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gopher321

2011-11-07 07:01:00 AM

I was hoping for Aretha Franklin

DarthBrooks

2011-11-07 07:27:38 AM

Meanwhile, they sell Tomb of the Unknown Soldier snow globes at the Arlington Cemetery gift shop.

Did I mention the cemetery has a gift shop?

eeeleeet

2011-11-07 08:03:43 AM

Yo're dammn right, Beavis. RESPECT! (Huh Huh) Ah ooooooooo!

Gulper Eel

2011-11-07 08:11:57 AM

I haven't been to Arlington in about ten years but that kind of behavior by the crowds seems to be the rule and not the exception.

The schoolkids on field trips and the teachers and chaperones who don't do jack shiat about their little snowflake jackasses are the worst.

Maybe a few more servicemembers are needed at Arlington to escort idiots to the exits.

DarthBrooks: Meanwhile, they sell Tomb of the Unknown Soldier snow globes at the Arlington Cemetery gift shop.

Did I mention the cemetery has a gift shop?

I know they have a bookstore but I don't remember any snow globes.

You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

Cythraul

2011-11-07 08:23:24 AM

Gulper Eel: You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

Is it kosher?

suckerpunch

2011-11-07 08:53:38 AM

Gulper Eel:

You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

That's the last thing I wanted to do after visiting the Holocaust Museum.

/disappointed the USDA on the mall doesn't have a gift shop.

The Mind Boggles

2011-11-07 08:59:45 AM

Gulper Eel: I haven't been to Arlington in about ten years but that kind of behavior by the crowds seems to be the rule and not the exception.

The schoolkids on field trips and the teachers and chaperones who don't do jack shiat about their little snowflake jackasses are the worst.

Maybe a few more servicemembers are needed at Arlington to escort idiots to the exits.

DarthBrooks: Meanwhile, they sell Tomb of the Unknown Soldier snow globes at the Arlington Cemetery gift shop.

Did I mention the cemetery has a gift shop?

I know they have a bookstore but I don't remember any snow globes.

You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

I see they have pizza, but is it real brick oven pizza?

xanadian

2011-11-07 09:00:07 AM

DarthBrooks: Did I mention the cemetery has a gift shop?

Gift shops are cool.

Cythraul: Gulper Eel: You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

Is it kosher?

As long as they don't leave anything in the oven too long...

TheMega

2011-11-07 09:45:30 AM

Should have thrown in a, "And, stop looking at my butt, ladies... and that one guy in the hat!" just for good measure.

BalugaJoe

2011-11-07 10:07:24 AM

I have seen those guys marching in the rain. Wow.

Mambo Bananapatch

2011-11-07 10:07:25 AM

If I had a gun I'd yell at people too.

/ cut ME off, willya

brandied

2011-11-07 10:08:35 AM

I'm not sure how anyone can witness that and be laughing.

That seems kinda Fred Phelpsish to me.

mrmyxolodian

2011-11-07 10:08:59 AM

Gulper Eel: You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

I was hungry after my tour finished but I couldn't find a solution to my problem.

FARTNOISE FARTNOISE JUNIOR

2011-11-07 10:14:37 AM

brandied: I'm not sure how anyone can witness that and be laughing.

That seems kinda Fred Phelpsish to me.

Or they were just on a tour and chatting and laughing about something else. Disrespectful? Sure. But let's not jump to conclusions and assume they were laughing at dead soldiers.

EliminateNinniesAndTwits

2011-11-07 10:14:58 AM

brandied: I'm not sure how anyone can witness that and be laughing.

That seems kinda Fred Phelpsish to me.

Seconded.

lordaction

2011-11-07 10:16:20 AM

Cythraul: Gulper Eel: You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

Is it kosher?

Pretty sure they cook with just microwaves. You know...

sprawl15

2011-11-07 10:16:53 AM

Cythraul

2011-11-07 10:25:01 AM

mrmyxolodian: Gulper Eel: You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

I was hungry after my tour finished but I couldn't find a solution to my problem.

I have a solution for your hunger.. but it would be a bit final.

Ablejack

2011-11-07 10:30:03 AM

JELL-O is not available at the JELL-O Museum!

Giltric

2011-11-07 10:32:28 AM

Clell, Old Boy, you mean you haven't told the lady? Why Madam,we are the Old Guard. We are the Nation's Toy Soldiers. We march with rifles that cannot shoot. We fix bayonets that cannot stick. We are the Kabuki theater of the profession of arms.Jesters in the court of Mars, God of War, do-da, do-da.

/obscure?

Watchtower's Fiction Editor

2011-11-07 10:57:24 AM

Gulper Eel: I haven't been to Arlington in about ten years but that kind of behavior by the crowds seems to be the rule and not the exception.

The schoolkids on field trips and the teachers and chaperones who don't do jack shiat about their little snowflake jackasses are the worst.

Maybe a few more servicemembers are needed at Arlington to escort idiots to the exits.

