Oh, Where Will It End?
NB: This is best suited to a Weekend Silly, but I might have hurt myself laughing so I wanted to share the pain.
An old pal, Susan Katz Keating, has a post up that takes political correctness to a new, or a different, level. Note: SKK is a professional writer (People Mag and SOF) with a military background. She blogs too.
“One hissy-fitting military spouse says, yes: Pinups be gone! The hissy fitter, SpouseBuzz editor Amy Bushatz, wants charity chief Gina Elise and her 1940’s-style Pin Ups for Vets to sashay their curvy little selves away from the flight line, the chow hall, the hospital ward, and anywhere else these retro-dressing gals might encounter a married man. “
My first thought was “What about the LBGT members of the military?” Should we ban GI Joe and all John Wayne movies, etc, to avoid causing anguish amongst their significant others? About then I started laughing.
Somewhere there is a move afoot to banish Playboy magazine because it offers an unrealistic view of women? Maybe Hugh DOES use Photoshop nowdays, but who cares? BTW, I think Hillary Clinton started that one, with encouragement from the current Nutritionist in Chief.
It may soon become illegal to simply say “I don’t care!”
Sorry folks… I’m gonna have to stop now. The absurdity of all this PC stuff actually causing me pain again.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Geezer Alert!
Emotionally immature females really need to stop worming their way into the affections of virile, masculine men, only to start a life-long campaign to castrate them.
I never needed to castrate a stallion to handle him, all I needed was a good bit.
and spurs ….
….. and quirt.
Nah …. you sound like the type of rider who can use bosalita and mecate. And if you wear Mexican spurs, they’re only for show!
Spurs? Quirt?
No, RGR, that only creates hostility and anger.
No, you use food, an occasional mug of beer (Fosters or Pabst), lemon drops, and long rides where the stud is rode hard and put away too tired to do more than snore.
And if he gets spuhnorty around females in heat, you can either drop the teasing pole on him or pinch his nose to stop it. But whack him? Never!!!
Veterinarians really appreciated a mint candy breath freshener- for the horse.
Why do I suspect you’re not speaking of horses…
I’ll give up my pin-up when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!
#standwithgina
I’ll second that one !!!!!!
Dang, I wish I could wear her shoes! LOL, not sure if I did dress like that hubby wouldn’t expire on me!
During WWII, Leatherneck Magazine started putting a ‘Pin-Up Girl’ in every edition. This continued until about 1980. As I remember most of the pictures were taken in Sunken Gardens Florida.
After a day of PT, force marches, humping ammo, and being in the field those Magazines helped us rub the stiffness out of things.
I never expected the effects of that habit to be so long lasting. I did it so much in the shower back then, now when it rains I get a hard on.
Semper Fi.
Pissy little cackle-cheats is what I calls ’em. That wifey must be terribly insecure.
I will only say that if you guys can look at pinup girls, you do not have the right to tell me I can’t look at men the same way.
They don’t make pinup posters for females that interest me, so I’ve had to find my own. Firemen and snipers are my two favorite subjects, preferably photos of them when they are in the field with their respective ‘working’ equipment and attire. I use them for my wallpaper on my computer, and I have to be careful, because the ladies in the office have begun to notice. I keep getting asked, “Do you KNOW that guy?!” I usually grin at them and say, “No, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t LIKE to!”
Here you go, I will be your Fireman anytime. I took this just for you….
http://i.imgur.com/er0vRFB.jpg
Dang Dave… You ARE purty.
*Damn. Blocked at work. Wanted to see it, too.*
Ahhhhh…..there is nothing like the excitement that anticipation can bring to the moment. Some things a worth waiting for.
Absolutely. And I love to see a man sweat…
So does Phildo.
Who gave you that pix of me!!!!
Hmmm, our old buddy Walter must be down at the local steam and cream getting prepped for his monthly Thompson’s Water Seal treatment.
Only drawback is the “happy ending” requires a broom and dust pan for clean-up.
How do, Ma’am? I’m AW1Ed, the sniper for our local Volunteer Fire Department…
😉
ROFL!! 😀
“Pissy little cackle-cheats” is much milder than one of my female facebook friends, (who also comments here at TAH). She calls them the “CCC” or Chafed C*nt Club. Sounds quite apt.
