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Scheiss Meister

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  1. I doubt that her relatives will forget what happened to her and submit to the orcs. And I wish that we had an "Oorah!" reaction button.
  2. So much about that picture puts my hackles up. At least you use a properly colored Yeti like a civilized human.
  3. Assholes who attend a meeting, are given every chance to contribute, including being asked point blank, then bitch the rest of the day that no one wants their input. Dickweeds who make suggestions for major structural add-ons on construction projects during the final walk through, rather than while we are settling the scope of the engineering of the project. They were part of the team who set the scope. Then they complain that no one wants to hear their ideas. People who leave their dishes in the break room sink for someone else to clean up. Bitch, neither your mom nor the dish fairy work here. Clean your shit up. Shit-canning their dishes works to get this point across. ETA - If you are a wastewater operator and you show up to work in a white shirt, thinking that I'll assign you to a desk task so that you stay shiny and clean, best believe that you are fixing to get dirty cleaning out a pump or dewatering sludge.
  4. ^^^^ We can only hope. ^^^^^
  5. Perhaps. They may also have wandered into an area that they didn't know had recently been taken by the Ukrainian Army. Either way, you know those red legs were busting ass to get those guns ready for the hasty direct fire mission and praying their asses off that their HE rounds would penetrate.
  6. And the panic that the civilians exhibit will spread to the soldiers. Which is nice.
  7. 2.5 inches and still drizzling. I hope it saves my trees.
  8. Well, yeah. Everyone's gonna be cool to Judge Smails' relatives. He has sentenced young men to death because he felt he owed it to them. You don't mess around with that kind of power.
  9. After some of the stories about Churchill and JFK, the pictures of her partying are pretty tame. Big double standard, IMO.
  10. I think that Putin has a copy of the Chamberlain "Peace In Our Time" photo with Macron's face photoshopped on it that he shows to his buddies and texts to Macron when he (Putin) gets drunk.
  11. 0.3 inches in 77868 yesterday, and getting a nice shower right now. It can drop 0.3 to 0.5 inches per day for the next week, with an inch or so day thrown in, and I'd consider that a fair start.
  12. I love the sound of Russian ammo cooking off. The crickets don't seem to mind it, either.
  13. Perhaps not yet, but I bet that if we (NATO especially) hadn't responded to his invasion of Ukraine as strongly as we did, he would have been much less reticent to take on the Baltic states than he has to be now. Think back one year before the invasion. Did you think that Ukraine could or would make the stand that they have? Did you think that we would have backed Ukraine as we have? His overall strategy was formulated before he entered Ukraine to take Crimea, when these were unknowns, and his calculations did not seem unreasonable. He was doing a very good job of dividing the US and NATO and sowing discord in Europe with non-military actions, which can be executed with little regard for demographics. Had he been successful in February and taken all of Ukraine, he would have regrouped, integrated Ukraine and all of its resources into Russia, and continued his "other than war" attacks. He just needed to be patient and continue his established course of action. His mistake was taking military action that failed its initial objectives. War is dependent on sufficient population for both the army and keeping the economy going, especially if it is protracted. Think of Ukraine as his Pearl Harbor: he swung and missed, and it's disrupting his whole plan.
  14. Now that the world sees how shitty they are, yes, that is probably his near term thinking. But up until February 24, he and many others in the world thought much more highly of the Russian Army's capabilities, and a broader strategy toward Europe was not entirely outlandish. Especially if Russia could patiently nibble away at Ukraine, then the Baltic states, etc. He would then be able to draw on the resources, human and otherwise, in the conquered areas. Since March Putin has had to revise his objectives at least twice due to conditions that he and his generals didn't foresee. That doesn't mean that he isn't still thinking big and sticking to his original plan. He probably sees the current situation in Ukraine as a temporary set back. As wrong as you and I think that he is, he still believes.
  15. It looks more likely that he is trying to secure his route for an invasion into Europe to me. Who has invaded their neighbors since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia or NATO?
  16. That, too, but two big attacks in broad daylight are a whole other level of bold.
  17. The thought that groups of partisans, SOF operators, or both are roaming around Crimea blowing up targets may have a greater psychological effect than missiles. Air defenses have a shot at defending against missiles, but the boogeyman getting you in the middle of the day and fading away shows the world that you are impotent in what you claim is your own back yard.
  18. She could certainly make me Finnish quickly.
  19. I wouldn't use a myna because they can rat you out if they get busted. Use a crow instead.
  20. Hey, cut mib a break. It's almost impossible for the layman to tell the difference between clear drinking water and dishwater gray, turbid wastewater without expensive tests and expert guidance. It's not like they look, smell, or taste different.
  21. Those are, or were, some dumb motherfuckers.
  22. 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.
  23. And another dime towards my fare to hell. Thanks.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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