That Rapper

I'd be tempted to say a lot more but i'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that there is something properly and medically wrong with the "genius voice of a generation".

 

"Kim Kardashian is not a hobbit! That movie is just loosely based on her television show keeping up with the Kardashians, which is a show about short, loud, little people living in a fantasy world."

 

He (the chap who is making that comment) must be one of the good ol' boys into Country music to not know who he (Kayne West) is.

After all, those soldiers are a lot younger than you Jeff, I'm sure they'd have heard of him.

 

Those aren't soldiers in the picture, they're US Marines.

 

never can go wrong with a couple of saws, o imho i would describe what he does is more like screeching

 

Typo in the title? (shouldn't the "r" be replaced by "cr"?)

 

Steady men, that's the music of the current generation. They really know their stuff. They elected el presidente after all.

 

Who won X factor this year by the way...I'm stessing...I've missed it for over 10 years now...Got to get a grip on this life of mine.

 

Farm rap ? Enjoy :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RP5Kklo7q4

 

Sorry can't tell difference , will US Servicemen be ok?

I meant the chap in the poster who was supposedly speaking, not Kayne West.
edited post above to make it clearer.

 

It's a common insult used by modern troops, insinuating that the person mentioned is a B*itch. Marines use the saying a lot. I think it started, or at least the first time I noticed it was in the Chuck Norris is so tough fad that started several years back. (I like Chuck Norris by the way. He's in excellent shape for an almost 74 year old. He's a decent guy and does a lot of good things, I have a picture where he travelled to Iraq and met with my son and his fellow Marines in Iraq), That being said, there was a time when these type of sayings were the rage:

-Chuck Norris threw a grenade and killed 50 people, then it exploded.
-When a Zombie apocalypse starts, Chuck Norris doesn't try to survive. The zombies do.
-Death once had a near Chuck Norris experience.
Here's a link to the top 100:
http://chucknorrisjokes.linkpress.info/top-100.php

So at this point you can see that Chuck Norris is being used as the epitome of courage, toughness and just plain being a bada*s*s,

Marines started using this picture to say there are tougher people than Chuck Norris, these people are real life, no sheet, bad arses.
Here's one featuring Chesty Puller



And General James Mattis, he's the Chesty Puller of modern day Marines.



The more recent use of the Meme was in relation to Tom Cruise's comments where he claimed his job was as demanding, and stressful as soldiers and Marines fighting real bad guys in Afghanistan.

With Chuck....



And real life troops....



There's a Mattis one also but I've already using enough of his.

Now actors are noted for their pithy, phoney tough sayings, one of the classic being, "Go ahead punk make my day". Mattis says these things to people for real and backs up his threat. Two of my favorites.

The first to a bunch of Iraqi Sheiks when he was negotiating with them to stop fighting coalition forces. At the time he commanded the 1st Marine Division, he frequently was at the front sharing the danger with his Marines and they'd assault hell for him, so he could make good on his threat.



And then on another occasion when he was warning enemy leaders that they had better abide by an agreement made with coalition forces or there would be repercussions.

“I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”

Darn it, gotta add a third, forgot about this one:



Well one more...


These are a popular method of modern servicemembers to express their opinions on issues. So Kanye, whoever that irrelevant "beech" is, has been informed they are an irrelevant punk. Kanye lives in the sheltered world of the entertainer and what is hard for the phoney tough doesn't even register with people that are real world hard. They couldn't even comprehend the thinking in this final Meme.

 

Who's Chuck Norris?

 

Ah, cheers , got it now.
Thanks for the education in American culture.
That first post was way over my head so didn't get it .

 

It's an international thing Wessex, Chuck jokes are a huge thing in France too.

 

He's more than just a a bad arse, he's also an intellectual, and a very ethical man. On the one hand his Marines loved him because he could show up anywhere, at anytime, on the frontlines with his "jump" platoon. His vehicle has been hit by IED's and on numerous occasions he's been involved in firefights, and his escort has taken casualties. He likes to fight which causes most outside observers to overlook his intellectual side. In fact at the time Obama fired him as Commander of Central Command, he was generally considered the most intellectual General in the military, and has a personal library that exceeds 7,000 volumes. He believes in chivalry, discipline, protecting the weak, honor, and expects his troops to live up to his expectations. Most civilians don't understand him, and both the left and right of the political spectum don't "get" him. He doesn't just preach ethics and duty, he lives them and that's why his troops are so loyal to him.

Since it's Christmas time here's a good Christmas story about him:

"A couple of months ago, when I told General Krulak, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, now the chair of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, that we were having General Mattis speak this evening, he said, “Let me tell you a Jim Mattis story.” General Krulak said, when he was Commandant of the Marine Corps, every year, starting about a week before Christmas, he and his wife would bake hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookies. They would package them in small bundles.

Then on Christmas day, he would load his vehicle. At about 4 a.m., General Krulak would drive himself to every Marine guard post in the Washington-Annapolis-Baltimore area and deliver a small package of Christmas cookies to whatever Marines were pulling guard duty that day. He said that one year, he had gone down to Quantico as one of his stops to deliver Christmas cookies to the Marines on guard duty. He went to the command center and gave a package to the lance corporal who was on duty.

He asked, “Who’s the officer of the day?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it’s Brigadier General Mattis.” And General Krulak said, “No, no, no. I know who General Mattis is. I mean, who’s the officer of the day today, Christmas day?” The lance corporal, feeling a little anxious, said, “Sir, it is Brigadier General Mattis.”

General Krulak said that, about that time, he spotted in the back room a cot, or a daybed. He said, “No, Lance Corporal. Who slept in that bed last night?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it was Brigadier General Mattis.”

About that time, General Krulak said that General Mattis came in, in a duty uniform with a sword, and General Krulak said, “Jim, what are you doing here on Christmas day? Why do you have duty?” General Mattis told him that the young officer who was scheduled to have duty on Christmas day had a family, and General Mattis decided it was better for the young officer to spend Christmas Day with his family, and so he chose to have duty on Christmas Day.

General Krulak said, “That’s the kind of officer that Jim Mattis is.”

When the Pentagon is trying to buy the newest and greatest weapons system he shocks them by making statements such as this.

"None of the widely touted new technologies and weapons systems "would have helped me in the last three years [in Iraq and Afghanistan]. But I could have used cultural training [and] language training. I could have used more products from American universities [who] understood the world does not revolve around America and [who] embrace coalitions and allies for all of the strengths that they bring us."--Speaking at a professional conference on military transformation, urging the Pentagon to invest in efforts that would "diminish the conditions that drive people to sign up for these kinds of insurgencies."

He continually pounds into his Marines the imperative that they engage their minds before engaging their weapons, and to act with honor and ethics. Here are some other Mattis-isms:

--The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.
--If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don’t take the shot. Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
--It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

And how can you beat this message to his division before they invaded Iraq. Inspirational and leaves no question as to the commanders intentions.

 

It isn't just show biz people, it's journalists also. Bill O'Reilly said one of the dumbest things I've ever heard recently. He was arguing with some guy about some damned thing involving the military and suddenly O'Reilly cuts off the guys microphone and makes this idiotic statement about his courage being impugned, and that he's fought in four wars with nothing but an ink pen.
I know it's tough flying to Baghdad to interview some General, what with the seafood bisque at lunch not having the best scallops and the Hilton not carrying your favorite single malt. Heck, sometimes they don't even leave a mint on your pillow.

Here it is - jump to about 50 seconds to avoid all the extraneous commentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiTVRABIPts