Only the few social graces Val's managing to cling to hold back a 'I wouldn't know, college was never an option for me' because even in the state he's in he knows that's not grim humour, it's just being rude.

"I have been to mission briefings I found less of a chore to sit through." He does not like briefings. At all. "This place's ideas about, well, just about everything, are certainly something."