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...when
...your wife sitting next to you in the car and reading a map - when she says turn left, you answer with "Yawohl Herr Kaleun, zwei sieben nul Grad tragend" :up:
LOL, thats a good one. Did this really happen to you? :D
Carcassonne
08-08-05, 02:34 PM
The worst is when the local WWII historical flight guys fire up their vintage planes and fly within eye sight of the house....they're so close you can actually read the numbers.
I expect to hear a watch officer say "aircraft spotted".
For a while I would get a "knee-jerk" turn of the head.
BTW, I'm south denver metro area for those who are wondering.
LOL, thats a good one. Did this really happen to you? :D
erm ....yus
Also when i turn off the engine of the car - I yell out "Alle machinen schtop!" :rotfl:
Teufelschiff
08-18-05, 10:01 AM
Oh man, I hear you.
I stepped out of the shower this morning and the steam exhaust ceiling fan cover was slightly loose and running with a fast "kachung kachung kachung kachung" sound.
I thought to myself, "...hmm that sounds like my VIIB surfaced at ahead flank speed."
Then again quickly to myself, "...wow, oh my god."
Takeda Shingen
08-18-05, 10:27 AM
Or you wake up yelling "flugzeug beschmutzt!"
It's like the brothel scene in Das Boot, when the phone rings at the bar, and Thomsen shouts "Alarm!"
Edit: I live within the Willow Grove NAS air circle (which may become meaningless very soon). After SH3, hearing the planes overhead does make me a little jittery.
Zie Chuckinator
08-18-05, 11:03 AM
I live an hour away from Groton CT, naval base.
oh and in the town i live in, there is a small airport about a dozan or so km from my house. sometimes planes come in realy low and i end up shouting "ALARM!!!!"
and when i play soccer, before i kick the ball, i sometimes yell "For eins, LOS!" and every1 looks at me :rotfl:
SmokinTep
08-18-05, 11:14 AM
I work on the Naval Base in Norfolk Va. and watch the merchant ships come and go in the channel. Always thinking AoB and what that ship would look like with a couple of fish in her side.
Type941
08-18-05, 12:35 PM
I work on the Naval Base in Norfolk Va. and .... Always thinking ....what that ship would look like with a couple of fish in her side.
:o :o :o You evil evil man.
akula_krieg
08-19-05, 01:29 AM
When you're sitting in class, bored all to hell...
And you doodle a convoy in the middle of your paper, select various positions for your u-boat, and start plotting your attack.
Caught myself doin' it in commercial tax the other day... :doh:
-akula-
While playing SH3 i hear a plane and it takes a while to figure out if its in the game or a real one .
When I`m making coffee, there`s the meter that shows how much water you`ve put in. If I`m alone I usually "report it to Kaleun". It`s just like the water level meter in U-boot, the thing that has the other thing inside it that moves along with the water. Man, I`m not good at explaining things, am I? It`s the "tube" in the middle of the guys who operate the diving planes.
I know, what you mean, that thing, thats showing the Periscope height and water around it. I dont recall, how its called, but I know what you mean.
Hi,
I think the gauge youy are talking about is call a "Papenburg" tube/gauge
Kaleun
Mouseketeer
08-19-05, 08:25 AM
I live near Okecie airport and jetplanes doesn't fit to SH3 :D but I'm singing or whistling "It's a long way to Tipperary" all the time. I think that soon I will need to find another job - everybody is staring at me :lol:
I know, what you mean, that thing, thats showing the Periscope height and water around it. I dont recall, how its called, but I know what you mean.
Yep, that`s it.
Mouseketeer
08-19-05, 08:39 AM
I know, what you mean, that thing, thats showing the Periscope height and water around it. I dont recall, how its called, but I know what you mean.
Yep, that`s it.
