Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[LBS-bass]

I'd just like to say that I'm being quiet today here, not because I don't appreciate everyone's military service but because I'm as far removed from that as anyone in my generation could be. My dad was of age to fight in WWII but he was sidelined with rheumatic fever. Both of my grandfathers fought in WWI, but otherwise, I have no relatives of which I am aware that fought in any recent conflict. So I'm just not a military kid. I am, nonetheless, very grateful for everyone's service.

I remember walking through a cemetery in the DC area once a long time ago and seeing graves of people who fought in the revolution. It was profoundly moving to think that those people laid down their lives so that I could live my life in freedom so many generations later.

 

[2tonic]

Since @biguglyman is experiencing an identity crisis, lets take this moment to pause and thank all the Gentlemen and Gentleladies in this thread, who were previously Armed Forces Members, for their service to their country and the free world.



....and for bestowing upon us useful aphorisms, such as:
If it moves.................#*@% it.
If it doesn't move.......paint it.

 

[2tonic]

I'm assuming by what I saw that the whole "corona virus" thing got out of control and turned political.

Why is it that when i hear the term "corona virus" I immediately summon a mental image of John Malkovich with a shaved head and a longneck in his hand?

 

[Bobhmcs]

Please keep in mind that Military Intelligence is a Oxymoron. That should simplify things.
Bob (with a big grin on his face)

 

[Bobhmcs]

Since @biguglyman is experiencing an identity crisis, lets take this moment to pause and thank all the Gentlemen and Gentleladies in this thread, who were previously Armed Forces Members, for their service to their country and the free world.



....and for bestowing upon us useful aphorisms, such as:
If it moves.................#*@% it.
If it doesn't move.......paint it.

Or
"Oscar Hotel Tac Sierra Hotel India Tango that ain't outgoing that's incoming!" Will should love that one.
Or
"He's a Senior Chief! Should he be saying this stuff?!"
Or,,,
Nevermind I think I will just go out and paint something whether it moves or not.
Bobblehead Bob

 

[Bard2dbone]

ET to HM? Now that is quite a interesting career move. Not much soldering in the medical field. You must have been heavily in demand. Especially after the joint replacement popularity. Gotta fix those Zirc fittings somehow.
;[)
Bob

I started as an ET. But they wanted me to get down to a lower weight than was actually possible with my skeleton. They said I could be a maximum of 200 lbs. I came out of boot camp with all my ribs sticking way out, being radically underweight for my frame and kinda puny. I had gotten all the way down to 214. So, not wanting to keep getting sick, I started hitting the base gym (Hey. It was free.) and bulked up to where I felt functional again. I was about 265-270 with a 54" chest and a 38" waist, exactly what you always picture when you hear the term "medically obese", right?

You know how a lot of fat guys say "I'm not fat. I'm big boned." ? I'm the proof you CAN be both.

They kept threatening me to try to make me lose weight. Except I didn't really have any extra. So they took a stripe away to allegedly motivate me to lose weight. Since I was in a job where everyone got PO3 out of school, I never would have had an open billet to aim for. I would have been an ETSN forever. So I put in an open rate transfer request (Do they still have those?) thinking they would look at how much they'd spent teaching me electronics and give me some other kind of electronic job. In stead, the PNCS running the meeting comes over and pokes my shoulder seven or eight times and said "I bet you could carry a wounded marine." And that's how I became a corpsman.

I'm a paramedic in a children's hospital now. I've been here twenty one years. It turned out I was pretty good at fixing up leaky humans.

 

[Bobhmcs]

I started as an ET. But they wanted me to get down to a lower weight than was actually possible with my skeleton. They said I could be a maximum of 200 lbs. I came out of boot camp with all my ribs sticking way out, being radically underweight for my frame and kinda puny. I had gotten all the way down to 214. So, not wanting to keep getting sick, I started hitting the base gym (Hey. It was free.) and bulked up to where I felt functional again. I was about 265-270 with a 54" chest and a 38" waist, exactly what you always picture when you hear the term "medically obese", right?

You know how a lot of fat guys say "I'm not fat. I'm big boned." ? I'm the proof you CAN be both.

They kept threatening me to try to make me lose weight. Except I didn't really have any extra. So they took a stripe away to allegedly motivate me to lose weight. Since I was in a job where everyone got PO3 out of school, I never would have had an open billet to aim for. I would have been an ETSN forever. So I put in an open rate transfer request (Do they still have those?) thinking they would look at how much they'd spent teaching me electronics and give me some other kind of electronic job. In stead, the PNCS running the meeting comes over and pokes my shoulder seven or eight times and said "I bet you could carry a wounded marine." And that's how I became a corpsman.

