Greetings and Salutations!
Then there’s the other Top Ten Hit for this war:
Jon Bon Jeetvi’s “Going Down in a Blaze of Curry”…
In all seriousness, the Jeet has hit the fan over there from all reports. Or as Sapper said the Shit is hitting the ‘Stan. LOTS of artillery fire, cross border firefights, and general mayhem.
Twitter is alllll over it… in particular both the Pakis and the Hindus posting non-stop public service announcements and pure propaganda. Case in point:
Now, personally?
I prefer the reality of Indian Combat Readiness:
OMFG…
That’s funny!!!
Seriously
I will say this, all humor aside:
I never in a million years would have thought that a potential Nuclear ‘World War Poo’ would start between the Pakis and Jeets… I will say, for the record that this’s probably going to go on record as the stinkiest war in history, bar none. And I mean that sincerely.
Anyways
I have never understood that Paki/Hindu “High Stepping” weirdness they do… It seems that this’s a daily occurrence at the Attari/Wagah Border. This’s a overview:
Now I’m making a wild ass guess, but mayhaps this’s some sort of Paki/Hindu “Haka” sort of thing? Doing prancing and peacocking around? Who kicks highest wins? Me? I got No idea…
Now as an interesting set of side note(s)
The video above is shot from the Pakistani side.
At 2:17 there’s a pretty cool rifle drill
At 2:27, if one looks closely you can see that the rifles they’re using, the chromed up Parade Rifles with the Bayonets attached? Those are Lee Enfield Number One Mark Fours. The shape of the magazine, as well as the spike bayonet are part of the giveaways.
Like I said, pretty cool Aye?
Now just as an ‘Inquiring Mind’ question:
I wonder if those are strictly drill and ceremony weapons OR are they like our Tomb of the Unknown(s) Guard Rifles? Our guys in the Old Guard (3rd Infantry) use M-14s with a loaded 5 round magazine that fits flush in the mag well. They also have sidearms. Those side arms are M-17 SIG Sauer(s), which (unfortunately) is the DotMil variant of the much maligned self firing/detonating P320. They used to have the SIG P226 or better known as the M-18.
However shitty that might be, SIG put a LOT of effort and work into them. There are four that they made. Those four pistols issued to the Tomb Guards have names. “Silence” and “Respect,” are the ‘day/show’ weapons, both highly polished for daylight hours while “Dignity” and “Perseverance” are matte-black pistols for night duty and bouts of inclement weather.
And yes, they are loaded.
In fact I had the privilege (if you want to call it that) of having my squad leader when I was stationed in Germany be a former member of the Old Guard, AND a “Walker” so to speak, which means he was one of the guys who actually did the “Walk”. One of the best NCOs that I ever served with, and a hard task master. Guy was a ball buster’s ball buster with ZERO tolerance for fuckups and failure. He was the guy who unfucked me so to speak.
He was also hilarious in that our Platoon Sgt at the time? Who ALSO happened to be fucked up from the neck up (how he ever made E-7 still blows my mind) and the Good Corporal would correct him, respectfully, on the regular when it came to a lot of the basic Drill and Ceremony stuff… used to piss of the E-7 to no end…fucking funny stuff there…
Believe it or not we’re still in contact.
I met him as a Corporal, and then he got E-5. I lost track of him when I PCS’d to Fort Campbell and the Rakkasans. I think he was responsible for me actually ‘making it’ in such a hardcore unit.
He eventually went green to gold, and retired as an SF Major, where then he went into contracting, and we (by chance) met up in Afghanistan much to his shock. When I was his soldier, I’ll admit, I was fucked up from the neck up, but he was patient with me, and set me up to win. He was genuinely shocked and surprised that I was there, and had BT-DT like he had for so long… Ended up telling me he was proud AF of me that I had turned out so well… sort of like a big brother as he’s got me by like 5 years.
About nine months ago we got together for lunch… thinking about it now, I need to call him again… ever since his divorce he’s sort of been on a worldwide “walkabout” as the Aussies call it, trying to figure out just what he wants to do I think… and on random occasions he ‘surfaces’ here in Tampa.
