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Post by Kalashnikov » Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:13 am

This priest should be used in George Carlin's skit about Religion.

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Post by 32wildbilly » Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:46 am

gnat wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 8:20 am
32wildbilly wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 8:03 am

I'll have to look that up. John Oliver is incredibly funny.
Ah. Yeah. Here is the dry version, but you still need to find the Last Week Tonight clips.

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Post by FRUNKenstein » Thu Jun 06, 2019 4:00 pm

Those of you who are Facebook friends of mine may have already seen this, but I thought it was worth posting here, also:

Last night, before I went to bed, a small thunderstorm passed over our home. As I watched the flash of the lightning and heard the thunder, it reminded me that 75 years ago, at nearly exactly that moment, 13,100 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne and 82nd Airborne Divisions were being dropped behind enemy lines into Normandy to start the D-Day invasion. Their challenge word was "flash" and password was "thunder" to identify each other as Americans after landing. 75 years ago this morning, the invasion forces hit the beaches. The sacrifices made by that generation of Americans to preserve our freedom and to regain the freedom that Europe had lost are unfathomable in today's world. Freedom isn't free - and it came at a very dear price on June 6, 1944. My grandfather, Tom Beebe, was drafted to fight in Europe at age 34, when he had 4 children and a pregnant wife. Can you imagine that happening today? He was nearly killed and left for dead in Luxemborg during the Battle of the Bulge on January 6, 1945.

What I'd like to see every American do today, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day is 2 things:
1. If you know anyone 90 years or older, is to thank them for the sacrifices that their generation, "The Greatest Generation", made that allow all of us to enjoy the life we have now; and
2. At some time today or over the weekend, take the time to watch a film about D-Day. Probably 2 of the best are "Saving Private Ryan" and Episode 2 of Band of Brothers ("Day of Days"). They are both hard to watch, though, especially Saving Private Ryan. If you want to sit down with your kids, you might want to watch "The Longest Day", a 1962 film about D-Day that is much more suitable for younger audiences.

At a minimum, at least pause for a moment to think about those brave people and what they went through 75 years ago today.

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Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Jun 06, 2019 4:20 pm

Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are both chock full of hellish documentaries showing what war was like for those tough sons of bitches.

I don't discount ANY person's war experience, but you have to be one stone-cold motherf***ker to march, run, crawl, or hide in a field of machine gun fire. This was pre-'49 Geneva-convention shit - when war was unimaginably cruel.

Those guys screwed up their nerve, knotted their assholes, and climbed off transports, ran up beaches, and did shit we can't even imagine; most folks today won't cross the street to help someone in need.

As much as I think POTUS is an absolute tool, his comments @ Normandy were appropriate.

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Post by 32wildbilly » Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:05 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 4:20 pm Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are both chock full of hellish documentaries showing what war was like for those tough sons of bitches.

I don't discount ANY person's war experience, but you have to be one stone-cold motherf***ker to march, run, crawl, or hide in a field of machine gun fire. This was pre-'49 Geneva-convention shit - when war was unimaginably cruel.

Those guys screwed up their nerve, knotted their assholes, and climbed off transports, ran up beaches, and did shit we can't even imagine; most folks today won't cross the street to help someone in need.

As much as I think POTUS is an absolute tool, his comments @ Normandy were appropriate.
Add the fact that they were 18-19 year olds(if that). The stuff they saw and went through had to be a life changing experience. If you watched David Muir on the evening news this week he spent time here and in France with five of those who survived. Every night I got teary eyed from something one of the them said or how they reacted to their memories. They did what was asked, what needed to be done and more. Then they carried those memories for the next 75 years. Tough sum bitches indeed.
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Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:26 pm

Yup - and you compound that with what the world view of therapy/counseling was like in the following 50 years. That's a WHOLE lot of swallow down, but that's how you do it.

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Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
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Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Post by 808Bill » Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:42 am

5chn3ll wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:26 pm Yup - and you compound that with what the world view of therapy/counseling was like in the following 50 years. That's a WHOLE lot of swallow down, but that's how you do it.

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Unlike the "Snow-Flake" generation seeking safe places...My great uncle was there and it teared/choked him up the rare times he talked to me about it. Tough is an understatement!
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Post by Dr_Strangelove » Sun Jun 09, 2019 12:03 pm

Anybody here that is a WWII aviation buff like me will love this film about the 8th. It is 1h 15m long but it took me about 2.5 hours to watch because I kept rewinding the clips. The restoration is amazing. Available on HBO Go / Now.




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Post by FRUNKenstein » Sun Jun 09, 2019 8:19 pm

Dr_Strangelove (whew!) wrote: Sun Jun 09, 2019 12:03 pm Anybody here that is a WWII aviation buff like me will love this film about the 8th. It is 1h 15m long but it took me about 2.5 hours to watch because I kept rewinding the clips. The restoration is amazing. Available on HBO Go / Now.




Jaw-dropping restoration.
I will definitely check that one out. Thanks for the tip.
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Post by Kalashnikov » Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:05 am

Spent two hours today tracking Jupiter. Could not pass up it going right across my FOV from the balcony. All four satellites were visible.

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