I'm a paramedic in a children's hospital now. I've been here twenty one years. It turned out I was pretty good at fixing up leaky humans.

I always hated and disagreed with that % body fat calculation program. The USN lost many a good man because of that program. I am 6 foot even and if I tipped the scales 2 pounds over 200 pounds I would be in the fat boy program with a 13% true body fat. That is leaning towards un-survivability territory. Luckily my HMCM was reasonable and arranged every 6 months to have me dipped in the chair at Camp Pendleton. After I made HMCS I turned 40 and it no longer mattered. I never said I agreed with everything but the game had to be played. Just like High Year Tenure. #1 worst program ever developed. Lost 65% of the senior enlisted population in one fell swoop. You can join my unit anytime.
Bob

 

[Bobhmcs]

I started as an ET. But they wanted me to get down to a lower weight than was actually possible with my skeleton. They said I could be a maximum of 200 lbs. I came out of boot camp with all my ribs sticking way out, being radically underweight for my frame and kinda puny. I had gotten all the way down to 214. So, not wanting to keep getting sick, I started hitting the base gym (Hey. It was free.) and bulked up to where I felt functional again. I was about 265-270 with a 54" chest and a 38" waist, exactly what you always picture when you hear the term "medically obese", right?

You know how a lot of fat guys say "I'm not fat. I'm big boned." ? I'm the proof you CAN be both.

They kept threatening me to try to make me lose weight. Except I didn't really have any extra. So they took a stripe away to allegedly motivate me to lose weight. Since I was in a job where everyone got PO3 out of school, I never would have had an open billet to aim for. I would have been an ETSN forever. So I put in an open rate transfer request (Do they still have those?) thinking they would look at how much they'd spent teaching me electronics and give me some other kind of electronic job. In stead, the PNCS running the meeting comes over and pokes my shoulder seven or eight times and said "I bet you could carry a wounded marine." And that's how I became a corpsman.

I'm a paramedic in a children's hospital now. I've been here twenty one years. It turned out I was pretty good at fixing up leaky humans.

I am going to be out your way in a couple of weeks, well San Antonio, Kyle really. You grab Staubach and meet me at a bar nearby and the drinks are on me! Maybe Bucks or Max's and maybe the BFG's will show up have some good music. Keep in touch.
Bob

 

[GonePlaid]

I started as an ET. But they wanted me to get down to a lower weight than was actually possible with my skeleton. They said I could be a maximum of 200 lbs. I came out of boot camp with all my ribs sticking way out, being radically underweight for my frame and kinda puny. I had gotten all the way down to 214. So, not wanting to keep getting sick, I started hitting the base gym (Hey. It was free.) and bulked up to where I felt functional again. I was about 265-270 with a 54" chest and a 38" waist, exactly what you always picture when you hear the term "medically obese", right?

You know how a lot of fat guys say "I'm not fat. I'm big boned." ? I'm the proof you CAN be both.

They kept threatening me to try to make me lose weight. Except I didn't really have any extra. So they took a stripe away to allegedly motivate me to lose weight. Since I was in a job where everyone got PO3 out of school, I never would have had an open billet to aim for. I would have been an ETSN forever. So I put in an open rate transfer request (Do they still have those?) thinking they would look at how much they'd spent teaching me electronics and give me some other kind of electronic job. In stead, the PNCS running the meeting comes over and pokes my shoulder seven or eight times and said "I bet you could carry a wounded marine." And that's how I became a corpsman.

I'm a paramedic in a children's hospital now. I've been here twenty one years. It turned out I was pretty good at fixing up leaky humans.

I was 5'8", 119# going in; still 5'8", but 185# at separation. Saw lotsa guys at both ends of the chart during my time(64-68).

 

[GwenOnBass]

I'm assuming by what I saw that the whole "corona virus" thing got out of control and turned political.

Word is, if you ever used the bathroom at CBGBs in the 80s you are immune to the corona virus.

 

[steve_rolfeca]

Covering a Peter Gabriel studio mix takes some major stones, and this doesn’t match the perfection of the original.

But somehow, this just draws more attention to one of my all-time favourite bass grooves!

Be still my heart, where’s my octaver?

