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IAmNERD
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since nobody will ever trust us again.
So they will trust an Iran propped up by China? Have you missed the part where Iran attacked every single Gulf nation in one hell of a tantrum?
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So this guy becomes a naturalized citizen, gets caught helping ISIS and is convicted. When he was released feom prison, why the frick wasn't his citizenship revoked and he deported back to Africa?
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It has to be either some really bad plastic surgery or else some sort of hoax.
Some trans makeup artist claimed to go in disguise as Carrey, but Carrey's PR team said that it was actually Jim.
Who knows with that guy? It could be that he hired someone to be his doppelganger and showed up too and kept it going in the press afterwards as some sort of performance art. Dude is just really weird.
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I disagree completely without analyzing the losses. 6 losses were by less than 6pts. Basically, final possession. 3 losses were to 1 or 2 seeds. Beat a 1 seed on the road by double digits.
Yeah, you can look at these points and take them as positives. They are. But you are ignoring the glaring negatives for some reason. Taken to OT by Bethune-Cookman early on. Got absolutely shellacked by Michigan and Arizona. Git shellacked by Purdue who has fallen apart down the stretch. Then proceeded to lose by double digits to Mizzou before losing 7 or 8 of 10 to close out the regular season. Which, oh BTW, included being embarrassed by our main rival.
Yeah, there were bright spots, but they're outweighed by the bad and downright ugly spots.
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It's clear he is miscast as a PG.
Yeah and what is crazy is that Bruce and Steven both knew/know this and built the team around trying to make him a 1 anyway...:lol:
That is just crazy.
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Auburn doesn’t belong in the tournament
Eh, they probably dont.
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and subsequently bashing the coach.
The criticism is deserved. He lost the team in a very important stretch of conference play. He failed pretty bad in his debut season as a head coach about as bad as he could.
This team was never going to win the SEC or make a run to the Final Four or Elite Eight. But, they're certainly more talented than the 12th best SEC team. He had the opportunity to rally the troops when things started to go sideways and every move he made seemed to make the guys on the team give less and less of a shite with each one. Only thing to do now is reset, build his squad for next season and get to work improving. All the other committee and AU Family comments are irrelevant.
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Really sucks if we lose Pettiford.
:lol: Dude is G-O-N-E, gaaahwwwn. No way he sticks around.
re: SEC Tourney Round 2: We made it vs UTenn
Posted by IAmNERD on 3/12/26 at 6:43 pm to auburnnyc94
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Auburn vs Miami (OH) is must see TV. Bruce comments on them and his nepo hire going against them. Make it happen Turner
Yep. Just make it one of the play-in games in Dayton and make one of these sorry arse teams the sacrificial lambs for Michigan or Duke. Maybe it will be entertaining if either team has any pride about them at all. (Im not so sure our guys do though...)
re: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo alleges being shoved by Rodeo security over seat dispute
Posted by IAmNERD on 3/12/26 at 12:42 pm to ILurkThereforeIAm
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I don't live in Houston, but for whatever reason I've heard her name before.
Well, just ask her. She will tell you how important she really is:
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the County Executive of the third largest county in the nation,”
:lol: I cannot believe she actually said that.
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With that being said, now that mine are 10 and 12, Im glad I went ahead and got it knocked out.
Mine are the exact same age as yours. I dont remember it being a huge jump from 1 kid to 2. But, my wife stayed home until they both started school. So it may have been different if you were to ask here :lol:.
I do remember the time when the oldest was 4 and the youngest was 2 being particularly rough. They just need so much attention at that age range if you want to raise some normal kids. It was tough for us because it seemed like EVERYTHING revolved around two toddlers. We forgot about each other and drifted apart a little during that time. We had to have a reset and make it a priority to make some time for each other and ourselves.
But we made it through and we have two great kids that are smart and respectful and have lots of friends. Its fun now and im proud of my kids.
Lol @ that attorney's comme ts in the video. "Oh, they knew who they were dealing with. Just let him go and say 'It's Dayshawn...We can just go get him later'. I cant tell if he had any gun in his hand..." :lol:
What a clown.
What a clown.
re: The US Military is getting its first new hand grenade since Vietnam
Posted by IAmNERD on 3/12/26 at 10:22 am to JiminyCricket
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the general public's idea of what the capabilities of an M67 grenade are and the Veteran accounts of the capabilities of the M67 grenade are very different.
For sure. As you said, the picture that Hollywood paints is not reality. They dont just immediately kill everything within 50 feet of one. But inside of 15-20 feet, the likelihood of one being able to continue the fight as is goes way down depending on where the shrapnel catches them. Inside probably 6-10 feet, you're, more than likely, out of the fight. Inside 2 or 3 feet, you're either dead or missing at least one appendage.
The "drone drop" videos that started coming out of Ukraine highlight this. Even the old "pineapple" fragmentation grenades are pretty effective inside like 10 feet. If you see one of those being dropped from a drone and it lands like 10-15 feet away, most of the time the recipient immediately goes down reaching for their feet/legs or they start hopping for cover because they caught some hot steel in the lower part of their body. They dont die right then, but they are no longer mobile and a non-mobile target for these drone operators are as good as dead. The direct hits with M67 grenades are surprisingly gruesome sometimes.
