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 mattyrm wrote:

 SheSpits wrote:
Ive had two really BAD times inside a LGS. One was a game i played with a guy who was in the SPEC OP's. He was on leave and from the UK

He was full of gak

He played SW he showed me his military ID and everything. Was a nice guy until the game went south on his end. He reminded me of Duke Nukem lol.

 tomjoad wrote:

 Howard A Treesong wrote:

Stoupe wrote:
There was this nerd who said "YOLO" about 15 times in a half hour, using it like in everyday conversation. It was awkward as hell until two regulars went up and told him to stop politely. Kept happening until 10 min later the same two said "Shut up or I'll gladly get a temporary ban for beating your ass in."

Now that was awkward to watch.

'YOLO', for people too stupid to know what carpe diem means.

I know, right? I hate how young people use different words than me, too. It's just awful. We should all fight young people until they talk like we did back when I was young! Also, I guess we should beat up old people for not talking the same as I do as well. They should listen to the same music as me, too. And only watch my favorite TV shows and movies. Maybe they should stop it with that crazy hair, too.

Way to make a 26 year old feel old. Oh wait I don't. I have no problem with any of that. I have a problem of the crap it refers to. YOLO refers to slowed hip hop from YMCB or whatever label drake and lil Wayne run. The hate of YOLO is not a young/old thing, but a hate of mainstream rap thing. Same with Swag. While a lot of my more rock-enthusiast friends dispose it because its "hip hop", I despise it because it is "mainstream crap". Perhaps if they had meaning behind their songs, did more than just follow the same formula, and/or wrote their lyrics themselves I'd respect it more (this coming from a hip hop head).

It really has nothing to do with age, more to do with the ignorance that mainstream hip hop now adays portrays. I will admit though, the stranglehold that this crap has on the radio has caused an indie golden age in hip hop that I'm adoring right now. But this is entirely OT.

Use any slang you want. Be a young hipster. Listen to what you want. Just don't say YOLO and swag around me or suffer the stereotype of the ignorance those terms represent.

Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!

 SheSpits wrote:

 mattyrm wrote:

 SheSpits wrote:
Ive had two really BAD times inside a LGS. One was a game i played with a guy who was in the SPEC OP's. He was on leave and from the UK

He was full of gak

He played SW he showed me his military ID and everything. Was a nice guy until the game went south on his end. He reminded me of Duke Nukem lol.

What does a military ID prove? Seriously, who starts gobbing off about special operations in a Games Workshop? It literally screams "chisler" to the rafters!

He was probably an army chef or a dog-walker for the National Guard.

 High_Marshal_Helbrecht wrote:

 notprop wrote:
And I'd do it again!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!






I keeed, I keeed!

I KEEEEL YOU!

Now thats awkward!

Swan-of-War wrote:
Had to tell a guy that "just because your shorts are camoflauged, doesn't mean your boner is too."

OH DEAR GOD

 mattyrm wrote:

 SheSpits wrote:

 mattyrm wrote:

 SheSpits wrote:
Ive had two really BAD times inside a LGS. One was a game i played with a guy who was in the SPEC OP's. He was on leave and from the UK

He was full of gak

He played SW he showed me his military ID and everything. Was a nice guy until the game went south on his end. He reminded me of Duke Nukem lol.

What does a military ID prove? Seriously, who starts gobbing off about special operations in a Games Workshop? It literally screams "chisler" to the rafters!

He was probably an army chef or a dog-walker for the National Guard.

Especially if spec ops was his term, not yours. That's decidedly in-British.

Most of the guys I've met who served in those sort of units (such as a chap i grew up with, who served in the Coldstream Guards and MPs before joining the SAS, and ultimately leaving the army to do personal security in the Middle East) are very quietly spoken, and almost sheepish about it. They don't need to brag about it, they don't feel they have anything to prove because they know they can handle themselves.

My favourite story from my Gran when she was a landlady was about a bunch of lads that were getting lairy in her pub while she was by herself, one of the locals (a retired customer) asked if she needed his help. She accepted, and he went over. Apparently when they saw the regimental badge on his jacket (SAS) they shut up and left without a word, despite his being near twice their age and them outnumbering him.

These men simply don't boast about stuff in the middle of a shop, so Matty is right, I call shenanigans too.

 Easy E wrote:
Well, I did say we had different gaming styles. My preferred style is pantless.

Well that ties into the comment about camo shorts doesn't it...


