 So I've been watching James Bond: Moonraker this evening as part of my ongoing Movie Roulette project.

It's mostly just a series of action set pieces with an even thinner veneer of plot than usual.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:03 PM (BpYfr)

184 The Elephant Picture would make an amazing watercolor painting.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 15, 2023 09:03 PM (up/3i)

185 I certainly liked the girl but being an idiot teenager I never realized this until 29 years old. Now I have regrets that I probably hurt her feelings and also what might have been. I think I'll go make an old fashion.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 15, 2023 08:37 PM (1cmtE)

Yeah... found out a couple of years ago that the Cheer Leader who I'd had a crush on since literally first grade, would have gone out with me my Senior Year of High School.

Now She is a Hollyweird Lawyer, doing Entertainment contract law... married a couple times, never had kids.... and looks like she's been rode hard and put away wet.

Shame.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2023 09:04 PM (oHd/0)

186 Love it. A verb. New style book entry, I predict.
Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:02 PM (cPGH3)

That's coonass pronunciation for Loaned.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 09:04 PM (OY44N)

187 Didn't Georgia start out as a Penile Colony like Australia?

Posted by: Dick Trickle at February 15, 2023 09:05 PM (wrJpE)

188 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:03 PM (BpYfr)

What was the opening scene in that one?

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 09:05 PM (OY44N)

189 169 I have no idea, but I've heard NG units vary in their attention to maintenance.
If this is a maintenance issue, ... no, I'll leave it there.
Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 08:57 PM (cPGH3)

Not just the Guard... some Active units are much better than others... and it can change in only a couple of years.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2023 09:06 PM (oHd/0)

190 84 Gets More!

Of what, I have no idea. . . .

Posted by: Czech Chick at February 15, 2023 09:06 PM (iKvcM)

191 That's coonass pronunciation for Loaned.

Posted by: polynikes
It ain't coonass (I gots cousins down there, too) but in NE Georgia, you don't "take" or "drive" someone to the store, you "carry" them.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:06 PM (cPGH3)

192 Damn. Really saddened about that UH-60 crash. Prayers up for the families.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 09:07 PM (Xrfse)

193 Didn't Georgia start out as a Penile Colony like Australia?
Posted by: Dick Trickle

You mean like the Isle of Man, where every guy was said to have a third leg? That kind of penile?

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:08 PM (cPGH3)

194 Shame.
--------------
Maybe you would have saved her?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 09:09 PM (Vwz3I)

195 At least Shoebill Storks can try to be cute.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8vknhc

Marabou Storks are what happened when Mother Nature had designed enough vultures, but still had some vulture parts left over.

https://tinyurl.com/ya2sazz4

Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2023 09:09 PM (P1f+c)

196 Huntsville, AL MH-60 crash.

That can be anything from National Guard, to Special Forces Secret Squirrel to the n'th power kind of stuff.

One helluva lot of Spec Ops in that area, in conjunction with NASA and other .mil training areas.

Prayers up for the crew and any passengers lost. And their families. Whole lotta people's nights going to go bad, soon as that Chaplain rings the doorbell.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 09:09 PM (e6UQI)

197 Damn. Really saddened about that UH-60 crash. Prayers up for the families.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

This. And there was time to realize what was about to happen. Horrible.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:10 PM (cPGH3)

198 If this is a maintenance issue, ... no, I'll leave it there.
Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 08:57 PM (cPGH3)

Not just the Guard... some Active units are much better than others... and it can change in only a couple of years.
Posted by: Romeo13

A diversity platoon sergeant, that cannot lead, a 2nd lieutenant from a commie college, and a road maintenance warrant, that shit can change in 90 damned days from a 98% readiness to a 30% readiness. And that's just in a transportation company of civilian 10 ton over the road trucks painted of green. Not the pain in the ass need constant attention hett haulers or tactical all terrain trucks.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:10 PM (3CCua)

199 185 I had my high school boyfriend reach out to me a few years ago. He was having issues with his second wife - not a game I would ever play. I suggested therapy and wished him luck.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 09:10 PM (ZdaMQ)

200 The Elephant Picture would make an amazing watercolor painting.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 15, 2023 09:03 PM (up/3i)

It already looks like a watercolor.

