The world doesn't have enough "tactical" everyday things

@Kyeh I like the ammo belt part. Lock and load!

@ItalianScallion @Kyeh One of my favorite T-shirts (purchased from that other deal site)

@ItalianScallion @Kyeh @macromeh It’s okay to say Woot here, y’know.
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/kitchen-warfare

Besides, the old slogan of one deal, one day still remains true. Granted, one has to find that one item there that’s a deal …

@ItalianScallion @macromeh
That IS clever!

@kuoh That would be great after some tactical diarrhea. (Is that a thing? It sounds like it would be a thing.)

@kuoh @xobzoo Ummm… yes it is…

@werehatrack How do you camouflage an orange cat?

@pmarin @werehatrack The orange is the camo part of a tiger.

The orange facts start just after the 5 minute mark.

@pmarin @werehatrack Catmouflage or catmeowflage.

@pmarin @werehatrack

How do you camouflage an orange cat?

Put it in front of an orange version of a green screen?

@pmarin @yakkoTDI Havelock Vetinari studied the camouflage value of large cat colouration. Fortunately for him, the other assassins scoffed at the ideas that he found fascinating and valuable.

@mediocrebot That’s something I don’t want to see near a bidet.

@mediocrebot @pakopako For the trifecta, add a butane-fueled soldering pencil.

@xobzoo That reminds me of Hank Hill’s tactical WD-40 can.

@Cerridwyn To me, it means a supposedly rough ‘n’ tough concept of an item in a way that would be supposedly be used by military personnel with the objective to make the item seem macho–note, it’s really in appearance only–to appeal to macho-wannabes that have never served a day in the military. Camo is one way to attempt to demonstrate to others that the item is “tactical,” when in fact the companies are laughing all the way to the bank.

to appeal to macho-wannabes that have never served a day in the military.

@Cerridwyn @ItalianScallion So much like the Jeep mall-crawlers?

@Cerridwyn @narfcake There are people who drive their Jeeps around in malls?

@Cerridwyn @ItalianScallion I detest camo-patterned stuff that’s not actually meant for, y’know, camouflage. Especially when it’s on kid’s clothes or something.

@ItalianScallion @Kyeh I basically agree. I think of tactical meaning it’s tactical. It’s something that does what it needs to do where it needs to be without being overly complicated and without requiring lots of hands I guess is the way I need different think of it. Things like flashlights, knives, which sir other jobs I guess is a good way of saying it I don’t know. It has a meaning to me but it’s kind of hard to put in words

@Cerridwyn To me, it means that the item is designed to optimize the specific requirements for strength, reliability, controllability, fitness for the task, and safety for the user. Some think it only applies to warlike combat and militarized policing. I contend that this is too narrow of a scope. Camo-patterned clothing is often anti-tactical for the task at hand. A form-fitting cocktail dress can be intensely tactical. A pair of bottles of carefully chosen bourbon, even more so.

That said, let us not speak of tactical toasters.

@werehatrack well said

@werehatrack well said

let us not speak of tactical toasters.

I agree. For example, I will not mention the Dungeons and Dragons toasters that are probably still for sale on Sidedeal.

@Cerridwyn and @werehatrack, those are good takes on what tactical means in real life. My take on it was from the macho/military-style marketing used to sell cheaply made junk on TV ads that in the end are just laughable.

@ItalianScallion @werehatrack

@Cerridwyn @ItalianScallion @Kyeh I’m just clumsy/mission-focused enough that most of my work-around-the-house-and-yard clothing quickly starts to resemble and blend in with the environment.

@blaineg
Mutually Assured Toasting
in the end we will all be toast.

@blaineg I want a tactical IRK. Like that will ever happen.