Night Owls Chatterbox - Part LIX!

last SG · 2008-08-07T22:23:10+00:00

i think i should makan some yoghurt

Fatum SG

Dr Chee.

I said a smart chimp .... not someone fit to be committed ...

sbst275 SG

oh boy... from e book I'm reading now, it seems e younger gen of yankees dun drink tap water anymore, thinking only bottled ones are drinkable

16/f/lonely SG

oh boy... from e book I'm reading now, it seems e younger gen of yankees dun drink tap water anymore, thinking only bottled ones are drinkable

I knew someone who refused to touch water at all. Survived totally on sugared water. (!)

Meia Gisborn SG

I wonder the coincidence.....M'sia is conducting a major exercise involving many of their ships, including at least 1 LST, and the RMAF.

S'pore on the other hand, we're conducting Ex Top-Deck, an annual major exercise involving firing involving a number of ships.

And both are operating at alarmingly close proximities......and the location? Abeam Horsburg.

It is alarming enough for the officers conducting the brief to tell us to expect lots of M'sian stuff at our area and Flankers over-flying, and not to get too alarm.

Spare a thought for the poor chaps manning the lighthouse. For the duration of the exercise, they'll have to put up with shells whizzing by overhead in both directions.

av98m SG

I still don't think public services should be run as companies ...

the whole damned country is run like a company

Kuali Baba SG

That's disgusting. A lot of plastic could be saved if we drank less bottled water.

sbst275 SG

I knew someone who refused to touch water at all. Survived totally on sugared water. (!)

you know our NEWater also got used by e author?

sbst275 SG

That's disgusting. A lot of plastic could be saved if we drank less bottled water.

ah yes, e author did mentioned abt e pollution caused by e bottles

anyway it seems one drinking water taster dun buy our NEWater saying it's from a country full of summon

16/f/lonely SG

Spare a thought for the poor chaps manning the lighthouse. For the duration of the exercise, they'll have to put up with shells whizzing by overhead in both directions.

Don't under-estimate those people.....the way they drive their boat through the busy straits will give you heart-attack.

In one memorable case, one such boat caused my ship to alter course to avoid a collision and forced us to sound the famous 6 horn-blasts accompanied by a "This is a Republic of Singapore Navy warship.......blah blah" announcment over the PA.

Well, the boat stuck its guns......and won.

the Bear SG

talking about guns and stuff, i pity the poor sod who got my BMT rifle...

we were coming back from our summary exercises... i was taken ill just before it and was made to be "enemy simulator"

about 200 blanks later, i didn't relish the thought of cleaning the goddamned thing...

the vehicle forgot our platoon, and we went back to came late.. we didn't have time to clean the thing because the armskote and DO wanted it cleared.. they had a long weekend.. so the PC said to "pour oil inside and send in.. don't care"

so we did..

never saw the rifles again because we all passed out after that

16/f/lonely SG

talking about guns and stuff, i pity the poor sod who got my BMT rifle...

we were coming back from our summary exercises... i was taken ill just before it and was made to be "enemy simulator"

about 200 blanks later, i didn't relish the thought of cleaning the goddamned thing...

so we did..

never saw the rifles again because we all passed out after that

Hopefully the next guy got it before the oil dried up, because if the carbon sticks inside the rifle....

You can curse, you can swear, but you won't be able to get it out.

Meia Gisborn SG

oh boy... from e book I'm reading now, it seems e younger gen of yankees dun drink tap water anymore, thinking only bottled ones are drinkable

That observation seems consistent with the explosive growth in the sales of bottled water in this country.

That has to be one of the biggest consumer cons/shams extant in this country now: pull some water out of a hole in the ground, bottle it up, and sell it for a premium to some unsuspecting yuppiefied consumer.

sbst275 SG

win liaoz

sbst275 SG

That observation seems consistent with the explosive growth in the sales of bottled water in this country.

and yes... some of e rivers in US are drying up cos of that

16/f/lonely SG

Shit. I can't believe I can see this on the internet as well.

This.....is the 76mm magazine.

cassie SG

Back! What did I miss?

the Bear SG

nothing.. just us bellyaching that our public services are run like profit-grubbing corporations (which they are)

Fatum SG

talking about guns and stuff, i pity the poor sod who got my BMT rifle...

we were coming back from our summary exercises... i was taken ill just before it and was made to be "enemy simulator"

about 200 blanks later, i didn't relish the thought of cleaning the goddamned thing...

so we did..

never saw the rifles again because we all passed out after that

I've encountered MGs so clogged up with carbon after belts of blanks it became a single shot weapon ...

Meia Gisborn SG

Hopefully the next guy got it before the oil dried up, because if the carbon sticks inside the rifle....

You can curse, you can swear, but you won't be able to get it out.

Carburettor cleaner (the kind that's packaged in a spray can and available at automotive parts stores for next to nothing) makes short work of carbon buildup in gun barrels.

the Bear SG

in our unit later, we used diesel

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