Venandi Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 (edited) 6 minutes ago, eyeball said: Two-way radios can be pretty anonymous too. Not in HAM radio circles, not in aviation circles, not in policing circles, not in military circles either... so, start a new thread, you could label it: "SHI% I HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT." Edited February 27 by Venandi 1 Quote
eyeball Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 4 minutes ago, Venandi said: Not in HAM radio circles, not in aviation circles, not in policing circles, not in military circles either... so, start a new thread, you could label it: "SHI% I HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT." You forgot marine radios... 1 Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Venandi Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 (edited) 9 minutes ago, eyeball said: You forgot marine radios... I'm pretty familiar with the spectrum. You probably thoughtI I forget about the Taliban folks who gave themselves away thinking they were sooooo much smarter than everyone else too eh? Nope... easy to find, and their big mouths / arrogance only served to make the task easier. All that and a bag of chips eh? Edited February 27 by Venandi 1 Quote
eyeball Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 (edited) 25 minutes ago, Venandi said: You probably thoughtI I forget about the Taliban folks who gave themselves away thinking they were sooooo much smarter than everyone else too eh? Nope... easy to find, and their big mouths / arrogance only served to make the task easier. You didn't need radios to know who the bad guys were. I recall @Army Guy describing our soldiers having to listen to the screams of young boys being raped when guarding the chiefs of clans we were allied with got together for confabs and dinners and such. The 1% can count on sycophants and people who know their place and hold their tongues everywhere they're found. Edited February 27 by eyeball 1 Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Venandi Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 (edited) 11 minutes ago, eyeball said: You didn't need radios to know who the bad guys were. But it aids in getting things right, and helps with sleeping soundly because of it. 11 minutes ago, eyeball said: I recall @Army Guy describing our soldiers having to listen to the screams of young boys being raped when guarding the chiefs of clans we were allied with got together for confabs and dinners and such. Ya, there's UAV FMV of it too.... maybe a reunion is in order, we could put sound to the video. Maybe then "you people" would have a clue. Edited February 27 by Venandi Quote
eyeball Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 Just now, Venandi said: Ya, there's UAV FMV of it too.... maybe a reunion is in order, we could put sound to the video. I dare you... 2 minutes ago, Venandi said: Maybe then "you people" would have a clue. What do you mean? I heard about it here in this forum years and years ago. Was I supposed to call some journalist or MP and tell them I heard this guy on the internet or something? Why didn't you people pipe up when it was happening? Why didn't you people pipe up if your betters were preventing everyone else from knowing? How come you guys are acting like tech giants who withhold information that could protect kids? Why do I feel like hitting you people with a fùcking shovel? 1 Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Venandi Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 (edited) 16 minutes ago, eyeball said: Why do I feel like hitting you people with a fùcking shovel? PM me for a date and time; I'm hoping to complete an IBA "Trans Canada Quest" motorcycle trip this summer... unless life gets in the way. If I can get away, lunch is on me... Edited February 27 by Venandi 1 Quote
eyeball Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Venandi said: Lunch is on me... Seriously though, why didn't you people pipe up when it was happening? Why didn't you people pipe up if your betters were preventing everyone else from knowing? How come you guys are acting like tech giants who withhold information that could protect kids? Look at the thread title again and tell me why these wouldn't be valid questions given the polarization and politicization of the issues around Tumbler Ridge and particularly IRL? Edited February 27 by eyeball 1 Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Venandi Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 (edited) 37 minutes ago, eyeball said: Seriously though, why didn't you people pipe up when it was happening? As I recall, there was some "piping up," a MP investigation and several news reports to that effect back in the day. A better question might be did you really think that wasn't happening? A google search should get you there, I don't recall what became of it all. I wasn't kidding about the PM BTW... should you choose to leave the shovel behind and come in peace lunch is still on me; assuming I can make the trip of course. I'm thinking (hoping) for mid July and you're welcome to bring a guest for lunch (or witness should you still wish to pursue the shovel option). Edited February 27 by Venandi 1 Quote
