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This.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2015/0619/US-Marines-resurrect-historic-Raiders-name-for-Special-Ops

To me this is kind of like hearing that King Arthur has opened up applications for new Knights for the Round Table.

@silentsophia said:

Texas really fucking hates unemployed and disabled people without kids. Jesus H. Christ, you'd think I was trying to run around and take tax dollars then cackle while I buy some fucking rice and beans for the month.

Well if you could stop with the cackling at least...

@VulgarKitten said:

First.... someone STOLE a VIBRATOR? ... Second ... O.O @feeldoe. I feel very uneducated and naive right now.

I once received a call to collect one from the lawn near a bio-research building. Gloves.

@Arkandel said:

I initially read this as "my best friend got hers jacked during a movie", and had all sorts of questions.

Today we all learn many new things about Luna.

Dick van Patten

@Ganymede I feel so good that I started this thread.

As a native Texan, and a pretty proud one at that, I've really never felt any association with that stupid confederate battle flag. Or any confederate flag (because the actual CSA flag is different from the one most people think of and use). I've always considered myself Western, not Southern, and there's a very large difference.

Also I rather like the USA and am proud of it too, and am pretty dead set against the wrongheaded rebel insurrection against it a century and a half ago. So racism issues aside (and the racism aspect is so very real) there are many politically rock-solid reasons to sneer at the rebel flag.

Drove down to the lagoon and there are sandy beaches there.

Saw a pickup truck that someone had jacked down and turned into one of those low-riding street hugging things with the wide ridiculous tires that don't belong on a truck.

It's stuck in the sand. Wheels spinning.

Schadenfreude.

@Corruption Awww kitties. You are wonderful.

@Roz said:

Pancakes. I just fucking love pancakes and I really want some right now.

Click click bloody click pancakes!

@mietze I know what it is in my family. I have an aunt whom I refer to as "the vulture". I call her this because every time someone dies, no matter how distantly related, she shows up looking to take as much of their worldly possessions home with her as she can. Because the members of my family who would stand up to conduct like this are by now dead (the non-confrontational ones seem to live longer) she gets away with it. Nobody wants to call her on it. Instead they whisper about it disapprovingly where they think she cannot hear.

Thanks to this she has progressed to taking over my grandmother's house from her and packing it full of the many things she has collected over the years, to the point that it really does look like something off of Hoarders. My grandmother is miserable. She is also stubborn, and will not move out of her own home nor muster the willpower it takes to kick the vulture out. Instead she insists on staying there, and I am sure she will stay there until her time comes too and the vulture just collects all her things.

Most families seem to have at least one vulture. They ruin everything around them. They are profoundly unhappy and think that collecting things will fix that, but it's just a disease. It is an infectious disease too, and unless one puts up hard barriers against it or simply removes oneself from the situation, one will succumb as well.

@thebird said:

RL anger:
When people assume I'm being a snarky bitch, or lying about my sincerity, when really I'm doing neither of those things.
Happened multiple times today about varying topics. Maybe I have more of a case of resting bitchface/attitude than I thought? But damn. Chill out people. I'm chilled, I swear.

Ugh I hate that. When people tell me "smile!" like they're being cute or cheery, I go from probably content and okay to instant actual anger. Nothing brings on the hate quite like "calm down".

@thebird That is even worse. You're right.

@Shebakoby said:

The moral of the story is people fall through the cracks in both systems. Way more in the other one because of the whole money thing (not to mention a MUCH larger population), but still. Improvements could be made to prevent this.

There is an element of political rah-rah in the US (I'm sure it exists everywhere really) that begins its day by making assumptions about what you mean when you say anything disagreeing with them. They also think that the Real News that they listen to is superior to the Fake News other people hear, or even sometimes to the Real Life you live. Sometimes that particular fight happens with the battle cry "anecdotes are not evidence!" or "show me notarized documents" or some variant thereof.

Don't worry about it too much.

@thebird These are the worst.

@thebird said:

@SG
Omg, I hate work dreams. Those are a whole different kind of nightmare.

TBH my work dreams ARE nightmares.

@Misadventure said:

They leave.

That is my favorite part of every work interaction, right there.

@Roz You're such an angry, forceful man. I feel like you make important points.

Unless you're a woman, in which case why are you such a bitch?!

@Luna Be careful with that maturity. You might put someone's eye-dealism out.

@Arkandel said:

Some people are such asshats. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/breastfeeding-mother-baby-snatched-primark-154502930.html

If the facts in that story are true they fit the elements of Kidnapping in my jurisdiction.

One comment on the article reads, however:

"This has already been debunked. Security footage was reviewed and it never happened. Her description of the security guard didn't match any of the store's employees. This isn't the first time she's made allegations like this, although the baby snatching certainly upped the ante."

So it's important to question.