I say marker but I have never said,
Or, more often than not, "that ******* lit me up!"
Cro
I do say "I lit that sucker up!"
Or, more often than not, "that ******* lit me up!"
Cro
The Friday Poll: Markers, pistols, gats, nines, shootin' irons...
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when talking to my mum or people who dont know pb i choose 1,
when talking to my teammates right before "game on" i choose 4,
just makes life easier
when talking to my teammates right before "game on" i choose 4,
just makes life easier
I've just got this weird habit of using the right names for things, silly me. I fire a marker in paintball (not a gun), I threw javelin at school (not a spear) and when I'm putting posters up at work I use a stapler (I don't shoot staples into the wall from my rexel 100 gat) so I'm not being PC. I've never called my marker a gun, in fact when I'm with paintballers I usualy say cocker, timmy or shocker depending on what I'm using.
I'm pretty sure that if you look up the definition of "gun", you'd see that this is a pretty darn accurate word to describe a marker. So nothing wrong with calling it a gun.
From Dictionary.com...
Gun: A device resembling a firearm or cannon, as in its ability to project something, such as grease, under pressure or at great speed
Marker: An implement, ..., used for marking or writing
So everybodies right
Gun: A device resembling a firearm or cannon, as in its ability to project something, such as grease, under pressure or at great speed
Marker: An implement, ..., used for marking or writing
So everybodies right
yup, I don't see the problem really anyway........ how often do you mention your "gun, marker, gat whatever" to a non-baller? and no matter what you call it, you then have to describe it to them anyway. Whereas if you speak to another player then you use the markers name anyway "I used my speed, cocker, E-blade" etc..... how many times do you actualy need to say "I shot him with my gun" in normal conversation?
Tell ya what, call it what you like, and if you like gun so much then try and get your bag of "guns" through customs.......... I'll respect you for sticking to your principles. Might even buy you a drink to kill the pain of the body cavity search they do on you
This has got me thinking anyway........ is there a divide across the pond here? of the three sites/teams I've played for none of us use gun to describe our markers....... in fact there's even the occasional giggle when someone does say gun. Is it the other way around in the states? or is it just us? Just wondering, we tend to consider "gun" to be a bit of a punter thing....... "Gotta get a massive flame drop forward on my new paintball gun, it does 35 balls a second and I got it off E-bay via western Union, it's an Angel Intimidator E-blade spyder paintball gun, the bloke said it was really accurate, but I think I'm going to get an 18" rifled barrel to increase my range anyway"
Maybe we do it deliberately to get more of a "sport" image, but I suppose it depends on the culture you enter paintball with, to my lot they are markers........ I probably owe that to 6E which is where I first played..... very proffesional and keen to get paintball recognised by the masses and not as a "soldier thing" so when I listened to my first safety talk, I was handed a marker.
Anyway, if all of the major magazines refer to them as markers, and the manufacturers refer to them as markers then what's the problem? I know the latest group of younger players to visit us all called them markers as they got all of their info from PGI and shops on the web.
Tell ya what, call it what you like, and if you like gun so much then try and get your bag of "guns" through customs.......... I'll respect you for sticking to your principles. Might even buy you a drink to kill the pain of the body cavity search they do on you
This has got me thinking anyway........ is there a divide across the pond here? of the three sites/teams I've played for none of us use gun to describe our markers....... in fact there's even the occasional giggle when someone does say gun. Is it the other way around in the states? or is it just us? Just wondering, we tend to consider "gun" to be a bit of a punter thing....... "Gotta get a massive flame drop forward on my new paintball gun, it does 35 balls a second and I got it off E-bay via western Union, it's an Angel Intimidator E-blade spyder paintball gun, the bloke said it was really accurate, but I think I'm going to get an 18" rifled barrel to increase my range anyway"
Maybe we do it deliberately to get more of a "sport" image, but I suppose it depends on the culture you enter paintball with, to my lot they are markers........ I probably owe that to 6E which is where I first played..... very proffesional and keen to get paintball recognised by the masses and not as a "soldier thing" so when I listened to my first safety talk, I was handed a marker.
Anyway, if all of the major magazines refer to them as markers, and the manufacturers refer to them as markers then what's the problem? I know the latest group of younger players to visit us all called them markers as they got all of their info from PGI and shops on the web.
Contact made tween hammer and nail there methinks.
There is the whole "gun culture" thing in the states, and not so much this side of the pond.
I'd imagine if instead of paintball guns they'd initially been called paintball boobies, it would be the US ballers calling them markers
(fundamental difference across the pond - US = violence good, sex bad. UK/Europe = violence not so good, sex very good.
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Just wondering y'see, as I've noticed a lot of US posters seem to find us saying "marker" silly, mebbe it's just a language difference and nothing to do with being PC. (Although I've got no doubt some do it to be pc). I don't think any of my lot make a deliberate effort to say marker, probably the same for those saying gun........... whatever comes naturally
We say mug, you say bunker. Think about it, you wouldn't get away with shooting someone in the fanny over here
We say mug, you say bunker. Think about it, you wouldn't get away with shooting someone in the fanny over here
It is more like violence = pleasing if fictional or strictly controlled, sex = good, but let's not talk about it in polite company, hm?
I always say "paintball equipmant" or "paintball guns" to TSA officers. I feel that if I say "markers", they will get an image of felt tip pens in mind, so that when they actually check, they'll say to themselves "whoa, he said he was transporting art suppies, but actually he has a gun in here he didn't tell us about!"
I always say "paintball equipmant" or "paintball guns" to TSA officers. I feel that if I say "markers", they will get an image of felt tip pens in mind, so that when they actually check, they'll say to themselves "whoa, he said he was transporting art suppies, but actually he has a gun in here he didn't tell us about!"
It's the other way over here y'see I'd call it anything at customs before I said "gun" 'cos otherwise the rubber gloves would be on in a flash