February's 'Brains.

[Manning26]

I saw that thread the other night, and was very glad to hear that someone is actually working on that. I've heard rumblings of the Olympics in the past, but that's really all it's been. And that's exactly the sort of thing I'm goin' on about, doubtful if the efforts to put paintball in the Olympics will be hampered by calling a paintball gun, a gun, and bravo to the ladies and gents like Hotpoint who work so hard to get us in the limelight.

Oh, Rancid, I've told you about talking about my nuts on the forum, you cad!

 

[eric]

To some point being PC is needed, but it gets ubsurd(did I spell that right?). I think how people talk now is fine. We could even turn downt the the PCieness(Yes i did make it up) a little. I don't see what is so wrong with saying gun and bunker and stuff like that. All of those anti-gun nuts should shut up.

No, I am not some hillbilly from Kentucky(sorry Inferno) who has three teeth and 18 shotguns and a moving turret on my car. And I don't play paintball cause I like to go out and "kill" people(uh oh, that sounded a little PC, better stop)

 

[Inferno]

The degree to which some people go to be accepted. If we tone down the sport to the point where we purposely rename everything, then why play? The sport will have lost its edge. I wonder if Ennio wrote into Chess Monthly to complain that when a knight "takes" the queen, it sounds like she is being raped. Or in checkers, when a piece is "jumped" does that imply a gang initiation? Give me a break. We are very careful in portraying paintball as a safe, legitimate sport- isn't that enough?

 

[TJ Lambini]

You should see this month's PGI

...Brains is written by some uberloser name of Jay Wijnhold...

Sounds Dutch to me. You know him Buddha?



Peace

 

[MarkehB]

I was just writing an arguement that disagreed with the lot of you when it hit me. Apart from the word gun, only those who play the game know the war-like terms mentioned in the mag, so changing the name of bunkers to whatever aint gonna change jack.

I thankyou.

 

[Robin Hood]

Such a simple point and half true. The main that many of the people are trying to get across is that non-paintballers still take words like 'mug' and 'dead-zone', and are able to associate and relate them with every day life and words used in every day life.

Ohhhhhhh TJ is releasing sneak peaks of the next PGI!! Please tell us more Mr. Lambini Dude!!

 

[MarkehB]

Yes, but few if any non-paintballers know what the terms and phrases are.

 

[TJ Lambini]

More?

OK dude, keep it to yourself tho...

Highlights from PGI 156 include:

Spearhead Cocker and M3 Patriot Tested
Guide to upgrading your Cocker by Ravi's Chopper
Interviews with Team Trauma an' Twisted Kids
Essential guide to mugging - sorry, tickling
Robo on bad behaviour and how to deal with...Lauren Hamet take note!
J-Lo's guide to putting a winning team together (yeh, like he'd know...
Tyger on visualising to win
PGI's Chris laquinta (real name) on 'The Edge'. (Not U2's guitarist, tha other one)
Reviews of Mardi Gras and Navarone Big Game

And sooooo much more - including tha truth behind Flashpoint's mysterious disappearance at Mardi Gras.

 

[Buddha 3]

You should see this month's PGI

Originally posted by TJ Lambini
...Brains is written by some uberloser name of Jay Wijnhold...

Sounds Dutch to me. You know him Buddha?



Peace

Nah, don't think I ever heard of him.........

 

[Tyger]

Originally posted by TJ Lambini
OK dude, keep it to yourself tho...

Highlights from PGI 156 include:
...
Tyger on visualising to win
...

The article that TZ Zamboni only WISHES he could write! Actually, it's stuff TJ Does, but it's simplified for teh rest of the world.

As for the brainz article, there's a belief that if we change the wordage of what we do, that it will suddenly be 'ok' for mass acceptance.

Yesterday I was at the orthopedics, getting my cast put on. (That's another story...) I brought with my the PPS Stroker so they could mold my cast around the grip. This, naturally, was the most entertaining thing that all these people had seen. Because they had to wrap the grip in stockinet so the fiberglass wouldn't mesh with the grip.

But while I was talking to the cast guys, I found that one of them was a sports medicine guy at U.W. LaCrosse. And we talked a bit about teh Knox Indoor, becasue he was totally blown away by a 'paintball'' guy wanting an orange cast (If you go to Knoxville indoor or Skyball, you'll see why...). I explaned that I was playing "back" for the tournament, and what my position would entail, a quick explanation of sweet spotting and so on.

And he looked at me and said "You have positions?" And after more conversation (Lots of time because we had to wait for the cast to dry) he was convinced I was either a lunatic or hard core as some of his football players. He was impressed that I knew my position well, and he found it intresting hwo much thought I ad put into shooting with the cast on.

Point to all this is that accpetance coms with expirence and knowledge. Most people wiht open minds will be intrested to hear about the sporting end, and will be happy to compare it to the sports they know. In this case, he had a working kowledge of football, and he made a few connections to that. Acceptance shouldn't be rushed, or name changed, or whatever. It'll happen, jjust give it time.

Believe me, same conversation 10 years ago would have been diffrent.

Oh, and the other intern there, after hefting my Stroker with the nitro tank, was amazed I didn't have Carpel Tunnel...

-Tyger