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piL posted:I'm having trouble imagining lower stakes. You'll have to roll for that.
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Khizan posted:That's the only half decent one, because it is a straight up revenge story right out of an 80s action movie. Drug dealers kill a Navy seal's girlfriend and he goes on a ludicrous murder spree in retaliation. I had to look and we're getting a movie this year. ... Yay?
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Thump! posted:Sounds like some extremely Wainwright poo poo if I’ve ever heard it. Are there other Wainwrights or...
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Thump! posted:Having done training at both, they’re literally the same place separated by language only. Canadian and American, eh?
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My Spirit Otter posted:Americans were in Wainwright all the time around '10. Probably still are. Every year so far as I can tell. Pretty sure some get lost and never recovered. Just set up camps in the woods and become bushmen until winter rolls through and kills 'em off.
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Is this where I tattle on myself and admit I left a 50/hr job at a college to join up? Turns out there's different ways to sell your soul.
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maffew buildings posted:In theory leaving what you're doing for the service because you want to serve your nation is a noble endeavor and that kind of patriotism is a great thing. In application we're loving idiots for doing it. For me it was a little out of that column - iunno I guess looking for something meaningful? But also I was teaching something I loved and was passionate about to soulless bougie kids that gave zero fucks and were there for their jewel encrusted diploma. I could have happily collected those paychecks and trundled along there - but the imp of the perverse had other ideas. I think my biggest regret is putting EO Tech as my first choice over AESOP.
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Up here in Wainwright (the Canadian one  ) we've had one confirmed plague case in the township, base is more or less closed, and we ain't allowed more than 50km away without CO approval (lots of fun here). Alberta is expected to peak Covid cases next month.
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Canadaland the general reprimand for sex assault stuff is getting booted entirely, as a minimum.
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Today we got recruitment poster emails from Amazon at work. It's not surprising, really, but something about it being from Amazon rather than the usual oil sites or CN Rail just feels extra hosed.
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GD_American posted:It takes a special dumb to pour perfectly good hooch into antifreeze bottles. These are the kind of juicy facts I come to the thread for.
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US Berder Patrol posted:Don't let any sketchy dudes hanging around the Louvre tie a bracelet on you!! Say nope and briskly walk tf away if they offer Whats the bracelets thing about?
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Notahippie posted:I haven't been to the Louvre but the typical scam on this is that once it's on you you have to buy it, it's tied on pretty tight and you can't just take it off so they hassle you to pay for it and you usually end up paying too much just to keep walking. Ok that's kinda hilarious.
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I think my high point was the kerfuffle when someone crammed a brick (or two) of c4 into one of the amnesty boxes in Gagetown.
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I believe it was here someone mentioned the surprisingly-efficient command-wire detection and removal methodology that was: 1) Dirt Bike 2) A rake
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Dick Burglar posted:Like bulletsponge's example in PA, I'm pretty sure it's an invasive species thing. Ferrets, while not nearly as genocidal as cats, are still pretty potent predators. Ferrets will not survive out in the wild in california, sorry, or most places. They don't really have the 'invasive-species' potential.
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Canadian LAVs have seatbelts but you can tell nobody wears the things when the vehicles roll over (every year baby!) and everyone inside gets mashed up like they got rattled around in a tin can.
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Crab Dad posted:Would it matter too much with boxes of ammo flying around? We had that issue with armored trucks having cages in the back but when the trucks rolled the loose coin boxes would fly around and gently caress up the guy in the back pretty badly. I think most of the time when we have these incidents, it's a mixture of folks not wearing belts and the hatches being opened with people stickin' out. They have five point harnesses on the gunner and driver seats - and even something crazy top-heavy like the new TAPV has seats with harnesses that are on their own suspension rig attached to the ceiling (pretty sure that's for shock absorption from explosives) - but they tip over easy, too.
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canyoneer posted:Looking forward to seeing them painted white and in every scifi movie and tv show in a few years I painted my x95 white and it looks gorgeous imo...
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I had the chance to work with Canada's Nuclear Safety folks for a while and the state of the art detection equipment is insane. I'm taking 'We drive around this nondescript van and the detectors in the back are so sensitive they detect when you are driving across bridges because the steel used to build them is ever so slightly above background level' When we need stuff calibrated for DND, there's a centralized outfit that takes care of most equipment in the country - and it would surprise me if other countries didn't have specialized industrial services for instrument calibration.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Raccoon? Opossum looks like! Even more harmless.
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Where does this but loaded up with something like dragon's breath shells land you on the ronin scale?
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In my admittedly none too exciting Canadian experience, just follow these steps: -Pick a super specialized technical trade - don't be a Vehicle Technician! Pick something with specialist pay! -Enjoy the years of training - some of the trades wait a year or two just to have enough people to put a course together! -Use almost none of it and end up as a contracting/purchasing beancounter- this is dictated almost entirely by where you end up posted. The army is the dumbest, easiest job I've ever had and that's saying a lot. I've done everything from building boats to training dogs and developing video games. By no means is it a particularly fulfilling career, except those rare times I actually get to do the job I was hired to do (i.e. poo poo breaks down badly) - but as a 'turn brain off and work' type of job, it's hard to beat. I quit an insanely lucrative position teaching level design at a college to join up. I was not in a great place at the time - something about trying to teach disinterested students a topic I was passionate about was crushing my soul. Figured the military would be 'different' and exciting. Was part right about that! Now I get to experience a day to day drudge all over again, but with enough perks to stop me going completely off the deep end. DarkDobe fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Who was the goon that waged war on pigs in his cane farm and ended up turning into a naked spear wielding lunatic that used home made drones for reconnaissance.
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The big takeaway about tangling with predators vs prey species is simple: A predator losing a fight misses a meal. A prey animal losing a fight dies - so you can probably guess which of them is more likely to go bug-gently caress, no-holds-barred apeshit when confronted. Moose absolutely scare me more than bears do. The size + unpredictability is just not something I want to gently caress with. Fortunately we get both up here :3
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