Sorry but playing with toy guns is definitely more your age group than mine.You fit in just fine dont worry about a thing. Always happy to help a youngster.
Easiest answer is just have a fall back word for when your unsure.Which is why I use the word tw*t far more on a Sunday than any other day of the week.
Evolution of phrases is more the way I would put it and thats being going on since language was invented. Very few phrases haven't been skewed from what they once were.Its a sign of getting old I think when it gets to you. ☺
Surrendering people wouldnt work for me anyway. I play flat out all the time, I have tried being tactical and going slow and I cant. Surrendering people requires you stop and think and that isnt happening when I have an airsoft gun in my hands.
Bull in a china shop is about all I am good at.
Walter Mitty in other words.
It means someone who fantasises about being important. In airsoft a Walt is someone who takes things a bit too seriously and acts like its real life.
At the end of the day if its a brightly painted gun that could never be called a rif. Only the most pretentious jobs worth pratt would ever have an issue with it.
It would be fine.
Dont put a pic on here of you in a bunny costume someone will have a stroke. Remember a fair proportion of airsofters have only handled a woman when hugging their Mum good night.