It's called papenberg I think :hmm:
I live near Okecie airport and jetplanes doesn't fit to SH3 :D but I'm singing or whistling "It's a long way to Tipperary" all the time. I think that soon I will need to find another job - everybody is staring at me :lol:
Cool! Ja tez! Mieszkam za granice w tej chwili i moja mama ma dom w Srodmiejscie. Jestem dumny Polak :rock: 1916 - (L)egia :cool:
Last night, the "alles maschinen stop" got me. I had to turn off the computer and run downstairs to watch family guy and futurama, so I jumped over my dog (who loves getting between my feet) and shouted the command as I turned off the speakers and monitor to the PC ..... running silent I guess :rotfl:
Nopileo
08-19-05, 09:45 AM
:rotfl:
When you dive into the pool you shout crashdive!
...when...
(I find it funny but i'm sure my housemate doesn't!!) - any time anything unexpected happens, like the postman dropping letters thru the letterbox or the Electricity meter reading guy knocks on the door i run up and down the Hallway screaming "ALARM" followed by "deeper, deeper - Chief, she must be able to take this depth!!!"
DerKaleun
08-19-05, 09:54 PM
When flying from Krautville do Great Britain, I always look out of the cockpit windows on the english channel and bore my captain with stories of sinkings which have taken place, here, here, here and here :rotfl:
The REFSO aera nav intersection is exacly where I once got my butt DC´d pretty badly... every time i fly over it i think of my poor U-52 getting punded by dozens of cans.
Some time during take off, I replace the callout "Positive Climb" with "Boot steigt Herr Kaleun!" :D
I shouldn´t play that much I guess... :hmm:
...but I can´t help myself. This game kicks ass, and today again 83K of Tonnage went home on 100% realism :rock:
PS: Co tu do diabla tyle polaków siedzi ? Jak by matka wjiedziala ze plywacie na szkopskich U-bootach :rotfl:
gdogghenrikson
08-19-05, 09:59 PM
You know you have playing sh3 too much when You logon to subsim 4-5 times a day to go to sh3 forums
oh wait, im guilty as charged on this one
:lurk:
Calculon
08-19-05, 10:22 PM
You know when you're playing too much SH3 when:
- the lights go out and you use a flashlight with a red filter to check the breaker panel
- one of your favorite tunes is the Kriegsmarine march
:D
Also, you might have been playing alittle too long when you start trying to take command of the U-boat in Medal of Honor MP :) and crying after watching it blown sky high ...
Silent Hunter III *PL* Dostalem za darmo z rodzicow :rock: i Uboot to ciekawa rzecz :know:
Also, you might have been playing alittle too long when you start trying to take command of the U-boat in Medal of Honor MP :) and crying after watching it blown sky high ...:know: lol are you guilty?
PukingDog
08-19-05, 11:06 PM
You know you need a SHIII fix, when you have been out to sea, and see this floating around your ship.
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/7066/photoex36cm.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
From a recent PhotoEx with the USS Kitty Hawk and USS Boxer. Homer Simpson voice on/: Mmmmmm, tonnage / Voice off
Ishmael
08-19-05, 11:57 PM
You know you're playing to many subsims when you find out that the guy who towed your car home from Burbank to Pasadena served aboard the Foxtrot diesel boat you tracked all over the Mediterranean 20 years before.
A true story, I gave him my copy of Blind Man's Bluff & he gave me his Soviet Navy Enlisted Man's pin.
Pharaoh49
08-20-05, 08:12 AM
When you're sitting on the can and hear that splash, "Wasserbomb" comes to your mind.
Iknow, I know, VERY crude! At least I didn't call it out!
I'll bet none of you will be able to use the john now without thinking of that. ;)
Sorry
.... When you look at the sky right above you and wonder when the Defs fixed the 'Star Gate' texture glitch. :cool:
Calculon
08-20-05, 09:33 AM
Forgot one...
When you need to play the MenuMaster_Loop.mp3 (the music from the main menu) in the background the entire day you're at the office. :rock:
Also, you might have been playing alittle too long when you start trying to take command of the U-boat in Medal of Honor MP :) and crying after watching it blown sky high ...:know: lol are you guilty?
