We are semi-skiller labor and won’t hire someone with decades of experience because they’ll be too stuck in their way to conform to our standards and operations.

Oh man. My first IED was very strange. We were driving on what we called route kill zone, and there was some traffic. And then we came to an overpass and seemingly everyone else took the off ramp. Came out the other side and just blammo. I saw the vehicle in front of me get pushed a lane over and then disappear into smoke and dust. I locked up the brakes so I wouldn’t smash into them.

Turned out there was a sniper down the road and a can full of guys with RPGs on the bridge behind us. But we had no casualties or significant vehicle damage, so they apparently dipped. We hightailed it to a rally point that was literally 500 meters from where the attack happened. Front vehicle thought we were the ones that got hit.

I was scared when I was a 19 year old doing a patrol through Sadr City in 2003, while manning the .50 cal and having dozens of kids suddenly show up and throwing rocks at me. Did I waste them even though I would have been justified because it wasn’t uncommon that patrols would go through markets and peopled start throwing produce and mix a grenade in?

No. Because I was well trained and realized that life is precious. And I was dealing with those rocks a lot longer than 1.6 seconds.

We order dominos kinda regularly. Check their coupons next time. I can tell you that I’ll get a large 5 topping, stuffed cheesy bread and wings for that price or cheaper. And I’m your friendly neighbor to the west, not in a major or midsized area.

My favorite to use: “not gonna lie to you.”

Pickle juice. Also, pickles.

Sauerkraut

I work outside doing physical labor, I maintain a giant jar of pickles at work and home. There is no better relief when I am feeling crampy after a hot hot day than a giant swig from the pickle jar.

You can recharge your new iPhone in the microwave.

Isn’t it the most recent major color?

Max verstappen’s immediate death

2002

Seoul. I was barely 18 and got stationed there. I was expecting grass huts and donkey carts based off MASH or other movies I’ve seen.

But I was legitimately shocked. Like you know in movies when someone goes through Tokyo for the first time and they are starting struck, that was me in Seoul.

Also, at no point in that article does it say libel.

Libel - letter Slander - spoken Defamation - something else.

Libel needs to be written and published. Slander needs to be said and broadcast. And depending on who it’s against, there are different levels of evidence needed. Like if you are a public figure, the person doing it needs to be doing it with the expressed purpose of injuring you name/actual malice.

Not libel.

Doesn’t matter. Mac and cheese ain’t anything special.

And I didn’t really think his review was all that scathing.

Ages ago bud light was doing rock paper scissors tournaments for promotions one summer. I was at a bar one night and won. Went to regionals, and in the semi-final I was up against a guy that only threw rock. Each round leading up, every single throw was rock.

I lost to him.

I always thought non-competes were total bullshit anyways. Like a scare tactic or something. And unenforceable.

Didn’t matter and sure doesn’t now.

If I had a time machine, that’s where I’d go.

It’s between that and the hot dog for me. But I’m leaning pickle.