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Because they are nubs, especially if they hate Eldar. I did not really read everything.

People insult other people's armies because sometimes the penis mightier than the sword, Alex.

1. Talking trash is only acceptable, or frankly any fun, if it's reciprocal and not mean-spirited.
2. For the love of Mork, don't start any relationship with a fellow player with trash talk. "Oh hey, nice to meet you Jim. What's that you got there, Imperial Guard? what're you 'ing mental? Well, it's your funeral, Douchebag!" Great job, you've shamed yourself and the rest of us. Besides, you need a handful of games to get any good trash talking points together anyway
3. Name one primarily male activity, competition based or otherwise, that is completely trash-talk free. It's fine, I'll wait. We could be here a while....

Army choice is 100% fair game, because you didn't invent it, gw did, so it's impossible to take personally unless you're four.
Strategy/Generalship only requires trash-talk when some thinks they're hot stuff, but suck the big one, and proclaim to be amazing/blame it on luck every single game.
Same goes for painting, more or less. I'm more likely to call someone on making a slowed move on the table, than I am when he fields ass-ugly models and thinks they're gorgeous. Unless he tells me how much better his are than mine, in which case.....

Granted, all of these concepts come or go depending on your local crew. You should know how they're gonna react before you do it, or you may end up with broken figs, a broken nose, or at the very least thrown away a perfectly good opponent.

Darrian13 wrote:Trash-talk is all part of the game. I think you have some very sensitive friends. Maybe, too sensitive for the miniatures hobby.

LOL, because we're a bunch of hard men aren't we? You wait until you meet the railway enthusiasts.

People shouldn't need to have a think skin in the modelling hobby, people should grow up and not try to upset others. If you're laughing *with* someone then it's ok, if you're laughing *at* them, it's not. If you're making fun of someone's army and it's not clear you're actually being friendly or you don't know them well enough, then you need to think about your behaviour, because it's you that looks like a dick. Sounds too much like bullying than just friendly jesting.

The Defenestrator wrote:3. Name one primarily male activity, competition based or otherwise, that is completely trash-talk free. It's fine, I'll wait. We could be here a while....

Snooker?

Model railroads?

Trainspotting?

Birdwatching?

oni wrote:4chan???

We have discovered the true cause.

Agamemnon2 wrote:

The Defenestrator wrote:3. Name one primarily male activity, competition based or otherwise, that is completely trash-talk free. It's fine, I'll wait. We could be here a while....

Snooker?

Model railroads?

Trainspotting?

Birdwatching?

Trash talking is a very American kind of pastime. In my experience, British wargamers don't do it. We are too polite.

I think alot of people need to lighten up, afterall it is only a hobby. I'm class myself as a pretty good painter, but hate doing it and as a result I get slagged every week at my club for not having models painted. Its a running joke which everyone joins in on now.

A few week ago I wanted to try out drop pods for my SM army and didn't have the models. When I plonked tupperwear tubs on the table, it aroused a large amount of banter, some of which I still hear about.

Outright abuse is uncalled for, but come on people...

The Defenestrator wrote:
3. Name one primarily male activity, competition based or otherwise, that is completely trash-talk free. It's fine, I'll wait. We could be here a while....

Masturbation.

Don't wait, I will be here a while.

Floccinaucinihilipilification* is all part and parcel of friendly persuits with friends, in the UK we call trash talking banter, same thing.

*declaring something worthless or of no value (the longest non-technical word in the english langauge. Sorry, I just wanted to one-up the defenestrator's amazing name.

ShumaGorath wrote:

oni wrote:4chan???

We have discovered the true cause.

Oh, I have to hear this... Please educate me on wtf 4chan is and how it applies to your sig and ultimately 40K.

4chan is a message board (or image board, as it's mostly for the psoting of images) of dubious quality. Portions of it (referred to by the subdirectory used such as /b/, /tg/, etc.) are often referred to as 'the cancer destroying the internet" or similar.). Responsible for a lot of common internet memes.

Agamemnon2 wrote:

The Defenestrator wrote:3. Name one primarily male activity, competition based or otherwise, that is completely trash-talk free. It's fine, I'll wait. We could be here a while....

Snooker?

Model railroads?

Trainspotting?

