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Featured / Re: The Subtitle Says This Is ...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - Today at 07:18:37 AMFrom my experience, I don't find much of what is written in this article surprising:
As per this article:
"My son is currently on that ship and listening to him say that he and his shipmates constantly think about jumping off the ship just for relief is so hard to listen to," one worried parent wrote to Stars and Stripes in July. "We are all tucked in at night in our beds at night meanwhile our loved ones are out there fighting with no understanding as to what they're defending."
Sailors aboard Lincoln separately described an incident in which a crew member was prevented from jumping from the ship.
"We already had an instance where watch standers had to stop someone from jumping," one sailor said. The ship's crew was informed about the incident, which occurred a few months ago, during a ship-wide announcement, sailors said."
The Navy did not respond directly to questions about the incident."
My only real surprise is that the above reads like it was an isolated incident. Now, this sort of thing was not an everyday occurrence on my old boat. But, it did happen often enough for the novelty of it to have worn off. Back in the day, in most cases, unhappy sailors went over the side to set themselves up to receive General Discharges, rather than to actually commit suicide. They typically jumped from a forward sponson deck near the bow of the ship, so there would be plenty of opportunity for them to be spotted in the water by the lookouts as the ship steamed past. And, the jumpers often enlisted a friend to watch and report to a lookout that they had see someone jump. I also remember that during our departure for the Mediterranean in the fall of 1973, my friends and I watched something like six different guys jump overboard, from different parts of the ship, between the time we cast off in the harbor, and the time it took us to reach the middle of the breakwater. And, one of them really impressed us by doing a swan dive off of the flight deck.
It is not my intent to make light of any of this. Because, it honestly appears to me that as bad as being aboard an aircraft carrier was back in the day, it's much, much worse today.
As per this article:
"My son is currently on that ship and listening to him say that he and his shipmates constantly think about jumping off the ship just for relief is so hard to listen to," one worried parent wrote to Stars and Stripes in July. "We are all tucked in at night in our beds at night meanwhile our loved ones are out there fighting with no understanding as to what they're defending."
Sailors aboard Lincoln separately described an incident in which a crew member was prevented from jumping from the ship.
"We already had an instance where watch standers had to stop someone from jumping," one sailor said. The ship's crew was informed about the incident, which occurred a few months ago, during a ship-wide announcement, sailors said."
The Navy did not respond directly to questions about the incident."
My only real surprise is that the above reads like it was an isolated incident. Now, this sort of thing was not an everyday occurrence on my old boat. But, it did happen often enough for the novelty of it to have worn off. Back in the day, in most cases, unhappy sailors went over the side to set themselves up to receive General Discharges, rather than to actually commit suicide. They typically jumped from a forward sponson deck near the bow of the ship, so there would be plenty of opportunity for them to be spotted in the water by the lookouts as the ship steamed past. And, the jumpers often enlisted a friend to watch and report to a lookout that they had see someone jump. I also remember that during our departure for the Mediterranean in the fall of 1973, my friends and I watched something like six different guys jump overboard, from different parts of the ship, between the time we cast off in the harbor, and the time it took us to reach the middle of the breakwater. And, one of them really impressed us by doing a swan dive off of the flight deck.
It is not my intent to make light of any of this. Because, it honestly appears to me that as bad as being aboard an aircraft carrier was back in the day, it's much, much worse today.
#2
Principia Discussion / Re: Have a Zealous Zaraday!
Last post by Abbot Mythos - Today at 06:09:17 AM'Tis Zaraday, the 5th day of the season of Bureaucracy, in the Year of Our Lady of Discord 3192!
It is recorded in our sacred Principia Discordia that Apostle Zarathud was "a hard nosed hermit of Medieval Europe, Chaosphe Bible Banger, and "Offender of The Faith."
Apostle Zarathud, no doubt, confronted the SacredCow Chao at the Chaos Crater, in what is now Sounio National Park, which is located to the east of Athens. So, Discordians who enjoy the great outdoors may wish to pilgrimage there someday. But, be forewarned, to my knowledge, the crater does not contain a bowling alley. You just can't have everything, all at once, in the same place.
And, I have no idea how, or why the Sacred Chao spoke Chinese, or even how Apostle Zarathud and his disciples knew the Sacred Chao was speaking Chinese. The answers to those two questions are part of the Erisian Mysteries.
Hail Eris!
All Hail Discordia!
It is recorded in our sacred Principia Discordia that Apostle Zarathud was "a hard nosed hermit of Medieval Europe, Chaosphe Bible Banger, and "Offender of The Faith."
Apostle Zarathud, no doubt, confronted the Sacred
And, I have no idea how, or why the Sacred Chao spoke Chinese, or even how Apostle Zarathud and his disciples knew the Sacred Chao was speaking Chinese. The answers to those two questions are part of the Erisian Mysteries.
Hail Eris!
