harsh laughage

[Henry.B]

this is really pointless and stupid but it shows that our sport has reached even "poor ppls" TV. I like many others cannot afford (or be bothered enough) to get sky/cable/interstellar TV. but i was amazed to see and ADVERT involving paintball! first there was the advert for Clarytyn- a hayfever tablet company. A bloke donning a paintgun and cammies playing sneaky pete. he sneezes and - SPLAT!!! a paintball hits him. He sneezes again, and SPLAT!!! 4 or 5 paintballs hit him. then he sneezes again and it's like - piow piow piow piow piow piow hundreds or paintbalss fly out of no where and he is lit up like a christmas tree. I was like; "woah" ppl are actually starting to recognise paintball as a sport! KitKat then bought that advert for their "have a break, have a kit kat" campaign. Unfortunetly, X-fire has started airing again. this is an absolute joke and seems to me to convey a negative image about pball. Y do they have to drop dead? and y do they all look like such fools? what they where, the way they play, everything about that show sux. it's the kind of thing Henry Litchfield (weiner who cried when he played and badmouths the game to everyone he knows-"criket is way more fun than paintball") watches. Feel free to ask me or How about this particular incident it was hilarious.
Why can't crossfire go and die or summit and we have access to something along the Lines of "mission Paintball" on Bravo , made availiable to us "poor ppl" who don't have sky? sorry to all about my going of on a tangent about henry litchfield. and i apologise for this long and stoopid thread. if u have nothing better to do or perchance r interested, please reply. i am interested to see other ppls opinions on this subject. by the way does anyone wnat to sell me a warped sportz big drop forward? L8r

 

[How]

WTF

shut up henry,u watch mission paintball on SKY at your house all the time. You do hav sky!

 

[Henry.B]

oh god! i'm shocked!

actually i'm not personally allowed to watch sky. ask my parents why. I am poor because i do not ahve a decent set of parents. as for watching mission paintball i only watch it when i can ween my way into pete's lounge to watch it or get it videoed by 1 of my friends and watch it then.

 

[Cube]

Originally posted by Henry.B
Unfortunetly, X-fire has started airing again. this is an absolute joke and seems to me to convey a negative image about pball.

Why can't crossfire go and die or summit and we have access to something along the Lines of "mission Paintball" on Bravo ,

Dude I think this is unduly harsh and you really do need to look at paintball in the wider context.

X-Fire sucks, not essentially because it shows a negative image of paintball just because it's visually really, really bad. Televisually X-Fire is poor, the presenter is dreadful and the "bad-guys" couldn't act their way out of a paper bag. It's cringe worthy television to those of us who play the game, but to those people watching who haven't......well...... they do seem to like it.

X-Fire, and I'll probably be cursed for saying it, shows anything but a negative image of paintball, it shows people having fun playing a game many people would recognise from childhood.

For paintball to flourish in the UK we have to have people going to paintball sites, we have to have the ground floor platform where people play the game as "punters", move on to "regulars" head towards "rec-ballers" and possibly turn into "tourney-players".

For that interest to be raised beyond the work, club or society where someone says "lets play paintball that'd be a laugh" you have to have a media presence. For all it's faults X-Fire will stuimulate business, the guys from OTE have posted here that the business for the site went up after the airings and that people were using some of the phrases...good!

The more people that play the better as far as I'm concerned. I'm not going to be snobbish about the people who are now what I was back in '89. The more people that play, the more people outside the industry will want to get a piece of the action.

If some advertisers could see what marketing groups go through paintball sites on a regular basis they might be interested in putting up advertising hordings around sites safe zones. Think of it...this bunker sponsored by Burger King etc. Sites could make a few extra quid on the adverts and possibly get some stuff built on their sites for free.

I may be a dreamer man.....but I'm not the only one. It's coming, it may well be a few years but it's coming. Frankly I wonder how many site owners have tried selling advert space based on the demographics of people that play. Lets face it paintball at any level aint a cheap sport, some of those guys have disposeable income that companies want to have!

Mission Paintball is another kettle of fish, it's a different target audience and basically shows a different aspect of paintball. Other than that it too was dreadful.

Emily Booth is not known for her paintballing skills, or in fact her ability to act or present other than inanely and whoever the other guy was wasn't much better.

Snapshooter was daft, but I suppose we have to remember the audience want's more than people running and then walking off.
It was fun, not really representitive of tourney ball even when I played, (5 years ago), but it's a start. Make it a bit more professional and they might have something. Something like the way the Campaign Cup DVD looked would be a good thing.

Basically the point of this long load of c$!p is be thankful that TV has paintball on it inn sme kind of positive way at all and that we don't see the Byker Grove "let's shoot out someones eyes" in it.

TV will come around to decent programmes that show both sides of the sport, tourney and rec-ball. We just have to give it a bit of time to adjust, stop whinging so much and support the programmers.

After all it's a brave step they've taken.

 

[Henry.B]

ok

yeh good point m8. but yes i did notice that the acting and the presenter are also laughable

 

[styles mugger]

first there was the advert for Clarytyn- a hayfever tablet company. A bloke donning a paintgun and cammies playing sneaky pete. he sneezes and - SPLAT!!! a paintball hits him. He sneezes again, and SPLAT!!! 4 or 5 paintballs hit him. then he sneezes again and it's like - piow piow piow piow piow piow hundreds or paintbalss fly out of no where and he is lit up like a christmas tree. [/B]

I belive the ad was for nestle kitkat.
Have a break (Shoot chronic at each other),have a kitkat (while having a cast put on at hospital).4hr
waiting to have cast on=eating lots of kits=fat git=eats lots more kits another day= more money to nestle CHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCIIIIIIINNNNNNNNINGGGGGGG£££££££££!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cube]

ok

Originally posted by Henry.B
yeh good point m8. but yes i did notice that the acting and the presenter are also laughable

I think for both programmes the acting and presenters go far beyond laughable.

Robbo for TV??
TJ for TV??.....TJ is TV???

Could the world take it?

Let's hope that we can find out at some point

 

[Tenebrae]

He's squeezed ur spots, called u snookle bum
just incase u was wondering.

X-fire is a jest, I want to know if that bird really has got cracking tits, u know the won, er, twatminge or sommit, low black number.
Kinda good in some respects tho, the big black bloke shares my name, ahhh fame, again!

And cube, ur bang on. Just today I was discussing when i was a team capt. attempting to get sponsorship outside the paintball arena, its gotta be done more often I think, everybody who wants some, try the local firms, try the big chains, just fire off a letter (make it a clever one please!) and strike a deal, u aint got nothing to loose!

Rick

 

[Henry.B]

Thanx tenbrae

thnx i will change my signature now. and no apparently her tits are prosthetic

 

[mynamesdave]

soz im in a realli picky mood, so shouldn't it be "he's licked.." henry?

daz