Guilty as charged :D
The worst is when the local WWII historical flight guys fire up their vintage planes and fly within eye sight of the house....they're so close you can actually read the numbers.
I expect to hear a watch officer say "aircraft spotted".
For a while I would get a "knee-jerk" turn of the head.
BTW, I'm south denver metro area for those who are wondering.
I have a similar problem with Sub Command and real life Helos :oops:
Every time I hear a helicopter I can't rest until I've spotted where it is, and I have the same 'knee-jerk' turn of the head reflex too.
Scary :-?
Der Schatten
08-21-05, 10:17 AM
Hmmmm........SH3 flashbacks when:
When I'm in an underground parking garage and see the exposed pipes, electrical conduits and the little wire cages they put around light bulbs.
When I'm fishing on a foggy morning and picture looking up at the suddenly appearing bow off a DD coming out of the mist.
When we do our monthly fire alarm at work and the lights flash and the alarms go off.
When ever I see/hear seagulls (luckily there arent many nurses around here that stand on the docks and throw flowers into the water!)
ANY noise that even REMOTELY sounds like "Ping"! :huh:
Kpt. Lehmann
08-21-05, 11:58 AM
:rotfl: c0sm1c :rotfl:
I thought I was the only one who did that!
I am 1/2 of an ambulance crew here at home and I would say "ALLE MASCHINEN STOPP!" whenever we would come to a stop light/ stop sign.
My partner/ other ambulance crewman/ has even begun to copy me... and he doesn't even play SH3.
You know you've been playing too much SH III (happened to me) when you start sweating when you hear a ping and don't stop untill you've identified the source :P
Twitchy
10-15-05, 09:55 PM
I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to revive this thread.
You know you play too much SH3 when you are in a particularly boring class and you reach for the Time Compression button.
You know you play too much SH3 when, instead of saying "'sup Rich" to your friend you say "sub Rich"
asurmen
10-15-05, 10:20 PM
My little addiction:
When you buy read light bulbs for your room then when it gets night you shout at a friend "Rig for Red"
FERdeBOER
10-16-05, 07:12 AM
Every time I hear a helicopter I can't rest until I've spotted where it is, and I have the same 'knee-jerk' turn of the head reflex too.
Scary :-?
Yes! That happens to me!
I live in Cadiz, near Rota Naval Base, and the helo traffic is heavy (sometimes also Orions). When I find the helo, the next thing I do is identify it. A Seaking! dive the ship! ups, I'm driving my car... dive the car! :rotfl:
Other thing that tells you are playing too much is have ASDIC sound in your mobile phone for incomming messages.
And, of course, if you have a red light on your desk :D
Other thing that tells you are playing too much is have ASDIC sound in your mobile phone for incomming messages.
I have ASDIC sound on my phone for incoming messages... I´m thinking of changing it to the scene from Das Boot, when the phone rings and Thompsen yells ALAAAARM!!!! Or maybe I put it to play when some calls me... :hmm:
FERdeBOER
10-16-05, 10:45 AM
I have ASDIC sound for my messages... and generalquarters alarm (destroyer command) for... yes, the alarm.
Twitchy
10-16-05, 11:25 AM
You know you play too much SH3 when you rope your roomate into playing your TC1 mission while you go to classes :smug:
...when you instanly recognise ships in WW2 movies.
That happend to me when seeing 'The Thin Red Line' intro scenes: 'Holy crap, that is a Liberty cargo!' :|\
The Avon Lady
10-16-05, 12:03 PM
.... when my husband receieved a free detailed technical disertation while we first watched Das Boot together a month or so ago.