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 mattyrm wrote:

 SheSpits wrote:

 mattyrm wrote:

 SheSpits wrote:
Ive had two really BAD times inside a LGS. One was a game i played with a guy who was in the SPEC OP's. He was on leave and from the UK

He was full of gak

He played SW he showed me his military ID and everything. Was a nice guy until the game went south on his end. He reminded me of Duke Nukem lol.

What does a military ID prove? Seriously, who starts gobbing off about special operations in a Games Workshop? It literally screams "chisler" to the rafters!

He was probably an army chef or a dog-walker for the National Guard.

This impugns that dogs are less than perfect. Dem's fightin words Matty. whippy sticks at dawn.

 SheSpits wrote:

 mattyrm wrote:

 SheSpits wrote:
Ive had two really BAD times inside a LGS. One was a game i played with a guy who was in the SPEC OP's. He was on leave and from the UK

He was full of gak

He played SW he showed me his military ID and everything. Was a nice guy until the game went south on his end. He reminded me of Duke Nukem lol.

Would you be able to identify a falsified US military ID much less a British one? For that matter would you be able to identify a falsified drivers license from a state other than yours? Not trying to beat you up or anything like that but that guy was totally full of crap.

I can Identify false id's pretty well,thanks to my line of work lol. Spec Op's was my term i have no clue what they are called in the UK. I kinda walked into his conversation.I guess it started because he had the UK flag on his forearm and some one spoutted out "what are you doing on this side of the pond". The ID was brough up because the type of weapon he had conceld on his being.It was seen when he was brining in his stuff. It was a pistol not legal in the states and is in the UK i guess. Something along the lines of using the same ammo as a assualt rilfe. Thats when the ID poped up because every one wanted to know how he was able to carry it. Something like that.

What sort of pistol isn't legal in the United States!?!

*mind blown*

 SheSpits wrote:
I can Identify false id's pretty well,thanks to my line of work lol. Spec Op's was my term i have no clue what they are called in the UK. I kinda walked into his conversation.I guess it started because he had the UK flag on his forearm and some one spoutted out "what are you doing on this side of the pond". The ID was brough up because the type of weapon he had conceld on his being.It was seen when he was brining in his stuff. It was a pistol not legal in the states and is in the UK i guess. Something along the lines of using the same ammo as a assualt rilfe. Thats when the ID poped up because every one wanted to know how he was able to carry it. Something like that.

Hmmm, all sounds equally fishy and plausible.

There is no such thing as a legal pistol in the UK. Soldiers do not carry weapons in a day to day basis unless on deployment or performing a duty that requires it.

I'm not even sure that the army is responsible for protection duties, and that still wouldn't explain why he apparently had a concealed carry licence and felt the need to carry a gun while playing Warhammer.

I don't think he was what he said he was, but I don't think he was a dog walker either.

I am also leaving room for the fact he was just a delusional, gun toting psycho.


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SIG Sauer, Glock or Browning 9mm are the three army sidearms that have been in circulation since the War, can't see the US having an issue with any of them?

Lol might be right. I wonderd about it as well. But his wife and child where there with him. Wouldnt make sense to lie in front of them and they act like its an every day thing. Im not trying to stand up for him. Just trying to figure it all out I know he was also doing some work at one of the bases in NM ,Albuquerque while on leave. Maybe he was doing work and not on leave idk he looked like he was on vactaion to me. Every one in that state and in the store had a carry/concealed licence. He was apart of some division idk what but he looked very well off and not a person to lie about something. His wife even offered me lunch while playing. They seem like good people she was not from the UK she was from the states.


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It wasnt the pistol it was the type of rounds he had in it that where not legal. But because he was inlisted or what ever he had access to them. Sorry not the fire arm i got that one mixed up!

What kind of round is illegal for a guy to be carrying in a pistol. Only thing I can think of is armor piercing.

Maybe he was USA spec ops and fed you a load of bull so you wouldn't figure out his real job?

As for me, I've had a few awkward moments where a guy got a bit carried away or brought up an odd subject in a place where he REALLY shouldn't have, but nothing anywhere near what some of you guys seem to have gone through.

Although there was one time I met a guy and his sister playing. Sister looked young (15-16ish) but very pretty. The brother was about my age. I watched their game and hung out for a while. Eventually they left and the brother's friend said "wow, you're the first guy I've seen in a while who didn't make a pass at his sister"

"Why would I, she's can't be a day older than 17 (I was 21)"

"Dude, she's 20."

Cue me simultaneously being disgusted that people would hit on a girl that looked around that age and kicking myself for not being more friendly

Maybe an FN Five-seveN. There are some states with an issue due to the armour piercing nature of the standard rounds.

