He should be fired from the score and sent to Iraq!

He should be fired from the score and sent to Iraq!

as an aside on the subject of iraq, on the western bus yesterday this late-teens looking kid pops up on the bus in FULL us marines camoflague getup complete with the hat and the stuffed backpack. he ended up sitting down by me and i thanked him for his service and asked where he served.... the kid gives me a dirty look and says he's in ROTC, and btw there's no active combat going on right now. this has me like "ohhhhh ok. so that's like the prep school for the armed forces, right? you're going to enlist once you get out of high school, right?" --- "absolutely" ---- "ok then, so like i've always known that ROTC is like pre-military, but what's it all about.... i mean do you join it so you get a head start and thus an advantage when you join the armed forces?"

"discilpine", he says, before giving me the kind of hardass look that says "i'm pre-military so don't fuck with me." i said "well i obviously need some of that so i'd enlist, but then they'd have me run around with a garbage bag over a full sweatsuit because i'd have to put in a lot of effort to make weight" --- his look got 2x as dirty and "FUCK YOU I'M IN THE MARINES" instantly cuz i picked up on his subtle-meta-commentary about my unwarranted conversational skills.

i thanked him for his future service to our country and said i will actively wish that we don't have active combat in the next few years to warrant his imminent deployment, especially if it's here in AMERICA: THE COUNTRY because you never know what those wacky powers that be will do next. he then kind of 1/4 nodded, plugged in his earbuds, and proceeded to promptly move up to the next open seat when someone got off of the bus at the next stop. i was left thinking "boy, if this kid can't handle a half-assed conversation coming from a real place with me on the bus then the future of our country is in good hands like allstate"

also man, that whole super-marines getup hearkens the phrase "act like you've been in the endzone b4" cuz this little twat clearly wanted everyone to know or at least think I'M IN THE MARINES but really he's just a high-class wannabe.... it's like walking around in a KMFDM shit like YEAH DUDE I'M IN KMFDM..... well what do you play for them? --- i'm a roadie!

That probably didn't happen.
You couldn't interest him in a freestyle rap about the horror of the military industrial complex?