Welcome to Seductive Saturday:

 

[GwenOnBass]

As I won't paint for any reason for anyone, no military service

With @LBS-bass here. Not much to say beyond what she articulated.

 

[beans-on-toast]

The back alley at CBGB’s was cleaner than the bathroom. Trolly dollies on layover helped spread whatever was going round.

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[mikeoso]

I was 5'8", 119# going in; still 5'8", but 185# at separation. Saw lotsa guys at both ends of the chart during my time(64-68).

Hehe. I was 6'1" and 175 when I enlisted. They put me on a weight-gain diet in boot camp...really. When I went on leave after Infantry Training Regiment, I was 225. When I got back from Vietnam I was 180.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Covering a Peter Gabriel studio mix takes some major stones, and this doesn’t match the perfection of the original.

But somehow, this just draws more attention to one of my all-time favourite bass grooves!

Be still my heart, where’s my octaver?

Welcome to Seductive Saturday:

A very good song.

Pitch Shift
Tony Levin's fretless bass, played with a pick, gets extra low end courtesy of an octave pedal, mixed in one full octave below, giving the tune extra weight.

Chorus
Tony Levin's bass also has a chorus effect, giving the bass a spectrally wider and more interesting sound. Note that the chorus effect does not affect the lowest frequencies. A high pass filter on the send to the chorus will do this, allowing the low end to be stable in the tone, and empowering the mids and highs to bend and shimmer. This is particularly revealed on the higher melody lines in the bass performance, when the effect becomes more pronounced, only to recede when he reaches for the lower notes.

Bass sound that you would hear on a Stevie Wonder track.

 

[mikeoso]

I'd just like to say that I'm being quiet today here, not because I don't appreciate everyone's military service but because I'm as far removed from that as anyone in my generation could be. My dad was of age to fight in WWII but he was sidelined with rheumatic fever. Both of my grandfathers fought in WWI, but otherwise, I have no relatives of which I am aware that fought in any recent conflict. So I'm just not a military kid. I am, nonetheless, very grateful for everyone's service.

I remember walking through a cemetery in the DC area once a long time ago and seeing graves of people who fought in the revolution. It was profoundly moving to think that those people laid down their lives so that I could live my life in freedom so many generations later.

@LBS-bass , keep in mind that we as old people have a lot of the past to talk about....but none of us means to exclude people who didnt do this or that. I dont feel excluded when people discuss amps or pickups...or pens or pig racing...or even motorscooters.

 

[chupacerveza]

@LBS-bass , keep in mind that we as old people have a lot of the past to talk about....but none of us means to exclude people who didnt do this or that. I dont feel excluded when people discuss amps or pickups...or pens or pig racing...or even motorscooters.

Salud!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Speaking strictly for myself, I don't feel any exclusion when GOFs talk about anything. What I feel is out of place commenting on anyone's service. I'm gonna go look up "Rockpile" or what have you, learn something about what you (general you) experienced, and it's all good. It is out of respect I don't comment beyond lame shots of levity.

We all have stories to tell and I listen to yours.

 

[LBS-bass]

Speaking strictly for myself, I don't feel any exclusion when GOFs talk about anything. What I feel is out of place commenting on anyone's service. I'm gonna go look up "Rockpile" or what have you, learn something about what you (general you) experienced, and it's all good. It is out of respect I don't comment beyond lame shots of levity.

We all have stories to tell and I listen to yours.

Same here. I didn't feel excluded, just felt I had nothing to add beyond my gratitude!

 

[Fat Freddy]

I'd just like to say that I'm being quiet today here, not because I don't appreciate everyone's military service but because I'm as far removed from that as anyone in my generation could be. My dad was of age to fight in WWII but he was sidelined with rheumatic fever. Both of my grandfathers fought in WWI, but otherwise, I have no relatives of which I am aware that fought in any recent conflict. So I'm just not a military kid. I am, nonetheless, very grateful for everyone's service.

I remember walking through a cemetery in the DC area once a long time ago and seeing graves of people who fought in the revolution. It was profoundly moving to think that those people laid down their lives so that I could live my life in freedom so many generations later.

Just a personal note here from me.....

Can we cut back a little on the military stuff here?.....Maybe kick off another thread with other vets?....

I was "In" myself....British Army.....Royal Signals......Many Tours....

Don't want to revisit any of that nightmare again......

I'm not looking for a fight with anyone here.....If you think I'm out of line, just ignore me....