The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

Btw, why do we have a swiss smiley?

[Grey Fox]

A TP shortage is an acceptable risk to have 50¢/liter gas.

[garbon]

You can't wipe your ass with gas.

[Grey Fox]

You could.

A TP shortage, what no more trees in Ven?

[garbon]

You could.

A TP shortage, what no more trees in Ven?

Though people might TP a tree, there aren't trees where tp just comes down fully formed.

[derspiess]

Chavez land has a TP shortage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/16/venezuela-toilet-paper-shortage-50m

Fuck 'em.

You were half an hour too late

[katmai]

Chavez land has a TP shortage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/16/venezuela-toilet-paper-shortage-50m

Fuck 'em.

You were half an hour too late

Because he doesn't have a tp shortage.

[derspiess]

Because he doesn't have a tp shortage.

I'm sure he keeps an 8 to 12 month stock in the basement.

Btw, you liked my SongPop category, hermano?   Took me forever to figure out how to change the default country when buying new genres, but it finally paid off, if at least for just one blissful round.

[katmai]

Fucking Argie rock bullshit.

[Ed Anger]

Chavez land has a TP shortage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/16/venezuela-toilet-paper-shortage-50m

Fuck 'em.

You were half an hour too late

I Timmayed myself. 

[Phillip V]

Rise in Suicides Plagues the U.S. Military

'Over the course of nearly 12 years and two wars, suicide among active-duty troops has risen steadily, hitting a record of 350 in 2012. That total was twice as many as a decade before and surpassed not only the number of American troops killed in Afghanistan but also the number who died in transportation accidents last year.

Even with the withdrawal from Iraq and the pullback in Afghanistan, the rate of suicide within the military has continued to rise significantly faster than within the general population, where it is also rising. In 2002, the military’s suicide rate was 10.3 per 100,000 troops, well below the comparable civilian rate. But today the rates are nearly the same, above 18 per 100,000 people.

And according to some experts, the military may be undercounting the problem because of the way it calculates its suicide rate.

Yet though the Pentagon has commissioned numerous reports and invested tens of millions of dollars in research and prevention programs, experts concede they are little closer to understanding the root causes of why military suicide is rising so fast.
...
An emerging consensus among researchers is that, just as among civilians, a dauntingly complex web of factors usually underlie military suicide: mental illness, sexual or physical abuse, addictions, failed relationships, financial struggles. Indeed, the most recent Pentagon report of suicides found that half of the troops who killed themselves in 2011 had experienced the failure of an intimate relationship and about a quarter had received diagnoses of substance abuse.
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Yet deployment and combat by themselves cannot explain the spiking suicide rates, researchers say. Pentagon data show that in recent years about half of service members who committed suicide never deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. And more than 80 percent had never been in combat.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/us/baffling-rise-in-suicides-plagues-us-military.html

[Valmy]

But today the rates are nearly the same, above 18 per 100,000 people.

That hardly sounds like a plague of suicides.

[Phillip V]

But today the rates are nearly the same, above 18 per 100,000 people.

That hardly sounds like a plague of suicides.

plague of rise in suicides

And the numbers do not include Army Reserve + National Guard, which sometimes have more monthly suicides than Regular Army.

[fhdz]

Btw, why do we have a swiss smiley?

I think it's because a) the Swiss are generally awesome and b) wasn't Hamilcar Swiss? Somebody who used to post here a lot was Swiss.

[derspiess]

Btw, why do we have a swiss smiley?

I think it's because a) the Swiss are generally awesome and b) wasn't Hamilcar Swiss?

Correct on both counts.