(Yesterday, 05:33 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: Gortex,
This is our self-imagined 'elite'. In their minds, rules and laws are for the little people.
...
Exactly. And this is exactly how you deal with those self-important snobs.
AG: "But I'm an AG!"
Officer: "I don't give a shit."
I ran into one of those types at a banking center once. She drew herself up to her full height, puffed up her chest, and said "Do you know who I am? Do you know how much money I have in this bank?"
So I said "Yes, I know exactly who you are, and how much money you have. Your mistake was in thinking I'd give a shit." I thought the woman was going to go apoplectic and swallow her tongue when she started turning red in the face and stuttering.
They are so used to folks bowing, kow-towing, and tugging their forelocks at them that they just don't know how to respond when they run into someone that doesn't give them their "due deference", and just doesn't give a crap who they are how how important they think they are.
If more of us among the unwashed masses gave that attitude to those presumed "elites", they'd be taken down a few pegs in short order, and not be as "elite" as they wish they were. The ONLY thing that makes them "elites" is the deference shown to them by folks who don't know any better.
And that goofy wench who was kicking the car door to keep it from closing - she's lucky that officer was a nice guy. I'd have put her in a belly-band and hobbles, trussed her up like a Christmas turkey so she couldn't get her feet out the door, and left her laying there stewing in her own juices for a while.
But I'm occasionally told that I'm not a nice guy. One former US Marine went so far as to laughingly describe me as "savage".
All in all, a very entertaining video, and educational - folks should take some lessons from it, but most won't.
.
“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake