Dick move: Navy flyboy flings firmament phallus for flabbergasted folk A US navy pilot in an EA-18G GROWLER is facing stiff action – after crafting a novel flight pattern that left much of central Washington state staring up at an anatomy lesson. The offending artist flew out of the Whidbey Island air station Thursday morning and deliberately painted the sky over the city of Okanogan with the ol …
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I posted a highly amusing pun, only to realize that it had been used IN THE FRICKING ARTICLE as the sub-head. Serves me right for skim-reading (and over-estimating the Reg team's sense of maturity). Withdrawn, with due sense of shame & humiliation.
Props to the pilot concerned, though. Takes some serious skill to draw something so, ahem, accurately, at jet speeds.
It's probably a good place to point out that this sort of thing (though not necessarily quite so, erm, crude) seems to happen quite a lot!
M.
Okanogan (the city) is the size of a medium English village - about two and a half thousand people. If the pilot was out to cause offence, it was very small scale offence indeed.
One or two reports I've seen seem to have confused it with the "other" Washington, which would have been more noteworthy.
""They train young men to rain fire upon people but they won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it is obscene""A friend who lives in Iraq told me the first thing the US troops did when they invaded was kill a large number of civilians. The second was to import huge quantities of pron, hitherto rare and difficult to acquire there.
"Why pretend these accusations of yours are from "a friend?" That's called "chickenshit" where I come from. If you want to accuse the US of bad behavior, do it yourself, and oh yes, provide some evidence or STFU."Oh dear, have I offended the poor widdle snowflake?
First, I've never been to Iraq, but several friends have their origins there. Prior to the US invasion Iraq was a major market for Australian wheat and sheep.
Evidence? When the USS Enterprise visited Hobart in October and November of 1976 the city was inundated with drugs (LSD branded Red, white and Blue, heroin, marijuana in the form of hashish and grass, speed and Lord knows what else), and pornography. The latter wasn't Playboy, or Penthouse, but what one supposes is The Real Thing. If you think US troops just go around handing out Hershey bars and patting little children on the head, you have your head right up your arse.
PG, I wasn't talking about your drug comments. Nice try tho. You started off with this gem:
"A friend who lives in Iraq told me the first thing the US troops did when they invaded was kill a large number of civilians."
Yes a lot of civilians were killed when we took down Saddam Hussein, mostly because the Iraqi Army was ordered to use them as human shields. One of the command bunkers we bombed turned out to have 300 women and children held captive in the basement, who were all killed. Supposedly it was an "air raid shelter" which just happened to be directly underneath a critical military command and control point.
YOU tho, imply the US soldiers just went in there and slaughtered civilians as a matter of course. That's an old discredited lie and it makes you a promoter of lies.
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Do you think we should tell anyone that the Growler, the electronic attack platform, is not an F/A-18, but rather an EA-18G? F/A-18s are Hornets or Super Hornets.
(Yeah, yeah, same basic airframe, but that's like saying the AWACS aircraft are 707s... -- OK, so they _were_ 707s, but now?)
No, but we SHOULD admonish El Reg for seemingly failing to point out that the pilot drew a cock with his growler...
I am continually confused at what meets official interpretation as "obscene". If it was accurate in its depiction, then some theoretic conspiracy group determined to keep some other group ignorant of basic human anatomy might have grounds for opposing public displays - but the generic nature of the image indicates its the first group who have achieved ignorance. Perhaps that is what they are trying to keep.
"they dont know what a dick looks like, but they heard on TV it looks like that..."
Dick pics have been part of human culture for as far back as we have art, these days the behaviour seems most common amongst juveniles of whatever age..
As far is I am concerned, the action was childish - which may be a useful trait for people you want to fly into possible death, and the obscenity charge is a reponse from senior officers more concerned about being embarrassed.
I am continually confused at what meets official interpretation as "obscene".