 SheSpits wrote:
Lol might be right. I wonderd about it as well. But his wife and child where there with him. Wouldnt make sense to lie in front of them and they act like its an every day thing. Im not trying to stand up for him. Just trying to figure it all out I know he was also doing some work at one of the bases in NM ,Albuquerque while on leave. Maybe he was doing work and not on leave idk he looked like he was on vactaion to me. Every one in that state and in the store had a carry/concealed licence. He was apart of some division idk what but he looked very well off and not a person to lie about something. His wife even offered me lunch while playing. They seem like good people she was not from the UK she was from the states.


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It wasnt the pistol it was the type of rounds he had in it that where not legal. But because he was inlisted or what ever he had access to them. Sorry not the fire arm i got that one mixed up!

That was the notorious New Mexico Warhammer Playing Woman and Child Kidnapper (not every media nickname is a home run).
Had you been more attentive you could have prevented 17 subsequent kidnappings and a 1-1-15 40k win record!

Swan-of-War wrote:
Had to tell a guy that "just because your shorts are camoflauged, doesn't mean your boner is too."

Ah yes, public boners. Always embarrassing, and always at the wrong times.

~Tim?

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:

Swan-of-War wrote:
Had to tell a guy that "just because your shorts are camoflauged, doesn't mean your boner is too."

Ah yes, public boners. Always embarrassing, and always at the wrong times.

~Tim?

"I'm not saying 8th Edition gets me excited, but if the boner police are around - I demand to see a lawyer!"

 SheSpits wrote:
It wasnt the pistol it was the type of rounds he had in it that where not legal. But because he was inlisted or what ever he had access to them. Sorry not the fire arm i got that one mixed up!

Sounds plausible, when I was in the cadets one of the army chaps mentioned something about how all our infantry carried armour piercing rounds as standard unlike the US soldiers. Then again this would be about 10 or 11 years ago now, and soldiers may well say anything to impress kids.

I have yet to get a creepy or awkward gaming experience, which of course leads to sort of wanting one just to have one to tell.

Gamers can tend to be a pretty awkward bunch. There's a guy at the local shop that tends to hang out over games, commentate, and kibitz. By commentating, i mean like "oh you shouldn't have done that", or "Really? you're using a Annointed of Asuryan, you know he's bad right?" He's been asked dozens of times not to do this. He also insists on telling you all about the highlights of his past games, games for the most part i don't play and am not interested in (again, something pointed out regularly).

The 3-4 guys i go to the shop with and I are generally cool with the staff, and we make pretty sizeable purchases everytime we're in to support the place (i basically buy all my GW stuff from them at full MSRP to help them out, and to say i have army ADD is a fething understatement). After the fourth or fifth session of this kid (i say kid... he's probably early to mid twenties), i sighed, put my dice down and was like "Dude, listen, i've tried to be nice. I've tried to be accomodating. I've tried hoping you'll just go away, or get a game with someone. There's no easy way to say this, so i'll just come out and say it: You bother me, and i'd appreciate it if you'd leave me and my buddies alone while we play games. I come here to relax, and you make that impossible."


It worked, but I felt like an ass that it had to come to that. People just need to get the hint that when someone is being coldly cordial, they are being polite, and probably want to be left alone !


Awkward moment #2 , more humerous. Kid about 13 or 14 on a saturday afternoon at the same shop, parent reading a novel in a corner. Kid is playing magic, and literally screaming about "Yay-yo" (Spelling error for sure, it's "cocaine" in another language, basically, Portuguese or Spanish i think). My friend and i are unfortunately at the table directly across from where this kid is (i'm facing it, his back is to it). My bud gets so annoyed, stalks over to the parent whom we'd seen come in with the kid, and was like "Lady, no offense, you're teenage son is screaming about cocaine in public. Nice parenting."

Her response was "THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS !? " and proceeds to yank the kid out of the store delivering a withering tongue lashing.

That was pretty funny and awkward at the same time.

Haight wrote:
He also insists on telling you all about the highlights of his past games, games for the most part i don't play and am not interested in (again, something pointed out regularly).

This is the best. Especially when it's someone you don't know telling you about something they did in D&D or Vampire. What am I listening to here? You're telling me about something you and some other people I don't know pretended to do at some point?


Naturally that's when I choke slam them through the wall and engage my rocket boots to get back to my wicked cool life as a spec-ops assassin assassin (I specialise in killing assassins).

 plastictrees wrote:

Haight wrote:
He also insists on telling you all about the highlights of his past games, games for the most part i don't play and am not interested in (again, something pointed out regularly).

