With the internet, it seems like every other thread is a "make Isfahan see red" thread. Internet dorks are the best at idolizing the military, and many of them have taken out second mortgages to insure their collection of Hanzo steels and replica airsoft guns, but for all of their enthusiasm they know little to nothing about either of those things. They sure love to talk about them, though.
nilvoid, August 12, 2013, 11:54:00 am
I think it's amusing and sad more than outright angering, unless people are actually misinforming others or being unsafe in such a manner that others could get hurt. What's most amusing are all of the Wannabe Neos who think posing with a gun will automatically make them look badass. More often than not it's with an airsoft gun. I'm sure the fatbeards behind Malatora fancy themselves quite the intellectual badasses in that regard.
I can quite easily summarize the difference between the civilian and the military mindset regarding guns:
A civilian first takes notice of how cool a gun looks.
A soldier first takes notice of how
heavy a gun looks.
I know I probably don't need to tell this to anyone here, but being a soldier is hard work and there's tons of bullshit you have to deal with on a daily and weekly and monthly and semi-annual basis. Even in the heaviest of combat-arms units, it's 95% physical labor and patrolling and running and mantling and going prone and waiting, 5% shooting. At the most. Think about that the next time you see a YouTube video of some lard-ass in tactical gear practicing his "combat survival skills" by shooting cardboard when a few laps around the block and some sit-ups would do way, way more for his survivability.
Are you telling us that in a branch of the military, outward displays of an unwillingness to conform to group cohesiveness are against regulations?Cuddlegoose, August 12, 2013, 12:41:45 pm
Well, it's unwillingness to conform to the regulations themselves. For women, hair cannot touch the collar and bangs cannot be so long that they cover the eyebrows or otherwise require the wear of hair clips or barrettes to stay out of the eyes. If hair does touch the collar or cover the eyebrows, it's not some social taboo that's frowned upon, it's
against the rules. Either you get a bob cut or you bun that shit up while in uniform.