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| MaGraham |
Posted - 09 November 2013 : 10:05:40
I have no idea if he's in the area hit by the typhoon but this is what the news is saying:
"Philippine Red Cross tells Reuters that early estimates put the death toll at 1,000 in one coastal city alone after one of the most powerful typhoons on record devastates the country."
[praying]
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| Panhandler |
Posted - 29 November 2013 : 12:41:57
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Originally posted by Carefree
I had a language professor at Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, who said the first thing one learns when traveling internationally is "Where is the bathroom?". Next are the curse words, because when you find it, the door is locked.
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| Doug G |
Posted - 23 November 2013 : 18:17:01
quote:
Originally posted by Carefree
I had a language professor at Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, who said the first thing one learns when traveling internationally is "Where is the bathroom?". Next are the curse words, because when you find it, the door is locked.
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| Carefree |
Posted - 21 November 2013 : 21:27:29
I had a language professor at Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, who said the first thing one learns when traveling internationally is "Where is the bathroom?". Next are the curse words, because when you find it, the door is locked. |
| Doug G |
Posted - 21 November 2013 : 18:48:46
Well, us Navy guys always thought Sea Stories started with "This ain't no **** .." with no disclaimer that anything REALLY happened. :)
I recall Japan fondly. I never seemed to get anyone else from the ship to explore the countryside and ended up taking lots of train rides by myself. My first weekend trip to a city on the western coast of Japan, (Niigata, a few hours by train from Tokyo), taught me the word for bathroom in Japanese, as in relieving oneself. I was checking into a hotel there by myself, a non-Japanese speaker, and when I asked the clerk "where's the bathroom" for the next 30 minutes or so I was shown every bathing facility in the hotel, from the large communal bath to some really ritzy private bathing rooms. The guy must have thought I was finding their hotel lacking when I kept saying "No, No". Finally I got the message across, and the guy almost hollered "Oh, O-Benjo!!!" and showed me to the proper facility.
We parted very much friends the next day, and I was sorry I had to catch a train back to Yokosuka.
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| Carefree |
Posted - 21 November 2013 : 00:53:39
Know the difference between a war/sea story and a fairytale?
A fairytale starts out "Once upon a time ..."
A war/sea story starts out "No sh!t, guys, this really happened ..."
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| Doug G |
Posted - 20 November 2013 : 13:55:45
Watch out, I have lots of sea stories ... 
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| AnonJr |
Posted - 20 November 2013 : 09:47:19
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Originally posted by Davio
*could sit and listen to Doug's stories all day*
Ditto |
| Carefree |
Posted - 20 November 2013 : 04:08:48
Was at Clark when Pinatubo erupted in 91. During my career, actually nine different locations had natural disasters while I was assigned to them. Got the impression that Mother Earth and I just weren't meant to get along. Since while I was at Minot ND, they had a seven-month long flood and since the world's most powerful storm on record hit here while I was here, it seems the streak hasn't ended. |
| Davio |
Posted - 19 November 2013 : 06:12:10
*could sit and listen to Doug's stories all day* |
| Doug G |
Posted - 19 November 2013 : 00:53:28
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Originally posted by Carefree
Subic Bay, Cebu, or Cubi Point, Doug? Clark is still beautiful, they cleaned up all of Pinatubo's debris. Cebu is a mess now, due to the typhoon but Subic/Cubi weren't affected.
It was back in Vietnam days, I was on a frigate homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, and we made pretty much bi-monthly trips to the gulf, and always stopped in Subic for a couple days each way. We'd pick up a helo crew & some others that were based there at Cubi (one of our ship's main functions was SAR, but they apparently didn't want us steaming to and from Japan with a Helo on the helo deck).
I also got to spend a couple days in the transient motel at Clark when I'd gotten transferred and was waiting for a MATS hop to Tokyo.
Anyway, for nearly two years we had that schedule, I was feeling like the area around Subic was just another home :)
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| Carefree |
Posted - 17 November 2013 : 22:27:21
Subic Bay, Cebu, or Cubi Point, Doug? Clark is still beautiful, they cleaned up all of Pinatubo's debris. Cebu is a mess now, due to the typhoon but Subic/Cubi weren't affected. |
| Doug G |
Posted - 17 November 2013 : 17:29:38
I'm glad you're getting through this, carefree. I have many fond memories of USN time spent in the Phillipines, and it was sad to hear about the destruction from this storm.
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| MaGraham |
Posted - 15 November 2013 : 21:11:08
Oh my! OH MY!! I had not heard any of this, Carefree!
How horrible! My mind won't even go there!
I've had to go out of town for a couple of days so my time online has been very limited and so has my Internet connection.
Prayers continue. . .
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| Carefree |
Posted - 15 November 2013 : 08:40:43
So far, confirmed dead about 4500. More than 8000 still missing. They are burying bodies in mass graves of 1000 each. |
| MaGraham |
Posted - 14 November 2013 : 22:21:08
What's the latest, Carefree?
I don't have cable TV. . .
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