^^^ My Dad too. WW2 navy vet. Never once talked to me about it.
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^^^ My Dad too. WW2 navy vet. Never once talked to me about it.
I'm a vet and the only people of my generation that loudly self identity as vets (stickers on the truck...awful t-shirts...vanity plates...etc) are the complete fucking tools that were typically the bottom of the barrel performers in the service as well.
Not one friend I served with that was good at their job and/or wasn't a complete weirdo advertises their military service, besides on a resume
yep.
WWII vets didn't brag about it because so many went and those who didn't didn't care to let people know. So it was just assumed. My dad--lab tech on New Guinea, then in the occupation of Japan for a year talked about it some, mainly to explain that after living in a pup tent without a floor in a rain forest he didn't care to take us camping. Of course as the WWII vets got older some of them started having reunions and going back to places they served.
Nowadays of course only a tiny percentage serve so it is a distinction. I think universal service would be a good idea. Having a distinct military subculture is not good for a democracy. People of all backgrounds, political beliefs should serve together, get to know each other. (Like those WWII movies where there's always a southerner, and Italian and a Jew. But no black guys. It would also help keep us out of war. Ending student deferments had as much to do as anyting with getting us out of Nam.
Dogs circling the bed, whining at 4a
Ok, let em out
Didn’t need to pee — they go bellowing at a pack of coyotes
Idiot mostly deaf Stella thinks she’s a tough bruiser when she’s just a loud fluffy snack for that pack
I have to go out only half dressed to scare the coyotes away before my idiot dogs will come back inside
That’ll learn me to let them out at 4a
Then of course my heart rate is 100 and I can’t go back to sleep
The whole veteran identity thing has always annoyed me, I say that as a combat veteran from Desert Storm. I’ve never taken advantage of any veteran’s preference things like discounts etc. That said, I’ve recently started taking advantage of veteran’s discounts and I got my free lifetime America the Beautiful pass and will soon sign up for 100% VA healthcare that I qualify for now because of the PACT Act.
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I'm on a work trip and the fuckers in the hotel room next to me were talking so loud when I was trying to fall asleep that I had to put in ear plugs. They worked and I got to sleep, but then they fell out around 1:30 am and I woke up because they were blasting classical music. WTF. I'd almost rather they were having a party.
Call the front desk and they sent security up, the classical music gets turned off, then back on five minutes later at low volume.
Dog shit under the door handle? Actually, I'm in SF, so human shit might be easier to procure
Also, I installed the Clipper app to ride BART, and registering the account+adding funds twice resulted in 18 confirmation emails. ???
One of the benefits of so many serving during WW2 is that most of Congress were vets knew the consequences of war and the chicken hawks were easily put in their place. I use to hate the notion of the draft, but now our military is largely made up of have nots. Everyone should have some stake in the game so some kind of National service would be beneficial imoQuote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Take advantage of those discounts. I have no problem taking the senior discounts, Medicare and SS and all I did to earn them is get old.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
At least the fuckers weren't fucking.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
At least we got it to work. We loaded it on our phones. My android wouldn't take the money so we put two accounts on my wife's phone but only one would work. We had to get the cards and that wasn't easy either. What a bullshit system. I wonder how many people from out of town show up in the Bay expecting to use BART and find out they can't.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
amused, annoyed?
Who dafuck thought "Yanno, it'd be great if I could just drink these oreos in my coke" or "what the world needs now is coke flavored oreos..."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...3007/?tbref=hp
Getting stood up on a zoom meeting. A meeting that the other party asked for!
I certainly don't see anything wrong with using any benefits you are actually entitled to. Shit's expensive. Do whatever you can to save money.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6Mbr...giphy.gif&ct=gQuote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Whistle Pig trying to muscle their way into the bourbon market; low volume/high quality goes right out the window.
Barrell as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
Wild pea annoys me. It grows like a weed (well, it is a weed) along the road sides here. It makes nice red flowers but it is a rapidly spreading vine that is impossible to pull out once it gets established. We have a nice rock garden, thanks to my wife, but I do most of the weeding these days. I swear that a spot that had no pea yesterday can have 2 foot vines today. Like Jack's beanstalk. The stuff likes to hide in other plants. It's too intermixed with our desirable plants to poison it. So I just pull the vines out as best as I can, leaving the roots, and trying to stay vigilant. Any advice is welcome.
Sounds like Himalayan blackberry in the PNW. At least sweet pea isn't covered in thorns.
You know the drill. Nuke from orbit. Behead the remains.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
i have a late 20s employee who is the typical "does just enough to not get fired", but is from a rich family and is entitled enough to not absorb that the reason his peers have all surpassed him a while ago is because he shows minimal effort and ZERO initiative (he's been told this multiple times in his reviews).
Due to vacations we are light staffed right now (i am overly accommodating with vacations especially if you're doing something i deem cool), and this guy was already planning on taking off the first half of next week to attend a family function out of state. He just came to me this morning to let me know that he will be taking off the rest of this week because his parents dog is dying and will be put down this weekend and he needs the time to say goodbye. Mind you, he has a dog of his own and hasnt lived with his parents since HS so he might have lived with this dog for a couple years at most a decade ago. Am i being unreasonable to have this grind my gears?
You are being unreasonable to not fire him.
You are not being unreasonable to feel that he is grinding your gears. Tell him due to being short staffed due to pre existing vacations he is expected to be present when he is expected to be present after his previously scheduled days off. No show, no call, no job.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
I don’t think firing him is unreasonable. I do think telling him he has to choose his job or his dying dog from his childhood is unreasonable. It’s not a real choice anyways. If it isn’t this it’s something else.
Let him go. Stay away from the dying dog. There’s no win there, just a lot of righteous indignation.
Tell him “sure, go on home. Also this probably isn’t the best time but there never is a good time: it’s not working out here and best of luck in the future.” Cash him out before he leaves if you can.
Oh i did, im just really annoyed. He is just so fucking soft (this is just the latest in a pattern of soft/entitled/naive behavior). I'm likely short-timing myself so im not interested in firing and then spending the time training up a new guy/gal for his position, im just trying to coast smoothly into the sunset and this fuckers' putting some uphills in the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
Whatever but just don’t let it grind your gears. Be professional. Be free Kala. Ski here now and all that but let it go