[QUOTE=mnemosyne]
WTF? Maybe it’s just me, but basically threatening* a high school student to force them to listen to you talk about joining the Marines is kind of screwed up, isn’t it? The kid might have been lying, he may not be, but either way, is it not legitimate to say “no thank you, I don’t want to hear this information?” If people can do so with every other telemarketer, and there are laws to avoid their harrassment, why are the Marines (or other military group) exempt?
*Ok, “threatening” might be a strong word, but I really don’t think you or anyone else should get away with treating people like that, quota or no quota.
Sorry for the hijack. I just don’t get it.
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The kid didn’t say it. His mom did.
My father didn’t get to do his military service because his mother arranged, through her social network, to have him declared flatfooted. His feet were fine, he wanted to serve and it was a sticking point with him until the day he died.
It’s a job offer. Maybe the kid would like to either hear it or say “I’ve already got the information and I’m not interested, thanks” by himself.
[QUOTE=shizaru]
It amazes me that you really don’t understand anything I said. But hey if you’re convinced that we’re all a bunch of cavemen I’m not going to try to tell you otherwise.
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[QUOTE=Excalibre]
I’m only going by what you’ve said.
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Hey, you know, fair enough. This isn’t GD, we don’t agree on things and thats it. I don’t appreciate being compared to a cave man, but its not like it hurts my feelings either.
[QUOTE=Excalibre]
I’m only going by what you’ve said.
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Hey, you know, fair enough. This isn’t GD, we don’t agree on things and thats it. I don’t appreciate being compared to a cave man, but its not like it hurts my feelings either.
[QUOTE=Excalibre]
After all, the military is racially desegregated, and it certainly couldn’t have been universally popular to do so. When was that done? I’m guessing the Vietnam era.
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Actually Truman did it, and it was extremely unpopular, and resisted by pretty much the whole General Staff. Supposedly, one general came to him and asked what he should say to a soldier who came to him and complained about having to bunk next to a negro. Truman’s replay was either, “‘Get the hell out of my office,’” or “Get the hell out of my office.”
[QUOTE=shizaru]
Hey, you know, fair enough. This isn’t GD, we don’t agree on things and thats it. I don’t appreciate being compared to a cave man, but its not like it hurts my feelings either.
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I didn’t say you did, personally. In fairness the “shizaru chew whatever” remark that was made by boytyperanma was kind of funny, and I actually brought it up. But if I seem like a cave man to him (or her) oh well.
[QUOTE=shizaru]
Hey, you know, fair enough. This isn’t GD, we don’t agree on things and thats it. I don’t appreciate being compared to a cave man, but its not like it hurts my feelings either.
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If you don’t like having yourself compared to a caveman then you should probably, you know, stop comparing yourself to a caveman.
[QUOTE=Otto]
If you don’t like having yourself compared to a caveman then you should probably, you know, stop comparing yourself to a caveman.
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And maybe explain how exactly Excalibre misunderstood you, because he seems spot on to me.
My father didn’t get to do his military service because his mother arranged, through her social network, to have him declared flatfooted. His feet were fine, he wanted to serve and it was a sticking point with him until the day he died.
It’s a job offer. Maybe the kid would like to either hear it or say “I’ve already got the information and I’m not interested, thanks” by himself.
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As reported by numerous people in this thread, saying no thanks yourself doesn’t do any good. They still call, over and over and over.
Not to mention that in that original story, it was the mothers house and presumably her phone. If she says not to call her possibly minor child or her home again, that request should be honored.
Oh yeah I know he didn’t really have semen in his his anus, or even an anus for that matter. He just always seemed a little light on his feet to me, you know what I mean?