Nefarious Banana Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 1 minute ago, Venandi said: . . . come in peace, lunch is still on me; assuming I can make the trip of course. I'm thinking (hoping) for mid July and you're welcome to bring a guest for lunch. Curious . . . what is your ride? Quote
Venandi Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 6 minutes ago, Nefarious Banana said: Curious . . . what is your ride? 2016 Indian Springfield. I have a 1966 Shovel as well... first year of the shovels, first year of the Springfields. Fifty years between them and they don't fight in the shed when left alone. 1 Quote
Nefarious Banana Posted February 27 Report Posted February 27 4 minutes ago, Venandi said: 2016 Indian Springfield. I have a 1966 Shovel as well... first year of the shovels, first year of the Springfields. Fifty years between them and they don't fight in the shed when left alone. Let my '92 FXRS Lowrider go a couple of years ago. Rode it a few months short of 30 years. Went to a good home locally. It was like turning out your old horse . . . Quote
Venandi Posted February 28 Report Posted February 28 6 minutes ago, Nefarious Banana said: Let my '92 FXRS Lowrider go a couple of years ago. Rode it a few months short of 30 years. Went to a good home locally. It was like turning out your old horse . . . Sorry to hear it... I feel for you. I know a few folks that have done the same thing, some for knees (and such) and some because of the increased dangers of distracted / aggressive driving. My list of close calls has got me thinking about it too, but I can't quite get there. Here's a file photo of the Springfield, I have stage 2 and a buffalo air horn but that's the only difference. I think we need a motorcycle thread: 1 Quote
eyeball Posted February 28 Report Posted February 28 55 minutes ago, Venandi said: As I recall, there was some "piping up," a MP investigation and several news reports to that effect back in the day. A better question might be did you really think that wasn't happening? I wasn't exactly surprised, not after the Somalia Affair. Is it worth noting that Chretien disbanded the CAR while Harper's investigation into bacha bazi concluded everything was fine? Little boys were even forced to wear lipstick and wigs. Given how bent out of shape conservatives can be when they get bent out of shape you woulda thought that alone would be enough for any self-respecting conservative to say enough is enough. 57 minutes ago, Venandi said: I wasn't kidding about the PM BTW... should you choose to leave the shovel behind and come in peace lunch is still on me; assuming I can make the trip of course. I'm thinking (hoping) for mid July and you're welcome to bring a guest for lunch (or witness should you still wish to pursue the shovel option). Bring Nefarious Banana on the way. I'm pretty sure he's nearby. 1 Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Army Guy Posted February 28 Report Posted February 28 On 2/27/2026 at 6:44 PM, eyeball said: I dare you... What do you mean? I heard about it here in this forum years and years ago. Was I supposed to call some journalist or MP and tell them I heard this guy on the internet or something? Why didn't you people pipe up when it was happening? Why didn't you people pipe up if your betters were preventing everyone else from knowing? How come you guys are acting like tech giants who withhold information that could protect kids? Why do I feel like hitting you people with a fùcking shovel? Every incident was reported, until it was'nt....to higher HQ, to the Media, In fact Canadian soldiers stormed a ANP police station and rescued boys who were being abused, then were sent home ....Hard to stop something that has been imbedded into Muslim culture for centuries, YA i just said that, this is not contained in Afghanistan alone.......Aside all the things soldier had to do just to stay alive everyday...you wanted them to crusade about this one item.... Afghanistan was like stepping back in time, to the 1700, boys the age of 9 or 10 being used as soldiers. pregnant women being used as suicide bombers...little kids as young as 5 being used as suicide bobber's...old men skinned alive and staked to the ground to bake in the sun....entire villages cleansed to the last person, for giving NATO troops directions, heads placed on long spikes along the road........so we would find him the next morning... for the crime of talking to NATO soldiers...And your making it sound like this crime was the crime of all crimes....it was but one in a country full of horrors....And we wonder why more than 50 % of all soldiers that served there came back with PTSD....Yes children getting rape is horrific....but it was one crime of many, each worse than the next... And then we come home to find out our country has awarded a Taliban terrorist 10 million Canadian dollars because he was mistreated...when all he deserved was a bullet to the back of the head....and you have the gull to ask why something was not done.....F*** You... The question you should be asking is why did you guys withhold funding that could have ended this war a lot sooner...Why did Canada quit half way through , when we should have hunted these terrorist down to the last person.... Quote We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
