The Glade 4.0

All the cool kids are orange.

...and then they voted me off the island. ...and took one of my eyes. damn kids walked on my lawn, too.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Skittles as defined by the US Navy:

Aircrew personnel working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier:

Yellow Shirts: Flight Deck Officers and Plane Directors.
These are the only people on the flight deck authorized to move aircraft, or to give hand signals regarding taxiing the a/c, or moving it.

Blue Shirts: Flight deck crew, always work under the direction of a Yellow Shirt Director as part of a designated crew. Plane pushers/handlers; chock planes, push planes, scrub the decks, and do all the tough jobs on the flight and hangar decks.

Green Shirts: Catapult and Arresting Gear people. Operate, and maintain the Catapults and Arresting Gear. Squadron Aircraft Maintenance people also were green. Brown Shirts: Squadron personnel, in particular Plane Captains. (No ship's company wear brown shirts.)

Red Shirts: Aviation ordnance crews. Load and "arm" those weapons on the aircraft. Sometimes referred to as "BB Stackers", or "Ordies".

Purple shirts: Aviation fuels people. Referred to as "Grapes". Gas aircraft. Operate & maintain carrier avgas/jet fuel/ av lube oil systems.

Checker shirts: Squadron maintenance Quality Control people. Responsible for final overall checks of a/c readiness before launch. White shirts: Mail and people handlers for carrier on board delivery (COD).

White shirts with a Red Cross: Medical corpsmen assigned to flight deck during flight quarters. White shirts with a Red Cross are part of the crash crew.

I love the Navy.

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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” - Pearl S. Buck

Also as "Do not go ashore if you value your life".

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Por que, Shuyung?

My blue shirt son goes ashore frequently. Well, maybe not so much in the last month.

What is the difference?

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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” - Pearl S. Buck

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Stat Trek. Red shirts. They always die when assigned to the away team.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

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

oooooh ... my Trek fu is weak today. I see what he did there.

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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” - Pearl S. Buck

Bah! I wish I could be a moderator and have some power..least somewhere

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

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

You'd have to frequent the swamp, and it ... would change you.

You're better off... WE'RE better off with you like you are now. It's purely selfish on my part, but there you have it.

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In time, this too shall pass.

With Power comes Corruption. The world, and especially this board, and not ready for a Corrupt Kirra...

/veto

:p

That depends. Does corrupt Kirra start wearing tight black leather outfits? If so, I'm all for a corrupt Kirra.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

I could go for that. Woot woot girl power!

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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

That's because Star Trek hasn't yet figured out the concept of "Marines".. or for that matter, even crew-served weapons.

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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."

God damnit. What the **** is Stat Trek, anyway? I hate my self.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

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

Or that in a universe where they have personal shield units it might be a good idea to wear them once in a while...

in fairness Enterprise did have the MACOS

No - but she has a really sweet mustache.

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The Dude abides.

This tickled me.

I have a perfect image of a smoking hot Marine in his finest dress uniform. He's balancing his arsenal of weapons on a silver plater. Bowing slightly to the direction of the bad guy - "Choose your instrument of death today, Dirtbag."

And then he rips the guy's head off ....

/swoon

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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” - Pearl S. Buck

Goatee, I think you mean. I mean, seriously, haven't you seen Star Trek? The goatee is what signifies the evil!

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Crew-served means a weapon that takes more than one person to properly operate.. but I still chuckled!

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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."

I suppose I could unpack my black leather and whip..if I was a moderator

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

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

*watches several glade members drop dead from heart attack*

We do not negotiate with terrorists.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

You're married, right?

Of COURSE you do, if you know what's good for you. 3 times for me, I'm a slow learner.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Fixed

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister