More signs that we live in "The Age of the Wimp."

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Re: More signs that we live in "The Age of the Wimp."

#26 Post by Bob Juch » Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:02 am

Beebs52 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:(I'll bet you knew the Final J! question last night.)
No. I was in Everett, Washington.
It's about time they got TV there.
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Re: More signs that we live in "The Age of the Wimp."

#27 Post by Beebs52 » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:53 pm

Bob Juch wrote:
Beebs52 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:(I'll bet you knew the Final J! question last night.)
No. I was in Everett, Washington.
It's about time they got TV there.
Okay, that's funny right there.
Well, then

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Re: More signs that we live in "The Age of the Wimp."

#28 Post by Spock » Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:10 pm

Another sign of the "Age of the Wimp."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... ining.html

Among a slew of basic training changes, the army is nixing the grenade throwing requirement.

>>>>"We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don't have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters. In 10 weeks, we are on a 48-hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven't thrown growing up."<<<<

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Re: More signs that we live in "The Age of the Wimp."

#29 Post by BackInTex » Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:44 pm

Spock wrote:Another sign of the "Age of the Wimp."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... ining.html

Among a slew of basic training changes, the army is nixing the grenade throwing requirement.

>>>>"We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don't have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters. In 10 weeks, we are on a 48-hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven't thrown growing up."<<<<
That's one of the best times in Basic. That and firing the LAW, which I missed because my mom decided to send me cupcakes for my 18th birthday, so I got pulled out of training because the package required a signature.

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Re: More signs that we live in "The Age of the Wimp."

#31 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Feb 15, 2018 11:39 am

Leave the skateboarders alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzAikAv17ds
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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