I’d nickname her Bupu, lol. She’s adorable.

There are tons of contracts in the USN that absolutely guarantee that you will never see anywhere close to combat. All Nukes only serve on Carriers and Subs. Corpsmen (Navy Doctors and nurses) tend the wounded. You KNOW what you are signing up to do before they ever even send you to MEPS for medical testing. The only people that might not have specifically signed up for firing a weapon is whoever launches the missiles that we shoot from our frigates. I don’t know if “Gunner” is still a job, but I would assume it is since the Navy has all the big guns.

I can’t speak to what happens in the fleet. I went to Navy Nuke school, learned to operate power plants, and they gave me a new extremely lucrative contract to stay there and teach other people to operate power plants.

I also cannot speak for The Army, Air Force, or Marines. Though with the first and third, it’s hard to imagine that one wouldn’t know that they are signing up to potentially kill people.

Not true for the USN. They hand you a contract that you sign. You only have to do what is contained in that contract. To change your job they have to get you to sign a new contract. I was never close to combat, and neither would any other Navy Nuke, though they actually left the school for the fleet. I skipped that step. There are tons of non-combat jobs in the US military that will never be anywhere close to combat. Logistics is why our military works.

That being said, it’s worse than you are making it out to be. A lot of the people who signed up for combat roles were looking to kill people before they ever signed the contract.

Tasslehoff needs a stick. A hoopack or chapack.

Which is which? I assume Cece is on the left?

Bone spurs are actually a VERY common Medical Discharge with Full Benefits from Boot Camp. My division alone had around 12% of the recruits develop bone spurs from marching with full rucksacks. This was the Navy, I can’t even imagine how bad it is in the Army and Marines. That being said, we know what causes it in young people. Excessive marching. I seriously doubt that Drumpf was even in marching band. (I was in marching band, and thought those marching drills were excessive, until I got to Boot Camp.)

Always have been

You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. However, it makes me irritated that you are correct. Angry updoot.

Those printers screwed that all up.

It’s supposed to read:

Land of the Fee,

Home of the Slave.

Oops, better remove this Bar Logo.

Also donate all personal wealth in excess of $50,000,000 to The Sovereign Fund for Humanities Poor.

The Federal Government made QI illegal in 1881. Some unnamed secretary illegally changed the wording of the law in 1884 and it wasn’t noticed until recently.

http://web.archive.org/web/20230520080201/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html

Kk. Thanks!

Kyle Conner, or Kentucky Fried Chicken? I mean it seems that either one would be possible these days.

Slime*, Putrescence*

Edit: Sorry. I can quote that scene in particular, as well as several other scenes in TPB.

"Bow down to her if you want,

The Queen of Slime,

The Queen of Filth,

The Queen of Putrescence!

Boo! Boo! Rubbish! Filth! Slime! Muck! Boo! Boooooo!"

Honestly, 'Tis a rather silly movie, but I still love it.

You must be a decade or two younger than I am.

I wasn’t trying to imply that the nazimobiles were safe. Just that they are mostly dangerous to the Nazi supporters that buy them.

Firey, yes. Explodey? Not so much from what I’ve seen.

So glad they didn’t screw up the live action one. Animated is still good, but the live action is a bit less fantastic. Almost a frame for frame remake, but not quite.

That’s just because the Appalachians are old and worn down. TBF there really aren’t that many proper cliffs out that way. Here tourists fall off the damn things all the time.

I’ve lived in 49/50 states. California is where I came back to stay.

Wilson and The Business Plot started the murder. Nixon and Reagan helped it along. The remaining admins have finished the job.