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Scheiss Meister

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  1. No! Not Halloween! I think that those broads are just mad about being called out as the witches they are. ETA - How many Ugly Trees does Russia have? Or did they all fall out of the same one?
  2. There has to be at least one wastewater treatment plant in Georgia that still dewaters their solids in drying beds. (Waste sludge is pumped out onto sand filter beds to separate the water from the solids. The solids left on top are allowed to dry, then manually removed to prevent damage to the sand beds.) Their community service, every damned one of them, should be shoveling drying beds in August. With news crews to film it for posterity.
  3. His mugshot has a 0.14 BAC. God knows what his was.
  4. Yep, ya got me!
  5. Wow. Who knew that so many Surlyites like two chords and banal, repetitive lyrics set to a driving beat?
  6. Well, yeah. That's why I drove sticks until I was 30.
  7. It won't change any minds. Those who deny the magnitude of the attack will just say that it's all fiction from the Isrealis. No amount of facts will sway them.
  8. I grew up with a guy who had something like that as his personal motto. "Dude, you just got 16 stitches and a broken arm after trying that jump. Don't try it again!" "This time I'll go faster. I can't fail to land it twice."
  9. KC and The Sunshine Band is the result of some sadistic idiots getting together and asking "How can we make the worst, most banal music? I mean, disco is bad, but maybe we can make it worse?"
  10. It's designed to sacrifice a wheel but protect the crew and cargo when it hits a mine. Granted, there are large enough mines/IEDs or shaped charge mines that can overcome the armor, but in general it will keep the humans inside alive and in shape to continue the fight.
  11. Patriot Games has one of the best opening sentences of any book that I have read: "Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour." Then it gets down to business.
  12. Russia's not going to try to replace them in kind. They will be replaced, to the extent possible, with more modern systems. The question is: can Russia replace them quickly enough to matter? Hopefully not, but they've been more able to manufacture new missiles than we thought. That's why we need to continue to provide more modern equipment to Ukraine.
  13. That's some top notch trolling right there.
  14. My son explained this perfectly with his definition of tradition: peer pressure from dead people.
  15. Dude, they're aggy. They love to be fooled.
  16. Oh HELL yes it happened to me and yes, I pissed my pants. When we first changed from the M-2 to the M-224 60mm mortars our armorers decided that they wanted to shoot a 60, so they grabbed a new-in-box gun and set it up. Dumbasses didn't clean it first, so the barrel was full of cosmoline. As I said elsewhere, we used WP rounds (with an effective kill radius of 100 meters) to set the base plates, so they dropped a WP round to set the plate. It made a weird sucking sound and dropped about 15 meters in front of the gun, which was also about 40 meters from me and 45 from where the ammo was stacked. Of course it didn't go far enough to arm, so it didn't go off, but how much do you trust the lowest bidder? It looked remarkably like the example in the video. More to @atomheartbevo's point, I saw quite a few 60mm mortar rounds and LAAW rounds that fell less than halfway to their targets due to malfunctions in the propellant charges. Thank God for functioning safeties.
  17. My daughter in Eugene was pretty bummed about the clouds, but did get a pretty decent picture before maximum.
  18. Maximum here near Navasota through a colander. It's not as neat as the shadows through the trees, but pretty cool, still. It's not completely focused because my wife is short.
  19. The light going through my wife's hat brim.
  20. I was setting up to try to focus on a book cover with my readers and got this by accident. Blurry, but it is going through my head.
  21. I used my reading glasses to focus the partial eclipse in August 2017 onto the sidewalk. It was pretty cool.
  22. So you're telling me that Taco Bell hasn't shut down in Russia?
  23. It's been many years since I dealt with it, but a quick search shows that there are three smoke rounds available for NATO/US tube artillery: HC, WP smoke, and WP incendiary. These are for use in 155mm guns. I know that the WP rounds for 60mm and 81mm mortars are incendiary rounds that don't produce much smoke. Well, aside from the smoke from the fires they start.
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