Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

nope.

 

You ain't seen my messages. I absolutely loathe the virtual keyboard so I just answer with images of rockets, ufo heads and explosions.

 

but that's legible. you are telling us you are shooting at aliens.

 

One never retires from X-Command.

 

Another gem:
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-...getting-back-from-a-war/answer/Jay-Bazzinotti

What are some of the war secrets / experiences that soldiers don't want to talk about after getting back from the war?

Jay Bazzinotti:
My father was a private during WW2 of Italian descent, forced to fight in Italy.He spoke perfect Italian when he left the US to join Operation Torch, the landings in North Africa. When he came home he never again spoke another word of Italian. He was so ashamed of what he saw in Italy that he rarely ever spoke of the war, but as kids we grew up watching every war movie that ever came on TV. He never missed any of them.

And until the day he died he had screaming nightmares of the war. No matter when he fell asleep, in bed at night, or on the couch for a nap on a sunny Saturday afternoon, we would have to wake him from his screaming nightmares. It was as normal to us as changing the channel on the TV. We would hear him screaming and my mother would say, "Go wake your dad." almost as if it were an afterthought. If we got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night we could often hear him screaming. This happened every single day.

The only time he ever talked of the war was with his brothers, who also served. And then they would sit over their coffee and whisky and become different men, even decades later. The way they held their cigarettes, the way they covered their coffee cups with their hands to catch the heat, they became soldiers again. I would hear them tell their stories when they thought I wasn't listenening, and some were gruesome. And then they would all laugh, like it was a joke. And someone else would relate an experience. The most common story my father told was this one I write below. I've taken liberties to clean up the language.

"Long before the Allies invaded France on D-Day, the English and the Canadians tried a similar invasion in mid 1942. You never hear much about the raid on Dieppe because the Germans won that one. You never hear much about the battles the Germans won. Well the Brits and the Canadians took a serious pasting in that raid. A real slaughter. The survivors who made it back were considered heroes, battle hardened guys and many were used to train soldiers for future invasions.

Meanwhile, back in the US, I was being drafted for the war effort. I was one of the first guys to get picked, the only time in my life I ever won a lottery and it was a real winner too. I think I was something like the 55th guy in the entire US to be drafted. I was in the CCC in those days, you know, the Civilian Conservation Corps. That was an organization set up by Roosevelt to give work to young guys during the Great Depression, guys who had nothing else. We spent our time clearing forests in New Hampshire.

In any case, I suddenly found myself in England training for what was to be called Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. We were planning to fight the Vichy French and Rommel. The guys who were training us were those Dieppe survivors. Our group was lead by a certain Colonel Smythe. He always made sure we pronounced it correctly, not like “Smith,” but Smythe, like “Smite”. He was around a lot, watching the training in true stiff upper lip style. He was a real war hero, saw Dunkirk, the fall of France, Dieppe, all of it and more. He would walk around with a swagger stick like you see in the movies. Never said much, just watched our progress.

We knew our training was coming to an end and that the invasion would be coming up soon and we were training hard. In those days, everyone thought Rommel was the bogeyman, some kind of super soldier and we all knew the Germans were tough, even though they had just been badly beaten at El Alamein. No one thought it would be easy and many of us expected to die. So we trained hard and did all the crazy things they told us to do because we didn’t know what would be important in combat and the British did. We were stupid, lazy American kids, never seen war, never faced the threat of invasion, never knew fear. We were scared then, boy.

In any case, the day we completed our training there was an inspection. Colonel Smythe came around and reviewed the troops, all American men, only now we were called Rangers and Commandos. Supposedly we were the elite, because we were the first sent over and got the most and best training. We had to display our skill for the Colonel. We were thrusting with our bayonets and yelling in unison, going through the motions of combat. Colonel Smythe walked around reviewing our performance, speaking quietly to his aide here and there, pointing at a particular action, using his swagger stick as a pointer. Later we all marched by in parade and he saluted us in that stiff British fashion. He made a speech, but I can’t remember what he said now, we were all homesick and heartsick over the impending invasion. After that we were dismissed and went to our barracks. The next we heard was that after the parade, Colonel Smythe went back to his office, took out his Webley and blew his brains out while sitting at his desk. He left a note on the desk. The note read, “That’s it, Jack. With the Americans on our side the Germans have won the war.” "

 

so an article where a woman uses a metaphor to explain consent

the metaphor? It's tea.

Spoiler: may be NSFW. because of laughing induced

 

It's more natural cause then anything we do (though we as a race may contribute).

on another note.

 

Yes this is a comment on the 'Borg

 

I regularly maintain my mental hygiene

 

Swallow, then speak.

 

And play the prelude to nuclear war: https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/575004222195916801/photo/1
Holy shit the United States Congress Republicans are fucking stupid.

 

Fixed that for you.

 

No spelling errors, just one too many words.

 

Hep is right. The democrats are just as stupid.

 

So having never heard of this guy I wondered if he actually ever did anything or if this is just him waving his dick around to try to look important. He's a new guy, youngest currently in office, military service, and seems to have a pretty typical Republican agenda. Then at the end I see this:

Huh. So what's attainder?

What the everlovin' fuck?