Author Topic: How you know Your an Airsoft Junkie!!!!  (Read 1362 times)

Offline IcePlatinumSky

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How you know Your an Airsoft Junkie!!!!
« on: February 18, 2005, 01:13:04 PM »
I saw this on classic airsoft.net
and they found it on http://teamstrikers.com/web/modules.php ... highlight=

I felt that we all needed some humor today!!!

DEFINITE SIGNS YOU ARE PLAYING TOO MUCH AIRSOFT:

1. As you are driving along, you study the terrain, analyzing where a sniper would set up.

2. All hilltops are thoroughly scrutinized.

3. Small dark "splotches" are keenly studied.

4. You carry a scope or binoculars with you in your car.

5. You think about tactics in a free-flowing, and often disturbingly detailed manner.

6. You watch pedestrians and gauge how much lag-lead you would use on them, taking into account such things as wind, whether they are walking uphill or downhill, etc...

7. You run around your office cubicles taking advantage of cover, and occasionally taking a prone position in the thicker shag carpeted areas.

8. You wear combat fatigues to work

9. Your favorite t-shirt for working out at the gym is your AO shirt!

10. Your immediate near term goal is to get a cable/ADSL modem to surf for upcoming events.

11. You are planning on changing your youngest son's name to Blackhawk.

12. When meeting people on the sidewalk or hallways, you often "jink" left or right to avoid them.

13. When loading my sons into the car, I say "stand by for insertion" and they know what that means.

14. Your ten year old could explain the pros and cons of a SAW to neophytes.

15. You whip your head around with a lethal look on your face everytime the bushes shake.

16. Tall grass gives you that "special" feeling.

17. You have ordered a laser range finder to approximate the BB drop to that damn noisy dog next door.

18. Your wife has to wear a ghillie suit to get your attention.

19. You set waypoints as you travel.

20. You run into your house first telling everybody to wait out in front. After you’ve
checked every closet in the house you yell out, "CLEAR!"

21. Every time a bug flies by you at high speeds, you duck and look around to see if it was a BB fired by an enemy.

22. When the cell-phone rings and your wife asks where you are, you say you're at waypoint "zulu".

23. When someone nearby falls down to the ground, instead of asking to help them up you yell out, "GET DOWN AND STAY DOWN!"

24. On vacation or in a park, you think to yourself that the area you are in now would make a great playing field.

25. You've never been in the army, but talk to veterans like you've been through wars,
saying you got over 100 kills the other day in your "Special OPs" mission.

26. You hang camouflage netting around your office desk & computer.

27. You constantly accuse everyone of cheating.

28. You run 5 kilometers out of your way to sneak into your office's back entrance.

29. When someone calls you a neophyte, its a worse insult than someone disparaging your mom.

30. You wear camo face paint to work . . . and everyone thinks its normal because they know about your airsoft addiction

31. Your family has a airsoft intervention meeting.

32. You take a job that will allow you to travel so you can play against different players.

33. You’d trade your house for a working airsoft hand grenade.

34. You're using a staple gun when you suddenly run out of staples and you instantly think: "Reloading, Cover me!"
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« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2005, 01:35:03 PM »
If I had a house I think #33 wouldn't be such a bad idea :)
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« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2005, 02:55:59 PM »
Uh, most airsofters I know aren't that calculating on the field!

It's more like, "LOOK!  A bad guy, let's go shoot him!"
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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2005, 05:35:20 PM »
Quote from: "azsarge"
Uh, most airsofters I know aren't that calculating on the field!

It's more like, "LOOK!  A bad guy, let's go shoot him!"


Dang then I feel sorry for those people. Thinking like that created decafe coffe, and decafe Coke!!! :P
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« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2005, 05:51:35 PM »
sounds kinda like me for most of them...freaky...
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« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2005, 06:21:39 PM »
First 15 or so apply readily to me, but it's about soldiering. I was only back from Bosnia a few days before I took cover in the fiesta mall after some kid popped a balloon. MY wife felt so bad for me, but I just though "wow, good reaction, I still got it".
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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2005, 06:29:40 PM »
The thing is, when you KNOW it isn't the real deal and you jump anyway.

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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2005, 07:02:47 PM »
Quote from: "Lightning_Man"
First 15 or so apply readily to me, but it's about soldiering. I was only back from Bosnia a few days before I took cover in the fiesta mall after some kid popped a balloon. MY wife felt so bad for me, but I just though "wow, good reaction, I still got it".


You still do.  It sounds silly to me now, but when I returned from training I found myself doing things like creating an exit plan from movie theatres and such,  applying what I learned in training.  Like you said it's about soldiering.

What I find funny is that fact that airsofters (without prior LE or Mil experience) think they are soldier-enough to do this sort of thing when they aren't even that way on the field. :lol:   We're talking about guys that step on every dry twig, blind fire like they have no eyes, and hide behind transparent bushes like it's a bunker.  To hear them say how "tactical" they are makes me laugh!
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« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2005, 10:21:38 PM »
Christian just nailed it on the button for me! I don't admit to having any military experience where none exists. I'm decent at airsoft, but in real life a 5.56 sure as hell would penetrate my cover!

I can just see it when i get to basic. We do the laser training for MilSim exercises and I'm out there jinking and sprinting like a mofo to a bush out in the middle of no where! Those of you who play with me on a regular basis know exactly what I'm talking about hehe!
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« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2005, 10:26:50 PM »
I never seem to see you for more than a quick few seconds no matter what team you are on Nate! Always running around everywhere. Crazy mofo...
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C&C
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2005, 03:38:10 AM »
Hmmm.

There is a big difference between cover and concealment. By definithion concealment makes you harder to see but doesn't necessarily offer any protection,and cover may or may not make you harder to see, but offers you some protection from incoming fire. Sounds like when you get to basic you will need to re-learn what thing constitue cover and what is concealment and what is both.

That or you may be spending a lot of time laying in the dirt with a piercing shriek coming from your gear :)

I'm sure this little lesson probably came up somewhere before but figured it couldn't hurt to mention it, besides, im almost past being a "board newbie" so any chance to wag my gums, LOL
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« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2005, 04:49:28 AM »
Nice, but you forgot loss of sleep, everybody thinking you are detailed and clean when all you're doing is leaving the place like you found so nobody would know anyone was there, never standing directly in front of any door even if you are knocking on it, relieving yourself just enough so you can hold it for another 4 hours leaving little or no "waste signiture" to mask as much "out gassing" as possible from said waste!  Funny how the stuff stays in your head,,,
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« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2005, 11:04:30 AM »
34. You're using a staple gun when you suddenly run out of staples and you instantly think: "Reloading, Cover me!"

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You know what? It's even worse when you start playing with the staple gun, and you actually fire a few staples of at some target, and then you yell "Reloading cover me!"
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Re: C&C
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2005, 01:02:00 PM »
Quote from: "Lightning_Man"
Hmmm.
[...]That or you may be spending a lot of time laying in the dirt with a piercing shriek coming from your gear :)


You'll hear it once, Nate.  Then you'll do your damndest to Never, Ever hear it again!

With regard to your lesson LM, type away!  These guys could use more than a few tales from a BTDT.
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