re: #11. Mil-Spec used to (in the 1960's) mean that every piece of equipment was destruction tested before being shipped. Unfortunately, destruction testing also starts to destroy even the items that passed causing them to fail while in service, or be designed so overspec that they are too heavy or large.
#4 We used to build model tanks, some made a diorama. The world has now raised a generation of first-world kids, with access to limitless information, who can't differentiate between a truck and a tank. I'm glad I'm old. I'll only deal with stupid motherfuckers for so much longer. --Tennessee Budd
6 - you could even charge them to do it.
ReplyDelete#9. Not likely to be any long term effects when the short term effect is deaths.
ReplyDeleteGood point!
DeleteBOOM! Aaaaaand JeremyR drops the mic...
Delete#11 - Hey, Ford uses 'Military Grade' aluminum in their trucks - as if there is such a thing...
ReplyDeleteThere is, just look at the M113. Of course that's an inch plus thick, not a millimeter or so.
DeleteEric.
Ford invented aluminum termites.
DeleteWhen I hear the term military grade, I just assume they overpaid by a factor of ten.
Delete10? I watched NASA pay $513 for a $13 power strip in the 80s.
DeleteDon't forget the 57 million dollar helicopter they sent to Mars.......
Delete#20 for the win.
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re: #11. Mil-Spec used to (in the 1960's) mean that every piece of equipment was destruction tested before being shipped. Unfortunately, destruction testing also starts to destroy even the items that passed causing them to fail while in service, or be designed so overspec that they are too heavy or large.
ReplyDeleteDidja know that milspec for OD Green allows for yellow to tan to grey to light green to dark green to black?
DeleteAll the above is milspec under the very same numbering.
#7 - A clue, please. I don't get it at all.
ReplyDeleteThat was the show Bob Saget was on and now that he's dead, there's a room for rent.
DeleteNumber 14: living room caltrops
ReplyDelete#4 We used to build model tanks, some made a diorama. The world has now raised a generation of first-world kids, with access to limitless information, who can't differentiate between a truck and a tank. I'm glad I'm old. I'll only deal with stupid motherfuckers for so much longer.
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd
number 14: drywall screws
ReplyDelete# 12... add a third photo "me in 10 yrs" but add liverspots
ReplyDeleteI used to walk barefoot on coral reefs. For that matter, I walked everywhere barefoot. But stepping on a jack was like a hot dagger. Go figure.
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