[Toby Christopherson]

Just to clear things up, I, “Mr. Pants,” am the one who actually wears them in my family. So, no more talk of this “Mrs. Pants” nonsense.

The whole Bellypants thing is a story best left for another time, and isn’t very funny anyway. I have been an avid reader of the Cow forums for years, but have posted so infrequently that when I wanted to, I was in another place on a different computer and couldn’t recall the screen name I used or the password, and the email account it would send the information to had been closed for months, so I had to register anew a few days ago.

I honestly don’t have all that much rancor, just trying to show that one runs into that sort of person all the time in all sorts of places and organizations… which is pretty much what you already said.

I don’t have insecurities with my chosen profession, or the organization I work for. I save my insecurities for my lack of hair, looks, and other middle aged married man sorts of things.

Thank you for the suggestions on how to chill out. While I do enjoy a good bowl of tapioca, I’d have to say the best way to calm down is a nice warm fresh piece of toast.

-C13

[Toby Christopherson]

No, you’re absolutely right, you don’t need things “dumbed down” in order to understand them, which was exactly the point I was trying to put across. Nobody likes to be talked down to, and the post I responded to had that type of tone to it… that you have to take things slower with the military types because they live in a world that is so far removed that they don’t understand what you’re talking about. As active duty military, and as someone who has done quite a few projects of this type for various military institutions, that generalization is just flat wrong. It’s not even true of a majority of the people or organizations, but a very small minority.

I do, in fact, have quite a good sense of humor – as most of my productions would show – but digs on the poor dumb soldier and gub’mint contracts and so forth have been done and done to death long before I was even born. It’s just tired and not funny anymore.

-C13
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P.S. Before you ask questions as to my job in the Air Force, I have nothing to do with public affairs or any media producing organization. I do this as a hobby for experience. The projects I’ve done were on my own time with mostly my own equipment. Nevertheless, they are of quality work and the “client” (I use that term loosely) has always loved the product. What do I really do in the Air Force? Well, I’d have to kill you if you knew. So there. 🙂

[Toby Christopherson]

Suszko,

If you were intending for the tone of your post to sound overly dismissive and condescending toward the Military, then you succeeded admirably. It’s rare for political affiliation and bias to show in forums so far removed from these subjects, but some people just can’t help themselves when they see an opportunity to dig on the Government and Military. Your obvious disdain for Military organizations seems to have made you an expert in mental processes of DOD personnel. You make it sound as if you must dumb down your language to a 3 year old level in order to be understood by this person. I assure you that he would understand all aspects of your job infinitely faster than you would of his were he to attempt to explain it to you. Dismissing all soldiers as dim-witted and incapable of independent thought betrays a poor ability to form opinions based on honest investigation and sound facts on your part. Instead, you seem to embrace the latest anti-administration and anti-military rhetoric floating around and inject it into an area where it has no need to be.

Now, to dumb it down for you… keep your opinions on irrelevant things you know nothing about to yourself.

-C13
USAF