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    Star Trek (The Original Series)

    While I never was huge fan of DS9, I agree fully with your take on it.
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    When did the penny drop?

    When they were winning everywhere they went, I'm sure they were just fine with things. I've talked with plenty of Whermacht vets over the years and almost all of them were just fine with the war... when Germany was still doing well. I've been told by several vets that the defeat at Stalingrad...
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    • Post #5
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    Star Trek (The Original Series)

    Next Generation was the "old v/s new Star Wars" debate among fans in the 80s. I thought the next generation ones had characters that never seemed as 'real' as the old show's characters were. The old show had people who sweated, fought, got ticked off at each other, cried and lost their cool from...
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    Star Trek (The Original Series)

    My parents were in their 30s when Trek came on. The original series stopped running about 5 months before I was born. Frankly, I didn't like it much in re-runs when I was a kid. Too many of the episodes were representational and that was totally lost on a literal kid like myself. My brother and...
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    The Nazi Gold Train

    "The boy who cried wolf" and all the times TIGAR claimed to have found 'proof' of Amelia Earhart both come to mind here. Yet, people so badly want to believe stories like this, you'll keep seeing bandwidth devoted to 'proof' where it doesn't exist.
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    • Post #94
    • Forum: WWII
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'd totally forgotten that Florida, for a while, went to dual metric/standard speed signs on the highways. People kept arguing that they WERE going the speed limit or less when pulled over, mistaking the metric for MPH. In a state with an amazing amount of people who don't speak good English or...
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    The Nazi Gold Train

    From CNN within the last hour:
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    • Post #67
    • Forum: WWII
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I grew up way out in the middle of nowhere, and the elementary school was 10 miles beyond that. The road we lived on was the diving line between school zones. Our side went to the rural school and across the street they all went to a school in town. I'm glad we went to the school we went to, as...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, I don't remember that ever being a skill that people were good at.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    But think on his: Parents get put in jail sometimes f they let kids go down to the local park. And now they can't have recess at school. And in this era where it's considered child abuse to let kids go and play on their own, can we be shocked that so many are obese? People talk about kids like...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Another thing that ticks me off these days is how kids are treated in schools. They're expected to be almost adults from birth. When I was a kid, we had recess and were, to a degree, allowed to be kids. I keep hearing horror stories from a teacher friend of mine where kids are expected to...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A friend of mine used to do this all the time. He stopped once I told him that the busboys were probably the ones who had to take care of them. For some reason, he didn't want to tick those people off.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My wife and I do tip well when we get good service that calls for it. There's a local dive we go to for a trivia night every Tuesday night. One server there has our drinks when we walk in the door and we never have to tell her how we want a certain dish prepared more than once. Her, we tip...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the news, I actually side with the person who didn’t leave a tip: http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/customers-tip-server-with-lol-instead-of-actual-money/ar-BBm3hrJ?ocid=ansmsnfood11 The diners had to wait an hour for food and she expects a tip, still? She should consider herself...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I grew up with well water in North Florida. I now live in the Pacific NW and in a small town, but with 'city' water from the town pumps. The water we have now is leaps and bounds better than it was when I was young. My teeth are permanently stained a light yellow from the mineral content of the...
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    The Nazi Gold Train

    Let's face facts, the Germans, I feel, did have the best looking uniforms. But once you get past that, it's all about the context. I don't collect German stuff. The only German things I have for m re-enacting displays are 'war trophy' types of things, like a Whermacht officer's hat and a panel...
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    • Post #43
    • Forum: WWII
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    The Nazi Gold Train

    Funny. The "Himmler" guy is wearing a SS hat but an Army tunic... Heck, at the big Battle of the Bulge re-enactment at Indiantown Gap, PA (I think in 1994), there was one of each: Hitler, Himmler, Rommel and Goering. I don't know who those guys were, But lots of people took photos of them...
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    • Post #28
    • Forum: WWII
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    History Channel Gone Wrong

    Lizzie and Tony said it best. When I run into someone who says the Moon landings never happened, their points are exactly how I counter that. There's NO possibility that almost 400,000 people who worked on the program (at least 2,000 of them having direct contact to the spacecraft and...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I remember hearing "the air" in a Little Rascals short many years ago... It had the same context. I wonder where that came from? Giving someone the air meant dumping them. Maybe it was a aviation context?
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Yep, I never dropped F-bombs at any time I was dealing with people under my command. As a Company Commander, I don't think I so much as cursed. for the very reasons your Dad didn't. I'd been cussed out and after the first 5 seconds, you just hear the "waa waaa wa wa waa..." sound of Charlie...

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