Army Guy Posted March 1 Report Posted March 1 23 hours ago, eyeball said: I wasn't exactly surprised, not after the Somalia Affair. Is it worth noting that Chretien disbanded the CAR while Harper's investigation into bacha bazi concluded everything was fine? Little boys were even forced to wear lipstick and wigs. Given how bent out of shape conservatives can be when they get bent out of shape you woulda thought that alone would be enough for any self-respecting conservative to say enough is enough. Bring Nefarious Banana on the way. I'm pretty sure he's nearby. The same Government that thought given a brand new drug that had not been tested yet to troops, methyl Quin which caused troops to have vivid Nightmares along with a long list of other consequences...., taken on Tuesdays....and called "Psycho Tuesday..and better yet everyone, was armed to the teeth....I'm surprised that was all that happened...and so the government decided to ban the entire regiment for the actions of a couple soldiers.... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/veteran-mefloquine-somalia-malaria-1.3869580 Quote We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
eyeball Posted March 1 Report Posted March 1 9 minutes ago, Army Guy said: ...you wanted them to crusade about this one item.... No, I just want to remind conservatives how blase our society was when it came to child rapists then compared to today. Especially given the crusade you people are on. 13 minutes ago, Army Guy said: And your making it sound like this crime was the crime of all crimes....it was but one in a country full of horrors....And we wonder why more than 50 % of all soldiers that served there came back with PTSD....Yes children getting rape is horrific....but it was one crime of many, each worse than the next... Actually the real crime was when the superpowers finished their proxy war in Afghanistan and washed their hands of the place. 99% of the population there had PTSD. And we knew it. This isn't just hindsight talking. And now you'll make it sound like that had nothing to do with anything and...that's how hands get washed. 21 minutes ago, Army Guy said: And then we come home to find out our country has awarded a Taliban terrorist 10 million Canadian dollars because he was mistreated...when all he deserved was a bullet to the back of the head... Awwww. 21 minutes ago, Army Guy said: F*** You... The question you should be asking is why did you guys withhold funding that could have ended this war a lot sooner...Why did Canada quit half way through , when we should have hunted these terrorist down to the last person.... Don't look at me, I never would have sent you in the first place. 1 Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
eyeball Posted March 1 Report Posted March 1 19 minutes ago, Army Guy said: ...and so the government decided to ban the entire regiment for the actions of a couple soldiers... Yup, it sure must suck to be injured cleaning up the messes governments create. To bad we can't ban a few of them. It needs to be said Somalia was another mess of our allies making. Great Britain, Italy and France in this case. Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Army Guy Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 On 2/28/2026 at 8:21 PM, eyeball said: No, I just want to remind conservatives how blase our society was when it came to child rapists then compared to today. Especially given the crusade you people are on. Actually the real crime was when the superpowers finished their proxy war in Afghanistan and washed their hands of the place. 99% of the population there had PTSD. And we knew it. This isn't just hindsight talking. And now you'll make it sound like that had nothing to do with anything and...that's how hands get washed. Awwww. Don't look at me, I never would have sent you in the first place. I want to remind Canadians, that when our country did decide to take a stand, it was liberals that sent us into Combat...They knew full well the hell they were sending us into....a country that has eaten every foreign army that was sent into it...to make it worse our military was ill prepared nor did it have the right equipment, that's OK they were mostly conservatives anyways right.....and when our soldiers stood up and volunteered to combat duty, there was very few of the left in our ranks.... We were no on any crusade, we were trying to survive one more day, against all the odds, everything the enemy could throw against us, plus our very own government refused to give us the equipment we needed to win, until enough soldiers had died...and Canadians sat around and watched...until they got tired of seeing troops paraded down the highway of heros...then they force the government to buy something Super powers did not wash their hands , Canadians did, forcing the government to withdraw...In shame...None of that shame belongs to our soldiers you and the government sent us there to fill body bags and we did what we wirer told... Canadians had a chance to fight to bring back all those Afghanis that assisted us in that conflict, Justin and Canadians gave them the big finger....Again you want to point fingers point them at yourselves...and the government Every Canadian in Canada sent us...and once there tied our hands behind our backs and gave the advantage to the enemy... And while terrorist get paid for fighting Canadian soldiers, i watched a widow get thrown out of her PMQ with her children because her husband was declared dead in Afghanistan....I also seen a bank tried to foreclose on another widow because she had no employment and her three kids where almost forced out on the street until the banks changed their minds...... And all of this was in the media, and Canadians just watched....it was the Military members that put out off their own pockets to give them some sort of decency.... 1 Quote We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
