Rap is now spelled Emo.
I think.
I think the Navy is missing something. Sure, a kid today may very well have an online friend from China, but that’s not the same as visiting a Thai Hooker, and what better way to expierence that, than to join the Navy.
I don’t get the criticism of the presentation. It seems to contain some facts (or at least data), some insight, and some deliberate humor.
I’ve heard people refer to this as having loads of “unintential” humor. C’mon. Do you really think someone in the Navy really considers young people to be alien? It was a joke. In a presentation with much to depress those being presented to, it’s a bit of levity.
Also, this is PowerPoint. These are the basic notes and slides that presumably went along with a more in-depth presentation. All in all, I find it interesting, but not particularly noteworthy.
Or just start offering 5% military discount cards, which can be used to buy gum. 
Well Royal Naval personnel are perfectly lucid ,I heard a very interesting story from one about how he and his winger plus a townie grippoed a snapper while on a rabbit run in fez and only had gophers the entire time .
It was like I WAS THERE!
clicks on thread, inner X-Files geek all excited --oh, thanks a lot. :mad:
"Me and Willy were lollygagging by the scuttlebutt after being aloft to boy-butter up the antennas and were just perched on a bollard eyeballing a couple of bilge rats and flangeheads using crescent hammers to pack monkey shit around a fitting on a handybilly.
All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait. The pecker-checker was a sewer pipe sailor and the deckape was a gator. Maybe being blackshoes on a bird farm surrounded by a gaggle of cans didn’t set right with either of those gobs.
The deck ape ran through the nearest hatch and dogged it tight because he knew the penis machinist was going to lay below, catch him between decks and punch him in the snot locker. He’d probably wind up on the binnacle list but Doc would find a way to gundeck the paper or give it the deep six to keep himself above board.
We heard the skivvywaver announce over the bitch box that the breadburners had creamed foreskins on toast and SOS ready on the mess decks so we cut and run to avoid the clusterfuck when the twidgets and cannon cockers knew chow was on.
We were balls to the wall for the barn and everyone was preparing to hit the beach as soon as we doubled-up and threw the brow over. I had a ditty bag full of fufu juice that I was gonna spread on thick for the bar hogs with those sweet bosnias. Sure beats the hell out of brown bagging. Might even hit the acey-duecy club and try to hook up with a Westpac widow. They were always on the dance floor on amateur night."
Spellcheck had a hard time with this one.
With stories like these, how can kids today NOT want to join the Navy?
Tell it to the marines matey ,some of that was real though out of context ,a lot of it was B/S ,this brown job did a hell of a lot of seatime and when I say brown job I’m not talking bootie here ,I was never interested in getting a boyfriend .
Nice try !
I took the liberty of posting the same comment on the linked site:
“You know what this generation needs? A good old fashioned draft! That will thin out their ranks!”
As an employer and hiring manager, I’m sick of reading literature telling me how to “reach out” and "connect with “Millenials”. That’s great that they’ve been coddled their whole life. They are all special little snowflakes…just like everyone else. Well the real world doesn’t work that way. When they join the work force, they need to do the job they were hired to do. If they don’t, we don’t need them. Remember that the business world has effectively run for a long time with most of its workers being utterly miserable. Your happiness is not a prerequisite.
On the plus side, many of them show up already having all kinds of internships and resume experience. Sometimes I wonder if they are 22 or 32.
Wait, Moto made perfect sense to me. He and Willy were hanging around with a canteen… or near a radio, not sure, on the dock, sitting on one of those things that looks like giant cleats and are the perfect side to sit your ass on, after beingup above silicone greasing an antenna. They rotate, you know. The scruffy seamen were wrenching (crescent hammer, cause everything’s a hammer) up a fitting on a handybilly (kinda engine, probably a trademark, now just a general small pump thingy) to pack some caulking in it. Black tarry shit. The deck boss started giving the seamen shit about someone stealing his snacks. Pecker-checker comes from WWIIish and is a reference to VD inspections the officers had to do on their men, but… Hm, with dicksmith and pecker-checker, looks like the ship’s MD was bossing a engineering crew? Weird. Sewer pipes are submarines… Okay, this makes no sense at this point. This’d never happen.
Anyhow, so the guy who took the candy ran off through a hatch and latched it because the doc was going to catch him below and punch him inna nose. Binnacle is light duty (medical reasons), but the doc would fake the papers so the doc wouldn’t get in trouble.
… meh, not gonna finish it.
I took the liberty of posting the same comment on the linked site:
“You know what this generation needs? A good old fashioned draft! That will thin out their ranks!”
As an employer and hiring manager, I’m sick of reading literature telling me how to “reach out” and "connect with “Millenials”. That’s great that they’ve been coddled their whole life. They are all special little snowflakes…just like everyone else. Well the real world doesn’t work that way. When they join the work force, they need to do the job they were hired to do. If they don’t, we don’t need them. Remember that the business world has effectively run for a long time with most of its workers being utterly miserable. Your happiness is not a prerequisite.
On the plus side, many of them show up already having all kinds of internships and resume experience. Sometimes I wonder if they are 22 or 32.
Picture R. Lee Ermey reading some of these statements and this becomes one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while.
::Snort:: “You damn kids…”
If they have a different view of the way the working world should be, it will change - after all, you need to hire new people at some point and eventually those people will be in charge. And they’ll get along fine, until they don’t understand the generation after them, of course. [I am presuming, since I am gainfully employed and so are almost all of my friends, that the entire generation will not be permanently unemployed and then starve to death. I’m a few years older than the kids in question.]
If kids today are too selfish to join the military, I’m not at all bothered - I’m all for self-preservation. And if the current war hadn’t made them skeptical of joining, I would wonder if they were just plain stupid.
The kids will change or the working world will?
I used to hear the same thing 10 years ago about we Generation X types. That we were “apathetic”, “cynical”, “could not be marketed to”, and I forget what else. Of course the working world did change for a bit with the whole Dot com thing, but we all saw how that worked out.
Personally, I believe kids coming out of school are a lot better prepared for the working world than my generation. They’ve spent their entire lives in a structured environment. They have access to all kinds of industry and career information at an earlier age. I didn’t know the first thing about how a business or a job or career worked until really after I graduated college. All I had was my campus career center and the want ads.
Of course with all that information, it’s not surprising they are finding that the military isn’t the best option for them. Unless you have a personal yen for serving your country or being a military man/woman, there’s no reason to join. Especially with an unpopular war going on.
Bastids, allus on my lawn
I think they (The Armed Forces recruiters) are very right to be concerned that a young person’s best friend is likely to be a Chinese kid. Or an Iraqi kid or and Iranian kid. How easy is it going to be to convince kids to sign up for the possibility, not of killing some random other person halfway across the world who’s an abstract, but their friends Bojing and Mohammad from WoW and their sisters and cousins?
I meant the working world, but come to think of it, it’s really both.
I believe surveys show they are also more likely to be involved in charity work. The rotten little pricks. 