Weekend Open Thread
May 17, 2017
Wave of Sand
Your Shot photographer Danny Sepkowski admits that setting up his camera on a shore break is “not the safest thing to do.” But he got this incredible shot of sand being sucked up into a wave by photographing with a 100mm lens. “Shooting with a macro lens has taught me patience and composition as well,” he says. “The detail that this lens has is next level, and so are the beatings that I take with it!”
You guys would be doing me a great favor if you’d STOP SENDING ME PICTURES OF BRADLEY MANNING’S NEW LOOK. Just seeing the sick fuck makes me ill – like Bruce Jenner’s photos. I’m not putting these sick morons’ photos on my website. Last time I checked, this is still America and I don’t have to promote or fake an acceptance of a deviant lifestyle if I don’t want. It’s bad enough that the Palm Center spams my inbox with their propaganda. Thanks for the tips, but, no, I’m not posting pictures of Bradley Manning in his makeup. Google the image if you want, but you won’t see it here.
Category: Open thread
nah
you get half first
First
And you get the other half.
although 2/17 Air Cav is really the official WoT referee
First ‘First’?
Can we get a ruling?
I pass the WOT Sceptre to the First, First.
SJ can’t be first. Use of 1st/First/first is required. So, he gets his wish and is not first for purposes of The Book. Mick was the earliest commenter to declare first and is thus enrolled in the Book of Firsts for 19 May 2017.
EARLY!!!!@
3rd
Hello
Top 5
I would have been busy F5-ing but I was busy over in the other thread, Joseph Odom, aka Joey Hayden; phony Marine, Telling him to produce the good old DD-214 he threatened to stick up our collective asses, or he can just go royally fuck himself.
That’s pure unmitigated malarkey.
We all know what you were really doing to your F5 behind the closed bathroom door.
Even at your age you still run the risk of going blind.
Smile.
I like to beat my F5 hey like it owes me money
*key* Damn it, we need an edit button.
His palm is hairy because he beats his F5 key…
what does it mean when the f5 key is hairy?
It means your cat has been sleeping on the keyboard again.
Whatever, I’m early and late, both.
In regard to Jonn’s request. I will send him a photo of my two pussies, if I can find them. They hate each other.
Do you know who the Father is?
/*runs*
\(・o・)/
I should be lucky the joke went over her head cause I’d have gotten an ass whuppin’.
Yep
I think she missed it ChipNASA – you may be in luck.
Or she’s being extra polite.
O_o
Are we speaking of the same Ex-PH2? My fear would be that she’s laying low until she has completed the plans for retribution.
They’re both orphans of the storm.
Must have been quite the storm !!!
Jonn,
I’m still pissed that you dual posted the photos of Corrine Brown & Maxine “Mouth” Waters side by side as it was enough to make anyone want to gouge out their eyeballs.
I’d have rather stuck my face in the anus of an angry lienteric hippopotamus.
So, you’re saying Jonn is experiencing karma for those two images in receiving images of the perv?
SNERK!
You’re lucky I spiked Po’s post on the same subject.
I think I’d rather try to shove a wet spaghettini noodle up a Bobcat’s ass while locked in a phone booth after crawling naked through poison ivy after wallowing in broken glass and carpet tacks and bathing in rubbing alcohol.
tOP 20.
Darn bizniz meeting
Upon careful review – at the time of posting I was the 8th distinct individual to post. Therefore I claim upgraded status to Top 10.
So there!
Top 20.
I believe you are the 9th individual to post. So you get Top 10 as well.
You da man Graybeard!
I don’t know about anyone *else* but it look like the sand in the wave to the right of the photo is giving good ole Dan Bernath a greeting and/or salute.
I wonder how his week has been. Wasn’t he supposed to be in court this week, or am I incorrect about that?
That’s a good shot. Almost looks like the Hand of Sand is about to smack him head on, doesn’t it?
ChipNASA, I’m trying to find stuff on the US WAAF and all I’ve come up with so far is short bits of this and that. Does the USAF have anything in its archives?
