Army Time
Army Time is Sideways Time
It is time bent folded compressed
Stored slammed shoved into
Green canvas bags
Army time is hook and loop
Frayed, barely serving its functions
Abused, over-used long past its prime
Army time is tan briefs
No one wants them
Everyone gets them
They fall apart before their time
Caked with sweat and piss and shit
Stained with semen and blood
Army time is Sideways time
Compressed until it cracks and oozes
Spreading everywhere uselessly
Compressed until one hour is one day
One becomes two
Two become more
Units become meaningless
Army time builds up
Trapped in your guts
Compacted, impacted
Army time wants to be your time
It wants you to want it
Army time hitches a ride home
Coiled in your bowels
Like a dragon in an epic
Army time makes you suffer
Sometimes silently
Sometimes with sound and fury
Signifying nothing but also something
Army time
It stinks
Yep.
So, what I'm getting from this is that I should NOT sign up, like I planned to...
Also, very nicely written!
It's also needlessly multiplied by a factor of 100
when i was a kid, a friend of mine had this cool green army sleeping bag that he always took camping.
he was catholic and liked that it had a cross on it.
it was a body bag
Quote from: rong on May 30, 2015, 04:55:42 AM
when i was a kid, a friend of mine had this cool green army sleeping bag that he always took camping.
he was catholic and liked that it had a cross on it.
it was a body bag
:?
Body bags are black, and have no religious emblems. At least the military ones.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 07:20:39 AM
Quote from: rong on May 30, 2015, 04:55:42 AM
when i was a kid, a friend of mine had this cool green army sleeping bag that he always took camping.
he was catholic and liked that it had a cross on it.
it was a body bag
:?
Body bags are black, and have no religious emblems. At least the military ones.
Also, not mistakable for sleeping bags.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 07:39:38 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 07:20:39 AM
Quote from: rong on May 30, 2015, 04:55:42 AM
when i was a kid, a friend of mine had this cool green army sleeping bag that he always took camping.
he was catholic and liked that it had a cross on it.
it was a body bag
:?
Body bags are black, and have no religious emblems. At least the military ones.
Also, not mistakable for sleeping bags.
Yeah, they're more like those short ziplock bags.
But they don't keep things fresh. No. That's why they're rubberized plastic.
Kinda like sous vide, when you think about it. Which is why you shouldn't think about it.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 07:42:47 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 07:39:38 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 07:20:39 AM
Quote from: rong on May 30, 2015, 04:55:42 AM
when i was a kid, a friend of mine had this cool green army sleeping bag that he always took camping.
he was catholic and liked that it had a cross on it.
it was a body bag
:?
Body bags are black, and have no religious emblems. At least the military ones.
Also, not mistakable for sleeping bags.
Yeah, they're more like those short ziplock bags.
But they don't keep things fresh. No. That's why they're rubberized plastic.
Kinda like sous vide, when you think about it. Which is why you shouldn't think about it.
:vom:
As if I needed any more of a reason to hate sous vide.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 07:52:07 AM
As if I needed any more of a reason to hate sous vide.
What's not to hate? Goo in a bag, a perfectly good cut of meat ruined.
It occurs to me that this applies to both. One's a "meal", if you have something the size of a golf ball pushing on the part of your brain that tells you which way to put your pants on, which is to say "wasted", and the other is some parents' hopes and dreams, given the same treatment.
I find myself becoming a bit of an antiwar nut as I grow older.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 07:55:54 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 07:52:07 AM
As if I needed any more of a reason to hate sous vide.
What's not to hate? Goo in a bag, a perfectly good cut of meat ruined.
It occurs to me that this applies to both. One's a "meal", if you have something the size of a golf ball pushing on the part of your brain that tells you which way to put your pants on, which is to say "wasted", and the other is some parents' hopes and dreams, given the same treatment.
I find myself becoming a bit of an antiwar nut as I grow older.
I think you're on the right side of things.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 07:58:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 07:55:54 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 07:52:07 AM
As if I needed any more of a reason to hate sous vide.
What's not to hate? Goo in a bag, a perfectly good cut of meat ruined.
