quick question on slang

[grupps]

lol my parents are like...they wont accept the fact that their fat son who use to be all smart n stuff, gave up school to get a job and have fun lol, so they totally reject that i play paintball and refuse to loan me money or help me out so i do it all alone, thast life tho eh? haha

[illshowumyramrod]

that sucks. My parents pay for all my stuff (i am 14,though) i get $20 a week for doing the dishes everyday, and sometimes i don't even do them! They still give me $20 because they know i need it for paintball. I'm so spoiled, and i love it!

[grupps]

dude im spoiled too, i get 20 bucks aw eek for food at lunch and i dont even eat lunch at school cuz it tastes like cow crap but tahts aight, im 17 and i just got fired and well...lies not goin as it was so funds are limited and now no one feels like buying my friggin rt mag and im giong insane BLAh! lol ...we have too much time on our hands, we should go out ballin

[p8ntball1016]

Originally posted by illshowumyramrod


people would think you're a paintball terrorist, and shoot u down.

I don't have weapons of mass destruction

[PyRo]

"gat" definatly ranks in the top 5 of stupid slang words ive heard.

[p8ntball1016]

Originally posted by PyRo
"gat" definatly ranks in the top 5 of stupid slang words ive heard.

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[Sir_Brass]

it's gangsta talk, and totally unnecessary in paintball. people will see a gun, but if they hear gat, they'll think lower of US, the players, thinking we consider our paintball guns/markers like they're mac-10's and such, and they begin to think paintball player = punk kid. That's a mental connection we DO NOT want to encourage.

Use paintball marker or paintball gun, people will understand and not care. When you start using ignorant language , that's when problems start. And 'gat' is definately a word that began out of ignorance and has it's roots in gangster speech, and it's still primarilly used there. Don't adopt gangster's language. It, unlike the use of the word 'gun', DOES hinder the growth of our sport.

[p8ntball1016]

What about the gangstas in the paintball community?

[PyRo]

Just shut up.

[painball]

Originally posted by p8ntball1016
What about the gangstas in the paintball community?

YEAH!? What about us!?

[sharpshooter1286]

idk, get a life

[Enigma4you]

It's a good thing I've been in the paintball world for about a year and was at AOSE or I'd be freaking out about my son wanting to play paintball after reading some of the things on this site.

Emily

[painball]

My supah gat will eat you for breakfast foo!

[PyRo]

God, I think we should build a giant wall around Brooklyn and take everyone who has used the word gat and dump them there :)

[Cryer]

Gat, Gun, Marker... Call them whatever. Truth be told, they are guns. They have a trigger that, when activated, propels a projectile. The fact that many refer to them as 'markers' has a very minimal positive effect on the general public. They've already formed their opinions about paintball (those who have heard about it) and its up to us as players to either strengthen their positive opinions, or enlighten their negative opinions. How do we do this? Well, I offer the immortal words of William Shakespeare:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."

No matter what you call it, people (for the most part) aren't going to respond to how ballers refer to their gats, but rather how we use them. It's not that we call them "gats" or "guns", it's that we shoot street signs and little old ladies on the side walk that gives us the negative conotation.