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Is it asteroid time?
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Originally Posted by surgeonstone
(Post 15277296)
What is the TH fiasco
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Originally Posted by surgeonstone
(Post 15277296)
What is the TH fiasco
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Originally Posted by RecceDG
(Post 15277262)
Really, a zombie exercise would be a huge win on all levels...
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
(Post 15277590)
Calling it a fiasco gives it more credit than it deserves. He posted link about a mistaken identity raid on a house and attributed it to some police state plot - typical paranoid delusional SA stuff. Tom happened to be watching and that post, along with some replies, got split off and sent to Trollheim, where the dwellers made colorful offers to make sweet, sweet love to him. At that point, SA essentially said, "fine, if you don't like me, I'll leave."
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
(Post 15277568)
Is it asteroid time?
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Ugh, I have to take one of my daughters to Laurel, MD for a weekend synchro swim meet.
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Cardinal rule was broken last night. Riding on ice is the total suck. Holy crap, the commute home was one of the harder rides I have ever done.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
(Post 15277632)
Cardinal rule was broken last night. Riding on ice is the total suck. Holy crap, the commute home was one of the harder rides I have ever done.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
(Post 15277568)
Is it asteroid time?
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Originally Posted by datlas
(Post 15277627)
Ugh, I have to take one of my daughters to Laurel, MD for a weekend synchro swim meet.
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I would prefer to hear about an asteroid than Uranus.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
(Post 15277644)
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Yeah, that Globe and Mail link pretty much summerizes the Boss's objection to the idea - he didn't want to be seen as the guy who signed off on a domestic response exercise for something that could never happen.
And - as that article shows - he wasn't wrong. There are always haters out there who will seize any opportunity to attack anything "government", no matter how good it might be - and there's no good forum to rebut them. So something fun, cool, and useful is turned into something boring and nowhere near as useful. So it goes. DG |
Originally Posted by RecceDG
(Post 15277262)
I, no word of a lie, pitched a "Zombie Apocolypse" scenario to my boss for this year's big domestic response exercise.
The big problem with these exercises is getting people to play. The Army has no problem, but all the other domestic responders - police, fire, coroner, TSB, etc - often beg off, so you have to simulate them. Last year, the cops played, but the coroner and TSB did not, so I wound up playing the role of the coroner and the TSB guy. I even had different hats so people could tell who it was they were talking to - fun for me (especially when the coroner and the TSB guy had a fight about juristiction) but far less training value for the real players. You really want people interacting with the real people whenever possible. My argument was that while everybody knows a zombie attack will never happen (because zombies aren't real) you still exercise the same sorts of procedures and relationships with a zombie attack that you would in a real scenario. But unlike a flood, or a plane crash, or whatever; zombies are fun - who wouldn't want to play a part in a zombie exercise? And for us, zombies provide a legitimate target for some of the more kinetic scenarios, without people getting bent or reading too much into what particular group of people we are fighting. Really, a zombie exercise would be a huge win on all levels... but it takes a certain assumption of risk. So we went in another direction. *sigh* DG |
Originally Posted by WhyFi
(Post 15277590)
Calling it a fiasco gives it more credit than it deserves. He posted link about a mistaken identity raid on a house and attributed it to some police state plot - typical paranoid delusional SA stuff. Tom happened to be watching and that post, along with some replies, got split off and sent to Trollheim, where the dwellers made colorful offers to make sweet, sweet love to him. At that point, SA essentially said, "fine, if you don't like me, I'll leave."
Originally Posted by datlas
(Post 15277618)
That's pretty accurate. I was surprised that this incident caused SA to get pissed and leave. But that is how it seems.
I don't know if I am a regular here or not, but I would have left over it. I debated leaving after the kitten filtering. I laugh about the kitten references now, but the fact that someone gets upset over one of the many stupid topics discussed here is no need for an over-reactive response. Bill and LC had previously done a very nice job of saying nicely "Move on boys" when we dwelled to long. Now, I have no idea what response will be had. |
Originally Posted by RollCNY
(Post 15277826)
SA ... was very obviously tongue in cheek about it.
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Bummed out over the asteroid miss.
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You know, we're all kids. So the one that thinks they are a grown-up just had to take a ball from someone, and throw it under a car driving down the street. You know, to show us they could.
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Anyone ever contemplate how in a dystopian future cyclists might finally have the upper hand?
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Rollover ads suck. They are the new "pop-up."
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Originally Posted by LAJ
(Post 15277899)
You know, we're all kids.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
(Post 15277907)
Anyone ever contemplate that in a dystopian future cyclists might finally have the upper hand?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
(Post 15277907)
Anyone ever contemplate how in a dystopian future cyclists might finally have the upper hand?
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