I've recently been practicing painting fog and dust with oil. Surprisingly simpler than I thought.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 09:10 PM (OY44N)

201 For those of you that weren't 70s and 80s active duty, road is retired in active duty

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:11 PM (3CCua)

202 French Huguenots, mistreated everywhere.

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:11 PM (MF3yS)

203 Lost a blackhawk today, thoughts, prayers, sorrow and joy to the dead and their survivors.

Our thoughts are on what went wrong to protect brother and sister soldiers in the future.

Prayers because the nation, their unit, and the family's have to bear the loss of good troops.

Sorrow because the price is high, and some of us are forced to bear the cost too soon.

Joy that we are blessed to have such citizens amongst us, and that they are now with the ones who crossed before them.

Salute.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:12 PM (Lzpvj)

204 BifBewalski

Next older brother was a Transport officer during DSone.
You?

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:12 PM (cPGH3)

205 201 For those of you that weren't 70s and 80s active duty, road is retired in active duty
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:11 PM
First time 60s and 70s, second time 80s and 90s.

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:13 PM (MF3yS)

206 202 Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:11 PM (MF3yS)

Well, "French"...on a more serious note the Huguenots fell prey to hope and honor.

Their pogromming and murder is a genuine blot on the soul of Catholic France.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:13 PM (Lzpvj)

207 Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:12 PM

Well said.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 09:13 PM (Xrfse)

208 Imagine that, the federal government cannot be trusted.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
----

Again:

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." -- Milton Friedman

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at February 15, 2023 09:13 PM (HsC66)

209 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:03 PM (BpYfr)

What was the opening scene in that one?
Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 09:05 PM (OY44N)
---
They break all logic within the first 2 minutes. The villain steals a space shuttle that's being transported via 747 by launching the space shuttle from the back of the plane. No shuttle would ever be transported carrying fuel, nor would it ever be "launch ready."

Just plothole after plothole with this one...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:13 PM (BpYfr)

210
Two dead, they say.

Oy vey.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 09:15 PM (oINRc)

211 Moved M1Abrams with trucks designed to carry the Sherman

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:15 PM (cPGH3)

212 Hand salute!

Ready, two!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 15, 2023 09:16 PM (u73oe)

213 207 Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 09:13 PM (Xrfse)

Thanks, I have seen too many empty boots in my time.

Not complaining just stating....

on the one hand you want to not be there because it hurts....on the other hand you want to be there because the machine at its best is a beautiful thing and damn near like a drug.

One day we will all be together telling each other friendly lies, complaining at heaven's pay chart and hugging enemies in the mututal joy of the service to our peoples.

I love soldiers, hell after the cold war was over I found I even liked Russian soldiers.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:16 PM (Lzpvj)

214 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:13 PM (BpYfr)

Usually the opening scenes are the best part of Bond movies. No wonder I forgot that one.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 09:16 PM (OY44N)

215 >Just plothole after plothole with this one...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:13 PM (BpYfr)

Octopussy has entered the chat

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 15, 2023 09:17 PM (gryET)

216 BifBewalski

Next older brother was a Transport officer during DSone.
You?
Posted by: MkY

ADA, Patriot battery warrant. I had the battery in Riyahd that everyone watched on cnn during DSone. Had 32 10 ton trucks, 15 5 tons, 6 2.5 tons, 6 cucv pickups. 2 150kw has turbine generators, 10 15kw generators, 2 10kw, and 6 3kw. Plus all the bs patriot peculiar shit. Would've died from lack of sleep working myself to death during that cluster fuck but for the best two damned E7 NCOs in the army. SFC Dubuc, and SFC Williams.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:17 PM (3CCua)

217 Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:17 PM

Well done, sir.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 09:18 PM (Xrfse)

218 Sven. Well said, thanks.

YD. Two is a miracle. Absolute minimum crew, flying without a Crew Chief or other crew on board, which is rather unusual.

While I won't be glad for the loss of two, I'll Give Thanks that it wasn't at capacity, either.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 09:19 PM (e6UQI)

219 the best two damned E7 NCOs in the army. SFC Dubuc, and SFC Williams.
BifBewalski

Good on you for remembering them, and letting everyone know their names.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:19 PM (cPGH3)

220 Just plothole after plothole with this one...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:13 PM (BpYfr)

Octopussy has entered the chat
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 15, 2023 09:17 PM (gryET)
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They went into full cartoonish territory with that one...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:19 PM (BpYfr)

221 This ought to be interesting

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/federal-district- court-judge-orders-illinois-to-show-examples-of-every- newly-banned-firearm/

(spoiler alert, impossible to do since it is just about every rifle, shotgun and near infinite combinations)

Posted by: Government at February 15, 2023 09:19 PM (fs1hN)

222 I'm not saying I graduated in 87 but holy cow that video transported me back.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 15, 2023 09:20 PM (F7fx2)

223 That was lovely, sven.

Thank you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2023 09:20 PM (U2p+3)

224 Truly hope this crash wasn't caused by lack of maintenance because we're spending all our money and parts on Ukraine.

