I was assigned to do a non-fiction book report in highschool. I walked into the school library, headed towards the nonfiction book section. As I perused the books, a small grey hardcover book with a black hand sporting a red bracelet of barbed wire caught my eye. The title in big red blocky letters read: Treblinka. The book; written by Jean-Francois Steiner (the progeny of an Auschwitz prisoner) was a supposed account of a concentration camp located in Poland. There was a prisoner revolt of 640+ prisoners, of which only 40 or so survived.

It is a fictional account "as close to the facts as we may come" (quoted from a feminist in the introductory section of the book). The dramatic account of the book was based off of 3 Treblinka survivors, mainly based off of the testimony of one Eliyajou Rosenberg. Rosenberg swore not one but two affidavits that a notorious guard by the moniker Ivan the Terrible died during the prisoner revolt; beaten to death in his bunk with shovels by multiple prisoners. The book depicts Ivan's death in a one-on-one fight with the main protagonist stabbing him with a knife.

Steiner was supposedly pressured to make Ivan's death more 'dramatic.' Knife or shovel, it doesn't matter; because a Polish retired US autoworker named John Demjanjuk was fingered as being Ivan the Terrible by one E. Rosenberg. The same jew who largely participated in the Eichmann trials, and many others resulting from the Nazi witch-hunts of the OSI. The prosecuting attourneys ammunition against Demjanjuk? The testimony of a jew who swore two affidavits that Ivan the Terrible died during the prisoner uprising and a soviet forged ID card.

Great, I managed to stumble across the one fiction book classified in the Non-fiction section for my book report. I was tempted to title my book report: Can We Trust the Sheep that Escape the Fire? Instead that ended up being the title for an article I was composing on the side about some of the things I had stumbled across after reading and researching that book. I had a Russki for an English teacher who by chance got me suspended the year before I was assigned to her, so you can imagine the friction in that particular class.

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During highschool I was particularly interested in WWII, and shortly after that book report, Totse registration opened up and I could level up from a lurker to a registered user. Totse was introduced to me by another lurker; a classmate of mine who had an affinity for lockpicking. After lurking so long I wanted to create a somewhat innocuous and benign seeming handle, and at the same time would be fairly dark, perhaps offensive but only if one understood the reference. Thus my screen name was born.

Let's just say a lot of the people in my platoon who was missing gear 'found' what was missing, and he ended up paying a few hundreds of dollars to pay for gear he 'lost.'

I got the whole platoon smoked for pissing in this fatfucks 1 qt cantine. While we were rolling in the mud, the Drill Sergeant stressed the fact that atleast I was man enough to admit my wrongdoings because "people don't piss in cantines for no reason." The fucker pocketed a package of M&M's from an MRE that he was supposed to give up to the Drill Sergeant because candy was "contraband."
He offhandedly mentioned to me how he was feeling pretty "high" from the chocolate during toe the line. The next morning I found the wrapper in my footlocker, and I figured not only is he fat and lazy but too stupid to dispose of the evidence properly, (I usually flushed my candy wrappers down the toilet) so I just put the wrapper back in his foot locker thinking no harm no foul. The same wrapper ended up back in my locker, and then I deduced that he had malicious intent, so I decided to give him a surprise for the next hydration drill. Of course he went to the Drill Sergeants to rat me out, but didn't have the balls to own up to why I did what I did.

We had a lot of hypocrites and rats in the 'racks. For example of the the PG's was berating me at breakfast for being the 'contraband king,' going on about how he quit using tobacco weeks before enlisting... I looked at him, said "Bullshit, you've bought dip since, you just didn't know it was from me." The pizza faced farmboy didn't have much to say after that.

IIRC Ziggurat was the (or part of) username of the asshat behind the whole bill keller debacle that Warweed absolved. IMO, not the best basis for the name of a refuge for the community.

