You say that you simply don't understand it, but you'd like to
And yet you referred to them, without provocation or even prior discussion. as "thugs".

My partner is in the RAF, he did not join up "to kill people", he has never killed anyone, he is part of the logistics and supply chain. He joined up because it was a very interesting career path, and the RAF paid for a lot of his qualifications, so that when he leaves the RAF in May, he can further his career in logistics.

There is simply nothing thuggish about his motivations.

Very, very few people join the armed forces "to kill people".

Those people were thugs before they joined, and will be thugs long after.
( The Baroness The Harlot Pimpernel, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:47, archived)

I'm sorry I called your boyfriend a thug.
I actually chose the word for its callousness, as I thought it flowed quite nicely from "povvos", another thoughtlessly and simplistically loaded word.

If your boyfriend is a nice peaceful chap, I still think it's funny that he's taken a career job sorry with an organisation that kills innocent people every day.
( Newington, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:51, archived)

...and many of those
part of their own organisation.
( evilstevie misses the Orange Place of late, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:53, archived)

Er, yes?

( Newington, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:54, archived)

I am grateful for the apology, although I imagine you offer it in a slightly patronising tone.
I can understand a joke and a word used for effect, and I realise I have overreacted, but I hear such comments made without humour so often I've become a bit overprotective.

EDIT: Aaaah, I knew it was too good to be true.

So, because of your political leanings, you look down upon anyone who takes any sort of job with the MOD. Good good.
( The Baroness The Harlot Pimpernel, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:56, archived)