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88978 No. 88978 ID: c032bd Stickied hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Last 50 posts]
I remember before OPchan, my first post on old /k/, 2006, where I met many of you and many people who I remember fondly but haven't seen for years. I caught myself going over the old names tonight and realized how few of the original guys are left... I was 21 years old, still in the Army, and we were living in what we now see as the glory days of *chan culture. When OPchan started, I migrated over here and here I have been ever since. This community has been something genuinely special to me for all these years, in many ways we grew up together. You've consoled me through heartbreaks and hospital stays and bouts of depression, made me laugh like a lunatic, taught me more about firearms than I every could have known, and generally you've been a fucking outstanding bunch of bastards.

When we took over a few years ago, we took this place on ourselves because even though there were problems, this community meant something very important to us, and we knew it meant something very important to you. It all sounds really melodramatic in writing, but it's true. Your Mods, Admins, and other staff have worked harder than you will ever know to keep this place running, we've dumped in hundreds of hours and hundreds of our own dollars not because you all need this place, but because we need it too. While at times I have wished I could take some of you behind the shed and put a .22 in your ear, by and large this place is something I am very proud of, and being your Admin has been a distinct pleasure. Managing a *chan is an inexact science, and I've certainly made some mistakes, but all in all, I'm proud of what we have done here, and glad to have spent the efforts I have.

Which brings me to my point. I have been, at best, an absentee landlord for far too long, forcing other staff to shoulder the burden without me, and in truth, it's been nearly a year since I managed day-to-day affairs with regularity. I've been an Administrator in name only, and really, that is both unfair to you and unfair to my fellow staff, and so, I'm going to be stepping down. Believe me when I say, it's not you, it's me.

I love this place, I love this community, and I am glad to call many of you friends, both IRL and here. I hope that as long as two people want to come here and argue about guns, the lights will stay on. Remember, I was for the most of my time here just another guy in the group, and when this place was crashing down, I stepped in to save it not because I wanted to be an Admin, but because I didn't want to see the place I loved go out like that. I hope that, for all our squabbles and bickering, some of you still love this place like I do. Remember, it was never and will never be your staff that makes this site what it is, it's all of you. Without you, this place is meaningless.

And so, I'm stepping away. I'll still be around sometimes I am sur
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>> No. 90563 ID: b47db1
I leave for 5 fucking minutes
>> No. 91862 ID: 526837
I haven't been here in some years. But you were always a good guy to have around, Swissy. Make sure you come visit sometime


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18535 No. 18535 ID: 3d73dc Stickied hide watch quickreply [Reply] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
Is anyone interested in a new travelling box?

Stipulations:
Post 'I want it' with an email to get added to the master list.
Each member is allowed the box for one week.
You can only get the box once a month (IE, three people must seperate your claims of dibs).
Buy in is shipping. Don't be an idiot.

ALSO,
If there's a lot of interest, anyone wanna donate 1-2 dollars on paypal to add to my ~20 budget for the box?
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Picked up the box from the post office this morning, on my way to work. I'll be looking through it when I get home tonight.

Happy Thanksgiving.
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>>91927


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92187 No. 92187 ID: 39d4a6 hide watch quickreply [Reply]
Well i'm finally to admit I'm an alcoholic...
>> No. 92189 ID: 3c3ef9
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I know the feeling.

I noticed I had a problem when I found myself being very thirsty and unsuccessfully trying to satisfy it with several glasses of ice water all day. It was crazy. Then as soon as I cracked open a beer or took a shot, it was instant relief.
>> No. 92198 ID: 6c9afb
Such is life in the zone. I really wish weed was legal because the only way for me to wind down is to drink and its wrecking my heart.
>> No. 92241 ID: e365e5
I honestly expected I'd end up an alcoholic, but strangely, after a bad experience(entire red solo cup of vodka, half a bottle of southern comfort, whataburger at 3am), I, for the most part, stopped drinking, I get drunk every now and then, but altogether I drink a lot less than I ever thought I would.
>> No. 92246 ID: f264a5
>>92189
>I noticed I had a problem when I found myself being very thirsty and unsuccessfully trying to satisfy it with several glasses of ice water all day.

That sounds less like alcoholism and more like diabetes...
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I was having a conversation with a coworker a while back at my old job, talking about how we had no money and why. He said he didn't have any money because he spent it on beer.

