The Off Topic Topic

[Ed Anger]

Oh Seedy.

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Ed: WINNAR

[derspiess]

Oh Seedy.

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Ed: WINNAR

Yeah, I'll go ahead and project Ed the winner here. 

We had that, complete with that flimsy plastic playmat that had the beach terrain.  My brother always got to be the Germans and somehow my Americans always got mauled on the beaches without ever taking the fort.  My grandpa (who hated Krauts despite himself having a German last name) bought me some plastic tanks to help tip the odds in my favor.  Not even my brother could bullshit his way out of my "water tanks"

I remember as a kid wondering why they used that weird flag for the Germans.  The one I had seen in the Battle of the Bulge, Patton and other WWII movies looked different

[Ed Anger]

I wish I had kept mine instead of letting my eldest nephew play with it. He destroyed all my old toys. Destructive little shit.

Hot Wheels: Hammered
Army Men: Melted
Metal Airplanes: de-propellered.

[sbr]

Poor Seedy, every 6 months or so he is remided of his Fort of Navarone playset-less childhood.

[derspiess]

I wish I had kept mine instead of letting my eldest nephew play with it. He destroyed all my old toys. Destructive little shit.

We have not yet gotten a straight story from mom as to what happened to ours.  She needs to just come clean so we can move on.

Hot Wheels: Hammered
Army Men: Melted
Metal Airplanes: de-propellered.

All my old Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars are all still in pretty good shape.  Tommy has absorbed them into his massive collection.  I like checking the copyright (or whatever) dates on the bottom of mine-- 1978, 1974, etc. including one that goes back to 1967.  And I think they were all made in Hong Kong.

I don't think any of my army men got saved.  Per Sarge from Toy Story, army men are always the first to get thrown away.  And I'd like to find some decent quality army men for sale somewhere-- I don't mind paying a little more.  I got excited when I found them at the dollar store, but they look so shitty and won't even stand up.

[PDH]

One of the best army men I had was a guy with a rifle but only one leg.  Somehow that made it by the incredibly strict far-Eastern quality control of the early 70s.

He would only really stand up with help, what with having that leg blown off by a landmine, but he had the chutzpah needed for an eight year old's imagination.

[Phillip V]

'Women account for a third of the nation's lawyers and doctors, a major shift from a generation ago when those professions were occupied almost exclusively by men, new Census figures show.'

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323717004578159433220839020.html

Women's share of jobs in the legal and medical fields climbed during the past decade even as their share of the overall workforce stalled at slightly less than half. Women held 33.4% of legal jobs—including lawyers, judges, magistrates and other judicial workers—in 2010, up from 29.2% in 2000. The share of female physicians and surgeons increased to 32.4% from 26.8% during that time.

In 1970, women were 9.7% of the nation's doctors and just 4.9% of its lawyers, according to Census data.

"That's very significant progress," said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a nonprofit group in Washington. "In the midst of a lot of evidence that women's progress has plateaued, nevertheless we can see that women are still making progress in some very professional, high-wage fields."

Women's gains in these fields follow the rise in their professional school enrollments over time. Harvard Law School, for example, was closed to women until 1950, and the Washington and Lee University School of Law was the last U.S. law school to open its admissions to women in 1972, according to research by Hannah Brenner and Renee Newman Knake of Michigan State University's College of Law. Today, women graduate from law school in roughly the same numbers as men. They make up just under half—45.4%—of medical residents and fellows, or medical-school graduates in training, according to the American Medical Association.

[Ed Anger]

I wish I had kept mine instead of letting my eldest nephew play with it. He destroyed all my old toys. Destructive little shit.

We have not yet gotten a straight story from mom as to what happened to ours.  She needs to just come clean so we can move on.

Hot Wheels: Hammered
Army Men: Melted
Metal Airplanes: de-propellered.

All my old Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars are all still in pretty good shape.  Tommy has absorbed them into his massive collection.  I like checking the copyright (or whatever) dates on the bottom of mine-- 1978, 1974, etc. including one that goes back to 1967.  And I think they were all made in Hong Kong.

I don't think any of my army men got saved.  Per Sarge from Toy Story, army men are always the first to get thrown away.  And I'd like to find some decent quality army men for sale somewhere-- I don't mind paying a little more.  I got excited when I found them at the dollar store, but they look so shitty and won't even stand up.

I haven't found good packs of army men yet. There tend to have lots of flash and excess plastic on the bases.

[PDH]

The German soldiers sucked anyway.  Half of them were just goose-stepping like morons. 

[Ed Anger]

 

I had some incredibly racist Japanese ones.

[CountDeMoney]

Poor Seedy, every 6 months or so he is remided of his Fort of Navarone playset-less childhood.

No shit.  Talk about personal foul: roughing the nutsack, man.

Now I gotta call Mom.

[CountDeMoney]

I had some incredibly racist Japanese ones.

Yeah, I had the same ones, yellow and incredibly gookish.  Liked them better than the Germans, actually.

[Ed Anger]

Poor Seedy, every 6 months or so he is remided of his Fort of Navarone playset-less childhood.

No shit.  Talk about personal foul: roughing the nutsack, man.

Now I gotta call Mom.

I don't play fair. I'm the guy withe roll of pennies in his fist during a schoolyard fight. 

[Razgovory]

Man I tried that once with quarters.  Really fucking hurt my hand.

[Lettow77]

 I have been having a rough time lately. A water heater optimal for tea has been the subject of week-long delays and confusion, which in and of itself would seem a minor thing, but tea is so closely connected to my well-being that the idea ate at me.

Little things I should have been able to forgive or ignore nudged themselves within me, and somehow I forgot to watch anime for a few days, while drinking almost no tea. The next thing I knew, i'd fallen out of yukkuri, and was defending John C Calhoun as a model of virtue to any who would listen while denouncing yankee perfidy.

  My roommate's fancy lately is cyberpunk futurism, and it makes me feel tired, uncertain and concerned. I gave him an impassioned speech about the idealized past of tomorrow vis-a-vis neo venezia, but when I went to sleep to dream of gondolas and tea, I dreamed instead of the battle of chancellorsville.

I can't get out of the South soon enough.