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Scheiss Meister

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  1. My greatest fear for my 90 years old dad. He's still sharp and active, but he's getting less steady on his feet every time I see him.
  2. And another dime towards my fare to hell. Thanks.
  3. In the mid 80s my brother worked at a place that made the wire racks for Little Debbie's and Frito Lays displays. One night everyone went on break except the guy operating the chrome plating line. When everyone returned from break, he was nowhere to be found, so they started looking for him. About an hour later someone looked in the hot (approximately 190° F) rinse and saw his remains on the bottom. He had tried to walk along the top of the wall for some reason, slipped and fell in. They tried to scoop him out, but, to quote my brother, "he fell apart like a boiled chicken." They had to pump out the tank for the recovery, which took over 24 hrs due to capacity to treat the rinse water as it was pumped out. The counselor the company brought in to help folks deal with it said that with the shock of the hot water the guy probably died quickly, but my brother and a couple of the others saw marks on the tank walls showing not only where the guy had slipped on the wall, but also where he tried to crawl out but couldn't pull himself out. Boiled alive little at a time seems like it would suck.
  4. They are called aeration basins, and yes, you will sink in them. I see pictures of wastewater plants with the floating life rings mounted on the aeration basin hand rails and laugh. Someone would have to be standing next to the ring and throw it to the victim in seconds for them to have a chance to pull the victim out. It just isn't likely. And, yes, I saw the Myth Busters episode that supposedly proved that one can float in aerated water. They did not convince me.
  5. A thunderstorm just blew through with a LOT of lightning. It caused the first power outage that we've had in some time, and didn't drop more than a quick sprinkle. Now I can't get back to sleep. Shit.
  6. When I was at MCRD San Diego the chow was good. Well, except for my first breakfast there which gave me food poisoning, along with all of the other recruits and drill instructors who had ham that morning. Going through processing with the shits isn't nearly as fun as you would think it is.
  7. My first thought. Abbott would rather we be surprised by the misery than hear how close to the edge we are week to week.
  8. Lol at the argument that if a little pollution happens naturally, then a lot of pollution caused by man is a-ok. Moron.
  9. Got a couple of decent showers in 77868. I'll take it.
  10. "Riders on the storm, Riders on the storm..."
  11. The Ukrainian military is just striving to be the world's largest distributor of Mig and Sukhoi parts.
  12. That one hurts a lot. Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote a huge chunk of the soundtrack for my early and middle childhood. I have almost all of the songs listed in that tweet in my music files on my tablet and desktop. I am happy to have been blessed to live at the right time to hear his awesome music, but his passing sucks.
  13. Oh, I agree that you go after the aircraft, too. Lost equipment has to be replaced, too. When supplies are more concentrated, giving more bang for the buck as it were, they are the better target.
  14. When I lived in Center, Deep East Texas, there was an old lady in her 80s who would come to a complete stop in a 45 mph zone on one of the busiest streets in town and wait until there was no oncoming traffic before turning right into her driveway. It was common to have to wait 5 or even 10 minutes for her to get off the street. The whole town breathed a sigh of relief when her son took her keys.
  15. There's some red in the smoke, too, which is a signature of nitrates burning. I think that, unlike the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Ukraine targeted both ammo and fuel storage. Airplanes and helicopters without fuel and munitions are just fancy gate guards and scrap metal.
  16. Tell him to get to a doc and get some Paxlovid. It worked for me. Also, my dad got it at 89 and whipped it without Paxlovid. He wouldn't admit he had it until he got over it, but we checked in on him frequently to make sure he got through. Tough old birds don't give a shit, I guess.
  17. Please, Mister, Please... tell me it ain't so.
  18. Pretty hard, I think. The Prowlers have been mothballed for a while, and I'm sure that the equipment for the F-18 Growlers isn't fully compatible, so re-equiping them would be an effort. Then you have to train up pilots and electronic warfare officers on equipment that is very, very different from anything they have ever seen. Finally, the Iron Hand/Wild Weasel electronic warfare mission is one of the most difficult missions to train for and execute successfully. Once Russia is pushed out, I'm sure that it's a mission that the Ukrainian Air Force takes on, but I don't think they have the time or personnel to do it now. More's the pity. That's not to say that they can't get an advantage locally with what they have that would allow close air support for ground operations in limited areas. That could be a game changer, executed judiciously and strategically.
  19. HARMs will help with establishing air superiority, if Ukraine uses them right and follows up. American-style air supremacy is probably out of reach, but even local air superiority can turn a battle.
  20. I wonder which it is. May also be a jury rig on a helicopter, which would be really wild.
  21. It's "lived in", and no one is going to park close to you.
  22. I think you misunderstood the tweet. The Canucks are deploying to the UK to help train troops, not UK. Slight difference. But I would be shocked if we don't have spooks and operators all over Ukraine. We'll just never hear about it.
  23. Look at this wrong son of a bitch. There's water falling from the sky in 77868. It won't be much, but I'll take it!
  24. I can see the tops of those clouds from Navasota, and I know without doubt that I won't get a drop of it on my place. I hope you get some at yours.
  25. That looks like the projectile that hits the IFV is coming in relatively slowly, then shoots the penatrating portion into the target at high speed. Does that look like a brilliant munition to anyone else? ETA - Ukraine must have pretty good control of the airspace over that tank column. I counted at least ten tanks moving in route column on a road and closely spaced, in wide open country. That is a juicy target for any aircraft, manned or unmanned, and they are diddy bopping along like they're on parade. Unless they are in the western half of Ukraine, that's encouraging.
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