Thread: Four days in

Hey you get no argument from me Bob. I'm not giving you back the business I wholeheartedly agree. You know the funniest thing... as If there were anything funny about this but of course by funny I mean ironic... Is that in my neighborhood now it's full of kids on the skate scooters and bicycles and playing ball games out in the street. I guess we always want what we can't have right? You tell them to go outside and play and they want to stay in and play video games. You tell them to stay inside and they want to go outside and play. Who knows

Originally Posted by BobH

Yea, that is the point. Too many people still have their head up their backside about the importance of self isolation and social distancing. Consider also Floridians travel too so everyone has a share in the possibility of spreading this thing not just tourists to Florida. You can just never tell from where it came.

Bob

Yep you got that right. I'm sitting here in the office watching the security cams and there's a small group of younger folk(not the only perpetrators of stupid by the way) sitting out on the Gazebo definitely not practicing distancing and they're smokin and drinking like it was nothing. One of the more fratty types comes in to get his golf clubs from the office and he's juust getting right up in my business till I remind him after which he tells me about last nights party where one of the guests expelled his innards all over the place in his unit after too much drinking...……...sigh...……...

it makes me wish I could move somewhere safe like Afghanistan or Congo …………………...

By the way....Geezer,you mentioned something about not having much family to be in contact with if something happened to you a few posts back. Hey know this, I still remember Bela from the tea thread amongst a few others so if God forbid anything happened to you, you won't be forgotten here at least not by me. Stay sane and well my friend. Anyway I hear heaven has Bay rum that never fades and the hot lather machine never breaks down. Deamn …..count me in !!

You know, for those that don't want to take precautions like self isolation or social distancing seriously I say they can all go and infect themselves. New pandemic appropriate saying.

Bob

This thread should have a rolling title.

Now 13 days in!

As in feck them all, everyone?

Save six for pallbearers!

We have to take our pleasures where we can, eh, men? Tonight I'm social distancing with a generous glug of Knob Creek and two classic movies: The Sands of Iwo Jima and Run Silent, Run Deep.

Both are excellent and very close to actual WWII experience and true history. I enjoyed them as a kid and now respect them more.
JMHO

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

We have to take our pleasures where we can, eh, men? Tonight I'm social distancing with a generous glug of Knob Creek and two classic movies: The Sands of Iwo Jima and Run Silent, Run Deep.

As some may recall, I posted about my former Boy Scout Scoutmaster Own Agenbroad who survived Iwo Jima. Owen HATED John Wayne's The Sands of Iwo Jima, but he liked Flags of our Father's directed by Clint Eastwood.

He'd actually watched Eastwood's film 'Letters from Iwo' for the battle for Iwo Jima from the Japanese side of things and enjoyed it.

I've never seen the movie Run Silent Run Deep, just the TV shows back in the 50's/early 60's. But I have about every version of Das Boot (The Boat) ever made.

Enjoy the movies! I can't think of anything better do do

ps: The Official Name of Iwo Jima is now Iwo Too. Long Story There.

I hear you. I love modern, edgy movies too, but lately have fallen back on those old classics. Watched The Dirty Dozen the other night. One of these days I hope to stay awake all the way through The Longest Day. Gangster classics I have seen too many times already are also up for another watch lately. I need to be reading more, honestly (kind of a job requirement for me).

As to their realism, I wasn't there, so I can't say, but I've read reports of utterly savage fighting and conditions during the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific. They show quite a bit of Newsreel footage, but they obviously edited out the most horrific stuff. Years ago when it 1st came out, I watched Saving Private Ryan with my father-in-law, a WWII vet. It seemed pretty realistic to me. I remember both of us just sitting there at the end, just speechless by it.