Lord_James

So, it has been finally phased out of service. Do you have any official sources about this event ?

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I think the marijauna legalization is going a bit too far.

Son I am disappoint

 

Well, the British did make the mistake of continuing to design tanks however.

I think that if the US sells an Abrams to the UK, they should make a special variant powered by 15 6 cylinder Chrysler engines mounted in a three deep "multibank" formation to produce 1500 HP.  As a US taxpayer, I would be willing to vote to give these tanks to the UK as Lend Lease.  We can call it the Abrams M1A4 and the Brits can call it Abrams II.  Gotta keep tradition going, ya know?

Which is why T-XX is the best system
Sounds like the terminator

Just a small correction. 

I realize that by the UK's definition they are not, but let's not keep up the pretense here. They have legal right to order people thrown in jail, that's pretty "governmental" to me.
 
 
You say that as if they by definition cannot rule inappropriately. Because this seems obviously inappropriate to an American who isn't used to judges just making up the rules as they go along.
 
 
Judges intimidating the press? What a healthy and free system you have over there.

Hahah! IT WAS ILLEGAL!
I watched the fuckbags shove it through.  I wish I still had the tape of it.
 
it is when I am wearing nothing but a pair of briefs and bunny slippers, with a semi-inflated condom pulled over my head... At that point it becomes high comedy.
 
I'm even related to far too many.  That aside, "yes". Hence my utter loathing for federal  "officers" and law enforcement.

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Now I have Nickelback stuck in my head...
 

I really like Liz Phair.  I realize that this is not an intellectually defensible position, so I will not attempt to intellectually defend it.  Instead I will attempt to explain to the younger members of this forum, like T__A who will soon be going through puberty, the regrettable chain of events that caused me to end up a broken and bitter man who worships Satan and hates freedom.
 
Rock and Roll is America's ultimate weapon, though that's mostly because we're pussies about using nukes.
 

 
I never got to listen to '90s rock as it was happening because I was still in hippie indoctrination camp; memorizing the Woodstock band lineup and reading long passages of Timothy Leary.  They were planning to use us kids as weapons; put us in suicide vests filled with LSD and have us pretend to be boyscouts selling charity magazine subscriptions at the FDIC's offices.  They'd never know what hit them; they'd soon be dropping out, tuning in and turning on, and all of us little martyrs would be time-warped back to 1968 and be given seventy two not-quite-virgins.  Or that's what they told us.
 
What they didn't tell us, and what they couldn't have possibly known, was that the jihad was over.  The hippies won.  Hippies actually conquered the world in 1994, the year of the death of Saint Nixon, and they ran pretty much the entire damn thing before then.
 
The complete victory of hippies over humanity meant that the great wellspring of Satanic magic that they ran on went dry.  The hippie infection needs new hosts to remain vital; its total victory meant that there was no fresh blood for them to suck.  What they didn't tell us kids in hippie indoctrination camp, as we prepared for our one-way mission to stick it to The Man, was that Rock and Roll didn't work anymore.  Drugs don't work anymore.  Love-ins don't work anymore.
 
'90s rock was the last, desperate attempt to squeeze a few drops out of Rock and Roll, although by that time it was just called Rock.  It didn't work.  Nothing worked anymore.  That's what happens when hippies conquer the world.  We learned that anyone who works for the government, far from being scandalized and overwhelmed by the experience of LSD, is bored of it because all federal workers have a generous LSD stipend thanks to the Civil Service Reform Act of 1992 (one of Clinton's more deft maneuvers).  We were equally surprised to learn that LSD can't actually send you back in time to 1968.  In fact, much to the dismay of hippies, literally nothing can send you back to 1968.  That's all they want.  That they cannot have.  Time moves in one direction only, and that is towards the grim darkness of the future.
 
So yeah, indie rock and alt rock are sort of like the shitty, half-assed meth they blow up trailer parks trying to cook when they can't get the real stuff that's made industrially in Mexico.  Only imagine that Mexico has been overrun with vampire hippies who have started eating the topsoil, so Mexico doesn't exist anymore, and the vampires are starting to migrate North but you really really need some meth.
 
It may surprise some readers to learn that twenty-one years ago, lady rockers with a tough stage persona who were in charge of their own sexuality were something of a novelty, as opposed to being a prerequisite like it is today.  Or something.  Puberty was confusing, but I distinctly recall it involving vampire hippies coming after our topsoil, and a beautiful night on the East Coast with my then girlfriend at a Liz Phair concert.
 
So that's why, when you are a young man, you must chose what jihad you get involved with carefully.  Shop around; go to more than one terrorist training camp before you commit yourself.  Consider your options.  You're still young.  You don't need to commit just yet.

Shut up you white skinned cis-male scumbag.

Palmyra:
 

 
 

Pictured, the Union being awesome:

For all that was bad in the prequels, there WERE entertaining elements and even downright awesome ones. Obi Wan's fight with Jango Fett in the rain. The Darth Maul fight with Obi Wan and Qai Gon. The Obi Wan scene where...
 
OK, Ewan Mcgregor playing Obi Wan was pretty much the only good part of the prequels. But still. (Ian McDiarmid was a good Palpatine as well)
 
So Last Jedi is the absolute worst - to date - of the franchise. It's the emotional equivalent of finding out your childhood home has been taken over by drug addict hoarders, and sorting through the piss-soaked and syringe-covered mess. I liked Rogue One and it is an "Okay" film that obviously had some bad editing decisions, and a couple questionable dialogue choices. I have not re-watched Force Awakens yet, and in wake of the Last Jedi debacle, I know my view on it is now clouded. 
 
Also, I'm one of those weird guys that likes the first Star Wars film over Empire Strikes Back (even though I'll admit that ESB is a technically better movie).
 
1) New Hope
2) Empire Strikes Back
3) Return of the Jedi
4) Rogue One
5) Force Awakens **
6) Revenge of the Sith
7) Phantom menace
8) Attack of the Clones
9) Bill Murray as "Nick the Lounge Singer" singing "Star Wars"
10) Star Wars Christmas Special
11) The Ewok Adventure
12) Watching the weird kid in school burn his Star Wars action figures that one time in elementary
13)
14) Last Jedi

Please, show me this land of manna and honey where unions are not constantly eating dicks.

I am not sure how it is done for Leopard 2 components, but I have seen entire cast or welded assemblies heated up and quenched at once in appropriately massive facilities. This image of a Panzer 68 hull being Quenched at Thun always comes to mind.
 
Welding plates post heat-treatment is very difficult without making the zone around the weld weak. It is usually preferred in metallurgy to weld before heat treatment and then do it all together.

This is why the tarring and feathering of bureaucrats needs to come back.