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  1. 47 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    I think you are right on all points. However, do you think our tanks are more resistant to damage than the Russian ones are, or are they just bigger targets? 

    I think we probably have the most technically advanced tanks overall, and use them better tactically (almost as important as the technical capabilities IMO).  We also like operating at night which most armies can't do on a large scale.  That's a huge advantage over most any enemy.  I don't see American tanks running single file, down a highway, in broad daylight, in a battle theater.

    I don't know how well tanks hold off the things a soldier can load up against his shoulder, and fire today though.

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  2. 45 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    I'm curious what people think here. Do you think that this war is revealing huge liabilities to our military's reliance on mechanized warfare and our carriers looking like giant targets, or do you ascribe the results of this war to the utter ineptness of the Russian military? 

    Some of both. I've never held Russian military in high esteem, their equipment (the main bulk) is always outdated, and poorly maintained, it's army is filled with uneducated conscripts.

    Our carriers are protected a bit better than the average Russian warships but with the advent of drone warfare the time of aircraft carriers may be coming to an end.

    I think our military is moving to a more rapidly deployed, lighter, strike force type organization.  You can bet our intel, and tech folks are looking at this conflict in minute by minute detail.

    You couldn't pay me enough money to drive a tank.

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  3. 41 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

    Police:  Outlandos; Regatta; Zenyatta

    Dylan:  Bringing It All Back Home; Hwy 61 Revisited; Blonde on Blonde.  I'm not a huge Dylan fan, but those albums were enormously influential.

    Stooges:  Stooges; Fun House; Raw Power.  

     

    The Dylan albums are my wheelhouse along with blood on the tracks.

    For sure on the police trifecta.

     

    never been a huge stooges fan unless curly was in the lineup on screen or onstage.

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  4. 11 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    sick fucks have been raping dog, cats, and farm animals for a long ass time. it's not just those foreign places either. i could post articles of dudes in the US doing that shit.

    but yea, raping a monitor fucking lizard takes the fucking cake. the audacity, mental illness, and conviction...these four dudes are in a league all their own.

    Yeah, the whole sheep, cow, horse fucking thing is disgusting on an infinite number of levels, but this is like infinity times eleventy billion worse in my mind............and yeah the gang rape angle blows what little of my mind is left.

  5. 21 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    There are a half dozen super popular classic bands that make me almost wretch every time I hear them, and Moody Blues is near the top of the list.  I just don't get it, at all.  The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Jefferson Starship, I could go on.  I guess it's mostly the psych era that turns me off.

    I mean, I'm glad they work for some people, it's a big world out there, but damn.

    Damn you list some of the seminal bands of the classic rock era.  Please don't go on.

    Jefferson Starship (fuck no). Jefferson Airplane ?  Hell yeah, they're rock, and roll big boys.  Again, all personal taste so no wrong answers really.

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  6. 8 minutes ago, Harrison Stafford said:

    I found Nights in White Satin tedious,  awash in non-rock qualities, and better suited for airplay on an easy listening radio station.  Having said that, as someone else who grew up in the 60s, I’m aware my sentiments are in the minority.

    I can see the easy listening comment based on sound, but the overall composition is classic 60's, rock/symphony orchestra collaboration (IMO). It does get very "pretty". It's all personal taste of course.  There's plenty of rock music you could hear on an easy listing station, and it would still be rock.

    I don't think you're in the minority. I think the Moody Blues are one of those bands people dug or didn't, and basically for the general reasons you listed above. 

  7. On 4/1/2022 at 6:16 PM, Harrison Stafford said:

    From 1968 to 1972, the Moody Blues released six albums and there wasn’t a stinker in the whole lot:

    In Search of The Lost Chord

    To Our Children’s Children’s Children

    On The Threshold of a Dream

    A Question of Balance

    Every Good Boy Deserves  Favour (EGBBF…the notes on the treble clef)

    Seventh Sojourn 

    I didn’t include Days of Future Passed released in 1967 because the tune Nights in White Satin….never reaching the end….was 7 excruciating minutes of never reaching the end for me.  And the song is Nights in White Satin and not Knights in White Satin.

     

    All true about the quality of their music, but Nights in white satin/never reaching the end is one of THE quintessential 60's pieces of music ever recorded. Having grown up during those years, when I hear it, the 60's flood into my memory like from almost no other source.  And it's not even in my list of top 10 Moody Blues songs, let alone all time 60's favorites.  

    Free bird could maybe be my equivalent of your sentiments regarding nights in white satin.

