Subdeacon Joe
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4 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Since everything is digital I often wonder about the young SASS shooters when the targets are set in a circular fashion and the directions are: Shoot ten with rifle in a CLOCKWISE motion, then pistols in a CONTERCLOCKWISE motion!
Do they still teach hoe to read clocks in schools today!!
You mean "deosil" and "widdershins?"
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5 hours ago, Alpo said:
It's a cute picture, and it is funny. But i makes me wonder why they are blessing the dogs.
I've heard of blessing the fishing fleet. But blessing the toy dogs?
As others pointed out Blessing of Animals is a common practice. Many Roman Catholic parishes have a Blessing of the Animals on the feastday of St. Francis, or the Sunday closest to it.
Orthodox will also have a Blessing of the Animals. And cars, wells, beehives, swords, ships, soldiers and sailors, and almost anything else you can think of.
During our annual house blessing Fr. L or Fr. N would usually also bless our dog (sprinkle with Holy Water in the sign of the Cross). First time Fr. N did it his wife was aghast. "You blessed a dog?" "Why not? She's one of God's creations."
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4 hours ago, Buckshot Bob said:
Maybe the last 3 were an explanation/justification of the first
You beat me to it. The first is the summation of Marxist theology, the other three are how to go about it.
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14 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I don't understand your question.
Is it why is hickok45, that asinine jerk that doesn't know what he's talking about, still on YouTube?
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Why is hickok45 still on YouTube instead of any of the pro gun video channels that have appeared lately?
Maybe because that is the title of the video.
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Found on FB
'Roughly forty-three thousand years ago a young cave bear died in the rolling hills on the northwest border of modern-day Slovenia. A thousand miles away and a thousand years later, a mammoth died in the forests above the river Blau near the southern edge of modern-day Germany. Within a few years of the mammoth's demise, a griffon vulture also perished in the same vicinity. Five thousand years after that a swan and another mammoth died nearby.
We know almost nothing about how these animals met their deaths. They may have been hunted by Neanderthals or modern humans. They may have died of natural causes or been killed by other predators. Like almost every creature from the Paleolithic era the stories behind their lives and deaths are a mystery to us, lost to the un-reconstructible past.
But these different creatures, lost across time and space, did share one remarkable posthumous fate. After their flesh had been consumed by carnivores or bacteria, a bone from each of their skeletons was meticulously crafted by human hands into a flute.
Bone flutes are among the oldest known artifacts of human technological ingenuity. The Slovenian and German flutes date back to the very origins of art. The caves where some of them were found also featured drawings of animals and human forms on their walls, suggesting the tantalizing possibility that our ancestors gathered in the fire lit caverns to watch images flicker on the stone walls, accompanied by music.
But musical technology is likely far older than the Paleolithic. The Slovenian and German flutes survived because they were made of bone but many of the indigenous tribes in modern times construct flutes and drums out of reeds and animal skins, materials unlikely to survive tens of thousands of years.
Many archaeologists believe that our ancestors have been building drums for at least a hundred thousand years, making musical technology almost as old as technology designed for hunting or temperature regulation. This chronology is one of the great puzzles of early human history.
It seems to be jumping more than a few levels in the hierarchy of needs to go directly from spearheads and clothing to the invention of wind instruments. Eons before early humans started to imagine writing or agriculture they were crafting tools for making music. This seems particularly puzzling because music is the most abstract of the arts. Paintings represent the inhabitants of the world that our eyes actually perceive: animals, plants, landscapes and other people.
Architecture gives us shelter. Stories follow the arc of events that make up a human life. But music has no obvious referent beyond a vague association with the chirps and trills of birdsong. No one likes a hit record because it sounds like the natural world. We like music because it sounds *different* from the unstructured noise of the natural world. And what sounds like music is much closer to the abstracted symmetries of math than any experience a hunter-gatherer would have had a hundred thousand years ago.
A brief lesson in the physics of sound should help underscore the strangeness of the archaeological record here. Some of the bone flutes recovered from Paleolithic cave sites are intact enough that they can be played, and in many cases researchers have found that the finger holes carved into the bones are spaced in such a way that they can produce musical intervals that we now call perfect fourths and fifths.
In the terms of Western music, these would be F and G in the key of C. Fourths and fifths not only make up the harmonic backbone of almost every popular song in the modern canon, they are also some of the most ubiquitous intervals in the world’s many musical systems. Though some ancient tonal systems, like Balinese gamelan music, evolved without fourths and fifths, only the octave is more common. Musicologists now understand the physics behind these intervals and why they seem to trigger such an interesting response in the human ear.
An octave, two notes exactly twelve steps apart from each other on a piano keyboard, exhibits a precise 2:1 ratio in the wave forms it produces. If you play a high C on a guitar, the string will vibrate exactly two times for every single vibration the low C string generates. That synchronization, which also occurs with the harmonics or overtones that give an instrument its timbre, creates a vivid impression of consonance in the ear, the sound of those two wave forms snapping into alignment every other cycle.
The perfect fourth and fifth have comparably even ratios: a fourth is 4:3, while a fifth is 3:2. If you play a C and G note together, the higher G string will vibrate three times for every two vibrations of the C. By contrast, a C and F# played together create the most dissonant interval in the Western scale: the notorious tri-tone or ‘devil’s interval, with a ratio of 43:32.
