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Imagine being a 15-year-old trying to convince your parents to support your new hobby when they see the ad for a t-shirt saying "Losers don't do drugs" on P8. There you have one 15-year-old not playing paintball for a long time.

I've been playing since '89 and have seen how the sport has become increasingly professional. PGI and P8 have always been among the main contributors to giving the sport an image that we can all be proud of. However, it's impossible to be proud of a culture that suggests that the use of drugs will make you a winner and I find it hard to believe that P8 can support such an attitude.

I don't mind ads for whatever crap people want to pay money for, but I wish that a highly respected publication such as P8 would not support the sale of products that assosiate drugs with paintball.

On behalf of those who love the sport of paintball and hate the use of drugs,

-Ornulf, Malera.
 
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When I saw the t-shirt, I laffed my ass of, keep it up p8ntwears :D


But seriously, lighten up dude, it's obviously a "humorous" design on the t-shirt, I think it's obvious to anyone who has played a couple of sup'air games that you need your wits about you, so drugs are a big nono (well, maybe speed, but that's another thread ;) )

On behalf of those who love the sport of paintball and hate the use of drugs,
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Holy Moly Batman, there are paintballers that don't like beer or ciggies! :p :D


(cough_good_taxable_drugs_cough) :cool:
 
Baca Loco

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Maybe Ornulf is a bit of a buzzkill but--

Here's a question for ya.
Where do you draw the line between what's acceptable and what isn't?
Doesn't the seemingly more and more pervasive attitude in pball of 'screw-the-world-it's-all-about-me' contribute to alot of the problems folks complain about all the time?
 
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Unless you just landed on this planet ...

You should know that paintball is not defined as a sport, is not an acceptable pasttime and has a very serious image problem.

Our image is so bad that it is negative from the outside (training for the militia's) and negative from the inside (we don't cheat, we just play hard). We can't get our act together and therefore can't lay the foundation down to tell outsiders how it is. Television and Nike are not in our futures because of exactly that.

And moronic T-shirts and swear-word goggle skins really aren't helping. It is the accumulation of the small things that lead to the amplification of the problems. The few articles I've had published get set back years by morons who want to be unique. Compensate for your miserable lives elsewhere.

As you can tell, you touched a nerve. If we want to be a fringe sport, an extreme (gravity) sport for forever, then castrating ourselves with bad PR is a great way to do that. I guess we're not smart enough or tough enough to take a separate, less traveled path. Rant over, and apologies to anyone who was offended but believes the same things I do,

Larry Janecka
 
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