US officialdom, and especially the military, or very prudish when it comes to sex and booze. Could be why Washington (the DC one) and the military seem to have such a large drug problem.
"US officialdom, and especially the military, or very prudish when it comes to sex and booze."
My late wife was, some years before we met, in the US Air Force, specifically in the part of it then called "AFCC" = Air Force Communications Command. She suggested that a better expansion would be "Alcohol First, Communications Considered".
"Dick pics have been part of human culture for as far back as we have art"
Cerne Abbas in Dorset I wonder what the poor benighted Merkins make of that...
After a long, hard day of shoveling paperwork...
Two heroes had their seamen prepare their airplane...
Push the throttles' balls to the wall...
Pulsing engines shoot hot stuff out of tight nozzles...
As they recline in bliss...
But alas! Its a cockpit, not a box office. Nowhere in sight is any place for all this pent energy to be released! (Look at those balls-they are *blue* FFS!)...
So they resort to juvenile displays of dubious artistry...
(Part of the sad and wildly ineffective mating rituals of the adolescent male)
Now robbed of their afterburning vigor...
The engines spool back and the whole sad mess slowly sags towards earth...
On the tarmac our great jet is flaccid, with flaps drooping and safety pin flags hanging limp.
Still no box office, the aero machine is again surrounded by lonely seamean...
...who put it back into its hangar...
Pity these pilots!
Time for a stiff drink!
I was on the U.S.S. Midway during vietnam.
We had all kinds of fun bombing the shit out of them. Take a close look at some of these pics.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1093&bih=470&ei=SoEQWpzuBeuP0gKujZHoBA&q=uss+midway+toilet&oq=uss+midway+toilet&gs_l=img.3..0i24k1.6516.14368.0.15321.19.19.0.0.0.0.119.1526.12j5.17.0....0...1.1.64.img..2.17.1518.0..0j35i39k1j0i5i30k1j0i8i30k1.0.TsOE71o29p8
"Our thoughts go out to the senior officer who has to, with a long straight face, tell a room full of pilots that this is absolutely not funny"
I'm sure it'll not happen quite like that. I'm reminded of the combined forces training story. The army complained about the other services calling them Pongoes. The navy issued an instruction that in future Army officers should not be referred to as Pongoes. The RAF issued an instruction that in future Pongoes should be referred to as Army officers.
It represented the pilots opinion of his bosses boss.
He was going to draw something that looks a bit like a butterfly, but was worried about a Twitter rant, followed by a nuclear missile retaliation by the the Commander and Chief.
It was a plot by Clinton, no the media... no it was the North Koreans.
“Butterfly” Hint: grab her by the _____
"Our thoughts go out to the senior officer who has to, with a long straight face, tell a room full of pilots that this is absolutely not funny."
I'd suggest calling out the miscreant in front of his colleagues and asking, "Are you compensating for something?", leaving him with a humiliating nickname would discourage any repetition.
Thus do semiotics cause trouble for an innocent aircrew.
I put it to the assembled court marshal that this image was not obscene, but a tribute to our WWII veterans. If one orients the image correctly and puts one's own prurient schoolboy nudge-nudge=wink-wink sense of "humor" on hold, one will see that the image is clearly that of Kilroy, also known to our brave Tommy allies as "Mr Chad", a satirical WWII-era cartoon used both by the British and the Americans to wryly comment on the shortage of various essential commodities and the unpleasantness of war.
"Wot, no toilet paper?" might for instance be found on walls when the quartermasters had done an imperfect job provisioning for a new British base of operations. "Kilroy was here" was often the caption on American efforts, to indicate that no matter how cold, wet and shell-infested a theater of operations might be, those who came before wanted to offer a friendly "chin up, fellers, we're in this mess together!" to new arrivals.
This patriotic and to my mind overdue salute to those brave men who fought to put Hitler and Tojo in their place can hardly be cause for the besmirching of the records of two fine airmen, who stand ready to defend their country and answer the call no matter the personal cost.
Defense rests.
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