U-552Erich-Topp
10-16-05, 04:00 PM
:) You knowwhen you're playing too much SH3 when she comes in and says to me " Aren't you going to do anything else today". Schlecht, these missions are soooo addictive. Just can't stay away from this game. Speaking of which, I must get on another mission now. Good Hunting all, Erich Topp U-552
FERdeBOER
10-16-05, 08:47 PM
You know you play too much SHIII when you go to the kitchen for a sandwich, look at the windows and surprise because is as sunny day. :o
"But is raining since three days!", ups, not, that was in the north Atlantic :yep:
wetwarev7
10-17-05, 11:02 AM
You know when you're playing too much SH3 when:
You are submerged and running the hydrophone around to 270 where that destroyer you just nailed in the props SHOULD be, only when you hit 270, a bird starts chirping right outside your window(on your left no less) and you start thinking "Wow! I really screwed up that destroyers' props!"
When (like me) :
- You visit all libraries in Paris in search for a new U-Boot book.
- You spend hours seraching these books for a proof that the germans DID have a way to know when they had changed from a thermal layer to another.
- You have the 'Das Boot' music has your mobile phone rining tone.
- You shorten phone calls from your friends because 'You're tracking this @#!% convoy for 2 hours now and you were just about to start your attack run.
- You call back your friends the next day to entertain them with memories from this attack.
- You cry with joy when Rub 1.44 and SH3 Commander finally allow you to start a Career from your home town of Bordeaux.
illuminatus
10-17-05, 01:06 PM
You know you're playing to many subsims when you find out that the guy who towed your car home from Burbank to Pasadena served aboard the Foxtrot diesel boat you tracked all over the Mediterranean 20 years before.
A true story, I gave him my copy of Blind Man's Bluff & he gave me his Soviet Navy Enlisted Man's pin.
Small world! That's funny and sweet at the same time.
A storm came in today and it's raining cats and dogs (doesn't happen much here in Los Angeles) while I was driving to work, and the first thought that came to mind was "I guess I won't be manning the deck guns."
vwc_maxwellsmart
08-31-07, 10:03 AM
When you get up early on weekend and say to your wife: "don't worry darling i'll bring your breakfast to bed"...ten minutes later you jump from your seat just before launching a fish towards a Destroyer in attack run, suddenly aware of the burning toast in the oven.....
If your wife didn't smell the smoke you can try to finish your attack run later at lunch...."Darling don't worry today i'll cook for you.....;) "
Cheers
Mush Martin
08-31-07, 10:23 AM
When you get up early on weekend and say to your wife: "don't worry darling i'll bring your breakfast to bed"...ten minutes later you jump from your seat just before launching a fish towards a Destroyer in attack run, suddenly aware of the burning toast in the oven.....
If your wife didn't smell the smoke you can try to finish your attack run later at lunch...."Darling don't worry today i'll cook for you.....;) "
Cheers
Been there done that.:rotfl:
Ubåtskapten
08-31-07, 12:38 PM
You know that you're playing to much SH3 (as in my case);
– when you have changed the lamp at the desk err... die zentrale, to a red one.
– when you have a kriegsmarine map on the wall.
– when you almost shout out ALLAAARRM!! when you hear/sees a prop aircraft.
– when you paddling canoe with your friends and find yourself correcting the course with "Volle fahrt voraus, ruder hart backbord!".:rotfl:
Mikey_Wolf
08-31-07, 12:54 PM
You know you have played too much SH3 when:
if you are unfortunate enough to have to live with your parents. You are creeping up to bed at some unearthly hour you find yourself muttering "Shleifahlt" (or however you spell it) under your breath for fear of waking them and receiving a telling off the next morning.
Kpt. Lehmann
08-31-07, 01:44 PM
... or when "FLUGZUG GESISCHTET!!!" followed by "ALLLAAARRRMMM!!!" actually causes your hands to shake...
... or when seeing a picture like this: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=634133&postcount=3629
...has the same effect.:ping:
Nerazzurri
11-21-07, 11:32 AM
When you receive a message on your mobile, look at the in-game clock, and think to yourself 'who the hell is texting me at 5 in the morning?!?!?' :x Although on a couple of occassions that has actually been the 'real' time! And I've only been playing the game for a week! :oops:
Kaleun Cook
11-21-07, 12:14 PM
Or you wake up yelling "flugzeug beschmutzt!"
