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After years of being under-equipped, American troops are willing to try anything to get more armored vehicles.
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in some schools of fish, when a male is not present, the dominant female of the group will undergo a sex change over the course of a few weeks
according to jurassic park, frogs do this as well…
there’s a number of critters that seem to manage it. nature is incredible. did you know the angler fish that most people know is female. the male version is a little tiny parasite that the female absorbs.
sounds strikingly similar to one of my college buddies and his new wife…
A yard is an enclosed area of land, usually tied to a building. The word comes from the same linguistic root as the word garden and has many of the same meanings.
Indeed both terms can loosely be used interchangeably, and may thus be maintained by a yardman (either groundsman or gardener).
A number of derived words exist, usually tied to a particular usage or building type. Some are now archaic. Examples of such words are courtyard, farmyard, and stableyard.
so… when i’m in london and someone refers to another person as a yardie they’re really referring to him as an enclosed area of land?
Nope! Actually, the term “yardie” in British slang stems from the influx of Jamaican immigrants in the 1950’s. The term derived from the “government yards”, or housing projects, in the Trenchtown area of West Kingston, Jamaica, and was later applied in a derogatory fashion. Currently applied to those involved in Jamaican gang activity in the London area and to a lesser extent in Bristol, Birmingham and Nottingham.
In fact, if I understand correctly, the term “yard” isn’t in common use in the UK in the same sense that we use it here, and what we normally think of as a yard, they call a garden. What they call gardens, I couldn’t tell you!
Heh. I outed myself for socking on that other post….
It doesn’t count, because it was for the LOL of it.
Thank you, rho! Careless of me, though…
haha… nice diss!
I wouldn’t call them archaic.. Not yet… Anachronistic maybe. But not archaic.
That’s just me though.
Because we can’t have archaic and eat it too.
I’ll have to passé on this one.
You could put it trite over here.
These puns are so bad they’re starting to extinct.
I agree obsoletely!
Yeah, it’s starting to rub me rare.
…but I love you stale.
Ahh….well done, Clerks…..well done.
The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus (from Latin “oak tree”), which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus. The genus is native to the northern hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cold latitudes to tropical Asia and the Americas.
i prefer teak, personally.
but my favorite wood ever is purple heart…
oak died with oxblood and buttermilk. it’s purty
No wonder your oak died, if you’re watering it with oxblood and buttermilk.
Personally, I like the effect of washing oak with a shredded-steel-wool and vinegar solution. The tannins in the oak oxidize black.
I like that old tiger oak furniture. It’s hard to find in good shape.
Back in those days they used ammonia fumes to make the
oak “tiger striped.”
>.< typos…hate them so much
But it was funny.
A driveway originated as a privately-owned stretch of road connecting one’s house to the publicly-owned roadway. Over time, the driveway shortened, becoming the short stretch of pavement upon which one’s car is parked. By contrast, parkways originated as roadways with landscaped greens (or “parks”) on either side, through which one drives.
I think they are using the wrong end!
Ah, Rule#34.
oddly enough, real tanks don’t stack as well as toy tanks do.
After reading all of these ‘comments’, I feel utterly informed… learn something new everyday. THANKS, PUNDIT KITCHEN!
under equipped?
you HAVE tanks, stfu lol.
we have attack beavers we ride into combat.
Yep. Many of the British army guys have to buy their own body armour on eBay. Sadly, I’m not actually joking.
Well yah if you want the realy good stuff… I know a few US boys that do that too. *shrugs*
I didn’t know Americans were ‘ever’ considered under equipped, and all of a sudden it’s been going on for years?
I believe we’re generally well equipped to do what the military is supposed to do. At times we’ve been ill-equipped to do the stupid shit politicians assign the military based on their fantasies.
It’s not so much a matter of under-equipped as often mis-equipped – over the years there’s been a lot of vaporware, a lot of gizmos and doodads made to fight the Soviet hordes in Germany, a lot of pet projects to appease a mix of politicians who are seldom (on the left or right) particularly clued into operational realities, and a few thousand dollar toilet seats for good measure.
When you’re fighting in a desert/urban environment in an un-armored HMMVW, your latest attempt at the M16 just jammed, and you don’t have body armor, you’re under-equipped for what’s expected of you, even if there’s umpteen thousand MBT’s sitting back in a depot stateside somewhere and the Air Force’s latest stealth fighter costs more per plane than the Indian lunar probe program (which, by the way, is nothing to sneeze at – they’re doing some awesome science with those rockets of theirs).
On the other hand, I’ve driven an Iltis.
Cleitanious –
Did you miss the armor controversy over the war in Iraq?
There’s a lot of American troops that would be alive today if Rummy had not been so cavalier about “the army you’ve got”
Rummy was a cur whose head should be displayed on a pole…
cur:an inferior dog or one of mixed breed. I like dogs, please don’t compare that turd to such lovely creatures (sorry to anybody who likes turds, I know they don’t deserve the abuse either…)
It’s a good old English term… and if it offended you, tell someone who maybe cares…
There’s actually a dog breed called “Cur.” Ol’ Yeller was a Southern,
or Blackmouth Cur.
rofl
rule 34
Ho. Ly. Shit.
now how does that happen?
Well, when two tanks love each other very much…
One humongous stork…
…who would end up getting appointed Secretary of Defense…
Obama will gut the military enjoy.
#Sh!t bomb, sh!t bomb, you’re a sh!t bomb…#
Yes, that’s why he’s putting the war budget in the general budget instead of hiding it, increasing the deployment to Afghanistan and funding the Veterans’ Administration above requested levels.
Enjoy your short, worthless life as a lying turd.
Has he also announced plans to remove the comma from the English language?
That’s because Wolvie is a Rebel… he don’t need no stinkin’ rules of grammar…
or logic
well, you’re completely wrong! i was in iraq during the ground war in 03 and yes, some of us had the BDUs, they ARE American troops……………. Plus this pic was probably taken during an exercise in one of the crappy dessert places such as AZ, TX, and even California has training areas in the dessert too…………………During the gound war we had plastc doors on our humvees and you could stab a pencil through them!
BDU means “Battledress Uniform” and even with MARPAT (Digital camouflage patters) It’s still called a BDU.
The term for the current-issue uniform is ACU… Army Combat Uniform. It’s the one with a front zipper and an assload of velcro.
If these arent yankee troops than wha are they? first time i’ve seen british using abrams tanks
Yes. And those weren’t US troops at Normandy either. The US Army doesn’t drive Shermans, carry Garands, or wear the M1 tin pot anymore.