The Glade 4.0

My crew and I go out to the Irish Village have an awesome dinner, innocently flirt with our servers (we started out with a male server who at some point disappeared only to be replaced by 3 very attractive lasses who were actually from Ireland ... it was a good night), and drank a few pints of Guinness ... 5, maybe 6 altogether.

Yesterday, we're out working and neither of them can hang. One crashes out in the passenger seat and the other passes out on the back deck (him we eventually took to see the doc so he could get an IV and a shot to bring him back to normal).

So the heat index was 148-degrees and we were out on the open water in full battle rattle, that's not an excuse to be a sissy. Suck it up and push forward. Pansies I'm telling you. They need toughening up. When I was in the Corps, we could drink all night, come in still half-blitzed for morning muster and do touch and go's in the helo - up and down, up and down - until the sun went down. A few 4 or 5 foot waves and they're down for the count. WTH?

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~Tolyn~

"A penny for your thoughts; $20 to act it out."

Wait, what?

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Too much testosterone in this thread for me...

Raltar sounds like he was seriously dehydrated. The IV makes sense and the shot I have no clue what it was, probably something to set his blood chemistry right.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Electrolytes would have most likely been in the IV, since lyte replacements are given either orally or over time in a drip...so no idea what the shot could have been. Possibly something for other dehydration symptoms, however, /shrug.

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

IV for dehydration most definately..


If he was cute.. We sometimes just give a saline shot if we want to see butt ;p

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Hmmmmm.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I thought this thread would be about Paladins.

148 heat index and booze the night before = bad combo.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Definitely. If you have an operation in that kind of heat the next day, you shouldn't be out drinking the night before, especially in that quantity. You're lucky you didn't go down with them. That's not being a pansy; that's being stupid and suffering the consequences.

The fact that people used to drink all night and then beat the **** out of themselves the next day dehydrated has been the cause of a lot of heat injuries and some deaths over the years. It's not admirable. Next time, think about cutting the Guiness off after 1 or 2 and drinking water. They don't taste nearly as good after the first two anyhow.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Sacrilege!

Strong like bull!

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Yeah, it sucks not being physically fit.

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Ron Paul 2012

Sounds like they needed some Powerthirst

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
END OF LINE.

You're forgetting, Tolyn, that there are Marines and then there's everyone else.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I agree that it isn't the smartest thing in the world to do. The company I work for pays us a lot of money to do what we do. In return, they have every right to expect us to come to work ready to put in a full day. It would helpful if we knew what we going to be doing each day but, as that is par for the course, we should plan accordingly. However, we should not have been out as long as we were wearing all our equipment. That was a violation of our contract. Nothing will be done about it so again, we should plan accordingly.

The IV was for dehydration. According to my partner, the shot was some sort of super anti-histamine. Apparently he takes medication that makes him sensitive to sunlight. Whatever it was, it had him up and ready to go within an hour.

I still called them pansies. They're my partners though and I don't want anything to happen to them. I'll monitor them better next time we get to go out.

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~Tolyn~

"A penny for your thoughts; $20 to act it out."

That's more like it. Regardless of contracts and all that, and military or civilian, take care of your men.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

It says "pansies," but I read "penises." I wasn't far off.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn