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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 3:48:18 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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She was right. It was significantly harder going North.

So did you make SG get out of the basket and walk then?


No. we went long and rented two bikes. She pissed me off the other day saying I probably couldn't hit a baseball anymore so I picked up the pace on the north-bound leg until she begged to stop for water. It was childish but I am not going to have some woman telling me I cant do things.

The guy in the rental store was a riot. He had Asperger's syndrome. HE wore a bike helmet inside the store. Never made eye contact but clearly loved his job. He spent 10 minutes making annotations on the little map and I have lived in the area for decades.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 4:06:47 PM   
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I have two rules for my rides:
1.) start my ride going into the wind so on the return trip I'll have it at my back.
2.) Try to put any big uphills in the middle of my ride - it's best to start with a flat section, then tackle the hill and finish with a nice downhill.

Of course, rules are made to be broken.

Anyway, on a bike (especially a heavy single speed bike) any slight upgrade is noticeable. You don't have 400hp to overcome those grades. And I don't know what it is with women and their little dogs, but they all want to carry them along on their bikes - or walk them on the bike trails (usually two or three at a time spread all across the trail).

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 4:25:22 PM   
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She was right. It was significantly harder going North.

So did you make SG get out of the basket and walk then?


No. we went long and rented two bikes. She pissed me off the other day saying I probably couldn't hit a baseball anymore so I picked up the pace on the north-bound leg until she begged to stop for water. It was childish but I am not going to have some woman telling me I cant do things.

The guy in the rental store was a riot. He had Asperger's syndrome. HE wore a bike helmet inside the store. Never made eye contact but clearly loved his job. He spent 10 minutes making annotations on the little map and I have lived in the area for decades.


From personal experience... N E V E R challenge Asperger's syndrome people to challenging games of chess or "Rain Man" card counting skills. My friends son has Asperger's and I was duped into playing him at chess. I'm a 50% win on average player so I thought I'd take it easy on him, he bested me in 31 moves. Then I put on my big boy game face and took him on again, beating me only took him 27 moves!

To this date I have NEVER beaten him in chess (+50 games) I feel like a sacfrificial lamb whern we go over to visit, because Bill always wants to play chess ( he's 32 but with the emotional maturity of an 12 yr old) Now break out cards and he's not quite Dustin Hoffman of "Rain Man" but he holds his own and I find myself asking him for advice now and then because he can remember what cards have been played like a photographic memory... It's like they channel all thier brain power into one or two things and are exceptional, and everything else simply doesnt matter to them.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 6:03:01 PM   
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From personal experience... N E V E R challenge Asperger's syndrome people to challenging games of chess or "Rain Man" card counting skills. My friends son has Asperger's and I was duped into playing him at chess. I'm a 50% win on average player so I thought I'd take it easy on him, he bested me in 31 moves. Then I put on my big boy game face and took him on again, beating me only took him 27 moves!

To this date I have NEVER beaten him in chess (+50 games) I feel like a sacfrificial lamb whern we go over to visit, because Bill always wants to play chess ( he's 32 but with the emotional maturity of an 12 yr old) Now break out cards and he's not quite Dustin Hoffman of "Rain Man" but he holds his own and I find myself asking him for advice now and then because he can remember what cards have been played like a photographic memory... It's like they channel all thier brain power into one or two things and are exceptional, and everything else simply doesnt matter to them.


How do you know the guy/gal you are playing in AE does no have Asperger's? They might have performance numbers memorized for every fighter at every altitude...including the YAK's. As a matter of fact, how do we know YOU don't have Asperger's?

Quick! How many Bofors on a short deck Essex?



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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 6:26:01 PM   
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Quick! How many Bofors on a short deck Essex?





Oh, come on. Somebody knows. Answer! We won't make fun of you. We promise.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 8:00:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Unfair question CAP - it varies with the upgrades. I think they started with about 40 and finished with about 88!

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 8:17:51 PM   
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Quick! How many Bofors on a short deck Essex?





Oh, come on. Somebody knows. Answer! We won't make fun of you. We promise.


Dear Cap. My mental deficiencies are well documented! Aspergers has it all over me by my own admission.

