Weekend open thread
April 28, 2017
A tram moves down the street early in the morning during a snowstorm in the Romanian city of Ia?i.
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Is it Friday WOT already? It’s kind of late. First! Two in a ROW BITCHES. F5 is my superpower
Didn’t actually think I would get it, but I had to try…
BZ, Chip!
Thanks *takes a bow*.
NOW that being said. I don’t know if it’s possible to get a threefer (for me at least it’s all luck), BUT, I do know that last year, someone was on a HOT streak and did have a threefer.
I’ll have to go back and look and see if I can find it.
I’m calling your boss. That’s just assault and battery on an F5 key.
Chip, tried my best to find where somebody had a threefer last year but couldn’t.
I know you had a couple of twofers going, but I broke your try at a threefer two times (first on 26 Dec 2015 and again on 29 July 2016) and you broke up my threefer attempts at least once.
But if anybody can tell us with certainty that a threefer occurred it would be 2/17 Air Cav. He’s keeping the all hallowed book of firsts.
You know, you’re right, I looked and saw what you saw and maybe we haven’t had a threefer *yet*
BBBWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH….MMMUUUUUWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
/*cough*
Just stopped in to see who got 1st for The Book record. As for three-fer, no one has ever gotten three consecutive 1sts. It is one of those things about which people say, “It’ll never happen.”
I got first three times in a row.
I’d show you the proof, but it’s classified.
I did sneak out a copy of the proof, but then my basement flooded and ruined it.
Nice Chip, I was beating my F5 key for over 30 minutes!
You must call your penis “F5”
:-0
At least I got a respectable 3rd!
I WANT A RECOUNT…. YOU’VE BEEN RUNNING WITH SOME EVIL PEEPS, ChipNASA!!! I’M GUESSING YOU’VE BEEN USING SOME TOP SEEKRIT STUFF TO POST HERE FIRST!
*spew alert*
“I beat my F5 key like it owes me money”
/Insert “penis” instead of F5 and it’s a great joke.
Hey, I’m OK with the size of my F5 key….
A new pick-up line?
“Hey baby, wanna touch my F5 key?”
Better than some I heard my buddies or other guys used.
I have a dirty, *DIRTY* F5 key.
😀
I heard rumors of you kissing it yourself.
Hah! Umpteenth! You can’t do any better than umpteenth!!
FIRST
SONAFABITCH
FIRST!
Not first
Damn, you got me by mere seconds!
I’M HERE BYTCHES!!!!!
ah well, always a bridesmaid: teach me to try and actually get some work done…
Now I can get started on my weekend!
So some frat boys in Virginia recently through a “Camo” party as part of their annual Military Appreciation Week. They had wounded vets come speak and like they do every year donated the proceeds to the DAV.
This year was different, however, this year former Army Ranger Tim Beck is in charge of the Student Veteran Association and he is having none of it.
This asshat accused the fraternity of “cultural appropriation” because they threw a theme party and dared to wear some bdu’s. He even went as far as to file formal complaints against them at his PUBLIC school and with the Fraternity Council.
You can read more here:
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/veterans-slam-fraternity-over-culturally-appropriative-camouflage-party/
and
http://flathatnews.com/2017/04/25/party-elicits-response-annual-pika-event-prompts-student-reports/
Another member of the Cult of the Perpetually Offended, eh? If he thinks this is bad, he should spend some time in rural counties around the country during hunting season. And those guys aren’t making any contributions to veterans when they get dressed up in their costumes.
I’m offended that Tim Beck is offended.
/offended
//not really
///I don’t give a shit.
Some people would be offended by the sun rising in the East.
No matter how good your intentions are at this particular point in time, there is always going to be someone somewhere who will be offended by what you do, so you should just do it anyway if it is not, in actuality, hurting anyone except the whiner.
So Tim Beck decided to be a thin-skinned asshat, Ranger or not.
damn, he would have really been offended on behalf of all the Romans at our Toga Party. Or our Shipwreck party on behalf of sailors. Costumes were notably, well, “original” at both (and helped us have two of the banned three parties on the Dean of Women’s blacklist.)
Since when was it a crime to offend someone? I’m offended everyday by something or someone. That’s life. If I made a big deal every time I was offended I wouldn’t have a life and would walk around perpetually angry at the world…oh, wait, that does describe these cupcake losers.
