Separating the wheat from the chaff

[Jessie]

I watch several gun related shows on TV. Some are informative, some are mis-informative.
I recently watched one about the "Sheriff of a certain middle eastern city".
He's had some informative segments before. Most recently he talked about night vision devices. He claims to have 32,000 hours of night vision combat under his belt.
I'm calling BS on this one since that's over three and a half years of continuous, non- stop night combat.
Really? If you break that down into a 12 hour period of night time, that's 7+years of night combat EVERY night!
He may very well be very combat experienced, but that really stretches the imagination.
Sorry if I'm wrong.

 

[30-30remchester]

Though I do not watch the show and do not know the man, you make a valid point. I have heard so many people make such statement that it irritates me. I just heard a lady complaining about the countless years she has shoveled snow. I live a the 9000' level and she at 5000'. I have 3 decks and a long sidewalk. Last year I had a total of 2 hours and 34 minutes of shoveling. I have lived here 23 years. That is @58 hours in 23 years. An average of 13 minutes a month. And she has far less snow than I do. This is just one example of people talking before thinking. My advise to everyone that will listen is "put a clock on it", in other words time and record. This is quite enlightening and disheartening at the same time. It is very insulting to the people who have been there and done that, to have someone claim the same with but one or two experiences.

 

[Jessie]

I think he for sure has plenty of combat experience but that 32,000 hour claim just struck me as ....whaaaa?

 

[pharmer]

He claims to have 32,000 hours of night vision combat under his belt.

Perhaps he was speaking of his department as a whole. Joe

 

[Jessie]

Perhaps he was speaking of his department as a whole. Joe

No, he distinctly said HE did.
I backed up and listened to it a couple of times to be sure.

 

[DWalt]

Maybe it just seemed to him to be 32,000 hours. Do middle eastern cities (I assume that means somewhere like Baghdad, Tehran, etc.) have Sheriffs?

 

[shouldazagged]

Yeah, it's irritating. I've seen over 150,000 examples of this kind of thing. Even more than that in 2015.

 

[Doug627]

Maybe he is including sleep time. It is certainly dark then.

 

[Jessie]

Maybe I shouldn't diss him for this. It could just be a mathematical error.
According to him, he has been there and done that, and for that, I thank him.

 

[Jessie]

Maybe it just seemed to him to be 32,000 hours. Do middle eastern cities (I assume that means somewhere like Baghdad, Tehran, etc.) have Sheriffs?

It wasn't an actual title or rank I think, but a self proclaimed title.

 

[pharmer]

Folks don't realize other folks are actually listening. Once a guy told me he sat down with pencil and paper and figured how many hours he worked in his lifetime. Dead serious face and all, 640,000 hours. I smile and remarked "thanks for paying all those taxes." I knew something just wasn't right so I plugged his figure into a calculator; it's every minute of 73 years or so. Meh, I always thought he was full of it anyways. Joe

 

[Steve912]

I think he for sure has plenty of combat experience but that 32,000 hour claim just struck me as ....whaaaa?

ESL?

I've heard from friends with cultural training that residents of ME nations are prone to speaking with graphic exaggerations when trying to make a point, in common conversation.

 

[Steve912]

Folks don't realize other folks are actually listening. Once a guy told me he sat down with pencil and paper and figured how many hours he worked in his lifetime. Dead serious face and all, 640,000 hours. I smile and remarked "thanks for paying all those taxes." I knew something just wasn't right so I plugged his figure into a calculator; it's every minute of 73 years or so. Meh, I always thought he was full of it anyways. Joe

Was he a lazy slob?

...if he meant minutes, instead of hours, that would only be 1.2 years...

 

[Big Cholla]

My first wife was such an exaggerator that if she used a number in a descriptive illustration, if the number sounded better as being large she would double the number or so, if the number sounded better as being smaller she cut it in half or so. I figured out fairly quickly that I just didn't believe her when when she used numbers. Much later I figured out to just not believe anything that came out of her mouth. .....

 

[Jessie]

ESL?

I've heard from friends with cultural training that residents of ME nations are prone to speaking with graphic exaggerations when trying to make a point, in common conversation.[/QUOTE
ME nations? What are they?
Graphic exaggerations. What is that?

 

[Steve912]

ESL?

I've heard from friends with cultural training that residents of ME nations are prone to speaking with graphic exaggerations when trying to make a point, in common conversation.[/QUOTE
ME nations? What are they?
Graphic exaggerations. What is that?

Middle Eastern, arabic specifically.

Graphic exaggeration, like "how many men can
you bring"---"I can bring you five thousand men!!" ...which might mean twelve...

And ESL--'English (as a) Second Language'.

 

[soFlaNative]

Once a guy told me he sat down with pencil and paper and figured how many hours he worked in his lifetime. Dead serious face and all, 640,000 hours.

Billable as in Lawyer?
I'm sure he believes it...

 

[Lee Barner]

I've tried to watch some of the "shefiff's" shows but called BS on every one. I don't have as many "combat" hours as he obviously does but I know BS when I see it or smell it. lee

 

[Scott in NCal]

If I told you once I told you a million times, don't exagerat!

 

[Wise_A]

If it's on TV, it's bull.

If it's on YouTube, it's either bull or pretty entertaining.

If it's in a book, it might be bull, you've gotta read till the end and then read a bunch more books and figure it out.