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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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TCreedmoor said:
Oppenheimer: I released mine in Japan twice. And it bombed both times. It took a while, but eventually it was a huge success in the USA and the Soviet Union. It was so popular neither country could get enough of them. It was as if the two countries were racing to see who could collect the most. At one point it was all anyone in the USA could think about. Schools actually taught kids what to do when my products arrived. We’re not talking about a 5-minute discussion in a classroom — Schools conducted monthly drills on how to react the moment my products showed up. In every grade from Kindergarten through 12th grade. To this day, entire generations of students still remember the training they received.

Beatlemania might of had screaming teenage girls… but I had entire families planning their future around my products. You thought Taylor Swift tickets were expensive? Some families were so obsessed they spent a fortune preparing for mine.

When my products showed up in Cuba even the President of the United States was excited. It was as if he couldn’t wait for them to show up in the USA. He got on national TV and announced his plans for US distribution.

My products played a significant role in the outcome of the 1964 Presidential election. Without them, Barry Goldwater would have likely beaten Lyndon Johnson. Instead, Johnson won the election by the greatest landslide in US history. All because of a single TV commercial for my product. To this day, people who voted back in 1964 still remember that commercial.

I’ve had top of the chart songs written about my products. In one case the 1980s music videos was so popular just mentioning the name ‘Nena’ will cause readers to remember the song’s name in two languages. Many will also recall exactly what the lead singer looked like.

Burger King has the Whopper, but Mathew Broderick had a WOPR of a movie about my products. It was a blockbuster that became part of pop culture. Decades before Jigsaw asked “Would you like to play a game?, WOPR was asking “Shall we play a game?”

How many families have a special code word they use when their daughter loses one of her dozens of Barbie dolls? The US Government uses a special code word when one of my products goes missing. Heck, Hollywood even made a movie about losing one with that term as the title.

Barbie has a Malibu beach house, but I had designated areas in buildings in nearly every city back in the 60s and 70s. Mine aren’t painted pink, but they were clearly labeled. Some of the signs are still there in old buildings.

Barbie has a pink phone, but the Presidents of the US and the Soviet Union each had a red phone just for me. Heck, the POTUS even has someone carrying all my important details in a briefcase wherever he goes.

Barbie movies come out what, once every couple decades? Hollywood makes billions off of my stuff. There are multiple movies and TV shows about my products every year.
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I test CNC machines as for a global company. Mazak machine tools are based in Japan. Every one I have seen is equipped with a GPS of some sort. If the machine is moved from its agreed location it will go into a "limp" mode. No automatic operation, reduced feed and speeds.
Once a machine was being moved from one plant to another. Someone had transposed 2 numbers in the serial number. I was shown the document and on itt was an affidavit stating that the machine would not be used for production of weapons of mass destruction.
Leave it to the only nation in the world to have been on the receiving end of nuclear weapons, to make sure it doesn't happen again by thier own hand.
 
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Blue Sky Country said:
Yo yo YO!!! The first 10 minutes of that masterpiece got me hollerin', on the floor, and totally wrecked. 😂😂😂

Outside of the older Jerry Springer episodes, not many things had me laughing like that. 1941 was a gem, and people who talk shit about it in Youtube comments ain't got a clue of what movie culture of the 60s to the early 2000s was like.
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“Bombs! I don't hear any bombs! Now they're up there. They came all the way from Asia. Don't you think they'd bring a few bombs along?”

Hold the block. You can hold one block, can't you?"


Ladies and gentlemen, every where I look -- soldiers are fighting sailors, sailors are fighting Marines. Directly in front of me, I see a flying blond floozy. Everywhere I look -- everywhere, pure pandemonium -- pandemonium."


1941 is one of my favorite movies.
Maybe it’s the military humor (28 years in the USAF) connected to historical event. And i read lots of military history books. Currently Reading “It’s Not a Good Day to Die” Operation Anaconda
 
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mikeinfwa said:
“Bombs! I don't hear any bombs! Now they're up there. They came all the way from Asia. Don't you think they'd bring a few bombs along?”