So anyways…
I’m keeping an eye on the shenanigans in Jeetland
Not sure how it’ll play out.
Realistically, it’d be best if they could settle it with a Dance-Off/Stomp/Step-Off, but unfortunately, we all know that ain’t going to happen.
Most folks on Gab/Twitter and Poast are all like “Grab the Popcorn and let’s watch them burn!!!” as realistically?
If the fucking turd-world wants to self-immolate?
Let ’em.
Fuck them street-shitting fucktards.
“Pakis to the Left of me, Hindus to the Right, Here I am, eating popcorn with a view”
Let them burn it and themselves all to the ground.
I got no dog in the hunt, except that we should not accept ‘any and all‘ refugees even IF they nuke each other until they glow…
They did it to themselves, so since they “broke it” they “bought it” so they can unfuck themselves with out OUR help.
We got enough of our own fucking problems.
Speaking of which:
We could use a couple of good thoughts for tomorrow.
Gretchen, about 6 months ago was having some minor vision issues in her right eye. Floaties and the like. Then it sounded like as it progressed that she was, like me starting to have some cataracts. Her vision started getting worse, with some blind spots and the like. Hence MY thought that it was cataracts as that’s exactly what happened to me.
Now mind you, getting this broad to a Doctor is like pulling fucking teeth man… she purely hates doing it. Don’t believe any of her denials… I’ve been with her 9 years now (OMG!) and I know she has a stronk dislike of the ‘Croakers’ so to speak…
Saturday was for whatever reason the final straw, and she asked for me to set things up w/a doc. We have Eyeball Insurance from People’s Glorious Tractor Factory as hey, for like $6 a month? Why not? I got HR to resend me the Insurance info and went from there.
I called the local eyeball clinic that -I- had used when -I- had gotten diagnosed with the cataract issue. The VA at the time was appointment wise, like a year and a half backlogged, (which is ALSO why I had gotten the work insurance) so I went local so to speak…
I put her on the phone and they started asking questions. When she described the symptoms to the chick on the phone, they were like “You need to get in here pronto.”
So what we got what was pretty much an emergency appointment yesterday at this local eyeball clinic that takes my work Eyeball Insurance for today.
We went, and whoopsie!
We have no idea the how and why of it, but she’s got a seriously ripped and detached retina. To the point that her surgery is tomorrow to see if they can save the vision in her eye. She’s had like NO head injuries, and I (pinky swear) haven’t done any “Donkey Punches” so we have no idea the how and the why of it.
According to the Eye Doc there AND Doc Samizdat (who we called/consulted with to find out if what we were told was true) both said that “These things happen!”
So any thoughts/prayers and the like are appreciated.
Thankfully the insurance has this covered, so I don’t have to worry about that, for once. So that’s what I got. How about you?
More Later
Big Country
Yeah retinal detachment can just happen. No apparent cause. Hopefully they got it in time. Good luck and positive thoughts for the Hair Goddess.
As far as the prancing Hindis, OMFG! Glad I didn’t have a mouth full of bourbon when I saw that.
Apparently both sides are trading heavy arty right now so the fuck is high.
You can get it from sneezing too hard or excessive coughing or just about anything. Did Gretchen take a head-hit when she tuned up DC? That could have started it.
Prayers and best wishes to the lady for a thoroughly boring procedure and a fast recovery.
Re the vids, reminds me of the old Monty Python “Ministry of Silly Walks” skits.
Ouch. Detached retinas are no fun.
There’s a good chance they can save the vision in the eye if it’s not really bad. Prayers offered.
Knew a guy who was definitely ‘not quite right’ upstairs, and showed evidence of early possible drug use or bad nutrition or bad personal hygiene or all three. After 9/11, he joined the Army. And somehow got assigned to The Old Guard.
Saw him years after, it was a complete change. Gone from freaky dirty snaggletoothed tattooed methhead-looking guy. Instead there was a guy who had his shit straight, tattoos gone, mouth fixed, ram-rod straight even when relaxed. The Old Guard was very good for him. Saved him in fact. He stayed in the Army as it supplied the ramework he needed.