Who the fuck is Tim Beck and why does he think he’s relevant?
First is a social construct.
Seems to me that some here should be able to “self-identify” as first, whether others like it or not. After all, first is only a social construct based on something as malleable as time. Commenters using a sundial might not have an “equal” chance to be first, or those without a functioning F5 key. Some have never been first, how fair is that?
And some of us are content with consistently avoiding being first…
Fist is another way for “DA MAN” to keep my ass DOWN!!!
Honorary First Post on The Weekend Open Thread, and if you bitches don’t like it, I’ll have someone crash an airplane into your house.
Hack, will it sound anything like this before it hits……..the ground?? 😉
I was out running errands and Hack Stone even beat me to Honorary First, thus I claim DOUBLE Honorary first, so NYEHHHHH!!
To anyone offended by that I say may the Bluebird of Happiness take a poop in your fuel tank!
“I’ll have someone crash an airplane into your house.”
If I put a billion candlepower light on my house and gave exact coordinates–and installed RFID for insurance– he either still wouldn’t locate my house or he’d run out of fuel before he got here.
Is it that time again already?
Now, what were all those things I was saving for the WOT? Always seem to forget by the time Friday gets here.
I’m the same way. Tuesday: Oh, this will be great to post on WOT. Friday: What was I thinking about posting last Tuesday.
Top 20. Best I’ve done in ages!
Well, I guess I was all wrong. I hit number 22.
That’s funny.
WOT! WOT! WOT!
HA!!!
I read that like this….
That’s actually the way I said it as I was typing.
This is the 28th post about this thread.
Present and unaccountable.
I was off trying to donate blood – but the kid couldn’t get the needle in the right place. Darn.
Can someone help me with a co-worker’s problem. What unit awards can a US Army Veteran wear?
My coworker was discharged from the Army. He came to me asking about his unit awards. I told him I was in the Air Force which has completely different rules than the Army when it comes to unit awards. He wants to wear his ribbons on his vest or ball cap for some dog and pony show.
I told him to wear whatever’s on his 214; he told me his 214 is wrong and he’s having a big fight with the VA over it. He wanted me to research his former unit so he could present the information to the VA. I told him to show his records to the VA because the research has already been done.
I told him he should, perhaps, just wear a US Army veteran pin. This guy made Specialist (maybe) before he made E-1 again. I told him he might want to keep that quiet by not drawing attention to himself. He told me, he did what he did; and although he was guilty, it was someone else’s fault he got caught.
So, is there a simple and easy rule about veterans and Army unit awards? My thanks in advance.
In order to wear unit awards he must have been in that unit when it was awarded. I have the PUC and MUC. The PUC was awarded to the 172nd SBCT while I was there for Operation Forward Together and the MUC was awarded to my Brigade for I still have no idea why.
Cool, thanks
Why is it that so many DD214s are wrong? Aren’t you supposed to check it to make sure it’s correct before you sign it? And, of course, it was someone else’s fault. Heard that from my kids when they were little.
Yes.
Great question, Dennis.
The 670-1 is the bible for the wearing of awards & such.
Here is shamelessly cut paste from the HRC website concerning your question.
Hope this info helps you out.
Personnel Eligible:
Soldiers that are assigned, attached, and present for duty may wear unit awards in one of the two following categories.
Permanent Wear: A soldier may wear the unit award permanently if the individual was assigned to, and present for duty with the unit any time during the period cited; or who was attached by competent orders to, and present for duty with the unit during the entire period, or for at least 30 consecutive days of the period cited. When a soldier is permanently awarded a unit award and is subsequently assigned to a unit that has received the same unit award, the soldier will wear the permanent award in lieu of the temporary unit award.
Temporary Wear: A soldier may wear the unit award temporarily if the individual was not present with the unit during the period cited but was subsequently assigned to the unit. Soldiers may wear the unit award only while assigned to the cited unit. For elements of regiments organized under the New Manning System or Combat Arms Regimental System, only personnel of the earning unit wear the emblem temporarily.
https://www.hrc.army.mil/TAGD/Unit%20Awards
The correct answer is that the only ones he is authorized to wear are the ones on his DD-214. Period.
He obviously is looking for someone to validate his not wanting to bother getting a corrected version. Tough. Your decision, but I wouldn’t even hint that I thought it was OK to wear what he thought he earned instead of what he can prove that he earned.
