This was a while back, so not the last time but probably one of my biggest wtfs.

Anyway, In Iraq, in a tower surrounded by sandbag and hesco walls. The night guard shifts kept pissing in bottles and tossing it over the walls instead of just pissing anywhere else or just throwing the piss bottles in the trash so at the change over the Sergeant of the Guard said that we had to make the guys getting relieved stand by because they’re gonna have to go clean all that up. Mind you this is outside of the wire in Iraq - not that it’s particularly dangerous but we were still getting bombed nightly. Anyway, I rock up to the tower and let them know to standby and the SOG rolls up behind me and tells them what’s up.

I kid you not, this dude looks at him and says “Can we at least downgrade our gear?” You could probably hear my laughter across the whole FOB. He just said “Can I take off my vest and helmet before I head out of the wire?”

I shouted down “I can cover you but that won’t stop any rounds that come your way,” and the SOG just said “What? No, fuck, are you kidding?”

Then I baked in the 100+°F sun while I watched adults pick up piss bottles in the desert.

Technically the triangle just refers to ‘relationships’ and not ‘romantic relationships’ so two male friends and one female love interest works as a triangle but one woman with two male strangers doesn’t with because that’s just a V.

This was a movie that I’d seen one day and promptly forgot the name of it. I tried in vain to find out years later. I asked my mom and she had no idea what I was talking about. I asked everyone and no one even knew. I was convinced it was a fever dream or something.

Until I heard Tech N9ne’s Everybody Move and he said “Falling Down like Michael Douglas” and it was a core memory unlocked and I finally got to watch it again.

It was every bit as good as I remember.

Is that why I see all those “I have too many ThinkPads, I just bought three more.” Posts, or is that just what part of the Internet I’m hanging out in?

A lot of prior military folks will use males and females just because that’s how it’s been drilled into them. Male and female latrines, not men and women’s bathrooms. Male and female barracks, not men and women’s dorms. Male and female standards, etc etc.

I have shorts, made by a company Pistol Lake that’s unfortunately no longer in business, that has a phone pocket inside the pocket with a snap closure.

Now, one, it perfectly fits my G100 and, two, the rest of the pocket is gigantic. Like, full size Nintendo Switch in there with wiggle room but my phone doesn’t move.

So, this may be silly but, see a tailor about adding a pocket if your clothes are baggy enough for it.

The Zero Suit is looking pretty baggy in this picture for some reason.

I won’t lie, seeing an Aldi worker can now potentially make more than me does sting but, not because the Aldi worker doesn’t deserve money, because I do have a more valuable position in my company than a cashier does at Aldi and with that in mind I see how much my company under values me.

Does that make sense? The mechanics hear how much education and skill they need from Boeing and then hear that’s the market rate for… a fast food worker. Arguably, a fast food worker needs more interpersonal skills than a mechanic and has to constantly be the face of the business but for Boeing to land fat government contacts and then say they value their mechanics as much as Panda Express does it’s line cooks, well, it hurts.

Plus, he had “concept of a plan” in his front pocket. He had that think ready. If nothing else, his debate prep got that in his head.

I’ve watched that movie too many times. I was about to comment “The line is supposed to be ‘Tommy’ since he’s talking to Tommy, The Tit”… Oh wait, it says Donny because Trump… Yeah.

Every American has to do one season of farm work but all food is now free. Monkey’s paw curls and all that.

Farmers can’t just have free labor and still get all the profits.

Plus, if you’re using indoor plumbing, build it in place you ducks. That’s how shower trailers are almost always done - just put it together on site.

From my experiences it goes more like this “In an ideal world, we’d behave this way. We’re not in an ideal world though and your competitors have no problem doing this so you should know what to do, in case the market determines it’s the best course.” with a knowing wink thrown in.

They come wired and wireless.

No, they killed the hostages and left. If they tried to hold up, and maybe go for a prisoner swap, there’d be more people at risk.

Not claiming Hamas is good but if there’s no resistance, they don’t kill as many people while finding the bodies.

They’re not trying to protect the ‘innocent’, they didn’t want the IDF gunning them down. When they saw the news about the IDF laying waste to everyone, they said “Fuck that,” killed the hostages and left.

Warfighting 101, that’s why you don’t go scorched earth for your hostages. If you make it a smart move to just kill them, they’ll just get killed…

Granted if you’re not looking for the hostages but looking to make your opponent look more inhuman, well, in that case great idea.

It’s easier to park a Humvee than a Brodozer.

Hey, don’t blame us. YOU dated him.

Like, seven billion of them. Assuming half the world is below average of your expectation of things, that’s 3.5 billion people.

Mentally deranged people have been shooting up schools since before Capri Sun was even invented…

How old are you?

Air Force veteran (an officer even)

The officer part makes it worse actually.

That’s like saying “He was a manager (a middle manager even)”