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Right Angle: Backstage (04-19-2022)
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Scott, your approach to teaching sounds rather Zopharic. Yes, leadership is important, but followership is also important. The teacher has no ability to counteract the home environment of the student, such as a reasonable bedtime, studying time, being brought up to respect authority, etc. Teachers are hogtied into teaching ONLY for the standardized tests. If their superiors catch them teaching anything not on the tests, they are punished.
Back before standardized tests, our educational system produced the most well educated students on the planet. The advent of standardized tests drove the results of our educational system into the sewer.
Re the Soyuz space capsule…It got a major USA upgrade in the early to mid 70’s as part of the Apollo Soyuz project mission. Upon looking at the state of the then current Soyuz and realizing an American astronaut was going to be riding it back to earth, the US was so appalled at the lack of safety, the very quietly helped the Soviets revamp the capsule vastly improving it. It was essentially a free gift to the Soviets given behind the scenes and without fanfare. It’s the elephant in the room no one talks about.
I loved candy cigarettes as a kid!
Cardiff Giant in Cardiff, NY
Scott: The main reason I don’t usually participate in the witty repartee on the member’s blog is because when I post, it ends up as half-wit repartee.
I don’t post very often either. More like never. I have found that getting my thoughts from my brain to the keyboard also means there is an extreme lost in translation situation.
Or some people think you are trying to troll them when you are just making a joke. Others think you are fighting with them when you are merely commenting about some aspect of the discussion not even really related to their post.
I was married when I was posted to Germany, first in the Bergomeister / Mayor, then I had a Mass wedding about two months later. The civil service was all in German, so I did manage to understand most of it. And the Mayor had his speech translated into English. In most European countries now you have to do the civil thing before the church service.
We had candy cigarettes with a hole all the way thru so you could just blow thru and there was icing sugar in them and it looked like smoke. And in the cold days your breath looked like smoke.
I was yelling Piltdown man so hard
yes Scott the Soyuz is a piece of Soviet crap, just look at photos of the inside compared with the Dragon Capsule
congrats Scott, on the wedding not the rolled ankle
Scott, I had to wear that boot thing for a while a few years ago. I told my friends I was doing the Frankenstein Shuffle!
Bill. I have personal experience that expired Mexican Lidocaine works. I put a triple fishing hook through my thumb and thumbnail and couldn’t get it out. I went to a dirt-floored “Clinic” in Lareto on the Baha and they let me do my own block with expired Lidocaine. It worked. I’m terrible at fishing. (I went there to Kayak, snorkel, and camp).
There’s some “famous” bridge we only just became aware of and nobody outside Cleveland has ever heard of.
Except for the AH-64 Apache
What is going on here? I’ve been mentioned in two Back Stages in a row! Last week about me binge watching Back Stage, and now an admonition to sit up and pay attention. Oddly enough, I was paying attention, but was leaning back in my chair. Good thing I had just finished swallowing my drink, or I would have spewed it everywhere. I laughed out load, hard. Man, I love Back Stage. I wonder if if should ask for royalties for every mention of my name? Naw, the “fame” is my payment. Such as it is.😏
I had actually just redirected my attention to an email. So, a little spooky to have Scott nudge me like that.
Our Lightining Carriers look like everyone else’s aircraft carriers.
Also, is the Navy gonna get an extra America class to replace the Bonhomme Richard?
The F-35 is living up to the sales brochoure.
The Stark, an little frigate, got hit by two Exocets, and she was able to limp back to Baharian
Remember back when some Russian battalion tried to attack a US firebase in Syria.
“The Americans are killing US!”
Ticonderoga CRUISER. I’m so disappointed, Bill. ;^)
I never knew military JI Joe. When I got old enough, Joe was outta the service and had become an adventurer who wore primary colored jumpsuits.
wonder what he did with his Kung Fu Grip when he transitioned to an ‘adventurer’? Ah…grabbed snakes!
The thing is, 20yrs ago it was 2002. That was already the future.
The future is already 20yrs old.
Almost the exact same thing happened to my foot when I was about 10, Steve. Ended up getting my foot sewed up w/o any real anesthetic.
Looking forward to the topics this week especially the Naval ones.