Ask Cav: Advice or Truth

[Cavadus]

Gotta say, the new posts are getting pretty thin around here so I've decided to create a new forum game and this one might actually be interesting.

In this thread you can either ask me for advice, which I'll genuinely offer, or you can ask me anything about myself, no matter how personal, which I'll answer with total and complete honesty.

So shoot away.

I'm sure come six months into Earthrise when we're a large unit again and this get's necroed I'll regret posting this:p

[Cooke]

Are you some sort of internet tycoon prodigy? The only person with more free time than you is the crazy toothless homeless lady outside my building.

What do you do?!?!

[Valdin]

I have nothing to ask right now but I am extremely excited about seeing what everyone else posts and what they ask. The questions and responses should be great. There are some sick people out there :)

[Salvatore]

Is this post a version of your "talk show"!? If that's the case , you went pretty tame on the name:D
Anyhow, I got 2 questions:smokin:

1. Why is my fucking pc taking sooo long to start up!?

2. What do you think about Man-Bras!?
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=f13eb193-3f50-4895-944f-cc3f56ce333d

[Cavadus]

Are you some sort of internet tycoon prodigy?

What do you do?!?!

1. Nope.

2. Go to class, bartend one night a week, work for my dad and brother during the day when I'm not in class (most of y'all probably don't know that I get up super early in the morning), help the Army recruit, and drink + socialize.


1. Why is my fucking pc taking sooo long to start up!?

2. What do you think about Man-Bras!?
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=f13eb193-3f50-4895-944f-cc3f56ce333d

1. Probably from all the porn you watch on Spankwire.com or download off torrents. Seriously though, clean out your registry, defragment drive (that will help a lot, and... yeah. For a good spyware program that also blocks bad stuff and has a very nice registry cleaner I recommend Spybot S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/). Your bootup time is also influenced by your AV program so the higher your protection is set generally the longer it takes to do stuff. Between defragging and cleaning your registry though you should be golden.

Oh, and if you're running McAffee or whatever for the love of the gods uninstall that shit immediately and download Avast (http://www.avast.com/). It's completely free.

2. For starters they're called "bros" (Seinfeld reference). And yeah, I guess I'm not a Japanese transvestite so they really have no appeal to me at the moment.

[Salvatore]

1. Probably from all the porn you watch on Spankwire.com or download off torrents. .


Pfft! Dude, it's all about RedTube!:rolleyes:

[Cavadus]

Pfft! Dude, it's all about RedTube!:rolleyes:

It's Redtube.com, right? Every time I've ever tried to navigate there I get a page load error (in FireFox, IE, and Chrome).

It appears I am Redtube.com-less:(

[Cooke]

Aha! Students have more free time than Gan did before he sneezed and created the universe.

Studying anything interesting? What's your major?

[Novikov]

You know, I think it's best not to think about what people would ask me if I made a thread like this myself.. Scary. Lmao.

[Foureffe]

General Knowledge Question:

How do you get rid of a flesh eating virus, once one gets ahold of you? I don't have such a problem currently, but you never know. And, I think I'd want to know how to get rid if it right away, rather than spend time trying to find out as it's eating me up.

Personal Question:

Which of the stupid boot tricks did you fall for when you were fresh meat? E-Tool Qualifications? Fetch skyline, treeline? Box of grid squares? Can of backblast for the rocket launcher? Freque grease for the radio? Battery adjusting wrench for artillery? or something else?

[Zarrion]

General Knowledge Question:

How do you get rid of a flesh eating virus, once one gets ahold of you? I don't have such a problem currently, but you never know. And, I think I'd want to know how to get rid if it right away, rather than spend time trying to find out as it's eating me up.



Well as far as I know, as I'm not an expert on infectious diseases. What is commonly refered to as a flesh eating virus is actually a bacteria.
That being said try here....http://tinyurl.com/387o8uk

[Cavadus]

Well as far as I know, as I'm not an expert on infectious diseases. What is commonly refered to as a flesh eating virus is actually a bacteria.
That being said try here....http://tinyurl.com/387o8uk

True, the nice thing about bacteria is that they are easily dealt with by antibiotics and antiseptics so both would be the way to go.

General Knowledge Question:
Which of the stupid boot tricks did you fall for when you were fresh meat?

They got me with the oldest one in the book: Go find a Prick E-6. And to make it even worse it was a drill sergeant who told me to go ask my platoon's other drill sergeant.

I paid for that one...

[Foureffe]

Personal Q:

Did you serve during the C-Rat regime or are you a MRE pure blood?

[Cavadus]

MREs. The Army stopped using C-Rats before I was born :p

What did you guys have, like hard tack and salt pork or something? :D

[Foureffe]

MREs. The Army stopped using C-Rats before I was born :p

What did you guys have, like hard tack and salt pork or something? :D

Oh no. We had great canned meals like:

Beef and Rocks;
Beans and Baby Dicks;
Ham and Motherfuckers (these were way old but we still got some on occasion)
Sketti with Beef Chunks;
Beans and Meatballs;
Diced Ham and Eggs and such like.

We also got cans of actual fruit with fruit juice in it. Great for after a long hump or a bad day. Mix in some coffee creamer and leave outside your hole over night in cold weather and you got a passible decent "ice cream".

There was the infamous Chocolate Nutroll. Tasted vaguely chocolate but had a consistancy like compressed talcum powder. Wasn't bad if you steamed it. Make some frosting out of the cocoa powder and a half teaspoon of instant coffee crystals. Not bad eats then.

Got John Wayn Discs (toffee disks) that'd turn your piss green.

Got instant coffee with vitamine C crystals mixed in. The C made it taste especially nasty. The heat from the boiling water to make coffee killed the C. That was a good introduction into the Military Logistics Mindset.

I remember when MREs came out. We were like...

Wtf?!? Hard enough to carry enough water to just have for drinking, now you want us to have to carry water to cook this dehydrated crap too? Where's the cans of fruit with juice for emergency liquids at? What the hell we supposed to us now to make our "wire rattles" with? (put some pebbles in empty cans and bend the half cut out tops over to make a hook. Hang on wire to make a rattling noise when someone messes with the wire). Etc and so on.

We was most very non happy. It didn't help much that the original MREs actually tasted worse than the C-Rats. The Ms were lighter, a bit, but tasted like dead ass and since we only had the two canteens to work with for however long we'd be out training (water resupply interuptions were considered part of the training package most times), usually had to be eaten dry in the field. We called em food crackers.