There are updates coming, but don’t hold your breath.
Dang, well that’s too bad but
Thanks Jonn for staying on top of this to the bitter end.
He’s going to get what he eventually deserves.
Darn! This was the first TAH thread I opened today (instead of my usual chronological order), hoping to get some news. Oh, well. . .
I think the judge is more tired of him than I am.
Now that’s saying something !!!
Then “Danni-boi” may really be in deep sh!t.
Pissing the Judge off is NEVER a good idea, PERIOD. I wonder if he isn’t trying to pull an insanity scam?
That would not be a smart thing to do, API. In 4 states, it is barred. In many other states, it has to be proven, the defendant has to prove it, and also spend time in a mental hospital, and the sentence still has to be served.
In this instance, I doubt that it would even be considered since it isn’t criminal, but rather, civil litigation.
Is that even possible?
Wow.
Just wow.
This might help:
http://search.af.mil/search?affiliate=aflink&query=women%20army%20air%20force
I have a comment in moderation to Jonn with a bunch of links for the US and the UK women pilots.
I think that you are looking for the right thing but maybe the nomenclature is off.
There’s the WASPs for the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots
And the WAAF for the UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Auxiliary_Air_Force
http://www.npr.org/2010/03/09/123773525/female-wwii-pilots-the-original-fly-girls
WASP Museum
http://waspmuseum.org/
Army history site
https://www.army.mil/women/history/pilots.html
Thank you, ChipNASA!
Thank you all very much.
I don’t see it any more,
Here are a few ideas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots
http://waspmuseum.org/
“Almost looks like the Hand of Sand is about to smack him head on, doesn’t it?”
Or Grook the Sand Monster ambushing his latest victim.
This really deserves its own blog post, but open thread is for discussing anything right?
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/turkish-embassy-protest-dc.html?referer=http://www.google.com/
I believe the DC cops were hesitant to interfere because the Turkish thugs were armed.
Regardless, I hate to see this on US soil. The protestors should not have been subject to Turkish brutality – but IMHO it gives validity to the protestors claims, and further evidence of Turkish oppression.
Sounds to me like the Administration needs to (1) identify those responsible publicly (the article indicates we have a good idea who they are), (2) set in motion the prosecution of any who don’t have diplomatic immunity; and (3) declare any on the Turkish Embassy Staff who were involved personae non gratae. I’d also include the head of Embassy Security among the last group as a message to Ergodan.
Sometimes diplomacy requires congratulatory messages; other times require the diplomatic equivalent of the finger – even to an Allied nation. This is the latter case.
I agree with all this.
And I would make it clear that future attacks against American citizens my result in an expulsion of the Ambassador, and the building if a giant memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide across the street to the embassy.
I’ll go with that.
Well, at the end of the street. Apparently across the street is the Indian Embassy.
Yes!
HONORARY first and top twenty!
Okay, then. Answers by Miss USA to questions have triggered a backlash of nasty comments on one side of the political fend and support on the other. You guys decide. She’s attractive, works in nookyuler science, encourages kids to get into STEM education, also apparently likes real men – what’s not to like?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/05/15/miss-usa-kara-mccullough-under-fire-conservative-answers-healthcare-feminism/101702924/
She is intelligent, encourages children, not politically correct, and beautiful.
What is not to like?
As far as i can see, only thing not to like is she lives in DC… but that could be easily corrected, so she gets my vote!
That, and her mom didn’t give her a pseudo-afrikaans name.
So – she is not politically correct, and neither were her parents.
I don’t pay that much attention, but I wonder what her home life was like growing up. Better than many, I suspect.
Afrikaans is the language of the South African Boers, I belive.
So is Pseudo-Afrikaans realy Double Dutch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kE6ZU-OPTc
I see what ya did there.
Well, I could have said Swahili or Masai or something, but I thought fake Boer Dutch might work, too.
Related to “Mock Swedish”?
Bork! Bork Bork!
Twenty-third.
Jonn, you were early with the WOT this week!
