Jolt Country

The Happiness Engine wrote:

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Nobody will just sell ya one meal on the Internet. It's always 12 for $65 or something.

phpBB can NOT handle this link, because the people who made it are horrible people who deserve to die:

http://beprepared.com/quickshoplist.asp ... 0to%20Eat)

This is where TinyURL.Com is your friend:

TinyURL.com wrote: The following URL:

http://beprepared.com/quickshoplist.asp ... e_E_MRE%20(Meals%20Ready%20to%20Eat

has a length of 90 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 26 characters:

http://tinyurl.com/asdrwfm
[Open in new window]

Or, give your recipients confidence with a preview TinyURL:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/asdrwfm

Yeah, I know it's missing the end ); apparently the site doesn't mind.

1. Pretty sure everyone is aware of URL shorteners here, friend!

2. tinyurl is the Lycos of URL shorteners. Sure, some people might still remember it, but everyone's moved on!

pinback wrote:1. Pretty sure everyone is aware of URL shorteners here, friend!

Then why the fuck is he bitching about not being able to give the whole URL as a clickable link? We're not a bunch of women, we're men, and when men have problems, we don't bitch and carp and moan about them, we solve them. A woman gets home at the end of the day and complains her feet hurt. She doesn't want to solve the problem, she just wants to bitch about it, otherwise she'd go to comfortable shoes.

2. tinyurl is the Lycos of URL shorteners. Sure, some people might still remember it, but everyone's moved on!

And, pray tell, what have they moved on to? Make a shorter link? :). I don't trust those two letter code ones, there's one called 'bit.ly' which means it's in the Libya country domain, if there's ever a problem and Libya gets re-declared an evil country, your ownership of a link becomes useless because you can't spend money in a country declared by the U.S. Government to be evil like North Korea or Cuba unless you get State Department permission in advance, so your links now become worthless.

Tdarcos wrote: Then why the fuck is he bitching about not being able to give the whole URL as a clickable link?

Because the link was valid, and phpBB just failed to render it properly, like it fails to do everything else properly.

I don't trust those two letter code ones, there's one called 'bit.ly' which means it's in the Libya country domain, if there's ever a problem and Libya gets re-declared an evil country, your ownership of a link becomes useless because you can't spend money in a country declared by the U.S. Government to be evil like North Korea or Cuba unless you get State Department permission in advance, so your links now become worthless.

Good point, I hadn't thought of that.

/backs away REAAAAL slowly, feeling for the doorknob blindly

pinback wrote:

Tdarcos wrote: Then why the fuck is he bitching about not being able to give the whole URL as a clickable link?

Because the link was valid, and phpBB just failed to render it properly, like it fails to do everything else properly.

phpBB3. The web forum so magnificent it can't import data from phpBB2 nor use its templates.

Let's get back on topic here, is anyone feverishly designing their dream MEAL a la carte? No? Here's what I would pick:

Entree- Chili Macaroni This is delicious. Even better when you have the tiny tabasco bottle to dump in it.

Side Dish- Santa Fe Style Rice This looks to beat out the old standby of Mexican Style rice by having the cheese already inside it.

Dessert- Lemon Poppyseed Cake The pound cakes are always good.

Optional- MRE Crackers

Now what you do is heat this up, mix everything but the pound cake together and enjoy your MEAL.

Here's what you do NOT do under ANY circumstances: consume the 'Wheat Snack Bread'.

Thank you for your service to your country and protecting our freedoms.

pinback wrote:Thank you for your service to your country and protecting our freedoms.

I have done none of these things, unless you count eating MEALs and sharing my impressions. I will pass your kind sentiments on to the more deserving!

Don't be humble. The rest of us around here haven't done shit or shown half the discipline you did in protecting us and securing our freedoms.

On a few baseball websites I see people "break" sets. One guy gets all the Blue Jay cards, one guy gets all the Astros. We should "break" a box of MREs. One guy gets 1 MRE, one guy gets 1 MRE and so forth.

Do I smell a KICKSTARTER?

In all seriousness, I would be in for this, with the caveat that we get a maximum number of videos of people operating and eating their MEALs.

Put me down for one MEAL and one video.

Sure. As soon as the cookies RetroRomper said he was making arrive, we'll get some MEALS.

You know what? I am not letting REtro off the goddamn hook here. Retro you are going to be hounded about this for the rest of your goddamn life!