That will boil my innards.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 15, 2023 09:21 PM (XtkZj)

225 216 Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:17 PM (3CCua)

Williams the 14S, T, or W?

Just kidding, the wife's first duty station was at Ft Bliss with the 108th ADA, then sent to 1/7ADA when they came over from Hoehnfells.

Depending on when you popped smoke or if you were flypapered to Ft Bliss like most HighRad Patriot jockeys were in the aftermath we were likely neighbors in 98-2000.

There was a shooting at the food court at the Cielo Vista mall this afternoon according to the police scanner.

Thanks for your service and Oozlefinch Oozlefinch Oozlefinch rah

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:21 PM (Lzpvj)

226 Okay... helicopter pilot son said, strictly from the amateur footage, that the Blackhawk crash looks like...
"settling with power" or "vortex ring state". Whatever the hell that is, but it's caused by pilot error.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:21 PM (cPGH3)

227 I can't watch--did the momma dog get her puppies?

Posted by: IrishEi at February 15, 2023 09:23 PM (3ImbR)

228 218 Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 09:19 PM (e6UQI)

We come from many mothers and fathers Jim...

we are all brothers and sisters.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:23 PM (Lzpvj)

229 227 yes, and they were tiny

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 09:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

230 I can't watch--did the momma dog get her puppies?
Posted by: IrishEi

Yeah. We saw two. Remarkable.
And to think that innate sense to protect your young is being lost, and even encouraged in humans...

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:25 PM (cPGH3)

231 >>vortex ring state

Basically like treading water in a pool in such a way as to intentionally force yourself underwater.

Posted by: ZOD at February 15, 2023 09:26 PM (Q/6pY)

232
Williams the 14S, T, or W?
Just kidding, the wife's first duty station was at Ft Bliss with the 108th ADA, then sent to 1/7ADA when they came over from Hoehnfells.
Depending on when you popped smoke or if you were flypapered to Ft Bliss like most HighRad Patriot jockeys were in the aftermath we were likely neighbors in 98-2000.
There was a shooting at the food court at the Cielo Vista mall this afternoon according to the police scanner.
Thanks for your service and Oozlefinch Oozlefinch Oozlefinch rah
Posted by: sven

They were all 24T mechanics and operators then. 16T was the launcher and radar operator. Single warrant 140e for me back then. I've heard they shook it all up and split out scope does from mechanics and operators. Split out the warrants into scope does and mechanics as well. Added in an extra wheels warrant and generators warrant to the support company too.

Unless you were there before i unassed my commission with prejudice in October of 92, we didn't overlap.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:26 PM (3CCua)

233 226 Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:21 PM (cPGH3)

Choppers are tricky things.

We lost a Cajun Dustoff Blackhawk back in 2019 trying to rapid evac a heat cat to Bayne-Jones.

1 soldier died, three were wounded there is a plaque in the field near the village the crash happened.

That was hard.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:26 PM (Lzpvj)

234 Our 50th is this coming summer.

A great many of long lost buddies and flames have reached out to each other lately to say "Hey." and "All past sins forgiven."

They are a hell of a group.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 09:26 PM (qoGsy)

235 I live relatively near an Army installation. There are a small number of Blackhawks assigned there. The "Nightstalkers" from Ft. Campbell will periodically fly in for training. Flying balls to the wall, blacked out, as low as local regs will permit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2023 09:27 PM (Q4IgG)

236 226 Okay... helicopter pilot son said, strictly from the amateur footage, that the Blackhawk crash looks like...
"settling with power" or "vortex ring state". Whatever the hell that is, but it's caused by pilot error.
Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:21 PM (
Too tight a circle to be autorotation IMO.