If I recall correctly, the Indians and Chinese had a series of battles up in the Himalayas a few years ago, where the chinks were doing their usual thing of building some stuff on disputed ground and attempting squatter’s rights. Stayed as hand to hand and hand weapons only to reduce “escalation”…
The reports indicated that the Indians came out on top. Their mountain troops apparently live up there for most of their enlistments and the Chinese couldn’t handle the altitude. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Coelacanth
This might be the same incident, or a different one, but in one hand to hand face-off between the Indians and Chinese, some Chinese soldier threw a rock at the Indian Battalion Commander (a man who was respected and loved by his troops) and killed him. The Indians went crazy, a lot of new Chinese assholes were torn. Following the India-Pakistan-China altercations was a personal interest. The Indians often say “we have to teach them a lesson” when push comes to shove. They have been pretty restrained for a while. Maybe times they-are-a-changing.
I feel for her as in been there done that… TWICE!. Had both cataracts done which enabled me to get rid of the bifocals only to have a partial detachment in the left eye a three years back. took a few trips to Wills Eye in Philly for the repair and then to remove scar tissue and was just finally able to stop the steroid drops last month. While this was going on a Horseshoe tear started in my right eye. This was able to be fixed in the office with a laser. Needed no drops for this one. The biggest issue for me was the eyes will never be as good as before and being both left handed and left eye dominate, targets at 50 feet now resemble a road stripe after a mild earthquake through both irons and optics. If they caught it in time she will be good to go, oh and she will be looking like a pirate for a few weeks with her new eye patch.
A retired SF officer with a solid Army pedigree who is now a “contractor” occasionally “surfaces” in Tampa (of all places!) wow, that’s strange! The Indians and the Pakis ~supposedly~ were on the brink of canned sunshine during the Clinton admin. The story goes that Prime Minister Musharraf (a sketchy guy indeed) was visiting in DC and Clinton showed him imagery that, unbeknownst to him (????) his generals had moved some of their special missiles up towards the border. Musharraf beat feet back home to sort it out and fire a bunch of people. I was at the optometrist for my annual glasses visit and he alarmingly told me I had a retinal tear. I said I will get to it when I can, he said NO, you will go to surgery immediately. Luckily the nearest big city has an outstanding eye hospital and I got there at 5:30 PM. I had a whole team of residents converge on me and get to work. They used lasers to re-attach the retina. It was pretty amazing, but healed up very well in about a week or so. Good luck to Gretchen!
Follow up to my above post: I read/watched somewhere yesterday that (this is partially funny) a previous administration had made a deal with Pakistan so that they shipped a lot of artillery shells to a certain eastern European country. I expect significant money changed hands. The problem is that now the Pakis are drastically short of artillery shells (a story we have heard a lot lately). The partially-unfunny part is that this situation, if true, reduces their options and may move them towards more impactful decisions. We shall see.
Having a deep hatred for Indians because of both the H1-B immigrants that have turned the American engineering community into a blackened ruin, and the never ending scammers from New Delhi, I am hoping for the Pakis to turn that subcontinent into a sheet of glowing glass.
Make
Nukes
Great
Again
Or, for those of us that are into Warhammer 40K, Exterminatus! (Indians, Israelis, Burrito Goblins, and Dindus)
We have long concluded that the work of the Most Holy Inquisition would eventually find Exterminatus the only true solution to the problems of the curry heretics.
For the Emperor!!
Ancient times are here again.
Here’s hoping for video of vimanas shaped like pyramids spitting nukes and sinking coastal cities.
That and finally figuring out if nukes are fake and gay or not.
Damn, thst’s shitty man, but I’m glad to hear the Mrs. got it looked at and mitigation is in process.
Moderately elevated blood pressure over a number of years messed with my mom’s vision. Took a year of tinkering and 2 surgeries to unfuck it but it did work when she finally said uncle and had someone look at it.
Goddamn, though, Gretchen needs a run of good luck here. She’s been in the weeds lately. Seems like it always comes in waves for all of us at this age. I hope like hell this is the end of it for a bit.
LOL
my drill instructor in basic A-10-2 harmony Church was an Old Guard trooper. as squared away as fuck………………………………………………………………
we in 2nd platoon did all the fancy rifle drills- with bayonets
Until the call centers in Hyderabad and Bangladesh are hit, they aren’t serious. It’s all for show.
