I was hoping for some more info. I hadn't found @glasspusher to be an angry sort. 🙂
I much rather be told directly the good or the bad, rather than trying to follow a trail of breadcrumbs to the eventual meaning.
I loaded trucks part time through high-school, worked with fishermen on the wharf, was in the reserves for a while, and worked with contractors for 25 years. From that, my takeaway has been to be direct, blunt and accurate. (As an aside, profanity is punctuation.)
Working in the office though, I try to be more polite, but that can go out the window when things get stressful and deadlines approach.