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:27 PM (MF3yS)

237 Cheated me out of 18 months of time in grade. Chaps my ass to this day.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 08:42 PM (3CCua)

When I started ROTC, it was 36 months to Captain. Vietnam ended and by the time my number came up it was 54 months.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 09:27 PM (anj39)

238 Off overpaid sock

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 15, 2023 09:28 PM (fs1hN)

239 229 227 yes, and they were tiny
Posted by: Piper

So tiny they must have just been born!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 15, 2023 09:28 PM (hOUT3)

240 .."settling with power" or "vortex ring state". Whatever the hell that is, but it's caused by pilot error. Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:21 PM (cPGH3)

I'm not a helicopter pilot, but I'm familiar with vortex ring state.

Because a straight ahead Angle of Attack stall on a Grumman Yankee works about the same way, and the steeper the angle, the more airspeed scrubs off, and there's not enough power in the system to pull the plane forward and out of the Coffin Corner. Whole lotta Yankees stalled and crashed over the runway threshold, way back when.

A1A Yankee would not be the Grumman I'd wanna fly. AA5 Cheetah & AA5A Tiger, problem solved.

Still. Prayers for that crew and their families. Sucks, but there really are more peacetime & training losses than in combat. We just don't hear about 'em as much.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 09:28 PM (e6UQI)

241 Kangaroo missed some leg days.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 09:28 PM (Qzn2/)

242 OK, son just amended the text. He thinks he leans toward medical emergency, cause you REALLY gotta screw up for this condition to occur.
This is a follow-up to the UH 60 going down.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:29 PM (cPGH3)

243 There was a town hall meeting in East Palestine this evening, and some guy live-tweeted it.

First question: "Why are the people outside of a one mile radius from East Palestine getting no support?"

Answer: "Because that's what the Department of Transportation told us to do."

Not sure who the "us" in that exchange is, but still, pretty wild response.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 15, 2023 09:29 PM (tp+tP)

244 232 Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:26 PM (3CCua)

97ish...

The batteries were all collapsed in on Bliss by Sylvestre Reyes to save Bliss when they stood down the ACR.

Hope you are well.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:30 PM (Lzpvj)

245 "Because that's what the Department of Transportation told us to do."

You're on your own, rube.

Posted by: The gub'mint, here to help at February 15, 2023 09:32 PM (Xrfse)

246 Answer: "Because that's what the Department of Transportation told us to do."

Not sure who the "us" in that exchange is, but still, pretty wild response.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 15, 2023 09:29 PM (tp+tP)

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So Mayor Pete, First Secretary of Gayer Than Shit, doesn't inspire confidence?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 09:33 PM (Qzn2/)

247
Hope you are well.
Posted by: sven

Thanks man, hope you are as well. I obviously have some residual anger issues, but it's all good in the long run. Got a loving wife, a great kid, and the military industrial complex thinks my shit doesn't stink and helps me make the mortgage note. I see that as getting all my taxes back.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:33 PM (3CCua)

248 OK, son just amended the text. He thinks he leans toward medical emergency, cause you REALLY gotta screw up for this condition to occur.
This is a follow-up to the UH 60 going down.
Posted by: MkY

The covid vaxx, again?

Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2023 09:33 PM (P1f+c)

249 ..Too tight a circle to be autorotation IMO.
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:27 PM (MF3yS)

The blade tips are flying and stalling in their own prop wash. Inner part of the rotor has lift, outer blades are losing lift, and the harmonics can go to hell ending either in shattered blades and/or a shattering impact from a vertical drop to the ground.

You've seen blade tip vortices from the films of an F4 Phantom flying through the test-tower smoke? How it curls up and over where the wing just was? With the helicopter, the rotor is trying to fly IN that rotating vortex, and getting nowhere.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 09:34 PM (e6UQI)

250 Do you even kangaroo, bro?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2023 09:35 PM (PyOKD)

251 247 Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 09:33 PM (3CCua)

Anger is a good tool we learn to use, of course the first trick is not making it the first tool to use too often.

