• @Slab_Bulkhead
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    excuse me miss, have you ever heard the tragedy of the Swoose Goose?

    • sp3ctr4l
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      19 hours ago

      … its called the Hercules.

      angrily shuffles around blueprints.

      EDIT:

      No joke, my grandpa was an old timer at Boeing, middle management after WW2.

      He told me a story once that Howard Hughes was once settling some kind of negotiation or contract with Boeing… but refused to mail over some paperwork, and refused Boeing mailing him over their own paperwork to him

      So, my grandpa was directed to go, with a briefcase with Boeing’s paperwork, to a specific bathroom stall at Boeing Field, at specific time and date, whereupon him and Howard Hughes unironically did the old spy movie trope of sliding briefcases between stalls, then leaving at seperate times, never making eye contact or saying a word.

      I have no way of 100% verifying whether or not this actually happened, if my grandpa was just pulling my leg as a kid… but my grandpa did really work for Boeing for most of his life, I’ve not known him to ever really lie about anything, and this does seem exactly like something Howard Hughes would do.

      EDIT 2:

      If this did actually happen, I’d imagine Hughes just literally flew himself in his own aircraft from California to Seattle with the briefcase, did the swap, and then just flew himself back.

      Hughes: Fuck the Post Office, I’m faster and more reliable.

      rofl

      • verity_kindle
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        614 hours ago

        Late stage Howard Hughes, I believe it. Always believe the grandpa.

    • Mayor Poopington
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      316 hours ago

      It’s only an hour drive from me, I should try that line

  • @[email protected]
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    2022 hours ago

    ngl this would work on me, she’s cute. I hope she doesn’t mind finding out a great deal about Chance Vought

    • @poleslav
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      819 hours ago

      Definitely is. I have a picture of me looking through the little wood character that’s in the background of the OP, from the museum in Dayton OH

      • @[email protected]
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        212 hours ago

        I was in the area but only for four hours. That was nowhere near enough time to do that museum. It was huge.

  • @Carmakazi
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    623 hours ago

    I feel like this meta would significantly increase your chances of landing a Nazi or a future mass shooter…

    • @[email protected]
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      3223 hours ago

      Nah you’ll get dudes with just enough confidence to be a tour guide and just enough autism for accurate info

    • sp3ctr4l
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      23 hours ago

      I am the kind of male military history nerd that loves to just wander around museums like this for fun, have been since I was a kid.

      You’re not entirely wrong.

      Future school shooter in a military museum?

      Nah, not really. Too anti social, too shut-in. Not likely to go to a museum.

      You’re more likely to find them in a Nazi RP server of some kind, or RPing as cops online, doing the whole power fantasy + indoctrination from their room, never actually interacting with people in the outside world.

      Nazi, right wing extremist in a military museum?

      … Yeah, young male military history nerds in the US do very much tend toward being quite right wing.

      Not all of them, of course, but at least for me, almost all of my friends with similar nerdy interest in military history since a young age… they’re all MAGAtards now, and no longer my friends.

      • verity_kindle
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        922 hours ago

        This is a shitposting museum, the serious musing museum closed. NEA grant cut.

        • sp3ctr4l
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          219 hours ago

          Can’t stop me!

          Serious posting in shitposting communities is my hyperfixation BWaHahAhahha!

  • verity_kindle
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    523 hours ago

    There’s one of those Among Us characters behind her. I don’t grok, but it’s stealthed to blend in with the floor. Dayngah Dayngah!