All Hail Discordia!
#3
Apple Talk / Re: Dispatches from the Bone Y...
Last post by chaotic neutral observer - Today at 02:13:49 AMQuote from: Doktor Howl on August 10, 2026, 05:35:24 PM3. The well is haunted. More about that later.
I will follow this thread with considerable interest, not to mention dismay.
#4
Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Co...
Last post by Faust - Yesterday at 11:12:38 PMhttps://bsky.app/profile/aiptcomics.com/post/3mstdscfcl22f
Very weird timing.
Im assuming at least one of you is the ceo of Image.
I'll take the small wins when they come.
Very weird timing.
Im assuming at least one of you is the ceo of Image.
I'll take the small wins when they come.
#5
Apple Talk / Re: Dispatches from the Bone Y...
Last post by Doktor Howl - Yesterday at 09:17:25 PM*Wander out back with a coffee*
*Clyde and Inky are dangling off of a C130 by their fall protection lanyards singing "Stay up late" by The Talking Heads*
Rodrigo: "What the fuck? Aren't you going to do something about these guys?"
Me: "Yes. I am going to compliment them on their taste in music."
*Clyde and Inky are dangling off of a C130 by their fall protection lanyards singing "Stay up late" by The Talking Heads*
Rodrigo: "What the fuck? Aren't you going to do something about these guys?"
Me: "Yes. I am going to compliment them on their taste in music."
#6
Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Resistance 2.0!
Last post by Doktor Howl - Yesterday at 08:10:47 PMSo. How's this resistance thing coming along?
#7
RPG Ghetto / Re: (For GMs) favorite PCs and...
Last post by Doktor Howl - Yesterday at 05:33:16 PMClub Foot Jones in PF1e
Pathetic halfling with a club foot (-5 ft movement, cannot run), cook/torchbearer, pathetically grateful to have a job, always talking about saving up enough money to marry his girl (who he has a picture of in his locket), etc. Looks and sounds like the woobie.
BUT.
He is in fact just a 2nd level expert, but he is also neutral evil and owns an amulet of nondetection with a permanent magic aura spell cast on it to make it seem non-magical (the locket). He has maxed out bluff to including taking the skill focus (bluff) feat.
And he aims to rob the party blind.
However, he is aware that vengeful PCs will chase him to the ends of the Earth, so they have to go. So what he does is steal from each PC when they're for some reason not paying attention. Then he puts the loot in another PC's gear. If caught, he bluffs his way through. His intent is that the PCs come to blows, then he picks the bodies clean.
If it looks like the PCs won't go after each other, he will wait until they're in town and then steal their shit and use bluff to shift blame to some no-name NPC at whatever inn they are staying at (he will in fact plant some of the lesser valuables on the NPC.)
If that doesn't work, he will then work on blackmailing the PCs through a 3rd party, who will afterwards suffer a tragic accident.
He will always have a plausible story. Remember that he is a skill monkey with no magic other than his amulet.
If discovered, he will flee. If captured, he will plead desperate poverty trying to feed his wife and 6 children, hoping the PCs forget about the "saving up to marry my girl" thing.
Pathetic halfling with a club foot (-5 ft movement, cannot run), cook/torchbearer, pathetically grateful to have a job, always talking about saving up enough money to marry his girl (who he has a picture of in his locket), etc. Looks and sounds like the woobie.
BUT.
He is in fact just a 2nd level expert, but he is also neutral evil and owns an amulet of nondetection with a permanent magic aura spell cast on it to make it seem non-magical (the locket). He has maxed out bluff to including taking the skill focus (bluff) feat.
And he aims to rob the party blind.
However, he is aware that vengeful PCs will chase him to the ends of the Earth, so they have to go. So what he does is steal from each PC when they're for some reason not paying attention. Then he puts the loot in another PC's gear. If caught, he bluffs his way through. His intent is that the PCs come to blows, then he picks the bodies clean.
If it looks like the PCs won't go after each other, he will wait until they're in town and then steal their shit and use bluff to shift blame to some no-name NPC at whatever inn they are staying at (he will in fact plant some of the lesser valuables on the NPC.)
If that doesn't work, he will then work on blackmailing the PCs through a 3rd party, who will afterwards suffer a tragic accident.
He will always have a plausible story. Remember that he is a skill monkey with no magic other than his amulet.
If discovered, he will flee. If captured, he will plead desperate poverty trying to feed his wife and 6 children, hoping the PCs forget about the "saving up to marry my girl" thing.
#8
RPG Ghetto / Re: Running my own take on The...
Last post by Doktor Howl - Yesterday at 05:20:06 PMBump for the pillaging of notes.
#9
Principia Discussion / Re: Is Our POEE Calendar Missi...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - Yesterday at 05:07:01 PMI had been feeling pretty good about my calculation for the date of the epochal response of our Blessed Goddess Eris to The Original Snub. So, I decided to review it, polish it up a bit, and possibly submit it to some Discordian sites where a few members might actually be interested in this sort of thing. But, I soon realized that my timeline contains an obvious flaw.