It occurs to me that this applies to both. One's a "meal", if you have something the size of a golf ball pushing on the part of your brain that tells you which way to put your pants on, which is to say "wasted", and the other is some parents' hopes and dreams, given the same treatment.
I find myself becoming a bit of an antiwar nut as I grow older.
I think you're on the right side of things.
Funny thing is, we'll never be at peace again. Same thing happened to the Romans, late in the game.
War is something you do when you can't share an atmosphere with something. Nazis, for example.
We've industrialized it, which I suppose makes US the Nazis.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 08:01:39 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 07:58:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 07:55:54 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 07:52:07 AM
As if I needed any more of a reason to hate sous vide.
What's not to hate? Goo in a bag, a perfectly good cut of meat ruined.
It occurs to me that this applies to both. One's a "meal", if you have something the size of a golf ball pushing on the part of your brain that tells you which way to put your pants on, which is to say "wasted", and the other is some parents' hopes and dreams, given the same treatment.
I find myself becoming a bit of an antiwar nut as I grow older.
I think you're on the right side of things.
Funny thing is, we'll never be at peace again. Same thing happened to the Romans, late in the game.
War is something you do when you can't share an atmosphere with something. Nazis, for example.
We've industrialized it, which I suppose makes US the Nazis.
Shiiiit. That gives me the chills.
I really hope that somehow we can figure out a way to not go down like that.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 08:10:21 AM
Shiiiit. That gives me the chills.
I really hope that somehow we can figure out a way to not go down like that.
Thing is, we're doing it with 6400 nuclear devices preventing the allies from saving the day.
The analogy isn't accurate, really. There is no historical analogy for this at all. The only country that could take us down (Russia) could only do so by ending all life on Earth.
i stand corrected.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 08:26:39 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 08:10:21 AM
Shiiiit. That gives me the chills.
I really hope that somehow we can figure out a way to not go down like that.
Thing is, we're doing it with 6400 nuclear devices preventing the allies from saving the day.
The analogy isn't accurate, really. There is no historical analogy for this at all. The only country that could take us down (Russia) could only do so by ending all life on Earth.
What about China?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 08:26:39 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 08:10:21 AM
Shiiiit. That gives me the chills.
I really hope that somehow we can figure out a way to not go down like that.
Thing is, we're doing it with 6400 nuclear devices preventing the allies from saving the day.
The analogy isn't accurate, really. There is no historical analogy for this at all. The only country that could take us down (Russia) could only do so by ending all life on Earth.
In the meantime, we have quietly slipped past the climate change tipping point, and it's not news at all.
The scariest thing isn't the drought, the rising sea levels, or the desertification, even though the great migration is starting and Californians are streaming North into my state and agriculture is seriously threatened. The scariest thing, that which is least-attended-to, is the acidification of the oceans and the die-off of shellfish and other calcium-dependent organisms
Shellfish are waaaaaay down there on the food chain. Not as basic as algae, because they feed on algae.
Let that sink in, maybe?
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 30, 2015, 11:27:18 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 08:26:39 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 08:10:21 AM
Shiiiit. That gives me the chills.
I really hope that somehow we can figure out a way to not go down like that.
Thing is, we're doing it with 6400 nuclear devices preventing the allies from saving the day.
The analogy isn't accurate, really. There is no historical analogy for this at all. The only country that could take us down (Russia) could only do so by ending all life on Earth.
What about China?
China is not a credible threat, ICBM-wise. They could hit us - if everything goes right - 8 times.
Russia can hit us about 7000 times (down from an all-time high of 11,400 times).
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 06:55:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 08:26:39 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 08:10:21 AM
Shiiiit. That gives me the chills.
I really hope that somehow we can figure out a way to not go down like that.
Thing is, we're doing it with 6400 nuclear devices preventing the allies from saving the day.
The analogy isn't accurate, really. There is no historical analogy for this at all. The only country that could take us down (Russia) could only do so by ending all life on Earth.
In the meantime, we have quietly slipped past the climate change tipping point, and it's not news at all.
The scariest thing isn't the drought, the rising sea levels, or the desertification, even though the great migration is starting and Californians are streaming North into my state and agriculture is seriously threatened. The scariest thing, that which is least-attended-to, is the acidification of the oceans and the die-off of shellfish and other calcium-dependent organisms
Shellfish are waaaaaay down there on the food chain. Not as basic as algae, because they feed on algae.
