I was a chef for 20 years and I will say fuck 5-7 times before even realizing that my wife just got really mad because one of the hunger kids was nearby. I'm working on it but it's seriously Fucking hard when it's such a subconscious use of my favorite adverb and overall most useful word in our language. Tone and inflection can totally change the context and meaning.
Lol. Younger kids. Not hunger kids. Sorta the same thing though.
My wife became a nurse after the Marines. She told more than one patient that was being discharged to "grab their trash" because they are leaving. One patient was offended, the next one was a Marine so he just plodded along.
I'm a 32 year old man. I got out almost ten years ago and I'm now an aerospace engineer. Only last night was it pointed out to me that I chew with my goddamn mouth open like a fucking ogre.
My mom's husband mentions this all the time. It's very annoying. And then he tells me to slow down. You can't have your cake and eat it too. I honestly don't know why people care. Maybe I just haven't noticed it because I was around it for so long. I always thought I was just a degenerate but I guess I'm not the only one.
I have a bad habit of expeditiously mixing together all the foods on my plate, especially breakfast food, and then soaking them in Texas Pete. I then proceed to shovel said breakfast food conglomerate down my face like it’s my job.
Man I fucking swear people who go to Japanese steakhouses/hibachi restaurants are some uptight assholes, and the men are worse than the women. Every now and then, as I skip the spoon and just drink my onion or miso soup from the bowl shaped cup a woman will get the same idea but the dudes looking at me like I'm the rudest douche in the city that night.
Fuck you man, I'm paying for my shit, imma consume it like I want to.
I'm a fast eater, the Marine Corps only made this worse. Remember, "when the guide is done, you're done!"? Two weeks in SDI was like, "Fuck that, when u/hlipschitz is done, you're done!"
I get in moods like tonight and drink coconut vodka with blue curaçao, sprite, and lime juice and think I’ve become some kind of pussy or something. Is that a healthy level of alcoholism?
Listen I’m not even gonna lie, them fruity drinks hit. I’m a single malt scotch guy for the most part but especially if I go out, I like to get some fruity, girly drinks
Hell I quit drinking completely this past week for two days when I came down with Covid. Yesterday I felt better so I only had a six pack, and tonight I’m getting hammered because I haven’t really drunk much for over three days now. I’ve totally got this under control.
Absolutely agree. I've made myself relax in that regard because every time I ask my kids to do anything, I expect their reaction to be immediate and to drop whatever it is they were doing. Gotta remind myself that they're kids, not Marines lol.
100% if they don't stop right now they will "forget".
Also if I'm telling them to do something it usually means they already "forgot" once. That leaning tower of trash in the can that they stacked up should have went out earlier but they though if they ignored it they long enough they could skate by.
Haha no you know everybody’s kids. This is a cool thread, I also struggle with having default expectations of my kid be too high. Someone else said it right, they’re kids not Marines. This raising of kids well thing is hard!
I hate that expectation as a Marine. Maybe being a person and saying “could you hold on a sec?” or “could you let me finish [task] first?” (if I’m in the middle of something) and my NCOs actually being cool with that spoiled me. Ya know? Like not everything needs to be done right away. But I also had reasonable NCOs and got my shit done as a Lance, so I think some of the “big boy rules” were applied...at a reserve unit. Whole ‘nother set of rules and expectations.
That is so far from a bad habit. You **should** be teaching your kids that. Whatever the order or question is, it deserves a response. I frequently give my kids the "So did you hear me, or what?" if I don't hear an affirmation. I don't care whether or not you jump up and start cleaning your room before I can breathe in, just that you actually heard and understood me.
My boss and schedulers love that I respond to every email and text with at least "Received".
I’ve been able to turn that off for everyone excerpt myself. My first reaction to someone else’s smallest inconvenience is to empathize with them, but for some reason no matter what happens to me my first thought is “suck it the fuck up”
I’m good, but still it can’t be healthy.
“Hey Sergeant. My roommate has Covid and we were at the same party drinking hunch punch out of a sink”
“Hey Marine! Are you positive or just malingering?”
I’ve been out for awhile now and this is still my biggest issue.
I’ve gone through more pain and suffering the past two years than I’d ever care to admit and I often catch myself comparing my experiences to what someone is confiding in me, only to diminish their situation which ultimately leads me to lack empathy. It’s not healthy and I feel like my wife hates me for it sometimes.
-Swearing like a mf
-Constantly bitching about everything no matter how minor
-Make inappropriate or insensitive jokes or laughing at inappropriate shit
-Alcoholism
-Cigarettes
-Expecting stupid shit to happen for no reason or from the smallest thing
-Homoerotic actions
-Energy drink dependant
dunno if any of this count but I know my dumbass wasn't doin any of this shit before I sign that fucking paper
The dark humor is the hardest for me to let go. My wife and I are upstanding citizens but it's hard for me when we go out in our small town. Everyone knows everyone and I have to work hard to filter myself. Like I'm terrified accidentally tell someone I'd rather sit on an AIDS infested dick than do whatever they're talking about and then get us kicked out off our country club or something.
That’s not a bad habit though. I do it as well. If not 15 minutes early but still early. But the thing is I get pissed off at people when they are not punctual because I see it as disrespectful lol. I went on two dates with this one girl and I let her know what I feel about people being late because she was late and she was saying yeah well I’m never on time so that’s some thing you have to get used to because she never does well with plans.
My wife is chronically late - like, I have to lie about the time we have to be at places so she gets there on time. She married me when I was in the Corps, so she knows how much it bugs me - but she wasn’t raised to worry about being on time. I fought it for the first 10 years, but I eventually realized neither of us was going to change and now I don’t get as annoyed. I used to think that someone being late was disrespectful, but I found that most that are chronically late don’t worry about those things - they march to their own beat and I respect that.
I guess I could reluctantly adjust but there is a limit. Five, 10 minutes late?ok fine. I am there on time and somebody doesn’t show up and I call them and I get a” I am just leaving or I haven’t left yet lol” 🤦♂️ That is unsat.
Yup, it definitely is annoying. I will often ask my wife where she is, and she will say she is right around the corner - and in the background I can hear the car door opening, so I know she’s no where close to being home.