Word. Every time I get one of those “cold calls” from some Jeet, I am reminded of the character in the movie: SHORT CIRCUIT. “Holy cow!” “Johnny Five is alive.” But I have to agree with the above opinion(s): Not our circus, not our monkeys. And no more WOG refugees! Bleib ubrig.
Prayers for Gretchen. My wife had the same thing last summer and the recovery was pretty tough. She had to stay facedown for about 10 days. I wound up renting her something like a massage chair so that she could at least sit upright during the day. She still had to keep her head down, but at least it let her sit up and not have to lay on her stomach the whole time. If Gretchen has a similar recovery plan, I highly recommend renting a chair like that.
The vitreous humor (jello) in the eye shrinks as we age. Mine pulled a soft spot in the retina. Got both sides tack welded back down as it runs in the fambly. Same story for me, saw a blue streak for no reason, went to my eye doc, and he set up the surgeon visit for next am. Lasers the day after. Very unpleasant to have some one press on ye olde eyeball. Everything was purple for hours after that.
If you are near sighted, it’s a given the retina is prone to this.
Since 1984 the highest war zone is between these 2 countries.
I’ll always blame the muslim country first in any conflict. Amazing how quickly the April 22 terror attack is forgotten.
I used to go to India quite a bit, both by air and by sea. You can smell India long before you can see it. About a couple hours out by air, and about a day and a half by sea. A mixture of woodsmoke, earth, and spice that I actually found to be pleasant.
Having said that about the pleasant fragrance while approaching India, it’s completely different once you’re there, like only the pleasant parts travel far, while the stink stays closer to India.
By air, we’d land at Mumbai airport in the 747, all four engines would reverse thrust at high power for about 15 seconds, with shantytowns packed sardine-style about 50 yards from the wingtips, just outside the runway fence. Those people had to be deaf as a post from all that noise, which happens several times per hour for about 20 out of 24.
I thought I had seen poverty in Africa, but Hoo Boy, India was a whole different level of poor.
We used to drink at a place called Leopolds, which was a target of the terror attacks a few years ago.
I ate one of the best steaks I’ve ever had while I was in India.
Go figure.
Prayers up for Gretchen
Wifey can’t screw around with a retina tear, with modern technology they can fix it but it isn’t fun.
If she screws around and waits a week like my Grandma did about 25 years ago, they did what they could to fix it but she lost 50% vision in the eye and couldn’t drive anymore because she lost her peripheral vision and couldn’t judge distances anymore. Put ye foot in her butt and make sure she gets done what she needs to pronto.
Regarding India and Pakistan, those dumbasses are talking like Curtis Lemay in the 1960s that they can
“win” a nuclear war. Those 2 countries have like 1/4 of the population of the Earth. If those dumbasses start lobbing nuclear missiles, you could have 100s of millions of refugees.
NO country could take them in because they would totally take over your country, it’d be a frigging mess.
It it does happen, a dirty secret in IT is that people think that their servers, storage, and data are in the “Cloud” in a data center in the U.S. How do you think Amazon and Microsoft keep prices low so they can make money ? Those data centers are in India run by pajeets.
Even if they don’t take out a city, if I was the Pakistan President, I’d fire some high altitude canned sunshine bursts over India. The EMP would shut all electronics, communications and computers down. No more data centers, call centers or scammer centers.
It seems the recent political troubles in Bangladesh were a CIA regime change. Without any prompting, I immediately jumped to the conspiracy theory that this was similarly organized for the purpose of creating cover for the coming attack on Iran.
Time will tell.
The Indians are finished if the Pakis decide to deploy the trains.
Good thoughts for the Pretty Wife. You are going to have to be a DI while she is rehabbing. The protocol is to make sure the repair takes as trying to fix it a second time is iffy and of low percentages. Had a buddy go though this 10 years ago and it was 72 hours of face down on belly don’t move , don’t lift head don’t get up to pee or poo. His sig ot put him naked on an air mattress in the garage and hosed him off when the call for #1 or #2 came through. Saved his vision.
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