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[R_of_G]

I am enjoying everyone's as well. Being a fan of such music, I am esp. enjoying R_of_G's theme. :

Thank you Steve. I don't ski, but the pics and videos you've been posting have been very cool to look at.

And as today is another day... here is another change to another of "R_of_G's Favorite Punk Albums"

To recap, so far it's been

- Television - Marquee Moon
- Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
- The Ramones - The Ramones
- The Clash - The Clash

And now...

Dead Boys - Young Loud & Snotty

More to come. Stay tuned.:

[player***]

for the record.liked your other avatar Tot w/ship/saucer.keep em coming folks really liking this.

[Ch0jin]

Firstly. Gil, I'm loving your theme! I had two grandparents in the RAAF during WW2 and I've had an interest in military aircraft for as long as I can remember. Well all things military actually.

Which brings me to my latest..

Previous pic was me firing the iconic, American made M60 General Purpose Machine Gun firing 7.62x51mm NATO ball rounds. Or as many people refer it it, "The Rambo Gun". I've had several people say to me in one way or another over the years that you cannot fire a weapon like this from the hip, the way Rambo did it. I'm no Rambo, but I'm living proof you can.

This pic is me with arguably the most prolific assault weapon on the planet. The Russian designed, Chinese Made, AK47. Using 7.62mm x 39mm rounds with smaller casing and less oomph than the 7.62mm x 51mm used in the M60 (and M14 etc) it is still a loud angry junkyard dog of a weapon.

I forgot I was wearing the dorky orange ear protection in this pic

[Gil Janus]

Thanks Ch0jin - I've had some fun collecting the images, and arranging them in a story telling order.

Here's today's change. I'm now wearing the patch for the 4750th Test Squadron, one of the collection of folks who help run the Air Defense Weapons Center at Tynall AFB.



Gil

[R_of_G]

On we go with the theme for the month, R_of_G's favorite punk albums.

To recap, we've had...

• Television - Marquee Moon
• Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
• The Ramones - The Ramones
• The Clash - The Clash
• Dead Boys - Young, Loud and Snotty

And today it's...

• Wire - Pink Flag

[Guitar-Chris]

Change my avatar?

Ok, it was time to get rid of this ridiculous boring thing. So i uploaded an image of myself

[oldguy]

I guess I never realized you wore spectacles, Christian!

[oldguy]

And now, in keeping with oldguy's bunny theme in the avatar thread, we turn our attention to some of the less friendly bunnies. Some people know about them, but far too few have spoken up..........perhaps out of fear. I thought of starting a separate thread, "Are bunnies bad for you?", but found it too inconclusive. In any event, keep a stiff upper lip, and a sense of humour about you.

I present to you.........[shivers]..............proof of the bunny dark side.

Scaring little children.........for shame, for shame.

[Ch0jin]

Mate that bunny looks more like a wolf or at least a dog of some kind.

For my money one of the scariest bunnies has to be the one from the film Donnie Darko.

[tunghaichuan***]

Donnie: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

My favorite line from that movie.

tung

Mate that bunny looks more like a wolf or at least a dog of some kind.

For my money one of the scariest bunnies has to be the one from the film Donnie Darko.

[Robert****]

I re-watched that movie last night! Very interesting movie, I had to stay up late just to see the ending again.

[Ch0jin]

Bit of trivia re: Donnie Darko then (seeing as though it'd fresh in your mind..)

The song they play at the end, Mad World, performed by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules (cover of a Tears for Fears song) was used in Australia a little while back as the BT for a TV commercial promoting a news website (ninemsn).

The problem was, after seeing Donnie Darko a few times, I associate that song with his death. It's kind of a sombre but fitting tune to close the film.

When ever I saw the ad on TV though I just thought "How Depressing". Terrible, terrible song selection for an ad.

Although I gotta say, it's sure a popular track in TV and has been used in...

Cold Case
CSI
Emmerdale
ER
Jericho
Judging Amy
Las Vegas
Line of Fire
Medical Investigation
Nip/Tuck
Silent Witness
Smallville
Station X
Tatort
The Cleaner
The L Word
Third Watch
Without a Trace

Anyway, sorry thats rather OT, but I can't help myself sometimes

[Gil Janus]

Another day, another patch - this one is for the 4756th Air Defense Squadron - another of the squadrons based at Tyndall AFB that helped run the place. The 4750th and the 4756th were responsible for maintaining and launching and recovering Ryan Firebee Drones - the targets that the fighters would be going up against.



