THE BLUE ANGELS! c/d

sooo classic

soooo fucking dud. would appreciate it if the gov't didn't waste money/resources on pointless displays of military pageantry that make me feel like I'm about to be strafed

loooove the blue angels. they're my one jingo mo
so want to go up in one. they're here at seafair and get down low over the water

they've been buzzing my office for nearly an hour now, singly and in tight formation. shakey mo otm to the degree that I've pictured SF lying in rubble about 8 times now, but still totally classic.

these guys are the true heroes of our military.

it's like having our best Navy SEALS perform synchronized swimming!

thunderbirdsz

Navey Seals synch swim would be cheaper and less intimidating

It's truly amazing to watch but it is rather a waste. I'm not scared of them strafing me but if something were to go wrong over the City it would be disastrous.

I'm sorry I can't see them without thinking "wow we waste a lot of money on the fucking military"

id rather spend our defense budget on shit as cool as the blue angels than on corny-ass ideas like the iraq war

except we currently do both. huzzah!

I mean, frankly, regradless of what you think of our involvement in Iraq or Afghanistan, wouldn't you rather that money went to buying soldiers body armor or something? Would Navy recruiting really suffer that much if we scaled the BA back during wartime?

christ spend it on VA hospitals and PTSD treatment

Speaking of which, imagine what the sound of these jets does to some vets.

i commend the blue angels pilots for the courage and bravery in the face of adversity.

Adversity?

war is hell, mwhite. let us pray together to bring the blue angels back home safe and in one piece.

They're probably just getting ready for when Pesident Bush declares martial law. I believe they already have Shakey's house pre-programmed in their missile guidance systems.

Voting classic with Shasta here, though shouldn't the poll be Blue Angels vs Thunderbirds vs Snowbirds vs Red Arrows?

Anyway, classic - except the Thunderbirds' F-16s can do 9g turns the BA's F-18s can't

I'm sorry I can't see them without thinking "wow we waste a lot of money on the fucking military"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, October 9, 2008 2:00 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^^^ this

Also, they seemed rilly rilly cool when I was 8.

they fly around Angel Island, right? I used to see them from the roof in Capitol Hill during Seafair.

Timi & Shaky: would you rather the money for the blue angels go towards more bombs and troops in i-rack? it's not like disbanding the blue angels is going to lower your taxes, or the portion of the budget given to the military. i'd rather have plans wowing little kids than blowing shit up. srsly.

also, air shows have good food (or at least they did when i was 7.)
if you hate the blue angels, you hate america and should just fucking leave.

"plans wowing" = planes wowing.

Shakey M-OTM

would you rather the money for the blue angels go towards more bombs and troops in i-rack?

bullshit, false binary.

CUT MILITARY SPENDING! NO MORE STUNT PLANES!

maybe you guys should be thinking about the vast waste of money that is our military when you are watching the news or something instead of hating on fun.

I think about the vast waste of money all the time, not just when I'm doing those two things. I do watch the news and hate on fun a lot, though.

All military jet formation flying teams are awesome, the blue angels inclusive, obv. Classic!

I hate the noise these damn things make. I like to keep my hearing.

I am all for them flying around at air shows. I am positively against any military aircraft flying low over the city I work in during the workday.

boring

they are driving me particularly crazy today for some reason. maybe it's because they've been going at it all week and i'm finally fatigued. or maybe it's because i had an idea for a track and gave up a few minutes after starting because my speakers can't compete. plus they scare my kittens.

what they do is pretty cool, but i wish they didn't have to fly right over SF. fuck fleet week.

watching planes fly is boring

but i guess i would rather they spend their time/money flying in formations than dropping bombs on people

fuck these guys

no man, fuck YOU.

grady, were you around when the thunderbirds did that show over honolulu last year? scared the crap out of me.

so, dud.

Is this the same Ian who's a big Happy and Artie Traum fan? What would they think?

supercub-

no, but ive seen them in chicago a lot

Same me!
I don't know what Happy & Artie would think. Artie just passed away :( I don't particularly see it as a glorification of the U.S. Military as much as a glorification of human endeavor. Also, I am not ashamed of being an American.

Blue Angels causing havoc with my weekly call w/mom.

Also, I am not ashamed of being an American.

Where do you people live where stunt plains are a regular annoyance and not just an occasional pain in the neck?

America.

^^^ btw proud of this.

oh you card you.

Hey, I know it's just a troll, but the tag line is pretty good.

Also, since when is defending freedom and democracy a "pain in the neck"???

yeah i think i have only encountered blue angels once in real life. i am a proud patriotic american but it didn't do anything for me.

ask the tax payers. ;) xp

caitlin i think the blue angels were cool the two or three times i saw them as a younger person. going to the air show was highlighted by stuff like sausage & peppers sandwiches though.

also, conflating the blue angels and "freedom & democracy" is wrong.