Your answer to wear an Army and leave it at that was a good option.
I’m here.
Since most of you have far too much time on your hands, it would be nice if you went over to the linked page and give Pdoggbiker your vote on which new cover to use for his book.
https://cherrieswriter.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/help-pick-a-new-book-cover/
Mmmmm, Top 50?
The formerly cold hearted Soviet bought me one of those Alexa things for Christmas.
Last night while we were tending to our spousal obligations, all of a sudden we here Alexa say:
“I might have found what you are looking for, Feel Good Inn, Dickinson North Dakota”
At least the spousal unit was laughing at something other than me for once.
Did she also give you the stick and goal?
Just think, Dave. While you and the Soviet are performing spousal obligations, Alexa is listening and reporting back to Jeff Bezos at Amazon. The little perv probably has a mix-tape by now called Dave And The Soviet: Do It To Me One More Time, Comrade that he shares with Mark Zuckerberg…
Foreplay at Dave’s place is the following:
(Female Eastern European voice)
VEE HAVE VAYS OF MAKING YOU TALK….
(Dave’s Voice)
I try to please my mistress but she BEATS ME!!!!
(SOUND OF A WHIP IN THE BACKGROUND)
Dave Hardin, did Alexia add “Dick Lick Springs, Arkansas” by any chance?
Or Bumpass, Va?
Or Humptulips, WA?
Upper Intercourse, PA.
They say that Virginia is for lovers, but I would go with Intercourse PA.
Which I hear is pretty much the polar opposite, socially, of another Lancaster County, PA, town: Blue Ball.
I have a ? About the Shane Ladner DD214. Seems to me wether it’s a fake or not should be cleared up by simply requesting a copy from HRC. Im sure the prosecution could subpeona one. Or am I missing something? Seems like that would easily prove their case that he’s a fraudster
From what I’ve heard it sounds like the Prosecution has quite a slam-dunk open and shut case against Shane Ladner.
You don’t need a piece of paper to put in evidence when you have two live witnesses with personal knowledge testifying that no one in his unit was ever in combat, let alone wounded by enemy fire, so no purple hearts were awarded to anyone, period. That testimony also precludes the BS response that some Army clerk screwed up my records and left off my PH in the awards section.
Thanks. Just asking as someone who doesn’t know how these things go. That’s why I come to the experts in here to get the straight dope. Thanks again
You’re welcome. 36 years if playin the lawer game caused me to learn a few things about how to prove stuff to the satisfaction of a judge or a jury. The trouble with using documents at trial is you have to authenticate them as genuine and use a competent witness to lay the foundation to get them into evidence. Most documents are “hearsay” anyway, and they have to meet the requirements of an exception to the rule that precludes the admission of hearsay as evidence.
I’m pretty sure the prosecution has procured Ladner’s correct DD214 and records.
Ladner’s story is as full of holes as a Subic Bay Whorehouse.
There is no way in hell to explain away how the Army would give him a copy of a DD214 with Officers signatures on it and a list of ” secret awards”, than have another copy that is in the “official” records they provide for the public.
It flies in the face of any logic.
How does that conversation go?
” Ok Sgt Ladner, we are awarding you a classified award that you are free to claim as being awarded. You must never talk about your top secret misssion. By the way here is a DD214 with your classified medal on it. Please do not show it to anyone, as we will have another DD214 on file that doesnt show it.”
Fucking Cocksmoker.
Thanks for the insight JAOD much appreciated
First.
First wot?
Second
Second wot?
I love so-called “green” power. I’ll retire off the idiots who think they’re smarter than me.
Holy crap, 79 comments and nobody has bothered to remind everybody that not only is Bernath not eligible to practice law in California after having been disbarred there, he is due to go to court on stalking charges and assaulting the wife of a real SEAL.
He also cannot fly a plane and is not, never has been and never will be a CPO of any sort, Honorary or rel.
Basically Daniel Bernath and his cohort in crime Dallas Witgenfield are shitbirds through and through.
Let’s make certain that any visitors here are well acquainted with the level of shit for brains those two have…
Oh, and I almost made 16’th here today, but I didn’t want to show up all you old farts with nothing better to do than sit around and pound your pud or something akin to the F5 key…
“Basically Daniel Bernath and his cohort in crime Dallas Witgenfield are shitbirds through and through.”