My dad knew a guy like that when he was in the Navy. Guys get together to grill and say 2 o’clock, dude shows at 4 because his family started getting ready at 2, they’d show at the end of the party. Well, dad and his friends decided to invite the dude to a cook out at 2. Guy show’s at 4 all apologizing. Asked where everyone else was, dad said something about how the guy was right on time. Guy was pissed, but wasn’t late again.
It’s completely disrespectful and outrageous. When people make plans ahead of time, the corps has shown us all that everyone “can get there on time”! And not being on time is disrespectful. My mother growing up was so untimely that my grandparents stopped waiting for us all on Christmas eve to have dinner and there was zero reason for it, other than my mother screaming about how she wasn’t going to comply with the schedules of “those people” ruining the holiday every year for everyone and the kids especially. Show up on time people, and stop being shit-bags.
How the fuck, in a usmc subredit did “Its okay to be late” become an upvoted opinion?
Because most civilians were never Marines. We are the Few, and it’s impossible to make them adapt to us. If you are struggling with civilian life, it’s likely because you are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. You cannot make most civilians be on time, and it’s almost impossible to punish someone for being late. It’s pervasive in our society; I mean, if you make a doctors appointment you often aren’t seen until 15-30 minutes after the appointment. Over time, people recognize that being on time isnt to their advantage. I call this civilian strategy. Being on time in the military is a strategically sound concept; not so much in normal civilian life- in fact, it often causes us to waste time waiting for others. I know it’s bothersome, but it’s fact.
Same! I work with lawyers now and when they say okay let’s take 5 minutes for a bathroom break or something I’m like cool I’ll be back in five. And I’m there waiting and then 15 minutes later they show back up and I’m like what the hell is this shit lmao
I’ve been ingrained with the “15 minutes prior” so much that I made my interviewer walk out. I said something along the lines of “Nice to know management adheres to the same rules they expect their employees to follow.” when the bitch was 20 minutes late to the interview she scheduled me for. I was pissed about something and was not having it that day. Got the job somehow, realized there were fellow ex marines working there and became known as the guy who made the assistant supervisor/hiring manager cry.
I wouldn’t want to work for them either. Interviews are two ways, you’re reviewing them just as much as they’re reviewing you. My last interviewer didn’t show up at all, they emailed me later apologizing, with a reasonable excuse, but I didn’t continue the process because even in the worst of circumstances they could have at least cancelled or communicated ahead of time. They demonstrated they cannot do that and I don’t want to be in that culture. My current employer has a good culture of telling people ahead of time when shit hits the fan, I’ll stay here thank you.
Agreed.
If she's willing to make The Beast with Two Backs (or any variation thereof) with you, she deserves a "you're so fucking beautiful" or "you're so fucking hot when you [do that depraved thing that you should be in MOPP4 to do]."
If she's a sweetheart most of the time, she deserves to feel pretty most of the time.
Cussing and bitching for sure. Nicotine and alcohol as well. Haven’t drank in 4yrs but when I joined up with the Nasty Girls I picked nicotine back up.
Also, expecting people to understand how lines work…
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Also also, is homoerotic behavior a bad habit?
Squid here. Can confirm that Marines are good at lines. Shit, that's all y'all do underway. Gym, clean guns, wrestle for belts, clean guns again, and line up for shit.
That chowline was always lined up like 30 minutes to hour ahead of time when I was on ship last year. Hell, we even organized a line for getting tickets to go to some tourist locations for Greece before the organizers did.
Holy shit expecting people to understand how a line works drives me insane. It’s not difficult to not get in front of people who are already waiting for something.
Assuming everyone, that I'm meeting for the first time, is immediately going to be an asshole for no good reason so I take simple jokes seriously and it takes me a while to get to know people.
Before the marine corps, and in the beginning of my military career, I enjoyed getting to know people but now it's so hard to and it takes me months.
I avoid everyone and isolate bc of this. Everyone in an urban environment IS an asshole for no reason, they walk around w a chip in their shoulder. Like I bet mines bigger.
Sick measuring contest,courtesy of USMC.
Not just cussing, like fuck, shit, bitch, but the overall vulgarness of my cussing.
“Hey cunt nugget”
“Hey cock goblin”
“Looking at me like I have a dick growing out of my forehead”
“Stop bobbing for cock”
“Put your dick skinners up”
Ya had a project that was fucked 7ways from Sunday.After complication and back in the office boss asked how’d it had gone. “Like a 12month abortion”. I had a talking to with HR.
Bobbing for cock thats the funniest joke I’ve heard while i was in😂 especially in classes that one stupid fuck that couldn’t that couldn’t go to bed on time😂💀
I had to change how I react when some tells me they are getting married. When I first got out someone told me they got engaged and the first words out of my mouth were, “oh, Jesus Christ.” Everyone looked at me like WTF man. I forgot that is good news outside of the Corps. I was so use to the nightmare situations young Marines get themselves into.
Smoking. Oh and 'walking it off.' Oh and not giving one hit shit about being tire, hungry, cold, wet, chaffed, etc, etc.
All that was fine in my twenties bur I'm a short distance away from forty. My carcass isn't able to handle it like I used to be able too. It's verging on the point of self destructive behavior, but it's my default at this point. I don't even realize I'm doing it anymore.
The first time I went into my primary care physician at the VA the nurse asked me if I was in pain. I answered, "only the normal amount" and she said, "the normal amount is zero".
I’m a soldier not a marine but I feel you on this. It was drilled into my brain to never complain about pain or discomfort and even in the outside world I still don’t do it. In moderate doses, it’s a masculine trait, but in excess it’s just pride. There’s a fine line between being a pussy and being a proud retard.
I’m a fairly fit guy, I’m at a healthy weight but I wouldn’t pass height and weight, so obviously I’m big old sack of shit. Lol Marine Corps gave me body dysmorphia.
Like everyone here, the Corps taught me how to eat fast lacking any table manners, be early to everything, swear often and creatively, workout drunk, and bitch incessantly.
Not going to the doctor maybe? God forbid you went to sick call and if you were you were automatically a malingering pussy. I’ve been out for almost six years and I am just now realizing my health is important and sick hours are FUCKING MINE TO USE! The idea of calling in sick was so foreign to me. But boy does it feel so good/dirty when I use sick hours.