This is the best. Especially when it's someone you don't know telling you about something they did in D&D or Vampire. What am I listening to here? You're telling me about something you and some other people I don't know pretended to do at some point?


Naturally that's when I choke slam them through the wall and engage my rocket boots to get back to my wicked cool life as a spec-ops assassin assassin (I specialise in killing assassins).

Ha!

I have been looking for you! I knew you'd slip up eventually! For I am an assassin assassin assassin!!!!!!11!


No, seriously, we have a guy like that at our local club, because I'm fairly knowledgable, in his mind it means I know all the things about all the games.

I feel bad, but I just let him talk, as he has a speech impediment, and it would take waay too long to ask him to explain, even if i were interested.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
What kind of round is illegal for a guy to be carrying in a pistol. Only thing I can think of is armor piercing.

Maybe he was USA spec ops and fed you a load of bull so you wouldn't figure out his real job?

As for me, I've had a few awkward moments where a guy got a bit carried away or brought up an odd subject in a place where he REALLY shouldn't have, but nothing anywhere near what some of you guys seem to have gone through.

Although there was one time I met a guy and his sister playing. Sister looked young (15-16ish) but very pretty. The brother was about my age. I watched their game and hung out for a while. Eventually they left and the brother's friend said "wow, you're the first guy I've seen in a while who didn't make a pass at his sister"

"Why would I, she's can't be a day older than 17 (I was 21)"

"Dude, she's 20."

Cue me simultaneously being disgusted that people would hit on a girl that looked around that age and kicking myself for not being more friendly

You have to watch with that though, I've gotten the other end of that once; bunch of mouth-breathers on the bus calling me a perv and all that, when the girl I was with was A - in her mid-twenties, just really young looking, and B - my cousin. We weren't even sitting on the same seat FFS, but this "paedo-paranoia" that the tabloids have whipped up is bordering on witch hunting now.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
What kind of round is illegal for a guy to be carrying in a pistol. Only thing I can think of is armor piercing.

Maybe he was USA spec ops and fed you a load of bull so you wouldn't figure out his real job?

As for me, I've had a few awkward moments where a guy got a bit carried away or brought up an odd subject in a place where he REALLY shouldn't have, but nothing anywhere near what some of you guys seem to have gone through.

Although there was one time I met a guy and his sister playing. Sister looked young (15-16ish) but very pretty. The brother was about my age. I watched their game and hung out for a while. Eventually they left and the brother's friend said "wow, you're the first guy I've seen in a while who didn't make a pass at his sister"

"Why would I, she's can't be a day older than 17 (I was 21)"

"Dude, she's 20."

Cue me simultaneously being disgusted that people would hit on a girl that looked around that age and kicking myself for not being more friendly

You have to watch with that though, I've gotten the other end of that once; bunch of mouth-breathers on the bus calling me a perv and all that, when the girl I was with was A - in her mid-twenties, just really young looking, and B - my cousin. We weren't even sitting on the same seat FFS, but this "paedo-paranoia" that the tabloids have whipped up is bordering on witch hunting now.

I'd say better that way than the other.

Just today, in Northallerton, my best friend took her two year old little girl to play in the park.

She noticed a middle aged man walking around the toddler section (which is screened from the rest of the park by a fence) smiling at her little girl. This isn't that unusual, as she does a fine line in adorable when she isn't being a little git, but it was enough to ring a few alarm bells in my friends head.

Home time arrives, and git mode activates, with toddler refusing to leave and throwing a strop. My friend pulls a fairly reliable trick, she pretends to leave. She walks around the corner, then immediately peers around, to see daughter scampering towards exit to catch her up.

In those two or three seconds that it took for her to hide around the corner, then turn to look back, the man from earlier, who was still hanging around, had climbed the fence and was walking towards her daughter, smiling.

My friend bundled her under her arm, headed for the car and called the police.

Now, there could be an innocent explanation, but if anyone has a plausible one, I'd like to hear it.

 SheSpits wrote:
Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!

My favourite post of the week , it's gonna get sigged. Hats off to you for providing awkward (but hilarious) humour in the awkward game experience thread.

