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Apple Talk / Re: Anyone seen this before?
Last post by Sleepyf0cker - Today at 03:15:15 AMStuff I found...
Pretty cool yeah? Either hill or thorney must've drawn the 1 and 2 ton of flax...
Found the high priest ordination certificate a while ago... Lost the original image though... Argh.. Still trying to find it.
Btw how much u think 1 or 2 tons flax are worth...? Hehehe...
Pretty cool yeah? Either hill or thorney must've drawn the 1 and 2 ton of flax...
Found the high priest ordination certificate a while ago... Lost the original image though... Argh.. Still trying to find it.
Btw how much u think 1 or 2 tons flax are worth...? Hehehe...
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Apple Talk / Re: Anyone seen this before?
Last post by Faust - Yesterday at 07:34:01 PMWhat's this nonsense?
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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Money Can't Buy Class - Ex...
Last post by Faust - Yesterday at 07:32:25 PMIf he units the sunni and Shia he should get that peace prize he was always after
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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Money Can't Buy Class - Ex...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - Yesterday at 07:16:34 PMIf it's not already there, it's time to add "Megalomania" to the list of the POSOTUS's "alleged" mental illnesses. The following article makes the case:
I doubt future historians will rate the POSOTUS as being anything more than another bad president on our Worst Presidents List. And, he won't even be "numero uno." His infamous name will be systematically stripped from just about everything he's ever placed it upon. And, his spawn will have to bury him in a secure location to prevent long lines of people from queuing up and pissing on his grave.
"The president reportedly thinks that he is a "Top 10" world historical figure who is meant to change the world. That level of self-aggrandizing often doesn't end well."
I doubt future historians will rate the POSOTUS as being anything more than another bad president on our Worst Presidents List. And, he won't even be "numero uno." His infamous name will be systematically stripped from just about everything he's ever placed it upon. And, his spawn will have to bury him in a secure location to prevent long lines of people from queuing up and pissing on his grave.
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Apple Talk / Re: Anyone seen this before?
Last post by Sleepyf0cker - Yesterday at 05:57:02 PM #6
Apple Talk / Re: Anyone seen this before?
Last post by Sleepyf0cker - Yesterday at 05:43:25 PM #7
Apple Talk / Re: Anyone seen this before?
Last post by Sleepyf0cker - Yesterday at 02:09:20 PM #9
Principia Discussion / Re: Zen Without Zen Masters
Last post by Sleepyf0cker - Yesterday at 09:47:37 AMI actually have their address in sf... Can't wait to go... Hopefully I'm not a shithead...
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Featured / Re: The Subtitle Says This Is ...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - August 23, 2026, 07:03:06 AMAs I've already written, the recent news about the hardships being experienced by the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln has jogged my memories. And so, I've been reminded of just how dangerous it is to serve aboard an aircraft carrier.
First off, "Airedales" being blown overboard from the flight deck by jet exhaust was common. But, being "ships company," I seldom heard anything about any of those incidents. And, as no one died in any of those incidents while I was aboard, and injuries were rare, Airedales tended to treat being blown off the flight deck like a slapstick comedy routine. Still, if an Airedale blown overboard believed a "plane director" had intentionally "turned a plane" on them, they would be really pissed. But, those occurrences were also rare, and were quickly dealt with by the flight deck crew.
Now, a couple of months prior to my first cruise, an Airedale was killed in a completely senseless accident. No one was ever punished for it, but some idiot officer, or petty officer, had ordered his people to move an F-4 Phantom from a safe, tied down location in the hanger deck, up to the flight deck, while the ship was rolling far too violently in rough seas to safely launch, or recover aircraft. Without going into the details, I was working nearby, and witnessed most of what had happened, except for actually seeing the man being washed overboard, as he was not in my sightline when the lowered aircraft elevator dipped into the waves during a violent roll to starboard.
When docked in our home port, it was not uncommon for bulky spare parts, etc. coming aboard to be temporarily placed in the aftmost section of the hanger bay, prior to being properly stowed. And, I remember that several days before the ship was deployed to the Mediterranean, on both my first and second cruises, I saw several metal, military coffins stacked up there among the other hardware.
I did a number of internet searches before writing this, but I'm now satisfied that what I remember is accurate. And, that is, during my first cruise, we lost three people. Two were pilots, in two different aircraft, on back-to-back days. Upon takeoff, both aircraft crashed into the sea directly in front of the ship. And, both aircraft, with their pilots aboard, were run over by the ship and sunk. The third person was a seaman who committed suicide. So, none of the coffins I had seen in the hanger bay before my first cruise were utilized, because no bodies were ever recovered.