I'm like "what, you buy that good stuff?" and he says no, that he ends up emptying 12 to 24 a day.

mfw

Do ban me for the reaction image, but shit that was uncomfortable and I couldn't find a more fitting face.


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92213 No. 92213 ID: 07ad6c hide watch expand quickreply [Reply]
:D
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>> No. 92239 ID: 07ad6c
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>>92230
Generally speaking, I've noticed Chinese people to be loud and rude as fuck, and Japanese people are quiet and polite. Never noticed any Korean folks, so I dunno about them. I'm only speaking for the tourists on the island, of course.

I once saw a Chinese dude spit off the side of the Arizona. The memorial doesn't tug at my heart strings or anything (I just pretend to be somber whenever I've had to go), but come on.

I would think most Japanese people who can afford to travel are educated enough to know what Pearl Harbor is and accordingly police their fucking act. Even if they don't, you're forced to watch a short film before you get on the boat detailing the lead up to the attack. As an occasional Axis Defense Force Advocate™, it's actually pretty good at not saying "they attacked us for no reason!!!" Even if you don't speak English, when you see Japanese soldiers marching through Shanghai you get the picture. The Japs at the place know they're being watched. It's kinda like when I was at the Hiroshima Peace Park. (but also Japanese broads posing in front of the goddamn dome building knocked the reverent tone of the place down a peg or two, fufufu)
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>>92230
Unfortunately, most Americans can't admire what the USN did because most of the IJN is at the bottom of the sea.
>> No. 92243 ID: 1bddb7
>>92234
The tl;dr is that the defense of the Philippines was incredibly mismanaged, largely due to MacArthur just palling around with Quezon instead of doing his damn job, so that most of the defenses and military units only existed on paper. Wikipedia has a summary of the initial attack:
>At 03:30 local time on 8 December 1941 (about 09:00 on 7 December in Hawaii), Sutherland learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor and informed MacArthur. At 05:30, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General George Marshall, ordered MacArthur to execute the existing war plan, Rainbow Five. MacArthur did nothing. On three occasions, the commander of the Far East Air Force, Major General Lewis H. Brereton, requested permission to attack Japanese bases in Formosa, in accordance with prewar intentions, but was denied by Sutherland. Not until 11:00 did Brereton speak with MacArthur about it, and obtained permission. MacArthur later denied having the conversation. At 12:30, aircraft of Japan's 11th Air Fleet achieved complete tactical surprise when they attacked Clark Field and the nearby fighter base at Iba Field, and destroyed or disabled 18 of Far East Air Force's 35 B-17s, 53 of its 107 P-40s, three P-35s, and more than 25 other aircraft. Most were destroyed on the ground. Substantial damage was done to the bases, and casualties totaled 80 killed and 150 wounded. What was left of the Far East Air Force was all but destroyed over the next few days.

Then after the attack, large amounts of military supplies and fuel were left in warehouses to be looted or burnt by the locals, while he also denied a request by a commander to burn down warehouses full of rice that the Japanese had sent ahead for their troops. Then he fucked off to Australia with a PT boat full of a half million dollars of gold, leaving his men to be marched to death and have their livers eaten in Japanese POW camps, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Post-war he prevented the execution of a large number of war criminals and the Japanese imperial family.

Bonus: in Korea he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for flying his personal airliner over the frontline to prove that the Chinese weren't going to attack (because he looked out the window and didn't see any chinamen looking back up), the day before the Chinese attacked.
>> No. 92247 ID: 388296
>>92243
>MG Brereton, requested permission to attack
>was denied by LG Sutherland
>MG Brereton asks GA MacArthur
>says he got permission
>USAAFFE planes destroyed on the ground
>GA MacArthur denies the conversation happened

So... either Brereton circumvented the chain of command in order to receive permission to attack (when USAAFFE's mission was defense), or he lied. Destruction of the planes on the ground seems to imply the latter...

>Sutherland attracted antagonism from subordinate American and Australian officers because of perceptions that he was high-handed and overprotective of MacArthur.
>Sutherland contributed to a rift between MacArthur and the first SWPA air forces commander, LG Brett. MG Kenney, MG Brett's successor, became so frustrated with Sutherland in one meeting, that MG Kenney drew a dot on a plain page of paper and said: "the dot represents what you know about air operations, the entire rest of the paper what I know."
>Sutherland defied MacArthur by commissioning a female foreign national, whose husband was a POW in Singapore, in order to bring her along with the GHQ staff, despite an agreement between MacArthur and the Australian govt. not to bring non-American personnel.

