Hoorah, you're alive! Hope all is okay, kiddies are well and you've not lost it and killed Chad ;) Have that copy of the TTC, wot is your addy?
Totally agree with you in regards to police, but I have to disagree with you on the military - a lot of people do this, confusing the reasons people have for joining the police with the reasons people have for joining the army. I was in the CF, absolutely loved running around with a rifle (no piddly handguns for me, no hahaha!), but as I always say - if I'd wanted to help people, I would have been a fucking police officer, not a solider. Police officers are the idealists, soldiers the pragmatists (some might say pessimists).
perhaps I formed this opinion, omitting the Canadian Forces from the criteria. My best friend is in the reserves, and he loves it. He does not fit the stereotypical "drone" persona...... My opinion is more based on the organizations as a whole, encouraging people to be pawns to be used at the dispoal of some nameless, facesless pencil pushing twit with an agenda. That, and the people who fall for the propaganda, and accept it as the only logical path for their lives
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What you are describing is the exact opposite of the CF! I suppose, as a military tends to be a microcosm of the society of a whole, it's slightly... well, hippy-ish. Very relaxed, far more chilled than where I'm working now. And I was proud to be a part of the CF, it has done good things in the world - I don't think anyone would argue against peacekeeping duties.
What you are describing is also my main argument (well, next to I _really_ don't like 1 man having so much power) against Canada becoming a Republic. US soldiers I have met are _exactly_ like that - they end up with this strange, blind adoration for the Republic (sounds like bl**dy Starship Troopers) and the man leading them. They also have a ridiculous number of ranks (Canada has 5, takes you forever to move up them!) and are constantly being promoted.
Now I need gin. Did you know the platoon that the US National Guard pilots dropped a bomb was in my regiment? F*wits, as the legendary Bridget would say.
Totally agree with you in regards to police, but I have to disagree with you on the military - a lot of people do this, confusing the reasons people have for joining the police with the reasons people have for joining the army. I was in the CF, absolutely loved running around with a rifle (no piddly handguns for me, no hahaha!), but as I always say - if I'd wanted to help people, I would have been a fucking police officer, not a solider. Police officers are the idealists, soldiers the pragmatists (some might say pessimists).
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What you are describing is the exact opposite of the CF! I suppose, as a military tends to be a microcosm of the society of a whole, it's slightly... well, hippy-ish. Very relaxed, far more chilled than where I'm working now. And I was proud to be a part of the CF, it has done good things in the world - I don't think anyone would argue against peacekeeping duties.
What you are describing is also my main argument (well, next to I _really_ don't like 1 man having so much power) against Canada becoming a Republic. US soldiers I have met are _exactly_ like that - they end up with this strange, blind adoration for the Republic (sounds like bl**dy Starship Troopers) and the man leading them. They also have a ridiculous number of ranks (Canada has 5, takes you forever to move up them!) and are constantly being promoted.
Now I need gin. Did you know the platoon that the US National Guard pilots dropped a bomb was in my regiment? F*wits, as the legendary Bridget would say.
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yup, I'm a space cadet
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