But there was another barricade up right there! Why not one next to it?!

Aye aye aye...

If you give an Aye Aye an orange it will poke a small hole and scoop out all the good parts leaving the membrane between each slice intact. Cut it open and you have a perfectly segmented cup.

Give an Aye Aye a cut portion of carrot and it will create a hollow tube of carrot skin.

Give an Aye Aye a half coconut and it will turn it over (round side up), chew a small hole in it and scrape the meat out, even though it would be much easier to get it from the open side.

Weird obsessive little things.

Aye ayes totally amaze me... and scare me...
"tap, tap, tap" with that finger that looks like the hook Egyptians used to pull your brain out through your nose.
Then "CrunX", those teeth bite right through your face... yikes.
Seriously, these things can bite right into a coconut, and then causally scoop the jelly out with that freaky finger.
-tree zombies

aye aye

>> ^lucky760:

Aye aye aye, ant. How many times over the years are you going to think I live in Australia?!
I live in Orange County. (Irvine, to be exact.)
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Ah cool. Where do you live again? Downunder?
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Actually just about 30 feet away. Sold my house (finally) and am renting a neighbor's for a few months until our new home is built.
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Moved??! From where to where?
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Birthday dinner will have to wait this year. Just got done moving. Still busy unpacking for maybe another day or three.
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You're welcome. Did you do anything fun on your birthday yet?
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Thanks for the warm-hearted birthday wishes!
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Birthday! Where's the party?









Ugh, I thought that was Dag. You guys are confusing! Ahh, right next to Blizzard, the home of ant eaters, Spectrum 21, etc.

Aye aye aye, ant. How many times over the years are you going to think I live in Australia?!

I live in Orange County. (Irvine, to be exact.)

In reply to this comment by ant:
Ah cool. Where do you live again? Downunder?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Actually just about 30 feet away. Sold my house (finally) and am renting a neighbor's for a few months until our new home is built.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Moved??! From where to where?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Birthday dinner will have to wait this year. Just got done moving. Still busy unpacking for maybe another day or three.

In reply to this comment by ant:
You're welcome. Did you do anything fun on your birthday yet?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Thanks for the warm-hearted birthday wishes!

In reply to this comment by ant:
Birthday! Where's the party?

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um...... yes. man this is getting pretty weird. i thought you kinda knew me. guess not.

>> ^enoch:

>> ^berticus:
the psychology of the military fascinates me
"it's a game you have to play"
"too busy trying not to piss yourself"
"stripped of your dignity"
so bizarre

boot camp is all about psychology.
think about it.
it is NOT a natural state of being to shoot another human in the face,therefore it is imperative to strip that human of all self-identifiers in order to build them back up and incorporate them into the group paradigm.
one of the most powerful tools they use as @Skeeve mentioned is how they punish the entire company for an infraction YOU incurred.thats a mighty powerful motivator when you have 80 dudes staring at you with rage in their eyes.(i was lucky to never have experienced that particular discomfort).
you do realize after a short while that it is all a game (or mindfuck) but whats even MORE interesting is that even though you are aware of the manipulation you still fall in line with the group.
i was 17 when i joined (you could do that back then).speaking only for myself i remember that i adopted a "you cant beat me,i am not going to quit" mentality.which is EXACTLY the mentality they wanted.they took my defiance and made it work for them.
i was manipulated from the get-go and even when i became aware of that fact i still played their game by their rules.

>> ^Skeeve:

I love hearing comments about "boot camp" from people who have never been near the military.
There are quite a few reasons why people don't punch their drill instructors. In my experience, the people with "tough guy" attitudes who think they wouldn't stand for that treatment lose that attitude pretty damn quickly.
Most recruits, as @enoch pointed out, are already scared shitless from being away from home for the first time. Those with a little more life experience realize that its a game you have to play to become a soldier/sailor/airman and would be just as likely to attack their drill instructor as they would be to attack their interviewer for a desk job.
And they all know that if they make things more difficult than they actually are (argue, don't give it your all, etc.) the staff are going to make the whole group go through hell and they will be hated by their whole platoon.
Plus, these aren't conscripts, they are there because they want to be there, or they have no other option. Doing something stupid, like attacking an instructor because he yelled at them, is only going to make things worse.
>> ^TheGenk:
A perfect example of why I did alternative civilian service rather than serve in the military; a few seconds into this the instructor would have been lying on the ground and I would have gone to the brig for punching a superior officer.

>> ^hpqp:
When I got the gist of the video I waited through the whole minute of it for Sgt A. Hole to get a gun butt to the gums. I am disappoint.

>> ^Kofi:
Just wait til they meet in the toilets after. Someones gonna go full metal jacket on his ass.



These points don't change the fact that you are all scum! Maggots who don't deserve to be in my beloved Core!

>> ^enoch:

you guys never served in the military did ya?


You don't understand how many people in this world are insane do you? Did you know I was killed on the street once just for coughing...some people are crazy and they kill you for doing essentially nothing. That's life...life on the streets...Homicide Life on the Streets!

>> ^berticus:

the psychology of the military fascinates me
"it's a game you have to play"
"too busy trying not to piss yourself"
"stripped of your dignity"
so bizarre


boot camp is all about psychology.
think about it.
it is NOT a natural state of being to shoot another human in the face,therefore it is imperative to strip that human of all self-identifiers in order to build them back up and incorporate them into the group paradigm.

one of the most powerful tools they use as @Skeeve mentioned is how they punish the entire company for an infraction YOU incurred.thats a mighty powerful motivator when you have 80 dudes staring at you with rage in their eyes.(i was lucky to never have experienced that particular discomfort).

you do realize after a short while that it is all a game (or mindfuck) but whats even MORE interesting is that even though you are aware of the manipulation you still fall in line with the group.

i was 17 when i joined (you could do that back then).speaking only for myself i remember that i adopted a "you cant beat me,i am not going to quit" mentality.which is EXACTLY the mentality they wanted.they took my defiance and made it work for them.
i was manipulated from the get-go and even when i became aware of that fact i still played their game by their rules.

>> ^enoch:
thinking you may have made a bad decision by joining?


No, I was thinking what a great decision I made by not joining.

you're welcome - glad i could help =)

>> ^berticus:
AHAHAHA!!! best laugh i've had all day thankyou.

AHAHAHA!!! best laugh i've had all day thankyou.

>> ^Diogenes:

>> ^berticus:
the psychology of the military fascinates me
"it's a game you have to play"
"too busy trying not to piss yourself"
"stripped of your dignity"
so bizarre

it should be both fascinating and bizarre to you
sad to say but there has always been and continues to be a need for soldiers in civilized societies
training them necessitates making them different from the rest of the populace, otherwise in wartime you could just give your everyday citizen a gun, wave vaguely in a direction and tell them to fire at will... and watch them be slaughtered
soldiers need to be trained to a higher level of discipline in order to react appropriately in stressful situations, to suffer a higher level of discomfort routinely, to more easily shrug off pain or fatigue that might incapacitate a civilian population
for this reason, there are various and sundry methods of training to achieve the desired effect -- are they perfect? of course not...
will this paradigm seem odd to you? sure, you're not a soldier - you're an ordinary citizen who probably never thinks for a moment about the underlying structure that protects you from complete anarchy