Wife and I are deciding if/when we will give up the contractor life and just crawl home.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:35 PM (Lzpvj)

252 A1A Yankee would not be the Grumman I'd wanna fly. AA5 Cheetah & AA5A Tiger, problem solved.

Still. Prayers for that crew and their families. Sucks, but there really are more peacetime & training losses than in combat. We just don't hear about 'em as much.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 09:28 PM (e6UQI)
***

Heh!
The little airport in SW Washington where I grew up was home to one of the first ten distributors for the American Yankee. I was the first guy to take a check ride in one with the FAA examiner in McMinnville. Best part was the examiner spent as much time flying it as I did.
Loved that airplane.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 09:35 PM (anj39)

253 Answer: "Because that's what the Department of Transportation told us to do."

Mayor Pete's decision? Probably not, I'm guessing he didn't want to be bothered with, in his empty mind, such a minor thing. But he is nominally in charge, so it's on him.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 15, 2023 09:36 PM (fs1hN)

254 Jerusalem Post: A baby girl was born with a 6 cm tail – and it kept growing

https://tinyurl.com/y6d6tcwp

No pictures, alas.

Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 09:37 PM (m/06a)

255 A baby girl was born with a 6 cm tail – and it kept growing

It waz aliens.

Posted by: The gub'mint, here to help at February 15, 2023 09:38 PM (Xrfse)

256 The covid vaxx, again?
Posted by: mikeski

Dunno. Son ain't gonna even go there. He was made to get the vax to protect his job, his wife was made to for the same reasons... I told him I'd come get the kid before they vaxxed my grandson.
Hopefully neither of them got the "hot shot", cause they're "essential".
Knock on wood, baby.
Odd, that no prominent politician has "died suddenly", eh?

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:38 PM (cPGH3)

257 221 link no workee

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 15, 2023 09:39 PM (mCh4j)

258 https://youtube.com/shorts/QGmXI6mPUDk?feature=share

doorbell cam of the crash

Horrible noise.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:40 PM (Lzpvj)

259 254 Jerusalem Post: A baby girl was born with a 6 cm tail – and it kept growing

https://tinyurl.com/y6d6tcwp

No pictures, alas.
Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 09:37 PM
OK, who's that baby's daddy?

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (MF3yS)

260 My baby brother drives Black Hawks.

Helos are tricky.

Yeah. He's good at what he does. But being his big brother, I get kind of het up when I hear about these things.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (UQUAY)

261 US Charge d'Affaires in Afghanistan is a retard.

https://instapundit.com/569662/

Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (m/06a)

262 Removeth thyself from my Lawn...

77
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2023 08:59 PM (oHd/0)

'66.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (Zvtjl)

263 When I started ROTC, it was 36 months to Captain. Vietnam ended and by the time my number came up it was 54 months.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 09:27 PM (anj39)

FY 75 commission (AF) - four years to Captain.

Posted by: Fox2! at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (qyH+l)

264 Isn't it odd how decades pass and most Americans couldn't pick a Transportation Secretary out of a line-up because things run relatively smoothly and there's no news about the Dept of Transportation?

Then, we get our first TS whose only qualification is HEY I'M GAY GAY GAY GAY!!!!!!!!! and the nation lurches from one transportation catastrophe to another.

Make of it what you will.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (Qzn2/)

265 OK, who's that baby's daddy?
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (MF3yS)

Looks left

Looks right

Skeedaddles

Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 15, 2023 09:42 PM (m/06a)

266 Odd, that no prominent politician has "died suddenly", eh?
Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:38 PM (cPGH3)

Saline injections taken in public have saved many politicians from getting COVID!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 15, 2023 09:42 PM (hOUT3)

