Leo Niehorster

In my day, the army had us march by in the training company (ca. 250 men) just after induction through a hall, and proceed to inoculate the hell out of us. Sure, there was the very occasional adverse reaction, and the male nurses weren't always gentle, but those jet injectors could handle a lot of people in a very short time. So why couldn't this apply to the COVID-19 vaccinations? -- Leo

@sunday Greetings! No, it was benign. @Stargrunt6 Thank you. Thankfully, I had a full anesthesia. I don't want to start on all my past operations, let along infections, etc. (And I also did spend some 30 years in "third world" countries.) @Steven P Allen Yeah. I hear you. The doc said there is a 10% chance it won't work. @DougRichards I sincerely feel for you. I truly hope your travail is at an end soon. My aunt —my last living blood relative— just recently passed away. She had been hoping to die for many years, but could not bring herself to do a medically assisted death for moral reasons. To say we were all happy for her when she finally passed away balances our grief at no longer having her with us. At 73, I have lost many relatives and almost all my friends, and the grief at having lost them and the joy of having had them in my life is something I bear with me daily.

Just had a prostate operation (TURP). They recovered all of 20 grams. Original complaint: - frequent need to urinate, particularly at night (ca. 30 to 60 minute intervals); - time between need to urinate and urinating very short; - pills originally prescribed did not work Diagnosis: - prostate swollen, causing the entry of urine from the bladder to the urinary canal to be hampered. - a surgical procedure would alleviate the swelling, and enabling mostly normal urine routine. Result to date (1 week after operation): - frequent need to urinate, particularly at night (now ca. 5 to 10 minute intervals);😧 - time between need to urinate and urinating extremely short. I normally do not reach the WC on time, and have urine loss. Saw the operating urologist today. He prescribed pills that cause the bladder to relax and not panic every time it gets and wants to expel every a little bit of urine in it. Plus pads to tape into my underwear in case I don't make it to the nearest WC. Says symptoms will recede in 2—6 months (!). It's a good thing I am in lockdown owing to CODIV-19, so I won't miss going out. Your humid troglodyte Leo

Don't forget those newfangled bucket seats. Tough on the girlfriend.

Towed vehicles are not optimum for off-road, mobile combat use. Something mounted on independent vehicles is needed. -- Leo

Bad idea to start with What a waste of money. -- Leo

Helicopters' first combat used in Burma, 1944: https://www.airspacemag.com/airspacemag/helicopter-goes-to-war-180972605/ -- Leo

Can't modern submarines lay mines?

Interesting that the Crimea is not shown as part of Russia. Old map? -- Leo

My groceries delivery company (REWE) now once again has a one week delay between ordering online and delivery. During the summer it was down to 12 hours. Some articles now sold out, like fresh veggies, but that might the time of year. TP available in various ply and colors. -- Leo

@BansheeOne How was the patient protected at night/while sleeping in the hospital? How was the face mask issue handled? -- Leo

Great models, and stop-action. But I don't see any RC antennas. -- Leo

Sorry, but this just came back to me. I do remember a convention for Massey Ferguson, where an overzealous employees had banners made reading "Welcome MF'ers". 🤣 -- Leo

The "German" pizza has a very thin, crunchy crust. I prefer pizza. (Although without pineapple.) 😜 -- Leo

There are also the Swiss "Bundesblatt", which published changed and/or new orders of battle. All available on line from the Swiss Government https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/bundesrecht/bundesblatt.html -- Leo

Have been using SeaMonkey for many years with great satisfaction. Sea Monkey [User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.4] https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ -- Leo

Goof luck. I'm due in 17.11.2020. (You don't want to know.)😬 -- Leo

There was no intent on the Japanese side to compromise. The Japanese insisted that they should be allowed to keep what they had conquered. As you write, FDR firmly stated that there was no way he would lift the embargoes until the Japanese relinquished their occupation of China, Manchuria included. Are you suggesting that the Allies should have allowed the Japanese to keep what they had forcibly taken? Never happen. So, the raw material extreme shortages would not go away. And those were in the British and Dutch colonies. No way the Japanese were going to abandon their plans for becoming a world power, and that was only possibly with the those raw materials. French Indo-China was already de-facto conquered. The Dutch were not going to sell the Japanese oil, so the Japanese were going to have to go and take it if they wanted any. Ditto to the British colonies.

Nonsense. The Japanese were in the process of conquering China and South East Asia, and a neutral US stance would not have changed that. Furthermore, Japan would certainly have invaded Malaya, British Borneo, the NEI (modern Indonesia) for the resources they desperately needed. In any event, the U.S.-British Staff Conference (ABC-1) early 1941 committed the USA to entering the war on the Allied side if the Japanese entered the war by invading the British and Dutch colonies in SE Asia. -- Leo

Stuart Galbraith wrote: "There you see DB, im not the only one who does ultra long posts! " Should I be offended or flattered to be mistaken for DB? -- Leo

"If it hurts, it's good for you." (Old army saying.)

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572 words. Yeah! He's back. 🤣

Normally, I would agree with you. But these scumbags were certainly not "‘fighters against communism’ as I would understand it. That degrades those people who were really fighting communism everywhere and suffered for it as a consequence. -- Leo

Possibly a maintenance issue? Here's a Leopard starting indoors. -- Leo