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She wasn't sorry she was wrong, she was sorry that someone called her out and she had to admit the lie.
Yup. Its why I dont care for these "apologies" at all. She knew it was a lie when she said it...She didn't care. CNN knew it was a lie when she said it...they didn't care. CNN and Abby Phillips did not care at all about the lie. They are only doing this because of the response from the public has been way more harsh than they ever thought it would be. This is them trying to smooth it over until they can push a different lie in the future.
This "apology" is pointless.
re: The US Military is getting its first new hand grenade since Vietnam
Posted by IAmNERD on 3/12/26 at 9:11 am to JiminyCricket
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don't make near the boom they are portrayed to make in movies.
Of course not. Hollywood makes everything over-dramatic so it looks better on screen.
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that they're not really all that effective
IDK about all that. If you go watch any of the Russia/Ukraine videos out there, they use a frick ton of grenades and they are extremely effective when they get them close.
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I seem to remember a prototype being pushed that allowed the user to screw on additional grenades to the bottom of the casing to give some extra boom when needed.
Interesting. Never heard of that, but you're right. SOCOMstarted using them back in 2010 according to wiki:
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In 2010, US SOCOM began fielding the Mk 21 Mod 0[11] Scalable Offensive Hand Grenade that delivers blast effects. The grenades are "stackable," meaning up to three can be connected to increase blast power.
Thats pretty damn cool.
re: The US Military is getting its first new hand grenade since Vietnam
Posted by IAmNERD on 3/12/26 at 8:59 am to williamfrench3559
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Hmm. How friendlies are to be 100% safe (we have ears, too) is interesting.
This was my thinking as well. Especially if its like an apartment complex where you are already inside rather than being outside of a small building and throwing it inside before entering. Won't the guy who threw it get the same (I know it wouldn't be exactly the same just due to being farther away) blast pressure since he is already inside the structure as well?
The US Military is getting its first new hand grenade since Vietnam
Posted by IAmNERD on 3/12/26 at 8:40 am
The US Army just cleared the "M111 Offensive Hand Grenade" for full release. It is the first new offensive grenade since the M67 in 1968. The M67 is a "fragmentation" grenade that relies on the explosion to create shrapnel and propel that shrapnel out to kill enemies. The new M111 relies simply on the blast overpressure to do the job.
The rationale is that during urban combat and fighting inside of a structure, the frag grenades can become dangerous to its users and/or friendly forces in the area. The new grenade relying on just the overpressure is supposed to be better for close quarters fighting. That is the theory, anyway. Seems to me that the blast overpressure to be effective. It seems to me like overpressure inside a building is still gonna be just as dangerous to the users as fragmentation weapons. But ive never been fighting goat herders in a mud hut either, so I dont really know.
What are the thoughts of the board? Especially those kf you that have been over there and thrown an M67 into a room before entering. Did you worry about catching some shrapnel before you went through the door? Do you think these new grenade will be as effective?
Short video I found on the new grenade:
The rationale is that during urban combat and fighting inside of a structure, the frag grenades can become dangerous to its users and/or friendly forces in the area. The new grenade relying on just the overpressure is supposed to be better for close quarters fighting. That is the theory, anyway. Seems to me that the blast overpressure to be effective. It seems to me like overpressure inside a building is still gonna be just as dangerous to the users as fragmentation weapons. But ive never been fighting goat herders in a mud hut either, so I dont really know.
What are the thoughts of the board? Especially those kf you that have been over there and thrown an M67 into a room before entering. Did you worry about catching some shrapnel before you went through the door? Do you think these new grenade will be as effective?
Short video I found on the new grenade:
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I think 20 million Russians died fighting Gernany and Germany lost 7 million.
The numbers are beyond comprehension.
That is what was so jarring to me about when I started reading WW2 stuff on my own. In school, we just get the American version of Europe and the Pacific really. Then you see the scale of some of the battles on the Eastern Front and it just dwarfs anything the Western Front saw. Seeing the numbers at Stalingrad where over 2 million died and imagining Kursk and seeing 6000 tanks.
Its scary to think what would have happened if the Soviets had lost and the Germans turned that force in those numbers westward.
re: Tucker doing his CIA mind tricks thing, says Trump means rape Iranian women for trophies
Posted by IAmNERD on 3/8/26 at 8:35 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
I know. I was just trying to think of any since then (I couldnt think of one) and remembered that fiasco and got mad about it all over again.
re: Tucker doing his CIA mind tricks thing, says Trump means rape Iranian women for trophies
Posted by IAmNERD on 3/8/26 at 8:26 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
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Last 'unconditional surrender' I am familiar with was the U.S. telling Japan that, and signing the treaty on the USS Missouri.
There was one in 2021 where the Afghan Security Forces unconditionally surrendered to the Taliban.
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by IAmNERD on 3/8/26 at 1:04 pm to hawgfaninc
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Iran is expanding its target list, moving beyond military sites to include U.S. economic assets and strategic interests across the region,
Seems better than random hotels in Dubai and apartment buildings in Bahrain.
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