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Midjack posted:my grandpa was in wwii, my dad was vietnam era but was underground here with his finger on the big red button, and i’m 40. i've a few years until 40 and my gramps was a ww2 vet too when i asked him about the medals on the wall once he told me that he got one from burning some germans alive inside of a tank. he didn't talk much in general tho i also had a great uncle who flew planes over italy and northern africa for ww2, who i wrote a report on in hs because he wrote a memoir about it. he described mistakenly bombing a strafing an allied boat because they repainted it wrong, said no one was killed but "lots of mistakes were made in the war" lol
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i've a few years until 40 and my gramps was a ww2 vet too catch-22 was a documentary
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i've a few years until 40 and my gramps was a ww2 vet too did walk around with horse chestnuts in his cheeks?
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:my grandpa spent the korean war touching telephone equipment in japan my blood was cursed before my father was even born lol
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Agile Vector posted:granted the two stories he did share was finding a great stash of booze in a cellar in a flattened house in france and jumping off a motorcycle he found and it rolling into the rhine my maternal grandfather was in the korean war but he just worked in a guard tower at a base. when he got his stripes, he went out and got drunk, went AWOL, came back and they stripped him of his rank. he was a chill dude.
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:my grandpa spent the korean war touching telephone equipment in japan my blood was cursed before my father was even born my grandfather did tube touching for the army my dad hosed off to the Alaskan wilderness in the 70’s I didn’t learn his lesson well enough
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one of my grandpas was in ww2 and led an artillery crew because he had gone to high school and knew trigonometry. his position got blown up and everyone died except him, but he had shrapnel in his legs for the rest of his life. my other grandpa was in korea and he reportedly spent the whole time fixing radars and messing around on my grandma with the korean girls.
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Jun 30, 2020 16:06
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my grandad was in korea, he didn't talk about it much when I was a kid and his mind was pretty well gone by the time I was old enough to really understand that sort of thing. he spent his last few years giving all his money to the casino, because they did a great job of being friendly and smiling and happy as long as he kept giving them money.
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late in life babies run in my family I’m only 35 but my uncle was in the army in ww2 but quit or something and never saw battle, if he was alive today he’d be 100 Perplx fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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Jun 30, 2020 16:38
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i wonder if those face masks the cybergoths wear are any good for nowadays
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prefect posted:i wonder if those face masks the cybergoths wear are any good for nowadays which ones?
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prefect posted:i wonder if those face masks the cybergoths wear are any good for nowadays https://www.rivetingnews.org/2020/02/coronavirus-outbreak-at-cyber-goth-rave.html
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Midjack posted:which ones?  :whoa:
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Jun 30, 2020 16:51
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it's exhausting to breathe through one of those filters if it's correctly fitted, you're forcing air in and out through the thing for every breath so i'd assume that they just take em out in order to dance cyberhard
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they’re full of binkies
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great grandfather was in ww1 and was injured twice. paternal grandfather was an infantryman in ww2. maternal grandfather was a fukin pilot in ww2 and now against all odds, you all are stuck with my poasts
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prefect posted:
the ones where they just glued stuff to the outside of the facepiece and cartridges will work well as long as they’re getting a good seal. if they put holes in anything they probably messed it up. H.P. Hovercraft posted:it's exhausting to breathe through one of those filters if it's correctly fitted, you're forcing air in and out through the thing for every breath most of the external replaceable cartridge masks have an exhaust valve so you aren’t pulling through both ways. on most of the pictured masks its the round protrusion on the centerline of the facepiece. Midjack fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:my grandfather came to the US (leaving germany as a jewish guy) and then as soon as he got the chance he was in the marines and went back to germany to commit righteous "war crimes", but he just loved killing nazis (men, women, whatever). for being 5'4" he was a tough little bastard and had a natural knack for rifles. lol i think i want more details
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Roosevelt posted:my grandfather was in ww2 and he never talked about it with us kids. not once. my dad said he was in europe towards the end of that theater doing "cleanup" Exact same here but he was on a ship in the south pacific. He never even talked about it with his kids. for all i know he was on the god damned indianapolis
