Is midnight today or tomorrow?

Tiassa said:
Have you not yet recognized that you do not experience reality, but only history?

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One of the best things about Jerry Seinfeld was that if you were smart enough, say, to have paid attention to anything remotely educational in high school, he wasn't funny.

There is a joke I can no longer remember the proper source of; that is to say, I don't remember if the bit about glue not sticking to the inside of the bottle was an actual Seinfeld joke or a Tiny Toons satire thereof, but it pretty much summed up everything wrong with his comedy after "Laundry Party" and "If Dogs Had Pockets".
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Never watched a single Seinfeld episode.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
I told my recruits that is was like the teeth on a saw. Start at the bottom, steady rise to 23:59, then vertical drop-off to 00:00. The ones that got it right got to knock off work at the regular time. Some needed extra time to ponder it. "You don't have to agree with the Chief, you just have to do the way the Chief tells you."
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Maybe you need a better group of recruits if you have to spend time teaching it?
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
How many knew military time when they reported to boot camp?
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Me

I'm surprised nobody thought to add a post a few days ago

Will midnight tonight be 2017 or 2018?

I thought about it but decided that the thread is dead and I saw no point :)

:)
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
How many knew military time when they reported to boot camp?
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Among the group that thought joining the military was a good idea, probably none of them. I'm guessing they needed to be taught how to make their beds and shine their boots as well.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
Never watched a single Seinfeld episode.
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I have and you did not miss much unless you like observing folk wrapped up in their own importance.
All the characters seemed most strange with personality traits that were somewhat sad rather than humerous.
Yet it appeals to some but certainly not my idea of humour.
Alex
 
Seattle said:
Among the group that thought joining the military was a good idea, probably none of them. I'm guessing they needed to be taught how to make their beds and shine their boots as well.
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This was in the '70s and '80s, when military time was not common in CivLant.

And boot camp is a test. If you can't fold your underwear according to instructions why would anybody let you loose around nukes? I tell prospective enlistees that the people at boot camp want you to succeed (believe it or not) but they don't need someone who's going to fail at walking in a straight line.
 
Just a snippet of information about time, on the sideline of the midnight thread here

Yesterday 1st January 2018 The Present turned 68

It seems for the purpose of carbon dating after the 1st January 1950 the accuracy was unclear because of the activities of humans had skewed the carbon content in the atmosphere

:)
 
Seattle said:
taught how to make their beds
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Most of our group made our beds with the supplied items and a couple of sheets of plywood nailed into perfect form
You sleept with bought sheets and blankets
Took less than 30 seconds to organise your bed for inspection

:)
 
Michael 345 said:
Most of our group made our beds with the supplied items and a couple of sheets of plywood nailed into perfect form
You sleept with bought sheets and blankets
Took less than 30 seconds to organise your bed for inspection

:)
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Impressive!
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
This was in the '70s and '80s, when military time was not common in CivLant.

And boot camp is a test. If you can't fold your underwear according to instructions why would anybody let you loose around nukes? I tell prospective enlistees that the people at boot camp want you to succeed (believe it or not) but they don't need someone who's going to fail at walking in a straight line.
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It's interesting that in civilian land, those to invent and manufacture nukes don't need to show that they can tell time and make their beds.
 
Seattle said:
It's interesting that in civilian land, those to invent and manufacture nukes don't need to show that they can tell time and make their beds.
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Why is it "interesting"? Oh, yeah, Oppenheimer was a highly trained and knowledgeable physicist, in his forties, IIRC. My boot camp company had two guys over 21. Wildly different situation.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
Why is it "interesting"? Oh, yeah, Oppenheimer was a highly trained and knowledgeable physicist, in his forties, IIRC. My boot camp company had two guys over 21. Wildly different situation.
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I knew how to tell time and make my bed by the time I was 21.
 
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