Quote from: Lanny on October 22, 2014, 08:38:00 pm

Definitely not rude, what's rude is being a dipshit and leaving your clothes in the washer after they're done when someone is waiting on it.

That

When I was in the military it was common courtesy to leave clothes that finished the wash cycle on top of the washer just in case the owner wanted a special drying cycle.  It was also common courtesy to sit and watch the tv during the last few minutes of the wash and dry cycle to make sure no one else was inconvenienced by a dead washer or dryer.  No one would ever interrupt a cycle...that would result in that person never being able to do laundry again. Ive seen rude launderers get their shit left in trash cans,  thrown out the door onto the ground, 'dirty-dicked' and used as toilet paper. There was a douche who pissed someone off so was watching his load to make sure it stayed safe.  A previous victim ran up to the machine before he could stop him and dropped something in that ruined every piece of clothing. One uniform cost about $100 at the time and there were multiple ones in

My experience in the barracks was you watched your laundry with the eye of a hawk, you know the old adage: "there is only one thief in the army; everyone else is just trying to get their shit back."
At the time of my enlistment it cost about $70 for a set of ACU's, ($35 for the trousers/$35 for the top) though ACU's weren't the prime target but the PT uniform shirt's sure disappeared fast.
I was lucky in that my room was on the corner of the U-shaped barracks and the laundry rooms were housed at the corners of every floor. In basic it was easier to determine laundry thieves because of the exaggerated captive audience, but with a barracks housing everything from Commo to Engineers' unmarried NCOs/full bird privates and below it was harder to figure out who stole what. I remember some fuckwit in basic stole my fucking laundry bag, tried playing it off like it was his, till I turned it inside out and it revealed the decal I bartered with another recruit to stencil the platoon eblem, and my first initial/last name/last four that I sharpied on the top right corner.

I left TDD soon after pill pooper was modded. It seemed like he just modded him simply because of post count, because his post content was lacking to say the least.
For all the trash talk about Meta's heavy handed modship, everyone seems to forget what a blessing he was when SG was getting shat on with spam.

While the companies’ actions are understandable, Comey said, “the place they are leading us is one we shouldn’t go to without careful thought and debate.”

...Much like the careful thought and debate that went into blatantly trampling over a citizens 4th amendment right.

The smaller passenger buses don't have change counters. So if I'm really broke or about to go cash my work check I'll try to catch one of those, and have gotten on for as little as $0.41. There were days I've been broke, having to ask for courtesy rides getting home from work near the port of Seattle, which is no longer a mandatory policy and is completely up to the drivers discretion. I would feel worse about having to do this except for a lot of times I just pay 2 $1 bills, and the black bus driver gives me a funny look, asks if I have the extra $0.25, and then 10 minutes later let droves of blacks on for free.
I try not to do that unless I absolutely have to, and if it's a payday I'll sometimes pay extra fare on the return trip. Normally the fare is $2.25-$2.50, depending on peak hours, and you get a transfer slip that's good for a few hours. We have a few express buses that don't accept transfers or give them so if you have to use 'em you'll end up paying over $5 for a trip one way.

The metro bus system in my area is all fuckered up. We agreed to a sales tax increase and higher car tabs so the bus system could be expanded 20% by 2016. Well it's 2014 and they are asking for more money. The crooked politicians screamed a bloody category 5 calamity would engulf the metro system if we didn't raise taxes yet again, and when that vote got shut down, they magically were able to find enough money to only cut the buses by about half of what they were threatening.

The politicians are robbing Washingtonian taxpayers blind. We privatized liquor sales, and the tax revenue was supposed to go towards law enforcement and alcohol abuse/education treatment. I-1183 was pretty clear on where the revenue was supposed to go. But somehow in 2012 when they were "balancing the budget" over 100 million of tax revenue from liquor sales was squandered into the state's financial black hole, aka the general fund.

Dragon Warrior.

It's basically like a primitive 8bit pokemon game. I only wish I could FF the text on the regular NES like one could on the PC emulators.