Let that sink in, maybe?
All hail King Jellyfish. :horrormirth:
Quote from: rong on May 30, 2015, 10:41:18 AM
i stand corrected.
What you might have seen is a cold-weather outer cover for a sleeping bag. Think of it as a liner, but on the outside.
The cross implies that it was Swiss in origin.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 07:54:31 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 30, 2015, 11:27:18 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 08:26:39 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 08:10:21 AM
Shiiiit. That gives me the chills.
I really hope that somehow we can figure out a way to not go down like that.
Thing is, we're doing it with 6400 nuclear devices preventing the allies from saving the day.
The analogy isn't accurate, really. There is no historical analogy for this at all. The only country that could take us down (Russia) could only do so by ending all life on Earth.
What about China?
China is not a credible threat, ICBM-wise. They could hit us - if everything goes right - 8 times.
Russia can hit us about 7000 times (down from an all-time high of 11,400 times).
I was under the impression that China had a lot more than that.
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 31, 2015, 03:03:11 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 07:54:31 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 30, 2015, 11:27:18 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 30, 2015, 08:26:39 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2015, 08:10:21 AM
Shiiiit. That gives me the chills.
I really hope that somehow we can figure out a way to not go down like that.
Thing is, we're doing it with 6400 nuclear devices preventing the allies from saving the day.
The analogy isn't accurate, really. There is no historical analogy for this at all. The only country that could take us down (Russia) could only do so by ending all life on Earth.
What about China?
China is not a credible threat, ICBM-wise. They could hit us - if everything goes right - 8 times.
Russia can hit us about 7000 times (down from an all-time high of 11,400 times).
I was under the impression that China had a lot more than that.
They do. Short and medium range missiles that could give us a bad time in Japan and Korea. But ICBMs? Not so much.
Now, they are capable of making a space shot, as they've proven, so the tech isn't out of their reach, but they have to build them, and that takes money. Lots and lots of money, and the maintenance cost of an ICBM is about the cost to replace it every 5-6 years.
So why would they bother, when they basically just owned our currency instead?
I think according to the latest significant military assessments it's more like 44-50 (IISS and DIA 2010 reports on Chinese military power), but point still stands.
China also claims it has the smallest arsenal out of the 5 "allowed" nuclear powers, though most suspect it has a few more than UK's 200, though not a significant number (FAS puts their estimate at 240).
Quote from: Cain on May 31, 2015, 05:39:51 AM
I think according to the latest significant military assessments it's more like 44-50 (IISS and DIA 2010 reports on Chinese military power), but point still stands.
China also claims it has the smallest arsenal out of the 5 "allowed" nuclear powers, though most suspect it has a few more than UK's 200, though not a significant number (FAS puts their estimate at 240).
I defer to your expertise. I am apparently behind the times.
And you know, if they can hit anywhere in the states, they can do us in as a political or national entity with three lousy bombs. Denver, Galveston, and Gary.
Also, how is a country "allowed"?
Once they have nukes, it's kind of hard to make them dismantle them.
Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, I mean.
Fortunately China seems to embrace a no first strike policy, too.
Quote from: Don Coyote on May 21, 2015, 03:35:52 PM
Army Time
Army Time is Sideways Time
It is time bent folded compressed
Stored slammed shoved into
Green canvas bags
Army time is hook and loop
Frayed, barely serving its functions
Abused, over-used long past its prime
Army time is tan briefs
No one wants them
Everyone gets them
They fall apart before their time
Caked with sweat and piss and shit
Stained with semen and blood
Army time is Sideways time
Compressed until it cracks and oozes
Spreading everywhere uselessly
Compressed until one hour is one day
One becomes two
Two become more
Units become meaningless
Army time builds up
Trapped in your guts
Compacted, impacted
Army time wants to be your time
It wants you to want it
Army time hitches a ride home
Coiled in your bowels
Like a dragon in an epic
Army time makes you suffer
Sometimes silently
Sometimes with sound and fury
Signifying nothing but also something
Army time
It stinks
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