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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Hey, wake up and start the fryer, I think we landed.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Yeah I did two Tours to Afghanistan."

"No I'm not in the military, I work at Burger king"

"I still see the Friday Night as the fryer broke in my nightmares...."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Sometimes, it's preferable to shoot someone than be on the line.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

Sneak King?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Not just BK either. Taco Bell, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Wendy's all have contracts with the military, probably more.

Re: your username. Navy nuke?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Do they do air drops? That would be kinda cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

No clue. I was a Navy nuke. Not my department

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

DRONE BARRAGE INCOMING!

"Sir this is a Wendy's"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It’s a continuous test cycle of logistics. If you can get familiar fast food, XBoxes and other creature comforts to troops stationed half a world away from home, you can get much spicier fare over when circumstances demand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

That makes sense, actually, yeah. Logistics is a difficult task, take it from an OpenTTD player.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I recall an anecdote about (I think) a Japanese admiral during WWII, who upon realising the US Navy had a ship dedicated to making ice cream, knew that they had lost the war.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 23 hours ago

I had to look this up. If numbers are down this would make great recruiting material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_barge

[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

The Americans truly fight like kings. Having an ice cream ship is definitely something yoh should all feel patriotic about!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

3 flavors, all you can eat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Tbf, these had two good reasons. 1, coolant for Project Manhattan if something went horribly wrong with a nuke while getting it to the Pacific theatre. 2, the South Pacific is f-ing brutal without AC when you depend on your armor for safety.

That said, this is clearly an OpSec-related disguise. I'm not military but I've heard enough to pretend I saw nothing unless I hear someone inside begging for help. Usually it's just ammunition transport, so that nobody gets a bright idea to steal military-grade weapons.

If you think that's just "halfway between Hollywood and reality" BS, look up Project Mogul on wikipedia and keep in mind the CIA can pose as "a former FBI agent" if need be to spread disinformation about military assets. They were terrified the Soviets might get/drop nukes, the more paranoid you are, the more you should be able to relate to spies, generals and anti-terrorist personnel, even if it's not that likely to go bad in practice.

Remember, the last time military intelligence wasn't on the ball, 9/11 set the ball rolling for the current mess we're in. Not that the US under Trump again is in any way fully trustworthy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Pacific theater in World War II had entire ships dedicated to distributing ice cream.

I am unaware of any historical evidence they blasted "Turkey In The Straw" when approaching another ship. But we can dream.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Good giffin, Dayn

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

An army marches on its stomach

If you also increase moral at the same time, even better

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The only problem is BK sprite literally, not figuratively, tastes like Lysol, in stark contrast to MCD's "best sprite in the galaxy."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The camo on the cab is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting for the rest of the truck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The cab portion is military owned. The trailer portion is corporate owned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

What trailer? I can't see a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that camo or is it just dirty as hell? I really can't tell

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Yes. It's camo and dirty as hell.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Burger King is trash by comparison.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

You clowns keep beefing with the slow kid that wears a paper crown, meanwhile Culver's and Wendy's fuck back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

That was a lot more relevant than expected

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

It's busy computing the tastiest recipe!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

The prop for the W.O.P.R. sold a few years ago. IIRC, someone paid $25,000 for what my father said was a refrigerator box, with Christmas lights inside, painted black, and with plastic caps. He did all the computer graphics on Wargames. Apparently I threw up on Matthew Broderick the time my dad brought me to the set. I would have been 1 or 2 at the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

People don't realize what constraints props departments are under, or for that matter, how little it takes to impress a camera.

IMO, everyone should binge-watch Adam Savage's YT channel before putting down serious money on a movie prop. A shocking amount of this stuff is basically made to survive the production time-frame, and little else.

Also: congrats with that brief brush with stardom. That's hilarious. Next time, you should seriously lead with "I threw up on Matthew Broderick once."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I'm here all day, go on

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

I love that all, thanks for sharing the story!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

I could listen to stories like this all day long.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It was burger king, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Starbucks that I remember. They even had some kick ass delicious food. Never thought pizza hut would be this good, I swear. Pizza was fresh and fucking thick crusted. Burger King was just out of this world. πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

And the tactical BK had the Royale, instead of the standard crispy chicken. At least the ones I visited did. It was a nice break from the US version with proper chicken breast.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I miss the honkey-tonks, Dairy Queens and Seven-Elevens...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Y'all had those on base? I never did. It only the ones I mentioned. We had an RX. It was like a mini Walmart/bestbuy/microcenter/GameStop/RadioShack and whatever all in one place. lol

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The power of not employing minimum-wage 16 year olds who don’t give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Spot on. Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Hey WOPR, how about a nice game of chess?

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