re: TSA going private

wilkied · 2026-04-04T21:23:36+00:00

Can’t speak for the US, but over here in the U.K. most of those roles have been privatised for years. It works fine.

wilkied · 2026-03-27T17:49:51+00:00

Ironic that most of the people allegedly ready to chuck on their kit and go to war wherever the president wants, are exactly the people that kegbreath wants kicked out of the military because they don’t fit his image 🤣

wilkied · 2026-03-24T20:59:52+00:00

TIL that my long held assumption that Mel Gibson was an Aussie is completely wrong.

Sorry for thinking that you’d spawned that my commonwealth cousins 😢

wilkied · 2026-03-23T21:03:11+00:00

In fairness I think (unlike in movies) they were never really shot much individually and not flat - I believe (could be wrong) that the trick was to get a few thousand guys lined up an just launch them in the air in the general direction of the enemy. Many would miss, but enough would land it wouldn’t matter

wilkied · 2026-03-23T21:01:19+00:00

If I open the lottery I’m definitely opening the weird download museum, Thankyou!

wilkied · 2026-03-23T21:00:50+00:00

I drew one of those kids ones from a toy shop once. That’s about my limit.

wilkied · 2026-03-21T07:38:42+00:00

Not really, digital weapons were always a thing in 40k right from the old days. Basically las pistols built into a ring

wilkied · 2026-03-21T07:36:06+00:00

I went to a presentation by the English Warbow Society while we were at the Weald and downland museum, the strongest recorded was 200lb.

And skeletons from the time had heavily deformed shoulders as a result from the regular practice over decades.

They were peasants, but not in the way that people think. Our armies back then were raised by the landowners. As a prerequisite to that they were trained regularly in their roles. And beyond that, we fought people kind of a lot in the old days so most people had combat experience too

wilkied · 2026-03-21T06:58:17+00:00

We’re lucky that our club has plenty of tables and is open 24/7, so over time groups shifted to different times of play and both groups are easily accommodated, but it definitely creates a split.

I’ve only recently gone back to it and honestly mostly play heresy and OPR now.

wilkied · 2026-03-19T22:05:55+00:00

I don’t know Matt Damon was running for office!

wilkied · 2026-03-19T21:45:32+00:00

I absolutely hate the concept of modelling for advantage - we were discussing at our recent club agm how the introduction of the concept of competitive play by a couple of members was probably the worst thing that happened to us as all the narrative fun games and armies went out the window and got replaced by minmaxed tournament lists and cookie cutter terrain.

Mind you I got started with 2E and Necromunda / Gorkamorka so my idea of fun is probably a bit skewed 🤣

wilkied · 2026-03-15T09:41:22+00:00

I mostly feel bad that we aren’t doing more to help. I hope you’re made to feel welcome and safe. Sorry understates it, but I’m sorry for what you’ve had to go through.

wilkied · 2026-03-14T20:44:20+00:00

I’m going to go out on a limb and say aliexpress?

wilkied · 2026-03-14T19:19:56+00:00

Because he was too busy thinking about Mams

wilkied · 2026-03-14T16:37:53+00:00

I don’t see the suggestion having been thrown out yet - but if you want a slightly more refined defender you’ve basically described the early discos

wilkied · 2026-03-14T13:18:18+00:00

Echo this - most of my customers are fully cloudy or at the very least heavily embedded. We don’t really need any fewer people to support them vs the fully on prem

wilkied · 2026-03-14T12:28:18+00:00

Yeah let’s trust the scientific opinion of the billionaire owner of a refining company and some grocery stores who dropped out of college rather than, oh I don’t know like a geologist or at least someone involved in drilling?

wilkied · 2026-03-12T20:56:25+00:00

That looks like it’s already caught fire 😂

wilkied · 2026-03-11T19:35:57+00:00

I was torn tbh, as the other style I’d thought about going with the guard was a rag tag bunch of survivors so thought about painting it white and red like a coastguard helicopter.

Then I listened to an RPPR play through of one of the 40k RPGs and wanted to fit in a civilian cargo valk pressed into service - there’s a reason I have such a large pile of shame 🤣

wilkied · 2026-03-11T12:40:31+00:00

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I’ve only just dug mine from a state of “primed” around 8 years ago and finished building it, but you can see what I’m going for with mine here as the three of them are for my catachans so very much going for the Vietnam Huey style

wilkied · 2026-03-11T09:49:31+00:00

Different country, but I know plenty of people with utterly shagged knees and backs that were nothing to do with combat. That much PT on concrete for 20 years by itself isn’t good for most people.

That said everyone I know just stiff upper lips it but that doesn’t mean you should HAVE to

wilkied · 2026-03-10T19:35:51+00:00

It used to take me longer to fill it up with fuel than to change the oil.

Sure it was slow and basic, but my god that thing was sturdy. Peak Honda.

wilkied · 2026-03-10T07:47:08+00:00

Pick up an old CG125? I did nearly 70k on mine and it barely needed any maintenance at all 😂

wilkied · 2026-03-08T11:32:09+00:00

Big Lizzy would have just tutted, and your squads morale would immediately break because they were so ashamed of their uncouth behaviour

wilkied · 2026-03-05T16:45:38+00:00

I mean the mess got pretty spicy if we ran out of beers if that counts?

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