Gun or Marker?
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Topic: Gun or Marker?
Posted By: Fallout_soldier
Subject: Gun or Marker?
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:13pm
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PC peoples are dum ------------- 
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Posted By: Solipsism
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:14pm
Yeah, stupid whiners. -------------  http://solipsism.ath.cx - solipsism.ath.cx |
Fallout_soldier wrote:Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:14pm
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Either or. ------------- 
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Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:16pm
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I use the term "marker" for the simple purpose of preventing confusion. If I talk about a "paintball gun", people unfamiliar with the concepts of paintball tend to think I'm talking about a firearm.
Among paintball folk, though, I use the terms pretty much interchangeably. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:16pm
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Gun. Screw PC.
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Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:21pm
Hehe... Quite the public speaker. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: MSG.Mobius
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:23pm
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I am very confused. ------------- 
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Posted By: impulse
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:26pm
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Marker ------------- 6,600 posts. I need a lifE |
Posted By: Slothbutt
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:27pm
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I *try* use the term marker when I'm around people that don't play. I have guns, I have markers. I don't treat them the same at all. ------------- http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/2688/3guns27ef.jpg - My Paintball Guns http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2711/arand9mmak9.jpg - New "Toys" |
Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:31pm
That was pretty much my point. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: Ejp414
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:31pm
I bet most of them know how to spell "dumb". Politically Correct gets taken too far these days, but I use "marker" when around Republicans. ------------- __________________ __________________ |
Posted By: WUNgUN
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:32pm
Me too, though I prefer marker actually. I have many guns and none of them use compressed air! ------------- [IMG]http://hometown.aol.com/hlwrangler/myhomepage/revised5_copy.jpg"> ""...the Marines we have there now could crush the city and be done with business in four days."--LtGen Conway on Fallujah |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:32pm
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I use gun as much as possible just to anger the people that insist on marker.
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Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:32pm
Yeah, because the word "gun" just makes them drool.  ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: Ejp414
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:34pm
I would've thought you really were being sarcastic for a second there if you hadn't mispelled "they", "sarcasm", and "too". EDIT: For those who are confused, he posted, I quoted and replied. While I was typing he deleted his old post because he forgot to quote mine at first. ------------- __________________ __________________ |
Posted By: Fallout_soldier
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:34pm
I bet they can pick up sarcasim to. -------------
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Posted By: Homer J
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:34pm
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gun
n. 1. A weapon consisting of a metal tube from which a projectile is fired at high velocity into a relatively flat trajectory. 2. A cannon with a long barrel and a relatively low angle of fire. 3. A portable firearm, such as a rifle or revolver. 4. A device resembling a firearm or cannon, as in its ability to project something, such as grease, under pressure or at great speed. 5. A discharge of a firearm or cannon as a signal or salute. 6. One, such as a hunter, who carries or uses a gun. 7. a. A person skilled in the use of a gun. b. A professional killer: a hired gun. 8. The throttle of an engine, as of an automobile. |
Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:35pm
Hmmm... I wonder if they can spell "sarcasm", though. LOL... Sorry. Couldn't help it. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: Fallout_soldier
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:39pm
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^ no i think thats the cut off -------------
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Posted By: Solipsism
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:42pm
Yep and not only that but a paintball "marker" is a gun according to any dictionary definition. I guess we should start calling firearms permanent markers, to satisfy all the PC people. ------------- http://solipsism.ath.cx - solipsism.ath.cx |
Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:47pm
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I use gun, but I always emphasize the "paintball" in front of it.
If you're really so stupid that the term paintball gun offends you, what do we do? BB shooters, Water squirters, grease applicators? Come on... it's just a word. That and I like real guns. So I don't have any problems with the word. ------------- Is God real? You'll find out when you die.
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Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 1:48pm
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Webster's definition and colloquial (informal, real world) definition are entirely different concepts.
It does not seem 100% suitable to use the same word to refer to the Glock 21 in my closet and the AutoMag in the downstairs coat closet. They're only similar in shape and very basic function. Thus, in effective conversation, it is acceptable (even while not being PC) to make a clear distinction between the two concepts for people who will not understand the difference. ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: PaintbalSoldier
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 4:47pm
i agree |
Posted By: Blue Hopper
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 4:52pm
Yeah I reckon tht thm der peoples of dat der's pc peples aint dat smart. Y'all agrE wit me don't yall fellers. ------------- Notice: The views exspressed in this post do not represent that of the Tippmann Company or the Paintball community but solely the individual who type it. |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 6:12pm
The thing is, i dont really care about clarifying the difference for people. If someone is ignorant enough to take offense about using the term gun, that just shows me they dont deserve my expended energy in talking to them. Both are mechanical items designed to launch a projectile. That makes it a gun. The definition of a gun has no stipulation about what the launched projectile is designed to do, kill or mark, therefore i consider both to be a gun. -------------
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Posted By: Fallout_soldier
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 9:47pm
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if my velocity goes over 550fps in my neck of the woods i can call it a paintballfirearm -------------
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Posted By: Kevin Z
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 9:56pm
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I frequently take teenagers out to play. My neighbor and I have entertained as many as 10 at a time.
When your trying to talk Mothers into letting their precious babies go out, start talking guns and getting killed, and you will get nowhere. Talk about markers, getting marked out, and you might have some success. "Marker" PC has nothing to do with it, its all about scaring Moms who are sitting on the fence. 
All of you 13 year olds know exactly what I am talking about. If you want a marker, and you want to play, then you talk nice around your Mom. ------------- United States Marine Corps.... When it absolutely, positively, has to be destroyed overnight! Just say NO to junk mods |
Posted By: CarbineKid
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 10:00pm
| Crayola makes markers. The PC wing of paintball really messed up the sport. Mny of you won't remember, some of you wern't even born yet. Back in the early 90s there was a big debate about getting paintball into the mainstream by getting away from the war game image...hence the change in names. My gun magically became a marker...soon guns started to look less like a gun and more like a kids toy. Even BDUs dissappeared and now people wear bright colored team jerseys. Yeah thats all great....i you believe that this is not a war game, and you need to wear clown cloths and play with markers...lol |
Posted By: Homer J
Date Posted: 06 August 2004 at 2:55am
ROFFLE!!1 |
Posted By: Random_Person
Date Posted: 06 August 2004 at 6:47am
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i call it both, but mainly gun ------------- http://profile.xfire.com/kentuckyfriedgangsta"> 
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