Bunnyhat: My grandfather did dip all his life.

DarnoKonrad: Bunnyhat: My grandfather did dip all his life.

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Yum! Sour Cream and onion FTW!

Also, with regards to the bizzare stuff our soldiers receive...at least they get care packages. Sheesh...

PainInTheASP: Bunnyhat: My grandfather did dip all his life.
I would never encourage or enable anyone to fuel that disgusting habit. I hate smoking but would rather hang out with a smoker then a dipper/chewer.


The gum and mouth cancer my grandfather had and then the surgery that removed half his jaw and face was nice too.

Yeah...but you can't smoke downrange.

Also, you mostly don't have to worry about second-hand spit. Having said that, don't drink from soda/beer cans that aren't yours when there is a user of smokeless tobacco in the general area.

/I've had a couple people drink from my spit-cans.
//It's farkin' *HILARIOUS*.
///Quit over 3 years ago after my wife got cancer.

My nephew just deployed to Afghanistan and already had a pretty good chew habit going before he left.

So yeah, this.

/just like me!

Only with Utahraptor and Dromociomimus, though.

Shouldn't that be "god damned sexual tyranosaurus?"

We keep on grinning till the weekend comes.

/have they got their Orange Crush?

We're turning our fighting men into addicts. Great!

Can't wait until the VA has to start paying for lots of oral cancer treatment. Awesome!

It was a well written article, but it sure would have been nice for the author to simply acknowledge that the lousy packages of bodice ripping novels and AARP mags (that one was weird!) were at least well-intentioned.

dittybopper: PainInTheASP: Bunnyhat: My grandfather did dip all his life.
I would never encourage or enable anyone to fuel that disgusting habit. I hate smoking but would rather hang out with a smoker then a dipper/chewer.


The gum and mouth cancer my grandfather had and then the surgery that removed half his jaw and face was nice too.

Yeah...but you can't smoke downrange.

Also, you mostly don't have to worry about second-hand spit. Having said that, don't drink from soda/beer cans that aren't yours when there is a user of smokeless tobacco in the general area.

/I've had a couple people drink from my spit-cans.
//It's farkin' *HILARIOUS*.
///Quit over 3 years ago after my wife got cancer.


Did that once.
Had some friends over.
Went out to the grill.
Came back in and picked up *my* beer bottle.
Got a mouthful but realized what had happened before swallowing.
Quick rinse in the sink and I was good to go.
Glad no one saw that.
Double glad I didn't chug it down.

But did you read earlier about the joy of the vodka bottle. We should bombard the services with stuff like that. Just a hat tip, everyone, including Customs, knows about the whiskey in the mouthwash bottle. It will not make it to the front. You need to use more creative means, and avoid drawing attention to such, like posting how to do it on a popular web page. Ask a soldier for advice, chances are they have a few clues.

IkonOlator: We're turning our fighting men into addicts. Great!

Can't wait until the VA has to start paying for lots of oral cancer treatment. Awesome!

Hey, at least this way it's coming as gifts from civilians. In my grandfather's day the Air Force included miniature packs of cigarettes in his flight rations.

IkonOlator: We're turning our fighting men into addicts. Great!

Can't wait until the VA has to start paying for lots of oral cancer treatment. Awesome!

It was a well written article, but it sure would have been nice for the author to simply acknowledge that the lousy packages of bodice ripping novels and AARP mags (that one was weird!) were at least well-intentioned.

Jesus, you sound like a farking pussy.

How do you know it was well intentioned? Maybe some douchebag was farking with them?

Contrabulous Flabtraption: These are OK.

/bring on the snus snobs

These are lifesavers at work, on a plane, ro anywhere else I don't want to annoy/bother anybody with spitting...

Chewing tobacco is farking sick. Can't you at least send them e-cigs?

I know I've mentioned this a few times, but when I was a a soldier in the Marine Core, the happiest day of my life was package opening day.

Semper Fi you Jarheads!

Barakku: Chewing tobacco is farking sick. Can't you at least send them e-cigs?

Yes, and blood is icky, too! Can't we just point and go "You're Dead!!"

//No I'm not!! I'm invincible!
//Times infinity

Support the troops by giving them esophageal cancer?

halfof33: IkonOlator: We're turning our fighting men into addicts. Great!

Can't wait until the VA has to start paying for lots of oral cancer treatment. Awesome!

It was a well written article, but it sure would have been nice for the author to simply acknowledge that the lousy packages of bodice ripping novels and AARP mags (that one was weird!) were at least well-intentioned.

Jesus, you sound like a farking pussy.

Jesus, you sound like a farking pussy.

How do you know it was well intentioned? Maybe some douchebag was farking with them?

FTFY

Chewing tobacco? People still do that?

Wow, the stuff you learn in the internets.

Hector Remarkable: Support the troops by giving them esophageal cancer?

