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Gumtree: I didn’t mean to hit such a sensitive nerve. As a young Marine infantryman I served in Vietnam. Most Marines will tell you that the movie A FEW GOOD MEN was an entertaining screenplay but hardly representative of the USMC.
I can handle the truth despite what you think. I have been around the block too. Your point about neighborhoods is well taken but a block in one area is different than another.
Colonel Jessup is a pure fictional character who played the role of a myopic leader who lived in his own isolated and deranged world. Surely you can’t believe the Colonel is an appropriate lead in to your response on this issue. Interesting connection your post makes with the Colonel. I guess if I disagreed with him he’d march off to the barracks and beat up on a few recruits.
The point might be better made that we each seek our goals via different paths. It appears you assume that you are the last word on the map we follow or the directions we get. Shame on you.[/QUOTE]
Lol, no you did not “hit a nerve”. Pretty hard for someone to get me “edgy” on an internet forum. Maybe when I first started “hanging around” this forum. I was “taught” years ago when writing a response letter “sit on it” overnight before mailing. Reread the next day and edit out the four letter words.
In other words don’t open with “Jane you ignorant slut” (from an old SNL skit The Evening News with Jane Curtain and Dan Aykroyd)
My friends and I like to quote from movies. The “quotes” don’t necessarily have anything to do with the “premise” of the movie taken from. They “fit” the discussion/banter
“Interesting connection your post makes with the Colonel”
You’re reading “between the lines” where there is nothing to be “read”. My friends and I say this to each other when we are debating something. It has nothing to do with the movie. I referenced/attributed, the quote to the movie so as not to be accused of plagiarism.
It was not directed at you. I guess I hit a nerve?
Most movies fiction or not are “Hollywooded” I would like to believe the majority of people know that A Few Good Men is complete fiction. It is still a good movie. Most of “real life” stories would make a boring movie.
“The point might be better made that we each seek our goals via different paths. It appears you assume that you are the last word on the map we follow or the directions we get. Shame on you.”
I learned a long time ago not to “assume” anything. Considering the direction this thread took right from the start based on one side of the story from “the poor young girl”. Before the rest of the story come out. Which it is. I think it is safe to say a lot of people have made “assumptions”.
I merely pointed out there are other ways to look at it. Which I have done many times.
I don’t “post to boast”. I devote a bit of my very little free time to pass on what I have learned as an “insider”. There are things I can talk about and there are things I will not talk about. I am not here to be the “resident expert”. I let a lot of BS pass by. Not enough time in the day.
I will not take a position on something I know little to nothing about. I use IMO extensively. I’ve been very fortune to have been taken under the wing of some really great people over the years. If passing on what I have learned to those who are “students” of the game/industry makes me pompous. So be it. I guess that would make teachers, mentors the same. Not that I am claiming to be either.
The beauty of discussion forums verses a “one on one” is the fact we can “scroll on” and not worry about offending someone.