Short Deck Essex's have WAY more Bofor's than me... The only thing I know about Bofor's is they were 40mm anti-aircraft weapons and made in the USA under license from Bofors, the swedish arms manufacturer... The other thing I know from reading Wikipedia is the M3 & M5 Stuarts main guns were 37mm Bofors also made under license in the USA during WWII... AND most surprising of all is Alfred Nobel (of Peace Prize fame) was one of the Owners of Bofors prior to his death. Talk about oxymorons!

And if you DIDN'T make fun of my answer, That would be the most disappointing of all

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 8:42:05 PM   
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Unfair question CAP - it varies with the upgrades. I think they started with about 40 and finished with about 88!


The use of the phrase "I think" indicates that you are a "neuro-typical". If we had swerved into an Asperger/AE player's area of microknowledge he would know the orignal design specs, the date and number added at every upgrade for every Essex carrier, the average rate of fire, how many enemy planes were shot down by Essex carriers and some formula to estimate how many were attributable to Bofors guns, the number of rounds in the storage lockers, every type of Bofors round ever produced and a descriotion of the origin of the company name (which I just looked up but I'm not goign to say).

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 8:54:02 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Any nominees?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 9:10:24 PM   
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Never met a AE question he couldn't definitely answer...

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 10:27:14 PM   
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Alfred - hands down.

Never met a AE question he couldn't definitely answer...


How's his eye contact?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 11:02:36 PM   
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Alfred - hands down.

Never met a AE question he couldn't definitely answer...


How's his eye contact?




Not an available option....




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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/12/2013 11:51:38 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 12:53:11 AM   
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Even the dogs have chauffeurs in Newport Beach.


I wonder how many men SG junior has driving her around Greece? They're very nice over there to blonde SoCal girls, I'm led to believe. I'm sure she's in good hands, no worries.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 3:02:15 AM   
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I guess that old yarn about "if you ignore it, it'll go away" is so much stuff....

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 3:33:44 PM   
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How isnt this game over yet?

I guess that old yarn about "if you ignore it, it'll go away" is so much stuff....


Oh, you are so off our Christmas card list now.

We are trying to win but they started fighting back.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 4:21:41 PM   
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We are trying to win but they started fighting back.

What the hell? Did they even read the script?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 4:34:25 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 5:18:52 PM   
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How isnt this game over yet?

I guess that old yarn about "if you ignore it, it'll go away" is so much stuff....


Oh, you are so off our Christmas card list now.

We are trying to win but they started fighting back.



What is the VP point differential? Is this a matter of January 1944 and a required differential of 3:1? Will Oki take you over the top? Or will victory require strategic bombing points?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 5:35:16 PM   
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How isnt this game over yet?

I guess that old yarn about "if you ignore it, it'll go away" is so much stuff....


Oh, you are so off our Christmas card list now.

We are trying to win but they started fighting back.



What is the VP point differential? Is this a matter of January 1944 and a required differential of 3:1? Will Oki take you over the top? Or will victory require strategic bombing points?



We are not even close. The strategy of bypassing bases and major LYB troop concentrations means we don't gain much in the way of victory points.

And the idiot staff flunkie who lost 12K Anglo troops at Lingayen didn't help very much either. There are at least 140K LYB's trapped on Luzon and 100K trapped in Oz and Dobo but they are still alive.

I think, however, the situation is bad for the Shinto Boys. We have seen no opposing carrier for some time. The surface raids are reduced to DD's and CL's and spectacular numbers of Bettys have been destroyed. Oil delivery to the Home Islands is apparently not coming via the South China Sea.

Pretend I don't know how strategic points work.




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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 5:41:10 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		At some point, just from the standpoint of game enjoyment by both sides, it might be appropriate to suggest a peace treaty, but right now we are running short of uncommitted ground troops. We have restricted divisions still in Hawaii and the West Coast but we are a bit shore of points to activate them.

If they have 50K Emperor-brand Kool-aide drinkers on Okinawa we will have to wait.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 5:50:52 PM   
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How isnt this game over yet?

I guess that old yarn about "if you ignore it, it'll go away" is so much stuff....


Oh, you are so off our Christmas card list now.

We are trying to win but they started fighting back.



What is the VP point differential? Is this a matter of January 1944 and a required differential of 3:1? Will Oki take you over the top? Or will victory require strategic bombing points?



We are not even close. The strategy of bypassing bases and major LYB troop concentrations means we don't gain much in the way of victory points.

