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The Old Hack

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  1. Story: Monday, August 8, 2016

    The Moderator: Please do not ask questions in a condescending manner like this. Offering a polite correction is in good order. Talking down to your fellow posters is not, try to avoid it. ~tOH.
  2. NP: Friday, July 22, 2016

    To be fair, the Italian army during WWII was of such horrible quality that if you selected five random squads and told each of them to storm an empty barn, at most three of them would succeed in taking it. Not as much because of the men, mind you -- but their leadership and motivation was so atrocious that it darn near ranks right down there with Santa Anna leading the Mexican Army.
  3. NP: Friday, July 22, 2016

    You have a point there. I think the German Army could have been paralysed just as easily by depriving it of paper instead of oil.
  4. Story: Monday, August 8, 2016

    I've been wondering the same thing. I don't think it will necessarily be easy for her. The way she phrased it made it sound straightforward but straightforward is not the same as 'easy.' For example, getting from the base of Mount Everest to its top sounds straightforward enough and it's not really that far, distance-wise. But add in the condition that you can only do it by means of muscle-powered climbing and any number of mountaineers will tell you that when you actually try to do it, a certain number of complications start to set in. Then put in a time limit just for fun...
  5. NP, Friday August 5, 2016

    Blow that for a game of soldiers. If they can't handle rejection, they are in the wrong line of work.
  6. NP: Friday, July 22, 2016

    To be fair, internal investigations run by the criminals themselves do not have a good track record of apprehending and convicting the actual responsible parties.
  7. Pandora is Being Framed

    It hasn't, but it is interesting. The question is: if so, who did it? I can't quite see Colonel Sanders doing it, unless he is more powerful than he has so far shown.
  8. Story Friday August 5, 2016

    Here now! With that sort of attitude, you could just walk into Danish Parliament and start killing from one end of the assembly to the other, and... ...I'm sorry, I thought I had a point but I forget where I was going with it.
  9. Story Monday August 1, 2016

    The problem is, the radios were so bad that sometimes the German soldiers just said 'Verflucht', gave up and transmitted in plain speech to have just a chance of being understood by the people they were talking to. And when the people listening in on you have better radios than you do, well...
  10. Story Friday August 5, 2016

    Eh. In my opinion, Colonel Sanders is just pro-being a dick.
  11. Story: Wed, Aug 3, 2016

    Anyone dumb enough to be a dick is all too likely dumb enough to NOT follow procedure when it is actually important.
  12. Story Friday August 5, 2016

    She is not actually being reasonable as she is being really annoyed. I actually recognise this -- I, too, have been IRRITATED into doing the right thing.
  13. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    I must have been extraordinarily fortunate. I've been on an intermediate dose of Effexor for more than a decade now but still haven't experienced 'the cliff.' Mind you, I am not complaining.
  14. Things that make you MAD

    Nowhere did I claim he was the only one. Merely that he did not have much room to complain about horsing around when his own moral ground was hip deep in crocodiles and hippos.
  15. What Are You Ingesting?

    Hm. 'Burbly' sounds a lot less ominous at least. Almost cheerful. Maybe it is trying to summon ponies from Equestria?
  16. Story Monday August 1, 2016

    That was about the time I was in the Home Guard. We were going on a march. Most of us carried full kit. Not me. I carried full kit AND the bollocking hand-me-down radio we'd gotten from the German Army. The stupid thing weighed something like thirty pounds and, as JML previously has pointed out, did not work very well. Man, I hated that thing.
  17. NP, Thursday August 4, 2016

    This story. I can't. It's just too cute. Every time I see more of Pandora, I have a harder time seeing her as a villain. Also, Good Tom. Bah. You just say that because it wasn't a spell to save hippos or crocodiles. Puppies are important.
  18. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    Hopefully you will adjust to that. It is so important to keep the depression at bay, though.
  19. Story Monday August 1, 2016

    You're probably correct. It was a long time ago and I don't remember the story for sure -- all I remember was that it was some sort of man portable missile, it might well have been an anti-tank rocket. As to the cow, you are right yet again. It did not take it at all well. Nor did the owner of the cow, for that matter, I understand it took quite a while to calm him down.
  20. Games of the XXXI Olympiad

    This clearly shows what Egypt has been doing wrong. Egypt needs to lobby for introducing sand hockey and crocodile water polo.
  21. Story Monday August 1, 2016

    Depends. It is more commonly employed when hunting armored attack helicopters.
  22. Things that make you MAD

    Big talk from the Pharaoh who was perfectly fine with basing his rule on a pyramid scheme.
  23. Story Monday August 1, 2016

    This is not even mentioning the "someone did something stupid" paperwork. I remember this NATO exercise where a bored soldier discharged a Stinger missile at a hapless cow in a nearby field. His explanation: "He wanted to see what happened." One second of utter idiocy bred HOURS of paperwork. I would have hated to have been that thimblewit's CO.
  24. Things that make you MAD

    They are. I was just being an old anal-retentive stick in the mud and deliberately misunderstanding. It says in my contract I have to do it at least twice a week.
  25. What Are You Doing Right Now?

    The Moderator: Again, please don't.