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  1. On 2/12/2024 at 3:17 PM, Scheiss Meister said:

    As someone who goes by his middle name I support this message.

    I am celebrating a major anniversary at work next week. I told HR a couple of months ago that if the name that I go by wasn’t on the certificate then I wasn’t accepting it. The certificates come from our corporate office so who knows what will be on there. I further told HR that I didn’t care if they had to white it out and hand write it in. We will see what happens but I feel like I am going to be disappointed since I most likely will leave the reception without a certificate.

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  2. I am not sure where to put this?  Either here are in "Trivial Things That Make You Surly".

    I went to Hobby Lobby this past Saturday looking for some bookends.  I looked in what I thought would be a logical location for them but did not find any.  I found two young employees and asked them if they had any bookends.  Neither one of them knew what bookends were.  I found myself describing to them what bookends were and what they typically look like.  You would have thought that I was describing quantum physics to them.  Does anyone read or keep books anymore?

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  3. 15 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

    Caught this beauty at Central Market this evening… betting that it belongs to a member of the Najo Average Orchestra playing there tonight…

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    Going with the typical theme of Surlys, the inspection is past due, therefore, I would not drive it.

  4. 2 hours ago, troph said:

    Christian Bale and his family, but we wouldn’t acknowledge we knew who they were. Flew from the Brando on a puddle jumper to Tahiti then Covid tested together then got on the plane in business class on air Tahiti and flew to LA together. I mostly talked to his wife. He’s a cool dude and was super attentive to his kids the whole time. Seemed like an A+ dude.

    My base airport is the same airport as a prominent sportscaster and US Congressman.  I see both of them often enough that we recognize each other and pass casual comments or if we sit next to each other on the flights we converse a bit during the flight.  One of them is Tim Brando. I know, I know. He does like Sark and the Horns in general. I guess the effect of his usual OU broadcast partner has some voodoo on him during the games. The other is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Of course he is not flying commercial anymore I guess since I have not seen him since the week before his appointment.

  5. 1 hour ago, huge said:

    I have an Axent ONE and this remote beats the shit out of mine.

    I don’t think that is a function of this one either. That may be the super deluxe model.

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  6. 12 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    I know this show is extremely accurate, and if everything just one thing in that last episode actually happened, HOLY FUCK

     

     

    amazing series. Gave me even more appreciation for those men and people that lived during that time

    FIFY.

    They were young men (some just boys) and women doing extraodinary things.

  7. 9 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    Mining,

    I really hope your will specifies which WWII musuem gets all of your stuff.   Please, please, please don't let someone toss all of that in the trash one day.  Might possibly even document it all and then send that list to the museum's curator you pick and let them know it exists.  

    Yes, I have spreadsheets and “values” of most of my collection. All of my uniforms are well documented with whatever history I could find on the respective soldier through family members, unit histories, Ancestry.com, Fold3, and Newspaper.com.

    I have heard horror stories about donating to museums. Unless you have Eisenhower’s uniform or something like that it most likely will end up in the basement or some other storage area only to be sold at a later date by the museum. I would prefer my kids and grandkids get the money if they elect not to want it. They can sell it off or I will liquidate it one day. I just want to make sure the groups stay together and that we keep the family stuff.

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  8. Not sure about WWIII but if we go to war with India it is probably my fault. I just pissed half the plane off while I was de-boarding in a proper manner from Raipur to Delhi. A casual backpack adjustment sent the multitude shoving me forward into a startled reverse domino effect.

  9. On 3/13/2024 at 7:31 AM, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Man this thread died ignanimously.  Dragged my 20 year old Mahindra out of the barn yesterday and started cleaning it up.   Needs a bunch of electrical work but still runs like a beast.

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    Looking forward to my 4 year old grandson climbing all over it tomorrow.

    I am currently in India so this hits close to home.

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  10. My ex is a type A with big mood swings to begin with. Menopause comes along. The doctor puts her on hormones that were in the form of pellets that she would get inserted in her hip ever so often that seemed to work for the most part. She decided that she did not want to keep getting periodic incisions so the doctor prescribed some different medications which was a trial and error which, IMO, was more error. We got divorced.

  11. 22 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    I have noticed that most of the time when someone just sends a "hey" message and I ignore them, I never hear from them again.

    "Hey"

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  12. 11 hours ago, Armybrat said:

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    Karnack ISD had one very similar to this in the early "80s.  One year our freshman baseball team played their varsity team.  Karnack did not have their own field so we played at the Longhorn Ammunition Plant's baseball field inside the secure area.  All they had was a backstop and benches.  The field of play was where they mowed.  They would not let personal vehicles inside the facility so what few fans that were there had to walk in and the two teams took this bus looking vehicle in.

