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Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:59 pm
by jemhouston
A week? If I pulled that, back in the 70s, I'd still be grounded.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:09 pm
by Wolfman
jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:59 pm
A week? If I pulled that, back in the 70s, I'd still be grounded.
Same here.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:12 pm
by Poohbah
jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:59 pm
A week? If I pulled that, back in the 70s, I'd still be grounded.
Yup. Take it from me, parents just don't understand.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:33 pm
by Belushi TD
Ok. Here's the situation.
My parents went away on a weeks' vacation aaaaaaaaand
my friends and I found a Spetsnaz cache
Would they mind? Mmmmm, welll, of course not.
We'll just take it all out of the trench and
maybe hide the nuke 'neath the old work bench.
Is it worth my time to continue?
Belushi TD
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:09 pm
by Wolfman
OOC: Question, Belushi, how would the kids in question find what, in-universe, is a veteran’s forum? Or is one of them related to your character?
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:32 pm
by Belushi TD
OOC - Wolfman -
I was posting as a vet who was creating a parody of the second part of Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff's magnum opus "Parents Just Don't Understand", feeding off the line Poobah said, "Take it from me, parents just don't understand." making fun of the kids in question.
Linky -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3PFC86UNI
Apologies for the confusion.
Belushi TD
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:05 am
by Wolfman
OOC: Belushi, thanks for clearing it up so quickly.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:36 am
by clancyphile
jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:59 pm
A week? If I pulled that, back in the 70s, I'd still be grounded.
It was a bit longer than a week... more like a month in at least one case.
The other one, it was a but shorter, mostly because they didn't stash the nuke on the property.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:38 am
by clancyphile
Belushi TD wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:33 pm
Ok. Here's the situation.
My parents went away on a weeks' vacation aaaaaaaaand
my friends and I found a Spetsnaz cache
Would they mind? Mmmmm, welll, of course not.
We'll just take it all out of the trench and
maybe hide the nuke 'neath the old work bench.
Is it worth my time to continue?
Belushi TD
OOC: That is hilarious... do continue.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:05 pm
by Belushi TD
My muse visited me again. I can't believe the kids thought they could keep a nuke.
Ok. Here's the situation.
My parents went away on a weeks' vacation aaaaaaaaand
my friends and I found a Spetsnaz cache
Would they mind? Mmmmm, welll, of course not.
We'll just take it all out of the trench and
maybe hide the nuke 'neath the old work bench.
We’ll keep the cash underneath the bed
Well, maybe we shouldn’t.
Yeah, of course we should!
Pay attention, here’s the thick of the plot,
We made sure it was safe so that no one got shot
That’s when we all started to inventory the stash
So many twenties we weren’t able to count all the cash
Ignored the counterfeit, it was still a huge mass
You should have seen the cache’s explosive extension
We counted twice, more guns that one could mention
Joe grabbed a mag, racked a slide
I said “Wait”
He said “Why?”
I said, “Lets do this right so we don’t blow sky high!”
Belushi TD
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:24 pm
by clancyphile
OOC: A more dramatized version of events, but kinda similar to the events.
IC:
They had the cash and gold under their beds, the gems in their sock drawers.
But they were quite cautious with the firearms, Semtex and other stuff. The firearms were disassembled and cleaned (instructions being readily available from the US Army Reimer Digital Library of all places). The grenades and Semtex were kept away from occupied buildings in the garage with the nuke.
In fact, the first hint that it was them who found the cache? Three of the biggest members of a notorious sounder of feral hogs (yes, we looked up the proper term) were brought to a meat-processing plant and donated to feed the hungry.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:18 pm
by Wolfman
Sophie seems to be adapting well to life in the District of Columbia. I’ve seen her around.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:45 pm
by Poohbah
Wolfman wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:18 pm
Sophie seems to be adapting well to life in the District of Columbia. I’ve seen her around.
Word has it that she's asked several military personnel on the NSC staff, "Do you even tape, bruh?"
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:59 pm
by Wolfman
The Commandant was there for one of those incidents, and came out of the meeting laughing.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:49 am
by Matt Wiser
Anyone notice in the Rocky Mountain News online edition that some folks who fought in one of the "irregular" units during the Siege of Denver were actually a mix of anarchists, Communists (but not Soviet/Cuban style), and some other left types. They compare themselves to the Spanish Anarchists who fought against the Republicans in 1936-39 who were too close to Stalin, and these people were genuinely appalled at what the Soviets and their lackeys were doing. Where'd these folks come from? UC Boulder.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:43 pm
by Wolfman
Huh… learn something new everyday…
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:37 pm
by jemhouston
They're the people who want to bring Communism to the US. When someone points out the Soviet Union, their lackeys, and the former PRC, they say that wasn't true Communism.
That said, according to a book on the Denver siege (can't remember which one), mention those groups. Normally when Soviets' side captured a partisan, they tortured for information, then shot them. These guys they generally were either buried or burned alive.
The author wasn't sure why the Soviets did that.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:39 pm
by Wolfman
The Communist Party’s version of heretics, perhaps?
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:38 am
by Matt Wiser
They were probably labeled "Trotskyites" or something of that sort.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:49 am
by trekchu
I've seen a flowchart of the Trotskyite movement in the United States between the 1920s and the beginning of the war, and the amount of party splits, expulsions, refoundings and out of no-where entirely new groups is headache inducing. Safe to say, all these groups mutually hated each other too.