And the idiot staff flunkie who lost 12K Anglo troops at Lingayen didn't help very much either. There are at least 140K LYB's trapped on Luzon and 100K trapped in Oz and Dobo but they are still alive.

I think, however, the situation is bad for the Shinto Boys. We have seen no opposing carrier for some time. The surface raids are reduced to DD's and CL's and spectacular numbers of Bettys have been destroyed. Oil delivery to the Home Islands is apparently not coming via the South China Sea.

Pretend I don't know how strategic points work.





Shinto boys are still ahead 42K to 33K ... you all have a ways to go ...

As I read AAR's not many games get to the point where the Allies start reducing Japan to ash .. but when they do .. and When the LB's start strategic bombing ... not only do you get the side effects of reduced industry like Aircraft factories that do not research or produce ... but each attack on the Home Islands that destroys industry also gains strategic points in the form of VP's ... A LOT OF VP's can be gained this way ...

Radier vs. Greyjoy if it played out would have been such a demonstration .... B17's and B24's bombing from Sapporo cannot be a good thing for the IJ .. lots of stuff within fighter/bomber range..

I did note that the IJ have gained some VP's by attacking industry ...Does the land of Oz accumulate strategic VP's for the IJ?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 6:29:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		JJ did bomb something in India once. That is probably where the 60 points came from.

An Arried level 8 airfield at Naha and a fighter strip at Amami Oshima would also be a disaster for Kyushu.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 8:03:12 PM   
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Long Island Ice Teas are SO yesterday. Now you need to try a Nuclear Long Island Ice Tea...patent pending. Has Uzo, and Blue Curacao in it as well, it sorta glows & sparkles in the dark if there are black lights on.



That sounds intriguing. It's a close relative of the Darwin Antipersonnel Bomb(Crème de Menthe, Guinness and Irish Whiskey [Protestant or Catholic]). This particular crowd pleaser has not been invented in WWII(c), as I recall.

I don't know any places around here with black lights. Wait, check that. We have one at work to check for skin fungus.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 8:11:58 PM   
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Stalker Girl has her own stalkers at work. 3 of them. The Mexican janitor. He says sweet nothings like, "Joo are a bery beeuuutiful lady". Then there is the security guard in the ER. The guy claims to be a Viet Nam vet but seems waaaay too young. He is bat **** crazy. All the nurses have blocked him on facebook.

Then there is one of the surgeons who told SG, "I have SPECTACULAR junk" (spoken with a Georgia accent). Turns out this is a she-surgeon. We had both thought it was simply bragging but have now discovered it really was like throwing a sardine on a hook.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 8:32:31 PM   
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We are trying to win but they started fighting back.

What the hell? Did they even read the script?


Why such umbrage? One side clearly didn't read the script. Another side clearly didn't read the manual. Sounds like a perfect match to me.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 8:34:49 PM   
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And the idiot staff flunkie who lost 12K Anglo troops at Lingayen didn't help very much either. There are at least 140K LYB's trapped on Luzon


Who is trapper and trappee on Luzon still seems a matter of conjecture, kind sir. How many BWBs are on Luzon now?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 8:36:46 PM   
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Pretend I don't know how strategic points work.


Alright. The expurgated version: bomb or capture **** of strategic value. Get points.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 9:14:25 PM   
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And the idiot staff flunkie who lost 12K Anglo troops at Lingayen didn't help very much either. There are at least 140K LYB's trapped on Luzon


Who is trapper and trappee on Luzon still seems a matter of conjecture, kind sir. How many BWBs are on Luzon now?


BWBs="Big White Bastards"?

We have 37th ID, 8th Aus, 7th Aus (1/2 strength), 4 USMC regiments, 2 US Army regts, substantial armor and a bunch of arty.

We got caught in move mode in clear terrain at Lingayen. Of course, I blame the staff flunkies for not having good intel. I don't think the Mongol Horde in Northern Luzon can take either Iva or Vigan at this point. Manila is Mexican standoff unless they move South. We can probably take Aparri and Laoag after some air bombardment


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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 8/13/2013 9:17:37 PM   
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Pretend I don't know how strategic points work.


Alright. The expurgated version: bomb or capture **** of strategic value. Get points.


right, I know about the capture part. Bomb what? Industry? Manpower? National Shrines?

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