05-06-2005 06:52									#1
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I went paint balling today.

Got hit really hard at close range in my neck and shoulder (shoulder not pictured here).

It was a lot of fun anyway, anyone else do this activity? (I went with a couple of my friends)

Jon Miller
(it was oozing blood earlier)

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	05-06-2005 06:57									#2
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I actually am really bad at it, and don't know if I hit anyone who wasn't already dead or a Ref...

but it was a lot of rush hiding from enemy 'fire'

a number of the games were really big, with ~30 people on a side

the people who had the fancier guns and equpiment really rocked those of us who were renting...

although same had better rental equipment then others, at one point I figured out that most everyone elses shots were going twice as far as mine before noticeably losing altitude..

(some of the reason I didn't do well)

Jon Miller

	05-06-2005 07:01									#3
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Yeah I've played paintball a few times. Mainly with work guys. Its a heap of fun really. Just getting out there in the bush pretending to be a real soldier without any fear of death. I've only been hit a few times really, seem to have a knack for missing them. Though I have fallen down gullies into streams and mud many a time. At one game I took a tumble down about a 1m and a half fall into a stream, clogged my bloody gun up. Another time a mate and I had ourselves hidden up nicely watching a small section of the main stream cutting the place in two and just camped there and nobody could get passed or get a medic to get them moving again either, we'd just shoot the medic. It really is a lot of fun. Gonna probably be going again in another few weeks.

	05-06-2005 07:09									#4
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you must be really good, or perhaps our games are a little different (usually the game ends when a couple guys on one side haven't been hit (hit = out))

I would enjoy having a whole game set up with my frenids, and their freinds..

(not a general anyone who wants to thing...)

there was a stream in one of the fields for us to...

I just stayed on one side giving cover fire (which was mostly ineffectual because of hte fact that my shots were at least twice as weak as everyone elses..) and two of my frenids chaged across (even got waist deep in the water)

Jon Miller

	05-06-2005 07:22									#5
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Paintball

I have my own gun...

I once played for 16 hours straight. And that was after I had been up for 36 already!!

	05-06-2005 07:31									#6
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here's your chance to get a girl - show her

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So you found out today you're not Jack Bauer. How do you feel?

	05-06-2005 08:29									#8
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Looks more like you got slightly scratched/grazed by a lightsaber.

	05-06-2005 08:32									#9
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It bled for a while first...

doesn't look like much in that photo I agree..

still, I am proud of it

worse wound I saw of anybody else out there... (most were just quarter size bruises)

Jon Miller

	05-06-2005 09:14									#10
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Jon!

Go and show it to a girl!

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If you were in a war, you would be talking to saint Peter.

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That's not Jon Miller.

The picture doesn't have his name on it.

	05-06-2005 09:24									#13
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and I can't see a bar code

	05-06-2005 09:26									#14
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It's all good till you get paint in your goggles.

	05-06-2005 09:30									#15
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but isn't this just another example of how clueless jon is with girls? (God love him)

He gets a nice big bruise to show off. What does he do? He comes here to tell us

	05-06-2005 09:42									#16
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so I really should go find girls?

and first I showed it to my frenids who bailed and didn't go (to get them to go next time), next I fell asleep for a while, then apolyton

then relax for a bit...

Jon Miller

	05-06-2005 09:48									#17
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Find girls.

	05-06-2005 09:55									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Jon Miller so I really should go find girls? and first I showed it to my frenids who bailed and didn't go (to get them to go next time), next I fell asleep for a while, then apolyton then relax for a bit... Jon Miller

that's so you

Okay here's what I'd do

catch up with some girl I like, in my case it would have been several because I believe in the law of averages

Don't say anything and see if she asks about your neck

If she takes an interest and gives you a little TLC, oh you poor thing etc., you know she cares about you and you're in with a chance

Is this so freakin difficult to work out?

	05-06-2005 09:57									#19
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Solid tactic AH

	05-06-2005 10:47									#20
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another very important part jon is

if she asks if it hurts, DON'T SAY ITS NOTHING

tell her IT DOES HURT A BIT

the natural reaction is think its hurting than you're letting on

You might even get a pretty hand stroking your neck if you do it right.

(but can he pull it off?)

	05-06-2005 12:32									#21
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You met Mrs Horse by pretending to be an amputee, didn't you?

	05-06-2005 13:00									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse (but can he pull it off?)

of course not...

but a large part of that is that I don't have any 'interesting' girls right now (otherwise I would have tried it)

there were a couple end of last semester, but I scared one off being a spaz, and the other was at church (and I have rarely gone this year, so haven't seen her much, I don't think she was interested much anyway)

but I appreciate the pointers (and I gave a little thought to how I might see the girl at church, unfortunately I go on Saturday, which is now past)

Jon Miller
(I really should start going out again.. I was ignoring girls to focus on other parts of my life, but those parts aren't any better and I don't really have any girls I am interested in, so I think the ignoring girls thing wasn't a winning idea)

(I was hanging out with the one I scared off for a couple of months (she had a distant boyfreind which isn't that bad of thing, we would hang out a couple times a week) but then I got a really good physics paper and really got into it and I see weirdly and pace when that happens and I haven't seen her again)

	05-06-2005 13:02									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp You met Mrs Horse by pretending to be an amputee, didn't you?

	05-06-2005 13:29									#24
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of course if you want to make someone jealous, say it is a lovebite

	05-06-2005 13:33									#25
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Our games we're all time limited. Except for this one course which was pretty tiny and just had tyres made up into bunkers. Had to fight your way to the other side and touch the barrel of the opposite team to win. Man that game could get bogged down if nobody wanted to move to get shot. Good though, very fast action.

	05-06-2005 13:35									#26
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Flip,

We played one like that, it was my personal favorite, you definitley had to use tactics to get movement going.

Not that I would know what any of those tactics were. The "I'll shoot, you move, you shoot, I move" thing only works so well when you have no idea what to do like we did.

Some of the guys get really into it, buying full replica army uniforms, some of them even wear ski masks even in 100 degree heat. I have no idea how they did that.

	05-06-2005 13:35									#27
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never played paintball, but I have played laser tag. that's a lot less painful.

pain is not my thing (at least not physical pain).

	05-06-2005 13:36									#28
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What kind of gun were you using?

I usually use a P-68 (pump action 'shotgun'). Most of my friends were using semi-auto guns. But my whole thing was running around rolling around in the mud and jumping around a lot.

And I'm usually the guy telling everyone else to push forward.

But yeah, getting shot in the face sucks a**. And getting shot in the face wearing a Spectra mask sucks. Tasting paintball paint sucks major donkey balls.

	05-06-2005 13:38									#29
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I suck at it because I don't like standing still.

I'm always rushing out into the open like an idiot. Which sucks in paintball cause you have to sit there the whole time and wait for the game to get over.

	05-06-2005 13:44									#30
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The guns we get are rather shitty semi autos, quite weak and the way its set up is rather annoying.

I'm not very good at the tactics thing, I just like to go carefully, hell its my metaphorical life at stake here.