misteraven Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Personally I've all but given up on news. Seems once attention went from regional news to main stream media, everything went down the shitter and it all became about poorly written click bait bullshit that mostly just gets people to argue and hate each other. Anyhow, going to start posting shit in Ch0 with the hashtag "newsworthreading" as I come across shit worth reading so you all can enjoy and chime in. Feel free to post your own good news and remember to add the hash tag. ------------------------------ First up, this little gem pops up and restores my faith in America, if not humanity... Nebraska farmer cuts off trapped leg using pocket knife Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kurt-kaser-pender-nebraska-farmer-cut-off-his-leg-with-pocket-knife-to-save-himself-from-grain-auger/ A northeastern Nebraska farmer is recovering after cutting off his own leg with a pocket knife to save himself from a piece of farm equipment he was caught in. Omaha television station KETV reported that 63-year-old Kurt Kaser was unloading corn last month when he got out of his truck and accidentally stepped on the grain hopper opening. "When it first happened, I can remember telling myself, 'This ain't good. This is not good at all,'" Kaser told KETV. An auger in the hopper caught Kaser's leg, pulling it in and mangling it. An auger is a tube that uses a rotating shaft to suck the grain and push it through the tube to deposit in a bin. Kaser said he couldn't pull his leg out and didn't have his cellphone. There was no one around to help. "I thought, 'How long am I going to stay conscious here,' you know? Because I didn't know what to expect, and then I felt it jerk me again. I thought, 'Well, I was going in. They're going to grab me and pull me in further,'" he said. So, he took his pocket knife out and sawed off his leg below the knee. "When I was cutting it, the nerve endings, I could feel them just ping every time when I'd start sawing around that pipe, and all at once it went and let me go, so I got the heck out of there," Kaser said. After he was freed, he crawled 150 feet to the nearest phone and was flown to a hospital. Kaser said he never lost consciousness. On Friday, Kaser was released from Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals. He will have to wait for the amputated leg to fully heal before getting a prosthetic leg. "It is what it is," Kaser said. "Make the best of it is all you can do. I mean, it coulda always been worse." Fact... 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
you can microwave bacon Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 gruesome. id just let the auger aug me msk style. fuck cutting a leg off like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Nails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted May 17, 2019 Author Share Posted May 17, 2019 Really puts things in perspective when you consider old timers like that and where things have ended up at this point as far as people’s ability to navigate hardship. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 People still have that ability. Try telling the young farmers today that they are pussies. Try telling the combat soldiers that have done multiple tours that they struggle to navigate hardship. Tell the dudes living in bad areas in Detroit and Philadelphia that they’re incapable of battling through. Theres always been a soft underbelly surrounded by a hard edge. I can’t see any great difference from his generation to the current one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morton Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 There are also those of us who work around heavy equipment that have enough sense to be reasonable about it and not go stepping in a fucking hopper. My uncle bout lost his hand in a tractor, I do not remember thinking he was anything but an idiot for it. Use foresight or loose foreskin and all that. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 One day old man Kaser's lifelong habit of parking like an asshole finally caught up to him. In a brazen display, he parked in the no parking zone directly over the hopper opening, and just jumped out of his fancy truck like he was some sort of parking god. In an ironic twist, karma struck before he could celebrate he'd parked so close to the hopper, the number of steps he'd need to take were cut in half. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 8 hours ago, morton said: There are also those of us who work around heavy equipment that have enough sense to be reasonable about it and not go stepping in a fucking hopper. My uncle bout lost his hand in a tractor, I do not remember thinking he was anything but an idiot for it. Use foresight or loose foreskin and all that. This more than anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Meh, still think there are more than a fair share of pussies these days... Just in general, seems like everything is expected with much less emphasis on what's required to truly earn things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 5 hours ago, misteraven said: Meh, still think there are more than a fair share of pussies these days... Just in general, seems like everything is expected with much less emphasis on what's required to truly earn things. You might be right, you might be wrong. But I'm at least confident that every generation thinks similar things about the next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 My generation didn't have major wars. I came of age well after Vietnam, and almost a decade before Afganistan when we had a pretty good run. In poorer areas like the one I turned 18 in, kids graduate high school and enter war zones at much higher rates than we did. I had maybe 2 friends a couple of years younger than me that fought, both were delayed by going to college first, then enlisting to pay it off. Had I been born mid 80's instead of mid 70's the number of people my age exposed to war would be much higher. Most of my classmates that enlisted out of high school got in/out without going to desert shield/storm, and Kosovo. Not that that really has anything to do with the pussy to bad ass ratio of each generation. I think there are some pretty bitchmade people who've made through rough shit, and some bad motherfuckers that haven't had to yet. It all depends on how you measure an individuals hardness. Personally, I think the self discipline, self reliance, the ability to suck it up and work through the shit sandwiches life hands you transcend both your profession, and the time you lived in. They are present, lying dormant even in some of the people who've never faced (what I consider) adversity making these qualities un quantifiable by any measure. I will say this though, one thing that actually is quantifiable is the number of Army recruits that qualify for Special Forces teams every year. They can't lower the standards, and it's gotten so bad that the numbers are dismal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 As if on cue!! McRaven: Anyone who calls millennials 'soft' has clearly never seen them in a firefight https://taskandpurpose.com/admiral-mcraven-defends-millennials-military For many people, millennials are seen as super-entitled, self-involved, over-sensitive snowflakes who don't have the brains or brawn to, among other noble callings, serve as the next great generation of American warfighters. Retired Navy Adm. William H. McRaven is here to tell you that you have no idea what you're talking about. McRaven, the former head of Joint Special Operations Command and architect of the 2011 raid that put down Osama bin Laden, appeared on CBS This Morning on Monday to primarily promote his new book, Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations. But in the process, the legendary commander ended up offering a full-throated defense of the millennial generation that a CBS host deemed "not known for rigor and courage overall." "I am probably the biggest fan of the millennials you'll ever meet," McRaven said. "[Critics] talk about millennials being soft and pampered and entitled, well I'm quick to say, then you've never seen them in a firefight in Afghanistan." "This is a fabulous generation and anybody that worries about the future of the U.S., I don't think you need to worry," he added. You can watch McRaven's remarks here: "They talk about millennials being soft and pampered and entitled, well I'm quick to say then you've seen them in a firefight in Afghanistan... this is a fabulous generation and anybody that worries about the future of the U.S., I don't think you need to worry." --Admiral McRaven pic.twitter.com/c0svThtz8x — #CTM (@CBSThisMorning) May 20, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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