canyoneer posted:

The Army Museum in Paris is really great. The WWI sections are even more depressing than I expected. Practically every portrait of a soldier or officer hanging up had a birthdate in 18-something and a death date in 1914/15.

Wild T posted:

So I got diagnosed with narcolepsy a while back, right around 17 years in. I just kinda layed low for a few months before my PCM called to ask. They told me that would be an MEB with very little chance of returning to duty. Well, poo poo, I really wanted concurrent disability but medical retirement may do. The doc tells me she needed to talk to my sleep specialist about his diagnosis first. Months pass. I have a follow-up with my sleep specialist, who confirms that it's definitely narcolepsy and his diagnosis remains firm.

I'm now 3 months from my 18 year mark. I have a sitdown with the doc for my PHA and she brings up the same point about the narcolepsy, and in particular the modafinil that was prescribed for it. I tell her I take it as needed if I'm drug out in the morning, like an extra cup of coffee (which is true). She tells me that narcolepsy with modafinil is a definite med board, so her solution is to just arbitrarily clear my prescription from the system and call it good. So untreated narcolepsy is, presumably, peachy.

Current plan? Sit pretty for another year and after my 19 year mark get my modafinil back and let them MEB me. Praise the lazy gods of military medicine for allowing me to grab a bigger fistful of Uncle Sam dollars solely because a doc took a shortcut.

canyoneer posted:

canyoneer posted:

It's a cultural thing there. She may have been listening to compare the sound of your farts and trying to match it to someone else.
In ancient and modern Egypt it's considered good luck to have a toot-in-common.

mlmp08 posted:

https://twitter.com/thewtfnation/status/1291066551228076033?s=21

sharknado slashfic posted:

I spent way too much time looking for the goatse for it to just be a blue falcon axe

Wild T posted:

God, that's just Air Force deployments summed up in one conversation.

One of my buddies got me good with that in Afghanistan. We start talking about food yet again, and what we're gonna go eat when we get home. Then he seamlessly works in this gem:

"I don't know, man, I'm going to eat a ton of trashy junk food when I get back. Do you eat fast food?"

Sometimes, but not like all the time. Only when I'm crunched for time.

"Dude I love fast food. I can do McDonalds, but Wendys has to be my favorite. Do you like Wendys?"

Yeah, I do kinda like Wendys.

"Yeah? So you kinda like it when DEEZ NUTS are in your face?!"

I was just kinda dumbstruck, too. poo poo, I walked right into that.

Wild T posted:

Hey now, there are plenty of enlisted zipper suited sun gods too. Like the old saying, "the only thing worse than an officer in a plane is an enlisted in a plane who thinks he's an officer".