Comments on: Just look at these Filipino marines

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:37:00 +0000

Sign me up! (I love durian….and bananas too.)

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:39:00 +0000

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By: Velocirapt42

Velocirapt42 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:10:00 +0000

It’s charm school. Perfect posture!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:27:00 +0000

For using transphobic language.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:24:00 +0000

I know, at first I was thinking “Dude you really need to start dating again because the one on the left has good cheekbones and nice hands.”

Anyway I pointed it out and the moderator promptly deleted my comment.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:18:00 +0000

Just you wait until they take it to the next level – balancing a banana while eating durian. Then they’ll cull the weak from the strong.

By: Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:25:00 +0000

You won’t be laughing when the banana jihad strikes.

By: jackbird

jackbird — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:32:00 +0000

That sounds like a fraternity keeping a plumber in business.

By: jackbird

jackbird — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:31:00 +0000

“Isn’t that bridge built yet?”

By: IndexMe

IndexMe — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:22:00 +0000

I am reading a pretty cool series right now, the 3-trilogy Galactic Marines series by Ian Douglas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Keith,_Jr.
I’m half-way through and it’s great! When I was little I was freaked by real life marines I saw somewhere who looked so huge and kick-ass. Reading this, even though it is fiction, there’s a lot of lore and it has gotten me interested in them. Not in joining up though, evidently you need to be both smart and have dino-moxie to be a marine! I respect them.

By: daneyul

daneyul — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:56:00 +0000

Should have been in the post itself!

C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:55:00 +0000

Actually, much easier than balancing a book while walking….both because of the shape and because of the relative stickiness of the peel.

I’ll bet it helps teach the idea that just because you’re eating (etc.), you shouldn’t stop paying attention to things around you.

By: DJBudSonic

DJBudSonic — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:07:00 +0000

Looks like a fun way to promote good posture, I am going to try this at our family dinner tonight.

By: niro5

niro5 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:27:00 +0000

I was thinking, “Wow, those Marines sure do have some feminine features”

Sure enough: “Newly-recruited female marines”

By: Markus Schäfer

Markus Schäfer — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:26:00 +0000

They’re probably going to fight Jiralhanae. I heard their real weakness is bananas.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:15:00 +0000

Very neatly Spaced Marines.

By: cservant

cservant — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:57:00 +0000

Makes me wonder if it would help to eat not your own plate, but the one across from you whereas the person across would do the same.

Or maybe that makes it worst.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:04:00 +0000

It is a harmless way of instilling one particular form of discipline. The military have to strike the right balance between blind obedience and the application of individual skills. Both are necessary for the efficient functioning of a unit.

By: B. Peasant

B. Peasant — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:35:00 +0000

I bet they do that thing with only moving the knife and fork in straight lines and right angles – Filipino ships’ officers in training did in a reportage I saw on TV once.

By: Francis Estanislao

Francis Estanislao — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:18:00 +0000

a very stupid idea for discipline.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:43:00 +0000

someone really should tell them they all have bananas on their heads. they look ridiculous.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:42:00 +0000

Those sound like an older brothers tales of fraternity hazing stunts rather than a movie.

By: MB44

MB44 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:33:00 +0000

DADT

By: timquinn

timquinn — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:24:00 +0000

That is a ridiculous level of discipline.

By: oldtaku

oldtaku — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:31:00 +0000

To graduate boot camp you must be able to eat your entire meal with the banana on your head – vertical.

By: chellberty

chellberty — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:24:00 +0000

“Just look at them.”

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:04:00 +0000

Speaking of military bananas, y’all are smart, I bet you can help me with this. When I was a kid, someone told me about a movie where a POW had to flush a banana down a toiley=t. If it didn’t flush down he’d have to eat it (but it did). Similarly, a POW was forced to walk with an olive clenched ‘twixt his buttocks. If he didn’t drop the olive, he would not have to eat it. Sound familiar? To this day I don’t know if the other kid was joking or this was a real movie.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:33:00 +0000

“Don’t eat with your hands, boy, use your entrenching tool.”