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  13. 13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    When it's that dry, with lots of fuel, and windy.....a fire is going to happen.  Could be any number of things: power lines touched in high wind, a piece of metal or segment of chain falls off a trailer on the road, kicks up sparks into the dry grass (I've literally seen that happen in real-time), ash from someone's cigarette...truly anything.  All it takes is one mistake/bad circumstance.  I mean, it could also be someone being utterly stupid and deciding to fire up a campfire or something, so don't rule out stupid. In fact, NEVER rule out stupid.

    I would start with “stupid” people.

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  14. 2 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    If you are into the intrigue & subterfuge of the war, check out "Bodyguard of Lies"

    Everything we've seen has been part of a sequence of events in the war.  BOB was invasion and post-invasion.  Before the bombing campaigns went into full swing, there was the Battle of the Atlantic and the Kreigsmarine.  The point was not just to establish shipping lanes, but the elimination of the U-boat threat.  Enigma codebreakers and the US Ultra machines.  The sacrifice of boats knowing they could be saved so as not to tip off the Germans that they were on to them.  Insane choices that had to be made.

    The prize of the campaigns was to neutralize the manufacturing capacity of Germany, but also the rail systems that would be used to support troops stationed in France to repel the invasions.  That means bombing in France as well.  That meant thousands of French citizens perished.  As the neutralization of the U-boat threat was an equal prize in the Atlantic, so too was the elimination of the Luftwaffe in Europe.  The German Air Intelligence Service (as seen in the episode) was vast and who's sole purpose was confounding Allied air attacks.  

    They could have stopped Neptune if even at a fraction of their capacity and capabilities.  Had they had been able to conduct surveillance of Allied tactics, targets, and formations.....with their cryptoanalytics and wireless intelligence activities and their ability to blinding/jamming Allied radar and navigation systems....it could have been game over.

    That's why the constant attacks had to be waged, knowing full well the losses that would come from them.  That's why deception was the Allied game plan.  Even with tens of thousands of planes attacking the Germans around the clock, they could have swept the Allies off the beaches had they known when/where.  

    One part I hope they touch on were all the German spies in the UK rounded up.  With the codebreakers, they were able to find essentially all of them, turn them with the threat of death, and create their own army of double-agents feeding the Germans what they wanted them to know without tipping them off that their network had been compromised.  That meant certain raids were flying into German defenses who knew they were coming....and they sent them anyway.  

     

    Anyway, long winded, but if you like this stuff, it's a MUST read.  

    This. I read BOL in the early ‘90s. Still have the books. Most definitely a reread for me now that I have a broader knowledge of WW2.

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  15. 1 hour ago, Mother mopar said:
    2 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:
    You need to finish up the story where you broke his ankles on a crossover dribble while going hard in the paint.

    He fucked around and got a triple double. Today was a good day

    I am too humble to mention such things.  I assumed that it was implied as such.

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  16. 17 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    Looks like a Kwik-Kar Oil & Lube breakroom tbh

    Functional if not fancy.  We are moving into a new corporate office in 3 weeks.  We will pretty much have to check our shoes at the door in the new "state-of-the-art" facility.  We will all now have 6x8 cubicles to promote "collaboration".  Not a fan particularly since I have had an office with a window and door for about 30 years now.

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  17. 10 minutes ago, nnm said:

    30 years ago, it was my first day on the job. It was a small company.  I showed up early and the receptionist let me in.  They had a coffee machine exactly like this, as had my previous employer.  At my previous employer, there wasn't a direct water line, so you filled the reservoir with a coffee pot full of water and then brewed.

    Seeking to make a good impression, I made coffee exactly as I thought it should be done.  I filled the reservoir with a pot full of water, put the filter and coffee in, pressed brew, and went on about my business.

    Because there WAS a direct water line into the machine at this new employer, the machine proceeded to pump the regular amount of water, plus the extra pot that I put in the reservoir, through the filter.  There was coffee all over the kitchen.

    Way to make a first impression!

    At least you were trying!

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  18. This is the coffee maker where I work. Without fail people will leave less than one cup of coffee in the pot, often time less than a cup in both pots combined. So if you want a cup then you have to finish off what is there and then wait for another pot to make.

    It is not hard to make coffee. If you are depleting the volume in a pot to less than a cup, then simply remove the old grounds and filter and replace it before you walk away. No need to add water since it is hard plumbed in. The coffee can brew unattended and be ready for the next person.

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