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    Yami is cool^_^ One of the things it seems is that both the military and academia are self insulated communitities. I was just curious, what are stereotypes of academics that military folks might have? I welcome any opinions, as I'm curious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yamiyugikun View Post
    Yami is cool^_^ One of the things it seems is that both the military and academia are self insulated communitities. I was just curious, what are stereotypes of academics that military folks might have? I welcome any opinions, as I'm curious.
    Academics are self obsessed, egotistical know it alls, with a penchant to be obtuse through the assault on verbiage, and poisoned by the liberal biases of failed socio-communist-fascism of the 1960s. Relegated to the dust-bins of history along with the wobblies and other populist considerations academics have a large failing in the inadequacy of self analysis as a community.



    he he he he .........

    can i talk about the military next?
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    Quote Originally Posted by selil View Post
    Academics are self obsessed, egotistical know it alls, with a penchant to be obtuse through the assault on verbiage, and poisoned by the liberal biases of failed socio-communist-fascism of the 1960s. Relegated to the dust-bins of history along with the wobblies and other populist considerations academics have a large failing in the inadequacy of self analysis as a community.



    he he he he .........

    can i talk about the military next?
    Can't wait to see that one.
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    Academics tend to believe guns kill people and not the people pulling the trigger. Social problems and ignorance, which cause people to pull the trigger, are of such signifcance that elminating firearms is the only practical solution to the problem. The military tends to believe that Academics are mostly incapable of defending themselves against physical aggression, in short, they are indecisive metrosexuals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goesh View Post
    Academics tend to believe guns kill people and not the people pulling the trigger. Social problems and ignorance, which cause people to pull the trigger, are of such signifcance that elminating firearms is the only practical solution to the problem. The military tends to believe that Academics are mostly incapable of defending themselves against physical aggression, in short, they are indecisive metrosexuals.

    That is some very profound stuff goesh


    Hope I never meet a metrosexual....not really sure what that/they is.....but it sounds really scary

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    Oh and the military;

    Members of the military are xenophobic, unitary, trite, secularized thinkers placing people into containers of target and collateral damage. Through rigorous mind numbing brain-washing youth are formed into intellectual automatons incapable of independent thought or action which carries over into later adult life as a pathos against intellectualism and civil discourse. Armed service personnel wrapped in a cloak of fascism export an ideology of hatred of civilians that is carried like a disease for life.

    Shrouded in an abysmal darkness of internalized secrecy they educate in cloistered institutions only allowing other military to attend, cloak their activities as national secrets, hide behind high fences of bases, claim special privileges not available to any other group, engage or support experimentation on civilians, their leaders gerrymander the political process, all the while the ranks engage in tirades against civilians while undermining democracy.


    That was a fun if useless exercise. Like any information operation take a grain of truth and spin it into oblivion.

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    Default - more of the spin cycle

    Academics believe the military ( and cops) lack imagination, creativity and artistic expression and go to great lengths to suppress their feminine side by excessive beer drinking, passing gas and looking at naked young women in magazines.

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    I'm married to an academic.

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