Told my nephew before he went to basic in San Diego to not so much consentrate on the tone and delivery options the DI’s take on the recruits...But you’d damn well better hear what they say when they are chewing out someone else for an “issue”...
The volumn, tone and colorful metaphors, is a time saving device, that allows those who were not caught screwing up to get their act together for their’s and the platoons benefit...
This latest Ermey-ism is delievered with the same theory...We had better listen to what is being said and not allow the tone or other adult inflections cloud the true message...
I know a lot of us have probably met the guy face to face, and I can tell ya I was impressed, he didn’t even take offense to the branch of service I chose to serve this country into account...I’d go to war with him anytime, anyplace...
I bet the NRA Board of Directors meetings are a real hoot to attend if he’s around...
An all around good guy in my book...And we need to listen to what he says...
And if Geico drops him, so much the better, they need him worse than he needs them...
Well said.
And it is consistent with the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics which states, "if the heat is on someone else, it is not on you".
(Although the Law is often breached with three of them prowling around.)