Sensible Erection | Dutch Airforce Experience

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

quote [ Welcome to the airforce. Do you want to know what a dogfight in an F-16 against your friends feels like? Or what it's like to guard the dutch air? Or how to get an F-16 engine running again? Me too. Let's go ]

A new website for the dutch royal airforce just went online yesterday. It made the dutch papers, which is why I thought it would be good enough to post here. You're warned though, the site is quite bandwidth and cpu hungry and requires a recent version of flash.

I'm not an army person (useless for a country the size of the Netherlands) and am actually against many army interventions, but I think the site is still pretty impressive and should be viewed in that context.

Yes I did help make this website, but it's not exactly a self-link I think. Worthiness I leave up to you. I'm really interested in reactions good and bad (probably performance related). The website is mostly in dutch but you should be able to navigate it just fine without any knowledge of the dutch language.

Oh an please try to ignore the extremely irritating guy in the chopper at the start of the site. I've pleaded for him to be removed, but unfortunately he's here to stay. If I ever see him in real life though... well... I'll see what I can do. The quote is a translation of what this guys says.

[art] [by solitude@7:36pmGMT] [-10]

Comments

happyman said @ 7:43pm GMT on 1st Jul
dogfight in an F-16 against your friends? Um, isn't that like... doing it wrong?

solitude said @ 7:59pm GMT on 1st Jul
I guess that all depends on the friends in question really.

kang said @ 3:28am GMT on 2nd Jul
It's okay. There just "friends" as in Facebook / Myspace "friends."

kang said @ 3:29am GMT on 2nd Jul
*"They're"

PoTayToe said @ 11:19pm GMT on 1st Jul
Yeah. That's the US Airforce simulator.

BlutStein1984 said @ 12:12am GMT on 2nd Jul
Friends today, Axis of Evil the next....you know how it goes.

Jeff L said @ 8:11pm GMT on 1st Jul
IT'S IN DUTCH

Nostrildamus said @ 8:47pm GMT on 1st Jul [Score:2 Underrated]
To hell with war, to hell with people who want to go to war, to hell with people promoting army recruitment, in fact fuck them in the god damned ass with a red hot rotating mining implement, and a double fuck you for posting this shit.

mrslippyfist said @ 9:20pm GMT on 1st Jul
I do respect your opinions. Indeed, war is terrible.

But shit blowing up and massive explosions are fucking cool.

happyman said @ 9:29pm GMT on 1st Jul
Michael Bay isn't cool.

jaxtraw said @ 10:17pm GMT on 1st Jul
I enjoyed Transformers.

maryyugo said @ 3:24am GMT on 2nd Jul [Score:-1 Troll]
sure. let's put on our bhurkas and praise allah. because that's what's going to happen if only one side has an army.

Nostrildamus said @ 5:23am GMT on 2nd Jul
So when are you signing up, fucktard?

buzhidao said @ 8:21am GMT on 2nd Jul [Score:-1]
no.

mwoody said @ 3:45am GMT on 2nd Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
I also hate the twin annoyances of breathing and defecation. I think I'll protest them until they stop being necessary.

soulecho said @ 9:20pm GMT on 1st Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
-1 military recruitment anything

sensibleb said @ 9:37pm GMT on 1st Jul [Score:2]
There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.

Oh, and military propaganda.

And unworthy self-links.

So that's, um, four things I hate in this world.

I also don't much care for pickles.

incpenners said @ 10:31pm GMT on 1st Jul
Bend over, I've got a pickle you'll like...

Nihil said @ 11:33pm GMT on 1st Jul
No, no, no, it should have been:

Bend over, I'll show you a pickle you'll care for.

spazm said @ 1:16am GMT on 2nd Jul
*throws wooden shoe at bleb*

uxbboy said @ 2:56am GMT on 2nd Jul
Saw a t shirt the other day: Pickles are Cucumbers soaked in Evil

AlTheGud1sRTaken said @ 9:44pm GMT on 1st Jul
military propaganda made to look like some hot new video game? what the fuck?

taeyn said @ 1:30am GMT on 2nd Jul
you've apparently never seen America's Army, either...

AlTheGud1sRTaken said @ 9:04am GMT on 2nd Jul
wow. i had forgotten about that. i just have so many problems with this general concept morally.

Baxter_UK said @ 9:58pm GMT on 1st Jul
War is fun! It's like a computer game!

PoTayToe said @ 11:19pm GMT on 1st Jul
I tried both. I prefer computer games.

sanepride said @ 12:22am GMT on 2nd Jul
WTF do the Dutch need an airforce?

cb361 said @ 12:43am GMT on 2nd Jul
YTF

underdog said @ 12:52am GMT on 2nd Jul
To take their soldiers places. It's hard work marching in wooden clogs.