Just now, Drasnighta said:I mean, if I'd kill for a VB, you don't really want to know what I'd do for a Crown Lager.
I'd imagine it'd be the sort of thing one usually explains with "I was young, and I needed the money"
"Aloha Strike" should replace "Alpha Strike"
Just now, Diabloelmo said:I'd imagine it'd be the sort of thing one usually explains with "I was young, and I needed the money"
And now I'm old, but I still need the money.
22 minutes ago, GiledPallaeon said:Bless your heart.
Mildly curious where you are.
San Francisco, but previously in Napa. In both places, half the fun id's wondering if they're drunk or just that stupid.
3 minutes ago, thecactusman17 said:San Francisco, but previously in Napa. In both places, half the fun id's wondering if they're drunk or just that stupid.
I wish I could confidently assume the former
If you are not yelling Waaagh while attacking you are doing it wrong
1 hour ago, Drasnighta said:I mean, if I'd kill for a VB, you don't really want to know what I'd do for a Crown Lager.
I miss me a 4 and 20 and some VB. XXXX if I need to make a boat. In my defence I only went to grad school in Sydney but I loved the place and would go back in a heartbeat. I still manage to follow a bit of the footy. Go Swans!
2 hours ago, Viktor Tanek said:I miss me a 4 and 20 and some VB. XXXX if I need to make a boat. In my defence I only went to grad school in Sydney but I loved the place and would go back in a heartbeat. I still manage to follow a bit of the footy. Go Swans!
There are words and numbers there, but in no combination that makes a lick of sense to me. I'm going back to my Cheerwine and my tarxyn. (I don't feel like transliterating, I'm lazy)
5 minutes ago, GiledPallaeon said:There are words and numbers there, but in no combination that makes a lick of sense to me. I'm going back to my Cheerwine and my tarxyn. (I don't feel like transliterating, I'm lazy)
I do believe that he is cheering on a local sports team in the last sentence...
that's all I got
5 minutes ago, FoaS said:I do believe that he is cheering on a local sports team in the last sentence...
that's all I got
I got "something something the drink(?) @Drasnighta would kill for. Something something boat I went to grad school in Sydney but I loved the place and would go back in a heartbeat. Something something soccer. Go someone"
It also comes before alpha, because its 1 letter closee to 0.
20 hours ago, thecactusman17 said:Not from Hawaii, but let me take a stab from being at another American vacation destination: everyone is really friendly towards tourists until you ask them to stop blocking your f****ng business entrance for a vacation photo.
Sounds like where I grew up, tourists show up and the locals head elsewhere. Unless we need to make a buck off them.
On the question asked:
There is very much a two speed between Living there and Touristing there... For one, you learn to avoid certain spots and places, take different routes, that sort of thing. I far more enjoyed, for example, Horseback riding around the coast to out to Bodyboard the North Shore amongst the Hammerheads than I ever did at Waikiki. Felt more respect at the small and solemn Utah Memorial than I ever did trying to squeeze through the crowds at the Arizona Memorial.... Street Vendors and, especially, Corner store Steakhouses... All those sorts of things.
that being said
Even with the living there, there is a definitely two-speed between Living On a Military Base and living out in the general population. I only did the latter in small tourist-like bursts. The rest of the time, I was effectively billeted and ensconced on base. And that is a different speed and circumstance yet again. Apart from the Weather, you could be almost anywhere in the world - its the same flavour of Uniform Code of Military Justice fulled Testosterone.
1 hour ago, Drasnighta said:I far more enjoyed....riding.....out to Bodyboard the North Shore amongst the Hammerheads....
I want this photoshopped to be what we all dream it to be.
1 hour ago, Drasnighta said:Even with the living there, there is a definitely two-speed between Living On a Military Base and living out in the general population... Apart from the Weather, you could be almost anywhere in the world
The truth of every military base everywhere.
Just now, Ardaedhel said:The truth of every military base everywhere.
In my Jet setting ways, I've found that each Nation's bases are subtly different in their own ways... American bases certainly feel like American bases, but they feel different to Kiwi bases who feel different to Australian bases... Even when they share distinct zones (an Australian Quarter on a Kiwi base still doesn't quite feel Australian, and same from what I'm told from the Kiwis in the Kiwi Quarter of, say, RAAF ESL.)
But again, really, I don't have a huge sample size in that regard... And I do have a few marine friends who will swear, black and blue that a posting to Twenty Nine Pines is quite distinct from Honolulu... Even if they are both boring as ****.
4 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:In my Jet setting ways, I've found that each Nation's bases are subtly different in their own ways... American bases certainly feel like American bases, but they feel different to Kiwi bases who feel different to Australian bases... Even when they share distinct zones (an Australian Quarter on a Kiwi base still doesn't quite feel Australian, and same from what I'm told from the Kiwis in the Kiwi Quarter of, say, RAAF ESL.)
But again, really, I don't have a huge sample size in that regard... And I do have a few marine friends who will swear, black and blue that a posting to Twenty Nine Pines is quite distinct from Honolulu... Even if they are both boring as ****.
Marines have enough brain cells to become bored?
Disclaimer: my uncle is a Marine who was regularly attached to SOF units. I say that with all the love and understanding possible for a normal person to someone who thought storming beaches sounded like great fun.
A Marine Aviator once broke 3 fingers punching me in the head (helmet) because I joked he flew an Overgrown Dustbuster.
33 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:A Marine Aviator once broke 3 fingers punching me in the head (helmet) because I joked he flew an Overgrown Dustbuster.
What did he fly and what did you fly?
1 minute ago, GiledPallaeon said:What did he fly and what did you fly?
Planes. I'll be here all week folks!
Just now, GiledPallaeon said:What did he fly and what did you fly?
AV8-B for him, and at the time, nothing but a simulators and trainers - but I was front-running for F-111 at the time.
Just now, Drasnighta said:AV8-B for him, and at the time, nothing but a simulators and trainers - but I was front-running for F-111 at the time.
The Aardvark is one of my personal aviation favorites. And the Harrier IS an overgrown dustbuster. See its follow-on, the F-35B: Overgrown Dustbuster, now with stealth!