Starting tomorrow, we will be getting into plane images !

Gil

[sunvalleylaw]

Different toy again, with vid to match. Big wheels this time.

[R_of_G]

Today's featured punk album is...

• Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material 1979

This thing is just explosive.

• Television - Marquee Moon 1977
• Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation 1977
• The Ramones - The Ramones 1976
• The Clash - The Clash 1977
• Dead Boys - Young, Loud and Snotty 1977
• Wire - Pink Flag 1977

[Bloozcat]

Firstly. Gil, I'm loving your theme! I had two grandparents in the RAAF during WW2 and I've had an interest in military aircraft for as long as I can remember. Well all things military actually.

Which brings me to my latest..

Previous pic was me firing the iconic, American made M60 General Purpose Machine Gun firing 7.62x51mm NATO ball rounds. Or as many people refer it it, "The Rambo Gun". I've had several people say to me in one way or another over the years that you cannot fire a weapon like this from the hip, the way Rambo did it. I'm no Rambo, but I'm living proof you can.

This pic is me with arguably the most prolific assault weapon on the planet. The Russian designed, Chinese Made, AK47. Using 7.62mm x 39mm rounds with smaller casing and less oomph than the 7.62mm x 51mm used in the M60 (and M14 etc) it is still a loud angry junkyard dog of a weapon.

I forgot I was wearing the dorky orange ear protection in this pic

Firing the weapons you mentioned is kind of a rare privilege in your country these days, isn't Ch0jin?

Yes, you certainly can fire an M-60 from the hip...but your accuracy won't be too good beyond spitting range...

BTW: I too share your "other" hobby...in a pretty big way...

[Ch0jin]

Firing the weapons you mentioned is kind of a rare privilege in your country these days, isn't Ch0jin?

It certainly would be yes Blooze, I had to surrender all my rifles a number of years back when the laws changed. However these pictures were taken in Cambodia where it's as easy as slipping the right people a bit of US currency.

Yes, you certainly can fire an M-60 from the hip...but your accuracy won't be too good beyond spitting range...

Oh I agree completely! I remember thinking whilst shooting it "Wow this thing has way less kick than I expected" However when I watched the video my mate shot, I actually got forced back about 5-6ft over about 200 rounds. I did totally freakin shred a 44 Gallon drum of water though (at a range of I dunno, maybe 50ft) haha.

BTW: I too share your "other" hobby...in a pretty big way...

Sadly it's more of a general interest these days than a hobby for me because of the legal situation. Long gone are the days when we could (literally) just belt around the bush in a ute with a bunch of guns shooting at stuff. That's why when I ended up in Cambodia, I jumped at the chance to gain access to a militia base and their arsenal

In addition to the AK47 and the M60 I also got to try out a Thompson submachine gun, an M16, a couple of RPG's or "Rocket Launchers" as the locals called them. Tossed a few Frag gren's and killed an innocent shrub with an M203 grenade launcher. Was a top day out, even if we did think we were going to be killed for our passports at one point.
"Get out of the car, give us your passports and walk that way into the bush" were the first instructions we received from two armed soldiers......

[peachhead***]

Wow...neat story. Sounds like you had a pretty cool day though!

Obviously they didn't kill you- but what did they want??

[Ch0jin]

Bugger...Just noticed the avatar I wanted to use today isn't on this PC...

Wow...neat story. Sounds like you had a pretty cool day though!

Obviously they didn't kill you- but what did they want??

Oh, it was all totally innocent actually. They wanted our passports for "security reasons", but they actually ordered us out of the car for the simple reason that they intended to load the boot, err sorry, trunk, with guns and ammo and drive the car out to where we were going to be shooting. As the track was mostly loose sand they wanted us out of the car to help prevent it from getting bogged (it was a big old 70's Merc). However, we didn't find that out until a little after we started walking off into the bush so yeah, we made a few nervous jokes about how four unarmed guys would take out two Cambodian militia armed with AK47's...

Probably wouldn't have been so freaky if they or our hookup spoke better English or I spoke more Khmer than "Thank you" and "No Thank you", but then it wouldn't have been such a good story