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I was able to check that one out at the local "budget" theater for $2! Not bad, and I agree it was a pretty good 80's movie. It's no Bullitt, but pretty good!

Now that is something I will defintely try if it's still there next month.

Ok this is totally ridiculous. And pretty awesome: https://jalopnik.com/5884800/since-1997-a-man-has-been-digging-out-his-basement-using-only-rc-scale+model-construction-equipment

Cool! What's with the steam or whatever flying around the cockpit at 1:55? I also liked how the guy just stuffed the chart over his shoulder when he was done looking at it. I bet those things are a pain to fold back up with those gloves on!

Exactly. Well if it's still there next month maybe I'll feed it to my favorite shredder. I'm not gonna drive all the way up there just for that!

$85/hour for a C-152 where I did it last year

Another good one is if you go to the Sporty's website, they have a free PPL written test practice program where you can answer pretty much all the questions that can show up on the written test (there are like 600 questions I think). You can pick different categories or just have it ask questions from all of them. Also totally overkill for the AFOQT but it's pretty nice. I used it to study for my written exam and it was very helpful!

Reading it now actually. Pretty amazing!

I have two tales of retardation from the fine establishment known as the Army Reserve from this weekend: 1. When I got on base Saturday morning it was 5° out (wind chill was like -20). Everyone (including me) with any common sense was probably wearing their fleece hat because it was frickin cold. Now, our reserve center isn't much of a base (even though it has a gate guard sometimes), it's pretty much one road down the middle with parking lots and buildings on either side. So everyone has to drive down the same road to get to whatever building they're going to. So, on my way to my building there were two cars in front of me. Car #1 stops and some kid private with a fleece hat on hops out and starts walking to his building while his mom/wife/whatever drives away. Car #2 (in front of me) pulls up to where Car #1 was and stops, rolls down his passenger side window, and calls the private over. At this point I was stuck behind him so I rolled down my window to hear what was up just out of curiosity. Now the kid is standing next to this guy's car at parade rest so I assume it was some kind of NCO in the car. I could barely hear, but I did pick up said NCO yell at this kid to "take of that damn beanie and put on your soft cap" because it "looks unprofessional" (I guess technically it is a no-no to wear the fleece hat if you don't also have gloves on, but I have had a hard time finding anyone who cares, especially when it's legitimately frickin cold out). The priceless part of this ordeal was the totally demoralized WTF glare the kid gave the NCO as he grabbed his soft cap out of his pocket and swapped it for the fleece hat. And the icing on the cake was by the end of this exchange there were probably 20 more cars behind me waiting for this guy to get out of the way. So in summary, we have an NCO hold up traffic for pretty much the whole base, to yell at some kid about his fleece hat FROM HIS CAR. 2. This piece of passive agressive literature was hung up in the building next to ours: Now I do kind of find it annoying when people just "shoot for the minimum." With that said, I'm not sure what I find more irritating about this poster: -The multiple grammar/proofreading errors (on a POSTER) -The use of first person dialogue -The low-resolution-to-the-point-of-being-unrecognizable background picture (I think it's a guy laying on the ground, but I'm not sure how that's relavent here) -The fact that someone took the time to print and laminate a personal rant and hang it up in a public hallway -Or, the attitude that the standards aren't good enough and you should be required to exceed them by some undiclosed amount (like we were talking about a couple pages back). In my experience, the people who talk like this are the type who max their PT test and are worthless at their actual jobs.

You can only learn so much about someone from their wikipedia page I guess. [edited for nonsensical spelling]

If I understand what's going on here, this is an ~18 year old/recent HS grad talking? WTF! Not normal.

Related: https://terminallance...e-insspiration/

Holy crap I never really thought of hockey gear as racing equipment... I guess you can make a race out of anything!

Any dick for that matter!

Holy crap do you normally vote with your dick?! What else have I been doing wrong? Clearly there's backstory here that I have no SA on, so I'll just quiet down over here.

I'll admit I don't know a whole lot about this person. Mostly commenting on the fact that a fighter pilot is running for political office. Alright now go ahead with said remediation...

Cool.

That is some gnarly shit, although I posted it in the flying videos thread last week Didn't Kittinger almost lose his hand to frostbite because one of his gloves leaked? I thought I read that he realized it was leaking and his hand started to freeze as he was going up, but rather than let anyone know or abort he just said F it and continued all the way to the top!

Speaking of "In God We Trust," here are a couple cool ones:

How much more restrictive can the military really get, short of just saying "you may not ride motorcycles"?

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. I love the one white woman screeching "STOOOOOOOOOP!" Why are you there again, lady?

This game is probably the closest thing to the brain meltdown you experience during the TBAS: https://www.kongregate.com/games/IcyLime/multitask

As long as you don't go out and rape someone, drive home drunk, and then kill yourself...