Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[alaskaleftybass]

Sorry guys, can't compete with the sexy air force and naval aviation stuff, but here's what I drove in the Army. An M113 Armored Personnel Carrier. I was stationed in Germany in the seventies and I was just an SP4 gun bunny clerk and driver. I worked in Battalion HQ of a Field Artillery Battery, and our APC was the Command Post. Our APC's housed the FDC, or Forward Direction Control. We calculated the rounds for our 8 inch Howitzer Self Propelled's. We were "tactical nuclear capable" meaning we could fire 8" nuclear rounds for tactical effect.

The M113 was developed to provide a survivable and reliable light tracked vehicle able to be air-lifted and air-dropped, by C-130 and C-141 transport planes. The original concept was that the vehicle would be used solely for transportation, bringing the troops forward under armor and then having them dismount for combat; the M113 would then retreat to the rear. Entering service with the U.S. Army in 1960, the M113 required only two crewmen, a driver and a commander, and carried 11 passengers inside the vehicle. Its main armament was a single .50-caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun operated by the commander.

This is just a generic picture I found on the interweb but it's the same type vehicle I drove. The driver's slot was that small hatch right above the three lights on the driver's side of the APC.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Well, I'm 65 and being angry isn't my job anymore. Now I just do it for recreation, sometimes for it's cathartic effects, but mostly cuz it's just fun. SO QUIT YELLING AT US, DAMMIT!
You young pups think you got something to be angry about now? Just wait til yer teeth start fallin' out, ya can't get it up anymore and even if you could, ya can't remember what you're supposed to do with it! See what you got to look forward to?!?!

Hey, thanks. Damn, that was fun!

Hey @ric426 that brings to mind a thought wife and I had while watching a commercial on TV. It states, "For Baby Boomers born 1945 to 1965...." -- that seems really wrong to me. Wife and I talked about it, and it seems that 1945 to 1955 AT THE MOST is the range for Boomers. But 1965??? Gimme a break! Us boomers were already going to San Francisco by then! LOL... what say ye GOF's???

 

[BassmanPaul]

I'M 55... AND BEING ANGRY IS MY JOB , AND I'M GOOD AT IT...I'M IN!

IIRC the minimum age for entry is 60.

 

[ric426]

Hey @ric426 that brings to mind a thought wife and I had while watching a commercial on TV. It states, "For Baby Boomers born 1945 to 1965...." -- that seems really wrong to me. Wife and I talked about it, and it seems that 1945 to 1955 AT THE MOST is the range for Boomers. But 1965??? Gimme a break! Us boomers were already going to San Francisco by then! LOL... what say ye GOF's???

Yeah! Those pseudo-boomers born after 1955 need to come up with their own arbitrary sociological label!
What would you label the group between Baby Boomers and Generation X? Baby Reverberations? Generation W?

Here's how we are broken down to a column on a chart:
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If your existence doesn't fit into those categories, you need to straighten yourself out!

Am I being sarcastically grumpy or would this be grumpy sarcasm?

 

[ric426]

Sorry guys, can't compete with the sexy air force and naval aviation stuff, but here's what I drove in the Army. An M113 Armored Personnel Carrier.

That looks like it probably handled better, got better mileage and was safer for the occupants than some of the cars I've driven in the past!

 

[BassmanPaul]

Another thing folks is that one has to request to join our hallowed membership. You ask for a number and when and if you are assigned one you become a member.

That is all!

 

[G-Dog]

I'M 55... AND BEING ANGRY IS MY JOB , AND I'M GOOD AT IT...I'M IN!

IIRC the minimum age for entry is 60.

Another thing folks is that one has to request to join our hallowed membership. You ask for a number and when and if you are assigned one you become a member.

That is all!

LOL Look @BassmanPaul trying to act all grumpy and old and farty, as if all GOFs are over 60 (is that right, @BadExample?) and they all politely requested membership, none of us ever just said "I'm in" and got a number. Yeah, right! As if ! So, we all of a sudden gots rulez and decorum and protocol and dignification and such?!?!?!

You guys crack me up.

 

[ric426]

So, we all of a sudden gots rulez and decorum and protocol and dignification and such?!?!?!

If that's the case, I sure don't belong here! I ain't never been dignificated.

 

[ric426]

It's a bit of a backtrack, but for anyone interested, here's a fascinating animated exploded view of a Merlin engine from the inside out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEBA9kWDAyA
In many ways it's a remarkably conventional internal combustion V engine, with a big-arse supercharger hanging off the back.

 

[Stumbo]

If that's the case, I sure don't belong here! I ain't never been dignificated.

I sense your confrustion.

 

[LYNCHMAN]

WELL THAT JUST PISSES ME OFF EVEN MORE THAN I ALREADY WAS....THANX FER NUTHIN'......AND GET OFF MY F'IN LAWN!!

 

[Ken Morgan]

I don’t yell much anymore... I mean what’s the point?

No one pays any attention...and 90% of the people I hang with can’t hear even if I’m screaming, and their eyesight is so bad they can’t see the closed captions.

 

[BassmanPaul]

Correction: Looking back at the ancient history of the GOFs it appears that 50 is the minimum.

And @LYNCHMAN no “F” words please. We are most certainly grumpy but we do wash our mouths out with soap if we go too far!!

 

[ric426]

WELL THAT JUST PISSES ME OFF EVEN MORE THAN I ALREADY WAS....

Well good, then my work here is complete. Hey boys, it looks like we got another youngster who's easy to provoke.
AND STOP YELLIN', DAMMIT!!! It makes my tinnitus worse.
Like Ken sez, no one really pays any attention, so what's the point?

 

[SoulReflection]

I don’t yell much anymore... I mean what’s the point?

No one pays any attention...and 90% of the people I hang with can’t hear even if I’m screaming, and their eyesight is so bad they can’t see the closed captions.

I agree...just make up your own damn number (like I did) and be done with it. Nobody here will notice. Grump on...

 

[ric426]

we do wash our mouths out with soap if we go too far!!

Speak for yourself! I use rum.
Whether I go too far or not.

Or even think I might.

 

[BadExample]

Correction: Looking back at the ancient history of the GOFs it appears that 50 is the minimum.

Sir Paul, the original GOF, this is what I axed B-string a couple years ago:

Hi B-string!

How is your Saturday? Well I hope. My back and neck hurts :-\

I'm only 52, but very grumpy! Can I get grumpy club membership, or do I need to wait a few years?

Best wishes,

jon

And regretfully, he opened the door. I was going to PM you about this, but then you posted above.

 

[BadExample]

Oh, and my back and neck still hurts. I've got an 80 year old spine. Middle and index fingers on both hands are tingly and half numb.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Hmmmm. Nowadays 50 seems pretty young to me!
And I agree, we can be grumpy but I always felt we didn't do too much profanity here. ... just my 2¢.
I believe bro @BadExample is the newest number guy. He kept track and gave out a bunch recently-- except for one gate crasher who assigned himself a number....
Is there another full moon going on.....??????

 

[BadExample]

Paul and I discussed it, he doesn't want to take care of it, and I don't blame him. He told me to go ahead. I offered to do it as an interim. Paul is the boss IMO, and it's up to him, but we have to decide on who will take on more permanently. Our discussion was just before he went to UK. What was that, Paul, last month? Time slips away...