Quotes of the Moment II

[Suu]

ZAP!

[Cain]

FM-7-21-13 "The Soldier's Guide":

"The Army's core values are loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage. They form the acronym LDRSHIP."

Me: clearly though, spelling is not a core value.

[Doktor Howl]

FM-7-21-13 "The Soldier's Guide":

"The Army's core values are loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage. They form the acronym LDRSHIP."

Me: clearly though, spelling is not a core value.

The US military loves acronyms more than it loves its coffee.  No shit.

[Cain]

I think they'd had too much coffee when they wrote that sentence.

Imwritingsogoddamnfasticanaffordtomissoutentireletters!

[Cainad (dec.)]

FM-7-21-13 "The Soldier's Guide":

"The Army's core values are loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage. They form the acronym LDRSHIP."

Me: clearly though, spelling is not a core value.

The US military loves acronyms more than it loves its coffee.  No shit.

Definitely. Mom has to mentally decompress every time she comes home and remember what normal English words are, and if she writes an email about her week it tends to make not a lick of sense.

[Suu]

She's USAF right? I could probably translate it for you.

Then again, I dunno... I felt like each squadron or unit had it's own code.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Army. Usually we just respond with "wut?" and it gets clarified.

The nouns aren't so bad, since I either know them by now or having them spelled out makes it clear. It's when they use acronyms as verbs that I get thrown off.


FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE ARMED SERVICES, This is how a typical email message within the Army goes:

"We PCS'd the WCH and alerted the NIBCOM to the situation. They HFG'd Captain Spunkenmyer's PRONIT until MIKF received a GITLO later that day."


^This is the formally accepted way of saying "We went for lunch at around 1:30 and then I had a poo."

[Freeky]

 

[Luna]

I then realized I had an ambulatory cuisinart right next to my junk...

Some things are better without context.

[Don Coyote]

Army. Usually we just respond with "wut?" and it gets clarified.

The nouns aren't so bad, since I either know them by now or having them spelled out makes it clear. It's when they use acronyms as verbs that I get thrown off.


FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE ARMED SERVICES, This is how a typical email message within the Army goes:

"We PCS'd the WCH and alerted the NIBCOM to the situation. They HFG'd Captain Spunkenmyer's PRONIT until MIKF received a GITLO later that day."


^This is the formally accepted way of saying "We went for lunch at around 1:30 and then I had a poo."

WUT????????

[Cainad (dec.)]

You know it's true.

[Don Coyote]

LIES!!!!!

ALL OF OUR ACRONYMS MAKE PERFECT SENSE!!!!!!!!!

[Doktor Howl]

LIES!!!!!

ALL OF OUR ACRONYMS MAKE PERFECT SENSE!!!!!!!!!

But the only one you need is "BOHICA".

[Richter]

(Hanging around with a bunch of sword wielding perverts, slashing stuff for fun.)

Richter: You know what the difference between a butcher and a serial killer is?  A hard on.

[Cain]

(14:28:18)- Cram joined
(14:28:24)<Cram>weeeoooooo
(14:28:28)<Cram>been a hell of a morning already!
(14:29:52)<Cram>My boss was like, "Are you potentially interested in a position as reprint coordinator?"
(14:30:02)<Cram>I was like "would my title change?"
(14:30:04)<Cram>she said "no"
(14:30:14)<Cram>I said "would I get to renegotiate my salary?"
(14:30:17)<Cram>she said "no"
(14:30:29)<Cram>I said "Then what incentive are you offering me for taking on that degree of responsibility?"
(14:30:50)<Cram>and she was like, "Ah well... nothing like that I guess."
(14:30:54)<Cram>"ah then I'm not interested."
(14:32:02)<Cram>reaaalllllyyyy struggled to not drop that line from Office Space "If the only reason to work hard is not getting fired, you can expect people to work just hard enough to not get fired."
(14:32:11)<Cram>but that's realllllly not the kind of thing you should say to your boss :P

[...]

(15:02:55)<Cram>TIME TO APPLY FOR SOME MORE JOBS
(15:04:52)<Cain>hey Cram, I know of a place that is looking for a reprint coordinator
(15:05:05)<Cram>EAT SHITS
(15:05:08)<Cram>TWO OF THEM
(15:05:17)<Cram>what place is that?
(15:05:23)<Cram>is it my place?
(15:05:27)<Cram>EAT MY BUTT ON SUNDAY