I have heard of them but will have to google the names to get the details. I hope others will do so as well. It looks like a fascinating story that will be an intersting read.
Will Rogers said that he never met a man that he didn’t like. Will Rogers never met Daniel Bernath.
Birdbath and WitLEsSGeLding are also facing criminal charges in Kansas City Missouri.
They were scheduled to appear in Court a few weeks ago but kicked the can down the road by hiring a defense attorney the day of the trail who pleaded ( successfully) with the Judge to get the trail postponed for a few weeks so he could prepare a defense for these two jabrones.
So I see word of those two has not gone far enough throughout the legal community yet and they were able to sucker some real Attorneys into representing them. I hope the Attorneys are being paid in advance, look at the disbarred CA Attorney’s track record of paying debts and Judgements other than what his insurance company shelled out!
If they were getting Pro Bono representation I would say yes. But they are paying for the Lawyers they retain.
I’m pretty sure these “Lawers” get an up front fee that covers them. Then they may add on anything else.
Berdterd’s attorney in Va is a former USMC Jag officer, and he appears to not appreciate the spot Bernath puts him in at all.
But he is a professional trying to do the best he can, and distains the buttfuckery that Bernath tries to pull.
If I know Bernath he will wait until the last minute on the appeal, hire a different attorney and plead for more time.
Disdains? Not per what a small avian told me. He’s apparently just as much a butthead as his client.
Heads up. Groupon has tickets on sale for the ‘Beer Bourbon & Barbecue at National Harbor MD for $31. Event is Friday June 16 starting 18:00/23:00 Zulu. This offer expires tomorrow. Be sure to use the code for an additional $10 off ($31 total).
https://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-beer-bourbon-bbq-in-national-harbor-on-june-16th
Elana Russo is hot.
But if that’s not your speed, you can fork over $12k for a tent at the Fyre Festival down in the Bahamas.
Google it and prepare to be entertained.
Does anyone want a link to Renaissance Festivals this summer? Here you go, look it up by state. There is even one in Alaska, at Anchorage.
http://www.renfaire.com/Sites/
REYWAL BD Transmit Code change to PU-2U2 QDP at Zero Hour Zulu?
((((OVER))))
ABLE BAKER CHARLIE, this is ROGER FOX DOG…ABLE BAKER CHARLIE, this is ROGER FOX DOG. CAN YOU READ ME?
You forgot to say “OVER”.
((((OVER))))
Wow, man . . . somebody’s talkin’ pretty bad about Roger . . . .
HLOEV TRHYV UTSMO URXFI RTDEA
FSAE PEAJHS VMN OTHSFDLMFD PRIKSDF SUR SRJ PCUREAD
((((OVER))))
Under, over.
They went that way. ———>
Question about pay records.
My pay records were lost in the fire. Not “that” fire, but the one that burned my house down long ago. I think they were pink and had a wealth of information not found elsewhere such as HFP and billeting.
Everytime I had a PCS I had to visit the local
Finance Office. In Viet of the Nam it was the 68th Finance in Da Nang.
So what became of their records? Did they go to the IRS? CIA? Democratic Party HQ?
Seems to me they would have been archived somewhere. Any Finance types out there?
Claw has to be kicking himself for not copyrighting “Viet of the Nam”. Scooby would be getting a lot of bones from the royalties if he had.
I just talked to Scooby about that and he says “No, I’m not taking any free bones from a dumbass poser.”
We must remember that the “Viet of the Nam” phrase came from the Master Blaster NYC’s favorite Veterans Day parade chew toy, Sergeant Major Ken Smith.
Smith ran the Phoenix Program in Viet of the Nam and is a true veteran because he wears a P-38 on a dog tag chain.
So always listen up when the Sergeant Major speaks, is that clear?
And speaking of Is That Clear?, the Gainey Cup competition kicks off bright and early at Fort Benning tomorrow morning.
So if anybody out there wants to get the straight dope on how it’s possible to earn an NDSM while in the Delayed Entry Program, I’m sure the 1st SEAC (who’s sure to be in attendance for the whole week) would be more than happy to give you a full Sockpuppet Report on the question./smile
👍👏🏆🎖
Gainey= Wannabe Vet of Viet of Nam.
Bet when passes away, his Veteran Gravemarker will list “Vietnam”.
He’s been a silent Cricket since 2015.
‘Bout time you reappeared. Do you think your absences go unnoticed?