171: Beef Stroganoff is NOT GOOD

[jterlecki]

I wonder what they will think about birthdays and big fancy weddings... and the fact that almost any human social celebration takes the form of a feast (Christmas, birthdays, weddings, wakes, etc.)

I think the Loroi could be moved by witnessing a human military funeral (if those are still a thing).

[wedgekree]

I think the Loroi could be moved by witnessing a human military funeral (if those are still a thing).

I think that my favorite 'space funerals' are the style we've seen in Star Trek - fired off to arc around to head towards the sun. To alwasy be a part of space.

[Sweforce]

I think the Loroi could be moved by witnessing a human military funeral (if those are still a thing).

I think that my favorite 'space funerals' are the style we've seen in Star Trek - fired off to arc around to head towards the sun. To alwasy be a part of space.

I had this idea of such a funeral from a space habitat where a venerated elder are launched from a mass accelerator, the cargo kinds, not the weapons some ships use in Outsider. As an alternative they could cremate the dead and use the ashes as part of a concrete slab that are then added to the outside of the habitat's hull for meteorite and radiation protection. One last service for the community.

[boldilocks]

I think the Loroi could be moved by witnessing a human military funeral (if those are still a thing).

I think that my favorite 'space funerals' are the style we've seen in Star Trek - fired off to arc around to head towards the sun. To alwasy be a part of space.

I had this idea of such a funeral from a space habitat where a venerated elder are launched from a mass accelerator, the cargo kinds, not the weapons some ships use in Outsider. As an alternative they could cremate the dead and use the ashes as part of a concrete slab that are then added to the outside of the habitat's hull for meteorite and radiation protection. One last service for the community.

Sounds like it would make more sense to use to ashes for soil renewal. Although that could possibly be a stepping stone towards cannibalism.

[SVlad]

Fan art by one of Russian readers, KainDarkSaint

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[Krulle]

hhehehe.....
I guess quite a few Humans would jump at the opportunity to show them the use of this specific item...

Tell your Russian reader "Thank you" from me.

[dragoongfa]

Fan art by one of Russian readers, KainDarkSaint

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Was their intention to make Talon look like a vampire with cat eyes and fangs?

In that case Tempo is better for that job.

[orion1836]

Fun fact: (non-lubricated) condoms are put in survival kits not for their intended purpose but because they're cheap/small water storage containers.

[DCR]

Also good for keeping dust out of small, complicated pieces of machinery (like guns).

[Krulle]

there are plenty of uses for a fluid-tight, massively elastic, sack-formed piece of rubber....
A water carrier, an emergency sealing, ... In need of survival, one does become inventive on how to repair something temporarily...

Your comment therefore does not surprise me in the least...

[SaintofM]

If the Big Red One is any indication condoms are also good with keeping your rifle operational despite salt water and sand.

I can only imagine them asking why his graduation was a party.

Alex Answers, looking up pictures on the device for visual aid. "Because by that point, anyone not up to snuff got booted out.

Spiral: What things would make them not...up to snuff."

Video of vomit comet, followed by basic bootcamp images, followed byfir fighting drills, followed by Alex is no longer allowed to use the SAW ever again.

Beryl: Are there any variant adulthood rituals?"

Alex: Some cultures on earth scar themselves to look like a large predator predator called a crocodile. Another performs adult circmcision...

Beryl" Seery, what is Circumcision, particularly adult."

Most of the girls are horrified. Spiral says kinky.

[Krulle]

And then Tempo blows her cover by asking if Alex is a Jew....

[SVlad]

Was their intention to make Talon look like a vampire with cat eyes and fangs?

Intentional. He thought this features fits Talon. It's actually cats fangs and eyes.

[RobLoughrey]

Actual beef stroganoff MRE for reference.

Whhhyyyy... is it white?

[orion1836]

No one knows.

[Dahak]

Some of the characters in Symphogear went over the top on Beef Stroganoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibu_aoDrgTk

[Curlysan]

The early (dark brown packaging) MRE's had some 'questionable' content, like the dehydrated beef bricks. They've improved over the years though.

In 1983, while slogging miles in freezing rain and snow on a search & rescue mission; I had the privilege to dine on a slightly warmed meal of C-Rats (Civil Defense stockpile) stamped '1963' deviled ham was pretty vile, but nominally 'life-sustaining'.

The canned cake-like-substance, it was claimed to be pound cake iirc, was actually quite good with coffee. Also learned that when one is exhausted and perhaps a bit too far into hypothermia to be field worthy, hot Tang can literally save your life.

After the novelty wore off, the younglings complain that MRE's are a punishment. They truly don't get it when "Opa" laughs at them and says "If you're complaining about the chow, you're in a(relatively) secure position."