The problem is that given the reluctant bride's chaste reputation, it is extremely unlikely Achilles was conceived any earlier than the night of the Wedding Feast of Peleus and Thetis. And so, given that Achilles should have been, at least in stature, a powerful adult by the time he landed at Troy, something close to twenty (20) years should have passed between the Wedding Feast, and Achilles' beachhead landing. (By way of explanation, I believe something close to twenty years old is a realistic age estimate for a mortal, given that that is the age Spartan young men had to have been to have completed their long training, and be formally accepted into the active duty ranks of the Spartan army.) Now, of course, being that Achilles' mother was immortal, it could be argued that Achilles matured to manhood much sooner than a child born of mere mortal parents. But, even if this argument is acceptable, there is a limit to the number of years that can be realistically shaved off of Achilles' age between his conception, and the time Achilles arrived at Troy.
Much has been lost from the eight Epic Cycle poems that make up the Trojan War saga. Still, it requires a lot of imaginative contortions to fit a believable age for Achilles into a short time span between the Wedding Feast of Peleus and Thetis, and the start of the Trojan War. I then realized that thousands of scholars, over more than two thousand years, had to be aware of this glaring problem. And so, a surprisingly little additional research led me to Pseudo-Apollodorus and his Bibliotheca.
Now, according to Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library and Epitome, E3.16:
Agamemnon himself was commander of the whole force, while Achilles, at fifteen years of age, took command of the fleet.
Well alrighty then. Taken at face value, that seems reasonable enough. But, it also means that Pseudo-Apollodorus accepted that there was a significant delay between the birth of Achilles, and the beachhead landing at Troy. And, Pseudo-Apollodorus accepted this in spite of Homer having never even hinted that any significant delays had occurred. And, to make matters worse, Pseudo-Apollodorus stated, in the same document, that there was yet another very long delay.
Anyway, I have been reminded that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Still, I suspect Pseudo-Apollodorus included references to some popular "classical era fan fiction," meaning stuff that was not part of the original eight Epic Cycle poems, in his writings. But, if I can sort out the "fanfic," I just might be able to salvage the original concept, rework the timeline, and find another acceptable new moon date that occurred about a decade earlier.
This may take a while.
Hail Eris!
All Hail Discordia!
The problem is that given the reluctant bride's chaste reputation, it is extremely unlikely Achilles was conceived any earlier than the night of the Wedding Feast of Peleus and Thetis. And so, given that Achilles should have been, at least in stature, a powerful adult by the time he landed at Troy, something close to twenty (20) years should have passed between the Wedding Feast, and Achilles' beachhead landing. (By way of explanation, I believe something close to twenty years old is a realistic age estimate for a mortal, given that that is the age Spartan young men had to have been to have completed their long training, and be formally accepted into the active duty ranks of the Spartan army.) Now, of course, being that Achilles' mother was immortal, it could be argued that Achilles matured to manhood much sooner than a child born of mere mortal parents. But, even if this argument is acceptable, there is a limit to the number of years that can be realistically shaved off of Achilles' age between his conception, and the time Achilles arrived at Troy.
Much has been lost from the eight Epic Cycle poems that make up the Trojan War saga. Still, it requires a lot of imaginative contortions to fit a believable age for Achilles into a short time span between the Wedding Feast of Peleus and Thetis, and the start of the Trojan War. I then realized that thousands of scholars, over more than two thousand years, had to be aware of this glaring problem. And so, a surprisingly little additional research led me to Pseudo-Apollodorus and his Bibliotheca.
Now, according to Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library and Epitome, E3.16:
Agamemnon himself was commander of the whole force, while Achilles, at fifteen years of age, took command of the fleet.
Well alrighty then. Taken at face value, that seems reasonable enough. But, it also means that Pseudo-Apollodorus accepted that there was a significant delay between the birth of Achilles, and the beachhead landing at Troy. And, Pseudo-Apollodorus accepted this in spite of Homer having never even hinted that any significant delays had occurred. And, to make matters worse, Pseudo-Apollodorus stated, in the same document, that there was yet another very long delay.
Anyway, I have been reminded that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Still, I suspect Pseudo-Apollodorus included references to some popular "classical era fan fiction," meaning stuff that was not part of the original eight Epic Cycle poems, in his writings. But, if I can sort out the "fanfic," I just might be able to salvage the original concept, rework the timeline, and find another acceptable new moon date that occurred about a decade earlier.
This may take a while.
Hail Eris!
All Hail Discordia!
#10
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Clacton By-Election
Last post by Pope Mome Apocrypha - Yesterday at 03:41:08 PMThe ads have been particularly enjoyable, a novel experience across the board on that account