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snurl wrote:Wait until your parents find your baggie of modelling flock...........

When he helped us move, my Father-in-law found a bag of catnip. That was an interesting conversation...

I have considered flocking one of my HQ units with actual bud...just to see what would happen...muahahahahah!!

Ok, why not.

Ouze wrote:Ok, why not.

You magnificent bastard!

Come here, I squash your head!

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Edit - 1500 not out!

Takes a bow and waves to the gallery.

It's like you're unraveling a big cable-knit sweater that someone keeps knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting...

I was not expecting to get this many views/ansewers thanks dakkers

this is by and large absolutely ridiculous...

on a completely different note, our highschool had a mandatory participation in a pep rally. I walked right past the school principal along with one of the vice principals on my way out the door. I had better things to do than participate in building "school spirit". They essentially told me off and started grabbing for me when I told them off, explaining in clear detail all the nice yelling and screaming my parents would do when they found out my principal not only authorised a waste of dedicated school time but actually made me waste my time when I was going home to do chores and study. I pulled similar stunts throught my entire academic career, daring my teachers to try me on. I was a terrible kid too because I never did my work, was awful in class but was always one of the top 5 on exams.

I actually remember coming under extreme scrutiny by lunchtime.... wardens.... because of playing MTG. They banned cards and dice from the school because of gambling, and they tried nailing us too. Again, they couldn't pin us either, because the moment we produced a club membership spanning 25 players they were socked.

Back to topic....

this is absolutely nuts. That is percisely the kind of ignorance that will see the third wirld war, or the mess that the middle east is in right now. I love how after the dissolution of the soviet block, all of a sudden all was well again, and the west decided it had no obligations right then and there. Meanwhile countries in eastern europe sharply destabilise as everyone embraces "capitalism" and hoodlums run down the street with machineguns. Communists are substantively "evil", disregard that the entire catholic system is principaled off the teachings of a man who was essentially a "communist", and things magically get fixed when a country dissolves communism.... and the same crooks stay in power...

sigh...

Sorry for that......

Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:

n0t_u wrote:

"There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand." Pee Wee

"I say we stomp im, then we tattoo im, then we hang im, and then we kill im!"

I am a high school teacher & run a gaming club at school. Its awesome & if I was a student again I would definitely ask around to see if teachers would host a club of any sort. Our school presently has all sorts of clubs; gaming, manga, Harry Potter, & even a "Lost" club. Sure it might seem teachers would not be interested, but try it & see.

We have four teachers in the math department alone who play 40K. We also asked the planes & trains hobby store across the street to stock GW stuff & they were more than happy to help us out.

I never had any trouble with teachers and 40k they just ask to see it and have no further interest

I'm a teacher. I wouldn't bother telling any of the kids I teach that I game though- they're obnoxious and disrespectful enough without the extra ammo.

So my high school art teacher was a speaking in tongues religious nut. Weird for an art teacher, and he worked at the "state" school" for deaf and blind. (our school was small, living in Idaho, so we had to share teachers with them) One day he saw I had magic cards, said they were the work of the devil and forbid them from being in his class room, I had to leave them in the hallway.

I thought that was funny he was so religious and obtuse about such things, and I became kinda offended. Well, we had to do a class project, drawing on a full wall, mixing various art and blending them into one diorama. So my part was a Gnome, sitting on a mushroom, smoking, summoning a demon through a magical ball of energy in the middle of a forest.

I hate fanatics.

I had a really cool music teacher in highschool who was into gaming, but he didn't play Warhammer. I'm still waiting to get a Starcraft game in with him, since we've kept in contact after I graduated a few years ago. If my highschool was in a community where gaming was more popular, I'm sure he would have been happy to run a gaming group after school.

My older brother once started a gaming club. After 3 weeks it was just him and his friends saying, "you know what would make a good model..." and then never making the model.

firmlog wrote:...So my high school art teacher was a speaking in tongues religious nut. Weird for an art teacher...

actually, not weird at all art and science get the real weirdos for teachers. sometimes theyre great fun because that's the way they roll, other times theyre pretty bad and have the wrong screws tightened.

But what about...

This thread should be immortalized.

I had an interesting occurance like this. One of the churchgoers at my parents church decided he didn't like my email address. Got upset over it, like really upset. I told him why I had the email address and he denounced DnD and W40K and so forth as being demonic. He stopped listening to any arguments I put forth.

Then, I reminded him that the daughter of the minister at our church does DnD regularly, as do most of young people in the church do 40K. He went ape, screaming about how it's devil worship. So, we ended up basically embargoing his worship stuff til he apologised in front of the church.

Don't recall a great deal of "gamers" in my High School, a few kids with Dungeons and Dragons books maybe, I didn't discover gaming until I was Thirty, so the only flak I ever got in High School was over my "attitude" or my clothes...I found teachers tend to dislike "Sex Pistols" t-shirts...

As far as ever having any strange feed back pertaining to minis/war games, my Missus' Mother once picked up a deamon prince I was painting off my desk and stated " You know these sort of things invite demons into your house."
...I just laughed, shook my head and went back to painting.

I would have said "You know, that model might invite demons but my wife invites harpies."

Monster Rain wrote:I would have said "You know, that model might invite demons but my wife invites harpies."

Damn it Monster where were you when I needed a snappy reply?...
Will surly keep that one in mind.

I love it when people get all paranoid about wargaming and roleplaying and stuff, Its pure ignorance combined with an unhealthy inabillity to mind ones own business. Plus the fact that a wargaming hobby is pretty time consuming leaving little time for practicing the dark arts. I always say this to anyone who ridicules my hobby " So let me get this straight: I'm sad for doing warhammer right"? they generally reply in the affirmative. "I'm sad because your life is so pathetically dull and uninteresting that you feel the need to comment on my hobbies"? generally people shut up after that.

For anyone seriously interested in dealing with this issue, the Christian Gamers Guild have a great, sensible FAQ on their website. To non-Christians, it might seem a bit strange, but it takes the criticisms seriously and answers them.

Ugly Green Trog wrote: inabillity to mind ones own business.

Hi! You must be new here, welcome to the human race!

Platuan4th wrote:

Ugly Green Trog wrote: inabillity to mind ones own business.

Hi! You must be new here, welcome to the human race!

Hey just because it happens doesn't mean it's right.

Ugly Green Trog wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Ugly Green Trog wrote: inabillity to mind ones own business.

Hi! You must be new here, welcome to the human race!

Hey just because it happens doesn't mean it's right.

Never said it was right, but a look at how often celebrities make the news will show how true my point is.

I was unfortunate enough to attend a Christian private school in the days when people (i.e.Christians) still took Jack Chick seriously.

The D&D scare had just reached British shores, at the same time as I got into miniatures wargaming.

The teachers at school actually had no problem with the hobby and saw it as a valuable creative pursuit, but some of my class mates were a little more... fanatical (if Christianity had had an arguable suicide/martyrdom clause, they'd have blown themselves up and died smiling).

My miniatures were attacked and smashed. One guy threw a space marine (RTB-01) on the flour and tried to stamp on it.

It was a valuable lesson to me in the importance of the application of intelligence to faith.

R.

Lord, I wish I could find that Space Marine Death Toys blog. Anyone remember what I'm talking about?

If anyone's google-fu is stronger than mine I'd be most obliged.

It got taken down as a result of the amount of hate-mail the author received.

Which was sad for a number of reasons.

R.