Good to see you back, hope The Doc gave you a 5By on the check up. Don't remember who gave the advice on Nitro Headaches, but a thousand thanks. Haven't had to use it in years but if needed in future will keep it in mind.
Hope the four "Ghostie Toasties" mean all the bad guys are no longer with us, Bike is testament to Luna engineering no big dings or ouchies.
It works for incidental exposure to nitro or nitrated compounds (most explosives) and it works when I use nitro spray for espohageal spasms which mimic a heart attack exactly.
Nitro works on those because the esophagus is one of the few parts of the body with the same structure as blood vessels.
Coffee doesn't help the esophagus much but I can put up with that better than the spasms.
I'm wondering now if caffiene pills like no-doz or wake-ups would have the same effect without pouring hot coffee down an enraged esophagus...hmmm iced coffee, why am I just thinking about this now instead of twenty years ago when this started ?
I believe that a few thousand years from now nitpicking what might possibly pass for English, or the few surviving words of it in what ever polyglot dialect of the day or the place would be a tiring effort.
Translating Belter slang is an entirely different kettle of murderturds ;)
Glad you're doing okay Cent.
Really nice with the big boom and fire, but I have a sudden craving for marshmallows.
Here's hoping that all that's left this group of antagonists are nothing more than cooling pools of golden slag.
Those were a nice touch, I laughed out loud when I saw them.
What we need now is a big yellow thing with a gaping maw to start chasing them through the canyons screaming waka-waka-waka !!!
maybe they'll catch reload fever if they're headed for replacement bodies ;)
can't remember where I put the 'reload fever' bit i did for Teedee, you lucky people you, but here's the original :)
I've been present for people accidentally using racial slurs to refer to their saviors because they were so used to using said terms to refer to the person's ethnicity. It's kind of stupid, but it happens. Ones mind is still on the crisis and not on the social.
Adaptation from traditional and very old "don't call me sir, I work for a living" military exhortation, I believe. Y'know, from era when there was significant social divide between officers drawn from wealthy upper class for whom paycheck was often simply an afterthought and enlisted NCOs who were simply 'working class stiffs'. Though I would personally have expanded that "work for my air" as "work for my life support", but that's simply stylistic preference.
I agree completely with what you said, and I have spoken either those exact words or their alternate: "Don't call me Sir, my parents were married when I was born. To each other, even!"
"Work for my air" has a long-standing history in Science Fiction. The one novel that comes immediately to mind is Robert A. Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
Yes, it involves the moon (oddly enough, named "Luna" in the book), and yes, the "inhabitants" have to pay for their oxygen. TANSTAAFL!
From what we have seen, they are far from indestructible. A SINGLE flying combat unit was able to engage one of them on near-even ground. Something that qualifies as a pocket fortress would make short work of any squad.
Roma's group was caught off guard, and while we only know for certain about one Goldie, there is no reason to believe that there was only one. Both of their other encounters appear to be with fire teams, and a squad is possible.
Hope the four "Ghostie Toasties" mean all the bad guys are no longer with us, Bike is testament to Luna engineering no big dings or ouchies.
Nitro works on those because the esophagus is one of the few parts of the body with the same structure as blood vessels.
Coffee doesn't help the esophagus much but I can put up with that better than the spasms.
I'm wondering now if caffiene pills like no-doz or wake-ups would have the same effect without pouring hot coffee down an enraged esophagus...hmmm iced coffee, why am I just thinking about this now instead of twenty years ago when this started ?
Yeah, those quirks of speech are hard to get rid of in the spur of the moment...
...question: should that not be: by the by? instead of by the bye? (just curious...)
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/by--the--bye
Translating Belter slang is an entirely different kettle of murderturds ;)
Really nice with the big boom and fire, but I have a sudden craving for marshmallows.
Here's hoping that all that's left this group of antagonists are nothing more than cooling pools of golden slag.
What we need now is a big yellow thing with a gaping maw to start chasing them through the canyons screaming waka-waka-waka !!!
maybe they'll catch reload fever if they're headed for replacement bodies ;)
can't remember where I put the 'reload fever' bit i did for Teedee, you lucky people you, but here's the original :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY0SJeqq0r4
Everything alright ? We do worry, you know
I didn't think she meant "Grounder" in a derogatory, or condescending way. that wouldn't be nice, considering he just saved her bacon.
"Work for my air" has a long-standing history in Science Fiction. The one novel that comes immediately to mind is Robert A. Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
Yes, it involves the moon (oddly enough, named "Luna" in the book), and yes, the "inhabitants" have to pay for their oxygen. TANSTAAFL!
And if they can, then the Ranger outpost have to stave the goldies off.
Roma's group was caught off guard, and while we only know for certain about one Goldie, there is no reason to believe that there was only one. Both of their other encounters appear to be with fire teams, and a squad is possible.