Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Insider" channel.

@DrWhom the part about his mother was breaking him up inside.
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I heard quite enough of that from my father, who despised them and grew up with them. As one example, one hitman who turned states evidence and went into the witless protection program was basically the school wimp, beat down by everybody. Got caught after a rather lengthy career, sang like a canary. I call it witless protection because of the sheer volume of those who offend again while on the program. Personally, I pity their lives, not much of a life when you're constantly looking over your shoulder and have to answer the door with a gun in your hand at times.
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@sebytro because, over time, one can pick up enough to understand what's being said. Especially in second and third generations, where english begins to mix into the Italian speech. I learned a lot of Arabic just by sitting at a meal and listening.
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@strnglhld anything that gets between me and my pasta gets a fork in it and sent to my mouth too. If it's in front of me, it must be food. If it's your hand, good luck in life, lefty.
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Knot tying isn't a big deal - as long as you prefer the fast route down. Personally, I prefer to take my time getting down, at least a few seconds longer than the fast way.
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The director of Top Gun said it honestly, when real pilots complained to him. "I make films for general audiences, not fighter pilots". In short, screw you, those who actually do it, I make what you do look cool (or something). To then prove pure, distilled ignorance and incompetence in the field of endeavor that's being displayed. ""I was only below the hard deck for a few seconds..." The hard deck is the ground for the exercise, so he was saying, I was only flying underground for a few seconds. Apparently, Maverick flew a fighter subterrene. And these films all used Magic Metal, which can forge weld cold, temper by mere whim and can be worked with the gentlest stroke of a feather.
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I dunno, maybe get a real expert? I mean, he was talking at one point where he said he could only hit a target at 30 meters, seriously, that's just over 30 yards. People claim a deer with a 55 pound recurve well beyond that range!
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@doc325 in a very real way, seeing a team muddle through an op that turned into a goat screw is far more informative than any textbook perfect operation. Anyone can do textbook, it's right out of the book after all, but when everything goes into not even wrong land, that's when a team either shines through despite the mess or sinks into a spectacle of a debacle.
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The asteroid, it'd make far more sense for a proximity detonation to ablate one side of the asteroid, rinse and repeat as needed to have it push itself off course. Still, better than other fare in the same time frame and before, where RonCo's Magic Nuke made entire gigantic asteroids simply disappear. Crossroads did have one mast torn off. Not by the blast, but by the water column collapse. Above water overpressure damage was present on close vessels, below the surface, the damage was of course much more pronounced. The fallout was limited in one vessel, which had a wash down system installed as part of a sub-experiment that was later included in new vessel construction that continues today. There is a doomsday launch system, the Soviet Union claimed to have a "dead hand" system, loss of communication with it would trigger nuclear forces to respond to an assumed significant decapitation strike. There was talk of salted bombs, typically with cobalt, resulting in cobalt-60 fallout, none were ever implemented, but Putin did threaten that with his newest physicist killing nuclear propelled missile. That'd only trigger a new arms race with salted bombs, which really takes minimal rework to implement at a cost of lowered yield for the simplest designs.
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"...through appalling weather conditions..." Based on 28 years of military service, is there any other kind of weather conditions when you're in the field on a real world op? One upside is, nobody's looking for any damned fool to be trying to operate under those conditions. Waco, well, CSX isn't optimal of an agent if you're trying to rescue kids - it can burn their lungs and skin. As for the rest, was at a doctor's appointment. Went in, they were pumping CSX, came out to see the compound fully involved. There's a term we used for Waco and Ruby Ridge, a total goat screw. For those confused, CSX is CS "tear gas" that's powdered, suspended in a solvent. Once sprayed in, it leaves a dust of CS powder to be kicked up as people move about and any breeze picks it up. Most people don't perform very well in any environment with CS or CN (aka mace) in any form. Personally, it was a matter of, "That which does not kill me only serves to piss me off", as all it is to me is mildly irritating.
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There is a pressure release detonator, but that's to prevent tampering. Stroking off an IED... Nearly as effective as recon by hammer. Trench down to protect foundations, sandbag around and blast blankets over the device (first, having gained spectrum control and cell tower control), blow it in place. The toilet in Lethal Weapon mecause it's American Standard. ;) Im Juggernaut, the man telling the tech to cut the blue wire is the mutt who built the thing. Yeah, I'm really going to take his word on it - if there's a thermite grenade strapped to his nuts. The VX bomb bit? All that C4, no VX out, thanks for the high decibel decon, Mr Bomber. Love his taste testing an unknown plastic explosive. Did he also figure out the plant and lot by taste?
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@StonedtotheBones13 that and the bit about them getting his mother down pat. He's got a lot of issues with the past, many obviously unresolved. And I see that he has a few tells.
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@StonedtotheBones13 we have an old saying about that. A broken record.
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@StonedtotheBones13 relatively is an odd term, as one needs comparisons to make a scale and nobody comes out of that business unscathed.
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The toilet scene was done using an American Standard toilet. ;)
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How did you learn how to walk on water? I learned to wait until it's really, really cold for a long time. ;) What tried to kill you the most often? Earth. :/
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