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Scheiss Meister

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  1. And the cycle goes on...
  2. Nah, I've had good to really good tap water in a lot of places. Waco tap water comes from the Brazos. Good tasting surface water is hard to get, especially from rivers, but it can be done. I've had some decent tap water from surface sources in East Texas. Waco and the surrounding communities must not try to improve the taste of their water at all. It's downright nasty.
  3. Fuck Waco tap water. It even ruins tea.
  4. Weld up the holes in one of those disks, grind the welds smooth, then season the disk and a cook can make all kinds of kickass chow on it. Waste of good discas (sp.?), if you ask me.
  5. Doesn't look like they missed ol' Sergei. Looks like they hit him good.
  6. Poland welcoming Germany stationing military equipment on its soil. I'll take "Yep, WW II is really over." for $500, Alex.
  7. If you can get close enough, yeah. The trains they need to hit are well behind Russian lines, and you can bet that the Russkies are guarding their rail lines as much as possible. As much as we hear about partisan assassinations and scouting, it is notable that we don't hear much about Russkie train "accidents". I'm sure the partisans try, but obvious targets will be tough targets.
  8. Men who have gone to bed with a cheetah only to awaken to a wildebeest the next morning understand all too well.
  9. I'm sorry to hear that. Cancer has taken too many in my family, so tell your dad that I am pulling for him to kick cancer's ass for them. We'll be praying for y'all.
  10. Starting another wonderful day of work TEXAS!!!
  11. Semper Paratus and Semper Fidelis, RPM's dad. You rocked.
  12. I once dated a woman who worked in risk management at aggy back in the 80s. She told me that every semester they had to pay to clean and refurbish 2 or 3 of the apartments in the married student housing because Middle Eastern families would butcher sheep and goats in the apartments. The risk department repeatedly suggested that the school provide a place where Muslims could butcher animals following halal practices, but that was denied. Aggy is as aggy does.
  13. "Although that bartender looks a bit surly, if you catch my drift." I took it as a reference to Lonesome Dove, but, yeah, it could be a call out of this merry band.
  14. I thought that it was the neighbor's mule scratching its back on the corner of my trailer again.
  15. I'm not very familiar with Russian mortar rounds, but it appears that some of those rounds have their fuses in them. There are safeties in the fuses that require a set amount of time after firing before they arm, but storing ammo with the fuses in is a very big no-no. One malfunctioning fuse, and it can all go up. Maybe they're storage caps, designed to keep the fuse well clean, but if that's the case, why don't all of the rounds have them? Weird. I'm also a little taken aback that they are not boxed. Maybe that store is right next to a firing position and the rounds are prepped for rapid use. Still doesn't seem like safe storage to me. Disclaimer: while I was a 60mm mortarman, I never saw combat, so I don't know if this storage matches what our forces do in combat. I just know that it gives me the boo boo jeebies to think about working around that kind of storage.
  16. I don't think so. Douglas Munro, a Coastie, was awarded a CMH for his work driving a landing craft, rescuing Marines after an ill-conceived reconnaissance mission on Guadalcanal. Coasties regularly engage smugglers and fish thieves and lots of things that don't make the news. They are badasses in my book.
  17. I suppose that the missiles that hit Poland could have been Ukrainian S-300 missiles that were fired at Russian missiles and missed their target. We don't know, and may not for a while.
  18. If they go there will be trouble, if they stay it will be double.
  19. No. He's saying that the only defense line that Ukraine will not penetrate is the Russian border. The pre-2008 Russian border. In other words, leave and live; stay and die.
  20. I understand. My favorite WW II warbird is the DeHavilland Mosquito. Several years ago I saw a video where the world's only flying Mossie crashed at an airshow in England. The pilot, who flew Mossies in the war and had returned his plane to airworthy condition, was in his eighties and had a heart attack during the flight. The Mossie dove straight into the ground. I guess that the guy died doing what he loved, but he took a one of a kind plane with him. I felt bad for him and the plane.
  21. Aren't there state laws against child porn? I get that the Feds can hit harder, but where is Paxton in this? Isn't that one of the planks in the state Republican platform? Why aren't Texas LEOs taking this maggot down?
  22. I mean, it's nice to see it polled, but file this under "Duh!" This has been obvious to everyone for a long while.
  23. I used to work with a retired Marine lieutenant colonel. I called him colonel one morning and he asked my if I wanted him to call me corporal. Point taken, sir.
  24. Lol, no. But to be fair, she didn't have much access to that kind of ammo. Couldn't beat her turnip greens and cornbread, though.
  25. Same, but mine was Polish. I could never eat enough to keep her truly happy. And I could freaking eat as a kid. My Grandma was a Scot, French, and English mutt. Babushka attitude transcends nationality.
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