Forum Posts -- Forum Clichés We Would Like to Retire!
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Golly Gee! This thread is the Cat's Meow, for sure! It rocks my socks & pops my caps! Lol.
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Oh, do not tempt me .....
When someone posts a photo of a new gun, says they enjoy it, then you have someone post an entire photo album of their whole gun collection right below the OP, obviously trying to one-up them.
To me those people come off as show offs, like "nice gun but look at all of MINE!!" We S&W and heck revolver guys in general can be really bad about this.
I get it, the scratched up Model 64 I found at today's gun show isn't the coolest gun out there, but I still want to share the photo with you without seeing your entire vast collection of vintage mint condition K-frames with REAL ivory stocks and expensive tooled leather rigs!
To me those people come off as show offs, like "nice gun but look at all of MINE!!" We S&W and heck revolver guys in general can be really bad about this.
I get it, the scratched up Model 64 I found at today's gun show isn't the coolest gun out there, but I still want to share the photo with you without seeing your entire vast collection of vintage mint condition K-frames with REAL ivory stocks and expensive tooled leather rigs!
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Since I'm in a grumpy mood tonight, let me expand that to the "generally unhelpful picture addition".
Frequently, a picture of your specimen can be helpful to illustrate a point or answer a question. I post photos for that purpose too.
But all too often, we get posts in the vein of "I have one sort of like that. It's 20 years older than yours, has the wrong stocks, and has been refinished, but here are some pictures anyway."
We've had occasions more than once where such posts have confused the discussion of the OP's gun to the point that, a dozen posts down, even experienced members trying to help lost track of which gun was being discussed and ended up having to apologize to each other for "disagreeing" unintentionally.
Everybody loves to show off their guns; I do too, but if it does not serve a specific purpose in the thread you plan to join, it might be better to start your own.
I would never post a picture of my specimen. That is strictly between me and my doctor.
I'm glad the phrase "bustin' (or poppin') caps" is pretty much gone.
While I'm at it, I also don't like it when someone says "I got this WW2 milsurp rifle today at the gun store for $400" then the next guy will say "I got a barrel full of them for $25 each back in 1994 sitting in my garage", it's like really??
Are you purposely just trying to make someone feel bad? Supply and demand changes over time, we all know this, so stop rubbing it in for the new shooters who want historic guns. We get it, they're not as cheap now as they used to be. Doesn't mean it isn't worth buying today if that's what that person wants. Some of us weren't even ALIVE in 1994, much less able to buy all the cool military guns that were so cheap then!
Are you purposely just trying to make someone feel bad? Supply and demand changes over time, we all know this, so stop rubbing it in for the new shooters who want historic guns. We get it, they're not as cheap now as they used to be. Doesn't mean it isn't worth buying today if that's what that person wants. Some of us weren't even ALIVE in 1994, much less able to buy all the cool military guns that were so cheap then!
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BruceM
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^^^^^THIS^^^^^
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There are some standard responses to posts that we really need to retire. One that really gets me is:
"I just drooled all over my keyboard!"
This is usually in response to a particularly beautiful picture of whatever. I know people get tired of simply saying "Wow!" or "That's Beautiful!" so I can see wanting to say something different. But couldn't we select something a little more original, not to mention a little less disgusting?
You've obviously never tried to type "Wow!" Otherwise, you would know it does not meet the 10-character minimum required.
Absalom
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See, that's one of MY ways to annoy people: using words according to their original meaning. I also use "prophylactic" all the time when I mean precautionary or preventive. Really throws the people off who think I'm talking about a condom
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Having spent a few years behind the gun counter, there's a bunch that make me wince......
A big one during the AR craze - 'Weapons Platform'
A customer insisting on having a 'Pickaninny Rail'
A witty customer with his friends for an audience that asks to see any large handgun - a Desert Eagle, an X-frame anything and loudly announcing 'Son - that's a crew-served weapon!' and/or 'Where are the daggone WHEELS?! har-har-har!'
Yes, I suffered retail burn-out.....
A big one during the AR craze - 'Weapons Platform'
A customer insisting on having a 'Pickaninny Rail'
A witty customer with his friends for an audience that asks to see any large handgun - a Desert Eagle, an X-frame anything and loudly announcing 'Son - that's a crew-served weapon!' and/or 'Where are the daggone WHEELS?! har-har-har!'
Yes, I suffered retail burn-out.....
'Mouse fart' or 'bunny fart' to describe light target loads.
Yep. Sisters of Mercy, here. (Whoa! Mercy?!) Know exactly what ya mean.
(And, moving off from the grammar. I still remember Sister Mary Imaculatta, head nun, explaining, in 12th grade Civics, "Freedom means doing what you ought to do!" Ouch!)
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Along with "weapons platform" should go "FCG" for "Fire Control Group". If you mean the trigger mechanism, say "trigger mechanism" so the world knows what you mean.
Frikkin' oper8rs..... (another word I dislike, along with most of those that think they are one.....)
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"Two-legged" and other euphemisms for humans.
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Wait, you're saying the theory has been tested in real life, enough times to have a conclusive database?
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