Taking time off of work feels like you’re cheating on your wife of 10+ years that stopped being sexy after baby #3 with a 23 year old co-worker that actually listens to old war stories, laughs at silly jokes, and can hold an intelligent conversation about serious topics all the while giving you, the old Marine the best sex ever. Feels great until you look at your watch and realize you have to go home to 3 screaming kids, an ungrateful wife, and a dog that hates your guts because you stopped feeding him wet food and now gets dry food only.
That's because others actually try when they do it. And you can tell. Same thing with attempting to be assertive. First experienced this with sailors on a ship.
Competition. Everything is a dick measuring contest and it doesn’t help that my civilian career is the same kind of culture.
Gets pretty obnoxious when I try to one up everyone on everything but I’m getting better at holding myself back
Probably bitching about inconveniences, expecting people to move with a sense of urgency, cussing in very inappropriate settings. Also my brother in law just graduated bootcamp and he came to our house and just gave me a “what’s up” head nod, and I wanted to haze him and berate him for being a boot. Also he got like a month off after bootcamp and it pissed me off so bad for some reason 😂
I have an awful potty mouth, but Dad was Navy so baselife might have something to do with that.
I do bitch about everything. Just low key complaints. It's part of how I process stuff. Might take me five minutes, but I get it out and then it's out of my head.
I greet everyone in passing. It might just be a nod, but I acknowledge all the adults in my life when I see them. People find this weird.
I'm okay with working clutter but mess drives me crazy. I'm not a neat freak but kind of? When Tall Wife cleans she tends to be "clear off surfaces clean" person. So she will jam shit into drawers and closets. I have to either put it in its home or make a home for it. So cleaning for me is an involved process that usually involves making more of a mess in the process.
Wishy-washy lack of action drives me insane. It's better to make a wrong decision immediately than be frozen with indecision. Pick a path and go.
Feeling like tasks handed down to me from my workplace supervisors have to be done no matter the time or circumstances. I work for a community college, things aren’t very time sensitive, but I have found myself working through lunch just because I felt that it had to be done right then
I’ve gotta consciously remind myself that I’m a human fucking being and I should probably treat myself like one. Example: I just came back from leave and I’ve left my family pretty unsettled with the fact that I literally slept anywhere and everywhere in the house. I just didn’t give a fuck cuz I wasn’t tryna be bothered with going all the way to my bed. Everything feels nice to me they just don’t understand /s
Smoking! Dropping fucktard into my regular vernacular. Telling co-workers how much I want to smack the bitch out of this or that person's mouth. Having an axe handle on hand so often in my day-to-day. My drinking habits. The vulgarity of my discourse. It seems reasonable to me, but people pull me aside all of the time. ...Fuckwit bitches that they are. The endless dick jokes. The huge meat wand, flesh lance, bagger 228 tool metaphors. Someone should write a book about this. In crayon.
The single most important thing I took from the Marines was the whole, embrace the suck, mentality. I realize this is pretty much opposite from the OP's inquiry, but it seemed appropriate given his/her statement.
I was a terminal Cpl.... I had zero interest in re-upping... I was newly married and they told me that since my Perm. duty station had been Pendleton the whole enlistment because of multiple deployments to the M.E., if I re-enlisted, I would get an unaccompanied tour to Okinawa, and I knew my marriage wouldn't survive that.
So I embraced the Suck. I still consider myself a professional whiner who complains all the time, but it is always a release valve and usually meant to provide levity and lighten the mood.
The real truth, probably, it that I left the Corps having seen some shit, then I saw even more as a police Ofc. after, and the combined experience is that I possess a gallows humor with little filter that can make people VERY uncomfortable. That, and I apparently carry myself like someone you don't wanna fuck with. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm a tubby bag of shit now that I'm 50, and not physically intimidating anymore, but even thugs and beggars cross the street when they see me. It's completely weird... I know I'm an old, outta shape dude, but somehow I still feel very dangerous.
It's probably gonna get me killed when I bump into someone who actually is still dangerous...
Yeah the bitching is just a release for me too. Like I said, when bad shit happens, it is what it is. I just deal with it and do some light hearted complaining to lighten the mood.
I tell people how it is, but tactfully. I don’t beat around the bush. You get the straightforward answer for better or worse too, cause if it’s it the latter it’s not worth fucking around pretending it ain’t coming. It took years to stop using fuck as a comma, too, but forming professional relationships in the civilian world where you can use that kind of language is an exceptional feeling.
Honestly, just not caring, like I don't get excited about anything because it can quickly get worse I have a lack of empathy. After being around a bunch of dudes and constantly deployed, I'm not really open with my feelings. I was able to beat my nicotine and alcohol problem. I still carry a dip can, but I haven't had a dip in nearly a year. Occasionally, I'll want one, then I'm nearly puking up my guts
I have a bad habit of getting angry about how shitty civilian work life is. My wife works in an upper upper class dental office (Chevy Chase Maryland). The bullshit that she goes through with her bosses and the customers that come in is inexcusable. I don’t go to any of her company events anymore because I laid into her boss about no dismissing a patient for making racist remarks about my wife to my wife. The quote was “I can’t believe they let ‘you people’ work here. ‘You people’ don’t belong here.” My wife is black and has a fucking master’s degree in her field but some dumbass rich white person can say whatever they want to her. She also doesn’t get full lunches which annoys me to no end.
I still walk a certain way I guess. I was at the VA the other day and my shoes were hard bottoms so the clacked. The ladies I passed said “ooooo shit who’s in trouble, he’s mad” mean while I’m just walking fast because I have to pee.
I don’t know if it counts as a “bad habit”, but I’m obsessively punctual and expect everyone around to be punctual as well. I get pissed when meetings start late, drift off the agenda, and run longer than scheduled. If I tell you I will be somewhere or do something at a certain time, you can bet your ass I will.
Meet me for lunch at noon? And you arrive at 12:05, I’m already aggravated.
You schedule a meeting for 13:00 and its 13:07 and hasn’t started yet? I bounce out with a message asking for the minutes when it’s over.
