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A Vietnam Situation is akin to the Vietnam War in which the U.S. walked in expecting an easy victory and wound up spending years and lives in a costly war.
In slang a Vietnam situation is any sort of job or agreement one walks into and expects to be simple to complete but one finds out it will be quite time consuming and/or expensive.
Lately this slang has been synonymous with an Iraq Situation
Man, my grandmother wanted me to go under the house and see what was rattling around under there. I said 'Sure' I mean it was just a rattle. Turns out There's like fifty hornets nests down there and her sewage line has busted. We got a plumber out here and fourteen cans of pesticide. The whole thing is a Vietnam Situation.
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(VIETNAMESE HISTORY) artificial state created by the 1954 Geneva Agreement (to end the First Indochina War). Parties to the agreement were the People's Republic of China, the USSR, and France; the Vietnamese were stuck with an agreement that perpetuated colonial rule over the majority of their population.
ROVN expected to be a clone of Republic of Korea; however, in ROK, there were a lot of nationalist leaders with a broad popular following, whereas in South Vietnam there weren't; instead, Vietnamese loyalties lay with Vietnamese nation created in May 1945 (by the Viet Minh). This had little to do with Communism, and more to do with the fact that there was nothing Vietnamese about the ROVN. It was not a republic, because there was no legitimate system of choosing the ruler, and no accountability to the people. And it wasn't Vietnamese.
Political opponents of the regime were routinely executed.
Eventually, US withdrew its support because there was an irrepressible conflict between the "realists" in the Pentagon, who understood that the approach to the war had to address widespread peonage, and the neoconservatives, who were ideological fanatics. The ROVN instantly collapsed, because it had no base of support left in the Vietnamese population.
The "Republic of Vietnam" was a comic opera creation, with no legitimacy, no law, no legitimacy; no Vietnamese loved it, its army would not fight for it, its generals mainly sought power of money, and the US military was completely deceived by the whole imposture.
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The man who men (usually named Tom) fantasise about constantly
Tom:Wish i could have a bit of that mr vietnam ;)
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The quick glance soldiers gave each other in Vietnam because they didn't know how long each of them were going to be around to get to know each other. Today, the term is applied to 'newbie' people who move to a urban neighborhood from another state or from the suburbs during gentrification. These 'newbies' stay a handful of years at most before leaving to go back where they came from or to an area which has better schools and no crime.
Our neighbors just moved in next door and I gave them the 'Vietnam stare' when they waved at me.
A renowned artist. Also his name is a very new currency unit in Vietnam
A foreigner: Is Jack in Vietnam very well-known?
Me: Yes. This is a new currency unit in our country.
A foreigner: How much is one Jack? I don't have any idea of it.
Me: 5 million dong.
when your having sex with a female doggy style, you reach around and yank on her pubic hair. When she looks up at you and screams in pain, u puke in her mouth and hightail outta there.
I was fucking my ex jane when i pulled a vietnam shuffle on her.
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Phrase used to describe extremely hot and humid weather, such as the jungles of Vietnam, where it is 100F and 100% rH (relative humidity). These conditions present an intolerable combination, where the body is unable to cool off by evaporation of sweat because of 100% humidity. This can result in heat stroke and possibly death.
This summer's fixing to be one long Vietnam Combo...
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