Idiots Thread - Can't enlist if you are mentally ill, they want to do it themselves

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CommieGIR posted:

The French also had a top notch Intel agency during the cold war, on par with Mossad.

You must have seen "A very secret service" on Netflix

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 16:42

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# ¿ Sep 20, 2024 10:17

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CommieGIR posted:

Actually read a couple books. Ill dig up titles.

A very secret service is a comedy, and it's really good.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 17:03

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Nystral posted:

Isn’t it something like an State having outsized influence relative to its population? Montana being another one?

That is most definitely not what Gerrymandering is.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2019 01:29

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FrozenVent posted:

This is only vaguely military adjacent because the dude is merchant marine but anyway.

There’s this ship engineer I know who’s a bit... unlucky. Engines catch fire around him, power circuits fry themselves, just loving bad luck.

Anyway he’s way into disasters documentaries and stuff because it’s basically his day to day life. So he’s really into the TV show Chernobyl, and for some ungodly reason some guy decided to send him a dosimeter in a secret Santa exchange.

Dude starts messing around with his dosimeter, and realizes it may be out of calibration. Since he lives in New Zealand, a place where they’re not too too down with the atom, there aren’t exactly Geiger counter calibration shops on every blocks so he just calls the national nuclear institute or whatever.

“Hey so I got this Geiger counters and the readings I’m getting are way too high”
“Hold please, I’ll transfer you.”
“National nuclear institute, how can we assist?”
“Yeah my Geiger counter Kees giving me readings that seem high so I was wondering...”
“Alright sir stay calm. Where did you get those readings, and what were they?”
“Well at work...”
“And where do you work?”
“But I mean the meter hasn’t been calibrated in thirty years.”
“Oh thank loving God.”

Turns out the dude had been patched through to the national atomic emergency center or whatever.

And that’s how GIP Secret Santa 2019 caused New Zealand’s first IAEA incident.

Epic.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 18:44

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Comrade Blyatlov posted:

The guy never said stay calm

You should have recorded it.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 18:50

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Comrade Blyatlov posted:

I wasn't expecting it to go the way it did lol

Basically the complete opposite way of how the USSR would react

# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 19:07

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LingcodKilla posted:

My grandpa use to beat me raw over playing with candles.

The illegal immigrant who married for a green card religious Trump supporter wins the lottery. gently caress.

FYGM?

# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 18:10

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Riot Carol Danvers posted:

What?

Mary Sue lusts after recently raped pregnant victim

# ¿ Feb 14, 2020 19:21

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Scratch Monkey posted:

He was the guy with a boner for the SS right?

Was he the guy that wrote the sci-fi book that had us bringing the SS back to life to fight aliens because they were "The Best modern warriors"???

# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 15:07

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pantslesswithwolves posted:

Because of a haircut memo to his company, right?

Also didn’t Martello later become a cop and end up facing charges from an incredibly bad shooting?

Green weenie hosed him after the bullshit roadmarch.

And yes he panicked and killed someone

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 04:29

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meowmeowmeowmeow posted:

The Ringo thread is great because John Ringo shows up to defend himself lol

That wasn't Ringo

It was the unintended consequences dude

# ¿ Aug 17, 2020 23:32

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There were a lot of good parts to that thread, but one that tops the chart is when Cyrano graded some academic paper that was included in his book that in the story his professor had said "there is not a single error on this paper in any way". And Cyrano gave him like a C-

# ¿ Aug 18, 2020 09:01

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Milo and POTUS posted:

I have got to read this paper

It's in the book, in it's entirety. I think it is in the let's read thread too, IIRC it was about how repealing the NFA and the GCA of 68 will fix the economy.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2020 09:23

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TK-42-1 posted:

I’m shocked he took a 20mm to the dome and was still alive

Probably shrapnel

# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 01:34

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........how????

# ¿ Dec 13, 2020 22:12

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Like, it's a fired round, if it was close enough to not arm shouldn't it have killed him. Did he pick up a dud and shove it up his own rear end??

# ¿ Dec 13, 2020 22:16

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Stravag posted:

At this point i feel like we will have a laser with quick swap power packs before they actually change off of m16/556. In the year 2257 the 16th generation of grunt in afghanistan will be issued the same m4 that his pappy and grand pappy were issued

Short of energy weapons you are looking at enormous cost for an incremental gain in efficiency by enlarging the caliber

# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 04:25

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Guest2553 posted:

Is that the 121 foot rule I've been hearing about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_6bmrqIsP8

https://youtu.be/KDOOKWKM3wM

# ¿ Mar 9, 2021 03:44

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Godholio posted:

I did this with a screenshot of my outlook inbox. Until the AF locked down desktop backgrounds and screen savers, I was able to just leave my computer running and go to the restroom or whatever. Nobody had enough time to figure out why their pranks weren't working.

For CACs, we usually taped over the chip or drew dumb poo poo with dry erase markers, or taped it to the office doorframe. We zapped (squadron sticker on the back) some SSgt's at another base because he left it in a computer over the weekend while we, uh, visited their empty building.

I like to flip the display and then change it portrait and also rearrange the monitor s in multiple displays.

Bonus points for increasing mouse sensitivity.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2021 21:03

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Robert Facepalmer posted:

LOLWTF

Is that a San Diego Chargers bolt armband?

