Don’t know about current boats, but.... on CV-61 (Ranger), on the centerline (and a foot or so on each side) there was a leaf spring that held the wires an inch or so off the deck. Additionally, when the hook and gear are both down with weight off wheels, the hook extended further down than the main gear. Once weight…

Some people drink a lot of water to help them feel full so they snack less. (I’m one of them.) That absolutely helps. But if she’s drinking water to flush out the fat... yeah, no.

I really hate this concept people have of our bodies being filled with unnamed “toxins” ready to kill us at any moment, and in order to ensure our survival, we have to go out of our way to “flush” them.

WTF. Kat is one of the best contributors on Jalopnik, much more informative and easier to read than the buffoon DeMuro.

Oh Adrian. If only you had become a baseball player instead of a football player, then you could make guaranteed money for hitting things with wooden sticks.

I may be going out on a limb, but I think he’s going to take a beating in the press.

I’m guessing (only guessing here) that the arresting wires are pulled very taught across the deck to make sure the round wheels go over the wire, while the hook of course grabs the wire. I found this pic on wiki. The center of the wire is actually raised slightly, but not too much obviously. The whole thing is…

Sometimes, an NFL team gives a player and contract, and then doesn’t honor it.

NFL teams do hold a gigantic advantage over players when it comes to contracts

How is Adrian voting in the upcoming Gawker union vote?

Guns make for poor conversation. Generally speaking, there are two entrenched ideological camps—aficionados and abolitionists—and any attempt to hold a middle ground is likely to enflame both sides.

When I was a kid my neighbor and I used to go to the sportsmen’s club and walk through the woods looking for unbroken clay pigeons. We’d gather them up and try to sell them to the shooters for like a nickel a piece, and most of them obliged. But yeah, sneaking around in the woods at a firing range is probably not the…

you could also apply that to sex, booze and every other awesome thing

I’d strongly suggest using a double barrel shotgun of some sort, preferably an over under for me. The nice thing about those is you always know when it’s unloaded when it’s cracked open and there are no shells in there. I know lots of people like pumps and automatics but as a newbie around shotguns I’d suggest…

This guy won’t even be able to get a job shipping rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong after this. I hope kept the number to that truck driving school.

The hospital ship seems to have arrived roughly 73 years and six months late.

Really? A.) Your tone in the original post was clearly dismissive of this issue, and vilifying the awful colonialist feminists daring to speak out against it. and B.) Yes, we can criticize traditions that are built around nothing more than "othering" women and perpetuating the view that women are dirty. Traditions…

I feel perfectly okay criticizing female genital mutilation, regardless of which culture happens to practice it.

There are health risks to this whole practice: improper sanitation, not being able to fully clean menstrual cloths in order to avoid later infections, oh, AND BEING FORCED TO CLUMP UP IN TINY SHACKS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AND RUN THE RISK OF RAPE AND SNAKE BITE. But you go on, defending "traditions" that are just more…