gimme-gimme world

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Re: gimme-gimme world

Originally posted by Mag Master 04
this was an article in july edition of APG written by Dave Norman on young kids having expensive markers that were just given to them and how they dont respsct that item b/c they dont know what it feels like to have a marker that you put sweat, tears and YOUR OWN money into. i read this article and realized that this was very very true, i was at my local field and i watched a kid get shot off the break b/c he wasnt paying attention to the game, and no sooner did he get shot, the mask was thrown, the marker was on the ground(angel ir3 fly, halo B, shocktech drop, pmi 45/45 fibre tank w/ no cover very very nice marker) and the kid didnt even shead a tear b/c his marker was messed up to the max...cracked halo, deep scrtch on tank, scratched up everything else b/c he threw it on cement. at the end of the game i seen him by the chrono with a 2k3 oricle E class, and i had to ask him if he was mad, he responded that he wasnt b/c his b day was coming up and his parents would buy him a new one. i am the person to usually not get mad at little things like that but i remembered that article written in APG and i realized how true it was. i fall into the catogory that earns everything he has, i payed for every part on my mag and its got alot of $ invested. and it pissed me off to see that little kid just shrug it off like nothing happened. i know i would cry for ever if anything ever happened to my marker. and the respect that i have for my mag is outragious, i love my mag.

just a little piece of mind for the little 12 yr old that has 4 angels and everything else under the sun that they ever could want. you give us a bad reputation little kids

PROPS TO DAVE NORMAN FOR THIS VERY WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE!
you hit it right on the nose, keep it up!

Sounds like somebody is jealous

[MagAl]

Man If I had an angel I would be scared to hold it... This ref that was with us one day at an indoor field asked me if I wasnted to try his angel for one game, and I said "na that ok I wouldn't want to mess it up".. If I saw some 12 year old throw there angel on the floor I would smak him in the mouth.. I have plans to get a mag and I will be saving every penny I have.. money from work, here and there, and holidays, should take me to the end of the year but it will be worth it.

[yeahthatsme]

my parents have bought me some gear, they got me my mag for my birthday.


but now i'm shooting a matrix, i love it, i payed for it with mostly my money, my parents payed for 1/3 and i sold my old stuph and paid with money I had saved. i'm not an amazing player but i love the sport and somebodies parents paying for their stuph isnt terrible. yeah they need to save for their own stuph but dont come and rag on people using REALLY GENERAL statements. not all people who have had their parents buy them stuph are just spoiled little kids.

[FooTemps]

I throw my marker around a lot... in my room... onto an extremely soft surface that would break the fall... like my bed... or maybe the stack of huge stuffed animals... or my folded up sleeping bag with pillows on it... you get the point, I throw onto something that will break the fall and give no damage whatsoever. When I'm actually playing... I'm even afraid to set it down because I don't want to scratch anything on my mag... lol

[spydervenom]

if my parents bought me anything...i wouldn't throw it on the ground. i worship free stuff just as much as stuff i paid for. unless its women

[Recon by Fire]

Don't let these spoiled kids irk you by their poor behavior. Ignore them and carry on with your business. Be content to know they will grow up and everyone around them will consider Class A *EDIT* You are new here, so I'll be gentle; DO NOT CUSS OR CIRCUMVENT THE FILTERS. YOU AGREED TO DO THIS, YET YOU VIOLATED A VERY SIMPLE RULE. DO IT AGAIN, AND A 3 DAY BAN WILL HIT YOU. aRMY Their parents are breeding monsters and let it be their problem not yours.

As for parents who would approach you and ask that you not shoot their precious little darlings: I would either recommend that their child play in a private game with their spoiled posse or that maybe their child is not quite big enough to play in the big games. If you cannot run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

[Snertz]

Like posted by yeahthatsme, not every kid who was given an awsome setup by their parents are rotten brats. Example is this kid Ricky out at my local field. He has pretty much everything I've dreamed of, multiple 1k+ setups and such.
But is he a pain in the rump who has no repect?
Not at all.
He's one of the nicest kids out there, and is one who is almost a role model of such. He probably has more respect for his gear and such than most people

[Big_M]

interestin, yesterday I saw the same thing, three kids with dye outfits, and angels timmys ect, all came in without a clue what to do on the field...it was amazing how they would just sit and wait, oh, and I can recall them asking if my freinds gun was like a shot gun (he played pump that round)

[Ov3rmind]

I never see kids that act like that. I have seen some spoiled kids before, but I've never seen them throw temper tantrums where they abuse their equipment like that. I played with a 12 year old that was playing for his first or second time, and his dad had bought him a Black Magic Cocker. He actually turned out to be willing to take advice and tips from more experienced players and ended up being someone decent to play with (a good sport, but he could use a lot more practice). Don't hate on spoiled kids, you can't do anything about it, and it will only get worse as paintball gets bigger. The most you can do is let out a sigh, and that's about all that needs to be done. Just know that you have the satisfaction of earning your equipment (which is a great feeling), and that you love it like your own child.

[Alfredo]

A lot of people need to realize is your skill is more important than your gun. That's why I see a lot of good players use mags. People with expensive guns harass me until I wup them with a tippmann or something else.

[rx2]

As someone who has had to purchase most of my gear with my own money, I respect and care for my equipment. However, even in my younger days, when I was given moeny to purchase things, I still knew the abstract value of it, because my father took great care to make sure I did. Sure, many of these kids are spoiled, and haven't a real grasp of the workings of everyday life, as it applies to most people. However, we shouldn't be too quick to start bashing people for having worked to get to a point where they can afford to give their children expensive markers and not worry about it, or for being the child of one of these people. I think it is an acceptible practice, as long as the giving isn't empty, and as long as there is a value system in place. I have known kids who are the sons of rich parents, and have had everything handed to them. Yet, becuase of their values, they never mistreated anything, or anyone.

We should, though, be concerned about the values that are being instilled into some of these children, and the way in which material goods are used to pacify. To many parents simply push children aside, and hope to appease them with material goods. They never really connect them with reality. They see objects as totally expendable.
I must agree, though. There are many out of touch children all too willing to destroy things as it suits them. I have seen plenty of this behavior on the field, and in everyday situations.

[.bolink]

I dont know which ones i hate more...the ones that get a complete setup for...or the parents of those kids on teams who sent them to thousand dollar tournies. I tell you what...Im having to wait tables 5 days a week until mid july to come up with this money for IAO...and even then Im gonna be scratching by. But even when we lose horribly...im still gonna be proud of myself knowing that I came up with the money all by myself.

[superdesk2007]

I have to buy most of my stuff. My Mom gave me seventy-five dollars for a paintball gun for Christmas and I had to get the rest of the money, I then bought my first gun with it. This past Christmas I got a Richochet AK and some paint and some other unrelated paintball stuff. I'm saving up for a new gun with my own money.

[Teen]

thats not right, i think that kid that threw his angel needs smacked real hard. i also don't think parents should be buying kid's 1000+/- setups. they should earn it themselves. Last summer i spent over a month picking strawberrys to get my tko mag. on my knees for 5 hours a day. that was the worst time i ever had, and i'll never do it again.

[Mag Master 04]

thats what im talking bout

if you do get handouts from your parents they are small and for christmas and b day and stuff liek that, my parents bought me my 1st notrogen system a crossy 48/3k and thats the only thing they have ever bought