h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

have you tried telling them how rude it is?

Well, I thought about it, but considering they can send me to jail, I'm thinking no.

tsk tsk tsk it's a messed up place you live in when _they_ can send _you_ to jail because _they_ where rude

Well, they are officers*shrug*
Seriously, I could get court marshal for letting my hair down, or wearing a scarf, or a ruuber band the wrong colour. Of course, they have already resolved all those pesky little military issues you ocasionally hear about in the news, and are now free to deal with the really important stuff.

military *shrug*..... where all the people who actually think you do a better job if they send you to "jail" for wearing something someone else doesn't like

Ah, but the people who write reports that end up sending you to jail are not in actuality the people you work with, so they don't really care if your job gets done or not.
Maybe someday I will write a book about my time in the army. I'm thinking it would be a satire.

but isn't the army a satire in itself? So any book you write about it will end up a satire?

There are people who take it very seriously*shrug*. Go figure. I imagine they have to take it seriously because they devote their whole life to it. Or possibly, they just have no sence of humor. Probably the later.

or perharps we are just to much "free spirits"

Yeah
My "free spirit" has been so constrained in the past two years that it is peobably gonna erupt like a volcano when it's all over.

hey missy no exploding in my journal

Don't worry. Only people near me physicaly should feel the impact. After all, I have no constraints about saying whatever I want here anyway, so there is no cause for any explosion.
By the way, we're not supposed to say we are soldiers on the internet, but there is a limit to everyting. I'll tell them where the can stick their rules.

pheeew feel free to say whatever you want whenever you want

I do think your "secret" is safe within hootoo

I don't know where that particular rule comes from. Do they think I'm gonna publish classified information I don't have?

mmm yeah sounds like their kind of logic

It's especially funny when they belive it. My officers are much to smart for that, but there are those who belive whatever the army tells them is true. The stupider it sounds, the more acurate it must therfore be.

perharps you should reenlist just to try and get enough rank to actually change the thing

Many have tried to "change the system from the inside". It doesn't work with any system. I could have gone to become an officer, you know. And yet, somehow, I don't feel any regrets.

purely theoretically it should work

It should. But it somehow doesn't. I'm gonna contend myself with it not beeing my problem any longer real soon