Support the troops by not allowing them to think about their withdrawal, and allowing them to focus on the task at hand.

SpikeStrip: enad58: Contrabulous Flabtraption: These are OK.

/bring on the snus snobs

These are lifesavers at work, on a plane,


in a class, on a train...

/dr. snus

Trust him - he's a doctor

Contrabulous Flabtraption: These are OK.

/bring on the snus snobs

Camel? COME ON!

Bunnyhat: My grandfather did dip all his life.
I would never encourage or enable anyone to fuel that disgusting habit. I hate smoking but would rather hang out with a smoker then a dipper/chewer.


The gum and mouth cancer my grandfather had and then the surgery that removed half his jaw and face was nice too.


Thank you, Cpt. BusyBody. Now I'm off to buy some dip for folks who are probably much more concerned about getting their faces blown off.

Was the 'Hero' tag on lunch?

As a grunt there are three, well four food groups.
1.Coffee at lukewarm or better temp
2.Beefjerky I like the peppered stuff
3.Tobacco chewing or smokes.
4.Anything stolen from a lesser deserving unit ie REMFs/Pouges

I would always take a carton of Pall Malls(my smokes of choice) and at least five cans of Copenhagen. I dont chew but it is better than money in the feild.

Soldier smoke and dip. When I was in Iraq, we got pipes, cigars and sniffing tobacco sent to us. I smoke a pack a day.

We are soldiers. We are going to do things like this because we don't have the comfort of a nice walk in the park or yoga to decompress. Hell, we don't even have porn, sex or alcohol (unless you are one of the more intrepid servicemembers)

Spend a day getting shot at and you may light up too. Don't deny them something just because it is bad for their health. RPGs and IEDs are worse

BICP (boobies in care package)is what every male soldier wants. I know, I always liked opening a dear soldier letter and seeing boobies.

mryoop789: "sexual Tyrannosaurus"??

A soldier whose parents I'm acquainted with received a weird care package:

Thats not a soldier.

In college after a few drinks a buddy made me try "The Bear," I didn't know how to correctly spit, and got all that shiat all over the inside of my mouth, and I did vomit.
/ok farkers i gave you a lot to work with here, don't let me down.

Freewill
Death by Snus-Snus

Somehow, Futurama became the TV show that my 3 year old will do anything to watch and for some reason "Amazon Women in the Mood" is her favorite episode which she refers to only as "snuu-snuu". She'll bargain for a lot of things, "If I clean up without being asked, I get to watch Snuu-Snuu right?" It's lead to some hysterical conversations at the table and more than a few cocktails horked into my nose from uncontrollable laughter.



/She doesn't get to watch much TV
//Hope she learns that One-Eyed Mutant Space Captain is far greater than "Princess"
///Unless that Princess is Leia.

When I was deployed to the Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf during the original Gulf War (during which time I was well regarded by my peers because of my awesome onion belt) we had a lot of mail coming in through a letter writing campaign from Dear Abby.

It was really nice to receive cards and letters from random strangers back home but it was also a huge disappointment to see a bunch of neanderthals ripping open letters looking for photos of hot high school girls and then throwing them in the trash when it was just a friendly letter from Granny Smith in Rumblefark, Idaho.

I think it's pretty shiatty when people biatch about people putting together care packages just because they didn't get any smokeless tobacco. I guess those same guys I was deployed with are still in the service.

I participate in a program called Operation Paperback and we're not in the habit of sending shiatty romance novels unless specifically requested. Link (new window)

Anything but those stupid farking "IM SO PATRIOTIC LOL" ribbons on every f*cking chickenhawk's car. I started hating those things with a passion when I was in the reserves doing training. If you really support the troops, do something about it. If you don't, but want people to think you do, then put a magnet on your car.

/been giving serious thought lately to going Navy.
//Canadian Forces, that is. I loves me my country.

Bunnyhat: The gum and mouth cancer my grandfather had and then the surgery that removed half his jaw and face was nice too.

My Mom's uncle was like this. When I was in the military and started smoking (and occasionally dipping) she would tell me the story about Uncle so and so who's lips and jaw was removed by cancer. She never smoked a day in her life because of regular visits to the man's home as a child.

Note: Why is dipping so common in the military particularly the field? Because in many places on base and out the field one cannot smoke cigarettes. The smart thing would be to give up smoking. But that doesn't happen. I didn't give up smoking until I was out of the military almost ten years.

ghostofreasonpast: But did you read earlier about the joy of the vodka bottle. We should bombard the services with stuff like that. Just a hat tip, everyone, including Customs, knows about the whiskey in the mouthwash bottle. It will not make it to the front. You need to use more creative means, and avoid drawing attention to such, like posting how to do it on a popular web page. Ask a soldier for advice, chances are they have a few clues.

Hollowed out books.

Legalize the herb, all of Afghanistan's problems will vanish in a puff of smoke, including their running-dog problem.