Homercles

Hell in ‘06 I’m not even sure your coach knew how to SPEAK English…17 years later and I still remember this halftime interview:

I finally got the Preferred last year, and figured to get the Reserve once we had some kind of accessible lounge here at AUS. Once I saw how the ‘lounge’ was going to work, truly being useful only 20% of the time where weather here is nice…guess not.

The best Simpsons episodes were the ones where Al Jean and Mike Reiss were show runners. Never knew Mike was insane to get on that pile of shit

Why would the coast guard need to be trained and equipped for open-ocean, deep sea rescues? Isn’t their area of expertise…like…in the name?

Any money left in the wreath fund? I have a great idea for a commercial space venture

Oh I bet they’re ‘hanging’ with Epstein all right

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Something that seems lost with incel-types is that people (men or women) tend to gravitate towards those that make them feel good about themselves. Sincere compliments, making them feel heard, making them laugh, looking them in the eye when talking or listening…feel like these are learned skills that take practice you can’t really hone in social media. Speaking of social media, and I’ve said this before…places like Reddit / et al allow such narrow ‘specialization’ that it’s too easy to gravitate towards those echo chambers. Diversity in your experience is so critical to being a well-rounded, welcoming, open person that others will both find interesting as well as someone they can find common ground with. My father, retired USAF O6 who defied all odds starting as a reservist O3 who went AD as a lifeboat when his civ employer employed, once apologized to my whole family for dragging us all over the world growing up…he felt awful that we didn’t get to grow up with a group of folks or really put roots down. I told him it was the best thing possible for me to grow up realizing the world isn’t full of Americans and gave me some great stories to tell. He also was as far from an elitist officer as you could get, his E folks loved him, and that defaulting to respect is the way to live. TLDR: Make people feel good about themselves, and they’ll feel good about you.

Helobious is wrong more than Rocko

If you look at the video in this Reddit post, it looks like there is no ‘hatch’…the whole thing cracks open just before the foreskin. Pretty sure they just bolt it shut from the outside. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/14f6kpc/a_tour_of_the_submarine_that_disappeared_near/

This…you can choose to give a fuck and introduce intrigue/drama/stress into your life this way…or you can find another avenue for that perpetual self-loathing and nut-punching, like being an OSU fan.

Pretty sure this is what happened

Absolutely. Boeing has continued to squeeze way too much blood from the stone that is the 737 airframe. In addition, the FAA trusted them too much to self-regulate. Both of these things are probably due to a complex mix of corporate profit chasing, poor leadership at the FAA and budgetary pressure by the government. My understanding is part of the reason for the lax oversight was the FAA didn’t have enough funding to adequately staff engineering/inspectors. That’s obviously not the whole truth but I’m tired of the ‘government doesn’t work, so we cut funding/oversight so business can flourish away from regulation and are acting surprised that businesses pursued profit at the expense of the public’ crowing. Texas just passed a law that’ll strip cities of rules they implemented for worker safety (like water breaks), under the guise of ensuring business isn’t burdened with inconsistent regulation. Are we going to act surprised when someone dies of heat stroke because the company wants to squeeze more productivity during a heat wave?

Oh shit did that Delta Tug 2 driver move from Kennedy to ATL?

I bet if they’d used a Nintendo Wavebird instead of that knockoff bullshit chinesium XBox controller, they’d have made it back just fine. Damn things are indestructible.

Knock on wood, but Pre has been a lifesaver…both the shorter lines and no liquids/shoes/laptop bullshit. Even with kids in tow it rarely takes more than ten minutes. What got me this past week when we flew out of AUS is the gate areas are often incredibly small for the number of passengers…they keep cramming more seats on planes and up-gauging to mainline at gates originally meant for regionals/legacy MD-80 types. And fuck those terminal-end locations, especially the SW rotunda thing at DCA. You either get there super early, stand the whole time, sit on the floor or find an empty gate for open seats…but then can lose the means to know when your boarding group is called if you’re too far away. Besides, everyone loves to crowd around the gate anyways, so you have to navigate a wall of people. Whole process just sucks.

I saw three marriages end during my two business trips to the Philippines…one of which was already married to a Pinay back home, but didn’t appreciate the dude knocking up another girl while we were in Bacolod. Both of my trips added up to about four months…things happen, uhhh, quickly in the land of no birth control and Burgos street

I really don’t care, do u?

Best to have armored infantry employed in a combined arms fashion, to help mitigate those risks. You know…tactics. Like those learned in, say, the 1940’s during a little skirmish.

Was reading an article this morning about it. Her defense attorneys are doing what y’all do, and saying there was no evidence of fentanyl in the house or that she actually executed those things she was searching for. I mean…I get it, that’s what they’re paid to do. But damn, is that evidence admissible? Because it sure seems to fit the mold