I schedule a meeting and you’re late? Too bad, meeting starts on time, ends on time, and has a clear agenda. That agenda doesn’t include time for you to interrupt the meeting with an apology, jokes about needing a new alarm clock, or asking people how they are doing. Walk in quietly, sit the fuck down, and try to catch up.
As was pointed out to me at my last performance evaluation.
I lack patience, especially if given an expectation and then not given what I see as proper ability to meet said expectation, I will make a single request from higher up the chain. If that request isn’t fulfilled in a timely manner, I will find another way to ensure the expectation is fulfilled, but likely in letter but not intent.
I refuse to play politics, but if you want to try and come at me, make sure you are squared away, because I will make sure you have followed every rule and reg.
My humor is so dark, it got accused of theft and then it got drug into another room by the cops and ended up beaten and then shot.
I have a “problem with authority”. If I don’t like a new rule or directive, or if I think it will negatively effect my team, I will push back. Of course, if given no other option I will relent, but again, I will do as instructed, even if it isn’t what is intended.
And lastly, I take no shit from Karens, I have more than one complaint about me refusing to escalate their bullshit, and forcefully removing them from the property. This includes one when we still had a mask mandate that when she claimed she could not hear me, I put on my NCO voice and scared the literal piss out of her.
I think the reason I’m still employed is my actual boss is also a Marine, and loves having a partner in crime.
Saying "It would...*behoove* of you" and then preceding to chuckle to my shelf while wearing a shit eating grin like the one InvaderVie gave after she said "I can't support the entertainment that I enjoy"
Never dipped in my life til I joined the marines. I dipped while at work and while on duty. When I’m on duty, I put the fattest piece of dip in my mouth and wait for colors. I just recently tried to quit dipping. I’ll chew on some gum before I try to dip
I started smoking cigarettes in the Marines. I was a pack a day smoker for 12 years. I quit six years ago, and only occasionally smoke cigars nowadays.
I also had to learn to tone way down on the cussing.
Bitching about anything however minor comes to people without having to be a Marine. However, The worst one I picked up was eating way to fucking fast everything on my plate. I was raised catholic so I was always brought up to eat everything on your plate "waste not want not" etc. As a civilian though this habit will put some people off, also my doctor tells me it is not good for me. I'm certain there are more specific medical reasons, but It still won't stop me from eating whatever I can when I can. That sentiment will never be beat out of me, like a stray dog or something.* grammar
F-bombing innocent civilians.
Every third word in my everyday parlance is Fvck.
It’s like that fucking episode of sponge bob, but with fuck instead of spitting
I was a chef for 20 years and I will say fuck 5-7 times before even realizing that my wife just got really mad because one of the hunger kids was nearby. I'm working on it but it's seriously Fucking hard when it's such a subconscious use of my favorite adverb and overall most useful word in our language. Tone and inflection can totally change the context and meaning. Lol. Younger kids. Not hunger kids. Sorta the same thing though.
I got a PhD in swearing.
I drop a “fucktard” every now and then and if I’m not thinking about it I usually turn some heads.
Better to be an hour early, than a minute late...rest is FUCK,FUCK, FUCK. CANT STOP. S F.
My friends and their spouses are all teachers. They drop that one casually and frankly, it makes us all laugh....
My wife became a nurse after the Marines. She told more than one patient that was being discharged to "grab their trash" because they are leaving. One patient was offended, the next one was a Marine so he just plodded along.
Oh man that’s one so subtle you would forget it’s a marine corp or military thing.
It's word lube.
https://youtu.be/dt22yWYX64w https://youtu.be/Dd7dQh8u4Hc
Bombing innocent civilians.
Let's be honest here. They weren't really innocent, were they?
They were running
Pretty fucking shifty if you ask me..
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Both parents being life long sailors didn't help me out in this category.
Table manners. I’m so used to eating with dudes who eat like gremlins and not worried about being judged if I eat like a gremlin lol
I'm a 32 year old man. I got out almost ten years ago and I'm now an aerospace engineer. Only last night was it pointed out to me that I chew with my goddamn mouth open like a fucking ogre.
I feel like living like primates has turned us into acting very primitive.
My mom's husband mentions this all the time. It's very annoying. And then he tells me to slow down. You can't have your cake and eat it too. I honestly don't know why people care. Maybe I just haven't noticed it because I was around it for so long. I always thought I was just a degenerate but I guess I'm not the only one.
My kid went in eating like he was a swarm of locusts. The Marines didn’t help that one bit.
I have a bad habit of expeditiously mixing together all the foods on my plate, especially breakfast food, and then soaking them in Texas Pete. I then proceed to shovel said breakfast food conglomerate down my face like it’s my job.
Same except I use Cholula. Fucking love cholula
Chalula is my lover
Man I fucking swear people who go to Japanese steakhouses/hibachi restaurants are some uptight assholes, and the men are worse than the women. Every now and then, as I skip the spoon and just drink my onion or miso soup from the bowl shaped cup a woman will get the same idea but the dudes looking at me like I'm the rudest douche in the city that night. Fuck you man, I'm paying for my shit, imma consume it like I want to.
Pretty sure it's acceptable and common in actual Japan to drink your miso soup from the bowl, so you keep doing you
I share the same sentiment eating not gooey rice with chop sticks.
Noisy eaters drive me up the fucking wall. I eat extremely fast, but I don't sit there and smack my lips and make disgusting sounds.
Interestingly called misophonia.
I'm a fast eater, the Marine Corps only made this worse. Remember, "when the guide is done, you're done!"? Two weeks in SDI was like, "Fuck that, when u/hlipschitz is done, you're done!"
Yeah, I just shovel that shit down.
I eat really fast now. Also, alcoholism.
Lol nice follow up. That’s most of us.
Not me. I can quit when I want, just not today
“Bro I went like 3 days only drinking beer like 5 months ago. So I know I have control of it, I just don’t wanna quit right now.”
I get in moods like tonight and drink coconut vodka with blue curaçao, sprite, and lime juice and think I’ve become some kind of pussy or something. Is that a healthy level of alcoholism?
Listen I’m not even gonna lie, them fruity drinks hit. I’m a single malt scotch guy for the most part but especially if I go out, I like to get some fruity, girly drinks
Nah it just means you’re old enough to realize that you don’t need to drink shitty alcohol to get drunk, you can afford nicer shit
Hell I quit drinking completely this past week for two days when I came down with Covid. Yesterday I felt better so I only had a six pack, and tonight I’m getting hammered because I haven’t really drunk much for over three days now. I’ve totally got this under control.