The existence of these ratios has been known since the days of ancient Greece. The tuning system that features them is often called Pythagorean tuning after the Greek mathematician who, legend has it, first identified them. Today the average seventh grader knows Pythagoras for his triangles, but his ratios are the cornerstone of every pop song on Spotify.
The study of musical ratios marked one of the very first moments in the history of knowledge where mathematical descriptions productively explained natural phenomenon. In fact, the success of these mathematical explanations of music triggered a two-thousand year pursuit of similar cosmological ratios in the movements of the sun and planets in the sky; the famous ‘music of the spheres’ that inspired Kepler and so many others.
Wave forms, integer ratios, overtones …
None of these concepts were available to our ancestors in the Upper Paleolithic. And yet, for some bizarre reason they went to great lengths to build tools that could conjure these mathematical patterns out of the simple act of exhaling. Put yourself in that Slovenian cave forty thousand years ago. You have mastered fire, built simple tools for hunting, learned how to craft garments from animal skins to keep yourself warm in the winter.
An entire universe of further innovation lies in front of you. What would you choose to invent next? It seems preposterous that you would turn to crafting a tool that created vibrations in air molecules that synchronized at a perfect 3:2 ratio when played together. Yet that is exactly what our ancestors did.’
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World ~ Steven Johnson
* This entire book is incredible. Highly recommended
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I love these "Then and Now" photo sets. How in some places it seems that the only things that changed were the names on the buildings and the streets are now paved, while in others if it wasn't for one building you couldn't tell that it's the same location.
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5 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
Type 92, 70mm Battalion gun and Type 96 light machine gun.
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Good Story:
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4 hours ago, DocWard said:
Sure.
Oh, and we always learned there was only one thief in the Army. Everyone else was just trying to get their crap back.
Some of the responses so far:
They forgot the Sound Powered Phone Batteries and an HT PuncFrom the token Brit:The new canteen staff at my old establishment were usually asked to make a ‘forward roll’.Back to the US:
When I was in the Navy, right after boot camp, in a training squadron, I was sent for a "bucket of prop wash". While I was looking I was shown a compound that was used for cleaning propellers. I took a can of it back with me and handed it to the guy that sent me. About six months later I'm in a regular squadron and get sent for "prop wash". I was told that I could secure for the day after I got it. I borrowed a pick up truck, drove over to the P-3 hangar, snagged a can of "propeller cleaner" and enjoyed a good Lunch at their cafeteria. I got back a couple of hours later, tossed the can to the guy who sent me and left for the day. Nothing was ever said.-
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10 hours ago, Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 said:
She did it twice?
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4 minutes ago, DocWard said:
Sure.
Oh, and we always learned there was only one thief in the Army. Everyone else was just trying to get their crap back.
Thanks!
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Unfortunately in these situations too many people are unwilling to ever accept the truth in these situations. As Red said:
1 hour ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:Advanced pancreatic cancer is a death sentence, and while one can spend one's money as he likes, guilt-tripping collateral family for money is pointless, and I wouldn't contribute. It's too bad desperation overcomes reality.
and a mentally of, "If I can hang on just one more month/week/day I KNOW that a cure will be announced" sets in.
All you can do is try to stand fast and pray that the others come around to face reality and realize that an extra month of pain and suffering while bankrupting the extended family is a just a deal with the Devil.
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Just think, Monday is the best day of the week because it's farthest from the next Monday!
We all know that Wednesday is called "Hump Day" because everything is humped.
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58 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:
Provide attribution for the source, and you should be fine. But asking permission is a good thing.
That's a given. While I expect that permission will be given, since is is a personal experience I'd rather ask first. And the attribution would be a somewhat general, "A gentleman on a CAS forum who is a medic in an Ohio National Guard unit wrote: "(text)" along with the meme he was responding to.
Memes I will blatantly appropriate without attribution as I figure that where I found them is not the point of origin.-
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Most of the wild duck I've eaten had a distinctly fishy/earthy/gamey taste to it because of what they ate.
I've had local "farm raised wild duck" that was very good.
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On 1/21/2024 at 10:03 AM, DocWard said:
When I was the NCOIC of the Medical Section for my Bn. I sent a new guy to commo for squelch grease. The commo sergeant, being a good guy, sent him to the supply sergeant. The supply sergeant after a few moments of "checking" sent the new guy to maintenance. Almost an hour later, I began thinking the new guy was onto our snipe hunt and was somewhere screwing off. I checked with commo, then went to supply. While at supply, they get a call from the maintenance sergeant, an E7, asking for an NSN (National Stock Number) for squelch grease.
The "new guy" is now a 1SG and Bronze Star recipient. To my knowledge, the E7 is still clueless.
May I steal this to put on a military heavy private FB group?
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"If you hate it so much, why are you using the technology the "invaders" brought, and why do you copy their customs?"
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13 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Lemon Blue Berry Cake. If it turns out I'll post the recipe.
That would be great! I have three 2.5 pound bags of blueberries from the food bank in the freezer, and there is a lemon tree next to us that nobody else picks other than one or two now and then. Next door neighbor claims it's hers, but it's in a common area and in 12 years I've never seen her pick a single one.
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Cliche no longer accurate
in SASS Wire Saloon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunwise
"Sunwise, sunward or deasil (sometimes spelled deosil), are terms meaning to go clockwise or in the direction of the sun, as seen from the northern hemisphere. The opposite term is widdershins (Lowland Scots), or tuathal (Scottish Gaelic).[1]. In Scottish culture, this turning direction is also considered auspicious, while the converse is true for counter-clockwise motion"