Okay, now I'm learnin' about scary...

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UPDATED: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 06:53
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GINOBIFFARONI

Sunday, June 29, 2003 12:29 AM

I wondered about the name also, so I googled Dortmunder and found that there is several Swiss companys with that as their name. Revelvance ? I have no idea.

CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Sunday, June 29, 2003 12:42 AM

Anyone see Finding Nemo? There was a sequence with jellyfish where all of my flesh grew cold and pale from the willies.

History repeats the old conceits

SERGEANTX

Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:01 AM

The Patriot Act... and, Patriot II.

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

WULFHAWK

Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:57 AM

So long as my Leatherman is at hand, my shotgun under my bed, my swords on the mantle, and Firefly is still flying, I fear nothing.

tanstaafl

LUPA

Sunday, June 29, 2003 2:14 AM

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So long as my Leatherman is at hand, my shotgun under my bed, my swords on the mantle

Okay, now I'm scared of you.

"Curse your sudden, but inevitable betrayal."

LERXST

Sunday, June 29, 2003 3:03 AM

Today I was borin' folk on the IRC with some sea stories, so I figure I might as well bore the rest of y'all too:

Falling overboard. This was my worst fear. First off, if you don't fall off the back of the ship, there's a damn good chance you'll be sucked into a seawater intake, or into the ship's propellers. If not, well it's a great big ocean. If there didn't happen to be a helo in the air and somebody didn't see you go over... Of the dozen or so unlucky fuckers who went for a swim while I was there, they found maybe two or three.

Steam rupture. Second worst fear. I worked in the engineering plant. 1500 psi steam, 600 degrees. If one of those pipes ever ruptured -- well it'd only hurt for a second or two. Like bein' in a giant convection oven, 'cept you'd be "done" 'fore you hit the floor.

Fire aboard ship. There ain't no fire department to call when yer out at sea. YOU are the fire department. Anyone see that program 'bout the USS Forrestal on the History Channel? Worst loss of life from a single incident durin' the Vietnam War, and all due to a little electrical glitch in an A-4 Skyhawk's weapons system. 'Course the Navy learned quite a bit from the Forrestal fire, and sailors nowadays are much better trained to handle a fire at sea, but they're still gorram scary.

A "General Quarters" (battle stations) alarm, when you're sittin' off the Kuwaiti coast durin' the '91 Gulf War (anyone remember what happened to the USS Stark?). Actually, that's scary any time. Usually a drill, but could also mean there's massive flooding or fire somewhere. Or an Exocet missile inbound. "Broken Arrow" alarms are scary too. That means someone had an "oopsy" with one of the "special" weapons. "Special" means the ones that make noise on Geiger counters.

Bein' on the flight deck. Those guys (and gals) that work up there don't get paid near enough. Four and a half acres is a pretty decent-sized piece 'o real estate. Unless yer usin' it as a gorram airport. We lost a few guys here and there who wandered into someone's jet blast and got blown over the side. We had one guy get sucked into a jet intake (he lived, interestin' story for another time). We had another guy walk into one o' the props of an E2-C Hawkeye. That one wasn't pretty. An arresting cable snapping as a plane snags it is pretty ugly too. Steel cable 'bout as thick as yer arm, whippin' by at a good clip. God help ye if'n yer in it's way. (I got an interestin' story 'bout that too, and nobody died that time either).

The Feres Doctrine. This applies to any branch of the service, not just the Navy. Basically it states that the government cannot be held liable if a military member is hurt or killed due to negligence of military personnel. So, if some quack military doctor kills you on the operatin' table, or you're killed because some idjit accidently fired a Sea Sparrow into your bridge (yes, that happened), sorry 'bout yer luck dude.

Okay WAKE UP y'all. I'm done for now.

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Raspberry! Only one man would dare give me the raspberry...LONESTAR!!

SIRENKAIN

Sunday, June 29, 2003 4:47 AM

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Originally posted by TragicStory:
Well, GW Bush doesn't scare me because when the shit hits the fan I would rather a guy who grabs a gun than hugs a tree

Scares me..... I don't think he is smart enough to know which end is the dangerous one.

Biggest fear by far .....Organized Religion.

Next would be anyone else (besides the previously mentioned) who is sure they know what is best for me. This demon comes most times in the form of John Ashcroft.

Morbid and creep-ifying I got no problem with.

CANADIANJON

Sunday, June 29, 2003 5:09 AM

ahhhh! Sadako from The Ring
(original Japanese version).

I have fears at night all the time of that frigging fish-eye. Nothing is scarier than it!

KOFFEE

Sunday, June 29, 2003 6:21 AM

....gorram double post....

KOFFEE

Sunday, June 29, 2003 6:22 AM

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Originally posted by SirenKain:
Scares me..... I don't think he is smart enough to know which end is the dangerous one.

Unfortunatly seems to be very true....Bush is just a puppet for those who are really running things...Big Business... Can you say Enron? I knew you could.

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Biggest fear by far .....Organized Religion.

Are you reading my thoughts? I am so with you on this.

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Next would be anyone else (besides the previously mentioned) who is sure they know what is best for me. This demon comes most times in the form of John Ashcroft.

I still can't believe the whole statue/drape thing.....John they are just boobs, they ain't gonna hurt ya none.

Lets see what else scares me....
-Heights (don't even think I'm getting on a roller coaster)
-Deep water (if I ain't got a life jacket, or can't at least touch bottom...no way)
-Spiders (just creepifying)
-Snakes (also creepifiying)
-Motorcycles / Quad Runners (damn death machines)

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