Birdwatching?

target shooting

Agamemnon2 wrote:

two_heads_talking wrote:

stonefox wrote:If you do not engage in trash-talking you are not a male. Or at the very best, you're an omega male.

I agree, if you can't handle the jostling, don't come into the den. Besides, isn't that how everyone greets each other? With a bit of reposte about their rivals army?

Hey! How are those blood-drinking emo goth marines doing lately? Last time, my puny halfling army tabled them in turn 3.. You care for another go, are is it still too light outside for the blood drinkers to emerge from the cryo coffins? Come on get the space marinez and let's throw down....

Or does everyone greet each other with a hug and kiss and a full round of Hey biff, nice argile socks.. Thank you poindexter, that is quite nice of you..... bahhhhhh!! If you can't take a beating from verbal trash talking, perhaps you should play tiddly winks on the freeway..

That's just the sort of macho bullcrap that makes random pickup games such a bloody nuisance. If I have a negative opinion about someone's army, you can bet I'll keep it to myself, and I expect the same in turn. I don't want to hear how your awesome Orks are going to wipe the floor with my Guardsmen, I want you to actually try to do it. When you win, gloating about it to my face is just adding insult to injury. If I win (heaven forbid), I won't point and laugh Nelson-style, but shake hands and engage in post-battle recapping and analysis as appropriate.

Friendship is not a carte blanche to kick me in the nuts, and I would not tolerate it even for a second.

You'd rather be molly coddled and spoon fed compliments?

Please, next time, when I am speaking sarcastically, take it with a little more salt and it will go better.. It's not like I kick the door down, throw my uber models and the table, rip my shirt of, and lay my 18" of manhood on the table and then with a voice loud as thunder call everyone in the area a nancyboy and claim that I will eat their dead before they leave..

next time, I'll be more understanding to those whose sarcasm detectors are broken..

If you're not so sensitive you quit a hobby because someone said your Ultramarines have no testicles...wrong hobby mate. Try something like watching adverts, ripping paper or collecting post stamps. And stay away from any kind of sport. That includes auctions on ebay - just making sure you won't cry when you get outbid in the last 30 seconds of an auction and you don't notice.

I think it is completly pointless to even bother with trash talking in Warhammer, because ultimately it comes down to a little luck and a little strategy. And I know plenty of people, myself included, who use this hobby as an escape peaceful time in a hectic life and don't even put of with that kind of crap. I personally leave the trashtalking to video games.

No trash talk in target shooting? Well...only if one of the shooters is really crazy, and will use you as the target...maybe. I have two buddies I play 40K with. For now. We trash talk, friendly style, each other's force. We're still new at 40K, so, we haven't been brave enough to roll out and play anyone else. One of them plays IG and Orky. We bash him for his 9000 troop 'cheater' army. He bashes us for our 2 troop marines, that are just about indestructible. At least, to his current guard set-up. It's fun. But, once we start branching out, it will be a while before we start the trash. And, it'll be light-hearted, and based off of the other person. Like it's been said, if the person seems to not have any retort, lay off. Ultimately, it's a game of tiny plastic and metal future warriors...or, whatever your flavor is. I'm not one of the people who will belittle an army for intimidation purposes. The dice do that.

I am, however, on the school of not attacking someone's paint or mods. Unless there is no paint. But, times are tight for many, myself included, and, paint is not always cheap. At least, not the GW stuff. I will talk to the person about their paint, and maybe offer critique...if asked.

In the end, it's up to the two people playing, and their individual personalities. Some people like the trash talk, some can't deal with it at all. Just be respectful of the other person, and, hopefully, they'll do the same.

Blood

I consistently refer to a certain chapter master with red hands as Peddy, and I try to get in as many child porn jokes as possible.

malfred wrote:

The Defenestrator wrote:
3. Name one primarily male activity, competition based or otherwise, that is completely trash-talk free. It's fine, I'll wait. We could be here a while....

Masturbation.

Don't wait, I will be here a while.

Competitive masturbation???

no wait...I don't want to know.....

two_heads_talking wrote:

Agamemnon2 wrote:

two_heads_talking wrote:

stonefox wrote:If you do not engage in trash-talking you are not a male. Or at the very best, you're an omega male.

I agree, if you can't handle the jostling, don't come into the den. Besides, isn't that how everyone greets each other? With a bit of reposte about their rivals army?