eyeball Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 21 hours ago, Army Guy said: our military was ill prepared nor did it have the right equipment, that's OK they were mostly conservatives anyways right.....and when our soldiers stood up and volunteered to combat duty, there was very few of the left in our ranks.... You could have said no. You were not forced. Stop acting like this was a vaccine mandate. 1 Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
CdnFox Posted March 2 Author Report Posted March 2 53 minutes ago, eyeball said: You could have said no. You were not forced. Stop acting like this was a vaccine mandate. Can you? I had always understood that if you signed up for the military if they tell you you have to deploy then you have to go, you can't just decide to quit on mass when war breaks out. There must be some species of contract term or mandatory notice before quitting or something or people would just quit the moment there was a conflict 1 1 Quote "That which doesn't kill me... Had better start running."
Army Guy Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 (edited) 2 hours ago, eyeball said: You could have said no. You were not forced. Stop acting like this was a vaccine mandate. Absolutely, could have said a lot of things....no was not one of them, that's not the people that sign up for the military, you get assigned to tuk tayuk tuk....or jail....you would not understand.... this was for the men and women on the left and right of me, no way i was going to leave them in a Lerch, no way i was going to abandoned them......I left that for the government and those that voted them in...I want you to think about something there are men and women that completed more than 8 combat tours in Afghanistan....not because they were war junkies, but because they could bring young men and women home alive....and that was all that mattered...that's why when i get a phone call from any of these guys asking for help, i don't ask questions except one, who's car are we taking....They are family...and i would risk anything for them...One vaccine, is a joke.... my needle book reads like a vaccine know how manual...even have a few experimental ones in there....including the one for covid... Edited March 3 by Army Guy 1 Quote We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
eyeball Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 4 hours ago, CdnFox said: Can you? I had always understood that if you signed up for the military if they tell you you have to deploy then you have to go, you can't just decide to quit on mass when war breaks out. There must be some species of contract term or mandatory notice before quitting or something or people would just quit the moment there was a conflict All the same, you chose to put yourself in harm's way. You'd have to be nuts to join knowing you could be thrown into battle no better equipped or prepared than one of Putin conscripts. There's no way Canadians would have stood for soldiers being forced into combat against their will. Notwithstanding right-wingers maybe, apparently they're kind of squeamish about not complying with authoritah. 1 Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
User Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 7 hours ago, eyeball said: You could have said no. You were not forced. Stop acting like this was a vaccine mandate. You never tire from being a clown. 1 Quote
CdnFox Posted March 3 Author Report Posted March 3 4 hours ago, eyeball said: All the same, you chose to put yourself in harm's way. You'd have to be nuts to join knowing you could be thrown into battle no better equipped or prepared than one of Putin conscripts. There's no way Canadians would have stood for soldiers being forced into combat against their will. Notwithstanding right-wingers maybe, apparently they're kind of squeamish about not complying with authoritah. There will always be a need for those who are willing to put themselves in harm's way. And we should be grateful that they are out there. This includes police, firemen, and yes soldiers. But while a person may choose to serve for a variety of reasons they don't get to pick and choose which conflicts they go to. 4 hours ago, eyeball said: There's no way Canadians would have stood for soldiers being forced into combat against their will. Dude we had conscription not that long ago. The last time was 19544, that's still living memory. There's no doubt that Canadians would indeed expect someone who voluntarily joined the military at one point to deploy to war even if they didn't agree with that particular war. Quote "That which doesn't kill me... Had better start running."
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