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016 ♐ Video ♐ 17 company men, out of which only 12 will make it back again

[This is a very slight change of pace from normal. Archer is up, be-suited, and holding a scotch on the rocks in his hand with the bottle tucked under his arm. The unusual part is that he's not in his room or the pub, he's outside the chapel. The very unusual part is that he's not drunk.]

Chances are no matter who you are on board, and no matter how shitty the place you came from is, someone died trying to make it better. Maybe lots of people. Maybe some of you died trying to help your country or your cause. And maybe people just don't talk about it because they don't want to think about people dying so they could have something good. Which is shitty.

So.

[Archer holds the glass out at arm's length and overturns it onto the ground, somberly.]

Pour one out for the guys who aren't here and remember the people who died. Here's to the vets.

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Thank you, Dr. Freud. Do I get to look at Rorschach tests next session?

Oh, sure. And then I can make you hold the feelings ball and talk about your feelings.

[Her voice abruptly turned to angry mocking snideness; guess who doesn't like any form of psychiatric bullshit very much?]

Wait, that's a thing? Feelings balls?

Yeah. It's like a stupid floofy koosh they make you hold, and when it's your turn you're supposed to focus on what you're feeling and let it all out without thinking about it, or "getting lost in analysis and self-denial".

Like a lot of techniques used by the so-called experts, it's utter crap. All touchy feely bullshit, and no one listens to you when you're actually trying to say something important!

And they think that works? Touchy-feely feelings balls. Just. Phrasing, oh my God.

I think being a shrink means you have to undergo training in saying shit like that with a straight face.

I think it's probably most of the training, really.

That, or just some experience in mind-numbing drugs. ...Sorry. A couple of my "coworkers," and I use that in the loosest sense possible, are literally insane.