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If we let gays in the military, there will be videos of men wearing only their underwear and suspenders and a sign that says “STEAM” over their heads as they dirty dance with other men!

Might be time for the military to institute “Don’t Ask, Don’t You Tube”.

*** Update ***

Had no idea Anne Laurie posted this early morning.

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  2. 2.

    slag

    Might be time for the military to institute “Don’t Ask, Don’t You Tube”

    Only if we could implement that policy nationwide. For equality’s sake.

  4. 4.

    Trentrunner

    That heavier dude on the right has some moves.

    Oh, and for extra gay points, it’s a LADY GAGA song. Just sayin’…

  5. 5.

    soonergrunt

    That is, without a doubt, the BEST use of the reflective PT belt I’ve ever seen.
    And those guys need to square away their B-hut. It’s a fire hazard.

  7. 7.

    Unabogie

    @D-Chance.:

    Talk about epistemic closure! When we all somehow know the same cheesy Youtube video at the same time, all across the country, it’s time to welcome our new Chinese overlords.

  9. 9.

    Anne Laurie

    ‘Sokay, moar laughter is always good, and last night I did not realize that Gawker beat us to the punch, too, also. I laugh every damn time I re-watch this, starting at approximately 0:29.

  11. 11.

    Martin

    If DougJ doesn’t FP this video around 9PM claiming ignorance that we’ve seen it already, we’ll know he’s a rookie.

  12. 12.

    D-Chance.

    Maybe we need Cole to produce some papers before blogging around here any more… ?

  13. 13.

    Lee

    @D-Chance

    I’m pretty sure that John has on several occasions admitted that he does not read his own blog.

    I think he finds it crass (to borrow from Jon Stewart).

  14. 14.

    Joshua Norton

    What’s really sad is that they actually rehearsed this stuff and thought “Hey, we look pretty good”.

  15. 15.

    soonergrunt

    @stuckinred: with the magazine in the well, no less. It’s got to be either Bagram or Kandahar, the two most secure facilities in country where they’re doing that.

  18. 18.

    Lee

    What’s really sad is that they actually rehearsed this stuff and thought “Hey, we look pretty good”.

    I’m pretty sure that they thought “We’re bored…let’s do a music video”.

  21. 21.

    YellowJournalism

    The funny thing is that this version is WAY better than the real Lady Gaga video for the song.

  22. 22.

    IndyLib

    @soonergrunt: @stuckinred:
    LOL You guys sound familiar, when I showed my husband the Navy one I posted in Anne Laurie’s thread (yes it was horrible) all he did was bitch about how many things were wrong and unsafe in the spaces.

  24. 24.

    JSD

    Had no idea Anne Laurie posted this early morning.

    Heh, not reading what yer bloggerz are writing, eh? This blog is Out. Of. Control!

    ;-D

  25. 25.

    R-Jud

    Yeah, I watched this last night at Gawker and have had the stupid $%*&^ song stuck in my head ever since.

    Bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-busy
    Bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-busy

    My friend was ready to write a mash note to the big redhead. But The Smoking Gun sez he’s married.

  26. 26.

    Comrade Mary

    You know what kills me every time? The T. Rex jazz hands around 2:10, which is straight from the original. (This T. Rex, not this T. Rex).

    Actually, I’d love to see a dinosaur version of this video. And the way things are going, there will probably be one up on YouTube before supper.

  27. 27.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    John Cole: Blogs I read:

    538
    American News Project
    Amygdala
    Atrios and Co.
    August J. Pollak
    Avedon
    Barry Eisler
    Balloon Juice

  28. 28.

    stuckinred

    @IndyLib: Well kiddo, the Vietnam War ended 35 years ago today and the whole frickin deal seems like it was last week. I ever tell you about the idiot that rode in the back of my jeep on a 50 mile convoy on dirt roads with a loaded M-79 with the safety off? Guess I haven’t! :)

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Lee: Heh. Just what I thought. These guys are very secure. And massively fucking bored.

  33. 33.

    IndyLib

    @stuckinred:
    This also sounds familiar. Too.

    The two beginnings of almost any conversation with my two Uncles who were career military (30 yrs ago),
    ” Did I ever tell you…” and “When I was stationed in…”.

  36. 36.

    soonergrunt

    @IndyLib: Don’t get me wrong, I think the video is hilarious, and I certainly had times like that, where I was bored off my ass, but you develop an eye for that kind of stuff.

  37. 37.

    soonergrunt

    @stuckinred: The guy who killed an up-armored Hummer with a single 5.56mm round out in the middle of bad guy country because he didn’t bother to put the safety on.
    3 days off mission, damaged the other truck pulling the dead one back to main base for repairs…on the upside, nobody got hurt and we got hot showers for the first time in six weeks, so not a total loss.

    He accidentally fired a round through the dashboard and it ruptured both the sender and return lines for the transmission oil cooler and then destroyed the control computer for the engine by entering the one part of the brain box that wasn’t armored–the part where the wires come out. It was literally a one-in-a-million shot.

  39. 39.

    JSD

    @stuckinred:

    @IndyLib: Well kiddo, the Vietnam War ended 35 years ago today and the whole frickin deal seems like it was last week. I ever tell you about the idiot that rode in the back of my jeep on a 50 mile convoy on dirt roads with a loaded M-79 with the safety off? Guess I haven’t! :)

    According to wikipedia, the grenade won’t arm until it’s traveled 30 meters. So even if it had gone off while pointed at the floor of the jeep, it wouldn’t have exploded. Still kind of unnerving though.

  41. 41.

    IndyLib

    @soonergrunt:
    I didn’t take it that way, I was only amused at the the universality of the attitude among you military guys about this kind of stuff.

  46. 46.

    stuckinred

    . This round incorporated a spin-activation safety feature which prevents the grenade from arming while still within range of the shooter; it armed itself after traveling a distance of about 30 meters. Even though the round would not arm at point blank ranges, the round still had enough kinetic energy to kill or seriously injure its target.

  47. 47.

    ruemara

    I’m sorry to all you haters, this is the awesomest awesome since the history of awesome. Our guys are bored and I would rather they blow off steam in some silly than, oh, say… shooting dogs and stuff like our sociopaths contractors. I think they rocked it out and did a great job. Sending it to everyone military I know.

  50. 50.

    soonergrunt

    @ruemara: shooting dogs is a hell of a lot safer than trying to catch them when they have or are suspected of having rabies. Not many infantrymen are trained or equipped for the care and feeding of sick predatory animals, especially when you don’t have things like food for the animals.
    Soldiers and sometimes contractors downrange don’t live like you do.

    BTW–Noted at 3:30 PM Central, the video was mentioned on MSNBC.

  51. 51.

    ruemara

    @soonergrunt:

    Mr. Grunt, I have much respect for your opinion and information. However, there has been at least 1 incident of persons killing dogs for fun in Iraq. Not for rabies, fun. While I may be dismayed at having to kill a possibly infected dog, I fully understand the necessity and I believe soldiers or whomever would be sure not to boast about how fun it was because many of them are wonderful pet owners themselves. I will stand by my remark, as sport killing animals is something I’m just against.

  52. 52.

    amorphous

    The “STEAM” sign has officially entered the queue as my first choice for Halloween costume this year. By October it will be both exquisitely obscure and untimely.

  53. 53.

    tim

    Not normally into chubs, but the strawberry blonde who does most of the dancing is sort of sexy.

    I’d hit it.

    And um…my gaydar went into the purple (beyond red!) zone while watching this vid. There might be one or two homosekshuls in the military already.

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