267 Yeah. We saw two. Remarkable.
And to think that innate sense to protect your young is being lost, and even encouraged in humans...
Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:25 PM (cPGH3)
~~~~~

Thanks, MkY!

Posted by: IrishEi at February 15, 2023 09:44 PM (3ImbR)

268 261 Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (m/06a)

Remember, they think "Ugly American" means us and that the ambassador was a stud not the worker.

They literally have no idea what they are doing, who they are doing it for, or the host population they are doing it with.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:45 PM (Lzpvj)

269 US Charge d'Affaires in Afghanistan is a retard.

https://instapundit.com/569662/
Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (m/06a)

I have a hard time believing that account is real. I mean, I guess it must be, as it's got a .gov URL and everything; but seriously. Who says in a Tweet that Lincoln "did some stuff"? Did she think she was being funny, or is she just that stupid, or....

Wait a minute. Is this actually Kamala Harris?

Posted by: Dr. T at February 15, 2023 09:45 PM (tp+tP)

270 >>Then, we get our first TS whose only qualification is HEY I'M GAY GAY GAY GAY!!!!!!!!!

To be fair, his qualifications are: red diaper baby who also happens to be GAY GAY GAY GAY!!!!!!!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 15, 2023 09:46 PM (t4BDZ)

271 FY 75 commission (AF) - four years to Captain.
Posted by: Fox2! at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (qyH+l)

Yeah.
Army had to balance RIFs with new accessions.
Tough times.
A high school buddy was class of 75 at the Air Force Academy. Good guy.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 09:47 PM (anj39)

272 RIP Raquel Welch

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at February 15, 2023 09:47 PM (bmd+7)

273 269 Posted by: Dr. T at February 15, 2023 09:45 PM (tp+tP)

In her mind noted democrat Abe Lincoln had to fight evil Republicans to help the blacks end slavery through social justice.

They are pridefully stupid.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:47 PM (Lzpvj)

274 I just saw the UH-60 crash video. I don't think that was Vortex Ring Stall. I've seen those in video, they tend to be much closer to the ground, in ground-effect hover.

Unless that crew was working a 2,000 agl hover, then I haven't a clue as to the cause. But that was an ugly, hopeless crash.

Prayers, Horde. Prayers.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 09:47 PM (e6UQI)

275 My baby brother drives Black Hawks.

Helos are tricky.

Yeah. He's good at what he does. But being his big brother, I get kind of het up when I hear about these things.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

BIL flew one for the Nightstalkers back in the day and retired after two crashes. Not really his fault - both airframes collected too much metal while flying that wasn't there when it left base.

Jeebus can that guy drink.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 09:48 PM (qoGsy)

276 So Mayor Pete, First Secretary of Gayer Than Shit, doesn't inspire confidence?

He only took the job because he was told he'd be in charge of trains. He hasn't been able to contain his disappointment since he found out that means the railroads.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 15, 2023 09:48 PM (Bd6X8)

277 RIP Raquel Welch

Wait, wut?

Posted by: Zombie Abe Vigoda at February 15, 2023 09:48 PM (Xrfse)

278 Update:

2 Tennessee National Guard members killed in North Alabama helicopter crash
ALEA confirmed a UH-60 Black Hawk went down in Harvest around 3 p.m. Wednesday. The two crew members on board were on a training mission, military leaders said.

HARVEST, Ala. — UPDATE 8:20 PM. Tennessee National Guard confirms in a statement the loss of two service members during a training flight, and that no other service members or civilians were harmed.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 09:48 PM (Vwz3I)

279 274 Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 09:47 PM (e6UQI)

That engine noise and propellor wash sounded horrible, something went not just wrong but VERY wrong.....it went lawn dart and that is rare.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:49 PM (Lzpvj)

280 'Lincoln did some stuff'.
Damn right he did, suspended habeas corpus, allowed people to be imprisoned for 'sedition'. You can bet bai-din will do the same without blushing.

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:51 PM (MF3yS)

281 Make of it what you will.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 09:41 PM (Qzn2/)

Incompetents leading the unqualified.
Like every other federal (and state)agency, the leadership are political cronies with few, if any technical quals. Everyone under 35 have "technical" quals from what passes for education in our universities. The really smart ones come from overseas.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 09:51 PM (anj39)

282 Prayers to the families of the soldiers lost. I can’t watch the video.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 09:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

283 234 Our 50th is this coming summer.

A great many of long lost buddies and flames have reached out to each other lately to say "Hey." and "All past sins forgiven."

They are a hell of a group.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 09:26 PM (qoGsy)

50th this spring...

And the "all past sins forgiven" is heart warming.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 15, 2023 09:52 PM (CCSxw)

284 it went lawn dart and that is rare

It looked to be a catastrophic failure, that's for sure.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 09:52 PM (Xrfse)

285 Jerusalem Post: A baby girl was born with a 6 cm tail – and it kept growing

https://tinyurl.com/y6d6tcwp

No pictures, alas.
Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 09:37 PM (m/06a)