I'm thinking there's more to support Sutherland going behind MacArthur's back, than plain blaming Mac for "doing nothing."
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>>92239
Koreans are the ones that like to travel in large groups.
These groups are sometimes jokingly referred to as "corporations".


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92235 No. 92235 ID: 5b9651 hide watch quickreply [Reply]
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-19-hospitalized-thousands-evacuated-in-gas-leak-at-rosemont-hotel-20141207-story.html


Literally.

Someone gasses a furry convention WWI-style, using chlorine.
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>> No. 92245 ID: db7b1c
Failing this hard at dispersal tho...


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92211 No. 92211 ID: 248112 hide watch quickreply [Reply]
There's been a large fire at FN Herstal. It is under control, but firemen say it could take days to put out due to the layout of the buildings. Supposedly it's not a production building and it hopefully means only stock if affected & not production capability.

Source:
http://www.rtl.be/info/votreregion/liege/1148360/gros-incendie-en-cours-a-la-fn-hertsal-plusieurs-batiments-sont-touches-
>> No. 92212 ID: b89631
I guess Colt figured out how to get the government contracts to stay afloat.
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>>92212
>I guess Colt figured out how to get the government contracts to stay afloat.

AFAIK, FN-H Belgium does not make M4s and M16s, so those are safe. And Colt doesn't make the Minimi variants.
Colt does make the M240L though, maybe some M2 variants as well.
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>>92216
Right, its just FN USA with the M16/M4 contract, I'm just being tongue in cheek.

Unrelated but
>man, those AR's look sexy
>i really should build something that looks like those
>oh wait
>i already have identical plain jane AR's in A4 and M4 config
>how could I forget this, they were literally my second and third guns
>[AR fingerfucking intensifies]


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91839 No. 91839 ID: 36f650 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply]
So with the possible riots rapidly approaching I got to thinking, what would I do? What would OPchan do? Well thats a pretty good questions isn't it.

Scenario:
Lets say you live in a city where some boy who didn't do nuffin got killed by the white police man, there were minor disturbances when the shooting occurred but it was mostly contained to the neighborhood in which it happened so it wasn't a threat to you. Now lets say in one week they will announce their verdict for the officer that shot the boy, tensions are high and there have been many talks, possibly even threats of city wide rioting if the verdict is not to their liking.

What do you do? Do you get as much of your shit out of town and evac to the woods for a few days? Do you fortify your home and bed down for the possible fight? Do you simply keep your weapons a little closer than normal and raise your alertness level? Or do you just do nothing at all?


As for me, well if I am just renting a place in the city then I would spend the week taking all of my stuff (save for furniture) to a family member or friends house outside of the city and then on the day of the verdict I'd be nowhere near the city, maybe get a nice hotel in a rural area to wait it out.

If I owned my own house in the city though, well I'd spend that week fortifying my defenses, stocking up on ammo and emergency supplies. I'm not really sure how I'd go about securing my home but I'm sure I could find a decent guide to it online. On the day of the verdict I'd lock the place down and just keep a TV or radio on to monitor the situation as I played vidya or whatever. I'd also have a firearm on me at all times in the house.
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>> No. 92206 ID: cbf3af
Funny story. I got to take her to the range with some friends one time and run her side by side with an HK MR762.

The HK was brand new out, but everyone spent their time on my FAL. You can adjust the gas settings to where she kicks like a kitten landing on a feather pillow, whereas the HK, despite being more accurate, kicked like a sumbitch for a semiauto.
>> No. 92218 ID: a2bcb4
>>92202
It's refreshing to see an FAL without a carrying handle.
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Not much chance of a riot here, Amish don't tend to get uppity. But if something were going down would likely bug out as this place isn't terribly defensible.
>> No. 92231 ID: 5b9651
>>92218

South African parts kit, Imbel receiver. CAI build with a proper double feed ramp. I actually love FAL carry handles and often thought of adding one, but never got around to it.
>> No. 92233 ID: 5a40da
>shirt, pants, belt, boots
>Mayflower APC with level 4 front/back
>HSGI battle belt
>gas mask, Peltor electronic sound traps
>fill mags with 5.56x45 TAP 75gr and 9x19 TAP 147gr
>load up mags for SBS
>load up tube for 590A1
>load up mags for M14s
>Surround self with guns in corner of most defensible position in apartment with laptop
>spend riot wondering if I should be using AR-15 or TAR-21
>put on Alice's Emotion or something

If someone bursts through door/window, blast Sumijin 物凄いベスト and open fire.