Ex-PH2, I will e-mail you a picture of each month’s page so you will better know what we are discussing.
Hey, send her the pix of you, me, and The Colonel… Some good looking guys there indeed.
Check your e-mail account Ex-PH2.
Got it, Frankie. And Betty Grable was the Number One pinup girl for GIs during WWII. I can’t believe anyone would object to men acting NORMAL!
Hey … any of you old-timers remember Connie Rodd from the PS Magazine … later the PM Magazine?
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5044/5229312081_e46a75c3ed.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_owOIcuY21Gc/S5HEFNXnBUI/AAAAAAAACnY/kvvR15R-Wi8/s1600-h/will-eisner.jpg
Man! She was HOT!
Google Image Search:
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1341&bih=1187&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=connie+rodd&oq=connie+rodd&gs_l=img.3..0j0i24l2.170752.173824.0.174347.11.10.0.1.1.0.176.1034.7j3.10.0.msedr…0…1c.1.64.img..0.11.1034.j_9YtlSBOeA#imgrc=_
Hmmmm …. I guess the name did not change to “PM Magazine.” Oh well … they were great.
Yep, required reading/scanning once a month.
Also maintaining a two years worth monthly edition library was part of the CMMI/MAIT/IG checklist for motor pool publications back in the day.
Is it me or was Will Eisner the one and only, Walt Disney too? Check the signatories…
http://i0.wp.com/blog.bcdb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Walt_Disney_Drawing_Mickey.png?resize=500%2C341
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Not sure about Walt, but I do remember having/holding/reading some early issues of PS with Eisner as the artist. The style was unmistakable for a long time comics reader.
I wish I still had that issue.
No, Eisner is Eisner. He was a cartoonist also. Found this searching the answer:
Walt signing in on “What’s My Line”
I would swear my wife reads PMS magazine, but that’s another topic.
Connie Rodd from PS Magazine is still the best pin-up of all time.
I know all we knuckle dragging Army types agree.
Oops, Sorry Rgr1480, we must have been typing our thoughts at the exact same moment.
Great minds and all that stuff, Claw!
Smokin’ hot. Now if ole’ MSG Half-Mast McCannik can go on leave for a while …..
Yeah, but you knuckledraggers all got your shorts in a wedge the minute Burt Reynolds dropped trow for a Cosmopolitan centerfold.
It was even worse when that Playgirl rag came out. I had a nice pinup collectin of my own. I have never seen so many guys cover their laps in sheer fear. 😉
Er… I don’t read/look at Cosmo or Playgirl. Never have.
So, you spend time looking for naked men? Kinda like the notion, but can’t really relate.
BTW, thanks for my being thought of as just another member of the “knuckledraggers”.
Zero, some might say you protest too much. (smile)
Oh well, don’t tell my wife of 40+ years.
Kidding Zero.
And you ladies were all hot and bothered last week re the new Army Sergeant Major. Almost had to get a bucket of water to restore calm. (smile)
Yeah, the drool factor almost inundated TAH HQ Central, didn’t it?
At least we’re NORMAL girls!
I think I’ll go look at the SMA again.
Hey, I got hit on last week at the fishing hole up north of me. Guy was dragging his monofilament line so when one of his buddies reminded him to reel it in, he said he was just trolling for pretty girls and got one. He was cute, too, and I got my ego fed. 😛
Damn Claw! That brings back memories from 1964. It was the little 3×5 handbook for maintenance stuff we gave the troopers….it was well done. I, an O-1, (stop the jokes!!!) read it.
I forget what they called the old maintenance guy.
just read the Connie links above. Can you imagine the PC classes that an edition from then would cause today?
I guess it was circa 79-81 that they stopped having Connie be the Pin-Up type. They added Bonnie (a little good looking black gal) into the mix and made both of them start wearing mechanic’s coveralls. We were not happy about the change of clothing.
They also added a Signal guy (Macon Sparks) into the mix in the mid 70’s to update the wire dog types with the latest info for their field.
I was actually given credit in the magazine a couple of times for updates on Class IX repair parts procedures back when I was a motor pool PLL Clerk.
sj, just for shits and grins, remember this scenario:
0315 hrs, phone call: ATTN all SIGO’s, BMO’s and BMT’s/Sgts.
