I probably should read this thread. I went through a number of tsunami siren alerts when I lived there in the 60s, which woke everyone up downtown. They were usually false warnings after an earthquake in Japan, predicting a 100-foot wave to travel thousands of miles and arrive hours later. Meanwhile, my father commanded all Air Force and Army postage from Hawaii to Pakistan, 800 Air Force people. Then he'd come home. I was the only person he knew who wasn't afraid of him, and I was a half-pint. This is why you always see me handle BrianFromWA like putty.
Everybody ran when I offered to talk about postal service in Hawaii. I own a dozen of these porcelain ashtrays, never used. You can actually get money for them? https://www.ebay.com/itm/034-SEYIE-...stal-Group-South-East-Asia-Dish-/352250296097?
i am convinced you would make a fine postal employee in hawaii. my wife says most of the people she works with are crazy.......................
Ha! I some what regret my first impression I allowed to take root when I first came to S2. Something gave me an unkind thought about jlprk. It was an error. Should have let time correct the take, instead act foolishly.
That something was my aggressive reaction to your early posts advocating killing large numbers of Muslims for being Muslims. But the mods got you to soften your tone. And you always have a neutral subject, your boat, to talk about. So now you're tolerable, in a hick-grammar sort of way. By the way, if you think that just because I'm an Air Force brat, I'm pro-military, you're wrong. I am proud to have luckily not gotten drafted after failing to flunk my draft exam, escaping a bad war. Here's a sample of a draft exam. You sit all day in your underwear (there were hundreds of tough guys in my giant room in Los Angeles, but only a dozen in this clip, must be a small town, and they don't look anywhere near as tough). Half the guys want to flunk, but don't know how. So Nixon got rid of the draft. http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/241428/Alice-s-Restaurant-Movie-Clip-Draft-Board.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...le-alert-the-fcc-says/?utm_term=.f406ef5a3363 Some awesomeness in this one: We absolutely sure it wasn't a YouTube video? Of course not. Boy, I wish I could "decline to be" asked about how I completely bollocksed my job, but I guess that's just for us weapon-toting government employees. So, instead of just firing the one idiot who couldn't be bothered to pay attention and do the job correctly, you're instituting a reduction in training frequency and a less-realistic training environment? Sweet. And institute a "2nd-person confirmation" policy? Sure, slow it down. That's cool, when you have 17 minutes to live. It totally sucks that the only outlet the governor of the state has for informing the public that their impending thermonuclear doom is not actually approaching is a twitter account he forgot the password to. I'm pretty sure that's how Pearl Harbor happened, too. So, they knew in 3 minutes it was a messup (I kind of call BS on this one...the dude that "pushed the button" didn't immediately spend the next 60 seconds saying "HOLY SHIT WE'RE GONNA DIE, EVERYONE!1!11!" and get told "it's a drill, idiot. Wait, you didn't actually think it was real, did you?"). But regardless, they supposedly knew at the 3 minute point. It took them 23 more minutes to say "Hmm, maybe we should work on how to tell everyone that this isn't real?" Or, while that debate was going on, someone saying "let's start writing this up, so that when you folks figure out how to send out something, we'll have that something ready to go?"
Well, they fired him/her. And apparently s/he has a history of confusing real life and drills. How you give someone with that problem that particular job, I'm not sure. If only the employee had had an emotional support peacock with them at work that day! barfo
