February's 'Brains.

[Manning26]

I've come up with some terms for Mr. Ennio Fortizzoni, so he can sleep at night.

Mugging will now be,'Tickling.' Example: Dude, I was the last one in the back, Poorman was keeping me in, and Rocky just ran up and tickled me!

Bunker will now be, 'Happy Place.' Example: I'd made it to the lay-down happy place on the fifty, and then out of nowhere Rocky runs up and tickles me!

Dead Zone will now be, 'The Fuzzy Rainbow Area.' Example: I screwed up the count, so I was looking in their fuzzy rainbow area to see what's what, when all of a sudden, Rocky comes flyin' over the top of my happy place and tickles me!

Gun will now be,'Marker.' Example: People who think that the use of these terms is what's holding us back should be riddled with a marker.

Good friggin' gravy, we have a real sport here, and as soon as we can get ourselves organized as such, I'm hoping I'll never have to read any stupid crap like that again. American football quarterbacks don't have to worry about using the term, 'bomb.' The linemen, "battle in the trenches." This always will be a ludicrous arguement, and people who get upset or confused over this terminology have got some serious personal issues anyway. Those people will never be happy, hell, if you used the terms I came up with, then they'd worry their kids will turn gay, or some other ignorant b.s. like that. Let's concentrate on legitimate issues here, trying to placate every single buffoon out there is like chasing your tail.

Thoughts?

 

[Buddha 3]

Manning,

Underneath this I've copied and pasted the text of a post I made a few weeks back. I think you'll find it agrees with your opinions.....


Quote (from myself): "Getting tired of all this PC stuff.....
On my way to work this morning, I was reading the feb issue of PGI. One of the articles I read was the speak your brains bit in the back. I did not like what I read (well, I liked what I read, but I didn't agree with it....)
I think someone mentioned this article before, but I don't remember the thread.......my mind still fuzzy after a long weekend of partying, finished of by a great training day on sunday....
For those who haven't read it, first get a subscription! Second, this guy was on about how paintball would get a negative image because we use words like bunker, gun, mug, and so on. According to him, 'warlike' words such as these would give us a very, very bad name...What a load of cr@p! (my opinion, not at all proven fact)
If we do indeed change our lingo, than we need to change a LOT of things. We couldn't call bunkers things to hide behind, because hiding implies fear, and fear is not nice. We could call them things that prevent paint hitting you. No wait! Hitting is a bad word. Let's call them things that keep paint from making physical contact with your body! But then again paint is bad too, because it sounds like we're putting up some permanent graffitti! So we'll call the things that prevent non-permanent coloured staining liquid filled capsules making physical contact with you. That's better.
Might as well change the name of the game too. That'll be non-permanent coloured staining liquid filled ball from now on. I know it's a mouthfull, but at least it's friendly. (Hmmm, the word mouthfull might give some bad associations too.....)
As far as the gun thing goes, must of us call them markers anyway, but let's change that name too, because graffitti artists use markers too, and that's vandalism. So from now on, they'll be known as apparatus used to launch non-permanent staining liquid filled balls at the other players. Wait a second! Launch! Missiles get launched too, and missiles are bad, m'kay! So replace the word launch with the word fling. That's better.

By now I guess you realise that I'm being (very) sarcastic.
C'mon man, paintball is a sport that is played with a certain aggression. The words we use are the right ones! When you fly over the top of a BUNKER, it indeed feels like you're MUGGING someone. Other sports use this sort of lingo too. When a QB takes it up the @$$ in American Football, it's called a sack, which is the same term used for the event of an army invading and plundering a city! Players HIT each other.

I play paintball, and I'm proud of that! I don't play f*cking hippyball!

PS. From reading what this guy said, I do get the impression that he means nothing but the best for the sport, for that I give him credit. I just think he goes about it the wrong way.

Peace ya'll! (Hang on! Saying peace means that you acknowledge the existence of war, which is a not at all nice state of affairs. We can't have any of that, can we......See what I mean? If we start along those lines, where will it end?)" End quote.

 

[Manning26]

Ha, that rocks, Buddy. I apologize for missing that one, I haven't been scanning the forum like I used to. Thanks for that.

 

[Buddha 3]

Heehee!!!
Didn't mean to set you straight or anything, I just meant to show you I agree, without having to retype all that stuff.

 

[Manning26]

Well, the poor guy had it coming. I don't suppose Onion posted on your thread did he? I know his love for all that is P.C.

 

[TheRo0sTer]

Buddha you long winded Gitt! I hate PC terms. But why not use the term Happy Place for the Dead zone and Bed for Bunker. That is a comfort zone.

But then Mannings line here----->
I'd made it to the lay-down bed on the fifty, and then out of nowhere Rocky runs up and tickles me! Would have sexaul Innuendoes!

 

[rancid]

Fkin Manning and Buddha - you're a right couple of hard nuts!

I think we should tone down the nastier words that we use. For example, 'you muthafkin cheatin fuk faced bstrd nt, you're fkin out you fkin mutha etc.,' could become: 'please check yourself player, I think I may have clipped you with a lucky shot.'

 

[Robin Hood]

Ahh dear!! That's classic - all of it!!

And I wholeheartedly agree with the lot of ya. There's so many other sports that use such 'negative' imagery to describe moves and I don't think that our sport should be discriminated against for doing the same thing just becuase ours includes shooting at eachother with 'paintguns'! Sure the adrenalin might be running high and it's totally an action sport, which is why we do what we do. But a few certain people just can't get it into their PC head of theirs that we're not freakin' Rambo wannabee's or encouraging random acts of violence or guns!! It's just a sport in which we have a really great time and it's a fantastic way of developing team and social skills....as well as possible releasing a bit of that weekly work stress build up!

I think that part of the thing Mr. Ennio Forizzoni was trying to get at was that the PC biggots don't register paintball as a sport, therefore the added use of language such as bunker, mug, paint 'gun' etc. just adds to their misunderstanding of the sport and their inate desire to condemn it as 'evil'!!

I agree Mr. Forizzoni set out with the best of intentions, but I don't think that it's completely up to us to accomodate those who don't understand the world of paintball. I believe that if those individuals who kick up such a fuss wanted to - or even tried to get an insight into the sport then they would realise a whole lot about it and look at it with a different perspective, but it's their lack of interest and continual denial that paintball is a healthy sport that is holding them back. They need to be a little more open minded about the possibility of recognising paintball and until then - it's up to them to sort themselves out. We must continue as strong as ever, trying as best as possible to keep a good name to our sport and when they're ready to accept us, we'll be there, ready to take that step closer to making paintball a more well renound sport all over the world!!

Phew! End of rant.

Peace out!

 

[Manning26]

Well, everyone who writes this same article is definitely trying to better the sport, which is outstanding, but they really should take the effort they're putting into this, and divert it to something productive. I'm not sure if it's discussed as much outside of the 'States, but it's an old, worn, and outdated subject over here. Obviously, that's just my opinion.

 

[Robin Hood]

Yeah, I understand Manning and there are people who are working hard at doing this kinda work productively - we've got people like Hotpoint on this forum who are working very hard to get our sport recognised. We need to stick behind them and support them all the way. Especially dependent upon the decision of the counsils in mid-march (this is to do with the UK of course). Then we all have to step up and help. Check out the olympic thread and what Hotpoint has to say:

http://www.p8ntballer-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3956