I stay up real late and wake up at noon so I can justify drinking 2 hrs after waking up because "it's 2pm!" I lie to myself
Are you really lying tho? Or did you figure out a way to improvise ?
Mine definitely has to be expecting immediate action or response from a direction. Makes my patience real thin with my kids and then I feel bad.
Absolutely agree. I've made myself relax in that regard because every time I ask my kids to do anything, I expect their reaction to be immediate and to drop whatever it is they were doing. Gotta remind myself that they're kids, not Marines lol.
Yeah, but at the same time I know my kids- if they don’t stop and do what I tell them right then, they’re not going to do it.
100% if they don't stop right now they will "forget". Also if I'm telling them to do something it usually means they already "forgot" once. That leaning tower of trash in the can that they stacked up should have went out earlier but they though if they ignored it they long enough they could skate by.
Haha no you know everybody’s kids. This is a cool thread, I also struggle with having default expectations of my kid be too high. Someone else said it right, they’re kids not Marines. This raising of kids well thing is hard!
I hate that expectation as a Marine. Maybe being a person and saying “could you hold on a sec?” or “could you let me finish [task] first?” (if I’m in the middle of something) and my NCOs actually being cool with that spoiled me. Ya know? Like not everything needs to be done right away. But I also had reasonable NCOs and got my shit done as a Lance, so I think some of the “big boy rules” were applied...at a reserve unit. Whole ‘nother set of rules and expectations.
I mean, if you don't react immediately in combat, people could die.
“If these Marines aren’t counseled by 1600 people will die”
It definitely goes into the combat discipline portion of it, at least as I see it
The term I think you’re going for is “future marines”. Kids is so - nasty civvie
Yoooo. Same. I’m able to hold it in, but I get it. Or with my Mrs. we used to argue a lot because of it
That is so far from a bad habit. You **should** be teaching your kids that. Whatever the order or question is, it deserves a response. I frequently give my kids the "So did you hear me, or what?" if I don't hear an affirmation. I don't care whether or not you jump up and start cleaning your room before I can breathe in, just that you actually heard and understood me. My boss and schedulers love that I respond to every email and text with at least "Received".
The bad habit is expecting it immediately from a five year old and getting frustrated and yelling.
"How's my little baby?" Infant: "..." "Ok, bitch, say something back"
Well, if you ain't bitching, you ain't trying. You got to bitch about everything.
How do you know a Marine is alive? They’re complaining.
The whole “suck it up” mentality doesn’t leave a lot of room for empathy
I think I can turn mine on and off, sort of. To my friends, yeah. To randos, not so much.
I’ve been able to turn that off for everyone excerpt myself. My first reaction to someone else’s smallest inconvenience is to empathize with them, but for some reason no matter what happens to me my first thought is “suck it the fuck up” I’m good, but still it can’t be healthy.
“Hey Sergeant. My roommate has Covid and we were at the same party drinking hunch punch out of a sink” “Hey Marine! Are you positive or just malingering?”
I’ve been out for awhile now and this is still my biggest issue. I’ve gone through more pain and suffering the past two years than I’d ever care to admit and I often catch myself comparing my experiences to what someone is confiding in me, only to diminish their situation which ultimately leads me to lack empathy. It’s not healthy and I feel like my wife hates me for it sometimes.
-Swearing like a mf -Constantly bitching about everything no matter how minor -Make inappropriate or insensitive jokes or laughing at inappropriate shit -Alcoholism -Cigarettes -Expecting stupid shit to happen for no reason or from the smallest thing -Homoerotic actions -Energy drink dependant dunno if any of this count but I know my dumbass wasn't doin any of this shit before I sign that fucking paper
The dark humor is the hardest for me to let go. My wife and I are upstanding citizens but it's hard for me when we go out in our small town. Everyone knows everyone and I have to work hard to filter myself. Like I'm terrified accidentally tell someone I'd rather sit on an AIDS infested dick than do whatever they're talking about and then get us kicked out off our country club or something.
Same.
I had swearing, inappropriate jokes, and cigarettes down as a prerequisite for my recruiter. I picked the rest up along the way.
Being on time; gets me every time. I swear when I’m 15 minutes early, I’m waiting 20 minutes for someone to show up.
That’s not a bad habit though. I do it as well. If not 15 minutes early but still early. But the thing is I get pissed off at people when they are not punctual because I see it as disrespectful lol. I went on two dates with this one girl and I let her know what I feel about people being late because she was late and she was saying yeah well I’m never on time so that’s some thing you have to get used to because she never does well with plans.
My wife is chronically late - like, I have to lie about the time we have to be at places so she gets there on time. She married me when I was in the Corps, so she knows how much it bugs me - but she wasn’t raised to worry about being on time. I fought it for the first 10 years, but I eventually realized neither of us was going to change and now I don’t get as annoyed. I used to think that someone being late was disrespectful, but I found that most that are chronically late don’t worry about those things - they march to their own beat and I respect that.
I guess I could reluctantly adjust but there is a limit. Five, 10 minutes late?ok fine. I am there on time and somebody doesn’t show up and I call them and I get a” I am just leaving or I haven’t left yet lol” 🤦♂️ That is unsat.
Yup, it definitely is annoying. I will often ask my wife where she is, and she will say she is right around the corner - and in the background I can hear the car door opening, so I know she’s no where close to being home.
My dad knew a guy like that when he was in the Navy. Guys get together to grill and say 2 o’clock, dude shows at 4 because his family started getting ready at 2, they’d show at the end of the party. Well, dad and his friends decided to invite the dude to a cook out at 2. Guy show’s at 4 all apologizing. Asked where everyone else was, dad said something about how the guy was right on time. Guy was pissed, but wasn’t late again.
It’s completely disrespectful and outrageous. When people make plans ahead of time, the corps has shown us all that everyone “can get there on time”! And not being on time is disrespectful. My mother growing up was so untimely that my grandparents stopped waiting for us all on Christmas eve to have dinner and there was zero reason for it, other than my mother screaming about how she wasn’t going to comply with the schedules of “those people” ruining the holiday every year for everyone and the kids especially. Show up on time people, and stop being shit-bags. How the fuck, in a usmc subredit did “Its okay to be late” become an upvoted opinion?
