Random Thought Thread

[tedly]

Don't look if you're squeamish.

[Loren]

Wow. Ouch.

[70chevyC-10]

Wow - that looks horrible. I missed how you did it but assume you fell on the ice badly. Take care of yourself.

[Barry Donovan]

I had learned war scenes create quotes we still say today, as if subconsciously built in.
I search for some of them in stories.
they never have credit for doing it..
it just happens.

An airplane called the typhoon carried 8 rockets.
it was not glorified like the p51 and spitfire and tree huggers. I still assume they were the secret ones. the ghost protocols. the silent but deadly.
it was ground attack, and run with 24 cylinders being sure not to go past 500mph .. not even needing a nose dive to exceed.
impressive for the 1940s for sure.
the germans had to run away from them, as the typhoon outdid all they had in every direction.
typhoon at level flight was faster than the german falling down at them in a nose dive with gravity on their side.


a mission that eventually took out nearly an entire division of germans over 3 days left 5000 vehicles and many dead. including horses, brothels.


they spotted an 88mm flak gun hiding beside a barn under some trees. so two of them went nose down to go get it.
the first guy missed the gun entirely and hit a barn...
the barn fell over onto the gun disabling it.

"you could not hit the broad side of an 88mm flak gun"
was done in by bad aim hitting the broadside of a barn.

"you could not hit the broadside of a barn" is still said today.

the war was over 6 months later.
verified stories of one typhoon sinking warships with a rocket followed.


This story also taught me.. when the toughest is going. there is no media. there is no awards.
there is no glory, but the time ahead verified by something greater.. the pile of dead and destruction justified without any opinions but God in the end.

the push has gone to shove. No time for talking. "kill em all, let god figure it out."
of course, this still drives mental disorders crazy to this day, like a girl handed homo trying to be a war time crew chief... or mamas dough boy trying to be a ground pounder with a special forces label.

it goes on and on.

let men be the men.
boys will be boys.


I enlisted as a fast growing boy.
wearing my reebok pump basketball sneakers and long hair, it was determined I am a natural mechanic.
sent to the flightline in a green jacket..the very last batch ever seen in the inventory.

I appeared very thin and rather tall.
as if testing me, i was moving chocks and dumping toxic urinals from gulf war 1. A plane they did not dare open up due to the amount of sickness that unboarded upon landing.
they had me run up behind a plane with four engines screaming to get a stuck tail stand on an alert take off...


one guy said. "you are ready like preddy."

do you now how many years it took for me to figure that one out?
Preddy was a ww2 ace, who needed a waiver for being 120 pounds and 5 foot 9 inches tall.

I am 5 foot 9 and sickened down to 115 for several years.. since recovered to 135.
to this day, no one assumes me disabled....yet I am barely alive in more ways than one.

[Monster]

I gotta admit, I love a smooth running forum, where everyone gets along and has fun !

[tedly]

Wow - that looks horrible. I missed how you did it but assume you fell on the ice badly. Take care of yourself.

Slipped on the ice in my driveway. That's it. I didn't fall off of anything, no cool story to tell, wasn't doing anything dumb or remotely exciting, just slipped on the driveway. Snapped the heads of the radius and ulna clean off and cracked the lunate bone (little bone in your wrist). My friend Becky almost puked when she saw me take off my jacket. There was no internal structure holding my hand to my arm, just skin, tendons and ligaments so it flopped around a bit. Looked kinda like this:

Got to the ER, doc on duty took one look at the x-rays and noped his way to the orthopedic surgeon on duty. Ortho took one look at it and noped it to the hand specialist.



While waiting on his response (not on duty), they re-located my hand, as it was severely dislocated. Since they didn't know if I was going to surgery right away or not, they couldn't give me pain killers. I've broken about 15 different bones in my life, had a couple concussions, dislocated my shoulder a lot, had more cuts, burns, and puncture wounds than I can possibly count...

That redefined pain for me. I lost my voice for 3 days from screaming. Been on disability ever since. Going through the process of coming off now and getting back to work.

So now I go beat the shit out of ice with a big damn hammer. Because I can.

[Barry Donovan]

I have enjoyed (and still do) any of the mechanical channels on you tube.

I by chance found some videos on haggard garage, the kids of the northeast had me watching .. even being twice their age.

I am sad to think I predicted them.
If they changed their genre.. even to trucks or v8 cars.
different end to the story for sure.

the main character..or I guess money man went to florida.

I said something along the lines of drift cars in the northeast, where most everyone is trying to get a grip on the roads for 6 months of the year...
this ought to be interesting.

I guess the real drifters go away in the end.
Not welcome here...
at all.

Ever.

Hardly an authority on you tube and success.. but I am one that had to run and hide when there was no filters. Silliest of my videos launched just trying to share to small groups.
There has even been killed. Young people i was subscribed to, for music or whatever.

I have to admit that was my trigger for going old man prophet on some of them.
Can't seem to let that go...

[Barry Donovan]

if you need an angle of attack gauge , you should not be flying.
-chuck yeager.

Just watched the news on the 737 crashes.

I was just speaking of casual ww2 words spoken, that we repeat later...

[RockJustRock]

Radial Vs. World is an evolving class. It's getting a little tedious as each guy who bumps the record is idolized a bit. BUT at least they are idolizing the guy that goes the fastest and wins the most unlike this....



I look at it like this. You're newcomers to an established industry. Outsiders. You are going to a trade show. How do you behave?

[RockJustRock]

Uhhhhh guys. I realize I may be over-posting and over-new-threading again. Let me know if I'm sucking at it.

[tedly]

Uhhhhh guys. I realize I may be over-posting and over-new-threading again. Let me know if I'm sucking at it.

Will do.

Carry on.

[tedly]

Started back to work this week. Part time at first, and light duty only for awhile, but I'm working again. Feels good.

[Deaf Bob]

Started back to work this week. Part time at first, and light duty only for awhile, but I'm working again. Feels good.

Stacking timber??

[tedly]

When you're out of painkillers, beer can be a decent substitute. Helps with shitty days at work too.

[oletrux4evr]

I really don't know why I fill out a NCAA Tourney bracket.........