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Scheiss Meister

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  1. This war is the perfect proof of Napoleon's observation that the moral is to the physical as three is to one. Or, in American, it ain't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of fight in the dog.
  2. Well, if I would have thought of it...
  3. During Desert Storm an M-1 shot through a sand berm and knocked out a T-72. If the old 105 mm gun could do that, the newer 120 mm damn sure will.
  4. They'll blow up, too. And more easily.
  5. I fall on the side of not wanting China to contribute weapons to Russia, but, if they do, we will get our hands on more valuable equipment and information that we can use against China in the future. It's not in China's best interests to let that happen, but we'll see.
  6. I do not answer my work phone after 30 minutes until quitting time. Call back tomorrow. Thanks.
  7. If it wasn't already called penis envy, it would be called aggyitis.
  8. How is that one fucker still walking around? Probably dead and he doesn't know it yet, but damn.
  9. They've been fighting for years for the chance to be Russian vassals, and actually have been. Now it's official.
  10. To me that seems like the number of troops who cannot return to combat, either by death or injury, but I hope that is the number of Russian dead.
  11. Tell him that it's Karl Malone.
  12. If the supposition that 97% of Russia's army is in Ukraine is correct, some nations that border Russia might help Ukraine out by holding some exercises near said border. Or Georgia start maneuvering as if they are going to go into North Ossetia. Get Russia's attention and maybe get them to pull some troops out of Ukraine to counter.
  13. 99 Chinese balloons in the air, 99 Chinese balloons. Shoot one down, it falls to the ground, 98 Chinese balloons in the air.
  14. The t-shirt fans annoy them because they (t-shirt fans) are not affiliated with either school directly, and thus choose Texas over aggy purely on unbiased merit. Every Texas t-shirt fan is an explicit reminder that Texas is seen as superior to aggy by the majority of people, which hurts their little feelings all to hell. Poooor aggys.
  15. They have my permission.
  16. Spiders eat bugs; mice, rats, and bats eat spiders; snakes eat mice and rats; wastewater operators freak the fuck out over snakes. You'll never get all the bugs, or the mice and rats, so it's easiest to cut that chain at the spiders.
  17. That's why we sweep cobwebs two or three times a week. Spiders bring mice, rats, and bats, none of which I can abide in the workplace. (I otherwise love bats.)
  18. There's the way it should be, and there's the way it is. These folks recognize the way it is.
  19. How stupid is it that Chuck Berry's only #1 hit was My Ding-A-Ling? One thing that John Lennon got right was when he said that if it wasn't called rock and roll, it would be called Chuck Berry. So many great and influential songs, and that's the one that hits #1? Silly.
  20. I imagine that there's plenty of post oak and pecan down. I don't like live oak, either.
  21. I've never been told that I was dropped on my head as a baby, I just always assumed it. I'd hate to think that I have no excuse for being like this.
  22. I bet that all of the barbecue joints will get great deals on wood for a while. The only bright spot I see so far.
  23. He must be taking notes from Paxton.
  24. Reading some of this thread made me think about a guy I used to work with. A little before Ike a crew from his co-op came out to trim trees in his neighborhood, and he refused to let them trim any of the trees on his property. He was bragging at work about how he ran them off. During Ike, the wind knocked down a couple of limbs from one of his trees onto the lines, knocking out power to the whole neighborhood. While the crew was repairing the lines, he was out there bitching at them for not maintaining the lines and the trees that he had told them not to touch. (Witnessed by a friend of mine who lived in that neighborhood.) The next day he was griping at work that the whole neighborhood was pissed at him, and he didn't know why. Maintaining utilities, water, sewer, gas, communications, or electric, is an expensive and time consuming operation. Everyone seems to think that you put the wire in the air or the pipe in the ground, and then never think about it again. It ain't that way. Maintenance is labor intensive, and labor is usually the largest expense in the budget. Rate payers don't want to pay for it, but will sure raise hell when there are problems. As in my illustration above, some actively interfere with maintenance activities. So, yeah, every utility can do better, and being without power in this kind of situation is frustrating, but try walking a mile in their shoes before getting judgmental, please. Now back to, "It's horrible mismanagement and those utilities guys are morons."
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