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[–] 20 points 1 day ago

I will steal a joke from Beavis and Butt Head.

"I see you have already given yourself military rankings, Major Woody and Private Parts!!!"

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago

    I'm glad that she's come so far so quickly. It seems like only yesterday they were talking about a Private Data Breach.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I dated a guy named Data once. We were into ballroom dancing, had to break up due to his first name.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Dr Pulaski? Is that you?

    Seriously though, why break up over his name?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Because he wasn't serious about a monogamous relationship. He was just a serial date-ah ("dater" with a southern accent - yeah, it's a reach that I'll "justify" with how late it is & how tired I am).

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    "Who is General Protection Fault and why is he reading my memory?"

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Reminds me of a running joke in How I Met Your Mother where they’d salute people when they used words like general and major in conversation

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    Give that lady a promotion!

    It'd be less confusing to see a headline about "Lt. Col. Data Breach"

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago

    I thought Data was an android name. This seems like it might be cultural appropriation.

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    [–] 135 points 1 day ago (12 children)

    reminds me of the classic 90s joke "who is this General Failure and why is he reading my drive?"

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  • [–] 51 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    I'm not even in the army, much less a squad leader. Who exactly is this Private Parts of mine that you want to see?

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  • [–] 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    I assume you heard about that from Gen. Consensus. Don't mind him, that ol' fossil's always acting like he speaks for everyone.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Colonel Oftruth is often at odds with him though

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    The last time they got into it, Cpl Punishment had to get involved.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    He was out sick, Major Pain took over for him.

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    This is the relevant section of the article:

    "Prawo Jazdy" was an alleged Polish criminal supposedly active in the Republic of Ireland. The name was listed on PULSE, a computer system used by the Garda Síochána, with at least 50 traffic violations, including speeding and parking violations, recorded across the country, but there were suspicious aspects such as each incident being associated with a different address. "Prawo Jazdy" was also listed as a name on the Fixed Charge Processing System (FCPS). An investigation was launched into this person whom the Gardaí considered to be Ireland's worst traffic violator. An internal Garda memorandum in June 2007 revealed that, upon consultation with an online Polish–English bilingual dictionary, prawo jazdy was not a personal name, but instead the Polish term for 'driving licence', misidentified by Garda officers as the traffic violator's name due to the phrase being printed at the top right-hand corner of Polish driving licences (with the licensee's name and personal details printed beneath in a smaller text size). The error became public knowledge in February 2009. The Gardaí received the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in literature in 2009 for the mistake, but did not attend the award ceremony. The prize was accepted by Karolina Lewestam, a Polish philosopher and writer, and a "holder of a Polish driver's licence". The situation was a source of embarrassment for the Gardaí. It generated discussion on issues such as cultural ignorance or institutional racism within the Gardaí as a result of changing ethnic demography in Ireland due to immigration from other European Union member states. In 2013, a common format for driving licences was implemented for all newly issued documents across the European Economic Area (EEA), of which both Ireland and Poland are part.

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    Well, if she's in the offensive cyberwarfare division...

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  • [–] 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

    Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

    • Catch-22

    Edit: man, I just need to reread this book huh? It's insane that the entire novel reads like this, and it's hysterical. Joseph Heller was a madman.

    If you haven't read Catch-22, do yourself a favor. It's so goddamn funny.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago

    When I was in school, I was in the habit of reading a novel instead of listening to the teacher whenever I found the lesson boring (as I often did). I attempted this with Catch-22 and was immediately busted because despite my best efforts I laughed out loud halfway through the first page. Decades later it remains one of the funniest books I've ever read.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

    He also looked so much like Henry Fonda that it was a significant problem:

    " Long before he even suspected who Henry Fonda was, he found himself the subject of unflattering comparisons everywhere he went. Total strangers saw fit to deprecate him, with the result that he was stricken early with a guilty fear of people and an obsequious impulse to apologize to society for the fact that he was not Henry Fonda" 😂

    It's such a fantastic book! Literally can't recommend it enough if I live to be 120!

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    [–] 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    "What did you say her name was?"

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I didn't realise Olivia Coleman held an officer commission.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    My first thought was, who the fuck names their kid "Data".

    Then I realized there is a local radio personality named Oedipus, and I always thought what kind of parent names their kid that.

    But then I remembered that that, is in fact, a stage name.

    But I don't think you can use stage names in the military?

    So maybe they are NB and this was their chosen name? But I don't think thd military would really go for that, let alone put them on TV (though I have no doubts that the best cyber security researchers out there are, in fact, queer).

    So now I'm just more confused about everything.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    We don't know this persons name, the tagline is the news headline not this persons name, it's about an actual data breach

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago

    Remember when Bowser was CEO of Nintendo? Fun times.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago

    looks like a command and conquer briefing

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Sheep in the Big City was a great show for puns. There were two Generals in that show. General Specific and General Lee Outrageous.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    She got the job after Colonel Failure was promoted to general.

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    I remember Data (nee Center), I went to school with her. She was always a good student

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    Catch 22 anyone?

    Major Major Major Major.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Which English-speaking country has uniforms that look like that? That looks Russian or Spanish or something.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Still better than Superman i guess.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    They didn't learn their lesson after Reality Winner.

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