Whaaaaa……
“Missed it by this much.”
Next holiday weekend I shall tell stories of how eating MRE’s made me appreciate room temperature spaghetti. I shall demonstrate how to be in any position: attention, parade rest, at ease; whilst standing upright and being fast asleep. I will speak in hushed tones about polishing shoes with bricks and chocolate bars.
These things may confuse several of the listeners. They will expect stories of how I climbed out of the Apollo capsule and flapped my arms to keep it airborne long enough for the tail gunner to slay the dreaded moon monsters. The crowds may be disappointed in my stories based upon the stories of “What the military made me do” they so often hear from the wanna-be’s
You are The Best! Don’t toy with us.
While I was busy reading all the previous comments, I missed my chance to be in the top 50 based on the comment counter in the thread header.
Ex-PH2:
What’s on the menu for chow this weekend?
I’m starting to feel a wee bit peckish here in my grid square, and I’m lookin’ for ideas.
You could always try homemade “Ham and Mothers”. Recipe is listed under the “Recipes” tab above.
Dinner? Red beans and rice w/smoked sausage, lots of vegs on the side, some nice crusty bread w/cheese and a good wine and a good book.
2 cans of red beans (I like the beans canned in chili sauce for this)
1 chorizo sausage, hot or mild, your choice
olive oil
1 cup of rice
1 link of smoked sausage
Just enough beef broth to keep the rice and beans mixture from drying out.
No extra seasoning should be needed, unless you like it super-hot.
Squeeze the chorizo out of the casing into an adequate sized pan with the olive oil in it. Cook on medium heat until the sausage is done, then add rice and some of the beef broth. Cook the rice to nearly done. Add the beans with the chili sauce and cover the pan, put on ‘low’ and cover. Cut up the sausage, add to the pan, stir thoroughly, and let it simmer with a little more beef broth.
Make some cornbread, if you don’t want regular bread.
And for dessert: fresh fruit, cheese, wine/beer and bread and a good book.
RE: the Bradley Manning picture. For as much as we the taxpayers footed the bill for that botched surgery, you’d of thought we would have got a pair of 38’s……
I may never eat solid food again.
Bastard.
An interesting development yesterday related to Bradley Manning’s release is that the Swedes have apparently decided to end their rape investigation of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange.
According to reports, the Swedes have some strange laws about having to in-person confront a suspect before filing charges. To avoid such an interview, Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for the past five years while also running out the statute of limitations clock.
Assange still has legal problems for jumping British bond on the original Swedish extradition request. The Ecuadorans have asked that he be given safe passage to Ecuador despite yet another extradition request from the U.S. So far, the Brits have not made a decision except to say Assange is not going anywhere except to the jug if he leaves the embassy.
For those who might not be able to remember that far back, there is strong evidence that Assange acted as a virtual co-conspirator with Manning to steal all those classified cables.
Not 100% sure of the wording of their treaties but in most countries registered diplomatic vehicles are sovereign soil and if the Ecuadorans decide to take Assange to the airport in one and load him into an Ecuadoran plane, there is damn-all we could do about it.
The question with the Manning photo: if we don’t tell him who the pic is of, would IDC-SARC say he’d hit it?
So sorry I’m so late today, but unfortunately work interfered with the WOT this week! I did however get my cataract surgery done this week and all turned out very well. They did tell me though that I have glaucoma. My father had that along with macular degeneration. So I guess I have that to look forward to? At least for the time being, I have 20/20 vision. And I don’t want to see any pictures of Manning or what ever he is now??? I say he is a chick with a dick???
Cataract surgery is the BEST! I like watching TV and diving without glasses.
I really like being able to see the TV again! I couldn’t believe how fast I lost my vision. It went from 20/20 to blind in about 3 months! I had lasik done over 20 years ago and never had a problem until 6 months ago. I got the blended vision so I wouldn’t have to wear glasses, I’m glad I spent the extra $450 bucks an eye! I hate wearing glasses. Especially in Florida, you sweat, then they slide down your nose!
Lasik is good up to what age, usually?