 SheSpits wrote:
Ive had two really BAD times inside a LGS. One was a game i played with a guy who was in the SPEC OP's. He was on leave and from the UK. He had spent a goo amount of time going over his codex and making list while stationed. We played and it did not go so good for him, he couldnt understand why he lost and was very very pissed. He looked at the table and back at me over and over again. He looked mad as hell. He started to pick his minis off the table and threw them into his case. He ranted on about he didnt understand how he didnt win. He came back in after he put his things into his car and walked right up to me. He told me next week same time bring this list and im going to destroy you! It also didnt help his wife was FINE!! And the whole time we played I was shooting the ... with her. He used SW and i used some closet orks i had.


Second time i was at a LGS and it was FNM. I noticed this heavy set guy getting very angry at the girl he was playing. I guess she pulled a card that does not let you get past 1 life. He threw his cards in her face and decked her right in the face. He knocked her out and started to put his cards back into his "pokemon" back pack and threw her cards in there aswell. I was the only one who seen what happend as the place was packed and they where sitting in the very back at a table for just them in the GW section. I was more in shock at what happened then running over to assist. Once i snapped out i made my way over there and put him into standing choke. Until the store manager came to the back and seen the girl on the floor crying and me chocking the guy out.

Boom, first page with some first class gak that didn't happen (STDH)!

Beyond the usual extreme body odor or lack of personal hygiene...

I was playing in a MageKnight tourni when MK was still around. Some kids at a nearby table were opening their boosters when one of them pulled a female character. He and his friends, which included more than half the shop, gathered around to comment on her low cut top.
I turned to my buddy and commented, "They must all be virgins".
Of course everyone in the shop was perfectly quiet the moment I said this and it was clearly audible for all to hear.

Haight wrote:
Gamers can tend to be a pretty awkward bunch. There's a guy at the local shop that tends to hang out over games, commentate, and kibitz. By commentating, i mean like "oh you shouldn't have done that", or "Really? you're using a Annointed of Asuryan, you know he's bad right?" He's been asked dozens of times not to do this. He also insists on telling you all about the highlights of his past games, games for the most part i don't play and am not interested in (again, something pointed out regularly).

The 3-4 guys i go to the shop with and I are generally cool with the staff, and we make pretty sizeable purchases everytime we're in to support the place (i basically buy all my GW stuff from them at full MSRP to help them out, and to say i have army ADD is a fething understatement). After the fourth or fifth session of this kid (i say kid... he's probably early to mid twenties), i sighed, put my dice down and was like "Dude, listen, i've tried to be nice. I've tried to be accomodating. I've tried hoping you'll just go away, or get a game with someone. There's no easy way to say this, so i'll just come out and say it: You bother me, and i'd appreciate it if you'd leave me and my buddies alone while we play games. I come here to relax, and you make that impossible."


It worked, but I felt like an ass that it had to come to that. People just need to get the hint that when someone is being coldly cordial, they are being polite, and probably want to be left alone !

.

I am always very short and uncaring of people like that, depending on how I felt that day I could get downright nasty. I think the staff at the local GW warned people about me...
The kindest I think I ever was, I had gotten somewhat annoyed and told the person to "leave my sight" and motioned a shooing, which after he did not listen I shouted for him to get the (beep) away from me, you are in my personal zone
I hate, like really hate, when people stand to close to me.

I wonder how many of these sorts of stories are told about me, I lost my temper on a daily basis

 SheSpits wrote:
Ive had two really BAD times inside a LGS. One was a game i played with a guy who was in the SPEC OP's. He was on leave and from the UK. He had spent a goo amount of time going over his codex and making list while stationed. We played and it did not go so good for him, he couldnt understand why he lost and was very very pissed. He looked at the table and back at me over and over again. He looked mad as hell. He started to pick his minis off the table and threw them into his case. He ranted on about he didnt understand how he didnt win. He came back in after he put his things into his car and walked right up to me. He told me next week same time bring this list and im going to destroy you! It also didnt help his wife was FINE!! And the whole time we played I was shooting the ... with her. He used SW and i used some closet orks i had.


Second time i was at a LGS and it was FNM. I noticed this heavy set guy getting very angry at the girl he was playing. I guess she pulled a card that does not let you get past 1 life. He threw his cards in her face and decked her right in the face. He knocked her out and started to put his cards back into his "pokemon" back pack and threw her cards in there aswell. I was the only one who seen what happend as the place was packed and they where sitting in the very back at a table for just them in the GW section. I was more in shock at what happened then running over to assist. Once i snapped out i made my way over there and put him into standing choke. Until the store manager came to the back and seen the girl on the floor crying and me chocking the guy out.

TOTALLY AWESOME! That sounds like a rocking store! I love how the story ends with you choking out the fat guy while the girl is laying on the ground unconscious.