The COMMET will start at 0530 hours in your Battalion area. Have the coffee ready!! Have a nice day.
Claw! I don’t recognize COMMET. I’m guessing (from how you describe it…very accurately, in my era it was called CMMI (Command Maintenance Management Inspection). Oh yes. that sucked like a suction pump. Not only was there a Corps CMMI, there was a Division (82nd) CMMI, and the BN would do a dry run CMMI. And then there would be the IG… Good news was that every piece of equipment might be deadlined, but if you had requisitions in, you were gold.
A geeze: in the 82nd in ’64-’65 we had shit that had been waiting for parts forever. All of a sudden one night, S&P’s drove into the motor pool with every single part plus some. At the same time, we started rigging for Dominican Republic. What a coincidence. The good old days. Actually, they were good. I learned a lot from the great NCO’s and Warrants then.
sj, COMMET and CMMI same same.
COMMET was Command Organizational Maintenance Management Evaluation Team/Test.
Just a bigger, fancier name for bullet remarks on EER’s/OER’s.
The names changes varied from post to post and went into effect about the same time that Connie and Bonnie started wearing mechanic’s coveralls at the start of the 1980s.
I forget what they called the old maintenance guy.
MSG Half-Mast McCannick
(say it real fast)
The whole concept of PC is only due to the fact that we have kicked morals out of everything and this is a left wing feeble attempt to bring some morals back. Once we kicked God out of everything, it was not long before it became “ok” or “acceptable” to do what we want because it felt good.
Gay marriage is not only acceptable but mandatory, gender change is “normal” and if you don’t agree with it, YOU are the weird one, lying is protected by the first amendment, illegal drugs are slowly becoming legal, 10-12 year old children are “trained” on how to have sex and in many instances they are encouraged to do it, abortion is used as birth control and is not murder, legal gun owners are “wrong ” and the cause of all crime, if a straight male looks at a female, he is wrong but if a gay male looks at at a straight man and the straight man is offended he is wrong, etc, etc.
My opinion. Rant over.
Timely. Just watched a DVR of NCIS New Orleans. We like the NCIS series, in general, but this one was the second one pushing the gehy theme. I frankly DGAS who screws who but I’m fed up with it being pushed on me. Might just take that series off my record list.
Agreed. I’m tired of being “forced ” also.
Everything is backwards and upside-down. The hard, and scary, thing is that we are raising 3 little boys. It’s really tough when they are learning the PC and/or acceptable stuff from school and society while at the same time my wife and I are trying to teach them REAL morals. God help us.
“It may soon become illegal to simply say “’I don’t care!’” It sorta kinda is all ready. If you don’t care about [fill in the issue] then you are part of the problem, not the solution. See how that works? You aren’t free not to give a damn about this, that, or the other social issue.
Yeah, I’ve seen that self-promoting hag get her ass handed to her all over facebook, and my first thought of her was that she’s likely very mediocre in the looks department, much like the hags you see protesting against things like Hooters and skin mags. What’s next, are the PC’ers gonna try to ban the Pinup girls while bawling for Village people concerts to “Promote Diversity”?
About the only thing I have to say to the PC crowd nowadays is not “I don’t care”, but a hearty “FUCK YOU” and a warm cup o’ soup.
“I don’t care” is out… does this mean “What difference does it make” is in?
You beat me to it.
“What difference does it make?”
I’m a friend of Gina Elise. She does good work and through Pin-Ups for Vets has donated over $50,000 to active duty and veterans support organizations, not to mention the thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands)of pin-up calendars she has donated to deployed troops and VA hospital patients. Anyone who wants to stop Gina’s mission needs to go through ME first!
Peter, I too count Gina amongst my friends. I’ve been AWOL of late from donating to her. I’ll have to rectify that, soon.
She is one awesome (I don’t throw that word around loosely) young woman doing great things for veterans and active duty !!
OC
OC, I added a pic from one of Gina’s events in western MA in August 2010 on the TAH Facebook page.
Thanks Peter, but I don’t do the social media stuff. Nuttin’ against it, I just never got around to it.
OC
Additionally, in contrast with Amy Bushatz, my wife also supports Gina and her mission and has no worries about my mind turning away from spouse, family, and all that is good when I purchase a calendar (or two) for my own personal use.