Congrats! I gave my readers, and lens cleaning gear away to a pal at work after my procedures. What a difference 20/20 makes.
” I say he is a chick with a dick???”
Um, no. He is just a guy, so patently stupid, that he would cut his dick off and become a “Guy with no dick”.
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
Top 100!
Another wonderful spring weather week here. Snow on Mother’s Day, 40 on Monday, 90 by Wednesday.
Dafuq?
Global warming.
Don’t know if it’s still showing up on anybody else’s computer, but I want to thank Jonn for not having that black spandex man-butt advertising thingy on the left side show up anymore.
It sure has quieted Scooby down, as he howled for about 10 minutes every time I logged on to TAH and he saw that.
YES!!!!! I noticed that too.
Phew.
Claw, this link is for you and 2/17 Air Cav, and any other in-country people, in case you or someone you know lost your dogtags over in the Viet of the Nam.
http://www.historynet.com/found-lost-dog-tags-in-vietnam-genuine-or-fake.htm
There’s a link in the article to the JPAC.pacom.mil website. I was intrigued by the notion that a fake Elvis Presley dogtag was offered for sale by a shop vendor, because Elvis never even visited Vietnam when he was in the Army. There’s also a private effort at http://www.canamission.com to reunite dogtags with their owners.
Please pass the word on this. Thanks!
A possible explanation for the excess dog tags is that I remember going through Oakland Army Base as a point of embarkation, and getting issued a duplicate pair of tags for the ones I already had. It wasn’t a matter of request, it was automatic along with getting jungle fatigues and boots, shots, etc. To this day, I’ve no clue what happened to that second set.
Another odd quirk about dog tags in RVN was that, depending on the unit, one tag would go on a chain around the neck, and the other would be laced near the bottom eyelets of a jungle boot. When I was an FNG assigned to the 173rd Airborne, I naturally asked the dumb shit question: What’s up with that?
A medic who was standing there at the time said: It’s so if your head gets taken off at the shoulders, we have a way to identify the body.
That is grim, but true. I heard that from a couple of corpsmen, too.
That is a fact, Jack. I once used the dog-tag in a boot w/leg to match to the rest of the body of a soldier who, along with a compadre, was blown up by a booby trapped 105mm arty round on our firebase rifle range. In most units it was SOP to put a dog-tag in the boot lace on one boot. The other went around your neck. It also solved the problem of the two of them clicking together around your neck, which eliminated the need to tape them together for noise discipline.
That is very true. We all did that in the Vietnam-era 101st ABN as well.
It may sound a little funny now, but in my last two mechanized infantry battalions I served with, my S-4 (Supply) shop had a dog tag making machine as part of our equipment.
It was a spin the dial to a letter, pull down on the handle, standard manual mechanical piece and saved a lot of time when it was needed to replace a tag down at the user level.
It didn’t get used too much to make some individual troopie’s tags, but got used a lot to make tags for keys.
Yep, keys. Keys to everything and its brother. Conex keys, vehicle keys, storage locker keys, etc. If there are people out there who have ever been the unit’s key control officer, you know what I’m talking about.
Proper spare key identification is a must, or you end up cutting the padlocks with bolt cutters and issuing a new padlock, re-tagging them, etc, etc should the primary key get lost or not passed from hand receipt holder to hand receipt holder properly.
Ex……….I check that site 2-3 times a year. I lost my dog tags while in country. I can’t remember exactly where or when. I suspect it was early on, while in the bush.
I hope you get them back some day, 3/17 AirCav
Glad it’s gone as well. It was so confusing. Looked more like a girls posterior than a guys, so never knew just what sort of thoughts it was supposed to provoke. Was I supposed to want one or want one?
Maybe it appeared androgynous because the model was named “Bradley”? (smile)
Some businesses direct their advertising to certain demographics. And that advertiser offered the Vice President of the proud woman owned business that I work for a huge discount due to his mandating spandex as the only acceptable business attire in our company.
Speaking of “that” business, any new intel on one Psul/Palmer of the Ballsack? Maybe he’s in the DRG Witness Protection program?