Watch your German, Kaleun, you just said: "Plane dirtied." ;)
Correct is: "Flugzeug gesichtet!" :yep:
The Butcher
11-22-07, 06:14 AM
Your driving in traffic and think if I wasn't in this type II I would have enough torps to finnish this guy.
gordonmull
02-22-08, 11:17 AM
Sorry to resurrect this one again but I just had on of those moments.
At work and we start getting power surges....the lights flicker madly....computer screens are flashing and going off...the receptionist yells through that we've lost the switch board. The printer goes off.
All can think is "Give me proper damage reports!" and I wait for the sound of breaking glass.
f16falcon
02-22-08, 06:25 PM
When you sit in the shower with the lights out, fully clothed and unshaven!
Platapus
02-22-08, 07:30 PM
When you're sitting on the can and hear that splash, "Wasserbomb" comes to your mind.
Iknow, I know, VERY crude! At least I didn't call it out!
I'll bet none of you will be able to use the john now without thinking of that. ;)
Sorry
You are right. I actually LoLed at this (my lab is looking at me at this moment)
Well done Sir :up:
Kptlt. Siegmann
02-22-08, 07:42 PM
I was watching Das Boot earlier today on my PC and when I needed to go upstairs briefly, I tried to pause the movie with the backspace button:oops:...after a couple tries with no success I remembered, oh wait, I'm not in SH3:lol:
I have one I'm constantly being caught for.
You don't shave until you finish the current patrol you're on.
And yes, I use time compression, 128x max though :arrgh!:
AdlerGrosmann
02-23-08, 12:33 AM
Ahh! These times...when you dream you're a 15 yr old boy inside a u-boat and the commanding officer you see a ship, "torpedo los" and you never hear the explosion because you wake up..talking to yourself "Did I get him!?" :doh: I've done it a million times
When your wife locks you out of the bedroom because you would rather play that 'stupid game' than follow her...
When your grandson knows the sounds of the merchants better than you do...and he is only 8.
lambda*sqrt(u*x)
02-23-08, 06:13 AM
When I`m making coffee, there`s the meter that shows how much water you`ve put in. If I`m alone I usually "report it to Kaleun". It`s just like the water level meter in U-boot, the thing that has the other thing inside it that moves along with the water. Man, I`m not good at explaining things, am I? It`s the "tube" in the middle of the guys who operate the diving planes.
*lol* Your coffee machine has got a Papenberg indicator?
You know you're playing too much SH3 when you spend most of the time snorkeling submerged in a swimming pool (too much aircraft out there) and shouting "Wasserbomben!" at people jumping in...
... when the sight of a ship makes your eyes light up, and all you think is... wow, I wonder what's the tonnage on her!
Sailor Steve
02-23-08, 10:17 AM
When you lie to yourself about what you're doing.
"Wanna go see a movie?"
"No, I have work to do."
"Wanna go hit the bars, find some girls?"
"No, I have work to do."
"Wanna go to the game?"
"No, I have work to do."
"Have you gotten any work done today?"
"No, I have...I mean, yeah, quite a bit."
HundertzehnGustav
02-23-08, 10:31 AM
"Have you gotten any work done today?"
"No, I have...I mean, yeah, quite a bit."
i lost my job two weeks ago... and can relate to that:D :rock:
"Did you leave your curriculum at "this n that" company today?"
errrrr.... WHAT company?:oops:
i've been out today and bought myself a trigonometry set and graph paper for 10 pounds.
as i stood in the que waiting to pay i caught myself smiling, feeling very pleased and a little smug - but then i realised i had'nt a clue how to use anything i was about to buy.....
...it was at this point i handed over the money.
Jimbuna
02-23-08, 01:53 PM
When the dog starts finding you attractive because of the stench eminating from you with not having shaved or bathed for over 3 months.