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Say what you like about the Weekly World News, but they always included photographic proof!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:53 PM (BpYfr)

286 The guy on the trampoline looks like he is about to throw up.

Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 09:53 PM (ZdaMQ)

287 282 Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2023 09:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

It is not graphic, but not watching is ok.

Luckily it was two rather than 15.

They need to figure out what went wrong so it never happens again.

Be safe Piper.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:53 PM (Lzpvj)

288 Damn right he did, suspended habeas corpus, allowed people to be imprisoned for 'sedition'. You can bet bai-din will do the same without blushing.
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:51 PM (MF3yS)
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One could argue FJB already has with the J6 political prisoners.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:54 PM (BpYfr)

289 284 Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 15, 2023 09:52 PM (Xrfse)

A medical issue could have made it a non-voluntary CFIT, God I hope it was not mechanical.

At any rate, prayers for their dependents and the family noble enough to give us their children to serve.

Accidents in training are the price we pay for readiness and their loss is noble and not needless.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:55 PM (Lzpvj)

290 Never forget, Matt Schlapp(CEO CPAC) is perfectly fine with Mayor Pete's homosexual relationship and them adopting young children.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 15, 2023 09:55 PM (D25PY)

291 A medical issue could have made it a non-voluntary CFIT, God I hope it was not mechanical.

I do too. Horrible, regardless.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 09:58 PM (cPGH3)

292 Back in the day...

Even with dual turbines on the upgraded Huey's...

Loss of tail rotor control pitched the helicopter into a non recoverable spiral from height.

Tail Rotors...

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 15, 2023 10:00 PM (J00IM)

293 288 Damn right he did, suspended habeas corpus, allowed people to be imprisoned for 'sedition'. You can bet bai-din will do the same without blushing.
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 09:51 PM (MF3yS)
---
One could argue FJB already has with the J6 political prisoners.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 09:54 PM
Yessir. All that's missing is the hangings.

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 10:00 PM (MF3yS)

294 I'll call it as a mechanical on the Blackhawk.

Both in front would've been qualified Pilots, and both wouldn't have had simultaneous medical emergencies.

The "off" rotor sound. Might've lost one rotor blade, and now the whole thing is an out of balance washer on the spin cycle, cubed?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 10:01 PM (e6UQI)

295 I love soldiers, hell after the cold war was over I found I even liked Russian soldiers.
Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 09:16 PM (Lzpvj)

Drank with some Russian Sailors in Italy, DURING the Cold War.

We had one very important thing in common... we both hated Political types AND most Officers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2023 10:01 PM (oHd/0)

296 ONT

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=403143

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 15, 2023 10:01 PM (3CCua)

297 I took a beginner's training flight in a Robinson. I had to sign a waiver (which I keep in my billfold) that said, basically, "this craft is unstable. If you do something too quickly, you will die. If you react too slowly, you will die. Hell, you may die doing everything right!"
I lost my interest in helos at that point.

Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 10:02 PM (cPGH3)

298 Jerusalem Post: A baby girl was born with a 6 cm tail – and it kept growing

https://tinyurl.com/y6d6tcwp

No pictures, alas.
Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 09:37 PM (m/06a)

The pics will become available by next weeks edition's of all those BS checkout line papers.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 10:02 PM (anj39)

299

Ze ONT, she iss NOOD!

Posted by: Zettai at February 15, 2023 10:02 PM (beeUe)

300 292 Back in the day...

Even with dual turbines on the upgraded Huey's...

Loss of tail rotor control pitched the helicopter into a non recoverable spiral from height.

Tail Rotors...
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 15, 2023 10:00 PM
Actually you can fly straight without a tailrotor, and even slide one on without a tailrotor. Now if you desire to hover, you better damn well have a tailrotor.

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 10:03 PM (MF3yS)

301 I lost my interest in helos at that point.
Posted by: MkY at February 15, 2023 10:02 PM (cPGH3)

I've road abord some Helos with PHENOMENAL Pilots in the Navy.

Got dropped onto a submarine, from a Helo, via harness, during 15 foot seas... and the guy put me down as light as a feather.

Also had a good friend in Hawaii... an Army Warrant, who taught nap of the Earth flying in Cobras... got to ride with him once.... fucking wild.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2023 10:05 PM (oHd/0)

302 298 Jerusalem Post: A baby girl was born with a 6 cm tail – and it kept growing

https://tinyurl.com/y6d6tcwp

No pictures, alas.
Posted by: Robert at February 15, 2023 09:37 PM (m/06a)

The pics will become available by next weeks edition's of all those BS checkout line papers.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2023 10:02 PM (anj39)

I'm still the King, beotchezzz!

Posted by: Bat Boy at February 15, 2023 10:20 PM (gV/3T)

303 Since the admin of this site is working, no doubt very soon it
will be famous, due to its feature contents. vacation on gozo

Posted by: vacation on gozo at February 25, 2023 05:13 PM (YUJ0f)

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