Pianomutt's Late Night Iraqi Rantings :D

[Phoenix of Terra]

Yay, pianomutt is back! Glad to see you are still safe. And no, I will never post a certain song again.

*Wonders if he will remember song*

BTW, am I the only one who lags on this page?

[Epic]

you need a wii!

I bought a 360, and it's great. But without being about to use Live, it's kinda limited.


I can't justify dropping another 500 bucks on another system.


Bill

My buddy's out in Iraq, well not at the moment (he has his 2 week vacation) and him and some others chipped in for a satellite dish so they could try and get xbox live on the go, unfortunately the signal isn't strong enough for online play, but you can just about use the voice chat. Alot of them have 360's out there so they normally get some Halo 2 going. You'll have to try and get Guitar Hero 2 sent out for you, unless you are at one of the bases with Subway and Mini-malls, GH2 will eat up a nice amoount of time I should imagine...

The Aeon Empire wishes you luck!

[Osi]

yay your almost back sorta

[Adnihilo]

good to see your safe

[GunZ]

mutt man....tell us where to write you. ( sorry if I missed a previous post)

ps.....thanks for your service to your country

[Lore]

You need to bring SV back with you too Bill, to many "characters" are leaving these days. Be good to get a few back.


Be safe Bill.

[Prior Or Ori]

good to see you're still doing ok. just when i was wondering what was up with you, you miracously appeared. stop reading my mind.

not sure if by coming back, you mean stateside or to the game, or both. if you come back to the game, give me a holler and i'll help you out however i can.

good luck and stay safe.

[Tok`ra]

Wii is too complicated to pirate. dvd's are easy. heck, they have a pirate dvd store ON base here lol.


(Don't tell the motion picture guys)

It's legal in Iraq.

ALso legal to bring them back, I had a footlocker full of em, as long as you dont have mroe than two of the same one if I remember right.

The base I was at when I was downrange had ...... something like 8 differnt shops selling pirated DvDs by the time I left at least one and possibly a second shop was modding Xbox's so they could play pirated games and even be connected to a computer so instead of using live you'd just DL whatever mods you wanted and plug into the xbox.


Lets see, on my base we had ..........

Turkish Resturant- A turkish run resturant, various turk foods, and later on in my deployment they started making pizza (and delivering it too), they also had internet for soldiers and civie contractors.

7-11 - another store, turkish ran. pirated movies, smokes, Internet, Phones to call home, snack foods, cokes juices, Trinkets*, you name it. Way on the far side of the post from anyone else, but a good place.

Notable for being in an old Iraqi bunker.

Turkish Mall - Basicluy the best shop on the FOB. The building is basicly like a strip mall in the US, execpt the shops are all connected to eachother and wrap around to make a square compund with a courtyard (for folks like bill, they'll reckonise it as the standard style for the region).
They had a 'bar' that had an assortment of turkish coffes teas and what not (I love Chai tea Now ), a rug shop to sell turkish rugs, a phone center were you could call home (IF you paid THEM for THEIR phonecards :p), a shop that has an assortment of junk/snack food and softdrinks + smokes (cigartes are a hi use item over there) and pirated DvDs (thats the place I bought my season 1-7 boxset of SG1). Anothe shop at the 'mall' would custom tailor suits and dresses, I never rememberd to go get one, shame, god quality, plus a shop that sold jewrley civie clothes** and Trinkets*. They also had a barber shop, the most fancy one on post, but the empoyee turnover rate for the turk barbers was too great, so one day youd get a great haircut, next youd get a crappy one as the barbers that knew a military haircut leave.

All in all, turkish mall was my favorite downtime place, Id chat with the turks, enjoy the Chai and maybe a hooka.

Tailor- Never knew the name for the place, but it was were you'd take your uniform to have new patches sewn on it, get it pressed and starched if youre stupid, they also had bootleg DvDs and higher end Trinkets*, such as iPod speakers (bootleg) and otehr stuff like that.

Red Leg shop - This shop was ran by Iraqi's Good place, Trinkets* wernt quite as high end as the Tailor, but better selection, bootleg DvDs, the Trinkets* included some computer stuff like new keyboards and what not.
The shop also had adjacent to it a barber shop, these guys were free, you just tipped them. These were Iraqi barbers and they did the haircuts for the Iraqi police and army that were on our base or doing training on it. It was a good place to go for a haircut. The gys wernt fancy, but they knew their trade.

Funny story was my first haircut whilst down there, guy from the unit I was replacing took me there.
They did a great job, used straight razors when doing our hair (an army high n tight basicly means got some hair on top, it fades in an even manner, then is close cropped, many of us prefer to have that just shaved off) and as they were finishing up, he mentioned to me that the shop was iraqi ran.

Keep in mind, when he mentioned this, an iraqi had a straight razor to my throat (I needed a shave :p ) .

Needles to say, he wound up getting his nice clean haircutt coverd in sand.

The Redleg also had a rug shop and a tailor.