Yeah, he was a Chargers fan

# ¿ Apr 3, 2021 01:11

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Wasabi the J posted:

Have the last name Clinton.

Seriously people are loving brain broke over a career politician.

She sucks just as much as Biden or AOC on terms of being a succdem, but otherwise

Wait, AOC is a succdem now?

# ¿ Apr 5, 2021 00:06

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Valtonen posted:

Yes; thus is exactly the cause why m14 got picked up back in the day; and why small arms procurement is such a pain.

The M14 was designed roughly around the same time as 7.62 NATO.

The M1 Garand was forced to use 30.06 because MacArthur didn't want to change to an intermediate cartridge when they had so much WWI surplus

# ¿ Apr 21, 2021 02:31

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ASAPI posted:

Right? It would be awesome to watch a pool drain into a room like that...

I'm wondering about the swimming pool construction at that school. If a single rifle shot is enough to puncture the floor below the pool, that must be a pretty weird structure, it can at the same time hold 2 million pounds of water in a safe enough manner that there is a floor below but can be penetrated by a 150grain bullet moving around 2000 feet per second.

# ¿ May 18, 2021 13:29

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"WATCH: 75-foot pool collapses into underground parking lot" https://www.audacy.com/news/watch-75-foot-pool-collapses-into-underground-parking-lot

# ¿ May 18, 2021 17:06

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Who is giving General Officers access to Twitter??

# ¿ May 25, 2021 01:29

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Scratch Monkey posted:

Does the JSDF still use their own version of the FAL that shoots a less powerful round because they felt 7.62 was too rough for their soldiers to fire accurately?

Just a quick wiki search and all of their historic and current small arms are NATO Standard. Not sure what you are getting at here?

# ¿ Jun 21, 2021 01:47

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There was lots of objections to the anthrax vaccine. iirc and people were still put out for not getting it.

Good loving luck with that chuds

# ¿ Aug 5, 2021 13:34

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boop the snoot posted:

Remember when we left a bunch of poo poo behind after we left [insert country here]? Including tanks and APCs?

Unrelated:
Hands across the AO to find a loving M9.

The forcepro at Camp Eggers lost a loving M4 by leaving it on the roof of a humvee before leaving for a patrol in downtown Kabul and it didn't trigger that big of a poo poo storm. This was in 2008

# ¿ Aug 21, 2021 13:00

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GD_American posted:

I guess Adam Baldwin now qualifies for the thread

https://twitter.com/adambaldwin/status/1446574580647317507?s=21

https://twitter.com/adambaldwin/status/1446577895376293890?s=21

https://twitter.com/adambaldwin/status/1446634619797913608?s=21

Of course it's the host of lions led by donkeys trolling him

# ¿ Oct 9, 2021 15:26

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Stravag posted:

Joe has an account here right? I know he quoted the forums in the caro episode

He does not, or at least he doesn't have archives, his followers screen spotted old Caro posts for him

Edit: he got banned in the early days

# ¿ Oct 9, 2021 18:48

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Godholio posted:

I enjoy the OBJ drama a lot more than I expected I would, as someone with an autographed Giants jersey of his on the wall.

Watching the Offense work without him yesterday was Cathartic.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2021 03:28

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GD_American posted:

speaking of USAF

https://twitter.com/AlexGray83/status/1553825591039856641

7 feet is not very much clearance

# ¿ Jul 31, 2022 22:43

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McNally posted:

I live like an hour from Gettysburg, I think we'd all be happier if I found a range closer to Gettysburg lol

Barely anyone lives between you and Gettysburg.

Just pick a hillside

# ¿ Mar 1, 2023 00:38

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Lemniscate Blue posted:

Here's an idiot story from Reddit's "Am I the rear end in a top hat" advice forum:

AITA for wanting to move into a house With my husband?

Paragraph breaks added by me because goddamn.

she should contact his command for spousal support.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2023 23:02

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Ok so they are both just stupid.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2023 18:40

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Mr. Nice! posted:

one enlisted and the other married him, so...

They both enlisted

# ¿ Mar 19, 2023 18:59

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Comrade Blyatlov posted:

It's probably not worth asking, but why in God's name would you do that with a loaded weapon, and why in Satan's name would you rack it first?

# ¿ Apr 22, 2023 19:03

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cult_hero posted:

Didn't even get expert.

How much you wanna bet he tells people he was "AF SF"?

He might be really old if he is calling himself security police.

When did they change from security police to security forces?

# ¿ May 13, 2023 23:52

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GD_American posted:

bit of context for anyone who wasn't around- GIP was a gimmick temporary subforum, and since grover was the one always posting about military poo poo in D&D, they made him an IK and he could only probate people for six hours.

Then eventually they made it a real forum and made him a moderator.

I don't know if they even had the IK label back then. I just know he only had a little bit of power at the start.

He had some weird master sergeant rank avatar when I joined back in 09

Edit : My first 2 probations were for 1. Throwing out an acronym as a post and a "bet she doesn't come back to the thread type post" both from Grover.

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# ¿ Sep 20, 2024 10:17

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FrozenVent posted:

Unlike Grover, I don’t abuse my power on the people who disagree with me.

Well, you should.

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# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 00:47

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