Seen the same here. Went in the early nineties on a trip when I was a teenager. When the soldier requested that people waiting stand, two kids didn't bother. They literally had to be ordered to thier feet and did so biatching about it under thier breath.

Why the hell do people even go?

ABQGOD

2011-11-07 10:58:16 AM

Sadly, I expect this soldier to not be unknown and soon be reprimanded for ordering the crowd.

Hetfield

2011-11-07 11:08:20 AM

Watchtower's Fiction Editor: They literally had to be ordered to thier feet and did so biatching about it under thier breath.

Because in the land of the free, it's okay to make people stand against their will.

KarmicDisaster

2011-11-07 11:09:13 AM

Should let him skewer a couple noisy kids with his bayonet, that would shut the little farks up.

FormlessOne

2011-11-07 11:24:13 AM

ABQGOD: Sadly, I expect this soldier to not be unknown and soon be reprimanded for ordering the crowd.

I hope not. It would be nice to see at least some respect for the symbolism of that monument. I don't see the soldier as being out of line.

PenguinCam

2011-11-07 11:32:12 AM

If I remember correctly, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa is not guarded and is close to the bar strips. One idjit was caught on camera pissing on the tomb late at night.

I think he was found out and publicly shamed.

ABQGOD

2011-11-07 11:34:21 AM

FormlessOne: ABQGOD: Sadly, I expect this soldier to not be unknown and soon be reprimanded for ordering the crowd.

I hope not. It would be nice to see at least some respect for the symbolism of that monument. I don't see the soldier as being out of line.

Neither do I, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there was a butthurt person in the crowd complaining about their free speech rights to be a jerk at the monument, or that this video will go viral and somebody in the PR department is going to have make a statement and/or example.

/I hope not as well.

Theaetetus

2011-11-07 11:36:50 AM

ABQGOD: Sadly, I expect this soldier to not be unknown and soon be reprimanded for ordering the crowd.

Unlikely (new window)

ABQGOD

2011-11-07 11:41:58 AM

Theaetetus: ABQGOD: Sadly, I expect this soldier to not be unknown and soon be reprimanded for ordering the crowd.

Unlikely (new window)

Good. Thank you for restoring some of my faith in humanity.

Happy Hours

2011-11-07 11:42:41 AM

Theaetetus: ABQGOD: Sadly, I expect this soldier to not be unknown and soon be reprimanded for ordering the crowd.

Unlikely (new window)

So at what point do they get to use lethal force?

SleepyWeasel

2011-11-07 11:43:03 AM

Giltric: Clell, Old Boy, you mean you haven't told the lady? Why Madam,we are the Old Guard. We are the Nation's Toy Soldiers. We march with rifles that cannot shoot. We fix bayonets that cannot stick. We are the Kabuki theater of the profession of arms.Jesters in the court of Mars, God of War, do-da, do-da.

/obscure?

Wildman! YUM....YUM.....YUM

Mordechai

2011-11-07 11:44:54 AM

When I was 7 years old, I was squatting during the changing of the guard and my dad hadn't noticed. The guards did. Pretty sure that was the closest I ever came to pooping in public.

kyleaugustus

2011-11-07 11:52:00 AM

As a hippy-ish, peace-nicky, anti-militarist, I didn't think the guard did anything inappropriate or actually yelling. It sounded like a rather ordinary projection-oriented, firm military-type instruction. If the individuals can't control themselves while they're guests, they shouldn't be there.

OnlyM3

2011-11-07 11:57:00 AM

Gulper Eel
>>

You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

*clicks link* please have pizza..please have pizza..please have pizza.. LOL they do!

TheHopeDiamond

2011-11-07 12:15:23 PM

Happy Hours:
So at what point do they get to use lethal force?

I would venture that bringing an Airsoft gun to be "funny" would be ill-advised.

prjindigo

2011-11-07 12:15:28 PM

FormlessOne: ABQGOD: Sadly, I expect this soldier to not be unknown and soon be reprimanded for ordering the crowd.

I hope not. It would be nice to see at least some respect for the symbolism of that monument. I don't see the soldier as being out of line.

They're allowed to assault and detain civilians who do not leave the raised platform, I doubt he varied from the printed cards.
That section of land, containing remains of United States Servicemen who have received both the Heart and Star but not a name, is a restricted military installation.

Ghost Roach

2011-11-07 12:40:45 PM

PenguinCam: If I remember correctly, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa is not guarded and is close to the bar strips. One idjit was caught on camera pissing on the tomb late at night.

I think he was found out and publicly shamed.

Indeed he was, most of us in the city were none to happy by that, though he did do the whole "publically read a letter of apology" thing.

Hardy-r-r

2011-11-07 01:05:13 PM

brandied: I'm not sure how anyone can witness that and be laughing.

That seems kinda Fred Phelpsish to me.

Seconded.

