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“Badass” Buddusky… the way all sailors should be.
What a great movie, one of my favorite Nicholson roles besides Francis Phelan in Ironweed.
Yup. He played Buddusky to PERFECTION right down to the creased squid lid. I still am not quite convinced he was never a Sailor.
We watched that movie at sea once, my friend (Navy vet) lost it right at the beginning when he woke up hungover in the chair and told the sailor “tell the MAA to fuck himself…” before rinsing his mouth out with more liquor.
Good stuff!
My version.
Plus…
The razor wire meme is good and unfortunately true.
And one can never go wrong with Larson.
Even modern sailors know that they need a tug…to get “under way”…and “not at the pier…”
“We hold these memes to be self evident that all men are created to…Prepare!” (Apologies to T. Jefferson)
I stand with Texas!
I’m thinking about writing in “C-wire 4 TX” in the primary, if for nothing other than the lolz.
This place is populated by soft, well-meaning but ignorant morons with latent not-so-latent tyrannical tendencies, so I may be surrounded but so was Kyle (surprised this didn’t make the roll):
The Boss at Applebees, a Command Master Chief and with a whole lot of ribbons.
Imagine looking at that face your first day in Boot camp.
Command Senior Chief. The back story I found is he’s a retired AOCS, and the awards are legit.
Wearing that vest in public is another issue.
Here’s my contribution:
Oh, and here’s a meme tank video by Potential History:
The “normal amount of pain is zero”, and James Woods is on a roll!
James Woods is one of my heroes. Also a great actor. Loved him in John Carpenter’s Vampires. 🙂
The 10 commands of logic is a keeper
I don’t understand the Z-flag joke.
I understand its use at the Battle of Tsushima when Adm Togo used it to send the message:
“The fate of the Empire rests on the outcome of this battle. Let each man do his utmost.”
Wiki: The Battle of Tsushima was one of the most important naval battles of history and this signal is, along with Nelson’s signal “England expects that every man will do his duty” at the Battle of Trafalgar, one of the two most famous naval flag signals; the battle is of especial importance in Japanese national mythology.
Bravo Zulu for asking.
Navy signal flags are used for EMCON. They represent the phonetic alphabet or specific signals. Course and speed changes of a multi-ship task group can be signaled covertly for example.
The international maritime signal for “I require a tug” is Zulu. That this also means a fishing vessel is “shooting nets” isn’t nearly as much fun for our Nautically Challenged friends.
So, does Bravo Zulu really mean, congratulations… I need a tug?
You could receive a BZ if the tug you provide is excellent, Odie.
Thanks. I’ve seen the 1-flag trying to be sold as a Japanese pennant!!
Will repeat as often as I can, though I understand the message and sentiment.
There are NOT 2 genders – there are 2 sexes, plus the occasional Klinefelter. Gender is not sex.
Gender is fucking meaningless, made up shit unless you are talking about the typical “romance” languages.
IF I HAD A DOLLAR for every “Gender” out there I’d have $2 and a handful of counterfeits!
Not just in Romance languages. In linguistics, generally, there are four basic genders: Masculine, feminine, neuter, and common.
Not every language uses gender distinction often (likely, it diminished through simplification over generations and lost its connection to natural gender), but these categories remain pretty standard. Some typologies argue there are languages that don’t use grammatical gender at all – but these tend to be based on extremely scarce and/or rudimentary studies. Even constructed languages like Esperanto are categorized as grammatically genderless by biased academics despite it having very clear grammatical word endings to express natural genders).
Grammatical gender is a social construct, but it is not meaningless and, just like social gender, grammatical gender is based on real connections to perceived sexual traits (natural gender). One can be considered more/less masculine or feminine (perceived traits), yet one cannot be more/less male or female (physical sex). A man can be relatively feminine; a man cannot be a woman.
Social sciences and the humanities have long drawn from linguistics to frame concepts and principles (such as the key “emic” and “etic” distinction in anthropology deriving from “phonemic” and “phonetic,” respectively). I’ve yet to see a compelling argument why linguistic terms cannot also be used in the study of social gender.
Granted, “neuter” in this respect has nothing to do with having oneself gelded: Pronouns still express natural gender; if a dude lops off his tender bits, he is still a (considerably less-functional) “he” no matter how much he might insist otherwise.
* On occasion, grammatical gender doesn’t necessarily match natural gender for a plethora of reasons usually having nothing to do with sex (“mon amie” simply sounds better than “ma amie” – it doesn’t turn your girlfriend into your boyfriend).
Someone tell Frank that it could be worse. Surely somewhere in the big green machine there is someone who joined the Army to quit working at the car wash, and now that individual is a 54B.