# Warning to Bansksiaman \[changed to modnote\] **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 26, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-to-bansksiaman-changed-to-modnote/928988 "2020-12-26T21:45:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-to-bansksiaman-changed-to-modnote/928988/21 "2020-12-27T01:26:48Z")
Thank you. Good decision. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-to-bansksiaman-changed-to-modnote/928988/22 "2020-12-27T02:57:51Z")
Huh. I initially read it as an insult, too. I think a bit of a wording change would make it clearer (at least to me). Instead of asking the whole thing as a rhetorical question, you could state it outright: > [@](#): > > It sounds like you actually took Intelligence 101, right? When you say 'Army," you actually mean the ones with uniforms and guns and not the KISS army [not that there’s anything wrong with that]. You use the word ‘former’ in the sense of having been something and now note, and not in a special tense, known only to you, to mean never quite got started. > > I only ask because Syndey Powell clearly didn’t and look where she’s ended up – being considered for a job in the dying days of the Trump presidency. I’d hate to have that happen to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-to-bansksiaman-changed-to-modnote/928988.md?page=1)