Tango589
02-24-08, 08:01 AM
When my mobile gives its high-pitched metallic pinging sound to indicate I have got a new message and I spent a couple of seconds wondering what the hell has happened to my sub to make that kind of noise.
ToySoldier
02-24-08, 09:09 AM
.... if you stop playing to fetch something in the kitchen and Frau und Kinder ask :
"Who is this man?"
Happened to me after a day playing one patrol ... but Frau and kids were luckely just kidding :lol:
In diesem Sinne
Gott mit Uns
Frank B. aus K.
lambda*sqrt(u*x)
12-03-09, 09:17 AM
...when you're doing the tax refund math using the whiz wheel...
MaelstromT26
12-03-09, 02:02 PM
Exhibit A:
I'm helping to build an antenna for a Ham radio operator I'm working with when and I need a u-bolt.
I say to him "Where's a u-boat?...whoops I mean u-boot...DOH!...I mean U-bolt!!"
Exhibit B:
Something is really taking my time and i'm awful tempted to push an (imaginary) time compression button to speed it up.
Exhibit C:
A message comes in through the submarine's radio with the usual morse code, then I reach over to the morse code oscillator that's sitting on my desk and I turn the volume up...
:doh::timeout:
RoaldLarsen
12-03-09, 10:34 PM
What is this "playing too much SHIII" of which you speak?
(Just back on patrol for only the second time since July.)
Ancient Mariner
12-04-09, 02:46 AM
When you flood the laundry by accident and start yelling for damage control,flooding pumps & emergency surface.....happened today:D
Rothwell white
12-04-09, 02:46 AM
When the missus asks you to do something and you shout
"Yawohl frau Kaleun"
you can never play too much SH3
every morning i check on this forum and then uboat.net to see what happened this day "once a long time ago"
this is the only game i play
Your driving in traffic and think if I wasn't in this type II I would have enough torps to finnish this guy.
---------------
freudian slip on "finnish" - type II = Vesikko, the finnish prototype for the Type II
bloody clever!:haha:
I work on the Naval Base in Norfolk Va. and watch the merchant ships come and go in the channel. Always thinking AoB and what that ship would look like with a couple of fish in her side.
this happens all the time to me :D I am staying @ Famagusta now I can barely see the harbor every time I went to balcony for smoking I find myself calculating the AoB`s of the ships :D
...
and today at class lecturer asked me something in construction class and I answered to her "Jawohl Herr Kaleun :salute: " she stared at me for 5 or 6 sec. tried to figure out what I said and why I said that (should I yelled Jawohl frau Kaleun ?!?) :88):dead::o
Oneshot/Onekill
12-05-09, 08:40 AM
If you wake up in the middle of the night in bed with soaked sheets, and your jaw hurts like hell from clenching your teeth in your sleep, because you been dreaming about being depth charged over and over and over...:dead:
Weiss Pinguin
12-05-09, 02:56 PM
You know you play too much SHIII when you sit at your desk screaming "I want proper reports!" after your computer shows the BSoD for the 10th time :smug:
Undefined
12-13-09, 12:32 PM
Me and my classmate were walking home after school and there was airplane flying over us and i sayed. "Aircraft spotted bearing 020".
He didnt understand it :D
Oh and in my german class when teacher told me to read and translate a text i sayed "Jawohl herr kaleun". And i always talk about uboats in that class :D.
nohouan
12-15-09, 03:15 AM
When, visiting the "Espadon" (french word for Swordfish), a French built Type XXI turned into a museum, I was steering up, at the conning tower access ladder. While I was doing that, my hand was entering a zero gyro firing solution on tube I & II... When I noticed, my eyes blinked three time and I steped away slowly.
nohouan
12-15-09, 03:26 AM
Oh, got another good one : living in St-Nazaire, every first wednesday of the month, the bombing alarm gets to ring for a while, at noon. So one day, sitting in the ancient AA main Nest of the U-Bunker, I steered immediatly at the skies, up and then west north-west to spot allied bombers !
Spooky, on the moment...
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