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  8. 9 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    It depends. If the current model of everyone sending Ukraine their old shit holds true, a lot of land based anti-ship missiles are fairly fixed systems. There's a new system the Marines are just starting to deploy that's mounted on a truck body and is extremely mobile. I don't think it's fully deployed by our guys yet and is probably an integrated system, so I doubt we'd send it to the Ukes. 

    Yep, we're not sending first line, new toy stuff, which makes sense for all kinds of reasons. Something truck mounted/mobile seems to be a great, quick way to tackle the situation.

  9. 16 minutes ago, horn4life said:

    Missiles.  There is the capability, and it's land based not sea based.

    Is that a system easily used, does it require a much more sophisticated fire system, training, is it mobile or fixed, etc. ?  I like the idea.

  10. 16 minutes ago, horn4life said:

    Yeah the wife and I watched/ listened to that last night.  There was also some show before that we first tuned in on that was interesting regarding Stalin and intelligence via spying in the lead up to Germany's push into Russia.  It was pretty interesting, especially seeing all the tentacles of information.  

    You know that now Putin is going to try to crate a land bridge taking most everything east of Odessa along the coast.   I will go back to what a ssid a week or so ago.  time to start sinking ships.  Mainly simply because ships are expensive, and you can't easily replace them or propaganda their disappearance away.

    Think it’s been established that sinking ships is a much bigger task does Ukraine have a navy capable of doing that ? which then means NATO hast to get involved and I think we all know where that leads to.

  11. 49 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    I want to see Putin's head, literally, on a pike and displayed in Kyiv. 

    I like the visual. I'd settle for seeing him sitting in a small cell with iron bars.

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  12. These should be performed the first time at 40, sooner than that if your family has a history IMO.

    My family has a history so I demanded one be performed earlier. 3 polyps the first time, 6 the second time, 7 Tuesday . Now it’s just a waiting game for the biopsy report.

    Lost one of my long time friends to it at the age of 35 or so. Not much you can do about it at that age I guess,  He was a big Drinker, ate lots of red meat.

    Once you exhibit symptoms it’s already in the later stages I believe. 

    Before my first one, I was seeing some blood.  Freaked me the fuck out. Turned out it was a hemorrhoid. Talk about relief.

  13. 10 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    Have you ever seen it executed properly?

    I will swear on a stack of bibles I saw a 3 lane zipper merge work pretty politely less than 3 weeks ago while crossing the Monitor Merrimac bridge tunnel in Hampton, Va.  I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it.  

    2 lanes of traffic with a 3rd on ramp lane: there was a lane blockage just past the onramp. For the most part it moved well, and we got thru what could have been almost a 45 minutes or more back up in about 10 minutes.  

    There were of course those assholes who have to try, and get by everyone, but mostly the onramp lane (shipyard shift change traffic ), and the merge lane alternated vehicles. It fostered hope for humanity in my bruised soul.

  14. 2 minutes ago, Mach 1 said:

    Pulled the trigger on this little guy for our next project.

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    It's a runner with no rust.  Plan is new wire harness, rebuild the heads for some performance, suspension upgrade, and a repaint in British Green with tan interior.

    Wife loves it, says it will be her "Mrs Robinson car."  I was happy to hear it, because ... wait, what? does she intend to start fucking college drop outs?

     

     

    Uhhh... do you want us to lie to you ?

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  15. 17 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

     "dope smokers," lulz.  Living in a State with real freedoms--as opposed to say, Texas-- I consume cannabis once or twice a week and all without smoking at all. 

    The wife will call me a pot head, like it's some kind of insult, and I should be hurt..... 

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  16. 15 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    No offense, but I'm probably a much better skier than you are.  I'd conservatively say I'm better than 90% of the skiers on the hill.  Living here lets me ski a lot more than most people and I've been skiing since I could walk.  Sure, I catch edges or occasionally lose my balance, but I rarely fall - I bail out of the line and stop when that happens.  Just how it is.  My neighbor is a volunteer ski patroller and is far better than I am.  I've never seen him fall, either.

    Oh, none taken at all.   You live in a ski Mecca, you get unlimited days if you want, of course you're better than me (I hate all you fuckers who get to live in the Rockies) just kidding of course.  

    And I know there's a class of skiers out there who don't fall much if at all, but I now when I push myself I ski better, even when I take a fall.  Then I hit that run again and make sure I don't fall... at least not at the same place.  

    I get 20 days on the slopes a year if I'm lucky. Next season is booked for about 40 so far.

    And yes when I'm getting 5 days on a vacation, I'm pushing myself to get 5-7 hours if possible, which does breed some sloppiness towards the end of the day. I try to shut it down when I feel the sloppiness creeping in, and I can't hit a line the way I'd like to. 

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