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Dilbert_X wrote:

I'm not sure, Obama isn't stupid - he's fucked up the economy so that Gingrich will have a hard time starting a war.
Attack Iran and the oil price will be $200/bbl, so the oil majors would make a ton of money.
I just proved myself wrong - Sh1fty start learning farsi.

Even better, we've got a crapton of domestic oil reserves being developed in North Dakota.
Don't even have to deal with sweaty Saudis to make a buck on a barrel of oil, it's all in-house!
It's like step one and three are both "profit"!

And learn Dari. 
You'll understand Iranian Persian-Farsi, and Afghani Dari.
Two war zones for the price of one

Uzique wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

You're not being boring and trollsome telling Sh1fty he shouldn't join the military unless he has a thought out reason backed up by deep self-analysis?

Sometimes you have to let natural selection take its course.

a) where am i telling him he shouldn't join (i am interested in what sells the military career, not decreeing nobody should have one)
b) what does natural selection or any attitude relating to that have to do with literature degrees?

Natural selection would remove Sh1fty from the gene pool.

I don't know, joining the military could be the turning point which changes him from twig to man.

Or he could come out bitter and angry, put on a lot of weight and become a pseudo-intellectual - like Jay.

The Machiavellian side of me would like to see him have his soul crushed and become a hipster anti-hero, like Bradley Manning, Timothy McVeigh, or Jay again.

I don't talk about it in every single freaking post.

rdx-fx wrote:

Poseidon wrote:

I think the main reason I think Shifty will never make it is because it's all he talks about. Most people here that were either in it or plan to join the service (like myself) don't talk about it in every other post or obsess about it in every aspect of their life.

Still, if he makes an attempt at it, he's got more balls than your average Airsoft wannabe mall-cop TSA drone.

I'd have gone to MEPS and have my ship-out date a loooong time ago if it wasn't for the utterly retarded Tier I, II, and III school systems. I'm currently calling around and finding out which is the quickest way I can get in. Most recruiters I call all have a different story.

edit: On topic: So does anybody know if they plan on replacing those crappy TOWs?

Last edited by -Sh1fty- (2012-01-03 10:43:12)

I think I figured out what's wrong with you. You talk like an old man. You're 17 years old, act like it. Enjoy life. Stop trying to act like you have anything worked out, because you don't. You're a dumb kid that doesn't know anything.

i'm 22 and i still barely have an idea what i want to do with my life. you're already mentally signing yourself up for 3 enlistments? rofl shifty, you silly jebend.

Why would you expect any of us to know or care? Do I, or anyone here, work for the DoD procurement department? No. If the military wanted javelins on their Bradleys they would put them on their fucking Bradleys.

I have a tip for you since you seem so deadset on joining the Marines: don't ask retarded questions like that. You will get your ass kicked repeatedly. Either that or you'll just get retarded answers like 'that's the way it's always been' or 'that's above my pay grade'. The military wants their lower enlisted to be brain dead monkeys with muscle memory. They don't want or need armchair generals debating the merits of weapons systems that they've only experienced through Military Channel specials and video games.

PrivateVendetta wrote:

Uzique wrote:

i'm 22 and i still barely have an idea what i want to do with my life. you're already mentally signing yourself up for 3 enlistments? rofl shifty, you silly jebend.

I know what I want to do. I guess some people aren't direction-less students.

People who think they know what they want at 20 are the ones that have midlife crisis'

Last edited by Jay (2012-01-03 14:25:48)

PrivateVendetta wrote:

Uzique wrote:

i'm 22 and i still barely have an idea what i want to do with my life. you're already mentally signing yourself up for 3 enlistments? rofl shifty, you silly jebend.

I know what I want to do. I guess some people aren't direction-less students.

a directionless student? no, not really. i'm enjoying academia and i'm coming top in just about everything i do in that regard, and i'm happy pursuing it... for now. am i directionless because i'm not willing to declare that i want to do it for the rest of my life? i don't think so. i'm just as far 'progressed' into my 'career path' as you are, so drop the snide attitude, hot shot. i just realize that i'm 22 and i'll probably want a change of direction in life by the time i'm 40-45. my uncle only this xmas has decided to sell his stake in his uk-based family entrepreneurial stuff, to sell everything he owns and move to america to start a completely new business in an area he has never worked in before. i understand this is quite common. i'm happy being a very purposeful, highly-driven, super directed student right now, thanks very much. just you won't see me saying i want to get a phd and spend 5 years at 3 universities and get married to another lit professor and have 3 babies and live happily ever after. you look dumb when you say that shit. just like you look dumb when you post like a twat, as you just have. i love when you always harp on with your silly shit about students. you must feel like you missed out or something cause it's clearly a sore subject for you.

and rdx i think shifty's entire notion of the 'military family' comes from some cheesefest like mel gibson's 'we were soldiers' or some shit. you know, a bunch of lovely 1950's gals hanging around with baby-bumps discussing laundry rotas for when their excellent men come home from that beastly-yet-not-altogether-horrifying war business for the charming ballroom dance.

Nope Uzique. I didn't even see We Were Soldiers until a few months ago. Either way, I know plenty of people in the military that are happily married and are enlisted.

Funny coincidence that all those friends of mine are Christians.

Also, no fking kidding that if you marry your highschool sweetheart it'll end in divorce military or not.

-Sh1fty- wrote:

Funny coincidence that all those friends of mine are Christians.

Also, no fking kidding that if you marry your highschool sweetheart it'll end in divorce military or not.

Yeah, because being Christian means your marriage will be blissful and won't end in divorce

knew a bradley once, kind of a dick

Last edited by west-phoenix-az (2012-01-03 19:00:38)