Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[Hygro]

especially one that sucks

 

[Takhisis]

and you have it every day

 

[Hygro]

Haven't had it in years.

 

[cardgame]

I freaking loved that cereal when I was a kid.

 

[Takhisis]

In your opinion, how does its taste compare to that of Tastee Wheat?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

A lot of the soldiers I served with (myself included) actually had a similar attitude towards campaign medals. At least in regards to modern military campaigns where soldiers get them despite doing nothing but sitting on the FOB the entire deployment. That's why the real "badges of honor" were the CIBs, CABs and Purple Hearts. Because those badges are indicators that a soldier was actually engaged in combat.

Submarine service isn't big on purple hearts. On a submarine you either die or you don't.

That said, I have campaign medals of some sort but couldn't name them without rooting out my old service record, so I can't say I was big on those either.

 

[Takhisis]

That said, I have campaign medals of some sort but couldn't name them without rooting out my old service record, so I can't say I was big on those either.

Trench warfare on the Western Front, 1917-18?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Trench warfare on the Western Front, 1917-18?

Submarine service. Those trenches weren't that deep.

 

[Takhisis]

Dunno, they still used periscopes.

 

[warpus]

Are trench coats called that because people used to wear them in trenches?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Are trench coats called that because people used to wear them in trenches?

Much to my astonishment, the answer is yes. At least according to wikipedia.

 

[Snerk]

Super non-PC question incoming..

If a very obese person is starving (no food but has water), will the person completely shrink down to skinny before dying? Practical example: would a really fat person likely survive a WW2 concentration-camp if the person wasn't outright killed?

I do apologise.

 

[Mouthwash]

What kind of cabin did you set up, anyway?!

I joined a cabin.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I joined a cabin.

Ah, okay. Then my suggestions are to either check your email preferences and adjust accordingly, or leave the cabin.

Of course, if these emails don't bother you and you were just mentioning this as a point of information, then feel free to disregard my suggestions.

Hopefully my life will be back to normal by the time the next Camp event comes along and we (those of us on CFC) can consider a cabin where weird emails won't happen.

 

[Mouthwash]

Didn't the move to Xenforo fix the issues with overlong threads?

 

[warpus]

Much to my astonishment, the answer is yes. At least according to wikipedia.

Surprisingly enough I have never made the connection until I saw you guys talking about trenches

 

[sophie]

Didn't the move to Xenforo fix the issues with overlong threads?

It was fixed long before that. At this point it's merely for tradition's sake.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Ha! What will I get to rhyme with Hygro in my counter-limerick, I wonder.

Edit: And now that I think about it, I don't know how to pronounce your username. I've always done it as a short i sound, but there's no reason it couldn't be a long i sound. Doesn't matter if I've been mispronouncing it in my mind all this while, but does start to matter when one goes to find a rhyme.

To the best of my knowledge, it's pronounced "HI-grow." (think hydrogen, hygrometer, etc.)

There is precedent. When I went to determine whether it was the one-thousandth or one-thousand-and-oneth poster who gets to start a new serial installment, I fired up Random Raves, and the first three Raves sequels were Two, Three and Four.

You could say that I'm being the most traditional of all.

Not that traditional. You forgot the hyphen.

This is also starting to look like the very many limericks that don't deserve their own thread thread.

Hm. The veterans would not be in favor of another traditional poetry challenge for Iron Pen, but a limerick challenge might be fun. On one of the forums I run, we had a thread in which all the posts were limericks (not my idea; it just turned out that way). It was interesting to see how long we could keep a coherent discussion going in limerick form.

Didn't the move to Xenforo fix the issues with overlong threads?

Technically, but you know how big CFC is on Tradition.

TrekBBS uses XenForo, and one of the longest threads there is 1515 pages long, with 30,285 posts. There's a very good reason why the mods there don't split it up; it's a very contentious thread that's already had a lot of deletions of the more egregious posts.

 

[Michkov]

Why are there at least 5 types of dashes/minus/hyphens?

 

[AmtrakQuebec]

Why are there at least 5 types of dashes/minus/hyphens?

... because you touch yourself.

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