Riceball
Master Member
I don't think you were paying attention. Did she believe it personally? I doubt it. Was it a ruse to draw the guy out and away from the rest so they could capture him and get the information the barber wanted? Yes.
And regarding being offended.
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so ****ing what."
[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
That's because it is genuinely offensive. As prior military, with friends who are prior military, and probably people I know who are still in I'm sick and tired of the portrayal of the military as a bunch of mindless drones and a bunch of a-holes. Newsflash, people in the military are people too, we don't get brainwashed and indoctrinated to follow every stupid order given to us, to the letter, and act like jerks (or worse) when interacting with civilians, esp. with American civilians. This would be even more so with Guardsmen who are basically like Reservists who, most of the time, only don the uniform once a month and for 2 weeks during the summer; they're not going to be acting the way they do on the show. They'd be much more sympathetic because these could be some of their friends, relatives, or neighbors. They're not from some other part of the US and stationed in CA or LA, they'd be from CA and most likely LA on top of it so why would they be so hostile like they're in a foreign country with insurgents at every turn?