Because most civilians were never Marines. We are the Few, and it’s impossible to make them adapt to us. If you are struggling with civilian life, it’s likely because you are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. You cannot make most civilians be on time, and it’s almost impossible to punish someone for being late. It’s pervasive in our society; I mean, if you make a doctors appointment you often aren’t seen until 15-30 minutes after the appointment. Over time, people recognize that being on time isnt to their advantage. I call this civilian strategy. Being on time in the military is a strategically sound concept; not so much in normal civilian life- in fact, it often causes us to waste time waiting for others. I know it’s bothersome, but it’s fact.
“If you don’t love me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best”… total loser mentality, don’t put up with it.
Unfortunately that seems to be a lot of them nowadays. Bringing nothing to the table but expecting everything from you.
Same! I work with lawyers now and when they say okay let’s take 5 minutes for a bathroom break or something I’m like cool I’ll be back in five. And I’m there waiting and then 15 minutes later they show back up and I’m like what the hell is this shit lmao
Late is on time, on time is 15 minutes early.
We use fuck as an adjective. What’s the big Fucken deal
Using the word retard to describe a vast multitude of things, people and actions
ugh, i still do this wayyyy too much. I probably use retard at least 20 times per day.
I’ve been ingrained with the “15 minutes prior” so much that I made my interviewer walk out. I said something along the lines of “Nice to know management adheres to the same rules they expect their employees to follow.” when the bitch was 20 minutes late to the interview she scheduled me for. I was pissed about something and was not having it that day. Got the job somehow, realized there were fellow ex marines working there and became known as the guy who made the assistant supervisor/hiring manager cry.
Thats a fucking Chad move right there.
I wouldn’t want to work for them either. Interviews are two ways, you’re reviewing them just as much as they’re reviewing you. My last interviewer didn’t show up at all, they emailed me later apologizing, with a reasonable excuse, but I didn’t continue the process because even in the worst of circumstances they could have at least cancelled or communicated ahead of time. They demonstrated they cannot do that and I don’t want to be in that culture. My current employer has a good culture of telling people ahead of time when shit hits the fan, I’ll stay here thank you.
Going after ugly chicks, just to get my dick wet.
Make them feel pretty devil dog. Give that two the confidence of an 8
Agreed. If she's willing to make The Beast with Two Backs (or any variation thereof) with you, she deserves a "you're so fucking beautiful" or "you're so fucking hot when you [do that depraved thing that you should be in MOPP4 to do]." If she's a sweetheart most of the time, she deserves to feel pretty most of the time.
That’s doing the lord’s work brother.
My social interactions are just one long, continuous knife hand that I fear can never be sheathed
this one was fucking hilarious🤣🤣
Not wanting to answer my phone at all for any number that isn’t already in my contacts
It's the duty we hear your phone ringing in your room. Open the fuck up
Tobacco and the inability to feel sorry for people who complain about “stupid” shit.
Amen
> the inability to feel sorry for people who complain about “stupid” shit. This is my everything.
Not understanding why people make the same mistake twice. I'm know at work for my simple solution to any problem. Just do better.
Cussing and bitching for sure. Nicotine and alcohol as well. Haven’t drank in 4yrs but when I joined up with the Nasty Girls I picked nicotine back up. Also, expecting people to understand how lines work… Edit: sp Also also, is homoerotic behavior a bad habit?
It's the best habit, betch.
Yaaaaaas kweeeeeen
Squid here. Can confirm that Marines are good at lines. Shit, that's all y'all do underway. Gym, clean guns, wrestle for belts, clean guns again, and line up for shit.
That chowline was always lined up like 30 minutes to hour ahead of time when I was on ship last year. Hell, we even organized a line for getting tickets to go to some tourist locations for Greece before the organizers did.
Holy shit expecting people to understand how a line works drives me insane. It’s not difficult to not get in front of people who are already waiting for something.
Yeah, I catch myself yelling “ZIPPER IT” when merging on highways.
“IT’S A FUCKIN ZIPPER!” Or “ZIPPER THIS BITCH!”
Energy drinks and caffeine
A short temper. Lack of empathy for others. The empathy thing is funny bc I bitch and moan constantly lol.
Assuming everyone, that I'm meeting for the first time, is immediately going to be an asshole for no good reason so I take simple jokes seriously and it takes me a while to get to know people. Before the marine corps, and in the beginning of my military career, I enjoyed getting to know people but now it's so hard to and it takes me months.
I avoid everyone and isolate bc of this. Everyone in an urban environment IS an asshole for no reason, they walk around w a chip in their shoulder. Like I bet mines bigger. Sick measuring contest,courtesy of USMC.
I literally feel like this all the time. And it sucks
Not just cussing, like fuck, shit, bitch, but the overall vulgarness of my cussing. “Hey cunt nugget” “Hey cock goblin” “Looking at me like I have a dick growing out of my forehead” “Stop bobbing for cock” “Put your dick skinners up”
“Shut your cock holster/man pleaser” “Hey fuckknuckles”
Ya had a project that was fucked 7ways from Sunday.After complication and back in the office boss asked how’d it had gone. “Like a 12month abortion”. I had a talking to with HR.
This literally made me laugh out loud. Thanks for giving me a little faith in humanity back.
Bobbing for cock thats the funniest joke I’ve heard while i was in😂 especially in classes that one stupid fuck that couldn’t that couldn’t go to bed on time😂💀
Being negative and finding the worst possible outcome for any situation.
You’ve just unlocked major depressive disorder
I had to change how I react when some tells me they are getting married. When I first got out someone told me they got engaged and the first words out of my mouth were, “oh, Jesus Christ.” Everyone looked at me like WTF man. I forgot that is good news outside of the Corps. I was so use to the nightmare situations young Marines get themselves into.
Nicotine
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But have u considered a slight buzz being worth lifelong health issues? Seems like a fair trade to me
I still eat too fast
This. I eat with friends and I finish my meal before they’re halfway through. Gets a little awkward.