Deja Vu - One of the newer ones there when I left, mainly a LOT of crappy Trinkets* and bootleg DvDs. Some people liked it, but I didnt.

The place by the PX- Never learnd its name, it was mainly bootleg DvDs and crappy Trinkets*.

* Lighters, crappy knives, crappy flashlights, crappy binocs, you name it.
**Thinks like 'Hard Rock Cafe, Iraq' Tshirts

[pianomutt20000]

Wii is too complicated to pirate. dvd's are easy. heck, they have a pirate dvd store ON base here lol.


(Don't tell the motion picture guys)

It's legal in Iraq.

ALso legal to bring them back, I had a footlocker full of em, as long as you dont have mroe than two of the same one if I remember right.

The base I was at when I was downrange had ...... something like 8 differnt shops selling pirated DvDs by the time I left at least one and possibly a second shop was modding Xbox's so they could play pirated games and even be connected to a computer so instead of using live you'd just DL whatever mods you wanted and plug into the xbox.


Lets see, on my base we had ..........

Turkish Resturant- A turkish run resturant, various turk foods, and later on in my deployment they started making pizza (and delivering it too), they also had internet for soldiers and civie contractors.

7-11 - another store, turkish ran. pirated movies, smokes, Internet, Phones to call home, snack foods, cokes juices, Trinkets*, you name it. Way on the far side of the post from anyone else, but a good place.

Notable for being in an old Iraqi bunker.

Turkish Mall - Basicluy the best shop on the FOB. The building is basicly like a strip mall in the US, execpt the shops are all connected to eachother and wrap around to make a square compund with a courtyard (for folks like bill, they'll reckonise it as the standard style for the region).
They had a 'bar' that had an assortment of turkish coffes teas and what not (I love Chai tea Now ), a rug shop to sell turkish rugs, a phone center were you could call home (IF you paid THEM for THEIR phonecards :p), a shop that has an assortment of junk/snack food and softdrinks + smokes (cigartes are a hi use item over there) and pirated DvDs (thats the place I bought my season 1-7 boxset of SG1). Anothe shop at the 'mall' would custom tailor suits and dresses, I never rememberd to go get one, shame, god quality, plus a shop that sold jewrley civie clothes** and Trinkets*. They also had a barber shop, the most fancy one on post, but the empoyee turnover rate for the turk barbers was too great, so one day youd get a great haircut, next youd get a crappy one as the barbers that knew a military haircut leave.

All in all, turkish mall was my favorite downtime place, Id chat with the turks, enjoy the Chai and maybe a hooka.

Tailor- Never knew the name for the place, but it was were you'd take your uniform to have new patches sewn on it, get it pressed and starched if youre stupid, they also had bootleg DvDs and higher end Trinkets*, such as iPod speakers (bootleg) and otehr stuff like that.

Red Leg shop - This shop was ran by Iraqi's Good place, Trinkets* wernt quite as high end as the Tailor, but better selection, bootleg DvDs, the Trinkets* included some computer stuff like new keyboards and what not.
The shop also had adjacent to it a barber shop, these guys were free, you just tipped them. These were Iraqi barbers and they did the haircuts for the Iraqi police and army that were on our base or doing training on it. It was a good place to go for a haircut. The gys wernt fancy, but they knew their trade.

Funny story was my first haircut whilst down there, guy from the unit I was replacing took me there.
They did a great job, used straight razors when doing our hair (an army high n tight basicly means got some hair on top, it fades in an even manner, then is close cropped, many of us prefer to have that just shaved off) and as they were finishing up, he mentioned to me that the shop was iraqi ran.

Keep in mind, when he mentioned this, an iraqi had a straight razor to my throat (I needed a shave :p ) .

Needles to say, he wound up getting his nice clean haircutt coverd in sand.

The Redleg also had a rug shop and a tailor.


Deja Vu - One of the newer ones there when I left, mainly a LOT of crappy Trinkets* and bootleg DvDs. Some people liked it, but I didnt.

The place by the PX- Never learnd its name, it was mainly bootleg DvDs and crappy Trinkets*.

* Lighters, crappy knives, crappy flashlights, crappy binocs, you name it.
**Thinks like 'Hard Rock Cafe, Iraq' Tshirts

You must have been on a major base....i'm on a small one near Syria. It has a closet PX and 1 store that is run by the iraqi Interpritors.


It's in their home with dvd's on their beds. but it works.


Bill


BTW i'm here until Sep, so it's back in the game, not back in the USA

[[SGC_ReplicÅtors]]

man, bootleg everything....can u like get bootleg alcohol from America? or europe or from any other country

[DarkDayZ]

bill!!!!!

hey buddy, i never had a chance to say goodbye wen u left, was outta town , but ur coming back so its all good i guess

nice to see u alive and kicking. come back soon the noobs require the big red button treatment

[UBERN00B!]

And we are thinking you guys were doing it tough. Do you get butlers to bring your ammo on silver platters too?

[uubi ami]

*waves spaztically*...ello luvs!!!!