Other types of accidents, both serious and minor, were common. But, unless you knew the injured person, or someone who knew about the incident, it was unlikely you would ever hear anything about it. For example, once, after running into a couple of boatswain's mate friends in a passageway, the younger boatswain's mate causally mentioned that he was in a good mood, because feeling had started to return to his finger. When I asked what had happened, I learned that his finger had been lopped off by a steel winch cable, rigged to suspend one of a number of ship-to-ship hoses during refueling at sea. (Refueling at sea took place just about every night, weather permitting. And, if we weren't taking on our own ship's fuel, or aviation fuel, we were refueling our escort ships. Most people have no reason to know that an aircraft carrier also serves as a floating fuel depot for its escort ships.)
Anyway, I also learned that fingers being lopped off during refueling at sea happened often enough for the older of my boatswain's mate friends to have been assigned "bagman" duty by the ship's surgeons. That is, it was his job to find the lopped off finger(s), put it/them in a plastic bag, and make sure the bag accompanied the injured boatswain's mate down to sick bay. And, that was because the ship's surgeons had mastered the skills required to reattach most of those lopped off fingers. And, it so happened that the surgeon who worked on my younger friend was so good, if I hadn't been shown his injury, I would have never noticed the very faint, circular scar on his reattached finger.
Last, to put all of this in prospective, my boat actually had, by far, the best safety record of all the aircraft carriers in the Navy.
First off, "Airedales" being blown overboard from the flight deck by jet exhaust was common. But, being "ships company," I seldom heard anything about any of those incidents. And, as no one died in any of those incidents while I was aboard, and injuries were rare, Airedales tended to treat being blown off the flight deck like a slapstick comedy routine. Still, if an Airedale blown overboard believed a "plane director" had intentionally "turned a plane" on them, they would be really pissed. But, those occurrences were also rare, and were quickly dealt with by the flight deck crew.
Now, a couple of months prior to my first cruise, an Airedale was killed in a completely senseless accident. No one was ever punished for it, but some idiot officer, or petty officer, had ordered his people to move an F-4 Phantom from a safe, tied down location in the hanger deck, up to the flight deck, while the ship was rolling far too violently in rough seas to safely launch, or recover aircraft. Without going into the details, I was working nearby, and witnessed most of what had happened, except for actually seeing the man being washed overboard, as he was not in my sightline when the lowered aircraft elevator dipped into the waves during a violent roll to starboard.
When docked in our home port, it was not uncommon for bulky spare parts, etc. coming aboard to be temporarily placed in the aftmost section of the hanger bay, prior to being properly stowed. And, I remember that several days before the ship was deployed to the Mediterranean, on both my first and second cruises, I saw several metal, military coffins stacked up there among the other hardware.
I did a number of internet searches before writing this, but I'm now satisfied that what I remember is accurate. And, that is, during my first cruise, we lost three people. Two were pilots, in two different aircraft, on back-to-back days. Upon takeoff, both aircraft crashed into the sea directly in front of the ship. And, both aircraft, with their pilots aboard, were run over by the ship and sunk. The third person was a seaman who committed suicide. So, none of the coffins I had seen in the hanger bay before my first cruise were utilized, because no bodies were ever recovered.
Other types of accidents, both serious and minor, were common. But, unless you knew the injured person, or someone who knew about the incident, it was unlikely you would ever hear anything about it. For example, once, after running into a couple of boatswain's mate friends in a passageway, the younger boatswain's mate causally mentioned that he was in a good mood, because feeling had started to return to his finger. When I asked what had happened, I learned that his finger had been lopped off by a steel winch cable, rigged to suspend one of a number of ship-to-ship hoses during refueling at sea. (Refueling at sea took place just about every night, weather permitting. And, if we weren't taking on our own ship's fuel, or aviation fuel, we were refueling our escort ships. Most people have no reason to know that an aircraft carrier also serves as a floating fuel depot for its escort ships.)
Anyway, I also learned that fingers being lopped off during refueling at sea happened often enough for the older of my boatswain's mate friends to have been assigned "bagman" duty by the ship's surgeons. That is, it was his job to find the lopped off finger(s), put it/them in a plastic bag, and make sure the bag accompanied the injured boatswain's mate down to sick bay. And, that was because the ship's surgeons had mastered the skills required to reattach most of those lopped off fingers. And, it so happened that the surgeon who worked on my younger friend was so good, if I hadn't been shown his injury, I would have never noticed the very faint, circular scar on his reattached finger.
Last, to put all of this in prospective, my boat actually had, by far, the best safety record of all the aircraft carriers in the Navy.