I had to post this

[usonian]

6. I was Coast Guard for four years.

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Our leaders were were quality people, though there was the time an admiral returned a fleeing Lithuanian seaman to his ship (1) a horrible blunder. Okay, most were quality and some were spineless trash. I worked with/for honorable people, most of whom were OUTSTANDING.

It was in the service I learned the term "shit floats", (2) and isn't that entirely appropriate to the sack of shit Oompa-Loompa?



(1) https://emerging-europe.com/culture-travel-sport/jump-for-freedom-the-stranger-than-fiction-tale-of-lithuanian-defector-simas-kudirka/. HOLY SHIT, This was awful.

(2) https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shit+floats

The opposite of "The cream rises". A saying used to denote that people in positions of power often got where they are through corruption and do not deserve the advantages they have.