BEER_ME_in_CT

2011-11-07 01:06:17 PM

Just some idiot kids who have no respect for anything other than texting and tweeting or whatever. The way this country has been going they will have the opportunity to learn respect the hard way when one of their friends from High School comes home in a box. It was probably some school field trip but if those kids were there with their parents the parents should be just as embarrassed.

chewielouie

2011-11-07 01:09:29 PM

Was waiting to hear "Freebird" in the distance after that long pause.

relaxitsjustme

2011-11-07 01:11:37 PM

The Mind Boggles: Gulper Eel: I haven't been to Arlington in about ten years but that kind of behavior by the crowds seems to be the rule and not the exception.

The schoolkids on field trips and the teachers and chaperones who don't do jack shiat about their little snowflake jackasses are the worst.

Maybe a few more servicemembers are needed at Arlington to escort idiots to the exits.

DarthBrooks: Meanwhile, they sell Tomb of the Unknown Soldier snow globes at the Arlington Cemetery gift shop.

Did I mention the cemetery has a gift shop?

I know they have a bookstore but I don't remember any snow globes.

You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

I see they have pizza, but is it real brick oven pizza?

Gas ovens

Mike Chewbacca

2011-11-07 01:18:33 PM

Their entire routine is orchestrated by the second. I wonder if that threw off their entire day?

Only an asshole talks and laughs during the changing of the guards. They start the whole thing of with an announcement to do remain silent and respectful, and if you can't obey the orders of a soldier (or three) in dress uniform, then you have some serious problems.

Dinobot

2011-11-07 01:42:16 PM

sprawl15: Gulper Eel: I haven't been to Arlington in about ten years but that kind of behavior by the crowds seems to be the rule and not the exception.

The schoolkids on field trips and the teachers and chaperones who don't do jack shiat about their little snowflake jackasses are the worst.

Maybe a few more servicemembers are needed at Arlington to escort idiots to the exits.

DarthBrooks: Meanwhile, they sell Tomb of the Unknown Soldier snow globes at the Arlington Cemetery gift shop.

Did I mention the cemetery has a gift shop?

I know they have a bookstore but I don't remember any snow globes.

You can grab a bite at the Holocaust Museum.

The Barbie Museum has excellent bratwurst.

movieactors.com

Gilligann

2011-11-07 02:04:21 PM

Mike Chewbacca: Their entire routine is orchestrated by the second. I wonder if that threw off their entire day?

That's why he was just standing there at the end, waiting for the right time to continue so it wouldn't screw up the timing for the next change.

My guess at least.

Whatthefark

2011-11-07 02:35:43 PM

He should have PT'ed the punks till they puked.

Cythraul

2011-11-07 02:49:24 PM

BEER_ME_in_CT: Just some idiot kids who have no respect for anything other than texting and tweeting or whatever. The way this country has been going they will have the opportunity to learn respect the hard way when one of their friends from High School comes home in a box. It was probably some school field trip but if those kids were there with their parents the parents should be just as embarrassed.

It sounded like adults to me that were laughing. And who knows, they could have just been thoughtless and laughing about something unrelated to the tomb, rather than being intentionally disrespectful. If it was just thoughtlessness, then they're very ignorant on protocol on such occasions, and are probably very 'me' oriented. If they were specifically directing their disrespectful behavior, then they're super jerks.

Bit'O'Gristle

2011-11-07 03:09:23 PM

Weather or not you agree with the wars, have some common respect for the idea of honor and duty that these men/women had, and died with. This represents our sons,daughters, fathers and ect...at least have enough dignity around the tomb to not joke and laugh loudly like jackasses.

apeiron242

2011-11-07 03:10:29 PM

Theaetetus: ABQGOD: Sadly, I expect this soldier to not be unknown and soon be reprimanded for ordering the crowd.

Unlikely (new window)

So the soldier was following the protocol. Good for him. No one was hurt (by that shiny pointy thing or the blunt trauma end) so i'd say this is a non-issue.

i just wish they'd give him a line that isn't in passive voice from on high. "It is requested" suggests that the instruction appeared out of the void which is not the case. Someone made that request.

Cythraul: It sounded like adults to me that were laughing. And who knows, they could have just been thoughtless and laughing about something unrelated to the tomb, rather than being intentionally disrespectful. If it was just thoughtlessness, then they're very ignorant on protocol on such occasions, and are probably very 'me' oriented. If they were specifically directing their disrespectful behavior, then they're super jerks.

Yeah, that seems likely.

Easy Reader

2011-11-07 03:21:29 PM

Interesting that he steps off the walkway when he gives orders, and keeps of it all the way to the end where he resumes the guard.

Easy Reader

2011-11-07 03:27:25 PM

apeiron242:

i just wish they'd give him a line that isn't in passive voice from on high. "It is requested" suggests that the instruction appeared out of the void which is not the case. Someone made that request.

I was wondering about that line too. I know he means it's a general order and saying like that has a more formal presentation quality, but my TV Marine Sargent experience wants it to be a direct assertion. I'm sure the gigglers' blood was chilled out of surprise and shame.

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