Not sure if it has reached the military yet (I have retired) but those who precede the answer to a question with "Listen, ......" are particularly annoying. I think Tony Blair was the first person I heard doing this and it seems to have caught on with other politicians and 'pundits'. If I ask a question, I do not expect to be told to listen to the answer; if I did not want to listen to the answer I would not have asked the question. Mind you, there were many senior officers in my experience who did not apply this logic.