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22:10:53: <Eskobear> i'm just imagining calling an asshole robot a "box" the same way you'd call an asshole human a "cunt"
22:11:03: <ProcyonLotor> heh
22:11:03: <Eskobear> and it relates to the classic 50s image of robots
22:11:11: <Eskobear> i.e. a pile of silver-painted boxes
22:11:20: <Echo> That'd be great if it was an actual box, and there was some cultural relevance
22:11:28: <Echo> But there's not much of that left
22:11:49: <Echo> Mech would probably be pretty solid
22:12:14: <Echo> As it's a PRETTY common term in popular culture for robotic things, especially in the arena of "combat robots"
22:12:37: <Echo> That, and the obvious root of "mechanical"
22:13:13: <Eskobear> what about military alphanumerics? like "Victor Charlie"?
22:13:29: <Echo> Well, we got that from Viet Cong
22:13:34: <Echo> Which was their actual name
22:13:35: <Eskobear> ...well, yeah
22:13:36: <ProcyonLotor> aah
22:13:41: <ProcyonLotor> that's where Charlie comes from
22:13:44: <Echo> These aren't broadcasting their name to us
22:14:01: <Echo> Viet Cong > Victor Charlie > VC/Charlie
22:14:03: <Randomini> oh I thought it was just that victor and charlie were common vietnamese names
22:14:07: <Randomini> that EXPLAINS everything
22:14:11: <Eskobear> no, but presumably we would give them some stupid-ass semi-scientific name
22:14:25: <Eskobear> and then the military could take a first initial and use the alphanumeric for that
22:14:36: <Eskobear> what's U?
22:14:38: <Eskobear> Uniform?
22:14:39: <Randomini> roboticus andronicus
22:14:39: <Eskobear> nah
22:14:43: <Echo> Uniform
22:14:56: <Eskobear> "I got uniforms comin' in on my 6!"
22:14:57: <Echo> Like...
22:15:00: <Eskobear> that just sounds like dry cleaning
22:15:04: <Echo> Take the Japs in WWII
22:15:11: <Echo> They got called Nips a lot
22:15:17: <Eskobear> from Nippon
22:15:17: <Echo> From "Nippon"
22:15:34: <Eskobear> like the Huns or Krauts instead of Germans
22:15:39: <Echo> It's a lot harder when there's no actual name, formal or otherwise.
22:15:44: <Eskobear> ...never learned what a "limey" actually is, though
22:15:53: <Echo> (or my personal favorite, 'Zipperhead')
22:16:00: <ProcyonLotor> didn't the british navy used to suck lime to avoid scurvy?
22:16:04: <ProcyonLotor> might be apocryphal
22:16:40: <Echo> (From how a Vietnamese soldier's head looked after being stitched up the center by 5.56mm fire)
22:16:45: <Echo> Interlocking halves
22:17:15: <Echo> 5.56 is really the only round that does that, funny enough
22:17:38: <Echo> Most other rounds just kinda crater the head, or knock a hemisphere off
22:18:00: <Randomini> I wouldn't know, I've never massacred innocent civilians
22:18:23: <Echo> ...
22:18:24: <Echo> :|
22:30:03: <TheGreekOwl> What the fuck
22:30:17: <TheGreekOwl> Why in the flying hell did he go there
22:37:12: <Tox> Randomini: Seriously. What the hell?
22:37:20: <Randomini> sorry
22:37:24: <Randomini> I'm australian
22:37:28: <Tox> so?
22:37:34: <Randomini> the stigma about military exploits doesn't exist here
22:38:16: <Tox> .....You mean the stigma that you /just perpetuated?/
22:38:25: <Randomini> or is this just about generally the fact that being reminded that civilians are massacred every day isn't socially acceptable
22:38:37: <Tox> Echo? The honors, again.
22:38:39: <Randomini> well I mean the stigma about not talking about them
22:38:42: <Randomini> :(
22:38:49: <Randomini> welp whatever
22:39:05: <Tox> What a fucktard.
22:39:17: <ProcyonLotor> jesus
22:42:45: <TheGreekOwl> That was horrible
22:44:18: <maddy> Theres a guy like him in my photog class
22:44:30: <maddy> like "military=murderers" sorta dude
22:44:33: <maddy> I wanna hit him
22:51:41: <Annalea> echo
22:51:49: <Annalea> does the US military still use the E-3 as its primary AWACS?
22:52:01: <Annalea> or rather
22:52:02: <Annalea> hrm.
22:52:12: <Annalea> the 737 AEW&C wasn't flown until 2004...
22:52:39: <Annalea> so it's either an E3 or a EC-130
22:55:26: <Echo> Annalea: Yes, it does.
22:58:37: <Annalea> echo