Ebeneezer Goode

"What does everyone really think of kickingmustang?" He's a cunt. /thread

Whilst I dont care what patches someone wears, again I'd apply good taste and considering what's going on right now, having Zs on your shoulders or brain bucket is probably not the cleverest thing to do is it. As for spreading as the title puts it "questionable politics", I.e. the complete and utter spanner referenced in @Rogerborg's post above, I think we'd all agree that we want none of that shit anywhere near Airsoft. Eezer G

Thanks to @Spartan09 for starting this one! My family history that I alluded to in the other thread:- Firstly, I goofed, it was my great-great-grandfather who fought in the Somme. Lived to the ripe old age of 96. Smoked like a chimney (pipes, none of these daft cigs etc), had a nip of Malt every night - he swore by its health benefits! - read his Bible every day and lived through some stuff, including losing his son (my great-grandfather) in a horrific mining accident (my dad's side were all miners). He never spoke of the Great War or his experiences of the Somme, other than one incident, where he recalled one of his comrades having to get his leg amputated in the field, and them all singing louder and louder to try and drown out the screams. Absolutely harrowing and massive respect for all those who gave everything. On the other side was my great-uncle who as I also alluded to originated in Poland and was forced to flee the occupation due to his religion. He and his brother were being rounded up and put on the trains to the camps when they managed to escape and made it across Europe, settling in Scotland, anglicised his name and married my Granny's sister - funnily enough my Granny's side being a mix of Irish and... German! Having a German surname in the war/post-war years in Britain got them all a fair bit of stick at School etc. Other family members did National Service - Gramps was in the RAF Coastal Command, had a Great Uncle who went to Malaya when the bother was on over there, all had interesting stories thst could fill entire books. My love and respect for them runs deep. My own military connections are nowhere near as exciting, limited to being a former avionics engineer at a defence firm and currently serving as a CI with my local Air Cadet Squadron, however I have the relatively comfortable life I have due to the great sacrifices of my forefathers. Respect and gratitude. Anyway, just my background, for what it's worth. Thanks to all others for sharing their equally treasured stories. Eezer G

Nice ride, and thank the Lord you are OK.

Can't disagree there @Tackle.

I recently got CM028U which I am rather enjoying so far, decent quality for the price and shoots rather nicely. A bit more moolah gets you metal bodies and wood but you pays your money and takes your choice.

Aye, same shite, different name. Covid, Climate Change, you name it, bandwagon jumped on, hysteria abounds and we all get shafted. Oops sorry went off on one again. I'll stop now. I promise. *twitch twitch*

If we take that view, any war has its oppos and anyone can take offence at anything. Where do we stop. Germans getting offended at British D-Day kit... Yanks offended at VC loadouts... Jedi offended by Stormtroopers... Covenant airsofters disgusted by Spartan loadouts... Next we'd be banning shemaghs as the wrong colour will offend someone (a genuine cultural fopah in the Gulf but we airsofters tend to ignore it, mainly out of ignorance). Personally, there's good taste to be accounted for, however it's still just a bit of dress-up. My great-grandfather fought in the Somme. Another family relative was a Jew who escaped to Scotland with his bro from Poland in 1939 when they were all getting rounded up and sent to camps. His remaining family were wiped out in the horrors that followed. Whilst I'm fully aware and appreciative of history, I'm afraid I am not offended in the slightest if someone turns up to my local field in SS kit with toy guns. Thats just me, again there's the question of what is good taste, and others may be for good reason more sensitive which regardless of my more Liberal views I do respect.

I'm not sure our esteemed politicians give a flying fornication regarding that. Politics is politics, and faced with hysterical mania its a bandwagon our Internationalist, Interventionist, spend-thrift tax thieves will be all too willing to jump on to virtue-signal and show their peers how they "faced up to" "danger" and "took action". Meanwhile large numbers of perfectly innocent citizens minding their own business have yet another thing taken away from them, and the descent from liberty to totalitarianism quickens. Oops sorry for the rant. Forgot this was AFUK not Guido Fawkes.

Pfft nah, Poundland's finest gaffa tape. I'm no made o' pounds...

Sign of the times Mr. Borg. I'm also having having my fun whilst I can before Fishi Nutsak or whatever other dripping wet Fun Police Socialist stooge/UnHolyrood prat is in power next decides to come for us. Worrying as there's been a few "incidents" involving teenagers and airsoft guns up our way of recent, only a matter of time before it starts getting Meedja coverage and the inevitable hysterical clamour to "Dae Sumhin" starts.

Nope - if it works, don't feck with it... Nice piece too. Eezer G

Well done. You are now a tech! I need to take the UAR apart again. Hop-up unsatisfactory and big joule drop again. Thought I'd sorted the air leak and rubber not torn so not sure what's going on.

Nice - although the skinflint Scot in me would still just use tape 🤣

<Steering well away from the politics and arguments>.......... The fact remains many folk don't like guns, whether real or not. That gives ammunition - pun intended - who seek to further regulate or completely cancel our hobby. Fear and ignorance are a dangerous mix. It's a wonder the way things are going in this country that they haven't come for us yet. Eezer G