Hey! How are those blood-drinking emo goth marines doing lately? Last time, my puny halfling army tabled them in turn 3.. You care for another go, are is it still too light outside for the blood drinkers to emerge from the cryo coffins? Come on get the space marinez and let's throw down....

Or does everyone greet each other with a hug and kiss and a full round of Hey biff, nice argile socks.. Thank you poindexter, that is quite nice of you..... bahhhhhh!! If you can't take a beating from verbal trash talking, perhaps you should play tiddly winks on the freeway..

That's just the sort of macho bullcrap that makes random pickup games such a bloody nuisance. If I have a negative opinion about someone's army, you can bet I'll keep it to myself, and I expect the same in turn. I don't want to hear how your awesome Orks are going to wipe the floor with my Guardsmen, I want you to actually try to do it. When you win, gloating about it to my face is just adding insult to injury. If I win (heaven forbid), I won't point and laugh Nelson-style, but shake hands and engage in post-battle recapping and analysis as appropriate.

Friendship is not a carte blanche to kick me in the nuts, and I would not tolerate it even for a second.

You'd rather be molly coddled and spoon fed compliments?

Please, next time, when I am speaking sarcastically, take it with a little more salt and it will go better.. It's not like I kick the door down, throw my uber models and the table, rip my shirt of, and lay my 18" of manhood on the table and then with a voice loud as thunder call everyone in the area a nancyboy and claim that I will eat their dead before they leave..

next time, I'll be more understanding to those whose sarcasm detectors are broken..

thats alright because I fethed your mum and had every model in your army on my erect mass.

jk jk

oni wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:

oni wrote:4chan???

We have discovered the true cause.

Oh, I have to hear this... Please educate me on wtf 4chan is and how it applies to your sig and ultimately 40K.

The :awesome: sig pics come from a subforum of somethingawful.com called BYOB, not 4chan. It's a place where awesomeness reigns and you must wield an axe of chilling to enter. Just like 40k. 40k is BYOB. This is the terrible secret of spaze (marieners).

I kick the door down, throw my uber models and the table, rip my shirt of, and lay my 18" of manhood on the table and then with a voice loud as thunder call everyone in the area a nancyboy and claim that I will eat their dead before they leave..

I am aroused.

malfred wrote:...sometimes the penis...

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[/butt-head laugh]

[beavis laugh]

hmm heheheh heeheeehee hmmm heeheehee
mmmmrrrrrmmmmrrrrrmmmm heheheheheheheheh

heheheheheheeeheeeheeheeeheeheheheheheh
[/beavis laugh]

Everyone has an army or fluff of an army they really don't like. For me it is Eldar and those stinking commie tau!! I bag on them every chance I get. And stomp on them without mercy at every opportunity.

Talking trash is all part of the game. BUT I don't specificly insult a persons army, just the fluff or OTT rules for it.
Ref the OP, I think maybe someone is either taking things way to personal or needs to grow a pair.

two_heads_talking wrote:
You'd rather be molly coddled and spoon fed compliments?

Please, next time, when I am speaking sarcastically, take it with a little more salt and it will go better.. It's not like I kick the door down, throw my uber models and the table, rip my shirt of, and lay my 18" of manhood on the table and then with a voice loud as thunder call everyone in the area a nancyboy and claim that I will eat their dead before they leave..

I'm not looking for compliments either. My army is worthless crap and my painting abysmal, so any praise people give it just rings hollow. You've presented a false dichotomy between "dude, your army is crap!" and "dude, your army is AWESOME!". The most desirable outcome lies somewhere between.

As for sarcasm, I'm Finnish. We have no sense of humor around here. Ve apologize for the inconvenience.

malfred wrote:People insult other people's armies because sometimes the penis mightier than the sword, Alex.

Wait a second, are you selling penis mightiers?

two_heads_talking wrote:It's not like I kick the door down, throw my uber models and the table, rip my shirt of, and lay my 18" of manhood on the table and then with a voice loud as thunder call everyone in the area a nancyboy and claim that I will eat their dead before they leave...

Don't sell yourself short (no pun intended). I'm pretty sure that if you did do that, people would be impressed and/or scared of you.

BYE

OK that about wraps it up for this thread...