WTF is FUBAR?

DainBramaged

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Fvcked Up Beyond All Recognition

Associated words:

SNAFU - Situation Normal, All Fvcked Up

One other one that I can't remember.

Came from Vietnam.
 

The Pentium Guy

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Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Fvcked Up Beyond All Recognition

Associated words:

SNAFU - Situation Normal, All Fvcked Up

One other one that I can't remember.

Came from Vietnam.
gotcha.

how the hell can a situation be normal but all f'd up?
 

DainBramaged

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Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Fvcked Up Beyond All Recognition

Associated words:

SNAFU - Situation Normal, All Fvcked Up

One other one that I can't remember.

Came from Vietnam.
gotcha.

how the hell can a situation be normal but all f'd up?

I guess in Vietnam, Normal = All Fvcked Up
 

SVT Cobra

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Originally posted by: Ze Mad Doktor
because the f'd up situation is normal

Originally posted by: Ze Mad Doktor
because the f'd up situation is normal


there is also T.A.R.F.U

Things are really F***** up.....the rouge warrior by Rich.ard Marchi.nko gave me some insight to this...he was a former seal and the founder of team 6...he sounds like a really great guy



EDIT: why is Rich.ar.d Marc.hi.nko a censored word???
 

SirBrass

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Originally posted by: DainBramaged

One other one that I can't remember.

Came from Vietnam.

Probably a Charlie Foxtrot (that's how it's said, as in the letters C & F): Cluster Fvck.
 

SVT Cobra

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Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: Son of a N00b
EDIT: why is Rich.ar.d Marc.hi.nko a censored word???

ch.ink probably is.


oic...i didnt think it mattered though...but i guess thats what the filter picks up..just not periods
 

dugweb

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Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Came from Vietnam.

it was in the movie "saving private ryan" which is wwII, i dont know how accurate that is but thats how i know the word
 

dugweb

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Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO
Originally posted by: dugweb
Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Came from Vietnam.

it was in the movie "saving private ryan" which is wwII, i dont know how accurate that is but thats how i know the word

HENCE:

Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO
its German

right thats what im saying... i dont think it came from vietnam like the person i quoted... but thanks though
 

SirBrass

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the only wwII cussing acronyms I'm aware of (and I knew these before ever seeing Saving Private Ryan) are SNAFU and FUBAR. Funny thing is that in my creative writing class that I took in the Fall, more than half of my class (most of these were college seniors. I was one of the few college juniors) didn't know what FUBAR meant >.>

Charlie Foxtrot is more modern, and that could've originated in Vietnam....but I have NO knowledge of whether that is true or not.
 
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Cut and paste;) (u changed to v)


FUBAR:

Failed UniBus Address Register - in a VAX, from Digital Equipment
Corporation Engineering.

Fvcked Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair - From US Military in
World War II. Sometimes sanitized to "Fouled Up ...".

FUBARD - Past tense of FUBAR.
 

Gibsons

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YGBSM comes from Vietnam I think.

Story goes:

The first "wild weasel" anti-SAM units were informed what tactics they would be employing against enemy SAM units. The tactics were on the b@llsy side. One pilots immediate reaction was "you gotta be sh!tting me."

 

KLin

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Originally posted by: Son of a N00b
Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: Son of a N00b
EDIT: why is Rich.ar.d Marc.hi.nko a censored word???

ch.ink probably is.


oic...i didnt think it mattered though...but i guess thats what the filter picks up..just not periods

It's actually spelled Richard Marcinko.