My grandmother came from France. She had a piece of porcelain hanging on the wall in an obscure corner in her hallway. It read "Armistice 1914-1918". Everytime we her grandchildren asked her why that thing hang there, she started to sob and cry, she refused to talk about it and she chased us away for some time. When we got a bit older, of course we learned and understood that it was better not to ask her about that thing and that war. Even after some 70 years that war still way was too much for her. The next war she lived through didn't make near that much inpact on her to the point tha she could tell stories about that freely to us. That always has amazed me.
What a moron- Telling us how to eat this food CORRECTLY ... Come On!!! Just do it however you like and enjoy as long as you eat all the meat! No man's gonna prescribe or dictate me how I should eat my food...... Get outta here....!!!
I for one am glad to see that this a depiction of a Human like all those others that get in the service and that do their tour and their work on the other side of the world.
Walker chose to depict not a stereotypical story of a nextdoor-neighbour-boy that gets into the military, is made a Fighting Machine and turns home a Hero. Instead he just shows a guy that during the whole story stays just that- A dude that just struggles in his own way to cope with what is thrown at him in life. No heroism- just plain and simple that what happens. And he survives all of that and ends up married and has to go on with his life like basically he alsways did. 'Lots' of girlfriends...? Drugs...? AWOL...? QRF-duty and the stress and frustration of being in the army and out in Iraq...? All wel- He still returns home like the kid that went away. Grown and jaded, but still that kid.
If that thing is depressing in some way, ... well..., for most folks that just about sums up how things go- That's life.
- First We Walked - Then We got Cars .... And While we are only still at the beginning of our car-phase, some of us already cannot immagine that moving without a car can be done without harm. Next step will be that we will be put in a personal car-like vehicle the moment we are born, because God-Forbid that one should Walk!!!- Nonononono- Wáy Far too dangerous and energy-consuming...!
And what will this man have leart from this outcome?
- That next time he wants to cover up his tracks, he'll have to tape off all the surveillance camera's in the whole neighbourhood FAR in advance of his intended misstep.....
That is the kind of "Readers Digest" story that my parents loved to read and sob on when they had a subscribtion to that some 40 years ago. I didn't know it was still in existance...
I only know 2 of the explained beers, so ... That puts me Way outside the American Box... And then- Budwiser is just non-interesting tastewise and Corona is nice on very hot summer-evenings. :-)
My personal list- 1- Guinness Stout the Darker the better as far as I'm concerned... :-D 2- Tripel trappist Westvleteren and other trappists in general for a nice long evening 3- Duvel on a daytime summers-terrace downtown 4- Stout Mede for special occasions 5- And for daily consumption if we do not drink wine with dinner- Palm and Grolsch lager
The rest of my list is about 40 long, so I have something to choose from. But then again- Here in the Benelux-plus-Germany corner of the world, we have plenty of interesting beers to taste. :-D
I dare say that LOTS of very highly esteemed scientists would sign in if they got the opportunity- A one-way trip to Eternal Glory and Fame and a whole row of First discoveries behind your name- Vallies and mountains and tunnel-systems and effects and layers and minerals and perhaps later on communities and streets or habitat-units and lab's on Mars with your name. Some streets, buildings, spacecraft and statues on Earth with your name and your name promimently in the Wiki and the Encyclopedia's and works of reference that matter......
Heck most main scientists anyhow only get famous only after they died and without them knowing it. So why not die on Mars and be sure about that place in History?
:lol:
And when I open the string, I only see the one from pwscott....?
Aside from that- Nice fight- Some human boxfighers could learn from it...!
Walker chose to depict not a stereotypical story of a nextdoor-neighbour-boy that gets into the military, is made a Fighting Machine and turns home a Hero.
Instead he just shows a guy that during the whole story stays just that- A dude that just struggles in his own way to cope with what is thrown at him in life. No heroism- just plain and simple that what happens. And he survives all of that and ends up married and has to go on with his life like basically he alsways did. 'Lots' of girlfriends...? Drugs...? AWOL...? QRF-duty and the stress and frustration of being in the army and out in Iraq...? All wel- He still returns home like the kid that went away. Grown and jaded, but still that kid.
If that thing is depressing in some way, ... well..., for most folks that just about sums up how things go- That's life.
- First We Walked
- Then We got Cars
.... And While we are only still at the beginning of our car-phase, some of us already cannot immagine that moving without a car can be done without harm.
Next step will be that we will be put in a personal car-like vehicle the moment we are born, because God-Forbid that one should Walk!!!- Nonononono- Wáy Far too dangerous and energy-consuming...!
- That next time he wants to cover up his tracks, he'll have to tape off all the surveillance camera's in the whole neighbourhood FAR in advance of his intended misstep.....
.... :lol:
My personal list-
1- Guinness Stout the Darker the better as far as I'm concerned... :-D
2- Tripel trappist Westvleteren and other trappists in general for a nice long evening
3- Duvel on a daytime summers-terrace downtown
4- Stout Mede for special occasions
5- And for daily consumption if we do not drink wine with dinner- Palm and Grolsch lager
The rest of my list is about 40 long, so I have something to choose from. But then again- Here in the Benelux-plus-Germany corner of the world, we have plenty of interesting beers to taste. :-D
Wouldn't mind to have the moving version on my wall somehow.
Heck most main scientists anyhow only get famous only after they died and without them knowing it. So why not die on Mars and be sure about that place in History?