Orogun01 Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 Went to the range, apparently I didn't quite put the ear protection right so now my left eardrum is ringing a little bit. You've managed to permanently damage your hearing a bit. Sorry for your loss. On the upside I rented a PX4 and I now love that gun...also the ringing is gone I don't know If there is actually permanent damage but OTOH, YOLO. 1 I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
Gromnir Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I'm not likely but still possibly going on a trip all around Alaska next month to go do some technical mumbo jumbo at some really remote sites. I've never been further north (in North America) than Seattle but to be honest I'm both a little excited and a little scared to go so far beyond the wall. get yourself a bush pilot like maggie o'connell to fly you 'round the state, and am gonna be so jealous. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Azdeus Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 On the upside I rented a PX4 and I now love that gun...also the ringing is gone I don't know If there is actually permanent damage but OTOH, YOLO. Every time you get ringing in your ears from being exposed to loud noises, you've gotten permanent damage, it's just a question of how much that's gone. You wouldn't really notice it either. I want to shoot a FN Five-seven, but there's noone around here that has one. Gun ownership isn't unusual, but pistols are rare. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
teknoman2 Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 speaking of guns, im probably the only guy who went to the army and due to circumstances never got to fire a gun. the first 2 weeks we had no guns after these 2 weeks we got guns and were supposed to practice shooting 3 times during basic training. before our first excursion to the range i sprained my ankle so i was out for a week. when the time for the next visit to the range came, i was on patrol duty around the camp so i could not go. at the time of the third and last visit i was on leave. after the boot camp i was assigned to electronic warfare because i studied IT even though i dropped out (too lazy to go to class after the second year. now i'm still trying to figure out if i regret not taking the degree or not) and while we had guns, we never took them out of the gun locker. 12 months of having a gun and not a single shot fired. my brother on the other hand, because of his electrical engineer degree, was sent for a year in a tank battalion to help with maintenance and he got the pleasure to go to the firing range to see them shoot from up close and even took part in joint exercises where the people on foot would fire at targets while using the tanks as cover 1 The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder. -Teknoman2- What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past? Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born! We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did. Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.
Guard Dog Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I'm not likely but still possibly going on a trip all around Alaska next month to go do some technical mumbo jumbo at some really remote sites. I've never been further north (in North America) than Seattle but to be honest I'm both a little excited and a little scared to go so far beyond the wall. Where in Alaska? It is a beautiful place. Expensive though. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Orogun01 Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 On the upside I rented a PX4 and I now love that gun...also the ringing is gone I don't know If there is actually permanent damage but OTOH, YOLO. Every time you get ringing in your ears from being exposed to loud noises, you've gotten permanent damage, it's just a question of how much that's gone. You wouldn't really notice it either. I want to shoot a FN Five-seven, but there's noone around here that has one. Gun ownership isn't unusual, but pistols are rare. Never shot one but it seems like it would be comfortable since most of the bulk is closer to the hand. I have a bunch of ranges around my area, if I ever get the chance to shoot one I will tell you. 1 I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
Malcador Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 Arsenal lost badly today so am spending the day abusing their fans. Sports fans are precious when they take their entertainment so seriously. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
ShadySands Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 Went to the range, apparently I didn't quite put the ear protection right so now my left eardrum is ringing a little bit. You've managed to permanently damage your hearing a bit. Sorry for your loss. On the upside I rented a PX4 and I now love that gun...also the ringing is gone I don't know If there is actually permanent damage but OTOH, YOLO. Great choice! I love my PX4 I'm not likely but still possibly going on a trip all around Alaska next month to go do some technical mumbo jumbo at some really remote sites. I've never been further north (in North America) than Seattle but to be honest I'm both a little excited and a little scared to go so far beyond the wall. Where in Alaska? It is a beautiful place. Expensive though. All over. It's like Gromnir said I'd be taking little planes all over the place. It'd be a work trip so the expense would hopefully be covered Free games updated 3/4/21
BruceVC Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I'm not likely but still possibly going on a trip all around Alaska next month to go do some technical mumbo jumbo at some really remote sites. I've never been further north (in North America) than Seattle but to be honest I'm both a little excited and a little scared to go so far beyond the waAs As someone who has travelled extensively I was going to say " I can understand that sense of anxiety you may feel but you went to Iraq and survived that and that would require much more bravery and sangfroid " But then it occurred to me this trip to Alaska and any nervousness needs a different type of mental fortitude, also you are older now and married and logically different things would concern you that did not apply when you were in the marines And since a trip to Alaska would also make me scared, as Im not a very good outdoor person, I cannot offer you any normal constructive feedback "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Keyrock Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I saw the coverage from around Houston this morning. Yikes! My thoughts go out to all our southern Texas forumites and their families. I hope you folks are safe and somewhere dry with electricity right now. RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I am, but it's boring as **** being confined to the indoors. 1 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands
Azdeus Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I am, but it's boring as **** being confined to the indoors. But atleast you're dry? Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Agiel Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 (edited) An auspicious start to my day. While waiting for my Uber to a steakhouse for lunch a Douglas C-47 in full Second World War livery flew directly over my head (sans paratroopers making static line drops). Probably on its way back from a heritage flight commemorating the centennial of the foundation of the 82nd. Edited August 27, 2017 by Agiel 1 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
majestic Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I am, but it's boring as **** being confined to the indoors. But atleast you're dry? That could be the problem, assuming nobody stocked up on the sauce. 2 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Gfted1 Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I once flew on a two engine Cessna from Virginia to Florida, and it was freaking terrifying. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I am, but it's boring as **** being confined to the indoors. But atleast you're dry? From the rain yes, from my whiskey no. "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands
ShadySands Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I once flew on a two engine Cessna from Virginia to Florida, and it was freaking terrifying. I actually like the little puddle jumpers. Makes me feel like I'm on an adventure or something Free games updated 3/4/21
Azdeus Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 From the rain yes, from my whiskey no. Good, keep applying whiskey until you start ranting at the clouds, then apply some more. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Amentep Posted August 28, 2017 Posted August 28, 2017 new thread I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
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