Cringe in Airsoft

I might get a patch that just says "patch" on it. Just cos i'm a pedant...

I actually had a patch made up for one of the lads we play with, that says "it aint airsoft unless dave gets shot in the head" because the silly sod would literally bleed from somewhere on his noggin EVERY time we played. :D
His head is like a plastic magnet. :)
 
I actually had a patch made up for one of the lads we play with, that says "it aint airsoft unless dave gets shot in the head" because the silly sod would literally bleed from somewhere on his noggin EVERY time we played. :D
His head is like a plastic magnet. :)
Does he have my head? ….. However I appear to exclusively get shot in the back of the head by a particular team mate
 
On the subject of patches... I asked Mrs TPH to a skirmish once. She was feeling out of sorts and did not attend. I stood behind a chap in the safety brief who had a collection of the most misogynistic shit velcroed to his plate carrier. It would have seriously pissed her off. It did me tbh.

I'll add that Mrs TPH, despite her tiny but perfectly formed 4'11" frame, is an adherent to the practice of Muay Thai. She's perfectly capable of giving twats a dressing down backed up by an ability to knock them into the middle of next week.

Shitty patches and stupid 'banter' is one reason that we only play filmsim/milsim.
 
I might get a patch that just says "patch" on it. Just cos i'm a pedant...

I actually had a patch made up for one of the lads we play with, that says "it aint airsoft unless dave gets shot in the head" because the silly sod would literally bleed from somewhere on his noggin EVERY time we played. :D
His head is like a plastic magnet. :)
' I identify as a patch'
 
Not Airsoft, worse being the real deal.

Kenyan (or rather, Mombasa) airport security yesterday were all carrying CZ Scorpion Evos. With no sling, with one hand, lazily pointed everywhere while they were chatting, and I watched a woman drop hers onto a concrete car park while I was walking to the taxi.


(Nairobi they were carrying type 56-1 that were that worn they were almost totally silver.)
 
Which brings up the question of why aren't the parents monitoring what they're up to online? Far too many are wanting to be their kid's mate first and parent second

It was really easy to hide what you were looking at online when I was a kid, and that was a much smaller internet that didn't exist constantly in my pocket.

Most adults also have no clue how any of the internet works, otherwise they wouldn't be on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
 
It was really easy to hide what you were looking at online when I was a kid, and that was a much smaller internet that didn't exist constantly in my pocket.

Most adults also have no clue how any of the internet works, otherwise they wouldn't be on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
I agree that it was easier to hide your internet history but these days there are a plethora of apps and other software available for parents to keep an eye on their little crotch goblins are doing.

I'm not sure the whole schtick about parents being clueless about computers etc is true anymore. After all the internet has been around for over 30 years so they vast majority will have grown up with the internet
 
You've grown up using X86 processors, can you explain their architecture to me without looking it up?

Can the lay person?
 
No and I think you're making a bit of a straw man there. Many ISPs come with controls for parents to limit and monitor what their kids are doing and there's similar available for phones
 
Those are quite easy to bypass if the kid has half a clue though. *I* bypass them at work routinely.

One app and done.
 
Tbh, given how easily adults are being led astray by algorithm creep on social media i'm not sure kids will fare much better.

It doesnt have to be porn, paedos or peer pressure when there's a machine designed to present initially reasonable sounding viewpoints until it figures out how to push you into incrementally more extreme stances.
 
Like Adolf... Oh man i hope no one takes this out of context lmao.

But yeah like Hamster said the vast majority of average people I know, do not understand why they're addicted to apps yet also angry at things a lot. These are highly complex engines designed by the kinds of minds that design Vegas casinos and Gacha games to keep you unwittingly trapped on there.

In fact most parents start posting their kids on there from Zygote lmao. It's actually a huge thing for those Family Channels on various platforms plus famous kids. With how common it is to actively use your children to get internet attention, I have little faith more than as minority of parents are cognizant and able to protect their kids.

I sure can't. How much helicoptering is too much? How much should you invade their privacy? No one my age had their parents install a combi GPS Tracker and Browsing History tracker on them. Maybe it would have helped a lot of us, but I don't feel it's the simple and best option.

Especially given that said data is by definition being harvested by a third party. Now a corporation has the live movement data of your child on its servers. How secure is that? How are they targeting ads based on that?
 
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