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92197 No. 92197 ID: 06f96c hide watch expand quickreply [Reply]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Save our Mike Browns protest are currently happening in the area where most of there are up.

http://imgur.com/a/MeLzx
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>> No. 92207 ID: 7dbe4e
  >>92201
>> No. 92208 ID: 7dbe4e
  Explaining why he killed a guy.
>> No. 92209 ID: 7dbe4e
  Discussing why islam and muslims are a threat to all Europe.
>> No. 92210 ID: 7188a3
>>92201
>two radical conservatives agree on something.
wow
>> No. 92217 ID: 248112
>>92210
>wow

Simply due to the wide range of ideas he has, someone is always bound to find one or two things in his reasoning that hold some merit.

It's funny that his assumed french name is Louis Cachet (after his wife's last name), because "partir en cachette" is basically "go in hiding".


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92155 No. 92155 ID: 20b15d hide watch expand quickreply [Reply]
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>> No. 92192 ID: 06f96c
  >>92191
Space Race
>> No. 92193 ID: 8844cd
>>92191

It wasn't the design that was the problem with antares, but that the actual motors used were old.
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>>92191
>lose yet again
>w-w-we weren't really racing you guys anyways
Kek

At least you can always depend on russian rockets to come back down.
>> No. 92196 ID: db7b1c
>>92193
Well they were buying them on the cheap to use on throwaway rockets, I don't blame Orbital at all

Although maybe now they'll take a bit more time to refurbish the damn things
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90543 No. 90543 ID: d444df hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Last 50 posts]
Just found this on not halfchan.

I think it's time for E-Dart Thread 2.0. The other one's at 400 posts and getting hard to dig through.

Sneaky:

The VV3 is a pretty god device, IMO. But, after 4 months of riding around in my pocket, the top cap has loosened up a bit. I'm fairly sure this is related to the fact that I'm using a large, heavy tank on it, which is why I suggested a smaller atomizer.

As for juice: Mt Baker, all day, erry day. The only thing I would suggest staying away from, is almond flavors. Obviously artificial, and not that good.
All the other flavors I've gotten from them (read: freebies) smell wonderful, though I haven't really wanted to dirty up one of my tanks to try them out. Always be aware of whether or not the juice you want will crack plastic tanks (only if you have a plastic tank, of course.)

One last thing: Hygiene. Cleaning out your tank on a regular basis is paramount to getting a good vape, and coil longevity. Figure out how much you vape in a day, and only fill it with that much juice. Drain the tank at the end of the day, and refill it at your convenience. The half-used juice will backflow into the tank, eventually replacing what's in there with, well, sludge.
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>> No. 91700 ID: 885afe
Got my stuff in today.

Rundown so far from a nooby:

1) This starter kit is very easy to use as a beginner.
2) This Admiral Crunch Berry tastes exactly like the cereal.
3) Black Ice (freeby try) is pretty good.
4) Gwar Bloodbath is very very good.
5) Also throat hits are bad. Lol

Also for whatever reason USPS decided to send my package from san antonio to mcallen and then back north to me.
>> No. 91723 ID: 65c27c
And USPS surprised me, they delivered much earlier than usual.

Kanger Aerotank Mega.
Hawksauce, Blue Drake, and a free sample of GWARY4, no idea what GWARY4 is but I'll be trying it soon.
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I have too much juice. Thinking about giving some of it away.
>> No. 91964 ID: 885afe
>>91958
If you do let me know, itll let me try new flavors.
>> No. 92190 ID: 16080f
Dr. Mehmet Oz did his usual TV thing yesterday (formaldehyde and heavy metals! One spoon can kill a child!) as a fearmongering fuck despite getting input fro SFATA. There's more to come than just the grilling he got in front of Congress a few months ago, and despite his connections I think we'll eventually see him lose his medical license.

http://www.doctoroz.com/article/e-cigarette-statement-smoke-free-alternatives-trade-association


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