They tried lowering the standards in Vietnam for something they called "Project 100,000." People who read below a 6th grade level and stuff. Casualty rates 3x higher than normal recruits. This is probably how Forrest Gump was allowed in, incidentally.
I went to high school with this guy. I just don't think my generation's gonna fall for this again.
Yeah, I can only wish they'd try something that stupidly unpopular.
People keep talking about Millennials getting drafted to fight in Iran as though the youngest Millennials weren't over 30 now.
There *will* be Millennials over there, but they're the ones who got suckered into joining up for the *last* pointless war-for-oil, and the one before that.
People just need a common frame of reference
I mean, draftable age stops at like 26 and the youngest Millennials are now 30. They're more likely to be the parents of the drafted at this point, and they're not going to let their kids be "sent off" anywhere.
Millennials aren't falling for that shit twice.
I feel this strongly: I don't care. I am DISGUSTED that 175 little girls are dead and that thousands are dead across the region and that 1 million people are displaced in Lebanon alone. THIS IS EVIL.
Go to the opposite side of the earth and drill up from below
I missed Matt's announcement a few days ago. His bookstore is wonderful — and I don't say that just because it carries signed copies of all the books he and/or I have written.
Just realized this week that the girl Jerry dates for a few memorable episodes of Seinfeld - he makes out with her during Schindler's List, she walks in on George naked prompting him to scream "I was in the pool!" - is the same actress who played Ziyal in her later appearances on Deep Space Nine.
That sounds like egg nog?
thinking again about the greatest scene in cinema history
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite solution to the trolley problem on the Citadel.
News: As you might have heard, our Judge and Scorekeeper, with a voice on loan to God, Bill Kurtis, is stepping down from “Wait Wait” at the end of May.
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I keep getting targeted YouTube ads to get parents to join a class action lawsuit against Roblox.
When the timeline aligns…. #war #oil
I know it took liberties, but the 2002 adaptation is so much fun. Shame Jim Caviezel has to be Like That all the time.
It's like in Jackie Chan movies, when he's putting up his hands and yelling "I don't want trouble," but he's already punched four people in the face so this is definitely not over and he's no longer got a choice.
He had a story about sitting in the mess hall with Power, when an aide came over and said, "The General has invited you to dine with him this evening."
And Power looked at my grandfather and his friends and said "Well fellas, looks like it's steak for me tonight."
Scarlet Pimpernel too, I believe.
Fun fact: during WW2 my grandfather was acquaintances with Tyrone Power, who was known at the time as the actor for the Zorro films of that era.
Look so this isn't really OP's the point, but one of the weirdest things about the prequels *even at the time* was the disconnect between their /relatively/ astute politics & big-picture work on the one hand and their clunky writing & scene-work on the other
I am SO curious what this dude looks like. I'm picturing a pair of wraparound sunglasses made sentient by a wizard.
(this trailer is how I learned [well, googling after watching this trailer is how I learned] that Ben McKenzie is married to the woman with the beautifully decorated shuttle in the browncoats show so now I'm not only looking forward to the movie I feel a strong moral obligation to buy many tickets)
I ended up in a relationship with someone I'd met not via the app, but the app itself had provided me with plenty of nice dates with okay people.
For certain values of the term "work"
This thread is an excellent reminder of why my Tinder bio eventually landed on "honestly who fucking cares"
In the vast majority of cases 13 is 8th grade. I was one of the youngest people in my grade because of the cutoff and I was still 14 before starting high school.
That said, in a case of ambiguity, opting to say "high school," arguably a more-charitable framing, was a CHOICE.
Oh, a house four down from me does that. Range extends past the sidewalk.