Anything that feels this good can't be wrong.

Cf. "sausage" festival.

see also: peanut butter & hamburgers. xp

yeah i think when i saw them i was 8 or 9 and i was probably already cynical about freedom and democracy

the blue angels are kind of the antithesis of freedom and democracy, because they fly over my house and make tons of noise without my having any say in the matter.

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/blue_angels_San%20Fran.jpg

These guys really shake people up.

blue angels = ANTI DEMOCRATIC

BA performs same function as http://www.messedupamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/korea-military-parade.jpg in N. Korea.

I am not ashamed of being an American.

Me either, though I have questions. As for glorification of human endeavour, give me another American: Fats Domino.

yeah i would like it better if we had the army marching around all the time like n. korea, less noisy and wasteful and more fun

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/31/blue.angels.ap/index.html

I saw three or four Blue Angels shows growing up and I thought they were less exciting than the annual fourth of July parade and the thing in Blackfoot, Idaho where a helicopter dropped ping-pong balls all over town, and some of the ping-pong balls had prizes, and I won one of the prizes which was to fly in the fucking ping-pong ball helicopter and drop fucking ping-pong balls all over Blackfoot even though I was a fricking shy kid alone in a helicopter with STRANGER DANGER plus I won a cool lollipop.

Those planes are boring to prepubescent me.

The ones I went to never had foods though so maybe I would have liked it if I got free foods (a factor that to this day vastly increases the quality of an event).

Actually I don't think these were Blue Angles shows because they featured biplanes.

http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/

http://aycu22.webshots.com/image/45461/2001899124284803895_rs.jpg

time to lodge my annual complaint about this total waste of money

dud...culture for the blue collared. it just reeks of tank tops, farmer tans, beer in coozies, cankles and misguided patriotism. terrible.

would love to se Ade at one of these.

another annual complaint from me about noise pollution. these guys on top of the constant fire trucks and apparently huge biker gangs that roll by my house once every hour, are going to make it impossible to do anything this weekend.

fuck the blue angels. i hope one goes down and crashes into the Marina.

(and the pilot ejects safely)

has there been a movie about how the nation is attacked while the blue angels are performing and they have to save the day

maybe a scooby doo

that would be a good movie

these guys would get schooled, right? doing loopyt loos and shit while some mig pilot fires a rocket from two miles away.

has there been a movie about how the nation is attacked while the blue angels are performing and they have to save the day

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:36 PM (1 minute ago)

yeah, how about a movie where a series of known-hijacked planes hit several symbolic targets including the Pentagon and the blue angels are really doing some really pretty pirouettes over Peoria. starring Charlie Sheen of course.

well I'm thinking like one of the blue angels, the fuckup blue angel, still had some missiles on his jet and everyone has to do all these tricks and manuvers and shit so that the one dude could make
all
his
missiles
count

charlie sheen as peoria

and their biggest maneuver could be called the blue angle

thought they were classic around 1994. but at this point i am against this heightened (pun unintended) form of jingoism/extreme waste o'monies. and the noise - that noise is not metal machine music to my poor aging hearing

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pfft

apparently when they strafed my house this morning my baby daughter freaked out crying and screaming.

thx American military!

so do you have thunderstorms too?

eh rarely - although we were in South Carolina recently where there were a lot. she didn't seem to mind those at all.

sometimes i really miss sc thunderstorms!!

my problem is less of a noise pollution issue... it's more of a focus issue.

our country is at war (and not faring very well) so why do we reserve our top fighter pilots for choreographed air stunts/war porn rather than serving and defending our country? do the navy SEALS put on any synchronized swimming performances?

idk, perhaps we should suspend the Blue Angels while we are at war. seems like a incredible waste of money and resources, and symbolic of our country's blind arrogance.

dude shasta they are just celebratin mission accomplished iirc

apparently my cats have been cowering under furniture all day.

i work in an office that the sun beats on all day, so it gets really hot in here and we have to leave the window open. at one point about an hour ago, we had at the same time: Blue Angels, fire trucks a block away, and someone tearing ass down the street in a Harley setting off car alarms.

my co-worker and I, who were in the middle of talking about something work-related, just started laughing. It sounded like total fucking chaos out there.

do the navy SEALS put on any synchronized swimming performances?

this would pretty much be the best thing ever and i am writing my congressperson to that effect

I feel weird that I'm (apparently) the only person in this office who is not an ethusiastic supporter of this bullshit.

which is rare, usually we're all cheery lefty engineer types

cancelled due to fog (altho it's super sunny where i am)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/3897968733_1cefb05302_b.jpg

pretty foggy out there today.