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might i recommend one of those giant foam hands with the pointing index finger, like people have at wrestling arenas?
much easier to stimulate emetic effect, gentler on bile-ravaged esophagus than your real finger
Did you say you ended up doing tours in Afghanistan and Iraq?
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
i'm doing that smile grimace thing again
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
that already happened
but actually I just need to turn in an asset I've had as a backup laptop for 4 years or so. I don't travel really at all for work anymore so I think it's a fair trade for a new box. I'll wait until next week, as the old box is at home. I actually thought the new box wouldn't be a thing for weeks. It's surprising it came so quickly after I put in a request.
as an aside, artillery fistbump
fuck it was close though
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
Oh gentrification, I am your oblivious target demographic
@Bowen
I just got a cheap webcam and some free software to handle it for me, may not be ideal if it' s gonna be pointing somewhere with any significant amount of traffic. I used this thing called splitcam to split the source so it's available to two programs, used xsplit to record all the footage and stream it to the web so I could check it remotely, and a program called vitamin d which does motion detection and will record clips when it detects motion and can shoot out an e-mail with a picture when this happens (I set it up to send it to my phone as a text. The free version of vitamin d was fine for me, it uses a pretty low resolution in the free version and only supports 1 camera, but if that's all you need it does the job. I had an x-split subscription already but I'm pretty sure there's still a free version which has everything you'll need unless you really need access to various sound codecs for streaming.
Godspeed you guys that joined, but it would have destroyed me.
Two in Iraq. On my first tour my unit, an Artillery unit, got trained to do Convoy duty and other misc security stuff and we had to trade in all of our howitzers for light armored humvee's. This was 2004, there weren't any "up-armor" humvee's yet, it was literally just steel plates welded onto the sides and bottom and a couple of sand bags. When we got into country however, half our unit went to Southern Iraq and the other half, my half, went to Abu-Ghraib and the Baghdad area and we got stuck doing both Convoy's and Prison duty.
The 2nd tour was a gigantic cluster fuck. We were on convoy's, I was a team leader and occasionally a convoy commander, but it was just damn. I was also on stop loss for 9 or so months (probably 10), so I "wasn't even supposed to be here". It's what really made me hate the military, seeing it for what it is finally. I got out when I got home from the 2nd, stayed out for about 3 months, went real poor to the point all I could eat in a day was maybe a spoonful or two of peanut butter, so I joined back up to be a Drill Sergeant, which was a huge huge mistake. I should've just stayed out because now I'm just extremely jaded and disgusted with the Army.
I value the time I put in, I'm thankful I have very minimal damage from my time in, but just god damn. I was in during my late teens and almost through all my 20's. Just a little bitter about it all.
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No, it is not for me. I'm too pretty for war.
Also congrats on not dying
might not work as well on non-redneck teenagers
Pony and his lady brought a scale when they moved in and so I gave it a shot after having had three weeks of my own cooking and almost no fast food and I am now at 235
I doubt that's going to continue to drop as rapidly but I'm definitely pleased about it
yeah that's a lot like me
they were advertising for ATC's and i thought why the fuck not, went to the recruiters, filled out all the forms, did the interviews and got declined because come on, me an ATC?
they then offered me a much lower paid and ranked (and reasonable) position which i declined because i got a bit dissalusioned with the whole thing at that point
having said that, i have a mate who joined the navy at 16 right out of school, he spent 8 years sailing around the med as a CPO, left and walked right into an offshore job with his engineering experience
he's on 60k a year now and has his own house
twat
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Wait. You live with Pony now?
Double couple household!?
Are you filming a sitcom?
first raven and now you too?
(seriously though I wish we did more for guys like you)
Orgies in the living room.
Pony and his lady are living with you guys too? So it's you, Cass, Benarwhal, Pony and his lady?
"I'm sorry, we can't let you in Mr. Chu, you just tested too highly on all the scales. It would be unfair to the enemy soldiers."
they haven't told you about their deal with PATV?
Haha one of my buddies who served with me left after 8 years, walked right into a programming job and is now a senior developer making 90k. He just bought a 2nd condo to use as either an office or to rent out.
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my biggest flaw is that i refuse to accept less than perfection- which can create tension in the workplace
That is an extremly understandable reaction to have about your experience.
I feel real bad for the people who joined to have a job and get an education and got stuck on the fucking sharp end of things.
It makes my blood boil actually.
Fuck dubya and fuck Tony Blair
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I don't think I've ever even seen a recruiter for our army. But like a lot of things, I suspect the Irish army simply doesn't have one.
My dad, a Marine, actually prevented me from doing so.
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Narwhal bailed out for personal reasons
I get upset about lack of competence around me. I get angry, I get violent.
and I get two years in prison, occasionally. Speaking of, that accounts for the gap in my CV.
so, when can I start?
Here they set up booths in high schools and cold call students at home.
and it recognized the old drive
so um I guess I will do a fresh install of lion and see if it chugs along
worst case it shits out on me again and I order the new hdd
And then
long
broken
monologues
There was a base between where I lived and Sainsbury's back in Bristol so they'd occasionally have open days.
I think it might have been TA actually rather than the real army.
i want to be happy for guys like that
i really do
they worked for it and earned it
but on the other hand
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK ARGLE BARGLE
*vomits with rage*
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I wasn't the only one on the 2nd tour that this happened to either. So a few of us got together and bought a bunch of "STOP LOSS" tabs (think airborne tabs but instead they stay stop loss) to wear on our uniforms. I grew a beard, I stopped cutting my hair, I started wearing a keffiyeh and aviators and then my LT put me on Personal Security because I looked so out of uniform that I might actually scare people.
So I shaved and cut my hair.
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Hey TL DR
How's it hippying with you today
once i went to the recruiter's office and looked at paperwork the glitz got piled on a little- your asvab is so high, you could do this, that, and the other, also free education!- but in the initial meeting to draw people into a real conversation they weren't really overplaying their hand or tricking kids.