Hold the block. You can hold one block, can't you?"


Ladies and gentlemen, every where I look -- soldiers are fighting sailors, sailors are fighting Marines. Directly in front of me, I see a flying blond floozy. Everywhere I look -- everywhere, pure pandemonium -- pandemonium."
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The only folks I might not recommend 1941 to are those who have a phobia of Ferris wheels. 😂
 
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Halfnutz said:
I test CNC machines as for a global company. Mazak machine tools are based in Japan. Every one I have seen is equipped with a GPS of some sort. If the machine is moved from its agreed location it will go into a "limp" mode. No automatic operation, reduced feed and speeds.
Once a machine was being moved from one plant to another. Someone had transposed 2 numbers in the serial number. I was shown the document and on itt was an affidavit stating that the machine would not be used for production of weapons of mass destruction.
Leave it to the only nation in the world to have been on the receiving end of nuclear weapons, to make sure it doesn't happen again by thier own hand.
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I think it’s a DHS mandate for the GPS and mercury switch. We bought a Hass TL2 a few years back, and had to provide pictures of location inside the building, the actual building, a few of the driveway and intersections of the main road coming into the plant. All that info was sent to DHS.
 
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PERFECTION: (PER•FECK•SHUN) NOUN When everybody is calling their hits, playing by sportsmanship, not throwing hissy fits, having an awesome time, putting on a light show with sick ass special effects muzzle devices, and running a course designed for the game.

AIRSOFT: BACKROOMS EDITION

A recently abandoned corporate office building in downtown Los Angeles is rented out to become a perfect airsoft course. The popularity of the Backrooms creepypasta led many airsoft and paintball players to create a perfect battlemap of natural twist/turns, obstacles, and the scarcity of concealment and cover means you got to do a bit of cardio and running around too. Dutch The Hooligan presents: Epic Backrooms Run:



ETA: The full auto matches where full auto, grenade launchers, miniguns, CO2 operated "strafers/sprayers", and even small fireworks are allowed seem to separate the REAL players from the soyboy whiny manbabies who are always looking for a fight. EVERYBODY playing in the full auto leagues are chill and cool as fuck. And there is a lot of innovation too. Some guys on full auto maps are even building drones that can shoot and strafe from the air, as well as drop pyrotechnics and canister bombs with precision fuses timed to airburst or explode after bouncing 1-2 times, saturating a 20 yard circle with pellets. Yeah the projectiles do hurt and you ARE gonna get shot, a lot. That is why there is special airsoft clothing and armor designed to cover a lot of places for those running heavy duty maps. If you can't take the challenges, don't play. And don't ruin it for everybody else. Simple as that...
 
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Soulezoo said:
[QUOTE="mikeinfwa, post: 11018110, member: 381 Currently Reading “It’s Not a Good Day to Die” Operation Anaconda
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Gonna have to read that. Lived part of it.
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Lots of heroic actions by NCO's
Leadership screwups up the chain all the way to Centcom in Tampa hamstrung the troops in theatre.
Orders to limit the footprint of troops in theatre led to cascading affects.

No organic heavy fire support (artillery)

CAS was deemed sufficient (it wasnt)

Confusing Command and Control

Inaccurate intel on enemy forces and their intentions (hundreds more fighters occupied the high ground and stayed to fight instead of flee to Pakistan)

SEALs wanted into the action (replace the AFO Teams already providing intel and calling in airstrikes on enemy from their hidden observation locations ABOVE the enemy) which led to the clusterfuck on Takur Ghar (Roberts Ridge)

AC-130 (Grim 31) friendly fire attack on Green Berets and their Afghan fighters (Task Force Hammer) during the initial movement into the valley killing 2 Afghans and importantly CW2 Stanley Harriman. This tragedy basically took Task Force Hammer out of the fight before the battle began (they were to be the main effort into the valley)
 
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