A brown glove with one raised finger casts an exclamation-mark-shaped shadow on pale ground.

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Drill Instructor

Your days of finger-banging Mary-Jane Rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties...are over!!

— Full Metal Jacket ‧ 1987

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The drill instructor emphatically declares that the listener’s past sexual activities are over. The tirade asserts a change in what will be permitted; it does not independently verify those activities or establish their participants.

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