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my paternal grandfather was a navigator in the air force during ww2, pacific theater i think. my maternal grandfather survived both d-day and the battle of the bulge and never talked about it at all. he died before i was old enough to really ask about that poo poo. inquired with my mom later on and she said "yeah he wouldn't have wanted to talk about it anyway... he was the guy with the flamethrower"
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shavechat update: it turns out the old Gillettes I got for cheap a decade+ ago aren't adjustable. if I didn't get the adjustable (slim or fatboy) it's prob because they were too expensive at the time anyway I'm gonna shave my neck cause I have a short-ish beard for the first time in forever (I'm lucky that my beard doesn't like cover my neck or connect with my chest hair or anything like that) so I ordered a slim off of ebay. I think I need some proraso too. I'll keep you all updated I know you're excited to hear more
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the only thing i remember my dad telling me about vietnam was a story about how when he was on a boat crossing the pacific he saw a huge field of bioluminescent plankton that lit up the boat and a story about how snakes liked to live in the latrines. So, you know, mixed bag.
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rotor posted:the only thing i remember my dad telling me about vietnam was a story about how when he was on a boat crossing the pacific he saw a huge field of bioluminescent plankton that lit up the boat and a story about how snakes liked to live in the latrines. So, you know, mixed bag. in conclusion, vietnam was a land of contras. In this essay i have
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graph posted:if anyone would like to participate in that trauma study i can dig up the link i did it anyway https://redcap.case.edu/surveys/?s=W7R8DNEAYY
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Achmed Jones posted:shavechat update:
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:my maternal grandfather was in the korean war but he just worked in a guard tower at a base. lol thats the rest of the story for my grandpa! he took a jeep with a buddy to get the booze and they got caught awol and they bumped him down a rank my other grandpa was in the korean war but was navy and never left the boat. dude wanted to be a pilot on an aircraft carrier but they dinged him for his glasses, only conveniently waiting until he was enlisted to tell him nope. my mom said he was pretty mad since they did the same thing to his buddy too so neither got to fly anything
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my grandpa went to Egypt in WW2 and never said a thing a thing about to my father or anyone else. he came back and spent the rest of his life running a nursery and giving plants away because he didn’t like to charge for them.
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he also did the electrical wiring in their house which was destroyed by an electrical fire a few years ago so the nursery thing is probably best.
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never get out of the boat, man!
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President Beep posted:never get out of the boat, man! never get out of the boat.
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graph posted:i did it anyway Case Western Reserve University that name rings a bell. are they important in computering?
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prefect posted:Case Western Reserve University They're important in reserving western cases.
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rotor posted:never get out of the boat. absolutely god drat right
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CWRU is the CMU of cleveland
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prefect posted:Case Western Reserve University not really? one of their grads founded gmail. number one in biomed engineering tho this is their most famous i think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%96Morley_experiment
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there was a COVID case in my building, thankfully not in one of our offices, but I was on the same floor to drop off a laptop during the exposure window
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Sagebrush posted:one of my grandpas was in ww2 and led an artillery crew because he had gone to high school and knew trigonometry. his position got blown up and everyone died except him, but he had shrapnel in his legs for the rest of his life. same for my grandfathers but dday and fixing airplanes on an aircraft carrier off the coast of korea, and apparently it was taiwanese girls he was messing around with
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Achmed Jones posted:shavechat update: I used my shaving scuttle and it was super good, got some good lather going. used a derby blade in my Merkur 34C and it sucked poo poo, I think possibly it was a good early learner blade that ain't so good now. It cut the gently caress out of me in my merkur futur when i tried to shave my upper lip. Looking for good mid-range blades for my merkur razors.
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Jonny 290 posted:Exact same here but he was on a ship in the south pacific. I’m 99% sure you can pull service records quite easily
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