Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Pickup trucks for city boys Date: 30 Aug 2025 04:10:31 GMT Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <2W2pQ.10557$uCGc.6020@fx14.iad> <108428t$7mtq$4@dont-email.me> <108aefl$1n7i9$9@dont-email.me> <108hddu$3bl64$2@dont-email.me> <108leod$b9i7$1@dont-email.me> <108mli5$k17h$1@dont-email.me> <108moro$ktk8$1@dont-email.me> <108muat$m6bo$1@dont-email.me> <108pk9d$1bk4u$1@dont-email.me> <108s0i7$1ucng$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net JoLw85Smgfj5I2W1Is6LTwSQj7WD/tidGoKSl8GYXEdzeZdpq4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:IuU7iE7TN0F91qoU6t84EGKktb8= sha256:c0iaOzaboV5IRrA4+y1s2MKe3KkdT9WNeeXYQDHOVdM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72701 alt.comp.os.windows-11:23331 On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:26:18 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2025-08-29 20:28, rbowman wrote: >> On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:49:06 +1000, Daniel70 wrote: >> >>> On 29/08/2025 4:31 am, rbowman wrote: >>>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:07:16 +1000, Daniel70 wrote: >>>> >>>>> During Summer, when the Ground dried out, this transfer function >>>>> sometimes didn't work so the Correcting Action was to get a Jug of >>>>> water and go outside to the Earth spike and pour the Water on the >>>>> spike and surrounding Ground. >>>> >>>> Pissing on the ground rod works too. More conductive. >>>> >>> But that might have required us to be "out of Uniform whilst On >>> Duty"!! >> >> https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/military-equalizer-iraq-piss- >> tubes/ >> >> You just need some planning on the placement of the sanitary >> arrangements and the ground rods. > > Ok, I understand the tubes with a funnel, but what are the tubes with a > sphere for? That's only the lighting. The tubes with the 'spheres' are angled away so you're seeing the back of the funnel. If you look closely at the one on the right you can see the funnel transition. Those are the deluxe design. https://www.flickr.com/photos/violinsoldier/191846328 They must have thought the PVC was too small a diameter for accuracy and had something that could be used as a funnel. As one of the comments say 'don't eat the yellow snow'. I worked with a guy who had 4 years in the service, the Navy iirc. We were driving from Minneapolis to the job site in the hinterlands, and there was a billboard with that slogan. Jimmy asked what it meant. Nice guy but I don't know how he could be so clueless. He wasn't dumb by any means just incredibly naive. Fate had more in store for him. He'd planned for some recreation in his spare time since we went out for two weeks at a time and brought his bowling ball. The rest of his luggage wound up in Timbuktu or some other undisclosed location, but the bowling ball, shoes, and so forth arrived safely on the luggage carousel at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International.