The guy in the truck wasn’t hurting anybody, taking extra space in the back of a mostly empty parking lot. He did the exact same thing as the Bimmer, he just didn’t do it early enough in the day. People in shitty trucks deserve the opportunity to take up two spots, to make sure that their doors aren’t dinged too!

You. I like you. There are a couple of things worse than starting to pull into a parking spot and finding a bike all the way toward the front, but I can’t think of them right off the top of my head. You deserve a medal.

Yeah, and look at the incredible longevity of that platform too. 27 years.

Ah, the futon. It’s a couch... that turns into a bed - the most disappointing Transformer of all. ~Jim Gaffigan

We were in the same Air Wing with VF-2 during Desert Storm. What boat were you on?

Didn’t you hear the man? Nothing. Not even that.

Not trying to minimize the danger in the slightest, but on CV-61 WestPac 91, the number of bolters caused by hookskips was minimal; less than 10% IIRC. We had our own set of problems - the 14 drivers kept lining up too far to the starboard, and before we’d even transited the IO they’d taken out all of the A-6 radomes…

We called it washout.

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…

Do you have a source for the Tornado information? Everything I’ve ever seen said that RAF provided only the base, and no airborne assets. In addition, Italy specifically sided with the French and Spanish, in not allowing “allied” assets access.

To be honest, the 135 and the 707 share a common ‘ancestor’, but are not necessarily the same aircraft. The 135 was initially designated (by Boeing) as the 717, but both the 135 and 707 come from the Dash-80.

Ah - got it. We just interpreted the sentence differently.

I don’t understand your criticism. There are only a few civilian aircraft there, of which this particular one is an example. Additionally, there are other Boeing 707 airframes there, which happen to be military aircraft. The fact that they were referred to as KC-135’s or C-137’s doesn’t change the fact that they were…

Actually... there is a bus tour that you can take, in addition to the museum attached to the boneyard. AMARC Experience

Unfortunately, that’s all there is out there now, with all of the media aggregators. There’s never any original stories, from any site. Reddit seems to have a much wider user base than Gawker or Buzzfeed, so Gawker and Buzzfeed pay “journalists” to hang out on those sites and either write “stories” based on Reddit, or…

I’m not sure that 3 (in the original article) really qualifies as “many”. Also, the comment you were specifically replying to was specifically about football, with specific football players named in it. You specifically replied to a comment about football, misread the context, and turned it into a baseball comment:

Ummmm...... there’s no gentle way to say this, so I’m just gonna throw it out there. You know the whole conversation is about football, right? No pitcher, no catcher, no bats with (or without) cork centers.

We were affiliated with the embassy over there, and were able to buy American liquors at the military bases. We’d give a fifth as a gift to the locals - they loved them. I didn’t see any “bourbon” over there, but we only got up to Germany/Austria a couple of times, and we were in it for the beer up there.

Jacques Daniels is very expensive in Italy. A fifth will run you around 60 euros... in a place where you can get 3 bottles of wine for 2 euros.

You and I are on the opposite sides of this issue, and neither of us will convince the other. I can tell you categorically though, that McSally isn’t just pandering. She flew the A-10 in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan - it’s very rare (almost unheard of) for someone to vote against the continued usage of a weapon…