Stupid Pet Peeves
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kiri.de.carlos
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Alloy is a mixture of 2 or more metals. =) alley, is like a bowling alley or the road between houses in the same block. Ally is a bank, or also your friend in war.
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They could be time-travelling.
Darkwing Duck
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Times I've used "allay" is sort of a soothing thing. For instance, Donald Trump proposes a wall to allay American's fears.
But you skipped allay, which is to calm or reassure, as in allay your fears.
kiri.de.carlos
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I'm not going to lie, I thought Moe made that one up.
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When people use the term "bad guy"
Like when people say they carry a gun in case they have to shoot a bad guy.
This happened a lot in the Navy. I worked on weapon systems and most of the time the target would be referred to as "the bad guy." It was annoying. I didn't need the moralization. I worked on shipboard defensive weapons. It doesn't matter if the target is a good guy or a bad guy, it is a target that if not destroyed will impact the ship that I'm on and kill hundreds or thousands of people, one of whom might be me. The U.S. uses our military not for defense, but for offense. The people who could potentially attack a U.S. Navy warship might actually be defending themselves. They might be "the good guys" but that shouldn't matter to a Navy Fire Controlman. Thier job is to "fight the ship" and use their weapon systems to defeat our enemies. If there is a target it should be called "a target" and engaged based on the current rules of engagement. Period, end of story. I don't care who or what it is and I don't need to tell myself it's a bad guy. If the target needs to be destroyed then it needs to be destroyed.
Like when people say they carry a gun in case they have to shoot a bad guy.
This happened a lot in the Navy. I worked on weapon systems and most of the time the target would be referred to as "the bad guy." It was annoying. I didn't need the moralization. I worked on shipboard defensive weapons. It doesn't matter if the target is a good guy or a bad guy, it is a target that if not destroyed will impact the ship that I'm on and kill hundreds or thousands of people, one of whom might be me. The U.S. uses our military not for defense, but for offense. The people who could potentially attack a U.S. Navy warship might actually be defending themselves. They might be "the good guys" but that shouldn't matter to a Navy Fire Controlman. Thier job is to "fight the ship" and use their weapon systems to defeat our enemies. If there is a target it should be called "a target" and engaged based on the current rules of engagement. Period, end of story. I don't care who or what it is and I don't need to tell myself it's a bad guy. If the target needs to be destroyed then it needs to be destroyed.
♪alt13
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I prefer to kill only good guys. My therapist thinks I'm sick. I think he needs to stop trying to escape from my basement.
lol
I should point out, the weapons systems I worked on were, as I mentioned, defensive weapon systems (CIWS and RAM) that were not designed to fire on manned aircraft. They can, but they are intended to shoot down incoming missiles. So the term "bad guy" is used in reference to a missile. Which made it even more annoying to me.
♪alt13
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Maybe you should have joined the Air Force? or Marines? or stayed home and played Asteroids?
Probably
♪alt13
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Nah, you were probably better off in the Navy. Tom Cruise was in the *Air Force and he's a douche, everyone knows the Marines is just a bunch of inbred Klansmen, and people always think you're juvenile when you try to tell them Asteroids stories at parties(posers).
*Maybe Tom Cruise was in the Navy. I don't really know. I'm not sure where the on-ramp for the highway to the danger zone is at. ?
#lostwhilesearching4thedangerzone