He no longer reigns supreme over Wilson Lane. The corporate headquarters has been sold, way below the initial asking price of $965,000. Zillow listed it as selling for $87,700. That could be is a misprint (did they drop a 0?), but still funny as shit. The new owner did some major upgrades, to include installing a mailbox WITH a door. If you would like to reside in a hysterical, I mean historical, house, it is available for rent at the princely sum of $3900 per month.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6915-Wilson-Ln-Bethesda-MD-20817/37181350_zpid/?fromHomePage=true
As to the business, the company and the Vice President were sued last year by a company for stiffing them on an $8900 contract. Pretty pathetic that a company that implies it generates billions in profit can’t pay an $8900 bill.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress works balls for tip money to pay for his parking space at All-Points Logistics.
I’ll leave you all with this quote:
My prayer to God is a very short one: ‘Oh, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ God has granted it. – Voltaire (1694-1778)
So far in the official welcome to Riyadh, no bowing seen. Not sure if the females in the family may be wearing some small head covering.
STOLEN VALORIST KYLE CHRISTOPHER BARWAN is still shoveling his lies. He has degenerated to now claiming that he and Chris Kyle worked together on several big kills. He also claims to being “about to get” over $600,000.00 in owed Mercenary wages. He is also a motorcycle racer, along with being in daily probation violation. Riding a motorcycle with no driver’s license, teaching others how to scam online, and making his standard claims of being wounded in Iraq, and being a CIA kill specialist with a list of people to eliminate here in the US before going on station in Germany. I now have over 2 dozen names of women that he has hustled or tried to hustle.
I wonder how soon he’ll end up back in Bubba & Thor’s harem?
In another line of thinking; I have to tip my hat to the Salute Military Golf Association for their adaptive lesson program for us broken down types.
This is week 6 and they have made golf playable for me again.
Proves that some of these programs are for real and that there really are ways to get beyond what holds us back sometimes.
Since it’s the WOT, I just wanted to announce the sad news that Pippa Middleton got married today to some bean-counting tosser. There goes the best butt in Britain, lads…
I feel for you guys.
It’s a strange weekend. I found my two cats, the warring queens, sleeping together in the same chair. I do not know what the world is coming to.
“Principled realism.” What a great term to describe how the new sheriff intends to lead us.
Can hardly wait to see how the lefties spin the new respect and cooperation on display today. They already started with the accusation of bowing when the tall man stooped to allow the short man to place a medal around his neck. So silly.
Looking at the news out of Philadelphia, it looks like Daniel Bernath wants to get some time behind the stick before his next court date.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/Small-plane-crash-lands-in-West-Chester.html?mobi=true
Naw, can’t be him. That’s a full sized aeroplane – the dipstick never could get licensed to fly one of those, not that it would matter to him.
http://flarecord.com/stories/511115955-middle-district-court-pushes-parties-to-streamline-pre-trial-motions
Does anyone know this Mark Cameron Seaway? 😉
There may be a few poorly spelled words in the story.
Ummm… Seaway, huh? It may be that he lives in the Maritime Provinces. I’m sure someone can check with him on that.
Everything in that article changed the day after it published, that’s why I didn’t post it.
The first grade teacher says to her class:
“What sounds did you hear on our field trip to the farm yesterday?”
All the little hands go up and:
Janey says “Moo.”
Jackie says “Baaa.”
Kathy says “Quack, Quack.”
Little Johnny says “Get the fuck off that tractor.”
Kids say the darndest things.
And so in keeping with the three posts today of Sailors who lost their lives in the line of duty, my (now retired) Submariner Senior Chief son sends out a note to memorialize the 99 crewmembers of the USS Scorpion, SSN-589, which was lost on this day 49 years ago.
May they all Rest In Peace.
I have made a note, Claw. May they indeed rest in peace.
Just testing. Had a code monkey come today and do some spring cleaning on the old Google machine.
Test, Test, Test.
Okay, seems to work.
Thanks.