Scatbug Redux

@Taxpayers1234 @RobProvince @StarFortress What a riot. It’s astonishing how many people I encounter - educated people - who have no clue where North is. Or South. Or East. Or West, for that matter. I get treated like some kind of wizard because I do. So I got that going for me.

@scatbug1 @RobProvince @StarFortress I remember a "Great Food Truck Race" episode where the host took away the teams' cell phones. They had to find a location, buy supplies, etc. in a city they didn't know. It was hilarious watching them use phone books and paper maps.

My grandparents didn’t complain about the Great Depression, dust bowl, WW2 or polio this much. In fact they never mentioned it in my entire life.

@Taxpayers1234 @RobProvince @StarFortress Dudes who have the technology and time to complain on social media all day about how no one’s had it tougher than them. Never ceases to amaze.

@RobProvince @StarFortress Neither did mine. My grandma absolutely relished shopping for a big roast because she lived the days when all she could feed the kids was pea soup.

@shmidtBC “…after his loss to Trump.” Why does Trump want to be a congressman from Kentucky?

When I kinda want to stay relevant somehow, I usually run for president of the United States.

@exjon @OrdnancePackard The audio sounds just like the so-called 1969 “moon landing.” Obviously faked to make Carter look bad.

And Jimmy Carter just let it happen #smdh

@TypoDynamofo @MCCCANM To be 10 and have an imposing general shake your hand and chat with your dad was quite a thing. Dad was one of his pilots who flew him around the country on business.

@scatbug1 @MCCCANM Nice. Did many a brunch at the O club. Good memories.

In the movie “Top Gun”, Maverick picks up Kelly McGillis by singing in the Officer’s Club. The “O Club” – as it’s known – was a thing, but died a slow death. I missed most of it in my career. In the day, Mom got pissed at the Nellis AFB O’ Club for “Lingerie Night” where models came in & showed off lingerie for sale. It was an early memory for me, seeing those women cross the hall…Mom was beyond pissed & went on a crusade w/ the other Officer’s wives, ending up in the General’s office. They won, but I wish they hadn’t. Before 9/11, the Air Force allowed busses of women to come onto the base on weekend nights, headed to the O’ Club. My Dad was the commander of Security Forces at the time; it was a thing he allowed & for a reason. Seriously, busses full of women, all going to the O’ Club…it was a hot spot at any base. The O’ Club could be a wild place. Once, at Nellis, Dad got a call on a Saturday (I think, but definitely a weekend). It was “Red Flag”, with fighter pilots from all over the world attending to do simulated air war against each other…they’d gotten drunk in the O’ Club & started actually fighting, smashing things up. Shit show. He told his troops to go get all the dogs…Nellis was a center for military dog training & he had turned the “Squadron” into a “Group”, then made “Silver Flag” in the desert, where SF got to play war. It was now not just a place SF could be stationed, it was the home of SF. Anyway, he recalled all the troops, went to the club & locked all the doors except one. Then they let the dogs in…nobody escorting, just release the dog with the command to go fuck things up. One by one, the pilots came out in surrender. He loved that story…wish I could hear him tell it one more time. Anyway, the Tailhook Scandal happened & that was the death signal. Now, Commanders counted the amount of drinks you had. Instead of being a place you could relax, you had to be on duty still. You had to pay to be a member of the O’ Club. It became a place where your career was in jeopardy, so membership declined. The Officer & Enlisted Clubs eventually merged to try & survive, but I don’t think it has gone well. Some Commanders would hold mandatory meetings there, and you had to be a member to attend, which generated some memberships, but that was received poorly. The Pilot Training Bases still have a decent club scene. They don’t allow civilians to come anymore, but it’s a bunch of young trainee pilots trying to flex on each other, playing a very physical game called “Crud”. You’ll have to google that. I helped a Major refit the Club at Vance AFB around 2000. He knew what to do & it was great…he managed to get an ejection seat & a stick from the T-37 right at the bar. Then he wired it so that if you pulled the “Trigger” on the stick, it set off alarm lights & sirens in the club, and now our brand new, naive student who fancied himself a steely-eyed killer owed the whole club beers when the lights & alarms went off. I had a few good nights at O’ Clubs. Vance AFB could get wild on Assignment Night. Randolph AFB was still kicking… the AF Nursing program was based nearby & it had a basement Crud room w/ sandbag walls, so things could get wild when the nurses showed up to have fun. My buddy may make General, but I remember him passing out on a General’s lawn as a Lieutenant after a good night at Randolph & being woken by the sprinklers. We lost something. Some of it was worth discarding, but not all of it was & it built relationships in a way we lack today. The Clubs were good, and it makes me sad they are in such a bad state today.

@FoundersGirl But as an advertising term, Free Restroom is better than Public Toilet.

This painful social experiment ends badly. Sorry for the shocking spoiler.

@5StringsInTX He look exactly like the kind of guy who would say something like that.

Evil doesn't come snorting brimstone and smelling of sulphur.

@RantyAmyCurtis Literally no one cares.

Literally no one is surprised by this.

Scatbug added context: Nobody cares.

@KenGardner11 It’s kind of a thing with these people. Has been for some time now.

Why are so many Democrats so willing to be water carriers for IRGC propaganda bullshit?

In a just world a reporter would ask her she knows the difference between grilling and barbecuing.

To finally defeat the brewing communist revolution in America Trump must declare his support for it.

@walterkirn “Das Kapital. Tremendous book. Greatest ever. Better than the Bible. Inspiration for everything I do. Karl didn’t bathe enough, but wow, could he write.”

The University of Oxford predates the arrival of the Maori in New Zealand and the founding of the Aztec Empire.

I feel it my duty to confess that I was raised in a household where I heard the colloquialism, “cotton pickin’ hands,” used by my dad, Bugs Bunny and Foghorn Leghorn. The former also referred to my two brothers and me as the Three Stooges when in his wroth.

This would be scary if anyone had heard of Hakeem Jeffries. hotair.com/david-strom/20…

@vbspurs A real estate site says it was built in 1880, but I always just take those dates as a starting point. I looked again in the 1880 Census, and found Hyde St, but street numbers weren’t really a thing then.

@scatbug1 Although it's not, it kinda looks Queen Anne-ish. It's fussy on the outside.

Guys: I'm a little frustrated about some replies in the Princess Ileana of Romania thread. They seem too internet-flavoured -- you know, formulaic replies, without thinking about the situation she was in to have to sell her mother's tiara. So, I'm going to give you some details.

@vbspurs Any idea when it was built? From the look of it I’m thinking the German couple from 1900 may have been the original owners. Most of the 1890 Census was lost and I didn’t find the address in 1880. But the style seems 1890s-1900.

@scatbug1 Oh absolutely. I believe she mentioned it somewhere.