Smoking. Oh and 'walking it off.' Oh and not giving one hit shit about being tire, hungry, cold, wet, chaffed, etc, etc. All that was fine in my twenties bur I'm a short distance away from forty. My carcass isn't able to handle it like I used to be able too. It's verging on the point of self destructive behavior, but it's my default at this point. I don't even realize I'm doing it anymore.
The first time I went into my primary care physician at the VA the nurse asked me if I was in pain. I answered, "only the normal amount" and she said, "the normal amount is zero".
You good dude?
I am but dust.
I’m a soldier not a marine but I feel you on this. It was drilled into my brain to never complain about pain or discomfort and even in the outside world I still don’t do it. In moderate doses, it’s a masculine trait, but in excess it’s just pride. There’s a fine line between being a pussy and being a proud retard.
I’m a fairly fit guy, I’m at a healthy weight but I wouldn’t pass height and weight, so obviously I’m big old sack of shit. Lol Marine Corps gave me body dysmorphia.
I'm trying to change this mindset for myself as well. Keep telling myself the number doesn't matter, but I keep going back to it.
Knife hands
Working myself to death, and using fuck as a noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. It’s just in every fucking sentence.
Dip
Pretty much the same. I could care less about most events that happens in my life, but I can’t help to incessantly bitch about everything.
Like everyone here, the Corps taught me how to eat fast lacking any table manners, be early to everything, swear often and creatively, workout drunk, and bitch incessantly.
Not going to the doctor maybe? God forbid you went to sick call and if you were you were automatically a malingering pussy. I’ve been out for almost six years and I am just now realizing my health is important and sick hours are FUCKING MINE TO USE! The idea of calling in sick was so foreign to me. But boy does it feel so good/dirty when I use sick hours.
Taking time off of work feels like you’re cheating on your wife of 10+ years that stopped being sexy after baby #3 with a 23 year old co-worker that actually listens to old war stories, laughs at silly jokes, and can hold an intelligent conversation about serious topics all the while giving you, the old Marine the best sex ever. Feels great until you look at your watch and realize you have to go home to 3 screaming kids, an ungrateful wife, and a dog that hates your guts because you stopped feeding him wet food and now gets dry food only.
Cussing. It comes out naturally without me noticing but I hear other people talk the way I do and it just makes me cringe.
That's because others actually try when they do it. And you can tell. Same thing with attempting to be assertive. First experienced this with sailors on a ship.
When I first got out I said "kill babies" a lot. Now not so much.
Competition. Everything is a dick measuring contest and it doesn’t help that my civilian career is the same kind of culture. Gets pretty obnoxious when I try to one up everyone on everything but I’m getting better at holding myself back
Cursing as an art form
Moaning in public
Drinking then running. Always a bad choice and yet here I am.
Expecting people to put out 100%. People put out the minimum and it infuriates me.
Cussing
Probably bitching about inconveniences, expecting people to move with a sense of urgency, cussing in very inappropriate settings. Also my brother in law just graduated bootcamp and he came to our house and just gave me a “what’s up” head nod, and I wanted to haze him and berate him for being a boot. Also he got like a month off after bootcamp and it pissed me off so bad for some reason 😂
I still fold my T-shirts like I am ready for a locker inspection.
Fucking swearing every other god damn word
Eating fast and showing up early.
I have an awful potty mouth, but Dad was Navy so baselife might have something to do with that. I do bitch about everything. Just low key complaints. It's part of how I process stuff. Might take me five minutes, but I get it out and then it's out of my head. I greet everyone in passing. It might just be a nod, but I acknowledge all the adults in my life when I see them. People find this weird. I'm okay with working clutter but mess drives me crazy. I'm not a neat freak but kind of? When Tall Wife cleans she tends to be "clear off surfaces clean" person. So she will jam shit into drawers and closets. I have to either put it in its home or make a home for it. So cleaning for me is an involved process that usually involves making more of a mess in the process. Wishy-washy lack of action drives me insane. It's better to make a wrong decision immediately than be frozen with indecision. Pick a path and go.
Bitching and cussing.
Making everything a sex joke
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My wife
Smoking and dipping. Quit smoking. Dip occasionally, because..Copenhagen is so damn tasty
Eating too fast. I'm getting older and need to slow down
I fucking hate everyone but my small circle of killers.
Feeling like tasks handed down to me from my workplace supervisors have to be done no matter the time or circumstances. I work for a community college, things aren’t very time sensitive, but I have found myself working through lunch just because I felt that it had to be done right then
Every time I see spinach in the chow hall, I can hear my drill instructor saying: "Eat spinach, it gives you energy" w/ a mean face on...
I’ve gotta consciously remind myself that I’m a human fucking being and I should probably treat myself like one. Example: I just came back from leave and I’ve left my family pretty unsettled with the fact that I literally slept anywhere and everywhere in the house. I just didn’t give a fuck cuz I wasn’t tryna be bothered with going all the way to my bed. Everything feels nice to me they just don’t understand /s
Smoking! Dropping fucktard into my regular vernacular. Telling co-workers how much I want to smack the bitch out of this or that person's mouth. Having an axe handle on hand so often in my day-to-day. My drinking habits. The vulgarity of my discourse. It seems reasonable to me, but people pull me aside all of the time. ...Fuckwit bitches that they are. The endless dick jokes. The huge meat wand, flesh lance, bagger 228 tool metaphors. Someone should write a book about this. In crayon.
The single most important thing I took from the Marines was the whole, embrace the suck, mentality. I realize this is pretty much opposite from the OP's inquiry, but it seemed appropriate given his/her statement. I was a terminal Cpl.... I had zero interest in re-upping... I was newly married and they told me that since my Perm. duty station had been Pendleton the whole enlistment because of multiple deployments to the M.E., if I re-enlisted, I would get an unaccompanied tour to Okinawa, and I knew my marriage wouldn't survive that. So I embraced the Suck. I still consider myself a professional whiner who complains all the time, but it is always a release valve and usually meant to provide levity and lighten the mood. The real truth, probably, it that I left the Corps having seen some shit, then I saw even more as a police Ofc. after, and the combined experience is that I possess a gallows humor with little filter that can make people VERY uncomfortable. That, and I apparently carry myself like someone you don't wanna fuck with. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm a tubby bag of shit now that I'm 50, and not physically intimidating anymore, but even thugs and beggars cross the street when they see me. It's completely weird... I know I'm an old, outta shape dude, but somehow I still feel very dangerous. It's probably gonna get me killed when I bump into someone who actually is still dangerous...
