Night Owls Chatterbox - Part LIX!
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Back! What did I miss?
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nothing.. just us bellyaching that our public services are run like profit-grubbing corporations (which they are)
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Originally posted by the Bear:
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
I've encountered MGs so clogged up with carbon after belts of blanks it became a single shot weapon ...
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Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:
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. -
in our unit later, we used diesel
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
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.
I used to recce for diesel from the ship engine, but after diesel prices went up, I was forbidden from taking more. -
i'm going to sleep early tonight..
goodnight everyone..
and if kopi returns, torment him for me
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Originally posted by the Bear:
in our unit later, we used diesel
That works too, but given the current price of diesel...
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Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:
I used to recce for diesel from the ship engine, but after diesel prices went up, I was forbidden from taking more.
C'mon, be honest! The real reason you were forbidden, was that the captain was tired of his ship constantly running out of fuel in mid-ocean! -
watching e news
they're talking abt puppet shows in dialect during 7th Mth
e root of e problem is cos kids these days dun speak or understand dialect
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This is a older version of the 76mm the frigate uses. The new one has a computer to "aid" us.....it is useful. But it gives the mainteinance guys more headaches.
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
C'mon, be honest! The real reason you were forbidden, was that the captain was tired of his ship constantly running out of fuel in mid-ocean!
My ship last refueled more than a year ago.After a year of all kinds of failures, we kept getting grounded.
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Originally posted by sbst275:
watching e news
they're talking abt puppet shows in dialect during 7th Mth
e root of e problem is cos kids these days dun speak or understand dialect
rubbish ! ... street hokkien is still very much alive and kicking ! ...
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Originally posted by sbst275:
watching e news
they're talking abt puppet shows in dialect during 7th Mth
e root of e problem is cos kids these days dun speak or understand dialect
No lah.....they know CB, LJ, NB....etc etc. -
Originally posted by Fatum:
rubbish ! ... street hokkien is still very much alive and kicking ! ...
eh... do you find young Teochews really know how to speak close to pure local Teochew dialect?it's terribly mixed w/ Hokkien these days
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Vulgarities go beyond the language boundary.
I used to know how to swear in Thai, Vietnamese and Indon.
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Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:
This is a older version of the 76mm the frigate uses. The new one has a computer to "aid" us.....it is useful. But it gives the mainteinance guys more headaches.
Hmm... do they sell a smaller and more portable version of that? Say, chambered in .223?
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okie ... ops sec ! .... ops sec ! ....
too much info ! ...
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another thing is, I'm talking abt conversation purely in dialect
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Originally posted by sbst275:
eh... do you find young Teochews really know how to speak close to pure local Teochew dialect?it's terribly mixed w/ Hokkien these days
I don't suppose that's the fault of us hokkiens ..
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Hmm... do they sell a smaller and more portable version of that? Say, chambered in .223?
I'm not a salesman.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
I don't suppose that's the fault of us hokkiens ..
nah... times have changedppl hardly speak dialects at home either
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And hence subjecting everyone to using arm power thru' the oars. Any wonder why the practice was stopped???!!! LOL!
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Originally posted by sbst275:
nah... times have changedppl hardly speak dialects at home either
Dialect will probably die out....there's little opportunity to use and its not formally taught and it can't be written. -
Originally posted by Fatum:
rubbish ! ... street hokkien is still very much alive and kicking ! ...
True, but the government's acknowledgement of that would be tantamount to an implicit admission that their "Speak Mandarin" campaigns through the years have been utter and dismal failures.And the SG government, as we know, never does wrong!