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Impressive-Hold7812 t1_j1nlh58 wrote
Reply to comment by False_Flatworm_4512 in Ontario Walmart turns into 'hotel' as storm-stranded shoppers get stuck for the night by jormungandrsjig
People pretend to be better than they are; to posture above more common folk.
Enjoy Tar-jay.
Growing up in the Bay Area instilled in me a great hatred for yuppy, nouveu riche, faux-sophisticated bullshit, like people could shop for culture to fill the void that is their souls, in denial of what their ancestors did to get them to the point where Trader Joe's is the floor of shopping establishments for them.
Impressive-Hold7812 t1_j1nkuo3 wrote
Reply to Ontario Walmart turns into 'hotel' as storm-stranded shoppers get stuck for the night by jormungandrsjig
When I was stationed in Kansas, I'd make the annual leave trip to California. Normally there would be winter conditions to contend with, and I knew to park at a Wallyworld if things got too bad and keep going inside for supplies.
At one point, my car was accidentally Angry Birds themed from Walmart merch I'd pick up to make it thru the night.
Whatever the storm threw at me, I could just by a solution at Walmart, and convoy out behind the big rigs as they formed up and went back on the interstate.
Impressive-Hold7812 t1_j0uoxdp wrote
Reply to comment by Formergr in Kenny DeLand Jr., formerly missing American college student, on flight back to US | CNN by Formergr
Weird moment between the carnage.
They thought I was a nice sheltered boy.
No, I was just finding out who I was becoming. A weird blend of geek and grunt.
I watched the adults around me and picked which traits I aspired to and to make my own mistakes.
I looked middle school my first tour (125lbs, SXS, and by the end of the tour, I fit XSXS), and they had fun leveraging that appearance for anything dog & pony morale related, as I had this weird magnetism of grannies feeling bad for me.
Impressive-Hold7812 t1_j0uc8aq wrote
Reply to Kenny DeLand Jr., formerly missing American college student, on flight back to US | CNN by Formergr
Mom went thru Red Cross just to get a hold of me in Ramadi 2005, annoyed chain of command till I reminded them I'm a fucking adult in a warzone, neither she or I are a Dependent of the other according to DEERS, and I had cut her off from my life.
Dude went off the grid to get high/laid. Helicopter parents went Interpol, lulz.
Congratulations Kenny, you will be remembered as the Manchild on the Milk Carton.
Impressive-Hold7812 t1_iwhvfak wrote
Reply to comment by guzhogi in At least 16 high school hockey players were injured after an allegedly intoxicated semi-truck driver crashed into their team bus | CNN by JBupp
Thanks for that update. Best wishes.
Impressive-Hold7812 t1_iwbxnuc wrote
Reply to At least 16 high school hockey players were injured after an allegedly intoxicated semi-truck driver crashed into their team bus | CNN by JBupp
Damn those buses are built like tanks.
As the market engineers for more efficient, lighter materials, glad that school buses are beefy machines.
Looks like a rear right point of impact, and the cabin held up well, with that rear axle taking a lot of the force. Lost the bus, but not the kids. Wonder how the one kid got ejected.
Can you imagine being racked out against the window on the opposite side of the bus sleeping off dinner, and then you waking up midair.
Oh, and fuck drunk drivers.
Impressive-Hold7812 t1_j47w2uo wrote
Reply to comment by 45acp_LS1_Cessna in Japanese prosecutors charge man with murdering former prime minister Shinzo Abe by Nether_Button
Slimmer, not impossible. Anyways, doesn't Japan have a history of hilariously brazen publoc assassinations? There was that one dude ran down with a sword on television...
Tetsuya's family got fucked over by Unification Church, and Abe's public support for them just rubbed that on his face and gave Tetsuya a physical target to release his frustrations upon.
It takes a lot of hatred to get around so many laws to fabricate an electrically triggered blackpowder firearm and fucking off a former Prime Minister in public.
More merciful now to sentence Tetsuya of a capital crime and execute him, as his life ended years ago, and its just been a husk of anger walking through the remains of that life.
This is as dry a case as you can get; the only variable is establishing if Tetsuya did everything alone, or if there was a support group or even a grooming agency that prodded him into this action.