US Marines

[fodders]

[Sharessa]

dsm said:

And about the avatar, I remember that I already HAVE commented on it. Quite a while back while I was still rather new.
My first reaction when I saw DooMBoy post the first time (back when he signed up) was: "Damn, that's a small head to such a big fella - he can't be particularly bright"
Yep, it fits him alright :-)

Heh...exactly what I've been thinking...

dsm said:

Uh danny, it's "Ich bin ein Ausländer" - just being annoying for the sake of being annoying :-)

Not according to the song by Pop Will Eat Itself. And thats where I got it from.

[IMJack]

fodders said:

GruntsMilitary.com tanktop

I'm actually looking at that site right now. They've got a really nice (and sarcastic) military lexicon, but nothing on the origin of "grunt".

[Liam]

the_Danarchist said:

Not according to the song by Pop Will Eat Itself.

Listen to the victim, abused by the system
The basis is racist, you know that we must face this.
"It can't happen here". Oh yeah?
"Take a look around at the cities and the towns."

See them hunting, creeping, sneaking
Breeding fear and loathing with the lies they're speaking
The knife, the gun, broken bottle, petrol bomb
There is no future when the past soon come.

And when they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Or laugh through a glass eye as they rape our lives
Trampled underfoot by the right on the rise

Ich Bin Ein Auslander (x4)

Welcome to a state where the politics of hate
Shout loud in the crowd "Watch them beat us all down"
There's a rising tide in the rivers of blood
But if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence

If they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
Trampled underfoot by the rise of the right

[dsm]

Hmm, now I think about it, the term "grunt" might have originated from the fact that grunts have to do a lot of mud crawling - you typically grunt a lot when you're crawling through harsh terrain ;-)

[fodders]

Probably more than likely that grunt rhymes with cunt

[Megalyth]

They're called grunts because they do all the grunt work.

BTW, Pop Will Eat Itself is pretty cool.

[sirgalahadwizar]

You grunt alot when you get shot, you also grunt when you have to pick up things that as heavy as you are and carry them 10 miles.

[dsm]

sirgalahadwizar said:

You grunt alot when you get shot, you also grunt when you have to pick up things that as heavy as you are and carry them 10 miles.

Heh, engineer troopers do that too, yet they aren't called grunts - and megalyth, the expression 'grunt work' doesn't make me a whole lot wiser. Grunt work? Is that a job where you grunt a lot? Because you carry heavy stuff perhaps?

[Megalyth]

Think about it. It's pretty simple. There's a reason that officers and noncoms aren't called grunts. It's because they don't do any physical work.

Pardon me if the term "grunt work" was too confusing for you.

[Crendowing]

Megalyth said:

Think about it. It's pretty simple. There's a reason that officers and noncoms aren't called grunts. It's because they don't do any physical work.

Pardon me if the term "grunt work" was too confusing for you.

Hmmmmmm....sounds to me like you're ripping off the dreaded *CENSORED TO PREVENT DEATH*

[Megalyth]

I think I know what you mean, Cren, and you're right. To a point anyway :) I quoted some of the terminology, but the word choice is mine heh

[fraggle]

the_Danarchist said:

Heh...I've been meaning to say something about that avatar for a while now...

It reminds me of the pinheads from the Super Mario movie...

[Jon]

I heard somewhere that grunt was coined to be derogatory regarding the average intelligence of an infantryman.

[fodders]

The army term Grunt (a term of abuse for infantry troops) which is said to stand for 'Ground Reconnaissance Unit, Non-Thinking' - but of course doesn't. Probably.

[Sharessa]

Hey Fodders...whats with the new avatar?

That's not Torgo is it?

[IMJack]

the_Danarchist said:

Hey Fodders...whats with the new avatar?

That's not Torgo is it?

SPEAK NOT THAT NAME!!!!!!!!!11

fodders said:

The army term Grunt (a term of abuse for infantry troops) which is said to stand for 'Ground Reconnaissance Unit, Non-Thinking' - but of course doesn't. Probably.

I wouldn't put it past them. This is the same fine group of people that coined the terms "SNAFU" and "FUBAR".

[Sharessa]

IMJack said:

SPEAK NOT THAT NAME!!!!!!!!!11

Heh. Actualy, I just gave myself an idea.

Anyway, back to the topic of the military, I just found out that I'm to fat to join the Navy. w00t!!!

[IMJack]

Heh, my dad had just barely recovered from his broken leg when he got drafted for Vietnam. He thought he would walk. Poor bastard. That leg never did heal properly, either.

[deadnail]

IMJack said:

I wouldn't put it past them. This is the same fine group of people that coined the terms "SNAFU" and "FUBAR".

Heh.

SNAFU: Situation normal, all fucked up
FUBAR: Fucked up beyond all recognition
BOHICA: Bend over, here it comes again

Army - grunt
Marines - When it positively, absolutely has to be destroyed overnight.
Navy - There is no wrong hole.


=)

[Sharessa]

<== ph33r Jack, ph33r

Heh...looking at my avatar while reading my title may cause severe bouts of laughter...

[Crendowing]

fraggle' said:

It reminds me of the pinheads from the Super Mario movie...

Pinheads?...../me ponders this one

Thankfully it's been years since I saw that movie. I wouldn't want to remember something so horrible as that.

[Crendowing]

deadnail said:

Army - grunt
Marines - When it positively, absolutely has to be destroyed overnight.
Navy - There is no wrong hole.


=)

Hmmmm...where does the Air Force fit into all that?

=)

[Sharessa]

Crendowing said:

Pinheads?...../me ponders this one

Thankfully it's been years since I saw that movie. I wouldn't want to remember something so horrible as that.

He means the big whatchamacalits with the little heads...I cant think of the name of them...its on the tip of my toungue. Toad got turned into one in the movie. Starts with a G...Goomba!

[Lüt]

the_Danarchist said:

He means the big whatchamacalits with the little heads...

DooMBoys?

[deadnail]

Crendowing said:

Hmmmm...where does the Air Force fit into all that?

We'll do the flying if you do the dying.

[Crendowing]

deadnail said:

We'll do the flying if you do the dying.

ROFLMFAO

Just wait until my dad sees that...and he wasn't even a pilot....

[Megalyth]

Goombas.