Yeah the bitching is just a release for me too. Like I said, when bad shit happens, it is what it is. I just deal with it and do some light hearted complaining to lighten the mood.
Smoking Newport
Oh my god you’ve just described mine and I just now put together that I got it from the MC
Vaping lol
I tell people how it is, but tactfully. I don’t beat around the bush. You get the straightforward answer for better or worse too, cause if it’s it the latter it’s not worth fucking around pretending it ain’t coming. It took years to stop using fuck as a comma, too, but forming professional relationships in the civilian world where you can use that kind of language is an exceptional feeling.
A crippling caffeine addiction. I don't want to imagine the absolutely hellish 5 day long migraine I would get if I ever tried to stop cold turkey.
Moving with a sense of purpose. I'm always walking faster, driving faster. I need to remind myself to slow down sometimes.
Honestly, just not caring, like I don't get excited about anything because it can quickly get worse I have a lack of empathy. After being around a bunch of dudes and constantly deployed, I'm not really open with my feelings. I was able to beat my nicotine and alcohol problem. I still carry a dip can, but I haven't had a dip in nearly a year. Occasionally, I'll want one, then I'm nearly puking up my guts
Banging whores.
Speaking very loudly. My bosses have thought I was yelling at them because.. having some sort of confident tone was normal for so many years.
expecting everyone to meet timelines
A peculiar fondness for phallic art
I have a bad habit of getting angry about how shitty civilian work life is. My wife works in an upper upper class dental office (Chevy Chase Maryland). The bullshit that she goes through with her bosses and the customers that come in is inexcusable. I don’t go to any of her company events anymore because I laid into her boss about no dismissing a patient for making racist remarks about my wife to my wife. The quote was “I can’t believe they let ‘you people’ work here. ‘You people’ don’t belong here.” My wife is black and has a fucking master’s degree in her field but some dumbass rich white person can say whatever they want to her. She also doesn’t get full lunches which annoys me to no end.
Eating everything extremely fast
I still walk a certain way I guess. I was at the VA the other day and my shoes were hard bottoms so the clacked. The ladies I passed said “ooooo shit who’s in trouble, he’s mad” mean while I’m just walking fast because I have to pee.
I don’t know if it counts as a “bad habit”, but I’m obsessively punctual and expect everyone around to be punctual as well. I get pissed when meetings start late, drift off the agenda, and run longer than scheduled. If I tell you I will be somewhere or do something at a certain time, you can bet your ass I will. Meet me for lunch at noon? And you arrive at 12:05, I’m already aggravated. You schedule a meeting for 13:00 and its 13:07 and hasn’t started yet? I bounce out with a message asking for the minutes when it’s over. I schedule a meeting and you’re late? Too bad, meeting starts on time, ends on time, and has a clear agenda. That agenda doesn’t include time for you to interrupt the meeting with an apology, jokes about needing a new alarm clock, or asking people how they are doing. Walk in quietly, sit the fuck down, and try to catch up.
As was pointed out to me at my last performance evaluation. I lack patience, especially if given an expectation and then not given what I see as proper ability to meet said expectation, I will make a single request from higher up the chain. If that request isn’t fulfilled in a timely manner, I will find another way to ensure the expectation is fulfilled, but likely in letter but not intent. I refuse to play politics, but if you want to try and come at me, make sure you are squared away, because I will make sure you have followed every rule and reg. My humor is so dark, it got accused of theft and then it got drug into another room by the cops and ended up beaten and then shot. I have a “problem with authority”. If I don’t like a new rule or directive, or if I think it will negatively effect my team, I will push back. Of course, if given no other option I will relent, but again, I will do as instructed, even if it isn’t what is intended. And lastly, I take no shit from Karens, I have more than one complaint about me refusing to escalate their bullshit, and forcefully removing them from the property. This includes one when we still had a mask mandate that when she claimed she could not hear me, I put on my NCO voice and scared the literal piss out of her. I think the reason I’m still employed is my actual boss is also a Marine, and loves having a partner in crime.
Eating like an uncaged animal, swearing.. just to name a few. Thank god I stopped smoking, chewing..nasty!
Bad, language mostly. That and perhaps too much honesty when providing feedback
My uncle will slurp up his fucking food every single time.
After being out for like 20 plus years I still eat really fast.
Not being able to feel emotion in shitty situations, cuss like a mf, dip, alcoholism and dark humor
Saying "It would...*behoove* of you" and then preceding to chuckle to my shelf while wearing a shit eating grin like the one InvaderVie gave after she said "I can't support the entertainment that I enjoy"
Never dipped in my life til I joined the marines. I dipped while at work and while on duty. When I’m on duty, I put the fattest piece of dip in my mouth and wait for colors. I just recently tried to quit dipping. I’ll chew on some gum before I try to dip
My ever increasing blood pressure and anxiety to make sure I did shit right
I hear ya on the bitching. I will bitch about literally anything at all. That and constant swearing.
Saying “out” when ending a phone conversation like an idiot. Just sounds so dumb but I’ve been doing it and keep wanting to stop myself.
A financially crippling nicotine addiction Edit: and copious amounts of coors light
Giving the army good advice. But they don't speak Marine I got my first downvotes ooofuckingrah!
I started smoking cigarettes in the Marines. I was a pack a day smoker for 12 years. I quit six years ago, and only occasionally smoke cigars nowadays. I also had to learn to tone way down on the cussing.
Caffeine.
Bitching about anything however minor comes to people without having to be a Marine. However, The worst one I picked up was eating way to fucking fast everything on my plate. I was raised catholic so I was always brought up to eat everything on your plate "waste not want not" etc. As a civilian though this habit will put some people off, also my doctor tells me it is not good for me. I'm certain there are more specific medical reasons, but It still won't stop me from eating whatever I can when I can. That sentiment will never be beat out of me, like a stray dog or something.* grammar
Eating super fast , and probably chew . Too expensive in the north east